skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"free software" is not the same as "freeware", which by commonly accepted usage is almost always reffering to proprietary software that is distributed at no cost. The OP tends to implicitly conflate them by lumping them in together.
China being uninnovative is such a lame narrative pushed by insecure westerners.

China is behind South Korea in development by a generation and Japan by 100 years. Give China another 20 years and lets check back.
Samsung didn't have an integrated LTE solution. This caused battery life issues. Also, patents.
Never tell a developer it's not possible (rant)
There is one thing that I've found that'll boil blood faster than anything in a developer: telling him (or her) that something isn't possible (in code).

I recently had the displeasure of signing up for a service where their system is actually pretty good, though it has a few. Being in business and being a developer I thought, hey ... it's a Sunday evening might as well have some programming fun to see if I can work around this system issue.

Before starting I shot off an email to the support team to ask if maybe I missed a button, option or setting somewhere. Eventually they replied with Nope, not possible within their own system. Normally that would be understandable right? Some systems just don't have some features, not the end of the world.

Except ... this issue is about having hidden input fields when submitting an opt-in form. I find it rather handy to have hidden fields which let me track where my opt-ins are coming from, thus it's kind of a required feature for me. Though their reply was specifically "not possible inside our email system". Well, after going back and forth and telling them I'm not using their email system, but just their opt-in page editor and using MailChimp which can accept reasonably any field ... I knew for a fact it can be done. It's just a simple <input type="hidden" .....> field!

After a few heated emails back and forth they just stopped replying and I got to working around their issues.

Suffice it to say: custom code and hidden input fields do certainly work, just have to work around it a little bit. So never, ever tell a developer something isn't possible when we know for a fact it is possible (based on their system setup).

Sorry for the rant.

Moral of the story? Literally anything you want is possible with code. Don't tell developers something is not possible or we'll go around proving you wrong. It's bad for business.
The successes in engineered organs are coming from adult stem cells so far, which don't come with an ethical debate. We can't get there fast enough if this ghoulishness is really what doctors are proposing.
> It already does, to a great extent, and it's so heavily involved in the process it seems natural to make them eat the costs

As far as I know, the government has minimal involvement / skin in the private development process as it stands currently, and only steps in to perform regulatory oversight and helps define trial design for regulatory approval. Almost all costs are borne by the private sector and all work is done by the private sector.
You realize that the web predates graphical web browsers, right?
The tech boom may get bumpy, but it will not end in a repeat of the dotcom crash
All this time I've just been using a boring old shell script that runs browserify with the Babel plugin, and then uglify. Hook it up to npm scripts and I've got all I need, in about half a dozen lines spread across two files.

Browserify is useful because concatenating a bunch of JavaScript files is hardly the right way to be doing things. Babel I have to use because all browsers struggle with ES2015 to an extent. Uglify to minify it all.

But all these other tools? Never had a use for them. Never used grunt or gulp in a new project, and in those that I've looked at which do, they don't really make anything easier.
You'll still likely want digested assets that integrate with Rails asset helpers. This has been done with Gulp[1] if that helps at all.

[1]: http://viget.com/extend/gulp-rails-asset-pipeline
By the end of 3 years it is no longer high-tech.
I believe it's a server farm consisting of hundreds of "bladed" PS3s.
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Tapatalk is the most annoying one to me, probably because it actually pops up a modal dialog. One of our local news websites is really bad too, asking every single time if I want to install their (crappy) app. Worse, if even if you do have their app, it offers no way to go to a specific article I clicked a link from. 99% of the time that I'm on their site, it's because I've clicked a link from a tweet or something. I want to go to that specific article. And the app is totally broken for that use case -- I have to go to the home page and then try to find where the article is.

I actually greatly prefer apps over websites in general, and if it's something I use a lot, I'll install the app (assuming it's decent). But I don't want the app shoved in my face when I go to the website. If I'm at the website, there's a reason. Advertising it non-obtrusively is ok, especially if it remembers after I've dismissed it once.
But let us not forget how efficiently and immediately OpenSSL was able to be forked, precisely because it was free software.
Nice hack ! WebGL decoding looks pretty effective.

I think the major challenge with remote gaming is input latency.

Even here on a local network, it looks like there is at least ~200ms between input and frame, wich is a blocker for many game types.
https://i.imgflip.com/oqlr6.jpg
Interesting --- I had been under the impression that British speakers of English didn't use the word "truck" for this purpose. Thanks for correcting a misperception!
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It's very true that in any group of multiple people with multiple goals, some folks won't be able to get their way. Similarly, if Qualcomm decided to make long term investments, the short termers couldn't get what they wanted.

