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To their defence, that's a way better decade to be stuck at compared to anything that came after...
I think he's decently well known. I've seen him mentioned a few times on HN at least, all favorably.
I don't know about the US, but I live in Mexico and here iOS users either go for Waze or Google Maps.
I would like them to rebuild the Macbook Pro from the ground up. It's a much more critical element in my life. If they keep producing inferior notebook hardware, I'll change platforms. If I change platforms, I'm less tied to macOS and iOS, if i'm less tied to iOS I'm more likely to change to some other platform. If I change to some other platform, it won't matter if they made Maps useful or not, they'll have lost me because of a more important element in the ecosystem failed me.
It's just that, on a restaurant menu, there's less of a chance of blindly selecting the Global Thermonuclear War option.
Not sure if most people don't know it, but this is useful (in Windows vim):

In Unix vi(m), you use Ctrl-V to quote a special character to actually insert it into the text (or into a last line mode command; see example below).

So in Unix if you want to insert a carriage return (Ctrl-M) into a file or a command, you do Ctrl-V Ctrl-M. That does not work in Windows with gVim because Ctrl-V means paste from clipboard. So you use Ctrl-Q instead of Ctrl-V, like in this example, where you want to use vim to remove all the carriage returns (CRs) from the file (say if you were going to use the file on Unix later [1]):

:%s/Ctrl-QEnter//g

where instead of typing the letters Enter, you hit the Enter key.

The %s means do the command for all lines in the file (% for all lines, s for substitute), the command is search-and-replace (old pattern with new pattern, here Ctrl-M with nothing), and the g(lobal) at the end means do it for all occurrences in the line (otherwise it does it only for the first occurrence on the line).

This will show on your screen as:

:%s/^M//g (the Ctrl-Q does not show on screen)

where the ^M represents the CR or Enter.

The same command on Unix would be:

:%s/Ctrl-VEnter//g

This will show on your screen as:

:%s/^M//g (the Ctrl-V does not show on screen)

[1] Of course there are other ways to remove the CRs from the file, like a) using a dos2unix utility, a) many modern editors will do it for you (via a setting or a menu option), c) push it to Git from Windows and then pull it from Unix (with appropriate Git settings for line-ending handling), etc.
That's a paradoxical thing to say, since you probably discovered him through his free soloing. You might not have been his fan had he not free solo'd.
No, it wasn't added - it's a property of the physucs of our universe.

Hydrogen fuses into helium. Helium (by the triple-alpha process) fuses into novel isotopes of lithium and beryllium, which decay in attoseconds back into helium, unless the beryllium is fused with a third helium nucleus/alpha particle to form stable carbon-12. That carbon is in the presence of hydrogen, and is then blown off of the star surface, so you get interstellar mothballs wherever you have stars.

Clearly, the someone was whoever not within but above and before our universe. They wanted to guard their physics simulation against interdimensional pests.
Can you elaborate a bit more on your Word based reporting? To date the only solution i've been satisfied with is Aspose Words. Unfortunately licensing is a bit steep so it would be good to know if any cheaper options are available.
There's already some stuff transferred to Apple Configurator that used to be in iTunes.
Spotify and Google Music comes to mind, but I guess it depends on what you use itunes for - which is also probably the issues with iTunes.. it does too much too poorly.
Neanderthal source code:

https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal
For non-deep learning, read David Barber's book:

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/090310.pdf

Some sections may be less relevant, depending on what you want to do, but Section III is a very good introduction to machine learning methods.

Do the exercises as you're reading. Theory is one thing, but in ML my rule of thumb is that you don't really understand a model until you've coded it up. A collection of written exercises would be a good way to impress an interviewer, too.
It's common to hear people complaining about gentrification. So you would think the opposite would be a GOOD thing -- but it's not. Case in point: Westwood, the district of Los Angeles that is home to UCLA. It was THE happening place in the 1970's. On our first date my wife and I went to see Star Wars at the Avco on Wilshire. Between the rise of the multiplex theatres (Westwood once had the highest concentration of movie theaters in the world) and an unfortunate gang-related incident in which a thug mowed down pedestrians on the sidewalk, Westwood has fallen on hard times. Lots of business and restaurant addresses stand vacant. It's sad -- and to me, quite baffling, because Westwood is one of the most walkable parts of LA.
I read that and liked it. Plus it's short, so it's a good intro for people to see whether they'd be interested in other contemporary Chinese fiction.
That argument you propose isn't popular opinion though. He is taking risks if people in power choose to push an agenda but it's totally different in risk if he goes the other path of illustrating something to average joe.
I'm actually not trolling, I'm 100% serious, there is no reason to use that language right now when you have others languages that are better on every aspect. Maybe Crystal will be ready at some point but right now it's not.
Yes. I don't get why Apple is often praised for getting UI "right", when iTunes, one of the central components of their system, is clearly a design gone bad.
>Now they have no means to move anywhere (or they'll just steal bikes), and they're just going to shelter anywhere else that they can, including breaking into buildings.

