skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the same thing once for a dialog box on an iPhone app. The check would fail instantly if the phone was offline. It didn't feel "right" and we didn't really have the time to change the UX so I just added a random delay of between 1.0 to 1.5 seconds. Still in production today.
In Denmark it is as far as I can tell still acceptable to publicly discuss and vent about the issues concerning both crime and immigration. In some neighbouring countries it has been mostly put down by left wing "moderators" under the seemingly well intended excuse of not wanting to cause stigma (stigmatizing the critics in the process), instead causing huge amounts of frustration and a sense of betrayal in large parts of the general public. This is what makes otherwise regular people turn to parties much further to the right than they would otherwise.

I think Denmark will come out on top in this, other countries should take a cue from them.

Note: I live in a neighbouring country.

Edit: Moderated "general public" to "large parts of the general public"
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Yes, my Lumia 630 is faster than most Android devices priced around 200€ and below.

One problem with Android is that they went software rendering since the early days, and even with all the changes to hardware rendering, there are code paths that will trigger software rendering.

Now they started advertising Android M should have proper audio support, but it doesn't seem like it.

Even with ART, it appears that compilation to native code still needs to improve a lot.

iOS and WP have much more care in native code performance, hardware rendering and real time audio support.

Then by making use of programming languages with support for value types, they require way less memory than Android devices.

Apparently it is better to spend resources playing IDE and build tools migrations.
In Switzerland it is used as a political instrument by the right wing parties. They call it 'Kuscheljustiz' ('cuddle justice') and the tabloids are happily using the term too.

It got a new height with the 'Durchsetzungsinitiative', a popular initiative we get to vote on in a month. It wants to enforce the result of the popular initiative on the (automatic) deportation of foreign criminals which got accepted by 52.3 of voters (and 17.5 of cantons) in 2010. The party behind both says that the governement and parlamental chambers are stalling the implementation of the initiative and do not adhere to its meaning hence the second one (which says they have to do the original one word by word).

The stuff happily ignores some principles of the law like proportionality, higher up international law and such.

Yeah, the combination of the so called cuddle justice and foreigners has been proven to work very good to get votes here (works even better now with more refugees).
Part of the charm with ms is that they are not as calculating and ruthlessly capitalist as apple and google

What????MS sues everyone that dare to use pirate copy of Windows just like 10 years ago and keep hostile to OSS until only recently.

It is much more hated before, now since they retreat more from consumer market, it looks like it tries and probably will become the new IBM, while Google is more like the new MS.
Too right. The madness arrives when you have to retrofit the mapping and people have used different uid numbers for the same user and different users have the same uid across machines.
I was addressing the second part of your comment. TypeScript is a static type checker. It operates at compile time. There is nothing to "disable" at runtime.

But yes, regarding your original question, you are correct, aggressive optimization is a non-goal of TypeScript. It won't improve performance.
And Windows Phone has .NET.

The problem is that Dalvik never had a GC and JIT support that could compare with other implementations.

Even ART seems to still have lots of optimization opportunities to explore.
Copper deposition to fabricate tiny 3D objects
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BGG rankings are essentially based on the idea of "how likely/eager would I be to agree to a game of X". By that measure tic tac toe deserves to be ranked very lowly. Same goes for Monopoly for me it's mostly a boring long grind with very few interesting decisions. Once you've understood that some squares are reached more often than others it's also closed to solved imo...at least there's a very good standard strategy.

Granted that's not how most people would rank games especially if they get played only once a year or on the occasional family meeting. I would also rank "A few Acres of Snow" very lowly but it's still reasonably high on BGG despite being solved/broken.

There's also many people on BGG who have a "mission" of getting people to play less boring games. I'll gladly rank Monopoly lower than its true value because in relative terms I want it to lose as much ground as possible.
It's also noteworthy that they have different categories (overall ranking, strategy games, family games, war games etc.). The family games ranking is very useful when buying games for the occasional game night (Monopoly replacement).

There's also the (sometimes artificial) divide between thematic games (commonly referred to as Ameritrash) and strategy focused games (commonly referred to as Eurogames). Both archetypes are great fun for me but some people prefer a rich story and immersion (say Imperial Assault where you play a bunch of Rebels facing off against the Empire) and some want their games to be more pure optimization exercises. Like I said I love both types but this shows how hard it is to produce a unified ranking that makes everyone happy.

