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We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
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News Flash: Genetic Scientist Thinks GMO foods Are OK. What a shocker, a booster for GMOs who works in ... gene sequencing.
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Dole Food Had Too Many Shares
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"That system has worked pretty well for 40 years." - Wait, so I'm saving for retirement (40 years from now) in a system that isn't even that old?Somehow I don't trust it to still be around when I need to get money back.
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FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers
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IBM participated in apartheid[0] in South Africa, providing hardware and software to the government to run the passbook system which enabled widespread racial profiling. They have yet to be held accountable[1], despite having participated directly.Say what you will about the author of NanoCore, he participated in the supposed crimes less than IBM did in apartheid.[0]: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.co...
[1]: http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/areas-of-focus/previous-areas-of-...
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Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
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Congratulation for your new app. Adobe has a similar free app called Adobe Color. However, your app is better as it clearly define the color name and code. You may like to check their app and add a color scheme feature.
Very good work!
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Making a Game in Rust
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Is there a write-up on how the rust code ends up being embedded in the iOS app?
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Chrome Enterprise
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Random observation: the font-background contrast ratio in this post makes it very hard to read comfortably.
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The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
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Of course it is, apart from hardware comparisions; Apple has all the necessary components sans gamepad to create an Nintendo Switch esque setup.
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Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React
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I understand this has a certain cool factor but I have to wonder why we need all of this over simpler approaches like server side rendering and templates.
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Pencil and Paper Games
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There are many traditional board games that can be played with pencil and paper as well. See the following list compiled by the board game geeks:https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/74684/non-obvious-pap...
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After the end of the startup era
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Current startups are jokes. Not really many of them have techs, let alone a working business model. All they have is websites/apps, nothing more.
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A Guide to Natural Language Processing
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Recommend Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning @ Stanford online course:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68
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Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
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How to Create and Start Successful Revolutions | Ben HorowitzSaw this in-person and really recommend it. Detailed historical example of revolution and key takeaways for establishing a great culture at your company.https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8chttps://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-cre...
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Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court
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Ethnic cleansing was so much easier with the church records.
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State of React Native 2018
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I moved a way from react-native to flutter because developing react-native is frustrating.
Note: I love React and Redux but I HATE react-native!a) Flutter's hot reload is a much better experience than react-native or Expo.b) I am more confident with Flutter (React-native makes me feel incompetent since I have no idea about native stuff). With Flutter, I feel that I am in charge of my code, because dart compiles to native arm code.c) I have OCD and don't like RN's console warnings when I am compiling the code.d) Flutter UI widgets are so consistent that I don't even bother testing on both platforms. (one is enough)e) I dislike RN's ecosystem. I don't even bother making canny request on react-native's canny, due to lack of response. None of the most popular planned FRs from last year are done yet ! https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests?sort=topf) React-native's libraries are out of date.(I prefer corporate backing over community support)g) lack of response on stack overflowIf I wear react-native, I would take Flutter's approach instead of bridge. Completely modernize JavaScript, get rid of its bad parts and compile it to arm. SKIA is open source and if Dart can compile to it, so should JavaScript with more tweaks of course.
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My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
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A minute ago this article was on the first page and suddently it dropped to second.I'm sorry what? What is happening here?
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Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
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since when capitalism wants workers to be aware? oh yeah, since China Communist party do a demonstration on technologycal superiority. Problem for capitalism is that a system where workers are awakened is called SOCIALISM.
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The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
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Plausible or not, it was a little surreal seeing Facebook advertising on television this year. I mean, isn't Facebook, and social media in general, supposed to be "post-television"? ;-)
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The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
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I’m seeing a lot of people giving anecdata here but it’s very easy to fool yourself and imho this feels like a story that is going to need a lot more study for us to understand what’s really going on. I can’t think of any obvious reason that either climate change or pesticide use in areas hundreds of miles away would affect insect populations. But, there’s a lot I don’t know. So let’s find out but not panic.
