skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if we play this game you I could counter with "consider slaves, they pre-date control panels but took textual (or at least verbal) commands". It's a silly game isn't it?

But we can gain some knowledge from the game nonethless. Control panels do have some great benefits, because the human vision system is so powerful, and because there is the possibility of direct manipulation.

But the CLI has the great advantage that you are just telling the machine what to do, instead of having to point and grunt. But it's not good for ordinary users because the language is baroque while also requiring you to talk very precisely.

We missed a lot by being slow to develop "fuzzy CLIs" where people can talk more lazily. The "press the windows key to search" feature from Win7 onwards is a good start in this direction.
50 Years of Software Engineering: Call for Papers
4. Is absolutely wrong in every aspect. Most "innovation" was bought tech (primesense, for instance). The ARMv8 ISA was finalized ages before the chips got designed. Middle of 2011 IIRC.
Donald Trump: No Saving Grace?
Yes, when you don't apply the same logic to the other large tech companies.
> except for the minor fact that the NaN types can in theory be represented by different bit sequences - in practise all the same are used

I can’t say it’s terribly common, but there’s always someone like me out there going “Ooh, 51 free bits! Don’t mind if I do.” It’s a common trick for value representation in implementations of dynamic languages.

Anyway, poor floating-point support is about as prevalent as poor Unicode support—the common cases seem to work, lulling you into a false sense of security before you discover that the edge cases are untested. I’ve seen bugs caused by a green thread getting rescheduled onto a different OS thread with a different rounding mode.
AI won’t steal designers jobs. It’ll steal their sanity
Why do you get so defensive? What in “is no more than just another faster, smaller, and costlier“ is not accurate?
> So Laura Long Commute gets $40/hr * 10 hrs/day and Sally Short Commute gets $50/hr * 8 hours/day.

You'd have to be careful about that. Employers might end up, in data, showing a negative impact against some protected class (married people, certain races) if they weigh hiring or compensation decisions based on proximity to the office.

It's my understanding that current jurisprudence doesn't require proof of intention to discriminate, just evidence of disparate impact. Single and married people live in different neighborhoods. Different races do as well, depending on the city. Non-heterosexual people tend to cluster in certain neighborhoods, too, for that matter. If a class action suit can show that married people are paid 10% less than single people for equivalent roles, it could be problematic.
That would be for a tribunal to decide. But at the point that your employment is terminated, why would you do it?
Love the idea, but isn't it the same problem of boiling the frog?
You can also wake the phone up now by tapping the display(similar to the watch). Also it might be configurable in settings but the notification content is hidden on the X when the phone is locked, after FaceID they become visible.
many of the marvel movies insist that power properly belongs to the strong, and that weak bureaucrats and politicians will be corrupted. You can identify the morally strong in the Marvel Universe by looking for the physically powerful. They certainly have something to say, and it's the typical propaganda of super hero fiction.
Yes, global secondary index is better than local secondary index, from the user view.

I think App Engine also adopted the same strategy for Cloud Datastore. The performance of parallel second indexing in Cloud Datastore is incredible. I have a table with about 20 secondary indexes. Some of the indexes belong to exploding indexes. So averagely, for each new row inserted, there will about 100 index rows inserted. I never detected an obvious delay in building the indexes.
Not just M.2; my motherboard (ironically, AM4+ based) has integrated Intel wifi and wired NICs.
It's also something of a legacy convention (though one I prefer to maintain), from when PDF files were a leading vector for malware.

Though even back then, malware concerns aside, people would curse when a link caused Acrobat Reader (or, depending on one's system, the full Acrobat program) to unexpectedly fire up. Once upon a time, browsers didn't have integrated PDF handling.

And, even now, with integrated PDF handling, said handling is not proof against exploits.
> Whether it's money positive vs resistive heating

Strictly speaking, isn't it just a special case of resistive heating?
Right, heat pumps cost 4x less, but a miner is returning profit. The only argument to be had is an ecological one. Mining is cheaper than a heat pump, gas, etc..
What are you talking about?

