skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither Windows nor Android have a (generally-used) concept of quitting an entire application at the user interface level. You can force-quit a process, but that's a rarely-used feature intended primarily for debugging purposes (and accessible through a side-channel; Process Explorer for Windows, app settings for Android). Some applications implement such a concept, but they're generally "single-window" apps, where closing their sole view is equivalent to closing the entire app (games usually fit this category).

Nowadays, you can generally trust your OS to page an app in and out and devote no resources to it if the resources aren't needed. Quitting an app is for misbehaving apps, which isn't assumed to be the common case.
There are both ARM and x86 chromebooks, there are both ARM and x86 Android phones. You need to have binaries for both and for Java apps that isn't even an issue. Of course there probably has to be some API translation but usually that isn't particularly slow.
Actually KCachegrind displays files in an open format and is great for visualizing profiling info obtained from other tools.
A Burglar’s Guide to the City is a good read. I have recommended it to a number of people. Two weeks ago while visiting San Fran I went to a security meetup and mentioned the book. One of the individuals pulled out the book and said he was reading it. Then he turned to a page that mentioned his name and noted his contribution to the book. Small world. One of my favorite subjects in the book is Nakatomi Space[1].

[1] http://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/
Detached just means we made it be a top-level comment as opposed to a reply to another comment.
My own academic papers have a decent number of self references, too. But there is an enormous difference between referencing your own work, and telling the reader that the author is brilliant and those other people over there are stupid.
Agreed. I find it depends on how people go about talking about the subjects.

I think it has to do more with the potential impact it has on us and others. Not to mention how much broad appeal there is.

I don't know much about Javascript, but debates about how to properly use it aren't going to change a nation. Or the implication of someone's life, both now and after death.

People have a lot of opinions on baking. You don't need to be an expert to blog about it (e.g. probably 1/2 the mommy blogs out there). But again, who cares if you add organic cheese to your chili or sour cream? Very few. And most would remove it if not important.
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That's nice for you. I use backspace exclusively to go back, and I use it very, very often. I have never once done so accidentally.
Consider the implications of what this means though. If sites are not free to innovate, things like Github and Gmail wouldn't exist. They only reason we aren't stuck with a Hotmail interface circa 2002 is because people were able to innovate on the web. To lock down CSS (or Javascript, there's no reason I can think of you would lock CSS and not Javascript) to a specific set of capabilities is both a statement that it is sufficient for all needs, and that we can decide by committee what is a good set of standards to lock into. I think both assertions are laughable false.

If we had locked down CSS five years ago, what CSS would be not be capable of using today? If we lock it down today, what would we be missing out on that would come five years from now?

Design by committee is horribly inefficient, and rarely takes into consideration the full needs of the users. What's more, it can't take into consideration future needs. Design by committee gets us XML. Adoption by iteration and evolution gets us JSON. XML has its place, but JSON is overwhelmingly more popular in certain contexts for a reason, it fits the domain better.

Lastly, iterating on Github and Gmail would not stop even if there was a complete lack of CSS and Javascript, it would just be more tedious as everything was done through a full page serve, just like the old days. That wouldn't prevent site redesigns along with missing or broken features, it would just make everything look shittier, perform slower, and use more server side resources.

That said, a sane standard for embedded interfaces, where choice is restricted, it needs to live a long time, and needs to have sane accessibility features would do well with better standards. I view that as a separate problem.
That's the thing... from an architecture level, a modern Mac can already handle this. The fact that an app can have zero windows open (or minimized) but can be brought to foreground to interact with an app-level menubar attached to no window can be thought of as a bit of an anti-feature, depending one one's point of view.
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That's what things like git rebase are for (nice workflow with git commit --fixup + git rebase -i --autosquash). Then you clean up your fixes, while still keeping valuable history. With squash merges you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I'm not sure I understand your question. But I shiver at the wrath of Hacker News were we to "just" hide things.
Writing code every day doesn't necessarily mean doing more than a few short lines. I like to think of it as a mental exercise, like how solving puzzles every day helps you think better. Also, there are days where I have kept a streak just by documenting something or writing up issues of a repository, which are things that don't involve programming but are still useful skill related to programming (and are much more relaxed than havong to write 100 lines of code for some project).
Yeah, I'm sad about this too. I sort of knew the counter was there, but never paid any attention to it... until very recently. I started to use it as a self-motivating tool to always do even minimum amount of work one of the numerous after-hours projects I have.

