skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I trust grsec.
If you want you can run it in production, too (this would give you a warning, won't prevent race conditions, but there is almost no performance penalty). The point was this is very different from a mutex.
>> as demonstrated by their dominant market position and insane growth and profits over the past 16 years

If you go back that far - then yes. More recently? Not so much:

Apple's iPhone Share Continues To Slip In The US And Japan

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2015/06/30/apples-iph...

Apple's Smartphone Profit Share Slipping Vs. Samsung

http://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apples-smartp...

Latest Gartner/IDC data shows Apple PC market share & shipments slip, Macs fall behind ASUS globally

https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/11/apple-market-share-shipments-...
The problem is with open art is, that it is never unique, as in easy adaptable to a unique colourscheme and look.
And it always has this patchy look.
If this models, textures where curated to fit into colour schemes and looks, that could be used, that would be awesome.
Being able to carry the shopping home without struggling.
Being able to easily help people move furniture.
Better tolerance for kids jumping all over you.
More energy. Better sleep. Better mood. Confidence.
Level 3 is doing phenomenal. I think you have this the other way around.
Frankly it's disturbing that a billion dollar company is having UI issues at this level. Google, Microsoft, Apple and lots of other hi-tech companies have the same problem and I don't understand why considering the brain power and money they have.
It's available to buy: https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/devices/optimus-pop...
very cool. that's quite dense.

So the segmentation convnet is applied on the 2d image pixels before SfM, rather than on the point cloud data? I've been looking for neural net semantic segmentation for 3D point cloud data
That's not a rebuttal of the parent's, although it may have felt like one while writing it.
This reminds of the first time I ever went to San Francisco from Australia. My hotel was near some famous tourist spot (oh, Pier 39 - it's mentioned in the post!). I went down to see what was there, and was struck by the most intense deja-vu I'd ever felt. This was my first time to the US, but for some reason I knew this place. It was like I had astral-projection traveled there or something crazy.

Walking around the pier I instinctively knew where everything was: store fronts, stairs... I knew that if I went down I would look out and see Alcatraz? Yep, there it was. And if I went left I'd see... sea lions?! I even said "sea lions?" out loud to myself. I'd never even seen a sea lion before, but yep, there they were!

I was freaking out until I turned around and saw a flight of stairs with a bright red hand rail and realised: Tony Hawk Pro Skater IV.
> Remember the original 128K Macintosh cost more than $2400 and it was close to useless.

As opposed to the other 68K offerings at the time it was pretty good, it brought window managed user interfaces to the masses (rather than those Apollo workstations that probably nobody remembers).

The ST was a game changer price wise but that 'useless' 128K Mac in many ways wrote history.
Institutional inability to make decisions and stick to them. When you have that many people in one place, it's just constant meetings. Smaller teams are able to get proportionally a lot more done because they are not gridlocked.
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But they do, and they have. The iPad was huge and sold very, very well, and still is one of their top products, even though the market has become saturated because newer iterations aren't as big steps forwards as it was with the iphone, and people are less likely to upgrade ipads because they don't need to (and there's less incentive like with the 2-3 year phone plans).

And the Mac has always been their core product, especially since Apple's comeback with the imac. It's no longer their main source of income, but it's a very strong brand that had consistently been getting more and more market share over time. It probably didn't have the huge margin and volume of the iphone, but it'd be a critical error if they were to discontinue it. They should invest more in it, I think; rebrand the new Macbook Pro to just Macbook, come out with a new line of Pros that are bigger again (with pro hardware and features, for the discerning user), update the Mac Pro, etc.
I discovered VisualSfM this weekend after trying Adobe ReCap 360. The photo reconstruction functionality of ReCap is cloud based, which was a blocker for me, because I have a beefy graphics rig and want to script it into a pipeline.

I am curious how OpenSfM compares to VisualSfM and if they are related in any way.

Edit: The VisualSfM license is only open for non-commercial uses. OpenSfM is BSD licensed, so I can safely build my business on top of it.
Not acknowledging my ADHD until I was 31. I'm 33 and finally understand why my mind completely shuts down when I have multiple tasks, why I run from challenges when pressed hard, why I failed classes multiple times despite understanding the material, why I always thought of myself as lazy and why I would have bouts of depression every time I tried my hardest at accomplishing a task. I've wasted so many years in a state of wonder at other people's lives - going on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and reading about the great things people have accomplished, daydreaming that I wasn't a lazy bastard. It's also affected my hobbies - reading, writing and playing guitar. I just can't focus on anything for extended periods of time. My songs are disparate parts cobbled together. My writing is a bunch of snippets. If I read I go crazy and can't stop, if I start and get interrupted I never finish.
> ...but a lot of the backlash is coming from long-time Apple users such as myself, who feel that Apple is no longer making computers for us. And you know what? That's perfectly fine, they're a business and are catering to the high end where the margins are best.

