skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People over-emphasize a lot of the problems X has. A lot of the real original problems like high latency were evolved away. And while backwards compatibility can be annoying, that's just what you get for trying to do serious software engineering. So I agree with you that the differences between X and Wayland are greatly exaggerated.

However, there is one significant architectural difference between X and Wayland that is quite difficult to evolve away. In modern X, there are actually three processes involved: the client (app), the X server, and the compositor. In Wayland, there are only two: the client (app) and the compositor.

The X design is more fragile (state managed in 3 places instead of 2) hence ICCCM, and has more latency and overhead. However, it made a lot of sense back when the X server talked to the hardware directly and therefore needed both an integrated driver and special privileges. It'd be silly to implement drivers as part of compositors, so the separation of mechanism and policy was the right way to go back then.

Since then, however, the mechanism has basically entirely moved into the kernel (DRM/KMS) and Mesa (OpenGL). This happened in bits and pieces first with the evolution of the DRI protocol and then the jump to kernel mode setting.

That is the evolutionary development which lead to the move to Wayland makeing sense.

I suppose this 3-to-2-process transition could have been evolved by refactoring the core of the X server source (the whole protocol handling etc.) into a library that compositors then simply link against. But that would have been a truly herculean task with not very many natural intermediate steps. Implementing something like Wayland from scratch on the modern Linux graphics stack is actually much less work -- except perhaps for transitioning all the toolkits, but then again, the X server source lends itself fairly well to writing various "X-on-something-else" servers, since people have been doing that for a while, so there's a natural if slightly awkward solution for backwards compatibility.

So hacking up an initial prototype for Wayland could be done very quickly, but note that actual adoption still took a long time. But the point is that the Wayland path had more presentable intermediate steps (unlike the X server refactor), so that's the path that software evolution took.

(Man, this got a lot longer than originally intended...)
> It seems clear that we've become a Day-2 country, while China is still very much a Day-1 country.

I hadn't heard that term before. Here's what I found:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Jeff-Bezos-%E2%80%9CDay-1%E2%8...
Yeah, probably, but sometimes freelancing developers are not provided access to server resources. It was the same case. And thats why we did this. So it won't use MySQL and is file based.
Racism.

Dear white people...

Author does not know meaning of Racism.
How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process
CAN should have authentication built in. That's the root of the problem, and without fixing it everything else becomes hard.
> It says he had total control over the media, and that he had huge approval. Neither is true today.

This was not the case when Hitler first became Chancellor or, even moreso, when his faction first took undisputed control of the Nazi Party.

It was true sometime after he'd done both, and used the propaganda power (and coercive power) of both the state and party to secure his hold on the public. (One clear difference, whatever parallels there might be, is that Trump only really started the fight for undisputed control of the GOP after becoming President; that makes the internal fight much more visible to outsiders, but also wants if he wins it, he won't have as many other barriers to cross to implement his plans as Hitler did after taking over the Nazis.)
I don't like the marketing appeal to some sort of deep emotional instinct that the advertisement is making. I think it's ridiculous that consumer goods represent who I am and what I might stand for. That's silliness and hyperbole, right? To say that a person's phone choice defines them in any sort of meaningful way is extremely silly to me. This feels similar to something like:

"This product stands for freedom! You stand for freedom don't you?"

The guitar analogy is not accurate - your statement about cherishing the guitar is evaluated internally and is true or false. It's not the same as saying the guitar publicly and externally (and deliberately!) defines you and what you stand for.

"There goes lolsal - now there's a guy that really stands for non-branded personal compute devices!" Give me a break.
Hi,
I'm maintainer of Wekan.

Wekan is available on many platforms:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Platforms

a) In Wekan standalone version it's possible to disable self-registration in Admin Panel. There is inviting users, user permissions Admin/Normal/Comment only, but not user management yet:

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Features#authentication-...

and in next version it's possible for user to change password:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md

b) In https://sandstorm.io version there is already user management, Google/GitHub/LDAP/SAML authentication etc:

https://discourse.wekan.io/t/sso-passing-variables-through-u...

