skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he was ever indicating that we should start making regulations right now. I got the sense that he was planning for when that technology starts to come out that we can have some plans ready.

Imagine if we just planned for a lot of other technologies before they came out that we didn't think would have. We could have avoided some serious problems. It is obviously a balance of fostering innovation vs safety regulations, but some safety considerations are a must in my opinion.
Tinder CEO: “So, the new features are pretty well received.”
I agree. Engine developers would target Vulkan. But I don't consider a game engine to be an application. It's more of a library, I would say. The game that uses the engine is the application.
>We'd ask it to produce a simplified version.

Yeah, that would work :)

Maybe the question I should have asked, is:

What if we ask a super-AI for a proof of the ABC conjecture, and the result is something too complicated for humans to verify?

My point, if I have one, is that when I read about "superhuman machine intelligence", sometime people seem to mean "capable of knowledge that humans couldn't figure out on their own but that humans can understand once they see it"; and sometimes they seem to mean "capable of knowledge that is beyond human capacity to even verify".

I think development machine intelligence of the first kind is extremely likely, but I'm more skeptical about the second kind.
See also the recent "Safari is holding back the web" articles. IE is historically awful, but modern IE is generally better than modern Safari.
This Anthology of Short Sci-Fi Video Games Is Too Weird for the Mainstream
Show HN: An embitious Hacker News reader built with Ember.js
It's a prevalent meme, isn't it? I'm surprised at how many people never even realized how fundamentally dangerous it was to issue an `svn update` with local changes. And perhaps less seriously but still problematic, how `svn commit` can put the repository into a state that never existed on any developer's machine (because it effectively does a rebase on the server), which is not always safe to do even when there's no merge conflicts.
Great article. And here's some academic research that models the dynamics of bus bunching and proposes a decentralized control scheme to minimize a combination of passenger wait time and travel time:

http://www.its.berkeley.edu/publications/UCB/2011/VWP/UCB-IT...

...And here's a product we created to commercialize this research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXZybHO52A

Full disclosure: I am a co-founder along with the authors of the above paper of Via Analytics:

v-a.io
Wow, Your answer made me question a lot of things and I realized others. Thanks!
What are the benefits of incorporating? It sounds like it's been a nightmare.
I think the most important lesson from the last couple of years is that all our security protocols must come with adversarial testing suites -- from inception. Clearly, there's a long way between designing a secure protocol (I am not saying that SSL and TLS were properly designed) and implementing one.
"The Bay Area will experience an earthquake in next decade"

Location, time, and magnitude on all earthquake predictions, please.
I find myself very confused after getting to the align-items and align-content part. For those of us who prefer a more formal introduction, the guide on MDN seems pretty well written: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi...
Live patching has its serious critics, and it is also not nearly finished "I think they are fundamentally misguided in both implementation and in design, which turns them into an (unwilling) extended arm of the security theater." [1]

[1] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/634649/f6a2aa1f39c538b7/
If you are on Debian, you could try checkrestart
The wait is a bit annoying. But I like the answers.

Ha ha. Acuman knows Chappie.
such wow.
Show HN: ASCII webcam viewer (Chrome only)
>GitLab acquires Gitorious to bolster its on premises code collaboration platform

You guys are maybe celebrating a bit too much. Cut down on the drinks. ;)
Steve Jobs also did it for more than a year.
Ice Runways Aren't as Crazy as They Sound
Fingerpointing is touchscreen. The puck mouse was just awkward pushing with fingers.
Thanks for sharing this information , it looks that sites like Betalist are the best choice for my app right now.
> It can leave the connection open for re-use for very extended periods of time, so there's no need for that costly handshake that HTTP1 requires for every request.

HTTP1 supports pipelining requests.

> HTTP2 also uses compression, unlike HTTP1, and so the size of the request is significantly smaller - and thus faster.

'significantly'? How much is that?

> HTTP2 multiplexes; it can send and receive multiple things at the same time over one connection.

If that one connection stalls, multiple things won't be transferred.

Plus it introduces new protocol overhead.
Can't say, my driving instructor told me to pay attention to people near them because it does affect traffic lights (and even sequences of them). Other than that, it's pretty possible it's just a decoy to trigger pedestrians patience because they think lights are about to switch.
Proprietary Scumminess: The Case of Dropbox
That's a great point, thanks
An Indian friend of mine once told me the Federales wanted to make India ban cannabis in the sixties. "The Americans had no idea why it's called weed", she said and pointed at some in the ditch by the road where we were driving.

