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Are you familiar with the current debate about predictive processing / free energy minimisation / active inference, driven by philosophers such as Clark & Hohwy on the one side and the neuroscience tribe around Friston along side them?
Could cannibalize the iPad market instead
Have you checked https://news.ycombinator.com/front?

Compares pretty well with HN Daily with respect to content but also offers more articles (because it's HN, naturally).

E.g., everything on HND for 16 April [1] can be found on the first pages of HN/front for 15 April [2] and 16 April [3].

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2018-04-16.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-04-15

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-04-16
> The way we produce code is so ruinously expensive that nearly everyone in this industry accepts the tradeoff between developer velocity and product quality

I've seen too much over engineered crap to believe this. In many case the over engineering was an attempt at making us more like production line workers in the first place with the "architect" breaking things down into cookie cutter steps.

There is also the problem with user expectations, there are several "production line" like environments available but no one likes the trade off of inflexibility.
>Does everyone deserve to live in a place like SF or mid-town Manhattan for cheap, by forcing infinite housing supply?

This does not reflect anybody's position on the pro-housing side.

Extreme exaggerations like "infinite" or "everyone deserving to live" do not facilitate conversations.

Saying that more housing should be built is not saying infinite. The idea that all workers in an economy should be able to afford their housing is not saying everybody should get to live in the most expensive place.

It may not be intentional but it seems like these statements were meant to take discussion off the rails.
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I wouldn't. The code I wrote as an experienced backend engineer is much nicer and easier to understand compared to someone generic who knows the basics but not the finer details of the language.
What would happen if California enacted a pretty serious land value tax? For example, what if California replaced its income tax (and also its 1% property tax) with a land value tax?

Land value tax means a tax on the market value of the land, but not on the value of the buildings, only the land is taxed. So imagine two neighboring plots of land in an expensive urban area. The plots are identical except that one has a single family home with a lovely vegetable garden, and the next plot has a ten-story apartment building. Both plots would be taxed the same amount, because the tax is not on the buildings, it is only on the land. With a tax like this, the owners of the single family home would have an increased incentive to develop their land, or sell it and move to an area more suited to single family homes. Another apartment building could then go up, helping to alleviate the housing shortage.

What's more, replacing the income tax would incentivize the creation of more jobs.
I found a video after a quick search on youtube that gives me a little better impression about this laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hHRMIod0A

I think for $100, I will give it a whirl. It has escape key unlike my new fancy overpriced macbook pro.

It seems reviewer didn't like keyboard much. :( That is unfortunate.

I would say that having usb port for power would be very much welcome feature.

Also, further video review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIF2YbnOHB4
Like Google, Microsoft, Apple dropping tech, or replacing it with something else, just because.

Oracle has done lots of nice things for Java, some of them with uncertain future or even tabu at Sun, like Graal's percusor MaximeVM or AOT compilation.

It might not be a company loved by FOSS, but other than IBM there wasn't anyone else caring that much for Java's fate, Google specially did not even bothered.

So I appreciate every improvement Oracle does to Java.
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Indeed. When they said:

> The unauthorized display of our client's intellectual property is likely to cause consumers encountering this app to mistakenly believe that it emanates from, or is provided under a license from, Oracle.

I think most of us would agree that no, literally almost no one familiar with JavaScript would have believed that app to “emanate from, or be provided under a license from, Oracle”.

I know that Oracle owns Java, but I never would have guessed that they had any ownership of the JavaScript name. When I think of JS, Oracle is like the last company I would think of.

When I think of JS, I think of Brendan Eich, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, web development, Node.js, etc.
CakePHP with Stored Procedure?
Google translate nowadays is almost good enough for reading such articles. You can tell that it is machine translated as some of the words a human writer won't use the same way but you can understand most of it. Its not as good at reading forum post etc where a lot of slang and colloquialisms are used
This is shifting the question from an interesting one to an uninteresting one. Collective influence is not abhorrent, but the direction that they influence things certainly can be.

When segregated neighborhoods collectively influenced which races could buy houses, was that abhorrent? I think we would all agree. When neighborhoods for neighborhoods watch groups, or clean up a playground, or build community by throwing block parties, they are doing great, not abhorrent things.

Conspiring to keep others out is usually abhorrent though.
The image that struck me is the tree senior executives comfortably dressed not in golf shirts or suits, but in practical work fatigues.
That seems to be true. Although I think people can be pursuaded to care about such things. But the problem needs to be framed as a moral question rather than just an objective one. That we should adopt particular technology because it is the right thing to do.

