skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably it was never tested in the gamut of IE versions either then, since they will most likely have been Windows VMs.

This wouldn't be acceptable where I work, for one, though saying it sounds more critical than I mean.
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>Note: I don't truly understand how to use Twitter...

Does anyone?
You never see financial/commercial graphs with a zeroed y-axis; why should graphs criticising finance/commerce be subject to this condition?

The graph correctly illustrates what they are trying to show, with the correct numbers that you have correctly identified.
Kudos! I believe it will replace python's http server in my workflow.
And, somewhere within the depths of modern versions of Windows, there lay, dormant, an old-fashioned System font from 1990 — alongside some vintage software routines necessary to render it.

I mean it's hardly hidden in the depths of Windows - it's right there in every single font selection menu.
Not likely. Modern out-of-order microarchitectures like Bulldozer and Broadwell have far more physical registers than the ISA specifies. Haswell has 168 physical integer register, for example.
http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-cpu/3/
The lack of registers in the ISA moves the burden of data dependency checking from compiler to core, but it doesn't increase the number of stalls.
How can you not test on windows before release? It's still the most popular operating system?
All sounded great until

> And, since –apple– is a typical vendor prefix for an experimental feature, we included a more future-proof system as the first entry

Adding system as font should have rang a few alarm bells with any designers older than 30!
I am sure the idea of patents must be originated by rich people of old time for obvious reasons.
Wow ok, that's even worse than I anticipated.
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Not mentioned in the paper's implications section, so I'll ask, is there also a significant "bootstrapping" class of attacks on services where special access is granted to the earliest created account? Eg. Wordpress-like systems without a hardcoded admin username, and an installation process that asks the 'first' client to set the administrator credentials.
Yes it would be, but that doesn't solve the security issues with PHP or Node.
But for less stuff then if it was licensed under MIT.
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The UK was worried that the US was escalating the Cold War conflict and that we'd be more at risk rather than safer as a result.

Given that this was exactly what happened in the late 50s and early 60s (US over estimates Soviet threat for internal political reasons, builds huge arsenals, Soviets scramble to catch up) this is pretty much what happened so their worries were justified.
What austerity are you talking about? There was no austerity in the US. The US government has spent more money every year throughout the financial crisis.

Also I assume by "outsourcing" you actually meant "offshoring." But this was covered in the article -- it's part of globalization.
Nobody has ever explained to me, in a satisfying way, what's wrong with a helicopter drop.

Edit: I mean helicopter drops in the original sense. That is, printing money and the giving it away unconditionally and equally to all flesh-and-blood citizens.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327035/ ?
I have heard it said that evil springs from ignorance. In which case I can say that yes, definitely I am evil. I cannot possibly know and understand everything, no matter how hard I strive for it. I am sure I have (unwillingly) upset and hurt plenty of beings in my chaotic tumble through this life.
Are you suggesting there are zero behavioural differences between boys and girls?
It'd be nice to see an example of what is sent (before it's actually sent) as well as resource links to how it's possible (i.e. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act info).
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So, reality is about to catch up with Cory Doctorow (Makers) ?
I don't know anything about urbit.

I stared at the nock specification for about 3 minutes, just the symbolic specifications, not any explanation in english language, and I easily understood it. After just 3 minutes of staring at some symbols, I know everything there is to know about nock.

There is no other assembly language with this property. It seems to me it not deliberately obtuse, but in fact it's very clear, simple, and understandable.

I haven't looked at hoon and other things yet.
We Germans have our own issues though, it's not perfect. What is the prison system in the US, is the psychiatric system here. Once you get in its wheels, it takes really dedicated lawyers and sometimes even mass-media attention to get out. Just look at Gustl Mollath.

And our "justice" system suffers from massive, massive understaffing, just like the police. It's easy to "cut costs" there for politicians because there is no immediate negative effect, and by the time said effects hit, the politician responsible is not in office any more.
People aim for a diverse group that roughly reflects society instead of partitioning industries/jobs by randomly chosen personal characteristics?
So this is an Apple WebKit extension that can't sanely be un-vendor-prefixed?
> Have you tried exercising, getting enough sleep, eating healthier, doing more "outside" or social activities and/or testing out nootropics like citicoline/noopept?

Oh, the usual stuff ;). Tried all of these at various points; haven't noticed much difference, but I think I might not have tried enough. Going item-by-item:

- Exercising: probably not enough; the amounts I did didn't really affect much (except weight), but I'm going to try again, at a gym this time.

