skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the investment had already paid for itself with the “world first rescue”.

A company in Iran developed a lifeguard drone called Pars, in 2013:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24929924

I couldn't find any information about the Pars drone being used in a rescue.
Sure. It's basically the fact that the sentiment regarding crypto in the traditional world of financial advising has been equated to ponzi schemes. The value of the technology hadn't been validated or proven to point where holding BTC had any inherit value beyond what others who wanted the BTC were willing to pay for it. The market pressures weren't real.

However, smart contracts and the adoption of the blockchain by technology's bigger players has provided some validation to what's happening. Regardless of the white papers, and how one individually assessed the thesis, it didn't have market adoption and it wasn't as if BTC was actually producing something. So investing in BTC (a virtual commodity in limited value) had no real business purpose.

So crypto was in the same boat as ponzi schemes, until very recently. Now it's being taken seriously due to providing actual value.

The only thing BTC is really good for right now is to act as an intermediary between it and alts--since you can buy BTC and ETH with fiat, then transfer those to alts. BTC isn't a valid currency for transactions for a variety of reasons. It is simply the backbone of the crypto economy at this point, and the grandfather of the technology--so there's some lure to it as a limited asset that, so long as someone wants it, someone can sell.
In Toronto they're known as coach houses.
VB5 indeed allows that (i have a VB5 box i got off ebay some time ago :-) and i've spent a lot of time with that and with CCE before that), but the language isn't really that friendly towards complex applications. But FWIW i think that VB lost its way around version 4 or 5 anyway :-P.

About Borland and Java, i actually have JBuilder 2 (again off ebay - i collect old development software :-P) and yes it does look nice and sort of friendly (although it is far from Delphi's level of ease of use). I think the entire thing is built on Java too. Sadly it doesn't seem to work in modern Windows - even the applications it creates throw exceptions.
Tesla loses one of its most senior engineers and director of manufacturing
The opposite actually. Start with John Locke and work your way up to Nozick.

Individual have rights and:

"So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do."
Yes, pony stacks up nicely among the growing list of compiled languages, based on features:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAiJR026ih1U8HoRw__n...
The Chapel Hill-Durham section of that is already in planning: http://ourtransitfuture.com/projects/lrt/
I'd be willing to bet that Miami is a favorite amongst at least a couple of people actually making the decision. Miami is the capitol of and gateway to Latin America, and Latin America has enormous potential for growth of ecommerce.
> Heathrow has been an airfield since the 1930s.

A private airfield, owned by Richard Fairey for his use and that of his owner-pilot friends in the Royal Aeronautical Society, who had their annual picnic there.

The London hub airport in that era, and into the late 1940s, was Croydon.
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All they're measuring is the output of their "fixes". Intel has said at least twice that they consider their scope to be how to provide ways to mitigate spectre attacks.
Amazon narrows list of headquarters cities to 20 finalists
as opposed to all those _difficult-to-learn_ text-based programming languages
> In the case of free software, there is a limited resource of people's time and skills. Adding more choices means spreading that resource more thinly - you basically make things worse by having more choices.

You can not assume that all the people working on 10 alternatives otherwise would work on one project together. That might work with your employees and work projects, but not with volunteers.
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Given even how Samsung is mis-managing Tizen, I don't have any hopes to any actual GNU/Linux based handset.
Schiphol terminals are bursting st the seams during the summer and fast approaching the 500,000 “air transport movements” allowed by law.

http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2017/04/amsterdam-airport-over...
These are the people paying journalists to promote brands in articles
Are the U.S. and Canada your only options? What about China or India? Maybe Brasil or somewhere like France?
> Edit: whoops, they don't even want to use Android! But judging from their mockup renders they expect to have something just as good.

