skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the clause isn't "you can't sue", it's "you have to stop using React if you sue".
Well if the front door was inconvenient and hard to find, and then I paid for it and the front door wouldn't work, then yeah maybe I would go in the back window. Your argument is so flawed, and it really seems like with your comment above that you just are looking for a reason to call the younger generation "entitled".

Stop using physical examples, they don't correlate to a digital good that can be duplicated digitally, with no physical presence.
Thx rentalsunited looks great.
As an old time OpenVMS user (on VAX DECstations first and on AlphaServer later) I'm looking forward to this.

I doubt it will ever come even remotely close to a "mainstream" OS, but Alpha to x86 is a much better migration path than Alpha to Itanium.

And yes, there are still many OpenVMS installs out there in the wild, from airport logistics to assembly lines, so this may make sense from a financial standpoint (versus a complete software rewrite for Linux/AIX/whatever) - provided they can market it well enough to the old users.
I sure do understand what makes Emacs Emacs.

It was the only thing that I somehow could use to try to get an IDE like experience during university days (comparing with my usual Amiga/Mac/Windows tools), on our UNIX environments, initially AIX and DG/UX workstations.

Eventually coupled with DDD for a sane debugging experience.

So VI vs Emacs? Definitely Emacs.

Emacs vs IDE? Only when I have to.
Real Time Influencer Counter Using Social Media API
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Errorism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944
and many others without/with moved comments
A new study I found is https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/articles/mobile-speed-ma... "53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load"

Maybe you can create a video showing how their pages take longer to load.

I dealt with a customer once who had broken Javascript (redirect) on the homepage which rendered the page just empty. Only Firefox browser affected. No amount of emails, screenshots, sending patches or CEO-to-CEO in-person meetings helped. Their logs showed little Firefox users so it wasn't a priority. Took over a year to fix. Some customers are resistant to feedback.
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> 12.1	Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate:
>…
>(c)	automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during the term of this License, commence an action for patent infringement against Apple; _provided that Apple did not first commence an action for patent infringement against You in that instance._

am I misunderstanding the last part?
I think he is lying to promote his subredit.
http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/10/11/a-practical-re...
A lot of times, I see an interesting quote or word on reddit, and I google to find out more, and the first (sometimes only) result is the comment itself. That even happens with comments that are less than an hour old.

Try adding site:reddit.com to your search.
Apple, Samsung Take Patent Damages Dispute to a Skeptical Supreme Court
There's a price discount associated with the risk that reflects the probability of the merger going through. It doesn't necessarily mean "most". But...why is this on the front page?
Why AR/VR at Harvard. Why Now. – The Harvard Innovation Lab
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From your [0] link.

"Eight city departments oversee at least 400 contracts to 76 private organizations"

That says a lot about how spending $31,967.10 for every homeless person can amount to, well, no one seems to know.

I'm curious what happened in New Orleans and the other places referenced that have seen success helping their homeless populations. Knowing even a little bit about systems, layering more complexity (and money) on top of a dysfunctional effort in SF isn't going to meaningfully help.
> So in a very real sense, stealing the soda and stealing the movie are hardly any different?

But again, stealing a soda voids the ability for someone else to obtain the good. "Stealing" a movie via piracy doesn't neglect someone else from obtain the good. This is the GP's point - stealing implies there is something of loss.
I for one am thankful for Jest and Yarn. I recently switched over to Jest and I love most everything about it and the built in watch with caching reduces friction immensely (now if we can just allow custom preprocessors to return promises that would make life easier for integration of things like rollup). And yesterday I flipped over to using yarn and it definitely solves most of my pain points with npm.

So yeah, I'm definitely on the "keep reinventing" side of this debate.
I heard they have an active comment section.
Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks: GTX 1080 vs. Titan X Pascal
You can with the appropriate device on certain cars. I retrofit a newer headunit into my older truck and also have the added benefit of turning the backup cam on whenever I want.

http://www.coastaletech.com/index.htm
Key paragraphs:

> Here’s why poles are generally important: for the advanced wireless transmissions (whatever 5G turns out to be) that will be central to our shared digital future, you need access to fiber optic cables at frequent geographic intervals. That fiber, in turn, needs to be “dark” — meaning that it’s unlit by lasers and is just a passive transmission medium that can be traversed by a tsunami of 5G data. And access to that dark fiber needs to be available at a reasonable price.

> [...] With streetlights and signal poles, a city stands a chance of pushing along a competitive and innovative world of Internet of Things and sensors and data transmission, as long as it acts decisively to open those street lights and signal poles on a standard technical basis — again, like an electrical outlet.

