skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Well, not really about SOFTWARE engineers, I suppose.
MVC is still my favorite UI architecture, using it with React is so exciting. Will get my hands on!
Pentagon fasten lasers to drones to zap missiles out of the skies
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After trying to make use of my iPad Pro as my daily carry tablet, I've kept finding myself coming back to an Air 2 for most tasks. Save for the pencil, I feel like neither Apple nor 3rd party devs are taking proper advantage of the extra size or power. At least not yet.
Thats the benefit of lines below the ground :)

Situation is a bit different in America
You're right, I should not equate English with pinyin. I think however, pinyin as the solution is more indicative of how Western focused (especially with the proliferation of English) the entire world is. Or at least specifically with this author's viewpoint.

I have learned pinyin, and basically it is the easiest way to input onto a US-English keyboard (as he says), but you essentially lose all underlying meaning of the character's history if you're learning Chinese based off pinyin. Essentially the same as removing all meaning of what a prefix, suffix and root of a word is in English. For example: "Imperialism": I am sure you can tell me that the suffix is ("-ism") and what it's meaning is ("belief in"/advocacy) and you can probably tell me the origins/meanings of "Imperial" (empire) and so if you put those two words together an English speaking person would understand "Imperialism" as advocacy of an empire. But what is "Imperialism" in English if it is spelled "diguozhuyi"? That is what you lose when you switch to a pure romanization. And writing this post to you know makes me realize what I hate so much about the article. He throws away any meaning Chinese characters have for the sake of simplicity for his self benefit.

Taiwan has an alphabet like equivalent called "zhuyin" or bopomofo after the first 4 characters. The author never mentions this because I'm guessing he just asked some colleague in China rather than look into it. Zhuyin has pros and cons, the 2 biggest cons I see are 1: It wasn't invented in mainland China and 2: even the Taiwanese view it as sort of thing a child uses (adults use full Chinese characters). But technically it has about 38 characters, although you could fit it into a qwerty style keyboard based on the assumption that there are only 21/22 characters that can begin a word and 17 that can follow (oversimplification) so it is doable.
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With Web Assembly coming in the near future, Rust will actually be a very great choice. Right now they are targeting c/c++, but Rust of course will be a great alternative.

Do note that, for many things on the web, JavaScript is PLENTY fast. It's when you are doing crazy things like CAD in the browser, it'll be amazing.
Technically you are right, more like MVVM, but MVC is an umbrella term nowadays.
About half the time the NRO has been mentioned in my lifetime, it's in relation to some story about a UFO that got away (but was tracked by NRO radar)
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DraftKings bans use of offsite scripts, will identify experienced players
Sorry, but is React "too" opinionated? I don't think so. In this example MVC is applied seamlessly and React just handles View part of MVC which makes it less opinionated than the others.
Add Pagare band to your Pebble watch and start paying with your wrist
You lost me at division. Can you elaborate? Are you saying there's a lot of physical systems with two states? Well there are systems with continuous values.
Yea, the multi-tasking UI is especially half baked. You should be able to have two instances of the same app side-by-side (at least Safari).
Google owns Doubleclick.
I think you're mistaken: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html#cxx11
The post-cleanliness society is one of Samuel R. Delany's visions:

http://www.lesleyahall.net/clean.htm
While outputting toxic carbon monoxide directly into the breathing air of the vehicles following immediately behind
Regarding the hearing issue. These cars already have an Ac. I was thinking they could run it in reverse as a heat pump to save energy on heating. That's how residential heat pumps work both as heaters and ac.

Id think the insulation on electric cars could also be drastically improved. No one ever put much thought into insulating a car since there's free heat from the engine.
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Your average electrical utility also provides electricity "24/7".
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There's a lot of ethical failure in failed implementations.

I realize these kind of projects are big consulting firms' bread and butter, but if you as an engineer continue to work on a project that's being managed with an eye towards "Failure is okay, because our lawyers wrote the contract to cover that contingency" then that's pretty scummy from an ethical perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File

Edit: On the flipside, I feel a lot more comfortable when employers I've worked for have sat down with customers and had the "Look, this just isn't working out. We recommend you cancel this project and we tie off our relationship, because it's not going to end well for either of us if we continue" talk.
Are they asking you to sign a release or any other document as you depart? If so, you could insist on a non-disparagement clause. If they want to wait until after you leave to tell everyone, that's their business, but if they mislead people as to the circumstances of your departure, that potentially injures you.
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My mind turns towards a Pinboard archival account with tag searches in browser bookmarks.
I mean "settled", not "universal". That sounds like equilibrium to me.
Potentially debatable, but:

Google outs transgender woman: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2321446/transgender...
If the UPS is connected to one of a redundant pair of PSUs, yes.
(also, article author works on Clash of Clans)
That is because Hong Kong makes a living primarily as a place where trades are executed, not as a significant trader itself. Hong Kong does not have large supplies of natural resources, huge manufacturing industries, or millions of acres producing agricultural exports. Pretty much the only economy they have is hosting relationships and taking a cut, so they have no economic reason to erect trade barriers.
I remain skeptical. Heroin is not easy to produce and yet it continues smuggled in apace.
That's my question too.

