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goto is sometimes the right tool for the job.
> “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”

Shouldn't that be "may be" instead of "is being"?
War in Afghanistan? I seem to miss the formal declaration of war by congress as required by the constitution.
It is called "understanding", not "inventing".
Because it's a fun exercise to understand the internals of CPython. That's what hacking is all about.
We use BlueJeans where I work, but it is not free.

http://bluejeans.com/
It's practical and you'll be right 8 times out of 10. But it also assumes that the only motivation for starting a company is money.

I'm running a startup that solves a very real problem lots of people have. The money is a nice bonus, but the real thrill is being able to solve a problem.

If you have an engineering brain, you know this as well: solving a problem just feels good. Doesn't matter whether the problem is fixing a broken faucet or helping people manage car repairs better (what I'm trying to do).

So for me, the real benefit of running a startup is that you get to solve a problem you care passionately about. If you can do that at someone else's company (and get paid handsomely for it), then by all means, go ahead and do it. But if you can't find companies solving the problems you care about, then you have no option but to roll up the sleeves and solve it yourself
Have you tried Telegram? I've been using it for months already and it's good, to be honest.
You can download it here: https://telegram.org/apps
The bug appears only on stock devices which are commonly updated. OEMs provide their own lock screens which aren't vulnerable.

So in this case "patched" is pretty meaningful.
I'm still using my mid 2009 macbook. The battery is not that unremovable, it's just screwed in. I upgraded to 8gb ram and SSD as most have. Thanks to Apples move to super weak hardware you can't buy a new one that's better for the same price.
Interesting and thought provoking comparison b/w James Bond and Jason Bourne.
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If Dart had async/await from the start I bet the async-only APIs would have been better received.
Skype is down in Europe
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Tim Cook and Steve Wozniak Really Disagree on the Upcoming Steve Jobs Movie
This is slack's time to gloat and market themselves.

BTW there is an abundance of VoIP services these days, from Facebook calls to Whatsapp to Google Hangouts to Viber to Fring.
> Kickstarter’s mission to “help bring creative projects to life”

Still only available in 13 out of 50 European countries. That's after adding five countries a few months ago.
One might be not a very good candidate. But once you're in space, you either do or don't. She, at the end of day, did.

I find the whole question very sad.
There's something similar in the world of jet aircraft too. The Textron AirLand Scorpion, built from off the shelf parts, designed to take a whole bunch of ordinary weapons systems, went from design to flying at air shows inside 3 years, without massive costs. It's a subsonic, twin jet plane with a stall speed around 100 knots, which costs ~$20m.

It's not remotely clever compared to the Eurofighter, Sukhoi Su-XX jets or similar recent generation multi-role aircraft, but for low speed engagement with flexible hardpoints and easy maintenance, it's hard to find many competitors. Which is weird, given the nature of most aerial combat roles for the past 15 years.
I'm not sure if there's a specific meaning to "seniority" in US unions, but there aren't strict seniority rules regarding promotions or pay increases in places with high union participation.

Eg the highest rates (~70%) in EU are in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In those countries there are some things you get along the years, and there are pay increases for everyone from collective bargaining but it doesn't generally stop you from overtaking older colleagues in career advancement.

See for example http://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Relat...
Contacts are a source of trouble, especially in devices that are subjected to vibration. That's why they're sometimes soldered down. For stationary devices this is much less of a concern, the long term killer there is contact oxidization. Since CPU contacts are made of gold this is not usually a source of concern. Even circuit boards made in the 70's with regular sockets still function fine today, the 'bad' parts are usually electrolytic capacitors (they dry out) and tantalum ones (they like to change into miniature fireworks).
This is the number one problem I have with Android. Once I buy an Android phone I pretty much expect 6 months of updates. Maybe longer if it is a really big bug. Sure some OEMs have made "promises" to provide 2 years of updates but that updates don't come out all that quickly, often several months after it hits the main AOSP line.

If you want an iOS like experience with Android you have to buy a Nexus phone of which the Nexus 6 sucked balls due to its size.

I wish Google hadn't killed the Play Edition phones. I would love a choice of phones running stock Android, maybe with a few extra, optional, apps from the OEM similar to what Motorola does. A Galaxy S6 running stock Android with a guarantee of update within 2 weeks of it hitting a Nexus would be my perfect phone.
I have a galaxy S6 running android 5.1.1 with device encryption.

The lock screen only accepts a password of 16 digits long.

So.... Only some devices effected?

EDIT:

On further research its fixed on 5.1.1.

Kind of a stupid fix? Just limiting the size on the input password field?

Also I notice that you can no longer copy paste from the emergency call screen.
down too in nigeria
I have similar story. Cheers.
Seems like contacts are shown offline, but chats are delivered.
I don’t think two years is the average life time of a current MacBook. I would guess maybe three, four years, maybe even longer. Most problems will crop up during the first year and be fixed on warranty.

