skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew one of the founders when they were starting out... one of the other founders is the son of an Indian multi-billionaire, which probably opens a few doors.

The founder I knew told me excitedly their vision for a dynamic interactive world - I thought this sounded like pure nerd crack though wasn't sure if it would actually work as a game. (I built a much more basic dynamic world MMO in university and it ended up with huge drama amongst the player base). I think they pivoted to building a platform rather than a game about a year later.

Wish I'd stayed in touch now, though that seems to happen a lot in the start-up world.
AFAIK project loon has been scraped.
It's the processor architecture that in the past was used primarily on servers. Now it's almost universally used in mobile devices, too. It's ubiquity has caused a much larger technological demand for cross-platform development, which is one of the reasons why technologies like JavaScript and Rust have become so popular. Additionally, it's lower power and lower heat compared to it's x86 cousins.
That's why they should never release Star Citizen. If they do, everybody will be disappointed. If they continue to release alpha previews, they can live on donations forever and all the fans will be still happy.
The security impact of the relationship between RSA primes is well studied. Also: if you know q and n (which is p * q, and also public)...

It's always possible that NSA has new science unknown to the rest of the world. But they've also always been huge consumers of compute hardware, so an attempt to read tea leaves here is pretty much conspiracy-theoretic. If you believe this, there's no reason to believe any (practical, non-information-theoretically-secure) crypto is safe.
> Do they have huge profits because of not having enough competition, or because they don't they have to return profits to the investors?

Apple has huge profits and a cash pile despite a) having lots of competition, and b) returning profits to investors via dividends and share buybacks. Perhaps there are more options than the two you present?
Rony Abovitz gets away with corporate murder - most of the reputable senior executives have fled his his Plantation, Florida Jones town or being sued. He raised the money to waste on lawsuits, just look at the records and testimonies - there is no product, just Abovitz's bullshit. He is not capable of delivering a product. Google made a stupid investment, and with Sundar and Scott Hassan on their board they are still allowed to run a shit show with Google's approval. No other startup could pull one like this. Total Magic Shit.
Although that might _seem_ reasonable on its face, during peak periods (i.e. mid-winter during a cold snap), usually that other place you can get extra wind/sun supply from is on the other side of the globe.

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/#/?f=M&start=20...
> Isn't it a bit ironic, given your concern with 90s-era Microsoft practices that your comment is basically just FUD?

Apologies for not taking the time to sit down and list all the ways MS has been bad for the FOSS world and the user. For someone who references the halloween documents and the hn userbase in general I think most of this should be mostly obvious and not need specific hand-holding. As for your accusation of fud, fud by defnition is about false or disinformation in combination with the appeal to fear. I'm basing my comments off true information, and not using the fallacious appeal to fear but instead telling how proprietary systems do affect people.

> just an appeal to authority ("as a senior sysadmin")

A key point to the appeal to authority issue is that it isn't inherently a fallacy, and only becomes one with used in an informal fallacy, which I did not. In rhetoric establishing authority is an important (but often overvalued) aspect of argument. As a senior sysadmin, this makes my propositions more likely, but not logically certain. Not a fallacy at all.

> handwaving about events that took place long before most of us were actually in the workforce.

What does the date of these actions have to do with the issue at hand? The four principles of software freedom are still not met by MS, and that's just as relevant today as it was 20 years ago.

> We live in a very different world. I'm not saying MS wouldn't abuse their power if they could, but you know...what power? And how does WSL provide them an opening?

Where do I begin? First of all, we don't really live in such a different world. Fundamental principles of software freedom have been the same since the 80's when they were first brought up, (though they have been refined somewhat). Second, not only would MS abuse their power, but they already have and do! As for what power, I don't know how you can be serious and ask such a question. Instead of ranting I will just give you a good link to read. https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

> At this point, I'm much, much more concerned about Facebook than Microsoft

This is a logical fallacy. We aren't talking about FB. I'm concerned about it too, but to handwave away MS issues in this way is not conducive to honest intellectual conversation.

> I think the onus is on MS critics to explain exactly what they fear.

We have, for years at that. See above gnu.org link for a start.

> And how does WSL provide them an opening?

You mean other than replacing a gplv2 kernel with a closed source proprietary one?
Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

That's really good. Particularly as it relates to non-financial budgets, such as a time budget. In fact it immediately got me out of my chair and up for some physical activity!
That's nothing you can't already do with VMs, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Nothing happened at Canonical, just what the top executives normally do. Realizing that it may be more profitable to destroy their companies and sellout to the main competition rather than compete with them.

With Canonical and Redhat virtually in bed with Microsoft does any one seriously think that Canonical was going to proceed on a path that would mean getting into headon competition with a major company they had decided to collaborate with?

