skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, on the other hand, this actually wasn't obvious and now we just have thousands of Captain Hindsights saying it was.
Yeah, really the takeaway message from much of the news coming out of the US over the last year or so is pretty much that everyone is treated both equally and fairly. I don't understand anyone who complains about racism, the ever widening gulf between rich and poor etc.
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We have 100% totally pivoted on this one. Every proposal we put out, now has Echo front and center. As we say "screens", you mean like your father/mother used to use? How old school. A screen? Oh boy ... :-)

As Woz says, "bigger than the iPhone." That sounds like a hell of a prediction to me. Woz knows all. :-)
> Even if you're super-high-skilled and work in Silicon Valley as a programmer

At Google or equivalent, programmers can hit the household 5% bar ($220,000) within 2-3 years.
Is there anywhere that an individual could get more involved with these five principles and the EFF? Maybe like a slack group to discuss and promote encryption and privacy?
I'm explaining the mentality of the Debian-only crowd, not my personal beliefs. I've got several Ubuntu-based chroots on my Chromebook.
Why is that? The author explained his metrics.

I've barely used Chrome myself, I've been using Safari since before Chrome was released (IIRC). Ignoring style issues (I'm just used to Safari) it always amazes me just how much CPU Chrome seems to burn doing nothing. It's a HUGE drain on laptop battery life.
Are utfmb4 effected also ? I been converting my table from utf8 unicode to utfmb4 unicode for supporting emoticon unicode.
Spotting "fallacies" is a guideline -- and a crude and incomplete one at that, and mostly useful for judging propaganda pieces and things like that. Not something that is actually useful in casual conversation.

In fact conversation would be 100% impossible without "appeal to authority" of some sort, except if you expect anyone to prove everything from first principles.

The quote is a quote from a well regarded (for millennia) piece of thinking on pedagogy. You're not asked to take it as truth because Plato said it, but it's worth to ponder what he had to say, especially since it's a foundational part of western civilization.

You can read it as "hey, millennia of people though this has a good point -- maybe there's something into it?". Or at least at "hmm, here's what many people used to think is a valid point about pedagogy".
My guess is that you are doing more analysis than you are taking credit for.
Weird. I'm from Texas, in my 30's, and have never heard the word before. Then again, growing up I never heard anyone talking bad about Jews either.
Yeah, as an industry I think we're in denial about this. Since the dawn of time, we could keep doing whatever we were doing and things would just magically get faster. That era is over. But we're still mostly using languages and techniques that aren't well suited for where the future's going.
> wouldn’t consider it unfair if they releveraged their own primary residence to achieve a similar result.

Spot on! For the less finance lingo savvy, that simply means take a second mortgage/home equity loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC) for a vacation, to invest in another property, pay for college or other large expense, etc.
If this is true we should simply be killing them until the population is reasonable. I find it hard to imagine people supporting such a horror. Then again in Soviet Russia no one objected to mass killing of people in Siberian prisons either. /s
It's all because of the don't-override-native objects religion. If only mootools had won instead if jQuery. It would have shown a goal API that browsers would have slowly implemented. Those libs need update at each major browser version, anyway.
Acceleration package for neural networks on multi-core CPUs
> It is a fair point for people to ask whether these legal maneuvers should remain legal.

We can ask all we want, so long as wealthy people buy politicians nothings drastic will happen.
I'll reword my comment since you seemed to miss the point: Civic duty goes hand-in-hand with sanitation and health rights. Otherwise, it is unsustainable, even counter-productive to provide toilets for an Indian population that will not use them or maintain them.
To expand a little on this: The Echo has a 7-microphone array which is crucial to speech recognition accuracy. This gives it the best far-field recognition ability of any consumer product I've seen, with the ability to stay accurate even if you're across the room, with music playing. That's just the hardware, and replicating it's abilities will not be easy.

