skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your analysis of the watch as a notification device. But with regards to the smartphone - the major killer apps it had we're: solving boredom(browser+games), better communication tools(facebook), and gaining access to lots of info everywhere(browser). Some of this things are based on strong psychological needs and many of them are addictive, so you got killer apps.

In theory, glancable notification might have been addictive, but after trying it it appears that it isn't for most people. But it's not to say we won't have killer apps for the watch.

The thing that i find most damning for the watch is that we lack even visions of killer apps for the watch, while we certainly did have visions about the phone before it appeared - people did want to browse on the go.

The only interesting and realistic vision of the watch i've read is that it would be an identity device(easier payments, opening doors, etc) and a UI for our home automation devices plus a notification device.

It's not a very interesting vision, it's just buys people a little bit of extra comfort and isn't really useful unless in very specific context(like running). But who knows, maybe that combined with the fashion, being a status symbol and apple's involvement will sell well.
well being the "noc", I pretty much know about it, so, point by point :
- first our policy is here : http://as12876.net/, where do you see "paid peering" ?
- diversified transit : we've got 4 tier 1 transit, is not that enough "diversified" ? I hardly see what we could do better there ...
- peering: we are also available on the 2 main French IX ! you just need to drop a mail to get our routes on them (how much costs a mail these days ?)
we are also doing free PNI with those having enough datas to send/receive

we are also adding a new IX soon (order was sent yesterday) which will improve our peering towards Europe

the infos you have are at least 10 years old imho...
maybe look at http://map.online.net
There are a lot of conventional cars sold with an emphasis on speed, too. It's a niche market with big pockets.

See also: tesla roadster.
There really isn't anything "better". HTML isn't great, but it's all we got right now.

le sigh.
"Weed out" is a euphemism. The purpose isn't to diminish the number of people following a pursuit, it's to ensure they have the analytical aptitude to be successful at it.

Quite a few competitive major programs where I got my degree required students to complete 1st year calculus (differential, integral, multivariate) and some or all of 1st year physics (mechanics, electromagnetism, waves, optics) before applying.
Link to PDF: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...
It is not a new rendering engine. It is just one custom tag which makes WebGL texture of your HTML content and allows to apply shaders. That is it...
I imagine it could be very difficult to see posts by or about friends or family who have passed away but you could look at it as an opportunity to remember good times too.

The Facebook timeline always strikes me as kind of false by only presenting purely positive events in someone's life. Negative events effect people profoundly but aren't represented at all by Facebook.

I understand also that one wouldn't want reminded of such things whilst the pain was still fresh.

My conclusion is that people are complicated...
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I miss Jim Weirich :(
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Great point. Current smart watches have zero appeal to me. But, if they started to move towards a curved, wider forearm band (similar to a QB arm band playbook), a lot of possibilities open up. It'd probably be a tough sell initially from a fashion standpoint though. I did see some mockups that took this approach when the Apple rumors first started flying.
Many devices/operating systems actually have an option to mix stereo into mono.
Postscript. Been there for ages and works like a charm.
I have always thought of '@' as an archery target.
Aaron Swartz didn't have criminal intent. Look how that turned out. Even if he hadn't committed suicide, look at how that would have turned out.

Intent speaks to motivation, which speaks to the internal workings of one's mind. That may be relevant in a criminal trial. But it's far too nebulous of a concept to be considered when they're deciding whether to freeze your bank account. So they won't, no matter what lip service they pay.

They will "freeze first and ask questions later." We all know it's the truth.
Yes - I'll add the ability to Subscribe to RSS - it won't be immediate but keep your ears open.
> "You are not authorised to know the status of this item" is more informative and less misleading than "This item doesn't exist"

Well the RFC says a 404 basically means "this item doesn't exist, or I can't tell you if it does". If you ignore part of the definition, then sure, it doesn't make sense. Including that last part, then of course it makes sense for this case!

If you returned 403's, I can see people complaining that they should have access to their own images and they've logged in and checked their password/etc only to find out they've spelled the name wrong. A 403 also does not seem, to me, to cover the case where an item does not exist but a 404 definitely covers the case where it exists but can't disclose that fact.

Really the solution here would have been to, when seeing a 404, say to the user:

"The image iancal/thing either does not exist or you do not have access to see it. If you believe the image exists, please ensure you are logged in and have appropriate access rights"
The mechanics of the attack are entirely within the realm of sanctioned internet behavior

Not sure what you mean by "sanctioned" here. Technically possible? Yes. But also abusing and perverting the most important medium of our age.

