skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish that someone would build an easy-to-use layer on top of an open protocol like IRC or XMPP.

They have: http://getkaiwa.com
I for one enjoy my Chinese phone and like the Android model, I would hate to see the model go the way of Chrome.
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A safe has no effect on the firearm. When you pull it out of the safe, you know it's still going to shoot.
And they shouldn't. Thats not their job.
Several months ago when I was looking for a job I offered my services replying to a hiring thread email address. They never replied.

I live in SF, have 5+ years of iOS experience and worked at a chat company making their iOS chat interface for the last 4 years of it.

It came with a TN visa condition, but I doubt that is the reason why. TN visas have no waiting period, are pretty much a rubber stamp and $3000 in lawyer fees.

I got another job :/
A well administered IRC channel has all of those, though typically you farm out to an image hoster for the pasting of images.
Citizens United is not freedom of speech.
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Thanks for the kind reasonable response, and yes at some point you have to trust the peer review process on the AMSU bias corrections. But with the UAH 6.0 update, the global data is consistently within .2C of the RSS data, which uses completely different sensors, different teams, and to some degree, different methodologies.

Independent verification?
Notice that they never say Android is here to stay - Maybe Chrome OS will become the Phone/Tablet OS under a new guise?

Google's working on a new UI layer and potential backwards compatibility for older Android apps, which points in that direction:

- Chromium developers are working on a DART-based Mobile UI framework and execution engine, Flutter (http://flutter.io/). It's looking to be far better than the existing Android UI system - built for touch and 120fps from the start. This uses the Dartium VM and a bridge to allow the DART apps to use all the native features of the platform, it's much more than just another web framework. Development on this is very active right now, clearly a sizable team working fulltime - and they're building new developer tools also. There was a talk on this a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIWl33YMwA .

- Google has built a Runtime to allow existing Android Java-based apps to run on Chrome OS, and is currently testing this and working with developers to get their apps to run on it. It doesn't make much sense to invest in building that out just for chromebooks, since the experience on a Chromebook with Android apps is pretty awful (can't resize etc), but it makes total sense if it's going to be how legacy Java/Android apps run on the new Chrome based phone OS.

The sad truth is that Android simply isn't a very well engineered system - it's been improved over time, but problems persist - like the complex update process leading to unsatisfied users and security problems, poor UI performance (even now, Android can barely do simple animations at a steady 60fps on the latest Nexus devices, and has little hope of allowing for the beautiful animations the Material Design team has come up with), and poor battery life. Google's also at a dead-end with Java given the ongoing legal battles, and with Apache Harmony dead they have to maintain the standard library implementation themselves.

On the other hand, Chrome OS performs great, has awesome battery life on Chromebooks, is quite possibly the most secure end-user OS ever, and Chromebooks get speedy updates for at least 5 years. I know which one I'd choose as the basis for a merged OS.

Of course, if the merge is more Chrome OS than Android, they'd be saying exactly what they're saying now - The last thing they want is an Osbourne effect hitting the current Android phones.
> ... it’s a real technical prowess.

That sentence could be re-worded as:

> ... it’s a real display of technical prowess.

or

> ... it’s a real technical achievement.
For the usecase I see these to be useful, I don't see lack of e2e such a huge concern. I would assume that in most cases the server would be more or less trusted in the context they are used in, so TLS style client-server security would be adequate.

In other words, if I really wanted to have discussion secret enough to warrant e2e I probably wouldn't be using company/project chat for that no matter what sort of promises it gives.

That being said, of course e2e chat would be beneficial addition, and might help especially in larger enterprise deployments.
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> Looking through windows into homes, they saw dining tables with cups, saucers, and cutlery all laid out—but covered in years worth of dust.

Why would this happen? I can understand it in -- say -- the towns around Chernobyl. When someone with a machine gun show up at your door and says, "You need to leave now," well, then you leave. But people left Victor because there was no more money to be made. Wouldn't they want to take their valuable items with them when they left?
I didn't say he "won". I said that he was trying to "win" rather than trying to win. I questioned whether he "won".
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Since we have dedicated growth tracks for engineers, they don't need to go into management. While we're always hiring engineers in Scala: http://j.mp/scaladev and Ruby/JavaScript http://j.mp/pdruby there are also some great engineering management roles open:

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"I have no interest in adding complications and additional points of failure."

This is also how I feel about my clothes washer and dryer. Simple dials and minimal buttons. I want to be able to repair and replace a part at minimal expense.
Which Elixir books should I read?
It's already illegal to possess a gun outside your home or business in New Jersey (with very few exceptions for rifles and shotguns) yet Trenton, Camden, and Newark still have a whole ton of gun violence and are basically giant ghettos. A gadget like this won't make any difference whatsoever. Let's not even get into the reliability nightmare and the terrible designs like having an additional ring to wear.
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I supported Lessig's presidential campaign monetarily, even though I never thought he had a snowball's chance and also didn't think that his model of affecting change was fully thought through. As entrepreneurs, I think many of us can sympathize with the idea of knowing that there is a huge, massive problem that needs to be fixed, without necessarily having the solution fully formed.

