skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Royalists" have been a phenomena everywhere.

As has barefaced lying to the populace about their own dislike for democracy.

It seems particularly common in Egypt where the idea that "the people just aren't ready for Democracy yet like they are in the west" is commonplace among the country's elite.

>It is still completely possible that spread of democracy is just multinational fashion trend.

Nobody's ever voted democracy away and it's not fashion that causes it to end, it's violence.
I think you answered your own question -- of course WiFi makes sense for small/short range networks. Its cheap and fast.

These technologies are more exciting because you are talking about realistic coverage areas of square kilometers with inexpensive, unlicensed radios. Think of something like a large natural gas pumping field -- there are tons of industrial sensors and controls spread out over a fairly large area that don't need to send much data. I work in the radio industry, and these technologies, if they live up to their hype, will be industry disrupting.
It's been estimated that up to 10% of men are homosexual, so that makes up most, if not all of the difference...

Plus migration and things too...
Facebook was very innovative, just not technically innovative. Their two big innovations were the real name policy and only letting in elite uni students to create social demand. Both seem obvious in hindsight, but nobody else at the time implemented both of these policies.
The Narrative Frays for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes
Serious question that I haven't googled, but for analytics logging what should a site administrator use that anti-tracking folks would be happy with?

Others here have suggested "processing the server logs", but is there some sort of locally hosted thing I can add that will help me get the same stats google analytics does? Or are there any third party hosted analytics services that provide similar services without being aggregated?
ChromeOS is based on Linux so, please, let us hear just how bad you are saying Linux is.
Greenplum goes open source
Proly all of the YC-R's are going through this:
https://www.wrike.com/blog_images/396910/graph-reactions-to-...
The directors only get $300k per year for serving on the BOD of Facebook? They are worth more than that!
PyPy has higher memory overhead for very small units of work but usually once you do more than a couple of seconds of work it usually uses significantly less memory than CPython. As far as I'm concern who cares if a Hello World program uses more memory or some small trivial few lines of code. I'm more interested in real world code which my experience has been that PyPy uses significantly less memory than CPython. If you know of a case where this is not true report it as I'm sure the PyPy devs will consider it a bug.

PyPy also has a slower startup time/overhead so very small amounts of work may end up slower than CPython but in general larger chunks of work will be faster if not its a bug and should be reported.

There is currently some work going on to improve the C extension issue. It's currently in its beginning stages and its goals are to provide both a significant amount of compatibility with existing extensions and a significant reduction in the overhead to call out to C extensions over what is currently implemented in PyPy. On the performance side the new approach was said to remove about 40% of the existing overhead. There are tons of corner cases that still need to be worked on for the new approach to become production worthy and there is no guarantee that there will be no show stoppers that come up or that the tail of corner cases that need to be dealt with becomes a nightmare and the approach is abandoned. If this works succeeds, it will be a game changer as suddenly the majority of libraries would then become compatible with PyPy.
Is that the same one that ridiculously overpronounces any vaguely foreign-sounding person or place name?
I actually like the more casual, conversational storytelling that NPR is known for. I find the NPR style of delivery to be innovative and calling this "NPR Voice" might just be a negative dig from media traditionalists.

Ira Glass is one of the most recognizable NPR reporters and explains it like this, from the linked article:

“Back when we were kids, authority came from enunciation, precision,” Mr. Glass said. “But a whole generation of people feel like that character is obviously a phony — like the newscaster on ‘The Simpsons’ — with a deep voice and gravitas.”

For his more intimate storytelling, Mr. Glass “went in the other direction,” he said. “Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn’t sound like a news robot but, in fact, sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.”
Comic Sans means no money!
Stackoverflow outage?
So if Facebook loses the lawsuit, what happens? They pay the shareholders some relatively small amount and have to pay the directors less... until Mark signs the right document then they can pay them whatever they want?
>Without containers every p0wned process has full access to $HOME and can do everything the user is capable of.

You presume such a thing can happen. You must be a Windows users with no Unix experience. Your comment gives you away. No experienced Unix user, even most beginners, would say such a thing.
Plutonium is more easily manufactured than highly enriched Uranium if you're just starting out. If you have the industry set up, then it's easy peasy. In the developed world there's Uranium enrichment facilities everywhere and in nuclear powers they have HEU up to their ears.

