skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between cars and computers is that people are still relatively still in control of their cars (and they should be if they're driving them...), and there isn't all that much variability in what cars can do - "get from A to B" - nor is there currently much that the manufacturers can do to interfere with that ability to "get from A to B".

On the other hand, computers are how we communicate with and consume information from others; they are essentially how we view the world. Thus what power the companies-in-control have to limit, persuade, and otherwise manipulate the population who uses computers is far greater than what they can do with cars.

To come back to the car analogy, if the manufacturers had the same type of power those making computers and their software did, they would be able to remotely control your car to make it go not where you want it to, disable it if you tried to drive to "non-approved/licensed" locations or if you attempted to drive faster than they allowed, carried more passengers than licensed for, etc.

Of course, convenience and control are not disjoint either - and more control can also lead to greater convenience, as users customise the software they use to make their use of it more convenient.
Consoles are very likely to thrive for the next generation. China finally lifted the ban on game consoles and I'm starting to see Xbox One / PS4 being sold in different retail stores.

Even though it's still a tough sell for most Chinese (remember, no one pays for games here, at least not upfront), they'll come around.
> You only turn ever so slightly heavenward, mainly to avoid air resistance.

And then you turn Earthward, to avoid crashing into the Earth.
Well don't leave us hanging. Let us know your guesses. I'm really interested to know. Several other people in this thread seem to know and yet are not saying anything.

Edit: I found this quote from [1].
"Jessica Lessin at The Information tweeted that Rubin wanted more freedom for his robotics group. She said he wanted a structure like Calico, which is the anti-aging company Google has started.

Our guess is that Page views robotics as something he understands better, and considers it core to Google, and therefore would not want to give it the same independence.
"

If so it seems rather short sighted for Page to let somebody like Andy Rubin leave. Rubin is self motivated,passionate,driven about what he does and he could have done great work with robotics.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/andy-rubin-out-of-google-2014...

2nd Edit: At least now I'm hopeful that Google will not own robotics.
> You know what will never stop this? [...] Voting with your dollar (people who know what a privacy policy is are few and far between).

I disagree. I think voting with your dollar works pretty well actually. Case-in-point: The recent uproar over the Xbox One's Kinect. The original plan called for the Kinect to be a required component and for the microphone to always be on. Thanks to consumer backlash, Microsoft backpedaled on the always-on requirement pretty quickly, and they've started selling Kinect-less Xbox Ones as well.

Part of this is because Sony did an excellent job of capitalizing on these mis-steps with the PS4. Because there's no reason a competitor can't do the same against these smart TVs. You don't need customers to read the privacy policy; you just need to tell them that "the TV is telling Uncle Sam when you have sex."
Aiming at perl level stability seems like a bad idea at version 1.0. There will be mistakes - some of them really horribad.

Wouldn't it be a better idea to aim at some kind of Rails level stability, with actually expecting 1->2 to be a total rewrite, 2->3 be a massive undertaking and 3->4 be a quite simple undertaking and then accumulate stability as the good ideas pile up over time?
Good! I hope they’ll respond to you within a reasonable time frame.
Come on, this is bullshit.
I cannot say about your congressmen but any enterprise will care if their goods will not get bought.
And there comes the first step: You must educate people about their needs of privacy.
Just smashing things to peaces does not help at all, it's maybe attracting hateful activists but not giving understanding.
You would have to build up a lot more speed if all you are going to do is decelerate once you "take-off". Also noteworthy, once you get to the escape velocity you would require an additional force just to keep you circular.
does this mean we can compile Yosemite from the code here and install it on a modern Mac?

Or is this just the Darwin kernel code?

Are the aqua/user interface layer also included here?

Any CONTEXT related to this source code would be greatly appropriated.
>Making a thread-safe GC perform as well as today's highly-optimized single-threaded GCs is hard.

That is entirely a problem of your own making. You decided to bet hard on single threaded dynamic Javascript being a suitable model for all end user software. It turns out it isn't, but it's too late now.

This kind of thing is exactly why Javascript isn't a good choice as a general purpose VM platform. Which you are presumably aware of because you aren't writing the next generation of Firefox in Javascript, you are creating Rust. But apparently what isn't good enough for Mozilla is good enough for everybody else…

Which brings us to the real problem with the web - everybody except the browser vendors is a second class citizen.
I'm residing outside the US, where iPhones cost a lot more and the new models are available 2-3 months after the release day.

