skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have they said if Android TV is dead or not? Because the nexus players already hit the clearance bin.
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I would guess this discourages some good programmers who would have strong positive impact from trying their hand at helping out with the kernel.
Sounds like a death knell to me... Certainly not interested now. I can see cracking down on abuse, but changing the deal for everyone involved is probably the wrong move.
Shell is a 'glue' language, not a 'be' language. It's for gluing things together, not for being something in it's own right.

Though yes, it'd be a lot nicer if arrays in particular didn't suck so much in shell.
My friends' fathers (plural) worked on the "SFX" in Dr Who in the 70s and Blake's 7. The ray guns were from an old chandelier they had in their living room. Good times.
How much software fully supports the 10-bit Eizo or NEC displays on Windows these days? Do typical GPUs now support 10-bit color, or is it still only expensive workstation GPUs?

My impression was that only a few niche applications have bothered (notably, Photoshop has had support for a few years), since 10-bit displays are so rare/expensive, but I’m not an expert.

As for Linux, as far as I know the stable version of GIMP still only supports 8 bits/channel color, so displaying at higher bit depth is right out. I guess maybe some specialized video or 3d rendering software could use a 10-bit display? I doubt typical Linux apps support it.

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Edit: In doing some web sleuthing, there seem to be endless issues with compatibility. (As you’d expect from a new technology that requires upgrading every part of the pipeline for support: applications, operating system, video card drivers, video cards, display interface, and the displays themselves)

I see this on a random web forum: “I got an answer from an engineer at Adobe, why Photoshop CC cannot display 10bit/color under Windows 8, 8.1 and 10: There is no OpenGL-path with 10bit/channel like in Windows 7 any more :(”

Adobe’s troubleshooting site says “Note: 30-bit display is not functioning correctly with current drivers. We are working to address this issue as soon as possible”
Because automation is increasingly used to transfer wealth from the middle-class to the super rich (at least in America).

There have been many studies:
eg http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...
I may be projecting, but I feel like this is a symptom of our deteriorating middle class. White, now middle aged, men have been hit over and over by free trade, out sourcing and cheap immigrant labor suppressing labor value. Now they're beaten and broken.

I've worked with these people and seen it first hand. In my anecdotal experience, depression and drug use isn't just a common case with working class whites, it's nearly the majority. These people know they've been abandoned by society, and a lot of them are just giving up. They're people who have put in 60 hour weeks of hard labor, with little to no health care, for decades and have next to nothing to show for it, and no hope of things improving.
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They already are the new auto workers, just without unions. Look at the downward pressure on wages, pop up hacker schools everywhere and a move for everyone to learn how to code (i.e. write CRUD apps). Basic web developers are in the crosshairs.
My bad. I conflated the technology and pros section in my mind.
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You should definitely press for as much information as you can - how many shares (or stock options, or RSUs) you're getting, how many shares are outstanding, the common stock / preferred stock breakdown, liquidation preferences, etc. It's unlikely any startup will be willing to share all of that with you, though.

That being said, they definitely cannot lie to you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8392378
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Just to point out.

> Still, 1 TB for office 365 is a good deal, and with this change i'm more confident it will remain.

If you are a student (or have been a university student), you can get MS Office at a very good discount for a 4-year subscription with 60 minute/month Skype credit and 1TB.

> apple pushes hard for people to buy more storage.

But the storage is really cheap for 1 year in the US I literally think that was a steal. They made me to believe it of course, like you said they literally market many users to get more storage.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
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I wish they would fix their support for special characters (e.g., |) in file names. I routinely save bookmarks to a directory stored on a OneDrive volume and I have to go and clean up the names in order for them to sync. I'm not motivated to pay for it until they bother to add proper support.
Exactly. It's slightly more complicated since you pay to borrow the shares, but that's exactly it in concept. It's risky as there are theoretically unlimited losses (shares can keep going up, but they can only fall to $0).

