skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Investigators have traced the problem to a faulty starter-generator, but have been unable to pinpoint why it goes haywire or devise a permanent fix.

I find it incredible that they know where the problem is, but not how to fix it. Get 100-1000 of them and start stress testing them in a lab. This stuff isn't rocket science.
What are your thoughts on "accidental clicks"? Say, I accidentally click a facebook ad while scrolling, then close the new browser window before your site's analytics scripts load. Would that account for a large difference?

I know that I thick-thumb at least 10 ads for every ad that I intentionally select.
Yea, I should know better than to write comments after midnight when I'm feeling silly, but it does help to get my thoughts down.

I had more silliness in the comment, but I removed it, so the tone is kinda weird right now.
Another reason: the evidence is worldwide and obvious. Siberia melting in a couple of years, which it hasn't done in 40,000 years. All the glaciers receding drastically. The Antarctic ice shelf undergoing irreversible melting. It doesn't take a century of temperature measurement to see the result of heating up.
although i would personally consider all of the above unethical to some degree, i think i could understand someone thinking differently about Facebook Free Basics, Stingray, and Red Star. someone might put more weight to giving the poor any "internet", than giving them proper, neutral internet. Stingrays are used by legitimate law enforcement agencies, although i don't know much about how and under what conditions. and Red Star, well, all of that is legal there and not complying with the Kim can cost NK citizens their heads, so i'd cut a lot of slack there.

but investing your work in a company which sells surveillance equipment to dictators is downright disgusting. people are being tortured and killed because their governments managed to track them down thanks to that company. that seems like complete moral ambivalence at work. even if one could have somehow rationalized enabling their own government to spy, upon finding out who the company sells to, they must quit. and perhaps also leak everything.
Any proper server should be on some kind of UPS, no?
> I wonder if the advantages of a democracy - political stability and a (usually) advanced economy - also translate into the modern battlefield.

Yes. There was an article that reached the top page here about the cultural/organizational problems of information-age Arab armies from the perspective of a US Army soldier who had worked with several. Let me see if I can dig it up.
Reach is exactly right. Also good for audience building.

That said, I agree with most of the complaints about Medium as well.
Yeah, there's a near-search timeout involved in order to allow multiple keystrokes to be used, and it was set a little high as the default (it's configurable as a property). I've bumped the default from 500ms down to 200ms and that seems to be a better fit.

Accessibility is so-so. We use text blocks for any labels, grid headers, grid cells, etc., but I still need to audit the UI completely with the ADA helper tools that are available. As for the combo box, the answer there is "I don't know" until I complete that audit, but it probably won't be as usable as our other combo box options that are actual edit controls (you can select text, etc.). The reason for the combo box that you see here is touch environments, specifically those that automatically pop up a virtual keyboard. It's used for situations where you don't want the keyboard constantly popping up, but you need a button-style drop-down list control.

The problem with the current HTML incarnation, and why stuff like the above is done, is that it's just not flexible enough to handle real-world applications (equivalent to desktop apps) without some serious compromises on controls, or by subverting the HTML semantics. We chose the latter. It's the only way to do things like virtual list controls (the combo box has a virtual list control associated with it). If the browser offered a way to define semantics for custom controls, it would help immensely.
I have just been scheduling a 100% charge overnight when its below freezing to compensate for the loss of battery efficiency. Normally I just charge to 80%. This is mostly just for peace of mind, my trip is about 20 miles each way.
Yes - though there's more to a SSH session than executing commands (interacting with interactive editors, port forwarding, etc.)
"Huge, flat battlefieds" were a norm everywhere. Medieval battles were ONLY possible on flat surfaces, as the main force of the time - heavy cavalry - requires that.

Besides, Mongols completely plundered Rus' and the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, and most of those lands were and are forests/lakes/swamps. For example, they used rivers in winters to travel through the countryside.

Also, after conquering China they also had military engineers, and could build assault machines.
I did not find the crash course in Linear Algebra to be useful. I had to complete Strang's course (ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/) before doing Andrew Ng's course , after which most of the course seemed easy.
I didn't recognize most of them, I had to search some to get an idea.

If the goal is testing, an improvement would be to add some internationalization. There are not other than English characters there. You want to be sure that your first foreigner don't break your program.

Actually, maybe it would be a nice project to accept pull request from around the world and create an standard international data set.
There are fields within the JPEG file itself for this information, called IPTC fields. I know they can be read with photo-specific software like Photo Mechanic or Photoshop, but they seem incredibly under-used by the Internet in general. They're perfect for a use case like persistent attribution, but few image software services seem to know about or expose them.
I used the phrase "just following orders" knowing that it referred to military history.

