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Didn't SteamOS mostly become a hedge against Microsoft locking away first class access to their platform for Games from competitors like Valve and the titles they help sell/publish for developers?

In the years since SteamOS first launched the open source hardware drivers have also gotten much better. Valve continues to contribute towards better OpenGL and Vulkan (note, mis-spelled as a distinct brand name) support (new features, hitting current contemporary hardware support levels/etc).

The biggest issue that I can see is the number of development studios that only target Windows (currently 90+% of the market share); it tends to be better if they use a development kit that also allows for builds on other platforms, but if the developer doesn't have basic automated testing on either a Mac or Linux/BSD/etc system of some other kind then platform specific bugs easily slip in.
Glad to see something about houston on HN regardless of what the startup is doing! Woot woot
higher freq reeds were also used to switch on/off street lights and household low-tariff water heating here in NZ - hearing the switching tones coming through the stereo was part of my childhood.

A local ham friend build a high power tone generator back in the 70's ... sent slow morse across town in the early hours one night by turning on/off all the streetlights in his neighbourhood
Would someone here be able to provide a link (or text) to a summary of whats going on with Qatar?
"incredibly affordable"

It could go a lot lower. Hetzner's profit margin on renting a server like this for 99€/month is formidable.
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Most of San Francisco's single family homes are further from the city (in public transit minutes) than Oakland and Berkeley.

The public transit service from single family homes to downtown is already overcrowded and way too frequent (there is an extreme congestion problem among buses and trains themselves, before considering private cars). I'm skeptical that Muni could even maintain current levels of crowding with so many more riders.

I'm certain that Muni service to these areas would not get any faster. So the result of this would be to have vast numbers of people wasting vast amounts of time.

We're much more likely to get a livable city with a few dozen to a few hundred skyscrapers in and around each downtown (SF, Oakland, etc). People living in them could walk or bike to work reasonably quickly.

Vast tracts of 5-6 story buildings would only work if we could blanket them in subway coverage, and even BRT is pushing the upper limit of our capabilities as a human civilization these days.
Chrome has great HTML to PDF saving, which is in fact all I use it for.

My home-brew accounting software generates HTML invoices; I need them in PDF also, though.
Plain text ... but with hard offsets ... encoded as decimal integers. Yikes!
This is not gods earth. I would be interested in how they solved these challenges but you come off being someone who just points out problems which is not as helpful as someone who thinks of solutions, also not as abrasive either.
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Silicon Valley built a ton of freeways, and it's basically impossible to build any more of them. It's far, far, far cheaper to electrify Caltrain and build level boarding, plus a BRT up El Camino.
Don't forget Racket, it's a beautiful language and IMO pretty practical.
This doesn’t pass commen sense for me. Plywood measured in metric, converted to imperial if needed? I can imagine someone coming up with 4 feet by 8 feet as a standard size for building material. I don’t see them coming up with 1220mm x 2440mm and thinking “nailed it, perfect size for calculating how many of these to make a wall!”

Also, since the gap between plywood takes space, plywood (and drywall) is a bit less than stated size to give you breathing room to put 4x8s repeating every 4 and 8 feet.

That said I don’t know why a nominal 2×4 is actually 1½ × 3½. Used to be finishing work shaved it down, now they just make ‘em that way to be ornery.
Implementing Paxos is mentally similar to (maybe a little easier than) preparing for a coding interview, and takes drastically less time. A few hours of toil over a few days, vs. a full time job for weeks or a part time job for months.

I think it's odd that HN is so blasè about the latter, and so afraid of the former. It's like people have put the problem on a pedestal and become irrationally afraid of it. It's easier than much of the other subject matter that the hive mind claims to have mastered without issue, and pretty small in scope.
Best company perk ever: you get to take public transportation because despite being the size of many large shopping malls combined and being located in suburbia, we made few enough parking spots that you'll never get to park here.
> That isn't to say that SGI didn't have some bumbling management of the time

Understatement of the century.

> Then again, had SGI not imploded, we wouldn't have NVidia today...

That gets the timeline all wrong. Nvidia is a much older company than you are probably aware of, and might have been quite successful (and quite capable of attracting top talent) had SGI managed to stagger along for quite a bit longer. SGI never, ever had a shot at making the mass-market stuff that let Nvidia grow as quickly as they did. It wasn't in their DNA.
What are peoples thoughts on using TLS client certificates for authentication?

Given we're talking about APIs, we avoid many of the UX problems, but it feels like taking on a different set of problems than just using a bearer token. It does provide baked in solutions for things like revocation and expiry though.
Why is that a bad law? Not everyone wants to live in a concrete jungle. Nature is good for your health.
The world before cars was completely awful. Especially in rural areas where the majority of the population lived. It wasn't uncommon for people to live their entire lives only ever travelling a few miles from their home. Most people were forced to obtain goods from country stores. These had a very small selection of items and set monopoly prices with ridiculous markups. They also required haggling over everything and let their customers go into great debt with them. These went away with the car because people could travel much greater distances to competing stores. The car massively improved the standard of living.