So now that I started to use it, they cut it out. sigh
To be fair, he's not saying other topics don't have their major disputes. Just that they don't happen as often.
yea, anyone can build a web application this way... but how well will it scale?
I've seen a few applicants who had faked Github profile graph data. I found this a good indicator of the developer personality/ethics, and we happily passed on them.
I don't agree with a lot of his political views but I'll trust him on the finance and economics front over a majority of politicians given that he worked for Salomon Brothers and arguably was an extremely well-accomplished mayor. Bloomberg is arguably a technology company delivering a product for the finance sector but he absolutely had the prerequisite domain knowledge to launch the company and propel it into what it is today.
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Its just much easier to maintain your wealth and expand it if you have a lot to begin with.
1: Change your password. RIGHT NOW. If you’re not sure how strong your password is, test sample passwords with our password checker here. Seriously?

Keep in mind that these estimates are based on some bogus entropy estimation. If a password hacking guy runs the correct dictionary past the hashes you password generates, it might be as small, well, as the first one tried. For example, run the passphrase Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn1 past the kaspersky bruteforce estimator, you get 10,000 centuries. But this is clearly false, as inicated in http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/thereisnofatebutwhat.... They clearly "cracked" this in far less time: "in a matter of minutes".
Agreeing with the sibling comment, this does look great!

Know if there's any new Chromebooks like it that are shipping with an LTE chip? I have Project Fi, and would love to have data available wherever I need it.
A little OT, but as part of its public apology/explanation, the FB news team uploaded a PDF of RSS feeds that they say they pick from to find stories to include in the News Feed (to supplement "organic" trending stories)...they don't say how often they do this, but I imagine what RSS feeds they chose to pay attention to (around 800+) has to be a partial reflection of how they do day to day curation of the organically trending stories.

I parsed the PDF and did a scrape of the feeds in this repo: https://github.com/dannguyen/facebook-trending-rss-fetcher

(but didn't do the work of extracting items from each individual XML)
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This thing barely has more capacity per day than a few trains. If it really was $20, the induced demand would kill it.
I would say a person who rarely stops to think about what it all means, what it's for, any kind of existential question, is not as conscious as somebody who reflects daily on wether or not they've done a good job at not becoming a little bit more insane today.

I'd even argue that people who never ever ponder their existence aren't conscious at all. They simply execute their DNA, nothing more, nothing less. On the other side are the few whose DNA and upbringing have enabled them to act on themselves. I see this as the main difference between conscious and unconscious people: the former take in their surroundings and the voices in their head to draw certain conclusions based on which they set certain actions on said voices, whereas the latter is happy with the reward and punishment system nature has laid out in our brains.

Then of course, there's everything in between, mixed-and-matched wildly, leading to the gradient that is consciousness (quite literally a gradient, slipping off is very easy, climbing back onboard can be damn near impossible).
You have to remember, you're in America (I'm assuming, since this story is about something in America). This isn't the country you might think it is.

You might be thinking this is the country that put men on the Moon. That's incorrect. That country is in the past, and no longer exists; most of the people involved in that are dead.

This country couldn't put men on the Moon right now, with far better technology than existed back then, if its survival depended on it. This is a country that doesn't do anything big any more, it just sits back and says "that can't be done", and "that'll never work". This country says these things even while other countries like China actually go out and do them.

These people are probably right: this fancy new ideas never will work, here. Instead, they'll be taken overseas somewhere where people there will make them work. And we'll continue to sit around here, telling ourselves "no way, that'll never work, it's not feasible, etc." while our economy stagnates more and more.
Or if backups become good enough and ubiquitous enough that ransomware can't even threaten to destroy your data.
Our 510k is definitely a sliver of the various forms of requirements that may be needed depending your product space and classification.

We're hoping this repo will grow as other contribute, and be a space where people can find references for various types of regulatory support.

If you'd like to contribute, we'd be happy to give you access.
You can also fix this with "browser.showQuitWarning = true" in about:config. It still instantly quits with only one tab open, but so would Ctrl-W.
Like when he exposed governments worldwide using the services of Hacking Team to unconstitutionally spy on their constituents?

>The pseudonymous hacker behind the catastrophic breach of notorious police surveillance tool seller Hacking Team is now teaching others how to hack.
This is a nice change. If you care, you can avoid areas of emptiness from your profile by adding your private repo commits.

One thing this doesn't address (and I assume GH would never allow) is commits from other sources, like BitBucket, GitLab, etc.
Windows 10 actually has that on by default now, called "Scroll Inactive Windows."
Why are these sensors not placed on garbage trucks or police cars?
I guess.

I'm actually saying pretty clearly that it doesn't take deep theory knowledge to write great music, which I think counter's the parent poster's point pretty well. And there's a big gap in the amount of theory required to build your career on playing 12 bar blues and on composing for an orchestra. Most conservatory students aren't rigorously studying composition enough to do the latter anyway. In fact, most just want to eke out a living on dull music that hasn't changed in 400 years.

