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If those companies have no way of updating their software what’s their approach to security?
Here's a status page for HN that has built-in monitoring, so it shows all downtime: https://hn.hund.io
Many of the icons are pretty meaningless so you have to hover to get the text description. Give me menus with text any day.
Some of the information you present is incorrect. One example: An accredited investor doesn't need $1MM net worth in the US. The requirement can be satisfied by just $200K personal income. This is stated in the very first sentence of the wiki entry that you linked.

> Which basically says - rich gets richer and you poor little guy is too stupid for participating in potentially highly lucrative deals.

It's more along the lines of having enough money to weather the value of your investments disappearing.
How does using resources unsustainably at the expense of future generations not indicate baseless entitlement and a lack of empathy?
Their new screencast is awesome too!

"Observable: An Earthquake Globe in Ten Minutes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEmDwflQ3xE
Often, the more niche the site, the better the comments are.
Capacitive touch screens know when your finger is getting close to the screen. Apple doesn't, afaik, open up that level of detail in its APIs, but it could be used by the system to delay the display of a 3rd party overlay when the user's finger proximity indicates a tap is imminent.

This same approach could be used to pause movement on a web page during mid-render, for example if an ad or other content is late to load but the user is already clicking on a link. How many times do we end up clicking on something unintended because the page re-renders mid-tap/click?

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S4 or S5 the phone had the ability to use finger proximity as a highlighter of sorts. I loved it, but never saw the functionality really used for more than visual candy effects.
You don't understand it at all.
You're suffering from selection bias.

The first people who found out about multimedia CD-ROMs... didn't do that well because the web killed those off after three years.

The first people who invested in 3D television technology... went nowhere, no one bought them.

The Internet did go places, it's true. But, the first Internet companies are mostly dead. For every success like Amazon there are 1000 dead dot-coms.

Etc.

Knowing about new technologies (languages, libraries, frameworks) is useful in terms of "oh I might need this tool someday" kind of way, but that's a very different goal. Some tips on how to do that here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/10/07/growing-your-toolbox...
tboyd47 hit the nail on the head - filtering is the value add. Recruiters are expensive though. And as codegeek says, hiring is tough. I work at untapt and our AI ensures that we send hiring managers quality not quantity - dramatically streamlining the process for a fraction of the cost of a traditional recruiter. For niche roles (specific skill sets, senior positions) I envision recruiters will continue to play an important role. But for the masses, platforms like ours will become more and more prevalent.
Please don't do this. Absolutely heart-wrenching thread over on reddit where a mom lost her son to this while only a few feet away: https://www.reddit.com/r/lastimages/comments/747b0b/my_sons_...

> "I'm the boy's mother. Yes, you're doing it wrong and could die. It's rare, but possible. I didn't know either. This is what I used to do. This is what the lifeguards at the YMCA I counseled swim camp at would teach the kids. I thought it was OK. And now my son is dead. I was three feet away with my back turned to him watching my younger daughter because she was the more inexperienced swimmer. For two minutes. Another two, two and a half to get him out and start CPR and get 911. And he died. They say his brain death was quick. Please tell your kids never to do this again. This is absolutely hell knowing it was this preventable. This post is to save lives. It could save your own kids. Don't make my mistake. Make my son's death mean something please."
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https://textfac.es is my favourite version of this
I still like currying better, but I just might be weird like that :-)
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This is my favorite part of iOS UX over Androids. Push notification settings for all applications is in one location and easy to set. I change my notification settings multiple times a week. {Turn email sound/homescreen/banner off for the weekend, disable everything but phone calls for meetings where I am expecting an important call, turn off notifications when in a large group messenger chat, etc}
One could argue that tax breaks are anti competitive in according to anti compete laws.

If one big company gets lower tax than their competitors
that is unfair competition.

Here is a ruling against Boeing calling it "Prohibited subsidy"
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/in-ne...
This comment doesn't help much, does it? Especially when there are a lot of comments already trying to explain the confusion in a more constructive way.
When I think RH I read an older less shitty company without a monetary involvement in a lot of speculative tech. It was a linux company.

If it was up to me my employees would be able to:
1) Install and hybrid a physical infra with LXC and KVM/QEMU.
2) Use Freebsd for anything else.
Here's the initial writeup on Observable: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ct2nne...

And source: https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-stdlib
Strongly disagree - you cannot have internal sanctions within a country, or it ceases to be a country. Essentially all modern nation-states have full free movement of goods and people internally(+).