The comment above has to do with package signing, which is a security feature. It prevents malicious software from replacing legitimate programs on your device (e.g. a malicious "messages" app cannot overwrite the legit "messages" app you installed). It doesn't have anything to do with DRM.
Blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with World of Warcraft Classic
Fit and finish on many "high end" cars is actually pretty abysmal. Especially basically anything Italian.
Amazon joining the Blockchain revolution
It seems this is the second times after the Apple Watch 3 in september that the Wifi/BT module is branded with the Apple name. Does someone knows if they have designed their own Wifi/BT chipset or if it is licensed from somebody else?
Poe's law is working against me here, what gives away that this person isn't serious?

I think it's cool, by the way.
Don't get the wrong idea: I'm not opposed to municipal broadband. I was just pointing out that citizen accountability often doesn't do anything to prevent poor service quality. (As we speak, I'm getting a stream of MARC delay/cancellation text messages.)

If we were starting from scratch, I'd advocate for the Stockholm model: https://www.stokab.se/Documents/Stockholms%20Stokab%20-%20A%.... A public entity to build dark fiber that isn't taxpayer supported and builds out based on demand and profitability rather than mandates. That ship has sailed, however.

I do think the FCC should preempt all state-and-local franchising laws, and also state-and-local restrictions on municipal broadband. Private providers can compete in areas and neighborhoods that support competition (my neighborhood has two providers for gigabit fiber, for example), and municipalities can address areas that are overlooked by the private sector.
Is it possible to use microG with Android x86 on netbooks?
The blockchain is not what's responsible for all of the things you describe; rather, it's the dominant algorithm for psuedo-randomly distributing the ability to modify the block chain, called proof-of-work (namely Satoshi's version). There are other, just as computationally wasteful algos that try to be memory hard as opposed to cpu-hard (Cuckoo cycle PoW for example.

Lots of folks are working on different, less wasteful ways of making blockchains more resistant to attack - the most well-known of the alternatives being proof-of-stake which is essentially a betting scheme. It's a fascinating area of computing if you go beyond the hype over the BTC price.
Compactness theorem
Model 3 hell is burning Tesla's other projects
This is a forum for debate. We're allowed to have, and express opinions, and hopefully not have them misinterpreted, twisted and misrepresented. It sounds like you're going through some tough times, and I'm sorry for that, but that doesn't void anyone else's opinions or experiences.
Quality comes from feedback control systems. Quality of design comes from management oversight and correction. Fan-in is a concern. Orphaned teams become a concern at a tenth Apple’s scale. Informal networks and approval based on trust of people rather than examination of product is a concern. Executive attention is expensive.
It is very telling that you don't see the irony of the fact that a language needs a book titled "Language X: the good parts".

Good tech mostly speaks for itself. When you need entire books to convince you that a language has good parts, then you know the language has a problem.
True - They bought 3rd party companies with the tech. Still doesn't change the observation that they made it better, and tailored it specifically for the iPhone. None of those sensors have drop in replacements. And Apple put out the 64bit proc prior to ARM having IP --> FACt
You can catch up on some of the moments you missed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfmqSOr2-NY
In the south, Saturday detention is also a common school punishment.
I appreciate the reply!

> I do think the FCC should preempt all state-and-local franchising laws, and also state-and-local restrictions on municipal broadband. Private providers can compete in areas and neighborhoods that support competition (my neighborhood has two providers for gigabit fiber, for example), and municipalities can address areas that are overlooked by the private sector.

My concern with this is if you don't mandate covering all neighborhoods, private providers will cherrypick the most profitable areas, leaving less well off areas underserved or not served at all. A great example is the US Postal Service: you can't compete against them, and in return, they service absolutely every address in the United States.
No worries - my first startup's external CPA straightened me out on this one years ago...
Well I think it depends on the degree of control which the attacker is exerting on the device and the type and quantity of information which they extracted from the device during its use.