On the software side, supposedly they're using Nuance for recognition. Nuance isn't cutting edge: In the tests I've done, Nuance has a Word Error Rate (WER) that's 10%-20% higher than Google's, but it's still much better than something like Pocketsphinx or any other open source recognizer.

There are a lot of factors that go into making a speech interface a good experience for users: Good recognition accuracy even with background noise, good voice activity detection (even with background noise), very accurate word spotting, low latency. It's hard to hit all these things well enough to make the interface usable.
Performance Engineering with React
Isn't mine :)
yeh 1 in 100 is not what were talking about by a long shot. it's catchy though
I doubt anything will come of it.

This happened: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/inmate-who-gave-b...
(tldr, inmate delivers her baby in a cell, with no medical oversight, at all)

No criminal charges. They did shut down the jail, but likely for other reasons.
It's funny, but this is, in a way, a parallel of what happened to the original "kik" project, in that there is a suggestion of name change because of the perception of some people.
I've not had this experience on Win 7 or Win 10. There's also Firefox if you refuse to upgrade or fix your box.
Same experience. I've switched to Vivaldi, it feels like the Firefox of old. It's chromium under the hood though
Tons of old systems won't accept json but happily ingest csv/tsv - the need to convert json to csv isn't rare depending on your environment. Thanks for the library, will probably be useful in the future.
No, git is a UI disaster. Some of the complexity is necessary due to moving to a distributed model of version control, but most of it is lack of clarity in designing the CLI.

Is anyone who's used Mercurial able to comment on the UI differences?
...and the point is that magic is a word that's often used alongside readability to deride source code that isn't done the way you would have done it.
No. He mentioned desktop and mobile.
There's also https://github.com/egoist/is-trademarked-cli - a CLI tool I came across the other day, to see if a name is trademarked.
Networking comparison of RPi B+, RPi 2, RPi 3, Odroic C1+, Banana Pi, and Utilite Standard: https://netbeez.net/2016/03/17/raspberry-pi-3-iperf/
It's Chrome's (or more accurately v8's) new-ish optimizing compiler. For some of the tests they like to disable the non-optimizing compiler to see how just the optimizing one runs alone with no fallback.
Man, this makes me sad. Not about the atrophied codebase, but about the inevitably extreme difficulty of keeping one properly maintained.

Expertise in software maintenance isn't common and it isn't cheap. Every greenfield dev is going to eventually see his project handed off to people who won't understand or respect his conventions and methods. That mostly destroys it, but business requirements can put it on chemo and a food tube and keep it alive against its will for a long, long time, and it's not a pretty sight.

It's practically impossible to. I've been maintaining an ancient Rails codebase for the last two and a half years. I'm perhaps the fourth or fifth such guy to do so since it was built. The project was never updated past a certain point release and it's more work than it would be economical to do to do that now. I'm experienced enough now to take it on, but both me and the company have better things to do with our time and resources.

It is so ridiculously easy to make a bad decision that seems like a good decision that instead ultimately dooms the project. Software is like this weird life-form from another part of the galaxy whose motives are so alien to us that we can't even begin to come to grips with it. We know it's not actively plotting against us, well, pretty sure, but more than that? All you can do is shrug your shoulders and hope it doesn't consider you a threat today.
You are reading correctly. The project name doesn't follow English inflection rules. Just as e.g. "tap" becomes "tapped", "kik" should become "kikked". "Kiked" is an inflection of "kike", just as "liked" is an inflection of "like" and "taped" is an inflection of "tape". This mistake is easy to make, since there aren't any English verbs spelled ending "ik"; words with this sound are instead spelled ending "ick".
PDF is on the right, for anyone else wondering what to do about an abstract that doesn't contain any spoilers.
>But it is a frightfully common logical fallacy, and the perhaps the only one we spend so much time educating our children to use. Largely by example.

All logical fallacies are actually valid ways of thinking about things.

It's good to avoid them (or use them) but only in moderation.

