skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the woods 40 miles outside of Atlanta. I can (usually) get all of the important Atlanta stations, no problem. My Antenna was $150, but I have been using it for almost 10 years (you do the math). I do require some formidable signal amplification and lose picture when an airplane flies overhead.
The photos are taken by the architect or designer who have permission to share/publish them. They are oftwn taken after the construction is completed and before the company moves in fully.

That said there are many office design projects which are not allowed to be published and are photographed for internal use only.
The problem is that too many libertarians take the precept that one's body is sacrosanct and extrapolate it to things beyond the body. I agree that one's body belongs to oneself and no one else, that it must not be violated by any one or any group, even in the name of a greater good. And I can agree that the fruits of one's labor cannot also be coerced or taken away, as long as "fruits of one's labor" is very strictly and narrowly defined. I agree that everyone has the "right" to be a selfish jerk.

But this does not extend much beyond your body. Certainly not to land.

Land is the fruit of no one's labor. Rather, we are the fruits of it.
Chattanooga to offer 10 gigabit internet service starting today
I don't have any first-hand knowledge, so thanks for that.

However, it is my understanding that if you hook this up to the internet it gets its EPG from Rovio. OTOH, if you do not link it, it will have a crappier, yet sufficient EPG from OTA signals. I believe Rovio gives EPG 2 weeks out, but EPG via OTA is 2 days out.
Usual disclaimer, I am not an official Dropbox spokesperson, and these are not necessarily company stances.

1.

The best answer I can give you is here: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28

The background behind it is we evaluate this option (and debate it internally) all the time, and it's neither in line with the type of services we are expected offer (collab, etc), and there is insufficient customer demand for it. It is also dangerous, since nontechnical users lose their private keys with startling frequency, and it's difficult to explain to them that we're completely unable to help them when this happens.

We do, however, totally know there is a small slice of technical users that want to treat Dropbox as an opaque "backup service", and they're willing to take on the risk of key management. So we refer them to one of our partners that specializes in providing this layer on top of Dropbox.

Never say never, so we may decide to offer this type of account in the future--possibly to businesses. We would have to alter or disable large swaths of collaboration features that require server-side representations/alterations of data. But, as I said, it's a product feature under constant consideration.

2.

Once again, I have to emphasize, this is a personal take, not Dropbox's take.

I sympathize with the tinfoil hat crowd, but I think most Dropbox employees find it a disappointing take on the company that has always strived to make the very best cloud storage product possible, on all platforms.

We are in a segment (cloud sync/collab, not backup) with some very, very large players. Storage is not a loss leader to us. It is not subsidized by a massive advertising network capitalizing on customer behavioral data. Our customers are not what's for sale--our storage services are.

If you or your business does not like our services--does not consider them fast, secure, etc--enough to pay for them--we don't get revenue.

I very much doubt any of our competitors cares as much about your data staying private, available, usable, etc, as we do. There is no other way for us to capture value from the market then make you all ridiculously pleased with Dropbox and Dropbox's treatment of your data.

So I would ask you to imagine what the culture of a company looks like that is incentivized thusly. We obsess over doing the right thing with your data. So threads like this are hard to read, to be honest.

And that's all I'll say about this issue.
It has been more or less solved - it's called the Pantone Color system. That said, it doesn't really work the way you'd expect. It'll get you close (say, if you need a consistent color for your brand), but a pantone color on it's own isn't enough to define a material.

The issue with defining physical colour codes is that it gets really complicated when you consider finish. With screen color, you have only one finish, and that's whatever the user's monitor happens to have. With paints and plastics the finish (how glossy the surface is, how metallic it is, coated or uncoated, inclusions like metal flake, etc) really messes things up. This tends to "break" systems like Pantone, and means that it's really hard to choose a few variables to absolutely define a color.
Never heard of it before. Thanks, definitely adding to my to-watch list.

Also, the list linked in that article is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_drones.
That sounds interesting enough that I'll read the whitepaper, but the unfortunate truth is that people aren't going to switch off bitcoin any time soon. There are already massive improvements on the bitcoin protocol which have been largely ignored, partially because people don't understand them. This looks even more complicated, which adds both skepticism and implementation security risk.
Clearly this analysis would be a flawed approach to take for the American South. Especially given that right now "hot chicken" places are a hipster fad for the "up and coming" neighborhoods.
Apple launches RSU shares program for all employees to retain talent
this is why i said, "with context".

you'd have to be a little stupid to head down the wrong path after someone explained clearly to you why it is in fact wrong.
You seem to assume that public opinion is an independent variable, but it's not. It shifts in response to elite opinion, media coverage, how poll questions are asked, and no doubt other things. It is as much an effect as a cause of the forces that shift policy; only in dramatic cases does it become causal. Appealing to public opinion to predict that the status quo will persist is therefore a historical fallacy.