I use that 2-3 months gap to buy my new phone abroad and sell my old phone to somebody while there's a demand. I recently upgraded to iPhone6 and sold my iPhone 5 for ~$400 (USD), so essentially I paid $300 for the new phone.
You will still need to be able to compile it though.
People in India on an average are intolerant and mean. I have spent some time in the US and I was surprised to find that the average person you run into in the world is a nice person. I dont know why it is so in India. May be its because of the population pressure and a bad selection criteria in society. In some situations mean behaviour is the only way how you get things done.
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what about the feasibility of injecting energy on the ground (say a maglev rail based launch) such input wouldnt be contributing to the rocket's weight and therefore would reduce the needed fuel consumption quite a bit I would imagine.
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Hobbyist mechanical engineering with a career in law enforcement.
The same reason you're not allowed to sell yourself into slavery.
I have a 10 years old TV (still a CRT because they were better than LCDs back in 2004, but that's not important). It will stop working more sooner than later and I'll have to replace it with some sort of smart TV. Whatever I get inside it I decided what to do with it long ago: keep it off the Internet. Instead I'll hook it the the very same Raspberry PI with OpenELEC I'm using right now. If something breaks because it can't call home, I don't care. Obviously I'll be careful to buy one of the most dumbed down smart TVs on the market. All I need is the screen.
It seems you use too small set of words? I can't see the source on this device, but it looks so.

Secret salt would have to be the same everywhere. So it has no sense to think about it. Just a good hash is needed, hard enough not to be brute forced, like scrypt.
Some kind of designer
Non-Mozilla technologies are not welcome in Firefox and never have been.

That is why we have been stuck for 15 years without a lossy image format that supports transparency (meanwhile they put lots of effort into supporting an animated png format that was invented by Mozilla that nobody else in the world cares about or uses). Mozilla's NIH syndrome holds back the web.
I'd guess they've done their market research on this and I'd also have to guess they figured it wouldn't hurt their sales.

Which seems odd to me. Having a TV with the ability to surveil me is a foul feature and one that'd instantly turn me off a purchase, no matter what protections they put in place. Internet-connected, closed as can be, with a possibly open mike and camera into your living room... fuck that.

Edit: s/that/they
I liked the idea too so just looked around, the NECs seem particularly good, for example:

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/large--screen-displays/e464

A 46" display, for $769, 1080p and 3 x HDMI inputs and all of the necessary sound inputs and outputs. Additionally it's relatively low-power and doesn't actually look bad.

I can see me buying something like this in future, it fits with how I use TV anyway, feeding HDMI inputs into it and just considering it a display for other devices.
The question people should be asking, how come in Eastern European countries internet access is so cheap and fast, yet barely regulated? It's so easy to argue for more regulation when things go wrong: trying to control businesses always sounds like a more noble idea than settings them free. And yet, in every possible example we see that where there's more freedom of enterprise, the customer always wins. And this is especially obvious with ISPs.
I wasn't particularly disturbed by this article until I got to the following passage regarding the "Voice Command" feature:

"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."

I don't think there is a prison horrible enough to send these people to. There is NO legitimate reason that an always-on audio feed from your home should be sent to third parties. People shouldn't even be allowed to opt-in to something like that. No one would EVER knowingly allow this, regardless of the functionality it enabled.

I cannot envision a circumstance in which this "feature" was not put in at the direct request of law enforcement. I am extremely disappointed that he did not name the manufacturer of this TV in the article (unless he made it all up to get clicks). If this is legitimate, he needs to post the manufacturer's name and they need be boycotted, immediately, forever. Consumers need to adopt a scorched earth strategy with companies like this.
What you believe "hex bytes" suggest to you (but falsely) are actually "nibbles"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble
Staitght up is also wrong if you want a circular orbit.
I would expect to use the first day of a month as a default, just like when time is not specified it should use 00:00 as default. Taking the current time/day as a default sounds off.

Probably hard to fix backwards compatible though...
Are you not counting Googhle or Apple as third parties?
Sorry but that comparison is flawed. You are comparing 35$ Chromecast to a 499$ mac mini. I can buy 3 Chromecasts, 1 for every TV in my house and still spare 400$...
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It installed fine for me. Get the latest download here: https://unity3d.com/unity/download

Perhaps you were installing an older version?
Samsung and co ship non-smart TVs with exactly the same panels for hundreds of dollars less than smart TVs of the same size. Just buy non-smart TVs and couple them with a decent AV amp and games console and you can replicate all the smart TV nonsense with other devices.
I recently had to write a wrapper around this particular library to get it to parse timezones correctly. At least I have a defined datetime form I'm passing in!
Now will someone figure out a terminal command to turn off the MacBook Pro display for Yosemite?

