skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can, but in a VM, you still have two different and separate filesystems, and then some mechanism to provide a window into one from another (custom FS driver mounted in a directory, SMB share etc). In WSL, there is only one filesystem.

And it's not just filesystems. We're also talking about potentially shared file descriptors/handles (where appropriate), access to processes in both directions etc.

So from user's perspective, I would argue that it's actually more similar to Wine. Even if the implementation is more low-level (syscall emulation vs userspace API emulation).
>Oh and it crashes constantly. Did I mention that it crashes constantly?

Slightly tangential but do you have your MS telemetry turned off? If you do, MS doesn't know you're having a problem.

Those who don't vote, don't get to complain about the problems caused by not voting.
>I wonder what that could mean for us as humans. Is some degree of "strife" necessary in society for people to be happier?

>Perhaps our work to eliminate many of the more primal issues that affect us (the need to hunt, survive in the wild, etc) are only making us worse off?

this is why we have "strife" of science and exploration, and this is why need to go to Mars - to avoid civilization implosion into always connected-status-updated one big Palantirized Facebook graph of well-fed humans. The key choice of our civilization today - between Thiel and Musk.
I agree, but aren't there several USB -> (vga/hdmi/what have you) devices on the market? I'm assuming that most people who need video out functionality need a dongle, but maybe HDMI is enough these days.
"today's white collar laborers are capturing one or two orders of magnitude less of the value they're creating than the blue collar workers of 1990's detroit."

Which is why the problems associated are much more about the macro-economy than they are about silicon valley. The middle class is being gutted before our very eyes while the elite gobble up more and more of the "created value" through the power of technology.
I work for an online casino (you can dig my profile and find the link), addicts are definitely not rational. Every single machine we offer lists in its game rules the average payout percentage (I know because I read or wrote all of them), yet some people (not necessarily our customers) risk everything trying to "win-back" what they have lost.

So not rational.
First of all, those subsidies exist exactly to be used like this, so at best you can complain the government uses money to incentivize businesses. Elon is one of the few people who uses subsidies as they should be.

Secondly, his companies have a good track record of paying governments loan back, in full, before the due time.

Funny how a success story can be twisted into a negative.
Classic John M Keynes.
Multiple instances with shared nothing is the opposite of a monolith, by definition.
I think you can switch disks pretty much any time. The Alto doesn't swap to disk so the disk is only being used when you're loading a program or loading/saving a file. As far as how it's used, think of the Alto's disk more like a floppy drive than a hard drive. (Although since it takes a minute for the disk to spin up to speed, you don't want to switch disks too often.)
What amazes me about Elon is the level of self control, discipline, perseverance, resilience, willpower etc.

He's not the only one playing the game so effectively at that level but to me, he exemplifies rational behavior.

I wish more entrepreneurs like Page or Bezos were in the public eye as much as Musk. I believe those traits are common to achieve your goals.
> I still roll my eyes when a early 20's try to sells me idea of marketing

Why should I hire someone who would treat other employees this way?
I'm finally taking a stab at Elements of Programming (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepan...). I think that this might actually be one of the most important books to read as a software developer. The book puts C++ and abstract algebra into a blender and creates this abstract algebra for software development which has some really deep insights. The author is Alexander Stephanov (the father of generic programming).

This is double true if you are using one of the newer languages that aim to kill C++ like Swift or Rust as some of the concepts apply really nicely.

Bjarne Stroustrup (the guy who made C++) wrote a comment about it on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/review/R1MG7U1LR7FK6/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...) and gave it five stars.
It is worth mentioning that there was a clear visible difference between NTSC and PAL, so even on the same screen, playing the same game, things would look different in Europe and America (and I believe also in Japan)
Most people associate "blockchains" with a protocol by which the "blocks" are inserted. Usually these things revolve around proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, proof-of-space, fairness criteria, etc.
I think everyone gets that the Guardtime product is hashtree.
From a formal verification perspective, the critical behavior is probably in the protocol, and most likely not the implementation of the datastructure or database.
> Be useful, that's fine, no need to alter the world drastically.

More specifically: if you make a minor improvement that affects a lot of people (improve video streaming) it is just as good as a major improvement that drastically affects a few people (curing an extremely rare disease). It's the area under the curve that matters. The best would obviously be a large effect over a large number of people, but minor improvements can be very useful.
Think Bigger: Bjarke Ingels on why architecture should be more like Minecraft
Please don't take Advil before long runs. Advil is taxing on your kidneys and so is endurance running. The combination of both can lead to a trip to the ER or even death if you're unlucky.

Whether it actually helps reduce injuries and pain is also somewhat questionable according to a recent 538 article[0].