As an actuator, a vibrator has a very limiting set of features for an attacker to exploit and act upon. As a sensor, I don't think they're very advanced.
There's a lot to be said for "if you want something done properly, do it yourself". Hard to do in a connected ecosystem but Apple has the level of platform control that they can do whatever they feel they need to do without having to consider partners, competitors or exogenous forces.
These are mostly just API calls with arguments, with some simple lambdas. You can implement that in any language.
But look at what Robert says before the captain enters: "climb climb climb". He still didn't have a clue that the plane was stalled, even though this could easily have been figured out from the absolutely crazy combination of attitude, throttle setting, and rate of descent. It's the captain who's surprised by the stick being held back, not Robert. In fact, earlier portions of the trascript suggest that Robert was keeping track, more or less, of what the pilot was doing.

The captain entered when, according to the report, the plane was at about ~30,000 feet with a 40 degree angle of attack. The report states that "up until the end of the flight, no valid angle of attack value was less than 35°". It seems, then, that even once everyone was aware of what the PF was doing, a correct stall recovery procedure was still not initiated. Or perhaps the stall was already unrecoverable -- I don't know if airliners are designed to recover from such extreme configurations.

So, could linked sticks conceivably have helped before the captain entered? Probably not, because there is no evidence that Robert would have recognized that the stick inputs were inapporpriate, given that he was focusing on the ECAM warnings and appeared unable to grasp the implications of the readings from his primary flight instruments. Could linked sticks have helped after the captain entered? At that point, it was just a question of whether either pilot would take control and push the nose down. There's no way of designing the stick system to make sure that most sensible pilot ends up getting control.
I love his laughter
The GOP’s hidden 46% tax bracket
WebRTC 1.0 is now feature complete
Trolling is all about creating a stink. There's different kinds of trolling, that come from different places. Some of it is because the troll really believes what he/she is saying. Some of it is saying whatever gets a rise out of your target, regardless of what you believe. In all cases a troll is a troll.

There are DT is, in the literal sense of the phrase, king troll.
Why wouldn't you, other than hatred of MS.
Code disguised as bdsm erotica
Well, you were right about one thing: you don't get it. ;)

Just look at the prototype hell. Look at the quirkiness of the comparison operator. Type inference. The mess piles up extremely quickly.

"Disciplined devs don't make those mistakes" is NOT an argument and never was. Decades later, people believing themselves to be godlike C/C++ devs still make stupid mistakes.

But I guess learning from the past won't happen for people who fanboy and have a survivorship bias. And have money on the line.
Young Justice was really good. Supposedly they are bringing it back for a third season. Teen Titans Go is really strange, like ren and stimpy, constantly in the bizarre, but maybe that’s why young boys like it (Young Justice was supposedly cancelled because it attracted too many female viewers).
Well, let me clarify my statement.

At this point, I'd expect large solar and wind plants to be competitive with fossil fuels. The problem would be with storing power, so that it will be consistent.

My previous post was referring to individuals, rather than businesses. For a homeowner to install a PV system, based on your link, it would cost around $18,000. You wouldn't break even on it for 20 years, and that's assuming that you're still tied to the grid.

Once renewables are both cheaper than fossil fuels, and in reach for the average person, mass adoption will quickly follow.
No, the Suez Canal does not have locks.
Manufacturing costs are the most likely reason. Prismatic cells are much less costly to produce in a rectangular format vs. an L shape.
I'd like to get in touch. please attach your contact details
Ok, but what are blockchains doing right now? Does my iPhone use them? Facebook? Small businesses? Tesla? My doctor? Who/what??
Samsung has a problem with adding features to their devices that are simply not well executed.

For instance, from the NY Times review of the Galaxy Note 8:

>Some of the biometrics, including the ability to unlock your phone by scanning your face or irises, are so poorly executed that they feel like marketing gimmicks as opposed to actual security features.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/technology/personaltech/s...
Broadcom are employing Eric Anholt to build a fully open source, upstream DRM/Mesa Gallium driver for the VideoCore 4 (https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/) and assorted Raspberry Pi hardware.