The difficulty is that these issues will become politicised and emotional. You have people like Trump emerge who think that clean energy is an abomination. But perhaps that is a step we have to go through in order to win the argument.
Yet another failure by an American state to do anything about an absolutely huge problem. As I see it, wages haven't risen materially for decades and governments are failing to do anything substantial about the big things people spend their money on - housing, education, healthcare. At this rate , grass roots revolution will be the only remaining avenue for change.
> San Jose, for example, is building housing like crazy

And they have ruined what used to be beautiful farm land and orchards to create ugly urban sprawl punctuated by strip malls and plagued by violent crime. There's a very good reason San Jose, not San Francisco, was the site of the first major European settlement on the West Coast. Aside from having fantastic weather year round, San Jose was once beautiful. Few would argue that now.

I know people need jobs and housing but unrestrained urban sprawl is a terrible solution to that problem.
Do you rebind your caps lock to escape? That's what I did, and it's become second nature at this point.
> it's easy to write a handler that works for the expected case, but harder to write one that doesn't result in incredibly confusing behaviour if the rest of the program runs into a bug that would normally be reported as SIGSEGV->program core dumps...

Of course. I only write a glib example because there isn't a lot of space here.

> (Also, mmap() isn't async-signal-safe in POSIX, so this is veering into OS-specifics and reliance on implementation details.)

close() isn't thread-safe[1], so more people are in OS-specifics and relying on implementation details than we probably realise. I don't know of a single unixish system that gets mmap in a signal handler wrong.

[1]: http://geocar.sdf1.org/close.html
Reviews here to save people doing what I just did:

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pinebook-14-inch

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pinebook-64-review/

It looks like it might be worth the price.

Anyone have one here? Any idea on delivery times?
An early warning system might be nice, but stricter building codes are what is going to save lives. Japan has those too.

It's also worth pointing out that there has arguably not been a large quake close to a major city center in California since 1906 (for some values of "large" and "close"). The 1994 Northridge quake, which did some $15B in damage, was probably the best recent preview we have. Loma Prieta certainly did serious damage, despite being (as I recall) some 75 miles from San Francisco.

The real test is when the Calaveras Fault that runs up the east side of the SF Bay breaks. The last time was 1868, when there wasn't much there; estimated magnitude was 6.3 to 6.7. A quake of that size on that fault now — and it's getting to be likely, in the next two or three decades — is going to make a hell of a mess. We'll find out then how well a lot of things hold up.
We first used sendy but then developed our own solution because we had very special requirements that no existing solved: Building visual nice emails but all the time within dome defined CI. So we created a meta language to build emails from email-specific blocks with every block having special purpose (language defined) input fields to fill the placeholders within the block. No WYSIWYG was used because ci conformance can‘t be enforced with these solutions.
Yes infrastructure is a big issue. Many long time residents in my city are complaining about the traffic. Cars are diverting on the local streets to get around the traffic in Fremont for example. Mission blvd between 880 and 680 is under consideration to be made an underpass to reduce red lights but then expectation is it will take 10 years taking into account design, approvals, funding and construction.
Uhm, sorry that’s a bit too paranoid. The existence of ISO/IEC, DIN and the plethora of standard bodies haven’t made Engineering less creative or remunerative. Sure, you can’t craft your own custom bolt but you also don’t have to every time. Which is a good thing also
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A good guide to typography, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842396
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A bunch of web devs would get pissed off and... stop buying Oracle products? For that to work, wouldn't they have to be buying any Oracle product at all in the first place?
That one is interesting. Any major downsides / upsides compared to slack other than limits?
Won’t stop Junkie McSpambutton from using the Junk button as a delete button. And with the virtual monoculture of the Anti-SPAM industry, getting blackballed by one ESP means you’re blackballed on multiple ESPs.
How does Zulip compare to Mattermost?

Anyone got experience with both?
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Emacs and Aquamacs.
We should just shorten that to eichscript.
China's ZTE may lose Android license as U.S. market woes build
iPhone X Responsible for 35% of Total Worldwide Phone Profits in Q4 2017
> Is it abhorrent that the owners in a neighborhood can choose to come together as a collective and influence the neighborhood they all live in?

Nothing wrong with it! If some people in a neighbourhood want to buy up a parcel of land to prevent housing from being built there, there's nothing wrong with that. The issue sorta crops up when you start dictating what (structurally-sound) buildings others get to build on their own land.

If you want to reject private property altogether and go to some centrally-planned economic system then you've got a lot of work to do because even the fucking USSR was better at building housing than US cities are today.
I think the local control approach has absolutely utterly failed. And we have had plenty of time for local governments to adapt, but they haven't. So now its probably time to take away local control. People won't learn unless there is a change in incentives or consequences.
It'll be beautiful once again one day: imagine vines growing over the scattered, silent ruins of our decadent civilization.
> You'll find that any naive attempt at running your own will be very hard to scale.