It would have been so easy for Lessig to coast on the reputation of his extraordinary work with Creative Commons [0] and his professorship at Harvard. Instead, he (IMHO correctly) identified one of the greatest challenges of our time, political corruption. His first proposed solution, the MAYDAY PACn [1] (A SuperPAC to end SuperPACs), was a brilliant idea and an abject failure. So was his second, which was this presidential campaign. It is incorrect to say that he never had a chance, since you can see how close he was in polling [2] to qualifying for the debate, and getting into the debate would have had a huge impact on awareness of his ideas and potential solutions.

I do complain that he had fallen for the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency [3], instead of understanding the complexity required for real change. But, I give him huge props for trying both of these approaches, and I can't wait to see what his third attempt to take on political corruption will be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_PAC
[2] http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-d...
[3] http://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5732208/the-green-lantern-theor...
Also, Matrix.org

Open, federated protocol, multiple client and server implementations, integrated IRC bridge.
we still hit a great but since we support legacy printer devices on our applications which using ssl over a custom certificate which changes over every printer.
So we would need to have a function that accepts any cerificate inside the ws-client of play. unfortunatly the acceptAllCerts doesn't work in play 2.4+.
however we didn't hit more bugs, yet and using it since 2.1
https://gist.github.com/brettlangdon/4e9f58dabfbfcb263dc2
I wonder if tall people have a significant advantage here.
Are there any non-Java IDEs that implement Deterministic debugging?
> So what happens if I'm wearing gloves?

Don't wear gloves on the shooting stand

> What happens if I lose the ring or it comes off while I'm drawing?

You secure the gun, pick up the gun and continue practicing.

> handgun out of my nightstand

A handgun should be stored securely in a safe.

All those questions were answered on the assumption that you aren't specially threatened in some way. Except for those very few persons that are specially threatened, weapons actually lead to a greater risk than the security they can provide. Even in the case you are going to get robbed at home, it's more likely that the robber takes control of your guns and uses them against you than that you can use the guns against them.
Primers and firing pins replaced by magnetoelectric ignition. Trigger used to designate targets, while the smart electronics use gyros and lasers to fire only when the loaded ammunition is most likely to hit the designated target.

The safety lock might possibly be disengaged by numeric PIN or capacitative gesture recognition (like playing a certain sequence of notes on a theremin). Biometrics and proximity-based authorization tokens will have been discarded as untenable long before.
They have - e.g. http://vector.im/beta on top of the Matrix.org protocol. [disclaimer, I work on Matrix]
Or it could be that some willfully ignorant "journalist" heard about how they were to share development resources and interpreted it as combining.
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http://eavesdrop.openstack.org - all channels, all meetings, in a nice index and searchable format (i.e. google search with site:http://eavesdrop.openstack.org <query>)

There is a reason slack has a problem with that - scaling is hard.

There is also the advantage of not having silos - if I have a problem with a dependant library I can "/j #libname" and ask a question, instead of searching for what slack, or slack like tool they use, signing up, installing whatever app is needed to access it, and asking the question (and remembering what app they used, so I can keep it open for issues that run over a few days.)
It could also mean that the two operating systems are going to be merged at a base level but keep distinct userlands, like iOS and OSX.

The point this article was trying to make, is that Chrome OS is under LTS constraints at the UX and userland-API level for its present enterprise users (schools, mostly, but also some corporations.) Under these constraints, the kernel, display-server stack, etc. might get switched out in some future version, but educators who are dependent on their present workflows using specific apps+extensions will be able to continue to use them with no change. Any "merger" with Android will be at a level that is transparent both to the user, and to the Chrome app/extension developer.
33ms (at best)... There's a max 30fps on consoles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XREfxf4ds
I'm disappointed with the people who are down-voting this comment, as it's, in my opinion, informative and provides a reasonable summation of the differences between Kotlin and Scala.

I'd ask people who disagree to put their disagreement into words.
Eddystone has a couple different modes. One of them is to transmit a URL, but beacons can also be configured to transmit a UID. Not all Eddystone beacons will be transmitting a URL.

That said, I believe Physical Web does use the Eddystone-URL mode.

Spec: https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe...
I agree. I think future "smart" abilities in guns will be things like target detection. For example, I could see a fire selector for "safe", "semi-auto", and "vital areas only". Flip it to the latter and if you hold down the trigger, a computer vision system only fires a round when it determines you're going to hit a vital part of a person/animal/whatever. TrackPoint sorta had the beginnings of that, but it was intended for long range.
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There are several choices.

I've been to the DC Escape Room Live, but not the Alexandria, VA site: https://www.escaperoomlive.com/

I've also been to the MD suburbs for Zombie Escape Room (this was in College Park, MD when we did it but it looks like it relocated): http://www.charmcityroomescapes.com/

Of those two, my group enjoyed the Zombie escape a lot more. That's because the actress playing the zombie was excellent and she provided the extra challenge of avoid contact and slowly reaching more and more of the room.

