skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. As Clark always points out, the brain is three pounds of meat trapped in a black box made out of bone, given a few wires to the outside. A logically necessary part of its job is figuring out how to extend its reach outside the skull and entangle itself usefully with the inward-facing and outward-facing faculties of the body, and thence, via those outward-facing faculties (ie: motor systems in your arms or whatnot), with other stuff in the external world (not so different, since it's all outside the black box of bone, is it?) that can be organismically valuable, like a bicycle.
To the same extent as fission? You're being disingenuous here with that comparison.
I question the benefit of the "none of this is new" response. I don't really see what it ever adds to any conversation.
> Java was just starting to get revitalized after a long period of stagnation. Java 7 was a big deal and for a long time Android devs were limited to a weird amalgamation of Java 6 and a few Java 7 features.

Counterclaim: If it were not such a big legal hazzle, it would have been a lot more easy for Google to update to new Java versions fast on Android.
> Finally, if you do not intend to go to trial you should not file a claim!

Should not? When only 1% of civil cases actually do go to trial, and the system is set up to encourage settlement, that sounds like an ethical argument.

There are plenty of lawyers out there that file their lawsuits primarily for the purposes of producing a settlement--patent trolls are an entire named subcategory of these.

There are plenty of litigants out there that never even intend to get to discovery, and you can just forget about the trial.
The gentleman in public, but we don't know if pressure was put on Aptiv to make a statement so Volvo didn't have to. ;)
No, you do NOT remove security systems when trying out an untested system. If anything you should add MORE.

Again, the stock auto break systems rarely engage unless there is real danger. By that I mean last second breaking, absolute last second. Most people can drive a lifetime without ever having them engaged. If you cant program a self driving car that can handle that then you're in the wrong business.
Unicorns take different paths to bring public
I'm using HostColor.com as Cloud infrastructure provider. They do VMware based infrastructure. In order to avoid downtime, I suggest you to get their Fault-Tolerant Cloud IaaS.
Hi! I’m Rich, the blog post author.

Thanks for the candid feedback :-)

This blog post is somewhat a written summarization of a 25 -> 30 minute conference tech talk that I gave at SRECON-EU last year. It was a real struggle to figure out what to leave in and what to leave out. I didn’t want to arrive at a blog post that takes 30 mins to read :-) So, I can see how the four armies and battlefield analogy might come across as disjointed or unnecessary. There is definitely some context missing from the blog post that was in the talk.

When I was putting together the original talk, the “four armies and battlefield” framing was something I felt was useful to help illustrate how competitive I feel the modern software business landscape is and thus how important it is that your company has the right engineering strategy to help them “win their own battle” / succeed in your chosen market.

Anyway, thanks again for the feedback, hopefully the above provides a little more insight on why I used the four armies framing.

Rich.
> "I'm not sure why it is so terribly important for you to defend Apple here"

Only that it appears you're misrepresenting the situation. I would ask the same of you as to why it's important to continue to rail against Apple and Google to make incorrect claims and build straw men when those claims are pointed out. Here, you again shift your position. Initially you talk about cloud storage for contacts, and it's not an option to not use the cloud for storage. When I point out that that's wrong (at least for Apple), you retreat and now only talk about contacts in general. If I'm wrong about anything I've said, please point it out. If I knew more about Google and Android, I'd fill in those details, too, but I don't.

> "let's just say that I'm pretty sure I would just avoid using a smartphone all together for anything important."

If your point is you don't think using a smartphone for anything important, that's fine, and I completely agree that, depending on your threat model, smart phones may not be a good option. But you don't need to make false, misleading, (or perhaps just uninformed) claims about specific features. That just undermines your point. If you're coming at this from an op-sec perspective, that requires a particularly calm and dry-eyed look at the situation, as any misrepresentation likely has severe consequences.
More money. I have good enough vacation and sick leave. My healthcare sicks (super high deductibles) but more money would make things closer to Pareto efficiency
Look again. The downward trend of Java was arrested and it stayed on a plateau when Android began becoming popular; then come 2015 they both came down together.

If we're using Google Trends as a proxy for what happened, then I'd say there's some truth to Android saving Java from its decline.
Even in the North and even in the late antebellum period, the two economies were intertwined and, for instance, Northern insurers were insuring Southern slaves, and Northern textile mills were spinning slave-picked Southern cotton.
Totally agree with you. The MTA, now THAT's a transportation monopoly.
That really is the way it sounds (at least to my ears). Accent is unrelated to intelligence. The only person here making that connection is you.
> they rightly assumed Sun Microsystems would never do this

Interestingly, the article includes a quote from a Sun Microsystems co-founder who agrees with Oracle's stance on this:

> Among Oracle’s supporters in the case is Sun co-founder Scott McNealy, who said Java was created to be a platform-neutral system where programmers could “write once, run anywhere.”

