skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM squeezes 30B transistors into a fingernail-sized chip
> [Steve Jobs said] ... that he ripped off many features of not-yet-released iPhone. Rubin know it was bullshit, ...

Except that the link you posted seems to disagree with your assessment:

"Ethan Beard, an early Android business development executive, told Vogelstein: "We knew that Apple was going to announce a phone. Everyone knew that. We just didn't think it would be that good."

Google had phone software that was ready to launch at the end of the year, but it looked awful relative to the iPhone, so it was all scrapped and delayed. "What we had looked so ... nineties," an Android engineer said."

Under the direction of Rubin, Google scrapped their independent phone effort and started from scratch to try to match the iPhone feature wise, even though Page and Schmidt had promised Jobs privately that they wouldn't copy the iPhone.
A shame they don't block silent view too. Motion is a distraction (which is why advertisers use it, as if being distracted was what I wanted).

This is why I mourned the death of Flash. Not installing flash made the web a much better place.
> * The classic, full version of Skype for Windows sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one.

This is most likely due to one computer's time being out of sync then re-syncing
MM that's really cynical could be some richer tory pensioners (wo may have voted UKIP last time) did that because of the steal your children's inheritance, means testing of winter fuel payments and losing the triple lock.
> No, this is work of one person published in an obscure journal, not A&A, or ApJ, or MNRAS, for example. BBC Horizon covered his idea recently. That's not to say it isn't right, just that the solution is still not agreed upon.

The current story title is "Astronomer claims to have solved …", so 'No' seems not to be appropriate here (although the background you provide is surely valuable for evaluating that claim).
Europe vs. Silicon Valley: inside Margrethe Vestager's War with Tech UK
No. I think it's inappropriate behavior.
Grab a Getaround or Zipcar and get north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Everyone only goes as far a Muir woods - don't it's packed of tourists with visor caps and selfie sticks and you'll get annoyed. Drive a little further and Hike Mount Tam - amazing views of the bay. Go to Sonoma for wine, not Napa.
for posterity: http://web.archive.org/web/20170609142424/http://verelox.com...
How the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Got So Broke
It's also possible they're working for startups with few employees where they might be one of the only developers there (or the most senior after some turnover).

I've worked for startups early in my career where I was the "Lead" guy primarily because I was the only guy in the company with that job, and was thus forced to do run things.

Thankfully I'd already made and released well over a dozen apps and games I made on my own time for various platforms before then, so it wasn't like I had no idea what I was doing.
for many, the san jose part comes on monday morning.
Don't forget to eat a $15 lunch special in Palo Alto and for bonus points get a parking ticket for failing to parse the insane special case parking signs.

A lot of people like to take selfies at the Facebook sign if you can get to it without being run over.
Probably all true, but it's probably also true all of that applies to most other "professional" software developers too. I'm rather average for a Bay Area developer (by which I mean people tell me I'm above average, but I self-evaluate lower than that).

I know it must be rough for you to hear that you're easily replaceable by anyone with a few weeks of spare time, but attacking me and imagining I'm full of special flaws won't change your reality.
I have hired a few different students from a few different bootcamps in my area and found the students fell into one of two categories: highly motivated individuals who are looking to make a career switch and people who are "wandering" through life and see a quick fix.

The former usually have previous experience in the workforce and put in the required effort to really get the most out of a bootcamp to accelerate their career. It does not surprise me at all when I see them in senior roles a few years later. The latter rarely graduate on time and struggle to show any skill growth. They wash out of their new jobs within a few months.

Obviously when categorizing people's behaviors there are a million grey areas in between the black and white, but it has been my experience that these two different groups stand out in interviews. People in the first category would likely succeed no matter what they tried to switch into, they just chose coding bootcamps.
I can only assume this is code-speak for - cocaine?
Why the Accelerator Model Needs to Be Disrupted for Robotics Startups
If you set aside the language, the text:

>>Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic “YES! I will have sex with you” AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command.

Is pretty sensible advice.
> slightly menacing sounding

As it should be. They are aggressively capturing and selling people data from phones and browsers, as proven by large amounts of evidence.
This is pretty factual, please don't call it "bias".
I don't know why you get downvoted.

I agree. Disregarding laws, norms and regulations is what gave them the advantage against competition and allowed them to become big fast.
I googled "hugh verb" to see first if I wasn't missing some slang (not a native English speaker).. it seems not so.. I wonder in what way is the Cray-1 particularly huggable? (genuinely curious)
May I recommend https://appear.in, which has taken our office by storm, replacing an awkward mix of webex, zoom, hangouts and skype.
Is it more complicated than buying and owning a car? A house? More complicated than filing your taxes, managing retirement savings, having a wedding, choosing insurance?

