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One of the things I like about HN is that we don't traffic in innuendo. And I don't think this is the right time to begin. If there is something you want to say b/c it's relevant, then say it; if you are afraid to, then share links to the controversy. But to say we should know about something that you can only allude to is not the right way to do this.
mapkit.js is 500 KB after unzipping; I don’t think low-end phones can handle that well (^_^;)
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Note that the former head of Pakistani intelligence, Asad Durrani, whose country housed Bin Laden when Seal Team Six did the dispatch - has the same story that Hersh does.

None of these things seem particularly unbelievable. Having researched a number of National Security issues intensely (eg Syria) this all fairly believable. That's just his "lowlights". His publication record thus far has been nothing short of impressive. And, really, you can't imbue anybody with too much faith that they only report absolute objective truths. I don't think even Hersh would recommend that. Certainly this interview he suggests that he doesn't report on a lot of stuff because he isn't sure if it's CIA smoke and mirrors.

Compare this to cable television, which gets the narrative wrong almost constantly, and dumbs everything down so that it lacks substance.
I live in Kansas, and have driven it sub 0F with no issues.
The biggest question on my mind is whether there's a market for 500,000 Model 3 a year ongoing. BMW is an established player and they sell less than that across their entire range.
> Microsoft's share price has barely moved.

MS stock has made ~4B today in the market so their purchase got partially funded
Interesting that Microsoft paid with shares. They effectively just issued $7.9B in equity without having to go to the public markets for it. Granted it’s only ~1% of their $780B market cap... but this also suggests they believe their shares are perhaps a little richly valued.
Is my comment somehow unclear? I don't think I said or even implied that anyone forced anyone to work anywhere.
I talked to the flex team a couple of years ago - and they did not think this was possible. I wonder how complete it is. At the time they said though Actionscript claims to be ECMAScript it is far from Javascript in very fundamental concepts they are based on such as inheritance and encapsulation (AS) and closures (JS).
Do you know how well the latest x1 yoga supports Linux? Or current “flippy” recommendation? I’m looking for something that allows me to flip the screen when I plug in external mech keyboard
And the i3 is? That's one of the ugliest cars on the market.
> then you should include the C128/C128D.

Where do the Plus-4 and C16 fit in? (Not to mention all of the 'Secret Weapons of Commodore' that they didn't manage to actually ship? As much as you talk about Apple hobbling the IIgs, it's not like they were the only company with unfulfilled potential from their engineering.)

(I did rather like the SX-64, though.)

> Other than that, what were the technical aspects of the Apple II (non-GS) that we should be aware of?

The machines could do some rather amazing things... by the time the early 90's rolled around, my high school Physics teachers had them generating custom tests for each student with integrated graphics for drawings, grading the tests in real time with an integrated scantron machine, and keeping all the class records on disk.

They got a lot of mileage out of some features made easier on the Apple. If I remember right, they had 1MB of RAM they were using and the test scanner plugged into an expansion card. They also swapped out the code to to disk to generate each question and draw the graphics... as they were generating the individualized tests for each student. For a 20 question test on a class of 20 that meant 400 disk read operations, so the faster disk I/O would've been useful to overall throughput. (They hacked a way to do partial loads of BASIC code into Applesoft by modifying the linked lists the interpreter used to maintain lines.) And I'm pretty sure they used a mouse and (80-col) double-hires mode to draw the graphics for the tests.

I'm not saying a C64 couldn't have done it, but the SID and the VIC II wouldn't have helped any, and there are a number of Apple ][ capabilities that did...
Oh this is hilarious.

You could put money on how long this page gets forgotten and left up.
That's a wonderful story!

The biography Alan Turing: The Enigma (which I highly recommend) also goes into a lot of detail about the early computers that Turing worked on:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/069116472X

I learned about Turing Machines as a CS student a long time ago, and got the false impression that he was only involved in theoretical pursuits (theory of computation, algorithms for cryptography, etc.). It was only after reading this book that I learned how much he had contributed to the design of actual computing hardware.

> trying to avoid running codes that revisited adjacent memory locations too frequently

And today, it's exactly the opposite: we try to write code that has as much locality of reference as possible so that we can avoid expensive cache misses.
I agree with you in the sense that people are accepting those offers rationally. However, those employees just like the instagram and whatsapp employees got extremely lucky. 99% of startup employees will likely not make what they could if they worked for a big tech companies like Microsoft which pay with liquid relatively minimal risk stock.

My point is that startup equity is shit in all but the extremely rare unicorn cases for everyone except the founders and VC's.

