skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. But if Apple replaces the keyboard with "butterfly" switches, like those on the MacBook, then the new MBPs might as well be DoA.
the problem is us (in the general population usage of 'us').

The bulk of people are going to buy a $79 printer instead of a $89 because they are unable to see the differences (not their fault).

Therefore each and every manufacturer will find ways to lower the price and end up making the shittiest piece of knocked together crap that still looks shiny.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cr-hls-player/aeaj... also does m38u vlc links
Seems to me that these times its worse.

With hardware you have a known good state to test against.
Although I could not speak for Islam or the communist countries, the era of the Holy Roman Empire involved a lot of this information control - the church was economically supported through unchallenged belief in its authorities. Improved access to holy texts created the foundations of the Protestant movement.
So my workplace was looking at ESBs and suddenly all the sites I visited had ads for MuleSoft and WSO2.

Over the last week or two any browser in my home not using an ad-blocker sees heaps of MuleSoft ads. Almost as though the ad network has noticed that my phone at work travels to my house and has created a linkage between the two.
we used to run 3 gluster nodes, with a few hundred gb of shared storage..mostly used to keep logs and as war file directory for jboss/tomcat. from what i can tell gluster itself seems ok..but someone also enabled ctdb..which seems to hang every half a year or so..
That would limit their dev environment to making native apps for three device classes (tablet, phone, watch). It would neglect their massive presence in the web dev community among others. Along with probably eliminating them from the university student market (as much as they're in it now). And definitely eliminate them from the enterprise market (I can almost, but not quite, get one now at work, it'd be gone for good if I only had an iPad option).

iPads make good, portable devices for a lot of things. But it'd be a foul up of epic proportions to try to move their laptop/desktop users to it.
Do you drink beer at all? I'd be open to trying to a low sugar diet, but I homebrew and don't want to give that up right now.
The Ninth Circuit ruled that vote-swapping is legal. Let’s use it to stop Trump
A stack overflow survey (http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016) had plenty of vim users and that includes us c#/java hordes.
If you haven't remapped it to caps lock already you're doing it wrong :)
Toronto Star launches a coffee subscription service
Amen.

I get exasperated that you still can't properly disable browser-type windows in the OS X Finder. Yes, you can press cmd-option-T to "Hide Toolbar", but 1 in 10 new windows still appears with the browser appearance - network drives, USB sticks, something you've unzipped, or just randomly because Finder feels like it.

I miss the whole spatial Finder, but if Apple could just give me an option for "no browser windows, ever", that would solve 80% of my angst. (Well, Finder-related angst, at any rate.)
False dichotomy. Both sugar and saturated fats are bad. Processed foods in particular.

Atkins died fat and with a heart problem. An extremist but not a scientist.
Or because "we" keep insisting that our work "makes the world a better place" and "changes the world". I'm sure there's at least one barista in soho who claims that (and frankly I've had more than one barista or bartender greatly improve my little corner of the world) but it's not constantly used to justify mind boggling financial returns or to write off the negative externalities of their work.

None of this is to say that tech can't change the world for the better but that the tech community gets a lot of monetary and prestige benefits that derive from these arguments so we shouldn't be surprised when people want to see results.

Edited to add: Wall Street never tried to get the mileage we get out of "no really, we might get rich but the whole world is a better place for it".
That's why Woz's boards were so crazy, he found ways to make use of every last gate and such on each chip he put in.
Is buzzfeed simply incapable of publishing without clickbait headlines? Are there people who don't find it patronizing?

These questions plague me.
If you're thinking Canonical wouldn't sell its users down the river, there's a bridge for sale in Brooklyn you might like...
> 1. async feature was proposed in 2014 and earlier, Bram was opposed to the idea in general

Not accepting a patch without question doesn't mean he was opposed to the idea.
MacWrite Pro crashed every single time I opened Tetris. It was a great way of conditioning me out of time-wasting when I was supposed to be writing an article.
Stanford develops 'potalyzer' – saliva test for marijuana intoxication
"almost had a heart attack"

Did he figure out if it the Google location tracking or the McDonald's food?

:)
Substitute password with passphrase, mention hard limit (24 characters) and suggest using a sentence instead of word(s)
My favorite:

>Wing Commander was originally titled Squadron and later renamed Wingleader. As development for Wing Commander came to a close, the EMM386 memory manager the game used would give an exception when the user exited the game. It would print out a message similar to "EMM386 Memory manager error..." with additional information. The team could not isolate and fix the error and they needed to ship it as soon as possible.

>As a work-around, one of the game's programmers, Ken Demarest III, hex-edited the memory manager so it displayed a different message. Instead of the error message, it printed "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."However, due to a different bug the game went through another revision and the bug was fixed, meaning this hack did not ship with the final release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(video_game)#De...
Dark Matter: The Hidden Capital Flows That Drive G10 Exchange Rates
Hearthstone was their attempt at a smaller game. Unfortunately, it quickly skyrocketed in popularity. Poor Blizzard.
That's very interesting. Thanks so much for the answer.

