skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. The idea is that index funds implicitly favor collusion between companies in the same industry since investors/institutions own the competing companies (perhaps even at the same weight). That is, an index owning both Coke and Pepsi may not be too keen on one slaying the other, but instead for them both to become bigger together, yet separate.

There's also the idea that index investing "should" be considered illegal because of the possible antitrust issues.

Also, the rise of index investing puts more favor to stock buybacks/dividends as opposed to reinvestment. The idea being (as an example) that the index would rather take Coke's profits and redirect to a smaller higher-growth-potential company (or even spread it out more evenly among all holdings). However, if no index investing, perhaps investors would be more willing to "ride it out" with Coke reinvesting a lot more profits back into the business (maybe the don't own Pepsi, or other soft-drink companies and want to see them all get demolished).
And that would really be getting in the zone while coding, as long as I can keep HN out of that world...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if worse things were being caused in Zimbabwe by a rich American dentist then they would probably have caused their own band wagon. It's not just the poaching, it's that it was literally a holiday for a rich white guy who wanted to kill something.
The real question for me is if architects end up working in the OR rig or whether it's just a novelty for client demos. As I mention upthread, 3D has a long history as a compelling novelty technology; a real test for me would be whether architects use it every day and the ones who don't have it are demanding it instead of demanding, say, bigger 2D monitors.
I'm really interested in good VR, but then I start to really think about it:

How long do I really want to play a game with a headset strapped to my face?

I'm going to need better input devices soon. That's more $$$

I have a pretty high-end system right now, capable of playing pretty much any top-end game at full settings at 60FPS, and it doesn't meet the specs facebook/oculus wants, so to use it my purchase-price goes up by 4 figures.

I buy it, and a year later an even betterer headset comes out.

I'm going to need to have a dedicated space for it, I have too many beer bottles and other things on my desk to be blindly moving around with motion controls.

I'm really concerned also about the marketing and messaging coming from facebook/oculus. I really don't want to be part of a facebook branded and owned cyberspace. And the marketing story (we're shipping with an Xbox One controller!) is not what I want to hear from a supposedly 2 billion dollar company.

They've already so much as said they're going to nickle and dime buyers with new controllers later anyway.
Since Amazon locked him out of the account and apparently can't access its contents, he can't even present any information about what was on it. He'd have to get into discovery or get some court order against Amazon just to recover a record of what he wants to sue over.
Google - They had to write (And open sourced) their OS X Deployment tool: https://github.com/google/simian. Although not sure if they have over 10,000 OS X instances.
Haskell has all the features of languages that become mainstream and mandated top-down on workplaces. I wouldn't be much surprised if in a decade people start complaining about Haskell-shops they way we complain about Java-shops now. (But then, no language could get there without a marketing budget...)

Haskell lets big teams collaborate very well, makes it hard to bad coders to destroy an entire project, consist in a good enough filter so that HR won't hire obscenely bad developers, gives enough space for software architects do their thing, and gives plenty of objectively measurable points to make managers happy.

That said, it's completely immature. Haskell lacks packaging, environment tools, and even a complete standard library (hell, I had to put a package[1] at Hackage because no available TLS library would work!). It has all kinds of interesting advanced features, but the basics are simply missing.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uniform-io
Still not really the issue though. People care plenty for Africans. But if he's got a new take on how we can deal with decades of government corruption without getting a whole lot more Africans killed in the process, everyone, everywhere, is all ears.
For those who don't know much about CALEA here is a short article from an industry rag[0] and a more technical document on a specific solution by Cisco[1]

[0] https://insidersurveillance.com/calea-solutions-should-you-b...

[1] http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/LI-3GPP...
When you buy files with drm, you get what you pay for: nothing.
Seems like TypeScript is better suited for building web applications (backend and front-end) but HaXe has OpenFL that makes it amazing for games.
Now that we have sub-one-dollar accelerometer circuits with enough accuracy and reliability to embed into commercial gaming controllers coupled with the existence of enough processing power to render DOOM-level graphics at the 60FPS necessary to minimize the number of people who get physically ill in the headset, the "late version" is actually very close.

It has always been a hardware challenge, and we are actually likely to be right on the cusp of meeting the challenge this time. It's an exciting time to be alive.
It's used sarcastically. It takes balls to be this brazen in your tyranny.
I've done a lot of full 3D gestures work. They work well, but people are finding it hard to come up with workable interactions to care about/spend battery on.

