skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there are a few key differences with Valve vs 3DO.

1. Valve is already profitable.

2. I do not believe that they are charging Steam Box manufacturers a licensing fee unlike 3DO so that may help.

3. Reading the article, it looks like some Alienware models are able to dual boot as a Windows PC? If so, that helps justify the price. A $750 PC isn't expensive vs a $750 video game console.
Is there a name for cognitive bias where extremely unfavorable events like the end of antibiotics, or a permanent technological dark age, or the extinction of the human race, are dismissed a priori with no justification? Like, something so bad that obviously someone would do something about it, without showing that someone really would or, indeed, whether someone even could.

Somehow, this cognitive bias never manifests when we're talking about government overreach, in which All Laws I Don't Like Eventually Lead To Totalitarianism - but antibiotic resistance? Apparently no big deal.
I like the image. It's apparently from Wall Street Journal - "Pencil Drawing - Eric Schmidt.png".
Oilfield near Gatwick Airport, UK could hold 100B barrels
> I just want to buy a box that is better than XBoxOne at the same price. At this rate I think a used XBoxOne off ebay is a better option. Let steam machines bake for a year or so.

Honestly the XboxOne has more value, right now, than the Steam Machines in terms of how well games will run on it. But you can say that the Steam Machines may have more games (but not as many that you can play with a joypad - since some PC games require a keyboard anyway). It's not a straightforward comparison, and it depends a lot on what games you want to play in the end. If you want AAA games, right now it looks like the Xbox one is a better option, but maybe that will change later in 2016. Who knows...

> now you've got 99 disappointed customers and 1 happy customer.

Which is precisely why they should have setup minimum specs for their Steam Machines, or at least have a Valve Steam Machine that sets the standard. But Valve did not do that, and I am also concerned they will fail precisely because of that.
So what you're saying is that Twitter withheld their MAU because the figures were poor?

Why did Gmails MAU need to be kept secret?

As an aside growth at Coinbase in user accounts IS slowing quite dramatically. 350K per month for 2013, 100k per month for 2014, 50K per month for 2014.
He has a number of blanket statements ready about Europe, but Europe is a very diverse place, much more so than the US. Norway, Turkey, Russia, Luxembourg, the UK differ much more from each other than Alaska, Louisiana, Texas, New York, California.

In the end I don't think it has much to do with 'America' vs 'Not America', but with Silicon Valley having been the place where it started. You can't create a second silicon valley in Florida any more than you can in Germany. The startups go to Silicon Valley because that's where the investors are. The investors go to Silicon Valley because that's where the startups go. You can't create a second Hollywood, a second Mecca, a second Rome.

I don't think these things develop according to a plan. Perhaps a generation from now, the Chinese equivalent of Hacker News will mock American attempts to create a second Shanghai or Moscow.
I don't think Valve will be crying themselves to sleep if you buy a $50 dollar streaming box and a $50 dollar controller, and then continue to buy games on their service, instead of spending an extra $300 dollars (which will mostly go to the people producing the hardware) to get a system that's less reliant on your internal wifi.

Either way it's a beachhead for them in the living room, and as computing devices become smaller, and cheaper over time, (and Linux game support increases) they're better and better positioned.

I'm kind of adjacent to the demographic for this thing. I don't have a high-end gaming PC, but I have Steam installed on my Mac laptop (Mac and Linux support are basically the same in Steam) for mostly indie/classic/old games. Notably, you can't stream Steam games from the Mac currently (though I don't think there's a fundamental technical reason for that, edit: hmm, the info page seems to suggest I can stream games if I update to Yosemite).

If I didn't already have a Wii U for living room gaming, I'd probably buy one of these boxes. I might still, depending on how useful the hardware is for other purposes.
Ok, url changed from http://techti.me/2015/06/04/us-air-force-targets-and-destroy.... Sorry we didn't see this sooner.
If you don't understand set theory, you cannot possibly be a programmer. That is to say, whether or not you realize you are applying set theory, it is the heart of programming.
Except when your house burns down or floods.
I do think it's as good as it gets outside gmail. That said, it's just flaky / half assed.

For example:

it pretends to be a gmail style email client where the unit of manipulation is a conversation, not a message. But the underlying message orientation peeks through in certain cases.

In other ways, like settings, it feels very half assed: routing rules have to be very simple and sometimes don't work. The UI for setting up routing rules is shit; you have to add them, then scroll to the top of a very long page and click "apply all changes" for the rules to take (yes, I missed that while porting rules from my old webmail and had to redo 40+ rules). The rules don't work as you would expect: eg messages from "a@b.com" do not match "sender ends with" "b.com". Rules can only filter on one thing at a time -- no compound rules on eg sender and subject. When you create a rule, it doesn't offer to apply to existing messages in the inbox.

