skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Washington Thinktanks are a good start (though they still tend to 'flourish' things in nationalist language). I prefer their publications to their press events, though the latter is easier to consume.

The press briefings at the State Department are pretty good from a reporting side, but you need to follow for a long time before you see the forest instead of the trees.

A good direct source is the Strategic Studies Institute. They publish primarily academically minded geostrategy reports and assessments, and are mostly centered in the military War Colleges and a couple universities that offer Strategic Studies programs.

Establishments that host pre-PRified documents from strategy organizations are a good source of mostly historic but sometimes current documents. Looking up, for example, the Pentagon Papers or pre-PR version of the Wolfowitz Doctrine are very clear. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) does a good job documenting some of these documents. Of course Wikileaks and others who have copies of documents (like the Stratfor docs you mentioned) is another.

But let's put that out to Hacker News: what are your sources?
an iMac needs a cintiq to replicate this functionality. You're looking at 2.5k more and now you have a clunky thing plus a monitor.
The Company That Hacked the FBI's Phone Had Its Firmware Released
Bus1 Kernel Message Bus [RFC]
Indeed. Coreaudio is much than whatever it is on Windows. Easier to sync software and lower latency overall.
Yes, but note that a lot of investments can be made without reducing profit.

"Expenses", in this sense is not "cash out". When you buy a building, you're just moving value from one store to another (cash -> assets). Only the deprecation (something like 5% p.a. for a building) has an impact on profits.

(although, for technology companies, investments often hurt profits more than for more traditional companies, mainly b/c typical tech investments are hard to value accurately and therefore deprecate immediately or faster – self-created IP as one example)
I did not count my own time, no. If I did I'd almost certainly be below profitable. But I was doing it at the time because I wanted a google reader replacement, not to make money. I only started charging because I had so many users (at the time, most are gone now) that it was costing me above $50 per day, which adds up quick.
Well then I guess hamburger is vegan because it's made of cows which are made of grass.
> The alternative [to Augeas] would be search-and-replace style edits (not robust), custom implementations for every format (hard work to get right, especially without Augeas' infrastructure in place), or being limited to templating entire files.

Precisely. CFEngine (3.x, but also venerable 2.x) does it the former way, but
there are templating engines (Template::Toolkit for Perl, on which I have
built my cfgen, and, less convenient to control, Jinja2 for Python, which is
the base for my current work with configs) that make it easy to do the latter
way.

CFEngine 3.x adopted also templating at some point, I believe (I remember
second-hand communication with CFE engineers that said our (my) templating
gave them some ideas, but it was long ago and may be invalid anyway), but
since I haven't used CFE 3.x, I can't tell much.

Apart from Augeas, I haven't seen the idea of working with configs that had
such a solid foundation. It's such a shame the gains from having
a semantically-valid configuration editing are so small against the cost of
developing and understanding the grammar of config syntax compared to
generating the said config from a template (at least that's what I think, that
the gains are so small). I certainly would love to use Augeas-like tool in my
daily work.
I have tested at least a dozen Bluetooth-headphones for sports (running, gym, etc.) and they all died due to sweat after max. 2 months. Anyone has a good suggestion? (was really looking forward to buying the AirPods even though not sure about sweat-resistance...)
I'm as big an Asimov fan as anyone, but I generally agree that his later novels were weaker. He set himself the challenge of merging the Robot universe with the Foundation universe and I'm not sure it was a good idea. I have always said that his short stories were his best work. I recently heard the radio adaptation of "Hostess" and was reminded was a great story that is.

I was a fan of his science essays before I read his fiction. I taught myself physics via those essays before I learned it in High School. But even more importantly, I learned how to think like a scientist. I owe him a huge debt of gratitude for that, which, fortunately, I was able to express to him once in person.
Whisper – ephemeral text sharing
I think there are three generally accepted ways to do this:

1) Pad with zeros until you fill your extent

2) Pad with an arbitrary constant of some kind

3) Pretend that spilling over one edge loops back to the opposite edge, as if the image was just a view over a repeating signal in that dimension.

