skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah i miss the Holo stuff. At least there buttons etc seemed to automatically find a finger friendly size.

Again and again i have seen apps go Material, only to have buttons etc become so small i have to tap 2-3+ times to hit them. And i do not have anything close to large fingers.

Frankly i am left with the impression that with Material Google abandoned their adaptive UI frameworks and went with "pixel counting". Thus Material interfaces only seem to work properly on 10" and 5" screens.
> I just think that conflict fueling unrest more than anything else.

Despite the attention it receives, Israel is actually a pretty localized issue. It has very little to do with the biggest conflicts in the Middle East.

If Israel weren't around, Syria would still be destabilized and we would still have ISIS.

Also, your rhetoric around wiping Israel off the map kind of gives your agenda away.
Not the parent, but I suspect his statement was drawn from coverage of this report:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/non-muslims-carried-out-more-th...
The interesting thing about this specific incident is that the son of the victim chose to not pursue any claim against AirBnb, so as to be free to talk about the incident.

This is why the article exists.

IMHO, clauses where a party forbids the other party to talk about the deal, should be made illegal, because as it is, companies with deep pockets can totally control the story.
I agree completely, but you can't put this genie back in the bottle. What is your solution given the current status quo?

Say that we leave them to themselves. The USA abandons all of its based on "Muslim lands". They decide to leave us in peace after we apologise profusely and offer reparations for the damage we've done?

They aren't doing this for retribution for our acts in the middle East. You've missed the point of ISIS.

They want all non-Muslims who don't want Sharia Law dead. Attacking us is designed to provoke us to alienate the "grey zone" Muslims who have integrated in the west and are moderate, sensible and peaceful. If those moderates don't join IS then they are going to also get killed.

These guys are following an "actual" prophesy. They are trying to make it come true.

Check out the wikileaks article via my tweet earlier and you'll realise that we have very little chance of preventing further terrorist attacks assuming we continue our current course.

Leaving the Muslim lands and making reparations is not going to help the situation at all. It may help or children's children, but it won't solve the "now" problem.
> it seems that the proximate cause can't be the Islamic scriptures alone.

My hypothesis is twofold: (1) The people doing the violence have been sold on these passages of the scriptures by others; and (2) The people doing this selling are acting for another reason. Hence, the scriptures are serving as a justification, not a cause in and of themselves. There were plenty of times in history where Christians used passages to justify their actions, while the actions themselves were motivated by completely different desires. Essentially the people in discussion here are using scriptures in the same way that lawyers use legal code -- not as a reason to sue, but as a justification of why suit is permissible.

It's all too easy to point a finger at the justification being used. In fact, the ego loves doing so since it helps one to remain willfully ignorant of the actual reasons behind the occurrences. Religion is not the cause; Religion is the justification. Without looking at the cause, one cannot answer the why, nor can one know how to resolve the issue without jumping on the "It's all the religion's fault" bandwagon. The ego loves the path of least resistance.
Oh god, this reminds me of a company I left where management would regularly talk about "swarming" a problem. They'd form these temporary "feature teams", where they'd assign more programmers than were needed to a problem, while other important concerns were left abandoned. From a management optics standpoint, it let them tell the executives "Look how serious we are about this feature!" From a practical standpoint it was pretty much a disaster. You would end up with one person actually qualified to do the work being dragged in five directions by trying to manage five other people who were well meaning, but had no idea what to do. It ended up with one or two people being stressed out and overworked, and the rest of the team being mostly idle.

I know this isn't exactly the same thing, and I try to keep an open mind on these things, but you could just as easily call this "programming by committee". We all know how great anything described by "X by committee" turns out.

There's nothing wrong with gathering a few people together to work on a thorny problem, but that sort of gathering has to happen organically. When people trying to sell management books turn this sort of thing into a buzzword, it just ends up being cluelessly applied by some starry eyed junior manager that has found a shiny new hammer and the world looks like nails to him.
> "The production processes and tools are mostly immature, are not yet well integrated, or common; the whole process from capture through to viewing requires a wide range of specialist, professional skills."

Not exactly unknown, but certainly a noteworthy opportunity for developers.
"... and there is no option to opt-out of this form of cross-device tracking."

Does it work with Javascript disabled?

Does it work with text-only browsers?

How about netcat?

