skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait wait wait. If it's preproduction hardware then the prices in the article are meaningless because you can't buy it. If it's unfair to compare performance metrics on preproduction hardware than surely it's equally unfair to compare prices (I mean, they may not even know the yields yet). You don't get to claim "Intel loses badly" and then hide behind "well, they can't have expected to have fixed everything yet!".

For comparison, those Xeon parts are Skylake-SP dies that first shipped 11 months ago. You can buy them on Amazon and rent them on AWS. They're a mature product in a well-established channel and their prices are stable and matched to the market.

The bottom line is that Cavium pulled out all the stops, shipped a board that works and performs... very adequately, with a few glitches. And frankly I don't know that glitchy acceptability is going to sell a whole lot of servers. So they slapped a price tag on it that draws eyeballs that the performance alone won't. If they can do that it's probably good news for them, but it's still a long road from here to revenue.
Classic Jobs indeed. In the sense that iTunes was originally called SoundJam MP and not done by Apple, but published through Casady & Greene and bought up. But he knew to tell and sell a narrative.
Sorry but there is no real reason to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt on anything related to data and privacy. You guys can feel free to roll your eyes and tell people they're overreacting all they want. I find it revealing. We get it, people are just holding it wrong. Okay.

Look- we all know that bugs will happen. The question is, what will you do in light of that? What bounds will you set up to prevent the system from acting in ways you want to disallow? How will you detect something is awry? I would say that really caring about people's privacy means doing this part seriously, not just a baseline lack of active malice.
Maybe I'm being a little bullish there. Let's say Overland Park instead (which is not such a bad commute from Lawrence anyway).
Or, building a phone was just a way to attract capital while behind the scenes you are actually working on the next big category.
I found it amusing that Twitter was Rails' biggest advertisement. Everyone wanted to use Rails but Twitter turned into a franken app with different stacks to keep it running
The age verification is done by pornhubs own company, to think they won't use this information seems incredibly naive.
We are part of of Australasia, but not Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia
One of the Android engineers (back when Android was going to be a Blackberry knockoff) made a similar comment about his reaction to the iPhone unveiling.

>“As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”

What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
Re the polite queuing after earthquakes: I happened to be in Sendai the day of the big earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor breakdown. I had no place to stay because I had a flight booked for later that day, which obviously got canceled. I started walking around downtown. There was clearly a lot of nervous energy, and there were hundreds of aftershocks in the first 24 hours, but people were behaving calmly and orderly. I wandered into a hotel to see if I could book a room. They were fully booked, but were letting people who were stuck without a place to stay to sleep in a ballroom. They provided free sheets, pillows and food to about 100 people, many of them stranded foreigners. Some local volunteers brought in gas powered generators so people could charge their phones. The next morning, I went out for a walk, as it was still not possible to get out of town. At 8:00 in the morning, the supermarket in front of the central train station had staff, in uniform, handing out perishable food for free, rather than having to throw it away (there was no electricity so freezers were down.) The word was only starting to trickle in about how serious the damage was farther north. People were universally calm, generous and polite.

I walked around for a few hours, not knowing the town. Many sites of severe structural damage, but some businesses were already open. I passed by a noodle shop run by a young guy. He called out to me and said "You look hungry." (I speak Japanese). He offered me a free bowl of noodles. I finally ended up getting out of town two days later by finding a cab and riding all the way to Fukushima Airport, for the last flight to Tokyo, and then back home to Kobe.

The order, decency, and humanity I experienced those few days still make me tear up when I think about it (even right now).
Makes sense. Hardware/software overall is monopoly-determined. If you are looking for an exit or a business model in the startup world you have to do something unique. This whole scheme was dead in the water, IMO.
I've never heard an engineer claim that, well, anything from Samsung was novel or original. Nobody is making that argument. We're trying to have that very valid debate you're referring to right now.

This stuff should not be patentable, not even in aggregate. Full stop.
The explosion in the coyote population (like deer and elk) is driven by the lack of their natural predator, the wolf.

I am a big fan of both coyotes and wolves but we wouldn't have much of a coyote situation in North America had the populations of wolves not been so drastically reduced.

