skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how did he sell it back? elaborate? For me the world is zero sum game. at least most of it. My gain is your loss when we are competing in the same space. It's not like he forced someone to work for him at pennies on the dollar. He created a portal to drive additional revenue (people who can go to instapainting.com but not buy on etsy/ebay).
http://www.osvr.org/
Thanks! I'm very happy that you noticed that little feature about immutability so quickly. I'd love to hear from you off-thread if you have any more questions or comments about Mu (email address in my profile).

I tried in my original comment not to bring Linus into it. I didn't want to be just another person on the internet poking holes at a famous person. If the examples had both included a guard for the end of the list I'd have been like, "eh, no accounting for taste, but ok," and moved on in silence. But we shouldn't be teaching/encouraging people to focus on minor considerations like the number of `if`s when there's a larger problem with undefined behavior. Since you already took a look at Mu, here's a place where I try to elaborate on this belief system: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/07b54625f7/001help.cc#L7...
What you don't understand is that you are experiencing a kind of confirmation bias. Although you are partially correct and Sweden does have a great network, there is significant weight behind the argument that the small scale networking of a few population dense centers in Sweden is nothing on the scale of something like rolling out a comparable network in the USA. It's such a different level of scale that totally different forces are at play and factors that are not even measurable or noticeable on the Swedish scale are amplified to the point where they have fundamental impacts.

I do agree though that in America, the main problem is public policy on the Federal level that essentially prohibits competition or even just consequences. We will see in a couple of days how the election goes, which will also determine whether the centralization of power and corruption at the Federal level expands though Hillary Clinton, or if market forces with compulsion to become the best and improve everything will drive Donald Trump to enact market competition and bust the de facto monopoly on internet the cable companies have a death grip on.
I'm not sure why you think it's obvious that legalization will pass.

Also, cuck has pretty explicit racist overtones. Please use a different term.
One time I was at the park with my three kids and all the sudden every parent at the playground grabbed their kids, rushed to the parking lot, and got the hell out of there.

I had no idea what was going on. So we kept skateboarding.

Next thing I know cop cars are zipping in and out of the neighborhood, dozens of police are running around jumping fences, and there's a helicopter circling overhead.

Our car was parked in the center of the chaos, so we stayed on the far side of the park and watched.

Would have loved to have an app like this that day. Still never got to the bottom of what was actually going on. Or figured out how all those other parents were privy to the situation before I was.
Similarly, Python's encoder violates the JSON specification by default, as it produces `Infinity`, `NaN` and `-NaN`, which other JSON parsers choke on.
There are a lot of negative things about the current state of Twitter, more people are realizing that. If you're implying an astro-turfing campaign I'd have to say that's unlikely.
You make some good points, and some I didn't quite agree with. The notion that you could just recompile old win32 apps, while nice in theory is not practical IMO. Software has gone from being heavily GUI oriented (windows, dialogs, buttons) etc to converge into something between web and UI. I'd rather they make a clean cut with that past than incorporating it into the future. Also lots of new stuff like notifications, roaming notifications/settings etc are things that simply did not exist with traditional software. I do agree however that I miss some deep level win32/OS integration possibilities in the current UWP world, on the other hand there's lots of new cool stuff like App services, notification listeners etc.

I agree completely that a big problem was the constant reboots between Zune/silverlight/NT/Win10. They ended up where they needed to be but it certainly made things difficult for both developers and consumers, and lost them a lot of momentum

Supporting 512 mb devices was one of the biggest mistakes they ever made, the impact on that the development side was just devastating, for what, saving a couple of bucks in RAM memory?

I think it's hard to generalize the speed and pace of Windows Mobile overall, they put a lot of money and effort in it, and still is, but something definitively changed with the Nokia acquisition and/or Nadella taking over from Ballmer

As for updates I always got frequent updates (europe), the problem was more that their QA seemed substandard. Might be an american problem with providers like Verizon. They had an interesting strategy with their insider updates... which is nice in theory but it sometimes felt like they fired their QA team and put the burden of testing on their consumers, resulting in major bugs frequently getting through
I get it that you can't fire someone over his support of a political candidate but what about his public views on rape and racism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/peter-thi...
The world's biggest meat producer is planning to test out robot butchers
Affinity Designer for Windows [1] is currently in beta. Figma is available for Windows too [2].

1: https://affinity.serif.com/fr/windows/
2: https://www.figma.com/downloads
JSON with comments? How about { "object":{ "foo":1,"bar":"New Jersey"} , "_comment": "blah blah blah" }

A bit hackish, but always worked for me.
Exactly. It's the only verifiable option. That said, if your IP is so valuable that you want to prevent your employee from walking away with it, you'd better be prepared to pay them.
What's with the hate for plea bargains? Should every charge go to trial? In cases where a conviction isn't guaranteed, why shouldn't they split the difference between going free and the full penalty?

