skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Laying out a damning indictment that, in using race-based preferences rather than race-neutral alternatives to increase African-American and Latino enrollment, Harvard and the other Ivies have established quotas limiting Asian enrollment, the complaint asserts: Given what is occurring at Harvard and at other schools, the proper response is the outright prohibition of racial preferences in university admissions period."

These policies regardless of there original good intentions are completely unfit for the United States in 2016, or anywhere else for that matter.

Asian immigration success should be something that is held up as an example that others should strive to imitate. Instead it has turned into a horrendous program of race based exclusion and discrimination for those who are trying to be the best.

Its shameful and the ideology behind it is regressive and wrong. Superficial racial quotas at the expense of denying some of our top preforming student is not what America stands for.
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> Farook disabled the iCloud backup six weeks prior to the attack

http://6abc.com/news/senior-official-stresses-feds-need-to-u...
This is awesome. Trying to figure out the name of some symbol I'm looking for has always been a pain.
> Even Bernie doesn't make this point (or at least, I haven't heard him make it). To stand up and say, "Actually, terrorism isn't a big threat to the US, especially compared to ..." would be political suicide.

Sanders has expressly argued that climate change is a bigger national security threat than terrorism (or anything else) -- and did so in one the Democratic debates, in response to a question on national security threats. While that may not be directly minimizing terrorism, it certainly is explicitly placing it behind other problems in terms of need for focus.

> (And in another twist of irony I am positive that the American Revolutionaries were called terrorists by the British.)

They absolutely were not; the term "terrorists" was first applied to the leaders of the regime of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution (shortly after the American Revolution), and it was quite a long time after that before the term was applied to actors other than state leaders applying terror as a weapon to control their subject population.
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> Does using a font-atlas really deliver the same quality as fully hinted true-type fonts?

Hinting really isn't important on mobile or HiDPI. In fact, no version of OS X or iOS does it. (I don't know about Android, but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't on HiDPI screens.)

What's more interesting is antialiasing quality, especially subpixel AA. That's something I think needs more investigation. But I'm cautiously optimistic; there's been some really exciting work in GPU AA and vector graphics lately :)

> Wouldn't a more realistic example be of a UI that contains mainly different font weights and sizes, to better gauge the effects of all of the pipeline state changes.

Don't change state then. :)

State changes really shouldn't be necessary. If you set things up properly, you should be able to render arbitrarily many glyphs with one draw call, bound only by your texture atlas size.

> But it seems like to me that the CSS spec contains a number of features (rounded corners, soft shadows, etc) that by themselves can be rendered fast on a GPU, but cobbled together in a complex scene graph might result in stalls.

They typically don't. The key is to render critical resources like that to a texture atlas and to batch like resources together as you do so. (For example, batch all box shadow pieces together into one draw call, batch all rounded corners into another, etc.) This effectively places a small fixed upper bound on the number of draw calls you issue. Then you can rerender the page for each animation frame with a very small number of draw calls (frequently just one) and a simple blitting shader. If you get your draw call/state change overhead down, essentially nothing on the Web comes close to taxing a modern GPU; GPUs are incredibly fast at rendering batches.

My talk goes into more details, if you're curious: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/
Oh, I'm sure it did in some way. And I'm sure the Reactions will change the way that we create posts in the future. I'm not sure, though, if it will change in the way you suggest. I suppose I would be interested if certain subjects would be shared more, and it's possible that the tone of posts would change. For myself, though, I have a hard time imagining a post that I would make knowing potential reactions included a 'like' that I wouldn't make if, say, a 'sad' or 'angry' option were also available. I guess I'd be even less likely (than completely unlikely?) to post anything vaguely political. But other people post differently, I guess.

To be honest, until I see how others use them most of the new options seem so blunt (or maybe so cute?) as to be almost embarrassing to use.

Maybe 'perplexed' or 'impressed' would be good options?
It was actually a big part of the original goals in the AOL days. That changed with Firefox.
I Googled "nsa leak iOS" and found the first one:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-...

Helps to type in just what you want and what will specifically have your answer. Mobile will give you garbage most of the time. Apple as well. A technical document will usually reference iOS. Also, you can use quotes to ensure something appears.

Interesting enough, me typing what you typed into Google still led to same leak and others showing potential backdoors. Hmmm.
Equipment and other supplies are expensive in medicine, in part, because a lot of it is bought by insurance and by government funds. These sources of cash are milked for all they're worth by the vendors. Then the fact that the market is difficult to get into (big hoops creating an entry barrier) creates a ring of price protection.
Enterprise sales. Account managers.
Let us direct our attention to the superhero Mike Ash and his latest post on secure enclave. https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-02-19-what-is-...

