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I am happy to see they pulled this magnitude of investment. Curious why? There are exactly two possibilities:

1. The product is developed and released in a few years, its amazing, and everyone is happy.

2. It sucks, investors lose their money.

#1 is a win for me, #2 is a who cares.
> A couple trillion dollars was used to buy up securities that are realistically worth $0 in pretty much every timeframe for 100 cents on the dollar, cleaning up bank balance sheets.

I have no idea what you're referring to, but if it's TARP then that's totally false. The government made a profit on the bailout.

The vast majority of the securities which the government bought up had intrinsic values higher than what the fear-driven market was pricing them at.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bailout-high...
This is a welcome development and something that was long overdue. Quite a sizeable amount of people today in Nigeria still don't have access to traditional financial solution and services. Well done Joyce and the entire Stellar team.
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Now, try to pull this argument off in a RPi thread... :)
The key for AES is held in the four debug registers. On a 32-bit machine you get 4x32-bit for AES-128, or on a 64-bit machine 4x64-bit up to AES-256. The ptrace(2) system call is patched so these registers are not exposed to user space. And yes, they are zeroed on power-up or reset of the CPU.
The textareas are close, but it's not the same as having the actual editor. I use UltiSnips a lot, which without the actual editor you can't use. It's the same with a lot of Tim Pope's plugins (abolish, surround, etc...).
Recall, you're thinking recall, not impeachment.

And Walker's fight was viewed as one for the Right for the whole country, I, for example, sent him $200 for that, did my part to validate the recall petitioner signatures on a web site they set up (didn't find any bad ones), etc.

Rather a different thing than a normal election. Oh, and Walker won.
I'm still not seeing the usefulness of AR in the near term.(Disclosure: I think VR is here and ready with lots of useful possibilities).

I see AR being useful in verticals ie "pipe fitter" or "nurse".

As a general tool for everyone what is the problem solved?

"It's like an iWatch but in your vision all the time"

"you can enhance X with digital information"

"you can play games that somehow make sense in your ambient environment?"

I have not heard very many use cases that don't just sound like visual clutter for little benefit.

Balance that against what is likely to be more then putting on a pair of Raybans ie the battery pack and display bits.

What's the not-awkward input method that's even plausible? edit: Gestures have some serious downsides.
It especially looks like shit on my phone.
Noteworthy dirth of comments in the normally chatty HN audience. Untouchable subject sadly.
Atom is a full featured text editor, like vim or emacs.
The editing experience is therefore way superior to Firefox or Chrome textarea,
and you can use all the shortcuts, plugins and goodies you are used to.
For a short comment, a basic textarea is of course enough,
but when you write something a little longer,
I think it is a real gain of time to be able to edit in a real editor.
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You can't use the GPL for an entire distribution. You could argue that it's possible to only package GPL-compatible software and sublicense all of it under the GPL. This is impractical because of MPL and LGPL libraries. But even then the distribution isn't under the GPL, so you could inject an "MIT version" of musl and other non-GPL versions of the rest of the software.

tl;dr: That's not how licenses work.

There have been some interesting questions about packaging Ubuntu and their terms of use. I always found their terms of use odd, because they are basically reinstating trademark law inside a software license.
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This is a naive and over-optimistic post. You're allowing the horns-effect bias to overcome your rationality.

The world we live in is big, and there are a lot of different people in it. Some of them are smart, and some of them are stupid. Some of them are leftists, some of them are rightists.

There is no law of the universe that precludes smart people from believing in ideologies or causes that you personally dismiss. There are, undoubtedly, militant right-wing militia members who have a very strong grasp of military strategy, insurgency strategy, insurgent tactics, and are planning to use these to fight their enemies.

By their very nature, you will not know about these people. They will not occupy a federal office in a dramatic attempt to coerce the state into doing what they want it to do. They will be completely invisible until they decide to act, and when they do, it might not even be clear that they are acting if they don't want that.

Intelligent people who are happy and healthy and well-fed rarely turn to these sorts of things, but the world is changing rapidly, and there are no guarantees what the future will bring. Further, since the Internet is essentially causing massive global-scale group polarization, it might be much more likely for an intelligent person who might otherwise hold moderate beliefs to be radicalized. It can happen, and because it has billions of chances to, it almost certainly will.
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It's entirely possible.

Here in New Zealand, we have interest free student loans. There are minimum repayments (as a percentage of income), and the loan is no longer interest free if you go overseas for more than 6 months of the year.

Since inflation is a given, student loans are effectively negative interest over time.

It also means that if you graduate, and can't find a high paying job, you're not crippled by interest payments (there's also a minimum income threshold).
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Seems to be a kind of bait-and-switch operation, see this G+ comment by Lance Nanek:
>>It's pretty common on amazon for some good items to be shipped to get some good ratings, then for the seller to replace them with cheap, almost non-functional, shoddy replacements. It's happened to me before with bicycle equipment (pushing the button on a rear light pushed right through the casing, etc.). So it's entirely possible you got a good one from their initial offering, then they started selling something else.﻿<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#US_QE1.2C_...
Something learned in my 30y career as low level felon and spending fairly significant amounts of time (to me at least...a week in jail is no picnic!) locked up in both jail and prisons...