- I have problems going to sleeping due to depression and anxiety (I constantly feel I haven't done enough yet, so I can't go to sleep yet), combined with being generally a night person (after day spent with people I really appreciate the late hours without any face-to-face distractions). But when I finally fall asleep, no force on Earth or in Heaven can wake me before I get my 7-8 hours. Which annoys my employers.

- I try, but I just don't like green food :(. Cutting out sugar from diet did wonders to my weight and dental health, but didn't improve mood issues.

- I'm a very social person, people call bullshit on me when they hear me describing myself as an introvert (I usually send them this classic then: [0]). I frequent various events, both as an attendee and speaker, help run a local Hackerspace and have uncanny ability to serve as a translator between technical and untechnical people.

- Piractem & noopept - little to no noticeable effects. Nicotine (pure, in gums, I'm not a smoker) - helps stay up a little longer and improves my alcohol tolerance. Adrafinil - does wonders when I need to skip a night's sleep or feel the stress-induced tiredness during the day. I didn't try anything else.

> BTW, highly recommend checking out The Healthy Programmer book

Thanks, I'll check it out! I highly respect the Pragmatic Bookshelf for Pragmatic Programmer and Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. The book you linked is one hell of an expense, but if it could help, then I guess it may be worth it.

> Virtual manly hug mate!

* hug *

#HNTherapy

[0] - http://imgur.com/76HUN
I'm a bit confused about the use of "just give me a system font", then several named fonts and then "sans-serif". Isn't that exactly what "sans-serif" does, giving you a sans-serif system font?
no, just no.
One strategy might be to look through the references of every paper you read, then download anything that looks remotely interesting for possible future use.

TB hard drives are cheap nowadays. :-)
can't web workers be used not to lock the main thread ?

also for some speed fire up multiple workers?
How does a system know wether a font is sans-serif or not?
"sans-serif" gives you the _browser's_ default sans-serif font, not the system font (which is generally (always?) sans-serif).
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Sure, you can standardize everything. Just get the most common denominator of all your supported platforms and abstract that away. Problem is, it won't be useful for anything practical.

Someone mentioned C, and it's a good example. C is different on every platform. If your C code interacts with the world in any way, you won't write the same code. Libraries will be totally different, not to mention that pointer sizes are different, byte ordering is different, and even your lowly int might betray you. The reason why C is so practical and widely used is exactly because it doesn't try to force a platform abstraction on you.
I'm a retired electronics design engineer and embedded programmer, and I will NEVER own a car with any kind of vehicle/engine management computer. Old cars for me, forever. I flatly refuse anything but fully manual and direct mechanical gears, clutch, steering, brakes and throttle.

Curiously the chief engineer I knew at a major car service center, also felt the same way.

And that's not even touching on the insanity of building computerized vehicle systems with always-on GSM data links to the Net. Ask Michael Hastings how that worked out for him.

Also I agree that critical systems software should be legally required to be open source.
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Does it mean that none of the devs/designers in medium.com use Windows?

IMHO it's just interesting coincidence, nothing more. Even though I am not Windows user and I am not for eternal software backwards compatibility (this topic can evolve into a huge rant). Though somehow medium.com staff tries to prove, that having old font is a bad thing and shouldn't be installed today. They released a major update (even calling it version 2.0) and have not it tested it with users (remember that the goal was to use native fonts, so they must have tested it with Android, iOS, OS X, Windows, Windows Phone, Chrome OS, etc.)?

Article was very interesting, showing how can long history of computing produce interesting outcomes. But I felt that author is very annoyed by this coincidence, and somehow this is Microsoft's fault and not medium's and IMHO author is not right.
Didn't read until the end did we?
Yes but the argument is unidirectional. AGPL answers different needs than more permissive licenses.

Also it would be good to recognize the work done before shooting out "wrooooong license (for me)", specially when it still is licensed under a free software license.
Yes, the Mollath case was disgusting.

Politicians meddling with the justice system, because of a (partly misguided) public outrage.

As a result, Mollath got off.
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I wouldn't be surprised if iOS or Abdroid is the most popular OS for medium visitors. But yeah, I'm surprised too they didn't test on Windows.
Observation means: Interaction with a 'classical system'. Now because of entanglement this also works if we look at chains of interactions: Interaction with another single atom for example is no observation, but if this other atom interacts with a 'classical system' at some point earlier or later we have again an 'observation'.

Now 'classical systems' are systems made of so many elements that we can only make statistical statements about it because we can't ever determine the state of each of it's constituents.