Honestly, this is really the shit..
Yeah, it's one of those things where there's a good story to tell, but it needs focus and editing. But hey, Austin is alright.
But this paper does not (metaphorically) get these things in front of the computer eyeballs (which would fall in the space of naturally observed images). It gets them directly implanted (metaphorically) on the computer's retinal photoreceptors (not in the space of naturally observed images).

Perhaps that distinction is not important, but my guess is it is.
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That device practically screams, "hack me".
It feels like the author made the jump straight from PHP to Go without spending much time actually using Node or Ruby and he's subsequently shocked at how much better modern languages are when contrasted to PHP.

Many of these "solved problems" have also been solved with the other languages, albeit not always at the surface level. For Node specifically:

WebSockets -> SockJS, Socket/Engine.io

Concurrency -> Generator Functions

Testing -> import assert from 'assert' and npm test

Syntax -> Some great improvements with ES6 and solid styleguides (airbnb, standard) + eslint as an autoformatter

The major win here for Go is that as a new platform it was designed with simplicity in mind. These features are probably easier to pick up in Go than any of the alternatives, which is great. However, don't make the mistake of thinking that Go is the first language to solve these problems.
Can you expand on the MongoDB comment? I'm using it for my SaaS and don't plan on getting anywhere near 50gb per day, but I'm curious to know about its limitations.
The web designers who designed the WatsonPaths diagrams that were probably already intimately familiar with the same type of diagram in Google Analytics:

http://www.webs9.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Social_visit...
Can confirm. Privacy policy Item 5.1 - Previous: http://web.archive.org/web/20160209234946/http://mandrill.co... vs new: http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ Item 5.1

Changes from:

That information may include your IP address, name,
physical address, email address, phone number, credit
card information, and other details like gender,
occupation, and other demographic information.

to

That information may include your and your Subscribers’
IP address, name, physical address, email address,
phone number, credit card information, operating
system, as well as details like gender, occupation,
location, birth date, purchase history, and other
demographic information.
I think you've described the current trend of affairs pretty well.

The faster and more aggressive the trend, the more likely a positive shift is to occur.

I've heard that if you decide to boil a frog, if you gradually raise the temperature, it won't ever jump out, it'll cook to death.

That's where we are at currently and I don't like being slowly cooked - I want to jump.
J-what? That's a whole other "leg" that doesn't even have metatarsals.
NY Times recommends ad blockers after CEO mulls ad-block ban
I'm 34, and I've resisted having a cell phone my whole life.

For the last 4 years I had a dumb phone, but 6 months ago I got rid of it and have gone back to no phone at all.

I've never had a "smart phone" and given that I'm addicted to the internet/computers, I think it's best that I don't, else I'd be the guy constantly on my phone rather than engaging with the people in the room with me.

The negatives are sometimes annoying, but I only need to see how tied to their phones other people are to remind me of the positives.
Whatever else it shows is that the editorial and business obligations are extremely well segregated at the NYT, so bravo on that point.
cephfs is clearly marked as not for production. It still has more than its fair share of bugs and has single points of failure. From the very top of the docs page on ceph FS:

"Important CephFS currently lacks a robust ‘fsck’ check and repair function. Please use caution when storing important data as the disaster recovery tools are still under development. For more information about using CephFS today, see CephFS for early adopters"

RedHat is focusing on making the block and object storage bulletproof. They're content to let the opensource side twiddle away on ceph FS.
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CSS inlining as well - last time we looked SendGrid did not have this functionality.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. iCloud data is reportedly encrypted at rest. The issue is that Apple has the decryption key. And they keep it in order to recover you from a lost password event, so that is likely to always be true forever.

Having said that, you can add another layer of your own encryption to certain data that is stored in iCloud, like for example the latest Notes app in iOS 9.3. Apple won't have that key.. but the app warns you the data will be lost if you lose it. You could also encrypt files you store in iCloud Drive using an encryption app. But you wouldn't be able to do this with other data that is managed by iOS like iCloud backups or photo libraries.
This tool might solve your problem, Cause it shows the actual structure

https://github.com/timqian/js-code-structure
The very simple reason why linked in isnt valuable is that It doesn't get me a job. PERIOD. If I am skilled and able with no real red flags I should have a dozen interviews coming my way. solve that problem and regain your value LinkedIn.
Yes, It's different for everyone. I didn't mean to accuse of being one of those people, I was speaking generally there. I'm sorry if my phrasing was bad. My main concern is that people are scared to admit they use the best, because they will be accused of being criminals. The stigma is harmful.