Mechanically the devices are very solid and will survive for many years.

The biggest issue is the battery, really, and probably the power supply, both of which are costly (maybe 25% or so more than a replacement battery for another laptop, plus you have to bring in the MacBook to get it replaced, you can’t do it yourself), but can be replaced. Most people will just not do that, though, and live with diminished battery life and fraying power supply cables.

I think you are stuck in your filter bubble if you think people want to buy a new one quickly. Many will live happily with a current MacBook for many years. A decade ago the situation was a bit different (and performance crummy), but nowadays the speed is there.
And signing in is not working.
Of course, people and businesses can form interest groups. But they are still liable to competition laws. Price fixing is not allowed. Such a interest group can agree on certain standards, but not pricing or anything that would stifle competition.

Yes, if Uber needs to employ their former contractors a because of misclassification rulings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees...) - I like the German word "Scheinselbstständigkeit" - they then can form a union.
Whatever that is, it's a group struggle. It's not an individual struggle or a battle that can be fought individually.
Or buy any Apple device (to the extent you can actually "buy" one, in the meaning of owning it after you have paid for it).
Skype is down?
The linked book covers it, but it is 90 pages.

From a quick read, plain HMMs don't handle words that have never been seen before well.

Markov Logic networks are equivalent of CRFs (pg 22).
You're right. That's the thing though; don't expect to make any money out of doing anything you love. The phrase "labour of love" is very appropriate.

Currently I'm digging a large financial company out of a big hole full of poo that they dug and then tried to swim in and decided that they didn't like it. If I'm honest, I really don't care about that but it pays the bills. I prefer fixing and replacing bits of my friend's Macs for nothing and playing BOFH on all the kit in my house.
France Rejects Google’s Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling
Have you ever tried to modify a wordpress theme? It's a nightmare. And we are proffessional developers. Imagine the pain this must be for mere webdsigners.

Fixing the mess that is wordpress is a very nobel goal.
The harder problem is that without a central bank you can't track changes in the size of the economy.

Why not, if you have the total list of transactions being made - ie., the blockchain? Seems to me like it wouldn't be hard to measure the "Bitcoin GDP" and adjust accordingly.
There is a working ASLR patchset for FreeBSD.

https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2015-07-06/announ...

So if you want ASLR you can have it. It's just not yet in a regular FreeBSD release.
Reminds me a little of JWZ's "on toolkits" (https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html).

Writing lock screens is hard!
I could see malware authors making use of that feature. Any documentation for it?
Same here, can't log in.
XScreenSaver: On Toolkit Dialogs (2004)
I would love to see the content labelled as "sponsored by Embraer" or the likes.
Incidentally, from 2009: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576944-the-goto-decorato...

And presented at KiwiPycon 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdU8I09BGsU
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This is an experiment that everyone who learned about cosine distance and vector space information retrieval probably tried, just to see what would happen.

"Fuzzy string matching" isn't really the right term. Of course string distance will give a better fuzzy string match. But this finds words with similar structure rather than words that are similar in the traditional sense. Perhaps there's no obvious application, but it gives results that are very interesting in and of themselves.

It might serve to partition search space for another more expensive algorithm.
Found it! Here's the article:
http://baloogancampaign.com/2015/02/02/10-future-us-close-ai...

There's a good follow-up on the F-35 as well, here: http://baloogancampaign.com/2015/03/23/f-35/
The history of the modern processed foods industry doesn't give much credibility to the idea that concerned scientists can or will make a difference "from the inside".

The profit margins and interests of mega-corps trump the objections or motives of any "concerned scientist" working there. Besides, it's the management's way or the highway, there are no irreplacable "star" scientists, so that their personal beliefs would made much of a difference.

For academic and third party instutitions yes, but those don't produce or dictate what we eat, and mega-corps can mix and match whatever is more profitable from their research, or ignore it entirely (well, unless regulated to do otherwise, and even so they'll use every loophole they can, if unhealthy cheapo stuff gives higher margins. It's not as the general public -- ignoring upper/middle class organic buyers and such -- is very discerning).
On HN regularly posters demand the US not to impose their values upon other "cultures".

Then again - I don't believe this is part of Afgan culture at all anyway. I think that happens when survival bias due to war and destruction over a long period of time leads to very fucked up people climbing to the top of a society.

At the end of the day - or maybe rather at its start - the US is partly responsible for Afghanistan being trapped in a downward spiral.

