skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya some do, although it seems that it is starting to turn.

Remember - I said sports medicine was pragmatic not correct ;) While muscles are being used heavily, a ton of lactic acid is made faster than it can be recycled by the body. So no it's not causing fatigue there is a high correlation between lactic acid and muscles being fatigued. Lactic threshold is still a very interesting concept, the point at which you recycle lactic acid at the same speed as it is created. What the heck lactic acid does is maybe less important to sports performance...
And almost no backend developers can write assembler either!

It's almost like we've spent decades layering abstractions on this stuff so we don't have to wrangle it ourselves, isn't it.
Sounds like somebody figured out the single responsibility principle
Here's a list of good mobile games off the top of my head. None of these require in-app purchases if they even have them:

You Must Build a Boat,
The Executive,
Out There,
Monument Valley,
Hitman GO,
Lara Croft GO,
DEVICE 6,
The Room (and sequels),
Prune,
Lifeline (this one's great because it would only work in mobile),
Threes!

If you're looking for good mobile recommendations, I'd point you at http://toucharcade.com. They do iOS reviews, but a good chunk of the games also release for Android these days.
Yes, clearly it's not just "dump motors in room, get results", but rather that it's usually very doable to generate failures. There are only so many reasons that they can fail and it shouldn't be too difficult to generate the circumstances that cause those failures.

Obviously figuring out which circumstances are the ones that are actually responsible for failures will be more difficult. But it's not too hard to do some sensitivity analysis to get some clues.

If they're highly sensitive to having too much current drawn then that might make you suspect that somehow, somewhere the system's power demands are overwhelming the generator and that's what is causing the failure.

The point behind "it's not rocket science" is that rockets are very, very expensive to make and so you can't just test as many of them as you'd like, for as long as you'd like, until you through trial and error reproduce the conditions that caused the failure. You also don't get the rocket back when it either succeeds or fails.

But in this case the starter/generators are cheap, and they are able to in many cases sort through the debris of the crash. So that does make it qualitatively and quantitatively different than rocket science.
Which then makes sense for them in a way, but makes treating inflammation something that maybe isn't as important for the general population (as most of us are hopefully in it for the long haul)
> The seller generally pays ~6%

This is gross. We just put our London place on the market, and the total commission we will be paying (to a normal high street agent) is 1%
My father-in-law is thrilled with the iPad Pro I got him over Christmas. He uses the Logitech keyboard when sitting at the kitchen table and then folds it over behind when reading the newspaper on the couch.

The keyboard case is a little clunkier than it should be, but the whole package is fantastic. Plus, the simpler iOS UI is perfect for him, plus no malware, iCloud backups, iCloud Photo sync from his iPhone, etc.
It's the pencil .. stupid.

The iPad Pro with Apple Pencil is almost $1000 LESS than a comparable Wacom Cintiq 2. And the Apple Pencil is a game changer compared to the older Wacom tech.

It's the most natural "feeling" stylus out there. Apps that support the tilt feature of the pencil make drawing and painting incredibly fun. And the increased scan rate of the iPad Pro screen (240 times per second) make the pencil super accurate (compared to using third-party pencils on older iPads).

And while the iPad Pro doesn't run full OSX, the Adobe Apps designed for iOS and Apple Pencil feel refreshing, like new again. They're simplistic by design, and hopefully Adobe will keep improving them (Creative Suite on the desktop has stagnated for 10 years).

Microsoft OneNote is free as well. I'm getting the full Surface Pro experience as well, and feel kind of guilty for doing it for some reason :-)

Point being, there's no shortage of apps these days.

Finally, AstroPad (another third-party app) lets you use the "full versions" of any app you've got on your OS X desktop, on the iPad. You can screen share and control OS X with touchscreen and Apple Pencil support. So painting in Photoshop on the iPad Pro is possible too.

I purchased the iPad Air a couple years ago and promptly returned it. Maybe the app support wasn't there, or the cheap feeling third-party keyboard case turned me off.

The iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil is a keeper.
Understanding Zones
Do you have any citations (even semi-official) that support the idea that OEMs pay Google for the contracts? The leaked OEM contracts[1] did not support your hypothesis (to be fair, they do not discount it either).

1. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licen...
It also has surprisingly good speakers - might be occasionally tolerable to do some of this stuff without headphones.
Chrome has a feature to request the desktop version of the web site and lots of other browsers will let you spoof the user agent to avoid being served "mobile" versions of the web sites.
I agree. I feel more and more sorry for browser architects every day. It seems now more than ever that modern browsers are just kitchen sinks for spec writers. I'm fully aware some of these spec authors are browser architects themselves, but cut the fat please.

