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I read you, and I'd think what you describe is a very common scenario among serious devs. I don't understand Apple's thoughts process at all here.

How Apple has destroyed their high end product (at least as far as devs is concerned) is baffling to me, as the rest of the design is exquisite - at least if you could get use to the short key travel. The 4:3 display is especially a highlight, and so is the unibody with that titanium colour.

I develop on a new, non-touch MBP. Even though it's a basic model, I struggled to believe the price of the unit when compared to a high end Dell XPS 15 or X1 Carbon. I would have preferred the (much) faster touchbar model, as I just use it with an external keyboard/mouse anyway.

(I'll give Apple bonus points for forcing me to boot into OSX before rebooting with Bootcamp to Windows 10 to get CPU virtualisation / Docker enabled.)
Tesla claimed[1] that:

> Our data shows that Tesla owners have driven this same stretch of highway with Autopilot engaged roughly 85,000 times since Autopilot was first rolled out in 2015 and roughly 20,000 times since just the beginning of the year, and there has never been an accident that we know of. There are over 200 successful Autopilot trips per day on this exact stretch of road.

Which might be technically true, but conveniently ignores other, very similar crashes.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-acc...
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Because they got pregnant. And an abortion wasn't possible, for medical or ethical reasons.

Edit: Or for other people's ethical reasons, manifested as laws against abortion.
This is a significant element of DR (demand response). Domestic waters are another attractive target, and there some pilot programs around the U.S. fleshing out the details.
My father grew up on a farm in WI. My mother grew up on a farm/gravel put not 10 miles from him. There's a reason the Sears Catalog was so popular in rural areas (in outhouses, no less). Read a page, use a page.
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I'm no security engineer but wouldn't that require Apple to have access to the private key, whereas the whitepaper says they only have access to the public key?
Better will be hard. If you want people to come, you need to build something that Facebook doesn't provide. I have no idea what that will be but I do not think just privacy protection would be enough. By far.
Yes, the approach is similar to all major AOT compilers on .NET space.

NGEN, .NET Native, CoreRT, Mono, Xamarin, IL2CPP, HPC#.

A minimal runtime is always needed, for some of the language semantics, FFI and memory management.
I prefer OOP in JS and I have plenty of experience with functional JS. OOP code is more readable since functions have context and easier to reason about since there is way less indirection.

I wouldn’t say that apps written with functional style JS are cleaner at all.
Nice straw man. Let us know when you want to join the actual conversation.
Uncanny valley of autonomy I guess. Google has noticed this early on, and their answer was to remove the steering wheel completely from their campus-only autonomous vehicles. Either it’s very close to 100% level 5 (you can pay no attention whatsoever and trust the car 100%), or it’s explicitly level 2 (advanced ADAS essentially), there’s nothing in between that’s not inherently dangerous.
> as long as I delete Array.prototype.whatever first, I get an enumerable property when I polyfill it.

The key point there is "deleting first". If you assign to a property without deleting it first, it continues to be non-enumerable.

> it's certainly not a matter where MooTools would have to completely rework what they're doing

> it'd be easy enough to use a compatability shim on the site side

MooTools has released a patch for this problem. The problem is indeed the sites that have been built and left to their own devices.

This is not at all dissimilar to Windows dragging around garbage needed "to permit four programs written in 1994 to continue running" [1].

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031103-00/?p=...
It was actually tiny, about 2/3 of even the smallest homes of the time:

For the last prototype of the Dymaxion House, Buckminster Fuller settled at just over 1000 square feet. Although this is would presently be considered meagre in size, it was approximately the size of the average single family home at the time. [1]

BUT apparently not:

Williams targeting the small home appeared right after World War II. In the early 1950s popular designer/developer Cliff May compressed the sprawling ranch house concept into his Low-Cost Ranch House idea, which was typically 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in 1,675 sq. ft. [2]

[1] http://b2dymaxionhouse.blogspot.com/p/mass-production.html

[2] https://blog.houseplans.com/article/whats-a-typical-house-si...
> men abusing women in the workplace was routine and unremarkable

When was this?
You're asking how fertilizer can be weaponized?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
So I couldn't resist adding this link to the SNL sketch of "The Bidet":

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Exactly this. So many people in this thread seem to be entirely ignorant of the effect that technology plays in munitions. People seem to look at atomic munitions and think "oh the role of technology is to build bigger weapons that can kill more people." This is an extremely narrow section of munitions research and almost intentionally myopic.