When you mark something as not spam, it is delivered to your inbox and skips rules.

It sometimes loses the send button while composing messages.

No option to "filter emails like this"; instead, you have to copy and paste eg the address you want to filter into a screen 3 clicks away.

By default, it doesn't load images in html email. There is a link that tries to load the images in the email you're viewing; it works perhaps 2/3 of the time.

The rich editor is crap. For just one of a long list: paste tsv data in there; it strips all the tabs. Awesome. So a\tb\tc pastes as abc.

Etc. There's just a lot of annoyances that make me assume the devs don't use their own product or they'd fix it out of sheer annoyance.

That said, I pay for it over gmail for privacy.

Oh, and one more complaint: they charge you for sms -- 0.12 each! -- if you setup 2fa to txt a code to your phone, even on $40/year accounts. That's just chintzy. Better yet, because they're run by cheap dicks, purchased sms credits expire after a year!!! When I saw that it felt like purchasing a prepaid cellphone at a gas station level cheap. They're seriously pricing at 1600 hundred times the pricing twilio has on their web page for joe-random-user, not someone sending a million of these or whatever a day.
It's not entirely meaningless, though. It brings to mind 'friendly' and 'fuzzy', and 'dynamic' in a way that 'Xerox' does not. The way a word sounds definitely carries some level of 'meaning'.

Whether this was intentional, or whether it plays a big role in Trello's success is a different story.
1. Yes

2. They are not, indeed, but the other problem is that manufacturers need to make money on the hardware, making Steam Machines more expensive that consoles anyway (and more than self-built PCs as well).

3. Yes, and not just Alienware. But honestly, if you are going to put it under your TV, I have a hard time imagining people using it as a PC on their TV screen. Monitors are better in that regard, and you usually want to be closer to the screen for regular PC use.
He did the public a great service, and his breaking of the law should be of no consequence in that context.
Thanks. We are using compilebox[1] for languages which is sandboxed in Docker. But html is still rendered in everyone's browser. I am looking into solutions for preventing this.

[1]: https://github.com/remoteinterview/compilebox
Yea.... Flash I don't think is the problem with Chrome.
Because "Real Men Carry Pink Pagers"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU30mF_dgM
Wait, as a quirky nerd that learned BASIC at 5, I can't fathom not wanting to spend the weekend with my peers hacking on projects and yes, just maybe, changing the world. But not before I meme-bomb Larry and start a nerf war! Being an adult is neat.
The drinking age in the US is 21. This doesn't stop college students from drinking, it just means they can end up in trouble with law enforcement or the university authorities.

US students who study in Europe are free to drink without breaking the law.

Also, some would argue that Germany beer is better.
Actually we should abandon the ring concept all together for more promising security models.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
He never said any of that.
> America with no spies operating in a this world?

He's explicitly said he thinks the NSA is a good thing. He did voluntarily work for them for years after all.

He just believes the NSA should operate legally
Apples, Oranges. The Golang compiler is made for a language designed for speed of compilation. If you'd write a golang compiler in java (why you'd ever do that is not a relevant question here) then it would most likely be quite fast too.

If you're complaining about java programs that are slow or memory hogs you can only compare languages when you build the exact same application using different languages.
The Wayback Machine has some interesting things:

* 2001: A big photo that looks like it was taken during a "Networld+Interop"/Novell presentation

* 2001: eschmidt@novell.com :)

* 2002: eschmidt@google.com

* 2005: ericschmidt1@yahoo.com

* 2014: twitter button

It hasn't changed much since 2001 :)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010422003224/http://ericschmidt...
No...lol I mean the mainstream media toe the government line. @themeekforgotpw has it right.
holy crap, they have lost their damn minds! I can't believe this horse shit :(
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Agreed, plus, Steam is already "fragmented" on it's home turf of desktop PCs:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

And every time I've looked at that list, Intel integrated graphics have been fairly prominent.

Some of the arguments against the steam machines make me feel like I've fallen into some weird "console vs pc" propaganda war, rather than a factual discussion about business strategies.
Agreed, people need to find their balls and stop giving into fear.
I'm the author of a distributed database, competing with them. Overall I'm refreshingly impressed with their design document. Which I am sad to say that most other databases don't come any where near thinking these things through except as an after thought - so I am glad to see they are making it their priority.

With that said, they seem to be assuming that their clock skew (ε) has a fixed maximum boundary which is incredibly disconcerting to me as it implies that in certain (rare and anomalous) network partitions that they'll get data corruption and fail.