The first two are naive and work well enough for simple tasks. The third actually has some basis to it, although it does seem odd. The third option is actually how the image is treated when you transform the image using a 2D Fourier transform. Instead of cutting off the "signal" and padding with zeros, it assumes that the signal is continuous and repeating (i.e. it is a 2D or N-dimensional Fourier series).

I know MATLAB uses this as the default for some (irritatingly not _all_) of it's operations, especially those concerned with Fourier transforms. I can't speak to Octave, but I believe they try to aim for bug compatibility with MATLAB where possible. One nice property of this kind of behaviour is that it avoids introducing some artefacts in the image when performing some sort of kernel filter or convolution.

Note that the interesting bit here is that Python + Numpy actually makes this whole debacle a bit easier to deal with. You can implement solution 3) easier than 1) or 2) with Python, since you can use negative indices in any iterable. So for an image `I`, you can call `I[xdim, ydim, -1, wdim]` for any N-dimensional image and the wrapping works well. Of course you then have to ensure you don't go past the "extent" of your N-dimensional space, but that's simple enough to enforce with 0 and `I.shape`. A lot of people complain that negative indices make no sense and are an annoying language flaw, but this is one scenario where I'm really glad they're available. Numpy views would also probably alleviate your realloc problem, since you can use views to simulate extents within larger matrices, without requiring copying / separate allocation.
Those two things are completely non relatable.

If your eyesight is bad, there are things YOU can do for YOURSELF to fix that problem, without asking anyone to change what THEY are doing.

The "quiet office" is something that only some people prefer. Many of us (I'm one of them) prefer noise - music playing, background noise, etc ... I find it hard to concentrate in silence, and I know more people like me.

To ask others to be silent to ask them to change how they comfortably work to suit you. Let everyone work how they work best.
> Can't stand working alone? Go to the open area.

But the low-grade sadists that rise to positions of authority in U.S. corporations will punish the people that don't go to the open area. It's not about what you produce, it's about how much torture you're willing to self-inflict.
The buyer of software has active disincentives - some of those to the level of national security - to not participate in some collective action to create a library of software for everyone to use.

And at some point, you learn to make the software critically dependent not on lines of code doing their thing, but rather to push all the complexity out to the configuration. So now you have man-hours and company profits depending on maintaining a configuration. That's even more ephemeral than code, so it gets even worse.
professionally, I used it to automate filling out a very complex form.
Well but I think the rule that most companies generally use is if it's under 5% of assets. That's why I was asking.
*they don't have the larger user base amongst AR players though"

Yes they do, by far. The next biggest pure AR player (by mau) is arguably blippar with about 8M. Metaio had a larger install base across all products, but they are gone.

I guess if you count Google translate they would eclipse test in their but I don't know how many people are using word view translate implementation.

I don't consider Pokemon go a pure AR play and even then their at numbers are hard to come by as a significant population used it without AR
The Trump landslide is nearly guaranteed.

There is far more excitement today for Trump than there was for Reagan back in 1980. The only difference is that the news media were not trying to hide the fact 36 years ago.

It may not be obvious to you if you live in one of a few echo chambers like SV, but drive around anywhere else and you'll see very little excitement for the other side.

As for the rigging -- believe what you want to believe -- it's going to fail anyway.
I'll pass on the newsletter signup. His writing is less than stellar; there are all kinds of fragment sentences which make the article difficult to read.
Every building in NYC has a doorman?

Lol okay.
Yes, the manufacturing gets reset with very minor updates, but nothing too major.

It's tough because if you are custom ordering a car mid-year there's a question as to whether to wait for a production allocation in the new model year or not.
I believe you are correct. That was supposed to be a short story but it just kept growing. I like that one quite a bit.
That's horrific, you'd hope the novelty wears off quickly.
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Would you mind elaborating the flaws you see in them? Curious to see other point of views.