Do I have to get a "smartphone" to make this work?
You mean so that they go to engineering school?
Terrorist organizations have long recognized that engineering departments are fertile ground for recruitment and have concentrated their efforts there. A 2005 report from British intelligence noted that Islamic extremists were frequenting college campuses, looking for 'inquisitive' students who might be susceptible to their message. In particular, the report noted, they targeted engineers."
Did you read the post to which my reply was directed? I'm not addressing these questions to you or to one of the "people who do not run statistical analysis before deciding if they should care for their loved ones". I'm addressing these questions to someone who apparently does run statistical analysis.
I guess I need to put best before dates on all my fresh produce then. Otherwise how will I know whether I need to refrigerate my head of cabbage after opening it, and whether it is still edible or not?
Well, it was shared by like 20k (occasional) users and 1-2k students with campus Ethernet network connections. (Still, it never really got saturated. There wasn't that many interesting AND bandwidth-consuming services out there in the rest of the world.)

I think Sweden was quite good at getting people connected at decent speeds. In retrospect, I think this was a very wise way to spend tax money.

My personal Internet-connection history goes like this:

1994: 28.8 kbps modem at home in a small village. It cost like $2/hour.

1996: 10 Mbit/s - residential student university network, for like $10/month

2000: 10 Mbit/s - moved away from the student area to an apartment with a commercial connection (Bredbandsbolaget - they got loads of investements, some of it in the form of hardware from Cisco). $30/month

2002: Upgraded to 100 Mbit/s. $30/month

2009: My homeowner association accepts a 10 year deal where all apartments get 100 Mbit/s Ethernet-based access for $10/month (in exchange for "monopoly" - everyone needs to pay $10).

(Since 1996, it's been all direct Ethernet, no silly old stuff like DSL or cable.)
Best before dates are a really good idea if you want to reduce the number of food poisonings in a large population. Food is (statistically) very safe before the best before date, assuming proper storage. Most of the time it's still safe well past that date, but you would dramatically increase the number of people who get sick.

It's the same with pasteurized milk. Unpasteurized milk is mostly safe to drink, but occasionally you get really sick. In a large population the difference is noticeable.

Again the same with the much stricter cleanliness rules for restaurants and the like. Usually it's safe to store prepared food without refrigeration for a day, restaurants mustn't. It's also mostly safe to cook on a dirty stove, restaurants mustn't. The difference between your home kitchen and the restaurant is the number of people served.
So glad this is finally coming out in an electronic format! I've read a PDF version and it's been excellent material for me in my transition to management.
God bless the designated typer in the mob. That is a job worse than death.
There you go: http://controversialtimes.com/issues/constitutional-rights/1...
> The food must be packed so that the least damage occurs. (eg. crispy needs to breathe, yet be kept warm)

I wonder how much room there is to specialize in doing this right.

The vast majority of the time I order delivery, food tends to come in super-budget containers that degrade the experience. Pizzas arriving in cardboard boxes, the taste altered by 10+ minutes of steaming and dripping oil... asian food tends to arrive in the clam-shell styrofoam containers that mush up some vegetables or turn crispy fried food soggy, with sauces in thin plastic cups that invariably leak at least a little... When was the last time anyone rethought delivery?

The experience could be so much better. What if soups used parfait-style containers to keep the liquids separate from dry mix-ins (eg fried chicken) until right before consumption? What if pizza boxes had oil-absorbant padding and better venting? And what about standardizing those container sizes like we standardized shipping containers, so food doesn't get jumbled in a plastic bag? Seems like that would open the window to containers with heating/cooling packs as well, which would help batch-deliver orders more efficiently.

How much of a market is there for companies that handle shipping and packaging/handling of delivery orders? Owning the full delivery experience instead of just some cars.
You're probably off by a few years there and, of course, Microsoft used it for their browser-based Outlook client. One could write a similarly wrong-headed article about how Microsoft invented Gmail.
This story reminds me of Jan Koum (of Whatsapp) when he donated a million dollars to FreeBSD: "one of the main reasons I got a job at Yahoo! is because they were using FreeBSD, and it was my operating system of choice. Years later, when Brian and I set out to build WhatsApp, we used FreeBSD to keep our servers running. We still do." (https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10152852986375011)
The Tech Talent Shortage is very real
It was not common knowledge and even those who were paranoid typically were sloppy with their implementations, but given they know they are targeted and the tools since developed to counteract this new reality, now rigorous communications security is easy, no special knowledge required.
I'm curious what are people working on in a 20 year old project? I only know young efforts like these. They mostly focus on getting anything close to the featureset of the original game. But I figure after 20 years that's not a problem with freeciv anymore, right?
1) A cut without a paste deletes stuff, except in file explorers and in ?some/most/all? cut actions in Excel.

2) A copy or cut puts stuff in the clipboard. It stays there until you copy or paste again, except in Excel, where entering new data between copy and paste clears the clipboard.
That's not even close to true. I understand how you might come to believe that based on how they are covered though.
I have come to believe that most politicians believe their platforms and campaign speeches. This may sound difficult to believe given all the doublespeak, contradictions, and fallacies they recite on the campaign trail, but it is the simplest way to explain how they can keep up all these strange ideas while encountering challenging questions, tough situations and dilemmas.