What is the case is that finding cash buyers often requires some informal connections. My metro has a fair amount of flipping going on, but it's hard to point to the marketplace where all this occurs. There's the foreclosure trawlers, the agents who knows a guy who just sold his latest project and is looking for the next one, the guys from the billboard who are looking for total wrecks, ... It's daunting.
Out of the box thinking
Common law is not so messy. Unfortunately we live in a world of victimless crimes, with a system of law that is like it's own universe, always expanding, and of unknowable vastness. So arcane that it requires temples upon temples of seers to interpret it. It's ripe for disruption alright, but probably not by market forces in a peaceful fashion.
http://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/ like him?
Not that it's a real solution, but you can run Safari and Chrome side by side.
Try spending 2.5k on two of their not-even-4k thunderbolt mirrors, suddenly you really start to admire those sunlight blocking ikea curtains in your office...
I like your thinking. See my other comment for what I think is a good idea for improving the heating situation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953036
I'm fresh out of college, and I'm curious if this would stand up with people that are my age and close-ish to my demographic. From my experience, I think our cultural experience is the file-sharing or "Netflix" generation. My friends and I all have deep connections to characters from 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s entertainment, because we have been able to access it all. I am definitely going to reference Flash Gordon, Mal Reynolds and Patrick Star in a poll of fictitious characters.

I don't know, it's just something that I'm curious about. I would love to take your test (although I am already primed by seeing the OP's list).
> The combination of high leverage and complete property ownership seems incredibly risky to me.

Perhaps they're hedging their exposure with property derivatives.
Even if a short-range car would be fine for your daily commute (and you have a second car or some other method for making longer trips), there's another issue to consider: If you have to charge your car every night in order to get to the work in the morning, then you need to be guaranteed a parking spot with a charger, but in densely packed areas where short commutes are common, shitting parking is common as well. That means a lot of places would need to improve their parking situation in addition to providing reliable charging infrastructure, and that's going to take a lot of money and effort.
I guess for the same reason that starving to death isn't the solution to overeating.
Used to. https://twitter.com/aPapathanasis
Yeah, a better written bill would include "Within 48 hours" or "Within three seconds of a request from someone whose third cousin is a dog-catcher who can spell 'Lawful request'" (too much to hope for "Within heat-death of the known universe").

These two bills are actually clever probes, IMHO.

What are the chances they run afoul of interstate commerce provisions?

But hey, C compilers are tiny. It's no problem to put one on a phone.

I would:

- Comply. Rip encryption out of the OS. [keep reading!]

- Make a plug-in for the crypto. That probably already exists in the form of a library, but in any event it doesn't seem hard.

- Have a system update -- one that is fetched very, very early in system setup -- download and install that plugin. To avoid the possibility that downloads can be blocked, you release the source code and give existing phones, already in many hands, the ability to compile that code on the device (some handwaving here, but you can probably make that secure, for specifically that plugin, and maybe exactly that version of the source). You need a way to distribute bug fixes, but again you're dealing with source that's not part of the OS.

That source-level plugin isn't an operating system, and we're back in territory where the government has to ban specific software components, and maybe ban source code (which is going to be a really difficult 1st Amendment argument).
Nah, haven't been asked for that. But if I am, that's not a bad idea. Might be a little late considering today is my last day. :/
> what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm’s history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

Big-bang launches aren't just bad in software. Imagine if they had opened one store, and then iterated on it until they got it right. Then a second store, maybe a third, and slowly spread out. They'd have built a successful organization in 5 years rather than one that collapses after 2.
So many questions. But to start...

What are these powered by?

Does the PLGA dissolving also break down the silicone?

Edit: Ah. This article (from 2014) seems to have a little more detail: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/soluble-electronics-reliably...

Edit 2: This article makes it seem like they might mean silicon rather than the (presumably not degradable) silicone.
There is an app Split Web Browser that does this. (Maybe others)
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The LEAF has a heat pump and it works till about freezing at which point it switches over to an electric heater. The loss of efficiency due to cold weather really dwarfs the cost of heating/cooling in the vehicle.
>>Each car is designed around the battery since it's such a large piece of the car.

