skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the piece is based on complete hearsay, but did anybody think it is a surprise? Console gaming is a very tough market to break. It is a tough market to stay afloat in for market leaders. Microsoft were untouchable a mere 5 years ago, but their small resistance to change in developer relations policy has left them with very little software for Xbox One, and one PR gaffe with the DRM destroyed their best consumer brand. Now Xbox One has been recovering, especially due to regular sales(I bought one even after being burned on defective 360's), but it is still without any games to play between the big releases, which are fewer and fewer because of increasing budgets. How can Apple come close with a device that doesn't even ship with a controller? It would take a lot of perseverance to succeed in this market and Apple has the the financial backing to do so.

As for the piece it self, I could not complete it because it has stuff like this:

>but again, have you read a single report where anyone has come out and said anything along the lines of, "Oh man, I'm so glad we invested development time in the Apple Watch, we're making so much money?"

"Have you read single report suggesting touch arcade is worth reading?"
The paper mentioned they talked with folks doing special purpose FPGA's, and that those teams seem to disagree with your assessment ;-)

(at least, that's my read, maybe i misunderstood)
For drying out loud, vaping outside is not such a burden. Vaping doesn't bother me but if you're in a no smoking area then people are probably also not going to want to be exposed to other airborne contaminants. How hard is it to be considerate of others?
I work with both PlayStation and Xbox network services (such as the ones affected by this leak) -- Microsoft's APIs are in a different league than the PlayStation ones. API versioning, contracts, solid SDKs, really solid separation of functionality and great coverage of core features. Sony's PlayStation API was clearly an afterthought at best, and a late night project after a drinking binge at worst.

Another instance that reminded me Sony is indeed not a software company is their mobile app. MITM'd it to discover that they were sending something like 500 requests (totalling over 100MB IIRC) every time I opened the app. Wtf?

But yeah, their services are buggy as crap.
Don't doubt yourself. There are a lot of great companies hiring Java developers; you don't have to worry yourself about the standard YCombinator group.
> And on top of this, Mozilla decided to shoot for (super) low-end devices as their main target - presumably because their bizdev people had spotted a theoretical opportunity, but failed to connect with engineering, or vice-versa.

Having been there (ex mozillian, lots of time spent on FFOS), I wouldn't characterize it like this. The leaders of the project were two engineers, not a pointy hair on their heads (at least at first).

There were certainly plenty of us who felt like trying to cram this much into a low-end device was insanity (when was the last time you saw any web browser use under 128mb of ram?), and we definitely raised this objection. I feel like the pathology I observed was more planning fallacy / overoptimism on the part of engineering leaders than anything else (I'd certainly be the last to claim that I've never been guilty of that).

There's also another fallacy that I don't have a name for, which is basically "this is the only (way we see how) to do it, so we're going to make it work." That is, it was hard to imagine a FFOS device competing with a high-end device, so they decided to focus on the low end. That's the only way we can do it, so we'll make it work. But that causes you to perhaps lose sight of the real question: "can we make it work?"

It's not clear to me whether FFOS would have had a shot if not for the focus on low-end hardware. Having been there, I feel like the architecture itself was really hard to program against. Bugs that should have been easy -- "make sure the alarm clock actually goes off", "don't leak apps" -- required lots of specialized knowledge and time to fix. But certainly a lot of time was also spent on performance/memory optimization.

Just my two cents. A lot of smart people worked hard on this project for many years, and there were many impressive technical accomplishments along the way. Look up Nuwa if you're interested; that shit is nuts.

> They actually have a time-honored tradition of following in the footsteps of Opera when it comes to ways of making money.

"Opera had it first" indeed. :)
We spend trillions of dollars a year on solving problems "here on Earth", that does not obviate the ability nor the need to spend money on pure scientific research.

Consider how much the advancement of science has contributed to the wealth and health of mankind. Hundreds of billions of person-years in healthy life. Quadrillions. Literally quadrillions of dollars of value and economic activity added due to the understanding of gas laws, thermodynamics, material science, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc. Can you think of anything with such a tremendous return on investment?
"The emails and recordings also outline how Happer ran a sham peer-review process through the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a prominent U.K.-based climate skepticist think thank. Happer admits that his papers would not likely be published through typical the academic peer review process. “I would be glad to ask for a similar review for the first drafts of anything I write for your client. Unless we decide to submit the piece to a regular journal, with all the complications of delay, possibly quixotic editors and reviewers that is the best we can do, and I think it would be fine to call it a peer review.""
2 or 3 year olds cannot learn empathy, their brains just aren't wired for it. It's like telling a wheelchair user 'here let me teach you how to run 100m in sub 10 secs'. Which is why I'm so dumbfounded by the comments agreeing with the article - it's based on the notion from 50 years ago that children are just adults who haven't been tought yet how to be adults. This is clear and plain nonsense, children and youth until ~ 25 years old (I realize I'm now antagonizing much of those reading this...) just don't have fully developed brains yet. Especially at lower ages it doesn't make sense to try to teach them things that they are physically incapable of learning.
Notice that most of Wright's retroactive editing to make himself look like Satoshi took place in 2013-2014, shortly after Kleiman died.

