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That's exactly how I felt about Ruby on Rails.
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Might as well make it 20 years. For something like a remote control you can fit 100k users on a server, and a little bit of money per device can go an extremely long way. Extra large ec2 servers (which you can easily do better than on cost) are about a thousand dollars a year, and you only need a few hours of sysadmin work per month across the entire fleet.

And you can cut servers as people end up using devices less on their own.
The implementations currently are just SQLite hooked into the browser, they aren't different in any real way.

It is a bit circular, but generally something gets proposed as a standard, multiple browsers will implement it, then it becomes a finalized standard.

In this case it was proposed, the standard says "your implementation needs to do what this other implementation does" (and no other information is given about the SQL system), 2 browsers (really 1 engine at the time, webkit) used SQLite directly, and it never went anywhere else.

I guess my point isn't that there's not a "spec", but that the spec that there is doesn't say anything about the SQL part of WebSQL, it just says what the interface to the SQL engine looks like, and then mandates that the SQL engine act, look, and work like the one in a specific version of SQLite.
It's determined based on several factors like whether you set your own schedule, whether you use your own equipment, whether you have a manager, whether you have autonomy to complete your work how you see fit. There are no hard-and-fast rules though, and from my experiences, people completely ignore it (in software contracting). See https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/selfemployed-contractor
Pixel won’t get KRACK fix until December, but is that really a big deal?
I suppose I was thinking in terms of the alternative being alcohol. If I were going to choose between a night out drinking, or a night out having smoked a bit, I'd go for the latter. I'd rather feel a bit hazy the next day than be sick to my stomach or have a headache--which I get even just from ~3 beers over a few hours. I could of course opt for neither, but social norms being what they are.. there's some pressure there but that's a separate issue.

That being said, I may have exaggerated the memory issues. It isn't like full blown amnesia. More so it just takes longer than usual to remember things. I'd compare it to a cache miss. Smoking clears my brain's cache the next day and I end up feeling like I am pulling short-term thoughts and memories from colder storage.
I strongly suspect that even in 50 years, we will still be writing systems and software in a dialect of C - so long as UNIX lives on, C will too.

There will probably always be a need in computering for 'Portable Assembly' too, which is another reason C (or C like languages) will never disappear.
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I didn't see the author present any technology as being novel industry-wide.

He did present big.LITTLE architecture as novel to the Apple and iOS ecosystems, which is correct.
That's not normal. Upon leaving previous employers, every single 401k account of mine was closed after rollout. Though sometimes this might be months after the rollout - because the account might have to stay open to receive various late account reconciliations. So sometimes amounts as low as a few bucks or even cents will show up later from sources like dividends earned during the past time periods. But they were all eventually closed.
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Amen.. I like to use exotic techniques just out of intellectual curiosity and to put my education to use, but ultimately a basic linear regression is all people want! Ease of interpretation is paramount.
With always listening assistants, we're practically there with Google and Alexa. We just need cooler things to interact with than communication and divination (checking the weather) "spells."

As soon as we get some sort of grey goo with an API like in Big Hero 6 or wrist mounted fireball/lightning generators we're in business.
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In no way the author — a vey respected engineer in the Apple community BTW — pretended to provide an exhaustive overview of the multi-core heterogeneous computing world (or assert that Apple invented all this tech on its own).

I honestly think that he just wanted to provide a very brief comparison between A10 and the latest A11, and then go on with his article core subject ;)
Go is still a pile of abstractions built on top of another pile of abstractions that almost no one fully groks. It doesn't seem significantly less "magical" than any other commonly-used language, especially from the perspective of non-wizards, even if it might be a better tool for casting certain spells.
For example, one possible reason to sign a CLA is if you want to contribute, and the repository owner will not allow you to do so otherwise. It may be that you value contributing more highly than what license later versions of the code use. At least for me, that would typically be the case.
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Because none of this changed the fact that Ross, and Ross alone, ran the Silk Road. He did the things that he was accused of. Other criminals being criminals around him doesn't change that fact.
After a quick skim, looks clean to me. Can you be more precise, what are your complaints?
Where is your jurisdiction?
You might be surprised (or horrified) how much is still out there...
You said you don’t want to prohibit alcohol, but class it schedule 1. That’s a prohibition.

Ah, but reading more carefully you’d prefer to remove everything from the schedule. Now I see it’s not inconsistent. Took me a few reads to get there.
This seems to be one step away from The Island movie
> Raymond claims that Python is suitable largely for single-user applications operating "at human speed". This is so far outside the reality of how Python is used in industry as to call pretty much everything else Raymond writes in the article into question.