Every time I've challenged someone on this point, their objection turns out not to be about plea bargains per se, but the (unrelated) fact that the law permits such severe punishments in the first place, defendants have insufficient resources to fight them, and prosecutors have therefore enough leverage to secure them at all.

But that's not an argument against "plea bargains"; its disgust at the whole system and misattribution to one part.
I think that's part of the point the parent. This is a combination of an iMac and Cintiq. Something Apple currently doesn't have a answer to.
What are your requirements? There are VPS as cheap as $1/month out there.
> this includes the small things, such as responding to the Brightness function key

About that, I have had some luck with https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl to adjust an external monitor brightness and 'brew brightness' to read the current brightness of my MBP.

I set that up in a cron job and that works well enough (although with a delay) with the brightness button of the MBP. The delay is less important to me as I use it essentially to sync the monitor brightness to the MBP autobrigthness.
This is a bit of a tangent, but in case anyone was wondering why Wozniak's prediction was incorrect, it turns out that lithography could be used for features well below the wavelength of light. In fact, we're still using 193nm light (introduced in the early 2000s) to print 14nm(!) features. Human ingenuity is a powerful thing :)
I'm not the guy you are responding to, but from OSHA:

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/compon...

"Place monitor so top line of screen is at or below eye level."

I've very commonly heard ergonomics experts suggest having the top bezel of your monitor be at eye level which seems like it would be about right for the person in the photo if he wasn't hunching over, which is a problem but seemingly not one related to the height of his monitors.

I believe a constant extreme downward neck bend would be bad, the idea is that if the monitor's top is about eye level you can scan down to see it primarily just with your eyes without actually having to tilt your neck too much, which is quite different than the sort of extreme neck bending I believe you mean when it comes to certain types of cellphone usage.
Unless he's heavily involved in the import of illegal marijuana.
> The review, published in March 2015, concluded glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic", putting IARC at odds with regulators around the world.
It would. Also, it would make a huge improvement in the quality and quantity of human lives in Mexico, and the rest of Latin America. Extremely conservative estimates for Mexico alone put the death toll above 164,000+ in the past 10 years, and the number of displaced above 1.2 million, >1% of the country's population. By total number of deaths in 2016, the Mexican portion of the drug war by itself is the fourth bloodiest armed conflict on Earth[1] (after Syria, Iraq and Afganistan, above Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the Boko Haram multinational insurgency).

Having grown up in Mexico, reading Mexican press and seeing the endless amount of mass graves people are now finding through the country (e.g. [2]), I am fairly sure there are plenty of cases not counted in the official estimates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict... . Note: If this makes you scared about planning to visit Mexico, please also remember it is a very large country, and different areas have different levels of violence. Fourth largest conflict in terms of total yearly deaths doesn't mean "it feels like Syria" on account of the population being 100 million. But that doesn't change the vastness of the cost in human lives...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33671636
Peter Thiel's views on rape and racism
L4 is incredibly simple. It is essentially (a word I chose carefully) the opposite of a complicated OS. It also doesn't really do anything.

If you have just a few extremely simple applications you'd like to run in an enclave, L4 is a good way to minimize the surface area between the applications themselves and the hardware.

If you'd like to host a complicated operating system on the simplest possible hosting layer: again, L4 is your huckleberry.

Otherwise: not so useful.

Note that if you just host XNU on top of L4, you might rule out a very small class of bugs, but the overwhelming majority of XNU bugs are contained entirely in the XNU layer itself; having XNU running on an adaptor layer doesn't do much to secure it.
They also fixed the 6-key block (the one with Home, End, etc.). The older version had a nonstandard layout.

On the minus side, it has a non-detachable numpad, so you'll have to reach further to use your mouse.
A lot of macOS/iOS was written from scratch, though: Core Graphics (vs. Cairo and FreeType), Core Animation, Core Text (vs. pango), WindowServer (vs. X11), UIKit (vs. Cocoa), IOKit (vs. the native BSD driver framework), Cocoa Finder (vs. Carbon Finder), LLVM/clang/Swift (if you count Chris Lattner's work on it at UIUC)...

Of those, the last one is very impressive: it's a decade-long from-scratch project that has succeeded in competing with a very entrenched project (GCC) in a mature market.

Regarding GNOME 3, the delta between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 is far less than the delta between NeXTSTEP+FreeBSD and the first version of Mac OS X.
I'd say environmental factors such as being so freaking hot that you are sweating or so freaking cold you have to bring in a heater to counteract the AC are pretty distracting as well. And in terms of productivity, not having enough ventilation so that the air builds up CO2 makes people really tired and unproductive.
> it's not patent protected anymore

Why does that make a difference? Monsanto makes $15 billion in revenue a year directly or indirectly from its glyphosate sales. They also sell GMOs that are glyphosate resistant, so they are helped by glyphosate sales whether it's sold by them or not.

