skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also the old Pi [0]. The new ones look a bit different [1,2]. :)

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b/

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/
That is a bit of a bummer, but do I understand correctly that the driver only supports a yet-to-be-released version of Parallels?
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Seeing this is very disheartening to folks like me that really gush over Tesla and see free solar-powered superchargers as a bright future :-/

This is above anything else I've seen about Tesla ever bums me out the most. It is like getting "unlimited" data to find out that you're actually punished at more than 2 GB. It is super lame behavior.
I wonder if this sort of approach actually interferes with children learning one of the most important lessons there is about science - it changes. What sets scientific inquiry apart from many other approaches is the willingness to identify, admit to, and resolve errors/omissions in the face of superior evidence.

Granted, if I wanted to learn about the moon, or rockets specifically I'd want the most up to date text I could find, but if that was all I read I'd end up learning less about science itself.

Of course, if the book is simply a chronology of events there's merit in expanding its range.

I don't know if the target audience being children makes this a non-issue, or an even bigger issue?

(And yes, I'm aware of and obsessed with this book - http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thoma... :-) )
I know where you were going with your example, but amusingly you chose Time Warner, who actually owns HBO. Which illustrates a totally different problem in the IPtv world. :)

In your example a better choice would be Comcast.
Hi David

The interview was fascinating, really enjoyed it!

When you were talking about the complexity of airline fares it reminded me of ATPCO. Did they exist back then or was that something the airlines later brought into being themselves?
Do you really want to run 20 year-old software?

Games? Line of business applications? Other applications that still work for me and I have no reason to upgrade?

Yes. Yes I do.

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Windows is literally the only OS out there right now that gives a toss about backwards compatibility.

Try compiling old code on a new linux - prepare to be stuck in dependency hell for hours as you try to find libraries that the distro maintainers ever-so-helpfully deleted outright or renamed with no pointer.

Apple shamelessly breaks things every time there's a point release to iOS or OSX. Killing this API, turning on that "security" feature which breaks your addons, etc etc.
Docker machine creates and manages VMs, then you can run any number of containers on those VMs.
Is this really an issue? We're now living in a society saturated with smartphones, tablets and PCs. Kids today are born with iPhones and iPads. Older populations don't seem to be having problems using these devices, heck my 80 year old grandmother can use her iPhone, Mac, and iPad perfectly.

As our society adopts basic principles of computer interaction we can make them more advanced while keeping the same relative level of simplicity.
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> In addition, I'd never recommend Docker Compose to web developers that rely on databases, as quirks with it have caused many a volume-only container to be destroyed and rebuilt, thus defeating the purpose.

Can you point me in the direction of a bug report or a more concrete example? I'd like to make sure we follow up.
The "indicator of menu's presence" in Android is .. well, better than the indicator of scrollable pages? The issues in Android are countless indeed.

Lollipop flashes the tiny scrollbar on the right in scrollable panes for a second (or less?), before disappearing. I cannot count how many times I just didn't realize I never saw options because the content was cut exactly between two lines. Despite knowing this fact, I regularly miss scrollable panes, even on dialogs I visited before.

The ample (absurd) margins around all controls don't help. They made large (unpocketable) phone screens too small to display actual content!

The last discovery was the red-on-blue color in the clock, which has awful readability.

I never saw any worse as far as UI is concerned, even disregarding the seriously questionable "material design" concept, which might just as well be called "style", as there's no usability designed into it at all.

The bar was always quite low, but has been lowered even further.
Telemetry is the quid pro quo for free upgrades for the life of the device.

This is where I start to challenge what Microsoft should (as a matter of law and/or regulation) be allowed to get away with. As I've stated in other posts in this discussion, I think there is a reasonable expectation of support for a significant period for this kind of software product given that the only reason those updates are actually necessary is that the original product someone paid for was defective. We don't know how to write perfect software yet, but I don't think software companies should be allowed to ship defective software and then change the deal retrospectively in exchange for putting right what was their own mistake in the first place.

Public interest has been phenomenal, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, and most people seem to be very happy with it.

I wouldn't know. Among people I actually know personally in real life, whether professionally or friends and family, geeky or not, I'm aware of literally no-one who has actually installed Windows 10 other than for testing purposes. On the other hand, I do know plenty of people, again both professionally and personally and both geeks and not, who seem quite convinced that they don't want it for now in light of things like forced updates, privacy concerns, hesitation after being disappointed by the Windows 8 touch-biased UI, hearing about paying to hide ads just to play a game, and other negative aspects. Moreover, so far no-one I've talked to seems to have found any good, concrete reason to upgrade, other than the not-really reasons like "it's free" and "it's the new version". The occasional gamer mentions DirectX 12 and the occasional web developer mentions Edge as something they might need to test with, but the general reaction seems to be a resounding "meh" in the circles I move in. YMMV, of course.