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UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
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1.17.4 not functioning with Firefox 52.9.0 (32-bit)
Reverting to 1.17.2 it works again.
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There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway
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Headline like this won't get me to read the article. There's plenty of reason to cross the country by train. You could be afraid of planes. You could just really like trains. You could like to see the country from the ground.
Maybe it's a romantic experience or journey. Who knows, but there are certainly really good reasons travel across the country the way you want to.
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Guide to Deep Work
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I struggle with this everyday
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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-class-action-lawsuit-fi...
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Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
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DocMikeEvans - https://www.youtube.com/user/DocMikeEvans - Health tips from a Canadian doctor (as they say on their page, a "Med School for the Public")Eastory - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElybFZ60Hk1NSjgCf7I2sg - History channel focused on Easter Europe and WW2 (for now); very similar with Historia Civilis, which has already been mentioned here; their animated maps of WW2 or mind-blowing; highly recommendedHigh Pressure Aviation Films - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopOnltjd_os9EhR0nE_tSA - cockpit video recordings of takeoffs/landings from various planes and airports; they include airport maps, radio traffic and subtitles (the guys are French)Historia Civilis - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_vLHiWVBh_FR9vbeuiY-A - already mentioned here, very nice history channelJ Utah - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcVQr-07MH-p9e2kRTdB3A - the guy drives through downtown of major cities, especially from USA/Canada, but also Europe; I guess you learn about other cities in these videos :)Kurzgesagt - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q - general channel about scienceNerdwriter1 - https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1 - a channel about movies and art in generalThanks for the other people that commented, I found some nice channels that I didn't know about!
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The Cult of Kubernetes
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So many red flags in this article.So the author was previously using dokku. Dokku was cool, and was basically a docker-based heroku clone. The keyword here is heroku, because dokku basically brings away a lot of the operations work that is needed to actually run a service, at a small scale, with reasonably good results. Dokku was cool, but it didn't really scale beyond one node (unless you have multiple machines running dokku, of course)So with dokku gone, the author still wants the features of heroku, and still doesn't work to peform all the operations work. So the author goes to Kubernetes and realises that there's operations work to do.Guess what? Somebody still has to do the Operations part. If you don't want to do pay for some managed hosting (like, as per previous keyword, heroku) you'll have to do it yourself. Have fun.Now, kubernetes is complex and the learning curve is steep. Kubernetes is designed to scale up to hundreds of nodes. Needless to say, complex tasks require complex tools.Complexity has to be paid somehow. Either you pay in money (Heroku) or you pay with your own time and efforts.Once again, there's nothing new under the sun: there's no free lunch.
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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
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Apart from all before mentioned stuff, I am hugely thankful for FOSS. It's kinda hard to imagine the current software landscape without the existence of FOSS and open source contributors.FOSS is awesome :)
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Go + Services = One Goliath Project
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I think some of the misunderstanding in these comments comes from not fully appreciating the perspective of not-for-profit organisations. While I can't speak for Khan Academy, I know that in every NFP organisation I have worked for there is an acute awareness that funding could dry up one day and the prime directive is to ensure that in a scenario like that, the work of the organisation can continue.In this case, it leads to a higher concern about minimising the cost of the operational services than you might have in a for-profit organisation. In all the strategic planning I have been involved in with NFP, we always have the "what if worst case scenario arises" plan and in that plan the ability to scale down to bare minimum operational cost is key. It may not be conscious but I suspect that may be part of the reason the performance savings from moving to Go are so attractive in this case, where most profit-making companies just ask the question of whether they can afford to pay for the servers with their current margin or not and if they can they have more important things to worry about.
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Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
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Is anyone aware of something similar that works when the picture is taken outside the water? Something that could remove reflection and glare.
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How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
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They miss Baumol cost diseasehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_diseaseBasically there haven't been major productivity increases in construction.