That's one of the beautiful things about shareholder democracy in liquid, public markets - exit is always an easy option. (Compare and contrast to, e.g., political democracy, where exit is highly costly and sometimes impossible.)
I'd agree, but raising the minimum wage is a relatively good alternative to doing nothin given unconditional basic income is merely a political dream in most jurisdictions. The US has such a low minimum wage given the wealth within the economy it's hard to see a rise having much of an impact.
Seems like that would require overturning the act?
> their system is actually pretty good, though it has a few.

Miss a word?

> Literally anything you want is possible with code.

I came here to say this. Anything is possible with code, (although sometimes the effort is not worth the reward).
what AWS instance do you use?
Ask HN: Why don't smartphones fulfill their #1 purpose?
IMO, the #1 purpose of cell phones should be for safety reasons in an emergency. The phone that I would want to buy my kids doesn't exist yet (as far as I'm aware of). I want a phone that prevents a car driver from texting and driving. It should be easy for someone in danger to put it in danger mode so that it can notify local authorities and can also notify close friends and family and even record audio and stream pictures of the perpetrator without the phone being able to be turned off when in danger mode and it should be difficult to break or disassemble.

Okay, yes I am an overly paranoid millennial but I am the way that I am and I would take a phone that fulfills the purpose of keeping my wife and children safe over one with an app store featuring a billion apps.

Why hasn't this happened yet?
Unrelated question:

Some of the pictures show people on their digital devices, at work or otherwise. Has the quality of customer service dropped with the ubiquity of smart phones?

I believe it has here in the US, but I think that there is a general culture shift driving the drop in quality as well and that the phones are just enabling the problem.
I guess the tens of millions of retail investors who entered the market in the past year or so will burn their fingers.

Lenders will probably take a hit since a lot of people were playing with borrowed money.

The credibility of the government will take a hit - many have already been moving money out of the country at a record rate because they don't trust the government, and retail investors who are now losing their savings will start questioning the government.
"which don't come with an ethical debate"

I would not be so sure. I don't think that laymen understand the difference between evil baby-harvested stem cells and my rightfully own adult stem cells, and that hurts research & funding.
Cellphones might be best way to get health info to inner-city pregnant women
I was scrolling down the page wondering why he was dismantling it... Mondays.
I see this sentiment quite often, and it's sad because it's so unnecessary.

The "new version" that you agonized so long over didn't need to be anything other than the current version, optionally modified to check serial numbers, but realistically all you needed to do was remove the free download link from the website and replace it with the simplest payment flow that could possibly work, with the download link living at the end.

Version 2.0.

Added: price.

[end of release notes]
> The decision not to permit deployment was made by the group that, at their discretion, disclosed the issue to the Xen Project Security Team.

Xen has, in the past, worked with major cloud service providers to get patches deployed early. Perhaps the view was that the major cloud providers aren't enabling cdrom to begin with, or are using stubdomains, so it wasn't worth risking the broader exposure; or perhaps there were past incidents with early disclosure by cloud providers.
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An EITC would more effectively incentivize the poor to work than unconditional basic income.
Link to study in Journal of Medical Internet Research, http://www.jmir.org/2015/7/e163/
You'd be surprised to find out, then, that in the leaked Planned Parenthood videos they admit to treating people differently for having chosen to donate tissue, even though legally they are not to be treated differently.

So your trust here should be near zero.
"Almost all costs are borne by the private sector"

Doesn't every penny of "old people drugs" development come from selling drugs to old people paid solely by medicare? I'm just saying if you trace back where those supposed private sector $$ come from, don't almost 100% of them come from the Medicare program?

On the good side you'd cut out a lot of middlemen. No point paying them off thru multiple steps for doing basically nothing productive.

On the bad side you'd cut out a lot of middlemen. Their corporate owners finance a lot of re-election campaigns and PACs....
Good luck with this, no seriously, good luck. Our technological capability moves forward whether we want it, even fight it, or not. It can be slowed somewhat (the electric car being one example, stem cell research another) but it will happen and we will need laws and frameworks to ensure we deal with this change appropriately sooner rather than later.

This is the equivalent of hiding our heads in the sand.
Just did the same thing. I love this place
There are other reasons why you shouldn't install apps from Facebook and LinkedIn[0], but one thing I do wish is that there was an easier way to tell Chrome to default to requesting Desktop sites[1]. The state of most mobile websites is just abysmal and I find myself tapping the Request Desktop Site option multiple times a day.

[0] http://lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-ema...
[1] http://www.guidingtech.com/16169/desktop-mode-websites-chrom...
Streaming an unbounded file to a <video> tag can have fairly significant delay compared to webRTC. It's really more designed for one to many situations (such as livestreams or VOD) than one to one low latency.
No portfolio? I'd be interested in the service if there were samples of work available to view, certainly.
> The problem with this type of wealth redistribution is that the poor are often consumers of the same products and services served by min wage jobs. This is one of many reasons I support unconditional basic income. It allows labor to be accurately priced in the market, without raising cost to the poor.