That's likely what's allowing the coyote the freedom to travel to South America.
I think Nixon and Reagan’s push for “tough on crime” policy (policy that went on to be pushed further by HW Bush, Clinton, and W Bush)also played a large role. But it definitely got worse after 9/11.
Got a peer-reviewed source?
Translated to the standard startup-speak: they should have enough runway for two pivots.
"My footage is represented online by two major stock-footage companies. And I license it for all sorts of projects and uses, from commercials to broadcast to corporate films," said Mr Bloom.
"A fair amount of my footage has been licensed for internal use only, so to hear Google not state that they will compensate me for its use is very surprising.

The footage was licensed for internal use, and Google has presumably paid for that.

The contention arises because the video was leaked; in the film maker’s view, he should be compensated because it is not internal anymore and thus breaks the usage agreement.

If Google has purposefully published the video, that’d be a very easy ruling to make in favor of the videographer; but the fact that it was leaked will make this an interesting case to follow.
Since their effort was making a crappy product and desperately hyping it up, they shouldn't get credited as seriously trying.
Does GDPR make it illegal to shut a site down for a period of time? While they are shut down, what could be noticeable that they are not complying with?
Sir Tim Hunt is a high-profile public person, not merely a scientist.

See these three letters before his name? The ones that spell out S-I-R? Those three letters, along with other titles and positions he held, come with some very tangible benefits that none of use have -- and also some very tangible responsibilities, which, again, aren't bestowed upon everyone else.

He wasn't forced to be Sir Tim Hunt, the VIP, the public speaker at conferences. He accepted the titles, the positions, and the responsibilities that came with them (unlike, say, Grigori Perelman[1], who, by showing the middle finger to the establishment, has also freed himself from any burdens of the sort - or Alexander Grothendieck[2]).

One of the responsibilities of being Sir Tim Hunt is that you can't be a self-titled chauvinistic pig that cracks stupid sexist jokes.

There is an unspoken contract that Sir Tim Hunt violated, and suffered for doing so.

There is absolutely nothing new here. The rules of the society have not changed. Jim Simons[3] was kicked out of his high position in a crypto lab in the 70's for criticizing the Vietnam war in an interview to a small paper (a well-known story that hasn't made it to Wikipedia yet). One (possibly) out-of-bounds remark.

I am only giving examples of very-high-profile mathematicians here, but they are quite representative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

[3]
The New Passport-Poor
I've found Will Larson's blog (https://lethain.com/) to be a great source on engineering management and technical leadership.
Apple Rejects Valve's Steam Link App Due to 'Business Conflicts'
What would be in violation exactly? Not clear on this. How would regulators investigate? Do they require full access to your database/ backend?
Not that. The article would have been ~2000 or so, certainly pre 2005. More 'as is' than 'crystal balling'.
It's interesting, while different media has different bias, the internet has made this bias more apparent than it ever has been in history. We can see everything, so the bias reveals itself in whichever direction it leans.

People are frustrated by this, and Trump, Musk et. al. are speaking for many people when they voice their frustrations.

The media is an essential part of democracy and effective capitalism, but the media must look inwards and focus on ridding itself of bias, otherwise people will continue to protest.

Of course that's a massive challenge. Bias stems from foundational beliefs we hold about the world. How do we/media purge ourselves of bias if it means purging ourselves of foundational beliefs that make us who we are as much as anything else?
You don't seem to grasp the difference between personal and commercial use.
2010: "At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him"

https://gizmodo.com/5632095/justin-bieber-has-dedicated-serv...
Ivy engine in Angular: compilation, runtime and change detection
You are assuming "low end" means "undifferentiated and low-margin".
Restless Violet Shadows: The official color of the impressionists
I get freaked out every time someone on HN proposes a tech not too far removed from Black Mirror plots. Great show!
Bottom right, “This free web tool...”
That’s how most free licenses should be.
To be honest, I did think about accessibility early on but realized that the main use case was for mockups and it wasn't high on the priority list for that scenario. I do plan to make most of these controls accessible before 1.0 release. Thanks for bringing it up.
See also https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-s... (which was posted on HN two years ago).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621909
Australia is called Oz, the Antipodes must be a realm of wonders.
• I put my phone in my front pocket, instead of the back, so I'm not sitting on it;

• I then make sure to buy pants with front pockets deep enough that my phone is not being pressed into my groin when I sit;

• and I take my phone out of my pocket if someone is about to sit on [or straddle] my lap, charge into me at waist height, or drop a large object on my leg while I'm laying on my side.