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Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
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He can easily get a job that pays 10M a year
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Tips for the depressed
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This will make a neat self-checkup downward spiral detection checklist. I have one, but it's three items, and I'm not happy with it, I'm still struggling to be aware of how I am on any given day or any given moment.My current three points are "Feeling sexy?", "Endlessly arguing invisible opponent?", and "Light is fucking annoying?"
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Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower
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This is a marketing piece.
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Show HN: 33 line React
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It seems like `m.update` function queries the current DOM state.I'm interested in the performance implications of this. From what I know, other vdom libraries maintain the current DOM state in-memory for efficient computation of what should be updated.No doubt that this is much simpler and ought to be at least more efficient than re-drawing everything. How much performance do you lose due to querying the DOM state?
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I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
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For anybody else that spends most of their budget on advertising for your own trademark because your competitors do...the solution is to inform your audience how they should forcible disable ads and to switch to a search engine that can turn off ads.
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Who gets invited to the party?
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In India I've seen bias against different groups, regions, religions, languages etc. in hiring, promotions. The only difference is that everyone has bias against everyone to a level that one can't point out which group is more biased. It evens out I guess
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Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)
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I spent hours (dialup) downloading what I thought was powerpoint to work on a school project as a kid and it turned out only to be a viewer. Unfortunately buying MS Office wasn’t in the budget either so I was SOL.Software in school should at least be gratis, which seems to be happening with google docs et all.
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2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
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I'm pretty sure this 2-acre farm will produce two to three orders of magnitude less calories than 720 acres of wheat. or rice.
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8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
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I’m not a “kid” person, but I really like Leo!
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Self-organising textures from cellular automata
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Very cool, and great demo. This really takes me back as I was really into graphics algorithms, including texture synthesis, in my younger years.The hexagonal grid seems to have some cell-boundary issues though, especially noticeable with the two radial cell alignments.
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Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
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This seems like a classic case wherein messy execution should be followed immediately by meticulous cleanup.Messy execution exploits top-of-mind opportunities without permitting administrative overhead chores to distract.Immediate meticulous cleanup constructs an idealized legible history, with the advantage of familiar recency.The human brain itself works this way, consolidating long-term memory overnight during sleep.The next question is how best to implement this workflow in git.One option would be to use complex arcane git commands to transform a messy actual work history into an idealized legible official record. Even if the user performs this transformation perfectly, at minimum it causes a loss of information about the actual work history, by altering messy commits.Therefore it's better to write completely new commits for the official record. One's idiosyncratic work history doesn't belong in the public collaboration git repo.I find it easier to use separate git repos, one personal and the other collaborative. I transfer info between them only via manually syncing the working trees.It may take syncing from multiple personal commits to update the official record sensibly, which sounds like a burden, until compared to the alternative of trying to understand a mysterious ancient official commit embracing multiple unrelated changes.Code spelunkers unsatisfied with the terseness of the official record should be free to investigate the contributing dev's personal repo to sort through his chaos for clues.
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Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
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This looks amazing! Can us dinosaurs on macOS Catalina expect a compatible build in the future?
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New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
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Just want to highlight this part of the bill since it seems that it was missed by many commenters.> INDEMNIFICATION BY PUBLIC BODY.--A judgment awarded pursuant to the New Mexico Civil Rights Act against a person acting on behalf of, under color of or within the course and scope of the authority of the public body shall be paid by the public body.
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QEMU 6.0
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If anyone knows how to improve the graphics performance on Windows, please share. Compared with other hypervisors like Virtualbox or ESXI, there’s no graphics driver for Windows VMs with QEMU.
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Observable Plot
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I've been reading about D3 and am thinking about integrating it into my React project. But I've come across a number of posts that discuss how React & D3 don't play nicely together because they both manipulate the DOM. [1] is a good starting point for this deep dive.Does Observable Plot resolve those issues or do we need still to be careful integrating it into a React environment?[1] https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/a-comparison-of-data-vis...
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Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
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Glad to see these idiotic notices are working out as expected.