I'm also curious about where these positive reviews are, because the Internet I've been reading for the last few weeks has been one disaster story after another as far as Windows 10 coverage is concerned. In light of my previous point, I assume the Internet all those other people have been reading has looked similar. But again, YMMV.
You are right. But I have seen so many cases, where companies come away with it.

This is something, that definitively should be changed in our legal systems, but they are far from perfect, even when there are sometimes some honorable judges around (much to seldom in my country!).
I think it depends on where you're buying your house. The value of my house dipped slightly in 2008/2009 but is now about 12% higher than it was in 2007. Buying a home is still a good long-term investment but you have to be in a position to hold onto it (perhaps by renting it out after you vacate it).
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The first question is: what are you using now?
I'm an engineer, and I'm in demand – should I be earning more?
Wifi related things in general seem to give the iPhone a challenge. Handoff for example took a device reset to get working properly.
I just started using it (for nothing serious). I'm going to have so much fun when I rediscover this in a year or so.
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>Massive implicit and explicit government distortions in favor of home ownership. Starting with the type of mortgage available in the US and virtually nowhere else

Which ones? The horrible interest-only ones, or the horrible variable interest with balloon payment ones, or the horrible fixed 5% interest ones?

Now look at Japan. I can get a home there with a 1-2% fixed mortgage rate and that comes with a 5% discount at the local mall/grocery (Aeon). I could actually make the 1% back just on my food spending.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-07/record-low...

4% may not sound like much, but it is huge over the course of a 30 year loan.

100,000=>115,000@30yr,1%
100,000=>193,000@30yr,5%

What a rip off... Nearly double the principal, just in interest. Mortgages here seem like legalized financial slavery to me.

I rent here in the USA. I haven't seen great changes in my rent in the past few of years. This story seems very suspicious to me. Is it an advertisement paid by the mortgage industry?
Then, why do warrants exist? For that matter, why have a police force at all? According to your argument, locking up a percentage of the population doesn't make sense, so let's just let everyone do whatever they want, amirite?
You can bind any of these actions to the scroll wheel so you don't have to dig into the UI.
Well, you're free to start an employment agency for tech workers. But, with respect, I won't pay for your agency's services until I stop being contacted by multiple recruiters a week. :)
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It's not just cord-cutting, however, this changes Sesame Street's relationship with PBS, and over-the-air broadcast service. The group Sesame Street needs to reach the most is not cord-cutters, it's people without an Internet connection. Low income and low literacy families are what Sesame Street was created to reach, that's why it's a show designed to appeal to both kids and adults. Certainly with a show like Sesame Street having the newest episodes is not necessarily critical (though they have done some good topical pieces in the past, the episode where a Hurricane hits Sesame Street comes to mind), so it's not a major issue in this case.

Needless to say I was happy to see that there would continue to be some relationship with PBS, and I can't emphasize enough how important I find over-the-air public programming (both TV and radio).

EDIT: To be clear, I do not necessarily think this is a bad deal. I think the STW produces great content and anything that helps them continue to produce quality non-commercial content is great. I just hope that content continues to be available for free on over-the-air broadcasts in the long term.
Show room charger is a "destination charger", which is different. Besides, the letter is a nudge, not a ban.

But: I don't think I'd buy an electric if I couldn't charge at home, so I don't disagree with you there.
VLDB accepts 150 papers and SIGMOD perhaps another 150. This is just top tier. I am pretty sure science can live without about more than 50% of those papers.

I disagree with the tone of the original comment. But I do not disagree with the sentiment. Just having a large installation does not make it interesting. However, Google's large systems almost always push the boundaries of science -- MapReduce, GFS, Spanner, Distbelief and have been a joy to read.
Maybe, from the stuff in the back that is way past its use-by date.
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"If they showed the commercials I don't see how it's different than watching locally on TV..."

I have always wondered about this. I have to assume television broadcasters (e.g. the regional Fox Sports networks) who pay billions over decades to have broadcast rights want to protect their hegemony on TV. But in general you would think that they could sell their advertisers on the fact they are also being viewed by online subscribers. Maybe the advertisers don't want their otherwise local commercials broadcast, but then that doesn't explain why I can watch commercials when I watch a regional channel from another state.

"ESPN lets you stream stuff if you have a cable subscription, but you can't stream local games with MLB.tv regardless of your cable subscription."