You do not need advanced technology to build simple rockets with simple warheads and wreak havoc. These rockets are guided by nothing better than pointing and shooting. We see this in use in various paramilitaries around the world with little concern for civilian casualties: in Gaza, in Syria, in South Lebanon, in Yemen. If the West was similarly limited to such crude munitions then the civilian cost to destroying legitimate military targets would be enormous. Better guided munitions reduce civilian casualties and as such working on making munitions better-guided is indeed ethical.

If you think that not giving generals the tools to better avoid civilian casualties means they will simply not wage war in ways that endanger civilians, well history is pretty clear that this is quite erroneous. Giving generals the tools to wage war more ethically allows them to make decisions with fewer compromises e.g. civilian casualties.

This is not even to mention work on purely defensive munitions, e.g. Iron Dome, which is inherently ethical.

And if your opposition is rooted in a sense of pacifism, please, freedom is not free, it's not just a slogan. Anarchies (i.e. the lack of a sovereign government with a military defending territory) and their power vacuums result in warlords and the end of civil society. And that Malthusian outcome is clearly less ethical than almost any other. That's just human nature. Defense of civil society requires a military. Ideally, that military will act as ethically as possible while achieving its primary goal which is the stability (in face of external threats) necessary for civil society to flourish. There are two ways to make the military ethical: a) give it ethical tools so that it won't be forced to use less ethical means for achieving its raison d'être, b) set ethical policy. As sad that it may be that we have little control over the latter, as engineers we can have control over the former.
I have the same experience with the Dvorak layout, which is what I used when I learned to type, at age... um... nine? People crack up when I try to type on anyone else's machine, because my WPM drops by a factor of ten.

This is part of the reason I basically refuse to customize anything on a new linux machine; my needs are already weird enough that I'd rather just adapt myself to the defaults for everything else.
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> I tried explaining my 20 year old cousin about FB. Her constant argument was "I don't share anything private on FB". She checks in on FB everywhere she goes. Posts her pics all the time. I could not instill any sense of concern for privacy.

If she's happy with this level of privacy though, what's the problem? Maybe she does fully understand the implications but has a different value system to you?

I feel that when people on this site are talking about Facebook, there's this assumption their friends using Facebook are failing to understand what Facebook does in the background and if they could somehow get them to understand their friends would all leave. People can be fully aware of what Facebook is and simply choose a different balance between privacy and convenience to what you prefer.
Why are they allowed to put beta software on public roads where third parties that never consented to their EULA are put at risk.

If they want beta software on a private track, that's their (and their insurance company's) problem.
I, for one, am a believer that ideas are a dime a dozen.

I actually had my idea stolen, by a better funded company (yes it involved AI). But that made me even more of a believer.

Even though this other company had far more engineers & was able to replicate a seemingly copycat product after I refused their buyout offer, their execution sucked(which was a key reason I refused, rather die broke than work for a company that think engineers need daily beatings to be exploited properly by great “business” minds)

However, they were VC backed & their board made them shut the product down and we ended up getting all the customers they brought on in the copycat product.

The people behind AIGrant.org have solid geek creds & given their backgrounds can probably come up with more creative ideas than trying to scrape ideas off the web the offering large bounties.

What’s really awesome to witness is that here’s a coupe of geeks actually “executing” on their vision. I’m a little jealous because I should’ve stared something like this, but instead I’d rather just support AIGrant.org because building & executing even benevolent ideas take a ton of effort.
Does it currently really reduce fatalities if you control for car cost, age group and area driven? I‘m unconvinced of the current statistics.
Or political. Abortion is not accessible in all parts of the country.
This reads like it was written by someone with very little understanding of what they are talking about, drawing connections where there are none, namely but not limited to email malware and chrome extensions.
I'll do the maths for the UK since I have numbers.

50 cents is about 0.70 GBP

UK minimum wage is 7.83 GBP per hour pre-tax.

So one nappy at that rate is 5.5 minutes of work. That's considerably longer than the time it takes to remove and clean.
I believe was worthy. Jeff Dean deserves it.
Are you serious? Maybe YouTube isn't so keen on hosting videos of attempted mass murders. Doubly so if the person attacks their employees.

Don't conflate social media site hosting policies with the first amendment.
Ok, I this might sound pesky but what's Linus referring to when he says "my kernel". Is he referring to his personal kernel or Linux kernel in general.
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Honest question: can anyone explain who this writer is, and why her posts keep hitting the front page so frequently these days? There's no bio on the site so I'm guessing there's some kind of Valley insider knowledge going on as to why her opinions are considered significant. Sorry if that's a dumb question, I just don't see the appeal of these musings and I'm wondering if I'm missing out on some crucial context, other than the fact that she's old enough to remember the 8-bit days.
I've lived with people who did that. You put a used diaper in the toilet, and do a couple stir and flush cycles. Then you put them in a bucket with detergent. Once a day, you hand wash those, and hang to dry. With about 20-30 diapers total, you can manage.

