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I have been coding in Kotlin and using the interopt for various libraries. Typically you want to model things interacting with what Kotlin calls “platform types” as nullable.

So for JPA entities, each field is marked as nullable, because in Java it is. If we need a null checked version we map it from the nullable fields object to a object that has been null checked and has non-nullable fields (where appropriate).

Wrappers can be written to interact with more traditional Java libraries that do a similar null check and mapper, keeping platform types from propergating intro other layers of the system.

Platform types make interopt way easier, but if you are concerned with null safety you have to write some code to deal with them.
It'd be great to have a trilateral collaboration between Valve, Google, and HTC on that. Google would have the mobile platform stake, Valve the high end stake, and HTC the hardware stake.

However, they bought an RF lab from HTC, so it's probably a mobile product, not the VR product.
Others, including myself, have noticed this too and it reminds us of something else a little closer to home: namely, what happens to Scientologists and the like after they've been in the cult a while. Even the Scientologists who later leave still think in terms of engrams and body thetans.

I think Curtis Yarvin is a master huckster and wordsmith, but near as I can tell what's good about Urbit isn't original and what's original isn't very good. The central concept is basically Java's "write once, run anywhere" concept from the 90s. Remember that? It wasn't just about applets; applets were only the beginning. With "mobile code" that could run on any device, Java was going to make existing operating systems obsolete and finally bury Microsoft.

Sound familiar?

Curtis adds sizzle to the steak by mixing in ideas Hackernews people will find appealing -- functional programming, blockchain, distributed computing -- and finally he plays the same semantic shellgame with his words he plays with his political essays, to convince you that the horrible political views he has aren't so horrible. Except this time it's to convince you that Urbit is more than a reimplementation of interesting ideas from the past, some of which failed massively.

Why? Well, the fact that he is selling "virtual real estate" in his new internet that's totally going to change everything real soon now might be a clue.
> all these annoyances can easily be avoided by choosing the right browser.

The right browser == non-graphical browser. Good joke.

You can achieve the same by installing a simple browser extension for managing cookies & randomizing browser footprint. Firefox has some.
Your app is awesome! What type of neural network did you use? Please write a post, I’m teaching myself machine learning and iOS development, and would love to learn from a successful developer!
>"I can think of at least 5 competitors to Ticket Master"

Not in the US you can't. And certainly not for venues large than a club.
Why? You probably buy some things from Walmart/Apple/Amazon, right? Do you get to elect board members? Hire and fire the CEOs?

Yes, I buy things. I'm a shareholder in Apple, I trade options on Walmart and I don't touch Amazon - so I do have some input into Apple, and conditionally I have some input into Walmart (usually if a position was 'in the money' during a voting period). I'm as much of an activist as I can be, I vote in every election for every security in my portfolio.

Why should someone who is effectively a customer of a government (taxpayer) make the managerial decisions of that corporation?

It's not just the customer, it's the vendor. I know the best way to spend my money, I think other wealthy people do too. We could create a government that does the bare minimum and free up private money to be used as its owners see fit. FWIW, I pay more in taxes than I spend on myself. My tax liability is about 50% higher than my yearly expenditures.
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To everyone either 1) comparing it to some sci-fi text or 2) saying it is unparsable: It is no accident. This is written like a religious text.

I am not kidding. It might have came out like this by accident, but i could spend days mapping the semiotics of this to, say, scientology "books".

The most blatant technique there is the slightly out of place technical terms and insertion of sci-fi elements. Here is a paper on christian texts and the use of metaphor on the willingness of the audience http://cogprints.org/4863/1/Cognitive_Semiotics_and_On-Line_...
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It's mostly glue (but some of it is special glue).

Oddly enough, digit recognition was one of the harder parts. iOS11's Vision API has character recognition but it only gives you a bounding box, it doesn't do the OCR!

So for that I ended up ripping up a whole bunch of Sudoku puzzle books from the second hand book store and scanning them in to create a dataset. Then I trained my own nerual network in Keras and converted it to CoreML.

The actual ARKit part was really easy, even for me who has never done iOS programming before.
This, as many other things, is a people problem.

The number of experts in CS is not constrained by availability of resources (though that might not be the case for every field), but the number of people that have: 1. a minimum of inteligence to get through it, and 2. The motivation and determination to strive at reaching expert level over a long period of time.

So, throwing more resources at this will only marginally increase with the production of experts. Maybe it will lower the bar of #1 a bit, but the bottleneck is really in #2 and the people that are not willing to work hard and keep working hard despite apparent failure will drop off anyways.