Now that's hardly a big focus of Broadcoms business but you can pretty much run a fully open source GPU accelerated Linux userland on the Raspberry Pis with those efforts.

Bluetooth and WiFi is proprietary though, if I remember correctly. And that is what Broadcom makes money with.
The headline sounds like a Philip K Dick title.
"Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". "

Is that really a common belief? I know many people who think the opposite - apple is a hardware company.

In fact Tim Cook went out of his way several times to remind people that apple isn't a hardware company.
Remember, we're talking about sales, here. If they can make a cent, they'll do it.
The GitBook desktop app removes some of those headaches:

- desktop app with a WYSIWYG interface
- commits are auto generated on sync
LEO service is low-latency. Light's got a few hundred clicks to go, and much of that in hard vacuum. About 1-4 milliseconds, call it 2-8 round-trip ping.

Geosync is a whole 'nother ballgame. It's a quarter second outbound, and a half-second round-trip ping (earth-bird-earth and back).

Radio talks through clouds just fine.
CFAA is hilariously overly broad.

Charging it as a sex crime seems a bit off, least of all because of all of the treatment of sex offenders in the US. There seems to be a qualitative difference between turning on a publicly-exposed vibrating buttplug and forcibly inserting something into the rectum of an unwilling participant.

Like, is it really reasonable to say that somebody should lose the right to vote and bear arms because they issued a POST request to an unsecured web server in their neighborhood that happened to be a sex toy?

EDIT: I don't want to sound like I'm blaming victims here, but using toys that are properly locked down is the responsibility of the participants--much like making sure they're sterile.
A CAS with beautiful graphing is a big feature that is required in most situations and their swag wants to sell that point .
Raspberry PI's SOC is made by Broadcom. They did a decent job in open source that part. I heard even the GPU driver/library was opensource for PI.

GPU driver/library was definitively not opensource for the Freescale's IMX6 as far as I know.

Feel free to point out other issues with Broadcom opensource.
Thousands, too many to name. If you read lots of code and books, you will be humbled at many brilliant folks that are out there.

Peter Norvig - Checkout his page, and his books PPIA, AIMA

Sandi Metz - Watch her talks

Rich Hickey - Watch his talks

Raymond Hettinger - Watch his live coding sections

Brian Kernighan - read "The Pratice of Programming"

Richard O'Keefe - read "The Craft of Prolog"

John Carmack - The master of constraints and doing more by doing less

Jan Weilemaker - maintainer of SWI-Prolog, read the code

Linux Linus - His stubborness and meaniness has kept Linux together, if he was too passive, the kernel would have been a mess. Design by committe rarely works, someone gotta own it. He owns it.

OpenBSD Theo - Unix systems are better secure because of Theo's stubbornness, lots of branches end up incorporating changes that started from OpenBSD.

TJ Holowaychuk - I think he writes 10,000 lines of code a day

PHP Nikita Popov - The kid is brilliant

Anthony Minessale of Freeswitch

Moxie Marlinspike - the guy that brought us signal

Kyle Kingsbury aka Aphyr, checkout Jepsen, checkout his clojure tutorial.

Sergio Moreira, Nagra - famous PSX Hacker
How I added Ballerina support to GitHub
"I did not say it."

"You will."

(Oscar Wilde, if memory serves)
In case you were wondering:

re·i·fy

make (something abstract) more concrete or real.
"these instincts are, in humans, reified as verbal constructs"
Inside Silicon Valley’s Playbook for Wooing School Superintendents
This. They've become more and more a hardware company as they give away almost of their software now to move more IRL gadgets.
I am a recovering Comcast customer of 10+ years, and while CentiryLink is nearly as incompetent on the customer service front, they pulled fiber down my block a year ago and my gigabit connection is a glorious thing (it's 2/3rds the monthly cost of Comcast, for 5X the speed, symmetrical).
The hardware engineering is much more deliberate and well planned/orchestrated than the software.

