skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a scam, he's not scamming very well. A scammer would have taken the big payday and done little else. Whereas Hello Games has released a couple of large updates, and quite a few smaller updates / bugfixes, with more planned.

The evidence largely points to a developer who is good at his core job, but inexperienced at managing hype. And who was overly optimistic about what he and his team can accomplish in X amount of time. Based on how Hello Games is acting & communicating now, I think they've learned their lesson.

And I sympathise a little with them because I was once the overly optimistic team lead in my younger days, and had to get burnt a few times before I learned my lesson.
Lack of predictability.

I attended a maritime academy and worked in the industry for a year before switching to computers.

The modern transportation is built on reliable ETAs. Mechanical propulsion changed shipping from an industry of uncertainty to one in which you 'could make your own ETA'. Sail doesn't give you that kind of certainty.

It is worth noting that there are technologies (SkySail, for example) on the market now that use sail as a form of auxiliary power so that ships can save on bunkers.

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Well, that was of course the missing component that Steve Jobs added after licensing this tech.
Since its 'bash on Windows' something modern and bash-ish would be lovely.
And they don't all live in a town together, like workers in a coal mine or large factory, so it won't blight an entire region as the main work provider closes, and then all the secondary sources of work and income close as a result, leading to a spiral of misery. Instead the pain will be spread across the country as so be easier to absorb and rebound.
> "Both will have strong biases coloring the perception of events in their own favor, and in some cases, problem employees and problem founders may blame each other instead of admitting their own faults."

This really resonated with me. It's truly a skill to build the self-awareness to realize when you're the problem. It's much easier to externalize or abstract the problems away, particularly in stressful times where everyone feels overworked. I've caught myself doing this.

I have to set aside part of every week to step back, breathe in, and candidly examine how I might be contributing to problems that are happening. Otherwise it's too easy to get wrapped up in the hunt for demons outside the burning house.
does your messages only get stored on the senders and recivers device or even on a keybase server?
With due respect to the Cardiogram developers (hi guys) as a doctor I really can't see a huge amount of value in this - my patients who present to emergency departments with paroxysmal AF are all anticoagulanted or on rate control and there has only been one instance in the last 3 years and many thousand patients when someone has presented to emergency and we have had to run through the full spectrum of echo -> anticoagulante -> cardiovert.

To the founders: what do you see as being he end game here? Are you just looking for validation (of the concept in itself, not the app- I use it on my watch)? Is the US market so different that this is particularly useful and cost effective for detection? Do you see this as eventually displaying early warning in the instance of an early warning?

Thanks and I don't mean to denegrate your efforts, but I do see lots of Consumer Med tech as solving a problem that really isn't creating value (i.e. Proliferation of devices,wearables and algorithms that proclaim the ability to help with X but are really marginally helpful at best) and I'm wondering if I'm missing something about the actual medical benefit, or whether what I feel like is true- that they aren't after being a medical device at all but instead are chasing the consumer dollars by making medical claims
Always great to have percentages reported for a sample size <100.
Interesting podcast with Instacart's founder where he talks about an investor who turned him down because the same investor lost money on webvan. https://www.npr.org/player/embed/523003162/523047374
Same here - it works great in Hyper and is really usable.
Not practicing against a single type of attack does not equate to it being useless against any fighting technique.

You haven't given me much to work with in terms expressing your point of view beyond trolling, next time try to express yourself a bit better.
> it correctly identified me (flashing my name) from the other 1,000+ members each time

That tells you very little. Figuring out which print you're closest too is different from figuring if you match any of the prints on file. How well it does one doesn't really tell you how well it does the other.

Also 1,000 isn't very many. That only requires the same entropy as a 3-digit PIN.
It may seem unfair to take $140 million and build a $10 million game

If a film spent $10M, and turned $140M at the box office, it would be seen as a success, rather than a con. Should a game be any different?
I may be misunderstanding too, but every time I read another story on Star Citizen's development, it certainly seems that way, and Robert's own comments suggest he will keep spending every dollar to make "the best possible" game. It certainly suggests that even if he isn't legally on hook to spend it all, he will try.

He's arguably painted himself into an unfortunate corner by not imposing a fund raising cap - morally/ethically you could argue he has no choice but to try to spend all the dollars - to simply pocket 'the extra' cash would leave a bad taste in backers mouths I imagine, especially when they are effectively donations.

I can't help but feel that when he reached 9 figures Roberts maybe should have considered closing the donations for a while...
UWP won't replace win32 until it can handle all apps, not just most apps.
Or build the $10M game and return the remaining $130M to the backers, proportionally?