Berklee is not a conservatory. People actually get practical skills there and aren't treated like shit. Nothing wrong with going there. You are much better off doing that vs New England Conservatory, Julliard, Peabody, etc. (Actually the jury may be out after the Boston Conservatory merger, but we'll wait a few years and see)
Looks nice but wouldn't you just use something like Python nowadays?
Then what good is sending out the warning via email?
If I have a partially filled-out form that is really the query box for a search backend, and I hit back, why at the browser level should my flow be interrupted? That content was ephemeral.

It's an application-level question, not a system question. Can only be answered with semantic knowledge of the importance of the user input.
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according to wikipedia roughly 315,000 so that's 7.9 billion dollars a year. what a fucking racket... holy moly
The Chinese maglev projects are white elephants. All they demonstrate is that maglev can kind of work if you have a government willing to write a blank check in order to demonstrate the power of the glorious People's Republic; but this says nothing about their practicality in the rest of the world, where their cost/benefit ratio has to withstand comparison against other technologies.
By using the tools that Swift provides - preferring value types, and falling back on final classes, I can much more easily deduce what my changes will do.

No disagreement here.

Non-final classes create an additional public API that framework authors need to support - the ability to change any behavior. Reducing the surface for potential errors makes frameworks and their clients more robust.

Since Smalltalkers knew all their code was "surface," there was motivation to keep things very encapsulated. (Perhaps this is part of why the Law of Demeter was so big in that programming culture.) Synergistic with this, was the heavy use of the very powerful debugger. If your codebase was mostly relatively stateless or very well encapsulated, you could time-travel with ease in the debugger by unwinding the stack, recompile your method in place, and continue on. Conversely, if you wrote code that didn't have those qualities, your fellow programmers would get annoyed at you for making their lives harder and their tools much harder to use.

Increasing the surface makes frameworks more flexible and necessitates good design throughout. Is there a trade-off? Sure. The really good Smalltalkers spent lots of time reading code and exploring stuff in the debugger/browsers. And sometimes, you could be stymied because you couldn't rule out stuff and risk a blow-up in production. And to be fair, in my estimation, Smalltalk projects were less robust -- but got fixed really quickly.

Nowadays, I think the sweet spot would be in a simple language with super fast compile/edit/test cycles, with equally powerful debugging, and with type annotations.
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It's a thoughtful commentary

Which is the last thing I'd expect out of Glenn Beck. I'm off to go read it now.

(EDIT: comes back from reading the article...)

Were you to have read it to me out loud and then later tell me Beck wrote it, I'd say you were lying. Thoughtful it was indeed (a bit thick on the disclaimers, but whatever). But it raises the question in my head: Has Beck recently backed off his whack-a-doodle persona to something reasonable? To me it was like reading an article authored by Jim Cramer telling you to buy S&P 500 index funds, roll credits.

OTOH, perhaps it is the crisis others theorized. Because it came across in some ways as, "oh, so this is how it must look from the other side?"
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Push after rebase is safe and easy if:

You have protection on your remote trunk branches against force push.

You have git configured to push only the branch you are on, to the same name on the remote.

git rebase; git push -f;

It is HARD, DANGEROUS and SHITTY under other configurations.

<3 Git.
>conservatives seem to be less prevalent online than liberals.

I wonder what metrics you might use to measure that? Number of poster on the largest 100 "message boards" that slant one direction vs the other? Or is there an independent measure of political leaning-ness, and you could track how many click they make on Yahoo? Number YouTube views for certain videos? Facebook likes of certain stuff? Something else?
I do think all those things. But the cost of moving in the direction of personal vendettas or witch hunts is higher than the benefits you listed (if benefits they are).

I don't mean that's what you intended, but that's the direction it points in, which it isn't in the long-term interests of HN to allow.
Ironically, this also means Chrome OS will support Firefox.

I wonder if support will be limited to Google Play, or whether the framework can be used to run third-party apps such as F-Droid.
The key is labeled as delete, but it's functionally the same as backspace and it does indeed make you go back in browsers.
not only graham is right on the spot but even more than that. how often we tend to joke about the programming languages we love and do our jobs with. case in point every developer likes the following:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Also its proponent notably didn't commit to involvement in the project, despite being comfortable juggling multiple other projects. I don't think that means he's not keen on the idea, but I do think it means he knows its risk/reward ratio is vastly worse than other ambitious projects he's involved with, especially if he's judged on the ability to hit the rather... optimistic metrics in his original paper.
What about neota logic ? they seem to build pretty capable software for legal.