And of course their algorithm is far from great (imo). Some games stick around for sentimental reasons or because they are hard to get, it's odd that they don't unify versions of games etc.
Same guess for the UI which is quite horrible (once again imo).
It's amazing how attention spans have been declining for the entire history of the human race. It beggars belief that we could have declined so far and still have the ability to bemoan the young.
For the same reason we want "locate". Except it would be nice to be able to query on many more attributes. And without having the machine be unresponsive for a while every day, only to find that "updatedb" decided to churn the machine.
Parkinson's caused by synthetic Heroin
I use a similar setup from time to time and one of my main problems with this is XMHell - you set up everything in XML and whenever something doesn't work, it's hard to find help because you'll get a stack trace instead of "WARNING: <xmlpath> seems to be incorrect" or "Module X: When using feature Y with setting Z, you also need to define A, B and C"

A recent example is trying to make Hibernate work via postgis and postgresql as a datasource in Wildfly. We weren't able to solve it, we could only work around it.

Finally, if you need some behavior off the beaten path, you'll have to use lots of annotated Java which makes it easy if you know all this but it's hard to read a Java file with 10 annotations for classes and methods, simply because you don't know what happens when.

To summarize, it's an ok solution if you have a Java guy with lots of experience in all this (luckily we had one). Otherwise you gonna have to learn a lot (as in by heart) because you can't really reason about XML and annotations (as you could, e.g., when composing services in Clojure).
Does --retries count as fault tolerance?
True, communicating thoughts vocally is imprecise and slow.
But hearing does have some more parallell-ness in a sense.
A fire alarm is a good interface to alert to a fire.
It is still in the background, and you can talk to someone over it, but you are constantly aware of it.
.NET is AOT compiled to native code since Windows Phone 8.

On Windows Phone 8.x, it uses MDIL (Machine Dependent Intermediate Language) meaning native code with symbolic names for the on-device linker.

On Windows Phone 10 onwards, it makes use of .NET Native.

Both are based on Visual C++'s backend, which is way more world battle tested than ART.

.NET also supports value types.

Also the XAML layouts are compiled to binay, not interpreted on load like on Android (aka inflated).

Windows Phone also only supports asynchronous code, graphics and sound APIs must be hardware accelerated.
On what factual basis are you judging the parent poster's age? It comes off as ad hominem and detracts from your argument IMO.
> The result is encouraging: for instance, the 512C "your emulator suck" screen in Overdrive correctly works (at least in the PAL version IIRC). I think I hit a limit with the way timing was computed in the CPU cores I was using, and then dropped it for boredom. There were also a few regressions, visible in Overdrive itself (which is almost perfect on master, with the 512C screen being the big exception).

Overdrive is tough. It has some nasty race conditions in it and of course the 512C scene requires a reasonable approximation of the reduction in sprite capacity. I don't have it working 100% myself (wanted to get some other timing related things tightened up before trying to chase down the cause of race that doesn't happen on real hardware). I commend you on getting as far as you did.

The moose chase level of Mickey Mania is another good thing to check out as it also requires emulation of the sprite capacity reduction.
Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance
Take a walk in a Norwegian forest at twilight and marvel at how easily it is to see trolls in the roots of fallen trees. A lot of black twisted shapes against a darkening sky are like hallucinations as your mind tries to make sense of it, tries to assess the danger of the situation (wolves etc) and you begin looking for higher ground.
Microsoft testing keyboard WordFlow for iOS: fanned layout for one-handed typing
Is there a list where I can see which services might see my data?
> While no stores take checks here in the US either

My mother still routinely pays for nearly everything (groceries, pizza, hardware, etc.) using personal checks. She lives in a small town though.
Do you know what MSR is? K, thnx please try again. Do you know who Leslie Lamport is?
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the tank anecdote is also famously apocryphal. here's a good analysis of the origin of that story: http://www.jefftk.com/p/detecting-tanks
yes. In a touchscreen keyboard, the only feedback if your keypress registered is to look at the echo back on the screen.
In a tactile keyboard, the feedback is via tactile sensation of the key being pressed.
How do you explain how Asia has even more "draconian" drug laws than the USA and yet crime is a fraction of ours?

Where is this country Asia you speak of? I'm not familiar with it.
Finished reading Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid to my daughter just last night. That ending was brutal. Not at all what my daughter or I were expecting having seen the Disney film.
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I'd argue that Google Research (Jeff Dean) is still not what MSR is by reputation.
Siri support on iOS.
PSA: Do Not Use the New Prime Number for RSA Encryption
Let me rephrase that: "with crap speakers to make them seem less crap".
That's with mainstream phones, yes. But not with niche products that fail to launch. I have a Nexus Q. Even though it's more powerful and capable than the Chromecast in almost every way, rather than update it to support the new Chromecast protocol, they removed the code that even allowed it to work at all from YouTube and Play Music, effectively bricking it.

I don't think Android TV has ever gotten much love either.

Glass went from monthly updates to completely unsupported, practically overnight. That actually was being openly sold on the Play Store for a while too.

