skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod.

The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors.

The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and everyone already carries a device that tells time which the watch can't replace. Yeah, it gives you slightly faster access to notifications but not everyone needs that. Yeah, it has some good health/tracking benefits but that's not a huge deal to most people. Imho the best use of the watch is for (mobile OS)-Pay/mobile ID but adoption is still weak (unless you're in Tokyo) and it can be delivered with a much smaller wearable.
bitcode is indeed a thing, its a file format for LLVM IR https://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/

It's not really a bytecode as it's not interpreted, but that's debatable.
Yes. Tesla/SolarCity are doing exactly that - they're about 400,000 roofs in, so far.
Name 5 please
That's because it's an encyclopedia, not a romance novel.
> Wikipedia on Quantum Physics is usually pretty atrocious, and this page is no exception. It reads like... well, nerds showing off knowledge.

Indeed. Wikipedia on math in general is useless unless you already understand it.
I use the Modular watchface, and put things like other timezones on it, and a quick one-tap to timer. (great for cooking, or medicines, or Pomodoro, etc)

If you're a MacOS user, you can auto-unlock your computer with it (sounds scary even typing it, but it's damned handy)

A quick swipe up and you can use it to "ping" your iPhone (phone makes loud sonar sound) in case you can't remember where you put it.

If I'm on other side of house, and phone rings, I can actually answer call with watch and talk Dick Tracy style :-) (people tell me it sounds pretty clear)
Restocks is looking for full stack engineers that like shoes and JavaScript
Come build the future of mobile commerce with us. Some background about who we are:

We help sell $millions of clothing every month through a mobile app. Rabid consumers use our app to stay updated on sneaker and streetwear releases, with some spending thousands of dollars in our app every month. We also launched our newest product in June, a peer to peer streetwear marketplace which has shown strong initial interest.

To make this happen, we've had to employ clever solutions to crawl hundreds of stores in real time. We use React/React Native, Node, Postgres and Golang.

We're a small engineering team -- each contributor has the opportunity to make a tremendous impact, building solutions for our users and platform merchants.

If you'd like to chat about sneakers or javascript with us, please email us at team@restocks.io. We prefer candidates that are local to the San Francisco Bay Area. (We currently cannot consider remote candidates.)
Well first of all, segwit doesnt affect the quadratic hashing attack vector because legacy non-segwit transactions are still valid even with segwit activated, so the attacker would just use non-segwit transactions for his attack. Flextrans (a bitcoin classic proposal) on the other hand could actually solve quadratic hashing.

Secondly, the Chinese miners overwhelmingly support segwit2x, including the 2mb HF that comes with it. If they are trying to keep asicboost (which has not been proven to actually being used), why would they support segwit2x instead of trying to force BU instead? Segwit2x includes....you guessed it....segwit...which disables covert asicboost.
I use Authy instead of Google Auth; for some reason it never loads on my watch :-\
That won't get you the middle, these are integer divisions.
Nobody said arbitrary sizes. It's still a limited set.
One would think you would do more than send an email if you're trying to verify.

Websites, Twitter, Github, Keybase, etc..

It would be pretty hard for a bad actor to overtake the real author's entire Google-findable presence (assuming it's a reasonably popular package - why would you typosquat anything obscure).

If all you do is send an email, then you haven't really done "due diligence" in any acceptable form.
I find it especially easy to handle exceptions in asynchronous code with generators. I'm interested to hear more about your perspective.
Watch + AirPods = killer app. It just needs more storage, but that will come in time. 3-4 generations from now and you won't even need a phone anymore.
Naive question maybe but why not use steam instead of salt? Well insulated pressure tank can hold a lot of steam, heat capacity is good, it's non-toxic, and it is ideal for driving turbines.

Focused sunlight is certainly capable of boiling water.
Wow the linked article is quite something:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_and_Jennifer_Gibbons

> According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one of them to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to be the sacrifice.[4] In March 1993, the twins were transferred from Broadmoor to the more open Caswell Clinic in Bridgend, Wales; on arrival Jennifer could not be roused.[5] She was taken to the hospital where she died soon after of acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart.[5] There was no evidence of drugs or poison in her system, and her death remains a mystery.[6] At the inquest, June revealed that Jennifer had been acting strangely for about a day before their release, her speech was slurring, and she said that she was dying. On the trip to Caswell, she had slept in June's lap with her eyes open.[3][7] On a visit a few days later, Wallace recounted that June "was in a strange mood". She said, "I'm free at last, liberated, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me".[5]
My java online compiler reached 37000 users
I was reading on Android. Perhaps the colors are different there.
Email username at gmail.
Infinite structures do not preclude finite analysis.

The theory of real closed fields is complete and decidable, for example.
The problem is these sorts of things are trivia. They are things that sufficiently smart tooling should handle for us so people can spend time building higher level constructs and less time worrying about individual bits.