You don't have to work on the basis of belief, there's a lot of history on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
as much as it seemed the review was positive it was a bit depressing to read how hard it was for the reviewer to get the notes they worked on off the tablet (having to save each individual page separately to the gallery, upload to dropbox and then use an actual laptop to generate a pdf)

I can see how the ethos of Apple is to keep you in their ecosystem, but for things like notes and so on they really should focus more on easy export to standard formats.

(unless of course the reviewer missed how to do that more directly)
The caveat is that in the long term, ML systems are generalized systems that function independently and won't necessarily always remain in the form of an "API tool" that traditional programmers will interface with.
He's probably refering to itkacl, which we use for authorization/acls (not payments). The README (and the code) can be found here: https://git.sesse.net/?p=itkacl;a=blob;f=README;h=3dcb059f30...
The old school static pages are a pain and they are ugly.

My original site on Geocities in 98. I would put up dated posts occasionally. A new new item meant editing the index.html and my "archive" was just all the old posts cut and pasted to an archive.html page. Adding a new navigation link meant editing every page.

For a while I was using shtml for "header" and "footer" files which could be tacked on to individual entry files vut it was still a pain to use. Blog platforms and other CMS systems with editors that keep the content sepersted from the design are definitely better.
Ask him the real reason why you still can't talk about it on the last day ? The whole "it will make the team worry" isn't working anymore. Kind of sounds like a dirty move, I'm afraid.
This isn't new. I studied biology at Glasgow University in 1992 and the botany lecturer told us about this then. One tap, two taps didn't trigger it to close, but three would. Along with a number of other examples of unexpected things that plants could do - this was his example of plants counting.
It comes down to what software you want or need. That's probably going to dictate the platform, then it's just a matter of picking the form factor that fits.
Let the one without sin cast the first stone.
Apple continues to insist, and most long-time observers agree, that a merge is not forthcoming.

The future is always in flux, so never say never, but it's not going to happen soon. Apple prefers to make devices with more focus, more hard decisions about what to support and what not to support.
The commenters in this thread are experts at Age of Empires II.
>GIFS are a dumb, limited file format,
and in the end this is why they are
important:

>They do not belong to anyone.

This may be true now, but for the majority of its lifetime GIF did not belong to everyone, due to Unisys's patent on LZW.
As a rough rule of thumb a core's performance tends to up as the square root of the silicon it has once you start going superscaler. The four little cores on a typical octocore Android device are about as bit as one of the big cores. And the A57 you'd find a new octocore phone using are about half the size of one of the Twisters in an A9. Apple and an octocore Android phones are spending more or less the same amount of silicon on application cores.
I can only offer one data point, but I've managed to crash Chrome for iOS a lot (good example: it doesn't seem to like websockets much, see https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear/issues/597). I don't recall ever crashing Chrome for Android even though it's the default browser on my phone.
I just made an issue to capture that request, that could definitely be interesting. https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io/issues/62

The main reason Webmention is less susceptible to spam than Trackback is, is because with Trackback, there is no requirement that the comment text have its own URL. At least with Webmention, a spammer has to create a URL for the spam comment.

The webmention.io service sends a secret token in the payload so you can verify the request came from there.
I don't know if Android ODMs would've selected the Snapdragon 615/815 given good alternatives in the open market - there just aren't any this year.
Anyone who would seriously consider a Wacom Cintiq isn't in the same market as the iPad Pro. The Pro's lack of software and features within the software it does have makes it a children's toy by comparison.

I see people often bringing up the Wacom Cintiq in comparison to the Pro to point out how good of a value a Pro is by comparison... The truth is that a Wacom Cintiq is a professional tool to be used with other professional tools (software); the iPad Pro can be compared to the Cintiq but then what? What are you going to do with it? Draw a pretty picture?
i think it is, but to some very limited extent. it is not desirable for soldiers to question commands too much. even the most human rights obeying, peace loving government typically does not want its soldiers to think too much. (i think that may even be part of the reason why they have a separate court system, no?)
Unless Apple has backtracked recently, it's not "the same damn rendering engine" in iOS. Apple requires all browsers to use their version of WebKit. Chrome moved to Blink years ago.
Pardon my ignorance as I am a long time Linux user now using OSX.. are there any good sandbox tools for OSX?
Anybody going to draw a parallel between this, and modern gun-control efforts? Or is that too contentious to be helpful in illuminating this centuries-old issue.
I tried it in the store for exactly this purpose, using a computer science paper in PDF form. It's just as great as you'd imagine.
Please add Phoebe Buffay & Regina Phalange .. I will send a pull request may be :D
I've been thinking about getting one just for PDFs. A few years ago Amazon sold a jumbo Kindle (the DX) that worked ok for that but the Kindle UI is pretty bad compared to an iPad.
That analogy is actually pretty weak.

When you buy Chevy Bolt, your not expecting to use TLS to securely lock your doors.