I suspect for some time now that this is also the source for the "quantum randomness". In principle, everything is deterministic, but to observe something we always have interactions with a "big classical system" (in the end it's always our brain). And because we don't know the exact state of those systems but only statistical averages, quantum mechanics looks random for us, even if it's perfectly deterministic in itself. But that's my personal view of the matter.
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I'm assuming the ad is seamlessly part of the video - probably there will always be some way to determine that there is an ad but also there would end up being an arms-race about it so I would expect it would prohibitively expensive for ad-blockers to block ads that are just part of the video being streamed.
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Extremely hard to implement, or an oxymoron by definition? Doesn't "reactive" explicitly indicate side effects (aka "reactions")?
Not sure it would help any, it's not exactly hard to find very low quality code on Github.

It IMHO shows a failure of the type approval process, maybe it didn't evolve enough with regard to the amount of software used in safety critical components. Inspiration from aircraft certification would likely be mùore than welcome in that regard...
That's a setting in the browser, not the system.
Do not take this as snark. Not meant as such. Just observation, begrudging admiration is as negative as it gets :)

My guess is that trendy internet start-ups have a Mac culture. I'm not sure, I'm not in trendy internet start-up land. The same is true in academia though, which is my land. Go to an academic conference and we're talking predominantly Mac.

I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you. Which is probably a great character quality for a dev team whose software touches millions.
For surely but unfortunately no one tried to manually optimised the code, the current javascript decompiler is compiled from C using emscripten
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Agree. What about power steering? You won't get any car without nowadays. Do you count non-computerized (servo) power-steering as "mechanical steering"?
Well, it means that if code cannot fit everything into the ISA registers, it has to spill them to the stack, which AFAIK is not renamed to the physical registers on current x86, so you still need to pay an extra penalty to access the stack data in the L1 cache.
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Someone commenting on the punchline most certainly did read to the end.
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Can someone who does more UI work than me explain why you would want to future proof css like this in the first place?

Even forgetting the undesired outcome and lack of testing, it's css...if browsers implement this feature, release it when the time comes. Not sure what's to be gained from adding something like this now. Feels like over thinking the issue a little.
Well, people used MySpace a long time. It even got relaunched a few times. So it din't die quick.
I imagine no, just like you can't delete a picture after someone else has downloaded on their PC.
Interestingly, it seems there is already a crowd funding website for litigation:

https://www.invest4justice.com/
"matures"? Fuck it. While I do accept google adsense like ads, plain text, when they don't do any tracking or expensive JS, everything else just should die in a fire.

"acceptable ads" isn't even a joke, it's outright a mafia-business. And by the way, "acceptable" only means "the advertisers pay to pass", not "this ad is good, interesting and relevant".
Oh they do, it's usually called "Null Pointer Exception" or "X is unbound"/"not an Y" these days, depending on one's particular taste for typing flavours :).

On the other hand, it is harder to make your monitor explode while trying out fancy graphics effects...
If you make the opening shot in billiards, the balls are all over the table in the end. In principle you could now make another shot which restores the original, ordered position, but in practice it's impossible. So the opening shot is called 'irreversible'.

Same thing goes for many things, for example letting some hydrogen gas out of a gas bottle: The gas will never go back into the bottle by itself (even if there is a very very small probability that this may happen, in practice it never will). Because the behavior of this kind of systems is described in thermodynamics those systems are called "thermodynamically irreversible".

In the end it simply means that its much more easy to break things than to assemble them again (which also leads to the concept of the always increasing entropy).
Actyally this seems to be a better URL for this: https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/how-germany-does-pris...
Starting to wonder if this is an attack, both GitHub and Bitbucket went down in short succession.
> the question is how many meetups are there that are for boys, e.g. "Boys Learning Code" (creating these would be classified under men 's rights activism and therefore dismissed)

Do you know this because somebody tried to do it, or are you assuming this? The use of 'would be' sounds like the latter. If so, why don't you try?
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In many subcultures, including the one I would guess the Medium people are in, Macs are by far the most popular and have been for over five years. It could be that they simply forgot that rich white people in California and New York are a minority on the web. It happens to rich white people in California and New York a lot.
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I've seen the opposite end of the spectrum, too, though, which is why I don't think talent is only a lot of practice, I just think that you can be very good at something without being one of those "really talented" people.

I have another acquaintance who's a musician (an actual musician, unlike me -- I'm just a programmer who likes playing the drums). The guy obviously had a lot of practice, especially as he graduated a famous music academy so he had to play the violin a lot.