(+) China has limited internal free movement and some countries have "special economic zones", enclaves/exclaves and status anomalies like Guantanamo etc.
They should probably purchase some local firms.
If you sign up, and

1. Are currently logged in to Medium on your preferrred browser on every computer you typically use.

2. Are not in an incognito window.

3. Are using the correct browser (e.g. don't be signed in via chrome then hit a default browser link in ios).
Wow, do people actually permit a new mail message to justify a Notification? No wonder this guy has this problem. Notifications should be restricted to communication channels explicitly intended for instant feedback (e.g. iMessage). I turn off most other apps' ability to interrupt me. I just can't conceive of a reason I need to be interrupted by most apps.
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Not the notification issue I was expecting. On MacOS non administrative users get notified of upgrades that they don’t have the appropriate permission to act on, and can only defer the notification with “try again tonight”, or “remind me later”.

Extremely frustrating.
"Taming the Mammoth"* was probably one of the most liberating things I've read on this subject.

* https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-op...
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273699
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Man, i have no idea what W. H. would've made of this! I did not know Aphex Twin sampled this, though.
AMD hasn't scaled up their production to meet that demand, and neither has Nvidia; they're both wary of a crash causing demand to stop as miners sell their burned-out GPUs.

Right now that makes things hard for everyone not a miner, but if AMD ends up being the only option for gamers while Nvidia still sells to miners, they might actually gain from the mess.
If you really want a realistic but still playable sim, there's also Orbiter which not only uses real numbers as much as possible, but actually goes so far as to model non-spherical gravity sources like lumpy asteroids.
There are a bunch of these kinds of video on Youtube, and I really enjoy watching all of them.

We focus on one or two people. We start at the begining and work through. Everything is explained, but not as if you're an idiot.

See also this, from 1970: Art of the Marbler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyga8VMWXKg
PCI's embrace of mobile PIN is a real game changer
My experience with philosophy was a mixture of half-baked history and distracting discussions that aren't useful.
But they moved the lock button to the side as it was in android since forever, right? So navigation like android is not impossible. What is impossible is to reach the upper left corner with one hand
That would be something that goes into the calculation of the tax incentives. If the added infrastructure is going to cost more than the bar tax, than it wouldn't be worth it. What makes you say that the bar tax would be insufficient to cover the extra costs?
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I find it odd that Bostock doesn't even mention Jupyter notebooks in the introduction. It is by far the most common and popular interactive notebook and supports many languages. There is also a next version - Jupyter Lab[1] which looks fantastic!

I do like the design of the notebook and the ability to pin cells. I got tired of Jupyter's horrendous default interface and wrote a new interface skin called Spin Zero[2]. I am trying to convince the Jupyter community to pay attention to their design.

[1] https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab

[2] https://github.com/neilpanchal/spinzero-jupyter-theme
Jesus add me to this list too.

Trying to find a little used feature is a minefield of hovering for tooltips and clicking endless drop down button menus...
These guys are attempting that last part:

https://basicattentiontoken.org
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It just means a faculty member at Oxford (or less commonly Cambridge). The word has associations to some kind of pre-war idyllic college life...

> Don: A professor, a lecturer or a Fellow.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history/oxford-gloss...
Couldn’t you still accidentally tap it?
And good place to drop few links, if you'd like to cut to the chase.

The finished notebook from the screencast (which you can fork): https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/earthquakes

And a fancier version that spins, reuses the canvas element instead of re-rendering it from scratch, projects the quakes as circles on the surface of the sphere, and offers a bunch of other options to configure (like if you'd like to chart the past day, week or month of quakes): https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/quakespotter-0-1
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If the Queen imposed a requirement for MPs who sponsor laws to go to prison if those laws clearly beach the ECHR (or maybe HRA) who'd complain?

It's far less terrifying to me that the present Queen can do that than that any oligarch with a £100M to spare can probably "lobby" to get the changes they want.

The royal family are in a dicey position, but I trust the current Queen more than MP s in general, but perhaps less than the 2 Houses as a whole. She can probably do anything that goes with either Parliament OR with the demos but couldn't go against both.
When you use a service without paying for it (e.g., television, radio, Yoogle, Facepage, and so on), you are not the customer but the vector to get to the real customer who is paying. No, buying a TV or paying your ISP is not paying for the services you are accessing.

