skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Minority Report" isn't even the earliest pop-culture reference:

What about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

> For years radios had been operated by
means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became
more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive – you merely had
to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your
hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of
muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly
still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.

> Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again.

Also, the Taelon shuttles in "Earth: Final Conflict" used a gestural interface.
Wow, those bowls are great, yet so simple. It's amusing to think they'd probably be about £25 each from John Lewis.
The unlock mechanism is probably the most-used feature on my phone :)
And similar for the MacBook (Pro) range.
Without customisation:
MacBook Air £1,199.00
Macbook Pro £2,699.00

2.25x multiple

With customisation you can easily reach 3x.
No UNC support, looks like.
Part of the reason is that the 'humanism' movement that was instrumental in separating the church from the state in Europe during Renaissance was not uniformly replicated in India. It did happen in pockets, Bengal, Maharashtra were some of these pockets but this phenomena was not uniformly distributed.

Gandhi, for instance, believed that nothing ever good came out of the European civilization and its ideas. If you take such a stance you cant learn from them. His views were in stark contrast to, say, Tagore who had no problems in acknowledging the good parts while attacking the bad. What amuses me is that that banning of the practice of sati - burning of widows on the stake -- was strongly influenced by Muslim literature from Muslim golden age, the Mutazils to be precise. RamMohan Roy the chief figure in getting the practice abolished was a scholar of Persian literature and of course Mutazil literature. Its amusing because Islam is the current poster child of everything retrogressive.

Back to Renaissance, had Europe not retrogressed Renaissance would not have been necessary. The same holds for India.

BTW I am in admiration of the fact that you can talk about something that's this close to home.

My father, a scientist was heading a governmental body at the time of the previous BJP government headed by Vajpayee. He run a foul of them. He was being coerced in to scientifically endorsing that artifacts from ayodhya, bricks, to be particular, were from Ram's times. He refused to do so as those bricks indicated quite something else. It was a very trying time for our family. I have my full sympathies and respect for those who stand up against a corrupt government be it intellectual corruption or corruption of some other kind. I have immense respect for my father because given what he was going through I am not sure I would have made the same choices that he made. I would like to believe that I would have been as honest and upright but since I was not in the center of that harrasment I sincerely dont know what trade offs I would have made. This is the first time I have ever spoken about this to anyone.
I also find this a useful resource when preparing a talk (slides-based): David Tong's "How to make sure your talk doesn't suck"

www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/talks/talk.pdf
>They could provide some cover as well.

Visual cover maybe. Rounds are going to pass through it as if it isn't even there.
I haven't tried that one, I'll add it to the list. So far I've been using AutoHotKey and a script I found somewhere, which mostly works, but is a bit awkward to setup.

This looks promising, thanks for the tip!
.Net Core has come up in the shadow of .NET (Windows version) and JEE. The latter two have lost momentum and a bunch of other languages/frameworks are nibbling at market share. If it weren't for this unfortunate timing, I think .Net Core would be a lot bigger than it is.

Microsoft seems to be in this one for the long haul. I suspect .Net Core will slowly continue to gain share as time goes on, eventually reaching parity with the other 'big' players.
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> noob here - how come no one is making a cross platform API to abstract away this stuff?

... but there are hundred of cross-platform APIs to abstract this stuff - unity3d, unreal engine, qt3d, etc...
Thanks for sharing, I certainly think it does, it also helps students without reading disabilities, the fact that the technology is evolving rapidly I am optimistic to see a nearly human audio content of web text content available at easy for everyone.
I came across this recently which was amazing.

It's iOS specific but the features might let you filter by features you need;

http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/
>( they aren't bad... we just thought it could be better )

And those points are precisely, numbers. In terms of Products, Three years after the introduction of MacBook Pro Touch Bar, I still think the previous gen MacBook Pro is much better. Four Years after introduction of Homekit, Nearly 7 years since they kicked out Scott forstall because of Apple Maps, and it is still pieces of crap outside US, UK and China. How Many years after App Stores? Think MacBook Air was long in the work? It was because of huge amount of criticism from MBP they decided to make a Retina MacBook Air just to shut us up. ( For the time being )

It is not that their numbers aren't doing good, but their product and services quality are declining. Most of their Product Line seems like a mess. And we are paying a premium for it, we are not iSheep, but that value proposition is declining everyday.