Could you elaborate? Are you talking about e.g. numpy and scipy? Python is good at calling C libraries but that doesn't make it good for writing an IP stack or a device driver or an OS. Are you arguing against the "single-user" point or the "human speed" point?
It's tiring how offended everybody is.

Edit: saw that down vote coming from a mile away.

Edit 2: Although, being flagged is surprising.
I like how the core functionality/UI is immediately accessible above the fold. No log in, or other barriers to simply trying it out.

Great job!
Allow me to introduce you to the wizards of the Unseen University...
I mean... Usually you could implement a simple dependency yourself pretty trivially, for the most common case. But will your implementation be as tested and cover your user base as well as the Generally Accepted dependency implementation that has a million monthly downloads?
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Thanks! I love how many different providers you support already. Ping us on IRC or the forums if you need help integrating RS into your app.
We didn't request for our claims to be converted to Yen. The Japanese court representative assigned to the bankruptcy determined the Bitcoin had to be assigned a yen value. He proposed a value that seemed reasonable at the time so most creditors agreed.

Almost all creditors I know, including myself, would prefer to claim Bitcoin instead of Yen but it was simply not allowed by the court. Back then it seemed not really important as the valuation was reasonable and we didn't suspect the process would take so long.

When it became clear that the process would take so long that the Bitcoin value would exceed the claims, people organized a legal defense to have the claims reevaluated, but it would be a very exceptional situation and it is unclear to me what the repercussions of such a precedent would be in Japanese law.

I hope that at least Mark would be convicted and the Japanese state would take from him whatever profits remain from the bankruptcy.
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Was his house known as the "Ea-nasir Ziggurat" ?
Kill Unix?

Bell Labs tried to kill their child and supplant it with plan-9 and inferno.

It failed.

Not because they were bad OSs, but because once you have market domination and code, things _must_ be backwards compatible.

If Linux/GNU didn't imitate POSIX, it wouldn't be any more popular than Haiku.
Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Just finished the third book. So far 1 and 2 (which takes place in Atlantis which may have borrowed heavily from Apple's design philosophy) are my favorites.

They definitely focus more on the programming nuance. It's also cool how they introduce technology and interfaces from different periods of computing due to the time traveling aspect.
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There is something in the fact that consumer products often try to 'get out of the way'. So yes, the way it actually works is extremely magical, but it manages to hide it so well that people don't really think about it. The fact that the remote controls the TV is just a fact of life and the way the world works, while how to stop the radio from bleeping every night at midnight, that is magical.
In the Quantum Thief (actually one of its sequels) by Hannu Rajaniemi, there are Secret Names that perform magic; one of them was 'Emergency Decompression Protection' and produced a shield around the incanter.
CNN representation of objects is nothing more than a series of filters. The criticism being addressed here is to create an architecture representing the actual geometry of objects.

Consider this problem: given a picture of a simple object, a human could draw a picture of the same object rotated at some angle. Currently there is no elegant NN solution to this because no architectures "understand" a three dimensional representation from images.

A CNN can identify every video frame of a dog running as a dog, but there is no conception of the same dog running through space.
Architecture was my other potential major in college. Took drafting classes in high school and everything. I think there is definitely something to the mindset correlation.
There's evidence that it's happened a couple of times, at least, in Bitcoin's history.
This is the most dangerous thing about the IMF stating that blockchain was the future of finance... they forgot that everyone immediately assumes Bitcoin when you say blockchain. They were specifically not referencing Bitcoin by name for a reason.

"She pointed to distributed ledger technology like blockchain that can help make the banking system more inclusive."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/bitcoin-get-serious-about-di...

She is basically saying that banks need to come together and decide on a decentralized ledger system.
Lenna is okay with it.

I was introduced to the Lena image in 1992. My scientist boss gave the reasons for the image being used as to do with the fine details in the feather bit, the spectrum of colours plus skin tone. He was not aware of the provenance of the image.

We also had the baboon and I still use him to this day.

The one I am missing is the Landsat image of the Bay Area.

In 1992 we did not have the www. Or search engines. So there was no way to learn the back story if you just had the image. So we should not judge those that worked with image processing systems and only had a dozen test images to work with.
Thanks!

Yeah, without looking at your logs I suspect you cut too much. :)

We were using a free-form text field before and it led to a couple issues: cutting words in half + inputs. Both of those basically break it now so we went for a slightly less convenient but mostly functional demo.

