skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought Fresco has quite a lot of great ideas, but after a few years, I came to think of his perspective as a bit 1950s-ish in terms of the lack of incorporation of network robustness, decentralization, etc.

I believe we need to take that a lot of that techno-communist stuff to some degree and actually combine it with decentralized perspectives. Because we _are_ currently doing a horrible job of measuring and acting holistically -- and certainly on some level we need to be able to have sort of total measurements of things and limitations in different regions, etc.

And we can use technology to make gathering these holistic measurements, as well as acting cooperatively, more feasible, to the degree it is wise. For example, common information systems or schemas for large-scale public data mining of natural resource usage, or simply fair tax reporting, etc.

But at the same time, I feel that the biggest pitfall of both competitive (capitalist) and cooperative (communist) approaches is over-centralization. Here we can also look to new technologies like block chains, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. that enable decentralized large-scale trust/databases.

The problem we have now is that we actually do have a smooth transition to basically what Fresco was envisioning, except he forgot how problematic it can be to have massive governments or corporations or AIs with a centralized monopoly on production. We are headed towards that actually now -- Google for organizing and searching all information, Walmart for distributing goods in stores, Amazon for everything else, youtube for video, Uber for getting around, etc. Because these monopolies are so powerful (I call them 'technopolies') they are basically de facto government entities -- except worse.

So anyway again the way out of this is to decentralize all the things again, using technology so that we can have a common platform, common total measurements, etc., but also do it in a robust way that has room to evolve and is not dependent upon over-powered nodes.
I don't know. It's kind of beside the point of rich foreigners coming and littering up the mountain.

Probably it should be required that their employers buy insurance on their behalf. In fact, they went on strike for something like this after the avalanche in 2014.

But, yeah, fundamentally it's probably best for anyone who is going up to make or have made for them provisions to ensure they come down again, one way or the other.
Yes, it's true that "generally" is not "always".
I don't think you are making the point you think you are making, or you being unclear. Take the concurrency example. The is a big difference in understanding the high-level concept of parallelism vs serial execution, which you suggest any library user understand, vs. understanding the C++ techniques and raw code that interacts with low-level threads to provide the library functionality. A good library does not require its users to understand its implementation in order to use its API -- that would be ridiculous most of the time. The burden falls on library authors to provide a good API abstraction that does not require users to understand the implementation; though some bad APIs may in fact require this of the users due to poor design.
I noticed the other day that free-electrons had swapped their interface to the new one. It's nice they decided to make it free software (using git on my local machine always has taken quite a long while -- so long that I wrote my own .git parser in shell so that it could efficiently generate my terminal prompt).
Hammerspoon [1] is the suggested replacement. It's pretty good and has a lot of flexibility.

[1] http://www.hammerspoon.org
I think they meant SNAP the ticker symbol for Snapchat and not the government program.
> The WHOLE reason the smartphone space finally took off was because Apple came in and rationalized the interaction model and implemented a robust, responsive UI.

I see this "fact" thrown about all the time by under-30s who only ever knew of the iPhone since they were teens.

The iPhone OS interface, as it first existed, faithfully aped the Palm Garnet OS, which was the latest iteration of Palm's highly successful OS going all the way back to the late 90s. Before there were smartphones there were PDAs, and while it's debatable that Apple invented the PDA with the Newton, the platform didn't become a commercial success until US Robotics released the PalmPilot and PalmPilot Professional. When Handspring successfully melded the Palm OS with cellphone hardware creating the Treo, the touch controlled, icon based, modal fullscreen app "smartphone interface" as we know it was created. Palm bought Handspring and pivoted to improving the Treo line of smartphones, culminating in the Treo 600 and 700 series.

Speaking of responsiveness, while Palm's own devices were fairly standard and could be sluggish, Sony's Clie line made Palm OS feel almost as fast and fluid as the modern iOS interface. The hardware was expensive but it was the absolute best handheld computer you could buy in the early to mid 2000s. The first time I used the original iPhone I still owned a Clie NX70V, and the Clie was less jittery than the iPhone if I had a lot of apps open on both devices.

That's not even touching on Nokia's Symbian, arguably the best selling smartphone OS in history, but Symbian never resembled Palm OS, Android, or iPhone OS until after those systems became widespread.

So no, Apple never invented anything in this space; they took what already existed, polished the hardware, correctly implemented multitouch, and applied Jobs' marketing magic. I drank the Kool-aid and bought the original iPhone soon after its release. I ended up promptly selling it and going back to my Treo to get real work done when I realized the iPhone was nothing more than a (arguably excellent) mobile web browser. It wasn't until Apple finally started allowing apps (something Palm supported from the beginning) that the "modern" smartphone revolution really began. Even then, hardware improvements were driven by Android based devices, with Apple always playing catch-up.
You nailed the Apple plan, they did exact same thing staring from Introduction of Siri (4S?), ... then Force Touch etc.

