skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC isn’t even reaching most accredited investors and it wants to go to unaccredited? Sounds like they want liquidity.
Faster page generation makes novel use cases like generating websites to be stored in cloud object storage with function calls actually possible and potentially much cheaper than a CMS like Wordpress. I'm sure there's some CMS POCs out there like that but the landscape is so chock full of plugins and really nontechnical users I can't really see it taking off.
"It’s still early days for Google’s hardware business."

Why no mention of Motorola in 2011? Google bought it for $12.5B, and sold it 2014 for $3B.

I think it would have made the blog post better to give some explanation for why Things Are Different This Time.
More leak from HTC's internal mail to Pixel team:

https://i.imgur.com/krONzs1.jpg

Rick Osterloh will come to Taiwan for detailing the next step to them.
-- and finally he plays the same semantic shellgame with his words he plays with his political essays, to convince you that the horrible political views he has aren't so horrible.

I mean.. what's not to like about Nazism and eugenics?

(I wish I could attribute a sarcasm tag, but Go look up Mencius Moldbug and read for yourself.)
I've had a similar concept rattling around in my head for a while. Rather than basing the time on travel distance from a point, you can base it on travel distance from a route. Then results can be ranked by "on my home commute, how far out of my way is this place?"
I thought the service was great at first - no hassle reservations with easy cancellation. That is until they billed for me a hotel I never stayed at. Ended up having to go through Amex and chargeback the charge since I had clearly cancelled it months before. It's a shame.
Notably, many review sites don't let you score a zero. This will make the resulting number higher and many people are pretty bad at math. They see that it averages a 4 rating and think it can't be that bad, but it's because nobody could rate it a zero.

On the plus side, I learned a new phrase from HN today. I now know what 'dark pattern' means.
I don't think the article mentions this, but being able to vary speed like this leads to some interesting possibilities around centralizing power plants— for example, being able to do a diff-drive or mecanum/omni platform with just a single large motor rather than multiple smaller ones.

The responsiveness probably wouldn't be there for this application, but I'm also curious about whether this could be made to work for a longer range gas/hybrid quadcopter.
Kodak was a chemicals company that thought it was a camera/photo company. Fujifilm embraced being a chemical company and diversified into medical, cosmetics, materials etc and survive to this day.
from may 2017 http://steve-yegge.blogspot.fr/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-...

(just in case he writes a new article)
Says the very Wikipedia article you just linked?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-forex-reser...
For food, I'd like a map that allows me to minimize the sum of time spent traveling and time spent waiting in line.
Did you pay for the room with a credit card charge to Booking.com? If so it would be easier to dispute part of the charge with your card issuer instead of going to small claims court.
>wants to

haven't "actually succeeded", haven't "shown any real movement towards", but "wants to".

And that's the problem. Years ago it was funny: "look at our ludicrous documentation isn't it funny that we claim this is a real thing", now it's just more assholes boiling the seas.
Really interesting that the "time distance" is more or less linear with walking/biking, but in a car it has a non linear relationship: For further places you take a highway, which requires some extra distance but adds a significant speed boost. Having the dots shift in position when changing modes of transportation was really insightful.
I wonder if a technique like this will work for unshredding documents.
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A String in Swift is a sequence of graphemes, unlike most languages which model strings as sequences of code points or just rawutf8, so there's no way to do efficient O(1) indexing. This is why the API is a bit more complex than you'd like.
Google has already asked and Intel said no. You would need to get a coalition of many different OEMs in order to force Intel's hand.

EDIT: Actually, I might be mis-remembering. After a short while of searching I couldn't find any references to what I just said (though searching for "Google" appears to make the results less relevant than normal).
From HTC's announcement to Taiwan's stock exchange, in Chinese only[1]

> 本公司董事會決議通過出售世界通全球驗證股份有限公司100%股權予Google

The company is named 世界通全球驗證股份有限公司 (communication global certification inc), website[2].

[1] http://news.cnyes.com/news/id/3923532

[2] http://www.cgctw.com/CGCWebsite/
There is a cost, regardless.

If you do nothing and allow anyone to pollute anywhere they want, then you get a public health crisis and many people die and many more get sick.

If you prohibit the pollution and heavily police the people who try to pollute anyway, then you have to pay for all the efforts to enforce the prohibition plus you have the possibility of job loss as those companies go somewhere else that does allow them to pollute freely.

If you allow the pollution but charge a cleanup fee, then you have the increased beauracracy, etc....

There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
They also sold Motorola Home for $2.35B.

