skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lisp doesn't have that in the language standards, but Lisp implementations provide that. Lisp developers had the problem of shipping smaller applications, shipping faster applications to end customers, targetting systems where GC is problematic, or deploying on embedded systems.

Lisps with extensive image-based delivery support are for example Allegro CL and LispWorks. Delivery here means also deep cuts into the software like removing parts of the Lisp system (everything development relatied, unused functionality, ...) and also removing parts of the program for the delivered application. For example the running program might not need much of the program's symbols. Functions would be called directly and not through symbols.

There are also compilers for application delivery (some are inhouse) which generate self-contained C code. These then are compiled with the usual C compiler and generate small static applications. An example would be mocl, which can compile for Android, iOS and macOS platforms.
You either follow local laws or you leave. How did it work out for Google? Google took a stand and now they’re going back.
McAfee Security Bulletin – Web Gateway Update Fixes Vulnerabilities
Qt5.9 comes with windows clang spec for qmake. Previously you could setup it on your own in windows and Linux wasnt probably that hard either. For OS X "clang" was always a default.
Millennials are keeping libraries alive
How did that work out for IBM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
"I was just following orders..."
Maybe because RL research is not democratized enough to practionners. It is easier to study RL in a controlled environment like a video game (those 'elite researchers' are still not smart enough for real-world applications).

So you remark means that more education about RL is needed, and OpenAI, alongside other institutions like FastAI or Startcrowd, is helping for this effort.
Well I guess it's a grammar issue ;-)
Of course expectations are somewhere near HAL while we are throwing bones.
Parent didn't suggest otherwise. Maybe it's better, i.e. the right thing to do, to leave a market in an oppressive land?

Personally I think more of Google for doing that.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't Google leave China primarily because of the Chinese hack/theft of their intellectual property? Not because of a local legal dispute..
Spring Security OAuth 2.2 Released
That's why corporations will never help against dictatorship. They may do it if it's convenient but in the end they will prioritize money over everything else and fall in line with dictatorships. Happened during the Nazi time, it's happening in China now.
Not appropriate. Apple is not directly killing people.

And in this case they are simply following the law.
This seems to me like the whole misadventure of putting finger print readers in door locks and phones: Someone noticed that fingerprints work quite well for identifying people in customs and law enforcement and simplified that thought to "fingerprints can identify people" - ignoring the circumstances of how fingerprints are taken when they work.
As corps/IC agencies/.mil's around the world tighten the nooses around the population, it will only empower people to engage in similar behaviors.

Who's to say one can't technically compromise and take advantage of AmaGoogAppBookWeiTenUbtakte infrastructure and use it for any ends, in similar ways corps/IC's agencies/.mil's do for their ends?

After all its still hardware and software with flaws like anything else.
"Modeless" is used as a term of art here: when entering text there is no difference between entering and editing (as opposed to, say, vi which separates editing and navigation from entry). Word and TextEdit are modeless editors.

What Emacs calls "modes" have indeed been around for a long time; I started using Emacs in 1978 as it happens and did use it to read my mail. However ITS didn't have the concept of "shell" (the command entry system was also the debugger!) nor of "inferior" processes so you would exit EMACS to compile or run other programs.
Google went back to China. They have offices and employees.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/07/google-is-going-on-a-hiring-...
There are some major health related issues to living near farm fields though, especially for children. Depends on the agricultural methods.
What a despicable joke of a country. And shame on Apple for aiding them while they made such a massive deal of user rights in the US.
They also require a paid developer subscription to get access to the Network Extensions capability (needed to build a VPN protocol extension) in order to make sure people who develop these apps can't just provide IPA files for normal users in China to "sideload" using tools such as my Cydia Impactor.
Did you do anything to keep seeing the game as a player, despite spending so much time and effort with it as a developer?
I drive a Mini Cooper from time to time and it's not great. They have a small screen behind the wheel which also displays the speed, but with a low refresh rate so you can go over the limit easily if you don't pay attention.
The older dump is still available via https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/11674459/The_Library_Genesi... at least
> Even as a moderately experienced Emacs user I found the defaults overwhelming.

I agree. There is a lot of "magic" going on, and it doesn't help that Spacemacs is a lot slower and less stable than my less-intensive personal customization.

Of course, that's the problem with any significant starter kit. As a new user, now you don't just have to learn emacs, you have to learn emacs + whatever heavy modifications they've done to emacs.
FWIW my .emacs file is less than two dozen lines long and I spend most of my day in it. The only external package it loads is magit
But they still have the built-in VPN client in iOS, don't they? As long as they don't block this particular feature in China, I don't see that as a big reason for panic.
What really worked for me was switching to Sublime, and nowadays Vscode. :(
I presume that the implication is that a local database, being midway, is purgatory.
> That's why corporations will never help against dictatorship. They may do it if it's convenient but in the end they will prioritize money over everything else and fall in line with dictatorships. Happened during the Nazi time, it's happening in China now.