The street lights will transmit 5G data so that IoT devices that rely on cellular networks (vs WiFi) can remain connected anywhere and for free or for cheap.
> Funding is not the issue. There are all sorts of issues around mental health, drugs, tolerance in certain neighborhoods, political corruption, inefficiencies in government

Ho-hum. People become homeless because they don't have money. I've worked alongside more than one tech who has been homeless at some period in their lives. Some slept in their cars, some slept on park benches. Jim Carrey talks about how he was homeless as a teenager, what was the "mental health, drugs" etc. problem he had? He was actually working a full time job as a janitor after school.

San Francisco is full of white, upper middle class prep school assholes who have been handed everything their whole lives, who are parasites like Ron Conman, sucking vampirically off the labor of the young people working at the various startups. They sit in Atherton with their trophy wives and little brats and think up ways to fuck over the homeless people in the city. This is what the czar and his family did in Russia before the Bolsheviks lined those parasites up against the wall in 1918.
uh.... i use similar approaches. they cost a few dollars a month.

you're a metric shitton of idiot.
>the damn maps are always viewed from directly above the car so the map is 2D and North is always at the top.

Both my previous car (2013 Ford C-Max hybrid) and current car (2014 Audi A4) both had options to adjust whether the nav map view was locked to cardinal directions, or if it followed the car's perspective.
yeah, it just seems like if it were really optimized for smt, they would have milled the back side of the CHIP and placed the flash et al components in there so that you wouldn't have to find the extra real estate on your own board.
If everybody has that kind of intelligent routing, then any advantage of that kind of intelligent routing will stop being an advantage.
I'm a bit confused about some of the stuff you're saying. Do you have any sources I could check out? I'm a vegetarian, and while I don't eat tons of soy, I'm genuinely interested because I haven't ever read about this. Soy haters usually talk about how I'm about to gain a second X chromosome or something.

I've never heard of soy milk not being cooked. From what I've read, Silk definitely cooks their milk, and so does a company called Sunrich (which has at some point been what's behind Kirkland, Costco's brand)[1]. I haven't really looked into others, but I've read that in order to remove the "bean" taste from the finished product, it requires cooking, and the longer the better. Like you said, though, if it's cooked, it's fine. I personally make my own soy milk.

You said in another reply that tofu and edemame are safe as well. According to Wikipedia, the soy protein in TVP is heated to 150-200ºC[2], which I assume is hot enough to "fix" the soy? Tempeh is fermented, so I guess that's okay too.

I suppose that basically just leaves soy protein powder (and what they're used for, e.g. protein bars) and heavily processed meat substitutes? I don't know much about the former, but given that processed food in general is typically unhealthy, I'm left to wonder if soy is the main issue, or even an issue at all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1s179yWGM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein
I thought the main things allowing for MAD at this point were the ability of retaliatory ICBMs to launch quickly before incoming weapons destroy them, and the ability for ballistic missile submarines to survive a strike by being hidden, and thus retaliate at leisure.

I don't see how hypersonic weapons change either of that. They're not any faster than a missile, so the response time isn't worse, and they don't do anything to uncover submarines. What am I missing?
Well considering that NO largely gentrified in the wake of Katrina (essentially the rich literally stealing from the poor), maybe we can look for a better model
A public CPU miner is essential for launch to be considered valid in my opinion. Any coin instamined at a huge advantage by a small audience is doomed to fail.
Given how selective enforcement works, I would say you did it the legal way in as much as so.eone doing 70 on a 65 interstate while everyone else is doing about 70 is legally driving. As long as the infringement isn't massive it is largely tolerated and if the law as written was fully enforced, it would result in the law quickly being changed. Much like if they started handing out tickets to everyone who went even a 1 mph over the limit the law would change.

Now, I don't like selective enforcement and think it has many problems, but it does seem to be how our legal system functions these days.
I can't seem to find any mention of the specific OS these use. Anyone?
Influencer marketing explained, without all the bs
Don't forget nuclear plants running PDP-11/VMS until 2050. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...
Currently, several private GPU miners are used to sell cloud hashing.

http://toom.im/ has the fastest known GPU miner, while

https://cloud.zeropond.com/ was the first to offer cloud hashing (unavailable to US customers).

The release of a good public GPU miner is one of the contest goals. Another is to close the huge gap between the reference CPU solver, which achieves 0.06 solutions per second, and private CPU solvers, which achieve 2 solutions per second (all single-threaded an a high end Intel Core i7).
Infographic: A Basic Explanation of Streaming Money
Right, but is that how you define shoplifting?

Shoplifting is when someone buys something, then has it withheld from them, then get a refund, then access that product from someone else offering to share it with them?