Another common, but less risky way to be short is through put options. You buy the right to sell shares at a given price. If you had a put for less $18 you have now lost all your money. Safe to say there will be a lot of money made and a lot of money lost tomorrow when options start trading.
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What happened to Frank Drake, Ed Loomis, et al. is an injustice.
Bitcoin sign was just accepted for Unicode
My point is VW fills a niche that's not otherwise well served. If you like the German sportscar aesthetic and can't afford a BMW, it's kind of your only choice.
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To cause Osborne Effect, it is sufficient for people to think it would get abandoned.
Actually, less than nothing.
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I'm in my 30s, male and ostensibly white by American standards and I've been watching these sorts of trends for a while. Distrust in our certain brand of capitalism has led me to regard America with a wary eye. It has influenced a lot of my life decisions, i.e. stack cash, stay mobile/agile, no spouse, no children, etc. so that I can continually pursue the best jobs no matter when/where they appear. I luckily was able to obtain an EU passport recently via my mother, giving me a few extra countries as potential markets for work but mostly as a hedge against a (probably) meaningless 401k or just the general depressive idea of eventually being an older person in the US. Basically I'll spend my good years putting money away, and as soon as I'm sick (read, need healthcare) or ready to retire, I'll bounce back to the mother country where retirement actually looks like living rather than dying.
There's been 10-bit support in AMD graphics cards (since at least 2008). Dell, NEC, Eizo and others have shipped monitors with support. Combine the two off you go. So, yes, PCs have been using 10 bit color for some time.
Give it some time, and you’ll probably need a new Macbook to get an Apple retina display working.

Support for Thunderbolt 3 (which should have enough bandwidth to drive a 5K display at 60 Hz) is coming with Intel Skylake chips, which should be arriving next year.

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2015/06/thunderbolt3/
So, this isn't exactly a tech support forum, but...

Does your Arch Linux system consider nr_inodes=0 to be a valid mount parameter for tmpfs? If it does, does it use systemd 225?

I upgraded to Kubuntu 15.10. On first reboot, I found that my boot failed because the system claims that tmpfs does not accept a value of 0 for the nr_inodes parameter.

It has been documented for a very long time that "0" for nr_inodes, nr_blocks, or size means "unlimited". My Gentoo Linux systems running kernels from 3.mumble through 4.2.x have always happily accepted this value, so I know this isn't a mainline kernel change. Kubuntu 15.04 also accepted this value.
Perhaps you'd be interested in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pF8JRqGEWc
There's nothing wrong with making a mistake (2002)
Amazon Adds New Perks for Workers and Opens a Bookstore
Linux is a first class platform for many of the atypical apps that would benefit from higher bit depths.
There are no other change agents. Everyone else is just more of the same. Career politicians.

It's going to take someone who doesn't go with the flow, to make any real, lasting change.

Inertia is a bitch.
How dare they use a feature that is not significantly different from using a setter for every property! These young people ought to know better.
The first point was meant to illustrate that it's not good enough to say that it's okay to not innovate because there's no better hardware available. I'm not suggesting that GM would seriously put a potted development board inside a vehicle. TI can simply produce automotive-grade equivalents for them.

What I'm suggesting is that things like higher sampling rates of input sensors and more composability and reusability can be realized by a newer, more standardized and open approach to hardware.

I would also wager that the outcome of failure would be the same as with the traditional systems. GM shifts the blame onto the ECU development shop that it contracted out to make the hardware or software, or the QE shop that failed to pick up the failure.

Vehicle electronics are typically rated from -40C to 125C, although it's seen that they routinely fail even inside these margins. The BBB for example can have an operating temperature from -40C to 85C. There are also plenty of industrial boards that meet or exceed the requirements of automotive operating environments. Companies such as TI are (in part) releasing development boards (such as the BBB) to try to inspire innovation in these environments. The dev boards themselves aren't rated for it, but the platform can be.
Yes, I know it! This is beside my point, but it is of course definitely true.
Unfortunately LX-branded zones are a non-starter for me in any serious usage as long as NFS support isn't implemented :(
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Given that Apple is just reselling various cloud storage services

Do you have a cite for this claim?

Apple has built a number of giant data centers. They shouldn't need to resell cloud storage.
Fair differentiation. I may be too addicted to hyperbole. :P

The F2P environment has been shifting to be more user friendly, and consequently less revenue-generating. I'm still uncertain that King's brand of F2P is sustainable in the long term.
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You'd be surprised at how much "good" software can accomplish. Just think of an 80mhz embedded cpu. You have 80,000,000 calculations per second right there in your hand.

In a side project I was involved in. We were using 60mhz chips to modulate data at 1khz. I kept worrying about running out of cpu cycles, I mean after all, I was doing a few thousand things per second. But in reality, I still had a ton of head room to go :)
I know of at least one organisation who has made it their business model to sign up free OneDrive accounts and redirect all user profiles into the accounts after linking Win8 to the MS Account.