Newest version of Wekan is coming to Sandstorm in near future, progress is at:

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/799
> This just allows them to decrypt it and inspect the source code

decrypt the firmware and inspect the binaries
This seems pretty reasonable and is the same conclusion which the DAO investigation came to. I think both ICO creators and participants will benefit from this new information now that we have a clear line in the sand as to how these things can operate. The risk won't decrease substantially in buying these tokens, these projects can go bust just like a kickstarter project can fail but at the very least people in the US will think twice about running outright scams.

It has been recently suggested that the SEC may go after exchanges which hold any ICO token regardless of how it was sold and advertised, I'm pretty sure they don't want to go that far, this will only push exchanges into decentralized systems which are difficult to shutdown. There has to be some give and take on both sides here really.
The se, if you're lucky, can even be found for less than $200 USD. Amazing battery and performance, enough that I can forgive the smaller display and 1st generation touch ID.
The impression I had is that reviewers are part-time contractors vs full-time employees. Probably developers creating code all day long.
True Satoshi's Vision is finally realized.
>VR
Yes, yes, possibly 3D printing as well.
The problem is market forces will push towards eugenics. Societies that embrace it will likely outperform those that don't at least in the short term. This will probably lead to a loss of diversity though that will expose those societies to a greater risk of rare catastrophic events like epidemics. Those risks will likely get overlooked.
Do you mean from an individual standpoint?
Both our founders have full-time jobs so they can make a living and the startup has been a year in development. We don't have much in the way of expenses as of yet. Since we are not paying anything for marketing (just social media, growth hacking), and our "product" is a service/software, we don't have any manufacturing costs. No office space needed either. I guess technically our runway is infinite but as we are trying to grow, that will change.
And it seems, once an investor says he/she is going to invest, it usually takes 3 months to close.
Perhaps not, but they are, of course, extremely common there.

As an aside, I do believe the acronym ELI5 was coined and popularized on reddit (though the phrase itself did not originate there).
If I'm holding a phone I don't want a usb hub flapping around to plug in >1 device. More ports fit strictly more use cases. The only reason to limit phones to one port is so the manufacturer can save a few bucks.

Sure I can work around just about any problem, but I'm gonna say fuck you for making me.

EDIT: someone should fund me to make the ~11mm no speaker, no aux port, 2-4 usb-c port, dual sim, large/fast storage, beefy battery, rooted, juicy ass laptop killer that nobody knew they needed.
Why should they. They are private entities ruled primarily by the question what fosters shareholder value.

So I expect nothing less then pure self-interest. I would never expect freedom of speech as it isn't guaranteed like against a state actor.
Then you're not thinking very hard. I'm too bored of this discussion to look at Xamarin, but for Qt, just looking at the Wikipedia page and cross-referencing with my experience with them, we have: VLC, Stellarium, VirtualBox, Telegram, Google Earth, LyX...
But what good does that do if they can't then walk through the door?

Also, most smart door locks are operated over a protocol called ZWave which has a limited range. When people talk about smart lock hacking they are usually talking about RF spoofing of the ZWave signal. You can, of course, hack the bridge device if the bridge device is on Wifi.
Having sold hundreds of iPhone 5s's when I was selling B2B, I have to say I was fairly unimpressed. Not great battery life over time, if an employee left with iCloud enabled it was a whole affair with Apple to get them to reset the device and allow it to be reused, and the brick style design is not very comfortable overall.

My favorite is the curved back, as is on most Motorola's and some LGs. Personally, I stick with cheap LG phones ($100 or so) that are rootable/rommable. If the phone gets damaged or I want a newer phone, no skin off my back, biggest concern is just moving Signal Private Messenger over to the new phone I get :P
In particular, whether it can gain enough mining power to survive. Currently, SegWit2x (the fork discussed here) has 92% of miners signalling that they'll support it[1].

