skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I am ceding that it's easier to develop linux apps on linux. "hardcore devs" on OSX have been deluding themselves for years, myself included. If I would have just buckled down with Linux, I would actually be much further ahead. macOS is really only good for iOS and macOS... nothing else runs it.

There is a world of Windows software that is not POSIX and has viable business opportunity. I've been neglecting that because "OSX rules! POSIX or bust!" mentality. I am going to change my mindset.
They must know something we don't or there's so much money laying around, so a certain % goes into trash. For the company it makes sense to have as much cash a possible, not even blue chip companies could raise cash in 2008. 2008 is due to make a comeback IMO, in some form.
Tribes 1 was open sourced a number of years ago and is free to play. Tons of mod servers and vanilla still exist and of course SHAZBOT!
Brilliant quote, thanks for sharing.
It's complicated by your phone or laptop also being a gateway to a much larger digital footprint. My phone has some information stored locally, but it also has the keys to all my online accounts.

If I carry a key to my home safe with me across an international border, that doesn't give the government the right to seize that key and search my safe but that's effectively what they're doing with digital searches.
In troff you can escape “ ” ‘ ’ as \(lq, \(rq, \(oq, \(cq respectively.

If you’re writing manpages, though, you should be using the -mdoc macros (https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html), which have “Dq” and “Sq” macros that wrap the arguments in double and single quotes respectively.
I think people need to be very careful about what assets they're selling with ICOs.

Check out this framework put out by Debevoise and Plimpton[0] and make sure you're NOT selling securities.

If your asset is a security, it won't have any liquidity because exchanges must now be licensed to be a security exchange (which doesn't exist in crypto-land yet), so there is no upside for investors. A lot of this is heavily pulled from the SEC's investigation into the DAO[1].

If you're selling a token/coin as anything else, it seems the SEC is taking these things by a case-by-case basis to determine if what type of asset class they are.

If you're looking to ICO (pre-sale and launch) use management and KYC (Know Your Customer) software[2]. It saves a ton of pain and suffering in the long run.

And as always rule number one is: Don't commit fraud.

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf

[2] https://presale.synapse.ai/
I thought maybe Skycar since it spans 40+ years, but even they've apparently "only" spent 100 million (although inflation adjustment would boost it a bit).
I switched at the beginning of college (oddly enough, before I decided to add a computer science degree or had ever written a line of code), and I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. I've stuck with ThinkPads for hardware compatibility, and I've always been 10x more productive on my machine than anyone I know. On top of that, I've been able to keep 90% of the same habits and config while taking my machine over the years from a prettier-than-Mac Gnome+Compiz setup to a barebones, personalized, blazing fast, low power keyboard-shortcut-driven Openbox setup. The key insight is that if almost ANYTHING about my machine doesn't perfectly fit me, I can make it fit me in about five minutes.

Frankly, I consider this table stakes for a competent OS and I don't understand why people put up with being deprived of this (especially devs): over the last decade I haven't been able to shake the feeling that almost everyone else in the personal computer market has been conned.
It was really the work of Chris Rogers. If more core Chrome people had been involved, I suspect things would have worked out better.
Android audio is truly terrible for instrument apps. I don't understand how it suffices for things like games. I also don't understand why people even bother to make things like pianos and drum set… The latency is so extreme and inconsistent that even on recent phones they are useless. In contrast, iOS has had excellently playable instruments at least as far back as the iPod Touch 4.
the natural progression is state sponsored software and hardware at every level. China has been working on this for some time the US is foolish to ignore this.
> prefer the smarts at the edges of your system

That's exactly what reverse proxies do - leaving the internal apps free to just serve requests instead of worrying about the perimeter.

The problems described in this article have nothing to do with reverse proxies but rather the ingress controller and config settings.
Tend to agree. The big problem no-one has solved is the glasses/immersive aspect.

Hololens is close, but the kit is waaaay to bulky still (and low FoV, not bad tho). In a few years tho... some kind of ARKit accessory will absolutely kill in this space.
It depends on how cynical you are, I guess. Seeing how even nominally intelligent and educated people approach politics and policy, I'm pretty firmly on the "never" side.
In that scenario would your railroad company not make even more money but just charging higher freight rates?
> Linux still sucks shit on the Desktop... Linux distros are ugly and the people making them have no taste.

Linux is hard to beat for a fully customizable programming environment. You can easily customize the look of a Linux desktop, but can't with Windows or Mac. Windows and Mac have both taken UI ideas that have been around on Linux for far longer.
Just to clarify: the docs are rustic but complete. The API itself is immensely powerful.
> Clearly something changed to cause the sudden urgency to eliminate Kaspersky from govt computers

This isn't sudden, this has been in the works for at least half the year. Congress and the FBI have been investigating Kaspersky since at least May, probably before then. In June, the House and Senate approved legislation to ban Kaspersky's software from use by the military. Legislation introduced by, you guessed it: John McCain.