It seems to me that just as the NBA is full of (some of) the tallest people in the country, the Congress and White House are full of the people who are most capable of believing whatever they have to at any given moment.
Politicians?
I don't know ML, but I really do wish Python had this feature. The only problem I see is that this makes it hard to refer to a function without calling it (see below). How does ML solve this?

def g(): return 5
assert g() == 5
assert g != 5

Without parenthesis, how can the language distinguish the last two lines? How does ML do it? Would the same trick work in Python? I know Ruby has optional parenthesis, but functions aren't quite as first class there as they are in Python, which is why the have Proc and whatnot.
NTSC had an upper frequency limit of about 16kHz but AFAIK Nielsen boxes still picked up what was playing from "inaudible" signals. Whether that's a high frequency tone or a broadband watermark I don't know.
I'm pretty sure the parent didn't mean a literal monster truck, but some kind of large, hoisted pickup truck that's more typical of rural areas.
I agree, but I'd like to separate here Agile from Agile™.

I was at a number of the early Agile conferences, and the biggest critique at the time, a valid one, was it was mainly a revolt of programmers saying, "Enough of this management bullshit, let's create a method where work actually gets done." That's why one of the points in the agile manifesto [1] is about valuing working software. It was an amazing group of people.

But what has become Agile™ is, in my view, the same managerial power structures co-opting the vocabulary and the energy for change into something so watered down that it has a lot of the same problems. [2] This works for many organizations because their actual priorities are less about getting things done or delivering customer value, and more about maintaining primate status hierarchies and letting people play out their office dramas.

So for those people who are at the rare organizations that would like to get something done, I encourage them to dig past the pile of Agile™ horseshit to find the perfectly serviceable horses.

[1] http://agilemanifesto.org/

[2] I've written more about this here: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
Slavoj Zizek is probably the philosopher best known for show how political correctness is an overall bad thing for society. His stuff is worth checking out.
Snapchat's valuation falls by 25%, and more big tech companies will follow
Hi, I wrote this article about a year ago on my blog. Thanks for posting it!
That's cool, but to record a quality podcast takes time (like 7 hours of preparation to record 40 minutes of content) AND expensive hardware, especially microphone.
I think CC is carried in the video's vertical blanking interval, at least in NTSC, rather than the audio.
This is also the modern Greek word for "machine gun".
I imagine it depends a lot on the mob. I've definitely been in living rooms where people were basically doing mob video game playing. If the mob is enthusiastic, respectful, and generally helpful, it can be a lot of fun.
> Or some type of regulatory change will occur that makes airbnb untenable.

That would be a good thing but I think that it may be quite a while before a synchronized legal framework will materialize and the money is such that it will drive such rentals underground.

AirBNB is the talk of the town in Amsterdam, whole buildings are converted into illegal hotels (and are fire-traps to boot). There is a huge divide imo between people using AirBNB to rent out the place they normally occupy versus people setting up places with the sole intention of renting them out via AirBNB, bookings.com (which is quite popular) and the like.

The city of Amsterdam has stopped issuing permits allowing 'short stay' (which still has to be 7 days or more).

https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?caseid={BF4EAC6B-F642... (dutch, sorry, I can't find a relevant link in English).

That doesn't stop people from buying up stacks of houses and converting them. One such situation with which I'm familiar converted two stacks right next to each other, 5 floors each into 20 (front and back) sections each of which fetches between 100 and 150 euros per night on AirBNB. The money involved is stupendous and the municipality has more things to do than to go after illegal hotels though they will definitely act if a situation is deemed unsafe.
Not a single mention so far of space elevators which I always thought was the traditional use for spider silk rope.
Lots of people talked about it and were dismissed as tin foil hat wearers. Likewise RMS has warned about a lot of stuff that slowly seems to be coming a reality, yet he is still dismissed as a bit of a nutter.
Welcome to Sweden! I signed up for 100/10 mbps when I moved in to my (then newly built) apartment in Stockholm, in 2006. Recently (last year I think) my provider was installing some new equipment, and when noticing the plan I was on asked if I wanted to upgrade to 200/100 mbps at the same cost. Said and done.

The idea of city wide LANs started taking off in the late 90s and early 00s, and many (most?) new buildings from the mid 00s onward have fiber optics wired throughout for the day they do get connected. This was the case for my building, but it is by no means unique. Many older apartment buildings and single family residences also get retrofitted to take advantage; an operation which these days is usually pretty cheap all things considered.

Even smaller cities often invest in such infrastructure. For example, in the small city of Strömstad (population ca 12000) you can connect to the local fiber network from nearly every home. The explicit goal is to get everyone connected.