However, if ACM is compromised by a "spy agency" — then anything you intended to be protected by a secure HTTPS transport is now logged, and easily decrypt-able by the "spy agency" at their convenience.
As a big PC gamer I've basically abandoned mobile gaming as it feels like everything out there is trying to get my money by means ranging from insidious to annoying. This is compounded by the fact that browsing the google play games store is a showcase of shamelessness where different developers are releasing essentially identical clones of whatever's popular, it's kind of depressing.

The only mobile games I can bring myself to recommend are Andoku Sudoku, The little crane that could, and crossy road (which even includes monetisation schemes without feeling intensely annoying).

Suggestions for others would be appreciated
> Gets hot, noisy and screen is rather small.

Definitely true, and burns through battery like crazy.

But it is still impressive something that tiny can run modern games at all. And frankly it does a really good job.

There are better laptops for mobile gaming, but not in that weight and size class or even close.
Does everyone know that being an employee at a startup is a worse bet?
What I really dislike in Ipad Pro is that IOS doesn't adapt to it as e.g. showing more icons [1]. Then I could see it as being professional oriented. Right now is just an Ipad Large.

[1] http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9766/DSC_4098b_678x452.jpg
I own one and they are very fun to shoot. But it take a lot of practice to be accurate with one. There is no sight or even an arrow rest on authentic english longbow so learning to shoot consistently takes a while.
I am sure they have your phone number too. They are welcome to call me, though I wouldn't necessarily answer any questions.
If the goal is to improve the house buying experience like uber did with taxi business. Let's go Opendoor, for too long the real estate agents took advantage from system
GIFs are so stupidly easy to use and distribute that I sometimes can’t wrap my head around how convenient the format is.

A while ago, I tried to be a good nerd and convert some GIFs to HTML5 video, and I crashed and burned pretty hard: https://ndarville.com/asides/webvideo/.

I gained a new appreciation of GIFs that day.

That said, it would be great if we got a compromise where browsers can load only the first frame of the GIF and play the reminder on click or touch to save all the loading and data—on both sides, really.
Yes. It uses the date in the URL
Some file systems support append-only permissions, although I've never used them. I wonder if that would work with bash's history file?
HK Uber drivers fined HK$7,000, licences suspended for 12 months
Like Patrick Naughton (Java creator) beeing a pedophile? But instead of 13-year-old girl it was an FBI agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton#Sex_crime_arr...
I highly recommend _Boyd: The Fighter Pilot that Changed the Art of War_ (http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780316796880). He was lead instructor at the USAF Fighter Weapons School.

The previous commentator is right that there was a loss of air combat skill but the advent of jets and missiles lead to a diminished emphasis on Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) and over-emphasis on technology. Boyd was one of the "fighter pilot mafia" that pushed a return to basic combat flight skills and the improved kill ratios proved him and others right.

The book details the battles waged inside the Pentagon over ACM, the F-15, the F-16, the OODA Loop, the reformulation of the Marines into the tip of the spear they are today, and maneuver warfare in general. Boyd was in the thick of it all.

Interestingly, Gen. Schwarzkopf doesn't come out looking that great.

EDIT: added lots more about the book.
Blizzard is taking marks from WotC and MTG about devaluing older cards. Catch-up mechanisms would make the game only focus on the newest cards. The playerbase often feels cheated when their existing collection's value decreases and new content is pushed. You find the same feelings with MMO expansions. "My top tier raid gear just got replaced 10 minutes into this new content? Then why did I spend all this time." While this sentiment may be illogical, game design often touches on player psychology.

Also it allows casual players who may take a several month break to return. The top tier decks may change, but a deck that was good a year ago would still be relevant for casual play.

The comparison isn't exactly fair since MTG cards have a dollar value, but HS cards only have a perceived time-sink value. Also the out right refusal to rebalance existing cards does make the game stagnant. But that feeds back to the casual play argument. If cards were completely rebalanced it would be prohibitive to returning players. I would be interested to see numbers on casual v hardcore players. Reddit has a skewed perspective, and it seems like everyone has a full set. But almost none of the people I know irl that play HS have anything close to a T1 deck, yet they still sink 5-10 hours a week into the game.
I heard a rumour (well people were talking in abstract terms about "the secret project" so I'd say 90%+ true) that a certain french owned software consultancy was building systems for the Saudi government to monitor homosexuals and journalists. Mass surveillance FTW!
80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic HTML/CSS/A11y skills
> I don't get the hate.

I think price has a lot to do with the hate. $950 for 128GB is pretty step and 32 GB for a "Laptop" replacement is not practical.