Indeed, a lot of modern bombs (which are entirely implosion based) use HEU extensively in their design. Generally, they tend to still use Plutonium in the primary mostly because it saves on size and weight, which is hugely advantageous when it comes to long range ballistic missile delivery. But most compact sub-megaton thermonuclear weapons derive the majority of their yield from HEU in the secondary.
Original Pando article from 2014:

https://pando.com/2014/04/30/how-a-florida-kids-stupid-app-s...
A trans woman has some photos of her and her partner on her profile. She and her partner die in a car crash. Her profile is memorialized. Her family gets Facebook to remove all of the photos with her and her partner.
ESP8266 is worth checking out because its dirt cheap, but it really depends how "clean" your line of sight is. 900 MHz radios will have better propagation. Might want to check out something like this: http://rpi900.com/hardware/introduction.html
The biggest difference between Android and Chrome OS for me as a user is how it handles user multi-tasking.

I've tried using an Android tablet for work. It's nigh impossible, even with a keyboard because it doesn't support multi-tasking well. Sure, it supports OS multi-tasking, but it doesn't support user multi-tasking.

Android is based around the single-task model. You have a foreground app that takes up the entire screen and other apps are backgrounded. You can switch between apps fairly quickly, but you can only have one open at a time. There are some attempts to fix this, such as Samsung's split-screen, but none are officially supported. We've even moved to having Chrome tabs use this model.

I love my Chromebook for work though. It does everything I need to do, including having multiple document windows open for multi-tasking.

Chrome OS is built on a multi-task model. You can have many windows open at once and quickly switch between them without losing state or visibility.

Windows tried to merge the two with Windows 8 and it was a terrible user experience. The last thing I want for my dual 24" monitors is to be able to only use one window at a time. Having a messaging app take up the entire monitor is ridiculous. Hopefully they'll find a middle ground. Until user multi-tasking exists in Android I won't be using it for anything but my phone.
This article was really hard to read because of bizarre font choices:

http://imgur.com/MvCW9RP on windows phone 8.1, oddly the footnotes were totally fine, just everything else was missing several pixels on the right. Can we go bad to normal fonts please?
Good point. The additional problem here seems to be people underbidding significantly (obviously $1 is an extreme), and there's no way for 18F to determine quality. While waiting 10 days doesn't seem like a huge problem, the overhead of iterating through contractors could become huge, especially on time-sensitive tasks.

One solution would be to charge each bidder (at the time of the contract, if they're the lowest) a 'down payment' to be involved - where the down payment might be some function of their bid and the next highest bid.
OT: what brought you to Huysmans?
Microsoft has the enterprise market. True. Google and Apple have everything else. Don't minimize that.
We had a membership there for a while but found it was too loud to actually work. On the other hand, the events were great and it was a good location to have meeting at.
Some of the worst startup founders I have seen are people who come from being execs or management at very large companies, because they have no frame of reference for how things should be done when you have 5 people.

So I don't think you can generalize on that point. And as far as this goes:

> That guarantees at least enough investment to hire a team the size of what you had at Apple.

There's also no way this is a guarantee. Sure, it'll be easier to get money than an 18 year-old walking in off the street will, but again, you can't compare the steady job, steady paycheck, "let's build a feature internally" with "let's go start a startup".

I will definitely agree that having the experience of a vp of engineering is better than not having it, but that's a far cry from saying that quitting your highly paid job as a VP of engineering for the biggest company in the world to start one of many cloud storage companies is "not a huge risk".
Well, I am subsidizing Facebook and its impact on the world, and I am proud of it.

Facebook had a tremendously positive impact on this planet - it connected people from all over the world like no other force in the history before. Maybe it's not really their accomplishment, maybe they just lucked into popularity at the right moment, but it doesn't change that they are there, helping over one billion people keep real-time communication across the world. People who don't use Facebook tend to not appreciate the impact it has on daily life, especially when it comes to staying up to date with lives of a hundred and then some people. 'peteretep provides some good examples[0].

So try and shame me all you want. I don't feel that I have anything to be ashamed of.

> a vast majority of the citizenship has basically handed over all of their personal details to big brother

Oh well. And the vast majority of the citizenship extracts tremendous value out of it and sees no negative consequence. Yes, maybe one day there will be an evil ad-company government that will drone-strike us all in bedrooms because twenty years ago we disagreed with the leading feminist activists. Or it will torture us eternally because it'll be so bored and have nothing else to do with all those real names it collected. But until then, explain to me like I'm five, why on earth should the majority of the citizenship care?

And don't get me wrong. I'm not happy about what advertisers are doing. That industry is rotten to the core and should be burned down. But please, if you really need to shame someone, shame the advertisers using this data.

> Now we live in an environment where not having an account is enough to raise suspicion.

I see this repeated often, but there is no real point in that sentence. Not participating in any activity or phenomena that the majority is participating in is enough to raise suspicion, by the very definition of "majority", "suspicion" and "standing out".

