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There's literally nothing about this I like.

A terminal with a gradient background might look pretty for screenshots, but for long sessions it just adds to fatigue and makes text harder to read. "Saving your favorite commands" in a normal terminal involves writing an alias into your rc file, not a bunch of button clicks. Same goes for the whole "interactive flags" thing.

Whoever made this clearly hates the terminal and wanted to bring a hipstery web 2.0 approach to the terminal. My question is, WHY?

Oh, and it's PAID? Fuck that. Learn to use a proper terminal or don't bother, simple as that. That isn't me being a crotchety old timer, that's me giving you serious life advice. You will always be faster in the terminal if you learn to use it properly. a 2 hour tutorial in shell scripting and learning to use `man` is worth far more to your career than 10 bucks. Learn it the right way if you're going to bother.

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Steamspy has been established to be very accurate within its stated margin of error. It's generally accurate, just not precise.
Don't be fooled by the name, this application is not written in Go, that is just a random word that they chose for the name. The application was written in HTML and bundled with a webview powered by CEF (probably Electron). Just download the application and execute `strings goterminal | grep chromium` and you will see what I am talking about; again, this has 0% Go code.

EDIT: Here is the list of 720 NPM packages used by this: http://pastebin.com/raw/VhnuuDdX

EDIT2: To rub salt into the wound, this thing is ~620MB of HTML + JS + Electron, that is more or less how an entire Ubuntu installation was six years ago, like really? An entire basic Linux installation could have been included in all this archive and these guys decided to fill it with JavaScript code. Isn't a terminal emulator supposed to be lightweight?
Isn't that similar to saying horseless carriages cannot be as good as horses? Our experience in driving is never compared to the experience of riding in a carriage or even harnessing a horse. Driving is considered a discrete experience in its own class. Perhaps our fears and expectations of mechanical error is ignorant of our own overconfidence in our own driving control. Are we always in control of our attention? Do we always make the most accurate observations as we drive?

Why do we establish the experience of being driven by autopilot as something comparable to the actual action of human, hand-feet-sight-controlled driving (steering wheel-acceleration/deacceleration-dashboard/windshield/mirrors)?

We cannot trust the horse to do the same things as the car nor can we trust the car to do be same as horse.

We are on the cusp of moving responsibility from the human engineered transport (car) to the machine engineered (autopilot) transport, which transfer was previously animal to human engineered transport (horse to car).

We will believe what establishes our worldview and ignore what demolishes the same foundations.
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For more context, the default store on Oculus is Oculus Home, not Steam. Even so much as when you put a Rift on your head you are by default in Oculus Home.
You missed my:

>but be ready to resume control if needed

Let it do it's thing, relax, but be vigilant and ready to take over. It's not that hard. Watch the road, watch the dash and what it sees, if something goes awry (happens rarely) then just resume control.
Facial Performance Sensing Head-Mounted Display [pdf]
I agree with each and every one of your comments; in addition, I would like to know how this project was created: what language it was made in, why the author found it necessary to create it, etc.
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I don't find this all that surprising. My work transitioned to IE 11 late last year - we were running IE version 8 before that.

I work for a large company. Opposite of agile. A huge chunk of the people who work here are non-technical. Most machines are heavily locked down and users do not have permission to install their own applications. Upgrades (like changing versions of the browser) are rolled out from our Information Services department. I imagine there are many many "large corporate" environments around the world which have similar application policies to us.

The transition to IE 11 was was not all that smooth a large number of internal sites broke (including our intranet which runs Microsoft's own SharePoint product). Even today some months after upgrade some sites still behave oddly and you have to go through the enable/disable "Compatibility Mode" dance to get some sites to wok correctly.
Amusing idea, and this kind of "quick GUI-builder" mechanism reminds me of ifttt or zapier in the way it gives more scripting/glue power to people who normally have access to less of it. And this would be useful for a mobile or tablet application, where GUI shortcuts to save typing help a great deal.

But the demo video shows one major issue that breaks its primary functionality as a terminal: the font rendering has a vertical spacing problem going on, with lines 1.5x spaced, which would break many screen-oriented applications, especially those that use line-drawing characters. Notice how at 22s into the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbDxvJn1jV0#t=22s), the inverse-colored character shortcuts at the bottom of nano's UI have space between the white boxes; the white boxes should touch, like this: https://imgur.com/q0TERnM

This is either a bug with the terminal itself, or a bug with the font used. I looked for a bug tracker to report the bug, at which point I noticed that it wasn't FOSS, and promptly lost all interest in taking the time to make such a report.