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/google-moto/
Turn off "ask to join" and it will only connect to known networks.
A Thorne–Żytkow object is a star within a star
(You might have hit reply on the wrong post? This is all stuff orthogonal to my point.)
Was that not a patent grab? I always thought that was the main premise.
While CloudFlare uses Google's captcha service, Google isn't the authority on what users see CloudFlare captchas.
Your cookies are submitted with requests for anything from a site, favicon images included. Setting a cookie in JS that contains events performed on a webpage is a trivial exercise and you shouldn't assume that that doesn't happen in a case such as this.
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This is a good, well-written explanation of the most reasonable, mainstream aspects of Urbit, leaving the impression that it's essentially like a P2P version of AWS Lambda.

But of course, that's not all it is.

It's also a ground-up reinvention of mainstream functional programming languages like Lisp, built on the foundation of an abstract virtual machine in which the "decrement" operation can be performed natively only by incrementing a number until it's 1 less than the current number. All of these concepts have their own weird names; for instance, the constant-time version of "decrement" (this is a programming environment that goes out of its way to achieve constant-time decrement†) is an example of a "jet", where a jet is apparently a non-native implementation of an algorithm that can be expressed but not efficiently on the VM that they've chosen to build their entire system on and it just gets weirder and weirder from there.

You don't have to memorize the new names they've come up with for most of the ASCII punctuation characters, like "gal", "gar", and "hax" for "<", ">", and "#", "but it helps". A normal engineer's reaction to a system that tells it that it will help to remember a new name for the pound sign is to ask "Why? What fresh horror lurks in the deeper meaning of your new name for the percent sign? And why won't you tell me before I commit to this system?"

Stuff like that would be bad enough, but the founders ideological views are also infused into the system, and those views are not mainstream distributed systems engineering views. For instance: the most available first-class address in the system is in a 32 bit address space. Why? Not for efficiency, but because the authors believe there aren't and never will be 4 billion human beings on the planet worthy of having a first-class address in their system. This, by the way, is their actual response to the objection of an overlay network with 32 bit addressing.

I agree that the best way to explain this system while encouraging people to engage with it is to distill it down to anodyne concepts and then sprinkle "decentralization" on top. But of course, this system isn't really that. From the proteins of its cell membranes to the DNA in its nucleus, this is a system that coercively projects the idiosyncrasies of its founders into everything it comes in contact with. It's decentralized and free in the sort of way its founders would explain with a 3000 word paper that invented 50 new terms in its abstract.

People confused about Urbit are probably not confused about the value of serverless computing or of overlay networks. Those are pretty straightforward concepts we can all get our heads around. There is something deeper that is challenging about Urbit.

† Rather than, you know, just deciding to have it.
Well I'm in NY if that helps.

> Alternatively, find a niche that needs fixing with a CRUD web app, then build and sell it.

Would you care to expand on that a bit please? Thanks!
> This is actually fantastic, I am really happy about this.

This is not fantastic, my phone is lying to me. I was wondering what the bug was because I turned off Bluetooth and it kept turning back on every damn time I got near my car. I want it on when I want it on and not anytime else.

Icons and OSes that lie to user make it tougher to understand what's going on. I expect the control center to tell the truth and do what I want. There is no indication that the settings and control center are different. This is a user hostile decision.

Cruddy work, Apple... now I get to answer questions about this psychotic crud.
> "A value in Hoon is called a noun" - or you could just call it a value.

A "value" sounds like an abstract concept. A noun is one of two things: a natural number or a pair of nouns. Calling it a "value" makes it sound much more abstract than it is.

> "A core has no exact equivalent in conventional languages, but the closest equivalent is an object. An object has methods; a core has functionally computed attributes (arms). An arm that produces a gate is the Hoon equivalent of a conventional method;" - or you could just say that objects in Hoon (the language) can have methods and attributes, and you would never need to invent the core/arm/gate terminology.

A core is not an object in any meaningful sense. You can create stuff that looks like objects with them, but they're used for a lot more than that. For example, all gates/functions are cores, but there's no sense in which you'd call those "objects".

> They try to give themselves an out by saying stuff like "Hoon has concepts like all these abstractions, but they remain false cognates." When you dig into it, the only unique things are the words. It's like children trying to come up with a code- "instead of door we'll say blorp and instead of close we'll say bleep. Now bleep the blorp before we continue inventing our code.

The thing about revolutionary concepts is that their underlying principles are different than what you're used to, so if they look similar on the surface, you're lulled into thinking they're basically the same. But anyone who's put significant effort into programming in Urbit will tell you the system is fundamentally different. Not in the sense of "you could never understand what's going on here"; but rather, "we made these few different design decisions in the beginning, and that permeates everything".
> nobody's showing up anywhere

I suspect they are? I mean, if they weren't showing up then the restaurant would be out of business, no?

It does read a bit xenophobic, but it might be a pressure thing more than a nationality thing. People try to put pressure on those establishments. Sometimes, it's the chefs themselves who put the pressure on, sometimes it is visitors.