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-achiness-of-the-long...
Universal and Sony Team-Up to Launch Their Own Low-Price Streaming Service
> I have a fascination with military tactics, specifically when it comes to morale & psyche, so curious to see where this book touches on those.

What are some books on this topic?
They claim they're not reused, even though the current living US population is a third of the entire keyspace (320 million vs 1 billion).
Offtopic but there's something thrilling about going through the Mono tutorials and getting ASP.NET apps to run on Linux. Kind of like it's a new world and I finally get to play with the bleeding edge toys as someone in Java EE land. As others have mentioned, the documentation is really good.

Maybe this is my chance to finally get some Stack Overflow karma...
Of course, offline is a bit more difficult for the web...
>Now remember, it was very flawed; what we saw was incomplete, they'd done a bunch of things wrong, but we didn't know that at the time.

I find it amusing how Steve Jobs crams three negs into one sentence.
They must have carefully curated the "general browsing" to sites that do not cause it to crash, as it always seems to pull a vanishing act if the site isn't coded specifically to avoid known crash points.

The most reliable way I've found to crash it is to use MutationObservers in a website. Even though Edge has support for them, I still have to pave over it with a JS version that doesn't cause the browser to crash after a few minutes of use.

Something is wrong if emulating browser features in JS leads to a better experience than using the feature as built in. Having to do so probably eliminates any battery life gains they have made.
He gives us a glimpse into his life in the interview:

At Tesla his time is spent "almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture."

At Tesla he is "in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory."

He spends "basically half a day at OpenAI most weeks"
Replace "President" with "leader", "chieftain", "captain", "boss", "guide" or any other word such as this and we still get to the same place: nowhere.

My point was that if someone with enough pull (pull being money, power or anything else that "drives" the world) wanted to make it good, they could. But it seems that they can't. It's simply not possible.

What matters is the collective and although there are companies with the size of small countries we still can't fix even small countries like we can in a company.

I guess that at the end we are doomed to coexist with poverty, hunger, illnesses and all of the bad things that could be easily destroyed if we really wanted to, but looks like that despite the fact that we all say we want to get rid of these things we really don't want to.
Canada has just approved prescription heroin
> This state won't last a single generation.

Well yeah, of course their kids would get to vote.
We could also then make it illegal to send unsolicited direct mail advertisements, since the USPS wouldn't rely on those scummy dirtbags for their bread and butter. I'm 100% in on this idea.
> dwarf fortress like learning curve

Good way to scare me off ever attempting to learn something, haha
http://basho.com/posts/technical/riak-quick-start-with-docke...
The Black Hole Information Problem
Indeed. It's easier to change a monolithic stack while you're still discovering the actual architectural requirements of the particular problem you're solving.

As you get a better understanding of how you need to handle things, where the performance bottlenecks are, etc., you can start breaking out pieces that would benefit from being isolated.

It's extremely unlikely that in the short term (first year(s)) of the application being used that the engineering would benefit from a micro services architecture.
Rolling Lego BB-8
instead of awareness about the limbic system I suppose gamblers, smokers, etc just lack statistical reasoning and other abilities that would inhibit the dream of winning.

With the limbic system, maybe the strength varies and some are literally weak. Or, they underestimate the strength, perhaps because of statistical reasoning again. Most likely the effects vary individually.

On the other hand, because of the limbic system everyone can become addicted. some people just take their chances and others are weary.
There's a difference between making someone a promise, and just talking about something you intend to do.
The article cites pay, location and happening as factors, though I also think there just isn't demand for young tech talent in SD. San Diego is where older folks/retired military go to raise families or retire proper as they land relatively cushy positions in the big sectors we do have here (Qualcomm et. al). New grad and junior positions are there yet still too few.

There is startup culture in San Diego, and maybe this is just because I was down south, but tech firms seemed to comprise only a small number of them. Of the ones I had met, they were either in "We're only interested in those with years of proven experience" (albeit they were typically working in advanced areas) or "We just graduated too and can nary afford to pay anyone" phases.

On top of all that my offers were too low to comfortably move out of my family's flat (perhaps I am entitled). Inadvertently, I'm now in the Bay Area.

Take this with a grain of salt. I studied abroad and my network at home was neither expansive nor tech-oriented. I'm also led to believe I couldn't obtain appropriate security clearance so military contractual work was a no-go.
Fair points. Would love to hear the other 'anythings' that can replace DNNs (something that optimises and stores knowledge that can be passed down generations to further build more sophisticated systems).

I thought DNNs are a good framework to contemplate the reason as well as mechanics of our existence. And using the framework I came to the thought that we probably do not have any grand purpose.

