skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's still the norm. I don't think Citylab's journalists are well-placed to know what is the norm in parenting.
What don't you buy?

>Music follows rules, rules that we all grew up internalizing. There's no "universal music", just music who's rules you are familiar with. Tweak those rules just enough and in the right way and you are innovative (see: The Beatles). Tweak them too much and you are simply avant garde (see: Captain Beefheart).

I can enjoy music who's rules I am not familiar with. I don't need to know the rules to enjoy tonal and rythmic arrangements.

> That means that music is without question a social construction

That means it's culturally specific, NOT a social construction.

> It's very possible Bowie could have been too avant garde or too much of an outsider, but what he excelled at was tweaking the establishment just enough (both musically and performance-wise) to find a huge audience whilst still being "outside" the mainstream.

Which is perhaps the point I am trying to make. Within a specific culture, his work (not just his music) had a broad appeal that helped people deal with the human condition. However it was achieved, the world is a better place for it.
Anyone know what really popular apps would be affected by this?
>> the fact that hidden extensions are still the default on Windows OS is absurd

Is this the case for Apple's OS well (Yosemite or whatever its called nowadays)?
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap – Documentary
In Japan, kids are quite independent. It's a bigger issue in the US because of the lack of social trust.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/09/why-are-little-kids-i...
I wonder how city congestion will be affected by thousands of empty cars driving around a few years from now.
How BofA froze my account for supporting my children
If political dissent is correlated to violence, why shouldn't it be a parameter in the threat model?

Everyone, including police, form threat models in their own minds all the time. Ever avoided the hoodied skinhead hiding his hands in his pockets in a dark alley? Threat model.

The model isn't grounds for prosecution, but it is reasonable grounds to adjust your response.
This will be the first tech IPO of 2016
Nightshift is nice, but I don't understand why CarPlay, Edu, Health are not just app updates. I don't see how they warrant a whole OS update when really it's just a few extra features added to existing apps (none of which I use or plan to use, unfortunately).

I guess it's just convention by this point. Feature updates across the board periodically, then security updates in between
You can install f.lux for OSX and it works very well. Though I am sure the new Apple functionality will make its way to OSX too.
If not for Bowie
Cross-platform apps that sync with open-standard 3rd-party servers: http://2doapp.com (CalDav), http://www.notebooksapp.com (WebDAV), https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus (WebDAV).

Apple's Pages/Keynote/Numbers support WebDAV sync and 3rd-party file-share apps, e.g. https://panic.com/transmit-ios/, so there is precedent.
As kenneth rexroth put it: the value of something is proportional to its loss. To live is to take up and hold some measure of ultimate value. In dying we give up and release _everything_ we hold and love. This is the poetic essence of life: Each breath is dying, and each death a rebirth--always intangible and inaccessible, except as we experience it in that continuing instant.

Life is not safe. At each moment we tumble forward into the unknown. Can you take comfort in that?
The guide should cover more on this, yes.

Added an issue to track. Please comment there if you have more details. https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/31
Lawsuit Focusing on Chicago PD Cell Phone Tracking/Spoofing Still Proceeding
Do you disagree with 'btilly or are you saying you're agnostic?
Our pooling was pretty shitty actually, but it didn't need to be fancy as 95% of our code was some sort of batch processing (as you guessed), after which the JVM terminated. But yes, highly tweaked JDBC drivers over all.

Hibernate has iterator methods, but I recall (in 2010) it still loaded the entire result set into memory, with a //TODO comment. I remember thinking "W...T...F..." I can't tell you how many -Xmx16G (or 32/64) flags I deleted...
I agree with you both (and live in the Bay Area for pretty much that reason and that reason only). But that reduced risk comes with a significant increase to your cost of living.
You know I hate to admit it, but as techies we are responsible for most of this power that the police have. We have created all this technology, and then some business has gone into local police departments and pitched the idea.

Kind of sad to realize there are people in our industry who don't mind doing bad things with their talents or are at best indifferent to what their company is doing. It's the "I just work here" attitude so you don't have to care if the company has an actual business model, helps people, creates a good product, or is even doing something ethical or not.
Well, those students never really used Math on their lives, except for variants of arithmetic. This is not their fault, and the fact that they survived until an advanced undergrad course without needing it is troubling.