> Java “is the foundation upon which our digital world is built,” McNealy said in a filing with the court. “Google stole that foundation, used it to build Android, and destroyed Oracle’s market in the process.”
You did it: you have found a piece of fake news. I am glad you took the time to look!
People in glass houses (or Google offices) should not throw stones. Also, I have a much longer history of criticizing Apple than Google, and give Microsoft significant flak on a regular basis for the way they've managed several aspects of Windows 10... including Mobile. I have no financial investment or implicit bias in any of these companies such as yourself.

I have no problem with proprietary software, I have a problem with proprietary software masquerading as open software and trying to use claims like "fair use" for something tightly controlled with secret arrangements and bullying the industry into compliance.

I would argue Android offers little benefit to the niches you detail, the only reason other Linux flavors don't make more sense is because they're taking advantage of the fact that they have to have Android developers anyways, because of app support. Android is not a good OS for smart devices, most of the bloat it shoves on top of Linux has little benefit to single-purpose hardware. I don't think Google gets to claim credit for the entire smart device market.
Er... pretty much everybody in pretty much all industries prefer keeping their internal communications and their communications with their clients/providers private. Mozilla is one of the only industry actors who manages to keep most of its communications public.
The problem is that as soon as you define a test then these companies will put an emphasis on making sure their cars work for the test instead of the real world. Then, when something happens in the real world they say well it passed the driving test.

It's one of the perpetual problems of regulation. As soon as you define a test or requirement companies will start gaming the system to meet them instead of addressing the purpose behind the regulation.
I'm giving it a listen now.

I'm only 10 minutes or so into it, but this is a quote (not exact, but close enough) from Jordan Peterson:

"(music and cathedrals) are ways of trying to symbolically represent how things could be if they were put in the proper state of balance or harmony"

What does that even mean? The only concrete nugget of knowledge I can get from that is that cathedrals are designed in a relatively balanced manner. Symmetrical, I guess.

I plan to listen to the rest of this interview but that statement was a particularly good example of the hand-waavy nonsense that I was talking about so I decided to record it here so I didn't forget.
Sounds good for the taxi cartels... not good for the drivers who would now have fewer job options and less control over accepting work on their terms.

And of course a huge blow to consumers which is the whole point of Uber's existence anyway.
>It seems pretty unlikely that the timing of this has anything to do with the Uber crash.

He/She is not saying that.

They're saying that the bad PR around Ubers accident means they should have moved this event to a later date.
What other law stuff is Oracle going to test now? They already know they can clone AWS/GCE API with no repercussions.
It does not have to be this way. Gig work allowed me access to earned income under circumstances where a regular job would have been impossible. It helped empower me to start solving what should have been unsolvable problems.

HN is a gathering place for people who start businesses. Yes, we need a remedy for the current abuses. But whatever Uber or Lyft or other existing companies are doing, you can be the architect of a better future by starting a company and not being a greedy bastard who feels they need billions while entry level employees don't make enough to support themselves.

The other thing that would help would be if we developed some guidelines for gig work done right.

Another thing that could help would be advocacy groups or informational sources.

I do my part by blogging about gig work that has the potential to become a middle class income and promoting businesses that do this well and are not tyrant overlords. It's a small thing and I don't have much reach. But we can choose to foster the success of gig businesses that treat workers well instead of merely labeling gig work the new serfdom and essentially assuming it cannot be otherwise.

Given my positive experience of gig work, I hate seeing the issue framed this way. I feel it throws the baby out with the bath water.
I asked, pleaded, begged and demanded Spotify to dissociate my Facebook account, and even though they claim they did, when I log into Spotify with a username and password, I'll get an email within a few seconds "Welcome back to Facebook".

Absolutely maddening.
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I'm familiar with the case. The comment isn't out of context; you (and other posters) need to recognize that IP rights are composite rights, like real estate.

In real estate, you can own a plot of land and provide others with permissions associated with the land; maybe they're allowed to walk over a path that runs through your land. That permission is not equivalent to all possible permissions associated with the land - although maybe some ancillary ones are implied in. Maybe people are allowed to bike over the path too, but they certainly aren't allowed to dump broken washing machines there.

Similarly, in IP I can grant you a set of rights related to my product without giving you ALL rights related to my product.
I'm sorry to hear of your loved one who is struggling. I hope they are able to find some peace and a way to live a happy and fulfilling life.

I would be happy to answer any questions you have but your email doesn't show up for me on your profile. The easiest way to reach me would be on reddit. Send me a PM. My username is kitanata2.

> I particularly curious about the experiment they discussed at Fox Run, with taking you off all the drugs to reset you for a proper diagnosis. Did they try it?