There's an example of this in Boswell's Life of Johnson. Here is Johnson, the great English Tory, arguing in 1769 that general warrants are a non-issue because the public doesn't care:

[Johnson] would not admit the importance of the question concerning the legality of general warrants. "Such a power (he observed) must be vested in every government to answer particular cases of necessity; and there can be no just complaint but when it is abused, for which those who administer government must be answerable. It is a matter of such indifference, a matter about which the people care so very little, that were a man to be sent over Britain to offer them an exemption for it at a halfpenny a piece, very few would purchase it." This was a specimen of that laxity of talking, which I had heard him fairly acknowledge; for surely, while the power of granting general warrants was supposed to be legal, and the apprehension of them hung over our heads, we did not possess that security of freedom, congenial to our happy constitution, and which, by the intrepid exertions of Mr. Wilkes [1], has been happily established. [2]

It's striking how modern Johnson's arguments about general warrants—the mass surveillance issue of his time—sound now. He was probably correct about the public and could have cited polls had they existed. Yet that was far from dispositive: the American Revolution was imminent, and to Boswell, writing 20 years later, it is so obvious that Johnson was on the wrong side of history that he hastens to make clear that he (Boswell) wasn't.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes

2. https://books.google.ca/books?id=qBFXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=P...

p.s. I hope it's obvious, but this is just a personal comment and not
moderation-related.
I've never shopped paint brands based on color. I always just assume the brand will have the color I want in their collection of swatches.

I have bought different brands based on perceived/researched quality. I've found personal/anecdotal differences in how well paint coats, how runny it is, how well it holds up, using different brands.
>Google's algorithms do not need to tell the difference between good and bad articles

But this is not happening. In Most of the cases, Google cannot distinguish between good and bad content and they are ranking the results using their mysterious algorithm. They are still using Backlinks to rank a content and it is wrong.
4th and King – a lyrical note about tech life on the train
The CSS color names are incredibly stupid. The colors they call “red”, “green”, “blue”, etc. are nowhere near the colors humans would consider closest to matching those labels, and combinations of basic CSS colors result in unusably ugly design.

More generally, color collections without any order or structure are terrible – that goes for Pantone, Crayola crayon colors, paint names at the hardware store, etc. These are great for vendor lock in, but useless for human understanding.

Instead colors should be specified in e.g. Munsell coordinates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system where the numbers are meaningful and intuitive.

And in the context of computers, the specification of color as RGB coordinates is fine for CPU-to-display communication, but ordinary people should never be forced to interact with it, as the dimensions of gamma-corrected RGB have very little relation to the structure of human color perception. Trivial shims over RGB such as HSL or HSV are not an acceptable alternative.
I took this screenshot yesterday. This was a page showing a news article (text). http://i.imgur.com/hmFaW3M.png
> We do bother to check. If you get pulled over for a traffic violation and you don't have a license, you'll go to jail.

If it's ridiculously over-the-top easy to receive and keep a license, even when it shouldn't be, then I argue the use of said license, and the checks around it, are useless. All your check is is checking that the person can do the very bare minimum of what would be considered "driving", and, worse, it's really checking that the person was able to do it X years ago, where X can be as far back as even 50 or so years ago. At that point, what's the use of checking? You are right that we should be more rigorous in testing and validation, but when that's the case, then the whole system is put into question.
Yup, I love Unison. Been using it for years at home. Though I've been worried that it's not being actively maintained. But I guess as long as it works...
Ah, I thought Alain Minc was the bad influence in his choices ...
> * Advertising / analytics companies. They deliver a boatload of code that does very little for the end-user.

That's not quite fair. They subsidize the content for the end-user. Perhaps that's a crappy status quo, but in many cases without the advertising and analytics the content wouldn't exist in the first place.
Maybe you have taken these steps already, but uBlock Origin works great, and NoScript works okay, in Firefox for Android. They may get your page size down by significant fractions.
I haven't seen Homeland past the first season - but can someone who has seen more shed light on the alleged "racism" of the show? Is the show actually racist in its depiction of Arab-speaking characters, or is this simply a manifestation of Hanlon's Razor - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"?
It all ends with Skynet
Did potatoes, sugar cane, and olives stop being plants...?
> (And yes, I know the actual answer - branding! Why would you buy Brand A over Brand B if all the colors get commoditized into hex codes....the answer is...you wouldn't. So? Fancy names for everyone!)