Personally, I am more of an in-ear earphones user, so I am more drawn to e.g. Bragi earphones, but even then I am missing the option of custom in-ear moulds, so I am sticking with shure audio drivers + Westone bluetooth cable. I do welcome Apple entrance because I could see how they might be able to push development of the sector and some advances.
I've been reading the book about Elon Musk, great read. This is all the more impressive considering all the stories of times they almost went bankrupt.
I agree, it's probably a terrible deal for almost every retailer, especially small businesses.

As I recall, the standard deal with Groupon etc is 50% off retail price, then Groupon (or whoever) takes 50% of what's left.

So consider a product or service you usually sell for $100, which costs you $40 to deliver. When doing one of these deals, you're now selling it for $50. You get $25 of that, and the platform operator keeps the other $25. So your cost of sales was $40 and your revenues were $25.

Fine if you're happy to operate a loss-leader to attract quality clients who will return to you at full price later.

Unfortunately it seems that these daily-deal services often attract low-quality leads to your business. The kind of customer who exhibits no loyalty, and simply surfs from company to company taking advantage of these loss-leader deals, then never returning.
Vessel joins Verizon
Architects wield cost for requirements changes like a razor sharp sword.

"...you treat steps as throwaway, and you don't commit to deadlines." Just that. For cost reasons.

Prototypes are like football practice. Production code is like a football game. There is a difference.
I'm glad you did that. It shows principle. You may have been able to negotiate it out but the fact that they wanted it shows you a good deal about the company character.
That really depends on the situation. For instance, even a small amount might make the difference between 'profitable' or 'not profitable' and that could easily trigger sell orders and send the stock down, which would make that small amount material.

So what is material depends on the eye of the beholder.

Also, if it's good news then there will be a higher threshold for what is material than when it is bad news.
What is AR?
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMTN2AM/A/earpods-with-lig...
I just use ZIP, that way I can still open it in 10 years.
>Ideally, Google wouldn't credit one part of the site that is lower quality than the other part. //

Site authority presumably wouldn't be a thing if it didn't produce good results. Sites that allow crappy content will tend to have more crappy content and so a page on such a site is less likely to be what someone is searching for; as long as that stands then site authority will still be useful and shouldn't - IMO - be discounted completely.
Came for the Civ comment, was not disappointed.
I'm inclined to agree. I was very bearish on Snapchat around the time they rejected the Facebook offer. But more than any other app right now, Snapchat is killing it with users. This is a what a product users love looks like.

On top of that, I've been consistently impressed with their technological prowess, even if the AR component seems somewhat inconsequential to me right now.

You better believe Snapchat is gunning for that top spot in social - that's what the IPO is about. If they're at or surpassed Facebook's level by 2020, I seriously would not be surprised.
Some laws are bad, ergo all laws are bad?

... I'd get down voted further if I gave my honest opinion.
I've been in need of a new monitor for a while, this would be perfect! I really don't want to pay for the computer bits that I won't need though.
The current version of Proxmox uses LXC instead of OpenVZ, which is interesting since it's using the same kernel containerization features that Docker uses, unlike OpenVZ which required a custom kernel.
I have the Jaybird Freedom, they're still alive, but I can't recommend them - the pogo-pin charging mechanism is fragile. At this point it takes me a good dozen tries of plugging it in for it to actually charge.

I really, really want wireless earbuds to be a thing, but every choice I've tried is just so damn crappy.

I really do hope that Apple can pull this off, because the field of wireless earbuds is begging for some disruption.
From the article:"But take a closer look at that list and you can quickly see that all of these various behaviors could be described by one simple, everyday phrase: You're in trouble if your employee starts phoning it in."

This may be pretty obvious but it's not quite the terrible analysis of relying on just #4.
It's unusual to actually be able to reuse a lot of software. But this is another argument for "the only difference between product A and product B is the configuration."