Google's new stuff had an opportunity to move gestures off the screen, mostly because it is low power/localized rather than high power/installations/invasive.
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Yeah, that's what I meant, the last car I was able to do this was a first model Peugeot 205 (25 years old now), even with a 20 year old model, it was already not possible.
And if we take countries with less than 20M people they're not even on the list, imagine that.
Here's also their blog post about the announcement. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/san-antonio-fibe...
Mainframes. If you're a bank or an enterprise of a certain size, then a chunk of your annual IT budget goes right to IBM for mainframe maintenance and licensing every year.
By "real battery", I assume you mean a li-ion or some such. The fact that it doesn't use an exotic battery and needs only 4 x AA batteries that can be found just about anywhere was another bonus he touted. No charger to be lost. No strange power plug to be adapted to. No power source needed.

Other than that, I'm with you. Something just as rugged, with a somewhat denser display (80x24), very low power (msp430 comes in a couple of crazy low power variants and has plenty of oomf), bit more storage. Add maybe a PDF->text converter to the built in software and you're good to go.
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> First off, you should be ashamed at how ridiculous that analogy is.

The analogy looks spot-on to me, just substitute 'Zim' for 'US' and 'Harare' for 'New York'.
Sure, quite a few: goog, facebook, cisco (they have 15 to 20k of 'em) to name a few. It's largely tech companies of course.
I'm glad there are people in this world like your uncle. I admire those who try to help those whose lives seem insignificant to most. If we all did the same I'm sure it wouldn't be "useless".

But as they say suffering is part of the human condition.
good, analytics has always been overpriced
Digital signatures are (a) not simple --- the cost and complexity of implementing and verifying them might be as bad as that of switching to a different phy/mac and (b) particularly tricky to do in microcontroller parts.
This is it. It's from the Hacking Team dump. You can find the emails on wikileaks
This is an extreme way to handle unauthorized access. Just have him change his passwords, don't destroy his account.

It also shows the perils of DRM. Thousands of dollars can disappear in an instant for whatever reason, and often there's little we can do about it.
5 key KPIs to consider when implementing OpenStack
No-one has ever accused Jeff Atwood of writing blog posts for the sake of having a blog post to write. ;) That having been said, his description is solid, even if it's only his take on a space he's not specialized in. He makes some good points (and spends several pages to do it, in classic Atwood style).
Yeah I bet that the incumbents are immediately going to offer better rates to lock in the customers most likely to change providers.
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No, I think it's just that some cities have insane bureaucracies that make it a nightmare to get anything done, and others don't.

See, for example, AT&T's eleven-years-and-counting ordeal to roll out U-Verse across San Francisco.
I think the analogy doesn't work very well. You pay more than nothing.
Forrester Research Ranks CloudFlare as a “Leader” for DDoS Services Providers
That's talking about how they began, 15 years ago. I think the author was trying to get across that in the beginning, BAM was not a technical leader in their field. But as they faced large technical and infrastructure problems before other groups did, and they decided early on to keep development internal, they became a leader.
Funny, I had JPMC in mind when I was reading this article. They're already relatively bring-your-own-device friendly and supply dumb terminals with virtual desktops at the moment, which is probably the best and most cost effective general solution, but I wouldn't be surprised if many business units, especially on the customer facing side, would find this IBM+Mac offering very appealing.
As a side note, new versions of iOS get adopted extremely fast. It's unlikely you need to maintain code to support more than a single version of iOS back. https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/
Great feedback. We will look into allowing the tricks to be viewed sans explanation for free. Thanks!
>> "No one cares about animals being killed on mass so we can eat them"

Pretty sure there's quite a large group of people that care about that...
He'd have records in e-mail as to what he's purchased.
Kartograph is quite nice. I need to play around with it more.

However, it's aimed at a very different audience (web-based interactive rendering of vector graphics, as opposed to desktop-based interactive rendering of scientific data). For example, as far as I know (I could be very wrong about this), there's no way to display image/raster data in kartograph.

That having been said, kartograph is a very slick library, and its built-in clustering methods for point data are particularly nice.
The idea is nice: you can listen the music and read the lyrics in the same time. It works fine with songs hosted in soundcloud, but the youtube integration disappointed me.
A minor nitpick:

> And some of the other lessons, like "don't use method_missing if you can define a method instead", are well worth considering as well.

I'd argue that this one also falls into the category of "simpler/more readable and, incidentally, more performant".

When defining methods you get the correct behaviour of respond_to? for free, whereas when overriding method_missing, you also have to take care of defining a corresponding respond_to?.

The main reason for choosing def/define_method over method_missing (when possible) should be that it is generally simpler to do so.
I don't get it. Because truly innovative companies don't write SQL? Is this some kind of ORM or NoSQL snobbery?
Interesting. With enough optimisation of the mechanisms of modern capitalism we arrive at a state where a single amorphous entity owns the economy so there are no incentives created by competition.
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If that exact story had happened to a person, it wouldn't be on the news in the West. I don't think people care more about animals more than humans, but I think it's very hard for humans to truly care all that much about humans half-way across the globe.
Homo Sapiens doesn't possess those built-in impulses. Some sick members of society imprint that it on some others (usually early in their life), and with society putting some effort into it, that bad habit will be exterminated.
It's not nearly the same. The main aim of putting police physically on premises is to ensure rapid enforcement of upstream decisions.

