skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever happened to National Brotherhood Week as an institution?

It seems like the sort of thing which the US could do with more of, given how much race relations have deteriorated since the 60s.
fseek() is portable.
+1000

Arguably, doing absolutely nothing different would be the better option. Knee jerk reactions from a scared population make us much easier to control. ISIS and similar groups want a fight. Unfortunately our sports saturated culture doesn't allow us to see past 'winning', no matter how small the victory. 30 people dead is tragic, but still is quite small compared to the other dangers present in our daily lives.
I'm probably in the minority, but I pretty much gave up on Firefox because of their chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. I figured that if I'm gonna lose control of my browser and privacy, I might as well use a product that gives me extra perks/polish at the cost of my freedom. Because let's face it, Firefox is no where near as polished and good of an experience as Safari (when on OS X) or Chrome (when on Windows/Linux). It was the ability to completely control and mold FF into what you want that made it so great. Without that, FF is a second tier browser.
The language will compile, but all of the UI frameworks for iOS aren't available on other platforms.

It strikes me as similar to how .NET is cross platform. Command line apps will run, but anything with a GUI would have to be written with a cross-platform UI kit.
Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory [pdf]
maybe you're right.

with awesome products like the never done before iWatch their future looks bright.

on the other hand. the bears made good money shorting them this year. and their gains don't look likely to reverse any time soon.
My job? lol.. do a hundred great things.. no one remembers. make one mistake... no one ever forgets.
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Exactly. Concepts like the women's suffrage movement, and resistance to sharia law are in most people's minds extremely removed from the sort of boutique activism one finds in the United States campuses today. Going a layer further, the pendulum in the culture war has swung so far from "women should stay in their place" to "their is no such thing as a something special about womanhood" that people avoid the word feminism for all the connotations it invokes. Valuing motherhood for instance is the sort societal foundation no civilization making a claim to legitimacy can distort. Those paying attention will also note that removing chivalry as something valued in society is, as expected by definition, being replaced with increasing acceptance of violence.
I agree recommendation engines, as a rule, are pretty bad. Would be interested to hear more about you approach this problem. Does your approach scale? What's the eventual business model if it's free? Paid placement?
I had the bad judgement to build my VR app on top of Liquid Motion.

Then Microsoft bought Dimension-X (acquihire) and tubed the product, leaving me an orphan. Liquid Motion greatly boosted the mindshare for Java. An OpenGL code base written in Java validated both technologies. So of course it had to die.

For Sun's part, they went the full quixotic with Java 3D, for years refusing to acknowledge anyone would want to use just OpenGL as is. But for its time, Java 3D was the J2EE of scene graph libraries [ducks].

Source: I helped former Liquid Motion employee "Alligator Descartes" design and implement the first public Java OpenGL bindings called "Magician", which was copied by JOGL and others.
Is there a link between this and generative neural networks?
Nope this is actually the first time I've heard of this. I feel like there are enough other good reasons not to use tylenol though that this should be largely irrelevant, though sadly it's not since it's added to tons of other products.
Mine's not quite stock Android, so whenever something doesn't work right I'm never sure whether it's Google's problem or Sony's.

Another audio bug: when Google Maps gives audio directions, it pauses my podcasts. Half the time it resumes playing afterward, half the time it doesn't. I can find no pattern to this.

PocketCasts and Google Maps are both pretty well polished programs, and I have no idea whether I should blame one of them or blame the OS. Ah well. At least I got an SD card slot instead of paying $200 for 48GB more storage.
Suburbs are broadly white. Many of them were established to be explicitly white. Some older, inner suburbs, which have become more diverse, are now experiencing white flight of their own. Suburban feelings tend to be white people's feelings. It's a generalization, but as a white guy who when to school in the 'burbs, I'm comfortable with that.

> My narrative isn't white, black, brown, red, yellow, green, purple, or rainbow; it's just mine.

If you narrative is American, race is an inescapable part of that. Saying your narrative has no race is basically to say that it's white. We white people can talk as if race doesn't exist because we have made whiteness the default, the perspective, the unmarked case. But non-white people in America don't talk like that.

If you're looking for an expanded version of how this works, search for critiques of "I don't see race", which has been thoroughly examined and found wanting.
Very nice. Who is behind this? Awesome work.
'war is a racket'

@dools, history isn't considered that important for learning. I found out about 'War is a Racket' reading about Smedley Butler USMC [0] and his warning on the attempted overthrow of FDR and the US government. [1],[2]

If you followed the press carefully this month you'll see a AUD 49 Million dollar boost for Victorian CT, [3], Dassault saves 10,000 jobs, £12 billion goes to UK BAE and in Germany, €8 billion earmarked for defence. [4]

Smedley was the Snowden of his era. [5]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[2] http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plo...