This is going to be a whole lot of hurt.
Given the other replies in this discussion thread, I am inclined to believe that they are /Good Stewards/ of the design goals they have.

I believe a more proper examination of 'open-souce' or even Free Libre citizens might be found in examining the license selected for their works.

They chose the GNU LGPL 2.1+ license. Given their other stated beliefs, I read that they believe in allowing others to build off of this work, but would prefer those developers fork it and to begin a sister work that is more optimally coupled to another operating system.
Believe you meant the 'ATV4', or as Apple refers to it, the Apple TV (4th generation)¹.

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¹ — https://support.apple.com/kb/SP724
Spotify: will lose to Google Play and Apple Music. Sadly Spotify is not helping itself. Its desktop application is bulky and difficult to use. And so is the app. Poor integration is also annoying. When you're driving and want to put on a song, you can do so with a voice command, a modern Android phone (with Google Play) or iPhone (with Apple Music) will do a stellar job of quickly finding the song and playing it. Spotify, on the other hand, is a total pain to deal with in such a situation. I really wish they'd do a better job, but every next update is suckier than the last. A lot of people really like Spotify I understand, but they'll gradually part for alternatives in the coming years.

SpaceX is not about to take over the space of Lockheed Martin et al. that easily. Its goals are maybe laudable in some sense, but I don't see it getting an appreciable revenue stream in the foreseeable future.

Dropbox: Reasons to use it are quickly dying. It lost a lot of good will by having Rice on board (and retaining her after the uproar) from a lot of the tech savvy, they don't even do their own storage... they use Amazon's services, Google Drive is getting more and more convenient to use (integration with gmail a big plus), etc. I just don't see it being able to compete. And all of the things they've recently tried to do (creating office software, atempting to be a photo host, etc.) have been pitifully bad. I used to find Drew to be an impressive guy with a great acumen, but after witnessing one mistake after another, not so much.

On a more positive note, I think Stripe is an extremely solid company. It's unstoppable and will keep surprising people with what it can achieve.
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This move shows that users cannot trust microsoft to keep their promise. Atleast when google discontinued free google apps accounts they didn't disable them or remove features.

Another point is that in many cases, a person becomes hooked to a free service for personal use and that affects buying decision for their contacts who are looking for a paid account, or at work for larger accounts where the service provider makes the bulk of the money. I think this move by microsoft will slow down adoption of Office 365.

Many businesses take inputs from employess before adopting new technologies (atleast in tech sector), and imagine a situation where 1 or more employees got cheated by microsoft because of this move and managed to convince their IT dept to go for google apps instead of Office 365.
I meant to specifically under-tell the story. Make sure that your testimony was questioned, don't argue strongly, etc.

I don't know the hand-ranking of various legal maneuvers but I am curious where a DA's eye-witness testimony would rank compared to a cell-phone location trace, or hair samples, etc.
In those days, we also had magazines like Byte, Family Computing, Enter, etc. that included sections of type-in programs. My mom and I spent years doing that together!
Yes, it's aaaaaaalways the other people! :-)

Oh, wait, it isn't:

By the way, pron, as more general complaint,
your comments about Ceylon are always very
uninformed, but you state them as fact.

How about you actually spend some time learning
the language first before commenting any more
about it here or on reddit. Because it really
wastes my time and raises my stress level having
to correct your - probably unintentional - FUD.
It's clear that you don't know Ceylon, so please
stop telling everyone else stuff that you're
just guessing at.

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I don't understand your example.
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The difference is that the customers are fully informed of – and paying for – the cheat.
Previously on iPhone encryption wars...

Basically, DannyBee was spot on [0]:

> It's actually significantly more likely they want to unlock the phone to try to get more evidence against the other 6 people he was charged with, probably because it's lacking.

...but, since IANAL, this to me still doesn't address the question of how much easier would it then be for the government to attain permission to decrypt any further iPhones the government wants to peer into? (As mentioned before[1])

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10481952

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10481356
That's not entirely true. Hospitals here are not allowed to turn away those in need, even if they have no insurance. The stays usually turn into uncollectible debts for the hospitals.

