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Hey! I'm Doug, one of the founders of Dream.

Thanks for taking the time to leave detailed feedback like this. We need as much of it as we can get.

A few of your points come down to discoverability / help. You are correct. We agree that before the app comes out of early access we have to drastically increase that. Once we understand that the core functionality is serving its intended purpose, we will turn our attention to onboarding, help and discoverability.

It's also fair to point out that pixel density in the headsets aren't really great yet. We are of the opinion that legibility will be a problem that solves itself in the near future. User frustration might force us to reconsider that opinion sooner rather than later.

Lastly, with regard to the position of UI, it is something we have worked on quite a bit and there is still plenty of room for it to get better. We have shied away from infinitely adjustable UI size and positioning and instead tried to make something that positions itself automatically. Right now, the UI positions itself based on where your head and hands are and how long we think your arms are. The implementation is pretty naive and we intend to improve it over time. This might be another area where we have to get more mechanical to decrease frustration.
But, I'd ask you to recheck your impressions every couple of years

My most recent experience with a .NET application was within a day, and my impression has not changed since the beginning. (Although hardware has gotten faster...) Essentially every time I've had to use an annoyingly sluggish app that looks like a native one, I later discovered it was written in .NET . Despite all the claims of performance I have not once encountered an app that reflected those. It's never been "wow, .NET is so fast now?" but always "why is this so slow? ...oh, it's .NET."

You can also use it to write bloated J2EE-style lasagna-code, but no one's forcing you to do that.

That's the same non-argument the Java folks give. In theory it's possible to do better, but the language and culture naturally tends toward overengineering monstrosities because it is so much easier to do so when the language makes complexity easy to create.

...which brings me to the point I'm trying to make: your users don't care what fancy language or framework or whatever else you used. They care about the speed and (implicitly, since it affects speed) resource usage of your application, and that's what they'll notice.
Hm. I worked in a team of 4 for quite some time, and it did always feel quite fair, now that you mention it.
Index arbitrage is a mechanism that corrects mispricings between an index and its constituents. That isn't the mispricing being discussed. What is being discussed here is the potential for the prices of individual stocks to deviate from any reasonable level because of their inclusion in an index.

To some extent, it's just a matter of supply and demand. Because so many people are investing passively, inclusion in an index with highly traded ETFs can cause huge demand for a stock that no one would have particularly cared about otherwise. There are tons of examples of this around the Russell indices, but stocks in most popular indices carry higher multiples than similar companies outside of them. There is also what George Soros called reflexivity - this increase in stock price makes it more likely that your business will survive because it makes financing the business easier. A large market cap both means you can issue shares cheaply, and it makes banks more likely to lend to you. That helps the business stay alive, but it doesn't necessarily improve their underlying business. Without anyone fundamentally evaluating these companies, such situations can persist indefinitely. Short selling is also made hard by the heavy demand created by additional inflows to these indices. Even if you identify a mispriced company, its continued inclusion in the index might prevent the price action that would remedy the situation.

In the end, I don't think this is the end of the world, but there is the old saying that bad money drives out good. This kind of mania makes it hard for normal feedback mechanisms to function appropriately. The most direct costs will be born by those who invest in such instruments, but it also adds greatly to the correlation of the markets, since price movements are now implicitly tied to inflows of money from markets.
I think the author's point is that all things held equal, OSS crypto isn't better than CSS crypto in their experience.
Rome2rio did a new version for 2016 in the same style, which is juxtaposed to the 1914 version to show how travel times have changed. It was big on Reddit a couple years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ztqqr/a_2...

Since Rome2rio had no interest in selling it, I licensed it and have it for sale on my website:
https://www.wellingtonstravel.com/isochronic-map.html

I'd love to sell the original one too but couldn't determine the copyright owner and get a high quality version of it.
dna transcription is a computation? bah.
any computer uses about 10% of its capital cost in power annually. is that really a lot? sure, if you run it for 10 years, but the real sin there is running such an inefficient computer in year 9. running it for 3 years is a small deal.

sure, we pay a high power cost for reliable, deterministic, digital and synchronous computation. but we designed it that way, for that reason. we don't want unreliable or non-deterministic or approximate or whenever computation.

no question that some practices waste power. but we're doing just fine: power per computation (and probably more importantly, for communicating with memory and other systems) is coming down fast. move along, usual moore's law-like behavior, less to see each year...
That's the problem with early versions of products though, from any manufacturer. My wife has an original iPad Air, released in 2013, and it just got iOS 12. But it has a 64bit CPU.
Getting them to take your money in exchange for that utility turns out to be hard. I seem to recall figuring out a way to work around the lack of it, but details have been paved out. I think it involved building the OS-based BIOS flashing tool from source.
1. First degree murder does not usually get 20 years.

