skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steam entrenchement goes so much deeper than "just" network effect: DRM (and even DRM-less, to some extent, for convenience) requires trust and despite a choppy start, Steam has definitely built a lot of trust. Maybe even earned (debatable, but I tend to agree), but definitely built. Trust that they are likely to still be around n years down the line, and trust that they don't shove every imaginable profit maximization down their captive audience's throat.

They have a headstart of more than a decade to any upstart and the growing of trust cannot be artificially accelerated. On top of that there are financials. Valve are not expected to disappear any time soon because of their huge earnings. Again, impossible to replicate. And they are a private, mostly (or exclusively?) founder-owned corporation, so there is at least a possibility of making "good enough" money, which is important for the "not shoving unwanted features down customers' throats" part. A VC funded startup, or worse, a publicly traded company could never reach "good enough" profits. It's the goose that lays golden eggs: a publicly traded company would inevitably keep rising into overvaluation until it eventually reaches the point where the only way to justify it is to cut up the goose in search of even higher profitability.
You might want to check out https://sequoia-pgp.org - a new OpenPGP implementation written from scratch in Rust within the PEP project.
I'm not afraid of random thoughts, nor being alone - I have a sense of unease about being a decent distance from home and not being entertained on the way back.

Let's not over diagnose this :)
> about what they spent on roads in a single year

Which figures did you used for roads? I'm not familiar with gov-speak.
> We are not your tech support, so I can tell you: [expletive] off.

1. I wasn't here to seek tech support at all. The discussion was on package managers and I was sharing an experience I had. Users such as you decided to issue judgments that I must have necessarily ignored apt and broken my system by... installing non-OSS software (?!) without any information on my actual system setup. As I said in the very beginning, I already reverted to my backup. Nowhere did I solicit tech support, and nowhere did I expect any, especially based on almost complete lack of knowledge about the actual system configuration.

2. Flagged. This is the first time I've seen such an attack on HN. And you can imagine I have no interest in replying after this.
In my experience, Chrome OS is absolutely usable as a development machine for linux environments with crouton[1]. Crouton basically installs Ubuntu within Chrome OS, and can include GUIs and tons of software packages. I've done nearly the entirety of my WGU IT degree using Chrome OS, and if I get a software development degree, I'll use it there too. If Windows interoperability or virtualization is required, then you might look elsewhere, because virtualization is tough to set up in the chroot environment and would run sluggishly anyway if you use an ARM-based laptop like I do.

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
i18n = internationalization
l10n = localization
I have run into this kind of package dependency lock-down sometimes when installing updated graphic drivers and build systems (usually from non-official repositories), and I have been able to solve it by reverting the problematic packages to older versions until I hit a well-formed dependency tree.

I only hit a similar problem in Windows once, when it hung up installing a new C++ runtime, and since then I could neither install another C++ runtime nor rollback it (restore system did nothing), resulting in applications randomly crashing or refusing to run because they were loading the wrong C++ libraries, and the only solution I found was reinstalling Windows again.
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It is rather common for inmates to read in prison, there is virtually nothing else to do. However, we were only allowed to have 12 books at a time, so I had to mail many home as I acquired new ones to study. I was 20-23 in solitary, and 18-28 during my sentence.
An aircraft carrier can't turn on a dime but once it turns you have a f-ing aircraft carrier.

When GM or some other BigCo throws its weight behind something that something gets done.
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Tremens answered about Häckel; the Möbius strip part is Piaget’s model of learning which says that knowledge undergoes continuous rewriting rather than being simply accretive, a view which I would think should be unremarkable today.

Häckel came from a 19th century conception of “advancement” or “progres” — think of that absurd 19th century picture of various apes followed by a human, as if a human is somehow the “most evolved” of the animals. The idea of adaptation to the environment was alien (and apparently frightening) to most people in the West.
Yeah — e.g. ARM were so upfront about their exposure that if they'd posted this I wouldn't even blink.
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so, now I can run a script to fix all of these things so that headless can't be detected by any of these methods? thanks.
Yeah .. I mean apart from 'Functionality' these are to be taken into consideration;
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/ee658094.aspx

But again ... You try to make system foolproof and nature will create better fools :-D
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I thought climate change was supposed to provide easier access to water?
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> there will only be 4-5 global car brands

We heard the same thing about mechanical watches when smartwatches came out.