You know, common sense.
Yes, I've been coding since 12 and have been building products since 15.
Strandbeest – Wind-propelled kinetic sculptures appear to “walk” along beaches
thanks!

PS. cant even ask a genuine question without being downvoted into oblivion; HN became just another reddit :(
That's not what I was referring to at all. I mean that the sentiment of 'probably'/'likely' from a random stranger online, to a business which might have EU users but never interacted with EU regulators doesn't mean much.
What frameworks would you use to handle such an steep growth curve? Most startups I know of start of with rails or the like - and obviously they couldn't handle the strain. So what would you use?
Has anyone ever accidentally bought a Samsung phone when they thought they were buying iPhone?
Hulu and CBS All Access have an ad free tier. I had CBS All Access when I had Sling but DirecTVNow has all of the networks live in my market (NBC,ABC,CBS, Fox, CW) I could deal with the ads and awful on demand features of DTVNow for the one or two shows I watch on CBS. For everything else I have Hulu and the Cwl
I'd argue that the real genesis of the paramilitarization of policing was in the civil unrest of the late 1960s. Between the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, local and state police were being overwhelmed with the demands of policing major demonstrations and riots and became increasingly reliant on the National Guard. Fears of domestic guerrilla warfare by groups like the Black Panthers and the Symbionese Liberation Army led to the establishment of SWAT teams across the country during the 1970s.

The war on drugs saw a vast increase in SWAT activity and funding. The 1981 Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act facilitated the transfer of military equipment and resources to local and state police departments.

The vast homeland security budget has undoubtedly accelerated the process, but police units with military equipment and training were already widespread before 9/11.
What if you’re not GDPR ready?
Ethereum and Bitcoin mining work like this:

Take a freshly baked pie, and give half of it away for a suggested donation of $1 USD to the first 10 people who show up.

Now split the last half of the pie into smaller chunks and slowly give out bread crumbs to new "miners" with the requirement they spend large amounts of capital on exceedingly inefficient number guessing machines in order to win the lottery of "mining" more crumbs.

Satoshi Nakamoto
Thu Jan 8 14:27:40 EST 2009
I made the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to
start with, so for a little while in the beginning a
typical PC will be able to generate coins in just a few
hours. It'll get a lot harder when competition makes the
automatic adjustment drive up the difficulty.

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins

The 10,000 BTC pizza is a case study in how Satoshi designed the supply to rapidly dump very cheaply before other users were able to discover the network, by that time and later new users not only need to spend more to mine but less coins are produced for a correct lottery number.

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

Ethereum:

Presale ICO / Premine ( max cost $0.50 USD per ETH )
= 72,009,990 ETH

Total Supply today (Feb 23rd 2018)
= 97,800,000 ETH

Source:
https://etherscan.io/stat/supply
>> This will inevitably result in fatalities -- almost certainly fewer than when humans drive, but plenty of fatalities nonetheless.

Where is the almost-certainty coming from that the fatalities would be fewer compared to humans driving? And what does "almost" mean in this case?
Bieber-related conversation might reasonably have been 3%. Updating his friend count was a constant source of lock contention on a particular mysql.

There were never explicitly dedicated databases/servers, unless you count the hotspot caused by whatever shard he hashed into.
OSHA also requires a minimum light level in the US but I believe it only pertains to hazardous working environments (like on a production floor in a manufacturing facility for example). Either that or the enforcement in white collar environments is so weak that literally no one cares to follow the law which is surprisingly common with reagrd to many workplace regulations.
> I would give ANYTHING for a 5" phone with capacitive touch e-ink display, 3000mAh battery, and a barebones BSD based OS that did nothing but call, text, take pictures, gps, and text-based web browsing

Isn't that pretty much exactly what the light phone2 is?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/

Not sure if it'll have browsing, but it's got everything else, including an e-ink display, which is probably the hardest feature to comeby in a phone
Amazon's response, from Ars' article:

> Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like "Alexa." Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a "send message" request. At which point, Alexa said out loud "To whom?" At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customers contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, "[contact name], right?" Alexa then interpreted background conversation as "right." As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that...
Reality, depending on what you believe. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/20... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doughnut_shops#United_... https://www.nap.edu/read/10141/chapter/4#42
This thing is neat because of the networking functionality, but I'd definitely say Krita is the better FOSS painting tool on Linux.
As someone who developed for Mobile Phones pre iPhone era, I can say they are people who never worked on software for Mobile before iPhone :).

