skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple already opened up Siri. Third-party app developers can now add their own Siri integration (though I don't know how extensive this is, having never looked into the details myself). But it seems like not very many third-party developers are actually bothering to do so.
Stratolaunch Makes First Rollout to Begin Fueling Tests
Fun fact: American English and Mandarin Chinese are pretty much the only languages where "r-colored vowels" exist. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel
I think that Apple has bet (correctly) that voice is a feature not a platform and that great hardware will make people buy into its services. Voice is great for a few things but very lousy for most things. Obviously it's all conjecture at this point, but my guess is that this product will augment the use of its devices for the things that voice is superior to GUI for (playing music and basic queries). Since Apple typically blows the competition out of the water with design and marketing, I imagine that this will do pretty well in this space (just imagine walking into an Apple store and seeing an IKEA-like display with a sleek home theatre and its speaker system on display).

I do think that the walled-garden is concerning since you can't use it with all music services, for example, but on the other hand, if its a premium speaker system that might be enough to push me the other way and switch to Apple music. The question is is the product compelling enough to get people to buy into the platform.
Getting humans to hand over the reigns and think it was their idea was HAL's plan all along.
Not sure how it undermines elites? In fact it could be playing into their hands, as a scared population will vote for more draconian measures.
Two follow up questions if you don't mind:

1. What effect does this have on the spyware/malware side current ads? As an advertiser, I pay some coins to show my ads. Are they still served from the same ad platforms they are today with all the tracking/spyware/malware/etc or are the ads served from some central Brave ad platform where all of that junk is rejected/stripped out?

2. What prevents one actor from buying up all of the tokens over time and opting to horde them rather than showing ads/paying out to users?
You can go find a linguist to debate this if you want. My basic points are simply: (1) the author of the original article wasn't making much of a point, and (2) in regard to what you were saying, where exactly English sits on the spectrum of hybrid languages is a multi-faceted issue -- rather more complex issue than simply the proportion of loan words.
Rethinking the universalism versus targeting debate
Right but there's no material difference between the two. You just have a choice between which master to serve. Amazon's platform isn't more open, they've just allowed other music services to operate on their platform.
We had plenty of good ciphers available in TLS when this happened, but because the BEAST bug was in joinery and not in the cipher itself, it didn't help. Cipher agility didn't help, and in fact probably hurt us.
Does your Target Buyer attend any conferences/trade shows/meet-ups? If you can get to any of those -- the face-to-face interaction is invaluable.
Black and gray uses only? Create a temporary environment, allow two users enter by blockchain, let them exchange their sh*t inside and destroy the environment after that. Financials from the beginning to the end then, insiders job.
> Services aren't Apple's strongpoint

They aren't? Tell that to the teams that run iMessage and the iTunes Music Store.
Other commenters have mentioned both Kerbal OS or MechJeb. Kerbal OS will let you geek out on programming your own routines while MechJeb will just handle the "boring stuff" for you like maintaining a particular vector while you do the "cool stuff" like navigation and mission planning. Some say these mods are like cheating, but once you can get a ship into orbit with your eyes closed, repeating that every time isn't really the fun part anymore.
Just gotta figure out what blur they used and reverse it, Gaussian at 30 degrees.
Jenkins and Spinnaker go hand-in-hand. The Jenkins stage is a first class citizen in a Spinnaker pipeline.

Spinnaker + K8s is an incredible combo. We actually ran it inside Kubernetes, and it was able to upgrade itself. Pretty awesome stuff.
They are indeed global trends by the very definition. You would be hard pressed to find an area besides AI that's experienced more growth than this area, relatively of course.

But of course they don't live up to a B2C trend and so you might be right thats why they aren't in the report.
That's nonsense. For a typical (phono-semantic) character, only one radical corresponds to meaning (which is really vague, such as "tree", "water", "man" and so on), and the rest correspond to another character that this character sounds like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...
What would you do if you found a bug in your Chipotle Bowl?
I spoke at my first conference about two years ago, and it was a huge learning experience. Here's how I'd do it again, if I did it again:

1. Expect this gig to take a huge amount of time. As such, make sure that you allocate 1-2 weeks of full time work to prepare. Will it take this much time? Probably not, but its good to prepare anyways and know what you're diving into.

2. Speak at a conference as part of a much larger communications strategy. What does that mean? Its waaay easier to speak about something that you're already talking about on your blog, with customers or with your colleagues. Then, you can just develop that existing conversation into something that works well in front of a live audience. Developing an idea is a lot easier than creating an idea from scratch.

3. Test ideas first on your blog, HN or Twitter. Generally, what people want to hear and engage with at a conference is similar to what people want to read and engage with online. So, write a bunch of articles and share a bunch of articles, and see what people like from that.

