skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure when I've ever seen someone deem Buzzfeed's shit "reasonable".
You can see 3D renders for existing products and the B/W Pebble 2 at https://github.com/pebble/pebble-3d. I'd assume that's where the rest of the renders will go.
Well, that's why everyone who's ever been on trial for murder is a murderer.

Wait, that isn't correct? Neither is the Washington Times headline... but then, the Times is about as mainstream as it gets for the right-wing fringe. The content of the article disagrees with their headline.

Saying that there's a possibility is not the same as saying that there's a certainty. Except when it comes to political nonsense.
> pervasive liberal bias in the MSM

The biggest cable news channel, the most popular newspaper (I think WSJ leads; EDIT: and certainly it dominates the business world), and almost all talk radio are highly conservative. They try to paint themselves as underdogs, but it's a little silly.
Now yes, .Net is gaining popularity a on the asp.net and web api side since they open sourced it so you aren't tied to MS and still have Mono and Linux support but Windows is dead AFAIC. I've moved to F# and may well move to Reason from there as I switch my skills to Linux.

I totally agree the mishandling on the Windows 8 announcement is what killed windows just as it was getting good. The freedom to style WPF apps would have made Windows keep it's place as the OS that you could make your own but Windows 10 is trying to be Apple, constraining what you can and can't do and forcing you through an App Store.
An easily embeddable C lib. Fantastic choice. If only more projects in this space did this. So much stuff in this area is java.
Apple solved the "automating GUI applications" problem decades ago with AppleScript. But of course, this being the IT industry, everything old is forgotten and constantly re-invented as it goes in and out of vogue.

> Graphical tools usually need to hook more deeply into the software

I don't even know what that means, exactly. You mean they need more dependencies?

> Many CLI tools are also non-interactive. Adding that interactivity adds complexity.

Most things worth doing are difficult.
Looks like they are using some raw pointers there instead of iterators, that's why they loop like that.
Yeah, life was not that easy for these people in some sense. (I'd argue it was easier in others - no debt, no stress, no health problems stemming from sedentary lifestyles.) A 20 year old woman was much more capable of hunting than a 50 year old. Therefore, the 50 year olds were probably left back at camp with the children while the younger women and men went hunting.

There is plenty anthropological research on the social structures of these hunter-gatherer humans and children were usually collectively raised by the whole group rather than in their biological families.
It reminds me of "beating will continue until morale improves". You need to get people to want to upgrade.
Ah! I've thought instead to MEL (ancient Maya scripting language)
I think you're right when you say that a big sector of the population has been ignored. Normal, working families are asking 'hey what about us?', but why hasn't a corresponding political movement arisen to answer to those demands? A movement that doesn't echoes past ideologies like fascism?

And it is not correct to say that 'right wing' parties are not racist or fascists. It is, as you know, a spectrum, from the regular, peaceful working person feeling ignored, to the outright neo-fascists and xenophobes. It is a sad situation that this spectrum encompasses such different people.

Until a humanistic right wing emerges to answer peacefully to legitimate demands, present-day right wing parties will keep propagating and mirroring hate and racism.
> That would be like saying "we can't do journalism properly", because proper journalism is unbiased.

I'm not entirely sure about this. Trump's been eating the media's lunch in interviews; perhaps a more biased approach acknowledging his interview games would actually lead to better reporting.
It would be great if the great hobbyist talent out there can also push to further optimize the CryEngine. From what I've experienced, the engine performs well, you just need to put a lot of hardware behind it.
How is calling me "sheeplish" helpful for this conversation?

The goal of the TSA is to create security theater, and that goal is effective at preventing terrorists from even attempting to attack airports. It's difficult to prove this, of course, because how does one measure a terror cell's internal and secretive planning?

You don't get to collect data on the targets terrorists don't attack, because they... well, they don't attack them! It's intellectually dishonest to claim 1), because of this.

As for 2), this is absolutely true, but why do you think the TSA's goal is to be functionally effective? It'd be nice, obviously, but like I said in my original comment, there is value in security theater.

The head of the FBI once said that there's simply no stopping a terrorist once he has his weapon on premises. The point of the TSA is to provide a false front line for terrorists to misidentify as the significant hurdle in executing an attack, and they do that successfully. The reality is, the world's police catch terrorists before they act, the vast majority of the time.

It'd be great if the TSA were effective, and it's via shitty management that they're not, this is unmistakable. But the mere presence of the TSA at US airports is an effective misdirection, because it provides what people call "security theater", and while most folks consider security theater useless, they're wrong. It has value.
Honestly, writing perl in "C" style is really a good idea. At least if not pushed to extremes. It avoids a lot of unreadability and confusion.