I totally agree though, this needs a lot of polish on the UX side.
I can only think of one reason for it to exist: as a reasonable Linux laptop. But I don't think that it is that. So I agree with the article: why would I pay that much to run a third-rate OS?

I'd love to get something like the Pixelbook, but capable of easily running Debian.
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Yes, you requested to be paid out in btc. That doesn't affect the size of the claim.
If your doodad has a weak enough update framework that it bricks itself a handful of years after production, good luck getting any revenue or funding going forward.
Bob Howard in the Laundry series by Charles Stross is a wizard who has started out in IT and who does have to go to interminable powerpoint meetings and work through lots of hideous beaurocracy.
This article is a little dated, but dives into the engagement model and the multivariate role the app plays: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdbxxn/the-social-media-a...

Publishers have successfully been able to increase metrics like Spotify and YouTube plays with exposure via the app. Its one of the few examples in the creative/publishing industry thats great for both the artists and the publishers alike.
It's been a long, long time since I've tried to do anything with VBA. How far out of date is the implementation of it that is built into Excel? Like .NET 1.1?
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Here's Stallman's recollection of what happened:

>The issue first arose when NeXT proposed to distribute a modified GCC in
two parts and let the user link them. Jobs asked me whether this was
lawful. It seemed to me at the time that it was, following reasoning
like what you are using; but since the result was very undesirable for
free software, I said I would have to ask the lawyer.

>What the lawyer said surprised me; he said that judges would consider
such schemes to be "subterfuges" and would be very harsh toward
them. He said a judge would ask whether it is "really" one program,
rather than how it is labeled.

>So I went back to Jobs and said we believed his plan was not allowed
by the GPL.

>The direct result of this is that we now have an Objective C front
end. They had wanted to distribute the Objective C parser as a
separate proprietary package to link with the GCC back end, but since
I didn't agree this was allowed, they made it free.

http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...

I think this highlights a few important things:

1) there's significant room for interpretation of what a license means

2) what lawyers and courts think words mean can be quite different from what technologists think

Also, a lot of interactions are mediated by chances of a lawsuit. So if you're a party that is generally disliked by the Free Software folks, like Apple, there's significantly more risk, for identical uses, than a company like Google, which is more popular. There's room for interpretation of what actions mean, and if somebody is more likely to think that you're a nefarious actor, there's a high risk.

I don't blame Apple for switching from GPL to licenses that I consider to be more "free" than the "Free" software licenses. When I read the philosophy pages of the FSF, I come away disagreeing vehemently with their arguments, and often simply unable to understand why people find those documents convincing for anything.
I have a Sony Dash, even though I don't really use much of it, I find it irreplaceable for the ability to program complex alarms. It's been working fine for at least 4 years.

A couple of days ago we had a power failure, the thing hadn't been rebooted in looong time. Since the reboot it hasn't been able to get passed an 'Authorizing...' screen.

Long story short, Sony discontinued some servers, the thing is a brick now.

I knew there were some cloud services been consumed but had no idea it wouldn't work at all without those services. It's a freaking alarm clock!!!!

Even if Sony would make this same move, and I would happily take the replacement, I would never buy another thing like this.

Dodge this bullet, what about the next one?
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Swearing seems such a light reason though
Sure. Everything in the article (and details on the label) suggests otherwise.
This is excellent. Looking forward to the full release with the hope that pricing is affordable for hobbyists. :)
Wow that's weird because the movements of the persons in the video don't seem natural at all
Mt Gox was insolvent before it was sold to Karpeles.

Follow the US' indictment of BTC-E founder for parallel details.

tl;dr BTC-E had hacked basically every exchange for those fairly worthless internet points and giggles, and was selling them for cheaper on its exchange in a massive and ongoing laundering/mixing scheme that could only benefit the founders and people with accounts in Bulgaria, Romania and Russia
Chromebook Pixels have traditionally been very good Linux laptops due to their hardware compatibility with ChromeOS's underlying kernel, beefy specs, and relative ease with which their regular distro can be wiped out. Even hybrid ChromeOS+Linux chroots via crouton can give the sometimes-developer enough leeway to get work done.

So that was my use-case.

The other use-case would be someone who wants the minimal functionality of a Chromebook, but wants one that will last for as many years as a Macbook.
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> A Facebook exec's claim doesn't count as proof.

How about an official statement from Facebook itself over a year ago[1]? If it was true, people could find out by decompiling the app and make Facebook look absolutely horrible.