That being said, he started taking violin lessons when he was 6, but by that time he could play it pretty well. Having realized that he can't remember the songs he was inventing, he even developed his own rudimentary notation system (when he was about four), with horizontal lines whose length indicated direction and a combination of dots and relative heights to indicate pitch relative to the first note of the song, so that he only had to remember where to start from. His violin technique was also remarkably good. When he started giving violin lessons himself, he struggled with understanding the first gripes of beginners a lot more than he'd expected. For instance, he never realized it takes so long to learn how to properly angle the bow when playing the second and third string of the violin (they're at almost equal height with respect to the base of the resonance box, so most beginners will unintentionally stroke both at the same time). Not only did he not remember having that problem, he literally never really imagined that someone could have that problem.

He's one of those people who does have an innate talent; there are a lot of techniques that he never learned, nor really "discovered" through an iterative process, he just figured out it would sound good if he did <something>, and it did. His brain was wired in a manner that's favourable to playing the violin and to music in general.

Needless to say, he still had to practice a lot -- he had to learn "proper" notation, he's constantly refining his rhythm and coordination, he had to learn how to play in an orchestra, and it's not like he could play any piece, no matter how difficult, from the very beginning. But there were things which his mind and his body could do without being taught, or which, at least, they discovered a lot more quickly than others did. They weren't enough to make him an orchestra-level musician from the moment he set his tiny three year-old hand on a violin, but they are certainly enough to set him apart from a lot of musicians of his age and experience.
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With Freenet, it's very hard to even prove even that you host pieces of any particular thing.

Edit: I stand corrected. But still not easy, I think.
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I don't think you'd be able to get any new non-computerized car at all today. Emission control makes computerization an absolute requirement. That's why choice in cars for people who feel the way I do is limited to old cars from pre-90s. Suits me fine.

Servo power steering is acceptable, though my present car (1993 Subaru stationwaggon) has direct steering, and I prefer that.
Note: I'm not related with Koofr. I just stumbled on them looking the forks of one of my Github repos [0] :)

Nice pricing [1], servers in Germany [2] and lightweight apps for major desktop and mobile operating systems.

You can sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. You can even share your files directly between computers without using Koofr servers. They call it "places" in the application.

[0]: https://github.com/imdario/mergo/network/members

[1]: http://koofr.eu/#pricing

[2]: https://twitter.com/KoofrNet/status/657494326461792257
This is a good idea.

I don't know how good your product is and frankly I don't care because I'm not going to invest the time to give you my email address.

The homepage should provide a better demo – ideally, it should be interactive.

Best wishes. The market as I understand it isn't developers: it's salespeople, marketers and bizdev types.

Once the salespeople embrace the solution, they'll ask their IT teams for you to integrate. Then you build the API access.
I knew a guy who did a year in a lab in Germany and didn't speak a word of German, he said the whole lab spoke English.
The 'sans-serif' font is an alias for the default sans-serif font, which is simply a system setting just like the default browser or the default whatever. Therefore the system doesn't need to know which fonts are sans-serif and which aren't.
yeah one time passwords have been around for ages, guess why website don't use them? because users hate those.

only banks got around it so far, and because they made the process hassle free giving out hardware tokens.

waiting for a sms confirmation sucks as a user experience and you can't guarantee fast delivery (or that the user has signal at all the time)
Same here, I drive the last year of the car model with mechanical steering and accelerator, on purpose.

It's really hard to find cars with curtain airbags though without electronic accelerator and fake steering.
>What austerity are you talking about?

SNAP cuts were one example of a deliberately inflicted austerian reform. The overall cost was actually pretty low, but the ripple effect is magnified.

With less SNAP, low income families are far more reliant on their jobs for sustenance, which turns them into more pliant workers and who accept lower wages/worse hours.

>The US government has spent more money every year throughout the financial crisis.

Yes, well, funneling ever more money into too big to fail banks and bloated military contractors while cutting food stamps is still austerity as far as 99% of the nation is concerned.
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One of my classmates has worked with several of these, starting with Myntra, moving on to Jabong, Hopscotch and Lenskart (by Flipkart) before moving on to becoming an EIR at some VC firm.
According to him, most of these are operating at hair-trigger margins and it is the funding that is keeping them going, waiting for the day when they can either increase prices and still win or make enough volume to become profitable. The main wildcard is the internet penetration and the transportation structures in tier II and tier III cities - if they can manage deliveries at scale for cheaper costs to enough people, it should work out for them. Otherwise they will all lose to local stores anyway which have decades of inventory management skills.
I'm curious as to how the scientists confirmed that tunneling was taking place when the atoms were not being illuminated. Does anyone know how this is typically done?
Minimum qualifications: eligible to work in the United States. Damn.