Well, if you want your government to be powerful enough to enforce laws against corporations, then corporations will not be powerful enough to defy your government.

You can't keep your cake and eat it too.
This is what HN is for now? Making fun of people because of their name?
> Their business is ad delivery.

Yes, but they do a whole lot of other things, which as you noted, tie back into their main source of revenue.

I don't disagree with what you've written but I think calling them an "ad delivery" business is as accurate as using the tusks as a synecdoche for describing an elephant. Using a well-known part to describe a thing is fine in most cases, except that over time, it blinds people into ignoring the other parts that gives a thing its uniqueness.

> Microsoft might be considered a “true” tech company in the sense that they are essentially a software version of what IBM used to be.

Funny that you use Microsoft.

Among the big 5: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Microsoft is the most diversified, revenue wise [0].

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar16/index.html
Now all we need is a terminal emulator as good as iTerm/Terminal.app/urxvt.
Apache Libcloud 2.1.0 release
Previous discussion with less clickbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835515
How is an analog computer "easier to program" than a digital computer? Making neural networks do what you want is hard enough with the help of tons of libraries, decent scripting languages, the ability to dump the weights into a file and inspect them, etc. Programming with an analog computer, which I'm guessing would be something like programming with FPGAs, sounds like a nightmare in comparison.
It's not very surprising considering that it's the local law and everyone will have to follow it or get out...

It isn't going to actually prevent anyone from tunneling past the great firewall of course, so it's more like a gesture than an actual effective decision from the government.
If Google were to ask for a monthly fee for the search engine (and hopefully cut down on the data collection a not), I'd totally pay them.
Different countries, different laws... what did you expect?
Yes, I think the problem here is that in antitrust decisions citizens are being abstracted into consumers but there are lots of ways we are affected by these decisions which may not, or which may only indirectly relate to our consumption.
What if killing people is "following the law"? It's happened a few times in history.

Or if that is too big a pill to swallow, what if collecting runaways is "following the law", when they are to be executed?

What about monitoring communication for death penalty offenses? (speaking against the state)
[EFF] Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? [pdf]
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

The USA is hardly a shining example of a country the rest of the world should be following right now. It is doing plenty of oppressive things that many of us in the rest of world don't agree with e.g. Paris accord, incarceration rates, threats against the press.

I don't agree with what China is doing but the "right thing to do" is never so simple.
> Perhaps that which differs from the average, is that I trust that I can help solve a mistake.

Yeah, we all thought that once. Sooner or later somebody always shoots the messenger.
i can't speak for the Model 3, but i own a Bolt, here's the service schedule for that:

* every 7,500mi: rotate tires

* every 22,500mi: change cabin air filter

* every 5 years: replace brake fluid

* every 150,000mi: replace battery cooling fluid

that's it. crazy!
The article is calling us to teach AI to read words and phrases and look for the meaning, not just a statistical correlation.

I put dictionary data into Pingtype English to try to parse phrases instead of just words. e.g. "pick [something] up". The purpose is to do word-for-word translation to Chinese as an educational tool. It's not perfect, but the dictionary is editable. You can contact me if you want to discuss new ways of extending the features (e.g. data from UrbanDictionary, movie subtitles, etc).

http://pingtype.github.io/english.html

I also want to correct the author that CERN does not have billions of dollars of funding. There's only about 5000 staff, and the other 10,000 people working there are funded by universities elsewhere who send them to CERN to do the research.
Up close with the Tesla Model 3, inside and out
Encrypted Provenance Repositories in Apache NiFi
To my knowledge, there are no Google services in China.

Are search, gmail, Play Store, etc working?
darpa recently launched a new program to do just that - force ML models to "explain" their predictions. it's called "explainable artificial intelligence" and the goal is to increase trust of autonomous systems.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelli...
Wow, I don't think you are Chinese because you really don't know much about hukou, of which the rent issue isn't even getting near. First answer: mostly no. Second answer: most of them stayed home with grand parents (see China's left behind children problem). Third answer: there were cheap private schools dedicated to migrant worker kids, but the cities (like Beijing) shut them down saying they would try to take them in public schools, a promise that is never kept.

As a foreigner higher paid "migrant worker", we are not garaunteed access to public Chinese schools even if we pay taxes. We have to use private international schools for our kids instead. Public is just not an option. For my Chinese colleagues at work who lack hukou, ditto, though they can try to negotiate their way in to varying degrees of payment and success.

Guangzhou is doing a couple of things: those with skilled worker permits who are paying tax can get schooling for their kids even if they don't have hukou, a novel thing in china. And you can get priority access to a school in the local area just by renting an apartment.