A smart compiler should have caught (a + b) / 2 and fixed it to be correct, there's no way the overflow situation is what the programmer wanted.
Huawei was expected to have some (the first edition watches were well loved but growing old). Then the Huawei Watch 2 ended up being a thick sportwatch with LTE. The Huawei Watch 2 Classic, which looks marginally less sporty, is inexplicably is just as thick as the Watch 2 despite ditching all the LTE circuitry. It's also roughly $100 more expensive (figure that one out).
> Flavor is our evolved way of our bodies telling us what our body wants to eat.

We don't really live the way we evolved to live, though. I can get the high calorie foods hunter gatherers sought out to see them through lean times delivered to me at my house while I sit around in my underwear.
Bees Are Bouncing Back from Colony Collapse Disorder
A.I. RESUME (https://airesume.com/hiring?ref=hackernews)

Worldwide, Remote, Full time/Part time/Contract, $100-$185K

Work like you've never worked before (in a good way)
We are a passionate team of developers, engineers and scientists dedicated to revolutionizing the way people find, get & keep jobs. We all know getting jobs is going to get tougher and one day we will be competing against artificial intelligence (A.I.) so help us build an A.I. that can level the playing field for humans! We already have an amazing product and your skills will help us make it even greater!

Get in on the ground floor of an amazing opportunity to work with a great team while still being able to work on your own side projects and explore/expand your expertise anyway you want, your growth is our goal! We encourage people to continue learning and we pay for it!

Take a vacation ANYTIME for as long as you like, PAID! We encourage digital nomadship (whether for a few weeks, months or even years if you like) as often as you want! We also have families so staying put is cool too, but we have traveled with kids before and highly recommend it!

We are hiring for the following positions:

• Artist, Illustrator and Graphic Designer

• UI, UX Professional

• Machine Learning, Deep Learning Professional

• Data Scientist

• Growth Marketer/Digital Marketing Professional/Growth Hacker

• Strategic Partnerships & Business Development

• Marketing Intern

• Don't see a position that fits your skills? No worries! Send us your resume letting us know what you can do and why you want to work with us.

Visit https://airesume.com/hiring?ref=hackernews to apply.
Send you mom to him then.
I'll may get myself the next Apple Watch - assuming that it can be used without an iPhone. My decision will depend on how good are the health features they implement.
While I have had my tiffs with KDC (publicly on twitter usually), this entire thread that seems to ignore the five-eyes loopholes is extremely disingenuous. NSA wants everything, so that they or some other three letter can walk the cat back later from data in their massive data centers. Ever since the 90's and echelon days we knew the 47 UKUS core agreement of the "five-eyes" (which later expanded to more) was abused by letting foreign agencies surveil an allies citizens, bypassing their own domestic restrictions, and then when they handed the raw data over, since it came from another source, and they didn't do the "collection", it wasn't a violation.

As a matter of fact, those of us who were warning about the NSA et al before Snowden were heavily relying on these 90's revelations to extrapolate what they were doing given the same system and new technology in a super-connected world.

So, for all the people in this thread to act like it's absurd that NSA was spying on KDC is ridiculously intellectually dishonest. NSA might not care about KDC individually, because they are just backdooring all the equipment (core router/switch backdoors, fiber splitters, etc) at backbone node junctions and they are gobbling up as much as possible for sifting later. Hence the word games the NSA leaders were playing with congress about collection vs wiretaping etc.

It's the NSA sharing raw data with Israelis in reverse, and it's happening all over to the point that the data sharing agreements themselves seem to me to be more of a security risk than the individuals they might deem worthy of a selector.

What's even more amazing to me is that on hn in years past you would have already been called out on this. I think hn is quickly becoming a place for business-people pretending to be hackers instead of the other way around, and it's shameful, but a different discussion I suppose.
Mostly agree but I think smart ring + headset + big phone/small tablet is a better setup.
In the original days of iPhone, you could really only use it if you had a computer (to sync through iTunes, and to activate it if you didn't buy it in the store). iCloud got rid of all of that. I don't see why Apple wouldn't do similar with the Watch, especially since more of their services (Messages, Health) are being moved into iCloud services in iOS 11/watchOS 4.
We still have to wait and see if segwit2x actually happens. I guess we don't have much longer to wait.
Colon: – Minimal, concise and blazing fast template engine
google facebook microsoft amazon baidu
"sufficiently smart tooling" has got to be one of the best jokes in programming.

On one hand, it is true that the tooling is possible. On the other hand, it remains an open problem.
One of these things is not like the other.
Firefox is the browser I really want to like, but can't use. I recently tried to switch back, I kept running into problems with webpages not working, figured it must be an add-on, removed them all, still frozen pages persisted. A web browser that chokes on pages frequently is dead in the water for me.