I don't even think Apple is catering to the high end here. If they were, the new MBP would be shipping with a lot more horsepower. It seems like they are catering to the casual user who is happy to pay a premium to have a slick-looking Apple product but doesn't actually have demanding computing needs. Many college students would fall in this category.

The high-end buyers that would pay a premium to have a powerful Macbook to do serious development or multimedia computing have been left out in the cold.

Maybe there are enough of the casual buyers that Apple thought it made more sense to cater to them than the professionals. But Apple easily could've made a machine that catered to both markets if they had better vision.
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I blame myself for 90% of the bad decision, and Seth Godin and his "The Dip" theory for the other 10%.
List of studios bought by ea. Orange ones are the ones they closed down officially but a lot of them exist only in name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electr...

Buying a studio 9/10 is the end of its existence in any meaningful way.
Maven is actually very important since it is a "generic" project format that all IDEs understand, it handles dependency management/downloading, etc. Ant and Gradle are nowhere near as useful since they are not a format an IDE can understand natively. They are a build script, not a project file, so you need to keep another project file in sync for each client you're using.

You don't even necessarily need to be building a Java target for Maven to be useful. It's also a common way to build continuous-integration build scripts for things like Docker packages, database artifacts, etc.
Came here to post a similar story. Played the piano for many years, hated practising and performing at recitals, eventually stopped complaining it was too much effort. Now I wish I had a solid foundation to build on as I've stared playing again. All that music theory and practising of scales would be really useful now.

Having said that, it's never too late to pick it up again!
Is it a pockemon Eevee? :))
Everything about Apple these days points to the same elephant in the room: their top management are just a bunch of clueless salesmen without their leader.
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One of my favorite things is when people who would have been in tech but for the lack of ability then write articles using fuzzy emotional metrics to start arguments about things they wish they understood.
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Benjamin Franklin's entire story is really inspirational. He certainly had work ethic in abundance.

If you need an excuse to practice your writing, you may want to try National Novel Writing Month[1], which coincidentally, starts tomorrow.

[1] http://nanowrimo.org
> CenturyLink is already one of the big players and they'll never enter markets that Comcast, ATT, or Verizon are already in.

The market is drastically changing. Wireless has quickly become the center of the telecom industry; look for CTL to jump in there (which would put them in direct conflict with AT&T and Verizon). The FCC rules governing wireless are also a lot more favorable. CTL already overbuilds residential service on top of AT&T/Verizon/Comcast, albeit in select areas that are underserved.

There will still be market space for small ISPs in markets that are too small for the large players to serve (just like there are still small, regional wireless companies) but they'll be fighting over the scraps.
ZBooks are good machines. We run HP Zbook 17s (have a G2, but about to get a G3). Battery life is horrible on the 17" model, but running lots of VMs and other demanding tasks is a breeze.

64GB DDR4 ECC, Quad core Xeon E3-1575M processor, NVIDIA Quadro M5000 (really overkill for my work, but fun to have), etc. It's a real professional machine. Just can't be touched by anything Apple makes.
>some beard company ...

Just report for spam and block.
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> Yet writers, like most actors, are notoriously underpaid.

...according to writers.

Writers seem to me to be paid at a market clearing rate, with the protection of a union. It seems to me that if they were truly underpaid they might find a better use for their time.
That's part of the process :) I'm 35 and recently learned to rollerskate. I avoided it for almost a year despite my friend encouraging/nagging me, precisely because I didn't want to look like a manchild in front of them. (Even worse when you wear the full derby padding & helmet.)

Half a dozen sessions later, pushing through "this is humiliating but I'm gonna do it anyway" was probably even more rewarding than learning to skate. I found Erin Ptacek's blog post "Be Coachable" about learning to skate resonated with me too:

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/21/be-coachable/

You could see if you have a skate rink/park nearby with times when hardly anyone is there. The rink near me is almost empty during the daytime, except for a handful of hardcore geeks in their 30s - 50s who would probably fit into the HN crowd anyway.
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actually (although borderline delusions of grandeur territory) your code can make quite a bit of an impact in "real life". and the beauty of it is you don't even have to work for google or facebook to get your system to be "touched" by a very large number of end users.
all the things happening at Apple right now and this guy drones on about they should be getting buying media companies.

what the heck indeed..
Removed the USB ports? Actually they doubled the number of USB ports from 2 to 4 and they upgraded them to the latest standard USB-C.
Aren't they allowed to sit on the iPhone? Why must they come up with amazing new stuff when they've already got a mountain of cash and loyal fans who love the point release updates?

