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I was an early adopter of the pine64s. I was going to use them for ARM builds at work. I had the most difficult time trying to install a Linux distro that I could trust. Everything came in the form of binary blobs or pre-installed SD cards.

In the end, a farm of 12 of them lay to waste. I hope I can find a reliable way to install an OS with some semblance of trustworthiness. But the odds don't seem so good after a year of their existence.
I was talking with a friend about this, that works at a big SV company that is known for high comp. Why don't they have a child care facility? Surely they can afford it!

His response was - paraphrasing - "What happens if someone quits, or is fired? In SV/SF, waits for child care facilities can easily take 6-12 months. If someone is terminated from our company, the last thing we want for them to do is have a crisis about where their children are going to go."

I believe they have a stipend, but I'm not sure about that.

Of course, I can't say if this is Apple's rationale, but it wouldn't surprise me if that had something to do with it.
Why guess? There are pictures in the article... In fact, the whole thing was apparently designed around the workspace concept... I have to presume, but it sounds like you didn't read the article before commenting.
Can I please have a $1000 ARM laptop? Or at least something that feels like a $1000 ARM laptop. Make it good enough and I'm not actually too fussed if it costs 500 or 1500.
If your quality of life goes way up it then the overall quality of your work will increase in the long to very long term.
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Are you talking about converting people from Reddit to Voten? Maybe the point is that they want more people to actively contribute rather than just lurk? It could just be a different opinion on what a Reddit alternative could look like.
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I'm going through a similar experience. I have some experience with Objective C and iOS, almost nothing with Android and I have good experience with (non-mobile) Java. Basically I have a week to build Android app which should be quickly ported to iOS. So far my experience is mixed. React Native feels like very powerful tech. But standard library is very minimal, tooling looks very fragile (it works, but I'm very afraid of the moment when those thousand node-gradle scripts will break), things like navigation look very complicated (I investigated react-navigation, had quick glance over other solutions and finally decided to roll my own tiny navigation and animated menu). Modern JavaScript is OK, I guess, though it's so far from proper typed language with proper tooling like Java.

What I wish to exist is something like Kotlin with react-native like library, with single good cross-platform library of components and good solid tooling.

Facebook developers are awesome, but they are paid for Facebook apps, not for making good library, IMO, good library is just a by-product which they kindly shared and it feels everywhere.

Overall I think React Native is the best cross-platform solution out there. It doesn't carry overhead of bundled HTML webview, its view is advanced enough for complex GUI, it provides smooth animations and React is something very interesting actually. Also you can push updates without app-store approvals, if I got that right (I'm not sure about Apple). For apps built in haste with multiple bug-fixes every hours it's important.
Notice I said both "talk about it", and "build a nuclear reactor in space". You get huge wins from any mass you can find in space, and I would imagine a good chunk of a reactor could come from space.

First we really need to capture a good asteroid, though. And have the infrastructure to turn that into useful reactor building material.

My point is not that this will happen tomorrow. My point is that this seems to me to be fundamental to any real exploration or settlement of the solar system and that anyone who is planning on settling Mars or goodness help us, Saturn or Jupiter via chemical rockets is just crazy. Sort of like how we used to do math problems on when it was worth it for some computation to just wait for next year's exponentially-better processors and start it then, anyone running with that plan is going to be beaten by the initially-slower, but way stronger plans that involve building some infrastructure in space first, rather than trying to jump straight for the flashy awesome stuff.

... of course, that also means admitting there's basically no chance that any sort of space settlement can occur in our lifetimes almost no matter what the tech advances might be, because before we can settle there's a lot of building infrastructure that lets us build infrastructure that lets us build better infrastructure to do. And somehow figure out ways to keep this all paying for itself as it goes.
>No. Stop. An email address is not a publicly available record.

Sure it is. it's given out extensively for individuals to contact you. Same as a phone number used to be published in a phone book. Same as we publish public keys and same as your username here is public.

It is by definition, something that is shared to the public for public use... as opposed to a secret like a passphrase or private key.
As mentioned beneath, the comment was secretly fixated on the 'stored procedures' side and not the 'prepared statements' side. Stored procedures have many costs associated to them; for example, they don't get version-controlled by default and they don't lend themselves easily to a development/production schism; both of these need to be solved by writing out some sort of database-synchronizer-script which will handle fallover. In addition usually you cannot issue breaking changes to an SPROC without scheduled downtime, so you have to intentionally have a flow of "create new SPROC, make code use the new SPROC, deploy across the codebase and audit for the old SPROC's use, finally remember to drop the old SPROC so that old code doesn't get recycled by someone who is looking for the first thing that does what they want." Compare that to just "commit a new patch, then upgrade servers as soon as possible".
Reminds me of Prismatic. I'm still sad that site isn't around anymore. They were doing some great ML research.