4. Practice, practice, practice. Talking at a conference is like giving a performance. Would some violin player just wing it on stage? Definitely not, unless they have 10,000 hours of experience. So, practice giving your talk at home in front of the mirror. Hire someone to watch you while you practice. Per point one, this stuff takes time, and like any piece of work, you need to develop your skills.
Do you invest in the stock market? Do you have "asynchronous" knowledge that the market doesn't know about?
A lot of statistical analysis and R packages were pioneered for/by ecologists. In ecology we get some of the more complex and interesting data, and questions to be asked of that data. For example, the popular R package vegan was made for ecological analysis.
Are these home speakers the new smartwatch? A product that every company has to make because it's "the big new thing" but the actual functionality is questionable?

I don't understand why I'd want a tiny speaker sitting in my house listening for commands, when I already have that on my phone and it can provide a display of the results, along with voice.
I think I read that he sold in for something in the range of 20 million. His business model for CDBaby was interesting. I interacted with him via email for a bit when he was starting his recent or current venture, Wood Egg, which was a project to create a series of startup ecosystem guides (books) for many countries in South / East / South East Asia, written mainly by people familiar with or from those countries. Interesting idea.
How would Booz Allen Hamilton enforce security policy that is managed by the government client by one of its consultants?

Snowden was a consultant working on the client site. Booz Allen Hamilton's contract scope didn't include security policy. The only realistic way BAH could have enforced this policy is by having a manager follow each consultant around. This position would be added to the contract and increase the cost.

> What capabilities do they have that the government doesn't have or can't develop?

Absolutely nothing; permanent hires are deeply unpalatable by Congress, yet they encourage using contractors at higher cost to the government to perform the same work. One of the major pillars of the President's election platform was reducing the number of government employees. One of his first actions in office was to implement a hiring freeze for federal employees.
When I started learning Chinese I was like: Huh, this is basically English with a different vocabulary.

May it be that languages with a lot on non-native speakers (I assume Han was imposed on most of it speakers over the course of history, but I may be wrong) degrade to some kind of gramatically "neutral" pidgin?
Verbs are no joke too. Many students of Russian seem to be bewildered by movement verbs in particular.
Unless you are driving quite a long distance and/or on the open highway, car travel is not as much faster than foot travel as some people seem to believe.

I'm going to have to disagree on this one.

I can drive to my local Wal-Mart in about 5 minutes. It would take me 30 minutes to walk there. I can drive there. Do my shopping, wait in line, pay, cart my stuff back out to my vehicle and drive home in less than the amount of time it would take to walk there.
It's privatized, but not private like you would think of in the US. For example, insurers aren't allowed to profit off of the basic insurance everyone is required to get, they can only profit off of expanded coverage. They also have Medicare-style price controls which is obvious, but not private in the sense we use in the US.
I'm almost certainly in the minority, however, I do so enjoy pedantry. "Everything in its right place."
But people don't know that. That's why it is best to just push people towards sha-3 and have the in-house cryptographer decide when sha-2/blake2/kangarootwelve might be relevant for speed purposes.
Interesting!

Do you document what security options you use with Telekube anywhere?

One of the things I've noticed with the wide variety of k8s distros and installers that there are is that it's not always easy to establish what they've chosen to do in that regard, and as some of the options like RBAC are newer and have some operational overhead, not every distro uses them.
If Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are considered separate languages, or Serbian and Croatian, then I can't see how Scots is not a separate language from English. I guess a lot of it comes down to politics.
someone at the NSA is $400k richer!
That is a clear sign not to buy.
The case-study of the Hyatt Regency collapse might a major root cause of the bureaucracy you're describing. The change that caused the issue was approved by the engineers in that case, but I think made us a lot more instituionally cautious:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8
You can check by yourself that the web3j doesn't have the same capabilities of the official web3 version: https://github.com/web3j/web3j/wiki/Roadmap I am not arguing against Java, just saying that there are tons of libraries written for Node not available in other programming languages. Another example is the BitPay infrastructure.
how can you cite gravity as a good example then?
This really is why being a stickler for English is really pointless, and maybe even counter-productive to the evolution of the language.

I also don't like it when people write "u" instead of "you", etc, but it's how languages move. If you're going to cling to the past, you may as well write in Ye Olde English -- because eventually that's what you'll sound like.
It has a couple problems. Like a windstorm that can tip their spacecraft and knocks a radar dish into the protagonist. But later, the atmosphere is so thin he doesn't need a nose on his rocket.

Also there's no way you can grow that many potatoes on mars with a solar array that size.
> The impassioned searching for the source of the great rivers throughout Chinese history seems almost to betray a hope that it will reveal the occult wellspring of China itself, the fount of the country’s spirit (qi)...