[3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-25/funding-boost-to-victo...

[4] http://www.smh.com.au/business/paris-attacks-war-on-islamic-...

[5] "Book of the Month: War Is a Racket | Jesse Ventura" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30FE0MxEMc
More directly, check out:
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/cor...

Which is where much of the Swift "language" is defined... in the standard library.

-Chris
> I'd say Go is the benchmark in case of import system.

I prefer systems that (a) allow namespace nesting within a single package and (b) don't run arbitrary code on import (in Go's case, init()). The latter is particularly pernicious because systems that have arbitrary code execution on import have to define some kind of global ordering on imports (throughout the entire program!), since the order that packages get loaded in very much affects the program semantics. This is called the "static initialization order fiasco" in C++ and Go inherits it too.
With the compact system camera, the decision-making process is somewhat complicated by the fact that (assuming you're not just interested in a camera and its kit lens), you are buying into a system. And, in some cases, you're potentially betting on players who aren't the traditional (surviving) big DSLR companies. I like the Fujifilm X Series BTW if you don't want a full-blown DSLR. (I have both.)

Especially assuming you're already in the Apple ecosystem, whether you buy a given model of X to last for the next few or even five years is less of a big deal.
"Software saved the aerospace industry. Every other way of adding cost to an airplane also adds weight."
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But enough about Saudi Arabia, what's your opinion about ISIS?
This article is interesting but very naïve in is approach. First of all what he describes it is not a business model but part of the value proposition, and more specifically the value discipline. Yes, I'm using the Treacy Wiersema model[1].

So for instance saying that the low cost competitor couldn't afford to spend a little more on quality is dead wrong. If the customer you select values cost over quality (I'm not even looking into customer intimacy, the third discipline he misses) the are willing to pay a premium upfront for a product that is affordable over the lifetime (Total Cost of Ownership). That's why even in the volume market it is not always the one with the lower price to win. And different company could compete carving out a little different market.

Apple is for sure in the quality area. Tesla? My guess is that Tesla is in the Total Cost of Ownership, so totally different business model. Look how much they stress on the lower maintenance cost. Look at the direct distribution model that cut the costs down. Look at the free recharge at their supercharger network. Look at the calculator on how much you save buying a Tesla.
Want more details? Their new battery factory will produce battery also for competitors to get to a scale big enough to reduce price. They open sourced their patents so other company will use their technology de facto increasing the consumption of component they need (lowering the price) and doing R&D with them.

Another aspect, Tesla is pretty much a vertically integrated company, even in a market where sourcing component and sharing platform is common, they produce a lot in house (e.g: the batteries). This is common when you look for the lower Total Cost of Ownership (it's in contrast with management mantra, all people that read just the first chapter of Traecy Wiersema book and not the next 19). On the opposite Apple outsource a lot even in a market where outsourcing is common. They do this to get the best component from the producer that happens to be able to provide it.

I know my analysis seems to be counter-intuitive, but if understanding and replicating Apple's business model (or Amazon, Tesla, Southwest, Nordstrom) was easy and intuitive I guess there will be no more Apple. I'm not even saying that I'm 100% right, to be fair...

[1]https://hbr.org/1993/01/customer-intimacy-and-other-value-di...
For fun, looking at numbers today: a B-2 bomber is around $2B/aircraft. A 500MW gas powered power plant could be around $0.5B, and would serve maybe 50K homes. So you could buy 4 power plants today for the cost of one advanced bomber.
Backend choice is irrelevant. If you have a working backend it is trivial to make it work with phonegap.
I would like to see the math on that. It's inefficient in terms of bus-miles driven, but assuming that we value people's time, it's not clear to me it would be inefficient in dollar terms.

Yes, insufficient concentration is a problem, which means that living in the suburbs would still be more expensive in transport costs. I still expect (or perhaps hope) that we'd see a contraction back to more dense urban cores. But automated transportation could provide a bridge between the suburban model and whatever comes after.
Apple was founded on bringing usable computers to the middle class.

Tesla targets a high end niche market.

My middle class parents, would never dream of buying a Tesla but they have purchased Mac computers for as long as I have known them.

Honestly I don't see a huge amount of parallels other than they share a common fanbase, tech nerds and these fans want to lump them together, and they are... both businesses competing in the modern economy.
For that era, most likely an F-86 Sabre or equivalent.
Oh now, it can be fun to think about. :) Can't blame a pal for wanting to share.
As effective as CSP can be I always felt this was an awkward way to achieve the goal. The API is not very intuitive. Possibly due to the limitations of being an HTTP header or the broad scope offering fine-grained control for every type of element (CSS, JS iframes, etc). It seems to be trying to appease every type of situation.