The idea that avoiding logical fallacies all the time is OK, is actually illogical.

Sure, something might not be true just because an authority on the matter said it, but it's more likely to be true than what some random person said about the subject. E.g. one would rather trust Einstein than the guy who says they invented perpetual motion. The idea of the burden-of-proof (which is totally valid) is against total adhesion to "appeal to authority".

And given finite lifetimes, and other interests, we're not gonna all learn medicine and evaluate any claim on a medical issue we have from our street cleaner and our doctor alike. We'll trust the doctor, appeal to authority be damned -- and it's the smart thing to do, even if it's not 100% accurate (the doctor might be wrong).
I don't know if it's good per-se, but it's preferable to the most obvious alternative, which is centrally planned and arbitrated compensation. (I'm not trying to erect a strawman, but how else would one ensure perfectly equal pay for equal output other than via some centralized mechanism?)

As a Fred, assuming you want to continue to be an employee, you should sell your labor to the employer who gives you the best overall deal for you. As an employer of Freds, you should seek to get the best mix of Freds you can for the lowest sustainable rate. Bringing in other actors to arbitrate and equalize pay doesn't add anything that the actors in the system can't already do, IMO.

(Maybe Fred1 values that his employer allows dogs, or has bike parking, or is a short walk from his house. Maybe Fred2 likes his employer's stance on social issues, or benefits package, or likes working 4-10s instead of 5-8s. How will the central pay authority value those things better than independent actors making their own choices?)
The amount of money and effort it takes to reliably make money from money are significant. Ron Conway is a billionaire and his full time job is investing.

Whatever you read today about the system by which ordinary people beat the system is the same advice that was peddled in the 80's, 90's and 00's. It worked equally well for the S&L crisis, the dot.com bust, and the recent financial cluster fuck. Which is to say that it didn't work well at all.

My advice from further down the life cycle, put it in the bank and preserve it. The number of people I know who have had their "portfolios" destroyed vastly outweighs those whose investments consistently do well. I don't know anyone who beat the high frequency traders by anything other than dumb luck.

Good luck.
Exactly. I use the term a lot with fully dynamic code without extremely strong documentation every step of the way. With 10 layers of dynamic invocation (typical in Ruby on Rails) it is almost impossible to know without a debugger what code path your code will take.
Perhaps. In my view, inferior programmers will always blame the language. Every language has its shortcomings, and server side languages have, in my view, far more shortcomings than client-side javascript. I program in angular, so the experience is pretty good. As long as I can debug and have a comprehensive framework I'm fine.

ES6 should get us there, and I for one really like coding in javascript.
The rich are hated because their accumulating wealth leaves less for the rest of us. As often this wealth is not even the product of merit, it's even more infuriating.
I think its about teaching rote memory vs creativity. It seems as though Math and rote memory are the things that attribute to the success of large scale operations. Whereas Creativity (thinking outside the box and connecting the dots of seemingly different things) is what attributes to the success of new ventures.

It's North American culture to be able to think outside the box (regardless of how bad the public school systems are here) which is why most of the innovation comes from here. It is also why the factories are mostly in Asia, because the process of streamlining production has a lot to do with getting the math right.
"This may break far more packages than might be considered acceptable."

Can you elaborate?
The problem is basically how the centralized validation is supposed to work. For e.g. the Linux kernel, it's doable because all code in the kernel must (almost by definition) interact with some other part of the kernel. Thus someone else than the code owner, being responsible for those other parts of the kernel, can be tasked with signing off on the new code being good and non-malicious.

But for NPM or PyPI, where anyone can upload anything, how's that supposed to work? It's perfectly fine for someone to put a package called "removeallfiles" on PyPI which executes "sudo rm -rf /". This isn't (by itself) malicious code. The same code, but obfuscated and put in the package name "isarray", is perhaps obviously malicious. But what about something in the middle, e.g. some form of practical joke package? What central authority decides what is allowed and what is not on PyPI?

