skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the same and then saw her reflection in one of the shots from the selfie camera and she was filming with a big DSLR with an external mic attached to it. Surprised no one questioned that..
We don't need more human volunteers risking their lives in the physical battlefield, we need more hackers and more robots.
I'm curious about this as well. How easy would it be to game performance measurements? For example, when you can lazily load content it becomes much more difficult to measure. The advantage of the AMP restrictions for them is that they know for sure certain performance metrics will be met but this is much more difficult for arbitrary webpages.
Really? Then you will get extremely slow progress.

I'm not exaggerating. Medical devices are the extreme form of this.

Look at the (some would say lack of) progress is creating an artificial pancreas for Type-1 diabetes, for example. The progress has been so slow that Type-1 sufferers with tech knowledge have been reverse engineering existing pumps and sensors in the hope that they can hack them and break the bottleneck themselves.

Or, alternatively, everybody will release a product and almost immediately wind up the company so that you can't get at any of the profits or use Hollywood accounting so that there magically never are any profits.

Or are you willing to make security problems a criminal offense? (Now there's a fun can of worms--write a bug, go to jail).

Be careful what you wish for.
Sarcasm folks... GP complained about it being a 'lifestyle' thing.
Can you film secret company data and put it on YouTube though? I seriously doubt he would have been fired if he simply told his friends and family that he was working on the radio for the next iPhone.
Be in a state of constant R&D
> "Feels like someone has an agenda, this is the 10th time I've heard this story and it has exactly the same information."

This is the nature of a lot of journalism these days, with many outlets either (a) reiterating what's in a press release or (b) reporting what has already been reported elsewhere. This happens with plenty of stories, even without an agenda.
So I've been working on a python flask web app in part time/spare time for my business for almost two years (in addition to running a company doing several million USD in sales over that time without the app.) In that two years, I've tracked my programming time with wakatime and I'm at >1000hrs now, more than 25 full-time 40hr work weeks of actual coding time. I'm running the app on a dedicated GPU server, as part of the apps function is to evaluate 3D CAD files. Time spent managing and running a dedicated server is not even counted in the 1000hrs. Of course, I've also had to learn to be a Postgres database admin and dozens of support libraries. And, certainly must have at least some javascript/jquery. Libraries like flask-admin and flask-security are great. But, when you need them customized for production, it takes weeks of time to dig in and actually learn how they are built from the inside out. Need to subclass and override much of it to finally have something usable. I literally just spent about a month hacking on flask-security to get the login/email-confirmations/email templates/argon2-hashing/2-factor-auth the way I need it. Then, I watch this video the guy replicates most of the functionality in six minutes. Nice work, definitely looks like heading in right direction.
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Ah, yes. "Freedom". The "think of the children" equivalent for when it comes to why we shouldn't have anti-trust legislation.
It's a bit late for the economist to come out with this.

They should have come out against the invasion of Iraq or the campaign to destabilize the middle east after that.

Why now that we're beginning to disengage from the world? It's a bit strange to see some dissonance: on the one hand they don't want America to disengage from the world on the other hand we're too in love with our military.
Types are checked by names, even you have the same underlying range of values. But some checks can only be done at runtime.
Design decisions like this are part of what makes TypeScript much more enjoyable to work in than other JS type systems (e.g. Closure, Flow).

TS tends to make pragmatic tradeoffs between sound typing, and the way JS developers tend to architect code. I'm glad they do.
Update: Turned out to be an old version of Firefox. Upgrading made the error go away.
Hum, I don't know man, it sounds like you want the terrorists to win or something !!! /s
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Sad, Apple has indeed lost it's way. Old Apple would have capitalized on any press. Tim Cook is the Steve Balmer of Apple; right now they're still making money off of legacy. Jobs demanded quality and usefulness, not silly touchbars, half-witted protocol implementations, and removing of essential ports (ethernet, headphone jacks, etc). The market is ripe for another commercially supported Unix-based hardware/software outfit to take over and give people what they really want.
Once companies gain enough monopolistic control and power over their customers/users/market, they essentially function as government entities, and should be restricted and regulated as we would restrict and regulate the government.
The paper is available (in HTML even) and much better: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/5/5.39/4159289/...
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Check out my talk on the Skulpt compiler from PyCon US this summer: https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk

Skulpt has a separate compiler stage that compiles Python to JS, and a runtime library. There's no need to eval() that code in the same JS VM that compiled it, so it's totally feasible to ship the JS to the client and run it there.
2. Greyball is a multi-million dollar suit, it will likely be settled for less. Because Uber was only foolish enough to abuse it in a couple of cities

For starters: It cost them their license in London. Transport for London didn't look kindly at those shenaginas and apparently didn't believe Uber that they didn't employ those dirty tricks in London.