2. The usual justification (which I can't attest to the validity of) is that the recidivism rate for sex crimes is very high.
There is a pretty hard limit at 110-120 where things just fall apart from pure age.
> Maybe he is praised because he is a good and thoughtful finance writer.

Could be. But there are a lot of good and thoughtful finance writers. I don't see their articles spammed here on the weekly like clockwork along with the fawning worship. It's almost like the article is just posted to talk about how great levine is and not the actual article. Just seems odd to me that's all.

> And if there’s any financial news site which would have an incentive to avoid clickbait it would be Bloomberg because it’s subsidized by the rents it extracts from its terminal and data business, and this is one service they provide to those customers so they have an incentive to provide value.

I'm well aware of what bloomberg is.
What's that shorthand?
Oh my. And they show a bunch of toy prizes. Did this cost money to call?
> because nobody really depends on DNSSEC

That's not true. A lot of people use DNSSEC validating public resolvers like 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, especially on Android devices. I use DNSSEC on my personal domain, and when my zone-resigning cronjob fails, I notice pretty quickly, because the page really does fail to load in my browser.
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How do they compare to Boston Robotics. My understanding they were pursuing different use cases. Former is more about doing repetitive work and latter is more to do movement and carrying stuff. Although Rethink's robot look much primitive to Boston's robots, however may be what they're trying to achieve is much more complicated?
You responded to the only phrase of my original comment that had to do with Levine the person. If this is your concern, perhaps you could have chosen to substantively engage with the article?
https://www.geopackage.org/ is worth a look too - although it's more "SQLite as file format" than SQLite as API.
Why do you think malicious actors won't get their hands on these programs?
The Apple in my classroom was also never used for the most part. And with no hard drive and no spare floppy disks, I couldn't save any of my work anyway which made it hard to learn past a very basic level. But it planted the seed, and allowed me to hit the ground running with QBasic :)
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I posted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145067

But essentially, as % of market on index funds increases, the returns on arbitrage-seeking actively managed portfolios will increase (vs. the market) to the point that they provide higher returns than the index funds (due to index funds no longer accurately capturing all information available in the market), resulting in a shift of money out of index funds to active funds, decreasing the returns in active funds and keeping the market in equilibrium.
This is what you're doing when you use U2F, right?

Also see: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/
Oh wow this is cool.

Is this real?

Like even though the players die a good deal, it still feels like they can play it pretty smoothly.

I’d love to know the system that got built out for this. I imagine it was detecting tones, but would love any more insight into all of that. An rpg game would have been a good way to overcome any timing issues games may introduce.
The collapse of manners
So ultimately, you think your parents forcing you to take lessons was good for you? My son is in that zone - kind of likes, kind of hates taking lessons. But I feel parents have to push their kids to do something to understand that applying effort will help you in life, not just playing video games. Thoughts?
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Companies issue new shares all the time. Tech company stock buyback programs are often treading water against employee equity compensation.
>Why are we looking to lower the bar for this guy?

He could be on tape taking bribes from underage Russian hookers while smoking crack cigarettes wrapped in pages of the Bible, but if the Republicans think he'll kill Roe V. Wade and keep it dead for the rest of his life, they'll take him.
It's Shavian (·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯) which was linked here a little while ago. It's a phonetic english alphabet (so it's not shorthand, but often is shorter) with pretty good font support and a unicode allocation.

The Shavian Reddit has links to a Linux keymap and more details if you'd like it. I used Memrise's Shavian course to memorize it in about a week, and I've been reading and writing ever since.

It's delightful for task and note taking right now because the extra effort of writing to it helps me remember things.
It's fine to comment on a headline but it's generally considered bad form here on HN to comment based just on reading the headline.
> It's about what happens as more and more assets are robotically allocated via algorithms.

Algorithms don't have anything to do with index funds.

And again, as more and more funds move to index funds, the returns on active managed funds will increase due to information asymmetry, and the market will move towards an equilibrium.

The allocation between index and active is a continuum, not a step function.
AKA "wallet"
Which laptop did you get and which version of Linux do you run?

I bought a 2015 DELL XPS 13 (9343) Developer Edition with Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.04 has worked very poorly on it from the start. The installer crashed and I had to reinstall. Then the wifi was very slow. It would frequently lock up on resume. Hardware video decoding would occasionally crash and switch to software decoding which is choppy and eats battery power. The touchpad registered clicks while typing. One time the wifi suddenly stopped working after an update. Each of these problems was mostly solved by spending a few hours researching and running various commands as root. Some were fixed by updates after a few weeks. The latest bug is that right-clicking on the taskbar (panel? dash?) does not show any popup menu. So the only way to add buttons for launching programs is to make text files on the desktop with a special format.

