skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, we just chose a common Java REST or microservices fraemwork. Is there any particular Java IoT Integration framework you would like to compare or contrast Flogo with? Some OSGI framework like Kura perhaps?

Flogo's problem domain is broadly speaking, IoT integration. Using Flogo you can build integration apps/services/microservices that are lightweight enough to run dozens of these edge apps on IoT edge gateways & devices. Specifically, these edge integration services can be built as flows & triggers (yes, a visual flow modeler is coming soon!). Hope that clarifies - but we'll take your feedback to improve the docs.

(Disclaimer: I'm a TIBCO PM working on Project Flogo)
> Currency was later re-introduced to enable the Ferengi race to be portrayed as greedy merchants.

I don't think that's really accurate; the Ferengi were portrated as greedy merchants focused on profit starting fairly early in TNG without direct reference to currency (gold -- not the later "gold-pressed latinum" -- was mentioned, IIRC, as an item of interest, but not in any context which implied it was used as currency); I think gold-pressed latinum as introduced as a currency in DS9 because DS9's role as commerce hub was central to the theme of the series, and having currency just made telling stories about that a lot more convenient.
Or it could just mean that the person they talked to couldn't see any other information beyond what had already been communicated to the developer (terminated for fraudulent activity). Assuming this was human error on the part of Apple this would make sense, because there was no actual fraudulent activity and so no info would be available beyond the fact that someone flagged the account as such.
I don't get why people downvote this comment, it is factually correct. You are not entitled to do whatever you feel is right on the platform of someone else.

I don't like giving Apple a cut but I recognise that it is their property and I cannot dictate that Apple has to change their rules to accommodate me.
What is USP?
I wrote 'a major reason,' not 'the major reason,' for a reason:-)

The major reason is that I got into Linux before the Mac I bought in 1996 got too old to use. I've not looked back.
This is heartbreaking to hear... really wish you guys the best, and hoping you can spin things off into a foundation that can at least keep the lights on and the core devs employed.
Good to know. Sorry about the mistake.
Depends. If you do 3D rendering with triangles and shaders you can divide your buffers into tiles based on storage size and stream vertex/shader commands.

This is actually how all modern mobile GPUs work and it's highly vectorizable. The partitioning obviously needs to know the whole scene but that's much more lightweight than rendering.

From what I've heard from my ex-gamedev contacts movies are heading that route in a large way because the turnaround time a raytracing is so long that's it's really hurting the creative process.
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vanilla-sources isn't stabled at all. what's your point?
I think we may be talking past each other here, what I mean is that federation must be strictly and absolutely invisible to users.

Perhaps I was wrong to say that federation is in principle ruled out, but I do think that it must be invisible to users. - Including namespacing usernames to nodes within the federation as with the @ sign in email.

I believe this is true in spite of the technical beauty of federated solutions, and it's exactly that beauty that's lured so many onto the rocks.
I hope we will see an update here or somewhere soon that provides more information on why it was removed.
I'd propose crowdfunding the first $200k to gauge interest before committing resources, and then move to a subscription model ($1-5/user/year). WhatsApp had success at that price point, which leads me to believe $1/year would not be a hard sell for those interested in an ongoing microblogging platform.

Note: Twitter has ~313 million active monthly users. Only 0.0006 percent of those users would need to find interest in this sort of new platform for it to be viable (at the price point I mention above).
I don't trust Apple to have my best interests at heart. Out of all the people and organisations in the world, only I have my best interests at heart. Thus, only I can be trusted to control, secure and curate my experience.
No; using the Bitcoin blockchain to store medical records is a terrible idea.

Yes, they are robustly distributed on each of 5,000 worldwide nodes.

But, think about that!
How's that going to work for 10 million patients' MRI records? Each MRI being a series of high res images?

That's not possible with Bitcoin - its not designed to store near that quantity of data - its not even desirable.

I don't know what the advantage of Blockchain is with healthcare, but its certainly not storing your medical records on the Bitcoin blockchain. [Standard disclaimers about predicting the future apply.]

Maybe a hash of them, so you know they aren't tampered with, or that sort of thing - but that seems like a second order problem.
Same as Twitter then
Same deal when I flew United the past weekend. Samsung Note 7s were not allowed to be turned on or charged on the plane. I think they are taking their cue from the FAA recommendation [0].

This is especially bad for Samsung, I think, because it doesn't just affect folks with a Note 7 -- everyone waiting at the gate hears the announcement. Talk about negative brand associations.