Seeds and genomics $10,243 million 68.3%

Agricultural productivity $4,758 million 31.7%
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[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/05/26/how-much-money-does...
Why would Facebook (and YC) fire Thiel?
So I've been playing with style transfer for about six months. I even combined it with another technique to actually get something that I liked enough to have printed on canvas (https://github.com/j2kun/art-21-logo)

And as much as I love the math, the computer science, and the tech behind it, I have to admit that the novelty wore off quick. Not only does a style-transferred image not have the power of the original, as another commenter said (we can debate about why), but the longer you look at it the more you see the ugly artefacts. I understand it's not perfect, and that there will be improvements, but to me that's what's primarily holding back style transfer. Not runtime or memory constraints, but whatever first principles need to change to get a global unity of style in the image.

Of course, if you introduce the human hand to fix the artefacts (which I think is great, and I know people are working on this), then style transfer can still be super useful. I can definitely see this becoming a new photoshop/illustrator integration.
Iterated Function Systems with OCaml
What makes you certain that the world's best search engine is not falling for that?
> startup was so new that employees were being paid only with shares, but still had about 10 pages of legal documentation for new employees to sign.

Startup law in a nutshell: Management completely disregards labor law but is very concerned about intellectual property.
Or, more likely, simply highlight the hypocrisy in Adelson's actions.
The problem is that it is an on-balance thing.

I don't see how we can make all drugs legal and just say "Hey, if you want to ruin your life with heroin then go for it" because then we have people being violent, robbing, etc. That is, the cost of enforcing is worth it, in a big way.

But with pot, the cost of enforcement is very high, particularly in people's lives disrupted, for a societal cost that is small. It seems to me, even as a non-user, that there are a great number of people who use at least occasionally, and attempting enforcement is sweeping back the tide.

Basically, when everybody does it, then we have effectively decided that it is a societal norm.
I wish the web would be designed with Swiss style, typography-heavy design though not sure how viable that'd be
The IARC has long since undermined their credibility with scientists, and I worry that their agenda driven publications will impact good work done by the WHO.

Injecting agendas into scientific reviews poisons the well of trust, and trust is half the battle when working to combat disease in foreign countries. The WHO really needs to reign in the IARC and soon.
Click and jump to any file or folder from the terminal (iTerm2)
Sometimes definitely wonder how many people read the article.

the article actually starts:
IN THE QUEST to study human happiness, including its causes and effects, even agreeing on a definition is a formidable undertaking. Joy, euphoria, contentment, satisfaction—each of these, at times, has been used as a proxy or emphasized in research studies.

So i mean, they basically get that idea out of the way in the first paragraph.
I had no idea dessert bars were so dangerous.
You're forgetting thermal expansion (And it takes decades for increases in atmospheric temperatures to cause a likewise increase in water temperatures.)
And yet, here we are.
Last time I worked on a FileMaker DB, it didn't have JSON support. I don't know if that has changed in the last few years.
Yeah I wish more people realized that C# + Xamarin tools (that Microsoft now owns & is totally free with Visual Studio Community) making C# something that can take you cross-platform in the mobile space.

https://www.xamarin.com/

Also .NET Core now runs on Mac and Linux for the server OS code written in C#.

Then if you add Unity supporting C# on top of that for game/dev and I really can say that we're in a cross-platform world now :). But I am a bit biased since I work on these teams.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get MD.

* The name: What do a bunch of geometric, flat-looking, solid colors have anything to do with "materials." "Material Design" always makes me think the direct opposite: skeuomorphism.

* The look: It goes way past "clean" and "elegant" into "bland" and "childish." I don't want a bunch of tiny buttons with indecipherable icons and pastel colors. I want well-organized controls with obvious labeling and a consistent color scheme.

* The appeal: sites like this seem to be encouraging general usage, but then your site just looks like you ripped off Google's stylesheet. (And like I mentioned above, I don't know why you'd want to go for that look unless required.)

While I'm griping: it also drives me nuts that Google insists on forcing MD where it doesn't belong. They refuse to follow conventions on iOS so things like the navbar and the "current location" or "share icon" don't match any other app on the device.
Unethical is advertising a service you don't plan on fulfilling. He made a promise in good faith (and delivered). Seems pretty clean in my book.
You might very well be right now but IIRC between 2009 and 2012 this was hit-and-miss for me. I cannot remember which applications anymore but I was a Java programmer back then as well.
Maybe? Honestly, I'm pretty dubious about the investment value of lobbying, full stop.

