skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to have gotten around the problem of switching landlines to mobile by simply increasing the cost of a landline so that consumers willingly give it up. I remember our package cost of mobile, net and landline made keeping the landline viable, until it was no longer included in the package and then it increased in cost until we retired it. Iirc the cost of the landline doubled over ~5 years.
I think the real PA shit storm hit when it was adopted by Ubuntu because Canonical wanted to match the pr program volume control that was introduced in Windows 7 (only use i have found for it so far was to mute a pesky game launcher/updater).

This complete with a "you are holding it wrong" like statement from Poettering as new servings of bile rolled in...
The linked article actually has very little in the way of substance.
It's one of those things that since it's always been this way, it'll take a really good reason to convince people to change it.

I have never known an employer who wouldn't make accommodations for an employee to go vote.

I'm sure there's probably a border case somewhere that has happened for the most part, this is the case.
How the inventor of Mario designs a game
Had Clinton won I guess countless people would be beyond the point of no return with the Hillary problem.
If you were using the Netflix browser player, you were missing out on high quality audio and video, which are only available from within the Windows 8 or 10 "app". If you were using the browser player on a non-Windows platform, you likely were stuck at the lowest quality 480p grainy video, as I am on the Ubuntu device I'm typing this on.

For better or for worse, legal content distribution has been avoiding PCs as a target platform because of how easy it is to copy and redistribute anything that goes through a PC. If they keep it to more limited set-top boxes like Rokus or SmartTVs themselves, the management will feel like piracy is being prevented.
Exactly this. I've never encountered any well-defined problem outside of a textbook. In practice, I've always had to discover the goals / problems and then the underlying processes that define them, and only then can you begin to manipulate the processes to optimize your goals. This whole process is iterative, self-influencing, and dynamic. I honestly can't think of one situation where anything was well defined and thats in over 7 years of software engineering exp, albiet startups, agencies, and freelancing, perhaps at Big Corp #1 its different, experience tells me to doubt it though...
thats not at all what that link says. you can not convert the Synchrony card to the Chase card. If you previously had the Chase card, you now have the Chase card with the new benefits. this isnt a new rewards card, its the same card with new rewards. (one of which is eliminating foreign transaction fees.)
This made me realize how little innovation there is in the browser space today. Opera used to innovate extensively before the sale, and it looks like at least they're trying to keep doing it. I'm also hopeful for Vivaldi. Chrome and Firefox are completely stagnant, unfortunately.
To add a bit more context: I think that the author came to use git /after/ they learned mercurial. For a long time mercurial's history was completely immutable, and hg's branches are very different from git ones (the mercurial equivalent of git branches is called bookmarks).
503? Looks like its down.
This is useful, but only applies to the sidebar theme. Slack doesn't currently support styling the main window.
As opposed to the font of amazing usability innovations that are Chrome, Safari and Firefox?

I'll take something over nothing any day.
It looks like someone changed the post's link to Matt Might's now.
So the Titan Project got Alphabit?
If only Republicans actually stood up to market principles and they didn't just use them as an excuse to help their big corporation buddies, and then that's it.

I actually believe a free market full of competition would work way better than most regulations would in trying to restrict a few monopolies from doing harm. Although I don't think a free market should be free of any regulations. A baseline of regulations is needed to ensure that competitors play fair.

We actually have proof of this with Google Fiber. Wherever Google Fiber would land, previous local monopolies would trip over themselves to drastically increase the value of their offerings (but still being significantly behind Google Fiber). As soon as Google announced it would kill Fiber, all of that stopped, and they even reduced the value in their offers in some places.

I get it that cable companies need to be somehow rewarded for digging ditches to lay cable, but that doesn't necessarily mean they ought to be given a legal monopoly in that state or city. If you must, just pass a law that would force that cable provider to license its cables at a fair price. Then you'd have some competition, but it would also get to recover the cost of digging (the more competitors/clients the faster it can do that).
>always attempt to self identify as a skeptic who is okay changing opinions as new facts come in

>you're outside of most of the big popular groups

Story of my life
Moreover: the condition of most criminal defendants being guilty is probably what we should want out of the system. If a substantial larger number of defendants weren't easy cases, we should instead be worried that prosecutors --- already in a fraught relationship with the public they ostensibly serve --- were further victimizing them by taking flyers.
http://www.carryology.com/reviews-2/road-test/road-test-bore...