95% of cases are made via informants and not CSI-type investigations, so the whole "going dark" thing, I feel, isn't going to affect law enforcement the way a lot of people think it might.

I did notice, however, my last time through the system last year, that the State is now making a bunch of cases using cell tower information to put the defendants near the crime scene during the approx time of the situation.

Just FYI.
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech...

According to the StackOverflow survey Windows has been losing developers for the past three years (though that's obviously not a new trend). So much that those stats say that there are about 2/3rds as many developers on OSX as were on Windows 7 (I don't know when 10 came out, but it's not represented).

IME if you're on a Mac at your day-job you on-average have a lot more freedom in which tools you're using, and you're a lot more likely to spend your own money on them.

All that just to say: I'd be very surprised if releasing for OSX first wasn't the best financial move for them.
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I have noticed that checking my watch for notifications seems to make people think I'm checking the time. Where as actually pulling out my phone would indicate that more obviously.

I do absolutely love that my phone's ringer is never ever on. It just doesn't ever make a noise.
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What's the first supposed application of any technology? I'm not really in favor of this idea, but here's a shot at what someone will do with AR: "what do people shopping with me and eating the free samples here at Costco look like when they're naked?"
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i think people are incentivized not to care, which is subtly different but far more pernicious.
I'd love to hear from people that are using Sandstorm day to day.

The only thing stopping me that none of the current apps fill a need that I currently have - although there are a few things I'm close on (I still use Mozilla's etherpad but could easily switch if I can break my habit)
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"Shot directly through MagicLeap technology"
I had to check. 562. It would all fit in 5 tweets.
One thing I'm still not clear about is how much the ground crew knew about the damage. Did they have any idea there was a serious problem? Did the crew know that the ship was compromised? Was this ever seriously considered? Or is this all just hindsight?
Of course it is possible, just copy EU privacy law word for word. Or do you mean that that law is internally inconsistent?

Otherwise, you could equally argue that is is not possible for the EU to create a treaty that complies with American law.
This blows my mind. Not because of the amounts raised without a single released product: investors have shown a propensity to throw spectacular amounts of money at baffling ventures.

Instead, my shock is the implied burn rate of these raises. LinkedIn reports Magic Leap is between 201-500 employees. They are no indications of them mass-producing a product. No sales, and their marketing seems to be exclusively articles about the enormity of their rounds.

How, then, is a company raising 790M 1.5 years after raising 500M? What possible expenditures, without mass product development, sales and marketing, consumes finances at a rate that warrants these raises?

Or, alternatively, maybe the founders and employees simply despise maintaining ownership of their company.
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Sounds like an awful place to work at.
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> #2 is a who cares.

It's a very shortsighted reasoning. If this turns out to be a completely lost investment, investors will become wary of investing in VR startups, which will have for consequences less R&D jobs in virtual reality (which itself will decrease negotiating leverage of all R&D engineers), and less VR products, sold at a more expensive price.

I don't know anybody who works at Magic Leap, but I'd rather prefer they don't waste all that money.
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Thanks! Yes, great suggestion. One could also use a similar trick to learn the number of layers, by regularizing unused layers to be close to the identity function.

One thing that we wanted to try but didn't have time was to learn a generalization of convolution. Since convnets are a special case of fully-connected nets with some weights tied and some set to zero, we were thinking of ways to parameterize this weight tying that included both fully-connected and convnets as a special case.
Wrongful firing lawsuits are incredibly common across all industries. The merit of the case is impossible to figure out from a news article. People can speculate all they want, but really no one knows the facts other than those privy to the actual lawsuit.
I don't think anyone thinks the assets bought in QE were worth $0. The Fed's impact was entirely at the margin (increasing the supply of investable dollars).

If the assets bought under QE were sold for 50 cents on the dollar (for example), even the most bearish investors would be lining up to buy in droves. Of course, that applies to investors with actual money behind their beliefs rather than random internet commentators who can pull valuations out of nowhere.
It could be worse, it could be Warhammer 40k tech.
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details, details. :D

but, if you take out the part that is completely irrelevant about how they reported something that did not happen about yahoo selling itself, then it is probably less than 140.
Although, if the whole thing ends up being a misguided boondoggle, it means that money wasn't invested in other, potentially viable companies.
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If you want to beat it, brand it. Obamacare, The Surge, War on Terror. Going Dark is just the latest. Expect letsnotencrypt.gov any day now.
This is quality software. I've been using the built in osx 'notes' for note taking for a while now and this is much better for my purposes. One thing I would like is to be able to run code snippets with a click of a button, I cannot seem to find that feature.
While I certainly agree with most of these, I feel that the Daphne & Celeste fallacy needs a bit of elaboration.