IMO it’s less “focus” and more having to rely on third party manufacturers who will push back due to liability.

iOS 11 is a beta quality product. One org that I’m familiar with has a 5x increase in help desk calls and replacements, mostly around the voice phone components failing.
Show HN: CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time
They're def doing something of their own with BT. The airpods use it, but it's been highly modified.
Hey folks, developer of CertStream here. You can read more about the motivations and implementation behind this project by visiting the announcement page (https://medium.com/cali-dog-security/introducing-certstream-...) on my company's blog. I'm also happy to field any questions anyone may have!
Why don't we build high-speed transport for commuting, as opposed to long distance travel which, in the U.S., doesn't sell or even often fit well?

In Chicago, electric train service used to run a lot faster. Not just within the city, but also within the greater Chicagoland area. Way back when, the service that's been supplanted by the Metra diesel trains used to be able to punch well above 60 MPH. And with smaller trains, it could get to that more rapidly and provide more frequent service.

And the Green Line used to move. Lack of maintenance had it down to a fast crawl, in places, I understand, although some much-belated renovation may have improved that somewhat -- I'm not up-to-date.

Bay Area housing prices are simply ridiculous. If the region is going to keep growing (so far, no stopping it), then put housing further out while providing fast access to the core(s).

That would move a lot more people, and solve a lot more problems, than an LA - Frisco Hyperloop.

But, we don't have real urban, metropolitan planning, here. And, "taxes are bad".

So, we sit in our cars, and pay half our earnings to the ponzi scheme and rentiers.

P.S. Once a robot can do everything currently requiring physical presence, your tele-presence, where still needed, is going to become a fungible commodity; no job security, there.

P.P.S. Another major approach is a denser core. But NIMBY. A NYMBY I'm not entirely unsympathetic towards. If you don't solve noise and pollution, among other things, forgetaboutit. In my case, I would have been happy closer in in an apartment/condo, but the prospect of dealing with ever-noisier neighbors ruled that out. And wiping black "dust" (vehicle emissions soot, mostly) from my window sills. After years of allergies and whatnot, that stuff will kill you; more articles on this, every year.
Body heat is actually 2-3 orders of magnitude from being cost-effective, unless there's a food source much cheaper than typical lard. Edibility adds quite a premium to calories.

In case anyone is wondering.
Oh..I didn't know that your Ferrari had a shit finish, you must have been quite unlucky...
"She seemed to have so much belief in me that I just went along with it. " - great line
You need to give three months notice or severance, but other than that not aware of need for compensation.
Also, it turns out people in $industry who don't need $thing might know people who do.

If you leave a good impression, there's every chance they'll recommend you to someone who does need $thing, doing much of your selling for you -- you just have to leave them thinking "well, $thing wasn't right for me, but I'd do business with $person and $company".
NO! LineageOS has no agreement with Google to provide Play Services. In order to do that you have to literally pirate play services and install them on LineageOS. That, IMHO is a far greater concern than allowing a SYSTEM app (one that is built into the framework) to pretend to be google play services.
That's what I'm saying - if the scans have caught the large void (by being placed in the grand gallery) and the small void (by being placed likely in the entrance hallway leading to the gallery) then they are at the proper location to capture any pathways above them. But since no pathways were detected - then the theory is likely incorrect. But perhaps the location/shape of the void isn't as accurate as depicted.
GitHub: Search repositories by license
I think the open office started with Chiat/Day (ad/design firm). It was back when laptops were first introduced and it was seen as a cool way to work. People would get to be mobile, sit anywhere they want, etc.

Found this: https://www.wired.com/1999/02/chiat-3
Default behaviors with custom overrides are the way I've always dealt with such "redundancy". In the end, tracing down the default behavior with it's own default behaviors often causes me to pull them out as simple pojos. I think there is no silver bullet, but that redundancy has a usability X factor that often goes unaccounted for, in the abstract.
In Canada schools are stiil open in -40C weather. We only get a few days like that in the south.