Have a look at this (randomly chosen gallery) about Afghanistan in its 60s - I don't think that culture would be very fond of rapists.

http://www.upworthy.com/afghanistan-in-the-1960s-prepare-to-...
Couldn't agree more. Somebody above mentioned Drupal, which is also a widely-used PHP-based CMS, but (IMO) far superior to WP (Comparing the two communities is night and day — when I published my first Drupal module, I got hours of community support and released something that was high quality and reviewed by a member of the security team. With my first WP plugin, the most code review I got was somebody who ran it through a linter). Alas, theming Drupal is awful (especially if you're a designer who's invested in learning WP theming); my personal opinion about why it's never gotten anywhere near WP's market share is largely (largely!) due to the lack of themes.
All the things you mentioned (plus e.g. bayesian networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines) are examples of Graphical Models. You can roughly think of (linear chain) CRFs as being to HMMs as logistic regression is to Naive Bayes. HMMs and Naive bayes learn a joint probability distribution on the data while Log Reg and CRFs fit conditional probabilities.

If none of that makes sense then, basically, in general and with more data, the CRF (or discriminative classifier) will tend to make better predictors because they don't try to directly model complicated things that don't really matter for prediction anyways. Because of this they can use richer features without having to worry about how such and such relates to this or that. All this ends up making discriminative classifiers more robust when model assumptions are violated because they don't sacrifice as much to remain tractable (or rather, the trade off/sacrifice they make tends to end up not mattering as much when prediction accuracy is your main concern).

So in short, you use a HMM instead of a Markov Chain when the sequence you're trying to predict is not visible. Like say when you want to predict the parts of speech but only have access to words, you'll use the relationship between the visible sequence of words to learn the hidden sequence of Parts of speech labels. You use CRFs instead of HMMs because they tend to make better predictors while remaining tractable. The downside is discriminative classifiers will not necessarily learn the most meaningful decision boundaries, this starts to matter when you want to move beyond just prediction.
All the content is created based off every post/comment on Hacker News, hence the somewhat plausable post titles (if you squint a bit). There isn't much point to it, other than I found it quite funny :)
eh, memory is such a short and controversial thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWjJdXKIXA

mind you, there is no such thing as good guys, the groups which we don't pay to kill the others are generally pictured as the bad guys by the media.

That's what makes the Syria situation so hairy, for example. which one are the good guys to help? There are terrifying claims on both sides by now, because at the beginning there wasn't an interest on helping one specific group so no one got special media treatment.
Also in there:

http://www.wired.com/2007/07/fbi-spyware-how/
I can't understand in the first place, why copy & paste is active on a password screen that should lock the whole device at all!

Of course, deactivating copy&paste would not be a valid solution for this, but the paste feature also could potentially leak user data to unauthorized persons. The copy feature could by accident reveal the password at places where they do not belong.
The assumption that only pedophiles rape very young children is wrong - there is a "phenomenon" of substituting preferrred sex partners with what is available.

That's why there is a rape problem in prisons which is certainly not caused by gays ...
Uber's real time car map
That's your view. My view is that all life is equally important. Why is abusing a child worse than killing another living being ? Can you elaborate ?

I know and realize this is a stupid argument to have, especially on Hacker News, but if people are ready to make arguments about the subject that animals have no right, on a certain level we are ready to make the argument that maybe foreigners or "lower level people" as many tend to think don't have the same right to live. You see the connection I'm trying to make ?
Uber is still:

1) Growing very fast, and

2) Spending investors' money to acquire market share of both drivers and customers.

In China, the prices are so low, and the subsidies for drivers so high, that I wonder whether Uber has even reached unit profitability (i.e. positive gross margins). Plus, they're spending money on customer acquisition, and investing in infrastructure.

Do we already know that Uber has found a repeatable business model?
Skype ‘working on a fix’ as communication service faces worldwide outage
The chance without advanced degree is actually about 25% (it has been decreasing every year).
It forces you to use your credit card in order to build a credit score. In fact in the beginning I had to sponsor my own credit line of which I paid interest. So yeah I would say pretty much forces you to take on debt even if it's only for a little while.
Thats why i like decentralised messaging (XMPP/Jabber). If a Jabber server goes down, it only affects the users on that particular server, not all users worldwide.
There is another good DAWG/DAFSA implementation - check https://code.google.com/p/dawgdic/. In README of https://github.com/chalup/dawggenerator it is said it takes 55s to encode http://sjp.pl/slownik/growy/ data. I just tried it with dawgdic, and it builds a DAFSA from http://sjp.pl/slownik/growy/ in 2s using a Python wrapper https://github.com/kmike/DAWG. I think it is so much faster because dawgdic uses Daciuk's algorithm.

The resulting file size is slightly larger (1.6MB instead of 1.5MB), but that's likely because I converted data from cp1250 to utf8 before encoding.
Thanks for letting me know about the broken Firefox examples! They should be fixed now.

I agree, you'd never want to actually build something this small with React - Vanilla DOM manipulation would make a lot more sense. That said, React does make sense for larger applications - and my intention is to write a series which will take you from not knowing React to being able to use it for an appropriately sized app. This is just part of the road there :)
Here is the official notice on skype heartbeat: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.htm...