Oh, Did I mention All MacBook Pro TouchBar had a design flaw with Thunderbolt that increase the MacBook failure rate? Yes these things happen under Steve as well, but once these were known a new iteration of design would have been make a year later, instead we are sitting on the same shit for years.
Most people don't think or know about that though, it will just be 'oh I didn't get the update' at most when the time comes.
It's the usual market disease of "growth above all" - apple's growth is slowing, ergo they're in trouble. Doesn't matter that the current revenues/profits are astronomical, only thing that matters is that it keeps getting more, more, more!
I'm hesitant to post a comment that might seem contrary to support of creator's rights, but if Walmart wasn't making hundreds of dollars of this photo, they'd almost certainly be making hundreds of dollars off another photo. Presumably they think this photo was the best available, but what's the margin of the difference?

I see this in the open source debate all the time as well, as though nobody has the right to make a penny out of open source software they didn't write themselves, or owe money to open source authors if they do. The whole point of open source, even libre software, is to create value for users. If those users are able to capture some of that value financially, good for them.

Perhaps the photographer in this case was treated unfairly, Shutter stock's terms might be unexpectedly unreasonable I don't know, but we have to take responsibility for how we license out our work and accept that distribution and promotion do also have value.
After seeing the first demos from Rebol View many years ago, nothing comes close yet.
Having spent some time reading Qualcomm/broadcom/mediatek patches, I don't really consider any Android phone to be secure against anything more than script kiddies. If you want security, you go iPhone or no-phone.

There are 'security by obscurity' benefits to having a minor brand though, simply because the attacker will probably have to adapt the exploit rather than use it straight off the shelf.
It's an eyecatcher. Clickbait.

Training a neural net to detect elderly people falling? Interesting for a niche.

Training a neural net to fall? What? Did I read that right? Better check it out! -> Interesting for many more people.
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Ditto Erlang.
I had a dream once about a big 18th or 19th century battle with horses, lances and cannons. At the exact same time a cannonball exploded in my dream thunder erupted as I had never heard before. It didn't sound like a rolling drum but like an actual explosion. It's probably 20 years ago but the memory still feels fresh. The memory of the surround sound dream.
If you don't care about HTTPS on localhost but still want a fully qualified domain name you can simplify this approach even further.

Let's say you have an app running on localhost:8000 on your dev box.

If you goto lvh.me:8000, it will work without having to install or modify anything on your dev box or modify your DNS records for another domain. If your app had an "example" subdomain you could even goto example.lvh.me:8000.

I wrote about lvh and other useful free services that help developing apps without needing to install a DNS server or mess with SSL certificates at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/ngrok-lvhme-nipio-a-trilogy-f....
Haskell's IO is literally the idea of sequencing commands reified, though, so the comparison is a bit apples-to-oranges.
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While I hear your point, not being too much into love stories, all those mentioned genres have so much repetition and pointless fluff, that presence of love story is smaller problem. As in, fix plot holes and half baked dumbness in writing and the impact will be much bigger then usually few minutes of fanservice in the presence of minor romance.

We are talking about genres that completely lost any suspense and thrill, because ending is predictable from the beginning.
The Apple Watch was the last product Steve Jobs envisioned and planned. You can't put that on Tim Cook.

And right now they are being more number centric rather than innovation centric as in the past years.
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Reminds me of the online travel industry. I did some time with Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia. Now its all Expedia. Expedia was always better, but not because they had a better product, but because they were better at finance and relationships. Travelocity had the best two products in the industry: travel packages and branded white labels.

I remember in each of these companies there were easily more than 10x product development people as marketing and merchandising people, but marketing people ran the companies. They had no idea about craftsmanship. Many of their ideas were in opposition to product quality would ultimately kill Travelocity as a slow poison.

My timing into all of this was interesting. I got into this in late 2007. At that exact moment Travelocity concluded industry growth in North America was finished. People had finally come online and organic growth was done. Now the only growth remaining was competition. Within a year all the executives left.

When Travelocity started its internal collapse in 2013 (I was in Afghanistan at the time) their superior products still had strong value even as the company quickly lost marketshare and employees. On top of that Travelocity had the strongest brand of the online travel companies, which was the thing they really wanted. In 2014 the company was diced up. Orbitz got the white label partnership business and Expedia got the Travelocity brand. In 2015 Expedia put in an offer to purchase Orbitz. A third of Orbitz's value was that partner business it got from Travelocity, because it would provide growth potential to Expedia it couldn't build from its brand alone. Now Travelocity is about a 50 person marketing team of Expedia, but it accounts for about a third of Expedia's core online revenue. At its high in 2012 Travelocity was about a 3500 employee company under Sabre.