But actually what happened was the opposite. People flocked back to mechanical, vintage watches and the watch industry is booming right now. I suspect the same thing will happen with cars. There will be even more car brands than we have today with old classics coming back e.g. Saab but all built off cheaper, commodity electric drive trains and far more differentiated.

So you will have AI cars taking over family movers, taxis, buses etc and old, classic cars being modernised and built for drivers.
Yes, I should document that. GPGME only exposes a high-level API, and application developers often want more control. For example, you can't inspect key material before importing it, but importing a key is not a reversible operation - so applications sometimes use a temporary HOMEDIR for GPGME/GnuPG to import the key there and inspect it with a keylisting. It can be very cumbersome.
Here’s the link to the official “Day 0” page:

http://coct.co/water-dashboard/
http://iswebsitedownorjustme.com/
"Ever wondered how many flights you’ve taken"

What I would pay for is something that would make me forget the amount of time I've spent in airports and on crappy flights over the years.
It really is a fun word. Always makes me thing of Avenue Q.
Thanking you!

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/z620.html
Another fast implementation (plain C99, without using SIMD), supporting buffer aliasing (i.e. allowing in-place encoding/decoding, check senc_b64() and sdec_b64() functions): https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/src/saux/senc....
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Same for Italy, we tripled arms sales to them in the last two years and Parliament recently voted not to restrict the flow despite the conflict in Yemen.
Why did you think that?
> Impacts ranging from 0-2% on industry-standard measures of integer and floating point throughput, [...]

well, that's expected! its _context switching_ that causes the slowdown -- it seems, one cannot trust intel's PR on meltdown/spectre issues.

further down:

> For FlexibleIO, [..] When we conducted testing to stress the CPU (100% write case), we saw an 18% decrease in throughput performance

well, that's more like it.
>> how this is even possible in a civilized country.

Its not. we do not live in a Civilized Country (the USA) we live in a Barbaric Nation with as the facade of civility painted over the Barbarism
You were asking to be provided tech support here:

> Which of these packages is proprietary? I was doing this in VirtualBox without guest additions installed, and while I used to boot this installation on an NVIDIA system, I don't believe I had any NVIDIA-specific packages on it. Let me know the proprietary package name(s) you think I had and I'll search to see if I had any of them installed.

(Also, how would you do that if it was already wiped? Edit 2: yea.... because as not tech support I have read everything you have posted on your problem and am aware you have backups)

You were acting pretty entitled to this other person's help here:

> What "it" are you even talking about? I didn't "choose to ignore" anything. I Marked all Upgrades, clicked Apply, rebooted when it was finished, went to see if there were any more upgrades (there were some), tried to mark & apply them, and was greeted with this error. Apt/Synaptic got me into this broken state and couldn't get me out of it. I don't know what story you're reading, but it doesn't seem to be what I've been writing. There was nothing for me to ignore. The error wasn't something I ignored; it was the problem.

Edit: Oh and that's a perfectly civil response to you continuing to tell people who know how these systems actually work (which does not include you) that they are incapable of understanding what you are writing and implying that they are somehow delusional.
£280 without games doesn't seem very low cost to me.

Also Google Cardboard is now sold as a plastic device isn't it? Cardboard will quickly go soggy if you're playing good v game!
>As I noted in my blog post last week, while the firmware updates are effective at mitigating exposure to the security issues, customers have reported more frequent reboots on firmware updated systems.

It does go on to say they have been able to reproduce the issue and are making progress towards finding the cause.
That's correct, and i assume these benchmarks are quite questionable, as to fix all the things require both software and firmware updates. as well as we are working with branch prediction, and such the benchmark affect this mostly. and furthermore it's very very program dependent.
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1 in 5 people didn't give a damn about the missile alert and kept watching.
It's not necessarily a hyped overreaction if those things matter to the people switching. Some people actually care about those things that have changed enough to switch to a different OS that doesn't have those issues.
I was talking specifically about the unease of not being entertained, thus forced to be with yourself.

Just sharing my experience. Unease usually doesn't come from nowhere. Everybody is different though.
We aren't seeing any significant overall performance impact on our service of rolling out the 4.14 kernel. In synthetic tests of our HTTP/HTTPS workload we saw a 2% increase in CPU but in production that doesn't appear to actually happen. Will report on microcode later.
I always wondered why you can buy a lot of H2O filled fruits like grapes from South Africa in Europa. They must have some enourmous amounts of water if they can export it. Maybe the price of water isn’t high enough yet or can’t be paid?
Yes, hard to imagine a world where government policy is not being made be paranoid schizophrenics. Thanks RAND.
Exactly. But there’s a drawback : food is ridiculously expensive, rent are over the roof, etc...
Looking for feedback on interactive cast tech
We are about to launch the first prototype for a crypto soft wallet, BEWA.