Just look at how OWASP describes it:

> Content Security Policy requires careful tuning and precise definition of the policy. If enabled, CSP has significant impact on the way browser renders pages

If they want wide adoption they should really keep it simple. How often would sites need multiple URL whitelists for each (img/script/stylesheet)? A single whitelist would be fine. This is what I would have proposed:

Content-Security-Whitelist: self analytics.google.com mixpanel.com;
Content-Security-Policy:
scripts=<whitelist|*|none>;
styles=<whitelist|*|none>;
img=<whitelist|*|none>;
plugins=<whitelist|*|none>;
iframes=<whitelist|*|none>;
inline-scripts=<allow|deny>;
inline-styles=<allow|deny>;
insecure-requests=<upgrade|allow|deny>;
Do you see a lot of cloud based boards (Upverter, Altium's cloud component, etc) coming through?
That's a problem that is not just limited to the US.
First, a disclaimer: I'm very unknowledgeable when it comes to the business side of these things, so all I'm possibly good for here are more feature-focused observations (although instinctively, I'm in full agreement with jacquesm's point about restructuring this into a for-profit business).

For me personally, I think the real value of using something like Sparehanger would come from being able to follow and shop specific brands and designers. This is something you can technically do on Pinterest, or by following designers on Twitter/Facebook, but often, their updates get buried by the avalanche of stuff these large websites are constantly pouring onto your news feed. Having a place to go to that specifically updates you about whatever-clothing-brand-rollouts-are-called, and that keeps you updated on the designers you love, is very cool, and could be delved into a little deeper.

I'm just throwing things out without having any idea how practical or realistic they are, but if you could make a deal with XYZ Designer which would allow Sparehanger users to purchase or browse new XYZ styles and lines a couple days before the general public, that seems like it would be a neat incentive for people that are into fashion to actively use the site.

The other thing that stood out to me is, using a website to simply keep track of the items in my closet seems like it would just be a hassle, BUT if I could create categories of outfits and/or occasions ('my party outfits', 'black-tie affairs', 'first dates', etc), and store pictures I've snapped of myself in specific outfits under those categories, I could return to those later when I'm trying to compare outfits for whatever-occasion, without having to try on everything in my closet to make a comparison.

If anything/everything I've said is already a feature, then that's awesome- I just didn't really gather that from the time I spent checking it out.

I wish I had more genuinely helpful things to say. Just wanted to offer my two cents.
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Just re-tested my headphones unplugging problem, it happens in both DoubleTwist and Pandora. Not every time, but most times.

Phone notices headphones are unplugged, phone switches to blasting over the speakers for a moment before pausing it. Really stupid problem.

I should probably wipe the thing and start fresh.
I am saying higher crime rates in those areas are caused by endemic structural and personal white racism.
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Unfortunately that's what Mozilla does now.

They force these so called features on their users, but they don't get enough crap for it for doing so simply because they can be disabled. Most people miss the point that majority of people who use Firefox probably don't even know what tiles were to begin with. (same goes to Pocket, Hello etc.)
Finally, CLARK also advised Ulbricht on tactics to thwart efforts by law enforcement to investigate Silk Road. In that vein, CLARK repeatedly advocated the use of intimidation and violence to keep members of the Silk Road support staff from cooperating with law enforcement. In one such conversation, in which CLARK and Ulbricht discussed “track[ing] down” a certain Silk Road employee to ensure that he had not gone “[o]ff the rails,” CLARK commented, “[D]ude, we’re criminal drug dealers – what line shouldn’t we cross?”

Friendly fellow. I've heard that the site's community felt like they were a part of a movement. Did they know the operators felt this way?

Analysis of the community in general seems interesting. I wonder if their forums were archived anywhere.
In Europe a weekend, or even a daily trip if you happen to live close enough, to the mountain in winter for skiing is considered common and acceptable.

The distance is well inside the range of Tesla's battery if it wasn't for the altitude and the cold weather. If you don't have a charging station at your destination, better start walking...
Code's potential power expands over time, and that will always be a source of friction, for a whole class of similar problems.

Building software that can scan and elegantly read any text is somewhat complex now, but it's not inconceivable that a few years down the line it becomes as simple as "import simonprebble" or "import scottbrick".

The consequence is that the lucrative audiobook industry becomes obsolete overnight.