In other industries like cars, the manufacturers don't necessarily create hugely different models every year, but only small improvements on last year's model, and they seem to do okay.

Personally I think the touch-bar thing on the Mac is unremarkable, even a gimmick. Why would anyone want the furniture moving around on their keyboard? I could be wrong, I suppose if it's highly customizable then it will be handy for programmable shortcuts.
Always very wary about suggesting people cut their teeth in the warm embrace of a IDE. It's often unrealistic.

If it's the industry standard —like it was and probably still is completely normal to use VS.NET for .NET development— that might be okay but reducing exposure to things that the rest of your industry like a makefile or [gp]db, Maven/Gradle/Ant, or whatever... It's a real disservice to your students.

If you're an educator and you want your students to get a job, make sure you're teaching the stuff we're actually using.
I've been there (even the relocation to another country part). Only the woman in my life at the time wasn't asking me to commit, but she would have committed to me - that is, taken me seriously for the long-term - if I had had my shit together professionally (to have been someone with goals, a trajectory of sorts). It's been almost a decade now since then and I don't think of her anymore but it was hands-down the best, most exciting relationship I've had til now.

On the other hand, in the breakup, she treated me really badly/poorly, so it remains like a song where the first 90% was great then someone decided to run their fingernails down a chalkboard for the finale.

I heard through the grapevine that the next guy she dated, she stayed with and eventually married.
Only if you release it.
It depends on what you're building. The lack of Java EE support, JavaScript support, and Spring support are pretty notable exclusions.

You don't need to be doing enterprise programming to find the dependency injection pattern useful, it's very nice for building testable code. And Java EE is the beating heart of a Java webdev backend. Almost everything is built on Servlets and Filters and the web.xml configuration mappings, even if these are abstracted away (and the most common abstraction is - wait for it - Spring+Spring MVC). I guess you can always write Javascript without an IDE but it's definitely nice to use an IDE instead of just winging it with a browser console.
This means that if you distribute your dissector, you have to make your sources available.

This is nothing new though: all wireshark plugins must be GPL, since the API itself they rely on is GPL.
No, but they can because they have something like $200 billion cash on hand.

That's technically true, but getting that money to a place where they can use it to buy back stock or to pay bonuses to their engineering staff would be incredibly expensive. There's a reason why they've not repatriated it yet.
OT, but since nobody's mentioned it, I have to pick up on this bit:

> My grandfather is a veteran of World War II, a former FBI field agent who fought against organized crime, a father of four, a grandfather of nine, and not only the most honorable, but also the most consistently jovial person whom I have ever known.

That's book material right there, ten times over. Seriously. I'd read all about that, all day. I know wisdom and log fire chats and mentorship when I see it, and I think I see it here.

Recording and storage tech are unbelievably cheap nowadays. I would suggest finding audio and/or video recording systems to just get the information stored with a minimum of effort (whatever works: recorded conversations, solo dictation, etc). Maybe you could even play with speech to text (eh, maybe not).

Also, this photo I found online a while back immediately came to mind when I saw the post title. http://i.imgur.com/LzoOt27.jpg
What's notably absent from from Apple is the passion for the product. Sure Jony is passionate for design. BUT Steve would bring the passion and frame the product and exactly how it's innovative and will change things.

At these past keynotes for example product managers have given canned passionless presentations for Apple products. Like the Apple TV presentation from last week
Some review sites I checked list "Below average battery life" as a con, which is a deal-breaker for me.
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>oh my, once you discover the concept of TCO your mind will be blown.

Haha I love when users attempt to act condescending, but actually demonstrate their own reading comprehension failure.

TCO --- you mean TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP, a concept I discussed at length in the post you're replying to?

Wow, imagine that. I'd love to discover a topic for the first time that I already discussed at length with over 4 different total cost comparisons, including repairs and upgrades.

EDIT: IF we want to do TCO, mind you, I notice pro-apple folks don't include the $100-$200 of mandatory spider-web adapters you have to buy, as well. TCO is complicated and it's easy for Apple fans to hide the significantly overpriced Apple accessory costs from it :)
I don't know why everyone is so negative on Twitter trying to experiment with an improvement to an experience that most people tend to agree is a lousy one. It's a "test," after all.

I agree that the new design they're testing isn't the best solution, and that they could tweak it in a better direction -- but there are better avenues for feedback that are more constructive to building a better Twitter UX.
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Same here with the ADHD. It's made me more creative... I think, but I can't finish a damn thing.
Lame. USAF should know better.

Smart organizations co-opt innovation if it surpasses their own knowledge and technology.
I think what the article fails to touch on is that people (myself included) used to love upgrading to the new Apple products because of new innovations or upgraded tech. The second-hand market for Apple products shouldn't be looked at as a problem, but rather a new demographic of people entering the ecosystem which might have been out of their price range otherwise.