My question is: What would he do if he got an extra $300M? Increase the scope even more? At what point do you stop increasing scope and concentrate on shipping a product?
A sibling comment pointed out that they did their own fundraising, but this is still a good point. The limit could be set to the highest defined stretch goal + n% to compensate for non-payers.
If anyone trusts microsoft right now after the past year or two worth of things we've learned I highly doubt their dedication to a free and open source vision of the future.

I actually have a hard time beleiving some of these comments are even organic... (web and server devs are going to migrate to windows!). What world do these people live in? It's like people live in fantasy land and have forgotten the 90's truth of MS.

Embrace. Extend.

Extinguish.

RMS was and is right. Either the user controls the program or the program controls the user. Microsoft has shown they are only interested in controlling the user, and not in giving the user control.

I say this as a senior sysadmin who has dealt with every aspect of their OS's in production for a long time, and I'm fed up with it. Honestly I think Win8/10 was the final straw for me, for what it's worth.

I've since moved completely off windows to gnu+linux, despite the rough points such as gaming. It's been a freeing experience I wish more people had the guts to be a part of. I'm also heavily considering refusing to support windows systems in general, something I think we should all consider.
If we are talking about professional actors trying to trick the tracker, then yes, it should be pretty hard to design software to overcome it. But most people aren't that good, and although they can mislead their friends or collegues, they still leave clues to detect a fake emotion. If you are interested, Paul Ekman has quite a lot of literature on the topic, e.g. see [1].

[1]: http://www.ekmaninternational.com/paul-ekman-international-p...
Another excellent piece on the ideology for the layman:

"The Darkness Before the Right"
https://theawl.com/the-darkness-before-the-right-84e97225ac1...

the same author's clarifying follow-up is good too, though with a lot more academic jargon:
https://pmacdougald.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/accelerationism...
No, accuracy doesn't tell us anything about usefulness. If the test is cheap and it brings in people for a better test and thus saves lives it is useful. The only real danger is if people decide that since the watch says there is nothing wrong so they can ignore other symptoms.

It is something like chest pain: most of the time chest pain is not a symptom of a heart attack, but it is best indicator we have so you go to the emergency room when you have chest pain. Doctors there can evaluate your situation.
I'm a 26 year old male living in San Francisco who went from 242 lbs, 32.8 BMI to 168 lbs, 22.8 BMI over the past ~12 months by bringing together weightlifting, running, and the slow-carb diet. And I did this while working on and building my startup. Top lessons that I learnt during the past year:

1. Pick a ridiculously easy workout routine: Losing weight is a confluence of a lot of habit changes. You have to realize that although your entire lifestyle has to change, you cannot do it all in one go. It may take many months of experimentation for you to find your rhythm and get settled into your new lifestyle. But it all starts with picking up a ridiculously easy workout routine. As soon as you start exercising, you automatically want to eat better, sleep better, and in general take care of yourself. It helps if the routine you pick up is so ridiculously easy that it’s almost too hard to come up with an excuse to not follow through. For me, this was the Stronglifts’ 5x5 weight training workout (https://stronglifts.com/5x5/).

2. Pick an audacious fitness goal: I hate doing any cardio in the gym since it usually gets too hot and stuffy for me. Around this time I came across this NYTimes post: How To Start Running (https://www.nytimes.com/well/guides/how-to-start-running), and I cannot thank the author enough for effectively introducing me to a form of cardio that I actually love. In April 2016, I gave myself 4 months to train for the San Francisco Half Marathon held near the end of July. That’s, couch to 13 miles in 4 months. It’s good to have an audacious goal, and it’s absolutely necessary for you to put down that non-refundable fee and make a concrete mental commitment to go through the distance. I like “finishing a long distance race” as a goal since whether you finish or not is very binary and very public. You can’t make excuses, unlike other metrics. Of course, the best cardio workout for you is the one that you actually end up doing. Running outside is the only cardio that I happily look forward to.

3. Compliance, Discipline, Patience: Another thing that I started in parallel in March 2016 was the Slow Carb Diet that a lot of you may have read about somewhere on the web. Tim Ferriss introduced it in his book The 4-Hour Body, and although it’s not radically new, I think Tim’s genius lies in realizing that it is the easiest diet regime to stick to compared to any other low-carb plan. There are a bunch of summaries around the web, but when I read the book a long time ago, I made some notes and put them up here:
(https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/62384879d50b4a8b80bf...). Go read it, and follow it to the letter. This is important. You have to go all in for 6 days a week and make no excuses, or this won’t work. You’ll be tempted to abandon this diet, or abandon getting fit altogether. You’ll hit plateaus every few months, but despite that, I saw a consistent 1.5 lbs per week loss for a whole year.

