skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving it another shot since it didn't take off when I submitted it a few days ago. Quoting my comment on the original submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864402):

Hi! I've been working on live collaborative game development software for about 4 years (some of you might remember me from CraftStudio). For the past year and a half, we've been working on Superpowers with my two friends Bilou and Pixel-boy and now we've open sourced it, as promised back in March when we launched early access for supporters.

Superpowers at its core (http://github.com/superpowers/superpowers) is more than a game maker. It's a generic collaborative client/server Web app for building all kinds of projects. A project type is defined by what we call a system, and you can have any number of systems installed on your Superpowers server.

We spent most of the last year building the core along with a system called Superpowers Game (https://github.com/superpowers/superpowers-game), which is a TypeScript game engine built on top of Three.js along with a bunch of collaborative asset editors.

Now that the platform is maturing, we've started work on other systems. For instance, Superpowers LÖVE (https://github.com/superpowers/superpowers-love2d) lets you build Lua games for the LÖVE framework. Demo: https://i.imgur.com/yLybycP.jpg

Another example: Superpowers Web is (https://github.com/superpowers/superpowers-web) a Superpowers system for building static Websites. We've used it to build the official website (https://github.com/superpowers/superpowers-html5.com) in real-time collaboration. We have plan for a "Superpowers Node.js" system, and hopefully the community will embrace this extensibility and build cool tools for all sorts of engines and creative endeavours.

You can find lots of pictures of the app in the release notes: https://github.com/superpowers/superpowers/releases and many games made with Superpowers Game here: http://sparklinlabs.itch.io/. The devlog album has cool stuff too: http://imgur.com/a/NdIuH
We're more aware of every crazy person doing crazy things in the country now, which feeds our (mis)perceptions of risk.
And note how of course the car cannot anticipate the lip of the garage needing slightly more momentum to overcome like a human driver would.

Terrain scanning, a software upgrade, and the instant torque available to electric motors could probably solve that.
You mischaracterized my argument. To reiterate:

If somebody is going to do it anyway it is therefore often better to have it done in public rather than pushed into black markets via controls (see: drug war).

The additional condition I provided is where the black market options are much weaker or limited than the possible public options, allowing the markets to effectively circumvent or eliminate the negative utility of the black market products - therefore making controls a valid option (see: nuclear arms).
> You start by saying that Facebook is not a competitor, but in taking over part of your core business--- keeping track of potential customers--- it could be seen as that.

If keeping track of lists of potential customers is such an integral part of your core business that someone else doing it is "competition", then it can be plausibly argued that you're in the spam business, at least to some degree.
This microbe is sneaky, deadly, and way more prevalent than we'd known
I also was reminded of Psycho-Pass.
This is unbelievable. How can they possibly justify the cost of this system?
What's the word when something is unbelievably cool and unbelievably scary at the same time?
So we should probably start a crowdfunding venture to purchase air rights around 14th street.
It would be nice to be able to import data from my Fitbit into the Health app. I carry my Fitbit Zip all the time, but rarely do I run with my iPhone.
Location: Vancouver, BC
Remote: yes
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Tech: ES6/7, React,Reflux, Webpack, Babel, Electron, Rust
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What is the black king in chess? This is a strange question, and the most satisfactory way to deal with it seems to be to sidestep it slightly. What more can one do than point to a chessboard and explain the rules of the game, perhaps paying particular attention to the black king as one does so? What matters about the black king is not its existence, or its intrinsic nature, but the role that it plays in the game.

The abstract method in mathematics, as it is sometimes called, is what results when one takes a similar attitude to mathematical objects. This attitude can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. ...

—Tim Gowers, A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics
Hopefully then, OSX as well. I probably spend as much time (sadly) on my macbook as I do in front of my iPhone at night. F.lux is a lifesaver, but I'd prefer it builtin to the OS.
And they should employ the developer of the SwipeSelection tweak and build it into iOS:

https://youtu.be/OD_g5szHGWo?t=79
Wow. Feel kinda bad for the TrendMicro team. This has to be rather embarrassing.
I doubt the lip of the garage will be a permanent limitation. There is no reason the car can't learn to account for it.
Wasn't Red Green on Netflix at one point, too?
> our country is becoming a dictatorship.

Our country will never become a dictatorship, and our country is already a dictatorship. To be more precise it is an oligarchy or what was that word... plutocracy? Anyone has a link to that paper?

It is basically ruled by the very few powerful interests.

There are multiple methods of how it is done:

One of the most effective is regulatory capture -- look at heads of FCC, FDA, USDA, Military and corresponding industries: communications, pharma, military industrial complex companies. There is a giant revolving door between them.