There is also Escape Artists DC, with 3 different setups: http://www.escapeartistdc.com/

I haven't been to that one yet.

Again in the MD suburbs, my friends and I are about to go to this one literally next weekend, Escape This Live: http://www.escapethislive.com/mainpage1/

And there are two more I haven't checked out yet:

Great Escape Room DC: http://thegreatescaperoom.com/washington-d-c/

Escape the Room DC:
http://www.escapetheroomdc.com/index.html
I think this is pretty fair on Google's part. How could you possibly figure out who owned content?

What if I published a book, it was copy-pasted in blogs, and then later I put it somewhere crawlable by Google? You certainly can't just say "first time we saw it, that's the proper owner". It would either require a massive amount of manual QA to get right (and even then, there are going to be interminable copyright battles), or have a super high error rate.

I think Google's best value is letting proper content owners easily find violators via normal searches, and let them deal with them via takedown notices or the court system -- which is where it should be done, not in a pseudo-court run by a Google who does not want what responsibility.
Yup, modern game engines are complex systems with many parts.

Getting nearer to photorealistic graphics [1] isn't just about doing "more of the same and faster" (Moore's Law), it's increasingly also about "division of labor" across many subcomponents.

I like this rendering passes breakdown for Battlefield 4 (there are 54 passes):

http://imgur.com/N4gJkbm

(Frostbite engine by DICE, started as Battlefield franchise backbone, now it's becoming the engine for EA, sharing tech across many games - Battlefield, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mirror's Edge)

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[1] See e.g. here how close to photo sources Frostbite engine can get today (latest Need for Speed game):

http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1539/15391776/2...
Where I work, before Slack, we had Campfire and only us developers bothered to sign up for it, get the client, etc. We switched to Slack and suddenly everyone was on it. UX matters so much. We don't have time to tend an IRC server and act as support for it. Slack lets the whole company sign up ultra-easily and get on board – there's simply no contest.

I lament the passing of the age of new open protocols too, trust me, I really do. But IRC+ecosystem just isn't that good these days, and getting stuff done matters more.
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> Even in the case you are going to get robbed at home, it's more likely that the robber takes control of your guns and uses them against you than that you can use the guns against them.

Care to back up that claim?
Pretty sure I heard somewhere that Slack uses a modified IRC bouncer (e.g., ZNC[0]) to implement accounts. Could be wrong about that, but if that is in fact the case, this whole Slack vs. IRC debate would take on a whole new level of absurdity.

[0]: http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
I've seen a lot of people recommend Haskforce: https://carymrobbins.github.io/intellij-haskforce/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests

During the 1999 Battle for Seattle the city was brought to a halt. One key tactic was to persuade the taxi drivers to go on strike that day. Large crowds blocking the roads 'helped' too.
If you can't see the difference between ponies displayed publicly and penises displayed publicly, I'm not hiring you either.
Web-only may be a great choice for a scifi series these days though. Nielsen ratings are harsh on traditional TV scifi shows since so many of us watch online.
I'm not sure that a customized pipeline is always faster than a CPU. I guess that in a lot of cases, memory access will be the bottleneck.

Regarding the price, I'm talking about raw hardware costs (because it shows what profit can be made by making customized solutions).
Of course the disappeared forest will not return, and of course the world doesn't look like what the world was 10 millions years ago. That's just a strawman argument. Also, obviously the government should still do something. Shit is going to happen, and we have learn to deal with shit. Whether forestation is achieved naturally or with human effort, that's okay. Deforestation is a huge problem I agree.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/as-fires-grow-a-ne...
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Its certainly 50% helpful! Lets just hope they can see it as a mistake and fix the other 50% :)
If you're using vanilla vim I don't think there's a whole lot neovim will offer you at present. I think there will eventually be some performance improvements in the core areas, but they haven't really started on that yet.

Async support is a big deal for a lot of people though (and it's neovims original raison d'etre). For example, not having :make (well, :Neomake) block on compile is pretty significant by itself. Under the hood getting real async tasks required/requires a ton of rewriting because of how Vim was architected. Those changes were made deliberately and weren't just so that they could use all these fancy new libraries.

So I guess I'd liken it to Windows when it went from the 98 days to WinNT/2000 - keeping things working about the same while laying the foundation for bigger improvements later.

On the other hand, I don't see much downside to moving to neovim either. It is interchangeable (in my experience) with vanilla.
I don't know personally, but presumably companies designing these guns have thought of the same concerns and made the rings to be durable and sizable.

Re battery dying - if I was designing a smart gun, I would have it default to a regular, usable-by-anyone gun if the power dies. That way you don't have to worry about mastermind criminals with EMP devices either.
The "cube map" looks exactly like what Google StreetView does to represent views of the environment from given geographical coordinates.
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