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Steve Jobs in Kyoto
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Kyoto is such an amazing place, truly unique. I have been there 3 times and i think i must have seen and experienced only 5% of it.
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Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
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I love it!
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Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
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Name changes should be refused or rolled back when the request ever so slightly smells like identity theft.
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Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
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Review fraud but not product fraud? Ok Jeff
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A different kind of keyboard
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I'm not sure I understand - it took me 28 keystrokes to type 13 characters. The value must come from somewhere, where is it?
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Android and iOS data collection
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I wish someone (with network knowledge) would do this for Windows 11. I'm curious how much data (and what kind) is being sent by the OS after you enable (as much as possible) all the privacy options during OOBE.
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It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question
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“The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up.”― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
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This is ultrasound!
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The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto
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> Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."Crime" is a word with bad connotations, but what it actually means is "whatever your government doesn't allow you to do". Being able to do something that a government doesn't want you to do isn't prima facie wrong or immoral in most of the world. Even under more benign governments like the US one, there are plenty of normal activities that it doesn't allow for various bad reasons (war on drugs is a good example). Technically, bypassing the restrictions on drugs, avoiding capital controls or straight up confiscation of deposits, opting out of local currency devaluation, etc. can be "crime". However, it is actually good that crypto makes that possible.Is crypto a good tool for that, long term, from a technological standpoint? I am not sure. But the author is clearly sneaking in connotations here.
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ADSL works over wet string (2017)
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This is basically "near field" communication /s
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Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done
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95 years is not even the longest copyright period in the United States: some sound recordings will not enter the public domain until 110 years after their first publication.
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Nvidia Grace CPU
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Who bets that the amount of detailed information they'll officially[1] release about it is "none" or close to that? I still think of Torvalds' classic video whenever I hear about nVidia. The last thing the world needs is more proprietary crap that's probably destined to become un-reusable e-waste in less than a decade.[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550028
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Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human”
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Reminds me of one of the Oscar nominated live action short films this year, "Please Hold". It takes this dystopian concept to the extreme, where a man is subjected to an automated justice system and has very little rights to speak with humans in the process. Not my favorite of the nominations, but an interesting watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11383280/
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FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
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Maybe some very fucking smart people at the FDA know this will backfire. Thus increasing demand for e-cigarettes.Of course, that's crazy talk.Ignoring that different young smokers will have different authority relationships and will require different guidance methods. Which is not an insignificant factor and not fucking lost on me.I'd have to accept something like that reputations matter. Whether you're respected in the community. Whether you're a rebel or a straightedge. And whether you're the right kind of rebel...Man, what if that was true? And then you were told your own reputation doesn't matter. Just be proud.It'd be like a kick in the teeth.Somehow we got condoms to be acceptable (to most groups, again setting aside bug chasers, certain populations mistrustful of public health and edge cases) without resorting to this.It's just insane looking at the future, because we are moving backwards.
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Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order
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Certainly Razorpay didnt act in the best interest of the consumers. It didn't pursue the legal options it had. Leaving politics aside, this doesnt seem to be a good thing.
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Working in the software industry, circa 1989
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1995 India - Had a paid internship (Rs 2500 per month or ~ USD 80 back then) with a small software company that worked on FoxPro + dBase. A very diverse team (gender ratio), the highly enthusiastic bunch created software for non-banking financial companies.
A thick documentation book occupied most of the space in the large, laminated box that such development software came in. Along with half a dozen floppy disks where we hoped that no disk would have a bad sector.
Requirements were constantly over the phone from clients and shipping software meant taking two sets of floppy disks of different brands (backup!), in-person, to the city where the client was.
CRTs needed a warm-up time and we had a small diesel generator (hand cranked) to power up the x86 computers once the main power line crashed (which was frequent).
No internet searches, no help other than that thick paper manual or waiting around for hours for a senior engineer to get free to help you out.
College taught us C and Pascal on Unix.
That seems so far away from the world of microservices and SPAs.
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Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened
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Am I the only one enjoying and finding peace in this type of short sentence narrative?Is it maybe because English is not my native language?