But damn, finding used diapers in the toilet is annoying. Plus wet diapers hanging all over to dry. If it's your kid, though, it's not a big deal.
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they know this, and they're targeting harsh conditions, not perfect
It’s “On how to grow an idea”, not “How to grow an idea”
We've just finished an update to amzSear - the unofficial Amazon search CLI & Python API.

Support for new regions, a whole new API structure as well as many command line features have been added to make searching Amazon easy without need for access to Amazon's Product API.
I'd also add:

- If you'd really prefer modern style cloth diapers (prefold, pocket etc) instead of the cheap old-school flat diapers, often you can buy second-hand ones that are hardly used (or not used at all!).

- If you have any more children, your cost for buying diapers is now $0 because you already have them.
I think thats a poor excuse. Even taking a payday loan out to buy a bulk bag(200 diapers) for $30 is more economical than buying a 10 pack every other day for $5. Pay day loan will cost $10 in fees but its cheaper than paying $75/m for diapers. And you just need do it once and save the $5 that you're spending every other day.
If people really cared about their privacy they wouldn't broadcast their personal lives to millions of people (see social media). Until that's corrected (how do you get out of that social cycle where you have to market and yell louder than everyone else?), it's going to continue.

People are mad at FB the same way people get mad when they realize they've been in manipulative relationships, but I'm not sure many people really want to accept that they gave into that despite all the warning signs that have been there for years and it's their own actions which enabled FB to be what it is.

Some of the issue is the belief that anyone really needs FB. We've conditioned ourselves into it, but you don't need it any more than you need TV.
Was this a big problem before computers? I doubt it. Back in the analog days two people would engage in a dialogue and ensure the units were agreed upon. Now people just blindly type data into a screen, or two computers blindly exchange packets without proper metadata.

It's ironic that we have 1000x better navigational accuracy than a 19th century tallship captain but we're much more careless with the data than he would have been.
You rinse diapers in the toilet before washing them.
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it puts incentives in the wrong place. I recommend reading this: https://blog.sia.tech/the-ico-paradox-and-how-to-fix-it-3bfc...
But still, with blockchain you can design all kinds of incentives directly in the protocol without anyone in control. I'm not saying it's easy or if it's actually viable, but blockchain has properties that could make P2P social network possible in economic sense.
One thing they're not doing: Mandating confirmed opt-in. Asking the recipient if they want to receive email is the only way to confirm it's actually requested.
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I don't think he is
I agree with you.

Except I have found this thread to be very novel, thought provoking, and seemingly well informed.
> Wednesdsay, a Tesla spokeswoman told the I-Team, "Autopilot is intended for use only with a fully attentive driver," and that it "does not prevent all accidents - such a standard would be impossible - but it makes them much less likely to occur."

Actively veering towards stationary barriers in otherwise perfectly safe conditions is not what I would describe as reducing the likelihood of accidents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13401293
I think "should" is a dangerous idea, and when it comes up I look for some other way of framing the question.

It depends.
Pretty much same boat. I'm still on a pre-touchbar MB Pro, and it's hard to imagine any circumstances under which I'd buy another Apple machine (maybe if I needed to do native iOS work for some reason). I've held off buying another MB largely because switching habits/software to another OS always seems like something I'd like to shelve. I've managed to keep my current ageing machine viable by offloading increasing amounts of work to AWS, Linode, Raspberry Pis, etc. But this won't go on for ever, and Apple's current laptop line is completely irrelevant to me.
The H1B situation in TX is out of control. Most positions are for cheap labor. There are whole departments at many large Corps that are well over 50% Indian. Indians are set to become the largest Immigrant population in TX replacing Mexicans.

Shame companies don't want to higher Americans anymore.
I think you could have just stopped that sentence after does it currently really reduce fatalities?.
This is a fantastic idea, and I think I’ll definitely be applying! Have you considered offering two tiers of grants? Most AI side projects don’t necessarily require ~$30k in resources, but I’m sure many people, including myself, could benefit from ~$3k in GCE credit. Opening up the same total resources to more people would allow for a greater number of moonshots, which are what this grant seems to be about. :)
The barrier that wasn't replaced does.
It seems to me like the former, but with a kind of generalized "me" to indicate "all of the people who sort of think like me, with me as an example". Why do you think it could be the latter?
Yep. S&R is one of the best nonfiction technical books ever, even if you have no particular interest in becoming a pilot.
The Unix-Haters Handbook also has a story about backcompat:

> Way back in the early 1980s, before each of the bugs in Unix had such a large cult following, a programmer at BBN actually fixed the bug in Berkeley’s `make` that requires starting rule lines with tab characters instead of any whitespace. It wasn’t a hard fix—just a few lines of code.