There's no denying physical paint brings additional complexities. The paint's exact recipe will change the interactions with the surface, the thickness of the layers and how the paint ages, all of which (and the painted surface itself) influence the final color and how it evolves. And then each color can come in a variety of finishes.
So cool. In case anyone else was wondering how to get one:

http://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/

How can I get an AWS IoT Button?

AWS IoT Buttons are provided from time to time as part of AWS public events such as the re:invent conference as a “hello world” device to try out AWS IoT. We currently don’t plan to sell them. However, if you have a great use case for the AWS IoT Button and would like us to get back to you if buttons become available for sale, contact us at aws-iot-button@amazon.com
Even Pantone at the basic level has coated and uncoated.
> Well there is, or at least there used to be. The reason native apps in mobile became so popular is exactly because web sites are bloated. It might not matter in the PC but in a device running on batteries it matters a lot.

I think you'd find a much easier case made that its because:

1) discoverability and distribution through app stores,

2) access to native features that took years to be enabled in the mobile web (for example access to photos..)

3) ability to make games (access to graphics, etc -- this also kind of hampers the case being made about "bloated" sites when people seem very willing to download 100MB games)

4) access to ease-of-payment (CC info stored on people's phones that you can in app payment, vs having to type info into a web form).

So we could try to focus on clear issues the web has vs native, or I guess we could design yet another language that is theoretically faster thanks to >insert pet feature here< and hope that fixes the web.
Hurdle UX obstacles with design sprints
Funny but also a great non-violent form of protest. However, the article could have also been titled 'Unnoticed by Vast Majority of Viewers'.
First off, random !== unique, not even close, ESPECIALLY for things with discrete properties.

We know from the pigeon-hole principal, that from enough instances, something will be repeated. So, unique it is not.

In your card example, there are 52! (factorial) permutations, but if you shuffle a deck of cards (52! + 1) times, you will have repeated at least one permutation at least once. It's been proven, you can't avoid it.

The permutation is pseudo-random however, meaning that we cannot distinguish it from pure chance.

But, beyond that, special !== valuable. Those words are different, not synonyms. Same to "worth preserving", it's not a valid meaning of "special".

Furthermore, life isn't just random, there are seemingly an infinite number of variables that influence it. That's not discrete, meaning it's beyond "just random", it actually can be unique, such that even with infinite time, it might not ever be repeated.

So yes, life is special, it's not just a permutation, at least, it hasn't been proven to be so yet.

Additionally, I'd rather view life as being special that live in a world where everything is considered "mundane".
A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail of Western Americana’
>Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS.

Now I don't have much experience with CSS. Only have been using it for ~5 years, and never any of the real complex magic. But if I were to make a list of design problems I have with CSS, color names wouldn't even make it on the list.
Never knew you could be "racist" against a religion.

I get it though, take a powerful word with negative connotations and use it to put your target on the defensive, no matter how tangential the connection. Kind of like being called a "commie" in the 20th century.
Counterpoints (though your arguments are well-taken):

>This is accurate, but it's looking at the symptoms, not the cause

You're claiming that gender studies is a response, rather than a cause. It takes some serious mental gymnastics to claim that a very politically active group is not exercising significant causal influence. It's their stated goal to "raise awareness", which implies heavy recruiting. It stands to reason that recruitment efforts will be more effective with man than with women, and the measures agree.

Regardless of whether or not gender studies departments are responsible for reducing female STEM majors, women prefer working with people rather than things (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140), and this across all disciplines. Granted, this can be the result of social conditioning, but the point remains that the positive claim "gender gap = symptom" requires positive evidence.

>CS/Eng as a community is not caring and welcoming as Gender Studies would be

Now you're implicitly making a normative claim: "CS/Eng should be as welcoming as Gender Studies". The problem is that the highest priority of gender studies is to promote social justice and cohesion, so that's not a reasonable milestone for whether or not another field is just and cohesive enough. The implied argument here is that if engineers make social justice their number-one priority, then little engineering gets done.
Sorry, you're totally correct - this assumes someone that isn't performing strength-based exercise!
What published studies with adequate controls and replication show that "It's almost entirely nurture"? Do you think genetic variance between individuals is irrelevant for life outcomes? If genetics is not entirely irrelevant, do you think it might cumulatively affect individuals through a gene-by-environment interaction?
Well..it's a good thing for Americans.

Also, it's not like America went and gobbled up wealth from all the other countries. America largely created the wealth in-house.
There's also emacs server.
Isn't an EPG part of the US-American standard? It has been part of the DVB (rest of the world…) standard since the beginning, so there's generally a button on a TV remote to display it.