Anyway, I've tried to explain such stuff, and my best success rate is by first throwing people out of their comfort zone by asking them to explain what's a number, or something equally fundamental.
Links are dead for me too, but IIRC that was in reference to the GLSL shader compiler.
A Java Reactive Streams Push Engine, Release 2.0
Remember that SWATting is a thing.
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There are rumors of new devices coming in the March timeframe (iPad Air 3, new 4-inch iPhone). I wonder if 9.3 is also going to be the release that adds support for those new devices.
Not as readily as you might naively think. Software engineers largely work in a bespoke manner. We don't expect to get paid because someone copies our software, we expect to be paid because we produced the software someone else wanted.

Engineers have always been compensated for custom production. There's nothing new about that. We have more in common with tailors than with tycoons of imaginary property.
>Here is a relevant blog post: http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/

Compared to the typical opinion pieces these days, what a breath of fresh air!
No its very much normal still. However due to shifts in parents its not as prevalent as it used to be ( Kids spending more time indoors, fewer "neighborhood" schools, many other things ). So you don't see it as much, but every parent I know is very comfortable letting their kids wander in their neighborhoods even if the kids don't do that as much.
https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/31
For FirefoxOS "hosted" apps this is true, but they also don't have access to any significant APIs. Only "packaged" apps do.

This is also not true for add-ons (for desktop/mobile or FirefoxOS), these are packaged as zip files and can't be arbitrarily changed.

However, there is the problem however of the app or add-on downloading and running code from the internet unchecked, which is probably intractable to do in an automated way (at least for the current APIs exposed, and for a dynamic language like JS), manual review is required.

Mozilla requires manual review, and Apple disallows interpreters. I'm not sure what if anything Google does about this problem for Android.
https://justgetflux.com/

Very last line on that page.
> Emacs 24 required a new udev, which required a new kernel version

By chance, might this actually be systemd-related screwup? Just checking!
Oh it absolutely is, and I'm on your side.

My point though, is that it's always a "secondary" or "tertiary" business concern... a point emboldened by the number and frequency of data breaches -- always followed of course, by the email newsletter follow-up & mea culpa. "We care about the security of your data, we swear. We regret to inform you that ..."

Sadly things are not always as they should be, friend...
I wonder how this will affect the future of tools such as KIF - https://github.com/kif-framework/KIF
The last section on TFA.

https://www.apple.com/education/preview/
The case for automating Statements of Work
Either you stand by your principles when they're tested, or you don't have principles.
A monolithic standard library would be ideal in a utopia where nothing changes over time.

Unfortunately, the reality is much different. New technologies, new approaches, new constraints are introduced all the time.

Monolithic architectures grow to the point where they eventually collapse under their own technical debt. Unless, there is a very active core of mai tainers that aggressively deprecate old APIs over time.

Javascript doesn't try to be the end-all be-all solution. Ot provides an blank slate and a decent set of standard tooling for devs to build and compose modular components.

Sure, the degree of experimentation can get ridiculous at times but nobody is forcing you to use the latest/greatest modules/libraries. Nobody is forcing you to transpile to ES/Typescript/Clojure.

You can totally get away with creating static table based layouts in FrontPage if you want. Except, the devs using all those fancy new tools will be running laps around you and producing. 100x the output.

There's no doubt that JS could use a better foundation as a language and much of it is coming in ES6/7. Managing complexity won't be so difficult once the module loader standard is available. JSPM already provides a leek into the future.

It's kind of ironic that you use a naturalist as an example. If nature followed a centralized monolithic design approach (ie intelligent design) rather than natural evolution, Earth's atmosphere would still be nitrogen based and we wouldn't exist to axe grind over the minutiae of programming.

In fact, I'd argue that monolithic design has had great success in spite of resource scarcity because Moore's law hadn't reached a ceiling yet.
Really cool, but it's worrying the increasing capabilities that bad actors will have at their disposal if they get access to your mobile device... Why not use a single purpose device instead of a phone for this?
I wish something was done about rotation lock for reading in bed. Activating it from Control Center, which itself changes orientation, is maddening.
Dunning-Kruger original paper [pdf]
Apple used to support a "universal binary" format[1] to run a "single" binary on both PPC and Intel processors (as well as 32 bit vs 64 bit). This meant that both the PPC and Intel code was inside the same file, but a specific section of the file was executed based on what architecture the computer was using.

Of course, modern Macs are 64 bit Intel only, so this isn't really necessary anymore unless a developer needs to support older platforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary
It would be a big step if those models were under public scrutiny and not a "trade secret" of the for profit company that makes it.
That's a good question.