I'm sick of the bugs in my Linux laptop. I'm about to get a Mac again.
I learned the piano well enough to play for money in college. Close your eyes - it’s all muscle memory. Experiment and learn multiple chords and keys. And it takes about 7 years practicing 3-5 Times a week.
On OSX, I wrote an installable startup daemon that logs the current window, and for browsers, captures the URL from the address bar, and logs it to a file. The sampling can be whatever period you decide, but you have to write your own analytics. I haven't made it generally available, but it was a pretty quick project to capture the basic data.

Here's the basic outline:

* Bash script that uses lsappinfo front to figure out what has focus
* log the time, the app name, and other useful data

* If the current app is a browser, then branch on the browser type and "return URL of" the front tab or current document depending on the browser

* Echo whatever you want to capture to STDOUT

Then write up a startup .plist file to install and log the output.
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Do you mean something like edge.js?

https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge
It took me a moment to understand what kernel in the title is referring to. They are not referring to the machine learning term, but a CUDA kernel, a GPU program.
Most likely by cracking the software and then distributing it amongst themselves, but eventually copies will(should?) find their way out into the larger Internet.

Service software for a lot of other consumer hardware (printers, scanners, cameras, etc.) can be found online if you search hard enough.
He's right, we don't need finance or rich people to run the economy. Bring on the fully automated luxury communism!
I don't really believe in it before experimenting, but I'll give it a try with Anki spaced repetion software. Maybe I'll improve remembering.
FYI he no longer holds that position
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Isn't making a robot that looks like a human to replace a human's job a bit like making a mechanical horse to fulfill our transportation needs?

Having worked with robotics for years I can say the amount of setup work that goes into installing fully-functional hardware and software and getting a robotic process running smoothly is enormous. The basic idea is that everything, the robot, all the hardware, all the firmware/software, the end-effector, the workpieces, the sensors, etc. is rigidly-defined and over-spec'd so that with all the tolerance stackup and after all the integration and process debugging work you set it and DON'T CHANGE IT for as long as possible. The chaos that ensues from one little component changing it's behavior can be enormous.

The notion of "smart" robots that you can just slap down or that can just handle all sorts of unknowns and adjust themselves to changes to me always seemed like a really, really big challenge, maybe not as challenging as a driverless car but definitely more of a "general AI" problem.

I'm sure someone has coined the term but there must be some kind of "uncanny valley" of intelligence: a little intelligence (e.g. the PID controllers that actually run robots) is great, a lot of intelligence (fully-blown general AI) is great (if you can get it), but what's in the middle may not be worth the while. Getting the answer correctly 99% of the time doesn't work if you need 99.9% success rate.

From an investment standpoint I would be looking for companies with a REALLY specific well-defined problem that "medium AI" could solve rather than someone who's claiming to take medium AI and apply it vaguely/generally.

I guess that's my take away from this: work on specifying the problem before you work on the solution.
> Back when end users could replace (upgrade) RAM and storage

They still can, by purchasing an older laptop or newer "business class" device. A 2011 Sandy-bridge Thinkpad is perfectly usable even today, and is serviceable in most aspects from battery, SATA/PCIe slots, aftermarket display, and even the CPU on some models.

> Now those are soldered to the motherboard and generally non-upgradeable from the start.

Which is exactly why it's so important to have the freedom to repair. It's no longer a simple SSD swap that any end-user can perform themselves, now to do any such repairs you need specialized tools, knowledge of circuitry, and even a dedicated lab. For Apple to hinder these efforts is Apple turning otherwise perfectly serviceable parts into disposable junk that only they have the capacity to repair - it doesn't need to be like this.

> The main hindrance

What about the hindrance in being restricted in servicing and repairing something you paid for and own? Have you heard about John Deere and their practices?
AFAIK, no.

It was presented as one of many things Amazon does to keep AWS safe at an AWS day I attended or something.
Requiring authorized/first party repair is manifestly bad. Consider what the automobile landscape would look like if the same were true.
I'm pretty sure I could write a shell script to do that, with a bunch of grep/sed hackery in under an hour or two. For a single server, personal project, this is probably the simpler approach for me.
It's amazing how so many of these comments read like Apple PR.

"I trust Apple to run this CA and gate access to it _far_ more than I trust my personal self to do so. This security improvement will make me safer, as well as my non-engineer coworkers, and my mom."