Yes but labor is less than half of the cost for everything. One of the most labor intensive is food [growing -> market -> consumer] and its still not even 50%.

https://www.fmi.org/docs/facts-figures/marketingcosts.pdf?sf...
http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/307995/aer780d_1_.pdf

Its 38.5%. The impacts is similar on other areas where the minimum wage laborer is also the minimum wage consumer.

The pay increase still flows ~60% to the people on minimum wage and is the most effective method that is politically feasible. [e.g. Backed by a large portion of a major political party]

Ideally, raising the standard deduction to the poverty level for 1 person as well would be ideal to spread things out more. Of course, you'd need to raise the marginal tax rates [e.g. Money after $11,700/year would be taxed at a higher rate] to do that since it'll cost hundreds of billions otherwise :p [e.g. $6,300 -> $11,700]

http://familiesusa.org/product/federal-poverty-guidelines
Yup, missed a word. Will commit lyrical seppuku as penance.
Most of these seem like excuses to take a personal/sick day, not value added by working remotely.

Also, the number of times 'locked in my own bathroom' and 'locked inside my own house' come up is startling! Whats life like for those people :S
If the negative results weren't published, then it was a waste of money. Sadly, this happens all the time.

Incentives in science publishing generally work against the publication of negative results. The publication-based economy lies at the heart of most of what's wrong with science today.

It's not clear to what extent prize-based funding could change this culture. I'm not sure I agree with the size of the initial trial, but I do support experimenting with new models of government funding for science research.
Agree with you here. For my previous start-up I used to calculate LTV only based on people that churned. Knowing your LTV is much higher can only be great, at least as long as you can work with a CAC/LTV value.
> the pirated cartridges didn't have a persistent writable memory

Wait so you had to beat every game in a single sitting?
As a nerd I love numbers, 'Latency is minimal' doesnt do it for me. Display this http://tft.vanity.dk/inputlag.html or any other stopwatch, and record both screens. What is the bitrate and cpu overhead at hd/fullhd resolutions 30/60hz?

Some very slow MVA monitors lag as much as full frame behind input, so in extreme cases you could get equal delay on your laptop.
The word "totalitarian" is hyphenated, to make the line justified. Anyone else try to search for the phrase with a Ctrl-F, come up with zero, and jump to the conclusion that the spooks had redacted the document?

I should perhaps look into having my paranoia treated.
I'm not sure it's entirely solvable for some games, given the extra constraints imposed by remote processing. Gamasutra had a nice article[1] about responsiveness a and lag few years backthat wasn't addressing this problem specifically, but does put it in perspective a bit.

1: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3725/measuring_respons...
Uber can't be stopped. So what happens next?
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The results were published. Dad was disappointed that it didn't work but he was content to know that he saved someone else from trying the same.
Yep, didn't point that. My experience is at Brazil.
I've been trying to get into using Trello more often. Usually I'll set up checklists for subsets of tasks and cards for larger projects or meetings (so I can add separate notes, files, etc.). It works pretty well. Just drag 'finished' cards into a 'Completed' pile or similar, check off items on a list, etc. Also easy to add people in to a board as collaborators, for instance if you need a manager overlooking your progress or teammates to vote on X task (maybe prioritize bug-fix, etc.).
I'm using one of OTOY/ORBX (ami-8ff2b9e6) instances ( I tried setting up my own, but never got the graphics to work right )
Any tool added to a project that attempts to replace Make will eventually be replaced by Make.

BTW, it is really unfair to lump Browserify in with Grunt and Gulp.

I haven't been paying much attention to Webpack but now that I know that along with a magnifying glass, a bottle opener, and three kinds of tweezers it includes a build automation tool, I can be pretty safe in ignoring it from here on out.
> If the odds of my living are less than the odds of my organs allowing someone else to survive…

One of the big problems really is to determine the odds.
How does this work? Are the dvd images uploaded to Sony's servers? Do they have PS3 datacenters in several locations?
I'm not sure I'm following. To get from stack operations to expressions, I just symbolically evaluate the stack, creating temporary variables as I go. It happens that the resulting IR is pretty much SSA form. But I'm not taking much else from SSA. I'm wondering if I'm missing opportunities.
Reproducing the work of others is also important in science.
Glad I'm not the only one worried about this. I spent a bit of my early career on this type of tech. At first I thought it was really cool and joked with my coworkers about building skynet. Eventually I realized no amount of coolness or money was worth putting my talents to building things that are obviously meant for destruction.

