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I remember when KDE came out, it was was like "Wow! This is just like the Mac and Windows" and then Gnome came out and every version of Gnome and KDE has gotten worse over time.

It's completely unfair to compare Gnome to Windows because Windows comes with a desktop environment that actually works and for the most part gets better over time, not worse.

If anything, the new Linux personality for NT is the fault of the Linux vendors not coming out with a viable desktop environment. For years devs have enjoyed the POSIX personality of MacOS together with a workable desktop environment and soon they will do that on Windows.
Considering that $5B is a drop in the bucket compared to the damages done, I'd rather they spin the wheel.
> 2) If banks acting in this manner is the standard... why? Why isn't a firm carving out the "niche" of not being assholes?

How much are you, personally, willing to pay this year for the services of a "not assholes" bank? I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay very much, myself. I'm not in a position to be putting a large number of digits of funds under management. I wonder if those who are may be more interested in returns than in the non-financial value of not being an asshole.
It is. But at this point it is rather tongue-in-cheek. I certainly wouldn't want Erlang to all of the sudden be called Object Oriented.
This is Hacker News. I expect what's interesting about it to most people is the implementation, not the fact that this client exists.
Thanks! Loved the songs you had linked, esp the drums. Deschooling sounds very close to what I assume will be required to cope and thrive with nihilism. We are given some very shallow arguments to 'keep going' mainly centering around, 'You need to be successful/find a succesful partner/Be the next einstein'.You only need to go a couple of steps deeper, to realise that these statements are hollow and incomplete. I'm not saying one needs to have a why to do anything at all, just that it needs to be understand that there is no answer to that why. Otherwise it is no different from religious dogma that crumbles at the slightest questioning. Thanks for the aweosme links, gonna check them out one by one!
The second link is "no longer valid."
Indeed. Can't remember last time I installed a package using pip. This one, particularly, sits at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/voltron-git/
Telegram's protocol is built with mobile in mind: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto - I believe their implementation of server-side is closed-source, but remember seeing an open-source version somewhere on GitHub...?
> a large number of people made poor choices

Is it really a poor choice to buy a house? Should people have known that banks were intentionally misleading them? The banks are the ones that should have been telling potential homebuyers that they weren't qualified, but they weren't doing that. Yes, the banks were also incentivized to make that kind of loan, but creating the derivative products that intentionally obscured the high risk of those loans and reselling those products as "low risk" derivatives is definitely on the banks and ratings agencies.
Institutions had to be coerced into letting the government buy their toxic assets through TARP? I would love to see a reference on that.
Artists can do and have done all of the above, especially on the indie scene.

The "just a performer" model is only true for that small percentage of singers who are just performers. That model includes some of the bigger household names. Some of them are essentially fashion models who sing and dance, not musicians. Others are singers who also produce, and have a feel for what sounds good even if they can't play all the parts. (This is harder than it sounds.)

There's literally an entire industry of independent artists who record and produce at home, do their own tour management and logistics, maybe mix in a studio for some final polish, handle distribution, and so on.

And an entire related industry of bloggers, DJs, and other online sites that review and curate the most interesting new music.

The labels keep on keeping on, but their business model is very fragile now. They wait for a producer to manufacture a band, or for a band/artist to bubble up from the indie (artist - not musical style) scene.

When they reach a critical mass they try to buy them. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.

The bizarre thing about A&R budgets over the last few years is that they're as huge as they've ever been, but concentrated on a relatively small number of artists. Because there's a lot of money involved the labels are ridiculously risk averse. If a signing doesn't turn into a cash cow after the first album they're dropped.

This has always happened, but the cycle is so short now that only acts that have instant mass appeal or a guaranteed existing fan base are successful on labels. Everyone else is indie.
(the reply link didn't show up before, so I don't know if you saw my response posted right after this)

To be fair, your third edit was only for me. And that was the only comment I was replying to.

As I said, we are working to respond to hundreds of comments across dozens of platforms. I certainly respect your distaste in the more rushed responses in order to address all of the deluge, and that is why we were also simultaneously working on a longer and more thoughtful response that speaks for all of us at the company via that blog post (in a far more emotional tone).

It certainly is difficult to envision the challenges of responding to dozens of responses if you're not in our shoes. But I genuinely thank you for the feedback - and we're noting this (as well as the feedback all have been sent to date; a lot of that was factored into policy adjustment and our blog response) for handling it differently next time.
If their system finds a site displaying a misleading ad, and it's a google ad...