With each iteration of phone, they add a shiny new feature that is ONLY available on the newer model.
I speculate that the rule for no comments on flagged items is a form of quarantine.

Kind of like a poisoned well: the water / text is so toxic that nothing good can come of even being near it.
As someone that use to work in Enterprise and prior in SMB for o365, you are caught in a trap because Home users aren't treated the same way.

If you want this to be escalated quickly and get the devs involved, create an o365 trial account, make sure it has a null.onmicrosoft.com domain - that's commercial.

For commercial, you're connected to a tech, which is outsource through the typical firms, e.g. Teleperformance, Experis, Unisys, etc -- they don't care but they have an SLA to follow and if you give them negative feedback, the case will be escalated as the team lead will question why they got negative.

For example, a typical agent would have 100-120 cases a month. CSAT can not fall under 92%. Yes, 92%.

Escalations on a negative feedback ticket removes that ticket from that techs queue, so by rating it negative and not letting it be closed will get you the quickest service in terms of escalation because the agent and that agents Team Lead will escalate it to the NEXT team that has meetings with QA and the Dev's in India w/ Wipro and is the quickest way to get it resolved.

Or, just prove that there's a way it can be a security vulnerability and get a 10k check. I would but, I think I'm disqualified.
Here is a picture of Palm Garnet OS which apparently Apple "faithfully aped": http://www.palminfocenter.com/images/palm-garnet-vm-1.jpg

Do you think that both interfaces are the same simply because they are "touch controlled" and "icon based"?

Also, saying there were other worse phones before the iPhone came out does not refute the point that the reason the space "finally took off" was because of Apple.
Hear, hear. I would add that Android has suffered to the extent it enabled OEMs to make choices and modify Android. There are plenty of places, like camera software, where OEMs should go crazy trying to make differentiation in their products. Core UI isn't one of them.
"We have seen you all do some amazing things the past 5 years. It’s truly been an honor to help you Tilt the World."

Ah yes, such an incredible journey.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but to me it read like a putdown. Snarky putdowns are the kind of thing we're trying to avoid here, especially when the putdown is apparently for lack of knowledge.
>I don't like the idea of some self aggrandizing tech entrepreneurs in SV who have decided that they know what the future of the place where I live should look like.

Does Henry Ford count as a self-aggrandizing tech entrepreneur deciding what the future of the places where people live should look like?
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Ah yes, The Market. Everything is okay if it's dictated by The Market, right?

Child slavery in the coffee industry? That's cool, working exactly as The Market should be, quite efficient even. Sex trafficking? The Market. Fucking up the planetary environment to the point where it may no longer be hospitable to human life in a few hundred years? Don't worry, that's The Market.

No one needs to be forced, you just apply huge wealth differentials and get poor people to submit to slavery and life threatening circumstances like recovering rich people bodies from mountains willingly.
The headline does not mention mass market.
Writing screen savers was a lot of fun too. There are some constraints, but you have a blank canvas. I wrote a rock climbing screen saver in the late 90s that used a very simplistic inverse kinematics model to animate a couple of climbers trying to find a route up your screen. I've long since lost the source, but it would be fun to rewrite, there's just nothing to target
It exists. Desktop Linux exists, works well and maybe has some single digit market share but in a market basically consisting of everybody and their dog this is still an impressive number. It may not be enough for global megacorps but enough to be sustainable.
For the benefit of dummies like me, what's the lesson / clue?
I know, right? I've always wanted to type...

% call 6175007369

...on my phone. And git would make an awesome contact list manager.
I used Sunfare (www.sunfare.com) in Scottsdale, Arizona for almost 5 years before I moved to San Francisco. It's a similar model to all of these Bay Area restaurant + delivery startups, but they have never expanded outside of LA / AZ, never raised venture capital, and somehow manage to stay in business and turn a profit!

I love and miss them!
> The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) ... There is no indication that other customer information was affected.

What other customer information could have been affected? Kudos on the masterful PR spin — I guess by now Chipotle has had a lot of practice at this...
Doctor who fought a risky medical procedure has died
I still use xscreensaver:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Note, there's likely some anti-link mojo there, so you might want to copy-paste that link.
Of course I checked it. But that phrase was in parentheses for a reason: it's parenthetical. The main point holds either way.
I feel its my duty to report that after looking at that image of Palm Garnet OS it shows an app called "DiddleBug", which is apparently a note taking app.

Its website still exists (http://diddlebug.sourceforge.net/) and indicates it contains "IntelliBooger™ extensions".