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-ph...
the thing is, the rift between your average Republican and Democrat is wide enough that most will barely see each other, let alone interact on such a politically skewed site as HN. The urban/rural split is part of it but it seems in every other way Americans are divided into 2 nations - there was an interesting article that talked about it the other week.
cgic was a great library, even if it was still excruciatingly tedious to write. I'm not entirely certain whether I discovered cgic or Perl first, but I know which one I preferred writing.
Pretty cool. On the other hand the most miserable time in my career was developing a plugin for Excel. It just went from one disaster to the next.
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+1 from me for mentioning Arunoda. He has done a lot to Meteor.js (and many others) community.
> I do like thinking of myself as a wizard, though.

This doesn't address your first paragraph, but I wanted to comment on this.

I identify as a hacker. The terms "wizard", "incantation", etc are fairly ingrained in our culture. But if I do something and someone refers to it as "magic", it actually makes me uncomfortable; it means that they don't understand what I did or how I did it, and rather than trying to understand it, they dismiss it as something magical. This might sometimes be because they have better things to do at that moment than consider what I did---which is fine. But comparing it as magic still rubs me the wrong way. I don't do magic: everything I do is explainable, and I can explain it to you if you ask.

I used to practice magic when I was much younger---I was an illusionist for a couple years. I was pretty good at it. I did street magic, mentalism, and various other things that seemed impossible or even supernatural/metaphysical. Magic. I still do some tricks I remember for my kids. But whenever they think that it's real---whenever _anyone_ thinks that it might be real---I make sure that they understand that it is an illusion. A trick. A hack, if you will. With my kids, I show them how it's done. And they still love it.

The article shows a regular expression and calls it a "magical incantation". It looks opaque, but it can be understood. The language can be learned. You can format it in a sane manner and dissect it. (Displaying a regex that complicated on one line is a disservice to others, with the intent of making it look opaque. It's like removing all whitespace and newlines from your code or writing complicated one-liners and saying "look, it's magic".) It isn't a magical incantation.
Instead of appealing to authority, maybe you could link to some actual arguments by these luminaries.

If you're interested in Rob Pike's take on Go, he expressed regret over initially calling Go a systems programming language, because it gave people the impression that it was appropriate for writing operating systems. He prefers to call it a "server writing language" or a "cloud infrastructure language." @6:45 in this panel discussion: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pa...
While I'd love to see this happen, I'm not even sure where I would begin.

But if someone out there has experience working with whatwg or W3C on these kinds of things and wants someone to help out, I'd love to be a part of it.

But like you said, the hardest part is getting the different browser engines to promise support (or even take it seriously). I remember reading on HN a post from a woman who was involved in trying to get SVG in the browser standardized (sadly I can't seem to find it any more!), and just reading about the struggles she went through to even talk to someone involved who, while receptive, basically told her that it wasn't going to get done.

It seems like there would need to be an "advocate" who is part of the teams on EdgeHTML and Gecko that would be willing to fight for it before it would even begin, otherwise, like you said, it would all basically be wasted effort.

The JavaScript standardization system is quite nice, I wish that browsers could get together and come up with something similar for Web APIs...
Can someone tell me how this photo is offending to some? Am I missing something?
In my opinion, it seems logical to not use it as a standard image anymore, since it's not particularly professional to use nudes for such things (even if tasteful), but it should also not be swept under the rug due to the historical significance and the fact that Lena herself is not troubled by its usage[1].

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml
Except that we have done exactly that.

I was a Native Oberon user during the 90s.

Educate yourself on Oberon and Modula-3, read about Midori and then feel free to carry on the anti-GC campaign.
I am always intrigued when I come across an article like this, after having done 2+ years of React development, and have never seen these patterns (Provider Pattern), nor seen them debated (Render Props). I do pay attention to the community here and there, and constantly poke around open source react libraries.

I tend to bring in patterns from iOS development, such as Delegates, especially when using React Native, and is really useful when using Flow or TypeScript.

We heavily rely on the Material-UI library (https://material-ui-next.com/) and have brought a lot of their patterns into our libraries, mostly how reusable components are composed.
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Absolutely not. I mean, I don't know which jurisdiction we are talking about, but I don't know of any that bases identity on a number.

The numbers don't serve as proof. They are just a number to help refer to you in databases.

The proof of identity is provided by the plastic cards and other items/papers. (Such as a birth certificate. And usually if you lose that to get a new copy you need some ID, and if you lose your ID cards, then a written statement from the police that you lost your ID card.)
but is there an objectively "right" opinion? Surely that in itself is determined by the group's average opinion.
s/less restrictive/less respecting of their user's freedom/