Their mockup renders were with actual software – the KDE and Gnome desktops already support mobile natively, and there’s more and more software for these environments available as well.
I was one of the earliest successful indie iOS developers. I've had my apps featured on Apple TV ads and billboards, and they've had tens of millions of downloads. The days of being able to do that are long gone. You'll have a few breakout hits every once in a while like HQ and Houseparty, but the amount of marketing needed to get there often outweighs development costs. There's a few big players and there's not much benefit to the long tail anymore unless you have an expensive niche app. I've recently switched to being a blockchain / Ethereum developer and there's a ton of conferences and 2-3 events a week in New York. Marco should title this "The end of indie iOS conferences".

Swift has kind of taken a life of its own outside of just iOS. There's a few big Swift conferences each year, even ones specific to functional programming. I'm also excited for its prospects on the server.
This whole reply doesn't pass the smell test.

> Web Assembly targets C and C++ as source languages, unlike the JVM.

So wasm (and hence JavaScript if you translating js into wasm) are closer c/c++ than to java? Considering all the UB in C, this cannot possibly be true.

> Because JS and Java semantics are different, and emulating JS semantics on top of the JVM is slow.

Given javas JavaScript implementation is pretty comparable, not very big, and even written in java, this also doesn't seem to be true at all.

Once you add gc into wasm, it is almost guaranteed to be closer to java than c/c++.
Unlike the Wii U, which had a fairly accessible developer program, the Switch is still out of bounds to your average hobbyist developer. Nintendo have been pretty quiet about it too, other than instructing people to get in touch with them if they think they should have access to the Switch dev kit etc.

They've also been very quiet about whether the Nintendo Web Framework, a HTML / JS based set of APIs for the Wii U, would be available for Switch. I hope it is. Unity is great but the NWF would be great for prototyping etc.
They really should just go to Honolulu. Who wouldn't want to work there?
> is not in war time

Maybe not physical destruction. But "war time" is something that will get decided by historians in 20 years time.

In a more cyber conscience world social engineering of the state[0] will become a act of war...

or something in that line, I hope.

gobble gobble

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_family
> But no, I wouldn't think it offensive if it were relevant to the topic at hand. Which it isn't in your imaginary version

None of your criticism of Damore was relevant. You just jumped on a bandwagon of hate. You picked up a pitchfork and joined a witch hunt. Gaston held up a picture of The Beast and told him he was coming in the night to get your children, and you joined the mindless mob.

I know that I will not be able to convince you now, because your mind is stubbornly closed. Your ego is too sensitive to admit that you have no valid justification for your denigration of Damore. All I hope is that someday, you'll be able to recognize a witch hunt for what it is and resist the urge be swept up in the pathetic, cowardly, petty hate-mongering.
I mean, I personally would never consider hanging any country's flag in a prominent spot. But for people who do, I'd wager it's likely that they it's to celebrate culture and memories, not necessarily to display allegiance. Sure there are others too. But seeing it this way allows me to not be offended and instead view it as merely quaint, sometimes odd.

Ideally, both sides should try to avoid bad blood.
Perhaps the GreenArrays GA-144 shall yet see its killer app.
Sounds like AOL punters. Fate X anyone?
Ionospheric bow wave induced by the moon shadow ship over the US continent
It's pretty far from a decent airport. HPN and SWF have flights to only a few destinations and the only mass transit that services them are buses. Poughkeepsie to EWR is no less than 2.5 hours on public transportation and 1.5 hours by car. About the same for JFK. Newburgh and Fishkill are even worse.
Well...it does say the author is CEO of Spotinst in the author profile above the article title, and also clearly states "This article represents the opinions of Amiram Shachar, CEO of Spotinst." right above the first paragraph of the article.

Maybe the article has been edited since it posted here, but I don't see any reference to Spotinst product pricing. I only see IBM, Amazon, Azure and Google services in those tables.