What's the source for Uber only abusing it in a couple cities? Uber?

The problem with that is that Uber is one of the utterly least trustworthy companies in existence. I, for one, assume that the lie by default, whenever they make a statement.
My guess is, the downvotes are for "This is a non-story", while it jumps to the top of HN.
This scenario is pretty much applicable for any private corp. across the nation or globe. Every company has their own rules and regulations around the secrecy of new products before the launch in order to stay competitive. The reason this news story is picking up extra traction is because a) it involves Apple and b) some people are trying to justify the idiocy of this teenager using innocence. This guy should be grateful that Apple is not coming after him with a lawsuit that he cant even dream of defending.
That would be brilliant marketing actually!
if fb and google don't like you, you can't put your voice out there if they control everything
You can be pretty damn sure janitors, cafeteria workers, etc sign NDAs before starting on Apple/Microsoft/etc
Are you saying sensationalism is killing modern journalism?
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Because there's a lot of longer ones and it becomes a habit. For example I often talk about ATVI (Activision-Blizzard) in chats as it's a lot shorter.
I know about the lack of supported platforms and it is a real bummer, since it means I have to do something different on those platforms (Android/ARM, Mac OS X/x86_64, FreeBSD/x86_64, AIX/POWER, ...) :-(

The software being built does indeed target Windows APIs natively. It is mature software and supports a lot of platforms.
Dashlane.
She came from SoCal to visit him, planning to make this video, and possibly knowing she'd see the iPhone X. I wouldn't be surprised if virality was her target, and this was her way to get into Hollywood. And the father, this must have been his way to help his daughter, maybe he was already planning to retire.

He must have known he'd be fired. No one of his seniority is that naive. And no way they shot all this footage in the Cafè and had this much face-to-face interaction with workers there without someone reminding them about "No Photography." No reasonable response he could've given except that they had permission.

Edit: Come think of it, forget about the iPhone X, this is probably one of the very few (only?) videos ever of Cafe Macs.
> Are you worried about your chip and OS today?

As a matter of fact, I am. And we have palpable consequences today, with that trusted computing débâcle (backdoors on CPUs that threaten to turn into full blown vulnerabilities…)

As a GNU/Linux user, I'm not too worried about my own OS. But I am scared that Apple managed to locked down its systems in a way that would have Microsoft sharded into oblivion. Numeric prisons are now not only acceptable but downright fashionable.
I think it's a little too easy to paint things like this as an outgrowth of culture. While our soldier/police worship is ingrained in culture, it didn't come about naturally; it was deliberately campaigned for after the labor gains in the 1890s-onward to try to undermine the red menace, especially once the US entered World War I, and our government continues to spend tens of millions on propaganda at sports games and the like. Of course, this is perfect for politicians who can take funding from defense contractors, but for the rest of us it's wasteful and, I fear, helps set the stage for the rise of fascist movements like we've seen for the past few years.
It's not being abused. It's a much better alternative than having users download a VM image full of preinstalled tools.
By the way, why use the Facebook app when you can have a shortcut to Facebook.com on the home screen ? ... Make it a "mbasic.facebook.com" shortcut, it will allow using private messages without the need for Messenger. Discovered here on Hacker News, thanks!
> As a foreigner in your fine country, the amount of influence the military has in the US is amazing and slightly scary.

The US has an outsize military because, for most of the past century, it has taken on the role of being the primary defense force not just for itself, but for countries all around the world.

> Guys, it is not like this in other countries. In fact it is creepy and weird, but I don't see it changing anytime soon. The military is so ingrained into America's economy and culture that de-emphasing it would be a huge change. I am not a total pacifist - a military is a handy thing to have around.

I'm sure it's not like this in New Zealand, but comparing US military culture to New Zealand's military culture isn't at all meaningful. New Zealand has the same population as Brooklyn; given that alone, it's not going to be a dominant sovereign military force on the global scale anytime soon (and that's ignoring its history and geographic location).

That's not to say that I'm a fan of much of what the US military does, but it's rather off-base for foreigners from other NATO and MNNA countries to criticize the US for its military, when they're far and away the outsize beneficiaries of it.
Edge cases are not the least used interactions, and even if they are it's not what makes them edge cases.

