skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"for whatever reason Threadless never connected with the next generation"

This is super insightful, and shouldn't be missed here. For them to stay successful for 17 years amongst a 5-10 year age group, they would need to completely refresh their customer base 2-3 times. That type of cultural relevancy is extremely hard, as anyone watching FB/Instagram vs Twitter vs Snap can attest.
>>> Maybe this kind of system is worth burning a lot of electricity for. It seems like the market is saying that it is.

But it seems to me people aren't using Bitcoin for that, they're using it more as an investment.

Whatever sets the value of Bitcoin, it's not because it's a competitor to Western Union and the likes.
Nobody has an expectation of privacy while driving. There is decades of jurisprudence establishing quite the opposite. That's why there is a giant mandatory number plate on your car, why there is implied consent for search as a condition of your driving license, etc.
Thats not what I presumed the commenters to be saying: "driverless cars will have sensors and cameras that wil report anything back to the police"

So, lets assume we turn on an amber-alert and activate all driverless car cameras and sensors to find license plate X...

Sure that sounds great - but "just leave all driverless car sensors up all the time and track everything everywhere is what I hear in that comment.

And like I said, major tech companies are actually tracking every vehicle that drives by them, and reporting it to the police already.

I am just saying that the implications of driverless cars, while seeming like "sexy tech" have not been fully thought out - or if they have, that they havent been shared as being resolved issues.

I can tell you that I am in the process of handling about a petabyte of police body-cam video and I can see how thesse things can be abused
I think SC2 is in a pretty good place right now. The craziness of 2010-2014 was fun and exciting, but ultimately untenable for an RTS.
Driving 'the world's most beautiful road'
Https://cardanohub.org looks promising. Haskell, peer reviewed, formally verified. They're working on the compute layer though, so no smart contracts yet but Philip Wadler (one of the godfathers of haskell) is working on that. It's is promising because they actually hire programming language academics to work on the technology
Are you sure patronizing is the right word here? Treating someone as you would yourself betrays the definition of patronizing.. So I'm not sure what you mean by that? It however does seem patronizing to assert, as you say, that they are not people just like you but who 'have serious problems that put them there.'

The argument has been made that a majority of people in their life will experience an episode of what can be called mental illness. Why does America have higher instance of homelessness than other countries? It cannot only be that we necessarily are genetically have greater predisposition to mental illness.

Some people suffer more than others, and for those that are truly disabled, I would hope that our society will truly care for them, but everyone should first be given opportunities.
OpenStreetCam
Well said.

On a related note on of my most memorable classes in college was Philosophy of Business Ethics. One of the many takeaways I had was that business do not make decisions. People (agents) in the business make the decisions. Disney did that, Disney decided this, what's best for Disney is, etc. But in reality people are making these decisions, not some nebulous company concept. Same concept as you are pointing out.
> People grow more conservative and reactionary as they grow older

What if they do because they are going to die? Without that limitation, society would be a lot less conservative.
"Wireless" transmission of sounds through the air to achieve some programmatic purpose is relatively widespread, although not very well-known. The air is a noisy medium, so ultrasound is often used to move the sounds squarely out of the frequency range that humans can produce or hear, but usually keeping it within ranges that off-the-shelf microphones can record and speakers can produce.

In recent years, one particularly significant contributor is Boris Smus [1] who released some example code in 2013 and went on to develop the Google Chromecast's ultrasonic pairing mode [2].

Ultrasonic networking has also been leveraged by tracking apps and SDKs [3], and has occasionally featured as a product pitch [4]. It also pops up every once in a while as a proof-of-concept, Show HN, or github code dump -- it's one of those "I can't believe this isn't done more often, so I'm gonna do it" ideas whose deployment is actually more widespread that most people suspect.