The combined this category based UX with recommendation algorithms and social indicators. Worked well. But I believe they had trouble monetizing it or potentially growing it to scale.
I could see something like this being an everyday machine if it had a decent display (even at a few times the cost). Am I the only one who wants a super cheap SOC with a nice screen, keyboard and trackpad (and long battery life with no fans, since the SOC draws << 10W...)
Suggestion - have a reasonably prominent button that restores defaults (or whatever the analogue is). This is often a headache when dealing with systems - easy to get into a situation where not obvious how to get back - e.g. window minimized and can't find it again.
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Yup. It's a status symbol that happens to be an office space.
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yeah, about that.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/19/behind-the-...

The deal used a contract McCaleb and Karpeles worked out between them, without either of them using a lawyer. It included terms such as:

> the Seller is uncertain if mtgox.com is compliant or not with any applicable U.S. code or statute, or law of any country.

> The buyer agrees to indemnify Seller against any legal action that is taken against Buyer or Seller with regards to mtgox.com or anything acquired under this agreement.

It was only in April, after the handover, that Karpeles realised that 80,000 bitcoins (then worth $62,400) had already been missing when he bought Mt. Gox. McCaleb told him "maybe you don't really need to worry about it" and suggested he buy up more BTC to cover the shortfall, shuffle his internal accounts around, get an investor or just mine more himself - but didn’t offer any explanation of where the coins might have got to or how.

It's entirely unclear that McCaleb has the attention to detail robust financial systems require.
> As sort of a sidenote: websites about UX seem to have the worst UX. Clicking the link, I'm not only met by a social sharing bar that uses 1/6th of the screen

This comment anecdotally reinforces my impression that UX people today (I assume you're either a UX people, or a people interested in UX) have a bias for full-width sites and browsers.

I rarely run my browser full-width (and I think many UX/UI designers rarely do anything else but full-width).

When I opened the page under discussion, I didn't see any social sharing bar at all, just editorial content. And when I read your comment I went "huh?" And then "oh."

So I full-widthed my browser, and saw what you're complaining about. (I didn't notice any scrolling problems. And I didn't notice a popup; that may be because of my adblocking addons.)

As far as I'm concerned, this site exhibits very good UX for this particular aspect of the site. If the browser isn't wide enough to display the sidebar, it gets moved to below the editorial content. That's so refreshingly respectful!

Most often I see "beautiful" sites that have to be sidescrolled if the browser isn't full-width. I do two things in that situation:

1. I turn off styles, which then makes everything flow within the viewport (It's 1990 again!) and moves all the blocks to the order that they appear in the html. Because all I care about are words and pictures, not features. Again, in this site's case that works fabulously, because the site makers ordered their blocks so that editorial content is first; abcnews.com is a good example where, if you turn off styles, the content of interest doesn't appear until you scroll way down the page.

2. Or I leave.
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flat UI doesn't have to be completely depth-free though. I agree with you when it comes to completely flat (metro-style) design where no depth cues are provided. Material and bootstrap styles are considered flat UI, from what I understand.
I'm heavily hooked to cigarettes, however, walking away from caffeine was absolutely trivial. I was told to stop due to panic attacks, so I was lucky having sick leave to deal with the initial abstinence.

Long term, zero caffeine is like being on caffeine all the time. It's worth ditching.
The font size in Mobile Safari is easily enlarged.
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Nop.. it isn't good, secure endpoints for API's shouldn't be exposed in plain, an error should be raised when a developer/app tries to contact via HTTP rather than HTTPs.
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Huh? That clearly reads to me like it is just using an LFSR as an example implementation.
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totally agree with you, in addition:

the site should really show its content at first page instead of hiding it behind login or signup.
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Can you explain to a noob how you wrote the Native module around TensorFlow? My main area of focus is in python, but I feel hindered when I think I'm ready to start developing for mobile apps. I'm looking into RN, but still not sure how that plays with TF and other python modules.
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I think you're right, with the operative phrase being big budget. The only time I go to the movies is to see big budget, special effects laden films -- or strangely enough horror movies.
You are correct. They actually have a tool that scans the Cocoa libraries and generates API bindings for Xamarin to use. Source: Miguel De Icaza on the .NET Rocks podcast.
Off topic but does anyone else feel that Google Maps (and in general Maps) have just regressed in quality? In particular, while using directions. The most common problem I face on my iPhone (and I've heard the same from people using Android) is - compass orientation. It's so predictably bad that I have now started moving the opposite direction which the compass suggests. I'm more right than wrong when I do so. This wasn't the case 5 years ago on my iPhone4 when Google and Apple worked together to create the Maps application. I wonder if it has got to do with the same event.

I've used multiple phones across continents but yet tend to suffer from the exact same problem. Strange!
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I haven't been to Cupertino in many years, but from what I can see on maps and aerial/satellite images it looks like it hasn't changed a lot since I lived there.

My recollection is that "suburbs" is not really a good description. Suburbs bring to mind mostly residential neighborhoods with a few big shopping centers here and there, and not much within reasonable walking or biking range. Places where you find yourself often saying "I'll pick that up next time I'm in the city".

What it felt like to me was more like if you took several small towns and pushed them all close to each other. I could for the most part get around on my bike, but would occasionally want to go to something too far away (e.g., up to Stanford's bookstore for the annual Springer-Verlag sale).

Because it was like a bunch of small towns pushed together, with a layer of residential neighborhoods between them, there were almost always routes for biking between where I was and where the little pocket of density I wanted to be was that would mostly go through those very low traffic residential neighborhoods, so it felt much more safe and relaxing than biking in a major city.

(Wow. I just checked rent at the place I used to live. It was called the Villa Serra Apartments then, but is now called the Markham Apartments. I was paying $750/month for a 750 sq. foot apartment in 1991. Now they want between $3100 and $3800/month. Inflation alone would make $750 in 1991 about $1400 today. That's about 2.4% per year. To go from $750 to $3500 would be about 6.1% per year. Ouch!)
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345715
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Isn't it okay to not have an opinion at this stage? The article swings in every direction but the center.
And if you only give an email address to a single company to open an account with them? Is that public too? Not everyone has a single email address they give to anyone who asks for it.

There's "public" as in you're not the only person who knows it (not secret) and there's "public" as in it is freely available to anyone who wants it without any interaction with you personally.
Ah, I misunderstood. Well, for what it's worth, I recommend the book Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, if fiction will make you happier in this respect :)
Giant banners draw the eyes to exciting things. It's not really "dead" space: it's alive space that brings the eye to what's happening or what's new/fresh or what's about to go on.

You see it plenty on the web.

Just like you often see on the web when used this way, the spaces change as you interact with them: they disappear as you navigate deeper into the site, they shrink as you scroll a bit down, etc.

(They aren't that complicated to code in either XAML or HTML/CSS, the two markup languages used for this.)
I turn mine off. I have an android smartphone.

It's not very important to me. I live in a rural area with bad coverage, but more importantly--I own a computer, and I spend most of my day on it. I can't see the use for my phone when I'm sitting at my computer.
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Another day, another negative Uber story. They've totally lost control of the narrative about all this stuff.
Its going to be hard to beat G.729's 6-8kbps bitrate. I can barely hear the difference between G.729 and G.711 on our voip system.
> If you ... have a cold, you not only power through it but you suck it up and refrain from complaining, even if you're assisting a surgery.

Where all those hospital-acquired infections come from?
And you'll get a very bad headache if you really overdo it. The headache is awful, not even a night of sleep can resolve it (caffeine does). Probably related to the carbon monoxide.
I wonder if it's able to tell the difference between hot dogs and well-shaven, tanned legs.
Honestly, I've worn glasses all my life, and it's never occurred to me that, when I'm not wearing my glasses, the websites are the one's at fault for not making themselves more readable.

I think "web developers should make things more readable" is addressing the symptom and not the problem. The solution is simple when it comes to readability: wear corrective lenses.
A throwback from the old Pocket PC days. This seems to be written by a nostalgic.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/2005/08/19/ra...
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From what I've read, the problem with big Data is io not computation. Am I wrong here? Are GPU based databases simply being faster in a subset of problems where the data fits in memory?
That they're selling their TPUs to the public?
It wasn't sarcasm. I was surprised that most of the coffee drinkers here were commenting about it in regards to productivity. I actually thought most people were like me and drink it for the flavor, provided distraction, therapeutic feelings it invokes, etc, along with productivity.