Holy goodness. In the 2000s it was Google will save the world "Do no evil". Now it's Apple "Keeps us safe".
Yeah I've had nothing but a bad time with Jira, it's slow / high latency and high impact to use - combining that with GitHubs poor UX and I guess they're made for each other :/
The hardware is now part of the attack surface, as well, and that will make it much harder to design chips that can withstand attacks years after they are initially designed. The attackers are getting smarter, and at this point anything appears to be a possible targethttps://semiengineering.com/designing-hardware-for-security/
I feel sad for all the Github users who will have to suffer the awful JIRA UX. It’s a tool that tries to be everything to everyone with a decade of legacy cruft attached. The result is something that is slow, confusing, and incoherent. If you have an expert and sink a lot of time into, you can a few decent workflows, but it’s just not worth it.

In the end though, don’t worry the managers will get their reports and everyone will at least have there feature box checked (assume you don’t care about Markdown).
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Of course you'll get oscillations (but the business cycle doesn't have anything to do with it), and you don't even need differential equations.

But the point of equilibrium is a Nash Equilibrium, meaning that any deviation from it will create forces that push back to it (you can think of it as a valley). So while there will be oscillations, you won't expect large deviations.
You're now basically saying "because magic!". Sure the outer universe could be based on something else but the thought experiment is that we'd be doing this in our universe. It doesn't require some other universe with magic unknown properties, it requires first that we can do this in our universe to a sufficient level that NPCs in simulations in our universe can't easily see the issues.
Jira is the worst bug tracking tool I've ever used.
You can help transcribe the code from the original Apollo Guidance Computer: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
This security improvement will make me safer

If society as a whole constantly falls for the "security" argument then it won't be long before every aspect of your life is controlled by some central entity.

I feel obligated to bring up that timeless quote again: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Nope. Do firmware devs need modulo? I thought they do everything with XOR.
Interesting. When I click on the article, this is not the headline I see. I get "Are Index Funds Communist?" with a byline of "There won't be much left to do once the investment robots perfect capitalism."

If it were meant as clickbait, the communist headline would be better :)
Oh, no, I specifically did not buy the Sirocco because it does not have a headphone jack. They're different phones - they still make the 8. The Sirocco is also another $100-150 over the plain 8?
Thanks for this investigation. I was trying to think of what an actor in a position to insert such chips at a manufacturing level would actually want. You've got some tough limitations - you want a security hole that you can exploit on highly firewalled, monitored, and locked-down servers running a variety of software types. But it also needs to be hard to detect and exploit without knowing some sort of secret. If anyone notices you using the exploit, you're screwed. If any security researcher or black-hat hacker finds it too, you're also screwed. It'd have to be pretty good to avoid that, since those guys are probably fuzzing servers all the time. You'd have to be very careful how you used it - if anybody traces a known data breach to this, then you're screwed too.

Presuming you can get control of the BMC and transmit arbitrary network traffic, you'd have to limit it somehow. At least some of the compromised servers would be installed in places where any unexpected outgoing network traffic would be noticed and investigated. Large amounts of detectable traffic could be generated too if these things are all pinging away at something. You'd have to trigger it somehow I suppose. But what kind of trigger can you set up on a server running an unknown OS in unknown configuration that may be behind lots of firewalls? Are we sending some kind of weird magic packet to the server? If I was Google or something, I'd have dumb filtering firewalls set up in front of my servers that drop anything that doesn't look like normal network traffic, just to keep any random person from fuzzing the server and triggering some weird unknown bug.
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By the same argument the people in the outer universe are in a simulation of the outer-outer universe and the people in the outer-outer universe are simulations in the outer-outer-outer universe, etc to infinity.

In other words the theory requires infinite complexity.
That can really change though just depending on how long we've bothered systematically studying $SUBJECT.
Instead of that, we can use any and all means necessary to cause damage to the company engaging in these practices.

There is nothing immoral about attempting to cause monetary damages to bad actors.
Yes but this article is really not about index funds which is why it’s fine that algorithms play a prominent role in the article.
> Because it’s pretty great hardware.

It's not great, it's pretty, sure, but not great. The Last MBP spec were pretty underwhelming, the keyboard was of dubious quality and for the price it's easy to find better specs, more robust and with no extra fee when it comes to warranty. When you buy a Mac you're buying a brand, not a superior product, the "premium" is the logo on rear... Unfortunately I use both Logic and Final Cut on a daily basis so I have no choice.
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You keep responding to your own post. Curious why you thought this was appropriate or necessary.
That's exactly what this is. Jira is entrenched in enterprises...whoever at those seem to like Jira, for whatever reason. Developers want GitHub.

So bosses want Jira, developers want Github. This is one of those have your cake and eat it too scenarios for both Atlassian and GitHub.