When Ubuntu collaborates with Microsoft on Bash/WSL what do you think is going to happen? When hardware vendors don't want to open up their drivers for Linux to compete effectively with Windows and Mac how much progress can Ubuntu make with their phones?

The Linux desktop is supposed to be a power users desktop but their poor vision of its developers failed it. It is supposed to be the equivalent of an advanced Smalltalk or Lisp workstation where its administration is concerned, to managed by message passing in Smalltalk or Lisp scripts or similar. The fact that it is still managed by tedious error prone scripts only shows how poor the whole design has been. Coming to think of Linux is just the kernel, and none of the desktop developers had the smarts to develop a sound administration language and build the desktop proper on top of it. All that has happened is that it has given Microsoft and the other big guys the breathing space to retrench and now it has carved up the market by basically co-opting Redhat and Ubuntu into its camp.
> the ability to browse your encrypted files (KBFS)

I'm really looking forward to that. I use something I cobbled together for password management that's completely backed by KBFS [Passbase] and I haven't worked on it much, but the main gripe I have is the difficulty in using my passwords in Android apps. Web apps are fine, Chrome syncs the password so I just login once from a computer, but any app is a painful `passbase read appname > /Drive/tmp.txt` and open-copy-switchapp-paste experience via Google Drive.

That's a long introductory way of saying: KBFS on phones will be fantastic - but I've long intended to move my (pretty much personal use only, but still) app to using a database rather than raw files, so is there any plan for programmatic access to KBFS for other apps? I realise there are non-trivial issues concerning permissions there, but it could be really great - perhaps silo other apps from full access, e.g. 'App is requesting access to KBFS/Appname, approve?' and 'App is requesting access to KBFS/none-of-its-business, approve?'?

[Passbase]: https://github.com/OJFord/passbase
I hear you man, and that's a good point. It's just a lot easier said than done. I've been working on this stuff for over a year and it's just now starting to sink in, but barely.
"A primary cause of somatic mutations has to do with errors during the DNA replication that occurs when cells divide—neural progenitor cells undergo tens of billions of cell divisions during brain development, proliferating rapidly to produce the 80 billion neurons in a mature brain."

Certainly there must be tens of billions of cell divisions to create all the neurons, but each neural progenitor cell would only divide 30-40 times, right?

I'm not surprised that there are mutations, but the number of mutations is remarkable to me, and seems like yet another evolutionary check on brain size that I hadn't considered (energy use, difficulty of birth, and difficulty of childhood being the more obvious ones).
For sure man, appreciate the words. I've been working on this with a therapist for a long time, it's only now starting to make sense or I am only now starting to internalize it.

Stuff is hard.
Every single microprocessor in every computer is unique in its own way (small errors in production). It doesn't mean we can't compute with them, nor that the variation is useful or relevant.
> it's hard to compare learning a colour histogram to learning concepts such as couch, floor, and open door

The output of most machine learning algorithms is just a belief function. Deep learning is nice, because it basically removes the need to manually choose features, which can be the hardest part of applying machine learning to solve a classification task. But the output is still a belief function.

Machine learning as we generally know it today isn't about making a computer understand "concepts" or anything higher order like that. I think it is easy to compare learning a color histogram to learning classifications (e.g. couch, floor) because the two algorithms do exactly the same task in different ways.

The parent is saying that the function the robot needs to learn is linear. It doesn't matter that it's a drone, and the deep learning apparatus in the middle is overkill, because learning linear functions is easy (you don't need much data to figure out which way is up on a line)
Isn't it illegal in most countries to put cameras in public places? Especially if they don't contain a warning?
The way I read parent's comment is: "Azure's UI is not as good as AWS, but the instance is better". I may be wrong but I think parent meant that you get more resources for the money.
Thanks for the insightful comment.
I think vps is the new web host. We have products like cloudron, yunohost coming up to serve that market.
The Swiss seem to want llamas[1] because dogs are bad for tourists(?!?). I was taught you bought a donkey[2].

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX5GvhIF2j4

2) https://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/guard-don...
It's more than a speed increase. There's memory usage benefits -- because it's not a VM, you don't need to dedicate a fixed amount of memory, regardless of what you're doing. The media situation on Linux is much worse -- the audio stack resembles a jenga tower, the media apis are worse, the media drivers are worse. Windows tends to have better backward compatibility for older but still useful programs.