What Americans think of as “health” “insurance” fits this model. Providers are in the business of soaking their customers the various tax-favored third-party payers for all they can. Of course prices rise continually. People are stirred into a frenzy about rising costs and demand that politicians just do something! The insurers get more tax-favored money that providers happily mop up.
EnterpriseDB tries to be an Oracle alternative, so not surprising they want to offer Oracle-style MVCC.
From context, the comment I was responding to seemed attached to the wrong parent and seemed aimed at Walter's comment instead.
A democracy is built on the losing side acquiescing and letting the majority rule.

Just because something is "democratic" doesn't mean it's inherently just, good, fair, or noble. Democracies have their own pathologies - see, for example, the "Tyranny of the Majority"[1] problem.

And never forget these words from "Johnny Got His Gun":

Father: You're gonna make the world safe for democracy!

Joe Age 10: What is democracy?

Father: Well it's never bright clear on myself.
Like any other kind government it's got something to
do with young men killing each other I believe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Not age, just harder. A list of text is far easier to interpret than a zillion icons.
In Atlanta, where I am, everybody pretty much thinks the same... except replace Austin with Atlanta. I suspect people in both cities are biased.
I’m trying to fathom how many times you would have to hit back and how many notifications you would have to revive for those two events to coincide precise three times a day.

It seems to me that if that’s genuinely the case, the problem is with the number and type of notifications received, which iOS gives tools to manage on an app by app basis.
Do you guys have a keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet? I can't figure how to move from one cell to another without clicking or creating a new cell.
Apple should make notification useful before they worry about this minor annoyance IMO. I hate that doing something like reading the new email doesn't dismiss the notification. I disable notifications for most apps because they just give me one more thing to clean up.
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Just in case people were wondering, the site seems to have been overwhelmed for the past 10-15 minutes. But there's a YouTube demo of the tech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16275040

I guess an oversimplified description would be that this is like a Jupyter Notebook specifically for JavaScript. Libraries like D3 are pre-loaded and immediately accessible. Am definitely interested in hearing the details about what it is built with and medium to long-term plans for the service.

Note that the Jupyter Notebook service generally requires you to be installing and running Python etc. on your own computer. Jumping into an Observable notebook is as easy as opening your browser and signing in via GIthub
That's one solution, but random notifications are still a problem. There are some apps where I want certain notifications, like "you have a new message," but other notifications are basically "hey! you haven't opened the app in a while!" I need that granularity of control (or a report spam button).
> Mathematicians vied to find the shortest method of unscrambling, which became known as God's algorithm. There's speculation that an all-knowing being could restore any Cube in 22 moves, but the shortest method discovered so far requires 52. It was found by a British mathematician named Morwen B. Thistlewaite.

In 2010 it was finally proven that 20 moves is enough to solve any possible Rubik's cube ordering, and that it can be no lower.
Most people I meet from Turkey have a story of state persecution. One guy wrote two books in prison before being released awaiting trial. He fled when the verdict came down.
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I honestly find myself taking a shit load of screenshots on the iPhone X. Now that’s annoying af!
The homepage copy didn't quite capture me... until I realized it was the new thing by D3's Mike Bostock! Maybe worth name-dropping that somewhere on that page? Though I don't know how many people would respond to that other than myself (hopefully lots of people).
it's funny in machine learning we train machines until they are proficient at a task.

for people we assume you either got it or you don't
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I remember holding my breath when watching that movie. Thank you for reminding about it!
Everyone's use case and life is different. Some people might need to instantly react to an e-mail - there's no actual iron-clad reason why an iMessage is more important than an e-mail, after all.
How to measure this is itself a philosophical question.
I'd like to think that the reason I don't see a doctor is because I'm tough and stoci, but mostly I don't go because:

a) I have no primary care physician because I don't typicaly go to the doc for any reason

b) although I can afford insurance, it has an insanely high deductible and is very difficult to predict what I will be charged for

c) going to the doctor involves triggering an expensive and difficult to predict system that will possibly bankrupt me.

So I (like a lot of folks) don't go unless there is either an obvious emergency or a horrible, hard to live with long term problem.

So yeah, the advice is probably good, but the reason that I don't tend to take it has little to do with my willpower.
It seems Guillaume Néry's career haven't damaged his brain. Of course, this is a single data point, but he has been freediving for twenty years

https://www.deeperblue.com/what-does-a-freedivers-brain-look...
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Back in the days when I read slush I could reject manuscripts at a rate of about 20-25 an hour. It doesn't seem surprising to me at all that if you are looking at these papers all day long, it's not going to take very long to learn how to quickly weed out the obvious nonstarters.
> Human-level intelligence is sufficient to cause a singularity (because then they can start improving their own programs)

Your assumption is that human-level intelligence is bound by offline simulation capacity.