The internet largely works BECAUSE of trust and cooperation and BECAUSE actors chose to not fuck with each other. If China truly is behind this I have half a mind to just cut them entirely out, except in a way that is exactly what they want and figuring out how to maintain the positive effects of said internet on democracy and free speech is worth the trouble.
I think could be nice. There is an intention to create React-GL, but nothing serious yet. All you basically need is to call something like new GLElement(this.getDOMNode()). Or how is it in 0.13?...
Yes, mea culpa. I was paraphrasing an argument I'd made before, and I made the comment about killer apps within a context in my own mind of saying much of what you just did. But that context did not go into the text.

I agree with you entirely about the vision of killer apps on the watch.
My local electric coop recently ran fiber to every cow farm in this rural county and offers symmetrical gigabit for $100/month. Why can't everyone have this?

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Not necessarily. Looks like it is an immediate mode, HTML-like syntax but without the DOM.
Calculus is a requirement for all undergrad science degrees in most places, and a biologist has about as much use for integral calculus as a fish does with a bicycle. They're much better served by statistics, which is not, a majority of the time, an undegrad requirement for all majors.
Your browser is slow when applying transform to DOM elements because it has to translate everything 3D in terms of JavaScript and DOM. If you want to manipulate images and elements effectively in 3D then you have to learn matrix computations, quaternions and stuff which is horrible for the common web developer.
I'm saying that if you offer a new approach that could mix HTML/CSS and encapsulate those complex 3D concepts it would be interesting.
Quite frankly, Germany is eating the US' lunch when it comes to advanced Computer Vision research and applications. My guess is that it's because of things like this.

So, that is a tough thing for us when recruiting because they have so many easier options over there instead of working, even remote, for people in the US.
The story of healthcare.gov is that one set of federal contractors totally messed it up, and that another group of folks managed to get it back on track. It's not reasonable to claim that the latter group is somehow profiting unethically from the failure of the former.
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Thats my question exactly. Why roll your own client when you could use curl?
I think that measuring propagation delay at CL.ONE isn't very interesting because if you care about propagation delay you also don't use CL.ONE.

That said my passion is to get everything in C* off heap and get GC pauses down to single digit milliseconds. Old-gen pauses a handful of times a day with pause times 30 milliseconds or so and also nothing to write home about since it should be possible to a small old gen. All with good old CMS or G1.

From what I know it's a pretty attainable goal. The main bad actor is memtables and fast efficient off-heap memory management for memtables is easy because you can throw away all associated memory when the memtable is flushed.

That still wouldn't make using CL.ONE any better of an idea. GC pauses are one of several sources of propagation delay.
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What preserves greenspace more: 1000 people living in a tower block, or 1000 people, each with their own homes and lawns, sprawling across an entire suburban neighborhood?

Of course, it's not as simple as that. Greenspace is important, which is why cities have parks.
Edward wasn't crazy, he was just very focused.

As for Putin, weren't we doing much the same under GW when we decided we were going to ignore the ABM treaty?

BTW, the 10GT design was to be used for asteroid defence.

Edward should have won the Nobel prize, he succeeded in designing a weapon so horrible it has never been used in warfare.
> Most browsers can do a for..in. At least for me there is no browser in existence that I care about that doesn't have that :)

then why are you using the underscore/lodash/jquery method, it's main advantage (besides working on array like objects) is compatibility for older browsers..

I'm, btw, on your side here and just use Object.keys and move on for objects and use a while loop for array like objects.
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Apple hasn't stopped everything they are doing to make the Apple Watch. They are a very large company with significant resources. Is trying to tackle payments (Apple Pay), home automation (HomeKit), computing (OSX/Macs), mobile (iOS/iPhones/iPad), music (Beats), video (AppleTV) etc not big enough problems ?

And Tim Cook has made it clear that he sees health as one of the defining issues of our generation and the Apple Watch is his first attempt at it. You really want to argue with that ?
> While many explanations are possible, such as hackers breaking into these machines, the overwhelmingly most likely suspect for the source of the GitHub attacks is the Chinese government.

Correlating the circumstantial facts that China has a giant firewall, the content being blocked is getting around China's firewall, and an attack came from somewhere deep in one of China's largest backbone providers, does not make an 'extreme likelihood'; it makes a weak correlation. Likelihood requires reviewing known outcomes to determine a likely result. What other known evidence of specifically these three behaviors by the Chinese government are you basing this conclusion on?

> This is important evidence for our government.

You've taken a massive leap in logic from a machine inside China manipulating global traffic to attack servers in the US, to conclude that it is more likely to have been the Government than anyone else. This is exactly the same as saying any attack originating from the US which appears to be related to US interests must be from the US government. If this was the basis for how we concluded all investigations into illegal actions, anyone who 'looked like' they did it would be found guilty, sans evidence. That may be how other nations' justice system works, but not ours.