But preventing it, like banning crypto, or DVD burning, means banning people from jotting down a few magic phrases. It's weird either as a really odd overreach for government, or just obviously unenforceable.

It seems a fair legal principle that simple helpful things anyone can do in the privacy of their own home should generally not be illegal.

On the other hand, that set of things simple code can do, thus sectors code threatens, expands every year. These become awfully high minded principles for the people whose livelihood are threatened. So there's reason to feel at least a little conflicted.
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"A ground war has barely ever solved a problem in that region."

Sure it has. Ever heard of the Ottoman Empire? Where is it now? What happened to it? What happened to Pharaonic Egypt? The Crusader States? The Achaemenid Empire? Carthage? Troy? Akkadia? Babylonia?

Many others could be named; the history of the region is rife with examples of ground wars quite decisively solving problems in the region.
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Just so we're clear the $548 million they got is roughly equal to the profit they made in 4.5 days last quarter.
Agreed. And for comparison, AAA has the average annual cost to own and operate a car at $8698 this year:

http://newsroom.aaa.com/2015/04/annual-cost-operate-vehicle-...
You could likewise say that no one holds "freedom" as an endgame, but instead they want things and sexual partners. Freedom is just shorthand for these and many other once-removed concepts.

There very much are people who want hegemonic religious rule as an end game. They spend a lot of time professing that desire and working toward it.
As a person in that industry...what do you mean by "DevOps methodologies"? And what do you mean by increasing velocity?

Are you saying, "The US arms industry needs to be more agile in responding to the needs of its customers by producing better weapons in shorter periods of time"? If so, then your real problem is not with the industry.

Some black projects and other less sensitive but desperately needed projects can be "short-circuited" by being done without the usual oversight and red tape. You will only find out about those years after they are fielded, if ever. But most programs are subject to this process: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2010/09/atl_wal...

Do you understand everything that's going on in this chart? I don't either, and I was forced to attend several weeks worth of classroom training plus more online training in the nuances of this process. Anyone who wishes to develop a major weapons system must work through this process, which is mandated by US federal law.
[Tesla] was founded on bringing [electric cars] to the middle class.

Seriously, it seems like commenters either aren't reading this article and/or have a bias against Tesla.
The most significant number that anyone needs to know about Mozilla is that the global desktop browser market share of Firefox has fallen 50% over the last 5 years (from 31.64% in January 2010 to 14.7% in November 2015).[1][2]

If the declining trend continues, desktop Firefox would approximate zero market share in less than 4 years from now.

On mobile phones, the market share of Firefox is so small, it doesn't even show up on anyone's chart.[2]

Users wouldn't be fleeing in droves if they liked what Firefox has turned into.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#St...

[2] http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-december-2015-fight-...
In the part of Europe I'm from, we have trains for this eventuality...
Hasn't Musk said his long-term goal is to make electric cars even ordinary people can afford?

Weren't the first Macs really expensive too?
It's like taking a cup of water from sea and pouring it in ocean.
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... I don't think you caught what I did there.
I'm glad we've zeroed in on "in the part of a continent that I live in" from your initial pan-Europe generalization.
Equating contract manufacturing to construction work is just a tiny bit inaccurate.
Maybe, but I doubt it's supposed to wait ten minutes for the second button press.
Which is such a strange phenomenon to me. I don't balk at driving ten hours from LA to Redding a couple times a year just to visit family, but that's longer than it takes to drive from Berlin to Paris. If I lived in Europe, I'd be visiting a different country every other weekend.
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agreed, how does this get voted to the front page? I'm a bit disappointed.
Doesn't matter. TLS with vanilla PKI isn't a defence against the NSA, it's a defence against your CC number or password being pilfered by a dodgy hotspot operator...or from your ISP injecting ads in to your webpages.

Anyone who thinks LetsEncrypt is a backlash wrt the Snowden revelations is deluded. A race to the bottom for DV certs was as inevitable as mass online piracy was once the cost of broadband filesharing went to zero.
I don't believe Tārof is specific to Iranians. I've seen it among Asians and some Indian coworkers.

It's not a good behavior. It's dishonest and confusing.
Idk, for me I got tired of dealing with all the BS long ago, so I just run off a fork of nightly and remove/add then compile whatever I want… it's great.

I think If people really cared that much about it, they would do something themselves, but alas its all to easy to moan and do nothing. /me shrugs
Did Sensenbrenner really believe that the PATRIOT act was a good idea at the time? I can't understand how that's possible. It was known from the start to be a horrid power grab.

The only explanation I can comprehend is that he know how deceptive and abusive the law was, buy he promoted when a Republican was president, and he doesn't like it now that Democrat is in power.
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