skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather fun read, I must say.

It really seems like it makes sense that browsers really "need" the bloat; it has got to the point where it ends up being the most useful and most used application on any OS, for a given section of the end-user base, anyway.

At that point can we really call those features bloat? Maybe in 1996 you didn't need to play videos much, but a web browser without HTML 5 can't do what the majority would expect. What users expect from the internet has very much expanded.

I actually was curious about some of the inner workings of this stuff and made a browser using WebKit once.

https://gitlab.com/ibiscybernetics/sighte

All-in-all one of the more unusual side projects I played with.
It sucks that the supply is low, but why is the demand so freaking high? Who is deciding that Bay area living is 4x better than somewhere else?

Lots of people are apparently making that decision; I just don't understand the reason why.
As a graduate of a few years ago and repeating what some folks from before even my time have mentioned I'll be the first to add that digipen isn't what it once was. Sure it's not really close to ITT levels of fail... Yet.
Teaching AI to race using NNs and genetic algorithms
You know what, you are right. My comment was a drive-by.

I'm glad these things worked for you. For me I'll see my doctor and dentist yearly, eat 'right', exercise regularly and rigorously, and enjoy and cultivate fulfilling relationships with friends and family.

Drugs can be a great tool for healing and recovery. I remain unconvinced that what you claim is helpful for even a small number of the population.
It's really unclear what they are defining as SF vs. San Jose. If we're going by positions and metro areas, I'd believe this.

San Jose metro gets super-large companies (Google, Apple, etc.), which SF lacks. Oakland also is in the SF metro area, and lacks substantial number of software jobs.
Then this [0] (from 6/15) might interest you:

We have pressed the reset button...

In 1975 Chaosium started out as a quirky boutique game company. We were all about creativity, artistry and craftsmanship. With every game we provided you with new realms of imagination and entertainment. Over the last few years we forgot that, and lost our way.

The Great Old Ones have Returned…

Greg Stafford, founder of Chaosium and creative force during its heyday, is now President. Sandy Petersen, world renowned game designer who brought Cthulhu into the light three decades ago, has rejoined the team as well.

Greg says: "Chaosium is part of my legacy. My intent is to restore it to its rightful place in the world of gaming. Something we can all take pride in, and something that fans will look forward to.Where 'what’s next?' is answered with 'I can’t wait'."

The Stars are Right…

Sandy says: "I am excited to return to active participation in the Call of Cthulhu line, and I’m eagerly looking forward to working directly with Greg again. We are Chaosium's original team from the 1980s. My first focus is going to be the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Kickstarter campaign."

Our main plan is simple (but will be a lot of work):

Quickly sift and sort through the current company problems

Immediately ship the remaining Horror on the Orient Express backer rewards

Focus on the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Kickstarter backer rewards

Return to regularly making awesome new games.

We offer new hope, and ask only for your patience."

Please visit Chaosium.com for regular news and updates. Contact us with questions, kudos, curses, or kindness. We are listening, and we will respond.

Greg Stafford, President and CEO of Chaosium Inc.

I’m puttin' the band back together.

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?757863-The-Great-Old-On...
Normally I'd agree. Especially if we're assuming purely selfish pursuits ("I want to fuck around in academia forever and get paid, supply/demand be damned!").

However, if I see it through the lense of someone who desperately wants to move the world forward -- and at any personal cost -- then I start to entertain the thought that, maybe, it's unfortunate that that some can't find jobs, and they're deserving of my sympathy.

Simillarly, I work on a bunch of OSS. A lot of it is based in academia and unlikely to become mainstream. I'm also unlikely to benefit directly from it, and I don't really enjoy the process of creation within the field of software. However, I feel that the stuff I'm working on -- even with the slim odds of mass adoption -- are worth dumping my time into because it'll move the industry forward if it's successful. You can bet that I'd love to get paid to work on this stuff, but I also understand that's unlikely to ever happen. And sure, I could let other people work on these projects so I can instead go off and have fun, but I believe that my background fills a particular niche that would likely be left open if I didn't sacrifice my time and energy in these pursuits.