I wonder whether Indian animals amble around stoned, laughing happily together and making jokes about how there are no tigers nearby anyway so chill out.
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Motorcycles still win in that department, even if modern sportbikes are getting more and more electronic helpers.
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just remove those
Hangout on Deploying and Operating Microservices
I'm more skeptical of the benefit of auto-hyphenation than the author is; it's been my experience that even with a proper hyphenation dictionary, you get some weird hyphenations that you want to manually undo (or force).

Which means that if you're working with print, where you can do those corrections/fixes, hyphenation is great; let the algorithms work, do your little bit of fine-tuning, and it's good. But on the web, you can't do your fine-tuning, so it's auto or nothing -- and "nothing"/unjustified text typically has less annoying failure modes than auto-hyphenated/justified text does.

And I think the author is flat wrong about preferring unstyled content flashes over delayed rendering of content that's waiting for a font. The unstyled flashes are massively distracting and disorienting to a reader; the delayed rendering just makes it seem like the page is a bit slow to finish loading.
That's very odd, as its being served by Cloudflare, which has SSLv3 disabled by default:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sslv3-support-disabled-by-defaul...

➜ ~ host githubarchive.org
githubarchive.org has address 104.28.26.8
githubarchive.org has address 104.28.27.8
githubarchive.org has IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2048:1::681c:1b08
githubarchive.org has IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2048:1::681c:1a08

NetRange: 104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR: 104.16.0.0/12
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
NetHandle: NET-104-16-0-0-1
Parent: NET104 (NET-104-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS: AS13335
Organization: CloudFlare, Inc. (CLOUD14)
RegDate: 2014-03-28
Updated: 2014-03-28
Comment: https://www.cloudflare.com
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-104-16-0-0-1
> If one is a novice and just want to have source control and versioning, centralized systems are going to have the better cost/benefit.

This seems completely backwards to me. When I was in college, I thought it was a giant pain to source control my homework, because the options I was aware of (since all I knew about was SVN) were 1) public hosting on sourceforge (which was itself a pain to use), which professors were not keen on, 2) find a private host somewhere (not sure I ever did), 3) run my own server somewhere, 4) configure and run a local server. I went with (3) and (4) but it was never an easy or novice-friendly solution, and mostly I just didn't version control things. The local version control model of DVCS would have been much easier.

It's only when working with other people that any extra complexity even rears its head at all, which doesn't come up if you're a novice who just wants to have source control and versioning.
If there is demand for individuals you can use this to your advantage and offer a single payment for individuals and subscriptions for families.

If you leave it to your competitors to satisfy the individuals then most individuals and one day their families will just stay with your competitors.
> HTTP2 also uses compression, unlike HTTP1, and so the size of the request is significantly smaller - and thus faster.

Also, an HTTP/1.1 server, when configured properly, will use compression as well.
git-annex assistant might be perfect for your usecase.
Oh great, now we can enjoy Limpet-man (and its sequels)
IM ON THE INTERNET
That article is atrocious as any kind of source, it's clearly an opinion piece.

I'm asking for an actual study comparing homeless rates of liberal cities vs conservative cities. Also a list of which cities are actually liberal vs conservative would be nice.
As long as you don't mind a travel time measured in centuries.
>Not entire world is a goddamn Sillicon Valley. Internet is not electricity, and won't be for a while - free and reliable WiFi ain't everywhere; sometimes you work where you're not allowed to connect to a network, sometimes your ISP decides to fuck up the link for an hour for no reason whatsoever, the other day you work at a venue with office-grade Internet (i.e. slow as hell). And then you might want to hack during commute. Data plans are expensive, not every place on Earth has LTE connection (or any form of reasonable data connection for that matter)...

So, in other words, like someone working away from home base...like someone...in the field. I suppose I wasn't clear. I had hoped my use of "virtual wilderness" implied a different domain for "field" that is not necessarily a physical location.

>Internet is not electricity

And there was a time where electricity wasn't ubiquitous either (and it still isn't depending where you are). Such places, then and now, could be reasonably described as being relatively in the field.

>and I don't mean wilderness, I mean the highway between two big cities.

That could definitely fall under working in the field, especially compared to an office.

>Above all that, what happened with the concept of owning the data?

Choose whatever VCS you like for whatever reasons you want; it doesn't matter to me. I'm merely pointing out that I think the author covered that base. You may not be underwater in a submarine, but if you're on the road on your laptop trying to scrounge for LTE or zipping from firewalled office to firewalled office, you may as well be virtually underwater with respect to the Internet.
OneShot, a one week design case study
This book backs up what you are saying (in part):

https://books.google.com/books?id=qtCRa7bCz3oC&pg=PA13&lpg=P...

However as another commenter pointed out the "phony" switch worked.