I'm not saying they haven't been on the ball with most of their mainstream products, I'm just saying you should bear in mind that they've let plenty of their failures just die on the table too.
One thing I would miss is visiting someone's house and getting a very quick but quite profound insight into their life history and interests by browsing their bookshelves. A lot harder to do with an ebook collection.

The same in reverse - I have a lot of books, and visitors will often go straight to the bookshelves and start browsing. Lots of interesting conversation starters right there.
Google specifically bragged about the Pixel C's odd screen ratio as being designed to run side-to-side apps at a specific aspect ratio. That indicates either an Android feature set not currently available, or a Chrome OS one. The device was clearly not designed to run Android as it exists now.
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover
Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
Given that Europe is a similar natural landscape: forest, river, mountain, and has the same wildlife: bears, pigs, wolves, and that it was sparsely populated by modern standards with travel going fastest by horse if you even had a horse, I can see why there are common threads throughout. The dangers were the same, the outcome the same, the weapons of defense the same. The common origin I would assume, is no more than common experiences.
> I doubt the CIA were gaming Google in the 60s

Not Google but they were gaming ufo people. Thee was a good documentary about this called "Mirage Men"

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/14/men-in-black-ufo...
Not bad. Personally, I can't stand the hit to latency that doing work over SSH or screen sharing introduces, unless the ping time is very low... and your average cloud server has way less CPU power and RAM than a good laptop too, though I suppose you can avoid that by selecting a more expensive server to do work on. There are certainly huge advantages to the remote method for those that can pull it off.
And even if high income urban (in particular) individuals don't have all those company perks, they avail themselves of many services that historically meant having a cook, driver, etc. Today, it often makes sense to contract out to companies rather than have dedicated staff, which is indeed expensive and often not justified outside of a business context.

They have an account with a black car service and use Uber. They have groceries and prepared food delivered--and/or eat out a lot if that's their preference. They probably do have a maid who comes in periodically. If they have a young child, some sort of help is not uncommon. They may well have some sort of laundry/dry cleaning service.
That sounds like the version told in Levy's Hackers. Maybe someone in HN-land can verify that; I can't find my copy.
Aah Aaron. Thanks. Everywhere he codes he refactors, fixes performance issues, finds bugs, he's so my hero.
I was an intern in the WinFS team in 2004 - seriously nobody knew what it actually was even inside the team.

The best I could say was that it was a way for lots of applications writing their own complex datastores (like outlook) to share an OS-level platform so that it could be exposed to other applications with a unified API. It was way more a developer tool than a user-facing feature, but that's not how it was marketed.
> Emission regulations in Europe work that way and they are a boon for the auto industry.

For some reason, VW didn't see it that way wrt the diesel emissions.

Maybe you need to recheck your understanding of other motivations.
i think the main issue with people having trouble believing in visitations from extraterrestrial species (or at least their technology), is that they have absolutely no sense for the age of the universe.

and the fact that so many people believe it to be utterly ridiculous that alien life forms could be exploring the galaxy, yet here we humans are, doing exactly that, is just completely mind-boggling to me.
isnt Android UI single thread with global lock?
Same for iOS. Managing your own songs, e.g. building Albums/Playlists is also a challenge, there are just too many screens/modals with slightly different options. Also an important missing thing in the app is an offline-mode.

I really like the idea of SoundCloud and still use it regulary, but they really need to enhance their UX in all clients.
Microsoft's independent innovations of the last decade are the kind the average person doesn't really want or need. They're making a skype translator... fantastic... but the market for that is still pretty niche.

When Google released maps/street view, or apple announced the iphone, those were the kinds of things that built excitement because they were big ideas, and it was the kind of future we wanted to live in. Microsoft doesn't really do that, and from this article they still don't get it.
Those countries didn't have their own government propping up the drug trade in order to generate illicit funding for illegal wars and to criminalize and imprison poor black people. USA did.

> these countries that sentence drug traffickers to death.

USA put small-time addicted drug users, in long jail terms. But only if they use crack, the "poor/black people" variant of cocaine, not the (expensive) white-powder variant of cocaine that rich/white people used.
There were many such programmers, myself including. I don't even want to check if that software still lives, it was security theater abomination.
Dalvik is so terrible even v8 outperforms it.
Executing people for nonviolent drug offences is barbaric. Under no circumstances should atrocities like that be held up as an example for others.
Can you use NPM packages with JSPM?
No, it wouldn't, when people are stealing out of desperation, and chopping off someone's hand destroys their ability to generate a livelihood through honest labor, pushing them into more theft.
>Also the prospect of going to jail for hacking or whistleblowing crimes is pretty harrowing - look what happened to Aaron Swartz.