Maybe it's the same with these PhD peeps. Each person believes that they're essential to progress, and their principles prohibit them from abandoning their self sacrifice in the pursuit thereof. I think I can understand the frustration; perhaps someone really ought to give these selfless people some money so, you know, they can make all of our lives better.

(In other words, I think "passionate (if not masochistic) altruism" might be mistaken as "entitlement" here.)
The time is coming for me to switch back to Firefox.
OK... french guy here and yep I gonna rant as french usually do

I don't really have any problem with the concept/idea (if there is an idea in the first place)

but why oh why someone in 2016 thought it was a good idea to call a phone number ?

"The call will be charged as an international call" I mean WTF?

did those guys ever heard of all the way you can connect people on the Internet for free ?

Really if I can stream live a gaming session on Twitch or whatever I should be able to, at least, use bit of that tech to talk for free without having to use an actual phone number right ?

I don't know... something like random Skype or random gtalk or random whatever chat that support voice ...

crazy idea right ? instead of using phone lines let's transfer voice over the Internet ...

so they "rely on digital innovation & UXs to promote tourism in France", so sure let's use phone numbers and pay international charges right ?

and let's make an horrible front page design while we are at it, here the concept put the french flag color everywhere: blue, white, red, simple!

It's look "cute" like that but please the clichés all over the place, like "Our Telephone Ambassadors commit themselves to speak in English (with the French accent of course!)" ...

oh and let's write "French" as a reverse hashtag eg. frenc#, that will make us French look so cool ...
Sophie Wilson on Acorn, ARM, BBC BASIC (podcast)
Installed? Or the installer?
wow thats horrible news for all those motivated people that "were the first in their family to go to college"
workaround is to use the USB port on tv if it has it so chromecast only powers/off when the tv is on/off.

if that is not feasible, disable all the background options.
create an album of a single image on your google account.
enable showing photos from your google account, selecting that album..
Don't their investors have a legal right to this information?
@1121redblackgo: well, I'd imagine the etceteras you mention are already generally "known of", and that many (especially on this site) with these issues are (or were) already doing these things without much success.
Bdldr: an unofficial engine loader for Bitdefender for Linux
I agree with a lot of the complaints I've heard about ITT. They seem to broadly fall into three camps:

1) They are expensive and rely on their students getting gov't loans,

2) They don't adequately prepare students for the work place, and

3) The teachers aren't very good.

I think those are all great reasons to not go to ITT. But, I think those reasons could also apply to a whole lot of other schools, profit, non-profit, private, and public.

Certainly, I think #1 applies to a whole lot of schools and student #2 applies to any school that has majors with poor job prospects. And I think nearly every college student has experienced #3 with at least some of their professors -- sometimes because they dont know the material well and other times because they are completely uninterested in the teaching aspect of their job.
Thank you for reply.
The first unit from Edmunds had them stranded in the middle of a highway as the drive unit failed in the field.

http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-tes...

> I called a friend who lived nearby and asked him to take my kid home. No need for both of us to be stuck on the side of a freeway. He suggested we put the car in neutral and roll it over to the shoulder or down the onramp and onto the street. Great suggestions, but we couldn't get the car out of gear.

This seemed to be a common issue. Yeah, I know you were fine anecdotally, but so are hundreds of thousands of people with Takata airbags.

The reliability metric is not "how many people are fine", but instead "how many people had issues". For a 100k vehicle, the number of issues reported on the Tesla S is far above its competition. Enough so that Consumer Reports had to rescind their spectacular recommendation.
Right, Tesla is not forthcoming on the details, so this is all pure speculation. If I had to guess, most Model 3 buyers would balk at paying for the Supercharger option at purchase time, as it increases the cost of the vehicle significantly (even at $3,000 that would be a 10% markup to the total price of the vehicle), with most surmising they could probably get by with free charging available at supermarkets, malls, office complexes, public spots or parking garages.

