skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess it's a way to make a nice profit from what is effectively a captive audience. You can either buy the original peripherals at extortionate prices or you can try your luck with off-brand copies.

Typically the first generation of controllers are not sold at a large profit. They get cost reduced and a couple iterations in they are major money makers.

> You can either buy the original peripherals at extortionate prices or you can try your luck with off-brand copies.

AFAIK all major consoles have security chips for their controllers, collecting a licensing fee from 3rd party peripheral manufacturers may sound nice, but if the team doing the licensing is the same team who gets credited for profits from first party sales, then there is a huge conflict of interest. This is why the market for third party controllers can be a bit slim for some consoles. It is up to the political whims, and fiscal arrangement, of a company during that console's lifetime.
“We found that in a magnetic alloy made up of gadolinium and iron, these fast electrical pulses can switch the direction of the magnetism in less than 10 picoseconds. That is orders of magnitude faster than any other MRAM technology.”

Would love to see a video of how they even measure something like this, some sort of high frequency electron microscope?
Tell me about it :/

I remember the older days of MTG, around revised and 4th ed. There were ante cards - it was set up so games could be gambling between players. They finally removed all the ante cards (like ante another card, and gain life back to 20 and a full hand of cards). But in the end, there were good and bad cards - but the game was fun.

MTG started doing the "YuGiOh" scam, of foil cards. Then uber-rares. And then also using the chase-rares to loot-boxify the game.

But now, I've seen a few games that try to incentivize purchasing coin to play more. There was some car game I remember that did that - if you were to buy every upgrade it would be over $12,000 . Hill Climb Racing 2, I think its name was.

And here I was, thinking that a $50 game was expensive. Yeouch. I feel bad for people who got suckered into that scam.
What's a good wrapper library that makes webrtc a bit simpler?
> Like many people, I'd really like to leave the platform but not the network of friends that I communicate regularly with. And no, email and or other channels are not good substitutes. Any alternative has to offer at least the same degree of functionality/convenience to be worth using.

Not picking on you specifically, but I've noticed that this is the standard line used by people who love to complain about how shitty facebook (or sometimes twitter or some other social media site) is, but who don't want to vote with their feet.

I have no accounts and never have, yet magically I have been able to keep in touch with everyone that matters in my life. I don't think I've missed out on anything important, either. Then again, I lived a good portion of my adult life before social media was invented, so maybe I just have some skills that a younger generation never acquired. Or maybe just different expectations.

Seriously, this stuff has existed for just over a decade yet people act as if they can't live without it. It makes me fear for the future health and well-being of society.
Aww thanks so much! Glad you like it! :D Yeah this is definitely not useful haha but I'm learning more about 3d mathematics, rendering techniques, low-level systems, constructing tools, etc...
"Their brand has a lot of built up value, and I don't see either Google or Samsung stepping up to the plate"

They do seem to be trying, though, at least if their ad campaigns are any indicator. Google in particular seems to be positioning itself as a viable Apple competitor both in terms of the device itself (in this case, the Pixel line and its myriad of capabilities) and the branding around it (by tying in to the rest of Google's product line, particularly around search).

Samsung, meanwhile, seems to have the first part of that down (and has done so for as long as the Galaxy line has existed, much to Apple's chagrin), but the second part is kind of missing there.
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Debt.
https://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-co...
Not that the US is any better...
The contradictions is not in reality but in your ideology/agenda. Everybody has an agenda nowadays...
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Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth
You're sharing a site that peddles garbage like Pizzagate. Give me a reason why I should ever believe anything you say.
Wandering far from Facebook (the farther the better IMHO) - Craftsman has been dead to me for years so I tried a Dewalt socket/wrench set. The name should be around a while, they have a good warranty and they feel like I shouldn't need it. It was god to see someone was trying to fill in that middle of the road "good enough" and affordable.
providing a common user with access to views and doorways to discovery and deeper technical understanding is essential to user-centric design. that's how we move the ball foward in terms of baseline system-fluency, which necessarily deepens progress at the cutting edge. Furthermore the widened technical prowess means yAy! for creativity and less exploitable asymmetry for our almost-friendly techno-fascist cohorts.

Widening and deepening user involvement-- through portals, gateways, peepholes, and trap-doors-- into a labyrinth of techno-primitive toolmaking utopia.. hah

What might that look like? Who knows? I have been thinking about the variation of user-modes represented, perhaps, as masks, deepening and widening layers of involvement, according to need, habit, curiosity and play. The relation between the masks and the nature of the masks is still in geststion.