Cities weren't much better. Streets were completely covered in horse shit. Horses were also much more expensive and difficult to maintain than cars. The car made that kind of freedom of transportation affordable to average people.

Sure there were trains. But you still have to travel too and from the train station which wasn't convenient. And the train is a monopoly as well.
Here's an alternate theory by Corey Olsen (The Tolkien Professor) where Tom Bombadil is a Maia.

http://podbay.fm/show/320513707/e/1247080860

(Tom Bombadil part starts at 10:58, but the Balrog segment is interesting too)
Sweden's Einride debuts prototype T-pod, an autonomous electric truck
The effect you want - roughly the same volume through a whole track, can easily be achieved with tasteful use of compression. Some genres hardly need any to start with.

There are a number of albums that were mastered quite well that have a good dynamic range, yet still sound good in my car, on headphones, or at home on the big stereo.

The heavily compressed stuff just sounds bad all around.

Here's another good article that covers this:
https://riprowan.com/over-the-limit/
Smart, educated and exploited: how 'internships' help lock the young out of jobs
I don't like this comment because individuals can "love working with you" and make sure that there is always a necessary flow of capital(if possible).
SteamOS is based on Debian last I heard. Not that many games for Linux and at least 90 percent of video game companies target Windows. Until Linux gets more support, SteamOS will not be viable enough for people to buy.

Anyone remember the Indrema that was Linux based? It had some of the same problems.
Good idea. Definitely will do that!
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Does anybody have a good idea as to what Amazon intends to do with Whole Foods?

Fresh food delivery? Reuse distribution chains?
Terrific list....have read most of these myself. Mans Search for Meaning should be at the top of everyone's reading list.
> All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label.

That's actually required by federal law. A lot of commercial regulations in the US require metric measurements in addition to imperial.
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I'm sure they are, but there's turnover, customer service, attrition, obsolescence, etc that is all baked in, though clearly GTX 1080s will be valuable for some time, as will the i7 Skylake architecture.

Relative to the market, that price is very, very good.
"Because they hired me".
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Sure! I take it as a given that such a city requires strong transit options.
The organizations that spend a lot of time thinking about units are heavily weighted towards the sciences, where those kind of properties are less useful and various properties of metric are very useful.
> their posture is no longer defensive only

Covering fire is defensive, and that's all the video shows. They're not initiating any action, they're not even aiming directly at an enemy, and there's no evidence anyone was even harmed. That fits a pedant's definition of "armed combatant" perhaps, but using that to put them in the same category as ISIS just isn't useful. Note also that they were victims of a war crime, specifically firing upon those providing succor to the wounded. Is it your position that they don't even have a right to defend themselves against war crimes?

> I don't see anything indicating that the charity money isn't being used to pay for weapons.

You mean despite the repeated statements, in things you've cited yourself, that they don't arm recruits? They're very clear that they only let recruits arm themselves. You're making a pretty strong accusation there, contrary to rational expectation, with not even an attempt at proof. That's not "precisely true" at all.

So you think aid groups should be so "neutral" and "apolitical" that they effectively let governments - even the worst ones - decide when and how and to whom they provide aid? Wonderful. That's the ICRC's position. It's defensible, but they've also drawn criticism for it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Hell of a position to put people in while they're trying to save lives. If you had just said that you believe FBR is wrong for adopting the methods that they have, that would be fine, but making up new wrongs still isn't going to fly.
All in it together?

OP, how many hours a week do the angel investors work on the startup?
No mention of Adjoint matrices or pseudo-inverse queues from the handful of pages I glimpsed over during a quick sweep read at Big Lots.
Same - I actually state my preference for public transit over driving in my résumé, and Baltimore's system is surprisingly good - not on the same scale of comprehensiveness as NYC's, but then we're a much smaller town, too. I don't understand the car preference either; although for years I did consulting work that involved site visits, and racking up 200 miles a day in the car was not uncommon, even at the time I regarded that more as a penance than a privilege. Latterly I feel that I've done just about a lifetime's worth of driving, and any further is a waste of time tolerable only in the rare case when no other alternative can be found.

"Undertaking"? This is not a term with which I'm familiar; based on context, it seems to mean dropping back to change lanes behind a car, by contrast with "overtaking", to accelerate and pass in order to change lanes ahead. Is that a correct understanding?
> I generally agree with your conclusions, but I don't understand why you compare JWT to cookies.