But regardless, do we have literally any evidence that his a drug baron? That seems like a hell of a thing to put out there on the basis of "he opposes marijuana legalization."
I doubt that weed makes you 'far more cautious' and 'analytical'. Weed severely impairs judgement, motor control and short-term memory for the duration of the high.

Look, Marijuana is okay, but let us not fantasise about positive effects.
Sheldon Adelson is an all around horrible person, in addition to his fight against marijuana he is also a huge part of the fight against internet gambling.

Please refuse to use any of his properties for your vacations or conferences. Avoid using the Venetian, Palazzo, and Sands Expo.
I don't think so, making hardware is not something you do for profit these days IMO. Only Apple has been able to do that and I think the days of their margins is coming to and end. The new way is simply being their in hardware to feed people into your ecosystem of software, services and app store... and there is no need for Microsoft to do that on Android.
what you are saying may be true for now, but Microsoft is really trying to achieve 100% userspace compatibility, ( they set the line clear it is about user space programs ).

I couldn't cross compile simple toy kernel (xv6) in OS X (because I needed to have i386-elf-gcc, which need to compile whole binutils , which really cumbersome, and brew doesn't support it -as far as I looked into it ) but in BashOnWindows , it just works, it maybe a little slow (specially file system operations) but it works like charm. I actually tried to compile linux kernel and running it on qemu, It worked, but compilation (which is a lot of file system operation) was so slow it hadn't worth it.

Nadella (MS CEO) aimed perfectly, instead of introducing some limited amount of support for linux apps, his company tries to port whole ubuntu user space. After this project matures enough, rest assured, it will be equivalent of using linux workstation (which is dream of most developers).
Well, every person you spared from that experience owes you a beer...
After blindness, the adult brain can learn to see again
Do you think people know they are paying for cheap Chinese labor when they purchase? If not, do you think they would care?

When I read something like,"100% free-hand painted onto a canvas by a master artist," my impression isn't, "we outsource the painting to cheap Chinese labor." My impression is clearly wrong. I suspect others have this impression though.

I think the concept is cool, but I'm not sure people would be so willing to pay if they knew some desperate artist in China was getting paid below minimum wage to create the artwork. I guess what I'm saying is you are selling the idea of a premium service at a great price—too good to be true—and it is, because it's not true.

Or maybe it just doesn't matter. I don't know.

Also, reading this over my tone sounds a little condescending. I don't mean to be. Generally curious what others think about this.
Maybe they heard gunshots and the skateboards were loud enough they masked the sound?
What's wrong with shooting for less violent and less mean?
I learned everything I know how to do through practice and execution.

Yes I've had many ideas. Many terrible, most inconsequential. You'll of course only read about the 1 or 2 successful ones on HN ;). After trying hundreds of ideas, you get lazy and get faster at pushing out ideas. Then just keep at the ones that stick.
Yeah, I reported https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10463 (npm fails to install everything from a shrinkwrap sometimes -- the feature specifically for locking down the dependencies to make things deterministic/reproducible!) about a year ago and it hasn't received much attention. It was labeled "big-bug" once but got downgraded to "support" somewhere along the line.

I use npm in a continuous integration/deployment system for a project. The system used to do a git checkout, `npm install` to get the dependencies, and then a build, but then we ran into a few extremely confusing issues where we actually had a couple old dependencies tested and deployed into production because npm install failed to respect the shrinkwrap fully (yet it still exited successfully). We finally had to write a script which compares the node_modules directory against the shrinkwrap, and if there's a mismatch, it removes the entire directory and re-runs `npm install`. Thankfully `npm install` tends to install everything fine from a fresh slate, but it's just soo slow (which is also surprising to me, because shouldn't most everything be cached into ~/.npm if I've installed nearly all of the same dependencies recently? I would think that installing from a shrinkwrap of many things I've installed before would mostly be un-tarring things from cache)...
I'm certainly no expert on happiness. I feel like i'm always ice skating on a highwire. But I think one important thing to do is, when things are good, don't be afraid to admit, out loud, that things are good.

I think being on edge and always waiting for the other shoe to fall hampers the enjoyment of the high. For most of us, life is crests and valleys, but while in the valleys, we are used to saying "Oh my god, this is so bad" instead of "Only way to go from here is up!", I notice that in the crests, people tend to not say "Man, things are really GREAT right now!"

I try to make it a habit to point this out fairly often.
I'm not here to make friends
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12799185
So you are saying the jobs should be taken away from developing economies and into the United States? That sounds very liberal and socially minded of you.
Have you seen the movie Nightcrawler?
I can't verify this, but I was told that the lead investor is Peter Thiel / Founders Fund. Seems believable, since it's consistent with his investment thesis.
We've updated the link to this from the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vigilante-crime-awareness/id....
Thanks for the link.
From the summary of findings on page 78: "Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)."

From page 22 of the preamble: the category Group 2A "is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals".

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-F06....
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