[1] http://smus.com/ultrasonic-networking/ [2] https://gigaom.com/2014/06/26/chromecast-will-use-ultrasonic... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337949 [4] https://www.chirp.io/
The cars are a familiar sight in Phoenix, they've been testing there for a couple years now. They started up an early rider program in the spring, with real people volunteering to be guinea pigs while they refine the human UI and logistics. This isn't coming out of the blue.
The landlords' costs shouldn't affect rent prices, except when it decreases the supply of rental units. The property tax increase primarily affects buildings that were constructed decades ago, has a very small effect on buildings that were constructed recently and has absolutely no effect on newly constructed buildings. The landlords can't go back in time and decide not to build the building and removing the existing building from the market does not let them escape the property taxes, so there shouldn't be any effect on supply.
No doubt, Microsoft office took tasks that was 1 button and made it 5+ clicks. And this feature creep expanded everywhere with companies thinking they are smarter than you, so they try to train "you" to work their sites.

Also why I don't like apple computers, you use dos/windows/linux, and get to an mac, and if you don't know the secret gestures or commands, its just painful.

Its like how Gnome 3 took over and had to redesign everything, then finally came back to Gnome Classic.

Or Windows said TILES is the future, deleted your start button, then went "My Bad" and gave you a start button again.

Directories are disappearing, now its "Search Boxes" everywhere.. Good luck if you know the asset file, and the file doesn't have the name "asset" in it. Or if the damn file has permissions for you to even open it if you find it.

Don't even get me started on android phones, I hit dialer, and I don't get a keypad when I need it, I'm in a menu tree now and dialer wants to display current contanct info.. grrr.

Yeah, KISS is no longer a thing, its all wiz-bang, we can do it better than you. NoSQL is awesome! Oh wait, back to SQL we go. Perl SUCKS! Python2, er, 3 now.

Get off my yard.
A Bitcoin developer is working on a formally verifiable language: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...
How a tiny error shut off the Internet for parts of the US
> Sure, but so what?

All those things are harmful.

> Doesn't a person have a right to escape

What if those circumstances are created by the escape?

> But who am I to judge a person's morality

I'm not judging the addict, I'm judging the enabler..
These are companies with big purses and lots of human-factors personnel, and lots of lawyers that can write huge terms-of-service agreements, and cover legal costs and damages in lawsuits until they get it right.

There are few better test beds for driverless cars than Phoenix metro, from technical, legal, and customer-concern viewpoints.
I don't think that's intellectually honest. The last presidential election was a clear counterexample of the "money buys the presidency" narrative.

After the fact you can always think of a reason that the counterexample is a special exception, and doesn't really invalidate a claim.

Someone who likes Trump could just as easily call his campaign grassroots from an outsider who didn't try to use his vast wealth to buy the presidency, but instead made a strong message for the voters.
I think this whole thing is hilariously premature for a bunch of other reasons, but I assume a remote piloted car is gonna go REALLY slow until the car is confident again, and Google's cars are ridiculously limited in their geographic area. My guess is that they have sent a Verizon guy ("Can you hear me now? Good.") down each and every road they whitelist the cars to drive on.
Wow! Waymo is now confident enough in their vehicles that they're willing to risk letting the public use them completely unsupervised? This seems like a huge milestone for self-driving car tech.

I wonder what their current disengagement rates are for Chandler; at this point it has to be really close to zero, right?
Ryfeus/lambda-packs: Precompiled Packages for AWS Lambda
These aren't "wacky what ifs." I don't know what things are like in the Valley, but here on the east coast something unexpected changes my commuting route a couple of times a month (multiply that by tens of thousands of drivers).

"Do whatever the human would do, but more efficient" isn't an answer. These cars can't get on WTOP the day before and listen to the warning that the Pope is visiting and X, Y, Z streets will be blocked off. One can imagine various contingency scenarios, but the devil is in actually handling all the edge cases.
It's not binary. This is one possibility among many for someone who doesn't want to experience this.
Odd. I did mine on Mac with no issues. I agree that the whole system feels clunky.
AWS C5 Instances
Just to offer a contrary pov, I have a gigabyte brix that I use as a headless VM cluster workhorse - worked fine with the headless HDMI dongle.
How about http://statebox.org?
Yes I’m having all kinds of new issues since I️ updated my ios
yes I was talking about an imaginary phone, the right one
Um what?