Learning the basics of something new, enough to get by, is part of being an adult, even if you won't ever be and have no interest in being an expert.
LSD / forage for & consume magic mushrooms in Golden Gate Park.
Hike Mt. Tam.
Jog the Golden Gate Bridge.
Palace of Fine Arts.
Presidio.
Ask HN: How do you manage your GitHub repositories?
Those forked repositories you create just to submit a PR... do you throw them away later? How clean do you keep your GitHub repository list?
My problem is very hard to replace the money and as sole earner with a family I just can't switch.
Funny, while I stray from mysticism of any kind after growing up in a Christian church (most of my youth, anyway), I enjoy the I-Ching for that very reason and have for a few years. It's taken me down the road from a life where I was far more miserable than I realized, and to one that more aligns with my hopes.

I have to say it also, just the practice of re-evaluation of my own opinions and feelings, has helped me to be more honest with myself and the people I care about regarding my feelings -- shirking the old "stiff upper lip" until I'm miserable again. It's freeing, even if the practicals don't change on the timeline you want.
Or please not create a situation that could lead to an unpleasant work environment or harassment claims. Seems sensible to me.
> It's a bad practice

That's the understatement of the century.
>So, what to do... Acquire obscure military surplus gear, and attempt to port Linux?

Use an "open" hardware stack along with things like coreboot and a disabled IME. If you want an out of the box solution, https://puri.sm may work.

It's worth noting that I paid for my Purism laptop over three months ago and have seen repeated delays and missed deadlines. If I don't receive it this month, I am going to cancel.
> but in a historical context about CPU architecture X86 is the poster child for CISC

Rather the DEC VAX and perhaps MC68k are poster childs of CISC. For a discussion of RISC vs. CISC see

> http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html

or its extended version

> http://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html

and look at the tables there. You will see that among the processors on the "CISC side", the Intel i486 is nearer to RISC than many other CISC architectures.
Scattertext: finding and show in interactive scatter plot distinguishing terms
Hi guys, here is Alex, one of the creators of this UI Kit. It was built based on the NOW UI made by Invision: https://www.invisionapp.com/now and we released it under MIT License: https://github.com/creativetimofficial/now-ui-kit so you can use it without any issues for commercial projects or personal websites.

If you have any feedback, suggestions or issues please let us know. I would be glad to talk in comments.

Best,
Alex
I built a better web launch checklist: updated and easy to contribute to
That's right, that's exactly what the problem is. Saying don't rape is good, tacking a joke on the end of it is bad. I'm honestly glad we're all having this conversation, because it was clearly necessary.
I did Hack Reactor in 2013. My background prior to that included a year of college CS and a couple of years doing recreational coding challenges like Project Euler problems. I had been dreaming of a professionalizing my coding skills and getting a tech job, and Hack Reactor did that perfectly for me. I had several offers upon graduation and took one at a startup I was really passionate about. While there, I was able to work on and later lead a variety of projects, including a complete rewrite of our frontend and a large-scale database migration.

I'm now in the middle of my second job search after 3 great years there. I'm generally interviewing for "Senior Backend"-type roles that expect 3-5 years of experience. However, I have seen some prejudice against bootcamp graduates, and tend not to reveal that I went to one unless pressed. Otherwise, it's easy to be pigeonholed as unqualified to work on the backend. Interviews have gone well and I've made it to most of the onsites, with two offers already.

I don't keep up with most of my cohort but the ones I know are still engineers and generally seeing career success, though a few people have struggled. However, I think the market was much easier for bootcamp-level grads in 2013 than it is today. I don't recommend bootcamps as strongly anymore, especially for people with very little previous coding experience.
heartily seconded, although:

> video is converted to a WebRTC friendly format and it's slow

appear.in uses webrtc so if that's the problem over here it won't solve that.
You can make logic on a DRAM process, but either your logic will be slow or you'll have to increase the cost of your cost/power consumption of your DRAM cells. With separate chips connected with TSVs you can have your cake and eat it too (each process can be specialized for it's components) plus you get the added benefit of increased yields (chips are smaller, no special processing steps).
It is written for Uber staff who are about to go to a social event, and reminds them that:

- The company expects a higher status of consent than required by law

- Staff should not at all have sex with those they report to and this applies to everyone

Saying it's "laddish" just seems like strange way to claim that any message conveyed in a non-formal tone is 'laddish' as somehow only men can understand or be the audience for such messages.
Cosmology and Theology
I think you could have a connector between your site and Facebook. Basically an app that would synchronize content.
You should certainly start on Facebook, see if you have something valuable and then think about transferring to a self hosted solution. At that point you might find it worth it but maybe not.

Docker containers make sense because they are portable apps. You can choose where to deploy them, upgrade them, and store the data or what not.
> Active consent is a good thing and always good to bring up at social events. Pretending that some staff don't have sex with other - particularly staff who spend long hours in the same environment - is naive and dangerous, since it stops issues like this from being addressed. Pointing out that not having sex with someone who reports you applies to EVERYONE is also important.