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475506
I've moved over to personal capital which has a nicer dashboard around investing rather than budgeting.
That's why I think that accounts shouldn't be "memorialized" but "frozen in time". Once the person dies, all that data should become a matter of public history record. No alterations.
It's not ideal, but at least the VHS release of Song of the South is fairly easy to find in the UK. I had it as kid (I'm 25 FWIW) and there are plenty of copies for sale on Amazon.

It doesn't help that some people are very quick to claim something is offensive to them / a category of people, and can rather vocal about it, even if the thing in question is totally inoffensive (for example, I saw a forum thread this morning claiming that using 'niggles' to describe minor hardware issues was a 'borderline racist' term).
Its a part time job.
Some of the ALMOST free alternatives do not get any better. I used lots of free services so that I do not have to concern that my credit card information will be compromised.

For things I need to declare ownership or critical, I turn to the brand well known vendors. Not for the reason that they do very well in security, but they have lots to lose. And they have a office in my jurisdiction I can hunt down.
Google ad servers also power a lot of the worst formats today, just not on Google properties.
If by current infrastructure you mean WiFi, then I agree.

However, I have been using a WiGig dock with 3 1080p displays attached for the past 6 months, and it has been trivial to set up, and nigh indistinguishable from a display connected over wires.

For the record, I used to play FPS games competitively, and I still find the input lag on many IPS monitors completely unbearable to this day. For my eyes, the WiGig dock adds no discernible input lag or compression artifacts to any of my 3 displays, except in games where some frame dropping can still be observed in exceptionally intense moments.

I honestly can't wait for the day when laptops with WiGig and Wireless Charging become mainstream.
And now ... on to the topic!
> I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out what sort of due diligence was performed.

I do tech due diligence for a living. You'd be surprised how much diligence gets ignored or isn't done thoroughly. Remember, the people orchestrating such efforts are financial people, so they tend to take very calculated risks. The alternative is they trust the wrong people in a rapidly changing tech world. Both are plausible.
I still remember when Amazon CA accidentally had this on sale for a pittance, then axed all the orders when people tried to buy it. Really should get a copy at some point.
That comes across as quite an entitled attitude. It's not really using your resources, that's the package deal for the site. And there are plenty of reasons for granular data - or do you claim to know every use case and rule over the internet?
I signed up because, hey I'm curious. But ...

It's hard not to think of this: http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/#

High-concept stuff doesn't seem to fair well, the small and growing always seems to do a lot better. That said good luck to them.
Why not Ubuntu?
Don't forget that were alternatives and I'm sure the large manufacturers were playing Google off against Microsoft, Nokia (Maemo), Samsung (Bada), Palm (WebOS), etc. Those were bigger names in mobile than Google and it wasn't obvious that Apple was going to steamroller the entire industry so quickly.

As we saw, the established companies wasted years and billions trying to play their same games with customer neglect, pointless restrictions and marketing deals, etc. Android became big precisely because Google was desperate to get into the market and agreed to all of it.
Oh well, no one is telling you to stop preaching counterculture. Don't act entitled. Counterculture is by definition the thing you'll have people reacting weirdly to, so complaining about it is like complaining the water is wet.
Yes, and you also have to manage a team (even if that is yourself) to monetize your ad traffic.

There is no way to scale running your own internal ad network unless you have scores of folks to manage the marketing of your property, the managemnet of your ads, contracts, receipt of payment etc.
A FPGA, huh? Interesting, why not just target ARM? I doubt that's going anywhere soon.
Might be, but can you assume that without evidence?
Nice idea to spread the word about augmented performances and the technology that goes into it...
Why are all the robotic insects built with flapping wings, as opposed to propellers or rotors that drones, airplanes, boats, and helicopters are built with? Is there something inherently different at that scale that requires flapping wings?
That's why I switched from Comic Sans to Ariana Grande.
Sort of reminds me of the bands that wouldn't play a venue if the crazy rider demands weren't adhered to. So the logic goes - if the venue haven't put the effort in to source the bizarre requests on the rider, they probably haven't met all the requirements for sound, electrics, stage weight etc. And thus the show will be terrible or dangerous.

If you can't follow the initial instructions regarding the font, what chances do you have further down the line?

(That said, passing on Calibri before explicitly banning it seems a tad harsh.)
I learned Go and built my own Logo: https://github.com/adkennan/logo :]
Snark aside, they're not. Really. They might be internally associated, but they're definitely not linked.

I'm banned (mysteriously) from Facebook, but not from Instagram.
Is this intentional? Things like this are frequently done using scripts, or well-meaning support folks that don't know any better. Let's get all the facts before throwing a fit.
I think some sort of "Iron Law" is at work here - a company never does better than needed.

Apple has such vast lockin and momentum that they can make bad UI decisions and probably suffer no consequences.
In their own garage too!
Most people who own a house or have savings or have family can scrape together enough money to engage a lawyer. How much that actually costs depends on the charge.