Edge cases are defined as what happens at the edge of operating parameters the classic example of a speaker that is played at the bottom or top 10% of it's output, edge cases do not have an intrinsic definition of occurrence rarity. It might not relevant to you, but if you like blowing up your house with all that bass or you have very thin walls and you have to listen to music very quietly then these are still edge cases but they are not rare cases for you.

In reality and in practice edge cases are pretty much anything that goes out of the (pretty narrow) definition of how a device or a service should be used (the classical remark of "you are holding the iphone wrong" comes to mind).

On your daily usability the edge cases are also much more important for the general satisfaction and subjective usability values of the device.
When you are in a perfect position/condition to use your phone the environmental conditions overcome any design flaws, and you experience pretty normal usability.

When you say hold the phone on the floor by your bed to avoid the light creeping all over the room, under the table during a meeting, or as close to the floor when possible at a theater is when the flaws in usability start being apparent.
That's when things like the placement of the fingerprint reader (or lack there of), weight, size, screen readability at low brightness and odd angles start to become more and more relevant.

Same goes for other things, you don't care about how much leg room there is in the back of your car until you need to fit 5 people over the weekend, despite you using it more times solo during the work week.
Ex-Trump campaign aide pleaded guilty to lying to agents in Russia inquiry
The web died the minute the first advertiser showed up.
Does it work with latest Firefox (WebExtensions)?
A not-insignificant portion of HN is employed by the three you've accused of killing the web, and with a somewhat convincing argument. It must be a tough pill to swallow when hearing that the employer you love is killing the platform that has defined your adult life.
Just as often as they are "No true Scotsman"'d.
> Even in wilder society, every third person you meet is either currently serving, served at one stage, or worked for one of the large companies with government contracts to supply the military.

I think it's an important point that most Americans now are less likely to have served and more likely to not know a veteran in their personal life. The military industrial complex might seem expensive but actual veterans are almost a rare breed.
Off topic, but does anyone know roughly how much traffic front page of HN generates?
Setec Astronomy.
> If people hate amp, maybe it’s time to adjust the web standards to enable amp experience with the html6 web.

What does that mean exactly?
Original paper author here. I think we are in vehement agreement!

1a. we don't run big systems. Well, I don't, at least -- my coauthors wrote spark and similar systems, so they're certainly aware of some of the challenges, but for us the major appeal here is someone else (cloud provider) is running a tremendous amount of the system!

1b. I think you're totally right that these sorts of systems tend to be generalized beyond their sweet spot. We have had quite passionate debates internally as to the amount of complexity we should add to the underlying system to support richer BSP efficiently. I just want to make sure the "obvious" stuff works as easily and quickly as possible (that is, basic map)

2. Segregating compute from storage _is_ untenable for a lot of workloads! But for a lot of the compute-heavy work we do, it's not. And we were really, truly shocked at how big the bandwidth to S3 really is -- for our compute applications, this degree of data disaggregation

3. "Model what the dev is using for dev" is _exactly_ what we're trying to accomplish. We even try and replicate the dev environment (thanks to anaconda, cloudpickle, etc.) as transparently as possible. That's exactly what we're trying to achieve, at the end of the day -- get back to where condor (another bird-named job system that we love) had us at 20 years ago.
I can quite reliably send a text or make a call from a pocket, but fine switch a pocket to a purse....
Just yesterday an HNer was saying they are in Puerto Rico and the vast majority of pages won't load due to bandwidth restrictions - except for HN and one other site I'm forgetting. I would bet you AMP pages would load fine for them. HN loves to hate on page bloat and AMP, confusingly.

I have noticed HNers conflate AMP the standard and Google Search's caching behaviour and/or ranking of AMP pages. I love the former, and not the latter. They really ought to make it possible for mobile search users to opt-out of getting AMP results.
Why are they calling him “inventor”? Jeez.
Your response is largely grappling onto questionable technicalities with no explanation for your viewpoint and absolutely no relevance.

If you're on Google's PR team and paid to put up something against negative comments, believe me that this only makes your product look worse when done on HN.

This may work on more fun-centric online communities and especially on less tech-focused communities, but not here. If you stand up for Google, you better be making an actual argument and not prove that there's no actual arguments to defend Google's doing.
Notice the title says "uniformed men", not "military", and IMO rightfully so.

When I lived in the US I also found that policemen and firefighters enjoy a very peculiar status there. Usually the answer is "but they put their lives on the line". However that I find true for a whole lot of other occupations as well (e.g. coal workers, prof. athletes, (war) reporters and many more) so it's not a unique characteristic.
> Are you worried about your chip and OS today?