Signing is a tangential issue. As long as you're trusting the dev who uploaded the code, what difference does it make whether they used password or public key auth (effectively)?
Sounds like you guys just need a in house style guide..it does get weird when I can tell a person wrote this half of a program and then tell someone else wrote the other half due to spacing or bracket returning
Murder in Mayfair
I like the idea that it can send me a message if I'm away from home. And it's not particularly easy for me to reach up to the ceiling to shut it down - much simpler to remote control it from my phone.

That said, the Nest really isn't that great!
I have an NPM package named "barrel"[0], which apparently is also a trademark for some kind of sunglasses company. I would expect there to be some kind of fair-use-like rule for common nouns that are used in different industries or domains?

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/barrel
You don't need to buy those off-brand SSDs anymore. 250Gb SSDs have crossed below the 100$ mark now.
Very elegant solution, thank you. jq is indeed a powerful tool but it can get hairy with obnoxiously intricate json files/streams.
6 Apps that will motivate you to workout
> The guy behind Fisherman abused DMCA to discredit OMF

I am one of the guys behind Fisherman and I didn't abuse the DMCA to discredit OMF, on the contrary, I used it to have my name properly represented in their AUTHORS file.

Now, one thing I am accountable for is, spending days and weeks nurturing and improving the project when I was involved with it. I don't know where you get your facts from, but I urge you to pay a visit to the contributor graphs in the OMF GitHub page and see who's done what and how much.

> is the preferred and popular plugin framework for Fish.

Not according to reality → http://why.fisherman.sh
Thanks for the info. I guess it means building a box which will can act as a router like that.

Will look into that polldaddy issue, much obliged.
A fair amount of the overcrowding is also driven by sentence length. Things like "three strikes" and "enhanced charges" drive sentence lengths in the US that don't match up with any other civilized nation.
It's easy to say the greedy capitalist is being greedy when he wins, but what about when he loses? That often happens and the risk of that is probably why most of us aren't capitalists ourselves - it's dangerous!

Often when the greedy capitalist loses, everybody who works for him also lose. People talk about the risks capitalists take and try to compare them to workers using sheer dollar values. That valuation completely sidesteps the diminishing marginal utility of cash.

If a capitalist goes out of business and his $10 million factory ends up getting sold off for a net of $3 million after paying his debts, we can say he lost at least $7 million. His workers, on the other hand, don't lose anything but their jobs. However, those workers might have been living from paycheck to paycheck, leaving them far worse off than the capitalist who still has $3 million in his pocket.
I'm not in charge of writing the jobs, just standing it up and migrating a few dozen teams onto the system. Some are migrating from previous Jenkins systems, so the majority have old jobs in config.xml files. The Job Builder makes everything a little bit better, I've seen a few people using it already.

I'd still never use Jenkins on my own though, I'd just use Drone or pay CircleCI.
It's an excellent article when you are upset that you can't use other people's money to profit risk-free from risky investments unless those people happen to be rich. A stab at accredited investor laws, that hinder the financial services industry far more than they hinder actual small-time investors.

The rest of the article seems to be mostly distraction based on the uncertainty caused by looking at income where most people instinctly expect a look at accumulated wealth.
Sustainability – it is possible
What papers say that low contrast is better than high contrast black on white? There is research to show that black on white is better than white on black, but I doubt there's any to show that poor contrast dark grey on light grey is better than black on white.

It is just a fashion, there's no science to say that low contrast is better. http://contrastrebellion.com/

Shorter lines I might grant you, though.
Machine Translation: the ALPAC report
In that argument, Microsoft would say that performance being equal, it's more important for parameters to be minimal so that the curve is maximally rigid and trustworthy. Bernstein would say that it's more important that there are no implementation pitfalls, even very subtle ones that will be hard to exploit.

I agree with Bernstein but I won't pretend it's a totally cut and dried argument.