The interesting thing about being at all 3 is the similarities in marketing driven goals and the similarities in technology. The technologies, the front end and the Java webapp middleware, were nearly identical. Same sorts of bloat. Same sorts of shifting positions on frameworks. Same sorts of aged archaic code that continued to live on 15 years later.

EDIT:

This is why the two products I mentioned were the industry's best. Vacation packages (flight + hotel + other things) by far had the highest margin. When you go to an online travel agency they are always pushing you to purchase a hotel, because hotels have substantially higher margin than flights, (like $50 compared to $7), but vacations packages could be worth anywhere from 1.5x to 4x hotel margin. Travelocity figured this out the best and were able to offer the cheapest packages at the highest margin rates. That was a big deal.

When all things retail fail, as they eventually always will, contracted partnerships will continue to pay. In additional to financial security they provide access to industries, data, and financial schemes otherwise not available. If you are a growth strategist this is what you want.
WTO will have little to say on the matter in the same way that it had little to say on the restrictions on trade China has enforced for its domestic market for decades.
Thank you for your posts chasing. This whole thread is so bizar to me. Almost all of the posters making any kind of sense are downvoted. How depressing.
Thanks for sharing here :)
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Does fuchsia contain any significant amount of low level go code? The majority code in zircon seems cpp to me.

D by Digital Mars is a language not a project.

The java use cases you mention seem very niche. Even databases written in Java ( Cassandra) started migrating a lot of parts to C++ (myrocks)

The Microsoft Research ones too don't seem like they came out of Microsoft Research to being used in shipped products.
Awesome! This looks like it'll solve a real pain point. Thanks for sharing :)
Or Cook could just listen to the legions of formerly loyal iPhone customers who refuse to buy phones that don't have a 3.5mm plug or require one to use Face ID. Or the Mac users who are eternally pissed off that products are too expensive and under-equipped (Mac mini) or "intentionally broken" (Touch Bar on MacBook Pro) or forgotten (is the Mac Pro ever going to get a hardware update -- or the iPod Touch for that matter?). Innovation is good but don't ditch products that work (iPhone SE, iPod nano) in the name of "innovations" that are proven flops.

Formerly loyal customers are giving Apple TONS of great product ideas but they aren't listening.
You're (somewhat) right. I was mainly addressing the "find an interesting job" part, not the "lucrative" one.

There are ways to become successful as a writer, but you need to be either very lucky, or cheat. See [1] for an example of the latter.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056BMK6K
Isn't Red a great language to teach children? I just tried Red and it's amazingly simple to get started.
Various things happened. Improvements made doing longest-prefix matching in hardware possible for IP routing. MPLS came along which allowed service separation and traffic engineering across a packet switched core.

Customers only wanted Ethernet/IP so the overhead of running an ATM layer in the middle didn’t make financial sense.
It would be interesting to know which tool & dataset the author used to produce those visualisations. Any ideas?

I particularly enjoy the “old-school” 3D maps.
C doesn't even assume that code and memory live in the same address space! The portability of standard C is almost as breathtaking as the ease with which you can introduce undefined behavior.
Just to note as a single lacking feature of XR: it doesn't have the ForceTouch, so one cannot easily move cursor around text.
That one is called Trilian. But yeah, it sounds similar.
It's the problem of subsitutes that matters in the US: what do rich people who want a small premium iPhone do when they can't get one? They likely don't go to Android, there isn't a small phone worth a damn there. They probably buy an iPhone, right? Likely an XS, since that's the smallest of the new phones. Apple isn't losing anything on them.

The market you're really talking about them capturing with a small premium phone is "rich people who have multiple devices and want a small phone and when they can't get one they buy an Android phone or make do with an SE". I'd wager that's small in most terms, certainly in Apple terms -- whether you're talking dollars or heads.

But what do the top-end Chinese consumers do when Apple doesn't have a phone that appeals to them? They buy one of the other flagships that run WeChat, and Apple loses them. That's big in Apple terms, missed-expectations-warning big.
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Exactly. I would already be happy if the characters would think before they act.
Big if true!
Not the most likely thing though. kids like playing with water and it gives them something they know how to do and control.
No evidence Steve Jobs was involved in the planning/design of the Apple Watch. In fact during the Wired interview with Ive:

“Ive began dreaming about an Apple watch just after CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011. He soon brought the idea to Dye and a small group of others in the design studio.”