It might not be about spying at all - they might just be wagging the dog. It's weird enough that the military and intelligence services are working in tandem (how often do you see that happen?) to cast doubt on and kick out Kaspersky. With Trump under scrutiny about potential collusion with the Russians, could it be that someone needs to look tough against a Russian entity and provide in return some favor, like 100 billion extra bucks in the DOD budget?

The newly passed FY18 military budget is 696 billion, up from 582 billion in 2017 - an almost 20% increase. What really amazes me is 60% of Democrats voted for this, which is an incredible concession considering how gigantic the cuts to their programs will be.
Your comment doesn't make sense. Why is it good to know that a command that you haven't even heard about is phased out?

Fwiw you don't need to be a sysadmin to have known of ifconfig. Hell how is it possible to have set up networking on Linux distributions without knowing this command?
Yep. Pretty clear they haven't demoed a consumer-ready product because they can't yet.
The contrarian in me is wondering what would make this feel like a safe bet from an investor's perspective?

For example, what is the value of the patent portfolio they are putting together by being first to most technical challenges?
Excellent presentation! Have you read "gamestorming" type books that catalog the methods invented by creatives for arriving at human centered design solutions? Thoughts on using the methods in these books to derive insights over that of "classical brainstorming" which seems akin to focus groups?

What about "design thinking"? What about methods used by creative agencies such as IDEO,to come up with human centered solutions? Thanks, I appreciate your opinion and sharing of this presentation as a UX designer with a background in HCI, trapped in an uninspired and aging tech company trying to get them to think differently or die trying.
You forgot to mention leading apostrophes getting autocorrected to left_single_quote instead of right_single_quote, as in

John Doe ‘42

An abomination ‘cause it's a damn apostrophe, not opening a quotation.
If I had a say, I'd like to see universal coverage for all Americans (and market rate buy in for workers on visas) but provide it at several levels.

Everyone working or non-working gets some kind of base coverage --to which they can buy a ala carte additional coverage/perqs. At the base level people who behave healthy (but not necessarily healthy) get breaks (premium perqs) for trying to be healthy in terms of diet and activity (activity monitors, etc.)

In addition to some base coverage, people can opt in to more premium coverage with shorter wait times, additional non-essential care, opt out of lifestyle monitoring, etc.[1]

That way the system can be streamlined to be efficient in handling 80-90% of cases and then have the second, premium system available for those who want or need less ordinary medicine.

If you can keep 80-90% of your pop healthy efficiently and then you get the rest to pay extra for their added needs, I think that could make the economy more effective, overall.
The amount of your prior exit (Rony's $1.65B) ≈ amount you can raise for next (Magic Leap) :)
> But phones are not exactly the same thing are they?

I guarantee you that Apple is researching the same kinds of display tech that Magic Leap is (they have patents today on head-mounted displays). If/when they release their hardware their SLAM architecture will have been tried and tested across millions of phones. That is a massive advantage.
I'm not sure how this refutes the claim that technology was a significant determining factor in establishing public education. Most Western European countries, as well as the U.S. and Canada established their public education systems in the 19th or very early 20th century. The late 19th and early 20th century was arguably the height of colonialism. That doesn't seem to be in line with the theory that colonialism made public education have a lower priority.
I still don't see how securing the rights of works for animals helps promote the creation of those works, when they have no concept of intellectual property rights.

What about an artificial intelligence that creates music? Who owns the copyright then, the programmer or the AI?
Google Ventures backed Uber, but that doesn't stop Google from running its own self-driving car unit.
ip -s -h a

doesn't work on the older version (`iproute2-ss131122`) but does on `iproute2-ss151103`
If your company hires someone who openly flaunts a lifestyle which is "morally repugnant" to some ranking member of a committee which oversees a government budget, and the company realizes this, they have a decision to make. If the company keeps the employee, the contract could be pulled, and they lose millions. If they simply lose the employee, the company stays in business.

This is never an official policy, but it is a de-facto one, in the intelligence community anyway. Companies sometimes self-police to prevent these situations. But they will absolutely act to protect their interests, in one way or another.
i3 is simply amazing. I'd give up my Windows Desktop in an instant if I could use i3 to start Window apps within the manager.
The Magic Leap is investors putting so much money in a 7 year old company without a product. Even considering they have now a game changer product, what did they have 5 years ago to make investors put money on them? This is technology, who the hell put money in technology as a bet for more than 3 years in the future?
7 years, $1.4B in funding. What are the odds that they are, you know, just a mere $500 million from showing a multiple on all that cash?
I guarantee you Kik spent at least $1mil in legal bills for their ICO, I assume they know what they are doing
Sure they are, "recreate game engine" when it actually is "optimally match a database of cooked if-then rules with simple linear functions". For one Mario level. Taking 2 weeks of runtime to learn it.