LOL.

That's what they want you to think, but no big ESP such as gmail or yahoo have any set of special rules for Mailchimp or other big guys, because that would open them for lawsuits based on an unfair treatment.

My last company was chained to Sendgrid, until someone with yahoo email account clicked on the "spam" button 147 times... on the same email message! That was in 2015. A glitch in Sendgrid system counted each click as unique, and our spam rate got to be 27%. We got kicked out from Sendgrid faster than we could dispute it, and then they stopped answering our phonecalls.

We moved to Mandrill but that wasn't better because they were super-sensitive. We then built our own Digital Ocean $5 box and gradually start sending emails that were NOT spam. First 50 per hour, next day 100, next week 1000, you get my drift.

Today we email about 2,000,000 opt-in emails per day from the same DO $5 512MB box, built on Centos 6 and postfix. Delivery rate similar like we used to see with Sendgrid/Mandrill, at around 86% with click-tru 55% but that doesn't matter these days.

Bottom line: if you don't send spam then why would you be punished for legitimate emails?? Big ESP will take few weeks (a month?) to learn where to deliver your email and we had nothing but good experience. Of course I don't have to mention basic DKIM/Spif/DMARC other basic stuff alignment. Also bounce mailbox needs to be monitored. If you need any further info/help, shoot me a message I be happy to help.
Dagger2 is great when you have it setup, generating the dependency graph during compilation makes it lightning fast during execution. I also like the error messages, as long as you can read Java stack traces all the info for solving errors are in there - I've never seen an unsolvable situation this far.

Kapt does bump the clean build time to about 2min, incremental builds take between 10-60s - although actually launching the app on an emulator/device adds another 20s.

The cons of Dagger2 that I've experienced since it's launch are; The documentation and support is useless. You're on your own of you don't use a 3rd party sample project as a template. No one understands scopes and subscopes, subcomponents etc. The new Android dagger api is arcane and weird, no one wants to use it.

The Dagger2 team should (if they aren't already) create a Kotlin extension for it, I believe there are some syntactic optimizations to be offered.
That's a pretty weak argument against Prop 13.
Yep I did that. I still often fatfinger the brightness and other things. It is corporate one, I have my old macbook air that works just as fine.
What kind of issues do people conceal?
Very anxious to hear back but nothing yet for me or my co founder (UK and Argentina)
Yes, it seems like that, and thats what I am trying to say, that browsers are just one vector, users information is collected from number of sources:
- apps you use on your mobile
- your email/phone (example: which you gave to a Pizza company is same as of your fb)
- Your address which is with a local store nearby
etc. etc.

All this information is collected to connect all the dots.

When I was going through the advertiser list, I was kinda shocked coz I never give my any detail to them, and still they have somehow uploaded it to fb. FB should ask the advertisers about source of data.
Which would tell you a lot about the expected failure rate.
I don't really see how logging in with a different system prevents your user data from being exposed?
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This is nerve-racking, I've been refreshing my email every 5 minutes for the last 8 hours
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Watch sources that do not spread FUD, same video sources probably praise Valve and Steam but get triggered but that checkbox because is enabled by default, (also don't use Ubuntu if you doubt the direction it is going but don't spread FUD)
I understand you like dense housing, but not having a car in LA severely limits where you can work. The nice places to work are not clustered in downtown (which is all you could realistically do if you had not car). The greater LA area is very car centric, and I'd find it hard to believe you'd find it convenient to live in LA proper and commute to, say, Anaheim (or even Brea) without access to a car.

Not building parking spaces in LA would be denying the realities of living there.
Big companies like this have never existed before. It's hard to remember, but 10 years ago there was no "massive Facebook" or anything of the same scale. Amazon, Apple, you name it: NONE of them have been around long enough for a claim that "they never go away" to make any kind of sense.
Too bad the installation requires a dedicated Ubuntu machine. I was hoping that I could deploy it with little effort on my k8s cluster to try it out.
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I've used a separate container tab for facebook in firefox (nightly) for some time now, along with uMatrix, uBlock origin, and privacybadger. I downloaded my info from fb a few days ago, and was pleasantly surprised at how little info they had on me - they only have 2 advertisers with my contact info (email id). I click stuff on fb, but don't post, and occasionally have had message exchanges with friends.
That approach was already invalidated long time ago.

All major commercial JDKs do support AOT compilation and ExcelsiorJET is free for open source projects.
Die already, graphql.
> The idea that all workers in an economy should be able to afford their housing is not saying everybody should get to live in the most expensive place.

But this is exactly what's happening. Look at the discussion here, and you'll see people pushing for high-rises.

