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My older iPad (yes, first gen iPad from 2010) is eight years old and it works great (from my perspective :)

Yes, I can't download most new apps, but last year, I released an update for 'Economy for iPad' (#1 Finance app for several weeks in 2010) and that app continues to support the original iPad and iOS 5.1

Generally, the best way to keep old devices running well is to keep the old OS. (Old major version at its latest minor version e.g. 10.3). There is a slight risk of not being able to pick up security fixes that didn't make it into 10.3, but made it to 11.0. However, as a developer, who tests apps on older OS versions, I keep old test devices with old OS versions on them.

Btw I should also add that Netflix runs perfectly on my old iPad with iOS 5.1 :)
I tboned another vehicle once going about 45mph, without my seatbelt on. My head did impact the windshield, and that left me with a knot on my head, and a small cut. I also had a small cut on my knee from something under the steering wheel. I was otherwise unharmed.

I, of course, think it's imperative to wear your seatbelt, but our anecdotes don't really do much to tell that story.
This guy probably shouldn't do that. But your point may hold well for yielding investments in general. For crypto? Who knows it is pretty new so I laugh when people give investment advice about it.
Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks
No, the DK1 support has been discontinued by the Oculus runtime.
> FH success mostly helps BFR in regards to operating a ton of engines simultaneously (27 for Heavy, 31 for BFR)

However, the FH uses RP-1-O2 Merlin engines, whereas the BFR will use Methane-O2 Raptor engines, so they might not learn too much.

Edit: RP-1 fuel.
No ‘malice’ was assigned.
> may create a false impression of Venus flytraps "knowing" who pollinates them and not eating those species

Has it been conclusively proven that Venus flytraps are indeed incapable of this feat, or is that just your assumption?
Ask HN: Why has no one made an OS based on the windows NT kernel?
There was a lot of backlash to windows 10. Particularly in regards to advertisement and telemtry, but also forced upgrades, cortana, and other such things. There were some programs that attempted to partially 'declutter' windows 10, but they're broadly unsuccessful because they're attacking the problem from the wrong angle. Why not attempt to build an OS based directly from the ground up on the winNT kernel without any of the rest of the windows 10 garbage, similar to what reactOS did, except instead of reimplementing win32, just using microsoft's existing implementation?
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Can someone confirm if the tesla roadster is heading to Mars?
...cause it’s hard and encumbered with patents.
There's a [-] sign next to every comment. You could have easily just collapsed the thread under that comment if you wanted to avoid that part of the discussion. Instead, here you are contributing to the very noise you're complaining about.
http://bixense.com/clicolors/

Looks like this is already supported by more software; rather than an n+1 standard (https://xkcd.com/927/), why not use this one instead?
On both sides of the tracks in the 80s. However, the danger to the naive/nice is universal and timeless. Every oral tradition has tales of hidden dangers in the seemingly benign. In this message I, as a person, as an individual, am of no consequence.
Why would VC's give Airbnb such much idle cash. 5.3 Billion in cash reserves is ~56 years of their current earnings.

Couldn't VC's take some of that money and invest elsewhere and get better returns on the cash than it sitting unused in a company?
> However, if we're comparing it to a typical web codebase, that's an order of magnitude more dense

Well, I disagree. All the examples I could find, for instance in Vue.js, React, etc... had quite a bit more LOC necessary to achieve the same behaviour, when counting JS + CSS + HTML. Even with lambdas, associating a behaviour to an object is still not as nice as just doing `height: width/2` and knowning that the constraint will keep being enforced.

> I'm not interested in debating KDE, since... that project stopped being relevant to me around KDE4. Nothing but wasted potential.

These certainly were troubled times, but KDE5 is honestly really nice. See the latest release https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.0.php

> The thing is that it's an archaic viewpoint - one that you're welcome to have, but it'll increasingly be pushed down.

Will it ? in the contrary I find that the ricing community is more active than ever :p
Ricing was a thing with e16 and blackbox when there were less than 100k linux users two decades ago. Now there are more than a hundred million... it's not going to disappear.
Besides, it's sometimes a necessity. Think for instance of all the vision-problem-related enhancements that a coherent desktop theme can provide.

> I also don't know anybody who customizes their desktop chrome anymore

www.reddit.com/r/unixporn
You can get a PCIe card for NVME.

If you are lucky, your BIOS can boot from it.
It ran out of fuel. There was enough to relight the centre engine but not the 3 outer engines required to complete the landing.
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what a negative title. people buy bitcoin because they also believe in it regardless the price and want to participate in the new economy
Where are the main blowouts in python performance? For example, is it compilation, evaluation overhead, or memory management?
Plenty of stuff doesn't even check for terminfo (doesn't even check for a TTY) and just dumps ANSI escape sequences over the wire. Like, say, into a file. Which makes grepping it fun later.
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Stock twits co-founder is mad about this https://twitter.com/howardlindzon/status/961094748151918592
It's Microsoft's code so that would be illegal. This is why we have Gnu.
While I'm more of a pythonist than a C-ist, hearing "1000x speedup" and "line for line" to me implies that you aren't writing idiomatic python. Idiomatic python is (often) faster than not, and (often) more difficult to translate to lower level languages.