Perhaps Kleiman was the one who really wanted to keep Satoshi's identity a secret, but Wright had different ambitions and now he doesn't have his friend to rein him in anymore.
Today someone making $40,000 per year is not paying anything near eg $12,000 per year in income taxes (more like half that). The middle class would not come even remotely close to paying back enough of the basic income that they'd be taking out to off-set the vast cost in the bottom third. Taxes would have to go up dramatically on the middle and upper classes.

If you don't have a cut-off, basic income can never work in America. There is no math that can ever get you there. It takes a few minutes to run the numbers, they do not work - unless you raise taxes a lot and reduce the other major federal programs a lot.
A collection on Product Hunt/@collinmathilde

https://www.producthunt.com/@collinmathilde/collections/mail...
It inspired me to actually write a version of Mathman for the Apple II...
Can we also ban perfume and fragrances then? They're not healthy either. /s

I'd just like to see a requirement that all products have a label which lists every ingredient, even if that label is only available online or by mailing the manufacturer. And "natural and artificial flavors" is not an ingredient. "Meets the flammability requirements of the California Bureau of Home Furnishings" is also not an ingredient.
Marketers: do your part to advance diversity in tech
Because there's an implicit assumption that anything offered for sale to the public without restrictions is of merchantable quality. Arsenic-laced apples don't serve a useful purpose whose benefit is sufficient to offset the cost of being poisonous, unlike cleaning materials that may nevertheless be toxic if misused or other potentially dangerous merchandise.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't think Mailbox was derailed by Dropbox, since it barely had a public life before Dropbox and certainly would not have survived without the acquisition, Dropbox is equally as responsible for the few good years as the original Mailbox team.

As far as what Dropbox got out of the acquisition: no idea. I know there was a lot of interest in the Mailbox team, and they were immediately given a much broader purview post-acquisition (much like the founding team of Cove when they got acquired). Ultimately I don't really think that parachuting in founders to take over parts of your company works -- three out of the four of those people no longer work for Dropbox, for instance. However, at the time Dropbox clearly craved adult supervision, and I think that was seen as the way to get it.

Oh, and if you have a product people like, that doesn't hurt either. I just found it maddening that Mailbox was built from day one not to make money, and that problem was never solved. That sort of thing can only last for so long.
South Park is a weekly morality play espousing the virtues of a nihilistic "libertarianism"* that appeals to the kind of person who wants to be reassured that not caring about other human beings is laudable behavior.

* I don't like libertarianism and have been known to vigorously dissent with its principles, but even I wouldn't stoop so low as to consider South Park a reflection of the views of a sincere and thoughtful libertarian.
Cry Bullies combined with the gradual decline of journalism replaced with entertainment news has led to this kind of cultural climate.
There's also http://get.gaug.es/, which seems great.

I have gone through their trial, but now I think I will register for the Solo account ($6/mo).
Yeah, I've never had that experience! I'm sure I could be flexible about that--after I've been sold on the gig in the first place. But I feel like that's maybe an inversion of what it's usually used for: to weed out the shitty applicants. Looking at my Github and my blog (both linked on any documentation a client or prospective employer would see) should be enough for that to not waste either of our time, but at many places The Process Shall Never Be Modified.

(Right now, I'm helping out a few days a week over at a fairly large Boston startup, and while they have a general work-sample test that they roll out, I never took it. I probably wouldn't have followed up past the initial phone call if a monkey dance was necessary to get in the door.)
How long have they been there? Couldn't find this basic fact in any news source I read.
Swift on FreeBSD build support
He's a privileged straight white guy who likes to have his laugh about things he never had to deal with.
Not really sure why South Park is getting so much praise these days. Very little has changed from the previous seasons in terms of its outrageousness and the things it satirizes.

I think the creators are just doing what they usually do which is take advantage of a controversial topic and satirize it. I guess it just so happens that more people care about the topic at hand (political correctness) and empathize with it.
I don't understand why you're berating me about where to vape. I do not vape anywhere. Just because somebody tries to evaluate vaping rationally doesn't mean they are trying to defend a secret vaping habit.