Those construction workers do pay social tax contributions, and no, they aren't treated fairly at all because of their rural hukou. The GZ policy isn't even really aimed at people like them, it is rather aimed at people like us who make much more money. See:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057090.shtml

(Using very recent Chinese sources). They specifically require a "highly skilled worker certificate in lieu of hukou". So as usual china doesn't care about poor migrant workers, they have to leave their kids behind.
In America, they're still free to openly complain about American policies. Try that in China and you'll be gone before the week is over and a state-sponsored company will take your place
Hey Timmy, what was all that talk about customer security?

https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

And here I was, almost believing you.

You're a coward.
done...

https://tlsproxy.com/new-proxy-support/

Please tell me how it works for you if you try it!
What if ad income were so large that the shoe company just gave away your shoes and relied solely on the ad income?

This is where Google and Facebook are, and that makes them ad companies: Their business and design decisions are driven primarily by the objective of increasing ad income.
Or perhaps corporations could have a little backbone. Perhaps in their mission statements say that they will prefer to lose profits if it means not trading in a country that performs (x)

Edit: (sametmax) I can't seem to reply - I think the chains too long ? Either way:

Doesn't that mean we should actually be a little upset ? Look I'm no sjw freaking out over everything, nor do I run around scrwing boycot, but perhaps just a little frustration and some constructive argument may lead someone to a better idea of how to handle/fox/or seeup with something.

God's know I don't have an answer, but it does worry me.
In India inflation is like 4% and growth rate is 7%. I think anything less than 15% p.a. return is not worth the risk at all.
Key card* (?)
What else FB sells instead of ads?
I used to do it that way. I've switched to `vcsh` to let me keep various files directly in my ~/ directory in various different git repos without needing a ~/.git/ marking the whole thing as a working directory.
Steve Bannon Wants Facebook and Google Regulated Like Utilities
This is awful, but in England and America, I foresee similar policies will come - in the name of law, safety, and security.
Why You Need to Bootstrap Your Business and Not Raise Money
To quote Bret Victor (from memory): worrying about general AI when climate change is happening is like standing on the train tracks in the station when the train is rushing in, worrying about being hit by lightning.

Work is being done on climate change, but at the current rate, we're way off preventing catastrophic effects. I'd say that our current level of effective effort basically amounts to ignoring the problem.
These sound like good steps to determine if a sender is legitimate. Is there a plugin that already does this for existing email clients?
Apple runs an App Store.

If they are ever in the situation where they are going to be responsible for killing millions of innocent people then yes let's make sure the stop doing that instead of blindly following the law.

Until then how about we stop with the Nazi references.
Apache Calcite Avatica 1.0.0 – Framework for building database drivers
I don't think anyone from any country can honestly say their products are free, open and willing to push back against governments anymore (anyone with a correction though I would be more than happy to see, so that I can support that company.)

Edit:(quick -i wanted to follow up after hitting post)

We shouldn't ever make arguments such as 'well x is worse' because that just detracts from the issue.

The problem is a company voluntarily giving up a particular service(or disallowing in this case), due to local laws that we (I'm sure as a majority on hn) disagree with. This is the issue, not that any particular goverent or president/prime minister or whatever is wrong or an idiot.
In many places where companies are incorporated, that is likely an illegal decision to make for your company. Unless you can argue that the loss of sales in that jurisdiction will be less than the loss in sales abroad (from loss of consumer trust), you probably can't do it.

In addition, they likely have ongoing procurement contracts with some companies in China which they would need to continue honouring.

In principle I agree with you, but unless this is a founding policy of your company, your shareholders have every right to object.
Some small things:

- Growing my own vegetables. During the summer, half of my meals are home-grown, and I store the ones I can for the fall/winter as well. And I give away a lot for free to friends/relatives.

- I quit eating meat, after realising the impact the meat industry has on everything from animals rights (most important) to pollution, water consumption etc.

- I try to bring more consciousness on this on people, trying not to be a pain but planting some seeds in their mind.
1. Something you'd *love* to play
2. Prototype: are you right?
3. is it feasible (for you) to make?
4. is it worth it?

Maybe it's not necessary to articulate it, just some idea or sense is enough to move toward it.
What would you have us do, then? What would you have Apple, or the United States as a whole, to bring China's policies more in line with your preferences? You seem to have some opinions on this subject, after all. Perhaps you'd like to share them.
Kasparov: 'Embrace' the AI revolution
The motor trend reviewer described it as Scandinavian minimalistic, which is more associated with the 60s and midcentury modern style.
There is a FPGA port presented at this year's DConf.

http://dconf.org/2017/talks/marques.html
They probably had to do it to keep the official store available in China, but this is why supporting side-loading of apps like Android does would be a good idea.
WebAssembly GC slides and notes from meeting
That's extremely disingenuous. Any profit left on the table will be exploited by the next corporation in line. The loop has to be closed by the people when they get mature enough... and if that's what they want: there are few things more bigot than someone measuring with the west meter other countries' success.
This is simplistic and short term thinking.