YES! with my cpu running 2 kernel rings deep that the OS is not aware of. What is even worse if you try to disable it and the cpu kernel detects it will disable the hardware. Makes me truly worried where person computing is headed, aka I'm not in control of my device I paid for!
I would think this kind of unintentional mini-leak happens several times per day at Apple: there must be hundreds of employees running around with prototype hardware, using them as their primary phones.

If that is true, then it would seem pretty arbitrary to fire the employee, especially since the articles makes it seem like his daughter took the video down immediately on request.

Regardless, there is no shortage of demand for RF engineers. An engineer with 17 years of experience, getting fired over something uniquely a concern for Apple, that he was not even primarily responsible for, and getting featured on TechCrunch... This could be one of the best things to ever happen to his career.
Because those private companies earn unspeakable wealth off the societal infrastructure we have built and provide them with. They would be nothing without the shoulders of giants they are standing on. Those giants are us, collectively, which is required to negotiate with them since an individual is completely powerless against them.

I gotta say this breathless free-market purse clutching is getting a bit tiresome.
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This doesn’t read like sarcasm to me and the “lifestyle” comment is not in this comment’s parent tree.

Maybe it is sarcasm, but it’s bizarre if so. (Bizarre either way, actually.)
At the risk of getting too political for HN, I think we need fewer of all three. What business does the US government have effectively acting as an imperial power in 2017? I'm with you that we shouldn't be risking lives as often, but we can accomplish that in multiple ways.
That's a ridiculous set of laws that causes many problems for various website owners, and many very reasonably take the approach of "if you ever give us any indication that you're someone to whom these laws apply we'll ban you until you're not", rather than attempting to meet those restrictions.
Not really anything new, everyone knows they worked as lobbyists and did some controversial stuff in different regions. But I'll be interesting to see what the courts have to say about it.
To be fair, partial and annular eclipses are noticeable if you are looking for them, but they are absolutely nothing like a total eclipse, which really would feel like something apocalyptic if you were to experience it by surprise without understanding of what you were seeing or knowledge that it was temporary.
I think the reasoning is that to get your account number and the CVV number, you need to view both sides of the card so it makes it more difficult for a close by observer to steal your details.
> It's a bit late for the economist to come out with this.

This isn't "The Economist" coming out with anything. This is Lexington, a long-running column in The Economist. In journalism, columnists do not reflect the opinion of the publication's editorial board, and columnists receive much greater leeway with their content editorially than other reporters or op-ed contributors would.

The current author of Lexington has only been writing it since 2012, when the previous author died in a car crash. The previous author was, among other things, the foreign editor for The Economist who covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ah, I missed that. Ok, so even then: don't let your super secret phone out of the developer area. Many non-Apple employees visit Apple and eat at the cafetaria, any one of those could have spotted the phone.

I visited a couple of hardware manufacturers in the past (Swatch, Logitech) and have seen pre-production hardware of which only single working prototypes existed. There is no way that you'd be able to take a photograph of any of those and those are not companies that are as paranoid as Apple about this stuff.

My guess is that they are making an example out of this guy to cover up their utter failure in process that allowed this to happen in the first place.
It gets slightly darker, as if it's a bit overcast, but the effect is very subtle due to the logarithmic response of the eye. And it doesn't help to look at the sun because it's much too bright to see the shape.
Open to better suggestions.
Cool! Can you develop them interactively in Emacs, like in Coq, observing how individual tactics change the proof state?
This. I'm currently using the "final mouse" which is catered to gamers but works perfectly. The biggest selling point for that mouse is that it does not need special drivers.
This seems to be the video in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeD8E2xxck
I'm aware. I'm sure that'll do wonders in encouraging more incredible and compelling web applications to be created, outside the EU. It'll hurt multinational companies that have offices in the EU, make it harder for people trying to start or develop such sites in the EU, and otherwise continue to be irrelevant for the huge number of sites over which the EU has no jurisdiction.
articles that get no real traction are not counted for dedup purposes. Its annoying when you submit them, but then this comment topic wouldnt have occured.
I assume this is all sarcasm?
> defense

I beg to differ. The US has been on the offensive side of things far more than they have ever been on the defensive side.
Fair enough. I may have been a bit harsh (though not really on purpose). I'll look through some of the larger examples. I just tend to think that if one's team has the chops to write something large and more complicated than a CRUD app, they aren't going to want to start here. That's not to say there's not a role for these types of tools...
It's HP. Where could they possibly get scanners?