[0]: https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=86424
Give up? I wish more apps were sandboxed! If an app can function inside the sandbox (and the overwhelming majority of apps have no problem with being sandboxed) then they absolutely should be. It's a major security benefit.
You're setting the bar in a weird place with "bastion of user freedom", which is not a claim I see anyone making.
I have known several people who were otherwise pretty competent computer users but would download a DMG, mount it, and run the app from the disk image every time.

There's a reason so many downloads include a custom background image with a big "DRAG ME TO THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER" message and an arrow pointed to a /Applications alias. This is such a common use case that I don't understand why Apple didn't just make a "This disk image is an installer" flag, and automatically prompt the user with "Do you want to install this to the Applications folder?"
>which leads me to believe $1/year would not be a hard sell for those interested in an ongoing microblogging platform.

That's the hard part. Why would they be interested? There are tons of microblogging platforms available.
And it is. Just making a point of outliers vs averages.
That also keeps the "good guys" thinking they're safe, when in fact there could be a backdoor for the Chinese government that sends over all messages that say "falun gong." As demonstrated by the recent leak at the NSA perhaps we should be investing in as much cyber defense as offense before a cyber terrorist attack occurs.
I think that the big play with SpaceX is that it will open up tons of avenues of that we haven't even thought about. Going back to his keynote a few days ago he is assessing multiple parts of space travel and trying to bring costs down orders of magnitude - and if they are the only group that can do it at those costs, then it seems like it will completely change what is possible to do in space.
That is a really interesting and thorough examination of all possible explanations, as well as a fun (if long) read.
Try contacting Google about anything.
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> It is an extremely boring time to be alive.

It is <whatever adjective> time to be alive that you choose it to be. The fact that you aren't teary eyed with joy about today's endeavors just tells me that you've got a laundry list of historical achievements you want to make before you croak it. Oh, what, you expect all that striving and effort from the rest of us?

Spend your precious time contributing (beyond tossing out criticism), try to sing the praises of good things when you get the chance, and you might not be filled with regret in your later years.
Unique selling proposition
> overwhelming research

Do you have any evidence that the research is "overwhelmingly" one-sided?
Their EIS seems to be on par with it. OIS doesn't automatically mean better.
> ... it was creepy as all hell that the people [...] knew enough about me

No people know. Software metaphorically ‘knows’, but don't anthropomorphize it (it hates that).
For antitrust purpose, pricing power is, as I understand, the "gold standard"; various measures of market share (which isn't itself a single measure) are sometimes evidence which supports a conclusion about the likely existence of pricing power, especially when direct evidence one way or another on pricing power is hard to find.
I wonder if Apple knows how many developers use Dash. They probably don't realize what a high-profile faux pas they're making.
I find the situation she engendered as ridiculous as everyone else, but the public report, at least as far as I could tell, did not differentiate sending and receiving of information. Ascribing criminal culpability to her is therefore unclear based on the public form of the report, and the lack of charges implies that it's unclear in the classified version of events as well.
You can summarize interesting information and charge for that.
Sure "but not ALL psychologists!" is valid here (as it is in literally any discussion about anything online or elsewhere) but she is not just one person. She is the former head of a professional organization for psychologists; if we look for someone to represent them as a whole, she is the first place we should look. Would the professional organization for physics have as their head someone who believes we had it right when we said the earth was flat and the expertise of these scientists shouldn't be questioned?

How many psychologists have/will publicly denounced her? HN is ready to attack every police officer who hides and defends the actions of a few bad apples as bad apples themselves (rightly so), where's the equal treatment for psuedoscientists?
I mostly use it like an RSS feed. I follow the sites/people that I'm interested in, and post rarely.
I've always found Genesis 6:3 interesting, when talking about human longevity.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
> Welcome to rocket science. Not all of this is 100% safe

Yes, but the Shuttle was far worse than most in that regard. It's abort modes were limited at best and crazy/non-existent at worst.
Seriously? You don't think that it could happen faster than you could see it with your eyes easily? Go watch a Soyuz capsule touchdown, same deal. Also, it's very hard to spot the retro-rocket firing unless you pause the video and go frame by frame. The New Shepard retro fire is even harder to spot. Which is why they tell you about it.

Here are some shots from the video:

First puff of dust from under the capsule: http://i.imgur.com/u055Gjs.jpg

Fully settled: http://i.imgur.com/u53t96Q.jpg

Between the first and second images, the capsule settles about 1/4 of its height. This is because the first image occurs when the capsule is still that high of the ground, and firing its retro thruster.
Steven Levy is a pretty old-time tech journalist. I think calling him an enthusiast is more fair than accusing him of fluff.
>Why should Apple have any say over whose software I choose to install on a device once I have bought it from them?