Why is the action to flag and penalize the site? Why would the action not be "google stops showing that ad"?
Dave Chappelle had an excellent skit on his show about that very thing. Except, true to Dave's style, it was reversed.
”On the Flip Side, backing up users two 5+ Terabyte Hard Drives on S3 with Arq gets a little pricey”

I send my Arq backups to Amazon Cloud Drive using the ”unlimited” plan. It costs $59.99/year. So far I have only backed up < 100 GiB however, so I don’t know how well it handles backups that are multiple TiB.

[Edited to correct confusing typo.]
I loved Acronis TrueImage for years until it became bloated. Macrium Reflect has since replaced it. There's a Free edition for you to try out.
You make a point: SocialVR is not yet a success, I still believe it will.

However, actual systems for realtime communication with "random" people have the merits of existing but are less than perfect.

- Reddit: not realtime, you post and hopefully get an answer. Most of the time, never.

- IRC: most channels are empty, some are overcrowded, rarely there is the right number to an interesting chat

- twitch: better than irc, but still the most popular chatrooms are overcrowded and then useless. So people are not chatting or interacting, just watching tv.

- video games: the interaction is around the game, you rarely start talking of something else

I strongly agree with you: online is better than real world in many ways, for example: you do not need to physically move yourself to meet people. Also maybe online is useful to overcome shyness. SocialVR have to take what's good in real world and what's good online.

I have to stress that last element in my pitch. Thanks for challenging me.
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Probably an internal sister project to Sandcastle, another Facebook project mentioned in the post.
As another commenter has said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483147), we now have nuclear reactor designs that have failsafes that cannot fail because they rely on physical laws. That should address your "survive human perversity" concern.

As one example, look at the Pebble bed reactor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor#Safety_feat...). The way it's designed, as the reactor temperature increases, the reactor power decreases, and this is a completely passive effect (meaning it happens without any human intervention), so in the event of an accident the reactor will end up automatically reducing to safe power levels all by itself.
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They generate depth using optical flow and then generate separate images for each eye.
Honestly curious: Why is this your first and only comment on HN?
How do you prevent it from falling off? I am on a quest to find something that is comfortable (ideally around the ear) and won't slip out. I would also like something thing so I can put on a headband and cover my ears in cooler weather without crushing the bands into my skull.
Facebook releases Bot Engine to create much smarter bots
Great question.

- start small (see below)
- provide valuable information to a target market where there was none before
- minimize participation friction by not abusing users with invasive TOS or advertising
- ensuring there is a valuable service at the core of the platform for free (promote sticky-ness)

Our plan is to focus on one local region (Vancouver/BC) and one crop (beer hops) this year to 'prime the pump' and grow from there.

The craft beer scene is in a hyper-growth mode in British Columbia (a bit behind Washington and Oregon) and the demand for local ingredients (beer hops) far outstrips the current local supply. Consequently hops are becoming a hot new crop. Thing is there is no established 'market space' for brewers and hop farmers to meet; its pretty ad hoc.

We're aiming to provide a platform for this year's harvest as a way to vet the idea / platform.

From there we hope to work into the Pacific North West and across Canada and stretch out into other kinds of locally grown produce.
Can someone who is using a VR headset tell me if they cause headaches like 3D TVs do?

The headaches are caused by a conflict between what the brain sees and what the muscles in the eyes are doing. This same phenomenon would surely happen in VR.
It debuted when Google added the ability to do direct link ads to Google Play. And it's been on larger sites that use Google AdSense to fill excess inventory.
Today is the anniversary of the Vostok 1 launch, the first manned spacecraft. If anything will make it to the front page of Hacker news today it should be that.
It's already being done again, just under a different name. It started again as soon as the bailout checks cleared.
Well, they don't actually sell it, so you're lucky.
GS makes around $10 billion a year, are you saying that the profits for the last 10 years or more came purely from sales of MBS?

I know no one has been imprisoned over the financial crisis mess, but settlements like these truly show that the justice department and the SEC are doing a pretty good job at penalising the banks. Combined, the fines probably add up to hundreds of billions, my personal opinion is that this is way more than the banks did from selling these securities.
Imgur has more traffic than Reddit: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/imgur-traffic-milestone-10...
It goes back in the general direction of Earth. The reflector needs to be highly efficient, but it doesn't need to be perfectly flat.
The known sites aren't the one violating CANSPAM (and its ilk). There's a huge difference between websites that people choose to visit and an open inbox that anyone can ping.
I was tempted to make a snarky comment about using LaTeX, but I'm not sure it's entirely fair. It doesn't seem like just a bunch of MarketingSpeak wrapped in LaTeX to be honest.

My issue with Optimizely are mainly how they essentially ditched us as (paying) customers. We were admittedly small-fish, but we were paying and were willing to pay more, but they switched to Enterprise-vs-Free without any middle grounds. Enterprise was way too expensive for us. Free didn't include essential features, so we were just stuck.