I am a Apple hater and one of my biggest Apple Tax problems is the cost for memory. My daughter has a 16 GB iPhone 6 really 16 GB? She just doesn't want to pay for the extra memory.
There's the ACM code of ethics https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-profess...
The best device is one that works for you. For most people, that just means it runs the software that they want. It's silly to say that a device that completes the circle is objectively better than one that doesn't.
Conflating "create native apps" with "creation" is a bit daft - I have an Air 2 which is used for creation (graphics, audio) and very little consumption or communication.
Exactly or even checking to see if that is the right question being asked.
Ouch! That's me you're talking about. Its replacing pen and paper notebooks for me, lightens my load for short business travel and is easier on my aging eyes as I try to stay current with inexperienced youngsters opining on topics they won't understand for another 30 years or so.
I'd add:

- Anyone who works for or supports militaries who wage aggressive wars or military actions. Arguably, depending on your stance on pacifism, anyone who works for or supports the military at all.

- Anyone who supports torture or "intensive interrogation".

- Anyone who helps to imprison people for victimless crimes, or otherwise supports the injustices of the legal system.

- Anyone who works in or supports unsolicited advertising which tries to manipulate people in to buying junk they don't need, often lying in the process.

- Anyone who works to support the security, surveillance, or police state aparatus.

Given certain viewpoints these are ethically indefensible. From other viewpoints these can be not only ethical, but righteous. A lot depends on where you're coming from and what your politics are.

Unfortunately, I don't think most people care or think much about the ethical implications of their work or what they do. And if they do think about it, they usually just throw up their hands and say there's nothing they can do about it, or everyone else is doing it and if they don't do it somebody else will, or that they got to make a living somehow, or that at least they're not doing something even worse, or that they were just following orders. The excuses, even in the rare cases when people recognize there might be an ethical problem with their actions, are legion.
Idiocy Deathmatch
>That's what happens when spec-heavy marketing drives your system architecture..

But that's not an interesting comparison. My one year old SD615 phone (Yureka) cost the equivalent of $150 without contract, and was fantastic for that price. Is it comparable to a phone 4 times more expensive? Probably not, and that's not anyone's fault.
My girlfriend's iPhone BTW has worse battery life than my cheapo phone with modded CM13 OS.

So IMO, in terms of value for money, the 615 beats the iPhone handily.
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
Mattermost
This is exactly what I use my Pro for. It's perfect for reading full size articles without zooming.
Is that really true? That seems like such an oversight.
they're discussing the later phase after digestion has started.
don't you think that, especially in a large organization, the work can be partitioned in such a way that nobody knows they are working on something objectionable?

There are cases where it is obvious and people will quit over it, but if you are given the task, say, to change the firmware on this particular device to execute these external calls for conditions A, B, C, how do you know if this particular check is used for something you don't agree with?

What if somebody had you implement a bunch of logging and management interfaces telling you it's for QA when instead it is for mass surveillance? how are you going to know?

I think the ethics come more into play after the fact, if you find out that your company has done something you don't agree with (and you might have taken part in it without knowing), are you going to quit over it or not?
I use my Ipad Pro mostly at home as the "computer away from my computer". Article summed it up perfectly. I understand though that this is not for everyone, but for my uses, I love my Pro.

Also, the pencil is freaking awesome! I'm not an 'artist' per say, but I love just messing around with it and doodling. Even just sketching out some business ideas as a rough mind map or some ui designs, it basically replaced pen and paper for me. Only now, I can have all my 'papers' organized and in one place.
When you buy a Chevy Bolt, you may not realize that a) the government knows everywhere you drive, and b) law enforcement can remotely disable your car via OnStar.
I am probably overreacting but something seems odd and you seem to feel this too (hence your post)... protect yourself with paper/email trail. If nothing else your fellow employees should know what happened and that you did your best to leave on good terms with sufficient notice. Hope you at least have an email or two about when you informed your boss you are leaving.

In my opinion the boss has put himself in a corner by delaying the announcement and its not like he can come out and say anything sensible at this point without disparaging you.
AT&T CEO won’t join Tim Cook in fight against encryption backdoors
You just need one of these switches that allow you to switch between ups/grid power and you can change the ups without shutting down the server.
DDT intake in US peaked in 1965, but in Mexico was not banned until 2000 for example, therefore is relevant to have a recent review here. We have learned a lot and clearly linked the substance with lots of unwanted and undesired effects since 1972.

Women develop breast cancer typically around 50 years age ( the median age at diagnostics is 61) with around 230.000 new cases in US in 2015, and at a relatively stable rate (~12% of women). Thus we are far away to see the real results of DDT banning in US. Maybe we will not have a clear answer until 2022, when the women born in 1972 will reach 50 years.
My doctor: "Let the kids play in dirt. It actually will help them become healthy."

Good advice. I live int he city so the kids get to play in the garden. :)
Provide an example you saw.