skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting nugget in the comments under that article:

The crucial thing about this is that it is a pitch by the Tolkien estate rather than to them. Christopher Tolkien hated the Peter Jackson movies [...snip...]

I was an avid reader of Tolkien as a teenager and the movies were a disappointment to me as well. Too much spectacle and derring-do, whilst I always enjoyed the construction of the world and the inner lives & secrets of the characters. The omissions made were sometimes grotesque: the removal of Tom Bombadil alone made the mockery of the books. Skipping the entire homecoming chapter of the hero's journey ("the scouring of the shire") is a common complaint and a travesty of storytelling.

However, Christopher Tolkien is the ultimate Tolkien purist, after a lifetime of curating his father's work. In the few interviews he gives he's clearly dismayed by any deviation from the original intent. I suspect he'd likely be unhappy with any TV adaptation as well.

Like many other Tolkien fans I'd much rather see an adaptation of The Silmarillion, which if anything is the more epic book of tales.
What is the meaning of the asterisk in "3.0*"?
It's not easy to tell from this document what has changed, but Dr. Axel Rauschmayer does a good job here http://2ality.com/2017/02/ecmascript-2018.html
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flagship iPhone users are far from interesting... they'll buy it because .. it's new years iphone, they want that, they'll have that as long as its good enough (even a 1300$)
When AI takes over, mankind will loose meaning. When mankind looses meaning, extending life will appear pointless.
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I mean I love that DOOM and Quake are open source. I still play Quake with the VkQuake executable. It's certainly sad that games like that don't really get open sourced all that often but that's the nature of the business.

Games cost a lot of money to make. They're part of large international brands. There's a lot of stake holders and a lot of money on the line. I don't really blame publishers and developers for being cagey with that sort of IP.

I think that games that enter a more open space certainly have a longer lifespan. DOOM will be around probably as long as humanity just because the code is available and it's a fun game. But that long term thinking doesn't keep the lights in the studio on and doesn't help with the ever increasing complexity of game development.

I don't think we need to be so doom (heh) and gloom about the state of software as a whole.
Sadly there are other things (proprietary or Bluetooth wireless accessories, for example) that only operate on 2.4GHz.
There was a lot wrong with Jackson's versions where he thought he knew better than Tolkien (missing half the endings, representing Sauron as a literal flaming eye in a tower, "fixing" Arwen badly because Tolkien couldn't write a female character). But it's still a very substantial work, and I don't see how a miniseries would improve on it.
Waymo’s tech requires the area to be meticulously mapped correct? Is this why the test is limited to a small geography?
WPM is an archaic metric, and as my top speed I target only a reasonable conversational pace in chat windows, comparable to verbal conversation. Anything more is kind of a waste. As long as people don't feel like my pace of typing is lagging during a chat, I don't really need to be much faster than that.

I don't have a problem meeting those demands, and composing my thoughts, and contemplating what I wish to type usually consumes more time than the act of typing itself.

Bandwidth measured in bytes probably makes more sense these days. But again, I haven't bothered to measure how fast I type, other than a gut intuition for how often I get sniped in chat rooms, when people beat me and say something before I can, alongside how impatient people seem to get with me.
What's really annoying and frustrating to me is that, even with a browser extension/plugin like Vimium, websites and webapps seem to almost go out of their way to break my ability to use my keyboard.

A lot of the changes that break usability for me are purely cosmetic changes that, e.g. replace a `button` with an `img` or `svg`.
Hacker News decides the solution to San Francisco's homeless problem is to put them on a bus and send them somewhere else.
> While I am unsure if switchting to Linux for ME is a good solution

FWIW, this is NOT at all the goal of the NERF project that this zdnet article talks about. So what the idea is roughly:

- Remove or disable the ME as much as possible (impossible to do 100% since e.g. the ME is responsible for booting up the main CPU, but it appears you can remove a large part of it)

- Replace the upper levels of the UEFI firmware stack and the bootloader with Linux + a minimal userspace written in Go (u-root).

See https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... for more details.
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Learning about something from someone's social media post is completely separate from using someone's copyrighted work...

You have a legal and ethical responsibility to the creator of the work, not to whomever put it in your feed.

Of course, we should credit our grade school teachers each time we do arithmetic - Thanks, Mrs. Ashliman!
Black Sails might be the closest to what you're looking for. While it's a Starz show, with the requisite amount of violence, sex, and general wackiness, it actually ended up a pretty complex political drama.
wow I'd never heard of this one
A few paragraphs down, you should find:

This specification introduces Async Functions, Shared Memory, and Atomics along with smaller language and library enhancements, bug fixes, and editorial updates. Async functions improve the asynchronous programming experience by providing syntax for promise-returning functions. Shared Memory and Atomics introduce a new memory model that allows multi-agent programs to communicate using atomic operations that ensure a well-defined execution order even on parallel CPUs. This specification also includes new static methods on Object: Object.values, Object.entries, and Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors.
Blind Runner’s Wearable Technology Gets Off to Complicated Start
Introducing 2017’s extensions to the Arm Architecture
This reminds me of NancyFx for .Net and Flask for Python. I enjoy micro-frameworks like these, They make web development a bit less intimidating.