I ended up writing an open-source javascript A/B test client[0] (and recently also an AWS-lambda backend[1]), but it still has a way to go...

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/alephbet

[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel
I'm not sure about this but my guess is that a man who refuses to abide by an establishment's rule of "no men in the women's showers" would be asked to leave. If he does not leave, he could be arrested for trespassing.

But given direction these new laws are taking, I'm further guessing that the Police should refuse to remove the man and instead arrest the proprietor for discriminating against this man based on his protected status of identifying as a woman?
Likewise it would be a mistake to assume that it's totally unsafe based on a single instance of poor planning. But it's true that reactors of this vintage are flawed and the risks probably are too high. Fortunately we have modern reactor designs to fix that.
We're based in the UK and have shipped plenty overseas so far. I'm sure we'll be able to get something to you, if you're not in too remote a location.
What's the problem that makes taxing land with no ownership untenable?
Well, it should, but does it?

Time Capsule's drive is just another network drive. The data could be easily erased. There's also a button in the Airport Utility that nukes all data on the drive. There is no reason for me to believe that this button could not be triggered by rouge software.

It would be nice if you could provide citations to the opposite.
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Some states aren't spending as much on higher ed as Utah. In Washington, where I live, in-state tuition averages ~$10k.
aw shucks
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I still remember that one CNBC reporter who said that the housing crisis was the fault of "loser homeowners", rather than banks issuing loans en masse to people they knew had no means to pay the money back.
Actually, it looks like they'll be able to discharge about $2.7B as "expenses". So effectively they'll only be paying around ~$2.3B for completely destroying the American economy. I call that a bargain.
It is an outcome of 'liberal and free' society, not detrimental to it.
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I don't know what that means, but you've got my attention. Could you elaborate on what you have in mind?
I by no means intend such a system be sold to average consumers. As you point out, it would be doomed to failure. More for the hard-core "I'd rather lose my customer DB than watch it walk off in the hands of someone with a good sob story" crowd. And I'm not 100% sure that there is large enough, bold enough type to forestall some customer saying, "but I didn't think you meant it!"
I'm especially intrigued by Account Kit. "It's a complementary solution to Facebook Login and does not require people to have a Facebook account."

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit/overview/ explains:

"Account Kit creates a database just for your app. You can access the data at any time through a REST API. As people log into your app, this database is populated with a list of phone numbers or email addresses and Account IDs that can be used within your app. These Account IDs are unique to your app."

It kinda reminds me of the old Mozilla Persona login thing, except it's from Facebook. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona

And it also reminds me of Parse, Facebook's other developer identity service which is being shutdown.

Since both of those services are in the process of shutting down, the cynical among you might conclude that we therefore shouldn't trust Account Kit. That's not unreasonable, but I'm excited anyway, because Persona had a lot of potential, and maybe Facebook can make it work where Mozilla failed.
Let me reverse what you said: "Rob" sounds more threatening. And, in fact, it is more threatening - I lose my money either way, but "rob" means I'm more likely to also be injured or killed.
Such a wonderful product! Thank you everyone that works on the code!!! I'm finally able to buy them from the store, feels good to give back after all these years.
In general, yes. But keep in mind that the Elasticsearch JVM GC could fire up right after the document is indexed and possibly run for a few seconds if there is a lot of memory pressure. When the GC is done Elasticsearch will continue to process queries but it may be the indexed data hasn't been refreshed yet. So, a query run "1 second" after the index operation may not in fact return the document. However, this would be a very rare case.
In fact if you shop at Walmart, you specifically go for the "asshole" supermarket who will squeeze every penny from their employees and their supplier, and will sell you the cheapest knock off that still passes FCC/FDA regulations. Doesn't seem to turn off that many people.

That being said reputation is important in banking and I like to think that investors are a bit more skeptical than before the crisis. Not that it is very difficult.
Yea, thanks. I think my mistake was in imagining that the sail would need to be pulling a localized payload, so that force would need to be transmitted from sail to payload using a cross-sectional area small compared to the sail. But it sounds more like the payload is integrated into the sail.
Doesn't it depend on how far the object is from you and at what speed you're moving relative to it? And they plan on moving at 0.2c, not 1c.
Have you tried Dirvish yourself? No stable release for over ten years doesn’t really inspire confidence IMHO.
It is far from being a level playing field. The message varies greatly depending on the sender, receiver and context, right? I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

And while we're at it, since this thread is going down into "this is reverse racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
Well, Moltex sounds interesting. Am I reading it correctly that it could actually utilize the nuclear waste from solid fuel reactors?