There were number of Phone that existed with several of those styles.

How many people know Verizon Had a decent app store (Apps developed with Brew) in US before iPhone? This included similar testing that you see for AppStore TODAY.
Any plans for a “grab the latest file of this naming pattern from an SFTP” workflow?
From the article,

The culture was so “Mad Men,” even at the height of the
feminist movement, that my boss felt free, when we worked
late closing the magazine on Fridays nights, taking all the
young male writers out to dinner at the steakhouse
downstairs without a thought that they were walking past the
offices of the only two women in the hall — me and my
friend, the late Susan Tifft. Susan, a staunch feminist,
confronted the boss. But we never did get to that
steakhouse.
There’s some truth to this. The Nexus 6p would bend just looking at it wrong. Nowhere near the controversy.
It’s one thing to try to enter a difficult market. It’s a complete other to enter a market with an inferior product.
I think everyone is talking about the UK 's ICO, which is just 1 of the 28. We have heard nothing from others and its best not to make assumptions - the ICO may be following different rules in a year.
>You can only have sex and play Monopoly so many times.

Says you.
That means 60% result from hitting them.. still seems better to swerve.
Did the exact same thing.
Fines must be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive", and there are various factors that the authorities must take into consideration. If you feel they _haven't_ taking the relevant factors into account, you can take it to the courts (especially if there is a history of fining non-EU companies more, as that would suggest they are taking irrelevant factors into consideration.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
Very large, haha. I know they've decreased over time as competition has moved in, but 2-3 years ago they were selling items that cost ~$1.50 to make for $25. They also run pretty lean from a personnel standpoint.
Parent is referring to the fact that the phone was a full screen and had a grid of icons (reminiscent of Palm) on it like the iPhone did: https://i.imgur.com/Fdk0566.jpg

Parent post didn't say the phones looked the same. The iPhone refined a lot of existing functionality.
We still have 5 billion years to figure that out. Until then we should probably stick to worrying about energy problems of today.

edit: Love reading that short story, it somehow never gets old.
RIP John Bain/TotalBiscuit/CynicalBrit.

For me the most kind, reasonable and elaborated voice in and around computer gaming.
There's also the scraping of third party sites to use as in-search cards within Google search, whilst having extensive scraping defenses for their own searches and charging for programmatic access to Google search...
Very few Android phones are not full of crappy manufacturer apps. Nexus, Pixel, OnePlus and apparently, Essential are the few exceptions.

So maybe not unique in the literal sense, but a differentiator anyway.
My Echo somehow woke up when we were in another room, then heard itself talking to itself, and called my friend in the middle of the night. You can see the log of what it said and how it heard the last word as the command:
https://www.facebook.com/mike.deeks/posts/10215464075417775

It was both hilarious and infuriating. I immediately turned the calling feature off (you have to contact support btw) and later we switched to Google Home.
I don't think this was a prank. This was a calculated effort to cause someone bodily harm by weaponizing the police services.
Twitter was Rails' worst advertisement. They used Rails as a scapegoat to hide their bad tech. I still hear things like "Rails can't scale; remember Twitter?"
Embracing Microservices
One good thing from it is quite a few ask you to confirm to keep getting newsletters.
I am glad you enjoyed the result :) May I ask what browser/version and OS you are using?
US House Passes Bill Banning Gov Use of Chinese Video Surveillance Manufacturers
Yep, I am not table-thumping just drawing an amused sketch of the US stereotype. Regarding real estate as a funding source for transit, HK has a similar model. MTR corporation runs about seven malls I think.
Process Line Breaking and Enhance Performance for PDF to HTML Conversion in Java
Thanks for sharing, this was helpful. +1
Hmm I'm not convinced. If the iPhones home screen was so obvious why didn't others do it before? Those examples you listed are fairly different from iPhone at the time in a way that the Samsung phone wasn't.
We carry both Surface laptops and XPS 13s in our company. In my experience (n=23) both are pretty reliable workhorses.
I think this company is very emblematic of the tech bubble. Someone with a name and not much more is able to raise a staggering $330m with nearly nothing to show for it down the line, and 95% of people paying attention could have predicted it was going to be a flop.
Not the OP but the main con of the Pixel 2 is the price.