Also, while I realize that this uses a browser engine for its UI, there's something surreal about a terminal emulator bundling libffmpeg.so.
The Evolution of HDDs in the Near Future: Speaking with Seagate CTO, Mark Re
I had an idea for an indoor mapping app. Basically Google Maps for inside multi-unit buildings like hotels, apartments, office buildings, malls, etc. Existing maps and navigation can get you to the street address, but there is no easy way to find building 3 or suite 240. I built a prototype Android app for data collection (I used WiFi hotspots as reference points to tag the location of landmarks inside). The big question is how to monetize something like that. You could maybe license the data to delivery companies but I'm not sure how big that market would be.
You are right, at each iteration, the information propagates all the way to the bottom, but climbs 1px at the time.
"LambCI - A continuous integration system built on surface dwellers"
A lot of Afro-Asiatic languages like Arabic and Semitic also have the "write no vowels" pattern. That being said, there are other Afro-Asiatic languages like Berber that have those long consonant strings. I am not too familiar with these languages, but I wonder if there is some schwa epenthesis happening in those clusters.

It does seems that Nuxalk (Bella Coola) has lots of consonants stringed together. You can listen to some here.
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/BLC/blc.html
There has already been a first (multi)billion dollar VR startup. Oculus.
“Because the Oculus headset works on Steam games, but the Vive doesn't out of the box work with Oculus Home. You can make it work, but it's not quite official. The Rift is also a little bit more comfortable and people seem to the think the display is generally better."

What? Why would you want Vive to make it work with Oculus Home? Isn't that like saying you want your Android phone to visit Apple's App Store?

Vive works with Steam and I think that's more than adequate. And Vive works with Steam games too, so not sure why you said your first sentence.
PlayStation Vita Finally Gets Twitch App, Lets You Watch Live and Recorded Games
I wonder if it is our overconfidence in our driving that makes us think we don't make even more monarchy-sized screw ups, if not deity-sized screw ups?

Our concerns seem to appear as that driving a car does not feel like driving a horse.

Aren't we are also horses in the sense that we drive our energy in direction rather than locomotion, when we drive? We yell when the autopilot does a singular mistake where the human is allowed to make 10x or 100x without true objection or persecution.

The cage went in search of a bird. -Kafka
One interesting aspect is that if you draw something and iterate a few times, you will see the same drawing appear again.
Right, it is not correct to say that Nuxalk has no vowels, but it does have many words with fricatives as syllable nuclei.
I have several devs in the office that have to use the terminal a grand total of 2 times a month, and even then I installed some shortcuts for them to make using adb easier.

Being able to build a simple interface on top of the few commands they use, so they don't have to remember flags, argument orders, etc., would be advantageous to us all (and require less support on my part).

Also, what is possibly wrong with someone trying to make some money for their work??
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

I didn't downvote you, but I can confirm that your comments are boring.
It's also possible to craft a fine-grained sudo policy instead of allowing carte blanche access.
Can you elaborate or provide sources? The language you use is incredibly dense, almost as if an online translation service was used.
Not to be "that guy", but if I saw an administrator using this, I would sit them down and show them the magic of using a real shell(tm). I mean, seriously, if you're a computing professional, and you're using a shell on a daily basis, this is an embarrassingly silly crutch to use. Setting up aliases is no more difficult than using this....thing, and instantly useable over ssh or copyable to other machines. Fo' free. Just saying.
> what language it was made in

HTML + JavaScript + Electron

Just download that archive, extract its content, and you will find the "goterminal" script that is basically an ASAR archive [1] with a copy of CEF [2] as the webview for the web application that they (for some unknown reason) decided to create.

[1] https://github.com/electron/asar

[2] https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
It's kind of odd that there seems to a consensus that user stylesheets are out, but that "reader mode" is a thing.

On might have thought that the modern browsers would come with a sane css baseline, making simple html-sites with headers, paragraphs etc look at least as good as a typical Medium.com site (or indeed, like "reader mode") - rather than insisting that every single author add completely redundant reinvention of basic styling.
Theoretically? Everything.
Namely, you can't be certain you know where the "camera" is.

Aren't you assuming that they would allow the wearer to change the camera position?

You could film a movie or design a game such that the camera location is fixed or on rails. You're more like an observer than a participant.

Eg. Chronos and Edge of Nowhere
Oh god, the last software I'd want to be running a terminal in!
That looks really cool. I don't think that accessibility will get too much traction unless the tooling for checking it is much easier.

As a side note I wish that there was a link to "installing" tota11y near the top of that site.
"would require sizable amounts of storage space (but not much of other resources)"

Self-hosting would be your best option if your bandwidth needs are modest. Your data is 'small' enough to fit on a local drive.
Awesome! I guess that's what I meant with "compiled into VMs", but I thought that Verilog or some sort of declarative language could be used to specify AND generate a VM on which to simulate code execution.