Other things I think make for good perl style:

* Never use unless, especially as the after-statement conditional and/or with a negation. (I once spent a whole day ripping my hair out to figure out that an unless with a negated clause that was itself ambiguously named did the exact opposite of what it seemed to. Think [...] unless not $unregulated;)

* Do use foreach wherever possible.

* Keep reference usage to where it's really needed.

* When in doubt, don't write new OOP code. (The benefit to the caller has to be much greater than the extra complexity in implementation.)

* Lists are the core data-structure and regex are first class construct.

* Avoid the use of implicit $_/@_.

* Avoid the use of explicit $_.

* Use map / grep / sort and similar in pipelines but don't nest too deep on a given line.
Facebook also known to use bots to increase their ads revenue. True evil company.
Such as any code that applies a 1D operator against each of 3 dimensions in turn. That's done in the commonly-used PPM hydrodynamics algorithm, which is used in astrophysics and nuclear weapon simulations.
Is bias illegal?

Should it be?

Whatever the answer the political class would like to apply to Facebook, should it not also be applied to the traditional mass-media?
Just don't fall into old habits without thinking and end up writing...

enum MyEnum
{
MyEnum_Foo = 1 << 0,
MyEnum_Bar = 1 << 1,
MyEnum_Baz = 1 << 2,
MyEnum_Quux = 1 << 4,
MyEnum_Xyzzy = 1 << 8
};

:)
Automating app management with the help of Cloud 66 APIs
I wasn't trying to imply you were saying it was true, I was just trying to figure out what belief of Europeans you were trying to convey, since that idea is so foreign to me.

> class action lawsuits, which are not a thing over here, and you get a comical impression.

Class actions have a very important place in the law, and they are a thing in parts of Europe[1], and are becoming more so, because they serve a very important need[2]. It gets abused, but so does everything in the legal system, that doesn't mean it's inherently a bad idea.

> As I said, this may not be totally true

In this case, I would hazard it's likely totally untrue. You'll likely go to jail for animal abuse, not sue the manufacturer.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action#Class_actions_out...

2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/15/474406842/episo...
Here is an example of recent FaceBook censorship: http://youtube.com/watch?v=25tYyAgejA8
Any specific code examples you'd like to share where you thought ActiveRecord was inferior to the alternative you provided?
To everyone who hold the 'western value': do you know that one
of the biggest jokes of your 'western value' is that you think
it applies everywhere in the world in the same form, and you take it as a disguise and do harmful things to the people of other countries(of course, this is all done by the hands of politicians). You don't understand that there can be different values. So when you look at things from this perspective, you always think that the Chinese government is evil.

You put 'human rights' all day long beside your mouth, haha, but never really investigate if human rights in China really worse than western countries. US government criticizes the Chinese government for this all day long but never say nothing
about their arabic friends. And Snowden is from US, right?

You have never had experience to truely live in a country of 1.4 billion people, let alone governing one. You don't understand how to unite people with such great quantity and diversity. You don't understand what chaos will come if everyone can purse his political dreams.

Western value emphasizes on the value of individuals, while in china we balance between individual and the whole nation. Interestingly, I want to use the word '集体(jiti)' in Chinese, but I can't find a suitable word in English, so I used nation.
Maybe you never thought of that.

As to why CCP is blocking the internet? Because, the blocked sites contains values that is not really about freedom or human rights, instead that is like virus, that will do harm to our values and the interest our the Chinese people. For now, as a newborn ancient nation, our value is not strong enough yet. Your values will not bring Chinese people human rights and prosperity. No revolution can be done without being based on history, we have our tradition and our value. When it's powerful enough, enough that Chinese people won't be harmed by western politicians, that you are all convinced the world can have different values and still a harmony world. our value will be more open to the world.

To those who won't like to trade their values for Chinese goods, my advice: Don't Buy ANY Chinese Goods. We can see whose life will become tougher.

P.S.: As a Chinese, I have every means to access the 'free' internet(as anyone who really want in China) and know what's all about in it, know all the bad words about China and CCP and know most of them are not real. So I think censorship for now is a great idea for we Chinese to focus on forging a beautiful life for ourselves.
for our people.
Whatever else he is, he is intelligent and cynical.
Hacked Twitter accounts are posting links to adult dating and sex personals
I have wondered if there is a VPN in China so that you can see what China actually sees (the opposite is easy to find).

I would imagine such a service not to be very public. I suppose you could buy hosting service in China and do it yourself... or is that not even possible?

EDIT.. apparently there are now lots services that do this (I had looked a few years back).
Maya the 3D software, not the people
> The NY Post and WSJ are Murdoch/Fox/News Corp publications; they are on a mission

And Huffington Post, Salon, Vox are not on a mission?
We don't need to teach everyone how to code We need to at least make sure everyone understand that there is such a thing as rigor and that it is important.