When using other soft wallets with private key management – such as Exodus or Jaxx – you can only manage your portfolio from the devices you've linked. We have a mirroring tech that allows us to cast an interactive screen on any desktop/smart tv from the phone sending only meta-data, so there's no need to pair your account, and when you leave there's no trace left behind.

We can also include some advanced functionalities on desktop such as trading, alerts, etc, that may be harder to do on a phone screen.

If you have another product which might benefit from this technology, I'd love to hear about it. We decided to test it on the crypto market/trading/soft wallet for now, but of course this can be applied to others.

Anyway, we are just about to publish our first version, so I'm keen on getting some feedback from the community and if any of you is interested on the launch you can leave your email – there's a small threee question interview in between :)

Here it is:

http://www.bewa.space
What you are saying is that source code is less in size than compiled native code which is nonsense.
I would guess rising seas. Water gets closer to you, literally.
Even if, it's salt water https://www.thesouthafrican.com/cape-town-water-crisis-desal...
More rainfall?
Or if you are installing from a CD or USB image you can instead grab one of the "non-free" images which should have the necessary firmware and repositories setup and ready to use after initial install. I don't think it's very easy to find these directly from the website but in case anyone's interested here's the location:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...
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There is a simple solution, though it's quite laborous: create something that
you're actually proud of and you know is robust, well-written, and documented.
I'm not experiencing any of that. Works immediately for me at this time
>> Or maybe we’ve already solved these problems with social networks, Slack groups, podcasts, and YouTube, and we just haven’t fully realized it yet.

Aren't the plethora of technical meetups a constant round of conference presentations nearby and for free?
That sounds like a hack, not a working solution
Killer App
> Converting the legacy code base (490,000 lines of code) to C++ was a straightforward, mechanical task that took only a couple of hours

That sounds like they haven't actually converted it to C++ so much as compiled it as C++.

That means they're probably still using raw owning pointers and no RAII, which means you get none of the safety benefits of C++ (which do exist, so long as you use modern C++ practices like smart pointers, and containers instead of C-style arrays).
Watch out for Waterseer. Not sure I trust that company after their ludicrous misjudgement in their first invention:

[Thunderfoot Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw)

[Lindybeige Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfYAXWODUs)

Side-note: I live in the Cape Town area. We got on international news! Yay us...?

Honestly, I'm pretty worried.
> I'm not paying for the privilege of having to work extra hard

If being polite to people is working extra hard, that might be the cause of the bad service you receive.
German has some awesome words: glockenspiel, gesundheit, blitz, panzer...
Uber has massively subsidized users for years, but they don't have the cash to keep doing this for very long or buy a fleet of self driving cars. When self driving cars do take off you can expect a spike of sales as people really want that feature. So, Uber would need to survive ~15 years before any major car companies feel the squeeze and I doubt they can make another 5.
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This feels a bit like the "VMs aren't quite like real machines" problem --- as in, it's a cat-and-mouse game that will probably continue indefinitely.

Personally, as someone who regularly uses several different browsers and experiments with others, I wish the Web was far more browser-neutral.
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Canadians trust the media. South Koreans don’t – Axios
When I have ranted about Java (thankfully, I don't do much Java development now, and we have Kotlin), I haven't intended to hurt anyone. I just want people to do better. Both in the sense of urging developers to be using better tools than Java, and also in the sense of urging the language designers to fix problems I perceive.

I tend to save my cruelty for those who have been actively trying to harm me. Which doesn't really happen, because I have a relatively placid life.
And it’s possible to pretend not to be Chrome headless too.

https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/
I'll reply to this because you posted it after I was finished editing my reply above, but as I said there, I have no interest in replying to your profanity beyond this:

>> You were asking to be provided tech support here:

> Which of these packages is proprietary? [...] Let me know the proprietary package name(s) you think I had and I'll search to see if I had any of them installed.

I was fact-checking your (unsolicited) diagnosis, which you had already provided despite my lack of request for any kind of support. You made a claim seemingly out of the blue that caught me off-guard (it seemed unfounded and I had neither requested support nor a diagnosis), and in response I said if you wanted to check your facts I would provide you with information to confirm or disprove your (again: unsolicited) diagnosis. I thought maybe you would be interested in seeing whether you are correct. Of course I won't anymore, after your profane verbal abuse.