Is there a potential environmental or human health downside?
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I agree with you and you are right, the world games are amazing and fun, but how many of us are aware that these are just games? And what happens when one ties their human worth to 'winning' these said games in succession (cause obv one is never enough). I wish we could just take this time for what it is, a gift of time, as a commentor pointed out. I guess I've just been running into too many people desperately running to 'get ahead', 'prove themselves', 'gain respect and admiration', that they become blind to the fragile and fleeting nature of it all.
Well it turns out that you aren't alone.

Radio is still the most important music discovery media:
https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm....

Notably, that chart puts Pandora discovery at a meaningful 10%.
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I just got mine yesterday, so they are coming, if somewhat slowly.
So you agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482075 but also just felt like calling the parent an asshole?
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It's time to dispel the myth that the problems of nuclear are technical in nature and have technical solutions.

The book to read in this context is Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents.

http://www.ohio.edu/people/piccard/entropy/perrow.html

Humans have had roughly 50 years' commercial generating experience with nuclear power. It took 25 years from first criticality to come up with passibly useful and safe reactors. Of the fewer than 500 commercial reactors which have been built, three have experienced significant core failures, and, despite design deficiencies in each, the core failings in all of these cases, as well as numerous other non-reactor or non-core failures, have been organisational.

Bad management. Bad design. Bad emergency response. A continuous underappreciation of the seriousness of what's at hand when you decide to start splitting atoms.

Fukushima was infiltrated by the Japanese mob. Future Gen IV and Gen V reactor designs, other than not being currently proven, raise risks of proliferation and novel chemistry experiments (600C highly radioactive florine salts -- what could possibly go wrong?) with a long-tail horizon of tens of thousands to millions of years.

We don't have any human institutions that are of comparable longevity. Our companies, governmentals structures, even major religions and languages are nowhere near that old. This is a mucking with things at scales we're nowhere near capable of handling. Hell, the smartest minds in Silicon Valley can't deliver cat gifs without stuffing browser exploits into the accompanying ads networks.

Human and organisational problems don't have technical solutions. The scale at which nuclear energy would need to be extended to replace existing fossil fueled systems is on the order of 15,000 reactors, worldwide. At present levels of energy consumption. Uranium itself won't deliver the energy we need (proven resources are good for about 8 decades at present levels of nuclear energy, six years if all present energy were nuclear sourced). At present rates of one core failure per roughly 100 reactor years, we'd see a meltdown per century. How much safer are future designs, organisations, and people going to be? 10x? 100x? 1000x? Is creating a new radioactive wasteland only once a century, until forever, acceptable?

Solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass have issues. Leaving glowing holes in the ground, or nondiscretionary slightly mutagenic wildlife preserves, isn't one of them.

The bigger lesson is that humans need to embrace limits. There are far too many of us, consuming far too much, and ignoring for far too long the warnings that we're exceeding any rational sustainable bounds.

Nuclear energy isn't going to address any of those issues. Facing reality might.
There's also OpenBSD which lends itself very nicely for router/firewall setups.

The Ubiquiti edgemax routers are also pretty nice and cheap, they have a good GUI. I remember also someone here posting how he runs openbsd in the edgemax routers.
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I agree completely. My Snapchat friends are nothing like my Facebook friends (since by definition we keep up in very different ways) and my Twitter feed contains very little from either. And then there is the microscopic overlap between any of those social networks and my Xbox Live account.
Does anyone know anything like this that would work well within a React based app?
Yeah, in some way it's something the VCS are lacking right now: being able to add files outside the .git/ parent directory, so you can index a given directory in multiple working trees/repositories.

So you can have a ~/dotfiles working tree that points to ~. And perhaps a ~/mydata working tree that points to ~ as well. Both will index different files as manually added by the user.
"You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost.
For backblaze it's even less time."

No way. What ?

You're saying that if I dutifully pay my $X/mo for unlimited backup space, but fail to connect, or perform an update, the remote data is removed ?

What ?
If you model the camera in 3D space within a sphere that the video is "projected" upon, would you still notice those parallax effects when closing one eye and looking around?
But they're simple. Both for users and developers. Also, bots offer a very familiar UI pattern. And a chat log is suitable (but not ideal) for a lot of things. (See slack integrations)

It's going to be interesting to find out if/when tailored user interfaces can actually beat the log. (And too what degree platforms such as fb messenger will offer extensibility).

Disclaimer: Happening co-founder, we obviously gamble on the tailored interfaces.
I am not this awesome website's creator; nor do I know who is.

Internet Archive would appear to suggest it was created in 2013, but doesn't seem to have been previously appreciated on HN, and I think it's brilliant.

Now I'm off to start a project, so that I can use it.