Then there's the lack of compatibility with their mobile browser for extensions, so most of my extensions didn't work on Android tablets. It was definitely faster than it had been the last time I used it, but at this point, it needs to be significantly better than Chrome to win back users and it's not there except for a small group of people.

I do feel that the Voice Fill is a step in the right direction. I'd prefer that the notes application was a dedicated product with an add in that tightly integrated with the browser, a webapp in a wrapper would be fine really.
I am an owner of an iPad mini (the one with the retina screens) and used to use it all the time as a gaming device I.e: GTA mobile.

I've recently bought one of the new iPad pros (10.5") and all I can say is wow, this thing is amazing, I use it very often for sketching out system diagrams with the apple pen, I used to use a surface pro 2 for that, I really feel like the new iPad pros , with the faster pen refresh rate are a game changer, now I'm still not happy about apples closed garden approach, but you can't have everything right.

It's seems like apple went through a period of denial about the usability of a stylus and have only recently seen the light, I guess back in the day it was a way to differentiate themselves with the multiple windows tablets out there (with horrible response time, the ones where you had to stab the screen to make your tap register)
> So if they can make it so all they need is a Facebook account and now they can video chat with us or any of their friends and family? That would be perfect for my grandparents.

You can already do that, though. Facebook has built-in videochat on all platforms. I'm not clear how this device is substantially better than videochatting on your laptop.
I don't actually see why that would happen. The chance of a block being an orphan is dependent upon the number of competing miners solving the block at the same time. Why would block size impact that at all?

Larger block size increases computation necessary to solve the block, so it is equivalent to increasing the difficulty. Another factor is that you might decide to wait longer to get more transactions in the block. This reduces your chance of solving the block, but increases your payback. I can't see how it could possibly increase the orphan rate because it increases the possible spread for solution time (some people will wait, while other won't). In other words, it should decrease the orphan rate.

I suppose block size increases the network latency for advertising solved blocks... but going from 100k to 250k every 10 minutes does not strike me as being particularly problematic.

Also, I'm trying to verify your claim and I can't see any evidence of it. It appears that different clients were using different block sizes for a long time. The maximum block size on the BTC network has been over 250K since 2013, according to [0]. Also take a look of this graph of orphaned blocks [1]. It seems to be highly variable between 2014 and 1016, but then lower since then. I see no evidence of a sudden increase in orphans. Clearly, having most of the hashing power in one miner will reduce orphans, but I just don't see a connection at all with blocksize.

So what am I missing?

[0] - http://hashingit.com/analysis/39-the-myth-of-the-megabyte-bi...
[1] - https://blockchain.info/charts/n-orphaned-blocks?timespan=al...
I'm torn. I love what you folks actually do, but I also want to pretend that your company makes drones with military applications.
I'm still using Pentadactyl, which is incredible, but it's almost certainly doomed. You'll need to use the signed version on github: https://github.com/willsALMANJ/pentadactyl-signed You might consider Vimperator, which is similar, but inferior iny opinion. It has better support, though, and is more likely to survive into the future.

If you're looking for something simple, VimFX works, but it's too basic for me. Not sure of the future of VimFX.
Yes, that's why I said: "but then I have to think about rounding error. Ugh." Because integer division rounds. (Or truncates, if you prefer.)
I wonder what their plans are. It'd be great to see a major player start supporting bcachefs.
Type inference is not necessary in general nor does it look like the TypeScript example here uses type inference in any significant way.
I also just got the S3 Frontier, leaving the abandoned Pebble platform. I'm loving it! It inherits the ability to use an always on display from the Pebble, however the whole build is much nicer and the display is simply gorgeous.

The cost is needing to charge the device daily, although at a 50% daily burn with AOD on this could be stretched to two days.
I think the health tracking features are the major differentiating feature for wearables. Fit people want to track their exercise and stay fit and the unfit (for the most part) want to get fit. These two groups are 99% of the population. And, as we're finding in the 21st century/age of plenty, fitness takes some work. This thread alone indicates wearable can be a big motivator for fitness.

In addition, the health tracking will only get better and lead to preemptive sensing for cardiac events, insulin detection, and who knows what else.

I think the market for wearables (watches) is bigger than the iPod market, as wearables solve a real problem (fitness tracking and health monitoring) and are more than an awesome convenience.
So what 'bout this? It's the latest glibc.

https://fossies.org/dox/glibc-2.25/stdlib-bsearch_8h_source....
Programmer: "The bug is in the choice of data type. Use unsigned ints to index arrays."

Computer scientist: "The bug is in the language. Signed integer overflow behavior should have been defined in such a way as to guarantee correct functionality in cases such as this."

Me: "Use int64s for this sort of thing. It's still broken, but I'll be retired or dead before anyone notices."