You're right when it comes to terms. Allow me to clarify what I meant by Cookies and JWT in the explanation above:

I was referring to Cookies as the default storage for stateful session mechanism used by web frameworks that makes use of a random session ID with high entropy. It's the no-brainer approach to implement stateful sessions and (usually) doesn't require changes on the client-side but require you to store all sessions in a file/redis/db. And expiration that you pointed now makes sense, because I'm talking about the expiration of the session on the server-side, although Cookie has this mechanism which does little to prevent session hijacking.

JWT, on ther other hand, usually is stored on LocalStorage and requires some development changes on the JavaScript framework because it needs to read from LocalStorage, capture the JWT and send it in every request. With a web framework's default approach (that I used the term Cookies), it's seamless.
Devils advocate time :)

1) This leads to increased competition like the one we have seen with multiple companies competing in the same growing market. The one(s) with venture backing can often muscle out companies with a more compelling product, which will maintain the importance of being proximal to capital (i.e. SV). An example of this is Balanced Payments vs Stripe, imo.

2) My parents moved to SV in the 70's and were shocked at how expensive apartments were and how high the cost of living was (they moved from the Northeast). I had a converstation with my dad about prohibitive housing costs here in 2005. It's not readily apparent to me if things really will ever come to a true breaking point. (also population dynamics wise, many baby boomers are going to perish within the next 20 years)

3) Related to #1, when many teams can build competing products for cheap, what will separate them will frequently be their sales and marketing muscle. This in turn is often backed by capital in a short-term-unsustainable manner than drives out competition.

4) Building is often the easy part, other than the small number of truly exceptional viral consumer products.

Having written all this, I don't really disagree with any of your points, though I think that you exhibit egalitarian idealism often found in hacker types :)
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The number of games in my steam library that have Linux/Mac support now is over 100 versus a few years ago where it was maybe 10 games. My gaming PC died a week ago, and I started looking into getting a new pc. But the thing is I don’t feel forced to do a Windows machine to have a gaming PC. I don’t play many AAA games, and am considering going with a Linux build.

I think the healthier ecosystem for non-windows games is what Value was going for. And it hasn’t stopped shifting towards that direction.
Ask HN: What technology should a fresh CS grad learn in 2017
Suppose a fresh CS grad who is comfortable with Java only. Which technology will you suggest him to learn in 2017? [Consider he will be master of this technology. I mean he continue his work with it]
Feel free to not care for my comment. It comes from 15 years of work experience. I find that it holds true. Your mileage may vary. A job is a transaction; no more, no less. Treat it as such.
Yes, that's why there's a distinction made between "suburban" and "metropolitan" areas.
Sexy! in today's hustle, Grothendieck Groupoids are the place to be. :toocool
More details as well as how to trigger the bug and what devices have been tested against it: http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn/

We will know a lot more after @nitayart presents at BlackHat.
I don't think there are likely to be many here who would argue that automotive transport offers no benefits. But going all in on it, the way the US has since World War II, incurs its own manifold disadvantages. Identifying those disadvantages, and looking for means of ameliorating and eliminating them without losing the benefits of greater mobility for people and cargo, isn't the same as saying that we should just turn back the clock to a time when only trains went faster than horses.
That function exists generally in audio, and is called dynamic compression or just compression. I've seen some TVs with that functionality and I know Apple TV can do it, so I would guess you might have that option lurking somewhere in your system. When you turn that on, you're taking a wide dynamic range and squishing it, which essentially just pulls up quieter content, so you have to consider how pure and accurate you like your content playback to be when doing that. Well-crafted films in particular occasionally play with audio level for effect (Interstellar being a dramatic example of that), so you might subtly suck a bit of air from a director's intention which might matter to you.

If you have a nice 5.1 setup, try boosting your center channel, too. That might help.
I just had a look at a newish Lenovo sitting next to me and it's packed with gaudy logos stuck to the inside hand-rests:

* Intel Inside

* AMD Radeon graphics

* Energy Star

* 2x JBL speakers (two mentions of JBL, one's not even a sticker)

* Dolby Digital Plus

...and a few others that depict generic features of the laptop (Do I really need a sticker to tell me I have a webcam on this thing?) Honestly it just looks tacky, like a Nascar car. I'll peel them off some time but yuck, totally tasteless.
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The Tezos ICO is the latest crowdfunded project ever, at $200+ Million
This PDF literally got me through grad school. It's an amazing reference.
$75,000/each?
If you do automated content well, it's not awkward and difficult to read ;)

As far as visuals vs prose, I see it as "both-and" rather than "either-or". And in addition to our journalism and personalization work, we also integrate with interactive visualization tools like Tableau.
The point of the problem I gave was not to find the derivative or even to know if a function is differentiable. The point is to test their understanding of the definition of derivative. It's a good problem in that is tests whether a student understands that in the two variable expression we call the difference quotient one of the variables is fixed for purposes of the definition. The students need to know that it is h that varies and not x. This is an unusual occurrence and requires some getting used to.
Listening conditions make a big difference. I have a very dynamic version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (source: MFSL CD) that sounds absolutely great at home but is unlistenable in the car. The average volume is just too far below the peaks, so you strain to hear most of the song with a noisy background.
I wrote something in node.js that does exactly this. But I have only used it for personal use. I'm honestly surprised that nobody has done this already.