They already do all of these things.. and also they befoul public transport and harass people on the subway and buses.

You merely assume I want to do unethical things to them meanwhile you don't really condemn their unethical behavior denying their agency while amplifying mine. I think we should just round them up and take them to a place outside of town that feeds them clothes them and gives them whatever drink and drugs or amusements they want so long as they stay there. ALL benefits are contingent on life reform so they can continue to receive benefits if they leave, or they must stay there (kind of like a gilded cage).
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One of the more depressing things I've noticed in my time on this planet is that hype is often unrelated to or even inversely related to merit.

I hypothesize three reasons for this:

(1) The skills behind hype often do not intersect with the skills behind actually building great stuff, or at least rarely do in the same individual.

(2) Every individual and team only has so much time. You either spend that time building stuff or spend that type hyping. If you spend that time hyping you're not building. If you spend your time building there's no hype because you're not out hustling and blowing hot air.

(3) More knowledgeable people are skeptical of hype and tend not to spread it even for things that deserve it. Less knowledgeable people are more likely to both believe hype and spread it. Hype for things that wow the ignorant has better virality than hype for things that wow the knowledgeable since even when 'wowed' the knowledgeable tend not to spread hype.

Even in cases where there's a lot of hype around someone or something with substance (e.g. Elon's ventures) hype still tends to far outrun substance. I just take all Elon's time estimates and multiply them by 2-4 and I discount the more extreme stuff as likely just hype. "Oh that's cool, I'll believe it when I see it." But Elon's companies do actually deliver cool stuff and I try to judge them objectively on that as if the hype didn't exist.

It's really bad in the cryptocurrency world. Below the top two or three many of the highest market cap coins and other crypto systems are half-baked things that don't work, mere clones of Bitcoin that have been heavily pumped, or even outright scams. Stuff that works and is novel is relegated to pages two and onward on coinmarketcap. Case in point: Filecoin raised massive amounts of money on nothing but a white paper while Sia had a working system (though still not good enough to displace Backblaze or S3) and raised a tiny fraction of this and got nowhere near the hype.

Edit: Considering all of the above I consider hype a contrarian indicator. Without a whole lot of substance just under the fold (e.g. SpaceX) it's a powerful contrarian indicator.
Here's some discussion comparing the two that got a lot of attention on here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
Only with services like Instacart where they literally pay people to go and do your shopping for you. Real, end-to-end grocery services like FreshDirect do not.
Preston Byrne has a good series on why the DAI and stablecoins in general make unsubstantiated claims and can only work while the price is going up.

1. https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/10/stablecoins-are-doomed-t...

2. https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/01/11/epicaricacy/

3. https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/03/22/stablecoins-are-doomed-t...
One of the most frustrating things for me with Apple maps is having a view of the city I’m in and searching for something like ramen restaurant and it takes me to another country like Singapore and says there’s a restaurant named “the ramen restaurant “.

I won’t use it now because of this.
For me Maps is consistently less accurate than Google Maps. However, the Google Maps UI bothers me just the same as everyone else here. I'm hoping that the improvements continue to roll in on Apple's version, because I'd much rather just use theirs.
Eventually they plan to move to a version that is tied to some CPI (basket of goods) rather than one currency.

DAI is really borrowed against collateral (right now it's Ethereum, but there are plans for muliple forms of collateral), and these collateralized debt positions are public info. If the underlying collateral's value falls too far, the position is automatically liquidated and the underlying collateral is sold to pay for the debt before returning the remainder to the borrower.

Those two mechanisms are the only means of DAI creation, which means that it can never get in an undercollateralized position without everyone knowing. Everything about it is transparent, there are no hidden beneficial owners really. Their names may not be known, but all financial positions are known.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory
Yeah, you could immediately tell by the style of the page: all content, no fluff. Cool stuff!
For those interested, this site gives good thorough comparisons between different map services (mostly Google & Apple): https://www.justinobeirne.com/

Latest entry in Dec 2017: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
It's certainly a better idea than Tether's false accounting, but I'd rather have my dollars undercollateralized by a bank backed by reserve lending and depositor protection schemes than overcollateralized by much riskier assets like ETH.
PHP in the U.S., especially in the startup world, is seen as "oh, you develop in third world countries". That's the perception these days unfortunately.

