skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google controlling a huge amount of the browser market share is a big threat to Microsoft.

Chrome defaulting to Google for searching is is huge defensive play for search in the long term. And probably a huge money maker to boot.

Google is also able to leverage the web platform for their own benefit. Witness the recent announcement about Instant Android Apps; they are selling a future where ordinary links and URLs actually lead to a proprietary native Android experience. This is only possible because they own the browser and the OS. They're kneecapping the web to compete with iOS.
Any data to refer to regarding iOS/OSX devs switching?
Could this be an invitation for researchers to find a backdoor the NSA required Apple to put in there? Or are they just utilizing the crowd to help secure against NSA attacks?
The antimatter mystery: Annihilation and a universe that shouldn't exist
Some of the kernel is released months/years later as open source. You are correct about the releases being macOS only, iOS xnu has never been open sourced but it is, for the most part, identical. Apple has also been moving code out of the open source kernel releases and into private, closed source kexts. Kernel extensions like Sandbox have never been released.
It can be more than one thing at a time.
PK is working on developing small tactical nukes to use against massed Indian armor, following...wait for it...NATO tactical first-use doctrine in the 1980s in Europe.
Thanks for the advice.

I've been wanting to learn React for a while, but each time I start, I'm put off by the complexity it adds (compared to e.g., jQuery + vanilla JS). I soon will just jump in and learn to swim.

BTW, do folks use React for server-side apps as well? If so, is that common?

Also, I almost ROFL at the "axes might be logarithmic" in that graph's legend!
I think these rules kind of all cease to apply at the marital boundary, and there new and equally troublesome rules take over :-)
Has Google Fiber sold fixed wireless under the Fiber brand before? I think they would have to keep a separate brand at least until they can get all of the many Webpass fixed wireless subscribers switched over to fiber.
> I wasn't able to find a journal,

Why am I not surprised?

> He does seem to have a few peer-reviewed publications...

...in no-name journals.

> But, if it wasn't published in a journal, it's tough to insist that someone else in the community should know about it.

In fact, if it wasn't published in a respectable journal, it's tough to take it seriously. Especially when it's coming from a guy who's talking about UFOs and miracles in "scientific" context.

No, thanks. I'm not going to waste any of my time convincing people he is a crackpot in myriad ways.

Edit: Since I can't reply to the reply below, I write it here: yes, that is the definition of a no-name journal. A physics journal with impact factor 1 is not a respectable journal. A non-respectable journal doesn't mean its contents are crack-pottery, where did you even get that?

Crackpots with PhD have a few valid works, usually from old times, given that they got a PhD under some (presumably) normal scientist and maybe did a few postdocs here and there.
KDE Neon
R 3.3.1 is released
I think the biggest reason why this is important to most people isn't the performance of JS in IE/Edge, but rather for the native html/js apps. A lot of people don't realize that a lot of the new windows 10 features were written in html/js. Native components like the start menu are all html5 (one of the few things for windows desktop that I helped ship).

Curious to see if more of the UI gets converted over as performance continues to improve.
Reality: it's is all in your head.
I generally agree, however I would like to know for what cases you think the skill of solving unfamiliar problems is dangerous.
Permanent storage. The kernelcache is lzss compressed and encrypted with AES. I forget the details of signature verification at the moment, but that is done using RSA. The iBoot bootloader handles all of the decompression, decryption, and signature verification.
What about state within a component? How do you encapsulate that state so that other components can't muck with it? What about passing data to that component? What about type checking that data passed in in debug mode? What about a formal API for components to talk to one another? What about knowing the explicit amount of the view tree that needs to be re-rendered based on what data changed?

React has answers to all these questions and so much more. Answers that very smart people have spent years coming up with.

Sure you could reinvent the wheel and build all that into your custom component framework, but then you may as well just use React.
What is the difference between stealing money from one's pocket/locker, and stealing information about someone? In both cases, one is doing it for profit. The only difference is that in the latter, you utilize the information to make money.

The amount of fine appears ridiculous. The FTC might as well could come out and say that there's no violation here as we do not want to appear as being on a witchhunt.
I have to believe that the "more likely to use them" is offset (I hope entirely) by the taboo of deciding to do so. If deciding to use a nuclear weapon is an open invitation for retaliation in kind, then you would expect the established players in the nuclear power game to shut it down with extreme prejudice for exactly that reason.

A smaller opening volley doesn't feel like any increased incentive to initiate said volley.
It looks like their "INSERT OR IGNORE" logic is broken, in that they don't properly retry if they ignored it.
Lots of people have more money than skill. It happens.

The very best part of driving the Miata is the frustrated point by from the Ferraris.
"And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?"

-- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
Thanks, that's interesting as well as refreshingly reasonable with respect to our limited knowledge. However, your summary seems at odds with the field of climate science's continuous and confident prescriptions for human life. If that is the extent of our knowledge, how can we tell any nation to accept lower growth and poorer health by curtailing fossil fuel use?
> "based on the company's financial condition,"

Irony is that the company does this in order to "improve it's financial condition".
Are you preparing for popular streaming video products pushing 4K content?
A lot of weapons were nuclear (air to air missiles and anti-ICBM weapons are other examples) not because they necessarily needed the explosive power, but to make up for inaccuracy. Guidance in the 50s and 60s isn't what it's like today. When your weapon is likely to miss by several hundred feet, you can resign yourself to missing a lot of shots, or you can stick a nuclear warhead on it and take out the target anyway.
I raced a Chump car back in 2011, and it was the best racing I've had in my admittedly limited experience. If you're not going for first place but just to enjoy some competition endurance racing, it's great value for money and a good time.
> It's a monad tutorial...

this would be closer to Haskell arrows than monads no ?
The more aggressively tuned an engine is, the less time it runs before it needs a rebuild.
My wifi extender is the local network. That is why I mentioned you can't even trust a mac address on the local network!

I think this can be solved the same way plex did, by combining separate DNS space with a certificate authority issuing certs programmatically like letsencrypt does.
> ...in no-name journals.

Foundations of Physics isn't a high-prestige, cutting-edge journal, but it's also not a crackpot journal. It seems to be a respectable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Physics

Edit:

> A non-respectable journal doesn't mean its contents are crack-pottery, where did you even get that?

What? I never said that.

I'm not saying the guy is not a crackpot. I'm just not willing to say he is, based only on paper titles and 2-sentence abstracts that can be interpreted multiple ways.

> Especially when it's coming from a guy who's talking about UFOs and miracles in "scientific" context.

I think you're drawing too sweeping conclusions from just titles and 2-sentence abstracts. It is possible to talk about UFOs and miracles in a scientific context in a reasonable way; e.g., by discussing whether reported phenomena are optical illusions or internal mental constructions. That's seeing to understand things other people report as reasonable processes. Of course, I agree that people can also purport to discuss these things scientifically while spewing bullshit. However, I can't tell from just the titles and abstracts which of those two things he is doing. I'd have to read the text of the papers to determine that. Absent less ambiguous information (and the time/willingness to read what he's written), I'm just not willing to condemn someone I know little to nothing about as a crackpot. If you've read the papers and have still come to the the conclusion that he's a crackpot, I'd certainly buy it. But, with the limited information I have, I have no real opinion about the guy or his work.
By disallowing certain IAP tactics, the price of an app might rise to meet the required profit margin. Would you be willing to pay more in that case?
I am curious about the mechanics of how the projects will spend this money. I have had quite a bit of professional experience working as a developer within an open source project and I honestly don't know what we would have done had someone showed up with a one time payment of this size.

The dollar amounts are too low to hire a full-time dev. They presumably have insufficient volunteers or they wouldn't need this money. So I am guessing that they will be offering existing volunteers some money to devote more time to the project.

Another alternative would be hiring in some contractor who has no prior relationship with the project but having someone who doesn't know the project come in and implement something before vanishing and leaving everyone else to maintain their stuff is unappealing.
I paid $550 for a year up front. It's ~$55 per month on a monthly plan.
You misunderstand. My beef is not with Perry. It's with the author's writing style. I'm not going to forgive poor writing because I happen to agree with the writer. Its not what he is saying, its how its being said.
This seems a little ironic, I feel there's some incredibly useful things in AI/ML that rarely get applied to real world problems, instead academics just spend all their time trying to unravel the black box behavior and come up with some model for it.
There's a difference between Clash of Clans and GTA V, though. There is nothing on any mobile platform that can compete in any way with any AAA game made in the last 10 years (the most advanced mobile game I see is GTA:SA, which came out in 2004 or KOTOR which came out in 2003). Hypothetically, if someone spends $60 on Candy Crush and $60 on a AAA console release, the Candy Crush developers are seeing a much more massive profit from that than EA or Activision see from their games. AAA budgets are well into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Candy Crush could be exactly replicated by a 14 year old in a high school Python class.

Only 2.3% of Candy Crush players pay any money. Meanwhile, King has 1400 employees and revenue of over $2.2 billion per year. But you know what's not fair? Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar and makers of a whole hell of a lot more AAA games than just GTA, has a profit of $2.3b. I think the profit scales are tipped a little more towards the app developers than towards the AAA developers on this one, especially considering damn close to 100% of the players of GTA V paid for their game, and paid $60 for it.