For me, I was itching for a reason to upgrade from my 2012 rMBP and to be honest, I have no plans to now. I don't want a thinner or lighter laptop, I just want everything to work all at once and some better battery life. The USB-C (and they fact that they didn't even mention it during the terrible keynote) was my biggest drawback, because now I literally have to buy adapters to plug in to my pre-existing adapters for this damn thing to work... Nope.

When Apple got rid of the CD/DVD drive, or FireWire, it wasn't this much of an issue because I could agree that those were things I didn't use (along with the vast majority). But with the headphone jack (on the iPhones only thankfully), and now the SD card reader, USB, HDMI, and Mini-DP... All things I use on an almost daily basis. It sucks that people will have to buy ~ $100 of adapters to get their old functionality back.

Also, if they're really touting this thing as such a professional's device, then their magical touch bar is even more flawed. I plug in external monitors when I use Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. - most of their demos. Looking at a different monitor and then using the touch bar seems like such an awkward gesture.
Yeh I agree, I think this is another "Apple need to do more" even though they actually literally don't need to do more.
Time Machine is their backup thing, so no.

You're thinking the Time Capsule, which is basically an Airport base station with a hard drive that can be used for Time Machine backups. I don't know what other functions it has.
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There are good ones and crappy ones, yeah. But they sell very well, especially because they're so affordable, so saying Apple owns mobile and Microsoft owns desktops isn't a complete picture.
At least it includes Clojure, which is technically a Lisp...
What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake.

I'm never going to buy an iPhone without a headphone jack, but reinstating the jack on a future model would be admitting they made a mistake with the iPhone 7.

Likewise, with the new MacBook Pros, they are not going to release an update in a year's time that doesn't sacrifice ports and performance and battery life for size and weight, because doing so would be admitting a mistake. Nor are they going to dramatically cut the prices, such that they are actually affordable for someone, because doing so would be admitting a mistake.
See also OpenMDAO and hyperopt.
The price could be one of the clustering axes.
Wow, thats looks interesting
One big issue is still the 260-character path-name limitation. Deep source directories choke on that, especially if you copy them around for backup, etc.

You end up abbreviating class names in the file names and mess up searchability.

You end up using single letter directories like 'C:\b\' instead of 'C:\backup\', etc. as workarounds. It all feels very MS DOS.
And before the Mac they had a revolutionary product too ...
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> it is not clear that Apple has anyone who understands software beyond OS-level details

That's a pretty broad statement to make! What does it take for someone to qualify as understanding software?
I always wondered why Emacs struggled to render certain visual elements as quickly as other editors (e.g. Sublime). For example, load in a relatively long line (not even ridiculously long), and it comes grinding to a halt, can't even edit text _near_ the long lines, if its in view! Same goes for linum mode being resource heavy. Why is this? I would have expected that a text editor built in the 70s should excel at rendering text quickly and efficiently?

Is the reason related to this blog post? Every time I tried to profile emacs it led me to the redisplay function, and from there i was lost..

Is there any hope that emacs will ever render code as quickly as modern 'native' apps (e.g sublime)??
So it's another Surface-style hybrid? Color me skeptical.

I have an SP4 for work, and I still don't think we're there yet. Touchscreen is clunky, and I get phantom touchpresses on it all the time. Outputting to multiple monitors is clunky, and when I have to disconnect the SP4 from its docking station, the resolution gets screwed up due to varying DPIs between the Surface screen and the output screens.

Just give me a better clamshell laptop, please. I know the artists would love a detachable tablet screen that they can draw on, but I don't need it.
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I think you could find something with a simple process:

1. Pick area that you have some familiarity with,
2. Go out and do a whole bunch of customer development interviews
3. Analyze the responses to look for common patterns
4. Iterate till you find something that people will pay for
I think luck has two meanings. One is the traditional sense, when you buy a lottery ticket and you end up $1M richer. That's luck by pure chance. Luck on the other hand can be more deterministic and people still call it that. For example you start a chain of events that end up hugely in your favor. If you don't know what caused it, you might call it luck, but in fact you put yourself on the course to make that happen.

For me the other meaning of luck is when opportunity meets potential/preparedness. If you are 100% capable of going live next day and you bump into a reporter it's much more likely that they will feature you. And you can put yourself into situations when it's more likely to meet reporters if that's what you think need next. From the outside it will still look like "oh Zifffify was so lucky that they got featured on XY".
Depending on how you count it: between 5-8-12 years lost to depression.
I think the point is to do what you think is meaningful (or at least enjoyable).

Worrying what your future grandchildren think about you is a ridiculous way to live your life.