That said, I was an avid PHP developer in the U.S. about 10-15 years ago and I always liked the language. There's just no one learning PHP anymore since all the kids just learn js, and no one trying out "hipster" languages like ruby/crystal/go/python/elixr/d/nim/rust/etc is going to try crusty old PHP.

I will say though that PHP, without any frameworks, is probably my favorite thing to develop a simple standalone site specifically because it lets you break all conventions and just output some damn content possibly with some simple logic involved and without using classes/mvc/etc.
"just decline the meeting"

Not always possible for... political reasons.
No browser supports CSS paged media features. So there's no proper control over repeated elements, paging etc
The one thing they would have to add to get me to change is adding an option to cycle. Living in a city with reasonable bike facilities makes it particularly grating that the default is suggesting that I want to drive everywhere. I know it’s US focused and you guys are car centric but come on, it’s been years!
We joke at my company that our contractors must charge us for thinking about our problems in the shower, but I must admit that I sympathize and wouldn't blame them if they did.
Last time I tried it (~2 years ago) it took me on a circular route instead of my destination.
Tarn considers DF his life's work and intends to work on it "until it's done", possibly for the rest of his life. That's dedication.
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Just saw this and finished reading... thanks for linking it. Great story!
How can that be, that all you mentioned cost less than a low end macbook, for instance?
Is it considered insider trading to short a competitor before making an announcement you suspect will impact them?
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Someone with such long term goals would most likely not do it as noisy and destructive as this attack seems to be (delete all files, rename the Github org, etc.).
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they often co-file with the department of justice to get the criminal charges

secondly the indictments leverage financial institutions as well as other federal agencies to be notified when a person - even foreign - is in their grasp or has known whereabouts

SEC indictments are often pretty ballsy. I read one where they indicted people in Eastern Europe who only traded on a CFD exchange. CFD exchanges don't exist in the United States. But the SEC said the traders should have known that the CFD broker would have made actual trades in the US equities markets due to their actions so therefore they have to answer for it.

What became of that? Maybe nothing just like you said
The butter must flow.
Honestly, I think Apple is wasting resources at competing with other companies by providing mediocre solutions.

For example competing with Google at big data and AI with Maps and Siri, or competing with Microsoft with iWorks. Keynote is great, but I'd rather use Google Docs or Open Office than Pages and Numbers.

In contrast, today Logic and FCPX are very competitive in their market.
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Feynman's cargo cult science in action.
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Nah, those all imply that he's still alive but prone to malfunction at any time.
They still don't have bicycling directions or transit directions in many cities. They still show businesses that were demolished years ago. They don't have indoor maps of anywhere near the number of places that Google has.
I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
Hey HN,

We recently recorded a podcast (https://blog.ycombinator.com/scott-aaronson-on-computational-complexity-theory-and-quantum-computers/) where I discussed my research, AI, and advice for nerds in general or people who want careers in science.

We covered many but not all of the questions submitted over the internet so AMA!
A first-class ticket on Emirates bought in cash is a whole lot more than $1,500. But it'd be about about the points equivalent of that.
That's why they don't bother fixing. Because you have no choice :(
Whats the big deal isn't this going to be same copy of data that was previously leaked in other leaks.

What new category of data is leaked in this?
I'd say that "grease" isn't an appropriate word. Grease is greasy. The substance is based on the close interaction of molecules. These molecules are to far away from each other for there to be anything we could point to as grease. It's like finding H2O and saying that there is water up their. It is really steam, very thin steam spread over billions of cubic kilometers. So this isn't really "grease".
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I wonder how they'll replace the work Google has been able to do via ReCaptcha for house numbers and such
Damn this is great.

I used to be an Apple-guy, although I've moved away from it recently,

I wonder, if Steve was still there, would I have stayed with Apple?
For sure incompetence is at play here, but if these teams had compliance and security procedures in place then their incompetence would have been accounted for.
For a clean setup where you're interacting with one website that makes sense. Perhaps less so with many streams.

Could VPN protocols be modified to obfuscate traffic patterns (without adding intolerable latency or extra bandwidth costs)? Eg, rapidly change the MSS or add some padding?
The same thing is a huge problem in OpenStreetMaps for me .
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I was recently on vacation and Apple Maps provided a poor experience, including but not limited to telling me to take a right where there was no road and into the ocean.

Google Maps to the rescue; it gave me 100% accurate directions 100% of the time.
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Our ~100k line web app takes 10-15 seconds to compile.
There may be more modern projects, but there's also "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe" at https://www.lockss.org

When you say personal archives, I wonder a little about what we'd lose to filtering by people who know they're building an archive for posterity, versus people in the future rediscovering things that were safely forgotten for some long span of time.