The question in this case is whether the original Bitcoin could survive after the fork if this support is maintained.

[1] https://coin.dance/blocks
> I've always been curious if genetic diseases are not only heritable but also spontaneously generated.

They certainly are. Consider Down's syndrome: almost no one with Down's reproduces because it is a physically/socially crippling disorder. If Down's was not spontaneously generated, with considerable probability, it would not be an issue because it would've disappeared within a generation or two at most. This applies to a lot of genetic diseases: they are 'de novo mutations', not inherited, because they are sufficiently harmful that their sufferers do not reproduce for there to be anyone to inherit the disease. This is why you hear of so many recessive genetic disorders: being recessive means it won't usually have any fitness effect, so it has a chance of persisting for a long time, only occasionally hurting or killing someone. (Brand new mutations are quite common in humans on an absolute basis: I think the estimate is ~70 per person. It would be even higher except that many of them are so fatal that the sperm or egg or embryo spontaneously abort or die along the way.) There are many thousands of distinct genetic disorders, some of which can be caused by many different mutations, cumulatively affecting something like 1% of births. How specific the mutations have to be is the 'mutational cross-section' of the disease. For example, intellectual disabilities can be caused by just about anything, and the genetic cause has to be diagnosed by whole-genome sequencing of parents/child to find the new mutations and try to guess which one is responsible.

> does it reduce the probability to a very low number?

Yes. Unless you made everyone do IVF PGD, there will always be a 1-in-thousands chance of this or that genetic disorder, along with the ones popping up from two carriers mating. The only reason Down's is disappearing is because most of the affected fetuses are being constantly aborted, but this is not affecting the root cause (increasing maternal age) and so it will be a problem indefinitely.
I think that for humanity to "move forward"/"become interplanetary" or what have you, this is a necessary step. Being selfish however, I am afraid of being rendered useless by the incoming generation of superhumans :)
[OP] I've owned this laptop for almost 2 years, and it's been heavily used, first as a work laptop for a year (I used EC2 instances for 'real stuff') and then a home laptop. Still works perfectly and looks fine. We'll see how it holds up...

Anecdotally, I have never has a laptop die in over 20 years except for the backlight failing after many years on my second hand Toshiba T1100 and my aged HP 2510p becoming flaky after a few disassemblies to clean dust out (and attempting to use better thermal paste on the heat sink).
This is way off, and reflective of a view of space exploration of the Apollo style rather than actual colonization like what will happen on Mars.

The first people to go to Mars may be scientists and explorers, but the second wave will be a very different kind of people. That group will have the job of building a technologically advanced, industrialized, self-sufficient civilization on Mars. That is no small task, nor is it one we have a simple template for. The people who will be drawn to it won't be the "science is f'ing cool!" spectators, nor will they even be hardcore research scientists. They'll be hyper-competent workaholics and overachievers. They'll be people with broad expertise in multiple subjects who just enjoy getting stuff done. The sheer amount of work ahead of them will be mind-boggling. But by the same token, the amount that they can get done, what they will be able to achieve will be equally mind-boggling.

Every single day they'll wake up and they'll have a hundred lifetimes of truly challenging work ahead of them. And every single night they'll go to bed having made real, material, significant progress on advancing Martian colonization and making human civilization multi-planetary. Most days they'll do something that was never done on Mars before. They'll build something that will have a tangible impact on what is possible in the future on Mars, and on many other people's lives. They won't just be spending their days reading facebook and occasionally making a git pull-request, they'll be building greenhouses, they'll be farming, they'll be making habitats, and they'll be building up all of the industrial infrastructure to do that. They'll be mining ice, and iron ore, and sand, etc. They'll be figuring out how to setup iron smelting operations. How to make plastic out of methane. How to make concrete on Mars. How to build habitats with the maximal contribution of Martian resources that are safe and robust. They'll be min/maxing like crazy, and innovating like crazy. They'll be spending a crap-ton of time in shops using machine tools. And they will constantly see the fruits of their labor, day by day, hour by hour.