Sweden has great IT infrastructure, a testament to forward thinking in the 90s. (Probably fueled by lobbying from technology companies like Ericsson.)
Tensorflow from Google
The ancient world seemed almost on the verge of industrializing. I've often wondered if that might have happened had they not all gone mad with Roman imperialism and religious fanaticism instead.
JM2C, “The plural of anecdote is not data," &c.

Most of these things annoy me, but nevertheless iOS devices continue to be “good enough,” and with the exception of Surface, I have been given no incentive to go through the agony of switching.

I would hazard that Apple is giving competition an opening, but it won’t be easy to overcome the kind of inertia they have. Most people fear switching costs. The easiest way to beat them is in an entirely new category, just like Surface vs. iPad Pro. Or wearables. I have the Apple Watch, and it’s a fine extension for my iPhone. And I don’t regret the purchase. But it fees like there is lots of uncertainty in how the wearables game will play out.

When do I get a ring that starts my car, opens my front door, unlocks my laptop and phone, and pays for my coffee? For that matter, why the hell do I need to log into my MacBook when I’m wearing my unlocked watch?
Yeah. He was really trying to answer the 'should' question.
Same in Kansas. They may not be the same swings I had as a kid (with bare chains, chafing rubber seat, and a wood chip pit to land in), but they still seem to be around in the same numbers.
I would argue that pretty much anything you would put into your refrigerator is contained inside packaging. Sometimes that packaging is just a simple plate.
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I note that the first indications about who was behind this indicate that at least 3 of the people carrying out the attack were from Belgium (a suburb of Brussels to be precise) and that one entered the EU through Greece somewhere in October. I don't know anything about the rest of the attackers and that does not detract from the points made in the article but it is worth noting that this is not an issue confined to France but pan-European even though France has some unique elements that definitely factor into all this.
Sounds to me like they tried to apply "put out fires" management style to new features.

Sadly, most managers are of the wait until there's a fire type. These are not really managers except in title as they simply are not managing anything.
Excellent article. Presumably at least part of the problem toward the end is that it's based on the assumption the propellor moves at a constant speed; since the plane is not mid-flight, I would guess it's probably accelerating.
FirefoxOS (I was using v1.3, not sure about earlier or later versions) did the same, it was pretty neat. It's really nice that they are doing it from the very early days, not waiting for their app marketplace to become bigger.
Is the customer actually paying $33 or is that $15 in VC juice to grease the system?
That sounds like a bad version of the group projects many of us hated in school.

As a teacher I never assign group projects for their own sake. If something makes more sense being done in a group, we do that. If it's better done by individuals, we work alone and share our results.
>One of us, Tognazzini, worked at Apple with Steve Jobs in the early days. Norman joined Apple shortly after Jobs departed and then left shortly after Jobs returned in 1996. We were not present during the shift from the days of easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products (where Apple could honestly brag that no manual was necessary), to today’s products where no manual is included, but is often necessary. We do know that before Jobs returned, Apple had a three-pronged approach to product design: user experience, engineering, and marketing, with all three taking part in the design cycle from day one to when the product shipped.

>Today’s Apple has eliminated the emphasis on making products understandable and usable, and instead has imposed a Bauhaus minimalist design ethic on its products.

I actually love this article because when people look back with rose tinted glasses about how things were great when Forstall was around, I can send them this article about how Apple's usability suffered when Jobs came back, an era where they claim that Apple's products was the best they ever were from a usability stand point.
3. Fonts used to be unreadably small because we all had 640x480 or 800x600 17-21" monitors at the time, and it wasn't small on those.
Any belief system theistic or not can become fanatical and violent as soon as it's followers become obsessed and decide that the end justifies the means. The 20th century saw quite a few atheistic or at least non religious political ideologies behaving no better than this.

Radical Islam today seems to be doing all the same things that radical fascists and Marxists did in the 20th century.
I never said printf is the highest form, nor did i imply it. If you think i did imply that, and you consider it to be ridiculous, then it would behoove you to ask if i did mean to imply that or not; instead of assuming that your interpretation of my words is fact and i am being ridiculous.

I consider printf an acceptable form of string interpolation, nothing more.
What I love is when agile is followed so rigidly that it simply isn't agile at all.
As always great content from the New Yorker (one of the few worthy subscription magazines IMHO) but extremely long article.
Just before the 2001/2002 crash, there was a huge wave of IP network investments in Sweden. A lot of it came from America - US pension funds investing in Cisco and Bredbandsbolaget, in turn investing in Swedish networking infrastructure.

In the 30-apartment house where I've lived since year 2000, there's a monster Cisco router delivered in year 2000. I think the street value then was around $1-2M.

Thank you america :).