Senators and legislature in general (state and federal) can be easily bought as well.

Judicial can be subverted as well. This happens easier on the state level were judges are elected. I found "Hot Coffee" movie pretty interesting and accessible in understanding how the process works: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445203/

Election campaigns are basically a big theater where future political favors are sold for campaign funds.

And finally the PR involved in polarizing the population and manipulating their opinions. On paper the country will never be a dictatorship so this just means spending extra on manipulating public opinion. Bush did a good job mobilizing Evangelical voters. Obama capitalized on liberal votes and sold a story of hope, change, plus added the racial card in there as well. It really was a very well run campaign, not unlike what Coke or Pepsi would have. This is not just a random internet person talking, AdAge -- one of the main marketing interest groups gave Obama an award in 2008
http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market... for the best marketing campaign. Other usual winners are Coke, Nike, Apple.

The other thing that helps out is that various segments of the population, which would benefit from having a unified voice and position, are divided. It happens naturally in society, but it is of course helped a bit by media: Fox News vs liberal news etc. The division lines are multiple: conservative vs liberal; racial: Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants; regional: North, South, East vs West; by religion: non-religious, vs Christians vs whatever. It is a bit like the sports fans, the hate the other fans, but in fact they are closer to the other fans in terms of interests, income status, and general life outlook, than they are they with the players they are rooting for, who could be all driving sports cars, and hang out in exclusive expensive downtown bars together.

So minus some PR juggling and the need for some extra rhetoric about "Freedom, democracy, and exceptionalism, mixed with a bit of God and manifest destiny" you are not too far off treating the country like a well run dictatorship.
> the whole point of the color shifting is to reproduce how the sun interacts with the world around you

That's one use case. There are situations where blue light reduces the length of time one can look at a screen, and "night" mode enables longer usage.
Just the ability to have it pull out or back into tight parking spaces is worthy all by itself.
> 4. What good is a web assembly if you can't implement an efficient garbage collector in it?

There's nothing stopping you from implementing your own GC. But having a standardized GC (the JS engine's GC) means much simpler interop between wasm languages.
This is an interesting beta. I've not seen one that had an accompanying device configuration profile.
In short, it backs your files and apps to its servers, (like Google Photos, but not only photos), it is the only distinctive feature they have, and I do not think it makes it smarter than others, and honestly don't understand how it gets "smarter every day"
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Ironically, it's the other way around. In the last few years, my wife and I have lived in New Rochelle, NY; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. These cities are poor and have a heavily minority population. But they are also full of kids running around without a parent in sight. It's the affluent Maryland suburbs where the yuppies are too paranoid to let their kids out of their sight.
There mere fact that there are legal battles around this issue in a country that calls itself "free" is mind-boggling and unsettling. More like, police state cum Idiocracy, with some avenues from venting.
So the only device I own that absolutely has no guarantees about connectivity is the device you pitch the unending awesomeness of the cloud to me on?

Well OK, I guess.
fixed links: HN is keeping the > at the end of them.

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2006-August/006497....
[2] http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2007-05/10-Lattner-OpenGL.pdf
I think the value in having a standardized GC is simpler interop between wasm languages.

There's nothing that would prevent writing your own GC if you felt the need.
This is good advice. One thing that surprised me was viewing a long-term contract with a big company as a holy grail. That's different from my way of thinking. Also, I've never been tempted to double my rate for those; my instinct is to pass some of my overhead savings back to the client. I'd be interested to hear some elaboration on those topics.
We need to rethink how we assign the intangible digital "property" that is intrinsic to the Information Age. Little guys are getting raked over the coals by the incumbents because our legal system is not equipped to handle these issues fairly.
Fitbit has refused to export its data to HealthKit, nothing Apple can do about it.
Not "could". Does.
It's generally referred to as "My List" now, and it's available on all the major platforms I use (iOS app, webapp, Fire Stick app, PS3 app).
The AS/400 isn't a mainframe. It sits in the same space as VAX/VMS and the HP3000 line.