We'll be stuck with these redundant proposals for decades. Webmentions could be a fantastic library on its own, though as previously mentioned, we already have trackbacks. Does it need to be an additional few files in the codebases of Chromium, Firefox, et al.? No.
I know somebody who knows somebody :-) who did the following:

In a mad scramble to create some impromptu how-to instructions for a customer's users, the person made screenshots that revealed a bit of personal and confidential information.

The person doing that knew it was wrong at the time. This took place in a dodgy ethical milieu, where the customer's management refused to support the publication of high-quality how-to materials, and the customer's users were failing and flailing, and themselves emailing screenshots showing private data.

In my belief, this kind of breach of ethics is much more common than colossal systematic moral collapse. The trouble is this: It contributes to a morally slippery workplace.
Not the only example of this: Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US had developed a fairly comprehensive counter-insurgency (COIN) program. By Iraq 2, they were pretty much only equipped for state on state warfare again and had to relearn COIN - and were actually doing an okay job by 2008. Ironically, given the withdrawal from Iraq, they're probably going to have to relearn it again the next time they're forced to put boots on the ground.

It happens quite regularly. Military forces have to adapt to the problem of the day.
That said, safe harbors are essential to the way the Internet works.

Reasonable people could debate what form a safe harbor should take, though.

Big content sharing sites are only possible, in their current form, because they use technology to enable scaling in terms of both content distribution and advertising revenue generation.

Big content sharing sites often do facilitate illegal activity on a huge scale. Plenty of them got start doing so more-or-less overtly.

Big content sharing sites often do make a huge amount of money.

It is not obvious that big content sharing sites should be magically exempted from the rules about redistributing copyrighted content that everyone else has to follow, just because their business models don't work otherwise. Yes, it's difficult to determine reliably whether some untrusted third party's content might be infringing or not. Yes, it's expensive to screen content you're going to share before you share it. These things are difficult and expensive for everyone else, too, but we don't all get to excuse ourselves from following the law.

Even if we accept that having big content sharing sites is generally a positive thing, and we therefore decide to provide a safe harbor mechanism to limit their exposure if users abuse their system, that doesn't mean we should absolve them of all responsibility for illegal acts committed using their systems and from which they may profit handsomely through indirect means like advertising. Nor does it mean we should absolve users of responsibility for sharing copyrighted work using sites that can attract audiences in the millions within a matter of days or even hours, just because it's done at arm's length and "everyone is doing it".

So personally, I'm not sure I have a problem with the general principle of a notice-and-stay-down rule here. Certainly takedown procedures on big content sharing sites have been abused, but just as certainly there are vastly more infringing copies being shared that way without penalty to the lawbreaker than there are non-infringing copies being taken down even though they were fair use or the equivalent, and the ability for anyone to sign up for another account and re-upload the same infringing content moments after it is taken down is a gaping hole in the credibility of the existing takedown framework.

If someone wants to share content and exercise their freedom of expression, they can still publish that material directly on their own system, without relying on the support of any third party content sharing service. But they'll also then have to take direct responsibility for the consequences if that what they do is illegal.
Do you think any of those things are difficult to learn? You certainly don't seem to think so. It's like you're looking for reasons to throw up your hands and not hire anyone.
I did read it. Thanks!
At 80 people it might start being the time to question whether its really everyone else thats unskilled or your approach to evaluation is wrong.

Asking a pop quiz of arbitrary tools / techniques that you happen to have remember really isn't a good way to evaluate if someone is a good developer. I am a good developer and I only just remember what clearfix is, I most certainly couldnt explain how it works.
There are no useful abstractions that will let you fail to understand how HTML and CSS work.
Yeah, I removed a lot from my profile but I knew that, without a throwaway, if anyone really tried hard enough they could figure it out.
Is Intel really ahead in power consumption? I haven't been keeping up but when I was, it wasn't really close unless you ignored all the pieces you need to make a system with x86.
Very seriously doubt this.

It seems that his gripe is more with people being unfamiliar with certain accessibility tools that he likes.

That doesn't grab headlines like claiming nobody knows basic html and css so though, so he threw that in front.
Nobody wants to understand how CSS works. Sometimes we have to, but it's rarely by choice.
Nobody mentions software freedom? [0] Arguably any software that restricts user freedom is the result of a moral failure somewhere in the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
"ip" will let you futz around with network namespaces in an ad hoc way. There's a good LWN intro to it somewhere.
The oldest snapshot on Archive.org is from November 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes...

Back then, they even had a low-bandwidth version of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023050/http://www.nytimes...

The website included various tutorials on how to use it, including a guide that covers the different browsers. None of the browsers listed are actively developed today:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961112182937/http://www.nytimes...

edit: A couple of other observations:

- How many other content websites have published for nearly this long and yet have their oldest articles remain on their original URLs? Most news sites can't even do a redesign without breaking all of their old article URLs.