It is worth noting that during the day you should NOT use night mode even in a dark environment, the whole point of the color shifting is to reproduce how the sun interacts with the world around you, turning on night mode during the day won't do your internal clock any favours.

That being said, there might be good arguments for having manual night mode control, like if you're a night shift worker and want day mode at night, and night mode during the day. And a lot of international travel scenarios.
Nice :).

Check that one as well, DARPA's 1.8 gigapixel camera for continous monitoring of, well, small cities from altitudes up to 20 000 feet. And something tells me that's not the real state of the art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
I kinda agree with all this. And at the same time I'd love an emacs sandbox with zero embedded features. Are there projects that maintained two parallel lines ? is it stupid ? too costly ?
Ok, here's an idea:

Make a content channel which is for nothing but curated ad content. In other words, advertisers only get to post their ad if it is judged entertaining or informative enough to count as content. Of course, they pay for accepted content. The audience is attracted by the interesting ads.

This channel would compete with some aspects of YouTube (those ads that are interesting enough to get 10 million YouTube views). The idea is that by providing a curated mix of ads with no repetitive play, that it would be entertaining enough to be an entertainment destination on its own. Instead of a channel creating or purchasing interesting content to attract an audience, the curation and presentation of the ads is the value which is added.

In the ideal case, it becomes a 24/7 channel of nothing but superbowl ads. Wouldn't you or some of your friends want to watch that?
I'm not sure why this is a problem. If a self-driving car encounters any combination of conditions / poorly-mapped roads where it cannot drive safely, it can:

1) Pull over / turn around

2) Pass full control to one of the passengers

3) Find a longer/slower route with sufficiently good conditions/mapping
I'm much happier to tie myself down to the one that runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. It's nice to see Notes getting more features, but if people start keeping a lot more stuff in there it's one more bit of nasty platform lock-in.
>Broad, unchecked domestic surveillance is a dangerous tool to give to a potential dictator. We should not set up a framework where a power-seeking individual can circumvent our democracy through coercion.

I really like the term that I heard for this: "Turnkey Dictatorship".
> If the API version he's using doesn't stop working there is no real reason why it couldn't just continue to work for a very long time

That's sort of insane. We aren't talking about a static library here. Of all the public web APIs available in 2007, how many are still alive? Maybe 5%? Less? Google Maps is one of a tiny, tiny set of still-relevant products that still support their decade-old interface.

And don't get me wrong: it's a great product. But getting back to the discussion, it's a proprietary product, and anything built on it needs to be aware of the inherent business risk if, some time over the next decade, the API provider decides to terminate support. They did.
I have began to change, or at least think more deeply about survelience
and the role of gov't.

I still am pretty much the same mind of the author, and blanket survelience is intrusive, ineffective and anti-anerican; both literally and in sentiment.

However, and I still not sure what role I trust the gov't to play here, the need for defense is pretty strong.

Let's take this red test for example:

While $100k is a lot of money to me, we will assume many people could have access to this amount.

There were > 1 million people in times square on NYE.

The strike cabanilities of an inclined individual are higher now than ever. This is the negative sode effect of the otherwise positive shift in individual autonomy and lowering of power distance between entrenched heirarchies and individuals.

A flock of drones can be purchased and controlled remotely and outfitted with bombs or guns and used to conduct an attack previously reserved for the u.s militaries indiscriminate bombing raids on other countries.

Analytical tooling and conputation can be purchased cheaply. Trend analytics, macroshift evaluation and near real time satelite imagery can be had for little money.

Biohacking is quite new but even after the overhype of the synthesis of (i think it was) smallpox from discrete labs, this is still semi-possible.

So, I don't think it is up to the government to fix this, especially with blanket survelience, but we do need to come up with a reasonable way to mitigate threats.

5 people and 100k could basically outfit a safehouse, a drone fleet, real time intelligience and a small bio labratory giving those who would not use that amazing luxury for good, the ability to create a high impact negative change event.
In an affluent Maryland suburb? That should be the norm.

If you live east of the Anacostia in DC then yeah, the kids aren't as safe outside on their own, but that's more from a gang recruitment angle than a traditional "stranger danger".

Obviously people who live in crime ridden ghettos can't be quite as free as people who live in safe neighborhoods, and it's something we should fix in the long term, but it doesn't mean we should punish those people who live in safe areas with overly restrictive laws that hurt their children's development.