I carry a boreas bolinas around most days. It works. It's a bit overbuilt for going to and from the office but super comfy when I have to walk across town with a laptop.
Enforce some rules:

1. It's on the list for more than a month? Archive it without remorse, you'll never read it anyway.

2. Be more strict/selective with what it goes on the list. I usually spend few seconds skimming through the article I'm about to add. If nothing interesting shows up, the article stay out of my Pocket.

3. Keep your add to list/mark as read ratio at 2:1 (i.e. if you add two articles in a day, be sure you read at least one)

Long story short: I didn't had more than 15-20 items on my list for the past 2-3 years :)
I worry that when the time comes - RISC-V will not see high acceptence because it is too expensive for the performance it provides. I hope that I am wrong because I would love to own a truly open computer.
Here’s a team of world-class experts who have spent 10+ years of their lives completely redesigning all the parts of the CPU from scratch, along with a completely new low-level software stack on top of it. They’ve taken no salaries during that time.

If they had no chance of any reward for their efforts, but expected their decades of work to make some already wealthy chip vendors a bit richer, you think they would bother?

This kind of thing is the best possible use of the patent system: it’s supporting extremely novel and creative technical invention and engineering, not preventing anyone else’s work (nobody was intending to make anything remotely similar), and putting the details of the new inventions into the public sphere for anyone’s study now and free use in 20 years.

To make use of these inventions requires billions of dollars of capital investment in chip fabrication infrastructure. Anyone with serious intentions can approach the Mill people and ask to license their technology.
Gogland – Brand New Go IDE from JetBrains
Ask These Questions When Applying Machine Learning to People
Props to mods and/or OP for changing the link from a reposter's blog to the original source.

In order to give at least a portion of the comments in this thread context, the original post linked to a recent blog post which wholesale copied Matt's article with de minimis attribution.
Opera moved to webkit in 2012 (2013?) and then to Blink soon after googles announcement.
(Mill team)

Too right! 2017 is the year we get funding to go full-time and implement what we've been plotting at our Tuesday evening meetings for 10 years :)
OTOY Is Bringing Lightfield Baking and More to Its Unity Integration
Yeah, there exist a couple (I googled) - but they tend to lag or show only mod-approved channels.
Identicon generator in Go
Once upon a time I had to manually disable ROBOTS.txt parsing in one crawler just to stress test a staging machine for a friend.

The lesson from this is that ROBOTS.txt works as long as everyone follows a line set in sand.
Mac on Linux (2007)
> For the love of crypto,

The problem is that most people value convenience and speed over security and privacy. Telegram provides a very good trade off, much better than some other apps. If Signal were to be developed at the pace Telegram is, I would use it all the time, but it's not. For my use and likes, both Telegram and Wire are very good fits.
On Windows, the page title is "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows".

Maybe rename to [for Mac and Windows]?
I suspect this course is teaching you how to do this type of deconstruction rather than to provide examples that are entertaining or controversial. Teach a person to fish, etc.
I thought Kodi was a fork of XBMC?
Sounds like another Transmeta waiting to happen.
Came across a post on social media and applied to help out as a mentor. There was an interview processes and then some paperwork for entry permits.

I spent one week in Gaza and another week between Ramallah and parts of Israel.

After the time there I still have contact with the friends I made there and try to contribute with any initiative they put together.

It also pushed me to look for local initiatives here in the US .
Tesla to power Gigafactory with world's largest solar rooftop installation
OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
> That pretty much requires a fuck up on the part of Windows or Mac to drive people to use Linux.

Windows XP, Vista, 8. I mean even if these fuck ups haven't brought Linux market share above rounding error, nothing will.

One thing that could make desktop Linux viable - is throwing transparency, openess, customizability and all similar "good" Linux stuff through the window, having a dictatorship with good UX people and forcing users to one true way.

People do not care that they can tinker with their desktop - I really do not care that I cannot make my macOS or Windows look like screenshots in unixporn subreddit - I just want an experience that's concise, the same for every application, polished, clean, lean, etc etc etc. Windows had this in Windows 7 (10th version with UWP programs for tablets really disturbs the UX), macOS still has this.

Elementary and especially Solus distributions are doing that - "oooh you want X? well screw you buddy, that's poor UX".
What are the chances of this running on a raspberry pi?
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
rrmm is correct. 16FF is generally used to mean the 16nm FinFet process.
I like the screen-cap utility. All the rest seems useless, knowing that people already litter their desktops with a million icons.
What is the best concrete action to take to express our concerns to the FCC?
>My guess is that the type of person who falls victim to 'bullshit' theory or messages is not the kind of person who is willing to dedicate time to an online course about learning to be more critical in thought

Obviously it's not about them. There are still millions that understand the problem and are willing to think more critically -- but don't have all the skills, expertise etc to distinguish bullshit in its myriad forms.