- browsers: used since the 90s because there's no other alternative

- node.js: created because JS is used in browsers and it's easier to write code in a single language for browsers and servers

- Cocos2d: you're clearly lying as the only place where JS is mentioned is Cocos2d-html, as there's again - no alternative

- enyo JS: again, used clearly due to the fact that modern - browsers are available for all of the modern platforms

- Weex, NativeScript: typical "native app" libraries which use a webkit pane for most of the rendering, again - javascript here is circumstantial since you can't choose anything else

- GNOME Shell, Kinoma XS6: OK. These are the only ones that make any sort of a strong point in your message; but as far as it goes - modern linux distros are moving to Python for systems programming anyway. So learning JS here is a miss.
Given the current accidental death rate would make eternal youth life expectancy around 1,000 years, and given progress with plant engineering, I’d say the only one of those that is a real problem is waste and pollution — and even then only because it’s already a problem even though we could solve it with existing tech.
The library created by JetBrains:

https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed
> serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many.

Well, that and decades upon decades of meager housing construction.
> My favorite part of the books.

Mine too! I also understand why it was cut, but it really ruined the movies for me.
We're usually not computationally bound. Often its disk or network I/O and that basically means tasks are content bound. We tune for maximum content in the acceptable human scale time. The moment we take less than a second to load something it means we can find more things to load.
> within

Within what, exactly? If there's a within, what and where is the barrier or boundary that separates it from without? How does one reconcile that separation with a cosmic/unity consciousness?
Okay, now I'm less impressed :).
Disney is a massive studio that includes Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and TV shows on ABC and ESPN.
Disney is more than just movies for little kids. It's Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and more.
By that standard "A major wallet vulnerability" would probably be more perfectly accurate.
If Waymo's tech is years ahead of the competition (say 18-24 months ahead minimum) then I think a lot of the self-driving companies and car manufacturers in the US will be having cold sweats. This may not be a winner-take-all market (I don't know honestly...) but I see this lead up enabling Waymo to capture significant market share in the US in regions where laws towards autonomous vehicles are friendly.

One way the competition could attempt to mitigate Waymo's lead is to test and launch in areas where Waymo are not currently active (other states in the US, or other countries altogether). They could of course accelerate development of their self driving tech but that's easier said than done I presume.

I also worry Uber & Lyft's valuations and usage will drop with the introduction of driverless vehicles, unless they somehow manage to strike long-lasting partnerships with Waymo.

Regarding OEMs (i.e. car manufacturers), I can't tell what will happen with them: do they continue shunning Waymo and pursuing their own self-driving car efforts or come back begging for some sort of deal? I presume we will see both attitudes play out depending on how confident each company feels about its own self-driving tech ability and acquisition potential.

It's hard to foresee the consequences of this announcement, but I feel Waymo has upped the stakes tremendously today, and the pressure on everyone (including Waymo) to deliver is on, more than ever.
If your word processing requirements are very lax you should probably just be using Markdown + an editor.
Have you tried jOOQ?

https://blog.jooq.org/2017/05/18/10-nice-examples-of-writing...

It might be a bit too lightweight for your tastes, but I'm very satisfied with it. Never used it with Kotlin tho, but according to the above link it seems to be supported just fine.
> Where do you get the $150,000 figure from?

Years of conversation about this kind of stuff, I don't remember specifically. Looking it up wikipedia says $150,000 is the upper limit for wilful infringement, accidental infringement is lower, but that doesn't affect the argument.

> The way to remedy the BSD situation is simple attribution. The way to remedy the GPL situation is release of the entire source code.