I doubt rather severely that coding helps with that at all.

Once upon a time, if you trained in computers, you met The Jeremiah who told you "woe betide you who enter here." That was a good thing; you were prepared for the onslaught of unreason surrounding this discipline.

It's kind of like all the recruiters in the movie "Starship Troopers" being maimed.

Then that seems to have stopped.
There is no such thing as unbiased journalism. Without bias, what you have is cacophony of competing interpretations of events. Even reporting "just the facts" consists of making judgement calls that introduce bias with respect to which facts you report, and what you accept as fact.

I'd rather have reports from sources that don't try to pretend to be unbiased.
I was curious to see if it is possible to donate funds towards the operation of "safe" (eg, non government controlled) exit/bridge nodes. According to the donation faq for the tor project[1], it appears that funds are not used for infrastructure.

If there were a way to fund exit nodes without running one myself I would definitely be interested in participating. If not, this might be a great idea for a crowdfunding campaign.

[1] The Tor Project spends about $2.5 million annually. About 80% of the Tor Project's spending goes on staffing, mostly software engineers. About 10% goes towards administrative costs such as accounting and legal costs and bank fees. The remaining 10% is spent on travel, meetings and conferences, which are important for Tor because the Tor community is global.

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donor-faq.html.en
This sentiment—that application programming interfaces are user interfaces, and that programmers are users—is why I’m spending so much effort improving the API of D3 4.0. I wrote about that in March: https://medium.com/@mbostock/what-makes-software-good-943557...
People accidentally do that all the time, and it's terrible when you're trying to read relevant replies.
To calm you a bit, while not legally required, there are packages in Germany advertising the product being free of gluten and lactose and vegan, when there are obviously neither milk, grains nor animals involved.
From the perspective of an American, the American MSM has a liberal bias. From the perspective of a citizen from most other first-world countries, the American MSM has a hardcore conservative bias.
I've been learning Blender in my free time for the past few months, this tutorial was a most excellent starting point: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

My goal is to make characters for games, and I have been watching this video series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eTHFZ2XPkM... - I recommend the 5 Blender Character Animation videos. Tremendously helpful.

In my opinion the key is, like learning most things, a little bit every day.
Why am I supposed to care? Facebook isn't a news source. They're a software company. They're under no obligation to be fair and balanced.
Or in other words: “people who chose a single source for news complained that this one source is biased”. Let’s not learn the lesson that perhaps it is a good idea to seek multiple sources so that biases are kept in check and accuracy is improved. Oh, and let’s make sure to demand that Facebook do exactly what we want since we’re not even paying for access to Facebook.
Introducing Twilio Add-ons
Do not use Instagram either, but for other reasons. :)

I tried using Instagram. Downloaded the app and created an account. It promptly emailed everyone in my address book notifying them that I created an account. Deleted the app and my account. Never again.
Haha woops, completely missed that.
Gartner puts it at 5 million lines a year:

http://blog.insight.com/2010/10/cobol-still-in-action/

They write as much as they can outside COBOL. Those 5 million lines are for extending old programs or integrating new things into them. Some new programs are presumably written as well since... well, it's COBOL programmers writing them. ;)
Glad I made that decision my self, I had a chance to switch to WPF in 2010, two years later it was on the out.
Is this the Washington Post? or the Washington Times?

the Washington Times strikes me as having "conservative bias" as shown in their piece on the Democrat's War on Piece.
The laws only apply to cash deposits, not money orders, checks, or any electronic transfers. What is a better alternative to stop money laundering?
Control your Orange Livebox internet router using C#
That of course is the interesting question. Of course the media knows they are biased, some even call it out in their tag line like "The conservative voice" others are less outspoken.

Facebook is in an interesting position, they have such a wide swath of populations for reasons other than an editorial slant, they have people on site who might disagree with their position. Unlike the media where people who don't like the editorial bias of a paper simply don't read it.

It would be perfectly reasonable for Facebook to have an editorial position on the stories. But it has asserted that it does not. And that is where things get tricky. We saw on a propublica story about how the machine algorithm can get biased by poor data and assumptions, and we've seen from Facebook's media response that even when they don't have an "official" position, their employees naturally do and Facebook is seeking additional training for them to protect their biases from leaking into their curation choices.

That said, the "reality" of what is and what isn't trending is more about reinforcing one's belief in a position and less about the news. People who believe a story that strongly endorses their position but never trends is "suppressed", and stories that conflict with their opinions but are trending are "biased". I have yet to find any way to have a reasonable discussion about the popularity of views versus the correctness of those views with anyone who believes their point of view is being suppressed by "shadowy influences."