Tesla has the technical capability though to sell Supercharger access in time-limited slots (unlimited Supercharger access for the next 7 days, good for that coast-to-coast trip one is planning), on per-kWh basis (plug in, have your credit card on file with Tesla app, start charging), as well as introduce variable pricing (more expensive kWh during periods of heavy use and long lines at Superchargers, cheaper and/or free access during periods of low activity). Historically they've been very driver-friendly, so if I had to guess, they might make all of those options available, as they each cover a specific use case.
I remember in one of the Kings Quests games you could throw either a shoe or a stick at a dog chasing a bird; both awarded you points, but one led to not being able to complete the game.

In addition at the very end the bad guy casts a spell at you, and the bird flies into the way and you don't die... if you didn't save that bird 4 hours earlier you have no way to possibly know that is why you are doomed to failure in the final fight.

It felt like shitty game design at the time, and by today's standards it would be completely unacceptable to most players.
X86 Assembly Crash Course [video]
A response to php the wrong way
If Everything Is a Network, Nothing Is a Network
And, if you really like RuneQuest's world of Glorantha, you might enjoy this [0] Kickstarter (active for 18 more days) for a boardgame w/great minis a la Cthulhu Wars (by the same guy):

Designed by Sandy Petersen and based on the mythic cult universe of Glorantha, The Gods War is a fast moving strategy game set in a universe on the brink of disaster. In The Gods War, you take the part of powerful elemental factions, battling to determine the fate of the cosmos. The Gods War has been in development for more than three years. It is highly asymmetric featuring wildly different factions. You’ll fight over territory, perform miracles, and command monsters and gods. You can storm the gates of heaven itself, or watch the world collapse into the Chaos Rift.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/the-gods-war...
I remember flying into Denver's airport a year or two after it opened and thinking "Wow, this place is in the middle of nowhere." I visited again a year ago and was surprised to find it quite built up, and located close to the places I wanted to go.
The Rejection of the Human Condition
Cool. The point total doesn't jive with the way that HN shows it - I would guess that it is counting the 1 point that any comment starts out with, before it gets up/downvoted.
Points for the great attitude and anything involving Utah's deserts, but kudos to so many other species surviving harder with less also. Life is badass! Watched a documentary in which lizards hatched in a scalding caldera and had to scramble over the rim while birds were trying to pick them off. That's in their first few seconds of life.
I've posted at least once before about this. Google, Microsoft and a lot of other companies really don't think about "low" bandwidth (<20 megabit downstream) or situations where you're not always connected.

Props to Facebook for having "2G" day. I hope it still happens.

* Dropbox is meant to have a LAN sync but fails back quickly to syncing from their servers. There's no way to debug why it isn't using other hosts on your LAN

* OneDrive has no LAN sync at all

* There's no way to debug Windows 10's LAN update sharing if it fails.

* Windows 10 will default to uploading partial updates to other users on the Internet (bittorrent style)

* Windows 10 will let you set a Wifi connection as "metered" and actually behave quite well (deferring updates, driver downloads and OneDrive data), but there's no way to set Ethernet networks as metered, outside of a registry hack.

* Google not supporting SD cards in the Nexus line (yes, I know about the performance issues, I own several >$50 SD cards that are trash). Mobile data is expensive.

* It took Google until 2016 to offer offline caching of YouTube videos, and even then you have to pay them for the privilege

* Microsoft's newer .NET and Powershell stuff download >50 megabytes of dependencies from NuGet.org and MyGet.org. Offline caching is possible, but maybe not on Linux
It's kind of interesting how things build on off of others, and yet diverge wildly. Wargaming minis spawned D&D. And while the spell mechanics of MtG were inspired by Cosmic Encounter, the combat is familiar to D&D players, and caught on like wildfire among the RPG community.

