skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trapeze rotated to draw the aircraft inside the Macon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F9C-2_Sparrowhawk_fighter...

See that C shaped bit on the left? As the arm is retracted, that C wold ride down to the fuselage to stabilize it as it rose up. Once the plane was inside, they'd close the hatches. Easey-peasey to climb out with a ladder hooked to the cockpit rim.
CEOs using 'always' is so funny when they only think about the next quarter.

See what 'always' is worth if revenue growth does not keep up and the CEO changes.
This is either a loophole due to the fact that rendering happens server-side, or Apple just hasn't bothered to smite them yet. The rules are extremely clear.
Or you can realize that GP left out a comma, or with a slight rephrasing:

Economically speaking, gifted students ...
UPDATE 1: I was trying to be factual in the description of the code without getting too technical and without giving away too many details. What I was trying to say may have been open to misinterpretation as a result. I'm a practitioner (coder) with many years of experience. Writing research papers is just not something that I do. I.e., no interest and no time.

The design goal of the code was to provide good results quickly via a very user friendly API. The robustness and concept drift features were added to make the code easier to use, if that makes sense. Researchers tend to care about 0.0001% better accuracy at the cost of days of runtime on a GPU. I did not set out to compete with them in any way.

I do not work in a lab. I work in the real world. I wrote the code for a specific commercial application. But I can see uses in many other settings. I have not come across any open source libraries that are even close to what I wrote. They tend to be toolkits for machine learning experts.

Several have suggested testing the code against MNIST. Looking into it. I already know the results would be good but not great. I know I cannot compete with an expert using an existing toolkit. But I'll bet my code could easily beat a non-expert using another toolkit. Hope that clears things up.
If they explicitly ask for permission on each access anyways, then it is unnecessary to talk about it in T&C.
I think they forgot a comma. "Economically, gifted students are likely to have an outsized impact"

If there's a sensible read of someone's comment it's preferable to use that interpretation. "Economically gifted" makes no sense in the context of the discussion.

The OP was saying your tax dollars are likely to get a good return by fostering the progress of gifted students.
> There's no way I as a user can prevent other usage of my photos after I give them permission to access them all. I therefore have to trust Spotify that they won't abuse their access to my (and all the other people who install the app)'s photos.

There are 3rd party systems like XPrivacy which allows you to individually allow actions like this.
There's a bit of a difference between Notch (2.41 million followers), me (207 followers) and some new egg user (0 followers) saying something on Twitter. As there's no actual volume control for text, followers is a decent loudness rating for Twitter
The trapeze retracts into the airship, bringing the plane with it.
Android 6.0 has the ability to enable/disable individual permissions. Apps running on Android 6, but not compiled against the Android 6 SDK, end up with similar behaviour to what you described i.e. If you disable access to your contacts, the OS just reports back you have zero contacts etc.
Maybe to keep it simple for everyone? It's hard to explain to people why they need to have 2 separate apps to do almost the same thing.
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Being a Spotify user on iOS, I didn't expect much change from the new privacy policy they had released. The OS doesn't permit apps to access the camera roll, microphone, location services or contacts without explicit permission. Which is essentially what Daniel is re-stating here, for those who are freaking out/forgot. But I guess it's good to state this, because the desktop apps are a bit less sandboxed (aside from the one that runs in the browser). Also, the revised privacy policy could have been written/worded better. I feel like there was just a significant disconnect between the legal and PR teams.
Well, the people interested in "driving manufacturing back to the US" are mostly US residents.
TLS is currently simply a matter of point and click on a graphical interface.

For hosting provider setup, to domain name registration and TSL certificate generation there are thousands of online tutorials.

You don't need to be an expert or a developer to know how to setup TLS on a Wordpress blog.
I think there's a comma missing there. Plenty of gifted students in my son's school qualify for the free lunch program.
Have you used it? After I heard about the changes coming down the line in 41 a week or so back I immediately downloaded it and started configuring it to be my new main browser. The only problem was that it crashed constantly. It's just anecdotal but my personal experience backs up what I've said here.
From my experience, when a company has the permission marketing always thinks about new ways to use it.
One thing a lot of fixed header plugins dont do well is make sure that the header cells properly line up with body cells. Things usually break down as soon as you start resizing the window, adding your own custom styles, hiding columns... etc.

How well does this plugin handle that? I noticed you didnt use a table, so perhaps you dont really care about styling it like one either.
I don't think they set up the mirror, I think github just mirrored their repo.
For those of you in Silicon Valley, USS Macon was based out of Moffett Field (named after Adm. Moffett). The big hangar (currently just its frame) that you can see from US 101 on the west side of Moffett Field was Macon's hangar.