It is the same with open source community. By now, we should be literally swiming in free software. Instead, what happened is that society use of open source increased, but hackers willing to volunteer their time remained the same or even diminished over the years (every kid dreams with being an entrepraeneur and hit it rich these days, nobody wants to be a dirty hippy anymore). The slack has been picked up by paid employees from sponsor companies instead.
Sure and it's the same on the artist side. If you want to tour you can not avoid Ticketmaster. Remember Perl Jam at the height of their popularity and powers tried to take them on and lost:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/pearl-jam-sues-ticketmaster/
From the link

>The terms of the settlement are confidential

Anything you know that we don't? Usually licenses stay valid after a company is acquired.
Maybe on this surface level. But the intervention was and still is a nonsensical mess. Killing and locking up/torturing people left and right, whether pro or anti-taliban. Making new enemies from potentially pro-american tribes. Empowering some tribes against others, causing grief, resentment, rebellion and instability. Helping people with retribution against old rivals. The current conflict is already longer than the Soviet-Afghan war. Already 10x more civilians died than in 9/11. Really what's the purpose? It hardly can be justice at this point. In 2001 there were 45000 taliban fighters, US killed 60000, now there are around 60000 taliban. Clearly this is not a way to get rid of taliban, if that is the goal.

I'm reading this at the moment:

https://www.amazon.com/No-Good-Men-Among-Living/dp/080509179...
I certainly wouldn't expect you to say "Merry Christmas" to your coworkers.

My question is more whether you care if someone you don't know says it to you on the street or when you buy a coffee or whatever.
Here's another cheap idea: Get a Raspberry Pi Zero ($10-$15), connect it to an old monitor, and use it as an Emacs-only machine, in the framebuffer, no X required. You get all the features of Emacs (magit! org-mode!), none of the distractions.

Of course, this wouldn't be portable, but a typewriter isn't either.
I forget the name, but there's a great documentary about the man and methods who got it all started. Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley was the man and, as I recall, he got some help from his wife and went to great lengths to take his pictures.

This was back in the 1860s and very difficult. The Smithsonian has some of his works on display. It is great how accessible this has become. I find them fascinating but I'm very biased. I have quite an extreme love of snow.
Thanks! It's using a convolutional neural network which I minimally adapted from an MNIST tutorial (one of the reasons I picked this project to start with is that there are so many MNIST tutorials for how to do digit recognition out there and it seemed like a good way to dip my toe into ML).

Converting it to CoreML after it was trained was really easy.

The hardest part was actually creating the dataset and wrestling with pixel buffers to get the image data into a format CoreML liked.
I keep it off because as I ride a train it's connecting to every station wifi and losing it just as quick, completely breaking connectivity.
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It'd be based on a more comprehensive view of total damages. The investment already made, the present estimated value (they'd probably argue it's a multiple of the original investment), and some amount of future potential value that Waymo may be deprived of due to Uber's actions (not sure how well that would hold up here, it's a very unclear extrapolation, unlike say a business with consistent earnings over many years).
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I'm one of those people that get it, so I'll try to explain it without going off the deep end and waxing poetically about planets or whatever.

Urbit is a platform for building decentralized apps. To that end, it's a tightly integrated set of different features that play into that: an identity system so that all the apps can refer to the same people by the same handle, a typed RPC network for easy message sending, and an append-only log of all events that platform handles being the most important parts.

Right now you can build decentralized apps like Mastodon, except they 1) take hours to setup a node, along with having to know arcane Linuz sysadmining 2) aren't actually decentralized, but federated. Urbit wants to make it easy to setup your own server, which runs as a node for all these decentralized apps (instant messaging, Twitter, etc.), along with be useful for server-y things like aggregate APIs (email, Facebook).

There's not actually anything that amazing about Urbit once you figure it out. It just wants everyone to be able to run their own server, and make it easy to build decentralized apps that talk to other Urbit servers. The important part is that somehow, they saw how bad trying to do that currently is, said "let's rewrite everything", /and then did/. It's like reading about Oberon or Plan9/Inferno.

Edit: This post is probably the worst introduction to Urbit imaginable. It basically is a technical spec for bootstrapping a PKI over Ethereum, and you should expect about as much as if you got linked something from BitTorrent about that. It assumes domain knowledge from both Urbit and Ethereum (both of which are terrible to explain), and /doesn't actually matter/ for most people interested in Urbit. Please don't use this as the benchmark for "babies first urbit intro".
"In August 2017, the Commission learned that an incident previously detected in 2016 may have provided the basis for illicit gain through trading."
This is what everyone would need soon. Can't wait to get my hands on this.
To be pedantic, this is not really a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces are squares, I'm guessing the technique may be applicable to real jigsaw puzzles, too.