Imagine if somebody is writing down there dreams, writing there intimate deep thoughts, tracking symptoms of a medicine, using drugs recreationally...etc. These things might be very very private and be totally abusable outside of context.
Google Voice Search hits iOS, tackles Siri on her own turf
I have build a similar project showing the code structure.

https://github.com/timqian/js-code-structure

The idea to make it a website is great, I might build a similar website for js-code-structure
I wish the design and image quality of the emoticons was better. They look a bit ugly and the resolution is low. It looks pretty bad on my retina screen.
Use a wireless mouse? This $15 hack could compromise your laptop
Skynet is coming: Google uses “virtual brain” to improve voice recognition
DeepMind works with NHS and launches Health branch
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See Bridge.NET, where Saltarelle has gained commercial support under the Apache 2 license. http://bridge.net/

Or pay for DuoCode http://duoco.de/buy or SharpKit http://sharpkit.net/Licensing.aspx (both also available under copyleft-ish licensing).
> Rust teaches systems programming and memory management quite well

Couldn't agree more. Incidentally, this is also what I dislike so much about C: it does a very poor job of telling the programmer what is wrong with their program. Learning systems programming with C feels (to me, at least) like learning to walk by crawling in the dark.
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This was extremely handy back when I was writing papers, many thanks to the dev.
Well, .NET has been around for 14 years now. There have been all kinds of worried predictions about Microsoft abandoning or doing evil things with .NET, but after 14 years they're starting to sound a bit less worrying.
Seriously?! Just use solution 2, god forbid you have two lines of code to be clear and accurate:

>>> context = defaults.copy()
>>> context.update(user)
Well the specific phone that started this controversy didn't have any iCloud backups, so regardless of the percentage it doesn't pertain here.
Wait, so is there more detailed pricing information somewhere? I'm trying to figure out how this will affect us.

What does a "a paid monthly MailChimp account" mean? The cheapest such plan seems to be +$20/mo, so that's not so bad. Effectively just a small price bump.

However, the MailChimp plans are confusing. Does every transactional recipient need to be a "subscriber"? If that's the case, then we're looking at more than a +$1000/mo increase! An order of magnitude more than we're paying for Mandrill now!

Edit: Just saw I missed this from the post - "Our billing and pricing model is also changing ... Mandrill credits will be sold in blocks of 25,000 emails. Blocks will start at $20 per month." So the transactional pricing seems to be increasing about 4x as well.
Even if what you're saying is true, would you have given up all the economic, political, and influential gains that the U.S.A. has made since the federal government became powerful after the civil war? Without the strong federal government, where would the states be today?

Philosophically, I probably agree with you: I'd like more individual rights, local rights, state's rights. But, if things had turned out differently, I'm pretty sure that our small fraction of the world's population would not control such a large portion of the world's wealth, and we wouldn't be living such comfortable lives. And, I'm sure that democracies would not be as wide spread as they are today.
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When I was in the training business I was thinking of buying an ultrasound device. Yes, they are expensive, but the hardest part is you need a lot of training, even if you know your anatomy by heart, it's hard to make something out of the image.

I think it can be greatly improved by better software, so it get's closer to an MRI.
I looked around and found this open source one
http://cat.prhlt.upv.es/mer/
It work very well!
Its a nice thought but the problem is that divide and conquer works. Political parties are not going to give up there biggest tool in the quest for power and influence.

I agree that it will be disastrous for the united states but I see no will to change course in politics or social trends. In fact it seems the mainstream media is desperate to instigate some large scale social conflicts in the uS.
By Your Fingertips [about burnout in law firms]
Just give him some line about your side project needing to support WML :-)
Assuming you're doing this for SEO purposes in which case I would say honestly don't bother. As someone who managed SEO campaigns for years for Fortune 500 types I assure you that you're wasting your time with it.
I live and breathe Angular SPA applications -- the vast majority of developers that work with it cannot comprehend a well-designed and usable Angular application.

Proper error handling, sane state management, and keeping the codepaths short and easily grok'd is very difficult with Angular -- especially for larger applications. This results in blackholes where users find themselves in strange spots that are inescapable other than a full page refresh.

These are either developers dipping their toe into the front end after living in the back end of things their whole career, jQuery dudes hastily breaking into SPA development to stay afloat in an environment the submitted article exactly mentions, or simply lazy developers that couldn't be bothered due to tight deadlines/budget/whatever.
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You are right. I got a bit carried away...
If the device has a manufacturer's key and the user's key, then it's basically down to simple Boolean logic: does the innermost trusted layer allow something to be installed or altered if it is authorized by the manufacturer's key OR your key? Or the manufacturer's key AND your key? Or just your key? (With a warning if it has no other key?)
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I was deeply saddened when Gecko embedding got the axe, because that action was responsible for the death of Camino, one of my favorite browsers in its era. It was really great to have two fully native Cocoa browsers for OS X (Safari + Camino). Between the two there was little need for anything more.