Furthermore, most of the useful parts of nix tend to come from places other than gnu-based APIs. Languages like python, for example, are nicer under nix, but use few if any gnu-isms. Web frameworks and applications by extensions are more *nix friendly, but it's a rare example that restricts itself to Linux only. Sticking with just gnu and/or linux ends up being much more of a burden than it's worth.
I find the terminology a little muddy in this article, as I would not characterise the "narcissistic" behaviours described therein, and the expected rewards, as having anything to do with self-esteem. In my book, self-esteem is inherently intrinsic; appreciating the unconditional value that you, those around you, and every living creature on Earth possesses.

This talk given by Irish comedian Blindboy Boatclub (of Rubberbandits fame) describes the concept as simply, succinctly, and beautifully as I have ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz82P0WqUh4
How are you managing regulatory issues? The Apple watch is not a legal medical device, so my understanding is that it cannot make any diagnoses recommendations to the user.
Much better than the average concrete US interstate. ;-)

Also, speed limits on the Autobahn are lower in construction zones, urban areas with more traffic, and anywhere the roads are not that great (still good by Jersey Turnpike standards).

The stretches with no speed limit are really well maintained.
Cloud computing would've gotten you $500m five years ago. Nowadays you need to say VR or AI for those amounts of pre-launch funding.
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I'm not sure if I agree.

One can rationally argue that the death penalty for murderers is unjust, while at the same time maintaining that coaching people on how to murder without penalty is disturbing and wrong.
> you could have a trillion unique variations of the genome

It's not really as bad as it sounds. The vast majority of those small mutations must be in the non-coding and non-regulating zone, with no effects on the genome's functionality.

As the article mentions[1], it's an interesting line of study, but let's not jump to conclusions.

[1]: "[...] each neuron may harbor hundreds of somatic mutations. Given the long life span of neurons and their central role in neural circuits and behavior, somatic mosaicism represents a potential mechanism that may contribute to neuronal diversity and the etiology of numerous neuropsychiatric disorders." - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/eaal1641
Do you have a recommendation for a 3rd party audit or certification company that is inexpensive?
An update on our API [why it's delayed, incomplete, breaking changes]
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I think that's more of a branding thing.
Telecom is just one of the things SoftBank does and it just happens to be more visible to consumers.
Berkshire owns Geico but you wouldn't call Berkshire a insurance company.
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No one's going to go to jail for their first offence of putting a in an advertising sign.

What's the worst that could happen? The local advertising regulator will order you to meet the regulatory standards or remove the cameras, but give you x number of weeks to act per unit installed.
I think the right conclusion is "they're both really safe". It's like people comparing things to the number of shark attacks per year. The number is so low that most things are more dangerous.
Ah, but then you get into the trouble of what "highly likely" means :) Outside of common observances, the "truths" that we know are only known because they happened to be spread by society – much like how DNS works.

Here's a thought experiment. The government has assisted in pushing the idea of "eggs are bad for you" for decades. In effect, many people truly believe that "eggs are bad for you" is a fact. If you, being slightly more knowledgable in the subject, tell one of those people that this is a load of bollox, and have a paper to back it up... would you actually convince them? You'd be one voice against many; a rebel against history. If you did managed to convince them, would it be due to raw truth, or due to the effectiveness of your rhetoric?
lawful and ethical are two totally different things. They are both related but are mutually exclusive of each other

ethical != opinion

Ethical has weight and you can lose your job, and even go to jail for being unethical. RMS actually has a very strong academic ethical mind (Even though I disagree with him more then agree). BUT ethics isn't easily defined.

Here is a decent link to defining Ethics. https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision...
I think you'll have a hard time finding any rancher who is in favor of reintroducing wolves, Colorado or otherwise.
Written in Go!

https://github.com/keybase/client
This idea keeps popping up. LLVM bitcode is way too architecture specific to allow that to happen. Chris Lattner has stated it himself.
No they won't, because of the dangers involved with bringing a predator into the fields. You risks your family, pets, and business. Its just not worth 5%. Time and keeping the wolf off the ranchers land. You don't want them hanging around. Many cattle are already contracted, plus you are going to need to spend time dealing with it.