Engineer: "The bug is in the documentation. The program is correct but should have been specified for use with element counts no greater than INT_MAX / 2."

Mathematician: "A solution exists."

Manager: "Ship it."
I backed the first and every subsequent Pebble KickStarter.

When they sold out to Garmin* and refunded my last order/pledge, I spent _some_ of that refund on a 1957 Russian Kirovskie Sputnik Commemorative mechanical watch.

I know none of my Pebbles or any Apple Watch is going to still be keeping good time 70 years from now... (it gains just under a minute a day - resetting it off my phone's clock when I wind it in the morning has become part of my waking up ritual...)

Edit: * It was FitBit not Garmin, as pointed out in replies by dugfin and spike021 elsewhere in this thread. Thanks.
I really wonder about this. It seems true to me that it's easier now and anyone who could do it back when it was harder could do it now.

But then, I wonder if it just seems that way to me because I'm a product of "now", which makes me more proficient in how we do things now, which makes it seem easier. It's possible neither is easier, that they are just different, and for everyone, the other seems harder than the one they already know.

I'm not trying to argue that this is the case: I could see it being either way and I sincerely wonder which way it is.
I thought the main concern with the block size was not typical western connections (where as you say 10 Gbps is no problem) but the limited performance of data crossing the Great Firewall of China?
I think typical, reasonable people do fall for this stuff, though not because they're scared. They fall for it because it's all they ever hear about the issue.

Even the smartest of us can't know everything, and so if all you ever hear about say... IQ tests is "They're bunk, they don't test anything, they're gibberish, they're just an excuse for ivory tower academics to feel better than us" - it becomes a part of your natural understanding of the world, which you don't even think to question. The lies become part of the cultural fabric, and indistinguishable from truth without conducting your own research on what the scientists are actually saying. What you don't know you don't know is the most dangerous stuff of all.
The iPhone install base is certainly not a billion, there have only been 1.2 billion ever sold. Estimates for the install base vary wildly, with the upper estimates at about 3/4 of a billion and more reasonable estimates at half a billion.

In any case, iPhones have about 15%-25% of the global smartphone install base (with the US being the big outlier). I certainly count that as very limiting. Maybe not on quite the same magnitude as Macs were for early iPods, but Apple Watches so far also did a lot better than early iPods.
Automation is inevitable, but will likely happen quicker _without_ unions.

Unionized autoworkers make the same wages as non-unionized autoworkers. It's a concession the UAW and other unions have made to keep plants from moving.

The real cost of unionization to a company isn't wages, it's a loss of flexibility in moving or closing plants. Unionization extracts better job security. Even the most rabid anti-union Americans want a system that makes it more difficult for companies to move or close factories. Job security brings _political_ and _economic_ stability. But ironically the popular narrative about unions has grown more negative even as conservatives have become increasingly vocal about providing job security to low-skilled workers.

Ask yourself this: would you rather government pass laws that restrict free trade and limit the movement of factories, or would you rely on unions to seek that stability within an otherwise free market system, where union contracts can be tailored to each factory and more easily amended in light of unexpected market conditions?

Realize that most programmers don't have to worry about job security in the same way that low-skilled workers do. Even if the current technology labor market didn't favor supply, the cost of on-boarding employees is huge. For even nominally skilled positions, most companies will overlook even the worst performing employee just because the cost of on-boarding a replacement can cost thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars; and you never know if the next employee will be any better. People think this reluctance to fire is because of the risk of discrimination lawsuits, but in industries reliant on low-skilled labor people will get fired at the drop of a hat, sometimes out of sheer retaliation, even though the same legal risks exist.

Unless you want this country to go the way of Venezuela, you want to to secure some significant degree of job security for low-skilled workers. Succumbing to market forces is inevitable, but there's nothing inevitable about a capitalist free market or a liberal political system. Those things can be extinguished in the blink of an eye.
I agree it would be very surprising to see that line in a java codebase. >>> seems more like an answer to a java trivia question than something you'd come across on a regular basis.
Or package authors should start using scoped packages.

Instead of publishing as cross-env you publish as @guy/cross-env

That makes typosquatting harder, and can help give users some ideas of packages which are by the same authors.

NPM could help by allowing packages to be published both to the "global namespace" AND as a scoped package automatically. (In other words, always allow accessing any global package by it's scoped name)
Imagine that instead of criticizing a religion, Nawaz and Ali were criticizing the Republican Party. Maybe they're a bit over the top, but would it be fair to label them "anti-Republican Extremists?" Would it be a good idea to shut down such viewpoints?

EDIT: It's worth watching the guy speak for himself: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449004/anti-radical-mus.... As an apostate I think this guy is a hero.
send me a DM on twitter https://twitter.com/pizzapanther