Furthermore, in no way is either Github or Baidu's analytics considered 'key US Internet infrastructure'. I mean, Git is even a decentralized system - people can still get work done if it's down!

This is not evidence of the Chinese government's complicity, and pretending it is creates a dangerous logical fallacy that could improperly shape public opinion.
CloudFlare is funded by the department of homeland security: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-websit...
Australia has never been on top of its problems with immigration.
Unless things have changed recently, before getting accepted to one of the top universities in the UK you'll be expected to do an in-person interview.

(I remember having to choose one lecture to study beforehand and I chose Feynman's introduction to Special Relativity. I didn't even know who Feynman was at the time but really enjoyed his book of lectures, and a couple of years later he became one of my heroes after reading "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman")
Yeah, all of the Raynos libraries are really nice and modular. Each one is useful on its own (I think with one exception) without the need for the other Mercury components. It's actually quite a feat.
When you use a remote blockstore like they are as your storage, you also generally are always booting via PXE, and so far have a provider controlled kernel.

I used to work on Rackspace OnMetal:
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal

https://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2014/07/02/putting-...

In OnMetal this not the case -- you get local storage, you have your local kernel that you can re-install or do whatever you want to -- and if we have a control plane outage, you can reboot -- there is no dependency once your server is created on a provider hosted PXE server.

OnMetal isn't cheapo-ARM servers, but it is possible to build a "bare metal" cloud, which is truly bare metal, like you would normally get, and no remote block stores for your root FS.
I see it as a hassle- I dont want to be doing a bunch or redundant whitelisting to make the percona tools work. Worse, I don't want to ship them separately, xtrabackup uses mysql as a library, which means separate containers only buys you bugs.

Docker's design decisions make sense if you're shipping statically linked, standalone binaries everywhere. Which I suspect docker.io and many other people are doing. But that's also sort of a boring edge case where you don't even need filesystem namespaces except for cleanliness.
I'm sorry to be skeptical, but when a random person on the internet claims to have implemented SSL more securely than open source tools that are completely built around security, I tend to not believe it.

Implementing SSL is easy. Implementing SSL correctly is very difficult, and you probably won't find out you did it wrong for a long time, if ever.
"Your phone is ruining your life"...so here's a gadget you can wear on your wrist that will connect to it and deliver you the same notifications your phone does, only on your wrist.

No, phones aren't ruining people's lives. People are ruining people's lives. Companies demanding that employees be accessible all day every day, inside and outside of the office, is ruining some people's lives. Their phones are merely a tool for some people to ruin other people's lives with and that issue is not resolved by moving the notification delivery to one's wrist.

I am an average person, I'm not bombarded with notifications. I get messages from my girlfriend fairly regularly, some texts from friends, and email that is at best not urgent, and worst just junk packaged up in a more pretty manner that I've somehow not unsubscribed from.

I can't help but see smartwatches as a fad gadget with no longevity and I'm struggling to see a real use case for them. The big focus is on "Health". Omg, you can track how many steps you've taken today?! Or your heartbeat?! Wow, that's going to make me turn around and get my life in order, right?!

Well, the (presumably) massive amount of Fitbits and other wearable fitness trackers abandoned on people's shelves would indicate otherwise. Ok, a small percentage of people will actually use these things regularly, but for most they're a fad that will inevitably sit on a shelf gathering dust as is what happens with the vast majority of sports equipment bought by non-sportspeople.

I don't need to be able to access the weather forecast at a moment's notice, I can look out the window and get a good idea, or I can check out accuweather in the morning and see what they reckon is coming our way for the day.

Maybe I'm just becoming more cynical as I'm getting older (and I'm not old, I'm only approaching 30), but mainstream technology seems to be delivering very little substance these days and a whole lot of trendy, heavily marketed nonsense.

Do I need email on my wrist? No. Whatsapp messages? No. The weather forecast? No. Facebook notifications? Absolutely not. My fitness tracked? No, not really and I'm not going to delude myself into thinking strapping something to my wrist will drastically change my habits.

So what do I want on my wrist? Something that will tell me the time instantly without having to fish out my phone, that will look well as a style accessory and that won't run out of battery within a day if I decide to look at the time more frequently and none of these smartwatches deliver any of that without making large tradeoffs on looks or battery life.

Iphone killer? Certainly not. Even if an Apple Watch could work totally independently, the screen/the medium is not conductive to actually doing anything on it like sending a message or an email.