You may not have found the article useful, but as a "serverless" noob, I found it worthwhile. It certainly wasn't "devoid" of technical details.
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The white paper for meltdown suggests that it is possible to derandomize ASLR in JavaScript. The reference they give is:

Gras, B., Razavi, K., Bosman, E., Bos, H., And Giuffrida, C. ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU. In NDSS (2017)

You might want to check it out. I intended to over the weekend.

Cheers!
Anyone have the clode?
How machine learning can be used to write more secure computer programs
I remember running in circles trying to install one app on Debian and getting "hey, you need libtrpc, error", ok, apt-get it, "hey, now I need libc6 for libtrpc, error", ok, apt-get it too, "hey, your libc6 already present, what do you want from me, error". Of course each error was 5 lines long. I was doing lots of tries and asked on SE too but in the end it didn't work. And it couldn't even tell me all dependencies together, only on separate tries for each package. So much for glorified protection and usability.
It seems like no one is obligated to provide assets if they are not willing to be paid. There are many digital who already provide assets for free and would love to donate to a project such as this.
> “Until 2017, you could go into Uber on any given day and half the T-shirts were Uber T-shirts,” says one executive. “They disappeared overnight. People didn’t want to wear Uber stuff.”
How's that work in practice?

"Am I being detained?!"

"You can't mug me, I have a right not to be mugged!"

It's not a law of nature. The laws of nature are things like "the strongest take what they want" and "cannibalism not only feeds you, it removes competitors from the food chain!". Inalienable rights must be enforced in order to exist.
Significantly better with Dara who understands the needs for a peacetime ceo. Happy to field any specific questions.
But isn't the situation of base64 encoding a "streaming" situation? I agree with you that the 10-outstanding requests + latency metric is useful for a random-access situation. But base64 encoding (and decoding) starts at the beginning of something in memory, and keeps going till you reach the end.

Its about as ideal a streaming case as you can get it. No hash tables or anything involved. And WITH hardware prefetchers enabled, DDR4 becomes so much faster.

http://www.sisoftware.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/amd-tr-m...

The measured "streaming" latency numbers seen in that picture are likely due to the hardware prefetcher. "Streaming" data from DDR4 is incredibly efficient! An order of magnitude more efficient than random-walks.

Intel's memory controller also seems to be optimized for DDR4 page-hits (a terminology that means the DDR4 stick only needs a CAS-command to fetch memory. Normally, DDR4 requires RAS+CAS or even PRE+RAS+CAS, which increases latency significantly). So if you can keep your data-walk inside of a DDR4 page, you can drop the latency from ~80ns to ~20ns on Skylake (but not Ryzen)

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With that being said, it seems like my previous post is a bit optimistic and doesn't take into account CAS commands and the like (which would eat up the theoretical bandwidth of DDR4 RAM). DDR4 3200MT/s RAM practically has a bandwidth of ~31GB/s on a dual-channel setup.

Still, I stand by the theory. If you "stream" beginning-to-end some set of data from DDR4 (WITH hardware prefetchers, that's the important part! Don't disable those), then you can achieve outstanding DDR4 bandwidth numbers.
also: bah humbug.
yet another way for an organizations to exploit peoples free-time for profits. why pay for training when you can guilt people into doing it themselves.
After reading these comments it makes me realize just how limiting transportation is and how big of a drag it is. Austin/Boston/DC/Atlanta/Denver/others are all great locations with transportation issues. Even some of the more rural locations such as RDU would quickly fill up with 50k new tech workers join the existing the two-lane highways. It seems like the best solution currently is the Apple/Google wifi buse with 90 minute 1-way commute part of your workday.

The highway system itself is an innovation from the 50's and (In My Humble Opinion) lack of continued innovation on the US transport system since has significantly contributed to the loss of US technical/economic leadership since then.
Colorado has grown increasingly affluent. It has a GDP per capita above Australia, Sweden and Denmark. It's a very desirable location to move to. Simultaneously like a lot of the US, they haven't been building up new housing inventory very aggressively since the great recession.
Same here, amazing that the site is virtually the same now. Being acquired by viacom was terrible for the site. (Not to mention that it became product placement at every turn).