Sure they're tools and can be tools for peace in the right hands. But in the wrong hands, they can do immense damage. Perhaps one of the things that's kept humanity around is that despite the psychopaths in our midst who might not care if they destroyed every other human being, there are others whose conscience would get in the way.

This type of technology, in the hands of the wrong psychopath might mean the end of us. Despite the BS marketing behind AI, NO it is not sentient, it's a bunch of optimization algorithms. Not Good, Not Evil.

I realize that someone will build it. That, is an inevitability. Just know that it doesn't have to be me.

(Before you write comments on my hanlde please read my profile, it has more to do with Hip Hop than violence)
Are there any C++ compilers that don't also support C?

And sure, there are a few bits of C which aren't valid C++, but most of those are either edge cases or trivial to convert.
Can confirm. I had a Master System II when I was a kid. Spent hours of my young life playing Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Most of my friends at the time had Mega Drive consoles (Genesis = Mega Drive, not Master System).
Can confirm. I had a Master System II when I was a kid. Spent hours of my young life playing Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Most of my friends at the time had Mega Drive consoles (Genesis == Mega Drive, not Master System).
>I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else?

Cost benefit analysis to save the most people.

"He is already pretty much dead. We could keep trying and maybe damage the organs, or go ahead and call time of death and get these organs to save 3 other people."

For me, the bigger issue is that of the 'beating heart donor' where your organs are harvested while you are brain dead but your body is still alive. I don't trust our understanding of brain death enough to say that pain isn't felt (consider the rare cases of people who are anesthetized enough they appear unconscious to the instrumentation but are able to recall parts of the operation including sometimes feeling pain).
Assuming it doesn't taper, yes.
A simple separation of concerns could solve a portion of the ethical and pragmatic problems people have brought up in this discussion. The treating doctor does not get to know the donor status of the patient and has nothing to do with extracting the organs once the patient is either dead or "dead enough".

The doctor reports on the patients chances of survival/waking up etc and this is checked against the patients donor status including any permission to harvest organs if there's no or only a tiny chance of survival.

Of course there's a number of hypothetical situations where this falls apart - if there's only one qualified doctor available in a tiny hospital or if there's no access to patient records/pre-recorded desires. However, it's a place to start.

Until there are better options available or a series of well publicized abuses I will continue to be an organ donor because, to put it simply, the golden rule.
Strong disagree. You are much better off saving tokens than you are in using HMAC or any other cryptography to try to extend your security boundary to email. There is more that goes wrong even with simple HMAC tokens than there is with opaque random tokens.
I wonder how this performs in different implementations of HTTP/2.

I'm happy to see the content side doing more of these kinds of tests. Browser developers can only handle so much and the content folks usually have a better idea of real world content than the browser makers.
I LOLed a bit at the low cost on this and the authors treehouse. Its kind of like cheap ham radio antennas, where the wire to put up a 160M dipole is only $10 but it costs $3M to buy a piece of land big enough and unregulated enough to put it on.

Aside from that, cool project.

Where I live people would make the windows open/removable and call it the worlds most expensive and outlandish deer hunting tree stand.
Yes Sir :)
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This seems the more credible AI threat to me: not that an AI will go rogue and decide on its own to start killing people, but rather that humans will design an AI with the express purpose of killing people.
Short term, the engineering job market in San Diego will be terrible as the laid off engineers flood the market. Hopefully some of these engineers will start their own small companies and this is where it gets interesting...

There has been a dearth of small electronics technology company creation in San Diego since the start of the 2008 recession. Part of me says that this is about to change, but global competition, regulations, and barriers to entry may put a damper on it.

It's very hard to start a hardware company these days. There are lots of capital-intensive requirements such as
adhering to safety, toxicity, and emissions regulations and performing the necessary testing to gain certification. These tests and reports can run in to the tens of thousands of dollars, and they have to be re-done several times as a product evolves.

I suppose this is why software-only companies have been popular recently. They are not subject to the same requirements as hardware companies. This may change in the
future as more things are controlled by software, and the process becomes subject to regulation.

Please note that I am not against regulation to protect consumers and customers, I'm only concerned about the financial burden it presents to newly formed companies.
The regulations are necessary and required, but the costs are a real barrier to entry.
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Legislation will only work in jurisdictons where the legislation can be enforced.

You can see that most murders with a gun in zones where guns are outlawed have been with guns purchased outside those zones.

So you can see where I'm going with this.

Legislation MAY work here but not everywhere.
Me and my six scientist friends don't give a shit about the IP rights. We're not going to see those billions anyway, the owners of Roche are. I'd much rather take the same payout from the US government. Plus, after a decade of this shit, without their monopoly rents there won't be any drug companies to buy the IP from you anyway.
Emacs org-mode, look no further

http://orgmode.org/
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would like to see latency numbers too. Gstreamer with h264 is about 150ms ish