Plus according the the above book not only did the crewman adjust the temperature when he saw the light flash, but Johnson felt the temperature was adjusted.

The idea here is not whether or not Johnson understood the technology. But I find it hard to believe that a man who is vice President of the United States is so easily duped. He asked for a switch to adjust temperature and he got a switch that could adjust temperature.

Despite the fact that "one of our volunteers was the plane's crew chief" do you think that it's at all possible that the story was somewhat embellished for effect? (Not saying it was but we are not talking about sworn court testimony when someone relates something that happened many years prior, right?)
Because I would like to do cross platform C# development (using Visual Studio IDE)... but the only option I found so far was Xamarin. But Xamarin's prices are out in the stratosphere somewhere. If they had a model like Unity it would be way better for us small developers.
He emailed a Google VP.
That's much more defined that I imagined it would be. Hauntingly so.
Only if the founder salary has increased by more than 50% since the start. See this response from Bryce with more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9139507
This is more or less a tool-supported version of what we do at work--I've posted about it a few times, to sneering response.

The config file thing would hopefully be nice and small/simple so it's not a hassle to use. I think their '“rsc.io/x86/x86asm” with revision af2970a7819d' format would be more pleasant than JSON, but if they need more detail than just a repo path and a revision, JSON may be the way to go.
Reusable Pure CSS Themes
As a single-owner, there are only 2 that I see. 1) limited liability (personally a single-owner LLC is probably a better choice for this). 2) I bill my clients over a "market value wage" for a developer. Then I "hire myself" and pay myself a "market value" wage". I pay normal taxes on this, plus unemployment taxes. Any income over this "market value" wage, I can take as shareholder distributions (i.e. dividend). Those are taxed at long term capital gains, which is 5-8% lower than my tax bracket.

If you have partners, then its easy to set ownership (its % of shares), sell shares to VC, etc. Note: I am no where near this step yet, so I don't know the gritty details here.

I made every mistake possible as a corporation and have big scars to prove it. If you get some training, it won't be such a bad experience I'd hope.
Ah, I'm on CentOS (RHEL), which seems to lack an equivalent.

EDIT: Note that the key feature is assistance in restarting! Which the debian gizmo does. Just detecting can be done by the lsof pipe I posted.
Any command line program that is compiled and plays by *nix's rules or by Win32's rules, in theory, should still be able to run in 20 years.

UI is always the sticky issue, it will almost always change, and the underlying api with it. Will iOS and Android stick with their apis and run times? They're just too new to say. The browser is, almost by definition, supposed to change.
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Just small recommendation -test your shit
Bizarre to think that at the time nobody stopped Oracle from picking up Ksplice (they offered rebootless security patches for all the larger distros back in what, 2009?). I really loved their service because it meant I could keep my half million or so terminals in gnu screen open for months.

(Also, their blog was great - see eg this really scary proof-of-concept of what you can do when you know how to live-patch a kernel https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/hosting_backdoors_in_... )
This is how corporate life works & it took five years for me to come to terms with it. However, I have done much better as an Employee (in the eyes of my Manager/Company) ever since.

Once you develop a good reputation by playing the game, you can always fix old bad decisions & at that point, your superiors would actually encourage you to do so.
Uh, what? No. If you're fat and sick, its because you're eating grains, refined sugars, and legumes, and stop demonizing meat and fat. Cut all of those out of your diet and you'll feel much better.

Don't think it works? I went from 340 pounds to 214 in exactly a year with no increase in exercise, and now I weigh 184 and I'm still going.
I've built many apps using Ember and the time I save not writing boilerplate code or jquery spaghetti is well worth the time I spend understanding how to do more complicated things. Every time I get a bit frustrated with something seemingly complicated, I always realize it was better that way in the end.

Often I discover that I can do exactly what I wanted in just a few lines of code and writing it in pure javascript or jquery would have been many, many more lines of code and much less maintainable.

Developers smarter than I have struggled with these problems and developed optimal solutions that might not be easy to fully grok at first, but are always worth the effort to understand.
A/B Testing Visualizations
What is the low monthly fee? Couldn't find that info on the website.
Alzheimer Amyloid Clumps Found in Young Adult Brains
This approach can backfire. If this regulations are not voluntary, but enforced by government violence, then you are providing to SMI one more example, that force can be initiated for "greater good".
_rap_game combines a random rap acapella with a random song from an SNES game
Lecture 18 is pretty applicable here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