They'll be able to look around at their growing colony and think to themselves "I built this". It will be like the ultimate start-up experience on steroids. Some of them might find it overwhelming, but I doubt many of them will find it boring, they won't have time.
Much like JNCOs, dongles were a bad idea from the 90s, why are we reliving this
This is an admirable effort and thanks for doing it.

Have you experienced problems related to the lack of active support from AMD or Intel for OpenCL drivers? Thats been my experience with OpenCL several years ago. On a related note drivers for OpenGL on Linux and Windows from AMD and Intel have been a huge problem for developer for years. Somehow only NVidia cares and invests enough in non-windows driver support. This may be changing with Vulkan however and more focus on GPU compute.
Holy crap I thought I was never going to resolve that mystery!

Thank you!
Joke aside, that didn't install a Windows program, and I'm willing to bet the WSL wasn't installed by default either, and I'll also bet that didn't work in a Windows command prompt.
‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Charm Fades as Truck Driver Hiring Lags
To be fair, the public transit he's moving from, RTD, isn't always great either. It just filed a fourth extension to get the automated crossings working on the new commuter train. Until then the crossings are being manned by flaggers.

Honestly I just wanted to complain about RTD. I used to live in the midwest, it was nice. Cheap housing!
How to Know You’re in a Mass Hysteria Bubble
If your disability had been repaired with, say, CRISPR, you'd be alive right now and without that disability. Had your disability been removed via "selection", you wouldn't exist.
Have you ever considered that maybe you're just bad at typing on a touchscreen, and some practice could help? I can type on my iPhone without looking at it, quite quickly, the OS's autocorrect fills in for my slight inaccuracies with pretty damn good accuracy.

The size a device must be to have both a keyboard and usable touchscreen puts it squarely out of the optimal solution category.
If you're only in favor of eugenics when it's convenient - well, then you're in favor of eugenics.
"Housing" and the housed population that lives within my city (Sunnyvale) is not a net negative.
Not prescient, real. There have been ICOs where the blockchain wasn't running yet. That's just a "send us your money" scam.
> Black power groups are not the black equivalents of white power groups.

It's true that “power” almost exclusively means “supremacy” in the latter case and more often (but not as consistently) means “empowerment” in the latter, but there is overlap. Black supremacist groups are a thing, though not the dominant thing, in the world of “black power”.
> all the things you listed, mostly

Not trying to be a dick, but that sounds... kind of weasely.
Caveat: I am not a scientist, just a humble lover of a dram. I don't generally go for peaty whiskies, much preferring the Speyside flavour profile and some of them benefit from a couple of drops of water. It differs from whisky to whisky, and age to age. I'll generally try one without, one with, and decide what my favourite is.
The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat
Not if your source if income isn't there, or if needed amenities aren't nearby.
Show HN: Delaware Public Benefit Corporations on Clerky (YC S11)
The same argument would also be used to ban abortion, just you know.
Yes I’ve found a way, enable the develop menu, and at the bottom of the menu you will see an option to “allow unsigned extensions” .
It's now estimated there are more Earth-sized planets than gas giants on most stars, and that every star has at least 1 planet, likely more.

So that's 7 or more planets. That's many.
Because he didn't provide any proof of his claim except a few cherry-picked misinterpreted Wikipedia articles. What proof is there that biological differences are at all responsible? Damore clearly can't seem to find any, or he just didn't care enough to try to find any.

His over-arching point is fundamentally incorrect (as evidenced by the fact that other countries see engineering as a stereotypically female job), and even if it were correct, he didn't provide any actually acceptable proof of said claim.