The Moffett Field Historical Society has a small museum (http://moffettfieldmuseum.org/) right next to the hangar which includes some neat stuff on the airship and the rest of the Navy's history at the field.
That's a good way to publicize both the upgrades and the downtime without pissing off customers. Lots of companies don't quite do that. Kudos, Last.FM.
Is it possible to just take Daniel Ek's word on this one? If you're so upset, couldn't you just disallow access?
Airships has a load great information on the USS Macon and the USS Akron.

http://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-airships/uss-akron-mac...
I don't have sufficient command of the English language to fully express how strongly I disagree with this. I have an extension which I made for Chrome and Firefox. The Chrome version basically consists of a single Javascript file, and a tiny json file with about 15 entries. I spent perhaps an hour to learn the basics from scratch. I don't have space here to describe all the crap I went through to get the same extension working on Firefox - and I was using their easy API. The Firefox extension development process is one of the most confusing, complicated, experiences I've ever had on a computer. Good riddance!
WebExtensions is very good news. One of the biggest pains is to develop extensions compatible both with FF and Chrome so it would make our lives a lot easier.
Perhaps I should have worded it better.

The market is the people who hire those devs (ie, bank websites, video streaming sites, etc, etc, etc) and they are currently saying: "we still need flash for some things, so we're not ready to kill flash just yet."

Give THEM a reasonable alternative, and flash will go away.
A "FileNotFound" exception from an open() function is just colossally stupid.

Yes it is, and my example wasn't about such functionality anyway
Interestingly on virtually all home computers the situation with access control to certain APIs and data is _way_ worse (because basically nobody (I know you're out there SELinux/AppArmor/grsecurity/etc users) uses it to the extent that would be necessary to provide even basic privacy protection or system security).

I do hope that, when application sandboxing goes mainstream, it is not only going to be used to mitigate dependency hell, but also to provide a nice and featureful (and usable!) interface for filesystem/networking/etc isolation and monitoring with white/black/greylisting and fake permissions (i.e. pretend an application has a permission and return made-up data).

Heck, it'd probably be best to make full isolation of every executable the default and selectively introduce (fake) permissions, such that it just gets the minimum that is needed/desired.
Happy to. :)

Talk by dchinner @ Redhat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw
I can't stand AirBNB. Prices are ludicrously high. I feel like prices are higher just because it's a nicer cuter interface than Craigslist. Obviously I can't prove this. Also wish I could filter by monthly for everything not map a certain daily range to a monthly range in my head.
I just switched jobs because of my daughter. Left a job that I liked but didn't pay very well so I could stop having to work 2 shifts.
I'm a programmer btw. It drives me nuts everyday, but this keeps me going https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/Simpson...
As someone who has written several extensions across all the different browsers (IE COM Interop FTW!!!) over the last few years, Chrome's dev experience is by far the best in my humble opinion.

Firefox's experience was hamstrung by having to learn XUL and a new and different set of tools and way of doing things. Their approval process and packaging scheme was surprisingly not as streamlined as I would have expected from them either. Chrome's experience is fairly standard and intuitive HTML, JS, and JSON interactions. In most cases it really shouldn't take too long for someone to port or migrate an old Firefox plugin to the new format.
> Now that is something I'd really like to see in Linux filesystems. AFAIK the GNU/Linux implementations of ZFS do not support ECC. Only the Oracle version.

When people talk about "ECC" in relation to ZFS, they are generally referring to ECC memory, i.e. RAM that detects and corrects single-bit corruption. This does not need any support from software, it is a hardware thing. So if you have ECC memory, it will "work with ZFS" no matter your OS.

Erasure coding here refers to redundancy in the block storage, so you can lose a disk and still maintain access to the data. And I can confirm that the linux ZFS implementation, along with all others (as they're all based on the same codebase), support that.
This is entirely possible yes. I have also worked with people for whom that was just the public reason and the less nice uses were very much on their mind privately.

Comes down to whether you trust corporations or not.
GCC already has a GitHub mirror:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc

It seems out of sync though.
async doesn't use threads.