At the delta of personal archives and projects like this, I imagine something a little like SETI or folding for home archival (is this just describing IPFS?), but I think one of the challenges is how we preserve the right kind of data. I did some spring-data-cleaning this year while building a new system, and one of my tasks was addressing duplicate files. This forced me to confront hundreds of gigabytes of VM images, snapshots, and massive piles of duplicate files from various installations of Ruby and Python.

But perhaps I underestimate the value of even the duplicate VM images or language installs. Perhaps, centuries hence, researchers will hopefully sift yottabyte of data looking for all of the dependencies to successfully resurrect applications they need to experience in order to understand references to them in well-stewarded tweets, posts, or articles.
Because they are a money pit, more and more and more money is required. The more resources and infrastructure you build to "help" them simply pulls more of them to you, which then requires more money to maintain and on and on.

The most basic standards of care and concern are absent from them, they litter and loiter and harass and stink and steal without any regard. So attract them to your city at your peril.

>That being said: I prefer biking, and with two saddle bags I can easily do the shopping for two

^This right here. You don't come into contact with them ever, so you don't see the problem. You probably never will but you cluck cluck whenever somebody who does have to deal with them complains.
The Leaf is for those that don't want to spend the extra money on a Bolt or Model 3, and don't need the extra range. The new model Leaf is a fine car, with a little extra range over the original, while being less expensive than its competition. We've got a first-generation Leaf, and have been completely satisfied with it as a commuter/second car. Personally, if we need more range than what we've got, then we really need some range, and even a Model 3 won't cut it. So for us it's fine.

That said, were it time to replace the Leaf, today I'd a Bolt (and I own shares of TSLA, no GM). Good enough range, and say what one will about GM quality, they can at least build a car without huge body panel gaps.
+1 for Gelman, but I hate Bishop's book [2]. It was an early go-to reference in the field, but there are better books out there now.
We're oozing contempt for those assholes who believe that their stuff is more important, and so they would endanger everyone else to fly drones out to save their home.
Experience? :)
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If Tesla has timed it right and I understand the rule correctly, they will have six months from Monday until the tax rebate is halved. Assuming they are able to increase the production pace further, this means that a good portion of the initial Model 3 reservation holders will get the full tax rebate.
I forgot to mention that on for both the Unix and Windows versions of that above command, you have to hit Enter at the end of it (after the g), because last line mode (or ex mode) commands require that, unlike regular vim commands which run immediately, without needing an Enter.
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I think this should be called the 'haveibeenpwned' philosophy or the 'Troy Hunt paradigm'
> searching around your current location instead of in the selected map area

This is absolutely infuriating for trip planning.
Impossible. Our ego is too high to allow bug in our code.
I noticed old articles I had bookmarked were disappearing so I’ve started using a self-hosted Bookstack to save a copy of everything interesting I read. I enter reader mode and copy eveeything on the page, and then paste it into the WYSIWYG editor. Everything is formatted nicely and it even creates a menu using the head tags of the sections. The only problem is, while images copy correctly, they’re still hosted on the original server so I have to replace them with an uploaded copy. Only takes a couple of minutes though. I could probably automate this with a script.
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How it is central? I use an iMac and an iPhone exclusively and I have done so since those things existed, but I never use iTunes. What's it good for?
Do you think the same engineers working on Maps are the ones designing the next MacBook Pro?
Crystal - because it uses LLVM's optimizer - is probably better optimized at the codegen level than go. We still have a long way to go to get an optimized GC and similar though. Luckilly, bdwgc isn't too terrible.
If you haven't read that Moat essay, it is a detective work of art. Highly recommended.
I have never experienced this, and I almost exclusively use Maps for this very purpose (never for directions; only for finding places nearby of a specific type).
I wonder how many Apple engineers read HN--like is it rare or fairly often. Pretty much every Apple related thread has comments about the MacBook line suffering. Heck, I've been one of those complainers. I think the MacBook Pro was the best circa late 2012-2013. If my current MacBook Pro dies, my replacement won't be another Mac like it has been. I'll sadly have to jump ship for a while.
I'd be pretty happy if they just let me change the default maps app on my iPhone to Waze or Google Maps.
20% sounds like it'd be a lot of drag. I don't know if regenerative breaking would make sense in terms of cost and energy output but, that seems more feasible than a constant drag of an alternator hooked up to a wheel.
> It’s doing this by using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology

Does this seem contradictory to anybody else? Kind of like "anonymized data collection" that turns out to be not-so-anobymous when it invariably leaks?