I always laugh when I see startups offering microscopic equity while founders horde orders of magnitude more stock acting like what they have done is worth hundreds of times more what your early employees do.
i3 resale value sunk because it's ugly as sin.
I love the cynicism. Perhaps it's a perspective you normally find in someone older. As a gen-Xer I am sick and tired of people bashing millennials. That Simon Sinek talk is just the worst. Almost every sentence in that talk is completely false. (Heck, not just that Sinek talk, but pretty much all his talks are filled with falsehoods). People _want_ to hear bad things about millennials, but it's just not true.

"Because the worst has already happened. It is happening, and it will continue to happen."

Au-contrair; much, much worse is yet to come.

But I really like her response to the situation. To take personal responsibility and find happiness in the moment. More evidence that the general pop-media consensus on millenials is wrong.
My company has been self hosting the CE edition for quite a while; it's been totally smooth. Zero issues.
MSFT is one of the companies that contributes the most to open source.
Those graphs show a 50 mile range on the Leaf. That’s still enough sub 0F to get me to work and back, twice.
In the past, the "reasonable salary" requirement wasn't even there, the guideline was something else along the lines of distributions being triple the salary or less. The IRS came out with the "reasonable salary" thing after that point, which suggests to me that as long as people are paying themselves a reasonable salary, the IRS does not see this as an abuse of any sort.

If you want to consider it immoral compared to your own values, go for it, but it's pretty mean to call it a "tax dodge", or fucked up for others to do it.

Just for a data point - I had a few years of ignoring distributions, and shopped around last year for different accountants. I talked to five, and every single one of them recommended I shrink my salary to "reasonable" and pay myself more distribution. It is not a shady practice.
Yes, it's a clown car but I'm okay with that. Resale dropped due to federal tax credits and BMWs aggressive leasing plans.

For me, it was an experiment to try EV and I'm 100% sold. It also pushed me to go full solar on the home we're building. Rather make an environmental impact than a status statement.
It is when there's still a page which says "we might be having issues, see our twitter feed for more info" and links directly to that :)
You’re thinking about scale all wrong
In fact, many people don't understand the deal in detail (e.g., what may happen during an exit), nor the cap table.

E.g., one person I know, an Employee #1, was shocked to discover that investors only held ~15% of the startup he was at, which he joined just a couple of weeks after incorporation, and the founders held nearly 80%. His equity was IIRC 1%, which he thought was great, and was assuming that the founders had maybe 10% each, with a big option pool and a much-larger investor ownership. Ok, so his numbers didn't change just from learning everyone else's, but he wouldn't have agreed to 1% if he'd known.

It's not the founders' fault. They acted in their own self-interest, and did not volunteer information that would have negatively impacted their position.

But the employee still had a right to be upset, same as any of us would be if we discovered that a teammate for the last several years had been pulling in twice your salary, when you were told "sorry, this is as high as we can go."
I don't think that being pedantic about the definition of words when the intended meaning is understood is something we should be doing on HN, but since we are:

> hostile toward a rival or one believed to enjoy an advantage : envious
>
> His success made his old friends jealous.
> They were jealous of his success

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jealous
Libraries like LAPACK and MPI were standard C/Fortran ones wrapped from Julia but all of the custom application code was written in Julia. No doubt the application would not have been so successful without the extremely talented team that worked on it—including Keno, who was described by the project PI as a “one man army”—but that’s true of any record-setting supercomputing project.
But what if one website wanted user data from another website. Couldn't b.com make a GET request to a.com(assuming the user is on b.com now, and was on a.com previously, with a cookie), using the cookie for a.com in the browser and get the user's info from a.com, then send that to b.com? All without the user or a.com knowing?
let’s face it: the distribution of equity is about leverage and convention.

as a community, we anchor each other by saying things like what you’re saying. if more people felt the way i do, as a community, we would not accept the status quo.

it sounds as though your stance is founded upon a just-world hypothesis.
tux paint.
I admire your fortitude. The slowest system I routinely use is a 1GHz iMac G4 (TenFourFox is the browser, natch). Now, that is a lovely machine. The form factor has never been equaled, and the springs in the arm are still going great.

The JIT does work on G3, but unfortunately you won't get much benefit from the accelerated codecs as there's no AltiVec. But, at least the G3 version has compiler tuning.

Just watch out for the creator, he's a bit of a jerk.
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I'd call this "engineering" more than science.
I scrape lots of data from services while logged in. Scraping is done with curl, but every so often cookies expire, so I use selenium to login, save cookies, then go back to curl.
Depends on the price and other factors over then next few years.
ClojureScript - although I already use, if I didn't, I'd start. Why? I feel like learn it makes me smarter.
This isn't correct. Both the older gen 1 Volts and the newer Volts with the "Voltec" powertrain can directly drive the wheels from the engine, and in fact this is actually much more common with the Voltec powertrain. This article gives a great summary: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096942_2016-chevrolet-... .
All I've ever wanted was a mouse support and not have to jump through ridiculous hoops to open up a file.