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Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
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I have worked with Windows registry for at least 2 decades and it is one of the things I rally hate about design of Windows (and I like the way config files are kept in Linux).
A very big virtual file system (with a parallel access API of its own) inside a very big (at that time, slower) file system (and its own API). I wish Windows limited its config to only pure file-system file. Simple and flat, instead of this mess of over 100 MBs which has been itself a source of many vulnerabilities. The legacy baggage is also terrible.
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Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
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If we’re really lucky, we’ll get a new style of sport racing tailor-made for cars like this
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HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges
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Not only this, but our HP Pagewide inkjet machine will even refuse to use genuine ink if it’s “out of date”. I.e, its manufacture date was more than a couple of years ago. Also consider that the ink can sit on the shelf at the store or Managed Service Provider for this entire time and therefore go into landfill without ever being used in a machine.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
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Planet Farms | Data Engineer/Analyst | Office in Coimbra, PortugalWe make vertical farms.Hybrid office job, Coimbra, Portugal. Relocation, assistance of lawyers at the expense of the company.The task is to found the data team and grow into its lead. At first it will be just you, but during the year it is planned to hire more people to the team.It is necessary to lay the foundation of Data Mesh (current leading idea, up to discussion) and data culture in the company, which will allow scaling to dozens of factories.In the beginning, you need to work a lot with your hands on the backend and infrastructure: raise the database, write the API and everything else.Requirements:
Data Engineering experience, Data Analysis experience, Good people skills. You will have the support of our team, but we need you to be the driver of the project.Contact: [email protected]
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Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework
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We all know what happened to the train at the end of that movie.
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Style your RSS feed
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XSLT is great for this kind of thing.
Back in the day I added similar styling to make a convoluted but important XML config file readily human readable. The support guys loved it.
Main drawback is that without good tool support debugging XSL and XPath gets quite painful but IntelliJ had it covered.
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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
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Wouldn't it make sense to allow encoding additional data in the suffix? For instance a sharding key (or whatever you wanna call it)?
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nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990
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This was probably the first website I regularly used when I got internet (late 90s) - because it had an awesome Commodore 8-bit archive. That archive is now hosted on another domain ( http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ) even now it's still an awesome resource for Commodore fans.
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"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."
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TLDR: I have a somewhat funny story...I got married in 1997 the same year I started working on local number portability. Local number portability is the system that allows people to keep their phone number and change their carrier. Wire line local number portability happened first and then wireless number portability went live in November 2003. I had been working in this area for about six years.About a week before the system went live. I'm on site and in a meeting. We were covering all the test results and launch plan details. I get a call from my wife. I figured it was important because she knew I was on-site. I take the call. she says, "Guess what I just heard. You are going to be able to change cell phone companies and keep your number! Isn't that cool?" "Um, Hun what do you think I've been working on for the last six years?"
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
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Please be careful before you go out and drop acid thinking it'll make you a better developer. Psychedelics like that are powerful.And by powerful I mean I've had bad trips where I thought I was being raped, and hallucinated a giant penis staring at my face for eight hours.On the other hand, acid is one of the best drug out there if done right, it unclutters minds.
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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
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It took me far too long to really start using vim. I have to say, though, that as an avid user now I find it really annoying to find dw yy p :q and :w in the other editors I have to use on other machines. It does take discipline, though, but it is really FUN. How awesome is it to find some really sweet new key combination you didn't know existed? I almost never seek out the obscure settings of newer IDEs yet I often randomly search out new key combinations for vim. Love it.
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Programmers' Day
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I did not know this, otherwise I could have taken the day off.
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SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork
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Upon my most recent visit, the image is no longer there. Not just hidden, but they removed the markup and it is no longer loaded with the site. I would like to believe that this post created enough of a cease and desist to effect the takedown.
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Introducing DuckDuckHack
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This is so cool...
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What I Hate About Git
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Interesting point of view but it please try to learn your tools better next time you write an article :)
And try not be a hater, it only harms you and not doing any good.