Kind of sad that micropayments are the defacto monetization model for games now, it really kills all sense of accomplishment for finding cool items
Forgot to mention I’m an Uber employee.
Austin's airport makes it difficult to see that city working for Amazon.

I hope it goes anywhere but Dallas! I live in Dallas.
This startup isn’t going to prevent things from being worked on by others, but if they can’t decide basic things like which gui toolkit to use, then they’ll burn through their (extremely limited) funding well before they have a working, let alone competitive, product.

The mistake of “support every option in the community for version 1.0” has happened before. I suggest reading an OpenMoko postmortem (especially if you are somehow involved with this project).

For this product to succeed they need to minimize the amount of time and resources they spend getting to a phone that works as a daily driver.

Someone else can port qt/gtk/elightenment/etc to it after that happens. Otherwise, there will be no sustainable hardware platform to port those things to.
Thanks very much for the explanation, and I'm sorry for my initial tone/wrongness.
Well, most larger airports don't like you walking on the apron more than absolutely necessary, and if they don't have a jet bridge available they put you on a bus even if the plane is only a few yards away. But IIRC Frankfurt is the one where the bus actually goes out of the airport and down a public road?
Same here. This and writing bots for RuneScape.
I would object to someone applying them to me, because I am not fundamentally a programmer or an actor.

But it's a perfectly cromulent way to use words! I'm not objecting to the turn of phrase at all.

My point is just that I draw this distinction (between “an Xer” and “a person who Xes”) when describing people, and I think it's a useful nuance.

I don't know whether the writer (and the word somehow loses its special significance after the definite article — I'm not saying it's logical; it's just how my mind reads these things) consciously chose “worker” rather than “hobbyist” or “busy person”.

But I think it shows how they see the (abstract) people they're describing. It made me realise that, yes, this advice is useful, but perhaps only to people who “are workers” rather than “do work”.

And I agree completely that in this context, “a programmer” or “a worker” is precisely what you need — you don't need a person, you need a function.
This is still my favourite example ever of a clever way to convince users to self-XSS themselves on just about any website one can imagine. Better hope that game's code isn't doing anything malicious behind the scenes :).
That's mainly because of the size of the washer/dryer. A scaled down w/d would be much more efficient for 1 set of clothes than putting 1 set of clothes in a normal w/d.

Maybe more efficient if it is able to lay out each piece for drying. Clotheslines are very energy efficient.
Mix it with honey for your kids...
How to reduce AWS cost using machine learning driven EBS IOPS provisioning
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Find an accountability partner.
> Solidity reads a bit like Javascript. It has a lot of quirks and pitfalls, though, especially when it comes to moving money around.

But isn't that, like, the whole point of the language? It was literally written for moving money around. Cripes.

> Be very careful if writing real money-transfer code; do your security homework, get others to review your code, and seriously consider an official security audit or even formal verification.

Amen.
And immediately patents it... so no one else can use it.

EDIT: and for some other methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_%28number_format%29, particularly the latest one being the Posit method: http://superfri.org/superfri/article/download/137/232

EDIT2: of course other people can license it, but the other way to bring a new floating point to the scene would be through the same process that happened with IEEE 754. There are plenty of people who wouldn't touch anything patented at all, sometimes even with a patent clause.
What's it like to show up to work at Uber? Do people just sit there miserably while they constantly remind themselves that a "big payday" is on the way like some kind of perverse mantra?