I'd like to see this applied to puzzles with unique pieces like the ones here (https://libertypuzzles.com/about)
Yeah, compared to my old worn tires. However, I had those tires for 40k miles - they were always noisy but their grip deteriorated progressively.

I'm not optimistic about the life of these tires - the warranty is for 40k and most people say they're toast by 50k, my parents exclusively get Michelins and they get about 70k-90k miles out of their tires (although they drive relatively light cars and they drive slowly). I'm not sure the total cost of ownership is as dramatic as the initial price difference but as I've stated prior, I felt confident enough to roll the dice.

Do you think it's fair to say that performance tires just get noiser and noiser? I have a friend with an Evo X and he runs really nice tires but for the last 2k miles, they're like banshees. I don't know how he tolerates it but he also rides a CBR600RR without a helmet or ear plugs (though I repeat myself...) so he's made of stubborn stuff.
I think that is the assumption. I’ve never encountered a change list of files on Github.

I still find it to be an odd requirement. I guess the intention is to keep people from misrepresenting your original code.
FedEx has always been awful in my experience. I've had them drive on my lawn, leave stuff in the rain, and not knock on the door. The estimated date is always wrong. They even fucked up kinkos somehow. The only thing I like about them is the hidden arrow in the logo.
In the short term maybe, but in the long term apples capacity to generate profit will eventually depend on their ability to implement systems that operate in society with incredibly high levels of trustable operation (autonomous cars, robots... — who knows what the future tech will bring — many of those possibilities will require at least same as level of computing security as is possible now. If it becomes widely possible to remotely compromise anything with an Intel chip — then the intel parts will simply not be viable parts in future products)
I did a literal spit take when I saw this. Are they doing this for phone production or for the Vive/VR?
Some news during that time said about this, this may be the original source:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/11/apple-htc-license-agreeme...

> In the event of a Change of Control of a party, this Agreement shall automatically terminate unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Parties, effective immediately prior to such Change of Control.
But is the cure really worse than the disease? If it can be shown that broad, across-the-board legalization of all drugs would triple heroin addiction, would you be okay with that?
The density of tungsten is 1.04% higher than Uranium, and drag is compensated for by making the penetrator slightly longer rather than wider.

> Hardness aside don't you have much harder hitting bullets with these heavy elements?

Maybe I'm tired but I can't parse this question.
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But not always. If someone were to acquire AMD wouldn’t they lose access to the Intel patents because of the way that deal was structured?
He does sell prints but, as far as I know, doesn't have a whole book out. I suppose you could email him and ask him to consider it?

In the meantime, you may be interested in this:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Snowflake-Photographic-Album/dp/0...
If they think that division is doomed and this is more money than it would be worth if they kept it they might do it.

Or if they think EVERYTHING is doomed and they’re just hoping to get anything that might help save them.
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> I'm confused. Is this just saying that Urbit supposed to replace my Windows desktop and all the cloud services I use?

You'd run an Urbit instance (a planet) in the cloud (ideally, on three separate machines where a disk write succeeds if two out of three nodes receive it) and then run sub-instances (moons) on each of your personal computing devices (computers, phone, tablets). You could then interact with your planet and/or moons from your browser.

You'd do this because you want to run cloud-type services like photo sharing and (micro)blogging and such, but you _also_ want to do so through your own UI, not UI controlled by someone else whose interests are disaligned with yours, like Mark Zuckerberg's.

I can't imagine it'd replace standard OSs like Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

> Also, what does "Urbit's formal semantics makes ships trivial to migrate" mean?

If you want to move a ship (a directory containing your planet's data) from one (cloud?) computer to another, all you need to do is shut it down, scp it to the new location, and then start it back up again.
I'm talking about three things here, online harassment, how that activity can bleed into the real world, and how it's hard to tell when the second thing is beginning to happen. When does harassment slip into incitement for example? When does brigading by trolls shut down the online spaces of marginalized groups and make them less safe in real life for lack of a digital space to organize? Doxing again, is online harassment that may have nasty effects in the physical world, as does outing people based on their hidden minority status e.g. sexual orientation.

Online and real world harassment aren't two different things is more or less my conclusion. They are different vectors for similar anti-social behavior.