> The source of the Yangtze is disputed even now. An expedition in the 1970s identified it as the Tuotuo, the “tearful” river in Qinghai, but several years later it was assigned to the Damqu instead. There’s ultimately something arbitrary in conferring primacy on one of a river’s several headwater sources, but for the Yangtze the symbolic significance of this choice is too strongly felt for the protagonists to brook any compromise.

I think this is the most salient point in the entire piece. It seems like we, as people, spend a lot of time trying to classify things that don't matter. Debating what the true source of a river seems like it could be mildly important, but it's not much more important than determining whether height or weight is the more important criteria for determining the worlds largest ball of twine.

Someone told me that the many of the confounding and illogical human behaviors can basically be understood as tribalism being expressed in a modern context. Ever since then I've seen tribalism everywhere. And not only are there tribes, but those tribes have sub-tribes.

One of the things I really like about the internet is that it can allow us to concentrate on things that we actually care about, rather than getting caught up on stupid things like where somebody lives, or what they look like. We still have our prejudices and tribes (VIM vs EMACS, Apple vs PC), happens, but when it comes down to it, he have an unprecedented ability to connect with other people and form positive communities that advance the world as a whole.
You are right. I guess I'll rethink SHA-224. SHA-512/256 is faster in 64 bit computers but it can't really take advantage of the hardware instructions unlike SHA-224.

Prefixing a MAC sounds like it'll work but I'm just wondering why complicate things.
People still occasionally implement HMAC as `H(K||msg)` or `H(msg||K)`, use defective AES modes, use IV's and nonces inappropriately, use ARC4, use MD5, and use SHA-1. Pretty sure a quick Wikipedia read would have stopped Adobe from DES encrypting passwords as well.

Simpler means less likely to misunderstand or fuck up, which is a good property to have.

I did also point out that it is mostly interesting for development of new constructs. There's very little point in replacing a working, properly implemented HMAC with a KMAC at this point.

... In the future, however, Keccak may be used for more constructs (aead, for example), at which point a shared "core" for all the crypto you use would be an interesting thing to have, reducing the amount of trusted constructs, sharing optimizations (handwritten asm or hw), and so forth. At that point, migrating would be a sensible thing to do.
Since I rarely begin new projects and have several loyal clients, overhead such as bookkeeping, estimates and talks is relatively small. (Especially estimates: usually I don't estimate at all, just get the work done and bill for it later; and most talks and customer travel, when still unavoidable, are done by my partner who is non-programmer). This works other way too: I usually avoid new clients to minimize overhead.

Also the overhead is exactly the reason I don't hire people: time and energy to spend on management are tremendous and up to this moment I wasn't been able both to hire someone and make profit from it. So, my model doesn't work well for teams. Or maybe I suck at management.

Another problem is time spent idling: my time in the office varies from 5 to 8 hours, when I switch from tasks I'm often distracted by non-work things such as reading news, lunch, occasional gaming.

The main non-obvious downside with pay-by-hour model is that when I try to be more effective, I spend more energy, but get less money.

P.S. Can't provide exact numbers now because not in the office.
This is correct. I have google music and my echo won't play it. Really annoying.
FOSSA – Continuously track your open source licenses
Can AI ever find out the taste of a given edible product?
> the truncated SHA-2 variants (512/224 and 512/256) are also not susceptible to length extension

Any link to some reference document on this topic?
That, plus the same motte-and-bailey PR that in fairness most companies employ:

Terrible bad thing that happened? It was that one individual's actions and they've of course been let go! (see: VW emissions scandal, but this plays out in B2B privately all the time).

Good outcomes due to individual heroics? Our company has an established history of delivery! (ignore the fact that those folks quit years ago). The Ship of Theseus sails ever onwards ;)
All these companies keep pushing voice input as the way to interact with their personal assistants, I personally feel that it would be 100x better to let me interact with them however I choose. In my experience, voice recognition is just not there yet, especially noisy environments, even if some companies are better at it than others.

If I could just type something into Siri I would use it countless times more. Most of my frustration comes from it misunderstanding me, often resulting in me pulling out my phone and typing in my question into search engine anyway.

Additionally, I do not want my business spoken aloud.
I think you're right, thanks.
There was a great "Ask HN" thread a while ago on this and I read everything thinking "oh good, power users will tell me what I'm missing here" and when I was done I was left thinking "I am not missing anything here". In their current form, they just didn't seem to do all that much that would make any measurable difference in my life. I have an echo, it was plugged in a for a week and everyone forgot about it.
If anyone can find a web archive of Eddie Designs I've been looking forever for it. I can't remember the URL.
Amazon's platform is substantially more open:

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit
Of course you need a lot of rows if you have a lot of columns...
Exactly; those are not mainstream services any more.
totally agree :)
Yeah, there are some even more extreme cases of office parks where it's illegal to walk on the roadside, illegal to walk near the road, illegal to walk on the road, illegal to walk on the surrounding property. Basically places where it's illegal not to be on at least a bicycle, and more likely in a car.
The things people will do ...
2001 space odissey came quite early as well as space 1999
It's fixed for the most part as of 1.2. There also the MemGraph mod that allows you to give more memory to the game so the GC doesn't fire off as much.
Discover how to do that and you would earn yourself a Nobel in medicine.