Then it's "What??? We're paying <x> dollars a seat for a configuration change????." You can't win...
All iPhone 7 units ship with earphones and an adapter.
Agreed, I've burned through 4 pairs of Jaybird X2's (easily the worst headphones I have ever used) from what I believe to be damage caused by sweat (despite being "sweat proof"). Fortunately, their CS has replaced them each time, but frustrating never the less. I too was hoping the Airpods would be a solution.
I'm curious how you could possibly lose money in a business like this. Sure there is a sales cost, but there are alternatives to having a full-time sales force. I'd have tracked every company that has used Groupon/LivingSocial and figured out a way to electronically contact or advertise to as many of them as possible for very little cost (LinkedIn/Facebook enable advertising to employees at specific companies, for example).
Only anecdata, but I used to feel the same way about noise-canceling headphones without sound playing. After a cross-ocean trip where my devices all died and I was only left with the unsoothing silent hiss, my ears adjusted to it. It's just a matter of sticking it out long enough that your ears get over the weirdness, and now I can actually use them to just cancel noise rather than mask with other noise.

Of course, if it's a painful pressure, please don't risk it :)
Jack coming back in 3, 2, 1...
The Beats sport earbuds that use the same chipset went on sale today - so presumably it's a hardware issue.
It's really awesome to have an open source option for error tracking, we use it at GitLab and its been great. Kudos to the Sentry team, and thanks for entertaining my conversations on twitter every once-in-a-while :)
Why Do Companies Want to Be Headquartered in a High Tax State Like California?
augmented reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
"this is the commercially the level of hardware they're going to settle with trend-wise."

Makes sense. By "level of hardware" are you thinking of specs (ports, screen, processors)? Form factor (dimensions, battery life)? Software?

"the same thing happen with Dell's high end Precision laptops"

Do I understand correctly that the specs of the Dell Precision line reached a peak and then decreased? Plateaued? Just didn't keep up with the cutting edge hardware available? I can see the third happening -- sadly, it could be argued that it's been happening for a while. I have a harder time imagining the first two scenarios happening.

Thanks for digging into this more. This is the kind of discussion I think is useful. Cheers!
I have a set of Jaybird X2s that have lasted a while, purchased on recommendation from http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wireless-exercise-head... -- they are currently recommending JLab Epic2 Bluetooths, with notes on sweat testing.
Right, because then Ford could sell you a backyard oil well and refinery to fuel the Focus parked in your garage.
Top 3 Most Essential Reasons Why Your Business Should Be Twitter Right Now
It can be "secure" but paper ballots are probably the most temper-proof.
Recently tried to run docker on Ubuntu Desktop 14.04. After googling a bunch of errors, trying different versions, but still failing decided to try rkt. That one worked out of the box, but apart from a bunch of simple images failed to run the caffe docker image.

So, my motivation of running without docker would be to understand every little thing they do to actually be able to use them and rely on them.
Franz Kafka meets Silicon Valley.
Honestly, I'm not automating anyone out of a job yet. I work in pretty low level IT at the moment. Trying to start my own business.

I don't know how you reach people like that. It isn't the majority of them also. Is it mental illness? Addiction? I don't know. Often they come from a long line of people who behave the exact same way. Cops around here jokingly profile on last name, "Oh, your Franks son? We'll be keeping an eye on you" and to be honest I can't really blame them.

The best solution I have is simply provide a better ladder of opportunity for everyone. If people feel that they can advance in the world, they might actually attempt to do so.
You can't ship them if you keep losing them ....
NASA is just the only people doing the full accounting of all costs. The rest are like a cook who drops a food item on the floor, says "five second rule" and hopes for the best.
Object literals aren't JSON, though.
> I hate html in javascript. I hate JSX.