At Fox Run they did take me off all the drugs I was on. Some were weened off over the course of a few weeks, and some were just ended. I believe there was a concern about the abruptness of ending the medication potentially causing epilepsy. The withdraw was terrible and took weeks to get past. I spent many days in a corner twirling a pencil and being "spaced out" during that period. There isn't much I remember about Fox Run expect a rather traumatic experience when I first arrived (which I don't want to discuss publicly), and then a positive that the food there was excellent. Some of the best scrambled eggs I ever had. :D I find it better to remember and focus on the good things, rather than the bad.

> Did it work?

That depends on your definition of "work" here. The goal I think was to remove me from medication, and then observe me for diagnosis because the medications I was on (and there were a lot of them) caused behavioral changes in me. Fox Run didn't actually do the diagnosis of me. I believe that occurred while I was at Parmadale. I am sure that had my diagnosis been different, they would have placed me back on medication to address that specific diagnosis, but it was determined that I didn't need medication because I was autistic and not mentally ill as previously thought. I want to be careful here. I didn't need medication. That doesn't mean other people don't need medication for their specific diagnosis. I am not a doctor, but I think generally taking people off medication is probably a pretty risky proposition.

> Is this a standard diagnostic procedure?

I don't know. I'm not a doctor. :(
it's also important to consider the probability of actually being fined.

if the fine for using a freeway's high occupancy vehicle lane without any passengers in your car is over $350 but the police rarely ticket violators, you get Los Angeles.
I just had a brain fart.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Would you be willing to talk to me about your process? You can reach me at the email address on my profile or let me know how I can contact you.
SUN wasn't very happy about Google using Java without paying anything. IIRC SUN wanted Google to use J2ME and get some modest fees; instead Google decided to reimplement API, pissing off all top guys at SUN who publicly were OK with it (hoping they could negotiate some payment), but internally were boiling.
20,000 robtotaxis, a million trips a day, my oh my. Go big or go home. Uber and Lyft do an estimated 170,000 trips a day in San Francisco, so if Waymo dumps just 1/5th of their fleet on SF, the rideshare companies may as well pack their bags and go home.
I'm another native GIMP user. GIMP was all I had (I couldn't afford Photoshop, not that it worked in Wine around 2000) and it let me do some interesting work in high school art and photography classes. GIMP's script-fu (Guile Scheme) was some of the first code I really understood and modified.

I still use GIMP to this day, largely because I've never ran into limitations that a little scheme or python didn't solve. I've never had a reason to use something else. I still install GIMP as one of the first apps on Windows or Mac OS machines I need to use for any length of time.
All companies do this!

Purchase data from multiple sources with the intention of connecting more dots. It helps them get around most of the data is anonymous.
>No they haven't. As evidence - there is an avalanche of young gamers and streamers using Windows.

That's a niche. Most games are played on mobile these days. Just look at the sales numbers of gaming PCs. I did mention gaming by the way, so yes that is an area of hope for Microsoft, but it's small.

>Those "entrenched Windows shops" are everywhere as well.

Absolutely, and I said as much. But being entrenched doesn't necessarily make you relevant.

It's not a safe bet that anyone would choose to build anything new on Microsoft tech just because the insurance sales guy still has his Windows laptop or because everyone logs into the corporate network via AD.

Microsoft knows that. It's why they scramble to diversify away from Windows. They want us to use Azure. They want us to use their AI. They want us to use Office. They don't want to get dragged down by Windows, and I think Satya Nadella is doing a great job executing this strategy. But I also think the most difficult phase in this transition away from Windows is still ahead of us and it's not going to be easy.

>I wouldn't call this computing...it's more like consumption.

You do have a point there, but the things we do with computers and networks have changed. Even consumption requires a lot of computing, just not on the end user's device.

When I do research as part of my work I use Google and sometimes Duckduckgo. There's a lot of computing going on, but it's mostly done on some Linux server.

Even most line of business apps are now web based (with important exceptions). As a share of all computing that is done to keep a business running, I bet that even the most entrenched Windows shops now use less Windows specific tech than they used to.
Kubernetes 1.0 is now available
Mobileye says its software would have seen pedestrian in Uber fatality
Google believed they could implement their own VM and get something cheaper (and/or better) than they would get by licensing one from Sun. That seems like a perfectly legitimate business decision for them to make. A clean-room reimplementation of an existing API had long been thought to be legally clear, going all the way back to Compaq reimplementing the IBM BIOS and starting the "IBM-compatible" competitive ecosystem that our whole industry is built on.
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I think you are reading too little into it, especially considering the impact Facebook had on the US election.
I hope that the 2017 9.7" iPad will work with the pencil too
Does Belkin own Kensington and former joystick brand Gravis too?
We'll still be able to confidently say Virgin Galactic is only 6 months away from sending up paying passengers.
No. This decision upends decades of computing and programming culture for no discernible benefit to anyone (even Oracle).
They have. It's called Skype
What I would love to see in a design system is something in terms of "white-label" components. I'm talking about components with great UX, but basically no styling applied.