I guess I was trying to move the conversation away from what I see as a flawed analogy to what I think is technically interesting, and that I have first hand experience with, in that the companies offering paid services fail to support them to the same standard as their free services

For the record the phone time seeking the refund, for me, lacked an appropriate roi so i am out the money and was stunted from exposing myself to the media.. media which the creator and distributor trusted goog with making available to me

There are so many interesting subtleties it's frustrating to bury the conversation in a flawed analogy
I watched the video. I still don't understand what it is clearly. I don't understand "why I should care" by which I mean how is using the potential product so much better than the alternatives that it offsets the risk of a dependency on Whatsapp's platform (and based on not wanting legal advice I suspect that there is risk involved in taking this kind of dependency on Whatsapp's platform).

Curious as to alternatives and their shortcomings.
In addition to this, most smart TVs ( I have an LG from 2013 ) have an Amazon app, so no need to screen cast. I use this to watch directly on TV content from Amazon. Never had any issue with playback, even on slower lines ( now I have fiber, is always HD ).

I have to admit, nice trick with Google Play and Youtube, will check too.
Found it from his front blog page; the url is slightly different (has added an "_53").

http://grodola.blogspot.com/2016/10/virtualize-osx-on-linux_...
That's me when I visited Shenzhen. I came back with close to $1k worth of electronics - boards, controllers, sensors, actuators, stuff. Donated half of this to my local Hackerspace though.
The way I read it, it's not evil.

It's a known and deliberate shortcoming of many licenses (e.g. BSD) not to include patent stuff because it makes everything unnecessarily complex. There was recently an article about why BSD and MIT are so popular, and it's because they're concise and understandable. There is a reason WTFPL exists and some developers resort to it as a way to avoid legalese.

Facebook clearly was aware of this "shortcoming" and being a big player, they might have wanted to be nice and say "we won't sue you for patent infringement if it turns out we have a patent on something React does". Then the managers went "but what if they sue us? Patents are not only for offense but also our defense, we would weaken our defense." And so the clause of "except if you sue us first" came into being.

And now this fuss about the patent part making it not an open source license? Oh come on.

I really don't like Facebook as a company, but this bickering is silly.
> LibreSSL doesn't support X25519 yet

ouch, that's pretty core. (We use it for storage crypto in the Userify on-prem server [ssh key/sudo management] management servers, although the managed nodes themselves just use 'regular' TLS/https for communication.) That means we can't switch to Alpine pretty soon, which I was contemplating for our AWS Marketplace instances in order to move to a distro with a smaller footprint. (X25519 is also the default between Chrome and web servers: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5682529109540864 )

Any idea on when X25519 will be added?
What isn't explicitly mentioned in the article but worth calling out here is AWS and other cloud computing environments. That is a major part of what enabled:

"Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook in 2012"

and

"WhatsApp had more than 450 million users world-wide when Facebook bought the messaging service for $19 billion in 2014, turning founder Jan Koum into a billionaire several times over. At the time of the acquisition, WhatsApp had 55 employees."

With prior tech booms, even if the computers that powered them were manufactured outside the US, they had to be installed and maintained in the US by employees of the company. Now all of that outsourced to Amazon and Google, who in turn have datacenters that employ few people.

Don't get me wrong- I love these services but a massive question still remains: Who is now responsible for job creation in the United States? It previously came naturally as a result of economic growth but that no longer holds.
This is a repost of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563798

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570395
Also, it's not just streaming. I buy all my music as lossless audio and I can do so from any store that offers the format, without DRM or any other strings attached. I actually own the files.

I wish the TV / movie would learn a thing or two from the music industry.
Hm. Doesn't seem to work on Chrome on Android.
> At this point in time OSX/MacOS/iOS and Android/ChromeOS is pretty much the same thing. A basically proprietary platform (yeah yeah, i know about AOSP. But good luck using most apps without having Google's services installed) living on top of a vestigial _nix.

At least Google's stuff generally works from a Linux desktop; Apple's just refuses (including iCloud: apparently I am required to use a Mac or Windows machine to view pictures my mom posts; Apple seem to think that Linux browsers are incapable of displaying pictures and text).
If we had 20 year copyright terms then most of the back catalogue issues would be moot. Companies would have to get their act together and make the most of licensing new works with the added competition of others offering only PD works.

Of course the poor starving actors of all those old movies -- Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, etc. -- would perish under such a regime. They might even stop making new works! /s
https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP_Pro-Hardware/blob/master... suggests it's GadgetOS, which appears to be a New Thing. Anyone have any info on it?
I would get those too back when I was a sugar junkie. And I would get them a lot during the time I transitioned from running on sugar/carbs to running on fat.
Well, good point, I typed my comment up fairly quickly.