Something bad, from a ccp pov, being discussed on a forum? Quick, netops, now, cut the cord... now.

It's quite different. The CNG are willing to spite their companies to further the party's viability. The party always comes first, not law, not country, its the party and the pla.
Try Krita.org then. It’s free, too, and a bit more focused on creative work, but it supports all the colorspaces, all the vector layers and everything. A lot more usable than GIMP, too.
Those Cambridge people depend on immigration to pay their fees. They're hardly unbiased.

Do you really seriously think that an increasing population could ever lead to falling demand for housing? How would that one work?

The charts in their "study" show clearly. Immigration increases, house prices increase.
Fair enough, but i don't think the large amount of people who got outraged about this do care.
Thanks for the feedback. We agree that our value prop is weaker until we have more videos in the backlog. We are shooting more videos now, and hope to have a large library of videos to offer our customers very soon.

Also, the $9 rate is for life, so when the price increases, early adopters will always be at the $9 rate.
To me this sounds like the final step to the end of Big Blue's organisational culture and corporate identity.

Sold off most of their manufacturing and now becoming one more "service provider" - classic setup: 6 overhead / 1-2 delivery (1 Programme Man, 3 PMs, 1 engagement & liaison man. - 1-2 tech staff doing the implementation). Target task: sell more IBM services to the client.

Or maybe they want to live off their vast patent portfolio - when will we start to call them a non practicing entity?

Sad story.
I could never put it into words before but I think this is the reason I dislike Facebook and social media in general. It looks like a big contest of who can show how much they believe in x and it all seems so fake.
Chutzpah is the very much the wrong word for this behavior. It's arrogance. Maybe use audacity if you're afraid of being accused of bias for calling a kettle, black.
Fun little project(app)! Great Job! Nice work!

I'm going to fork and make a few small changes :)
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FYI the submitted article is about cartographic maps.
1491 (2002)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Magritte_TheS...
Not sure I'm buying into orders of magnitude of people visiting a "60's cafe in Paris". Just who, for example, is going to design said cafe that few people alive (You'd have to be 65+ years old, and that's being very generous) even remember?

Don't see that use case gaining a traction so massive.

What you described seems to be more of a Mind Machine Interface variety than a VR one.
I will disregard said posts until Google Fiber announces they're coming to Minnesota.

On that note, can Google Fiber come to Minnesota? :(
Countries don't have seats in UN, states and kingdoms do. I rest my case.
Depends on which way you look at it, I think. Like, when building a DSL, I generally take my inputs and do the work up front to use define_method--but I know people who feel that it's simpler to just use method_missing and check against some bit of data here or there. The perf argument isn't going to change their minds overnight, obviously, but I think it helps to make sure you have all the information.
No, you definitely couldn't.

For instance, NL has a 10/5 split m/f and the average age of the ministers is 52.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Rutte_II#Ministers
Hi all, founder of Amplitude here. We've always felt volume based pricing to be bad for analytics culture as it discourages tracking and so are taking as aggressive of a stance as we can here. Would love HN's feedback!
also very interesting:
https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade
Most definitions of mental illness, include, in one form or another, the question of whether the behaviour creates obstacles to live in a society. So, is it a mental illness or not, depends, by definition, on whether the society accepts this behaviour or not.
HTTPS Everywhere only forces HTTPS when it's possible.

Force-TLS and HTTP Nowhere does what you describe.
That sounds like an incredibly wasteful way of editing. Why would you want to use a web app?
I find it amusing that you advocate for increased ability for sellers, who are Etsy's customers, to provide honest feedback to Etsy... in the next breath after you've just advocated for the complete removal of buyer feedback.
Google has 65000 Managed OS X machines. They spoke about their deployment at PSU Mac in July.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrfu9eqlnY&feature=youtu.be
Slides:
http://macadmins.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1567/2015/...

Facebook also has 16000 Managed Macs.
I think they're the biggest users right now.
I only read the tldr, but really, hasn't this been obvious since these schemes existed? It's at once the ultimate lock-in (can't rage quit) and the ultimate lockout.
One thing I can't understand: a $500 phone can unlock itself with my fingerprint, why can't a $50k car? I'd trust that a lot more than a minimum-wage phone operator somewhere.
XSS injection is possible too:

https://hulbee.com/?query=%3CIMG%20SRC%3D..%2FImages%2Flogo-...