But ESPN doesn't really let you stream local stuff of the US's big 4 leagues. It is unfair to compare the professional sports streaming options of ESPN3, Fox Sports Go, NBCSN, etc with those of the 4 leagues considering that none of the broadcasters can broadcast ANY games, much less be blackout-stricken.
This article is a bit weak on detail, leaving us to fill in with our own anecdotes. I have one, last night my partner couldn't figure out how to add a new item in the "Reminder" application. Looking over their shoulder, it wasn't obvious to me either. The answer: click on the blank line. Kind of elegant and at the same time, confusing. After years of pressing the "plus" icon, Apple has switched gears and left us behind.

In my opinion, the problem is Apple's departure from the hints they've been training people on since the first iPhone.
I think any observation that imagines that old-school dropdown-menu-based applications are easier to use than iOS/Android applications is empirically off-base. More people use, more fluently, phone apps than ever used those desktop ones.

That's not to say that iOS-style interfaces are perfect -- obviously there are flaws there -- but if your starting premise is that MacOS was easier to use than iOS, you're just fundamentally at odds with reality, and need to figure out which of your premises are wrong.
> I can't send files to my equally brand new iPhone 6

I think the main issue is that Apple wants to abstract the idea of files and a filesystem away... at least on iOS devices.

While Apple does not say it in as many words, here is a quote straight from the horse's mouth:

> The iOS file system is geared toward apps running on their own. To keep the system simple, users of iOS devices do not have direct access to the file system and apps are expected to follow this convention.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileMa...
A small correction to what you said, the allegations (that you quoted) were lowered after Assange appealed (but the rape still remains, although as a "lesser degree").

Your [4]:

> The decision was appealed by Assange on 22 November to the Svea Court of Appeal, which two days later upheld the warrant but lowered it to suspicion of rape of a lesser degree, unlawful coercion and two cases of sexual molestation rather than three.
What's the point of client-side crypto in a browser? Can't you be served backdoored JavaScript that no longer does proper encryption, and you'd be none the wiser?
Could you elaborate on what you prefer about explorer over finder?
Thanks, that's the number I was trying to find and had seen before.
Not sure why comparing with Android is necessary. To me, the more interesting comparison is to older Apple products. Compared to older products, it seems that Apple has seriously regressed in terms of stability and usability.
As you can probably see yourself from the screenshot and video, not much.

There may be some subconscious influence from the old system and other image systems we have used (Lightroom, Picasa, Google Photos, Flickr, etc), but I can't think of particular features inspired from Picdar.
I'm playing with the El Capitan beta right now on a ~4 year old MBP and I will say that it seems very snappy and I haven't needed to reboot except for updates, and I haven't had any wifi issues (had a lot on Mavericks). That said, it's a clean install and I've been pretty gentle with it. I'm cautiously optimistic that they're improving these matters.
I think this is an excellent summary, but I question the assertion that Solow's "monopoly rent" is equivalent to gain from regulation.

That's certainly a portion of rent, especially in intensely regulation-aided markets like cable service. However, I would argue that other anti-competitive forces like cost of market entry and brand loyalty (I'm looking at Apple) also generate 'rent', where that's defined as "profits beyond market efficiency".

The regulatory landscape is certainly a major player in entry costs and market inefficiencies, but it's far from the only one. The labor to capital transfer, then, isn't solvable simply by correcting regulation-induced monopolies - it would require an attack on other forms of rent seeking as well.
The suits can fly flat and up fairly easily when in a dive, so the risk factor of hitting something is not super high.

The biggest risk factor is the exit. If you slip or have the wrong initial angle of attack, you will start flying at a lower altitude. On some exits, there is no room for that and on others it just means you have to abandon your initial plans. After the exit though, it's all super relaxed and fun, especially with the trees. Some of the trees have thin branches at the top that you can brush against without hurting yourself :)

We practice the exits a lot and measure our start arcs with GPS devices on forgiving objects. Based on the GPS tracks from forgiving objects and the consistency of our start arcs, we move to progressively more challenging exits. The same strategy applies for proximity lines.
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Or space-based solar and lasers! Which can get as large as you like and not destroy ecologies the size of Spain. And works 24 hrs a day, not 12.
Amazon Dash: Hack it to run your own code
This is a discussion of clothing dyes and related coloration and dying in history. (The title is ambiguous)
> In fact, those kids may even be too old by the time the episodes they would want to see get widely distributed.

I don't think kids around sesame street age care much about which particular episode they're watching. Probably not a lot of water cooler discussion the next day.
Holy crap quite a world of difference there then. Wow. A lot of my friends have never even been in internships and make a good amount more than me (I've been in one). My GPA was acceptable, not spectacular. I have some shitty personal projects, many of them have none.
I think Apple still is "The Best", but like many others, I feel it's fast becoming "The Best" of a bad bunch, which isn't good enough for me, and hopefully isn't good enough for Apple.