I don't think anyone would argue with that. But having been involved in crafting workplace policies at a company where multiple relationships and marriages developed between employees, I can only say that in my experience when an issue like this is taken seriously, the message is generally crafted and communicated in a serious tone.
The one time I saw 100x increase in performance in Python-to-C (which was done through Cython) was in code that worked with strings calculating a machine-learning related distance between two strings. The code was doing a lot of accessing particular positions in the strings, which in pure python resulted in slow retrieval of every character (lots of .__getitem__ calls), which were optimized to having 2 predefined empty arrays (in heap, not stack, and their corresponding counters of valid items) and then walking the strings and storing the "hot" values in them.

So it was a very specific case where we could get that 100x speedup at work.
ME is there (ability to execute below ring -1). Go ahead and check it right now, look at lspci/device manager for Management Engine Communications device. Its present on cheapest desktop H81 motherboards, and on highend (at the time) Z87 ones, no matter the cpu.
That's correct, yes. The language and the attitudes that it implies are the problem here.
Alternative.to lists many Skype replacements available for Linux. (http://alternativeto.net/software/skype/?platform=linux) It doesn't list which ones are Electron-based, but I have to assume something there works well. I'm eager to try Slack, but I current work in a VERY Microsoft-dominated company, and the horrendous Skype FOR BUSINESS! is the only thing tolerated. (They even turned off the chat history! You know, to make it even MORE horrible.)
> true potential for innovation and OSS
Nope. It has nothing to do with innovation. It just a way to generate some hype. Speaking strictly, MS technologies degraded significantly since Ballmer and Gates departure.
Agreed. I wonder who's benefiting from all of this anti-Uber propaganda lately? There's been too much of it to ignore, at least one or two nasty pieces per week.

While this memo is hardly professional in tone, it's also an internal communication about a celebration weekend. It reads a lot like party announcement emails I'd get from college organizations, and I don't think it's sexist-- it's just lighthearted. It sounds like employees were a bit confused about how to behave at this Miami event, and Travis sent this out to clarify expectations- don't talk about confidential stuff to press, a quick/informal (and, imo, very reasonable) mention of intimate dos/don'ts within the company, and even an internal joke about dropping kegs off of roofs.

Would I want to work at this company as a 50-year-old? Probably not. But as a 20-something female, the Uber of 2013 sounds like a pretty fun place to work. It may be informal, but at least it's not layers and layers of unbearable PR-speak.
FYI, they're called 'chicago charts' for those in the know...
Holism and Nonseparability in Physics
This is a reasonable summary, but I still don't understand the specific behavior in this case.

Stonewalling and lying are often effective for whoever's in power. Giving clear, easily-falsified evidence to everyone you're crossing still doesn't - as evidenced by the fact that lots of startups fail to pay, but this one is leading to a prosecution.
What reliable alternatives would you suggest?
Ask HN: Who is using microdata (HTML/JSON-LD) on their pages, to what effect?
On some of my pages I had marked up some rReview areas long ago, and Google does indeed often display those snippets well in organic search results.

But over the last couple of days ... ahem as a displacement activity ... I added lots of markup to make 100+ of my pages into schema.org/Article, add Organization info to the footer, and in particular marked up one trial DataSet with JSON-LD.

Has anyone noticed any (systematic) effects good or bad with such markup?

In particular, how to use the DataSet stuff well* does not seem clear to me.

*Eg would 'well' enable the Skynet automatic semantic Web just after both people switch to Linux on the desktop? What would 'well' mean?
Maybe not brick it. Just disable it for two days. The consequences would be devastating enough without causing giant heaps of electronics garbage.
I like the look and thanks for releasing it. I think the light greys are a little too light, especially on text and inputs. I struggled to see them without straining.
People who have careers in tech are likely to read an internet forum whose readership is directed at people who have careers in tech. So we aren't going to get much "people who don't have careers in tech" side of the story.

Hypothetical example: Say only 1% of coding bootcamp graduates find the program to be a "success" for them. All of that 1% read hacker news and zero of the 99% read hacker news. If you ask about bootcamp on hacker news you'll only get HN reader's perspective, then you'd believe bootcamps are wildly successful whereas the real number is the opposite.
Yeah, none of those are very good options.
Thank you for the feedback, we will see what we can improve. Most of the rules were followed from the original UI Kit but on web it seems we should do some minor changes.
They're not telling staff to not rape each other. They're asking staff for enthusiastic consent, and not to have sex in the chain of command, both of which are more than what the law requires.