But as you imply, that's mostly done by hand in C++ with frameworks?
The proper response to seeing a systems administrator using one-off scripts from his workstation to manage systems is to fire him immediately and hire someone competent.
Check out Google plus settings, and others you can opt-out for everything. When I checked my activity with above link, my activity is absolutely nil. But I'm using that account for very long time. Opt-out every possible thing.
It's called "missile cruiser with aircraft capability" because it is a missile cruiser, which also has some aircraft on board. The difference between a carrier and a cruiser is that the cruiser can sink a capital ship without flying any aircraft at all while a carrier without its aircraft is quite benign.
"Large, low-entropy pools are inherently dangerous."
Please add some sources.
There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting to make money for your work. The problem, honestly, is that a good terminal is a solved problem (c.f. urxvt, which is perfect in every way). Charging people for one would be like charging people for a vim clone. Why charge for an inferior product when someone's already created perfection? ;)

Second of all, learning shell scripting is an almost ridiculously important skill. Wouldn't it be better that you sit those devs down and have them go through a couple hours of intensive shell boot camp so they don't need your help anymore? Anyone who's a halfway-decent dev can learn the basics of shell (simple scripting, variables, redirection, piping) within a couple of hours, easy.
Yikes. Thats a great way to make a terminal into a memory hog and unresponsive under load.
> HTML + JavaScript + Electron

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Leaking helium, without replacement, suggests a loss-of-coolent situation.

How's your design work without coolent? Or when something other than helium becomes coolent? Or ... ?

It's that "... ?" question that's the crucial one. The unknown unknowns.
Looks like a visual version for an alias list.

Here are somethings which might be more substantial improvements.

A status bar which helps in understanding what a command does. So you type 'command -xva a b' and the status bar gives an English description that the command is going to do such and such(based on flags) on files a and b.

Simple discoverability like an interactive version of reading man pages or apropos, where after typing something like git or ls, the user who doesn't remember the exact options, can press some shortcut and type a english description like 'hidden files' 'reset' and the status bar displays the relevant flags and their description. This kind of semantic autocomplete, would save a visit to a long man page.
Can we please stop posting Forbes links?
Excellent. The job feature has been a godsend. We had a hacky version for one-off jobs but k8-job feature removed some of those complexities. cron-jobs will be one step closer to an ideal solution.
This metaphor is dangerous. One potential future for VR is one where Oculus (or Rift) and Vive are two separate platforms, like smartphones. Some overlap in releases, but in general, no compatibility.

The other future is one where your VR device is a replacable peripheral, like a screen or a keyboard. It's absurd to think you'd have to double-check whether the game you want to play supports Dell monitors.

One of these futures is better for consumers, and I'd wager it's the second.
> Erlang generated a lot of buzz several years ago but aside from the recent success of WhatsApp it never quite stuck.

Erlang is quietly running a lot of stuff out there. It's almost certainly running some bits of infrastructure that you use daily, or in a supporting role for it. People who are not old Erlang hackers are picking it for new projects.

Erlang hasn't been and probably will never be quite mainstream, but to say it "hasn't stuck" might be missing the point: it's a mature and performant language that has some very nice standard features in OTP that are lacking or less mature in other languages. If your problem domain is smack in the middle of Erlang's strong points then it's worth considering. It's not going away any time soon.
Yes, the Oculus does work with Steam VR games (well, a fraction of them) because Valve was sensible enough to not put hardware checks in their games.

As for Oculus Home, you could say that it's the VR version of Games for Windows. Sure, it'll be around for a few years, but the dominant service will always be Steam. I'm not really sure why Facebook paid 2 Billion for them because their store is never going to flourish so if they were expecting to monetize Oculus that way then they really guessed wrong. I wouldn't be surprised to see their service shuttered just as Games for Windows was.
You may jest, but when talking to CIOs wary of cloud computing, the comparison to old-school bureau computing does help.
This isn't even a decent terminal emulator in the basic ways. It has an enormous memory footprint, abysmal compatibility, and very little in the way of novel features to offer.

If you use a better shell (like fish) it leaves this even less appealing. I'm sure this took some work to do, but I don't know anyone with a job to pay for it, which would use it.

The word "efficient" describes the exact opposite of what this is.

In addition to all of that, the package includes all of the build-time dependencies with it. And the package they use for the terminal emulator part of it is explicitly abandoned by its author (https://github.com/chjj/term.js/)

Nobody should pay 10 dollars(let alone 20 dollars for limited ongoing support) for more than half a gigabyte of unmaintained, deprecated open source code, plus about 2000SLOC of proprietary code for a sidebar which does something which is basically already built into the shell.

Also, there is no clear roadmap for this; so it's totally unclear what "3 years of updates" means when half of the thing is deprecated and it hasn't even left beta!
Polemical headlines doesn't make an argument more persuasive; Silicon Valley companies don't have a say in police use-of-force, but the author knows and is only trying to tie the two topics together for popularity points.
That just draws a desktop onto a big texture. Plus it only runs on Windows.
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It's neat, but do you find yourself looking forward to playing it still? The novelty is fantastic, but until the software shows up (I'm not a gamer), it feels like a demo.
Glad to see more attention being paid to mini IPO's on the domestic market. I'm working with Hackers/Founders (http://hf.cx), a group that has begun helping organizations IPO on foreign exchanges.