People have committed suicide due to the pressures involved in trying to get onto the list and to maintain, or increase, their stars. Failure is difficult and may even result in financial ruin, as if restaurants weren't already inherently risky.

So, I'm not sure that it is so much xenophobic as it is simply not wishing to be so publicly judged and/or pressured.
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Taking your feedback into consideration, I had the thought that it would be more accurate to talk about things like "2" in an OOP context as symbols with semantics (which provide meaning to them), not data, since "data" connotes more a collection of inputs/quantities, where we may be able to attach a meaning to it, or not, and that wasn't what I was going after. I was going after a relationship between information and semantics that can be associated with it, but trying to provide a transition point from the idea of data structures to the idea of objects, for someone just learning about OOP. Doing a sleight of hand may not do the trick.

My starting point was to use a very interesting concept, when I encountered it, in SICP, where it discussed using procedures to emulate data, and everything that can be done with it. It seemed to help explain for the first time what "code is data" meant. It illustrated the inversion I was talking about:

https://tekkie.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/sicp-what-is-meant-b...

"In 2.1.3 it questions our notion of “data”, though it starts from a higher level than most people would. It asserts that data can be thought of as this constructor and set of selectors, so long as a governing principle is applied which says a relationship must exist between the selectors such that the abstraction operates the same way as the actual concept would." It went on to illustrate how in Lisp/Scheme you could use functions to emulate operations like "cons", "car", and "cdr", completely in procedural space, without using data structures at all.

This is what I illustrate with "2 + 2", and such, that code is doing everything in this operation, in OOP. It's not a procedure applied to two operands, even though that's how it looks on the surface.
your post needs some punctuations

I make it forget bad networks, so it wont connect to them by default. your workflow is poor.
If what you say is true, why has vPro not seen wider adoption?

It has been around long enough.

Anybody work for an MSP or enterprise that actually uses this in the field?
The link should be to https://github.com/AbenezerMamo/crypto-signal instead of the python program itself.
If you have ideas, then you should pitch them on the corresponding GitHub projects.
you're a few thousand unit tests away from web scale
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Yep. Unix and Linux are broken.

So instead, I should load up Urbit, locate on a planet, spin up a garglemitz on the spitzenspeil with the hoon japing over the nock.

If you add Xenu, Body Thetans, e-meters, I think you might be on to something!

--------------------

No seriously. There are wrong things with the monolothic kernel as well as microkernels. Theyre design tradeoffs. But none of the existing, well established methods throw away the language of computing of the last 60 years. Some tech stacks may add a new type, but they are able to describe why a new classification is needed, and how it fits iin the existing model.

What Urbit is doing, is polluting the namespace by turning existing nomenclature into some sort of technofreakish cult. Up is now down. Down is now blarbbliboop. And anyone questioning the "Master" is berated and denigrated by means of 'lack of intelligence'. You all should be defending your way and means.

Because in my eyes, you all are wrong until you can start integrating standard and normal nomenclature - because it's hiding something unsavory.
Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers
It's interesting that you want them left out and then, as an aside, bring the parent's into it.
Evolution Isn't Always Slow. Sometimes It Happens Overnight
Or, maybe, live up to a set of different standards and not be pressured to conform to his past set of ideals or those ideals that make for good ratings.

It may be different standards, not necessarily relaxed standards. I think we can give him the benefit of doubt.
Marketting spiel incoming. You use Reddit to share link, Twitter to keep up with people, and IRC for real time chat. In all of those cases you are trusting a third party corporation that they aren't keeping you data forever and they won't arbitrarily ban you. You can switch to alternatives like Mastodon or, like, voat but it's really the same problem: now you're just trusting a different server, and being banned still means you lose all your content and new players on the block have to bootstrap up an entire new corpus of content and userbase.

Instead, you could use an Urbit app that does Reddit-ish things, and when a developer makes a Twitter alternative the userbase already exists. Because each user hosts their own content, developers don't have to host servers, and migrating to another Reddit-like app is really just switching to a different UI frontend. Whats more, since it's /your server/, you can integrate with existing 3rd parties: mirror all your posts to actual-Twitter or use Urbit as a client, and gradually migrate over to the decentralized platform without having to overcome market effects.
> Is Urbit still heavily dependent on unreleased root node code? In other words, is this distributed computing just a load of hype covering over a overly complicated star topology?

Urbit has always been fully open source as far as I know (at least since 2013). It is true that Tlon runs some of the galaxies and stars that most people use, but that's just because other galaxy owners haven't decided it's worth it to do so (because Tlon is doing a great job of it).
Yeah, it appears so. I wanted to question the weirdos out of the woodwork that inevitably show up when Urbit is mentioned.