Sure, not every developer is King and not all IAPs are shitty like that. But the minute I see "buy more gems for $1.99!", I delete the app. You might not get any downloads if you charge money for your software, but then again, as a mobile developer, you chose to enter that market. Which means you chose to be compared to all the other bullshit IAP scam games that dominate the "highest grossing" list. Don't want to be compared to the scam artists? Then don't play the same games as them.
Sevenhugs bets on smartphone-free connected home future with $14.6M Series A
(I'm not an industry expert) Prior to 10 months ago, were there any Webpass end users without the fixed wireless hop to fiber? What exactly does Webpass mean when they distinguish between their fixed wireless product and their fiber product?

I'm not concerned with who owns the fiber, I would just prefer not to have wireless involved because of weather and oversubscription.
A Cautionary Tale of ‘Stem Cell Tourism’
Emphasis mine:

> It's a monad tutorial that's too embarrassed to admit it.

This is not a correct interpretation of the blog post. This is not a monad tutorial, this is a tutorial on error handling that happens to be monadic.
White Hat the DAO Siphoning Has Occurred. What Now?
Which platform is that? I don't see console as viable for a lone indie, and PC market is similar tbh (tho much better now with greenlight).
It cost Richard Halliburton only 36 cents to swim it.

For 2016, the canal seems to have 7 different pricing schemes and some sort of loyalty discount for container ships.

I'm surprised they don't price by the maximum width times the maximum length, plus per-hour charges for any required tug boats. Width times length relates well to the portion of the lock capacity being used by a ship.
One of my wealthier passengers was closing up the family's winter home in north Scottsdale. I asked my usual questions, and eventually he told me how the garage at the pickup location had one of the million-dollar Porsche 911's, and that their Ford GT was a much better car...

In Colorado, the Hummer H1 was completely worthless in the winter. His 4wd suburban hybrid was great in the snow.
I do. All I want is something like boxcar2d.com that runs on iOS. It exists on Android, but the web version is Flash and even the HTML5 clone is far too slow in mobile Safari.

I like leaving it running while I work on other things, checking on it like a fish tank.
The resources needed to widescale deploy fixed wireless are an order of magnitude less than residential fiber. I was counting on Google flexing its muscle to accomplish the fiber that less powerful organizations could not push through.
I doubt it. I'm no expert, but isn't it illegal to provide non-NBN internet to any house that has NBN?

I recall someone complaining that they had no internet at all for months, because the NBN wire got hooked up to their house, but not plugged into anything at the other end - then their internet company was legally obliged to disconnect their DSL because technically they had an NBN cable - it just wasn't plugged in to anything.

Of course this would be a good law IF we were getting proper fibre NBN (and the above technicality got seen to). Just like we don't want multiple companies running power lines to one house.
Hi arbre, would you mind explaining what is possible and what benefits from existing tools in machine learning at the moment? I am clueless and find ML rather frustrating to get into.
Surface Phone.
> This is not a monad tutorial, this is a tutorial on error handling that happens to be monadic.

And is, for that very reason, a great tutorial on monads, even if it's not a monad tutorial.
Sure thing!

You can definitely render your React code on the server and (distrubutedly + carefully) cache the result to make your initial page load blazingly fast. IMO it's more of an optimization though.

I don't personally use this feature since client-side rendered has been plenty fast enough for me so far.

Learning React is IMO one of the most impactful things I've ever done to be able to effectively build products, couldn't recommend it more!
Sort of. I wouldn't say the quality went down so much as what would was a great game in 1983 turned out to be meh in 2013. Also the level of polish in Txk (the "1000 x revenue" PS Vita game) vs any of the iOS releases is pretty stark.
Polar bear swam 400 miles straight
Agreed, I do feel there could've been much better games made on the phone. For example, I remember Nintendo was about to make a push to bring its old classic Gameboy Era games /Gameboy Color games to the phone to no avail
Very interesting; we could use some of that with our 'NBN' in Australia..! Working DTN link (was localhost/content/dtn when I posted this):

https://www.nasa.gov/content/dtn
I have to confess, this song rather gets to me: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZdqonobwk
> So the reality is that even if you're a semi-famous developer who has a practically guaranteed revenue and media coverage from your fans, it still isn't enough. You need to make a game that competes on quality

Yes

> with the studios that spend $millions on their apps.

No, there are plenty of studios that compete on quality without spending millions.
In context of the thought experiment there can be more than one person with equal claim to be the person that you believe yourself to be. For example, given the postulated copying technology there could be Two or ten or a hundred people with the same claim 91 you to be today's version of who you remember yourself to be. The only thing that makes one person's claim better than another's is a perceived continuity of physical substrate. But even that perceived continuity is at least partly a fiction, since the physical substrate isn't really the Same from one day to the next, or even from one moment to the next. Bits of it are always being swapped out, lost and replaced. It's a valid question to ask, in that context how do you know when you wake up that you're the same person who went to sleep? Why do you think you are the same person, as opposed to an entirely new person who happens to have inherited a particular batch of ingredients of memory for assembling a story about who you are?
oh yeah, that's a good point. I didn't think that one through.
NPR isn't publicly funded, only 5% comes from the government [1]. The majority is from individual and corporate donations.