Here in SP (sao paulo), in the 13-story abandoned building we've transformed into an an artist residency and resource center, we're exploring the theme 'Ancestral/Astral' for an event set to take place in the middle of December. Ancest-ASTRAL-ity : The ideal state of discovering the essence of what makes us human, our roots, through exploratory perspectives of our shared heritage and created future.

What has interested me personally since hearing about postmarkertOS is humans and tools: the psychology of tool use, our relationship with TECHNOS. A major theme that has remained constant throughout our human story is our use of tools to influence our future.

How do we improve or make new tools? Usually with tools we've already built.

You have two fuzzily-distinct elements: tools and techniques.

But how would these design logix (like the boot-phase peephole you mentioned) materialize?

Ideally this would happen on a mobile device running linux (im most interested in developing world megacities).

Maybe start with easily malleable UI layers, that use modern web semantics (react × APIs).

Make a boot-phase people have some interaction layers thst stimulate the curious user to explore what is happening. There are a lot of ways to do it, and all of them are right.

If interested, u can find me in the postmarketOS matrix/freenode channel.

Sorry if this does not meet aesthetic requirements, im on mobile.
can we rollback that tape ?
The difference is comparable to the difference between a traditional vibra Motor in a phone and the Taptic Engine based vibration in iPhone 6s and later, including all the haptic feedback tricks provided by later iOS versions running on these devices
Anybody tried Dropbox Paper?
Is it time to shut Twitter down?
Great projet guy's !

I build that on top of your engine : https://boumbo.fr
I agree that flexbox and grids complement each other, but I doubt that grids are ready for product. I mean it is nice that all major browsers have a decent support in the newest versions, but production ready includes for me that older browsers (without support or major bugs) are not common anymore (~ <5%).

As far as I can see it it is currently scored at ~75%: https://caniuse.com/#search=grid
Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.
I don't understand why you would remove the hidden data. I understand that size is a concern for somebody who might just be interested in reading a pdf. But this is totally beside the point when studying weird machines. The whole idea is to poke around within the polygot. https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed/status/92539248920853708...

> The latest (pocorgtfo16.pdf) is a polyglot that is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a Bash script that runs a Python webserver which hosts Kaitai Struct’s WebIDE which, allows you to view the file’s own annotated bytes ...
I was just testing this piece of software and i'm really impressed by what these guys accomplished.

It runs tests on file save and let's you open the developer tools. When it rans on the cli it even records a video for you so you can playback to see what went wrong.

I had seen something similar to this with chimp, still had some issues that cypress solves, by being interactive in every step of the way.

Sorry it looks like I'm trying to sell this, I'm not, I don't know the company, I'm just impressed.
Yes, it was. If you're talking about Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio - yes, these were/are true, hardcore engineers at heart.... that was the impetus and backbone of Qualcomm. Everything that follows is the effects, which are far less interesting than its beginnings.
Any more blackfriday security suggestions you guys would like to give?
I don't know the answer, but I'd be surprised if it did.

I've also been very frustrated by CSS due to 1) its lack warnings and debug errors as mentioned above, and 2) that so many properties have side-effects (like setting an element to display:flex changes the auto value of min-width for all its children[1]).

I've started working on something to help with this, but it's a long way off (and it may not work at all).

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#min-size-auto
For the record, Atheros is a subsidiary of Qualcomm.

Edit: wrong preposition
I've had decent luck with Tokbox, but it's a paid SaaS rather than simply a wrapper library.
If you have to defend democracy by restricting one if it's foundational pillars what are you really defending.

I am not arguing the problem of money/power being used to amplify speech is not real i am arguing that it's something we have to deal with as a part of how real world democracies works when it's not constrained by an Jacobin state where the media have to abide by a very narrow set of standards for what can be reprinted defined by someone who don't really answers to nobody. And it's sure as hell not limited to Russia.

Fake news and media manipulation really isn't a new problem, Hearst and Pulitzer used to make their living from soving dissent and and anger, and we call those days the golden age of journalism, we have an multi trillion dollar advertising industry that does nothing but manipulate people into doing things/buying things they might not have done otherwise. Not to mention the circus of day to day politics in pretty much every democratic state.

The notion that democracy needed to be protected by a powerful benevolent central committee(with universal authority and no restrictions) is in many way what separated communist from socialists back when the old European empires fell apart, and new systems had to be created, and while the communist states did hold out far better then many democratic socialist states it was not an particularly attractive society for anyone to live in.