There are bacteria that are resistant to every known antibiotic that we have. Certain strains of MSRA and TB are the most scary.
The alt-left I guess.
The Martian atmosphere is so thin that you'd be barely be able to feel hurricane-speed winds.
How Yahoo Uses AI to Create Instant ESports Highlight Reels
I agree that using prefix MACs with SHA-2 is a bad idea, for that reason, but since everyone uses HMAC already and since there are much faster MACs than KMAC, I don't think there's a clear argument for SHA-3 here.

I'm just saying, if you're going to recommend one of the SHA-2's, it should probably be one of the truncated ones.
The guys next to my office are developing a digital whiteboard. You should try it out https://www.deekit.com/
Apple's prowess is in designing physically attractive objects, and easy to use UI. Voice has very little UI, and it has even less use for physical appearance. That's not to say that how these things look isn't important. It is. But it's nowhere near as important as it was with a phone.
I've always had a hard time understanding these.
great article - jumping from solo worker to managing a team of 10 people was the biggest jump of my career, bigger than starting my own company.

Managing and leading a team can be incredibly empowering, but it also comes with an entirely new set of skills.

I think anyone can make that jump into management and leadership, but they should be ready to invest 25%+ of their time learning and iterating their skills. One of the best ways to do that IMO is to find a mentor.

Also, if someone wants to make that jump, they should be ready to invest time into their people, and not themselves. This is where most managers fail IMO.
This is great! I don't know any Italian, but that won't stop me from hazarding a guess that the word cocco perhaps may be derived from coco, which in turn reminded me of a translation given in Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau de Marot (p 52b). Here it is:

Mia coco,
Io ti do
Il buondi;
Stare qui
Ti fa mal.
L’ospedal
Lascerai:
Aprirai
II porton.
Con passion
Fuggirai
Dai tuoi guai:
Stando a me,
Cosi e.
Non poltrir!
E perir
L'indugiar!
Va’a mangiar
Un boccon
Di bonbon.
Se ristai,
Smagrirai
Di pallor
E languor.
O Gesu,
Pensa Tu
Al suo pro.
Mia coco!
After reviewing Dylan's, it doesn't seem as powerful. And it's unclear how it handles runtime variables passed within code snippets to macros (Elixir has "unquote" for this)
I usually pick the most difficult part first, and try the bottom up approach. Assuming it works then I go for the top down approach for to fill in the other details.
Interpretation is always involved, but that doesn't make it arbitrary. Everything we do as moderators follows from the principles of the site—intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive discussion.

> don't write down

It's impossible to write everything down, it would be boring to try, and the reward for such foolishness would be even worse behavior. The commenters who most poison internet forums are experts in adapting to rules so they're technically not violating them.

> I'm arbitrarily enforcing our culture's unwritten sanction

Sure, there are many such values and there are tradeoffs between them. In this case the need to protect the commons takes precedence, because it's fragile and worth protecting. There were other ways to make the substantive point behind your comment.
If you have some good ideas about how to solve the problem of transportation in America, absolutely go talk to the relevant authorities. Heck, you might even start a startup around it, because this is a problem that many cities have poured money into with little success.

What is not useful is going into vaguely related threads on Hacker News and posting extended analogies between cars and abusive boyfriends.

Seriously, look at this entire sprawling "I like cars"/"I don't like cars" subthread that has derailed discussion of the actual article and tell me: Has it brought America one iota closer to a solution?
For us it was:

Eenie meenie minie mo /
Catch a tiger by his toe /
If he hollers, let him go /
My mother said to pick the very best one /
And you are not it

I wonder if it's a regional difference -- I'm from Arizona.
lol maybe we should have charged given the sheer time/energy it takes to put this together...

but nope, any companies we mention usually are there because they're doing something actually interesting or leading in their field tbh...whether they're small companies (allbirds), public (amzn) or somewhere in between (unity, etc)
I've been thinking about literate programming for government policy / laws. Composing law documents using python notebook/R markdown. This could allow citizen's to more easily draft, assess or monitor new laws. Or build services around the 'API' of the law. Having the wording and entities semantically defined in code would probably help move towards modelling you are interested in. Here's my blog about it http://fozy81.github.io/2016/02/25/r-markdown-for-policy-doc...
Mass has little do escape velocity, it's density. Consider that any planet/sun could be shrunk until it's a black hole, with effectively infinite escape velocity.