This is not exactly true. Battery is heavy piece, so it has to be low for low center of gravity. The bottom mount is going to happen anyhow. Tesla and Leaf both have their battery in the bottom.

The only real problem would be that you can't use the battery as structural element if it's easily detached. But the bottom center point is not exactly critical for structural integrity, so the result would be slightly increased weight.
Incident response. When one of your admin accounts is compromised, you'd want to know what the attacker executed.
If anybody wants to go more in depth on this I suggest A Distant Mirror. Brilliant work.
Of course I can't find the links now via Google, but I saw an announcement recently (multiple actually) about batteries in development that are not affected by cold temperatures AND have higher charge capacity AND speed than Li-Ion. I believe (guessing here) it involved aluminum (but not those charge-only-once aluminum-air batteries... something else).

If those batteries were released commercially within the next 5 years, it would be a game-changer
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Errr, define "ethically".

I'm not trying to trap you. I'm willing to work with whatever definition you specify, and I won't try to play semantic games with the definition if it's at least close enough to something specific to work with. I'm not asking for a universality claim. But without some specification of what you mean the question is vague to the point of unanswerability.

The North Korean programmers may well have truly believed in what they were doing. A utilitarian may well truly believe that even if Facebook Free Basics isn't a perfect program, it's a net good for the participants. The "surveillance software" can be seen as just a tool and whether the tool makers are responsible for its misuse is ethically debatable. (And let me be clear I mean that literally, not as an attempt to rhetorically state a position. I could write a coherent argument both ways.) After all, many people even in free countries end up calling for strict regulation of corporations and that same "surveillance software" is pretty much the way you instantiate such regulation, so, is it really clear that it's intrinsically evil?

And again let me emphasize the point I'm making here is just the width of possible arguments about ethics that can be made. My previous paragraph is itself ethically incoherent, inasmuch I'm not even trying to take a consistent stand overall, but merely trying to highlight the most obvious problem per issue where ill-defined "ethics" makes it hard to even debate the matter.
What about feature? If I want a dog, how do you determine which images contain a dog?
It is subjective, but you can argue that any device ever made with intention to kill or harm people had people involved who knew what they were doing and created it anyway. Everything from Gas chambers in concentration camps (made supposedly by Siemens or Bosch), bombs, guns, even swords.

And then there is Java EE...
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How about the extensive surveillance software developed by the NSA (PRISM et. al.)? That's probably the biggest example of ethical and moral failure in modern history.
That's interesting, endless waffle about CPU engineering changes here and there, then they basically gloss over the fact that this Pro is forever limited to running a neutered iOS system (but you know, 2 apps simultaneously now!).
This was my thought as well.
Payne-Gallwey's "The Book of the Crossbow" is at least in the same category as the paper's cited "Great Warbow". At one point he tests a 15th century siege crossbow with a draw weight of 1200 lbs, which is probably close to the upper limit (and requires a heavy cranequin). IIRC the Mary Rose longbows were about 150 lbs.

But that's a steel bow, which is stiffer than wood, and the draw length is pretty small.

W.F. Paterson published a test that compared a 70 lbs bow with a 740 lbs crossbow, and the initial velocity was about the same.

Now how that equates to actual damage is another issue, and I haven't seen a really good test about that. One major factor that one has to consider is that damage varies with range, too. So what might look comparable at close range might be completely different at far range. (I think the Genoese were out-ranged by the English at Crecy.)
From the yc reading list 2015 [http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/yc-2015-reading-list/], they recommend [for Neural Networks] this book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

It's more about understanding than "learning tools."
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Practically, one could:

* wash hands, and frequently (but you don't need an antibacterial soap -- they're bad for fish)

* use your well-seasoned wok/cast-iron skillet and not wash it with soap

* eat your fermented foods (from funky cheese to kimchi)

* eat things straight out of the garden without washing as long as there is no visible raccoon poop

etc. It is also possible to use different gradations of cleaning power for your body and house: bleach kills everything while vinegar and baking soda clean most things just fine; some soaps are less harsh than others. Showering regularly is a blessing in high population-density areas, but you don't need to sanitize every part of yourself every day.

The only area in my life where I'm fanatical about sanitization, in fact, is brewing beer. There a certain outcome is desired and my usually carefully cultivated lackadaisical attitude is not appropriate.
What would you use instead?
Not only did you research what that is, you in fact did so before typing your comment.