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X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete
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Expect this technique in the future malwares and software protection DRM systems for making code analyzing harder.
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We used to sleep twice each night
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He tried to study that via old medical records and literature... But didn't try to see an Amish?
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Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers
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If you like the idea of CoreOS but don't like the idea of using Docker containers, check out bedrocklinux.org.
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iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
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When I was on IOS I regularly turned off imessage and back on again to refresh contacts. It's a pain in the ass, but it helped ease the pain of my friends switching to android before I did.
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Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
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I'll point out that while the article touts its "blazing-fast Intel Core-i7", the likely reason that they chose an i7 is not that it is blazing-fast, but because currently, generally speaking[1], the i7 line is the only one that includes IRIS graphics, which is an IGP that is pedestrian by the standards of discreet GPUs, but quite impressive in terms of integrated graphics solutions. While all of the i7 processors that contain IRIS graphics are very fast from a compute perspective, that's not likely the reason they chose Intel's premium line.That is to say, the i7 is still a compromise in performance, but has the great advantage of having pretty good graphics (which they need for high def video streaming) without requiring a huge discreet GPU, which in turn allows for a very small overall package. I'm not saying that it's a bad tradeoff, actually I recently bought a laptop that makes this exact tradeoff, but I think that it's a little bit intentionally disingenuous to tout its top end CPU performance when it's likely that this was only a secondary or tertiary factor for choosing this CPU.I know it's marketing, and of course they're going to put i7 on the front of the tin because it's associated with premium-ness. Just pointing out why in this case it's kinda BS.[1] Apple managed to convince Intel to integrate IRIS graphics into i5 branded processors for the late-2013 Macbook Pros, but it's the only place that I've seen non i7 line processors with IRIS.
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Rails 4.1.0 released
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The only thing I noticed, aside from secrets file and cookies etc that is outline in the notes, is that SimpleForm stopped working. Since project I was upgrading was small, I just removed it, but that is not option for bigger projects.
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Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
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Well deserved, Linus is a revolutionary (along with the people that backed him up).Linux and git have radically changed the face of technology.
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Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
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I liked how the idea's champion dealt with Microsoft bureaucracy:> So, back in August I started looking at what I was going to accomplish over the next year or so, and I thought it would be a good idea to try and see if I could get some of the CoApp package management ideas put into Windows itself (hey, it'd be kinda nice to be able to do apt-get style-stuff and have that built into the OS)> I had proposed some of this at the beginning of the product cycle for Windows Blue (Server 2012 R2/Windows 8.1) but it was a little too late in the planning cycle, and I gave too-grand of a vision.> I finally came to full understanding of some advice my pappy once told me: "The secret to success is to find someone else to care what you care about, and make it their problem." ... I looked at him like I understood what he meant, but he could tell that I was just paying lip service. He then said "Try it this way: Set the building on fire, take someone else's stuff into the building with you, and then cry for help"http://coapp.org/news/2013-10-02-State-of-CoApp.html
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Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government Backdoors Into Cellphones and Computers
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This will probably last about as long as the attempt at NSA reform; i.e. not very :(
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JavaScript in 2015
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Finally we have promises support built into JS.
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Secret Shuts Down
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What were some of the key contributions from Secret to wider culture?Was it — Julie Ann Horvath's decision to disclose big cultural problems at the company GitHub?Was there anything else?
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Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
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How is there no mention of CALEA[0] in this document? They even hint at it in the Executive Summary:Indeed, in 1992, the FBI’s Advanced
Telephony Unit warned that within three years Title III wiretaps would be useless: no more than 40% would be intelligible and that in the worst case all might be rendered useless [2]. The world did not “go dark.” On the contrary, law enforcement has much better and more effective surveillance capabilities now than it did then.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
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Project Oberon
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Excellent work!Without wanting to take any credit from the author, allow me advertise my own Oberon information document.http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon§ion=com...Enjoy the screenshots and links to Cedar and Oberon documentation.