I hope this projects takes off.
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> There are decent, completely offline solutions (Libreoffice vs GDocs)

LibreOffice is slow. On a ~2010 business-class Dell laptop that still is in perfectly good physical condition, running Debian 9, with a handful of tabs in Firefox and a mosh running:

adamantoise:~ geofft$ time libreoffice --terminate_after_init

real 0m8.103s
user 0m1.696s
sys 0m0.520s

The rant here isn't about cloud vs. local, it's about performance and functionality. We had the cloud in the late 1980s, it was called dialing up to a mainframe, and it worked fine because software was designed to be fast in the presence of slow (by today's standards) connections. One of the examples of that -- library card catalogs running on amber-screen terminal -- was explicitly brought up in the rant.
Submitted due to interesting discussion from Chris Lattner on adding Python interoperability into Swift (something I would love to see, and seems like it could work quite elegantly).
Making Your UI Accessible with Universal Design
Pick up a problem in your current company which you can solve and automate. Automate that, get out and sell this to them later and hopefully more companies. Problem could be any "manual process" that's going on which you can fasten up or completely automate.
Is JD or Tmall going to win new retail war?
Are the seasons of the TV show even in the same universe as each other?

I watched season 1 a lot closer than 2 or 3, but it doesn't seem like they are doing a much world building as they tell each tale.
"stroking his own ego is not what this is about. He doesn't need that."

Forgive me for interjecting politics into this debate, but we all know at this point that there is at least one highly successful egotist in this world who still needs to have his ego stroked on a regular (daily) basis. I admire Tanenbaum and doubt that he fits into this category, but the category does exist.
By looking at everything else on their CV and portfolio. There is no such thing as "absolute proficiency".
I found a similar fix, but instead put my laptop in the wash

USB now works great!
As a blockchain. As a Ponzi scheme (and platform to run them) it's wildly successful.
I did laugh that it was MTV that did The Shannara Chronicles, everyone is jumping on board GoT. They did an ok job for a series, nothing heavy though and I don't think accurate to the books.

But why you would ever redo the LoTR novels is beyond me. They are done by the movies... end scene.

Adding new material doesn't seem to me to be something the fans would allow.

I don't get how this idea ever got floated, as per South park a few weeks ago, Amazon are trying to Greenlite everything now?
Contrary to popular belief, economy is not a binary system. There is a huge range of decisions that can be pursued and each decision has a particular interest. Modern societies have decided to take the "market-friendly" decisions each step of the way instead of the human- and environment-friendly decisions with the excuse that this is the least of "two" evils.
re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious?

EDIT: not startup time, who cares about startup time? When you load a few hundred pages doc, or a massive excel.

re 2: I only wanted to give examples, but you're right, my wording is off.

I wanted to say there are fast and good interfaces: there's vim for the terminal, there's Rainloop for webmail, miniflux for RSS reading - these are all keyboard-oriented ones, all working decently and as fast as they can. In case of web-connected ones, the speed of going back and forth is certainly an issue.

Local - as in not making connections on the network - in my opinion, will always have a speed advantage though.
This looks clean and concise. A very good start. I like it, easy to pick up. Kudos for releasing 1.0.
Is there an RTS that will replace it (besides bw)? RTS may be a relative niche but that doesn't mean it's disappearing. Lots of traditional sports persist indefinitely without ever reaching the popularity of (either kind of) football. To some extent, the less popular the sport the purer it remains as it's less likely to be subsumed by profit motives.
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Love this idea. Now I am wondering why google doesn't have an app to allow individuals to update google street view content themselves. My house was built this year and the maps still don't show the road or the new houses. I would love being able to walk around the neighborhood with my phone and get an updated map, at least until the real google car comes by.
Probably 3.1, 3.2, ... 3.X
Right: non-copyleft free software makes it cheaper - and therefore more likely - for companies to screw people.
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We are looking for a candidate with strong programming chops who has hands on experience with creative tech — someone who can weigh in with meaningful contributions on the UX design of a project AND has opinions on how the project should get built. While this is primarily a coding position, some amount of your time would be spent in pitch meetings and fleshing out UX/UI with art directors and other creative staff.