Would you defend someone following another person around every public space they visit screaming in their face as free speech and say the victim should toughen up? I doubt you would, and in fact it probably constitutes several crimes depending upon where you live. You could probably get a restraining order. Blocking online works similarly, but you have to do it site by site, alias by alias which doesn't scale. However, many of the tactics that trolls use scale rather well. So I think platforms have some responsibility here.
Are we sure they actually get the IP?
Mine goes on a dock and it goes into 'nightstand' mode. Screen is off, but all I have to do is tap my bedside table and the time comes on. YMMV, but I like it so much better than having the time always on, because I like a totally dark room.
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The article is a from 2005, so the salary information is probably out of date.
Thanks this is a perfect starting point.
I found this short about him, did the job for me, fascinating person - thanks for the heads up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptLmA263hlk
I never heard of this. Like, never even in passing have I seen that bounty mentioned. One of the trivial apps that was demoed literally years ago was a simple tic-tac-toe app, and there is even a MUD written for Urbit, so saying it's impossible to write apps for it isn't true. The web server is hosted in Urbit, along with the developer chat room. And really, the problem isn't that apps are impossible to write but that they would be easier to write using a different platform, which is probably true (for strip poker at least), since you don't need anything more complex than a couple hundred lines of C.
I thought the same thing when I saw it, but I think this just makes it a more challenging problem. You don't get the constraints of edge and corner pieces to start. There is no confirmation of fit with unique interfaces. When every piece is equally interchangeable the problem is more difficult from a human perspective.

Although, from a computer perspective it also makes the edge comparisons nice and clean.
Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15298833
Frustratingly, my USPS people alternate, and one lays on each side of the line. One is amazing, always careful, etc. The other...left a cardboard box directly under a gutter spout in a rainstorm today.
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I have a few vendors that use FedEx Ground. Absolute worst. They almost never deliver on time. One sick driver means days of delays. You cannot pick up the package at the local FedEx depot that evening if you miss it; it goes to some central place miles away with no pick up policy. I have banned my vendors from using this, and dropped vendors who won't ship by "real" FedEx, UPS or heck even USPS.
Good win-win.
Nature actually loves hexagons. They are efficient and all over the place. If you blow a bunch of separate bubbles, even they will form into hexagons where they are surrounded by other bubbles.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexa...
The URL for your site is not clickable in your post.

Going to the page, the two sites you currently feature look interesting, but only if you click on the small link at the bottom of the description that says "website". If you instead click on the big link with the name of the featured site at the top of the description, that instead takes you to medallia -- which is probably not where you want to be sending visitors right now.

I could see this as a site that is frequently visited, like producthunt -- once you get a bit more content.
For sure! Our "textbook" was "Influence" by Robert Cialdini. Here's a number of others:

-"Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Khaneman
-"The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
-"Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
-"Pre-suasion" by Cialdini
-"The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright
-"The Most Important Thing" by Howard Marks
-"Everybody Lies" by Seth Stevens-Davidowitz
-"How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams
-The "Freakonomics" Trilogy
So i guess you liked Microsoft Clippy too?

Instead of fixing the UI to make you empowered, it will decide what is better for you? great!
Fundamentally, I see it as democratizing investment and removing arbitrary hurdles for those without millions in the bank to seek higher risk/reward investments.

In practice, I'm seeing teams doing ICOs do shady things like change the terms halfway through raising capital, leaving early contributors with a diluted stake or teams that straight up don't deliver with no way for share(token?)holders to hold the team accountable - basically this kind of behavior seems a whole lot easier when you took small sums from thousands of nobodies instead of millions from a handful of deep-pocketed somebodies.
It really shines in dense urban areas like the example in Oakland CA. The route overlay would be really important if there's anything like super busy roads or no sidewalks available.
This explains why the last time I had a package delivered by "fedex" it was delivered by a guy in a Budget rental truck.
Whatever Happened to French? And German? And Arabic?
In CA they just put a lien on your house. And all that means is you can't sell without clearing the lien (by paying back). I didn't pay property taxes for 2 years once.
I don't really know about focus difficulty, but I calculated the 35mm equivalent of the PowerShot A650 at 6x and it's 200mm. That long of a lens could be pretty awkward to work with, for a start (I still want to try it, my APS-C camera would need only a 140mm lens to get the same zoom, besides the external optics of course).
I don't actually travel much, and have never used Booking.com. So no dog in this fight. But your question is pretty much my point: if people aren't going to use some other service, it's a lot harder to quantify long-term negative impacts of dark patterns vs the measurable short-term lift.

[Edit] There's only so much conversation to be had around a point like "we don't want to become MySpace." If what they are doing generates more revenue, and if people don't get so annoyed that they'll use another service, and if they avoid lawsuits and regulators...

You'll never hear this pitch in an executive meeting: "I have an idea that will reduce revenue X% with no quantifiable long-term benefits."
Is Trump mulling Peter Thiel for a top intelligence advisory post?
The sad reality is that our government thinks only in timespans less than an election cycle. Any large-scale national infrastructure project is basically a non-starter now, the Liberals trashed the NBN and they will trash anything else that threatens their neo-conservative ideology.
Finally, a viable business model for self driving cars