And MtG in turn has inspired a number of games, beyond simple CCG clones. MtG booster pack drafting inspired 7 Wonders and a number of similar games. Deck customization aspects inspired Dominion and countless other Deck Builder games. The whole CCG aftermarket trading / tournament scene inspired a game called Millenium Blades.
ANN are not that big of a deal, IMHO, when you compare them to other machine learning techniques i.e. Support Vector Machines. Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network#Theo...

Though, this article is so well presented, it deserves an awards for how pretty it is.
You could die in one section of Full Throttle, at which point the screen faded to black and the protagonist spoke.

"No... that's not what happened."

Then you start the scene over.
Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute
Those who can, Do...
On the contrary. Ideally you'd be using 80-90% of your RAM at all times. Ever notice that the more RAM you have, the more your computer uses? Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Recent versions of Windows for example cache things into RAM to speed up the loading of frequently accessed applications. If you run low on RAM, then it frees up room as needed.
It's that thing they take out of the smoke detectors in their college apartments...
That's about as classic a case of 'cure worse than the disease' as I've ever heard.

How readable is this:

`\^\[-+\]\?\[0\-9\]\*\.\?\[0\-9\]\+\$`
Configure Fonts for Rendering Spreadsheets and Control Chart’s Data Source in .NET
Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.9.2 provides the ability to configure Fonts for rendering spreadsheets. It supports to Set Font Sources, Substitute Fonts and Inspect Configured Font Sources & Substitutions. Moreover, it also supports Recursive Calculation of Formulas, Control Chart’s Data Source while Copying Rows, Implement IFilePathProvider Interface and much more. This release has includes some important fixes and enhancements. such as enter Cell Data of GridWeb Worksheet in Percentage Format, enhanced HTML rendering engine, Improved PDF rendering engine for charts, shapes as well as style/formatting including cell’s text alignment and Tweaked Aspose.Cells’ formula calculation engine to match the results with Excel application. It has handled a few exceptions regarding reading and writing Excel and HTML file formats. In this release, several important issues have been addressed. For example, issues around reading and writing Microsoft Excel file formats, rendering images from Excel worksheets, rendering images files from charts and exporting Excel workbooks to PDF format have been resolved.
Profile of Qasar Younis and YC Investor Day
Damnit Google!

The 5x also doesn't have SlimPort or MHL support (when I found an adapter that worked well for the 4 and 5, HDMI out was fantastic)

It may be that they found that Miracast just doesn't work well enough. I've got all sorts of Wifi gear and I can't get my Moto X Style to stream via Miracast reliably (to an Xbox One as a client). The Nexus 5 streams reliably but drops / stutters about once every two minutes, making music streams pretty much unusable.

Back to a Raspberry Pi, I think.
I used to take the shuttle to Twitter for an hour each way. I think I wrote most of the code I wrote there on the bus because of the reliable time in front of the computer.
There was a time when a failed postdoc was in a very depressing financial situation. Corporations didn't want to hire a PhD, because they were overqualified and likely had some anti-authoritarian streak that led them to attempt academia.

STEM PhDs are more in demand these days, but some still don't know it and need encouragement (and sometimes a little help) transitioning to industry.
Shit, I was going to write a DIAL receiver for Windows so I could "share" a YouTube video from my phone and have it start playing immediately.

Hopefully youtube.com/tv still works.
Isn't that a lot like hyperscript? Maybe I like this or mercury or I one of the other varieties better for one reason or another. Is ReactDOM the best fit for everyone?
Never-ending projects that never deliver, and management that never looks at the code. Also, cheating your way through college - which is basically a requirement for a lot of programs that offer a vertical learning curve, programs spoiled by the fact that many of the people who take a CS program have been hobbyist programmers for years.