[1]http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
Damn. I pay windstream about $65/month for 10mbit down/768kbps up. (They're the only wired provider where I live, and they know it.)
Thanks for the detailed opinion. I'm just trying to relearn Jquery/Vanila JS myself and want to jump to react and a few other libraries. Seems like I shouldnt be that afraid
Pretty sure "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" is the smallest possible website.
Exactly. Luxury good manufacturers have recognized this trend a while ago, that the nouveau riche from non-western countries have a tendency to purchase all these toys in a me-too competition with their counterparts in the west.

Its a shame since I would expect them to have better sense than that to have accumulated that much wealth. Then again, its their money so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is one of the tutorials that made monads click for me (the other was the actual explanation at Learn You a Haskell). It's the Either monad, plain and simple.
Good to know Edge team is more focussed and working on different issues of IE. But Chrome is way to ahead when it comes to be developer friendly or performance or features. I am not sure I will be move away from Chrome anytime soon. Chrome extensions are way ahead. Browser sync is satisfactory in Chrome. IE needs to catch up on this as well.
It is concerning to me that WP seems to be dead in the water. I'd wadger that an essential duopoly in mobile platforms is harmful to most people. BB (had a phenomenal start and lost it) and WP (late to the party and then constantly confused once it got to the party) would nicely round out the mobile platform choices.

Honorable mentions go out to FirefoxOS (maybe as viable as WP?), Tizen (OK, maybe that will be in some cars or TVs), and Maemo/Meego/Sailfish (oh how I wish you would have been successful!).

Edit: I guess I forgot about Pocket PC. Maybe MSFT can be considered to be an early starter that lost the picture?
According to Mozilla's most recently released financial reports (https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...), they spent $197 million on software development in 2013, and $213 million in 2014. $385,000 is a tiny fraction of that.

Developing high-quality software, which runs on as many devices and is compatible with as much content as Firefox is is a hell of a lot of work. And Mozilla isn't just working on Firefox; there's Thunderbird, though that's in the process of being spun off, Firefox OS (also in the process of pivoting), Mozilla Research (Rust, Servo, Emscripten, asm.js, and more). There are continuous integration systems to test all of this against dozens of combinations of platforms and versions, and huge numbers of tests on each (https://treeherder.mozilla.org/, http://buildbot.rust-lang.org/waterfall, http://build.servo.org/console), all of which needs to be maintained and triaged. There's standards work, to negotiate new standards in standards bodies with users, other browser vendors, and the like. There's advocacy work, of times when you find bugs that are simply due to broken websites that happen to be relying on other browser's bugs, to reach out to developers and try to get them to change in a more compatible or standards compliant manner.

$385,000 is, what, the yearly salary, benefits, and overhead of maybe two full time engineers in SFO? Complaining about $385,000 given to deserving projects, given the amount of investment and energy Mozilla is actually putting into Firefox and other substantial, valuable projects, is a bit of a stretch.
Probably not a coincidence that it's happening in a country that fully embraces mass surveillance and censorship. I'm sure those are big incentives to improve such technologies.
Reducing weight in the connecting rods should mean that the engine can rev higher.
I think the only thing that It had going for it when I tried it a few years ago myself atleast on the Lumia models was the 42mp camera. I agree with you though, the app selection and the UI design are just huge turnoffs
But this is assuming that I expect something beyond the transaction. I don't. I expressly DON'T want a continuing relationship where Nest decides my perfectly functional thermostat no longer works or that Phillips decides their controller is only going to work with Phillips light bulbs.

I want them to sell me the product and then politely f*ck off so it keeps working. :)
It is an actual case I've seen, more than once. I didn't debug it, I just removed it. But the initial load and render of react components is not fast. Can you point me to a live site where it is (and serving an initial server side rendered page is cheating).
Care to elaborate on the start menu?

I couldn't find any info the start menu being html5, maybe I understood that incorrectly.

I'd love to read more about that maybe a blog or article. Thanks.
I like to play with those sort of people by saying that the planets of the solar system are: "Mercury, Venus, Mondas, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Rupert".

While one of those entries is strictly fictional, if Pluto belongs on the list there's no reason to exclude Ceres or Eris (though in the true spirit of Discordianism, I have to stick with the initial, fictional name for the final known planet).
That zalgo toward the end made me smile.
It's not the BBG exactly, it's the Open Tech Fund via Radio Free Asia.

Our audit is here:
https://secfirst.org/blog.html

I think Cryptocat and a few others have published their audits also. The companies who conducted them have them on their site if I recall.
Did you sign?
I'm a big fan of this website in general, and they have a specific guide for 'everyone interested in machine learning'.

https://www.metacademy.org/roadmaps/cjrd/level-up-your-ml
The Three Camps of Brain Preservation