Every time, it feels more and more cultish. And every time, I don't believe it could get more so, and am wrong.
There is so little shown on the front page of this site that I'm afraid to do any searches here.

Is anyone braver than me who is willing to post a summary of what this should actually be used for and how best to use it?
ROCA: Resource-Oriented Client Architecture
I laughed, but I'd prefer to keep the low-effort comedy posts to Reddit if possible.
Would it be possible for you to post the source (or even just the headers) with your email scrubbed from the message you received from them the first time? Depending on your email provider they could fake that too but it might be worth a look.
I read it as:

HTC will continue to develop HTC's next flagship phone.

Google will continue to use the HTC Pixel team they just brought to develop Google's next Pixel flagship phone.
Are we sure about this - you can enable Bluetooth and WiFi in Airplane mode - will this still work as before now?
I would really like to see Doom running on a mobo w the main cpu missing.
The station wifi is known though, so when I have a long wait for a train at a station I'm not burning data on YouTube
more acquisitions

another nexus 7

god, i hope so.
This sucks - I keep it off because as I ride a train it's connecting to every station wifi and losing it just as quick, completely breaking connectivity.

Perhaps the new TCP multipath stuff will make WiFi Assist work in these cases but I'm not holding my breath.
I think it's kinda interesting that the HN takeaway is that Eastman was killed by its unions: if it had just treated its employees as disposable it'd still be the juggernaut today that it was in the 20th century.

In fact our economy is littered with the detritus of collapsed or dying technology giants. To name just a few there's SGI, Sun, Thinking Machines, DEC and Yahoo.

With the possible exception of DEC none of these companies had any appreciable union penetration. In fact, some failed giants (Zynga and Groupon come to mind) were notorious for being vicious to their employees.

All of these companies are flashes in the pan compared to Eastman, which stayed at the top of the innovation game for generations.

If the salient difference between those companies and Eastman was Eastman's unions, that makes the unions look pretty darn good.
When you enable airplane mode, you can actually see WiFi and Bluetooth crossed out as opposed to grayed out. So there is a difference in UI, but I agree - this is not intuitive to the user.
Interestingly, isn't that the whole runway that they've got left?
>I suspect they are? I mean, if they weren't showing up then the restaurant would be out of business, no?

Sorry, I was under the impression that he's talking about the Michelin rating people showing up and telling them how good or bad his food is rather than simply visiting and writing a guide which contains his restaurant. I can understand the pressure of being on the list and maintaining one's position, but there's no reason why he couldn't let that slip; being lower on the list is better than not being on the list at all in terms of prestige, so he obviously doesn't care much what a "foreign" guide writes about him.

The idea that only Japanese people can judge Japanese food seems to me very xenophobic; if that wasn't his intention then he should have spoken in general rather than targeting "foreigners".
I thought about interviewing for them in Amsterdam. The recruiter put me in touch with one of their people and she explained to me everything was in Perl, there were little to no automated tests and developers often pushed straight to production. I said I had only worked in perl shops that were migrating from it to Scala or Python. She said, "Well we have no intention of moving."

Like I say with all recruiters, I said I was interested. I thought about it and everything was a red flag. Sure I'd get to live in Amsterdam and stay in Europe with my girlfriend, but ... that sounds like the ultimate shit job. I'd have to endure that until I worked out whatever visa contract they'd have or find someone else to sponsor me with a non-shit job.

So I just ignore the recruiter when he calls .. and ignore him .. and ignore him. Dude calls every fucking day for like four weeks straight; after I had already moved back to America. Most recruiters would take the hint after three failed calls. I can't imagine how desperate they must be. Then I heard from a former co-worker one of our other buddies, a Kiwi, had taken a job with them .. leaving NZ to go work there. He's still there ... hope it's not shit.
Haskell did not shine here. Ocaml did surprisingly well.
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I have achieved similar results photographing snowflakes w/ an iPhone 4S and a macro lense I bought for $5 at the Walmart checkout isle.
Why are reverse mergers not more popular? Seems like there is quite an opening for somebody to spin up assetless shell companies, take them public and then sell them off the private companies that want to go public, and denying market makers and underwriters their huge rake, and sidestep most of the other issues surrounding an IPO.
I live in New York (four years in Manhattan and a couple more in Brooklyn).

I think "incredibly easy" is a gross exaggeration. I supposed you might be talking about the street carts, but street meat is questionably healthy / "good". The deeper you get into parts of Queens it's certainly possible, but I think the previous poster had in mind some sort of sit down establishment rather than street food.
Right, but you could do that with any P2P overlay network with any embeddable VM. Why use the very unorthodox one that Urbit came up with? I really think that's the question people are asking when they say they don't understand Urbit. Not, "why would we want to do what this system claims to let us do", but rather, "why would we want to do it that way?"