I'm sorry touch does not cut it for a productivity working on large documents or any other program that requires repetitive precision.
A used, low-mile i3 BEV (comparable to Leaf) is around $10-15k. I bought the REX which gives me 'unlimited' distance.
Oh, I am not sure how these went unmerged! We should do something about the PRs.

Will shoot you an email to discuss more.
Yes, it has changed a lot since those days... I visited some friends there about a year ago and was very pleasantly surprised.

Glad to hear it is working out for you :-)
I Want Bitcoin to Be the World’s Single Currency: Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak
I mean, it's impossible to say for sure that something is astroturfing, maybe it's just me having a particularly bad opinion of these companies, but for example Google and Microsoft often feel that way.

When you look at controversial topics with these two companies in them, you often see a whole load of negative comments and then one or two chains of comments that defend them, declare people being negative about it as being unreasonable and you generally have multiple accounts responding to each other, agreeing that this really isn't too bad. And of course, these comment chains have been voted to the top.

The last part doesn't have to be a result of astroturfing, HN's voting system encourages controversial comments, as more people are able to upvote than downvote comments, but yeah, that doesn't exactly make the platform as a whole a better place.
I'm not sure the G5 would have ever made it in a laptop even if they did get the die size down. POWER4 is just big and hungry. It was big and hungry in the server space, and it was big and hungry in the workstation space. It just wasn't designed for the constraints of a mobile implementation.

The rumour I heard at the time, which I believe, is that PA Semi was actually in the running for the "next" PowerBook line based on some evolution of the PWRficient PA6T. Then Apple went Intel and bought them out later, so we'll probably never know.
There are a bunch of interesting stuff coming along. I don't know if you have seen the Refinement types in Ruby paper based on RDL recently published in VMCAI [1], this opens the window to verification of Ruby code.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09281
> Society could have made those discoveries without leaving large swaths of people and places unemployed

I am currently a proponent of self-driving cars, as I believe that human reflexes are designed to operate at, on average, 6mph. Almost anything could be better than us, at least in theory. Testing the limits of self-driving cars is how we determine what we can't do with them (and asking too much is how we zero-in on the failure point). This has complex moral consequences. Will more people be killed due to failure, or fewer? Thats great if it works out, but horrific if it doesn't. It's incredibly difficult to draw a line given that we don't know what the whole landscape is.

This bubble is worsening unemployment. One ripple arising from that is UBI. Another is a positive-sum world. ML is currently successful in medicine. It's not all doom and gloom - we are already reaping long-term benefits.
Because the developers who would be working on OpenGL on macOS are working on Metal instead, because that's where the value is for Apple.
Only if you're suggesting that the employees chose to work there because they thought they had the right terms and were expecting a multi-billion dollar sale from which to benefit. If you have evidence for that, I expect you've freely chosen to work for such a company yourself and that you're entirely confident in your situation. (Or else the money just doesn't matter that much to you. That's ok too!)
They're going to be selling a lot of those shares come tax time!
Emacs (~1976/1978) roughy predates Unix and came from a very different tradition (and FWIW wasn't originally written in Lisp either)
Apple: please make the alarm app bypass do not disturb mode and allow independent volume control (ie allow alarms at max even if the ringer is left alone).

Sincerely, someone who is sick of having their alarm not work unless all their other apps are binging like crazy all night.

This was so trivial in Android, it’s laughable I still need think about what I need need to do for the alarms to work properly. Also always paranoid I’ll forget a step and miss an exam or something.
Sure, sorry.

By "code hosting" I mean that most places say "we support code hosting" but in reality their systems are only setup to work with/use github.com; the domain at the very least, and possibly the API on top of that. Now places are going to have to generalize a bit, at the very least by thinking of multiple domains.

There are undoubtedly going to be tiny differences between how gitlab handles things; those will surface over time. They probably won't make headlines, but they'll cause tiny localized headaches.

As for S3, I mean that the GitHub API (issue tracking, etc) is all non-git proprietary stuff. GitLab should copy that so people's workflows Just Work™. I have no idea if they've already done this, I'm sure they've considered it.
Ah. I knew there was a rational explanation :) I missed that bit.
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Your phone manufacturer can also theoretically just watch your phone's display output over VNC if they had that kind of control over your device. If you believe your device's manufacturer is deliberately working to actively steal data from third party apps on your phone, perhaps you should consider a different phone.
> If you want shot at a significant chunk of a multi billion dollar sale you start your own company. As the github founders did.

False dichotomy. People join startups (esp. early ones) thinking they have a shot at a significant chunk. But even for the very first employees, the equity numbers are ridiculously small. I don't understand why they sign up for it.