Right now it just silently drops expired addresses. But it is so satisfying to think about bouncing (but stuff like bouncing behavior is something you have to consider when running a mail service).

I was thinking of turning it into a service, but I'd have to read up on how to scale it. Running an SMTP server takes a lot of care. I've found that just using nearlyfreespeech.net's mail forwarding is most reliable to receive emails. So I do that for now, since it is on a small scale.

I just got so frustrated with how this problem has such an obvious technical solution. At least for us users, anyway. It's not a solution for the marketers.

I strongly suspect that Google is very reluctant to do anything to make the email landscape unstable. I think that if Google started offering this, it would shake up so much of their business.
Boeing has more incentive than the bank. Boeing's profit is likely much higher than the interest on the deal. That's probably just the cherry on top. The bank stands to lose the entire principal.
I collect those stickers and intend to use them mischievously. Chromebook? i7 sticker with a tiling window manager and you instantly have what appears to be a hacker grade laptop. Fancy i7 machine? Celeron, obviously.

This I do not do due to the shortage of genuine stickers. Maybe I will fix someone's computer one day. I will just add the sticker and they will feel it go faster.
> concrete jungle

This is the sort of hyperbole that blocks reasonable policies
It's a very strange statement. There's no reason to do it, and you can easily do it anyway with your multiple batteries.
> unless you're watching at home with the volume down.

Is this not the most common scenario, though?

Super high dynamic range is great in a cinema but terrible if you're watching at home and want to hear the dialogue but also not wake the neighbourhood when it flicks to an action scene.
A company has no loyalty, but people you work with do.
To me the exclusivity was the carrier label on the back. Everybody associated the iPhone with AT&T. It didn't need it written on the case.
That's not how you use cloud, you pay 99e/month no matter of the usage with bare metal.
Legacy of the 1970s-1980s attempt to move the US onto the metric standard.

Don't tell people who are annoyed by metric, but all the 'imperial' units we use now are 100% based on metric units. Our metrology has been metric since that time, all the day-to-day usage is derived units.

Which is why an inch is exactly 2.54cm instead of some rounded fraction.
Microsoft is such a huge corporation that it has many teams that act totally opposite one another. Being in or dealing with any one can blind you to what the overall company is like. It seems she's in one of the better groups. Personally, I've always loved Microsoft Research specifically since they do great stuff. Practical example: their driver, verification tool is the reason it doesn't blue screen so much anymore. They did another OS (VerveOS) proven safe down to assembly. Neat stuff. Then, there's the groups pushing garbage on enterprises with plenty of lock-in. Then, there's also what I read where the workers in many parts have a pretty stable job whose environment and structure works out better than usual for women, people with families, or just those wanting work/life balance Silicon Valley usually won't give them. The bigger tech companies often rate better than startups and such on those points.

Overall, though, I think she's wrong about Microsoft changing. They're not. They have patents, copyrights, and data/protocol lock-in guaranteeing billions a year in profits for them. Changing would cost them much of that which will never happen. Far as open-source, they've gotten over a billion dollars off Android alone in patent royalties from their legal team despite doing everything they could to eliminate Android in favor of Windows Phone. Royalties not earned for sure. They did some Linux contributions to support running it on their own hypervisor pursuing more lock-in at other levels. Even many of the MS Research inventions are patented with who knows what risk. They continue to pay off politicians to make things worse for the rest of us like in U.S. w/ patent/copyright laws or Munich trying to uproot the FOSS conversion. They're the same, evil company that's trying to adjust to a FOSS-friendly world in a way that lets them suck money out of that too at everyone's expense.

All that said, you can make an impact if you work at Microsoft on improving one of their huge, legacy products. Or even a new one with a high-chance of adoption. It might be a decent choice if aiming for the greater good. An easy example would be anything stopping code injection in Windows systems would be great in terms of damage prevented for that user and anyone their box DDOS'd. Reliability or integrity of data, too, as who wants to loose their most critical files at the worst time. Definitely good to be done even if they're evil. Just gotta determine if you want to do good for Microsoft's customers or improve things that will keep people away from them.
Being easily burstable doesn't matter nearly as much when the price is 10x higher.