I am certainly glad Steve Jobs applied his sinister marketing magic to whatever this is so that no one has to be inserting IntelliBoogers into their DiddleBugs on their PalmPilots just to take a note.
i don't think trump will be a dictator. it doesn't look like he has that intention - his steps are not cohesive, and not deeply rooted to assert his absolute authority.

not to mention the us has better foundation of democracy.
Yeah but this is a new project with a team actively developping it. Office is kind of more in maintenance mode, where almost no new features get added between versions. So you probably don't have the same resources behind focusing on improving the code.
So called "click bait" titles exist long before Buzzfeed. Aldaily has been running almost 20 years, and its titles often contain some clever puns. "The good, the bad, and the..." keeps showing up in titles of academic reviews in my field. Academic also like to joke around and making fun. I once attended a seminar whose speaker is a top-notch in the field and all of us enjoyed a 5-minute monologue as good as pre-flight rants by southwest.
Posted on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428520
Name collisions really should be getting less common, not more, given how easy it is to search things today.
Which it should be noted is a fairly politically conservative organization. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Polit...
Often it shouldn't be that difficult to replace it, at least if the phone isn't entirely held together by glue.
So you and grandparent missed somehow Tesla and other companies that demonstrated battery change?
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"Modern-day applications also don’t require large teams of engineers doing software development: They are user-customizable and can be built by anyone with basic programming skills."

That's where I stopped. Was there anything important after that?
We've taken "Elixir" out of the title above because otherwise the thread will be about nothing but that.

How about we treat this as an exercise in community self-discipline and see if we can resist the name-bait? I know it's hard.
I imagine that strained resources in a disaster would drive many to leave the area. Katrina, for example, led many poorer people to leave New Orleans permanently.

On the other hand, the homeless are used to dealing with meager resources and might be able to better tolerate a crisis situation.
AdNauseaum
Yes. Very much so. Henry Ford got extremely rich off his business. He then tried to dictate every aspect of his workers lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
Diplomatic immunity has to be granted by the host country prior to entry. The United States would not grant it to bin Laden.
What gives? Trump is president. He doesn't care because he has investments in Turkey and invited Erdogan to the White House. Welcome to the current state of affairs in the USA.

Also feel free to body slam any reporter you don't like asking you annoying questions about healthcare either, you won't face any repercussions from the GOP.
The grey text on white is unreadable. Which is a shame as I genuinely wanted to read it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8431653.
There is a difference between "perfect" blackjack play, and card counting. If a casino is willing to put themselves in a situation where a counter can succeed they deserve to lose every dollar they have, but using a continuous shuffle machine doesn't confer a greater mathematical advantage in a single hand than the casino would already have.
> because it is violating the freedom of people who have not signed up for their service

That's your interpretation of their reasoning, Facebook's interpretation could assume that they haven't signed up for service yet.

Also, how exactly is their freedom violated? Let's say they could do a certain set of actions on a given day prior to Facebook violation. So if a government violated their freedom (e.g. by putting them under house arrest), a certain subset of those actions, like walking to a store or a park, would be impeded.

What would be an example of actions that would be impeded by Facebook's violation?
Why does new technology always come with people hoping it fails just because they personally don't want to use it? If you don't want to use driverless cars, then just don't use them! You can still own your human-driven car. Some people still ride horses for fun. Nobody's going to force you to change. Perhaps oneday human drivers will be illegal but that's got to be many decades away at best just because of the lifetime of existing cars that people paid for and want to keep getting value from.

I personally enjoy driving too. It's like a video game but more immersive! However, that's not true for passengers. There are a lot of passengers in the world who get no value from the fun of driving.
I think developers also easily forget that building a business, relationships, and marketing are non-trivial tasks that take more than a weekend.
Tesla has a battery swap facility in California. They decided charging was the better path.
Absolutely agree with you.In china more and more people know the internet through wechat and do almost everything on wechat.
Human-driven cars do not have incognito mode. Cameras are everywhere scanning license plates. Currently, if you want to go from point A to B undetected, the best way is likely a taxi or limousine service. I'm sure that will remain true in the era of self-driving cars. However it will likely be impossible to use cash to pay for your journey.
All of the content is also in the github readme: https://github.com/sl4m/gnu_smalltalk_koans
Features of the Grecian ape raise questions about early hominins
I immediately called for two things. The NRA to organize an armed protest, and to persona-non-grata all attackers not American citizens, and to arrest those that are and don't have DI (diplomatic immunity).

What happened is the Turks are thugs, and when they heard/saw pro PKK "protestors" they consider "terrorists" they wanted to make an example of them. I'm guessing it was also a distraction technique for Erdogan to proceed to wherever he was headed.

What is most shameful to me, is the response from the DC police. If armed foreign thugs are attacking americans, It's time to escalate force. They were straight up sucker-kicking/punching women and old men already on the ground... shots that could have killed or could cause concussion or brain damage.