I blame UXers.
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It's not "book burning", it's just the routine collection maintenance that goes on in every library, every day. These books are usually given away or sold for pocket change, so "burning" really isn't apt even if it were out of the ordinary for a library to weed old titles.
what's that in stationwagons full of LTO6 tapes?
Broadcast is a moot point for anyone with a computer and at least a DSL connection.

I'm done with instant broadcast by any method if it's supported with commercials. I have little time free to watch TV. It's too valuable to waste 15-20 minutes out of every hour on commercials.
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You can paste a filepath in the top bar as you would paste a URL. There's also the window snapping, which is not specific to Explorer, but is awesome. Those two features are absolutely killer. I'm not ready to switch from a Mac yet, but I have to agree with the article that the overall Mac situation seems to be getting worse.
> You'll have similar programs...

Never said that one was better than the other, just that there are alternatives. :)

Again, if one really, really needs Photoshop, then they need to evaluate how much they want to change Operating Systems.
Android libstagefright still exploitable
10 years ago:

http://www.freymartin.de/en/projects/snoil

Date unknown:

http://www.hawaiilibrary.net/articles/Ferro_Liquid_Display
Meant, how do we all tell Microsoft about this? Are there public petitions etc?
Most courses offer just the syllabus without any slides or notes on the ACM digital library. There were many other great courses, but most sadly haven't posted their slides and notes yet.
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I actually think it's less good than the 3-series or A4. The 3-series and A4 have very well thought out ergonomics and the seats are comfortable and hug you.

The design of the Tesla's seat seems to be an afterthought and I found it uncomfortable after an hour and a half with my butt planted in it. In Texas, an hour and a half travel is almost nothing.

Other things about the car's fit and finish, like the rear hatch's tendency to leak water in heavy rain, really turned me off from even considering one.
Interesting, will look into ACES. What do you use for the files, openEXR?

Yep first "HDR" tv's will be rec709 but higher DR is definitely coming, both to home TVs and cinemas (via super bright laser projectors) http://blog.abelcine.com/2015/03/06/high-dynamic-range-expla...

I'm actually not convinced most people will want 5-100x brighter pictures than we currently have! Dynamic range of the human eye is also related to foveal/peripheral vision, so dynamic range in the real world probably doesn't map 1:1 to a small screen experience - if that makes sense.

http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStuff/CameraEye/

I am very interested in "natural", halo free tone mapping algorithms, squeezing that extended DR into current displays. I really like the results Adobe is getting with laplacian pyramids in Camera Raw for highlight/shadow recovery. Do you know of other tone mapping algos that look natural?
I can't find much in the way of specific technical information in English, but from what I can tell Guifi has are tiers of nodes, ordinary nodes and supernodes, where nodes connect only to supernodes and the supernodes have fixed, manually configured directional radio links to other supernodes. It's a lot easier to get thirty thousand nodes on a mesh network if the vast majority of them aren't actually taking part in the meshing and the ones that are use fixed infrastructure links. It basically avoids all the inconvenient "mesh" part.
In reality it probably wouldn't be an individual customer against Microsoft anyway. It would be someone like the national data protection regulator or European authorities, acting on behalf of the population as a whole, and they would probably be looking at the actual behaviour of Microsoft and whether it violated data protection laws. If Microsoft attempted to argue that weasel words in their terms permitted their behaviour but the evidence showed that in the real world users didn't know or understand the implications, I doubt that would work out very well for Microsoft. Those authorities are generally more pro-privacy than the US, and they have handed serious financial penalties to big tech companies before.
Keep in mind that with a mortgage you're still renting -- you're just renting money instead of the house. I know this is a simplified view, but some of your points (e.g., profit for the landlord) have equivalents for a mortgage (profit for the bank, via interest). Also, you're going to be paying for maintenance in either case. In the case of owning it may not be literally baked into your mortgage payment, but that doesn't mean you're not going to be responsible for repairs on your own house.

Also, keep in mind that a landlord isn't entitled to profit just because they're attempting to make a profit. It is entirely possible (and it does happen in reality) that a certain rental market is such that the landlord will not be able to turn a profit or may in fact even lose money. Being a landlord is just like any other business -- it can fail.

Finally, rental markets are often just different. Here in Houston, I could not buy an apartment like the one I rent for the same price that I pay. There aren't many condo buildings for one thing, and the ones that do exist charge exorbitant monthly maintenance fees. These fees would bring the monthly cost of owning such a condo to about $500-$1000/month more than what I currently pay in rent. At the same time, any townhouse or SFH that I might buy which is larger than what I rent is naturally going to cost more -- often times significantly more. In other words, the rental market sometimes has options that don't exist in the for-sale market. (The opposite is of course true as well.)
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