As a simple example, list-comprehensions are faster than loops, and can't be line for line translated into C++.
Please don't connect jet engines to the internet and use a REST API to control them.
That all came later as an attempt to punish Wakefield for the negative consequences to society due to people not getting vaccines. But people only stopped getting vaccines in the first place based on a misinterpretation of the paper.

They emphatically did not paint the picture that vaccines cause autism, which is exactly what "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described. Virological studies are underway that may help to resolve this issue" is cautioning against. That picture was painted by the media.
Beliefs matter nothing next to action.

Especially if you want to get something done or make a statement that can be proven false about the world as it is.

Electrons don't believe anything, but you can pretend they do, if you like.
This is how the world's most covetable cameras are made
Haha

Actually of course it’s about collecting data for predictive maintenance and to help in making design improvements.
`TERM=vt100` or `TERM=dumb` used to work most of the time, but unfortunately piping through `cat` is increasingly necessary.
Can they still recover them?
SpaceX fires a car to Mars on world's most powerful rocket
PC CPUs have not really got that much faster in the last ten years compared to the previous decade. Each new Intel generation of the i- series was maybe 10% faster than the preceding one.

A fast Core2 or 1st gen i7 is perhaps half the speed of a mid-range system today, and will probably beat some of the budget chips.

Upgrading an oldish system with an SSD can make a big difference. Obviously, GPUs have also got a lot faster too.

Hopefully, the recent competition from AMD will make us see better progress again.
What I need would be an open source server with client packages for Vi and Emacs (maybe other editors too) so I can collaborate with my evil friends. Any Idea of such a server? (note: I know floobits exists, but it is not open source, as far as I know)
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The biggest issues IoT companies have is what to do with all the data. Without someone finding value in the data you'll be unable to justify the costs.

Data Science & Data Engineering don't require an EE background
At PyCon US last year, Intel had a booth promoting their version of Python and data libraries optimized for Intel processors. Wonder if any of this would have helped.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/distribution-for-python
I'm not sure open source EDA will happen and be as competitive as open source software has been in general. Many of the tools are extremely complex. For your example of just a simulator and systemverilog: the spec for SV is more than 10 years old, yet the best oss can do today is compatability with a small subset of it, and orders of magnitude slower than a commercial simulator. The reason? The skill set to write one of these not only needs very solid programming skills and knowledge of advanced algorithms for performance, but also some domain knowledge to understand how the tool should work from the user side and he side. This last point is the reason most oss EDA today is written by hw engineers who know some programming, rather than true software developers. Of course you will get some cases where a single engineer knows both areas well and produces some nice/interesting tools like vloghammer, icarus, ventilator, etc. However these folks are rare, and for oss EDA to be truly competitive it needs many contributors with this skillset. Thats why a language as big as SystemVerilog has not once been fully implemented in open source yet. So hard to see the other, arguably harder, challenges like Place and route, STA (on smaller nodes), analog simulation, parasitic extraction, etc being taken on in oss EDA for anything but older technologies, or with very limited capabilities. Open source IP on the other hand could take off.
I'm with you here. I tend to use Python, but if I need raw speed/concurrency I'll reach for something else. Currently Go.
IoT is a total overkill, whether it's inter- or intranet of things. There are devices that are useful to connect to a local network, e.g. a printer/scanner, a security cam, but almost all other home devices are fine (actually better off) when they are dumb tools that work when you press the correct button.

The web is better of if we can somehow shake it off a bit, removing all the cruft we've accumulated and stopping making shit websites---and stop wars and cure hunger worldwide while at it, I know what I'm saying is pipe dreams. I'd be glad if Mozilla wouldn't implement this, and was a bit more opinionated in general. It sometimes stinks of yet another SV startup but in disguise of freedom fighters. I'm looking forward to nEXT browser, where at least I can presumably stop WebKit from doing silly things via some lisp here and there (I'll reach the good times where I run Emacs and nEXT on GuixSD, turtles all the way down!).
They are slightly different, I suspect it's for creating 3d illusion. If you cross your eyes and overlap the two images you will see the landing in 3d.
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Who have you meet that denies the value of exercise? Seems to be one of the few almost universal values in Western society, from the joggers to the football fans (of both kinds of football), and also public policy. Even us lazy slobs will (more or less begrudgingly) admit its importance.
Not everyone's route is nice and flat.
Could you give some concrete examples of your point?