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Windows Bridge for iOS
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On Channel9 Microsoft introduced Islandwood (building Windows app with ObjC) in this video:https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/3-610 (start at 35 mins)It's an interesting (and funny) video. Some things Microsoft _might_ work on are:- Swift support might be on the roadmap- Export (changes) to Xcode project might be on the roadmap- There's interop between ObjC and C++ / C# using some sort of event system.- Visual Studio 2015 has autocomplete and syntax colouring for ObjC
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Shutting down persona.org in November 2016
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Hopefully, Firefox Accounts[1] will have delegated authentication[2] available in time for users to do an automatic migration from persona.org before the shutdown.[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox_Accounts[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guideline...
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Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
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Great bit of wisdom buried at the very end:> The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. ;-)
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Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple
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I don't get how the US government can so strongly advocate in favor of Apple in this case. I am a big Apple fan, but clearly the law was broken. This seems like a slam dunk case. And Apple isn't fined, they just have to pay normal low Irish taxes like everybody else.
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Never accept a counter-offer
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I've taken 3 counter offers at the same company. Will probably do it again if my current job search goes well. In a company like mine you can't just ask for a raise and expect to get it. However, if a key resource resigns wheels start turning. All the sudden they can give significant increases. Otherwise you grind it out year after year hoping for 3% but some people get nothing. I'm going to hate my life no matter the job. So I will work for the highest bidder or most leave time.
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A Guide to Deep Learning
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Good consolidation @adamnemecek...
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YC Annual Letter 2017
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Hi sama,I know you wrote that YC Research will likely not expand in the near future. If you do I think the most interesting topic would be the destruction of the journal industry and freeing information. At least in my opinion it would make a lot of sense for YC to try and free as much research as possible which entrepreneurs could build upon. I can only wonder how many more interesting startups we'd get if a random hacker in India or Ethiopia had access to the latest journals on medicine, biology etc.
That would take a lot of commitment and being in active position to some powerful interests. This should be attacked from a legal, political and technological angle.
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Tears
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As a parent, it seems like a glaring omission that most crying is done by babies. It's right there in the article that humans have the "most dependent babies," and signaling behaviors are often repurposed responses, so it's a good starting point to say that crying (with big inhales and audible sobs) evolved as a "baby in distress" alarm, in which a baby makes a lot of noise because it needs help. We go to that place when we feel small or want the kind of support a parent would give.Babies often don't have tears for the first few months, but I'm not sure that's important. I do think they play a role on the playground, and a lot of the speculation about their effects in social situations sounds right. I don't have any ideas to contribute on why crying is accompanied by tears.In any other species, wearing a signal that advertises, "I recently lost in a dominance challenge," is a strict liability — an invitation for others to pile on, opportunistically, and attack you while you're down (or else to mentally note that you're no longer a good, strong ally). There's no upside, therefore, to using anything other than a quick facial expression or flash of body language, to show your submission only to the aggressor.That sounds like an overly harsh picture of non-humans to me! I'm pretty sure at least certain apes help their potentially-non-kin in distress. Humans aren't the only social mammals.
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Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)
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Decompose complex signals into their constituent sinusoids with this one weird trick
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Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies
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I found this book rather interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_Capital it reflects over essentially the same problem (to make a Marxist critique to capitalist pretenses of freedom, fairness and its claims to optimality.) Among other points, the book spends time arguing how Corporate Capitalism is fundamentally monopolistic.
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Why Amazon is eating the world
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> I do think Amazon’s culture is incredible and Bezos is the most impressive CEO out therechuckle Very very few people who work at (or have worked at Amazon) think this. Having worked with Amazon since 1999, I have never been impressed by their technology or leadership. They have been very lucky and had to pivot. AWS allowed them to build their online marketshare, not some CEO direction.
i.e. [take chances in entering new markets, fail a lot] is not a particularly insightful strategy. Many companies do it when they have the capital.
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