> (Also, how would you do that if it was already wiped?)

Because as I said multiple times since the beginning, I had a backup from before the update, which I ended up restoring to. Apparently you are not reading?
Capetonian here as well. I'm honestly more than a little bit worried about the situation.
This seems to be a rather short-sighted view of the 2008 financial crisis. Even conceding that the bailout of the too-big-to-fail banks was a good thing and saved the economy, and that this was possible only because of the centralization that this article supports, it was this same centralization that did things such as repeal the Glass-Steagall Act that allowed for such zany behavior that led up to the crisis in the first place. So yeah, at one moment in time centralization was very beneficial. At many other moments in time before and after that, maybe it wasn't so great.
Well, that's interesting. Are there companies that own water capacity in countries? Might be a good long term investment.
I have not see the longer form
> This is the difference in maturity between software "engineering" and real engineering disciplines.

That's a difference between contractors, people, groups, teams, projects, etc. It has nothing to do with the "disciple of engineering" software or otherwise.

I've seen shitty mechanical engineering projects, but hey, it was cheap, so I don't blame the customer! (We're fighting the shit someone churned out from the software side.)

No one expects to go to a mechanical engineer and ask for a new car, 4 wheels, blue color, 200 horsepower, and a week later "could you just make it 8 wheeled, thanks" and a week later "could you also make it so it'll be fast even when run on a mix of vomit and vodka", and so on, yet it's the norm in software.

And we somehow compare it to bridges, because a lot of software is "critical infrastructure".

Put the two together, and it's no surprise it seems that software engineering is not mature enough.

It simply means some kid (or a team of expensive consultants), who knew nothing about long term risks of the combination of attention fatigue and shitty UX, said yes. Lowest bidder and all that too. Or because this was mission critical it never occurred to the procurers that a UX guy/gal should look at it.
To be very pedantic, the context makes it clear I'm using "code" as shorthand to refer only to written programs.

True, visual code may well be a first class citizen in programming. As of today, there are still programs people would not write visually. It's a tool for simple procedural work, which could change as the ergonomics get even better.
Really?! Oh wow, how did I not know this? Thank you!
Google will do the smart thing too. When Waymotaxi becomes available, they won't remove Uber as an option because that might be anti-competitive. But more relevantly, they wouldn't need to. Back of the envelope calculations say that a self driving cab would be 1/3rd of the cost. Show both in Google maps and let the people decide.
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Same in France where when I was young (late 70’s until mid 80’s) you could return your glass bottles and exchange for money.

But then PET bottles start to rise and the returnable policies eventually disappeared in most country.
Django is a great way to learn how to do things right. They aim for high test coverage, PEP-8 code, latest Python support without breaking legacy support (with clear breaks), high-quality documentation, and so on.
How is it going to help to know _after_ the fact, that they are not trustworthy?
Yes, we are using a fusion of different types of sensor input. I have to be careful to not divulge trade secrets, but I would also add that sensory input (deep learning based or otherwise) is only the very first step in a long and complex chain of tools, algorithms etc. The media and academia are focusing almost exclusively on that step, but it's really only a small piece of the puzzle we are working on.

You are also correct on the performance issues. The DNNs you would require for the very complex decisions are currently too large to be used on automotive ECUs. But we also still have big open questions regarding provability of safety when using neural networks that need to be answered before we can use them for core decision making algorithms.
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The listed techniques not only detect Chrome headless, but all custom browsers built on CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef, such as Kantu from https://a9t9.com

If your goal is to only allow the original Google Chrome browser, that is fine. Otherwise this might cause false alarms.
Hi. We actually check your past flights for eligibility and send you an email with compensation amount. Then you can use AirHelp or contact airline directly to file for compensation. Hope it helps

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It's also quite amusing to see the number of people making up for lost time afterwards.
This is what I would expect your PC or Laptop is should just a host for your X windows or Telnet / ssh sessions and any IDE's you use for code and sql.
Actually they warned last summer, with effectiveness this January https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-...
>What if Steam had to, by law, share your game library with other services?

Then players would move all their games from crap clients like Origin and Uplay to Steam.
This has also led to an interesting social experiment based on a theory developed by the University of California (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494414...) where household water consumption has been made public (https://citymaps.capetown.gov.za/waterviewer/) in order to apply social pressure on high users.
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Here in Sweden at least you can return PET bottles for money (about 0.10-0.20€).