The joke that the CEO is making is that they are limiting their own sexual activity too - since they're at the top and therefore anyone in the company would be in their chain of command.
With 86 billion odd neurons in the human brain, even with all the self editing interconnections, a similar sized computer must be getting close

I seem to remember if a computer was built using valves to the same complexity of a human brain it would fill the empire state building (excluding the power supply of course)
Even Skype for Business on Windows is a hot mess.

Seriously, I love some of the things MS makes, but Skype has become one of those products that seems to survive on inertia instead of quality. Fortunately Google is also firmly intent on self-destructing on the subject of Chat as well, so it's crap all around.

Did the entire software industry get together and have a conference where they all agreed to screw up text messaging?
It wasn't neatly quoted, which I assume is a must for JSON, but yeah, I ended up going on a different path.
OMGOMGOMG, FoxPro! I have some history of abusing FoxPro myself, but using it as a real-time matching engine... beyond cool.
Whats the benefit?
Wake on LAN App for the Apple TV
I've been writing software for 20 years.

You think I haven't experimented with REPLs from time to time? :)
"Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On."
I really don't like these kind of titles.
Rifle ammo isn't explosive for the most part. For example, if you left it in a fire, it would cook off. The bullet would stay where it was more or less and the case would split open and fly a little ways.
I second the Alcatraz night tour- not only is it a much cooler way to experience Alcatraz, you also get stunning views of both SF and the bridge. I really love your list, even though I don't know what the Exploratorium is.
Yes, you are correct. When you strip out the laddish jokey stuff, it's reasonable advice. And you've written it in a way that's more fitting for a corporate environment.

No one's complaining about the content of the line in question (thank god). People are complaining about the sexist, laddish, immature, and jokey tone.
Show HN: Build your own CI
Now I understand their name, thanks.
Google staff have sex after TGIF all the time. So do people at any company where staff spend a lot of time together.

Making sure the company talks honestly and openly about these things, and does more than what is legally necessary to prevent harassment and rape is a good thing.
ok, so skip those parts then. there's lots of other stuff in there that is objectionable. encouraging of drunken recklessness is what struck me as the most inappropriate part. the remarks about consent for sex seem like they're put their specifically because there was encouragement for heavy drinking and impaired judgment. it's kind of striking that they even felt a need to remind people that non-consensual sex is rape. they didn't use the word rape though, but perhaps they should have.
Especially when Mozilla's Quantum hits.
Wibbly-Wobbly Magnetic Fusion Stuff: The Return of the Stellarator
Almost certainly.

That would both make it feel more ethical to the founder ("I'm just bridging the gap!") and look less useless ("If I can make it to Friday they'll get all the backpay, there's no problem!"). Without new money on the horizon it's simply incoherent, to say nothing of immoral.

Of course, none of that makes it right. There are plenty of startups that handle this without cheating successfully. I've gotten the phone call saying "we can't pay you now, but here's our fundraising schedule and when we expect to have money". It might lose you some staff, but I think it's not as bad as most people expect - either the situation looks good and people stay, or the situation looks bad and you weren't going to save the company regardless.
So "Platinum-based" would be correct?
Wow, thank you for posting it. This escalated quickly :-))
I completed a Front End Dev apprenticeship/boot camp with Bloc.io. I'm now the manager of support training at Zapier. While I think the technical skills it provided me with helped me out in my current role I don't think it would've prepared me to be an actual developer.
Interesting... Also report it to the FTC: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0048-government-impost...
Yet the brain still relies on hierarchies of models (or archetypes) to make any sense of the world at all. I mean, surely there is little variation in what people consider a nose or the sensation from touching a bumpy surface and how they would describe it. (I'm speculating here, of course.)

Thee difference you're referring to in activation in response to stimuli, as I understand it, is a result of the way and timeline that the models were learned, but it doesn't change the fact that the cortex relies on hierarchies of models to form a representation that we understand to be reality.

That is, if I understand you correctly and am not too outdated here.
Probably the impulse to hug is out of pity because our phones in our pockets have way more computational power xD
That's what I'm saying!
Generally I tend to avoid doing things that would keep me up at night. I used to be fascinated by the dark web / dark net, but some of the stuff on there is enough to give you post traumatic stress disorder, and I still have to be careful surfing the dark net. I usually stick to political blogs where people would be very soon silenced if they tried voicing those opinions on the clearnet. Marginalized communities, whistleblowing blogs, tutorials on how to 'exit the matrix' and become independent from Big Brother, etc
I keep them so when people view my profile they think i'm 10x. by the same token I open random 1 change pull requests to popular repos to make myself look like an integral part of the community. Gotta collect them green squares
Geolocation 101: How to Get a User’s Location
What exactly is the benefit of a subway diagram over a normal map? I suppose the only benefit is that it abstracts away geometry and relative distances, so it basically discards information. This could be useful, to make smaller distances more readable in a crowded subway.

But in this case ... what is the use of such a map?