I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is possible, and I'm not sure what it would look like -- but I'd love a framework that just makes everything work really nice - except it doesn't force you to do really quirky css hacks to re-style the thing.

If that makes any sense :)
I believe this is an issue with redirecting domains. For example, if you have set foo.com to automatically open in a specific container, and you enter www.foo.com into your default tabs, it will try to load www.foo.com in the default tab, then get redirected to foo.com, then realize it needs to be open in a specific container, then open a new tab in that specific container with foo.com.

A good workaround for this could be to let users add arbitrary domains to their container whitelists (so you could manually add www.foo.com), but I haven't found a way to do that yet.
Another thing to remember is that serfs and slaves had large collective families of blood and coworkers. You might work oppressive hours and suffer for it, but you aren't doing it alone.

Most gig workers are going to job to job in isolation because they don't want to be homeless. They always live with other people, but its not a relatable cohabitation and they arne't working together to ease one anothers burdens. Its a rat race designed to abuse and exhaust its participants while keeping them isolated and vulnerable to the exploitation.
By this logic we should pay everyone to dig ditches and fill them in. The solution isn't to preserve obsolete jobs, the solution is to find an economic system that doesn't assume everyone works for a living. Easier said than done, though, and the transition is gonna be ugly.
I spotted that in the table. What the heck is that?
It does not. I'd guess it hardly makes a dent in their tracking. The only sure way to block completely is to use a custom router on your network - an outgoing firewall. Via a custom dns server on my router, all requests from any device, browser, app, etc for the facebook or any ad or tracking domains never leave my network. This is powerful. Windows 10 intrusive spying can be blocked as well. Basically anything that I can't figure out what it is is blocked, and it's a lot. If I ever acquire malware that phones home, it should detect as well.

The great thing is when you block all that, your internet is much faster.
> We’ll add up to 20,000 I-PACEs to Waymo’s fleet in the next few years — that’s enough to drive about a million trips in a typical day.

This sentence feels marketing more than informing. Whats the initial release volume? Where etc. Up to 20k cars doesn't mean much and they think it will average 50 trips per car per day - seems hopeful.

A little disappointed in this announcement.
> (Further, both of those citations - a right-leaning source[0] and a tabloid, respectively - are articles written about some tweets. Which is not to say that they're wrong, but without further confirmation, one might want to take them with a grain of salt.)

The tweets were from Obama's own Campaign Director, saying that OFA were allowed to violate FB's TOS in a way that others weren't.
Award them a multi trillion dollar contract and replace all cars with their technology within the next year.
Google knew what they were doing and IMO they were right. I still don't think Google or anybody should have to ask for Oracle's permission for reimplementing a JVM (as long as it's done cleanly). You seem to put the blame on Google for not wanting to pay $100M at the time but what if instead it was a small startup who simply couldn't afford that cost?

I'm not worried about Google in the least, I am however concerned about the precedent this sets.
They were pretty annoying for the first week, and then we all got used to them. At this point everyone is pretty adept at thumb touch keyboards. I know I fly on my iPhone. Apple was correct, physical keyboards are a useless waste of space on a mobile phone.
GNU/Linux is a partial (but incomplete, since no Linux distro is unix(tm) certified) a reimplementation of proprietary Unix, and with billion-dollar companies like Red Hat and IBM it's certainly a commercial endeavor at proprietary Unix's expense. It would seem to be an attractive target if a plaintiff like SCO could somehow move the case to the federal circuit (as none of the standard appeals courts have declared APIs copyrightable).
The real problem here is lack of diversification. This is like putting all your savings in company stock. If the company goes under you lose both your job and your savings.

Once they became a significant investment, taxi medallions should never have been owned by taxi drivers.

But going back a level, should we really expect sophisticated financial planning by taxi drivers? He's basically a victim of capitalism.
>are we no violating their copyright just by implementing their API?

OpenJDK is GPL. If you comply with GPL, no. This is the problem, Google copied and did not comply with the GPL. Their other option was to pay Oracle/Sun a licensing fee for a commercial license. This is exactly the business model many GPL users follow. Ruling otherwise makes this business model invalid, but it also creates a double standard.

Consider a programming language where you program in types, like Idris. The case is more obvious here. The API is a program. The same applies to Java too, but that seems less obvious. The API is the program that produces compiler output.
They've already clocked up a lot of California time from their earlier days. Seems pretty likely that they will put some of that fleet into SF.

By the way, that's 20k from Jaguar. Don't forget the thousands of Chrysler minivans that they ordered.
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