Required:
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IMO instead of trying to find the "unicorn" they should be working toward perfecting a process through which they can bring in a lot of inexperienced / passionate / relatively low cost teams and support them with a small core group of highly skilled / experienced people in the industry.

It's all about the story. A high budget film with a mediocre story will still only be mediocre. A low budget film with an amazing story will more than likely still be amazing.
Roads in Chandler are very regular (nice, wide grid), and the weather is clear and sunny the vast majority of the days. The particular geography helps isolate the number of factors the car needs to consider besides "just" driving.

From a NYT article[0],

>"The company did not say whether it was testing the driverless cars in environments considered challenging for autonomous vehicles, like bridges or tunnels, or more difficult conditions, like driving at night or in rain and snow — usually not a big concern in the dry Phoenix climate."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/technology/waymo-autonomo...
Thanks Google, but...

There's plenty of public roads in my hometown that still don't have Street View.

Speaking of mapping, I find that Microsoft's 45 degree satellite (aircraft?) imagery is much more useful than straight down imagery.
Not necessarily. The math for video slots can be changed to handle that functionality, but it has to be fair and RNG driven. And of course has to be audited.
I'm not sure if I would call a framework that uses jetty under the hood, that micro...
When that happens, you won't hear about it in the news like this. You'll hear about it when the price of BTC plummets as all wallets are emptied.
Infineon seems to be popular supplier for smartcard ID cards over whole EU, with Estonia and Slovakia being special in that most of the issued ID cards actually have the chip (it's optional and not especially useful in most of EU). I would hazard to guess that said country is Luxembourg, Belgium or Germany (in this order of probability) as these countries also have somewhat large penetration of state-issued smart cards.
This doesn't make any sense. For the opposite opinion of many lawyers from many companies, see the list of licenses that come with multimedia systems in automobiles or in your smartphone.
Kick starter

Indiegogo

Patreon

edit: not in any order
React Router maintainer here!

The only things we're looking at for another major version are some changes to the default API behaviors (making `exact` default to true, for instance). There are potentially some changes to path matching, but that's being driven by path-to-regexp, not our own development.

Yes, 4.0 was a big change, but a necessary one. Now that we're in a great place, we plan on keeping things relatively stable indefinitely. Pencils down, as it were. Outside of some major upstream change with React itself, future versions will be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Actually AI will impact China much harder than the US. Here we have driven down employment to the point where a significant portion if the population only get a meager foodstamps to survive. LA has gone from a working class city to a city where a large amount of the working population are homeless living in their vehicle. A tiny elite living forever has really profound economic implications in a system of winner take all. How long can inequality be pushed exponentially before the system breaks down for everyone.
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GPL3 was practically created to cover this case, as FSF lawyers didn’t feel that GPL2 is enough to enforce that. Check out the TiVoization clause in GPL3 and its history.
Good. At least it will cost them to develop in-house. Raising the expense of doing user-hostile things is one way to dissuade companies from doing them.
From the website:

"*Trademarks"
If you have to put everything on a mat, I wouldn't called that wireless charging. That's like saying you can have a wireless network connection as long as your laptop is sitting on a special pad.

I think it has to work over a range of at least a few meters before I'd call it wireless.
While I agree with Kurzweil's stuff on computing per dollar increasing exponentially, in that it has for a long time now, I'm skeptical of the lifespan thing. There doesn't seem particularly good experimental evidence - our life span is longer because of less childhood death but it seems old people have always maxed out in the 70-100yrs old range.
It is a stretch to suggest that Haskellers don't discuss referential transparency as much as Lispers do. It's a fundamentally important concept in writing and reasoning about Haskell programs.
I think the video was actually pretty clear in that they haven't really figured a lot of stuff out yet, and the funding is to do just that. It was very clear that the funding is for R&D, not for a final product.
I think the purpose of VC is to distort markets.

What the tax code is trying to do here is to incentivize VCs and entrepreneurs to take risks. At the same time, you need anti-abuse to keep people from unfairly taking advantage of the incentives. This ends up being complicated.

Maybe something like a 10% corporate AMT would help. Your WSGR startup lawyer will strongly recommend against trying A Double Irish Dutch Sandwich. Apple can do this because they will hire an army of lawyers to keep the Feds busy. You can't but at the same time you have to compete with Apple and Google and .... A corporate AMT would help level that playing field.

Won't happen.
This makes the radio transponder I put on my cat look totally amateur by comparison. I need to step up my game.
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Is there case law to back this up?
It's also true. Ars Technica has now published a story saying the same thing - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/youre-gonna-need-a-c...
What a fucking terrible idea. They have completely missed the point of what makes Game of Thrones so popular.