Also, I think saying that the universe is a DNN system is different from saying that it is 'a system'.

Agree DNNs are not magical for someone who has been working on them forever but for a new entry into the ML field, believe me they are pretty magical :)
I added "that's what worked for me anyway" as a disclaimer that maybe it won't necessarily work for you. But they are some tactics you can try. The general idea was to try lots of tactics, assume 99% of them won't work, but maybe 1% of the time you'll discover something that works for you.
Market cap is the wrong number for auto companies. They are more debt financed than equity, especially relative to Silicon Valley.

Ford has four times the debt that it has equity. Enterprise value (debt plus equity) is a better measure.

The other thing that gets lost is jobs in the supply chain.

This may not change the end conclusion, but the existing methodology is flawed.
Facebook is always staring at you.
An Automated Analysis of Gender Representation in Popular Films (Google.org)
Standardizing on a single port will eliminate a lot of issues like this but the transition is never very easy. But you likely won't need dongles. Just like today where you can buy USB-C to USB-C you can also buy USB-A to USB-A. Likely we'll just have many cables like that. The only exception would be something like connecting 3.5mm to USB-C. But as devices keep moving towards USB-C you'll need fewer, different cords.
How Apple will use AirPods, data science to create the world’s most powerful bot
Are you sure you're thinking of HN? The top comment on any article about Tesla here is usually someone saying "Whatever this article is about is old news and also a bad idea and also doesn't work, and BTW Tesla is losing money hand-over-fist."
The opposition to the national ID in US is really, really weird. Especially when it comes from many of the same people who insist on photo ID when voting, because they're afraid of non-citizens going to vote. Since the federal government is the one that keeps track of things such as immigration status, it stands to reason that it should be the one issuing IDs that are used for voting purposes - and at that point you might as well use it for everything else.

And, of course, SSNs are already a de facto national ID system. It just happens to be one that wasn't designed for ID purposes, and so it's very suboptimal (but any government abuses you could do with a proper ID, you can also do with SSN).
If only society in general would adopt that perspective. Unfortunately there seems to be a growing sentiment that someone else's success was somehow at their expense and therefore they are owed something by the successful.
Jef Raskin was passionate about user interface design, but had a completely different approach. The realization of Raskin's thinking is the Canon Cat.[1] Video demo: [2] It's a machine for text editing with the minimal number of keystrokes. There are special "Leap" keys, and a "Front" shift for extra characters on keytop fronts.
There's no pointing device.

It's an elegant concept, but nothing one would think of as a GUI today. It's more like something that would appeal to Markdown enthusiasts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErqdRE5zpQ
Cannot agree more with this based on experience of small startup. Let's say, you want to develop a mobile app and REST API for it hosted somewhere in cloud. There's so much hype about it, so you want to do it "right" (it's right indeed, but for some distant future until which your startup needs to survive). So, the possible solution is to take some common stack, like Spring Cloud, and build a number of microservices with service discovery, config server, OAuth and API gateway.

It appears, it's not so easy:
1. First, documentation as always is not the best, and you'll have to spend time figuring out how to wire together different parts of the system and build various configurations of it for local development, CI build and production.
2. Then, there's debugging issue. Once you've figured out how to work with Docker (good news, it's really easy today), you may want to do some debugging in IDE, but it becomes really painful to launch everything correctly with attached debugger if the services interact with each other.
3. Finally, it's production deployment setup and associated costs. Besides the complexity of deployment, do you really want to pay for 14-20 EC2 instances at the time of the launch of your service and burn the money on 0% CPU activity? It will take months, probably years to get user base sufficient for utilizing this power.

The better approach is to develop single server app with future scalability in mind. You can still have separate components for each part of domain, you just wire them together at packaging time. This server app still can scale in cloud, with correctly set up load balancer and database shared between nodes.

Fortunately, we spent not much time on building microservices (about 1m/w to figure out the costs and benefits) and were able to refactor the code to simpler design, but many developers should not care about them at all at early days of their company.
I've been using Swift Playgrounds on my iPad Air since the second iOS10 beta. It's been really stable, plays well with my bluetooth keyboard and the error feedback on it is excellent. My wish list for the next version would include (a) the ability to create and edit files in *.playground/Sources and (b) a project navigator view to let me move assets around the folders inside a Playground or Playground Book on the device. That said, it's a great tool for education as well as prototyping.
Isn't that more of problem with adds or 3rd party JS?
Thanks and congrats to the Angular2 team! We've been building on the release candidates since March, and we're happy to see the breaking changes come to an end.
Vancouver, 1893
Ford moving all production of small cars from U.S. to Mexico
Yeah, sorry. I was referring to the stock, standard "Camera" app I've always used. I even used it when I had a MotoX which included the "Moto Camera" app. I always preferred the plain Google one so that's the one I've used for the past several years.