Companies can help to progress the cause of free speech in oppressive lands over the long term. Yes, Apple is not going to facilitate VPN usage but the wealth of content and learning opportunities provided by mobile apps is also worth something.
Because neural networks are fundamentally dynamic systems that are much easier to model with continuous signals than discrete bits. A lot of the hardness comes from the fact that you are discretizing fundamentally continuous signals.
The traditional ARM answer is that at a low level and at bootup the details are all very board specific -- what kind of BIOS equivalent you have (if any), where it starts you off, whether there's a bootloader like u-boot involved, where devices like the serial port are: all these things vary by board. For 64-bit ARM things are moving a bit more towards a standard setup with UEFI. In general, ARM assumes that the initial boot code will be customised for the specific chip, so unlike x86 which starts out looking like an 8086 until you flip it into protected mode, a 64-bit ARM CPU will start out in 64-bit and you can get at the backwards-compatibility 32-bit support by dropping down from 64-bit to 32. Back-compat is for applications, not OSes and bootloaders :-)
Facebook's purchase of Oculus helped AlstspaceVR by adding credibility and awareness to VR.
I wish.

But...

Most people don't have the guts. Why would you expect corporation to have it ? This is the reality of the world, most people don't care about making the moral choice and will choose short term benefits. Getting sick over this is like crying because the sky's color displeases you.

Spend your energy trying to improve things at your level. This is all you can do.
What I really don't want is clickbait titles.
Balls? Integrity?
Nobody thinks the USA is perfect. But there is no comparison with China. Having a lot of violent crime and putting many people behind bars is nothing like mass executing prisoners to take their organs for profit. Openly arresting dissident jounalists is nothing like whatever imaginary 'threats' you're talking about. No country of size, diversity and importance has ever been or will ever be a moral utopia. Let's keep some perspective as we try to optimize within this reality.
Press control with the opposite hand (so C-A uses the right control), and swap caps lock and control.
Those companies exist, but selection bias already excludes them from the countries in question; e.g. Google.
"If I'm not mugging the grandma, somebody else will" is the most disingenuous excuse of all.
What's the "x" though in this case ? Censorship ?

Because USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany etc all censor content on the internet.

In fact most of the world do to some extent.
Neither America nor the U.K. have national firewalls in place.
Here is an example how to do realtime subscriptions with GraphQL

https://www.graph.cool/docs/tutorials/worldchat-subscription...
> - Their durability claims are highly suspect. I would want to see a white paper breaking this down.

Is there such a white paper for AWS/Azure/GCP? Or are they running on reputation alone?
Yes. It would be unmanageable otherwise with multiple clients.

Why would I give up my time + work for free?

Hosting is an easy up sell because it becomes one less thing a client would have to worry about.
> Companies can help to progress the cause of free speech in oppressive lands

Only if it makes business sense - i.e. changing government in that "oppressive lands" will lead to more business. If it would lead to less profit, or risk existing positions, nothing will be done.
Legality and morality are different things. Your shareholders may have the right to ask you to fire loads of people, or be a patent troll, but the choice is still yours.

But let's be fair, how many individuals, given the choice, would choose making a better world over money ? Probably not event most people in this thread. We are weak creatures.
Yes. Definitively yes. If you're a typical web developer or agency, you're going to have a lot of one-off engagements, project and campaign websites. Those cost money to support, and your customer should supply that money. We never host without both a modest hosting fee, and a SLA for fixes, updates and perfective maintenance.
The use of what aboutism and moral highground logical fallacies look extremely crass, especially on HN.
https://youtu.be/WanGt1G6ScA

Not sure what to think about it.
That's a Twingo from 10 years ago, right? Today it looks more like: http://indianautosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/New-Re...
Cities will keep growing in India. Because the gap between facilities available within a city and outside a city is so stark. That gap has grown exponentially in the last twenty years.
If you want to run a business, find quality healthcare or education, resolve legal issues you head to the nearest city.
I can't follow the author's logic. First he complains about the limited breadth of AI approaches (bottom up) and then he makes the case for more central coordination of research efforts.

Contrary to applied physics or medicine, AI doesn't require massive capital investment like building a particle accelerator or running clinical trials over years.

So if we already suffer from a lack of diversity, why should we ape the organizational structure of those fields?
Those offices were never shutdown...well the one in wudaokou wasn't. They did leave the search market, and most of their services are blocked by the gfw, but google never "left china" completely.