If you have any questions, I now also run the Fitness community on Commonlounge (https://www.commonlounge.com/community/bf228e76c54c479c92ff0...) (I'm one of the cofounders). If you like this, come say hi and jump in the discussions there.
Now I kinda want to see what comes out if one gives a neural network a big pile of pre-transition photos of trans people, and another pile of similarly old photos of cis people. Would it be able to reliably predict if someone's likely to transition based on some subtle cues in the images?

Problematic parts: sourcing these images (I know there sure aren't many photos of pre-transition me, and I don't let the ones in my possession go much of anywhere), lots of ethical issues around having a system that can say "I am 97% sure this person is gonna want to transition". Also probably lots of other ethical issues I'm not thinking of.
Huh? MacBooks are unlikely to disappear, companies love how slowly they depreciate (and are easily sellable), while it is by far the most optimized unix system out there. Pound for pound, a MacBook will last longer while doing more than a Windows or Linux laptop, despite Microsoft's and Linus's efforts to rectify this.

Why would anyone pick Windows over Debian for development if their target is a Linux boxen in a server farm somewhere? The tooling is third rate, the WSL (which is a horrible name btw) has thousands of bugs by Microsoft's own admission, and this is after years of MS laboring to get WSL into its current state.

I just don't see why you'd choose a platform that does pants on head retarded shit like making wget open IE 11 rather than downloading the file at a given URL. This isn't rocket science here, I know all the MS people across the water in Redmond & Bellevue can fix this without much work, but apparently worse than non-existent is the best MS can do.
I think I could find people to buy from in Colorado who are in favor of a reintroduction plan to build on the handful of wolves that have migrated into the state naturally. I also prefer bison or even yak.
A coding drone uses AI and 11,500 bug reports to learn how to code. Are we there yet?
It might not be as hip as some of the other options, but Quickbooks invoicing allows you to accept payments as ACH transfers. Not many services do this. (Or at least, they didn't when I last researched it ~2 years ago.)

An ACH transfer costs me $0.50. A credit card transaction costs at least 2.9%, although some invoicing tools charge an additional percentage on top of that. On a $4000 invoice that's over $100 I would pay out as fees with another tool.

Nearly every client I've worked with has been okay with paying this way instead of credit card.
Not the developer or founder, but a user of Apple Watch. I would like to see your questions answered as well. But as a hopeful consumer, I hope wearable devices / medtech startups direct more attention and funding to improving sensors and associated detection algorithms to such an extent that at some point in the future, it would actually be useful to real doctors and offer real medical benefits.
I've had the hardest time with keybase because on my Mac I have multiple user accounts (one for each client I have) and I started experiencing all kinds of permissions conflicts - and then I had trouble uninstalling. Have you tried testing it out for these kinds of environments?
Except humans derive distance/depth information from their sight (depth perception), that's why we have a pair of eyes and not a single eye.

The equivalent on this setting would be adding a second camera.

I'm not criticizing, their experiment is pretty cool, I was just wondering why they chose to use only the camera on board.
There's some precedent that recording police officers isn't in the scope of that Massachusetts law: http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2011/victory-recording-public

Though it certainly might land you in jail anyway. There's any number of trumped up reasons to haul an uncooperative person off.
I've used Linux npm on Ubuntu/WSL without any issues.
Wouldn't this help with pre-stroke detection? The article mentioned that 1 in 4 strokes are caused by AFib. I would imagine this would be helpful for in-patient Neuro-ICU and stroke hospitalists. On the patient side, shouldn't something like this - assuming the monitoring is in real-time - provide a preventative/detection benefits for patients with a high-risk for stroke?
Keep in mind, if you're just using a web browser, Skype and office, these are likely to all be ARM native. It's only when you boot up an x86 program it even comes into play - for a lot of users that will be very rare.
How big a 'cut' does Roberts himself take as well? Given this endeavor is built entirely on the charity of the backers, I would really hope he isn't taking a percentage, but sadly wouldn't be surprised either if he is.
I've found this to be true not just of financing and money but of scheduling and time as well [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if this applies to many other resources, like employees in a company.

For example, given the task of building a complex system under a time constraint, it's easy to exhaust the time granted, be it a week, a month, or a year. A complex system can always be more perfect, so you can always spend more time on making it better. A limited resource (e.g. a week) can force you to focus on the essential solution whereas an abundance (e.g. a month) can lead to frivolous design and overengineering.

The antidote seems to be organizational restraint, concrete milestones, and constant readjustment to keep in line with greater goals. Scope creep, perfect-as-enemy-of-good, and bike shedding are all aspects of this behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Because they aren't running everyting in the emulator - the kernel, drivers, many of their own apps, and in future possibly 3rd party apps as well are run natively. They're emulating x86 for apps and some system DLLs. (There's a schematic at about 8 minutes.)
It increases friction, even if it doesn't come pletely block communication. In that case, it is similar to an avoidable performance-affecting design flaw that doesn't impact the correctness of th eventual result.
Suggesting surgery is dangerous advice.