The set of facts is worthless for anything of complexity.
It does not really generate the rules itself. (They are directly derived from the facts.)

What they did is only a small improvement over a typical expert system or CNN for a very limited case.

Choice quote: "Notably each fact can be linked back to the characteristics of a sprite that it arose from."
Wrong. When you pick up a flower your sprite changes, but how does it know you can suddenly shoot bullets? Etc. And for more complex games a lot of data requires exploration well past the GUI. An action might change acceleration (suddenly nonlinear ice physics with momentum), or direction handling, or you can start flying, or many other things. What if the thing moves in a circle? What if there is just some probability that something results?

The approach will fail at modelling as soon as Mario level 1-4. (The one with rotating fireballs.) Or produce an insane representation of the engine. Note how it even cannot model the dampened triangle wave motion of the fireballs in the example - assumes they're a sparse line.

The paper presents no way to reduce these huge number of "if-then rules" to something actually useful either.

Since this doesn't even attempt to explore the state space, it also requires a huge database.

Calling this "recreate game engine" is akin to saying that since we have an algorithm that can solve checkers, it will solve poker, go and also whodunit. And can play Jeopardy too.

I even suspect it's not useful as a preprocessor to something that can actually play a game, as it will break later cases.
Theranos is the only other one that comes to mind and we all know how that played out.
Wow thanks for the TIL Skycar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
Note that Android emulation (or most kinds of emulation aside from docker) will not work under WSL. Yes, I know I can do Android development under Windows, but I'd prefer Linux for day to day development for everything.
How quickly we forget :-)
I'm developing an embedded comments system, it's 150 kb on page load. https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

Disqus seems to be 600kb (I summed the size of the "disqus" scripts on a blog that uses Disqus).
NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale [video]
Re: $5.

It'll be sort of interesting to see what it looks like in three years.

As of now, I tell people that if they like my stuff, then the $5 is a bargain. We're publishing crazy detailed personal development stuff behind the paywall. Definitely worthwhile.

But if that's not your thing, then it's much less of a guarantee right in this moment.

In three years though... if they execute on a Netflix for content model... that $5 could be crazy compelling. There is a lot of great writing that would be unlocked by just having a reader who already paid rather than trying to jump through content marketing, SEO and virality hoops.
Pretty much everything this comment said. Nvidia had nothing to do with the first few uses of CUDA for machine learning.

It could be done on FPGAs and stuff but that wasn't easily accessible to the masses.
There's a lot of 'lol, vaporware' type comments about Magic Leap, but taking some new fangled hardware from a crude proof of concept in a lab to the mass market in 7 or 8 years actually sounds like an ambitious timeline to me. These things usually take a long time. They also often end up going nowhere, which is why it's really surprising to see how much capital is being gambled.

All the hardware that went into the first iPhone (the last really breathtaking consumer gadget) was decades in the making, with many iterative intermediate steps along the way. Attempting to go from 0 to 60 in one product cycle is kind of crazy, but I'm not sure how else you would do it this day and age with expectations being so high, there's no room for anything half baked. Either you make the leap or you don't.

I would totally pay $2k for ar glasses that live up to the hype, though even under the best of circumstances, I don't expect Magic Leap to be living up to any hype for several more years.
AA is all volunteer, run by people who are doing their level best to help with a monstrously difficult problem, with demonstrable success. I do think they got some things right. I don't think their work is finished, and they do need to examine their methods and the efficacy of the same.
I can remember playing it with my Voodoo card. T2 had Glide support and with that on, you could see much further than players with OpenGL cards.
I completely agree. The beauty of my system now is that I can make it do whatever I want it to, and I never have to worry about somebody taking it away (open source lives forever. can't say the same about Win XP or old version of OSX). I also never worry about what the corporation behind my OS is doing with my data.
Sympathetic support I'd fine for people interested in kicking a habit. But when the addict doesn't want to quit? What then?
Here's one that innovates a bit, when it comes to browser side features, e.g. making large discussions simpler to navigate: (I'm developing it)

https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

(example feature: click the arrows to jump to the parent post and refresh your mind, then click "Back" to jump back down & continue reading. But haven't ported the Back button to iframes yet.)
(submitted yesterday, got zero attention :-/ )

Maybe for the staff at the newspaper, moderation features are more cool innovations, because that's what they will be using the most?
Yeah, that's me in a nutshell. My employer recently sent everyone new hardware and I was initially bummed about getting the just-before-Touch-Bar MBP. Then I saw how gimmicky and awful Touch Bar was for the "lucky" colleague stuck with it. I'm typing this on a five year old MBA that isn't quite up to scratch for work anymore. If Apple would take this case, stick updated hardware and a Retina display in it, I'd buy it on launch day. Never gonna happen so I guess I'm never gonna buy another Apple laptop.