RAII works fine in games.
That only works for applications that uses terminfo. Most don't; VT100/ANSI escape sequences are universally supported nowadays, and a lot of programs just hard-code that.
Horseshoe orbit
NixOS on both my laptop and all the servers I set up.

Declarative configuration, atomic upgrades, system rollbacks, a functional configuration language, excellent Haskell support, etc.

I used Debian and Ubuntu for many years, but now I wouldn't switch to any distribution that isn't inspired by NixOS.

I'm not usually opinionated, but as I see it, NixOS (along with Nix itself) is clearly a huge step forward.
> You can't compare reference WIP codec with optimized one. The premise of the entire paragraph is just wrong.

AOM dev here.
Currently, aomenc takes ~100s to encode a single 4K frame.
Which means to encode live 4K 60 FPS, you need to multiply the encoding speed by 6000 (!).
Indeed, the codec isn't fully optimized yet, and the required performance improvement is huge.
Of course this freaks people out!

On the other hand, reference video encoders are famous for being ridiculously slow. The JM (H.264 ref encoder) had similar encoding times, and this didn't stop H.264 from being encoded live.
There's a rebuttal that was posted a few days after this, here's the HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16320964
Its 15 years older.
Article three of the US constitution: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

I'm not arguing that treason / corruption aren't worthy of increased focus, but your proposal doesn't seem to be it.

There's also these pesky anti anti-corruption / pro "free speech" SCOTUS cases :(
Maybe they could explain it all away saying that in a previous era autonomous weapons were used and almost exterminated everyone in the whole star wars universe, so all parties including the empire and the rebels agreed to not make use of automatically controlled weapons or space craft.

Or maybe software technology was lost and they are only able to use extremely rudimentary systems...
They're also a lot of fun to code against, if you're like me and have a thing for ancient serial cable text protocols designed by electrical engineers.
It's probably more common for data scientists in the .NET world to use F#. FsLab (https://fslab.org/) seems cool from some limited experimentation (disclaimer: I'm not a data scientist, but am data curious).
Neither are as good as 99% of the tools available for development with HTML/CSS. [...] Delphi/Qt Designer look way worse than any HTML/CSS/JS GUI builder, too - along with having interfaces equivalent to what GIMP's is to Photoshop.

I have a feeling that you do not have any actual experience with Qt Designer or RAD tools? Designing a user interface quickly is many times easier in Qt, Delphi, etc. than in HTML/CSS. It start with the basic fact that Qt has many useful widgets that are not available in plain HTML, nor many CSS/Javascript frameworks. From there it is just drag and drop, adding a few spacers here and there and you are done.

Plus, with HTML/CSS, you can work manually on your project, without any special tool besides your browser,

Why would I develop in such an arcane manner if I already have great development tools for more than two decades?

Again, I recommend anyone who only has HTML/CSS experience to look beyond their bubble. We had RAD tools with Delphi 1.0 in 1995, where you could build a user interface using drag and drop and associate code with event by simply double clicking a widget in the interface builder. I built GUI applications in Delphi as a 13-year old because it was trivial, even without an internet connection, StackOverflow, etc.
> jet engines, vending machines, stop lights

IoT means different devices connecting to internet and/or each other. A jet engine is part of a closed system, there is no need to use a standard protocol to communicate to it. You don't just pick one and plug into a multi-million-dollar plane. Vending machines need no special protocols to connect to other things, because why would they? And stop lights. These things may connect to some server or maybe each other, but no standard protocol is needed, if a traffic light isn't supposed to talk to a random device passing by (and it isn't supposed to).
Good ole power law.
Have you seen an approximate price for those fins anywhere. I saw the interviews, but I want to know how expensive is expensive.
SystemVerilog is much more capable than either verilog or VHDL, and has brought many of the VHDL safety features to make design with it safer by construction, plus more, without the wordiness. Yes you can still write bad code, but any decent hardware flow, or synthesis step will catch basic things like mis-sharing of variables etc. I agree it's a language weakness it's not an issue in practical hardware design. In addition to The design enhancements, the fact it's got pretty powerful verification features makes it my language of choice today, at least among the low level HDLs.
The Space Shuttle was remarkably well designed for orbital bombing missions, which is the only reason the Soviets felt compelled to build the Buran to reproduce its capabilities.
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I don't find this a very compelling argument. The author doesn't mention any attempts to profile or speed up the code.

Specifically with pandas I've found if you aren't careful you can do a lot of unnecessary copying. Not sure if that's what is going on here, but cProfile can help find the bottlenecks.
My two complaints with Snapchat are that the app itself is somewhat bloated. In addition, I've turned off personalized ads and as far as I can tell, they're respecting it since all the ads are just lowest-common-denominator drivel
Right, because the rocket ultimately didn't land on the ship. This does not invalidate anything they said about interference.
Interesting new neural network architecture
I have no idea if this is what the OP is referring to, but it's pretty much impossible to use HTTPS on your home network without managing your own Root CA and somehow managing to get certificates signed by that Root CA into your devices.