As for being considerate — yes, obviously it's good to be considerate, but that's kind of a platitude until you get into the nitty-gritty details. We all do things that are inconsiderate in some ways. For example, if you eat meat in public, there are might be vegetarians around who find the sight and smell offensive, but I doubt you consider yourself inconsiderate for doing so. I'm not sure exactly where vaping falls in the "doing this in public makes you a jerk" spectrum, but I lean towards thinking it falls closer to wearing heavy perfume than to smoking (since its effects seem to be more similar to that).
> "South Park" used to be so anti-continuity - its episodes are often written days before airing

That last fact needs extra emphasis. The multi-month lead time needed for every other scripted show on Television means that South Park is the only show that can pull Ripped-From-the-Headlines commentary without things being dated by the time the episode airs. (Law and Order: SVU is show that is guilty of this to a hilarious degree)
> What confuses me is that we all seem to have more-or-less the same moral compass when it comes to fiction.

> Torture? Heck, it's not torture, and they're really bad people anyway.

The use of torture 'by the good guys' is actually pretty ubiquitous in modern TV.
While I don't think Stockholm can "afford" the state of its housing market, renting a sublet is quite comparable to the rest of the world. It's just that people expect more, including myself.

For some reason the swedes think it's a good idea to have insanely long mortgage terms, if they don't just pay interest. Prices in Stockholm proper is around $950 per square feet, which I guess is comparable to SF [0].

[0] http://www.maklarstatistik.se/
[0] https://www.google.com.mt/search?q=86304+sek+per+square+mete...
[0] http://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/Avg-D...
> I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco.

Right.... because the heaps of information that gets dumped on you whenever you receive a prescription drug or go in to surgery is oh so helpful.

You are basically advocating for an expansion of this. If a vaporize contains 100 different chemicals, and all of them come along with pages of information, the user won't be able to grok it all and realize that one of them is probably going to seriously screw them in a few years.

I don't know what you expect an informed consumer to look like, but having a person reading a booklet of medical jargon to determine health risks for each drug they take is extremely unrealistic.

So, the government is right here. We need to ban certain chemicals because there is no other way. Life is too complicated as it is.
I don't understand exactly - are you mocking me?

I think most people who have this sort of free-market disposition are moderate enough to think that labeling an arsenic apple is reasonable.
I think it's entirely reasonable to discuss tech priorities and national infrastructure spending. Maybe 'war' has a particularly political dimension, but so does Social Security, welfare programs, national health care, manned space exploration, etc. Basically any large spending program is going to be a political, almost by definition.
Ah I get it, so the only way one can have an opinion on something is if they are indeed the most outraged minority. Is that right?
> It literally couldn't get any better for a kid than PBS in the 70s or 80s.

Don't forget such gems as "The Electric Company", "3-2-1 Contact", "Reading Rainbow", "Mr. Wizard", "Bill Nye" and others.

It seemed for a while that TV producers really wanted to pursue the mission of Television as an educational medium. I honestly don't know anything about the quality of today's material, but the material I grew up with was really well done on so many facets. It wasn't just about learning basic reading or arithmetic, but also about how to socialize well, diversity training, problem solving, emotional growth and more. It was multi-faceted and didn't pander to children or just spend 30 minutes entertaining them with vapid songs. I feel like there was a real earnest effort by very smart educators to use the medium to its fullest and I grew up enjoying those shows more than afternoon cartoons and other 30 minute commercials.

By comparison Barney, Teletubbies, and those late 90s, early 2000s "educational shows" are pure garbage. I can still sit down as an adult and find enjoyment in classic Sesame Street. And I think that's part of the difference, the modern shows were basically entertainment and electronic babysitters for busy parents, SST, Mr. R and classic children's shows taught on multiple levels and parents weren't bored out of their minds to sit with their own kids and help reinforce the lessons.

(Mathnet was one of my favorite segments of its parent show, It was funny and entertaining, but introduced basic math skills as well as critical thinking skills. It also introduced me to this kind of slightly archaic story-style which helped give me a life-long love of classic radio dramas and comedies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_eBFzNLsGk
You PC, bro?
I base my speculation on this comparison: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36412/what-is-the... between GPU and ASIC bitcoin mining and on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis... for GPU and CPU comparison.

From this the difference between between GPU and ASIC solution is about 10^4.

Google tested against Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 single core, so it would be roughly 10^3 slower than GPU.

So one could say that ASIC solution for bitcoin mining is about 10^7 times faster than single core CPU solution.

So in this sense parents claim checks out.

Now I do not know if it is possible to generalize these finding to the problem in question.
This thread won't end well.
> there's an implicit assumption that anything offered for sale to the public without restrictions is of merchantable quality

You gloss over this as if it weren't kind of a huge deal.