With obamacare (Affordable Healthcare Act), the free options have been expanded quite a bit. In CA, the medi-cal is basically universally available to low income ($16,105 or under for 1 person, $21k or under for 2 person housefolds).

For Russia, if really depends how lucky you get with the doctors or how much you can pay. For much of the system there, people would be better off if it didn't exist. Speaking from personal experience.
I won't lie. I was hoping for leads on other games. Relativity looks fantastic. It's an odd thing: I have no idea if it looks fun to play or not, but I have no doubt that it will be worth whatever price simply for the atmosphere and style. A spectrum runs where a game can be fun for its mechanics or enjoyable for it aesthetics. For me, I suppose I'm willing to pay $10 for anything that does something well. If Relativity is merely an interactive work of abstract art, I suspect I would be happy with that. And if the game is merely a few shapes and lines with a fun mechanic, I feel the same.

(And thanks also for the lead on Witness - a Myst by The Guy Who Did Braid? I can't see that disappointing (and no idea how I hadn't heard of it yet!).)
Classic MS bait and switch move. If you advertise something as unlimited, don't cry if someone uses it as is.

Also they just admitted they know exactly what people store in their cloud (type, content).
1. Maybe you're right that's alarge part of it, (but fertilizers and better land management are surely another) they have nothing to do with fossil fuels and there is no reason why they should be reversed when we stop using fossil fuels.

2. You're either made it up yourself or you're looking at made up grahps. Fertility rates dropped massively in almost all developing countries, most aren't having enough children to keep their populations stable. Most developing countries follow with some delay.

3. Nitrogen isn't a source of energy and neither it's a major energy cost for plants. Most plants don't even gather their own nitrogen, that's why they need nitrogen fertilizer. Plants that do don't need nitrogen fertilizer, because they can get as much as they need. There is absolutely no problem making fertilizer without fossil fuels. And nitrogen isn't used up, so only the losses have to be covered.

4. That's not what I said. Once a mineral is mined, it doesn't disappear until it's lost. Iron stays iron, copper stays copper, no matter how you use them. I said nothing about energy, recycling presumably needs less energy than mining most minerals anew.

5. a) No fertilizer is made from fossil fuels.
5. b) It has nothing to do with fossil fuels and it can't be compared with fossil fuels. When you burn a fossil fuel, it turns into exhaust gases and ash and it's no longer recoverable in any form as a fuel. But phosphorus stays phosphorus and potassium stays potassium. Only the losses need to be covered and at worst you will have to extract the lost minerals from the sea. But you can't ever run out of a mineral, unless you burn it in a nuclear reaction.

6. >Even highly abundant mineral resources such as iron and oxygen are available to us through previous biological activity on the planet. Look up "banded iron formations" and "the great oxygenation event" for background. Humans have plowed through a billion years of iron accumulation in a couple of centuries.

These elements have always been present on Earth. These events didn't create iron reserves, on the contrary, they turned (immediatelly usable) elemental iron into oxidized iron ores that we need to turn back into their unoxidized form.

7. And don't make the mistake that fossil fuels store millions of years worth of energy, they don't. They did take millions of years to form, but they hold relatively little energy. ALL fossil fuels likely don't hold more than one week of sunlight. It's absolutely nothing. They were the first thing we happened to develop, but sunlight provides vastly higher amounts of energy. If we went the way of solar energy, energy would be so cheap by now it probably wouldn't even be metered.
Just use a sysvrc replacement (such as OpenRC ;) ) that actually supports service dependency declaration.
Right. The US sold out its middle class to make peace with China, and isolate the USSR. And AI is coming. What will all the truckers do?
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Appreciate the reply. Very appropriate username in this case. ;)

I'm pretty sure my idea is on the potentially unethical side, but not illegal. Although it could be used for illegal activities. (In that sense, so could many web services, and they are.) So for others that read this, any input on how much protection a good ToS could offer?
Please, take everything he says as a gospel if you can't be bothered to read up on the replies he received the last dozen times.

Hint: There is one in this thread.
Dang, I always thought COC was bigger money maker than Candy Crush.
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Anyone can explain how to apply those patches? Can't find updated packages in repo
Out of curiosity, why on speed dial? (I take it you mean a prearranged retainer.) The potential for legal trouble here is more along the lines of "someone got annoyed at what I was doing and tried to sue me" rather than "the FBI sent a military attack squad to my mansion in New Zealand."