A valid reason is that you trust them to curate available programs according to values that you agree with. This reduces your risk considerably. (Consider the state of Windows executables in the bad old days.)

Problems arise when a) you don't agree with their values, b) they don't actually act on their values. A lot of people are content to make the uninformed choice to trust Apple, and will continue to do so until their is an obviously better alternative.
what you're describing is essentially what people try to do with molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo methods, which are even older methods than density functional theory. There's currently a lot of interest in the materials community in developing ways to link these abstractions -- often highly abstracted models just aren't good enough for quantitative results, because they are difficult to parameterize, or they abstract away important physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiscale_modeling
But what makes eighty special? Would you say the same thing about someone who was younger? "If you're forty, I'd rather feed the four year old"? If not, then why not?

The only objective metric I can think of is that today, 80 is usually not an age at which a person can do much. But if we have technology that lets you live much longer, and people at 80 would be physically like, say, 20-year-old today, that goes away.

And, of course, the number of young people "in the pipeline" can be regulated by controlling birth rates.
No.

Basically the limiting factor in most designs isn't so much arithmetic as fetches and branches. Especially cache misses. Theses are inherently linear operations - if you need to fetch from memory and then jump based on the result, for example.

Superscalar 'cheats' somewhat by spending area to keep the pipeline fed, through branch prediction and suchlike.

The nearest thing is the graphics card, which has a very large number of arithmetic units but less flow control, so you can run the same subroutine on lots of different data in parallel.

Highly multicore chips make a different tradeoff: external memory bandwidth is very limited. Ideal for video codecs etc where you can take a small chunk and chew heavily. Very bad for running random unadapted C code, Java etc.
Canning a couple thousand employees would free up a couple hundred million I suspect.
I keep meaning to learnt it, and try it.

But my main coding(admittedly amateur and earning very little) uses .net. on top of that most of the games I play to relax are Windows does only(as far as I know for most).

O keep meaning to make time, but it just hasn't happened yet. I don't get paid as a programmer (English teacher), so I need to spend my free time earning money on what I know.

As always, one day when I have money to spare(or time, which is basically the same thing haha).
I have been using MacDown for a while now, which again was a replacement for Mou. But this looks even better.
So basically, you haven't bought an Apple product in 20 years for reasons that really have nothing at all to do with this discussion, and that aren't even indicative of anything wrong on Apple's part, merely that you like Linux (although many people seem to think that Apple's laptops are the best laptops to use even for Windows and Linux, so it's surprising to me that you'd consider this a reason to avoid Apple's hardware, even if you don't use their software).
More likely the Python client is using the stock python user-agent, this should be customized per application. The reason for this, is most stock scrapers and malicious agents are using stock engines with defaults.
Just noticed that Dash offers iOS docs. I wonder if Apple has a rule against charging a fee to provide their own documentation?
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Assuming humans taste somewhat like pigs, humans are every bit as delicious as lobsters.
>I have known several people who were otherwise pretty competent computer users but would download a DMG, mount it, and run the app from the disk image every time.

Perhaps, but they just need to be told once what to do, and it's dead easy. Having an installer is not that more intuitive -- they'd still have to be shown how to use their first one.

>This is such a common use case that I don't understand why Apple didn't just make a "This disk image is an installer" flag, and automatically prompt the user with "Do you want to install this to the Applications folder?"

Yeah, some apps do it automatically when opened from the DMG.
Pretty much what I thought. (I've been programming C since 1979, and C++ since 1987, but left Silly Valley 15 years ago).
> For example, something as simple as assigning a variable has so much more meaning and functionality than I am used to, thanks to pattern matching.

Once I grokked FP, I started thinking about this the other way around. If I see code like this in FP:

x = 5;
foo

I read this as "evaluate 'foo', substituting 'x' with '5'" (accounting for shadowing, etc.). In other words, it's sugar for "let x = 5 in foo", or "(lambda x. foo) 5".

In contrast, I read the same 2 lines in an imperative program as "first update the contents of memory location 'x' to contain '5', then evaluate 'foo'". This is much more complicated (i.e. has more meaning/function) than the FP version:

- We're specifying an evaluation order (do this, then do that), whilst the FP version works with any evaluation order. Among other things, this makes it difficult to evaluate in parallel (imagine if '5' were 'someExpensiveCalculation' and 'foo' were 'anotherExpensiveCalculationWhichMightNotUseTheFirst').

- We need a notion of "memory cells", which don't follow the lexical/syntactic nature of scoped variables; i.e. the first line may affect references in a seemingly separate piece of code. This makes reasoning much harder (although techniques like separation logic can make many common cases easier).