You've got a fighting chance in a corporate network where you can deploy and manage the Root CA via Active Directory/Group Policy, but managing it at home with consumer-grade devices... not gonna be a good day.
Hard: it can't be harder than reactos, which had to create the OS and implement the kernel/win32.

Encumbered with patents: software patents aren't a thing in the EU.
Persona was the best side project they could have ever picked, sth. that the internet community needed as an alternative to Google etc. logins or maybe proprietary username/password/2fa for each and every side, but they dropped it and later bought Pocket and made funny privacy scandals. Sad.
Confirmed. Earlier today I rewrote some (non-NumPy) Python numerical sampling code in C and it was a 100x speedup.
"Hey why use this new fangled 'google.com'? It's the same as Alta Vista."

Because it does not accept money to change companies' rankings.

"Hey why use this new fangled 'google.com'? It's the same as grep."

Don't be silly, you can't grep the whole internet.

Thing is, if you can't easily come up with a retort to these, then the criticism may be valid.
I am surprised that an article on CRT displays mentions John Logie Baird but not Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin. Baird's TV was electromechanical, whereas the Farnsworth/Zworykin designs (the two were competitors) were all-electronic. Zworykin, in particular, is credited with coining the name "Cathode Ray Tube."
Is something wrong with the HN dupe detector?

I posted this same link 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305172
This. Precisely.
+1 MSR is good gear. May not always be lightest, but they are working on that as well.
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Most people with any writing capability do not use these tools. They are for foreign speakers of English or extremely poorly educated native speakers, they only affect the bottom 50% of written content which is not what affects the development of language.
> It is really disheartening to see so many negative comments about Mozilla without any substantial deeper comments about this specific project.

Mozilla has a) no track record of doing small embedded systems b) a very negative track record of failed projects, so it very much makes sense to be very skeptical.

Keep your cancerous web trash off my metal!
Ask HN: What's your favourite ebook reader on desktop?
Well, I put a path and then two ints... if you don't start with a path it's obviously just going to be division.
I've heard it mostly called this as well.
To use Microsoft's Win32 implementation, is to use Windows. lol. The Win32 API is an entrypoint to the OS. It's a bit more than an interface to the kernel. Like saying .NET is the kernel.

The kernel is important, but it's a ton of other stuff (like what ReactOS is rebuilding) that's needed.
Why do you think it's been closed source with minimal cross platform effort? Most of everything from Microsoft related to C# is open source. This includes their compiler, the runtime, and the framework and libraries. And it's been this way since 2014. The .NET standard itself has always been open and cross platform implementations like Mono go back to 2004! I'm not sure what you mean by 'heavyweight.' Its performance is head to head with C++.

Here's the primary repo for .NET goodies: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet

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And if anybody downvoting could take a second to actually chime in, it would be illuminating. From my perspective all I see an immense amount of misinformation about the language, and I'm genuinely curious what people may not like about it.
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> It's a part of the reason why there's so few women in tech.

I find this rhetoric overblown, as it doesn't match the results of serious inquiry into the topic.

> Cross-cultural consistency of sex differences for four traits: extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and male-versus-female-typical occupational preferences. Men and women differed on all four traits. 200,000 participants from 53 nations.

> Only sex predicted means for all four traits, and sex predicted trait means much more strongly than did gender equality or the interaction between sex and gender equality. These results suggest that biological factors may contribute to sex differences in personality and that culture plays a negligible to small role in moderating sex differences in personality.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-008-9380-7
but arent you having this discussing face to face anyway? Why not make it face to face to display?
“Lies, damn lies and benchmarks” I think is the saying.

Python itself is a slow language but it has a lot of fast packages, so it shows poorly when you actually write your benchmark in python.

Haskell is a faster language but because it is high level there are more pitfalls you’ll get into if you don’t know the ins and outs of getting fast code out of the compiler. The guys who write fast benchmark code aren’t ‘average’ developers.

So in Haskell it’s “the code is slow and I don’t know why” vs python “the code is slow because python is slow, import fast package someone wrote to speed it up.”

All that said, I think Haskell is the better language but you have to put in more effort to get experienced in it before you see returns on the investment. Python has a shallower learning curve and an easy way to get “good enough” performance (a bit slower than C).

The best criticism in the article is of the multi-core deficiency of python’s interpreter. But that’s only briefly touched on. It isn’t a friendly environment to write complicated multi core code.
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Typing is slow? It's the fastest IDE I use, and the 2nd fastest text editor behind sublime. It's probably the extensions you have installed, try disabling all of them to diagnose.
Your note does not work because I am not agreeing to anything. You either are agreeing to the license implicitly by using the product, or you are not allowed to use it (and would therefore use code which you dont have a license to)