Like the following:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/14/disable-the-internal-screen-o...
Seriously now, and without meaning to diss your work -- ever considered contributing to wisp? The project needs extra hands.
Any idea of the salary of the people Larry Page likes to whim? I mean, lets not get crazy, working for G comes with all kind of perks!
Luckily most things use HTTP

The irony is that as people justifiably push for "more security", more and more of them are going to use HTTPS or other encrypted transports, making it impossible to determine what information they're transferring just from network inspection.

End-to-end encryption is a good thing only if you trust both endpoints and don't want MITMs to interfere. Otherwise, it's security being used against you.

When these smart device manufacturers "smarten up" and start encrypting everything (likely with no options to disable and/or e.g. install self-signed certificates - naturally, because of "security reasons"), it'll be all-or-nothing.
Different approaches to stability attract different people. I wouldn't touch a 1.0 that promised 1->2 to be a total rewrite. With a 1.0 that promises backward compatibility, I'll be sure to look into it. More importantly, it's true for whole organizations employing hundreds or thousands of programmers.

On the other hand, some people like to work on things that "will always improve", and where compatibility will never be a reason to tolerate a suboptimal design decision in the long run. Which works especially well if their taste matches the taste of whoever is charged with evolving the thing. One could argue that Rails 4.0 or 20.0 beats any 1.9999 version a backward-compatibility-centered system could ever deliver... and one could argue against it.

I'm obviously happy that Rust takes the approach that suits me :-)
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The trouble is that "worse society" is defined by the preferences of the speaker, not the aggregate preferences of everyone in society including the thousands (millions?) of users contently using Twitter in ways the speaker dislikes.
I see it this way. You have to accelerate the mass to the escape velocity. You also have to achieve a net effect of being in orbit (some distance x above surface of earth). The most direct vector to that distance is perpendicular. The two combined should give you the minimal energy requirement. Any engineering (and aerodynamics) creativity cannot give you anything better.
You do realize that the second sentence was "I thought, and still think, that this would be bad for the quality of Nintendo’s games, and bad for their bottom line", right? Or are you trolling?
The last sentence says it all.
nitpick: headline slightly misleading as the crime isn't related to Pirate Bay other than its the same guy.
That's GPL, not LGPL. LGPL only requires you to release the source of the part you used, nothing that links with it.
A nice thing about "smart" TVs is that they come bundled with codecs and can play media off USB drives. This is really convenient, though you can of course get a monitor and something like WD TV box, but ultimately it'd be a wash.
The powerful FastMail Web Interface to the rescue.

You can set up a 'Personailty' address to match the alias, & select that when sending the reply. There may be a way to always use a specific personality with certain addresses, but I haven't used the feature in so long I don't remember.
You don't get to orbit by going up far enough, if you did you'd just end up falling back to earth.

You get to orbit by going fast enough, so that acceleration due to gravity acts perpendicular to your velocity and so acts to change your direction and pulls you around the earth.
youtube is being made completely useless...
Eight reasons bankers and Fintech upstarts are “up at night” about Compliance
> being in orbit (some distance x above surface of earth). The most direct vector to that distance is perpendicular.

That's not what being in orbit is. In fact that's the opposite of being in orbit. To be in orbit you need to move parallel (tangent) to the surface of the earth, not perpendicular.

The distance about the surface is entirely for air resistance, and has nothing to do with being in orbit.
Though it's not particularly practical, storing an event for every tab and window open, close, and URL change could lead to some very cool analytics after a long period of usage. I'd love to see visualizations of the number of tabs I have open over time, number of tabs per domain, etc.
Terseness at different levels. Avoiding boilerplate syntax is good. Obscure abbreviated names of functions and operators just to save a few keystrokes is bad.

Btw. the definition of terseness in the essay seem specifically chosen to favor Lisp style languages.

2 + 3 * 4

is clearly terser than

(+ 2 (* 3 4))

But by counting "leafs" like he does (rather than say tokens), they get the same terseness-count.
i'll spare everybody else the snark here
Says the guy with nearly 38k tweets.
Having no "leaders" wouldn't stop the phenomena of corporate surveillance.