Async is a goto state machine. While the IO is set as blocked at the operating system level, it does something else. Then when it's unblocked, it jumps back.
Do opposites attract: should you date someone very different from yourself?
Not really, it's a limitation Spotify has to deal with if they want to offer 'services' which require these permissions. Access to photos is not needed to stream music, last time I checked ;)

That Android has 'one-ticket-for-everything-LOL' security flags is sad, but that doesn't mean Spotify then thus has the responsibility to work with that and if they are so serious regarding privacy of their users, offer a way to make me control what they can see / do, however I can't: at install I have to give permissions and after that I can't control what they can see / do or not, not in the app, not in my account, nowhere. I just have to trust them.

That last part is a bit difficult at the moment.
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I don't have a solution for location, but for photos, it seems like it would be best to require no permission to present a standard control (i.e. UIImagePickerController), but with the API only actually providing any information when the control completes (photo is selected, or control is cancelled). The user selecting the photo is implicit permission.

Permission would be necessary to actually query for media programmatically, which is the real issue. Currently, they are conflated.

For location, I suppose that the "Google Maps is using your location" bar at the top could be expanded and always present when the location permission is enabled. Tapping it would revoke the permission until it is enabled again. This could get annoying though, some apps legitimately do depend on location all the time.
Same thing here, my bank updated their entire website, except for internet banking which still uses flash.
Probably collecting and selling those emails
It has nothing in common with 2. It's an extension of 4 where the eventual (dynamically scoped) handler is executed on the non-unwound stack and may unwind the stack (same as an exception), perform an action on the non-unwound system (e.g. resume, resume with a value provided, resume with a restart specified, repeat, etc…) or dynamically opt to resume looking up handlers.
As in "haven't" or are barred by FSF or other policy?
I wonder whether it would also work to heat glass powder with a laser to 3D print.
On unmodded phones? If not, that could be a problem ;)
> the amazing thing about MongoDB is that, despite all the vitriol against it, it continues to be used at companies and projects that are far greater than what many naysayers ever touch: Stripe and Wish.com immediately come to my mind.

I honestly don't know if that mitigates against a lot of the MongoDB hate you see around here (including my post above). If I was at a place like Stripe and that money to pay Aphyr to battle-test all my database systems and an ops staff the handle all the issues that he found, then I could maybe deploy MongoDB successfully. I'd also have the sort of really, really hard problems that require me to spend that kind of resources on the problem. MongoDB is a much, much worse choice for those of us who DON'T have those needs and resources, though.
It might also signal a global recession.
If there's a miscommunication going on, the opening gambit came from Spotify. They could have spelled out in the TOS exactly what they would do with the data, and contractually bound themselves never to change that activity without issuing new TOS.
see document.execCommand("copy"), document.execCommand("cut"): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ex...
>If we want to speed up the demise of flash

I prefer to keep flash because it is easily blocked.

I find most flash to obnoxious/intrusive/distracting. I disable flash be default, and only enable the items I'm interested in. Also page loads are reduced, one less attack vector.
If that is the case, then it's not possible to say anything at all without it being considered shouting. That seems a pretty unfair complaint to me.
It doesn't mention addon permissions, which I would assume is something WebExtensions has, since that's how addons work in chrome. At least I hope this is the case, lack of permissions in firefox addons is a little scary, and probably one of the reasons I have the minimum addons installed

Anyone have more info on this?
Even mid range PCIe flash devices are fast enough to make the Btrfs numbers seem unreasonably slow.
Flash has had vulerabilities and executes arbitrary code as well... What's the difference?

At least with javascript, there's only one attack vector (the browser itself). Flash requires a plugin to work properly.
Vim is moving to git, GCC is moving to git. What's with all the change?
I was under the impression that add-ons like ublock / umatrix were possible only in firefox due to its very permissive add-on model, if mozilla is going to deprecate XUL / XPCOM would it mean this kind of add-on won't be possible anymore?
Pretty sure they can get the photos whenever they want once you have the app installed and running in the background.
Otherwise, how would automatic photos backup work?

I haven't written any Android apps though so I don't know the details.
It disturbs me that you're getting down voted. Somehow, we eschew extremism in all facets of life, but when it comes to free software, it's so expected that (even if tongue in cheek) asking a question has a reaction where someone thinks you're not contributing to the conversation.

I have more goodwill towards github than I do for RMS, with his gcc shenanigans.
I'd expect there to be a higher proportion of intelligent immigrants via controlled immigration. Those who merely have to just hop the border are less likely to be engineers, doctors, etc., while Europeans and Asians have no choice but to deal with the legal system which can vet them.
Google Code shutdown?
The ToS is Spotify's word on this matter. If the ToS says they can do X, you can only assume they are going to do X. An apology doesn't fix the problem, no amount of grovelling by the CEO changes anything until the ToS are fixed.
> Why would one want to disable JavaScript in the first place? Privacy & security: why enable a site to execute random code on one's own machine when all one wants to do is read some content?