<IMG SRC=../Images/logo-hulbee.png onload=alert('hello')>
The hunt was illegal, hence both "guides" being imprisoned in Zimbabwe. The chance that a single penny went to helping the country or its people is precisely zero.
No, I don't want the "Collapse placeholder of blocked elements" uMatrix option activated because then, if a website embeds e.g. youtube videos or soundcloud songs I have no visual cue of their existence, whereas, if the option is disabled, I see it greyed out with a link that I can click to watch it in a separate window. I feel like our discussion is at this point a clash of personal preferences and would not like to continue. Have a nice day :)
They provide services. You are a big company and need a software system that can manage your oil refinery or factory - they make it. They do hardware, but much less than before. Their DB2 database is a big competitor to Oracle db. They do cloudlike services, but not as a public service available to anyone.

Their competitors are Oracle, SAP and big consultancy firms. Think big budgets.
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If the function is small enough, yes.
A case for making it easier to personalize IoT devices
You could say the same for politics.
This. The last item was, imho, the nail in their coffin.

My wife was livid, as were many of her fellow etsy-ers, from both the buyer and the seller point. (As a buyer, it was much harder to find "real" handmade items. As a seller, she suddenly had to compete with all of the "hand-made-in-China" items.)
I'd love DDG to be that organization, although not sure if it's already too late as they are for-profit and got series A funding around 2011
I have no idea. I am a fledgling entrepreneur who is figuring all this out for myself. I do find it easier to have a partner who complements my own skill sets and frees me up to do what I am good at. I have seen plenty of examples of people who have gone solo and done well but it comes down to you. If you have aspirations of building quality products and solely focusing on that without concern for marketing, then I think a partner helps immensely. Even the best products need to break through the cacophony of the internet to find their users and good team members (whether partners, or employees) can be really useful to help you understand how to reach people.

If you figure it out, let me know!
Good point, but the Kindle has been out for 8 years, and I'll bet a lot of people have lost at least some of the email over that time.

(Of course, I say this as someone who during that period used rsync.net and LTO-4 tape to make sure that didn't happen even in the face of a tornado that trashed my apartment.)
> price race to the bottom

You can only race if you have competitors.
In other words, there's no "silver bullet", no matter the industry. I also think that we should stop believing in the "wonder" of compound interest and act accordingly, because it will come a time when this "wonder" will prove to be just that: a thing that cannot last forever. The same goes for a guaranteed rate of return on investment.
Yeah, skip the RHEL version unless things have changed. I recall a very old kernel, terrible driver support and ancient Gnome desktop. However, using the extra-non-supported IBM Fedora builds worked really well and the packages for the IBM apps worked very well. Lotus Notes was actually usable on Linux. THat said, I still needed to use VMware/Windows for Visio and the proprietary Word templates that GTS uses.
If they secretly also try to donate the work doing it, we would love doing it (-,
Not just that, there are huge amounts of unreclaimed brownfield all around England, waiting to be put to good use. This country used to be the engine of the world, that took a lot of land that is now just rotting away.

And of course, one could also envision policies that actually create attraction centres alternative to London. But surely that's unreasonable to expect.
I wrote a reply to this, but you know what? No. Just no. You are clearly incapable of taking part in this conversation so just leave me alone. Your level of discourse is more suited for Reddit. Maybe check it out sometime.
I agree with you. We need an extra mouse button to open a link in another tab :-)
The state of mobile development: Deep linking and containerization and IoT
I believe that is a rule that many photographers sometime use (placing the dominant eye in the center of the photo) [1].

1: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/16/9-photo-composition-tips-as-...
The article links to https://www.4armed.com/blog/hacking-team-rcs-analysis-hacked... which has a detailed analysis of RCS including source code.
I highly recommend Alex Becker and his Sourcewave.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SourceWaveVideos
from the article: "The technology to do it is there, battle tested, and completely mature. I know because I saw Captain EO at Epcot Center in 3D way back in 1985, and it was amazing thirty years ago!"
You're definitely right that many cities are crossed off due to bureaucracy, though I'm specifically curious at how Google is picking cities to look into in the first place. That's where I think density/population come into play.
Everywhere has limited land. The question is how close are we to the limit? Given that the UK is, depending on how you count it, on the order of 10% urban, we could hide another city in it without noticing.
"I'm thinking of putting the cage on display and calling it something."

We call that an open office working environment. It's not very humane, but no one cares.
Clearly they don't need to improve. "BWA HA HA HA" and all that.
And still, we are switching the Eurofighter from a CANBUS with seperate microcontrollers to a single central microprocessor design.
Physics researchers already have to field reams of emails and calls from perpetual motion cranks, add greedy traders in search of FTL comms to the list. I hope one of them sells them a box of quantum chromo-entangled magnets.
GPL = kthxbye