This assumption is breaking a lot of systems in society.
Quit mansplaining and self reflect on your intolerance.
That's a shame and awful. Web apps should really be winning this fight against "native". Firefox OS was our greatest warrior. Or wasn't it?
This also is, to my recollection, the first time that they took one topic and went with it for a whole season. That is not to say that they deliberately singled this topic out for more attention; rather, it seems to be following a trend that they started last season where it felt like they experimented with more season long connections.
Cloudron and sandstorm are similar projects. I think the main difference is the user experience (also how we handle domains, how apps are packaged etc). You can see a demo of the cloudron here - https://my-demo.cloudron.me/ (username: cloudron password: cloudron). All apps use same credentials (because of single sign on)
Kind of reinforces his point.
I hope someone asks about ppl starting and working for their own companies on B1/B2 visas.
No, you are conflating "being outraged" and "having an opinion". Your OP never said anything about having an opinion.
Intolerance? Of what am I intolerant to, exactly?
I suspect that many people don't read a lot of papers, maybe?

It is absolutely, always the normal behavior to disclose all sources of funding.

For example, I had the paper EpiCaster: An Integrated Web Application For Situation Assessment and Forecasting of Global Epidemics[1] open.

This paper includes section 9, Acknowledgements:

We thank our external collaborators and members of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab-
oratory (NDSSL) for their suggestions and comments. This work has been partially supported by NSF
Nets Grant CNS- 0626964, NSF HSD Grant SES-0729441, NIH MIDAS project 2U01GM070694-7, NSF
PetaApps Grant OCI-0904844, DTRA RD Grant HDTRA1-0901-0017, DTRA CNIMS Grant HDTRA1-
07-C-0113, NSF NETS CNS-0831633, DHS 4112-31805, DOE DE-SC0003957, NSF REU Supplement
CNS-0845700, US Naval Surface Warfare Center N00178-09-D-3017 DEL ORDER 13, NSF Netse CNS-
1011769 and NSF SDCI OCI-1032677.

That's just a random paper, as an example. That is simply how academic papers are done, and anyone who isn't disclosing funding isn't following normal behavior.

Maybe some people will be suspicious of this paper because it is partially funded by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center. That's their choice, and this disclosure enables them to judge it based on that.

[1] http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/chenj/pub/NDSSL-TR-15-090.pdf
Well then, I'll have to adjust my assumptions. Thanks.
Heard about ATT gigabit coming to Sacramento yesterday (amongst many others). Finally seeing these lazy companies upgrade infrastructure.

http://about.att.com/content/dam/snrdocs/GigaPower/FINAL%20-...
Malaysia Airports seeks owner of three Boeing 747s abandoned at KLIA
A federated web payment infrastructure would be the holy grail Mozilla could build a life around.
So Elmo is basically the Jar Jar Binks of Sesame Street.
The latest episodes on ads with a wink (does she know she's an ad vs does she know she's a replicant) at Blade Runner (which is seen as the first SciFi to forecast the importance of ads in the future) fairly accurately depicted how hard I feel it is to not be distracted on the Internet these days, as well as discussing the really disturbing trend of the "sponsored content" in text content medias.
Getting rid of Social Security is certainly a lot more viable today, now that politicians can't steal from its inbound surplus.

The basic income concept also collapses when you consider Social Security - that system is designed specifically to only give people at a certain age those benefits. As has been pointed out in the case of Finland, plenty of people will find they are worse off. In the US case, if you spread that Social Security money out across 230 million adults, it would become tiny per person (~$300x per month), which is exactly what you don't want to do (unless the plan is to shift back to a system in which people are expected more so to take care of their own retirement needs, but I don't see how that is going to work out with the median paying vastly higher taxes).
Except hes Jewish I think he might know a thing about being an oppressed minority.
Am I allowed to refer to Feynman?
Maybe it's because these opinions are utter shit. Maybe treating peoples' grievances as sincere expressions of personal self-interest instead of reflexively treating them as imbeciles, charlatans, or malefactors is how one gets treated with respect in kind.

Maybe people catch on that garbage comes out of one's mouth is always reactionary rejection of other peoples' experiences and stop pretending one is acting in good faith.

At the root of it, wholesale asserting that someone's grievances are invalid because they are too stupid or too malevolent to understand their own life experience is a very stupid kind of elitism.

South Park is a mouthpiece for very stupid elitism. It's not exclusive to generic men like Stone and Parker but it's also very commonly preferred by generic men who haven't outgrown their misanthropic teenager phase.
Google says it has now proven that D-Wave’s quantum computer really works
He or she is concluding that the only reason why the author could relate is because of the colour of his skin. And the connection there is that because he's white and has an opinion that this person doesn't agree with, that it's obviously because he's white, and not because of any other reason.
Odd Squad feels like a spiritual successor of Mathnet.

It's entertaining, educational, and clever enough for parents to watch and not want to gouge our eyes out.