I don't think there is any way for Facebook to win here and a lot of ways it can lose.
Fun story: both ID and Epic started out making 2D games. When Tim Sweeny saw Quake for the first time, he literally gave up on gamedev because he thought he wouldn't be able to keep up with game tech. But, shortly afterwards a friend of Tim wrote a Quake-like 3D renderer as a fun project. Tim figured if that guy could do it, he could do it and went on the make Unreal.
Publically financed and state run are two very different things.
I'm sure he understands the difference, but with two successful campaigns for the pebble, and this new one already at 2.5m, one can understand his faux pas.

I'm also sure he doesn't need us to tell him the differences between kickstarter order and a true pre-order.
All this proves is that the distinction between government and private entity suppression of speech (see: that moronic XKCD cartoon) is a bullshit distinction when your communications mediums are owned by megacorps.
Well Microsoft have released Desktop App Converter, where you can distribute Win32 apps on the store. And allows access to universal app apis, so you can gradually transition.
FORTRAN isn't the same language either. Much like LISP, it evolved over time. Things like line numbers and GOTO statements that made people hate the language are not really mandatory -- it is basically as structured as C these days.
Not "allowed"? By whom? I'm afraid it's you who is confused. The first amendment doesn't recognize a difference between "editorial content" and non-"editorial content". Comcast could carry only conservative channels without issue.
I am looking at buying a telescope that I can mount to my son's playhouse, and leave it outside year around. We live in the midwest, so there is weather.

I was thinking of something like the coin operated ones that you see at tourist spots. They are pretty expensive. Anyone have any info or done something like this before?
Google has rolled over too easily for EU bureaucrats in the past. I think everytime an EU nation wants some quick cash they just rough up Google and can expect an easy win. Google has dug its own grave here by being 'Mr Niceguy' to these governments. Business relations with government should always be seen as hostile.

The businesses that understand game theory like the ones you see winning against google are doing better. This is one of life's uncomfortable truths.
Products or services
This also has to do with the differences between a high-context language (Portuguese) and a low-context language (English). Portuguese is my first language, and I can remember that I needed a lot feedback from native English speakers in order to fine tune my speech -- let alone writing -- so they could actually get it.

RE: http://www.thunderbird.edu/article/understanding-high-and-lo...
There's no evidence that anyone did anything wrong? They just admitted that it would be possible. This article is as sensationalist as it gets - read Glenn Beck's medium post, it's a lot better:

https://medium.com/@glennbeck/what-disturbed-me-about-the-fa...
Yes, the big ones are conservative, because every other one is liberal. Conservatives flock to places like Fox and WSJ because they're a refuge from the liberal bias that pervades the rest of the media.

If you're a liberal and you want to watch news that doesn't offend you, you can choose from any of the major networks save Fox. If you're a conservative and want the same, you're stuck with Fox.
Well, occasionally MS will deprecate an API and remove it from Windows. https://brianreiter.org/2011/09/15/sua-deprecated-in-windows...
Can you give some references? Might be a good read.
If you want to donate towards the operation of "safe" exit/bridge nodes, consider donating to NoiseTor: http://noisetor.net/.
Well -- I think it's a bit more subtle than that. And maybe a bit more scary. While one would believe that there can be "dissidents" in the US w/o repression based on what one reads on the net -- e.g. the the "US" representing the "free world" yadda yadda ... -- the repressions and censorships are more subtle in general.

Also, one must not confuse the US with "the western world". I live in Germany, and I believe that you could be a dissident here w/o censorship. I also believe this is true for most other European countries.

My original point was that the statement:
> And what would happen if you managed to actually start something that had a real chance at getting people in front of a judge and behind bars, that we can just guess at, since nobody has done it before.

Is simply not true. Mentioned Mr. Snowden as an example -- but there are more, like the huge leak of the panama papers.
BMX Legend Dave Mirra's Legacy and Taking CTE Seriously
Facebook admitted to the problem, so those people may be wrong about Fox News but in this case they were correct with Facebook.

Just because someone is wrong about one thing doesn't automatically make them wrong on everything else. That's just an excuse to dismiss them.
> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it.

Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
> And Huffington Post, Salon, Vox are not on a mission?

Yes, that's why I identified them as the liberal publications.
For non-Americans, non-townies, non-Mass people, it's pronounced Woo-stuh. Not Wer-Chest-er. Yeaahhh.
NPR is an independent organization. It receives some flow through federal dollars, but it isn't state run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding
this was very interesting: "SVG, for example, has a problem however you look at it: on one hand more than 15 per cent of the sites use it, on the other hand, nearly 87 per cent of blockers block it, but it's had 14 security warnings (CVEs, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) in the last three years."
To be fair buzzfeed does have some decent long-form journalism. Just like any media company, they want as many eyes as they can get, whether they're reading intently or glazed over during a commercial break.