We live in a world of 6 billion people most of them in a partially shared economy so for the US to have to live with foreign people interfering in us elections is not anti-democratic it's widening the definition of demos to everyone affected by a election, just as the US public itself reserves the right to try and influence foreign elections.
C++/WinRT is now included the Windows SDK
I think it's an odd definition you are using. Chaos depends upon the sensitivity to those initial conditions, not what those initial conditions ARE. You do not need actual physical objects to see this. Conjecture that a double-pendulum system starts in a perfectly real-number-valued mythical reality where spacetime is perfectly continuous (a fiction). Now predict what state the system will be in at a bunch of 'close together' states. Then try to do some 'closer together' states. See if you can ever get them to line up. Do it on pencil and paper, of course, since you want to capture the full real-number-infinity effect.

Of course, you can't write down the real-number result with infinite precision, can you? You'll have to chop it off at some point. That's OK. That's what error bars are for. Just keep going and keep track of your error. Oops, you'll find that your error grows larger than the prediction itself with remarkable speed! THAT is the chaos. It doesn't matter if you measured the starting conditions with literal infinite perfect precision. The error bars on your predictions are going to explode like a busy beaver function. You're not going to catch that. Nothing can. (I imagine the actual physical limit would be that your predictions can be accurate within a distance equivalent to the radius of a sphere expanding at the speed of light from the initial position but I haven't actually read anything suggesting that, it just seems sensible.)

Then you've got stupid simple cellular automata like rule 31 1D systems. Totally discrete. Totally basic. No precision even needed anywhere. And yet, you can't predict it. Not without accumulating an error greater than the state in the system itself if you skip even the slightest act of computation necessary to evolve the system as a whole from one step to the next.
Because awareness of the gap between measurement and conclusion might just be the most important thing in the world, and people and governments fail spectacularly at it all the time with significant lasting effects on society.
I have a 2 year old daughter, so I can relate to how enthralling those baby bum videos can be to a 2 year old.

But, Human oversite is not "impossible",it's called "parenting" and we should try it some time. We removed the TV from the living room and put it in the guest room, now sits a beautiful painting in it's place in the main part of the living room. Our kid doesn't use our iphone and ipad, it's as simple as that. If she cries for it, then she cries for it - no big deal. Ever since we removed the TV, she doesn't even ask to see videos in the living room anymore. You just gotta set limits.

Is, responsibility for the self, such an arcane concept. If you choose to get ALL your news from one site: whether it be Facebook or Youtube, then of course there's a chance your not going to get the whole truth. It should be all of our responsibility to seek out better sources of news. Install a plugin? or find a better search engine or get a better App, or go to something reputable like NPR, new york times, the Guardian. Lots of alternatives out there, as long as we're not too lazy to seek them out. There's plenty of ways to diversify your news sources and verify the things you read and watch. There's got to be a plugin out there that blocks news from FB if that's what you want.
Just how do you know what these companies are using for fighting abuse (fake accounts, spam, account hijacking, etc)? Dealing with abuse is an adversarial process, where both sides are trying to adapt to what the other is doing. It's not like most programming where you can come up with a provably good enough solution. It also means that time is a valuable resource.

There's nothing to be gained by e.g. Twitter announcing that they're now using ML on the profile images to detect fake accounts. That'd let the bad guys know right away that they need to change their pattern. Instead what you want is for them to first waste some time before they realize that something is wrong, and then waste more time experimenting on exactly what changed, and then even more time figuring out how to bypass it.

So unless you're working on abuse at one of these companies, I don't understand how you can so confidently talk about what they are and aren't doing.
Is that so much different than what e.g. even older Xbox 360 / PS3 controllers could do? I remember games like Tomb Raider and several others using similar haptic feedback systems.
> but they have no problem calling it "money" when requiring exchanges to register as money service businesses.

Is that because they treat Bitcoin as "money", or because they treat Bitcoin as a "money transfer" mechanism, that is, a way to send money to someone else?

> If I take some BTC from source A and put it in an address, and then some BTC from source B and put it in the same address, the two lots of BTC are now mixed up in a single address.

That simplified view is not how Bitcoin actually works. In your example, the single address now has two separate and distinct "unspent transaction outputs", one for the transaction from source A, the other for the transaction from source B. The mixing will happen only once they are spent, since the wallet software can use either of them, or both, as the input(s) for the outgoing transaction; but before that happens, they could easily be separated.