Some statistics bullshit in the media for example is obvious, but other is so well hidden, it takes deeper knowledge of math and statistics, or abstract reasoning etc to recognize it.

>Conversely, the people who would be willing to read this sort of content are likely the people who are already reasonable skeptical about what they take as face value.

Reasonable skeptical people are getting duped every day in all kinds of subtle ways. Having the skills to recognize those, would be nice.
The reasons I stay with plex:

1) Headless server setup. I run it on my server in a container and my media is available to it via a SMB share. Easy and simple setup.

2) Native apps for iOS, Android, Amazon Fire Stick.

3) Simple UI.

I would move to something else if it had 1 and 2 above as well as support for multiple users[0].

[0] I am fully aware plex has support for multiple users. I just would prefer to not have everyone have a myplex account.
Wire Announces a Simpler Privacy Policy, 72h Log Retention
Who emacs? I think it can be built against half a dozen gui toolkits.
I'm confused, how are there no secret chats? I use them all the time from Desktop.. but maybe you mean Windows? I don't recall trying them from Windows - i use the OSX version.

Secret chats on OSX has the same UX as secret chats on my Android client, fwiw.
I switched from Chrome to Opera a couple of weeks ago and I don't see myself switching back. Little details make the difference: Better ram and battery consumption ( for now ), better tab management, integrated ad blocker and turbo mode when I'm using my phone as a hotspot ( living in a country with awful internet, it's really useful for basic browsing ). And as it's chromium inside, it's compatible with Chrome extensions.
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Just refresh. It's loading most of the time.
Emby has this capability and it seems pretty flexible...good for the "kids have their own library" use case...

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Users
1. Secrets that are widely known don't stay secret for long. Snowden leaked a lot of documents and none of them said the government was doing this already.

2. The data that is out there is _very_ messy. If you have a unique name and you use it as your twitter handle, sure, this is already happening. It's called Klout. But most companies just use it to figure out what image to put on their coupons.

3. I've never heard of employers asking for someones "trustwrothiness score". We as a society get pretty pissy about this type of thing. We've banned IQ tests, and needlessly asking for credit reports / scores. If a metric like this came out in wide use we'd ban it.

4. License agreements are generally unenforcible. You don't get the right to someones car just because you put it in a license agreement. If you could do that there would be lots of scams trying to get old grandpa to install a new photo app to see his grandkids.

5. What is going on in China is overblown in the media. It's not a episode of Black Mirror. The people that are most impacted by it are politically loud young adults online, but the vast, vast majority of Chinese don't worry about it. There are much more important human rights concerns in China that need addressing like freedom of the press.

6. We're not in a nightmare phase, we're in the same phase we've always been in. The telegraph cables were tapped by every major government, the radios listened to, the phones tapped, we even put recording equipment into televisions we sold overseas, our major hotels have always been tapped (or easily tapped given a court order if a foreign national was in town). This has been happening for over a hundred years.

I agree we should know about it (thank you Snowden) and in some cases I don't like it, but the solution isn't to wish it away, it's to use encryption and not say or do stupid things around computers.
>But it regularly pops up even in fields populated almost exclusively with smart and critical people (e.g. academia)

Even? I'd say mostly -- or at least on par.
Trumpian Uncertainty
From his previous comments over the years, I presume Rayiner agrees with pretty much everyone else here that criminal punishment for possession of small amounts of drugs is a bad idea, and that criminal punishment across the board in the US is far too harsh.
But if the new FCC Commissioner's mind is already made up before he takes the job, there is no incentive to listen to our concerns.
> but bringing in gpgpu is moving the goalposts

My reference point is playback with madVR + xysubfilter. madVR uses various high-quality algorithms for scaling and post-processing that are generally too taxing for CPUs to do in realtime, especially at high resolutions or framerates.

Similarly rendering complex subtitles containing vector graphics in realtime onto a high resolution target is also quite demanding. It works on an i7, but I would be skeptical about more anemic devices. So that's where gpu acceleration would help too.