How about hyperscript? Functionally equivalent to JSX but it's pure JS, with no XML syntax.

header(
h1(Icon({name: icon}, [title]),
p(subTitle)
)

I don't think you can make an argument against building the DOM in JS (instead of using some random DSL to parse HTML template strings) without falling into the fallacy that JS === logic and HTML === presentation. But, you don't seem to be making arguments.
Just you
The lawsuit need not succeed for the company to settle to make this bad news go away, depending on how sensitive they are to bad news.
I thought openvz was deprecated.
So a social network for Chinese painters?
> It is hard for us to put into words how thankful we are to our customers

> we will be sunsetting the Vessel service at the end of this month (October 31). All subscribers [monthly price was $2.99/month] of Vessel will be provided complimentary access for the month of October

Less than 5 days notice?
Fracking has actually been beneficial in reducing climate change because the carbon footprint of natural gas is far lower than coal. Most O&G companies are currently pushing for a carbon tax.
Don't leave us hanging like that - who in the AR world has the largest user base?
Twitter is massively profitable. It makes billions in advertising.

(for every $1 twitter make, it spends $2, so their accounting is deep in the negative. But if they fire half the people (who are useless anyway) and stop spending money like madmen, they'll be positive, VERY POSITIVE. thanks to advertising revenues.)
I remember a comic strip with two highways: one pointing to road deprecated and other sign says "not ready yet"
Definitely the original is good, too, and my example was a fun addition, not a replacement of the original logo :)
Building lots of cars is hard. It takes a lot of time and money to ramp up production capacity to this level. They've been building cars as fast as they could for years now.
On the contrary, at least on the Twitter echo chamber I watch, these are much-anticipated. I'd wager they'll be in short supply for a while.
>Being required to use my pinky to try and hit CTRL

I use Windows, OSX, and Linux fairly often (mostly Windows, then OSX, Linux here and there). For me, the most frustrating thing about Windows, a minor point but it bugs me, is that you can't remap the CTRL key without having admin rights.

This is a user-controlled preference the OS has in the box, in OSX and Linux distros I've used. On Windows, you need to edit the registry (!!) or use the SysInternals driver, which requires Admin rights. I haven't found another way to do it that doesn't require installing more software and/or admin rights.
I'd agree with you, I'd go further to say that there are very very few less corrupt than us either.
You don't see any merit to beam-forming microphones for noise cancellation, seamless paring experience, Siri access, other-earphone awareness, or lack of tangled wires?

You don't remember how iconic the white earbuds have been as a status symbol?

It's fine, and even expected, to say, "This product doesn't fit my use-case." But to be unable to fathom why any person on the earth would want to buy the product... that takes a total disconnection from headphones as a category of device, and I'm not willing to believe that's true.
I think we know which path leads to better sales.
Well you can run a single binary in a solution like Mesos or Kubernete. afaik it's what Google is doing.

It's also how Hadoop and other m/r work.
We have to earn the attention and trust of our listeners and readers
I'm pretty sure that the lispy way to write the example would be:

(defun g (f) (funcall f 3))
(g #'inc)

Which I think is actually prettier than the Scheme:

(define g (lambda (f) (f 3))
(g inc)
It is not hard to make a Lisp2 act like a Lisp1 when you want it to, e.g.:

(defmacro define (name&args &body body)
(let ((name (car name&args))
(args (cdr name&args)))
`(defun ,name ,args
(flet ,(mapcar (lambda (arg) `(,arg (&rest args) (apply ,arg args)))
args)
,@body))))

? (DEFINE (F X) (X 1))
F
? (f '1+)
2

It is much (much!) harder to make a Lisp1 act like a Lisp2.
None of that 10b includes glyphosate sales.
I've seen several of those kinds of projects. I have even seen it done with lightweight process. But ( and there's always a but ) you won't do it with fresh grads pulling all nighters. You might do it with a handful of the remaining silverbacks ( who are not just crispy-fried ) left to do everything that needs done.

It really does take your entire life to learn this craft. Now try selling that today.
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In the long term the internet archive will likely be the major supplier of references to Wikipedia. Webpages don't live forever, hopefully the internet archive does. It's an extremely valuable resource, the archive and wikipedia are amongst the most valuable digital assets we have.
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twitter is worth 11B and makes 2.6B/yr. The playbook works
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