All my friends in startups work damn hard and poured huge chunks of their lives into it, and it has not been fun watching them be offered meager positions post-acquisition, while their founder/CEOs get multi-million paydays.
I guess most (all?) of us had a few facepalms after reading the entire article. :)
How do you archive? Screenshots?
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I haven’t found a way to do mhtml with chrome headless which would be so convenient..
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1. Web site is just a blank white page on mobile Safari.

Looking at the source, it's a bunch of JavaScript with what looks like the content in a very mildly obfuscated form, e.g.

["non-optimal"],["al","go","rithm"],["that"],["you"],["un","

If your goal was to try to prevent dumb scraping, you've succeeded; but for accessibility and general efficiency, it is a failure.

...unless of course the whole page is a demo of using an LR parser to consume that oddly formatted content and output HTML, in which case I apologise. But a <noscript> with an explanation would be better than a blank page.
Hey! Apple!
It's 2018.

The iPhone X can fly the Space Shuttle.

No, it could probably fly two of them and still have computing power left to burn time on Facebook during the trip.

AND I STILL CAN'T NATIVELY MOUNT AN IPHONE ON A COMPUTER VIA WIFI TO DO SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS TRANSFER IMAGES FROM PHONE TO COMPUTER.

No. Don't go there. iTunes SUCKS.

I want one picture. Or two. This picture I just took. That one. Not a sync to a directory I did not choose and don't want my data to reside on.

Why isn't my phone part of my network?

Why don't I have the option to decide what to do with my data and how to do it?

What is wrong with you?
Interesting.

Each of those non-free features should be a link to a video. Possibly even the same video, with a time/position key.
> failure [...] morality

They were simultaneously different points and part of the same point in my argument. Separately, failure is a good thing - as any CEO would tell you. Together, they are horrific.

It's very complicated, which is a far cry from "idiotic" as the article portrays.
'Carbon bubble' could spark global financial crisis
> an elaborate ruse

News started to leak out that bin Laden had been killed in Abbotabad not long after it happened. As no one disputes, one of the helicopters crashed.

The disputed premise is either the Pakistani high command ok'd the raid (Hersh) or they did not (you - official line). That is the premise. The "elaborate ruse to cover up a quid pro quo conspiracy" is a no-brainer after that. If the high command did OK the raid and there was no ruse, it would basically be saying the Pakistani military does not protect Pakistanis from the invasion of foreign armies, that it is more or less a US puppet. Something a sizable portion of Pakistan, not unsympathetic to bin Laden, thought already.

And why wouldn't they support bin Laden - the US stood along side them supporting bin Laden's jihad to oust the secular government of Afghanistan in the 1980s. They have just remained the same, it's the US that shifted its policies (putting Army bases in Saudi Arabia, getting into conflict with bin Laden and other Arabian elements).

Either the high command ok'd the raid or they did not. It is natural for the ruse and conspiracy to follow. I am sure it was one of the "ransom" demands made so that the raid could happen.
I think no matter what the focus is, they’re never gonna spend time during highly publicized events highlighting bugs in previous versions that they’ve fixed!
I would not consider a brand new file system to not be notable. Maybe for average consumers it wouldn't matter much, but for us, we probably should appreciate how big an endeavour a new file system is.
It’s amazing that even more bright minds are wasting time on ads.
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Who is suggesting otherwise?

The fact is that the multi-billion payday would not be possible, had they not convinced so many talented people to work for equity-peanuts. Kudos to them!
It's not doublespeak, it's very clear refutation to those who fear macOS fading away and being replaced by a locked down, ARM-powered iOS laptops, Apple machines turning into alternate version of Chromebooks. The message reads to me as "we're bringing the good things from iOS over to macOS, rather than abandoning macOS and replacing it with iOS".
Considering the value Apple has extracted from NeXTSTEP, they certainly underpaid for it.
put your phone on vibrate, the alarm will always work with it on
Um. If you're setting an alarm in the built-in clock app, it definitely works when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
Unity supports Metal, it was shown on stage during the keynote: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/06/05/wwdc18-book-of-the-dead...
My guess is he's probably using a JavaScript library to provide text justification. It has some pretty great typography for a web page, hyphenation on the margin and all that. Fancy stuff. Some parts are way better than what CSS gives you.

Sucks that it doesn't show anything, but it's a bit ridiculous that 40 years after TeX we don't have proper typography on browsers and people have resort to stuff like this simply to justify text. Not that I agree with the choice, but I understand it.
I’m not sure I’d call anything that turned into iOS “worthless”.
> I found it much more performant

Sincere question: Does "more performant" simply mean "faster"?
op here. That's why I mentioned long term^^

Of course there are other options .. If Google were to open up a RenderThread api, lottie could potentially be just as efficient (although I fear how some devs will abuse this api).
Or maybe AVD will get dynamic properties and progress setting.

No matter who does it first, the future is bright !
Recording of webrtc video conferencing sessions , pdf generation, spa test suites