If humans are already optimally utilizing offline simulation (in the biological world we call that imagination) then the “human level” AI will have just the same limitations as a human.

That’s the counter-proposal you have to make falsifiable for your guess to become a hypothesis:

That any human-level AI, in order to become human level, will be bound to the same interactive constraints on learning that humans are.

Think about World War II for example: were strategies limited by offline simulation capacity, or were they limited by the fact that you can only try (and therefore sample consequences for) one at a time?

I’m not making a claim here either way: I’m just saying you wave this whole debate away by saying “human intelligence plus unlimited simulation equals superhuman intelligence”

I’m not saying your wrong, it’s an interesting thought experiment: I’m just saying not only is there zero evidence for that, there’s not even (to my knowledge) a robust model describing the mechanism by which that could expect to be true.
Don't know why they wouldn't. Indy is a major interstate highway and air transport hub. FedEx has a big operation at Indianapolis. Columbus less so, but it's less than an hour away and directly connected by interstate. Both have affordable housing, generally low cost of living, and business-friendly government.
IMHO We really need to get a handle on something akin to copyright to cover our own faces and identity in general. At the moment companies (especially social networks) can do so much stuff with the likenesses of total strangers with zero oversight.
I only asserted that you could partially apply regular functions. But I don't think currying looks or feels nice in Javascript.

Proper curried languages are definitely better suited for partial application though.
Opterons were the only server chip worth using for years, until Xeons got good.
First of all those buttons shouldn't be up there to begin with. They're too far away from the fingers of most users to tap comfortably one-handed after Apple moved up to 4" screens and larger. Android has it in the right position though that back button has other problems I won't go into here right now. The "action" button(s) on the top right suffer from the same problem.

I would always put information on the top and buttons in the bottom half. Unless it's stuff that's totally out of the normal flow of usage like a help button or a feedback form.

That's the real fix of that problem.
It's getting worse. Due to overall warming ticks are creeping to areas that never had them (in european alps it is at least 1500m altitude these days).

I grew up in relatively cold part of my country around mountains, we never ever had ticks around as a kid. It was just some exotic scourge in the lowlands. These days, they are abundant there. Same goes for example for some exotic poisonous spiders creeping from south. One day, malaria/dengue/yellow fever/etc in central europe will be a reality, unless we eradicate it sooner.

No clue whether they increased concentration in the already-present areas though.
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I thought Intel might have wanted to purchase them years ago when their own homegrown graphics stack was so terrible instead of spending years and millions of dollars to get it up to merely adequate for moderate use.

Today I don't know who would buy them. Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre because they're the choice for people who don't give a shit anyway.

There was an outside chance a car manufacturer might have wanted to buy them up as a strategic move against their competitors if nVidia's autonomous car GPU thing panned out, but I think they were too late to the ball for that one. It's hard to see the value proposition for most companies.
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AMD is in a great place at the moment - but we need to see what the smaller Zen cores coming this year can do, and what the Zen 2 release next year look like. If they have solid, significant improvements, it means that AMD is set for a bit, and can really compete and take marketshare from Intel.

Better yet, I am really hopeful about Epyc - it still doesn't seem to be shipping in huge numbers, but as someone really burned by Meltdown, it seems like perfect timing for AMD to compete.
I wanted to second the comments from the, um, comments in the article about La Posada in Winslow being restored. It is beautiful inside and the restaurant is amazing
In addition to the other comments: The FSF is not only a vendor so software, but also a Lobby organization engaged in debates around privacy and control over computer systems (incl. DRM and such topics).
And the worst part is, a lot of the pseudosociological analyses I've seen of this event were uninteresting. Since I'm french, my fb feed was flooded by that. And people acted surprised and looked down on that. Some left politicians decided to play the "this is proof of misery, these people have no money to buy that". And even the few posts I adhered to (that it was mostly just an instance of the power of marketting and consumerism) were just too obvious and shallow to be interesting.

This is interesting for left politicians who want to intrumentalize that. For smartasses who like to look down on others because they are soo free of consumerism (they are not). But to be interesting for sociologists, it'd require a more in depth study implying those concerned. Or maybe... A study of the media coverage and reception of the "phenomenon", which would imo be way more interesting when it comes to analysing today's society than yet another show of black-friday-like craze.
I can't find much information at all about these notebooks.

From what I can tell, they are Javascript only, which could make for an easier deployment story than a full Jupyter notebook server. That said, it's unclear from a quick tour of the site whether deploying these notebooks themselves is something one would or could do.