The "vast vast majority" of people that regain the weight in those studies are likely to be those who are the most prone to do so, and this can also be interpreted that structured weight-loss programs don't work: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/25/health/95-regain-lost-weig...

Look AHEAD: 8-year results (nearly 40% of participants who lost >-10% of initial weight at year 1 maintained this loss at year 8):
http://www.obesity.org/obesity/news/press-releases/look-ahea...

You are correct, that it is impossible to track your calories everyday, for every meal, for the rest of your life.

If your diet takes work, or requires special foods (e.g. Nutrisystem), you'll eventually stop doing it and it'll fail.

To lose weight you have to make permanent lifestyle changes. Stop eating junk/processed food, rarely eating out, learning to cook, and eating primarily healthy foods.

I know this is anecdotal, but I know a dozen or so people in my life that have made lifestyle changes to their diet have kept the weight off for 10+ years. And they are the vast majority of people I know who have lost a significant amount of weight.

They didn't join any weight loss programs, so I don't know how a researcher would ever find statistics on them.
I ended up with a free copy of Star Citizen when I bought a graphic card. At the point when I got it there wasnt much to do. I somehow still get weekly email updates from them but I've been expecting them to stop over the last 9 months or so because it seems the full game will never be finished.
The EPA sensors show that radiation levels are normal: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-richland-wa
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That's the defeatist perspective people are arguing against. It's like saying "there is a bug in this compiler; you won't be able to compile that." True, you won't be able to pursue exactly the same route, but you don't just accept that there's a bug. You find a workaround and get the result you need.

People can and should do the same thing in the office. The entire point of politics is to navigate the hierarchies that impede access to what you want.
No disrespect intended, but this is so American someone should use it as an academic linguistics example of culture-specific communication!

(eg. psychotherapy, negative third party social group stereotyping, pop culture references, second person framing of self-help advice as casual banter, capitalia, shameless and fundamentally American reformation of compassion in an ego-linked context...)
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
According to the article itself, they never actually tried unlocking a real phone.
You're lucky. Until very recently, I had to work on CentOS 5 which was very frustrating. To make it more bearable, I compiled from source and installed modern versions of non-server software for personal use, e.g., Vim, GNU screen, Bash, etc. At home, I'm happy running Lubuntu on my laptop.
No, it really won't. I'm talking a simple charge mostly to cover the additional expenses of dealing with a carcass and contract problems (some cattle are under contract). I'm not talking double or even a high percentage, just enough so we won't hear serious b_tch_ng about the price. Sometimes failure to deliver and disposal causes its own problems.
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I know someone who works at Microsoft (and has for 15 years.) These cartoons are brilliant--especially the org charts for different companies--but things actually are changing at Microsoft.

Some divisions change faster than others. And some old reputations are very hard to shake. But Microsoft isn't the company it used to be. There are other companies filling that role now. Example: Even though all you ever hear about is "Windows is spying on me!" I can name three big tech companies that probably know more about you than Microsoft does.
It shouldn't be any different, however, this situation is:

If a film spent $140M and turned $10M at the box office, it would be seen as an utter failure. Should a game be any different?
Re the final point: Was it like this from the beginning? I still have some identities signed by my original PGP key with which I signed up to Keybase https://keybase.io/azag0/graph
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I'd challenge the "received quite well". Profitable maybe, but the developers infamously walked back a promise to have single-player gameplay (after taking money on the kickstarter where that was stated) available.

There's a litany of bugs and brokenness that have been around for months, even years, but in the meantime, development effort is expended on Shiny Stuff to sell in the cash shop, and half-baked Shiny Stuff to release in expansions. Game-breaking bugs are fixed in weeks and months, rather than the traditional hours and days of any other MMO.

Communication with the devs is spotty and increasingly infrequent.

Sadly, it has no real competition either. And Frontier Developments knows this. E:D is a phenomenal and unique game, but it could be so much more if the devs would actually act like they gave a toss.
Why should the government subsidize ranchers? Seriously, the fact that ranchers got away with unrestricted grazing and nary a threat from other wildlife for decades was a gift, and if ranchers thought the government would allow them to continue to trample their local ecosystems unimpeded indefinitely, then they were really off their rocker.

Also, I'm not branding ranchers here, just idiots with guns calling themselves "hunters", which the asshat in the aforementioned article is far from being. Idiots like him have caused public sentiment about hunting to turn negative, which is bad for the rest of us as that means more restrictions & rules.