(The DVB MPEG transport stream contains mostly video packets, but is interspersed with the EPG — in bits — and other media. Almost all TVs will cache the EPG, though earlier systems required the user to wait until the requested information was rebroadcast.)
That's empirically false. "Racism" is whatever speech will convince enough people to call you "racist", and one person in twenty is more than enough to do it.
The prototypes I saw in person a few years ago were actually surplus automated potentiometers :) They were DC motors with gear reduction and a spool, with light steel wire coiled on the spool to slide the pot or the "3-d pixel" back and forth. these may very well be pneumatic.
What if the race is synonymous with a religion- Judaism and Jews being the obvious example?
> With screen color, you have only one finish, and that's whatever the user's monitor happens to have

Screens have a huge number of "finishes" because calibration varies wildly between devices. It's gotten better over the years but still few users have screens that accurately reproduce 100% of sRGB.
is she smart?
I would also look at the open dates for those businesses as well if available for better trending.
John Gruber is fine; misleading headline!
No parameters
it's so hard writing on my moleskine with anything other than ballpoint pens -- the smudges are just insane.
In another video a different pair of accompanying passengers record a similar sequence of events, so the demonstration itself is probably scripted and rehearsed. But I wouldn't rule out that there is an actual piece of software working under these (controlled) conditions.
The Way We Use Social Security Numbers Is Absurd
Yeah, but they do it nevertheless....
REST for Web Apps Is So Passé
>I dont understand acting like the whole world needs to change because their are trends in peoples personal choices.

This is because feminism has become dominated by a very specific branch that renounces essentialism vehemently. Their a priori position is that there are no differences between men and women, other than those which are socially-constructed.

Of course, this is a sociological and political theory, whose followers often mistake for a scientific one.
I look for test data. Up front. Particularly from developers with 3+ years of experience.

It demonstrates you understand the problem and are thinking about the cases that you will have to solve. It also acts as a good safety net for your implementation.

If you've got test data that will catch a bug, I won't count it against you in your implementation. However, if you've got a buggy implementation and you haven't provided test data for it, then it's broken.
Docker under the hood
Is it conceivable that you bothered yourself by inferring all sorts of things that weren't actually said due to your own biases? I'd say it's not only conceivable, it's way more likely to be correct than the tack you've taken here.
I wouldn't say it's "hard to believe" that no bodies were found. The bay currents generally tend outward; and Alcatraz Island sits basically right in the middle of the outward flow, not too far out from the Golden Gate Bridge. It's pretty much a straight shot out the bay, actually.

Meanwhile Scott Peterson seems to have made the mistake of dumping his wife's body somewhere around Richmond, where currents are more stationary. Her body was also dismembered, increasing the chance that parts of it -- such as the fetus -- would eventually be found.
A potato is not a french fry, sugar cane is not sucrose syrup, nor are olives equal to olive oil. This is why I keep saying, whole plant-based foods, i.e., unprocessed and unrefined ones.
Well, the show depicts largely terrorists and criminals. Activists apparently want long diatribes about how wonderful Arab and Muslim families are to "balance" it out.

Homeland isn't a documentary. Its a dramatic show about national security and as such it will probably not paint a realistic picture of the average Muslim, because average Muslims aren't really what its supposed to portray. The same way professional wresting doesn't portray the average man's body or reality tv about wealthy people doesn't portray the average person's lifestyle.
I always find these type of questions specious and entirely dependent on frame of reference for both question and response.

Our language and conceptions evolved specifically to do important things like inform companions under which trees the most delicious nuts could be found and remember where the hidden tiger was sleeping.

"Special" and "Rare" in these primitive contexts (which is all we really have right now) don't mean anything objectively nor on a cosmic scale (of which we know very little incidentally). So the whole question is just.... off.
Responsive charts and maps for AngularJS
The Nuremberg trials established that 'just obeying orders' is no excuse, that acting as the tool of another does not absolve a person. That doesn't mean the person giving the orders isn't at least as guilty as the person who carries them out.
Here is a company that provides conveyor belt that is in the same vein as this MIT project https://www.festo.com/group/en/cms/10225.htm
> I always just assume the brand will have the color I want in their collection of swatches.

The problem comes when you need to do a patch job on the drywall for whatever reason (lost cat in the walls, wiring problem, whatever), and when it comes time to repaint not being able to match the exact color gets you a square that's a slightly different color than the rest of the wall.
The Making of Asian America
well you can buy a chinese knock-off of the actuators the MIT people used from spark fun:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10976
You seem pretty angry about the fact that some people work in restaurants and some people go jogging in the morning.
What is a core dump and how do you parse one?
The Need for More Professors of Color