And plenty of innovations for me: A12X/T2/W1 SOCs, FaceID, Apple Watch ECG, HomePod spatial detection, Beats1 Radio, Handoff/Continuity, Apple Pay.
It's a well known quote.

There are ways to solve the IPv6 problem - and ISPs in Europe have successfully rolled out both major variants, Dual Stack (Native IPv4 and v6 running alongside each other) or DSLite (Native IPv6 throughout the network, CGNat at the edge for tunnelled IPv4 traffic).

Liberty Global have opted for DSLite, the last major network of theirs will go live this year (Virgin Cable), BT and Sky (the two biggest xDSL providers) have been live for over a year at this point with Dual Stack.
That's what I ask my son. He still points to the table.

It's a fine answer, though. Not to the question I asked, but it's something I can work with.
For a company that size, "incredibly diversified" is a huge overstatement I think. They have devices (phones, tablets, computers, watches), 3rd party content store and... they all rely on each other (ecosystem effect), which makes them arguably even less diversified. Remove phones and (I believe) the whole company would just crash. How their plans for for new lines of business in 2019 and 2020 will be crucial.

Compare that to for example how Microsoft have split their dependence on Windows, and now have xbox, azure, office as truly diverse business lines. Or Amazon and their AWS division (their content still relies too much on Prime subscriptions coming from the store).

"Doing bad" is not a good description, but in terms of trajectory, they are far from a safe strategic bet right now.
I use the Japanese input method (from the language pack) to solve this. Wish I was joking, but when in hiragana input, you're still able to input words from a Romanji base, and entire English input in full width characters if you start you word with a capital. As the IME has to compensate for having multiple words from the same keystrokes in Japanese, with Roman characters, you get accented characters in the same menu.

I don't exactly see this as a great solution, but with my limited use, it surprises me that this is restricted to a CJK input
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Actually image itself is also a note (of image type)and is placed into the note tree so in export it appears at the same place as in the app.

But you're right that the exported note doesn't rewrite the link to correctly point to the local exported image.
Minecraft Java Edition is 100% Java, but it's also notoriously slow, and experiences lag spikes, which are often attributed to garbage collection. I think an OS written in a GC language can certainly have adequate latency and throughput, but I don't think Minecraft is a good example of that.
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Button placement is different, so iPhone cases probably wouldn't work well. It comes with a basic case which covers all my requirements tho, and at the end of the day, I can smash it 14 times and still have paid less than the iPhone.
i've avoided it entirely with my latest work project; no transpile, or unneeded tools... just awk & eslint.

there are no* "de-facto standards", just people doing what they think is popular 'cause they read about it on the net.
Huge synth head here. He will be missed. The Korg remakes of the Odyssey are great machines for those not wanting (or having the money) to dive into vintage madness. Now Korg should reissue the 2600 in his memory. For under $1500..
I didn't criticize anyone. It's a simple fact that most people don't take the time to sit down and understand the systems they use. I don't understand how recognizing that makes me arrogant. Recognizing there is a disconnect is the first step towards creating better systems and educational material for those systems.

> Just to be clear, you're talking about a de facto standard and nothing more.

It doesn't get much more standard than a "Downloads" folder in your user directory. It doesn't need to be an ISO standard to be recognized as a standard that everyone should learn.

Honestly you're the one being arrogant and assumptive right now. Accessibility is very important to me, and I'm not simply disregarding the vast majority of users. What's better, one ten-second educational widget for a user which teachers them to better understand the system they use, or a prompt each and every time you want to download something?

Prompts scare people, a lot of people never even read them. I've seen people download things, go through the download folder prompt, and then immediately ask me where the file was saved to.
I'm in the middle of automating certificate renewals for my company and I really haven't thought about anything except Let's Encrypt.

In fact I was surprised to see that various providers offer APIs to deploy paid certs.
> Ammo is really heavy

Wouldn't it be possible to carry the same amount of kinetic energy with lighter ammunition? One inherent limitation of firearms is that all the energy is released inside the weapon, which has, then, to dissipate the heat and remaining gases and particles. If bullets are self-propelled, a larger part of that output can be released outside the weapon, allowing it to be faster and impart more energy on impact. Unfortunately, it may make following the source of the bullet easier.

> avoid the fallout associated with losing Army equipment.

That a combatant needs to worry about paperwork is the cruelest thing I heard in a long time.
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