I'd also look into Dave Ramsey's book, Entre Leadership (https://www.entreleadership.com/)
Yes, there is a difference betwixt 'true REST' (as defined by Roy Fielding in his PhD dissertation) and what most people refer to as REST. I was referring to the latter: in my experience 'true REST' APIs are rare in the wild.
I could see that being around for a while. but do old projects actually work on the latest version of the platform?
More of this: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/stoopid.lis
The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin
Finding the melodies hidden in traditional embroidery
When in doubt, UE4 is going to be open source and Unity is not. In my book until Unity opens up their code there is no competition for anything more than a hobbyist toy that needs to get at the engine guts without a new car or more to see it.
Actual paper: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/26/bra...
I don't think doing that is pretty hard with today's technologies. I do the same to my father using a free version of TeamViewer and setting unattended access on his machine. I can access his machine whenever I want, fix things and close the session. I don't need anything more than that.
Orbit is precisely halfway to the boundary of a region of space for which double of the to-orbit energy is required to attain. It's barely "anywhere" much less "everywhere."
Co-worker made a useful post on how best to A/B test visualizations. Good read and reference.
Is unity planning to upgrade mono with the recent license changes? Or are those license changes still not good enough?

Are they planning to improve it's VCS friendliness problems?
The only difference is that finding the dependencies can be a pain if they changed location, or github is down, or the specific version isn't a specific git commit or something like that.

Since there's no real difference, it doesn't really matter if you check in deps or have specific versions in a config file, either solution solves the underlying problem of having non-precise dependencies (i.e. just a github repo, or a version selector like >= 2.6)
Oh god that's a pretty serious issue.

I was really excited about checking it out too, I'll wait.
>Serious question: Do you think this is a conscious choice made by those in the tech field?

>I ask because my lived experience is different than that, and yes, it's a serious question even though my response may have been flippant above.

Your anecdote is not data.
Why we didn’t sell our startup
This is the rhetoric GPU vendors will use to justify their behavior, of course, but $billions and modern technology can address this if AMD and Nvidia feel that it is important.
Been waiting for this and I'll sign up the second it's available. When might that be?

Use case: As I write this, my computer is rendering a 4 minute video in the background. For the next hour, my computer is near useless and I've got a hundred of these to go.

I'd love to be able to set it to remote render on a super-computer and close the tab. And, I may never have to upgrade my computer again!
Well, it's not 'scanning files'. It's scanning meta-data about directories and files.

You can see three calls for each file in the ProcMon logs:

1. CreateFile

2. QueryBasicInformationFile

3. CloseFile

Let's go through these in order:

1. Opens a handle to the file, allowing the application to query meta information, read, and write

2. Queries meta information about the file.

3. Closes the handle to the file before doing anything else, including reading data.

There's no scanning of files, because no data is read. Its common for applications to traverse directories like this, and the behavior could even be a consequence of a file system library or API that dropbox is using. If you think of your file system as a filing cabinet, what DropBox is doing might be equivalent to opening every drawer looking for a single file.

ProcMon detects CreateFile and QueryInformationFile using these function codes:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff548630(v=vs.85).a...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff549283.aspx

As you can see, neither of these indicates a file being read. It also monitors a number of other codes (I'm not sure how specifically it detects CloseFile), including this one, which is triggered when data is read from a file:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff549327(v=vs.85).a...

If that was being called, ProcMon would show it, but it doesn't
Dare I ask how having half a million terminals open in screen is useful in any way?
The Self-Actualizing Robot: An Art Concept
if your instances go down you're going to have to deal with it.
AWS Creator Benjamin Black Joins Pivotal
What about Numenta? They claim to have a general, neocortex-inspired learning algorithm.

http://numenta.com/
Yes, I am aware of that, but it's hard to find a really good answer and research it and compare it with other answers using the internet without taking a while to load! Also, I'm dependent on free APIs.

He also knows simsimi and cleverbot.
Why the downvotes?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11012008/Paedophi...
>The researchers allowed the mosquitoes to feed on their own arms for five years because of concerns at the time Wolbachia could infect humans and domestic animals.

i could only applaud. Seriously. I'm against animal testing, and i think human species should carry the burden of what it does for its own benefit and as result it would be forced to do it responsibly.
You're incorrect. I had no trouble creating a password Testd\\ks1! with the word in question. I think it's because you tried to use a space? Or else didn't meet their password requirements.
There are still $1500 Pro exporters for IOS and Android listed on the site.
Many games write their own engines, so I'd say that it concerns game developers too. They better understand the underlying logic anyway.

By the way, it looks like Vulkan doesn't get rid of single thread bottleneck for submitting commands to the GPU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140849

It doesn't look competitive in comparison with DX12 and Mantle.
Then I guess we need a new name. The engine is "readable source"