GoT is about the victory of the historically downtrodden--women, eunuchs, slaves, "wildlings", bastards, and a dwarf--over the traditionally powerful men. GoT is full of sex and death. And, best of all, was totally unpredictable. (For the first six seasons, anyway)

LotR, on the other hand, is about the victory of a bunch of white males going to war against a multiracial army. Their goal: to help a white man from a "superior" race (the Numenoreans) reclaim his birthright: dominion over almost all of middle earth. The only two women in the books with any substantive role are Galadriel and Eowyn. Galadriel is in a no-win situation; most of her power is destroyed when the One Ring is destroyed. Meanwhile Eowyn, the scrappy shieldmaiden of Rohan, is rewarded for killing the Captain of the Nazgul by getting to assume a gender-normal role as the wife of the Steward of Gondor. (HT to David Brin for pointing a lot of this out first.)

Worst of all for the TV series, in LotR everyone already knows what's going to happen!
Had this with a 3.0 USB-C to USB-A hub I bought a while ago for the Macbook Pro. It was really a lil' portable Wi-Fi jamming device.

Advice: buy USB 3.0 accessories with good shielded cables.
Probably a solved problem in the eyes of Google..
OK checked.

htop report that system idle with nothing running consumes 996MB mem -- one tab open in chrome jumps to 1.77GB (out of 16GB)

now I have 6 open tabs... cnn, HN, reddit, reddit, reddit, netflix - and just to display these tabs its allocated 2.5 gigs... I just cant understand how displaying 6 websites requires 2.5GB of ram?

Ill admit to being stupid on this topic - but I can maths, and that just doesnt appear to be logical - and I am not complaining, im trying to understand. So can anyone ELI5 why displaying the default pages of some of the fastest sites on the internet, reddit and hn, would consume the resources they do? im literally curious.

http://i.imgur.com/Lm3iexB.jpg

WHY being the operable term here.. I just want to know WHY a browser is so mem intensive for displaying fucking text. The whole point was that in 1983, we had a VT100 or somesuch and they were fast as heck... but now I have to pre-load a shit-ton of ads or something that consume my local resources and ruin my experience? Do we need to punch a designer in the face?

http://media.fakeposters.com/results/2009/07/16/z22e8wsvrf.j...
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Ray Kurzweil is Deepak Chopra.
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> Will it work on carpet?

That one is answered in the FAQ of the campaign (=no)

What the FAQ doesn't answer though, even if it's in there, is why they need the $50,000. Their answer is just "because we hope you find it a fun adventure"
Is there a website/document that compare the status of all existing self-driving cars initiatives?
> Let's be clear: JavaScript tries to be both a platform and a programming language.

I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. JavaScript is the common language for two major platforms (browsers, Node.js) and many smaller ones (Cocos2d, enyo JS, Espruino, GNOME Shell, Kinoma XS6, NativeScript, Weex, etc.).
According to [the repo](https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/finished-propo...) only one minor feature had reached stage 4 since last year. Not sure why this is on top HN.
No it didn't. GPLv3 was created to cover the case of hardware vendors not allowing to run modified code. They still have to abide by the terms of the license even if they use GPLv2 -- that is, releasing the source code.
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Not in latency but definitely in throughput. I remember being amazed 20 years ago at 3MiB/sec throughput when copying some files around. Today, even a spinning disc can sustain 160MiB/s and peak at 240MiB/s (personal anecdotal evidence) before looking at RAID or hybrid SSD options.

Sure, latency is still pretty bad. But a well-designed application is going to minimize individual seeks required, and therefore minimize the total aggregate latency cost.

It's the same way across the internet; a well designed application is going to minimize the latency cost across a socket by minimizing the amount of synchronization (seeking) required to continue work. TCP connection, TLS handshake, HTTP processing and routing, application processing to disk/database, multiple queries/seeks to handle the request... it all adds up.
Wow - I was going to make a counterargument about how alpine is perfectly capable of keeping everything on disk (and how I usually don't care about images), but my alpine process, which has been running for a bit over a month and is connected via IMAP to a remote server with about 220,000 messages in the inbox, is using 250 MB virtual and 100 MB resident if I'm reading ps right.

So maybe Gmail is actually pretty efficient!?
How would I find it coming from Flask and SQLAlchemy? Seems only a matter of time before such a transition comes quite easily, have been watching Kotlin and Swift with interest
Whilst that's a nice idea in principle, we all know that it would get be taken advantage of. People would probably try and get themselves/their animals on Street view.
Still not used to see lambdas in java. Nice I guess
If you make it, I know a D1 Engineering school who might buy it
You could instead contribute to OpenStreetCam which is part of OpenStreetMap.
Have you written a book before? Do you have a sample chapter?
Politicians offer voters various tax incentives as part of virtually every campaign.