In fact, sitting my back yard and sipping a nice, warm cup of coffee is just about one of my favorites Saturday rituals, and I have no plans to be productive that day. Coffee is just... pleasant!
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> If they are going to ban anything shouldn't it be all devices over a given thickness or internal volume?

That would be even more complicated for TSA.
Well, it's early days. We already know it is possible to generate pathological inputs to elicit a false response from a network much like optical illusions can fool humans.

For instance, in the context of adaptability of self driving cars:

The retraining could theoretically be fixed using an OTA update that periodically pools new training data from in-service vehicles to further improve and generalize the models. You'd have to build that in from day one but presumably anybody busy with self driving cars would have this at the forefront of their thinking.

Just so that when and if black clothing with white stripes becomes fashionable we don't end up with a large amount of roadkill because self driving cars interpret these as empty lanes.
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Psst, I really hate to break it to you but you are "stealing" and "hacking" your users email addresses ever time you send them an email!

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-sorry-but-your-email-address-is-...
Your eyesight with glasses is just "ok"??

How bad is your eyesight with corrective lenses?
Apple is building 11,000 parking spaces not because it wants to but because Cupertino, the suburban city where the new headquarters is located, demands it. Cupertino has a requirement for every building.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21720269-dont-let-peo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14067658
Eh, it's been a long time since I read it. Maybe it was for the better.
"Striking evidence" is just that. Evidence. I'll wait for the results of the hearing to see what the overall judgement is. Have you forgotten that all trials have evidence both for and against? But the evidence wasn't enough to issue a preliminary injunction, which means that there is no smoking gun.

A preliminary injunction was issues against Levandowski, because as the judge said, there is more than enough evidence to suggest that he downloaded the files. Given the judge's decision, this injunction is a layup and pretty understandable. If the technology he allegedly stole made its way into Uber's technology, it would be an easy decision to give an injunction for Uber to stop development. But the judge even didn't issue a narrow injunction against any development in Lidar whatsoever. So that speaks volumes. Not winning a preliminary injunction is pretty huge.
Yeah, having equal leave + a bit more for actual pregnancy does make sense (it takes quite a bit leading up to childbirth and recovery after ward).

not 3x as much though.
From non-Spotify sources, obviously.

A lot of the stuff can be bought on Bandcamp or through other sites.
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Any article about AI contains tons of hand-wavey hyped tech. That's nothing new.

The website for their project [1] is much more toned down, so you can blame the journalist or Google's PR team for pitching an interesting angle.

[1] https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth
Yes, it is given out to individuals and corporations voluntarily by me. Normally noone have the means to find out what email address I have without asking me. Hence it is NOT a public record.

A phone number can be unlisted (the term differs between different countries) - which is not the same as being "hidden/private" it just means that it isn't a publicly available record and not listed in phone books.

How can this be a foreign concept?
It is uncomfortable, sadly. At the very least PHP Ratchet is not quite integrated with Laravel and the easy route is to use Node.

https://github.com/laravel/echo
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Is that also your answer to S. Korea, Singapore, Japan, China's mind boggling explosion into prosperity, Chile, the western parts of Europe nearly completely destroyed by war, etc etc ad nauseam for every country that embraces free trade? No shocker that the poorest continent is also the one with the least amount of free trade policies - Africa.

China's explosive growth in standard of living, bringing a billion people out of extreme poverty just 20 years after changing their economy to one based on free markets - American Imperialism?
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You act like the train-test-deploy cycle only happens once. But in reality wouldn't teams do this continuously? Training/improving models would happen regularly on the side.

I'm not sure I'd call an "online" learning algorithm more reliable. They have plenty of tradeoffs.
Well regarding IDE's i'd say try WebStorm (by JetBrains).

It has the best React support ever since React existed, and every IDE feature imaginable. And also, its basically the same IDE as Android Studio, so a very small step for a App programmer.
> hateful content

> MRAs
> Alt-right

I'm sorry when did standing up for yourself become hateful? Every day a post from a real hate subreddit (/r/fuckthealtright, /r/esist, /r/twoxchromosomes) gets flooded with votes. The first page is nothing but toxic hate from the reddit accounts of true hatemongers like antifa.