Edit: The common term for these, during their heyday, was "minicomputer" or "midrange".
Since when has "gang" excluded "white"? The Chicago Outfit, Hell's Angels?
This is awesome, I was just digging through some Oberon literature the other day (well, two weeks ago). Love it!
Good to know, thanks. Will encrypted notes sync betweeen devices?
the idea of someone fabricating legal-but-indicitave online information about you so that you turn red in the police's system and then setting you up to be considered a threat in an incident where the police assume you are dangerous but you are not and are goaded into shooting you is kind of a stretch

SWATting is doing exactly that, with just a voice call. http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/online-gamers-use-police-hoax-s...
The notion of people seeing a comment they thought was sexist and hounding your employer to ensure you were fired seems kinda far fetch as well. The issue is that there are enough people out there that even far fetch scenarios will happen from time to time.
True. The cases where this would be useful (extremely low training data) there are machine learning methods that are much much better than deep learning, which is a glutton for data comparatively. E.g. handwriting recognition or signature recognition (where you would have only a few samples).

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.abstract
For what it's worth, they already have something similar (for 3D-touch enabled models). Surprisingly, few 6S owners I know are aware of this feature.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/23/best-iphone-6s-feature-3d-touc...
Can we stop falling into the long-standing [1] tradition of acting like this is all the fault of a particular generation.

It stems from a multitude of things, like a political climate that caters to the vocal minority, the PC movement that has everyone on edge, and the 24-hour news cycle that lives for a tragic story they can cycle over and over for an entire day/week.

I'd love to have hacker news without all the "rabble, rabble, rabble".

[1]: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104
Well this is scary. How am I to trust a password manager if something as obvious as this is allowed to be shipped to the end user?
What a shamble.

This thing with so called security products should be regulated somehow. These sort of exploits should carry a huge fine from the FTC or something of the sort as this, and many other "security" products (I'm looking at you AVG) is blatant deception, if not the exact opposite.
The point is that osm.org is not intended for end users. I learned it the hard way ;)
And osm.org just shows the data best for mappers.

Also the address search is good but not perfect due to lack of data but also limited software.

But the nice thing about OSM as a developer is: you can do anything with this data. Build your own address searcher, routing engine and mapping stuff etc.
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> Then in the next chapter, 12, he falls into a sort of absurdity about the nature of interest

Yes, I noticed that too. I'm not enough of an economist (obviously) to know what he should have said instead.

It's a weakness, but I don't think it's fatal to his key point, which is that urban land values are socially created and should benefit society as a whole.
I agree, actually. One thing I like about Windows Phone is the scheduled background agents - you can request the OS run a background agent on a schedule, and it will allow your application to update or sync data on a fairly regular basis even while running on battery, though with limits - and if the device is plugged in and connected to WiFi you get increased limits to do some more intense tasks. I don't need my photos to sync automatically draining battery and wasting data while I am on the mobile network, but when I'm at home for the night and my phone is charging is a perfect change for things to do big syncs like that.

EDIT: Apple kind of added some similar functionality with background app refresh, but the fact that the system tries really hard to "guess" which apps you want updated and which you don't doesn't work so well - I am constantly having to launch SyncSolver to get it to post my Apple Watch steps to fitbit. Just let the apps I set to refresh run on a regular schedule, I can control what I don't want to update.
It worked really well for Tandem Computers.

People felt pretty happy with the company for about a year after their sabbatical, and didn't want to leave for about 2 years before their sabbatical (and miss it).

Don't know why this didn't work as well for Google.
Right. Like I said, it doesn't do much for a malicious developer actively trying to subvert the process. That doesn't mean it's useless. I would guess most problematic apps are not malicious, but are an honest misunderstanding or disagreement about what level of quality is acceptable or what types of services are allowed.

A moderately clever developer could sneak something past the Apple app store review too. Wasn't there a flashlight app that included a secret wifi tethering tool?
When Google was no longer growing rapidly. The gravity crushed ideology.
Can A.I. Turn Average Fans into Experts?
Said as only a clueless American can.

There are people alive today, in the startup founders age bracket, who lived under Soviet-style communism and escaped it.

Get a grip.
"Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now"

We sure know Mr. Bowie. We sure know.
It is a good point. I recently got a company provided phone and I strongly considered getting an iPhone, especially since it's the dominant platform at my company and most internal apps are developed for it exclusively. However, I started tallying up what functionalities I would have to give up and decided against it, a flux like program being one of them.
I think I fit into this category. I had an incident with my employer (fairly) recently that forced me to return to anonymity, but I'm not using a throwaway account, and I do generally believe the work the NSA is currently doing is more helpful than harmful.

I'd elaborate, but I doubt anyone wants to hear it. Whenever I do comment on HN about it, as long as I stay nice, I get a few upvotes, but the replies are extremely hard-line responses that make it difficult to have a conversation.
Exactly.

"Stranger kidnappings" (where someone the child doesn't know kidnaps them) are incredibly rare, a child is at much more risk from traffic, guns, cancer, or swimming pools.