The damages are statutory plus actual damages (almost certainly $0 for someone who doesn't make money off their software directly), not "what you would have done". You have the same options in either case: reach agreement with the person whose copyright you infringed, or go to court and pay the damages. So your worst-case liability is the same either way.

> BUT! B() is now source code released under GPL so any changes to it must also be released under GPL.

As you acknowledged in your reply, you still hold all the copyrights on B and can still release B under any terms you please.
> a licensed driver somewhere

So, who would that be in this case? Does Waymo have a licensed driver monitoring the vehicle remotely, ready to take over at a moment's notice?
> Apparently people in Hollywood don't see any problem with this!

I suspect the bigger problem is that there are so few honest people involved in the business that you would have to shut down if you broke off association with everybody doing shady things in Hollywood.

While I'm pleased to see Weinstein going down, I keep scratching my head about "We know that there are people in Hollywood doing far worse things. Why the focus on Weinstein in particular? Something smells kind of fishy ..."
Can Dremio Finally Deliver on the Promise of Self-Service Data?
Which makes you wonder how YouTubers monetize their baby and dog videos. The internet is a magical place where money materializes for bad reasons.
This is not a result of prohibitive housing prices or anything like that. Through my work in the homeless community I've seen and heard first hand that chronic homelessness is almost always a result of mental illness and/or drug use. Those two problems have always existed, but opiate abuse is much worse now than it has ever been.

Of course there are sad cases of people unable to find jobs who are otherwise 'normal', but these cases are in the minority. Many people unable to find jobs or hold down jobs beyond the most menial sort have mental illness that prevents them from doing so.
Windows also has this with Page Heap mode.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms220938(v=vs.90).a...
How to scale  daft punk or bootleg ?
So you wanted to write proprietary software on top of someone's GPL code, the developer couldn't be swayed by money, so now you are bitter about it? Talk about entitlement.
The proposed fix is not a rollback.
Sharks with freaking 360 Degree X-Ray Cameras!
There's a positive feedback loop that will happen: As they get more cars on to the road, the log more real world miles, which makes the cars better, which gets more cars onto the road which log more miles...

I wonder how valuable this is?
fyi, the company Functional Works is basically a tech recruiting agency.
nice
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From what I understand, a foreign company purchasing a U.S. company is subject to some pretty intense review (CFIUS). By moving HQ to the U.S. they avoid that review process. It was planned before Trump but Im sure youre right and somehow Trump will help push this right through.

[Edit] Here is a story talking about it from last week. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-broadcom...
Didn't they fuck it up by creating a real contract instead of a library (where you can only do delegatecalls)? And having an init function that was not the constructor as well?
http://ictset.com/skin-care/
Equifax: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/equifax-blame-bre...
It is wrong on multiple counts. The following statement on price is demonstrably false.

> ...falling from $305 to $291 to reach its lowest value for two weeks

Two weeks? We can find a lower price floor within one week on every source i checked: Coinbase - $279, CoinMarketCap - $281, Poloniex - $275
There have been, but they’re only practical indoors for reasons others have mentioned.
There are anecdotes of Google Maps causing traffic, routing people to dead ends, etc. There was the incident where Google Maps routed a lot of interstate drivers down a dirt road serving a prison. Last week in Oakland, Google routed drivers away from traffic on I-880, onto Embarcadero where the bridge is closed for construction. Last week, Google refused to route me over the open, clear Sonora Pass between Modesto and Bridgeport, giving me instead a 2.5-hour detour via US-50 to South Lake Tahoe.

I'm sure this Waymo project does not take the perfection of Google Maps data as a given.
I actually saw your talk and found it really helpful. Thanks for sharing :)
Part of holding those officials accountable is reporting on what they're doing.