What won the argument wasn't so much the merits of Bernstein's case, but that Microsoft was in effect arguing for something that would break compatibility with the 25519 installed base.
I've actually started switching browsers by website. General browsing? Firefox. Google Maps or YouTube? Chrome.

Dont get me started on how painful mobile chrome is. The most hilariously bad are ironically mobile "responsive" websites that just make it crawl and the scroll position skips around during long loads so tapping a link is Russian roulette - the link can move after the touch and you get whatever moved into its place.

And just writing this post I got that great "cursor skips around randomly and doubles words when undoing a mistaken autocorrect".

Yeah, I like Google software, but quality isn't really their thing.
Next project - get it to send FSK tones over Bluetooth A2DP?

I'm looking forward to general availability of these.
To be clear, the second is an offensive, derogatory slur for a Jewish person.
Chrome was (probably still is) the only usable browser left on Windows, but I never used it or had to use it ever since I switched to Macs a few years ago.

Aside from the plugins ecosystem (which I don't need) Safari works infinitely better (loads faster, uses less resources, even with 100s of tabs, and has nice little features like the Reading List, Reading Mode, Force-Touch Peek and so on) and fits into the OS X look-and-feel more naturally than Chrome does.
Google for something like: why do we treat prisoners better than

Lots of results, most highly misinformed. People imagine that most/all prisoners get 3 meals a day, television, etc. Not true.
React Native for Web: A Framework for Building Native Web Apps
"Japan as the global center for robots"

I was at the Tsukomo store a few weeks back. I was underwhelmed :(. I thought it would be bigger.

My next stop is Huaqiangbei. I have a feeling it's going to be a zoo.
>Keeping the JS payload below 750kb seems to be the key point for Android, but keeping below 500kb is more ideal.

This might explain why many asm.js demos tend to crash Chrome for Android.
REBOL syntax is even closer to Logo. Logo is well-known for its "turtle graphics" drawing system but beyond that it is actually a full-featured dynamically scoped (traditionally) Lisp.
> The knowledge that failure will never make them poor.

Very insightful. This may get me pilloried in this thread, but that's the exact amount and structure of wealth that I'd like to give my kids (it will never be 0.01% level, but with the right structure, I think it's possible to provide a private "basic income" to them). I don't want them to have a golden/silver spoon, but in my own life and estate planning, an important goal for me is that I want to provide them with support, love, education, and a basic financial nut to underpin their life-nowhere near enough to do "nothing", but enough that they can take some risks and pursue what it is that they want to do, not what they must do to put food on the table and keep the lights on.
The vulnerability itself and the response to it have already been hyperlinked:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364347

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364562

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11362247
I can't speak for other ARM chromebooks but I was able to install Debian on my Asus C201 just fine, why would this be any different, or are the tweaks incompatible?
> You are clearly biased against rich people

This is not true...well, I'm no more biased than the article under discussion. I'm simply quoting the article and what I got from it.
Putting your own struggles into relative terms isn't very helpful. It is dismissive of valid concerns.
Oy Gevalt, in all fairness the developer of this doesn't appear to be a Native English speaker.
Dead it looks like.
In the past 5 or so years, "full" computers (desktops and laptops) haven't gotten any faster in ways current browsers can make use of. Mobile devices have, but much of the "faster" is gated behind power issues, and having a web application killing your battery life to a few hours doesn't a great experience make.

[0] hence efforts like Servo, to explore architectural rebuilding such that browsers can actually use multithreading and GPGPU support for their normal workload
I don't like the title much either. They weren't actually in solitary confinement anyway. It was just a small cell.
I did not try to dual-boot, I just flashed the BIOS and nuked the hard drive as per the instructions (which were clear and accurate).

From the links you provide, it seems there may be a way to use chrx to get dual boot working. Perhaps ask on the reddit? [0]

Honestly though, the limited hard drive space is better given to Linux than ChromeOs.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/galliumos/