A world with unfettered unregulated markets sounds more nightmarish to me than what we have now.
There are iteration costs in that you're adding a compile step, but in terms of runtime performance, many of the languages are close enough to js that there shouldn't be any cost over hand written js (e.g. typescript, coffeescript,etc). In production you're probably running the whole thing through a minifier anyway, and the most popular of those can actually do performance enhancing transformations too. Google claim that compiled-to-js dart performs better than hand written js, although that is probably a mixture of exaggeration and the effect of the closure compiler which you can run on javascript code anyway.
Not exactly the same thing, but you can save pages to your mobile devices for offline viewing with the Chrome to Mobile extension.
ES6/5 compiles down just like Coffeescript, with the added benefit that one day you don't need to compile it.
Stack unwinding in Rust
How to Outsource Everything in Product Creation to Get to Market Faster
Normal rocket operation is a burn, not a detonation, and there's a clear difference between those that's not just about speed.
A walk through a cool code generation trick from Clang
What do I know about the difference between my data being on a machine in the headquarters of Samsung or the headquarters of the Golden Lucky Data Brokers Pty?
I wish I could host my own cloud, but I understand the model. I just wish it wasn't so :(.
I used to worry about that too, but it turns out not to be a big problem in practice. (I realize that's not a satisfying explanation, but this is one area where we can't give out details without enabling people to game the site. Having put a ton of effort into HN's anti-voting-ring measures, I dread the thought of having to climb all the way down the mountain and push that boulder up again.)
How? The CPU only has instructions for AES-NI (not for the actual encryption scheme, nor for key generation) and it has to be deterministic or it won't decrypt on the other side. The only thing I can think about is trying to leak information using timing attacks and I wonder if these can be introduced through microcode updates. I doubt it and besides the risk for Intel would be far greater than for any of the companies involved in PRISM.
“AirHopper” Malware Uses Radio Signals to Steal Data from Isolated Computers
The fusion projects have been running for a long time with little success. Apollo was built on scaling tech that already worked (1940s rocketry could reach space although not achieve orbit)
It's just more convenient to keep the code in, otherwise you'll have to look it up again which takes more time... (and effort, we're developers after all)
I don't see how that's problematic at all. If my ideal society is different from that of most other people, it still doesn't mean I'm not entitled to my own opinion.
CDI may have been the last time they released their IP on a platform they do not control, but they have done this more than once. An example would be Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600.
> you don't need the manufacturer to strike deals with Netflix/HBO/Hulu, you just need a web browser.

In theory, the same could be said for Chromecast, since the casting server isn't something that Google sets up, but rather a feature the media company adds to their own app / service (which is relatively easy to do). For all intents and purposes, it's an app-driven web browser for your TV with the ability to stream video.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of using the actual netflix app to stream things to my television - same goes for youtube, pandora, class6ix, plex, and all the other apps I use to cast to my TVs and Stereos around the apt every day. I don't miss the wireless keyboard / mouse in the slightest.
Manufacturers are adding these "features" to differentiate themselves in a marketwhere a dumb TV has lots of competition. The value is questionable but the user only really founds out when it's too late but they already got the actual tv part they wanted so they are not too disappointed.
"If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport."

I thought this was quite though-provoking from a Drake Equation standpoint. From what I've gleaned, the earth-like planets we know of seem to be a big bigger than Earth. Perhaps if there's civilization out there, they are hampered by the misfortune of being on a planet that's practically impossible to escape from. If they find it hard to put up a Hubble Telescope, perhaps they'll just not be as likely to bother.

My other remark is to the engineering. There's a quip that you have to be an engineer to make something that only just satisfies the requirements. Plenty of people build houses without much in the way of calculation. Even cars can be built by enthusiasts without degrees. This is what makes the space stuff such amazing engineering.
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I guess he is talking about reviews that lack all such information and rather talk about how exactly it looks on your wrist rather than talking about what exactly you could do with one.

I have observed this too and makes me think reading smart watch reviews rather redundant.
Touchscreens are more prone to accidental input, and the solution that smartphones and tablets have is a button to lock/unlock it. I think the same could be done for a rotating bezel - or possibly two buttons, diametrically opposite, that need to be pressed simultaneously in a "pinch" type of motion to unlock it.
Making the collected data machine readable so it could be sucked into snort/firewall rules/redirected etc might prove nice too.
Eich is also 53, the same age as Cook. Both were born in 1961 Where do you get you mistaken certitude from? And why would 5 years age difference matter even if it were true?