And, quite frankly, no, they should not be able to make deals like this. Not without the city voting on it. There is precisely zero reason why this is needed.
IVE SAID THIS BEFORE ITS STILL TRUE IT WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS --ALWAYS-- BEEN SOMETHING THAT IN THE PAST WAS, IF USING A SCIENTIFIC METHOD, GOING GO BE FOUND TO BE TRUE. THAT, IN MANY WAYS THE NEWER TECHNOLOGY IS A --DOWNGRADE--. WHEN YOUR SOFTWARE IS --IN REAL TIME-- 10X SLOWER THAN SOFTWARE -- -- -- 20 YEARS AGO -- -- --; THAT IS A -- DOWNGRADE --

part is being logical. but fucking christ that isnt actually any excuse with a little god dam thinking we could speed up computers. -- WE HAVE THE HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY --
>>> you need lawyers to make sure you really are conforming to the GPL.

>> That is not true.

> What are you basing this on? Personal experience? Speculation? Other?

The FSF and SFLC use litigation as a _last resort_, when the offender does not cooperate to alleviate the breach of the GPL [See below]. The Linux community is also largely against litigation [https://lwn.net/Articles/698452/].

>> If a company does not follow the GPL and is called out, they can simply do what the GPL tells them to do and the case is done.

> Ask Cisco if the lawsuit from the FSF was fictional.

The FSF tried before to work with Cisco to comply with the GPL:

“In the fifteen years we’ve spent enforcing our licenses, we’ve never gone to court before. While litigation is a last resort, we’re prepared to take the legal action necessary to defend users’ freedoms. With SFLC’s help, the FSF is able to take effective action,” said Peter Brown, executive director of FSF.

from http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/11/cisco-lawsui...

> I was involved with the GPL license a few years back when I was consulting on an embedded hardware device product. We wrote to the developer and requested them to re-license the software in exchange for a payment. They refused and we decided to use a differently licensed product in the end, based on legal advice.

I don't know your situation so I can't comment on it. Maybe your business model depended on your users not having control about the software they use. Because in that case the GPL is a problem.
Wonder how much of these bugs remain hidden away in the modern kernels. USB and Thunderbolt (which is also carrying PCIe in some modes) and for what it's worth USB-C which can ALSO carry PCIe, in addition to DisplayPort, HDMI and whatnotelse have grown enormously complex.

To make matters worse, I guess there are ways for the USB slave device to fingerprint the OS (or: hardware!) running on the host... something like a "pwn me" USB stick working on all three major platforms (OS X, Linux, Windows) or game consoles is certainly possible. And I can perfectly imagine that there are ways to exploit the actual USB controller hardware, which gives unfettered memory access.
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity...
>> ARM basically made CPUs a commodity...

Definition of commodity: A reasonably interchangeable good or material, bought and sold freely as an article of commerce.

That's just one, but none of the other definitions I can find suggest any type of IP ownership or licensing model. Don't get me wrong, what ARM did was a great thing. I just think what's happening around RISC-V is even better.
Show HN: Take code screenshots from the command line
Yeah, basically exactly hat I am saying, aside from the medical questions...

Waymo had better have setup a course at DEFCON and see what those amazing minds can figure out on how to secure self driving vehicles.

This isnt a joke, this needs to be thoroughly sussed out
10E65 if protons do decay.

10E(10E76) if protons do not decay and virtual black-holes do not exist.

At about 10E(10E(10E56)) the universe should spontaneously create a new universe, so that that is the most upper limit of time in our universe. Fairly small actually, compared to things like Graham's number and Tree(3). Turns out, infinity is really big.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTeJ64KD5cg
Only in official spending. Third parties aren't counted so it's a mostly meaningless measure. All it means is Hillary was worse at hiding the contributions to her campaign.
The main difference is that gamers are much better connected than movie goers I think. This sort of behavior might not have as many repercussions for movie studios as it does for gaming studios.
in the terms of intelligence, it's just one of 6 senses. MEMS sensors, signal filters, and coding schemes (compression) are going strong, too. Touch is still problematic I understand.

In that regard, flexible LED screens could be interesting, using the photoeffect in the diodes like a camera, lighting the area at the same time and maybe integrate a resistive touch grid matrix, too.