Code readability is somewhat correlated to its maintainability, all else being equal. If you're writing messy code that could be greatly clarified by extracting a variable or adding an extra line, experience has taught me that one should typically do so.

Of course there are always performance, style, and other concerns, but abstractions are a key component of software development, as they allow us to do things like extract or isolate necessarily "messy" bits of code. I like the WAI-ARIA example, as it clearly fits with the fallacy, but just using that css snippet as a supporting example reads a bit like a bifurcation fallacy. Ugly code is not necessarily poor code, but it can sometimes indicate a missed opportunity for abstraction or refactoring.
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The facts which Wittes gives are way off. He links to "civil suits against the companies who provide service to ISIS and other bad guys". The civil suit is regarding a Jordanian police officer who shot and killed an American military contractor. Other than this lawsuit, almost nothing is linking the officer to ISIS. If you read the lawsuit, they really have nothing linking this officer to ISIS either, other than a vague statement from a supposedly official ISIS source.

So the link to this military contractor's death to ISIS is very tenuous. This has to be established first, and there is almost nothing to establish it on - he was a Jordanian police officer, not an ISIS militant. Then you have to say Twitter is engaged in running afoul of material support of terrorism laws. These laws generally would mean something along the lines of that in some back office of Twitter, Jack Dorsey was storing up Kalashnikov rifles which he was going to ship to the Taliban in order to assault American bases there.

In 1929, the Republican (!) Secretary of State rolled up all the old World War I spying operations saying "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". How far the US has fallen in freedom from the day Stimson uttered those words a century ago.
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It seems like retail investors don't have better investment options than dabbling in the stock market or settling for some mutual fund. Are there other great options out there that may require time and research but holds the promise of higher potential returns. What are great resources that this community has tried, if anything at all.

I am assuming with fintech in vogue there must be tons of options.
This settles it. HN needs to conduct our own takeover of a federal building to show these guys how it's done :p

/sarcasm please god let this line have been unneeded
Atom has a very good vim-mode that implements vim key bindings. You can do similar things to get emacs or custom key-bindings
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It is xmonad[1] running on Arch Linux[2].

[1] http://xmonad.org/

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/
Ok, but you've destroyed their business model.

How do they generate revenue from webmail now? Millions rely on the yahoo webmail interface, and every request that server fields subtracts from the company's bottom line.
AR plus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field
So apparently he had been given a promotion and took a leave of absence to participate in a prestigious fellowship and was fired for having a low performance review? What metrics were they going by for the performance review if he wasn't even working at the time?

I have a feeling this lawsuit will actually go somewhere.
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If they could make progress on the problem, I might forgive many kettles, I mean ills.
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> If you want to beat it, brand it. Obamacare, The Surge, War on Terror.

The Surge and the War On Terror were branded by their supporters. Obamacare was branded that way by those trying to defeat it, but it hasn't worked. So, not sure your examples illustrate your point.
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i'm a moron. noted.

i guess i saw something that reminded me of the cocoa/whatever-osx-UI on the the screenshots. but looking closer now, there is nothing other than atom and chrome, both have custom inconsistent UIs that do not hint the OS they are running on. you are right, it can be linux or anything else.
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> The duplication is worse than that. It's a data structure problem. Docker deals in opaque disk images, a linear, order-dependent sequence of them. The data structure is built this way because Docker has no knowledge of what the dependency graph of an application really is. This greatly limits the space/bandwidth efficiency Docker can ever hope to have. Cache hits are just too infrequent.

This is only true when you're building your images. Distributing them doesn't have this problem. And the new content-addressability stuff means that you can get reproducible graphs (read: more dedup).

> So how do we improve? Functional package and configuration management, such as with GNU Guix. In Guix, a package describes its full dependency graph precisely, as does a full-system configuration. Because this is a graph, and because order doesn't matter (thanks to being functional and declarative), packages or systems that conceptually share branches really do share those branches on disk. The consequence of this design, in the context of containers, is that shared dependencies amongst containers running on the same host are deduplicated system-wide. This graph has the nice feature of being inspectable, unlike Docker where it is opaque, and allows for maximum cache hits.

For what it's worth, I would actually like to see proper dependency graph support with Docker. I don't think it'll happen with the current state of Docker, but if we made a fork it might be practical. At SUSE, we're working on doing rebuilds when images change with Portus (which is free software). But there is a more general problem of keeping libraries up to date without rebuilding all of your software when using containers. I was working on a side-project called "docker rebase" (code is on my GitHub) that would allow you to rebase these opaque layers without having to rebuild each one. I'm probably going to keep working on it at some point.
> Plenty of people have used AR-15 pattern rifles in self-defense, inside and outside the home.

Genuinely curious: when have people used an AR-15 rifle outside for self-defense?
"I'm not dismissing non-technical users"

Yes, you are. You may think you're not, but you are
I'll point out that your example requires some pretty significant amounts of image capture, processing and ui that doesn't exist :)

Also you'll be really sorry when you look at the wrong person.