I can see how they, coming from a Spanner background with atomic clocks, might assume this. But this assumption requires that their database cluster is always connected, within some heartbeat interval (which they mention) such that they can trust there exists a maximum bounded ε skew.

So while it seems like a dumb question, I honestly must ask a very trivial question: how does CockroachDB handle basic network partitions? I assume they have a good answer to this, but it needs to be clarified in order to answer the more important issue of anomalous partitions, like split brain. This might rip the crockroach in half, quite literally, meaning that all other "guarantees" they give get thrown out the window like linearizability and global consistency.
Sadly, I find the article to be fairly misleading. First of all, the living costs are far higher than they make you believe and then there is the "free degree" vs. "semester fee + x" debate that is actually very different from university to university in germany - and I believe they are oddly mistaken when it comes to the University of Munich.

Where I studied, the rent was 350-450€/month and the semester fee around 250-300€/term. True, the health insurance for students is incredible (~70€), but I'm not going to comment on what the BBC apparently thinks is reasonably in terms of "Groceries" and "Misc.", that's just seems weird to me. Bottom line, as a student you are not going to get by with 7k/year in Munich.

Oh, and hey, you need to get accredited at a university first, of course ;)
That's a bit like' saying only bad people benefit from lawyers in court. The point is you have to defend every one equally even if they are as guilty as sin.

And of course employers are saying they cant afford it that is the "line" they have to run in public.
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So guy's did I understand correctly ? They found a flaw in x86 so the guest can exploit host ? ( Maybe much restricted than what I said , but the main idea is correct ?)
Honestly people that believe that no one will steal your idea are frankly naive. People always point to patent trolls and want to get rid of all patents but cannot fathom reform. Yet this notion benefits the big fish in the market disproportionately to the everyday programmer/startup. IMO there should be narrow specific patents that are cheap and for the everyday programmer's startup and only for a short time like 6 months. They would not own the 'idea' but rather the rights to a commercial application of this 'idea' within a given time period. Patents could protect startups too if the system is reformed
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I had a few in mind when I was back in uni and hosting and cloud storage prices were still up.

I hadn't thought of reddit, as the abuse would be clearly visible, but I had used back then that Gmail Drive some guy had implemented using emails for storage, and it led me to think a lot of the Google Systems had non-obvious "unlimited" storage options.

For instance, I don't know if that's still the case, but Google Calendar surely seemed pretty fit for abuse: while calendar entries were limited in size, you could have as many as you wanted. And calendars can be private, so it's even better.

The problem with such systems will be the integrity of your data, when you start being forced to chunk things up. If they change one thing under your feet, you're a bit screwed. Also you have to detect all the undocumented pitfalls (e.g. forbidden characters in an edit field).
Static pointers aren't all that usable in 7.10. I wouldn't be surprised if they waited for 7.12.
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Why not get an N64 controller and a USB connector: http://mattgemmell.com/playing-nintendo-games-on-a-mac/

I bought the GC/XB360/PS connector and the SNES connector, and it's been a blast playing games with them! For the SNES games I even got two controllers so I can play Bust-a-Move and whatnot with friends.
I can still see your actions on Google Maps over SSL (2012)
The suggested solution is to have process isolation implemented using software - namely asm.js-enabled JavaScript virtual machines embedded in a Linux kernel, which save you from needing hardware isolation, reducing overhead. Gary calls this idea "METAL".

I found little resource about the project, but there is a discussion on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/25w7vt/javascript_b...

And we had the discussion on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605687

Nevertheless an interesting topic, that doesn't deserve a downvote of my parent.
Until this gets so popular that Google or Flickr start to analyse photos, and come to the conclusion to either delete those photos and videos, or to convert them and destroying the data for you. Then, years later, you need your backup and ....
Statistically in the US a person is more likely to be shot by the police than killed by terrorists.
"We now employ 10 people and 5 robots."

As a robot, let me thank you sir, for not discriminating.
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As the prices of hardware falls, the share you're paying to Microsoft increases. Look at the history of MPEG2 licences and DVD players, what was a reasonable cost of doing business when DVD players cost $1000 became unreasonable when they are only selling for $10.

The value Windows offers decreases too as it become more and more reasonable to buy a PC for nothing more than gaming, whereas before you'd need a bunch of uses to justify the cost. Would Windows make sense on the streaming box for example?
Wouldn't 'copy your idea' be a more correct statement. As ones idea cannot be lost after theft?
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It's not really zero-sum in the sense that HFTs are usually criticized for; if it stabilizes the market for longer-term investors then that's a positive effect.
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BigTable, but I would say DBs like Mongo did MUCH more to popularize NoSQL.
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I don't want too many controllers lying around and I also want to play other types of games.