There are many reasons. Another is this: on most webpages (i.e. places you go to read text and maybe images and some videos; as opposed to web applications), JavaScript is an unnecessary waste of processing power, that only makes it harder for you to read in peace. It doesn't add value for user, so there's no reason to have it running in your browser.
Here's a handy test to determine if two technological terms mean the same thing: are they used interchangeably? If I said to someone, "oh that looks like you need a SOAPful interface," would they assume that I meant RESTful? Probably not, since they're two different technologies. The move to REST was actually inspired by the perceived deficiencies in WSDL and SOAP.

> The funny part is that technically Rails and Rails-inspired REST frameworks get it wrong.

Well, that's a bit tangential to my original point. I wasn't claiming that you specifically liked the way it was implemented, just that Rails, and thus the Ruby community, was responsible for its popularity. Despite the length of this thread, neither of you has managed to debunk that claim with anything resembling evidence.

Find a reference to Tomcat using REST before 2007, and give us the link. I'd bet you can't, since Rails was the first major web framework to implement REST.

> REST hit it big with the www, www is REST's killer app.

Since REST was invented in 2000, and the web itself had been around for a bit before that, I fail to see how this could be true.
Vagrant web development – is VMware better than VirtualBox?
I found that the Airbnb Price Tips feature works pretty well in mature markets but not in new locations.
In some apartments we manage in Kenya for instance, there are two apartments which are exactly the same. One has no reviews and the suggested price is around 48 €. The other one has 3 reviews with 4.5/5 ratings and the suggestion is 30 €.
So, it's good to look at but you always need to see if it makes sense to you.
Anyway, amazing job, they left the competition 10 years behind.
I'm not a fan of these changes and it sucks because I was a fan of Spotify. I wonder if they ever considered changing the feature list for their tiers (paid vs. free) like essentially give everyone the mobile app but the paid subscriptions have the ability to choose what they share (GPS, photos, etc) whereas the free users don't have a choice.
Do you have a reason for keeping them stored as lots of very small files in a filesystem?

If not, you might take a look at this page on the Sqlite home site: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html and consider storing the small items within a sqlite database file instead.
The primary value add is that it lets you bypass the nag popup imploring you to install the app.

Incidentally, that's usually also the primary value add to installing the app.
Yes, I find that data very unconvincing. I'd love to see some statistical tools identify how much GDP explains the crash variation.
If you have a rooted android you use XPrivacy. The permissions are better on iOS than when I had an Android but depending on the app you dont have much control.

For example Waze and The Weather Channel app wont let me set Location Services to "While Using" (unlike Google maps and Apple Maps). Instead I am left with no access to location or Always on which drains my battery horribly.

Beside I shouldn't have to install a 3rd party to be able to restrict access.
uBlock - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

uMatrix - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...
8| not sure if I'm just being trolled here... There is no way to have a 'career' (as opposed to a 'job', of course) without working more than 40 hours a week. (not saying 80 hours for 15 years either, but certainly more than 40). Of course one can be that petty guy who goes around citing Henry Ford and 'work life balance' and that whole spiel... but guess what, those people will never advance to anywhere. Professionals know that.
> neither Windows, Mac and Linux have any kind of permission system

Actually, OS X now has the beginnings of an iOS-like permission system for location services and access to your contacts.
Slack Quick Mute feature
Developer Edition should not be considered stable, by any means. It is still roughly equivalent to the Aurora (ie, alpha) channel.
Yeah, a later look had me wondering if I was reading too hard.

The whole discussion invites similar moralizing though, at least until the techniques are known to be very precise and safe.
Developers are welcome
It could be, say, the catholic pope and still the privacy and PII selling problem would remain the same, so who cares who Daniel Ek is? The damage had been done already, on such bad timing... Apple must be loving this fallout.

EDIT: I am not saying PII selling was the main problem here but I believe this is what usually people fear when these TOS changes come, and I think they are right in thinking so
I studied in Hungary and I'm really glad that there is a really high quality science journal aimed for high school students. It has a competition in mathematics, physics and informatics. You have to send back solutions to problems from the monthly issues.

http://www.komal.hu/info/bemutatkozas.e.shtml

They translate the problems to English and I think high school students from other countries can participate too, though it's mainly a Hungarian competition. This really helped me learning physics through tricky problems. I could never solve any problems from the "A" labeled math problems, though I never tried since high school.