What if the pay day never comes? How will it look when your resume says you stayed at Uber well after everything has been revealed?
The CS300 was what I was talking about. And apparently I was wrong, thank you for your correction.
I used to program on my own time much more than I do now. I'm a little burned out, and there's other things I want to do when I get home from sitting at a computer for eight hours than sitting at a computer for more hours.
This is amazing, thanks
First tier airlines like to have new planes with all the latest features. Second tier cheap airlines will often buy a used plane: when that money is applied to the cost of a new plane is cheaper (or the same cost) as refurbishing the old one. From there third tier airlines exist that will buy planes past their safe service life and pray they don't crash.
Audience data provider Eyeota raises $12.5M
You are interpreting that in the wrong way. Just quoting a webpage doesn't lend credence. The methodology is what should be investigated. It's easy to visualize a probable scenario that breaks Bucklin Voting in this political climate.

There are ten candidates. Candidate J is least liked by everyone. Nobody else has a majority until the final preference votes are counted. At that time, the entries are tremendously skewed towards Candidate J, and he wins with the clear majority.
> We're doomed to use slow and shitty software until the present web fads go away and the ecosystem stabilizes.

I have two possibly conflicting thoughts about this. (I'm a little bit older, and I feel like this has nothing to do with the web.)

One, everything computer related was much, much slower, and much, much shittier when MS Paint first came out. I feel like software and software standards and hardware and the web, all of it, has improved.

Two, I'm not convinced we'll ever escape shitty software, I think we always have and always will have slow and shitty software, outside the web and inside. We always want the machine to do more than we have a budget for, we always want to write features in less time than we have, we always want cooler features than others, etc., etc. Keeping software fast and good is time consuming, expensive, takes more self control than most have, and often just isn't the highest economic priority. In short, I think there are legitimate reasons we're always sitting at the threshold of pain rather than the threshold of pleasure.
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I initially skipped the quotes because I'm used to them being repeated.
I would love to see packaging switch to corn based plastics or maybe some other type where the plastic would decompose faster.
Great article. I have similar experiences in my market and many times I ended up pointing to a Crunchbase page to defend the budget. It is not by chance that companies like Uber and Spotify raised more than one billion. Even if the customer will spend only a fraction in software they are not understanding how much capital they need for their product.

I am not saying that you cannot compete with Uber in a smarter way but if you only ask about an app then you are forgetting all the stuff that happens in the back office.
I mean, it's unfortunate, but can you blame him?
The new Shakepay
In my view and experience, the actor model and the CSP model of Go and others (which is also very similar to Flow-Based Programming (FBP) if using buffered channels), can actually fit together very nicely, with each of them sitting at different abstraction levels:

- The actor model for high-level coordination and communication

- CSP and/or FBP at the low-level, for high performance processing.

The reason for this is mainly that CSP/FBP inherently supports blocking channels between processes when processes are busy (or channels are full for FBP), thus providing implicit backpressure. This can simplify low-level programming a lot, since you don't need to worry about over-filled mailboxes or overbooked CPUs. OTOH, for communication e.g. across a cluster, this becomes problematic since you can't rely on the same level of integrity of the network connections ... meaning that the very communication-intensive nature of CSP/FBP might be less of a good fit.

Thus in my view, the actor model would fit better for communicating between services which are internally implemented e.g. with CSP/FBP.

I wrote a post about this, some time ago:

http://bionics.it/posts/flowbased-vs-erlang-message-passing

It will be interesting to see whether Pony manages to fill more than just the coordination role. Given its much higher raw-crunching performance, perhaps that is the case. I'm a little worried about the lack of implicit back-pressure (due to the actor model), but let's see.

Perhaps because of its high-performance, back-pressure won't be too costly to implement anyway? One can hope. Would be nice with a language that can encompass both programming paradigms, and be suited for the full spectrum between low-level crunching and high-level coordination and communication.
This is really scary stuff for us. Their advice right now is to contact hardware vendors individually. We have hardware that's less than five years old that show no signs of ever getting patched.
If your question is sincere, it's nothing too different from going to work to any other company, especially with Dara getting to act like the good cop.

Source: know quite a few Uber employees.
I didn't say that due to crypto, I said it due to the poster bragging about his parents buying ivory.