If you want 100% native modern browser on the Mac desktop today you’re stuck with Safari. The Mac version of Firefox has always felt somewhat like a kludge. Chrome is closer, but it opts to do its own UI drawing, text editing, spellchecking, etc instead of using Cocoa-provided facilities which is likely at least partially responsible for it being less battery-friendly than Safari.

It’s my personal opinion that web engines should take a “webkit” stance in regards to interoperability; they should be UI-agnostic at their core and offer rich plain C APIs for any language and UI toolkit combination to easily bolt onto. A developer shouldn’t be forced into using any particular technology to take advantage of something so versatile and ubiquitous as a web rendering engine — this is the chief reason I dislike Chromium/Electron/Node-WebKit: they mandate how I write my UI and what it’s written in, which (to me) is highly unappealing.
Undiscovered spooky action at a distance to what? Even assuming you can shuttle momentum around from particle A to particle C that is substantially distant, what exactly are particles C? Does the EM drive choose the distant particles to transfer momentum to on the basis of what would be the most convenient for the experimenter? What is the mechanism by which putting microwaves in a funny-shaped container creates a momentum-transfering bond from that container to unknown other masses? Does this totally unexplained effect have, you know, a range? If so, is that range remotely realistic? If so, we don't actually have a reaction-mass-less drive, do we?

For bonus points, answer all these questions in ways that do not create a privileged frame of reference and thus break special relativity.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159532
It will be interesting to see what happens to RoboVM which allows you to develop iOS and Android application using Java with shared code base. (Similar to what Xamarin does with C#) With third party JavaFX implementation even shared GUI code is possible with RoboVM.

RoboVM was acquired by Xamarin in Oct. 2015 (https://xamarin.com/pr/xamarin-acquires-robovm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_fracture
Art and Math and Science, Oh My
Is Austin the next SF?
Hey Mike, a few things. First off, there are folks at NASA and SPAWAR that think LENR (not fusion per se) is real. The science is in an early state, but looks to be very promising!

http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/Wells_TM2014-21...

Here's a pithy excerpt:

"Many theories surfaced to explain the
energy output from a lower energy input, but there is one theory that seems to explain it using existing
physics models: the Widom-Larsen Theory. The Widom-Larsen Weak Interaction Low Energy Nuclear
Reaction (LENR) Theory is believed to be the best explanation of the LENR process because it does not
require new physics models. The phenomenon now called LENR requires relatively low temperatures or
energy stimulus to initiate reactions. It is a form of nuclear energy which has conservatively been
estimated to have over 4,000 times the energy density of chemical energy sources and potentially much
more."

The non-conservative estimate is up to 1,000,000 times the energy density of chemical reactions. :-)

Imagine - virtually unlimited, guilt-free energy. It would change everything! Flying cars, colonization of the solar system...no limits!
They do require a court order, reportedly.

The problem with requiring explicit sharing is that a lot of people don't realize they need to do it to properly navigate these future events. Just look at how many people fail to write wills. You wouldn't want real-world assets to automatically get destroyed because you failed to write a will, even though there may be some things in there you didn't want to pass down. The "failsafe" mechanism there is, a court figures it out. So that's apparently what Apple is doing.

But keep in mind this is not just about next-of-kin. It's also about the ability for you to recover your life if you forget your password. That is why Apple will always have a "backdoor" into iCloud.
There's a reason Google decided to encrypt all communication between machines inside their datacenters.
Not sure this particular algorithm has anything to do about economics, except its author is an economist.
Scott, any word on the inside on whether Excel is going to ever get some major enhancements? The object model desperately needs an improvement, and the ability to write VBA with C# would be spectacular.
Do you guys have a free plan at all? I've never sent more than 100 emails in a month...
the peoples the rapist . com? How unfortunate. :|
I'm less interested in the courts interpretation of reasonable than why my personal liberty depends on such a subjective term. If the bill of rights is entirely subjective, it might as well say "We the people have rights.. and stuff. Y'know man?".

Note to the next framers of a constitutional republic. Include some notion of objective unit and functional tests.
> If the NSA really wanted to crack the Secure Enclave, I have very little doubt about their ability to carry it out.

Well they certainly really want to crack the Secure Enclave, so maybe this case is moot.
Just One Issue Matters in the Clash Between Apple and the FBI
Hydrogen can lift ~10% more than Helium.

Hydrogen can escape easier so I'd imagine heaver material would need to be used.

Hydrogen rocks cause it's cheap. Helium is pretty expensive.

Hydrogen has a PR problem. But we drive around on top of a flammable fuel quite happy so that might change.
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Matchmaking is arguably the core of economics.
Or Max Headroom. Remember "Blipverts"?