I rely almost exclusively on skype for my business comms. Most of my meetings begin at 2PM UK time (when the Eastern US wakes up), so if it is still down by then it will be an interesting day!
I did not know that ChibiOS was funded by ST. I thought they only worked on FreeRTOS (CHibiOS is not limited to ST's MCUs).
Not sure what you mean. There are more or less 15 years where they don't get to vote or decide anything. It's like blaming someone for being evangelical when his or her parents is. It's true they can "just" decide to not be evangelical christians but it's not that simple. But sure if you believe that then everything I am saying is going to sound like bullocks.
I think the important thing to understand there is that stealth is not a persistent, invulnerable defense. It's a mitigation; a defense with limitations. What it does do is give the F-35 the ability to get close enough to get the first shot, and eliminate the threat. In any air campaign, destruction of defenses is going to be prioritized, and hunting them will be the job of the F-35. That unfortunately is not something the A-10 can currently do.
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The group aggregated RWA calcs for a global tier 1 bank run substantially in arrears - perhaps as much as 2 months, and IIRC are submitted to the regulators quarterly.

The author is also using the word "spreadsheet" as shorthand to mean "the entire modelling infrastructure". For the trading book, this can be non-trivial.
It is interesting to compare Bond with Smiley. While Bond is whom the salesman aspired to be, Smiley is whom he would actually become.

The expense account is a reptile fund over drafted by senior management for spurious expenses, he travels, but to cold and boring places, usually on a budget and staying out of sight in cramped hotels and safe houses.

Instead of sleeping with beautiful women, he spends most of his time working, and being cheated on by his detached wife.

And when he actually makes it to the top, he just finds himself overburden with political machinations, stakeholder management, and longing for the time when he'd actually get something done.
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In Linux, if PID 1 ever goes down the kernel panics. You could put a watchdog in your PID 1 that will take it down if the timer isn't tickled for a certain period of time.
>No, the "individual rights" are declared by UN

The UN is just a bunch of big powers bullying and doing what they like to lesser countries. And those big powers don't even sign or ratify all decisions made by the UN, or selectively pick what they care for and ignore those that don't favor them. The US for example has refused to cooperate in a international war criminal court that asks to trial its own.

Or how about the fact that in the 60's, decades since the signing of those rights, blacks still have to fight against seggregation in schools, hotels, etc? And modern stuff like torture, drone killings, rampant police killings of innocents, death penalty (including for minors) and all that stuff against basic human rights?

Heck, when the declaration of UN was signed, most of the countries doing the signing were still colonies, and all of the major ones had colonies themselves. Hurray for hypocrisy -- and selective enforcing of them as an excuse and as a weapon against lesser countries.
This is the sort of evil that Moral Relativism gets you.
It's a boilerplate for a project that uses react (https://facebook.github.io/react/), redux (https://rackt.github.io/redux/) and redux-undo (https://github.com/omnidan/redux-undo).

I've configured it so that it uses hot reloading (only refresh the parts of the web app that changed) plugins that also show the error in the browser while you're developing.

Does that clear it up a bit? :)
I am entirely happy to judge paedophiles and rapists. I'll also judge thieves, racists and murderers.
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He's not rude, at a guess that's quite restrained (compared to what my version of that comment would be anyway).
Unions were a solution at one point in time, but I doubt their effectiveness in an information economy. What we have is simply a lack of jobs for a lot of people.

We have to move towards a basic income - you get paid even if you do nothing. That way at least there's a hard floor on living standards.
The images also contain the word "ablates" which he failed to mention. But this is a very interesting article, learned a lot.
I suppose that if you have permissions to use that feature, you could already take the system down with millions of other ways.
I think it is too. Its simplicity is what allowed me to create `redux-undo` as it is - it's basically a function that returns a new reducer function which is enhanced with undo-functionality.

So much more can be done with this concept - and it's nothing special - sometimes making things simpler is the best way to solve a problem. Redux is a great example for that.
I think it might be a relevance or score of some kind.

The reason it might look weird (like a strange progress bar or something) is because it's an img link to "s.gif", but s.gif is actually a 404.

The td cell (yup it's a table structure) the img link is in is named "ind".

No idea what these two things put together mean.

EDIT: Then I noticed a thing between "Hacker News" and "new" at the top. s.gif yet again.

> "It's a spacer gif...! The img tag has an explicit width= set....

Wow, that takes me back a bit, and I'm not even a real webdev or anything (and I don't mind tables to boot). Blinks
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Encryption might be the reason why we haven't heard from aliens
Needs JavaScript to read article text.
That does not appear to be true:

> Earn 100% of the revenue from ads you sell, and 70% when iAd sells ads for you.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...