It's a good option for founders who have built companies that haven't had big revenue and can't attract domestic investment. It gives them a liquidity event without searching for a suitor.

I'm lc (at) hf (dot) cx if anyone wants to better understand the process.
Agreed. I've stopped even bothering to follow any links to Forbes.
I was talking about homicide rate rather - ie if poor whites commit serious crime at the same rate as poor blacks.
Yes probably. Article is largely aimed at 12-24 Months but at the same time 20-40 member team. But if you team is big, you need lot of things in control no matter how old you are as detailed in the article. Otherwise they are inviting chaos
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Is this some type of sponsored post shit?
While I personally prefer HN to many similar forum software, I actually think it's not the best example for "plain web site". Partly because of the very real (sometimes intentional) UX issues, like no native collapsing of threads, and the silly voting-arrows that almost impossible to use on any device -- and partly because HN sits (IMNHO) a bit between the simple/old and the new. A better example of "plain web forum" might be the D-lang forums: http://forum.dlang.org

That said, I never liked web forums in general - I prefer mailing lists (and the D-lang forum, as far as I can figure out, support usenet access (is a web usenet front-end) - so it should be possible use a native client rather than a web gateway -- which might be better.

But as the web has shown again and again, colourful backgrounds, smilies and avatars wrapped up in sloppy html and css wins every time - multimedia wins every time. Eg: slack.

I think it should be perfectly viable, and desirable, to meet both: an open (preferably federated/self-hostable) (set of) protocol(s) - a web client - and native clients. For me, the fact that I don't really thing gmail is any good, is kind of the only nail the "web app" coffin needs -- if Google can't make something half-way ok to work with in terms of UX -- for something that's arguably simple -- what hope does anyone else have?

As for your real question: I think wikipedia is a great example of both "it can be simple" and "complex provides value". Reading wikipedia works fine from lynx or w3m - but editing, viewing revisions, etc - benefits a lot from a richer "web app" client. (I would still prefer to edit in vim, use "real" version control and push changes - and I'm not sure what options are there for wikipedia, the project, or mediawiki, the software, to do that via apis etc -- but I'm sure it'd be possible to hook something up if it's not already there - I haven't really looked).
1. U.S. Natl. Debt: $18.8 Trillion [1]

2. ~ 20 states face some form a fiscal problem/crisis [2]

3. I assume he's talking about the alternative means of measuring unemployment? The worst case scenario that is accepted by mainstream economics is ~10% [3]

None of what he said was wrong, but China is in serious trouble. The real-estate bubble is hiding a credit bubble. As the government attempts to scale back stimulus programs, the % of the economy which is dependent on such activity will start to feel the pinch. No one really knows how much pain the average Chinese citizen is going to feel, but the situation has no parallel in history, the amount of money the Chinese government has spent is astronomical. Some economists have stated they expect the debt to peak 283% of GDP... [4]

1. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-federal-debt...

2. http://mercatus.org/statefiscalrankings

3. http://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-21/china-s-de...
For those who might want to understand why Wayland was created. Also tons of fun facts about X11. Really nice talk of Daniel Stone about X server from 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
NuSI study serves up disappointment for carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis
I have three apostrophes in my (Latin America) keyboard: ` ' ´ but IIRC Excel only recognizes one of them.
This is how Emacs looks in it - http://imgur.com/E6cLkoF . Turning off the theme I am using fixes it, but many emacs shortcuts don't work.
Thats not what they are promising, that would be insane. Please just read the article.
Using your own main loop on OS X
Oh wow, insane is the right word for that.

(Once long ago in my youth, I got bitten when the quoting app I was writing worked fine on our test server, but got the day and month fields swapped on our customer's server. And that was when I learned that you shouldn't pass dates through ODBC as text strings...

SQL Server was parsing dates based on the Windows date settings. Our test server was set to the default U.S. date format but the customer's server was set to DD/MM/YY, or vice versa, I can't remember now. What made it worse was that we handed the system over early in a month, and it worked fine for over a week...)
Whats the point in posting paywall links?
I agree, the multiple readings in Cantonese/Mandarin are nowhere near as different as the different readings for the same Kanji in Japanese. I never meant to imply otherwise, sorry if I sounded I was.

As someone trying to learn Japanese, it is one of the harder parts of the language for me to learn. Conjugations frustrate me more though. :)
What are these assets that you talk about? The Euro is not backed by Gold or any other physical asset; in fact, it seems to be even more nebulous than the USD.
A feistel cipher is a similarly compact yet cryptographically strong pseudorandom permutation.