So many cases are pled out these days (98% at the federal level), I doubt more than a tiny percentage of defendants are spending anything like $100k.
I'm fairly certain it's illegal to target ads based on a medical condition.

That being said, I believe you're right as to why they require real names. It's also why I use it as my go to for advertising and marketing. The added data from Datlogix etc makes it incredibly useful as a marketing tool.
Zero-information semi-bayesian confidence intervals for share guesstimates
Not to be trite, but if they were worth more, they would be paid more.
There's quite a bit of info online on how to install a chroot under Android. Like with a Chromebook, you need root access though (aka. ChromeOS "developer mode" or a "rooted" Android device).

If this is really where things are going, it wouldn't surprise me if crouton contributors continued the project for Android post convergence.
I suspect that's a factor of there being very few models. A Windows laptop that sells millions is probably available in 20 versions, each of which is counted separately. Try searching for the current Amazon.com best seller in laptops, the Toshiba Satellite C55.
> I would take 100x increase in compilation times for a release build over a 2x increase in development time due to manual optimization.

I'd implement that if I knew about such optimization technology, and I bet other compiler guys would, too.
Yes, but apparently it's good enough for short messages of a page or so. Its weakness only matters when an adversary has megabytes to work with.
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Not entirely taken over, only on the left-wing stations. Right wing stations have an entirely different vocal style, and you can tell within seconds what sort of station you've just tuned into.
There was a great recent podcast about Wine Fraud from How Stuff Works: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-wine-fraud-wo...
IANAL but my understanding is that
on a jury there are deliberations
and then votes. A juror gets to
vote; doesn't have to explain
the vote but just casts a vote.

If the judge can tell a juror
how they must vote, then we don't
need a jury. Else we have a jury,
and the jurors get to vote.

Maybe the judge instructs the jurors
to consider this, ignore that,
on and on. But still a juror
gets to vote and for reasons they
don't have to explain.

It's our jury system. Maybe some
lawyers, judges, etc. have had lots
of biggie ideas about this and that
legal detail about what would, could,
should be the case for juries,
instructions to the jurors, all sorts
of this and that. Still a juror
gets to sit in the jury box, watch
the trial, think, think for themselves,
and then vote and not explain their vote.
Excellent book, highly recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta...
> How can developers make their apps better without having the proper analytics to do so?

Of course. They can just ask people.

Let's not pretend that all this data is for developers. It's only for a) advertisers to shit more on your users, and b) sales to micromanage the site into getting more conversions, usually at the cost of utility.
The homosexual men are more or less cancelled out by lesbian women...
That's a terrible example. Those John Doe investigations were a great example of prosecutorial abuse. If I had been Walker I would have had the state AG indict the prosecutors involved for corruption.
It was true to varying extents before Apple switched to Intel processors. Since then it's never been true by more than ± few percent for equivalent hardware.

The complicating factor, and why it's such an enduring belief, is that Apple doesn't ship adware and has minimal hardware standards which are higher than the lowest-end PC market. You see this over and over again where someone is either unable to back up claims or, when pressed, has to admit that the $400 notebook they said was “just like” the MacBook Air had a previous generation processor, magnetic hard drive instead of SSD, low-contrast/dim display, mushy keyboard or unusable trackpad, etc. The same manufacturer probably even makes something fairly competitive, too, but it costs about as much.
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> Compiling is 'trivially' (for some values of that word) parallelizable.

Really? I've always heard that it's virtually impossible to parallelize. Or do you mean a particular step in the pipeline can be parallelised - like parsing separate source files?
Alright, time to take a stand.

If you can't find a calculator app that doesn't require your contacts/GPS, I will personally build one.

Be the change!
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> I really don’t like that.

Unfortunately, the nature of optimizations makes tracking these sorts of things really hard. They don't occur in a vacuum - nearly every optimization transformation interacts with a dozen other transforms, sometimes with very surprising (and usually counterproductive) results.

If you simply implement "book" optimizations, you'll find that they often don't even work without some considerable re-engineering from the bottom up. Many book optimizations make the code slower. And then there are the myriad of optimizations that make code faster on one CPU and slower on the next release of that CPU.

If you think that compiler optimizer writers are holding out on you, they aren't. It's a bit of an arcane art, like samurai sword making technique.
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Android and ChromeOS embody pragmatism and idealism. Android does everything everyone needs it to do but it's rotten on the inside because the focus is always on shipping. ChromeOS is a great vision for the future of detached computing but no one uses it because the vision hasn't been fully realized. I've been wondering whether this was going to happen ever since Chrome tabs on Android became equal citizens with the other apps. Seems like another good move from Google.