Let's call it what it is - a fad gadget whose sales will be a testament to its marketing and not due to the value it delivers its users.
The cliche's were right all along. It does corrupt absolutely.
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"Also, it hurt. Seriously: Try holding up your arm as if you’re looking at your watch. Now count to 30."
My analysis of the muscles involved in holding up a watch here: http://tumbledry.org/2015/01/08/apple_watchs_wrist_position
Completely agree with you here - there should never be the need to hardcode file names in a makefile or repeat a rule multiple times - just use pattern rules.
This creates an interesting change in how applications are deployed to users. Instead of the user choosing the HTML rendering engine, the developer now gets to choose it. Instead of having to design sites with multiple rendering engines in mind, this makes it possible to manage only one. And it's not like the user cares that content is being rendered by Firefox or Chrome or whatever, the user just cares to see the page, leaving the selection of the actual rendering engine only of concern to the developer.

I think that's important enough to warrant going through the paces and implementing this. Don't listen to the naysayers. Reinvent wheels. The wheels we currently have largely suck.
Every company needs a platform to attack other markets and industries from. Build fast and break into other accessible applications of your product or service.
With regards to the tablet, the killer app is the big screen. Once you know people use their phone on the sofa and bed(and Apple surely did know that) plus the fact that people prefer large screens(They also did know that), the tablet usecase is simple.

The only question why did nobody release something before them. Could have been luck. Could have been that they worked on a tablet long before.Could have been Apple's amazing supply chain Could have been some other business reason. But i think it was just a matter of time till someone releasing a tablet.

And btw ,nokia had a device similar to the tablet a few years before the ipad(and even before the iphone), but they didn't made a product of it.
> How is he crazy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

"during Oppenheimer's trial he was the only member of the scientific community to state that Oppenheimer should not be granted security clearance"

"One of the most controversial projects he proposed was a plan to use a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb to dig a deep-water harbor more than a mile long and half a mile wide to use for shipment of resources from coal and oil fields through Point Hope, Alaska."

"Teller suffered a heart attack in 1979, and many observers[71] described him as blaming it on Jane Fonda"

"In the 1980s, Teller began a strong campaign for what was later called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derided by critics as "Star Wars," the concept of using ground and satellite-based lasers, particle beams and missiles to destroy incoming Soviet ICBMs."

A few megadeaths here-or-there.

The only thing missing from Dr Strangelove is having the uncontrollable hand. Yes, you can call him "just focused" if you prefer that. Let him "peacefully" dig in your backyard.
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To continue my other post, you are of course right and I shouldn't have brought up iOS. Running iPhone apps on an iPad is such a kludgy experience that it might as well not work at all. Let's see if Apple manages to make things even worse with the rumoured iPad Pro :|
> First of all, this article doesn't have a single criticism of this?

In some places, there is still a distinction between:

(1) Reporting on the news,

(2) Reporting on reactions to the news, and

(3) Providing an outlet's own commentary/opinion on the news.

Its true that a number of popular news outlets try to pass off (2) and even (3) as (1), and that if you are used to that an article that sets out to do (1) and ends up only doing (1) may be confusing.
> 3. And part of the reason for #2 is that if you're really getting lots of meaningful notifications, you're going to want to act on some of them, and the watch form factor is just fundamentally bad for acting on anything.

Yes! I've had a pebble for quite some time now and while they've significantly upgraded their API and device functionality they most recently added the ability to reply on your watch, which IMO is absolutely useless. Why anyone would want to fiddle on their watch for a minute or more when they can send the same message in a fraction of the time on their phone is beyond me.
>This will make people even less present, because they'll be even more tightly connected to the invisible communication happening while you're talking to them.

This is an insightful prediction I hadn't considered. People oftentimes have their phones on silent because they don't want to be bothered at certain times, or can at least ignore some intermittent buzzing. The ease of checking your wrist at every buzz will make it more tempting to divert your attention to it. While it may save phone pulls, it will increase distraction from the task at hand. Now not only do I have a choice whether to check the notification, I now know what the notification is and have to decide whether to act on it or not. Surely that added multitasking will make it more difficult to concentrate.

Just like studies they've done on emails, it's better to let them pile up for a period without notification than to quickly glance at each incoming email. People are just better at concentrating on one thing.
better than "quantum teleportation" I guess
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Well when I mean pretty underwhelming I mean that I kinda expected a nuke to take out the entirety of New York + a big chunk of the east coast. I mean these are the weapons of doom, right? The weapons that will end the world?

And yet if you are just 30 miles from the target the first time you are going to notice is when you turn on the TV.
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I think they had to make another account because the bot was having issues...
MoaRVM's Win_x64 adoption
That's pretty fair, considering many schools in the US now cost $25,000 USD a year. How much is health insurance?
Re: whiteboard - Shouldn't Lync + OneNote solve this?
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This is showing up in my google apps listing:

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