The reason why child kidnappings (non-stranger) are seemingly common is because the vast majority of these are by family members (e.g. parents during a custody dispute, grandparents, etc).

Child molesters are also very rare (although you can make them seem more common by massaging the statistics, as some charities/politicians/media like to do), and on average in a large retailer there won't even be a single one.

There are stories where kids have literally died both because they were scared to approach a stranger, or a stranger was scared to approach them.

I have a kid. I am going to teach them to approach any adult, with a slight bias towards people who work there (simply because they are more likely to know the procedure for lost child, not because they're inherently safer/less safe).
Application whitelisting much more productive.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a subscriber and will likely continue to be. I agree that Netflix is a better deal for the consumer than most cable packages, but they're constantly competing for content with Hulu, Amazon, HBO, YouTube, etc.
Literally the first words on cert.org are

CMU[http://www.cmu.edu/] SEI[http://www.sei.cmu.edu/] CERT Division

[CERT logo] [SEI logo] [CMU Logo]

The blog posts posted on cert.org all link to cmu.edu.

The first words on www.sei.cmu.edu are

CMU SEI CERT Division

[SEI logo] [CMU Logo]

CMU is clearly permitting CERT to use and promote its logo, in fact, it's almost the exact same webpage.

CMU is clearly endorsing the actions of CERT.
>> I'm not sure the AVs have helped much, but they give some sort of psychological benefit, at least.

I find this a very dangerous way of thinking. You use the placebo (well, not even a placebo, just useless) and then you stop worrying that much about opening downloaded files, checking their hash if you trust the source, visiting dodgy websites...

An analogy taken to the extreme, would be to smoke and binge drinking without worries because you're taking homeopathic "solutions" (sic).
Being "patent pending" is meaningless without further context, i.e., the application proper. "Patent pending" spans a range of meaningless crud and novel inventions that share the common trait of having not yet received a final rejection office action.
> They don't exist to serve "national security interests"

Yes they do. From their website:

"The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a not-for-profit Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) at Carnegie Mellon University, specifically established by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to focus on software and cybersecurity."
> that artists and musicians either don't deserve a good living or should be happy just to get to do what they do

They don't; that's simply a fact, no one is owed or deserves a living, you have to work for it like everyone else. If there is demand for what you do, monetize it, if you can't, then pick another career because the market has spoken. You can't mandate that X career deserves to be paid, the market does that naturally via demand.

> It's a tremendous sense of entitlement on the one hand, to express contempt for the individual while expecting unlimited access to their work.

Stating facts about their lack of being entitled to anything isn't expressing contempt. If they don't want people accessing their work, they don't have to publish it, but expecting perpetual payment anytime anyone looks at what you put out is absurd; intellectual property is a flawed notion that only worked well when distribution was a challenge. With virtually free distribution, you cannot prevent information being free, i.e. copying, and thus you cannot rely on making money from distribution; you better learn how to make money performing live, as has been done historically.
I used the word "personally" to clarify that I was expressing my own preference and not making an absolute generalization.

What I generally do is write web apps, and much of my enjoyment comes from figuring out how to creatively use other people's libraries and to write very DRY code.

The libraries I use abstract browser fragmentation away from my presentation layer, so I don't have to do endless run-debug-fix loops on the front end.

At this point, the code I write for each new project is 90%+ unique to the project and very thin, so I get to do the fun part of releasing and iterating it.
Sure it is. They licenced Microsoft's Exchange protocols.
Or, a platform for people to rent out their own driveways for migrant EVs to pull in and (pay for a) charge during the day.
I'm finding it harder and harder to understand why I should ever install software that hooks into my OS on multiple levels and opens holes to the outside world without any notification in the name of "security"
Very interesting. Apple has replicated f.lux's functionality and removed access to the key ingredient used in the authors original implementation. All in one felt swoop.

They were definitely paying close attention to that whole "side load our proprietary blob using Xcode" debacle on HN 2 months ago.

f.lux for iOS announcement:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544770

Apple's actions the next day:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375
>> I believe the future for tech-aware users will be browsers in some sort of container / VM that reset themselves upon each session, with absolutely no control to the file system or data from other sites.

Or you could set-up a linux box just for web browsing.
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### Improvements

- Gulp tasks re-implemented as function callbacks (more flexible; slightly faster and simpler)

### Bugs:

- Fixed utility styles interfering with Semantic UI defaults.

- Fixed bug where \semantic\walker\abstract_base wasn't setting options correctly.

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### Misc.

- Corrected some documentation issues where the information was outdated or incorrect.