There is a serious danger in feeding wild animals and ranchers are smart enough to know it.
You can buy Berkshire Hathaway real estate services, with its trademark. Their logo appears on signs outside private homes for sale all over the place.

http://www.berkshirehathawayhs.com/

They also own 100% of a heck of a lot of subsidiaries. They're not just minority owners in a bunch of companies like Coca-Cola.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berksh...
I'd guess it's because stress weakens the immune system, thus bacteria/viruses have greater effect. AFAIK stress also increases the production of stomach acid.
This is really cool. I have an ICM (Medtronic LINQ) for something I don't believe an iWatch could detect so this isn't an option for me, but I do know they are sometimes used for AF as well, and mine cost over $60,000 to implant (billed to insurance, though my part was still much more than an iWatch costs). I have to think doing the same with an iWatch massively increases the pool of people who are capable of affording continuous monitoring.
Movies, tv shows, audiobooks and songs are way too similar to warrant separate apps on a desktop system.

iTunes is a bloated mess not because of all the things it has to do but because it does these things poorly. It's not rocket science to manage a database with 100.000 songs on a system that has many gigabytes of memory. If you spend about 20 megabytes you can keep the whole list in memory and manipulate it. Yet iTunes uses ten times that and still manages to be slow.
Also, Hanford isn't dangerous because of power generation. It is dangerous, to the extent it is, because of the crash effort to build weapons to defeat the Nazis and then to win the Cold War.
I'm confused. You say they've "vastly changed the atmosphere of the mountains" and complain about the forest service making mistakes managing in the past, but you also say the wolve "barely have the pop above 100" and cite ranchers that have more losses from the mountain lions than the wolves. Are you arguing that the program is bad, or more of a no-op? I care far more about "demonstrated and sustained negative impact on ranchers' livelihoods" than I do about feeling a bit more abstractly apprehensive outdoors—I grew up in a different part of the boonies, but there mountain lions were the big threat, and I'd always carry a gun just because of the risk of them. Mountain lions seem far more scary/dangerous to me, personally.
Yes, but what I was trying to get to is that even if the drone can handle the payload, the drone becomes too heavy to crash safely, and it might break more easily (after falling down with all that extra weight).
I thought that too, but a series of Supreme Court ruling disagrees with me.
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Link to the paper: http://blog.quarkslab.com/security-assessment-of-openvpn.htm...
Why would you want to repair/upgrade (and so pay the salaries of hardware IT staff) when you could get business-leased commodity computers with scheduled "upgrades" by return-for-replacement, for the same cost?
This is absolutely not a lab condition. You can very easily extract a fingerprint from a glass or so, as was done e.g. with Wolfgang Schaeuble, a German politician
Interesting, so I guess this still limits the number of entities that can interact with each other on one server but allows for much more non-interacting entities spread out over a large world. But couldn't then lots of players (maybe by accident) meet in one spot and then slow that server down?
> The saddest part is that the open range ranching in desert Southwest is not even profitable without large subsidies and support by the taxpayer.

Curious if you have any specific examples of this?
None of them are truly inexpensive. It's difficult, complicated work, and it's often time-intensive, too. There's a reason many companies, including large ones, aren't as careful/ethical about this as they should be.

Hiring a security expert as a consultant is a good start. There are many larger security firms that can provide audits, but an initial consultant will help you pick the low-hanging fruit and may even be able to contribute to your code.
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> "UK Virtual Reality Startup, Improbable, raises $1billion in Funding"

Probably a more reasonable title.
Bandwidth will almost certainly be their dominant economic input.

It's funny, a lot of people think you exit AWS/GCE to rack your own machines, but I was on a datacenter tour in SV a few years back and was reminded that having fine-grained control of your network is just as a big a reason to do it. Adtech/finance do this all the time to control latency, I imagine it's also a consideration for Snap.

I wonder if they'll ever build a CDN. It's probably not the right traffic pattern without a lot of re-sharing, but still, I could see it.
Selling machines to TSA is easy. You just have to be Homeland Securty Chief for a bit first.
I still have the T-Shirt.
SoftBank is actually not the largest telecom company in Japan. Though SoftBank does a lot more than just telecom. Telecom just happens to be the more consumer facing business. Also, SoftBank made $50 billion by investing $20M in Alibaba 17 years ago.
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Looking at this alexa rank:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jvns.ca

the mystery is why this site needs "Cloudflare" or a "Content Distribution Network" at all.
> Unlike Microsoft, Google supports 3 development platforms and so their new emulator also had to support 3 platforms

No it didn't. If platform specific solutions make sense then we should use platform specific solutions. Not everything has to be cross platform and 100% identical across all platforms.
Sure, the point is what is their core business. E.g. Sony core business is electronics, despite having financial, entertainment, and other branches. Same thing for SoftBank: yes, it is a holding, but its main business is telecommunications.
The previous generation (Indy/Indigo2) felt rock solid. The cheap feel of the O2 was a real let down. But they probably couldn't justify the cost of making really nice keyboards and cases once Linux became serious competition in every other way.
I am not sure if that video is meant to be impressive. The first guy talking about how hard it is having to work with designers, developers, audio etc, um ok. Like every single game out there.

I just see so much cruft, so many useless people such as producers, talking a lot but not doing a lot. Taking all the credit, but not actually working apart from meetings.