> Like any group of responsible citizens, the hackers at BBN sent the patch back to Berkeley so the fix could be incorporated into the master Unix sources. A year later, Berkeley released a new version of Unix with the `make` bug still there. The BBN hackers fixed the bug a second time, and once again sent the patch back to Berkeley.

> …The _third_ time that Berkeley released a version of `make` with the same bug present, the hackers at BBN gave up. Instead of fixing the bug in Berkeley `make`, they went through all of their Makefiles, found the lines that began with spaces, and turned the spaces into tabs. After all, BBN was paying them to write new programs, not to fix the same old bugs over and over again.

> (According to legend, Stu Feldman didn’t fix `make`’s syntax, after he realized that the syntax was broken, because he already had 10 users.)
Right, political. I was including that in "ethical". But I see my error.
> Imagine the autopilot is 100 times safer than human drivers.

Is it? Can it be proved controlling for all variables?
> I'm done with you. You're not listening, and you're repeating bogus
arguments that make no sense.

> No way in hell will I merge anything like this.

> Linus [0]

I highly doubt it.

[0] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/01607.html
I completed the whole application and then it presented the quiz/survey. I didn't have time to complete it so I closed the window. I never created an account...does your application save automatically? Seems like poor design to have users fill out an application without logging in and then showing them a survey that they may not have time to complete.
I thought so too but the Pebble Time had snappy, colorful animations[1] that looked really good, and changed my perception completely on what is possible with e-ink.

With regards to touch feedback, MacBooks come with a pretty hefty “haptic engine” already so it should be possible.

[1] https://youtu.be/v-vP9D062aM
Honestly, would you have done things differently, if you were Churchill or FDR?

In the 20th century we had already gone through a war so terrible it was called the war to end all wars, until 20 years later when we made it look small by comparison. The deaths in WW2 accounted for 3% of the entire population of the world. And we hadn't even invented the atomic bomb until the very end.

After WW2 we were on the precipice of the next war potentially eliminating the human race. I can see why we were reluctant to jump into it all over again by "battling evil" and forcing Russia to give back the territory they took from Germany.
Just my opinion, but I don't think the local bay area ABC I-TEAM news can be trusted as a realiabe primary source. Seems like they are "cashing in" on a national story.
When you're judging whether Moore's law is dead, you need to separate out the improvements from changing the FPU layout and the improvements from lithography. And since the consumer chips don't dedicate a lot of space to neural net units, they're the best baseline.

It's cool that they made some neural net things go hugely faster. But they could make the same fundamental chip on 6-year-old foundries, only slower by a factor of 2 or 3. That really impressive number has nothing to do with Moore's law.
Using a legal loan shark to purchase nappies, we're now robbing Peter to pay Paul, the net gain once the legal loan sharks fees are rolled in would be pittance.

How far did society have to fail for us to have to encourage the use of loan sharks so our children can take a shit, seriously?

Edit: in an attempt to lighten the conversation which has suddenly became a class dividing conversation on economics and privilege.

My most highly rated comment on Hacker News is now about shit. Brilliant.

2nd edit: Two people didn't approve and have either removed an upvote, or I've been downvoted.

More drama than a soap box here today.
I'm a part of it. And agree. The naivete can be astounding.
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> They are difficult to clean without a washing machine at home

Am I the only one who thinks I could manage to clean some cloth diapers in a bucket or tub fairly easily?
> said the problem with autopilot is that it is "too good".

Isn't it true that the thing cannot detect a stationary object in its path if the vehicle is traveling at above 50kph? If that is true, then I think this is an extremely dangerous situation that the owners of these vehicles are in...
all that IQ tests validate is how well someone can take an IQ test. It means absolutely nothing in terms of validity of ideas, business sense, self motivation, discipline, leadership skills etc.
Or religious. Most idiotic decisions were made by religious reasons.
Xcode (a macOS exclusive) uses function keys by default (for debugging). Cross-platform apps (not just ports) very commonly use F keys (eg. JetBrains stuff).
It's just a matter of how you want to structure the balance sheet.

You can have 2.5k€ share capital and 97.5k€ free capital. This is usually a better arrangement than having it all in the share capital which is "bound" equity. (Bound is probably not the right English word for this — I only know the terminology in Finnish.)
Please post a link to the modern style diapers...
Pretty sure he means "the kernel I have running on my computer" (i.e. as a user of the kernel), not "the kernel I work on" (i.e. as a developer of the kernel).