After the second semester, CS students divide into three groups:

1) stressed out hobbyist programmers having their mind blown by the complexity of what they're learning,

2) people with no programming experience failing to learn to program (because the intro courses don't actually have any lectures about the basics of programming) and switching majors to business or engineering (because they've already taken calculus), and

3) other previous non-programmers who are copying other students' work or googled answers from the internet.

Type 3) eventually graduate, get jobs based on having the degree, and never finish a project in a programming role by utilizing a combination of charm, excuses, and transferring between jobs before they have to show their work. If they can paula = "Brilliant"[1] long enough, they can get into management before they are exposed.

So many of the people I did CS with never even learned basic programming skills before they got their diploma. This is at a major state university with a very well-regarded program.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean
California would probably like to ban all of the for-profits, but can't. ITT, however, stepped so far beyond the pale that it gave regulators an opportunity to punish them.

California is basing its move on a US Department of Education decision, which itself was based on a history of previous litigation, which started because of concerns over ITT's accreditation. Basically: no accreditation, no loans, which given ITT's business model would basically put them out of business. And if a school's accreditation is threatened in some way, the Fed can step in and require the school to post a bond, so that the USG isn't left footing the bill (students are already protected by law).

This, from what I can tell, is what happened to ITT: their accreditation was looking sketchy, so the Feds started to get concerned, and required them to post progressively larger bonds to protect the government against a closure, and also cut off new Federally-funded students from starting. This may or may not be enough to kill them as a company. CA is using this concern over future viability, combined with what appear to be some pretty strong consumer-protection laws, to prevent them from registering new students at all in CA. (I'm somewhat surprised they can do this, if you were just going to pay cash-on-the-barrel-head and not get anyone else's money involved, but they must have some particularly stringent laws about higher ed in CA. Probably not a bad idea all in all.)

It's been speculated that what the US DOE is doing is a rare example of the administrative "corporate death penalty" in action; that the moves are designed not just for the immediate regulatory ends, but actually to kill ITT. Pour encourager les autres, as the saying goes. Of course they can't come right out and say that, but it would fit with some of the evidence.

And personally, I'm ready to throw some rotten vegetables as they're climbing the scaffold to the noose.
FYI, SPI lives on still in https://www.hexwar.net/
How much of that is purely graphical and other resources though? Like the hi res image on the opening page, all the icons, translations etc.

I saw someone do a similar analysis recently about how bloated vim had become but it was mostly documentation (plus translations) and stuff like that, not vim itself.
1. It's a massive exaggeration that it's dangerous to run your own email server. Now, he doesn't explain why he thinks that it is, but I guess there would be two major categories, both based on the assumption of vulnerabilities: (1) your server could be abused against others (yes, but so could your laptop or smartphone) or (2) your own emails could be at risk of being leaked (yes, but the solution to that obviously is not to directly give them to someone else instead).

2. None of that is actually solved by simply trusting someone else to run your email servers for you if you also can't judge whether they are doing it properly and, in particular, in your interest.

3. If you think that trusting someone else to run your email servers for you is an acceptable solution, that is functionally equivalent to trusting someone else to provide you with a software package to run on your email servers. Everything that someone else could do on an email server that they run for you, they could just as well package into, say, an install CD image, which you then could use to run your own functionally equivalent, hopefully well-configured and well-updated, mail server.

So, I would think, this is at best an argument against putting together your own mail server from distro packages, and configuring everything yourself, maybe.

Other than that, there is no fundamental reason why you would need to know email RFCs any more for running an email server than you need to know them for running an email client. In either case, knowing them can help you with figuring out some problems. But also, in either case, if the software is good, the programmers should have taken care of reading the RFCs for you, so you don't need to, for the most part.
The long term costs are visible in plain to everyone (unless there are lies about prospects) and PhD are not addictive.
One aspect of ITT and its ilk is that the students often only sign up so they can take out "education" loans for living expenses, with the class work as a very secondary concern.
The letter is about a lot of things.