(I have spies.)
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Thanks! That's actually already possible. There's a list of all the attributes you can search by here: http://finda.photo/search/tips

For example, http://finda.photo/search/?q=--aspectratio+%3C+1 would give you portrait images.
srvAudit also does this, though it's still early in development. srvaudit.com
>and get a good chuckle each morning from some of their amusing bylines.

+1
Their headlines are borderline genius on occasion
Is that a good idea? You don't necessarily want to wake up the entire team with an alert if there's a dedicated on-call person.
Strong encryption used to be classified as munitions under ITAR, so maybe there's some precedent there.
I think it's important to look beyond hypertension before completely ending the war on salt.

Very high salt intake may influence the risk of H. pylori infection - the main cause of stomach cancer. It increases the risk of atrophic gastritis (chronic inflammation of the stomach), which makes the stomach more prone to infection, and increases the susceptibility of mucosa to neoplastic change once an infection occurs.

If you think nobody consumes this level of salt, the Chinese and Japanese had extremely high levels of stomach cancer decades ago before reducing their salt intake and preservative consumption. To some extent, these problems persist to this day. Completely ignoring salt (especially in convenience foods) could reignite the issue.
C++ in 2016
Nope. That's been a common business model for decades, if not centuries or millennia.
Shame, I can't install one-quarter of the software I use on a daily basis on a "pro" ipad. I will stick with the $100 dollar Android tablet that allows me to read books and look at websites... When it kicks the bucket, I am sure I can find one even cheaper.
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It will be interesting to see how the open collaboration requirement works in practice. Presumably it only requires the external collaborators to agree to openness, and not their institutions.
Glossy screens aren't really limited to Apple. They're sort of a thing these days and I do have mixed feelings about them--although I'm also sort of resigned to them at this point. They can be really crisp and bright under the right lighting conditions but, at the moment, I'm sitting in a room with a lot of windows on a bright day admiring every fingerprint and smudge on my screen.
Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in seeing how they did it
California sees boost in vaccination rate ahead of ban on opt-outs
slightly related, but check out consequences of an insightful algorithm - which speaks to the unintentional ethical failures we make as technology continues to progress and become more powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NheE6udjfGI
It has fancy keywords like "Open" and has animated clouds on the website.
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I'm not trying to start a flame way, but can anyone give me a good reason why you'd buy one of their cinema displays? They seem like they're too expensive at even half the price compared to what else is available.
Not a money person. ELI5 why it's not like dollar cost averaging on their part, if they're set up for long term? They might be stuck with more inventory in the dips, but they'd also be buying in the dips and they'd be selling higher when the market recovered.
Is anyone else a person who loves games but is disgusted by Clash of Clans (and anything else that uses any business model invented by Farmville)?
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Oh, I think that a full legal prohibition on tobacco would backfire in startling ways. Smoking even now is decidedly unrational; imagine if it was even more illegal.

I get not wanting to be exposed , but the science is still not exactly slam dunk even today, in the same way that even the 1965 Surgeon's General report is. The datasets ( which are admittedly very slow and expensive to cultivate ) aren't of very high diversity.
I've had two iPads now, both given to me, and both have mostly sat around collecting dust. Except for a few rare use-cases, I'd rather be on a laptop.

My parents, on the other hand, are the polar opposite. Since getting an iPad, my mom has completely abandoned her laptop and will use their shared iMac on rare occasions.

For me, having a phone + laptop is more than enough. For them, phone + tablet seems to be the right mix. But I don't see the additional features of the Pro shaking up the mix for me at all.
I am impressed that you were able to draw such a broad conclusion from a single experiment!
Yes! Andrew Ng's coursera + kaggle.com + this deep learning course by Google is a very nice -and free- foundation.
In terms of multiplayer, this guy's completely right. Games need to cater to short attention spans, limited bandwidth, and one-thumb interaction (I would also add async gameplay to the list of things that should be embraced). I don't think this article is saying anything profound, but it certainly isn't wrong.

In terms of single player games, I don't think the same logic applies, and in my opinion we've gone way too far in the "short attention span" direction. As long as a game makes it easy to save and resume, immersive hours-long experiences with detailed graphics can be really fun to consume in bite-sized pieces. Nintendo's been doing it for decades with their portable devices (Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metroid), and it's clearly a successful approach.

It's a shame that smartphones are orders of magnitude more powerful than the Game Boy, yet mobile app stores are overflowing with single-level "infinite churn" games that amount to Tetris with micropayments.
Why would software engineers be any different than other people? As in any field you will find the whole spectrum of humans...
Her dying husband left her the house and the car, but he forgot
You could talk to the founder today and say you'd like to say a proper goodbye to your team before you leave. Ask what's the best way to do that in his mind.