It's kind of sad that the kids who are already disadvantaged by being poor, having failing schools, and likely only a single parent are also the ones who don't get to be free and learn independence as children. It's yet another cog on the cycle of poverty.
I'm a strong proponent of what is now called 'free-range' parenting (I just call it "normal parenting"), and think that kids should be allowed to walk around. But your comparison is ludicrous.
OMG I forgot Netflix has a queue. Of course that was everything when I rented DVDs from Netflix. Then I vaguely remember adding movies to my "streaming" queue, but I feel like that went away entirely. So apparently there is a way to get back to that?! I think searching for movies online (while cross-referencing Rotten Tomatoes) and building a queue could greatly enhance my Saturday nights!
Is the embedded case really that interesting? Almost by definition, the embedded device will be receiving a tiny fraction of the data in the world that it may be concerned about. It seems unlikely to me that an embedded, power-constrained device is going to "deep learn" anything all that useful that wouldn't be better learned in something with more data and power available. But I do mean this as a question, if anybody's got a really cool use case in hand. (Please something more specific than text that boils down to "something something sensor network internet of things local conditions something".)
Fail catastrophically? The standard response to missing map data would be to safely pull over and stop.
Yep. It's still young and I've seen some (quickly fixed) bugs, but it's one of the coolest editor extensions I've ever seen.
> hacker theme

Bowie Bonds, BowieNet, his foresight regarding the music industry with regards to data sharing, the future copyright battles, his use of electronic instruments, self-production, etc.[0]

[0]: http://qz.com/590957/david-bowie-wasnt-just-an-incredible-ar...
Superpowers, a collaborative HTML5 2D and 3D game maker, is now open-source
I walked to and from school as an elementary student without incident. While there might be areas that are too dangerous for this to be appropriate, the idea that it might be considered by some as 'child abuse' is a bit scary in its own right.
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
Not OP but he's probably referring to the Education Preview updates. They're referenced at the bottom of the linked page with more info at https://www.apple.com/education/preview/.
This is a very interesting article that relates to this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_childhood

Remarkably, "During the 1600s, a shift in philosophical and social attitudes toward children and the notion of 'childhood' began in Europe." This seems to imply that the notion of childhood didn't even exist. Prior to this it explains that, "Children were often temporarily sent off as servants to relatives in need of help."

I know in my own family, my great-grandfather's many sisters and brothers (13 in total) had tremendous work responsibilities as children. We appear to have gone from one extreme to the other.
1. You're completely misunderstanding the comment you're replying to.

2. Fuck off with your nonsense and trying to drudge it up here.
A great question. That's why we make all the underlying source code open, including chef and docker config info for people to build it themselves if they want or need to.

https://github.com/valhalla/

We at Mapzen are explicitly designing our projects to outlast us (if necessary).

https://mapzen.com/blog/our-magna-carto
Unfortunately I'd say the headline on the linked Medium.com post (by the creator of Routebuilder) is a bit misleading.

I feel for the author, but Google is not "forcing Routebuilder to shut down." Google is instead telling the owner of Routebuilder to find another API to use. Routebuilder can find another API, pay to license data, etc. There are alternatives rather than "shut[ing] down."

I know this probably sucks for the author, but this is the risk you take when building your product on top of someone else's API without a separate contract in hand--as many Twitter developers found out firsthand a few years ago. Their service, their rules.
A self-driving Uber-style limo/rideshare service might make sense and may result into less cars overall.
So why there is no TRIM support in Vista, or in Win7 for NVMe? Vista and Win7 use the same drivers, JFYI.
I just remembered. Mubarak the ex-dictator of Egypt became a dictator because of the surveillance apparatus created by his predecessor Jamal Abdul Nasser.
Space Launch System: Tooling Up to Build the World's Largest Rocket (2013)
KIF could probably be rewritten to use the new UI testing framework.
I would guess it's because they want to force OS updates on users, in order to push for a more homogeneous ecosystem.
I really enjoyed this article. It's great to learn more about groups having been aware of nice properties like closure and identity when designing new data types and the procedures that operate on them. While it doesn't discuss group theory explicitly, SICP's section 2.2 does a great job showing the power of closure.

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e2.xhtml#g_t2_00...
No really, how many people online get Swatted? Now if someone goes to the extra trouble, you could end up dead.
Notes syncs via IMAP, so yes.
Maybe it is the Amiga effect? All of the reasonable people are no longer complaining so the only voices you hear are the extremist ones?