- I like this Spiderbites feature -- a sitemap of a year's worth of articles (likely for webcrawlers at the time): http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/free_1996/
Purchase, Pirate, Publicize: The Effect of File Sharing on Album Sales
> The Air Force also has contracted out more drone missions to private companies to meet what one general called “a virtually insatiable appetite” from military commanders for airborne surveillance.

It sounds like for now, contractors are only running surveillance missions.

What if contractors:

* Fly the drone and release ordnance that kills someone.

* Fly the drone but military personnel pushes the button that kills someone.

Does the contractor as a civilian bear liability differently than a member of the armed forces? Could a foreign country try to extradite and prosecute them? Could a foreign country arrest them if they left the USA?
Care to elaborate? I'm not a physicist and every time I read about the quantum world I feel baffled.
Webpack/browserify remove/polyfill most of the ES6 syntax so it is backwards compatible for browsers. Server side you just need to be aware of your engine's support of ES6.

The extra syntax around arguments (defaults and rest) is useful. ES5 does support function overload, but often ends up some hard to read hacks. Libraries commonly have only a few functions, but the functions have flexible signatures. So the first thing you see when trying to read their source is a jumble of argument parsing.

That said, ES6 can end up with some poor performance. For example, template literals are almost 10x slower than just plain string concatenation. But if you are concerned with performance, writing JS may not the be the best choice.
In the age of Dropbox and Spotify, why would you need more than 16GB? I used a 16GB iPhone 6 for over a year and never went over 11GB.
I am not from the UK and in fact I am not even a native English speaker and yet I had always assumed that the tone of El Reg was a parody. I think it is quite obvious.
It's impossible to say without knowing more about the alternative courses of action available to the individuals involved.

You can't fault someone for making a morally wrong choice if they never had a morally right option to choose.

They might also genuinely believe--perhaps due to misinformation--that they are doing good rather than evil.

Besides that, I believe that it is acceptable to perform an action for the benefit of a mutually loyal relationship at the expense of anonymous strangers.

It may be that someone who has a moral objection to IMSI catchers would, instead of endangering himself for the sake of strangers, anonymously pass a tip to a defense attorney containing a suggestion for discovery. Would that person then be condemned as unethical for supporting the technology, or expiated by peeling away one of the veils of secrecy? There is never any shortage of skilled workers who can be psychologically manipulated into acting against their own interests, after all. If the morally conflicted person never worked there, the secrecy may have remained intact longer, creating a larger window for potential abuse.

It's very difficult to condemn someone for trying to collect a regular wage. "I was only following orders" is not exculpatory, but if the alternative to following the order is sufficiently dire, it is sufficient to discourage me from adding moral condemnation to any of the other consequences that may result.
or Actor.im
Just use some automated coding test like Codility:
https://codility.com/

Even an easy JavaScript programming tasks can filter a lot of applications so you can concentrate on best candidates.
I'm waiting on a Steam sale for The Witcher 3, although I was never really able to get into the first one. I'll look into TPP. JC3 I only bought recently, but it feels as fun as the second one. You've really just got to treat it like a pretty sandbox where you can smash vehicles and explosives together.

I think the reason I've not put as much time into games the past year is that it's just hard to find a ~3 hour chunk to play through a questline. Versus Boom Beach where I can pop on, smack talk my group of friends, attack the daily boss a couple of times, and be done in 15 minutes.
tl;dr: it's a geeky reference to an issue which arose during testing (the testing team's joke was that the 'octopus harness' had taken over the world).

A harmless instance of esprit de corps.
I can't be bothered to write a complete takedown, but two things come to mind:

1) The author falls prey to the naturalistic fallacy:

> We can actually achieve a good mixture of gut bacteria very similar to that of our hunter-gatherer ancestors by adopting a good diet high in fiber and low in processed foods.

2) I've read studies to the effect that some infectious diseases can affect intelligence. Particularly when children are young - apparently there is a mechanism to either further develop the immune system or the brain depending on the environment (this might partially explain the Flynn Effect). I can't find the exact study (this used to be in this section - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_health_on_intelligen... - but I think it was edited out at some point).
Well I have 32 GB and I seriously have issues if I want to have a movie or two downloaded on my phone.