Should high-rises be placed wherever there's demand? Or is it OK to say no and limit people?
Cities are far too car-centric now. Though I expect the anti-techie/anti-shuttle NIMBYs will be out to "save their parking spots and public rights of way".

There's an easy solution to the "blocking the door" problem: convert on-street parking spaces into parking for dockless bikes and scooters. (Yes, that means building garages to offset the lost on-street parking.)

If you dedicate clearly marked space for parking bikes and scooters, then people will try to do the right thing.

Google has had a utopic bike-sharing system on its campus for years (at great cost -- the bikes keep getting stolen). It would be great to get something like that in the "real world". I think JUMP bikes is closest, but there aren't nearly enough bike racks in SF for JUMP to fully roll out with the ubiquity of the Google bikes.
LVT is a really popular idea with most YIMBYs.

If you were to be heard uttering such policy ideas on NextDoor, you'd probably be added to a list so that they can do background on you to dig up at future meetings, or attempt to discredit you. In any case you'll probably be called a shill for greedy developers. Happened to me!

California local tax policy is extremely regressive. High sales tax as a replacement for extremely low property taxes adds greatly to wealth inequality.
> If our friend passes away and we consider how they might have thought about something, our ability to model that probably borders on their own ability had they been alive given a strong enough friendship.

When one is thinking, whatever that is, one is thinking, not modelling one's ability to think.
No fan of Trump, but yea, just for SEO I think. Esp considering Obama had put him on the board to begin with, Trump only had him chair.
Nikon seems to have moved a lot of their high-end manufacturing to Thailand. The D810 body is the first "pro spec" Nikon body with the circular viewfinder to be built overseas AFAIK.

They still have two plants in Japan where high-spec lenses and bodies are built. I think the criteria is "how hard is it for us to build", not ED (etc.) glass: The new 105mm f/1.4 and 200-500mm f/5.6 both have a lot of ED glass but are made in China.

There is still enough demand and value attached to "made in Japan" for Cosina to make vintage throwback "Voigtlander" lenses in Japan, and for Converse to make high-quality Chuck Taylor sneakers there.
What an awful name
I just need one of these with the IBM butterfly keyboard [1] and it'd be wonderful

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Butterfly_keyboar...
setting up public transit as a villian isn't a "making perfect the enemy of good" situation. the bill as written wasn't good. it was actively bad. Pitting residents against public transit is counterproductive.

my first thought is that instead of tying the upzoning to transit lines or transit stations, it should be tied to transportation corridors. if a route carries a certain amount of people, whether by car or bus or train or jetpack, nearby buildings should be ineligible for certain height restrictions and parking minimums.
Glad to see Parfit on the list. Reasons and Persons could honestly be the foundational text of a civilization.
In comparison to virtually any other design work. The most expensive commercial buildings ever constructed are in the neighborhood of 5-15 billion USD. Developing a Linux distribution from scratch would probably exceed $10 billion in developer costs [1]. Just think about that. Linux, not even the largest codebase known, compares with the most expensive civil engineering projects in history.

Code is phenomenally expensive.

[1] https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-lin...
Yes, all that is true. What does that have to do with reproducibility? You're talking about doing a lot of different experiments to test a single theory. Reproducibility is about doing the same experiment over again to see if you get the same results as the first time you did it, i.e. reproduce the results.
This is Hacker News, so this is somewhat relevant. How in the world was Microsoft's monopoly on the PC operating system market a decade ago, a government granted monopoly?
I too was puzzled about what this is in response to. Midway through the comments I found a link to the premise article: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem...

It's responding to an article saying the way to improve as a developer is to have more "experiences". To summarize briefly, some examples from the article are to write an application in a bunch of different programming paradigms. Write an app in a bunch of different platforms. Write a bunch of different types of programs. Do a bunch of different open source things. Do a bunch of different conference/teaching things.

Personally, I think a laundry list of "experiences" kind of misses the point. If I think of great developers, they don't really check off many boxes on that list. Their ability is basically orthogonal.
Your argument here might have some contradictions. It boils down to the fact that people don't get to force others to behave in a certain way, and I completely agree with you. But then you then use that to argue that therefore people should be able to force others to behave in a certain way. You know?

As we don't live in an authoritarian state and we respect individuals' rights, we tend to rely on the market to provide the most fairness. The reason for this is that the market is effectively a democratization of pricing. I don't think it takes a huge degree of empathy to see how some group believe that an individual that believes they should be able to break this democratization of price to force others to enable them to reside wherever they want is what could be called entitled, selfish, and greedy.
Hubble, that outdated expired project that keeps on giving. Most of the global good news I read came from Hubble these days. <3