But maybe I should get just one N64 :)
Chrome will 'intelligently' pause Flash content like auto-playing ads
Agree, "didn't accomplish anything" = "didn't achieve extraordinary success". Typical media.
The worst case is a VM escape for hardware accelerated (VT-x/AMD-V). So does this exploit work under virtualized ring 0? That would be a disaster for many cloud providers and for virtualization in general.

Maybe this is something about controlled change of flow of execution in SMM mode?
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If optimization is the problem, then compilation at Go speed should be possible with -O0.
My information comes from an extensive NSPCC survey, but I don't think the two contradict each other - the question is the exact definition of abuse that is being used and I should have looked it up and been more precise about that.

Without going back and digging up the exact NSPCC survey, the article you in to appears to take into account a much wider set of criteria, though it's hard to say since it doesn't state its definition either and I couldn't find its source. The wording does also seem to imply that it is looking at reported cases as opposed to use a survey, which would give different numbers.

In terms of type of abuse you consider, it will drastically shift the balance. E.g. for sexual abuse the numbers are completely dominated by male family members. Once you add in violence it shifts a lot, and other neglect will likely shift it further if for no other reason than simply because women are still more likely to be the primary carer.

Of course in any case it doesn't alter the main point.
I see what you mean. It did sound a bit too inevitable and forceful, perhaps.

That said, I didn't read it as a dismissal or even outright cynicism. Rather, it seemed like a personal experienced they wanted to share as a bit of a warning. Which I think is really good, because I and many people I know feel similar looking back.

But looking back in that manner doesn't mean I don't look forward with hope. It just means that I wish I'd been a bit more careful at times about what I pursued, as I definitely feel more of a struggle in the energy department that I didn't feel a few years ago.
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It certainly seems that hes more obsessed with some hypothetical potential political economic scenario than the tech aspects of it.

Stick to the tech.
It is called Shield.

http://shield.nvidia.com/

https://developer.nvidia.com/develop4shield

That is where they see business value, not on SteamOS.
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HN, please stop with the irreverent and jocular replies. This is an insightful comment to be taken seriously.
Has anyone who knew what they were talking about every seriously suggested that your brain could "fill up", like a hard disk running out of free space? It seems like the closest you could get to that is your neurons becoming completely static (i.e. not-plastic), unable to form new connections or sever existing ones. That would kill you pretty quickly, or maybe another way to look at it is that it happens to you when you die, so the answer I guess could be "sort of, when you die".

But while you're alive? Assuming you don't just "add more space", to continue the analogy, it seems like what your brain does is probably closer to lossy compression, over and over again. And the important bits remain more-or-less readable.
> Not all information needs to be secure, pure and simple

It seems most HTTPS proponents across this thread seems to ignore this very thing. Not everything needs to be secure. Pure and simple.

Don't argue about what part of TLS does that with what cookie. We're not even listening to this, as it's not interesting to us.

If you want us to listen, you should try to argue why you think we need TLS for everything. We don't. So why are you so hellbent on making our lives more complicated than they need to be?
That depends on the environment - I'm using In-Home streaming extensively on my setup (Living room gaming PC via 802.11ac -> Gigabit network to OS X) and it results in about 25ms of total lag (encode + transmit + decode). Interestingly enough, most lag is added by the video decoder on OS X not the network itself. Meaning, I'm getting about 3-4ms of encoder lag, 2-3ms of network lag and about 18-20ms of decoder lag according to Steam diagnostics.

Strategy, RPG and other mouse controlled games are certanly more than playable in such a setup. Didn't try online FPSes though.
It's like a piece of fabric one could keep weaving on - all the threads that get weaved on will always remain but only visible if it's near the top layer - That's my impression.
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That's awkward, it should have been MINT
Yes , Exactly , They have big plans for android and gaming(Shield line).They need excellent linux support for that .
I think they already have. take a look at [0] and the reply.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663193
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How Dilbert practically wrote itself
> In 50 years into the future, a new fooist will replace terrorists and the same fight will start all over again.

Cryptoists. Or maybe I'm overly optimistic thinking crypto-users will first be targetted in 50 years time. Probably more like 5? Maybe 10?
I think you mean: MS Office makes you want to chew your face off when doing anything that requires the slightest interop with any other software (occasionally including MS Office for Mac). Which is likely to continue until that strategy becomes unprofitable for them.

The most recent story on this topic in the UK was Microsoft threatening to close down research labs in the UK if the government promoted open standards for office documents. That's how much they care about preventing interoperability.
That picture is from the 1000 USD banknote...
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