Looking at the Play store on my old Nexus 5 I don't see it so maybe Moto just included both for some reason or maybe I installed it when it was still in the Play store but has since been discontinued in that incarnation.

This is the version that I have (newer one may need 7.0 according to the comments)

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/camera/camera-3-2-0...

Feel free to disregard if you don't trust apkmirror but they pull directly from Google's servers and validate signatures.
Envoy: C++ L7 proxy and communication bus by Lyft
Same here. Looking a bit deeper it seems the searches are only run against elasticsearch? Also, whats up with the dependencies... php and node? why?
Ossia's Cota technology is a direct competitor to Energous' WattUp, but its transmitter device seems to be huge - I don't know if Energous' transmitter device also has to be that big:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfPgx51cas
Some choice quotes:

"Do you think people who want to be useful should get a PhD?"
"Umm... Mostly not."

"Sometimes it [technology] gets worse... In '69 we were able to go to the moon.. Then the space shuttle could only take people to LEO, then the space shuttle retired... That trends to zero. People think technology automatically gets better every year but it actually doesn't, it gets better if smart people work like crazy to make it better... By itself if people don't work on it technology will decline. We look at Rome and how they were able to build these incredible roadways and aqueducts and indoor plumbing, and they forgot how to do all of those things.

Entropy is not on your side."

"I know a lot of people think I must spend a lot of time doing media and business-y things... But 80% of my time is spent on engineering and design."

"A very long time ago you took me on a tour of SpaceX. And the most impressive thing was that you knew every detail of the rocket and every pieces of engineering that went into it and I don't think many people get that about you."

"What really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. That is at least 2 orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself."
> That coupled with the "have you seen this question before" interviewing is just infuriating.

When I interview someone, I will usually ask if they've seen the question before, so that I can skip it -- is there something wrong with that?
Exactly. People are not avoiding hiring 40+ year old women because of bad experiences with the work of 40 year old women, they're not hiring 40+ year old women because they don't like women, and they don't like people over 40.
I like very much how humble and how easy and crystal clear are his responses.
Author here - Came to reply with basically what you just said.

Thanks for giving it a read!
Also super slow for JS. 1/5 the speed of Chrome working with our JS, which makes a huge difference in terms of usability and responsiveness.

Hope this new version is faster, but if it's optimizing for battery life then maybe it'll be worse...
>Eventually we'll rediscover ini files

We kind of have. They're called YAML files now.
I remember first learning Quantum Field Theory. One week, my head would ache from what I was reading but by the next week, that bit would be incorporated into new parts, so the "confusing stuff" become foundation for the next week's confusing stuff. Eventually, it became intuitive.
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How do facelifts extend life? I thought they were purely cosmetic.
Will this be available in Europe??
Agreed. It's sapping our precious bodily fluids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
Hey! Glad you ask.

In the future we'll do two things (1) a built-in marketplace, and (2) a pro account with powerful collaboration.

The marketplace is a space where Vectr users will be able to create/share/sell design assets to one another. The pro account will include things like built-in version control, clickable mockups, prototyping tools, etc.
From the article:

... Bloomberg reported that Apple was exploring the possibility of including a novel form of wireless charging in upcoming iPhones, one that works at a distance and doesn’t require contact between device and power source. An analyst at Disruptive Tech Research (DTR) followed up by providing clues that Apple was working with Nasdaq-listed Energous to employ its WattUp technology for that very purpose.
Serverless JAM – A Serverless Framework Tutorial
It was the same thing when I was at University of Delaware. Each hard wire got a IPv4 public address. I lived in one of two apartment towers. From what I recall there were three /24s split between the two.

Much like your setup the first 25 were reserved. In addition anything past that was rate limited. I recall anything past that was ~10->25Mbs. Going into the lower range though got around 500Mbs. I know similar stories from other state employees. The times when IPs were more prevalent.
Yes, I agree. There are not many like him. I only wish him great success.
> If the ads are being served from the same ad network - then you will be served more or less the same shitty ads you didn't want to see on Site A when you visit Site B.

Not true.

> Because it is the ad network tracking you and deciding which ads you see with very little, if any, input from Sites A or B.

I don't care about "tracking". I think that's extremely overblown paranoia.

> Furthermore, since advertisements are a security risk they should be blacklisted by default and only whitelist sites you trust.

That is your opinion; I do not share it.

Regardless of what you "think" I should be doing, the simple fact is that I want a program that does X, and a program that does X does not exist.