- The 'foo' calculation may affect the contents of 'x', so we can't trust the "equation" 'x = 5' to hold after (or even part-way-through!) the evaluation of 'foo'

One nice approach is "static single assignment"; it looks imperative (e.g. "single assignment C" looks like C), but it follows the FP semantics. In other words, it's useful when you want to show that your code is "straightforward": if you write it in C, the maintainer/compiler might guess that it's straightforward (e.g. that you don't invalidate the "x = 5") but doesn't know; in single assignment C, they know because the compiler enforces it.
I think it's important to think about this because we as humans have major limitations in our understanding. For example, we are limited and biased due to the spatial and temporal scales of our senses, and we may be similarly affected by social things such as language, personal beliefs, interpersonal interactions.
Couldn't samples have been taken and stored to be sequenced later, when it was cheaper?
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And that seems like a totally rational fear too.
A Dyson sphere _is_ a swarm. Though Jason Wright explains (in jasoncrawford's link) that a spherical swarm is very unlikely in this case. A ring swarm could work, though (he rates it as "unclear plausibility").
I won't go so far as to agree there are no objective truths but your second point certainly sounds plausible. Researcher bias is a well known issue.
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and they are that? I don't understand, but english is my native language so maybe I'm not grasping the meaning of words maybe?
used various markdown editor these years, I now settle down on vscode for editing and if I need export to PDF I use remarkable which does the job well including various utf-8 fonts.

tried typora quickly, it looks nice, however it can't handle export-to-pdf with some asia fonts in it for me, hope that can be improved.

it's fair to say pandoc can't do utf-8 fonts for PDF reliably either.
If you stop aging itself, the probability of acquiring Alzheimer's is very low.
I'm sure you and your coworkers are people of the highest moral fiber but my point is you're congratulating yourself for not doing something plain illegal. And it's illegal now because people worked very hard to make it so and before that lenders (and landlords and employers and so on) were, in fact, using such discriminatory criteria. The current better practices aren't some natural result of banks somehow filling up with well-meaning people.
No one was making that comparison.. Being "less shitty that someone else" is not a good thing from any viewpoint..
> But 65,536 cores with 1KB of memory each doesn't sound very useful either.

You've just described the general architecture of the Connection Machine[0], a late 80's early 90's era supercomputer that was used for modeling weather, stocks, and other items. It was fairly useful in it's time.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
>I don't trust Apple to have my best interests at heart. Out of all the people and organisations in the world, only I have my best interests at heart. Thus, only I can be trusted to control, secure and curate my experience.

Yes, but it's not about individual interests. It's about the aggregate interests of users of a platform, the majority of which are average Joes which would otherwise get every malware possible in their phone.

It's kind of like democracy: you may know your best interests yourself, but you only get one vote. So what laws get passed etc, is what the majority decides. Only in this case Apple makes their political platform (iOS) and people vote with their wallets whether they like it or not.

For lone-wolfs that tend to their own personal interests, there's always Android, or even OpenMoko.
here's an unsubstantiated claim that gave a great laugh:

> "For the N.S.A., which spent two years and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars repairing the damage done by Mr. Snowden, "
One ex-president of the psychologists professional association, a person who was literally deliberately selected by the community of psychologists to represent them.

It would similarly be completely inappropriate to generalize the policy positions of Hillary Clinton to the Democratic party, yes?
Cool! I think the moment I can tell my friends to "go here, install this thing and sign up" something will happen. A lot of people will want to produce content without a 3rd party controlling it!
Burying a malicious complaint is trivial. Question the officer involved, take their word over the complainer's.
> She is the former head of a professional organization for psychologists; if we look for someone to represent them as a whole, she is the first place we should look.

Well, no; even we accept the arguments that (1) professional organizations of psychologists are a good proxy for generalizations about psychologists, and (2) the head of an organization is a good proxy for the organization, and (3) that each of those relations are strong enough that treating the relationship as transitive such that the head of a professional organization of psychologists is a good proxy for psychologists in general, she still wouldn't be the first place we would look to represent psychologists as a whole.

Because she's a former head of such an organization, not the current head. Just as we wouldn't look to Jimmy Carter as our first choice to represent what Americans as a whole believe (or John McAfee as our first choice to understand what the business organization now known as "Intel Security Group" believes), we wouldn't look to the former head of an organization as the first choice for generalization about what the group the organization is supposed to represent believes.
Yes, there was recently a question of how Android knew someone's location with such high resolution, even when wifi and GPS were both turned off. The answer was a passive probing of wifi identifiers and using those against the Google SID to location database even when wifi was turned off.

There was even a note about this feature in the privacy policy, IIRC.