Let's ignore what I just said though and look at your "group differences are in part responsible" line there. What does it matter if something is in part responsible? How does that at all completely invalidate the possibility that Google is discriminatory? Let's say for a second that Google actually does discriminate against women. Is that perfectly fine now because biological differences are in part to blame? How does that at all invalidate the actual problem being addressed by the diversity memo?
Also note that this seems to be only for the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 6 and newer models use a different architecture for the SEP IIRC.
Great catch! Thanks, replied on twitter - we're dog fooding our own product, so as a reviewer, you'll definitely see our code in the review queue.
So the message is that we are all okay silencing TDS in this case because they're pretty bad. I'm not okay with that. It is too intellectually dishonest for my taste (among other things).
i live in europe and dunno anyone who would be commuting more than 90-100km daily which is like 1hr by train, although most of the people are lazy to do even that even with decent public transport, so 80mi is very extreme example for europe
I think you're saying there is some subset of people out there that consider their phones to be some non-trivial public statement about who they 'are' and what they 'stand for'. I agree with that. I find it ridiculous, but I agree that there are probably folks out there like that.

I guess I'm just complaining out loud because I don't like the idea of every product that is pushed at me trying to claim that it somehow defines me as a person and what I stand for.
I spent 21 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit.  [Reddit AMA]
Why not have a kid to rid you of some of that selfishness? What parent doesn't want their children to be better in every sense than they were?

For myself it'd be nice to join the superhuman future directly (CRISPR? Mind emulation? Cyborg replacements?), but I'd settle for them being nice to me like present society is nice to its retired elders.
you basically can’t develop at all for iOS (who’s gonna pay 3000$ to get a Mac

That's assuming that you don't already own a Mac but a lot of people do.
It's being reported as though a cure for Down Syndrome has been found, however the step taken to "eliminate" it is abortion. That may be of no consequence to the world view of the average SV engineer, but that explains how it is being "spun" as a bad thing by many.
I'm not new to HN, I just ditch accounts when they approach 500 karma because I'm edgy like that.
The Martini is the tabs-versus-spaces debate of drinking culture.

(But there is only one right way for that as well)
Cleveland has an interesting mixture of things that make it a very livable place: Very good restaurants (including one of the best Little Italy's in the country), elite healthcare and elite cultural institutions. The schools outside of Cleveland tend to be good, and there are good private school options within the city.

On the healthcare front, Cleveland can compete with anywhere in the world. On the cultural institution front, Cleveland is one of the best non-New York cities in the U.S., particularly with its orchestra, museums and plays.

If you can get a good job, why not? That's essentially the rub. I'm from Cleveland, and I live in DC, because the job market is much better. A lot of the older cities in the U.S. have good neighborhoods and cultural institutions. They need to find creative ways to get modern jobs.
This would be great. Unfortunately, people especially in large groups don't seem to have the emotional strength to withhold from doing that.

These mass conversations quickly devolve from debates to name-calling and the click-incentivized media is quick to encourage it (more outrage = more clicks = more ads = more $)
More free airdrops please. The last airdrop gave a free 5% to 25% to BTC holders.
They already sell the Aquos Crystal phones on Sprint, which are really nice phones for the price point. When I borrowed my buddy's on Sprint, I was able to pull over 100mbps down when we were out boating on Lake Washington. AT&T could only hit 15mbps and T-Mobile was sitting around 40Mbps comparatively.
Migrating to React and MobX Without Stopping Feature Development
No one has lost domain hosting, that I'm aware of. But at least one person got pepper-sprayed, more have been beaten in the street and others have had people going after their jobs based on mistaken identity.

This doesn't address the fundamental point: that if you declare a willingness to censor anyone, then you'll immediately have a whole lot of people trying to convince you that their personal enemies fall in the censor-worthy category. I don't trust domain registrars or CDNs to be the final arbiters of Who Really Is a Nazi.
I'm not bothered about the implications for users as they're minimal. I am interested in how they got this key. Anybody got any details?