I can't even have but a few books installed and MAYBE on audio book with 16.
Building brands in the mad men era was a relatively straight forward endeavor…
Totally agree. I see front end job descriptions asking for understanding of Java and .Net but no mentioning of JS, CSS or any HTML. There could be easily a miscommunication of misunderstanding what the company want. Not saying the job description used here is wrong, just an example of miscommunication.
Even to physicist, the quantum world baffling.
That I agree.
This isn't the military. One of the side effects of corporate "personhood" is that the crime was committed by Volkswagen. Sale of illegal products is not usually attributed to any individual in the process, unless the company is a single person.
Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
JCache in Java EE 8?
at&t is practically a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSA

before Snowden there was Mark Klein and room 641A
I agree. And it's particularly insane given the degree to which the tasks traditionally performed by the realtor are now handled by more-informed buyers and sellers. Information used to be locked in physical listing books. It then moved online to disparate MLS's. Now you can view most listing data using a combination of Zillow, Realtor.com and regional localized brokerage websites. Good realtors still add some value, but framing it as a percentage of the transaction is entirely the wrong metric given how the industry has evolved in the past decade.
Distributed resource allocation with hazelcast
>Nearly no one could show off solid markup skills

Because there's not a well known standard of what solid markup skills are. It's not really a surprise that people come to you without knowledge you claim as necessary when they had no idea it was necessary.

The same is basically true for any position in any area of software.
Rails and Mongoid Data Loading Optimizations
If it helps, I'll dig into this when I get into work. This is the first I've heard of this case.

-Andrew, GCS
ReactJS is better without Flux/Redux/RxJS
doesn't this still require a monitor and keyboard? they should provide "starter-kits" for the uninitiated... but yeah $9 once you know how to use it is great.
To me big problem with Vainglory is not that the matches are long, its that your locked into the matches.

Quite often within minutes of starting match you find out your team-mates have no interest in playing strategically or are actively trolling you. At that point you can be pretty sure the match won't be fun and you'll lose.

However the game expects you to keep playing for the next 20-30 minutes till your team inevitably loses. I know eventually you can trigger a surrender vote but it didn't seem like they were ever successful.
The unshare tool [1] can be used along with ip-tools to create a namespace with networking support. Add a chroot or pivot root to it and you have a Linux container. It's quite easy to do. We have a guide on using namespaces directly and the various projects using it including Firejail here [2]

Linux namespaces were created to support containers. This is how userland container projects like LXC, Docker and Nspawn work, only they don't use the unshare tool but the underlying system calls clonens, setns and unshare [3].

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unshare.2.html

[2] https://www.flockport.com/alternatives-to-docker-and-lxc/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/
There's a shortage of all kinds of apps. You can't even get Chrome with actual extensions on iOS.

That's why I like my Windows tablets...I get to decide what runs on my device, not Apple.
Save us, Bill Gates
Ping back saying you are not comfortable with that. Which is the truth you aren't.

Don't phrase it as a question either. You have played by his rules till the very end, this last request is not reasonable.

Say goodbye to your colleagues.
I've used `nav` or `section` for a long time, never found of the difference from `div`. Screen readers? Maybe for `nav`, what about `section` and other 1000 tags with subtle different semantics?
http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars
Ask HN: What's a good way for my employer to offer a programming mentorship?
The basic concept is to take someone inexperienced and over the course of some period of time, like maybe 5 months (a semester), and help improve his or her employability. We cannot really provide a curriculum or any sort of real instruction, but more provide them the opportunity to work in a professional setting on a non-profit project that they create, manage, and develop, and be able to consult with other professionals (us) on an at least weekly basis for feedback on their progress and code.

This means we are finding someone who already knows how to program at some sub-junior level, but maybe does not have professional experience or a professional quality project in their portfolio. The idea is that we provide guidance through this process, the mentee proves to us that they are competent for a junior level position, and we "certify" them using the credentials of our employer (who is very reputable in the area). Being a smaller company (~4 developers) means that we cannot necessarily hire these people ourselves, which is why we're offering a "certification" and a referral for their job applications.

Do you think this program has value for the mentee?

Is calling this a mentorship misleading? Is there a better term?

Should we try target a different type of person (with less experience)?

Are there similar programs you know of that we could model ours after?
"I think the Pro in particular is interesting if you stop trying to see it as a complete replacement for a desktop PC (which it never ever will be)" But isn't that what every pundit, tech writer and commenter has said over the past several years? That for non power users, locked down ARM tablets will easily suffice instead of a bulky, shitty Windows machine?
Yup, but how does this get enforced?

I think a doctor loses his medical license if he does something bad. A lawyer can low his license to practice law. At least in the US, you can't lose your programmer license... write a virus? Tis okay, in a month you can go work at a bank...
In my experience with a pair of friends who have gone the "no more soap" road, it isn't that they produce less odor (quite the contrary, and to the detriment of their careers, I'm really a bit sad to say), it's that they get accustomed to their odor.
Buddybuild: Build, deploy and gather feedback for iOS and Android apps
How can we solve that? Perhaps we need a automated browser testing that can be used by non-developers?