In fact, there is no real or virtual object which could be called a "Bitcoin". The Bitcoin blockchain is a distributed ledger which records statements like "of the combination of the previously unspent outputs A, B, and C, an amount of X will go to a new output D with key K, an amount of Y will go to a new output E with key L, and the rest will go to whoever generates a valid block which includes this transaction"; the unit of measurement for these amounts is what is "Bitcoin". Saying an address "has X Bitcoin" is a simplification for "the address has the keys corresponding to a set of unspent transaction outputs, which together sum to an amount of X Bitcoin".

So the "stolen Bitcoins" are "spent" the moment they are transferred to a new address, and can't ever be given back (a transaction output can only be spent once). What can be given back is a new set of transaction outputs, with the equivalent amount of Bitcoin. Whether that makes a material difference for the courts, I can't say, but it at least muddles the waters a bit more.
Indeed, for most kids, if we were making something a core educational pillar it should be financial literacy.
That's true even with the large framework though. Rails does very little to protect against that and can make many things worse.
You'd need to use something like Clover with either a macOS USB created using the ./createinstallmedia command in the installers, or using the ISO this tool creates.

You can install Clover on a USB plus your install media, boot off it and get to the installer. This should get you most of the way there.

https://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Home
One thing I could use is a Node.JS library for streaming MP4s and other vidoe streams to WebRTC directly. Basically use WebRTC as a low latency streaming video means.
Very interesting talk. I'd like to read some of his research, and learn about the concurrent processors his team has created.
Well, no sense throwing good money after bad, so to speak. We don't have to keep moving further in that direction.
My own thinking on this has twisted from cyberpunk to lovecraftian lately. The best analogy I've been able to make lately is the warnings in classic fairy tales that fairy places are dark and full of horrors, and it is easy to be trapped within them if you aren't careful. (I even wrote a short story in a couple of days just recently trying to capture some of my thoughts and concerns/fears in this space [1]. I don't have much in the way of answers, either, just existential dread that I hope may lead to answers eventually.)

[1] http://blog.worldmaker.net/2017/10/18/astral-plane-meteorolo...
Google Backup and Sync is deleting my files
> One point is that it should be obvious where the money came from

Depending on how you qualify "where". The specific way the money got there can be very complicated. The answer to the question "is that connected to Putin's interests somehow" is not - it is always "yes" given the source is in Russia and the sum is large enough.

> the other point is that that origin should not be cause for concern.

That is very subjective question. Some are ok with foreigners with questionable records (Chinese, petro-monarchies, Russians, etc.) investing in US economy. Some are worried about it. It is a personal choice. But there's no law preventing such people from buying any stock offered to public or entering into any investment deal they'd like, so this is a normal thing to happen. And it happens literally all the time.

> Do you honestly think that the funding under discussion—and the personal relationships that subsequently developed—had no impact on either Twitter or Facebook deciding to establish their respective partnerships with Yandex?

I don't see how we could have any idea about whether it did. Certainly, common investors can influence decisions, but Twitter and Facebook have various investors, with varied interests, so why would you think this particular deal is only influenced by one of them?
Fortunately, we are in a position now where the first
countries to outlaw crypto will simply miss out on the
explosive growth, pushing it into other countries.

Cryptocurrencies are an opt-in ecosystem, but when a country bans Cryptocurrencies they don't expose the citizens to loss due to trading their fiat for the speculative database coins.

I.E. if the majority of Bitcoins were produced for low cost in China from 2009-2014, than American citizens would be at great disadvantage by trading their fiat for Bitcoins produced at low value input.
Unlike the USA I suppose.
"That's not unprofessional... This is unprofessional... "

That made my day! Thanks for pointing this out.
I saw that https://github.com/sidharthkuruvila/ocaml-ide was pretty recent and assumed that it worked. I haven't tried it though.

Amusingly someone made a plugin for pg's Arc 3.1 code back in '08: https://i.imgur.com/Xe7mvIB.png

If IDEA doesn't support a particular language, it's pretty easy to fork an existing plugin and throw together some lexer rules.
What server does the web host use?
>But the contradiction is in the mathematical model not reality

So then you're saying reality can't have a logical contradiction? Seems like you're agreeing with the original statement.

>Even a totally random universe follows some kind of distribution

Which is just a kind of rule.
Letter of the law vs the spirit.

Play many board games? I have. With any sufficiently complicated ruleset, there are always cheats, exploits, holes.

To have a good time together, players often agree to play in the spirit of the game, vs the literal rules.
So you're falling into (3) and ignoring how important (1) is
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