But he'd probably have got off with parole.
Isn't working for me on mobile.
We have some thoughts about how the new invalidation system will make offline a lot more feasible. In pub/sub based Meteor apps you would need to reload all of the data if you took too long to reconnect, in the new system you will hopefully be able to get just the diff after a much longer reconnect gap, or possible indefinitely depending on implementation details. This is because the app server doesn't need a copy of all of the client's data anymore.
VR cycling reminds me of the animated film "Les Triplettes de Belleville": https://vimeo.com/12292589
It is correct. Only fools presenting flawed arguments opine for spaces rather than tabs for indentation.

That's right, indentation, NOT alignment. Spaces are for alignment, tabs for indentation. Not tabs for indentation and alignment, not spaces for indentation and alignment, but rather tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.
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> How do you explain how Asia has even more "draconian"
> drug laws than the USA and yet crime is a fraction of
> ours?

Comments like this are why people should travel.

In most of asia (by population or by state), low crime rates can be easily attributed to being able to settle the matter privately with the policeman for a small amount of money.

That's not true in Japan, where organized crime registers with the police, or Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan which are hugely wealthy microstates.
Crack was targeted, because crack is cocaine.
Definitely wishful thinking. Anything consumer oriented will be forced to the cloud and use proprietary protocols.

There simply aren't enough of us who want control of our own data to make a difference.
Xcode is the best IDE for Swift and Objective-C, if you're developing for OSX/IOS. And yes, you can download it for free on any new-ish Mac.

The tutorials from Ray Wenderlich (http://www.raywenderlich.com/) have been massively helpful to me.
I can imagine it would be possible to reverse engineer the service interfaces of DolbyDAX2API.exe ("exported functions"), write a wrapper which embeds the original executable and forwards the service requests to the original implemententation. The wrapper could contain malicious code and intercept the service calls.
This could be even done generically. Maybe something like this exists already anyway.
This way nobody would notice that something is wrong - functionality wise. Perfect eavesdropping on Windows services.
A pluggable Rubik's cube for web
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Totally hear you.

We're planning on open-sourcing some pieces of our Terraform config and service toolkit in the next few months. We're definitely excited to share our internal tooling with the rest of the community.
It's not true. Most people in prison, even some murderers, are not as inhuman as you might believe.
QtPass is a multi-platform GUI for pass, the standard unix password manager
> They call it 'Kuscheljustiz' ('cuddle justice')

That's funny! The 1996 immigration reform commission was the "Hug Commission", and "hug" in English means "cuddle"
تور ویژه هتل شباویز کیش ۱۱ و ۱۳ بهمن
MIT's 2,000-Pound Megalith Can Be Moved with a Fingertip
Jimmy Carter 2.0: after decades in power, now he wants to rethink policy. Maybe tomorrow he will condemn extrajudicial executions? Or Guantanamo? And sky's the limit once he's out of office.

It's one thing that politicians try this but why do people, even smart people, buy it?
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Untangling GameObject State in Unity
Yeah, it seems that immigrants are either the source of all evil or saints. Without any meaningful middleground it will only get more extreme.

(I am not from a neighbouring country but not that far away)
history has shown us that we humans are so afraid of other humans that are not exactly like us, that we readily sacrifice values that are absolutely essential to the advancement of society, and our well being in general.

the knowledge of uncontrollable alien life forms visiting us, and maybe interacting or interfering with our lives, would very likely cause a world wide panic of epic proportions.
Akamai Giga, an upgrade of TCP can boost speeds 30%
I wonder how coders can work on any 15 inch laptop in the first place.
An online HTML version of Minsky's book "The Society of Mind," formatted by Dylan Holmes:

http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
> If capital is cheaper to acquire or create, it means fewer people are needed to pool money to attain it. In other words, capital ownership becomes more concentrated as a result.

I see how that would cause ownership of a specific asset (e.g., one program) to become more concentrated, but wouldn't the lower barrier to entry cause ownership to become less concentrated market-wide?
I am not active on either platform. My guess is that both platforms have something missing.

When I am shopping for music, which is what Spotify is supposedly for, then I think it is not enough to supply the music in digital form. The physical form that is independent of any current DRM annoiance and/or online website service is missing. For the music industry though, Spotify seems to be a pretty good model, where they can sell their stuff.

Soundcloud seemingly is a place to get recommendations on artists that I might like or a place to listen to music from independent artists. While there seems to be a lot music on Soundcloud, it may be a little too much. You might get lost in the noise and the community and algorithmic recommendation filters might not be enough. For the ones actually creating original music, Soundcloud seems to be a "free beer" approach. People get to listen to your music, but all you get in return is limited publicity. That might not be an enduring model for music creators, just during their initial phase of getting known.

Thus maybe another platform will emerge.
You can see the zero bandwidth video phone at Nicholas Negroponte TED talk "A 30-year history of the future" - https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_hist...