It is a lot of land occupied by a very recource hungry industry and less efficient industry
e.g. you need 100x more water to make animal protein when compared to plant protein. We use 25% of our freshwater consumption for animal protein production - not even mentioning other recourses. With a growing number of people on the planet, efficiency is key.
It's interesting to see mention of 0-days against USB drivers as a vector, says "AFAIK, none of those have been publicly discussed." It seems very likely there are vulnerable drivers.
Call me when they free it.
I actually read the whole thing as an homage to Hitchhikers. It had that "English comedy" tone from the beginning. I think the tweets' author is a brilliant comedic writer.
What's the big deal about NPS?
I'm not sure I entirely agree, but fair 'nuff.

In any case, my point still stands: People aren't going to rewrite all that C code. The best we can hope for is for some UB to actually be standardized, so that the sociopaths who write the compilers are reigned in a bit.
Preparing for the future of artificial intelligence [pdf]
Bob Becks talk on LibreSSL is really informative, scary and entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4psTQ1sX7s
I agree with one of your points: that dealing with homelessness on a municipal level is problematic. It disincentivizes cities from providing extremely good care for its homeless population for fear that it will just attract more homeless people. There are already US cities whose answer to the homeless problem is to buy them a bus ticket to a city where they will be better cared for.

I do, however, think you are being a bit naive with respect to the notion that people are "keeping" the homeless in SF. The city's homeless population chooses to be there, for various reasons including SF's fair year-round weather and the fact that some have a connection to the city going back to before it was the tech-center it is today.
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Why do homeless people camp on sidewalks? Because it works. The question becomes, "works for what?" The proposition appears to mean to make camping "not work," by imposing risk and cost on campers. It's responding to a symptom, but it's like treating cancer with crutches.

What does the street provide an alley or park doesn't? I've said before, the perceived security from non-underclass people walking by. Police protect non-underclass people from violence, and the homeless get this additional benefit by extension by being nearby. In shelters and tent cities, you are more likely to be targeted for crime.

Sure people without addresses have a right to safety and security of person like everyone else, but their behavior (often due to mental illness or drug use or factors outside of their direct control) makes it extra difficult/costly to provide it.

Other people pay a lot of money in tax to the state to reduce their daily exposure to violence, regardless of the factors that might contribute to it. Tent cities are a source of risk, and they are provocative symbols of the limits of the ability of the local government to operate credibly. Governments, mainly for their own sake, must remove tent cities when they pop up, arguably because that's what they were originally chartered to do.

Some may say that the homeless are "just trying to live," but it could be said they are hovering around public services without any sense of responsibility to the local society that provides them.

They are human beings, but ones who take advantage of the lack of a continuous tribal identity in cities, where they can live with people believing they are someone else's problem. People who don't learn to get along get run out of small towns (or worse). Add a drug addiction to severe mental illness, and you basically get a municipal zombie problem.

To me, homelessness is only a complicated problem from the perspective of an ideology that cannot tolerate examples of the limits to its power. Everyone else has solutions, just not ones that reinforce the narcissism of maternalistic policymakers.
Normally you run SQL server in some kind of cluster, so you flip the cluster to run off the other server, do your updates, then flip back. This is fully automated for us.

Seamless from user perspective.

I assume other database products require downtime for updates, and use similar strategies to avoid user issues.
I could imagine some scenarios when I ask a human assistant "who is Joe Bloggs" and it would be quite reasonable for them to answer "oh you've met him, he even gave you his business card".
No, he's not saying that at all. He's asking why this problem should be addressed at the municipal level, and why it isn't being addressed at the state level or federal level instead. It's a valid question: the State of California has a lot more resources to deal with a problem like this than any single municipality within the state, and the Federal government even moreso.

Given how much of a problem homelessness is throughout the state of California, why is the state government not addressing it?
They got a refund. Then pirated.

I understand they were frustrated in their efforts to be entertained. Then took what they wanted. Which is pretty much the definition of 'entitled'

Everything is pretty much physical in the real world. Like the physical time and effort folks make to provide services and market them.
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What back end code have you integrated this with? Have you tried "flocking"? http://flockingjs.org/

(I have not, I'm just wondering about somebody else's experience with this sort of thing in JS)

I'm still pretty new to this (modern computer synthesis). I had a couple electronic music (synthesis) classes back in the day, but that day was back in the late 80s. We didn't even have any digital equipment the first time I took the class - it was analog gear with literal patch cords between LFOs, envelope generators, oscillators, filters and such. The second time we actually had some digital stuff to do FM and sampling layers.
I don't download or condone downloading copyrighted material. Just saying that that famous oatmeal comic still rings very true.