What no one is talking about is how deeply Turkey has infiltrated the US intel community (lookup Sibel Edmonds for more info), or the fact they we let Turkey get away with this stuff because of geostrategic realpolitik. Turkey is also funding and arming ISIS against the Kurds because to them the Kurds are a greater threat.
Some previous threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=homebrewcpu.com. We can go with 2002 because https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://homebrewcpu.com/, though 'webring' suggests earlier...
I am slowly emulating the parent poster. I don't make typos anymore. Termux always pubished me for them so I learned to be precise.

I still work mostly with gui because I do not have autism but easily a quarter of my time is spent in Termux.
They bother me because sometimes their articles are very good and others they are...subpar.
All the violence related to the Chinese mafia in the past 40 years seems to be related to that one guy, Shrimp Boy, who seems pretty thuggish and was intentionally trying to upset the long-established order.

My impression is that the Chinese mafia is still pretty strong in San Francisco. They own, directly or indirectly, a fair amount of real estate. And I presume they're behind a fair amount of grey market trade, as well as most of the brothels. I personally know of at least one business front on Clement St that was and is (AFAICT) still a meeting house. I used to live nearby, noticed the odd comings-and-goings, and confirmed my suspicions with a couple of the neighboring merchants. I distinctly remember one merchant, after asking what the deal was with the place across the street, leaning in close and asking me, "do you really want to know?". I said, "Well... I assume it's the mafia". He looked straight at me and silently nodded.

Anyhow, it seems to me that they're an established institution with a strong incentive to avoid violence or to participate in activities (e.g. drugs) that beget violence or unwanted attention. And City Hall and the police are comfortable maintaining the status quo, even if it means turning a blind eye to various activities on a regular basis. At the same time I assume that the other gangs around the city know their place in the pecking order and stay away from the predominately Chinese neighborhoods.

And maybe that's why the Shrimp Boy thing became so violent--he was an existential threat to the order and he knew he either had to go nuclear or go home. But he was always destined to lose. The media labeled him a "kingpin" but given the huge amount of money controlled by the Chinese mafia in the city, and the penny-ante schemes he ran that recently came to light, he seems to have remained on the fringes.

The Russian mafia also has a presence here. The Outer Richmond has one of the oldest Russian communities in the country. Like the Chinese mafia they seem to fit into the established political order, are plugged into the global grey market, and likewise have an interest in avoiding drawing attention to themselves.

Then there are the Irish. Hardly the same thing, but it's my understanding that for a long time the San Francisco Irish community was a standout supporter of Sinn Fein, maybe even in the same league as Boston in terms of political and financial support. I don't even think that was hidden. You can go to Ireland's 32 on Geary St and see publicity photographs of Sinn Fein leaders meeting with city officials.

Anyhow, I guess my point is that one of the safest places to live in the city is the Richmond District, where the Chinese mafia, Russian mafia, and whatever loose organization the Irish have going (construction?) seem to keep the riff-raff away, or at least organized riff-raff. I remember reading some stories 10 or so years ago about violence (muggings, break-ins) attributed to a nascent Vietnamese gang in the Richmond District, but that seemed to quickly disappear almost overnight. I doubt that was coincidental.
How Luck Affects Investing in Startups
If I was willing to play the slot machines without algorithmic assistance, I deserve to lose.
I agree with the poor comparison to electric cars. A level 4 taxi will completely destroy competition from "drivered" taxis for the routes that it's allowed to take. Unlike an electric car which is marginally or not at all cheaper than petrol.
Deja-Vu and the Mystery Around It
Mps-YouTube: Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
Didn't this already happen last year when someone reported them to their credit card processors?
because they're buddies with trump
About targeting right audience
I was underwhelmed by the 'power' of the original IBM PC because I came from a BBC micro background. DOS was a bit 'meh' compared to ADFS on the BBC Micro with BASIC where you could drop down to the assembler and bang out some 6502. Who needs more than three registers anyway?

I found DOS to be incomplete and demanding where it need not be. A lot of time was wasted on config.sys and autoexec.bat with the install disks treating you as stupid.
Sure, but that thinking won't help you if you're the guy that someone crashes into because you can't go faster on the left lane... You might be in the right, but I'd wager the mortician won't care.
Mine seems to only detect Little Smokies :-(
I can tell you as a candidate from a top university I never stick with interviews that are this involved! If it works for you that's good to hear but to me 1 day is enough.
This seems like such an obvious use for robots, and given the explosion of robots in delivery and other fields now, I'm curious if anyone has tried it ? Why can't battery powered robots, with sleds, controlled from base camp, clean up the mountain - picking up the dead and perhaps some trash too ?