> For media, ORBX.js was able to hit 1080p60 with 12bpp on smartphones three years ago

I have not heard about that one before. It seems to be an encoder geared towards realtime streaming. Codecs in realtime configuration generally make some tradeoffs to sacrifice quality and compression to meet their throughput targets. So it's hardly comparable to encoding for archival purposes (h.265 high profile has horrendous encoding times) or high quality playback.

> It's true that the Web can't do everything yet

But new features hit the market every few years. Native players can address them within months of the new interfaces hitting consumer hardware. Browsers and software running in them are hampered by their need for consensus, having to develop new abstraction layers on top of native features and slow rollout of new features.
Beautiful and surprisingly small port! No gyrations at all.
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Or maybe take out the operating system
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/humor/fionavar/flame_school
The API is so easy and fun to work with. It's a huge boon for me, i can't imagine switching to anything without a good "bot" API.
Procrastination isn't it?
mac, linux, bsd, windows, even android or ios seem to work for some people. I have this feeling that if the trackpad quality and other osx niceties are a must have for some, they should just stick to it and move on.

- everything sucks at some point
- it has never been easier to test before making a decision
- it is possible not to switch but to adapt and use different devices and systems
- "switching' is not an life commitment; if it sucks for you, switch back; it is not an insult to the system you chose
- when encountering issues, spend some time contributing to reports or wiki. Not a user but archlinux wiki is great.
Seen that approach in production, had to work with it, was not very impressed.
I think the entire product design team at Apple are scraping it for ideas.
It's awful for me. I constantly have to unlock my phone because web refuses to send anything or even refuses to load, as it says my phone is not connected to the internet/etc.

Really terrible and frustrating UX for me. I loathe that web interface.
While I really like the aesthetics of this, I think it still suffers the same problems as the current Mac Pro.

It needs more PCI card slots. It needs to support more than two GPUs. To suppprt that it's also going to need one helluva power supply... it needs its workstation credibility back more than it needs a beautiful design.

I still think the previous generation of Mac Pro look great. They'd look even better in Space Gray.
> I ... struggle to understand the effectiveness.

I agree that the demographic coverage is not even remotely 100%. Would it be fair to generalize your 'target audience critique' as "this can not possibly be of help to the unwashed masses"?

Here's my take on the general demographic critique. (This equally and critically applies to 'encryption & privacy' efforts that we geeks keep circling back to here and elsewhere.)

First a categorical definition from uncle Marx so that attendant HN Marxists do not accuse me of 'petite bourgoise' biases :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat

I agree with Marx: The lumpen proletariat, as you note, are "not the kind of [people] who [are] willing to dedicate time to an online course." Equally, as we famously know, they remain unmoved by the fact that their idle chatter and exchanges of pixelated naughty bits are recorded and reviewed by "public servants" in service of the establishment class.

Thus, per this view, it is (as you point out) a /waste/ of effort to either try to equip them with cognitive tools, or, "user friendly" privacy tools.

One of my little pet theories is that the 1% -- the ratios are rough/symbolic -- require the psychological assent of the 10%. And, in my view, the 1% are critically depdendent on them for the operation and maintenance of the establishment order.

This 10% is courted, conditioned, and then integrated into the establishment order. Sometimes they are identified in school, taken under the wing of a mentor who gently shape their thoughts into a form suitable for fitting into the available slots. Others effectively auto-integrate by identifying with the 'attractive' propaganda of the establishment order. All end up as useful servants of the establishment.

Most of us are not familiar with mechanics and psychology of power.

To affect change in society, whether in 1000BC, or 2017 AD, the participation of the 10% is of absolute critical importance. The lumpen proletariat are moved to action only under the duress of severe hunger. Anything else, they don't budge.

All our efforts towards the betterment of our society should focus attention on the 10%.

Educate the young potential, and recovering older, members of 10%, and, provide them secure communication (which most certainly must not sacrifice technical rigour at the alter of the false god of "[general] usability").
It always comes down to big companies and big gov't.
The SpaceX satellite internet constellation is planned to be around 4425 satellites, not a a few dozen.
More like before tossing Presto and reskinning Chrome.

That said, this is perhaps the second time i have seen them unveil a concept browser for an Apple platform.

Really goes to show how big a fixture Apple is in web development. But then i hold that this can be attributed to when web development moved from the computing department to the media production department. As the latter had been a Mac stronghold since the intro of the original Mac in combo with Apple's laserwriter printer.
Only 24GB of RAM?

The current Mac Pro officially supports 64GB and 3rd parties offer upgrades to 128GB.

Even the 2006 models can be upgraded to 32GB.