Desktop Linux, especially when your employer runs Exchange, is a barrel of pain I've opened far too many times for my own good. Not going that route again.
Oh sorry, I suppose I misunderstood something. It indeed is made from public repos.

But then again, I researched a bit and found the licenses to be a bit problematic, not that of Atom itself but the additional packages that are bundled in the binary. It includes some packages whose licenses are unknown and others such as Facebook's libraries(a lot of them) which have the non-free BSD+patents license. In totality the license of the binary doesn't seem to be a really good one.
I think it's a myth that Roundup is used as a desiccant.

However the robots are not trying to replace chemicals. As you point out, that's a losing proposition. But they can definitely reduce overall man-hours, and so provide constant value as long as they operate.
>refuses any objective evaluation of its efficacy, or changing its methods.

The reason AA works is it refuses to change. It refuses to follow fads. It makes it imperfect but also makes it very resistant to politics.

> actively resists any data collection about the efficacy of its techniques whatsoever.

Because it's Anonymous. This is part of what it is. Sucks, but that's what it is. It's an important part.

> it's super churchy.

True, it's full of atheists though, I'd be interested to see if it has more atheists than the general population. But true it does use a cult model for positive change.

> There was no science whatsoever involved in AA

But there is solid science that backs AA. Even if it was started without a scientific underlying idea.

People love to bag out AA, but as your last line says it is working for some people, studies back this.

In a future utopia where healthcare is free and drug abuse is treated appropriately there might be better but we can't toss out one of the best treatments while we wait.

The article is about family (Nar-Anon) and opioids (NA) so my comment is all a bit OT.

But let's take CRAFT from the article, without the culty bit of Al-Anon/Nar-Anon, which CRAFT removes, can it be self sustainable across the world? If not, then is it really a better cure.
TaxSlayer Settles FTC Charges That It Violated Privacy and Security Rules
Yup. Apple's depth sensor + ML can be also used as pretty powerful 3D hand gesture mapper. Better than Leap Motion I would guess. Also, switching to OLED allows low persistence. Their new custom GPU and custom video encoder on iPhone 8/X might even allow them to do ultra-low-latency AR pipeline. It's coming it's for sure.
The 'anoint' 'McGuffin' combo metaphor doesn't work, and the clash undermines your point.
Defining the base of reality as consciousness doesn't have to exclude universal truth if consciousness exists beyond the perception of your individual self. The way I see it is that the physical world is a model of consciousness as created by the consciousness itself. The model draws an illusory line between your body and the rest of the world, but the underlying fields are not actually separate, even in the model, e.g. magnetic and electrical fields, let alone the consciousness. One way I heard it out, I think by Alan Watts, is that seeing your true self is like trying to bite your own teeth.
For reference: https://webkit.org/blog/7122/introducing-riptide-webkits-ret...
Tried docker? It seems VMs are faster than the native OS in the MS case. Should have most of your needs as prepackaged images.
"I'm still waiting for the ability to add multiple users."

One shared device with multiple profiles for your family members
VERSUS
One device each for each family member

To understand how Apple chooses to prioritise, simply ask the question - "Which option makes more money?"
The main problem with JS being sluggish (in electron apps for example) is memory and especially the GC.

I can optimize CPU usage all I want, but only after I optimized for minimum allocations, the tiny, but noticeable lags now and then would disappear.

The average javascript-GC must be really simple/naive compared to seasoned workhorses like the JVM's various GCs.

There I can happily create millions of short-lived objects before getting problems in a single-user application.
Kubernetes the Hard Way on Azure Notes from the Field
>Give us a Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Not completely what you want, but relevant: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016...
The point of this is what is known as model-based learning. Basically, the long-term goal is to be able to predict the output of a given action (jumping, walking left, etc.) by an AI agent. When you can do this, then the agent doesn't need to die to know that jumping down a hole will end the game-- it can predict it. Once you've done this, AI techniques like that of Watson can control robots. They won't need to kill someone to know that driving a pole through a head is no good. They'll be able to 'reason' it out.
To take the conversation sideways a bit, what about running .net core in production has given you trouble? We've had success with a bunch of services and my view is that most of the trouble is found pretty early on in the dev experience.