Also, as for your claim that "works fills the available time", what about competition, new models of billing(fixed-fee), etc ?
I actually use a gaming keyboard for that very reason. It's got a set of thumb-activated macro keys that I've programmed for common things. There's even a part of me that wants to pick up a piece of Midi->HID software so I can use a DJ controller as a debugger tool for stepping through code, etc.
You're comparing capex vs opex, once you get past a certain period of time. It's possibly cheaper to build automated cars - we have the infrastructure to do so already, and we're close to having the software - but is it actually cheaper to run them, after all externalities are considered?
How is calling this keyboard "new" not misleading when it's objectively been available for some time now?
Even if you have a weak academic and employment background you can ABSOLUTELY get a dev job that won't be designed to fuck you over, like this one is.

You might have to move, you might have to get a (paying) internship (they definitely exist), and you might have to send out some cold emails to people you don't know to ask. But there's no reason you should be waiting tables.
You've got to admire this and at the same time you can't help but see the shadow of two more letters on the end of its name...
The trouble with encryption is not encryption but our knowledge
I assume Google IAB be supported on Chromebooks, too?

Cross-device purchase restoration, etc?
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Bureaucracy, most likely. As a researcher, attaching sensors to public vehicles is an arrangement that you'd have to make separately with each jurisdiction. With Google, there is just one jurisdiction to negotiate with.
Or those on laptops who don't have those keys. Or those who keep one hand on the mouse and the left on, you know, the left side of the keyboard.
> What’s more, Harry Brearley didn’t know it then, but the stuff he cast from the electric furnace at Firth’s on Aug. 20, 1913, was nothing new. At least 10 others had created it, or something like it, before; at least half a dozen had described it; and one guy even explained it, and explained it well. Others had patented it, and commercialized it. Before Brearley got around to it, at least two dozen scientists in England, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the United States were studying alloys of steel by varying the amounts of chromium, nickel, and carbon in it. Faraday had tried as much nearly a century earlier. It’s not like Brearley was exploring unknown territory. That he is credited with discovering stainless steel is due mostly to luck; that he is credited with fathering it is due mostly to his resolve.
What did they say when you suggested this to your local sanitation and police workers?
Source code: https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg
I'm not really sure viewpoints like "Pope Francis Likens Jesus to ISIS, says Muslims Must Breed with Europeans" are what I need to be exposed to to have a broader view of the world but this is a cool toy.
I guess I can uninstall Backstop now (a Chrome extension that literally exists only to disable backspace to go back). I've been running it for years now.

For you 1% of people that actually use the Backspace key for going back, I'm sure someone will come up with an extension to re-enable it, don't worry.
Ok, so what your call be about Benoit pointing out how smart he is making me feel non-brilliant?
That sucks that that's the experience you've had, but I've had the exact opposite experience. I got my first job building mobile software with zero Android experience--I knew Java, but was up-front with my concerns about the differences between Dalvik and Java being significant enough to throw me. I understood enough about Android to talk coherently about it, but had never written a line for it. After I decided to get out of mobile and into devops/platform development, I ended up at a shop where I knew nothing about most of what they were doing: I didn't know Ruby, I didn't know Rails, I had never touched AWS. But I could speak intelligently as to software development and as to how I thought about problems, and they brought me onboard. And these days, as a consultant, I'm often brought in for projects where I don't know anything about them--like, I am emphatically not a network guru, but just yesterday I found myself learning `tc` and figuring out what its kersplosion of acronyms meant in order to solve a problem.

More than this, though: in my experience, it's less about knowing the stack and more about whether people like you or not. I can walk into a place and make a hiring manager (or, these days, somebody willing to pay for consulting) like me, like my work, and feel confident that they're going to get their money's worth. And none of that really has to do with my skills, just my confidence and my ability to talk well about problems.
I think his point is they'll just become Android laptops.
He sets the month and day correctly but gets the year wrong here.

https://youtu.be/QoSrjrYC3hI?t=32m

Watch out kids. Typos happen to everyone. Hopefully it isn't the command that dox's oneself.
The "Why not Python/Ruby/Node.js/Lua" section lists 3 reasons the author developed this language...
I don't think windows comes with python installation.
I wish it was possible to turn off the graph entirely; I don't see why I would want to make it so completely obvious when I'm on holidays or for one reason or another not working on GitHub based repos.
Also, why is the 2FA option hidden under "Privacy" and not right next to the Change Password option?

You'd think they would want to advertise 2FA better...
Because the people who do have access to their email are warned.
Is there a way to get this as a precompiled Windows binary? I really want to give this a try, but I'm just sooo lazy and don't want to install OPAM if there's maybe a way around that.
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