From all the work you've done on it, if you really think outside the box, is there some single facet that could potentially be turned into do-one-thing-well?
With the new async support it should be relatively simple, weekend project simple for a basic implementation.
I still do my writing in the OpenDoc word processor WAV.
Everyone will be a software engineer and barely any will know how to code
i suspect the problem is your verbiage: "you let her do this". there is no "let" unless you're someone's master.
No popular multiplayer game has very good balance. Even Brood War has units that are mostly useless (e.g. scout). But relative to the rest of the field, yes, Blizzard's games are well balanced.
It's not just endianness; it's about maintainability. If you ever think you might change the struct, EVER, you need to worry about these things.
A simpler and more robust approach would be to add a system call to flush a memory range. The kernel can then do all the locking, without the risk that migration to the other core gets indefinitely blocked by user space code.
Discovering Cuba: Economics, Entrepreneurship, and the Future
We know that the best driver in the world uses that sensor suite, and the worst. If every driver drove like the best human driver, never got tired or drunk, is that pointless?
I think that effect (of having a large static background with a few small sprite overlays providing motion) was largely orthogonal to color cycling.
That's because you are being extremely vague about the word "metabolize".

Perhaps you want to explore how that word unpacks into many different routes and rates of absorption of the various nutrients involved. How is this altered by the different states of starch before they become glucose? How does the presence or absence of fiber impact this? Which microorganisms are active in the gut in this process?
Github mirror is at https://github.com/vadz/libtiff .
This person means well, but suffers from the same myopia a lot of security-first people do: making these changes to default settings is a huge violation of expectations, and the changes need to be widely publicized once they are decided upon. Suddenly dropping support mid-cycle for tons of things will result in pitchforks and torches from people who, despite the constant insinuations of this document, do in fact know what they are doing.

This document, in short, makes a great to-do list but completely ignores the roadbuilding that needs to happen to get people ready and on board.
Moving apples around is not really processing them because they are still the same. A better example of processing is when you homogenize or pasteurize milk, or mill and separate wheat into flour and bran. Of course you don't see anyone demonizing these processes because we've been doing them for a pretty long time. It's good to bet on traditional foods because the cultures that came up with them must have survived on them somehow. However, newer processes could modify foods into more dangerous forms. Partial hydrogenation, for example, turned out to be a pretty bad idea. Also, modern processing often comes with new additives that wouldn't occur in traditional diets.
You could remove the SIM card (if there is one), remove the antennas, pry off the modem, run a cell jammer (only for driving in Antarctica!), drive it in the middle of nowhere, DOS them via your free network connection until they boot you off (and hopefully they don't brick your car), etc...
The last item is very prevalent throughout many microsoft.com pages. https://azure.microsoft.com has gotten it right here but I'm wondering what's preventing the rest of microsoft.com to do the same.
Apparently I was wrong g to think everyone did? To clarify, I turn my off to save a little battery, same as my Bluetooth and wifi.
Carl Malamud is my hero.
Christ, I should be keeping a list over the course of my career, I'm sure I've forgotten some gems.

Some that stand out:
We had a NOSQL-esque backend that stored CSVs, as part of a data pipeline. (CSV in, data "Activity", csv out). You specified the file, if it had headers, separator, etc. As it turns out, you could not define a null separator, if you wanted to have a single column file. I needed something that would properly split what I knew to be well formed all alpha-numeric inputs within the valid ascii range, and would avoid spurious splits. The sep I used was naturally (the snowman unicode character, unicodesnowmanforyou.com, which as it turns out HN sanitizes on posting!) (The punchline comes when I started seeing this pattern show up in production code elsewhere in the company, using this exact same character choice.) Snowman separated files++ (.ssv?)

Another fun bug, was working in a very large platform that had a common telemetry library that used perf counters. The original authors, and all of the platform authors consuming the lib, had gone on their merry way without realizing that perf counter instances have a disallowed character set, which the custom lib was _embedding by default_ when it added metadata to the instance name (#foo or something IIRC). Fixing the metadata appendation was easy enough, but to fix every place where the consumers had named something with an invalid char (and then consumed with the same invalid char on the read side) ended up writing a shim that sat between the perf counter lib and world and silently character replaced the invalid chars with something strange like _<charID> (Basically reinvented the wheel of slash escaping but within the perf counter allowed charset).

And to end on an abysmal note, large project had VERY consistent naming scheme, had gotten quite deep filewise, was hitting max path len limitations on windows. Rather than break the consistent naming on a new, slightly longer file that needed to be added, or rename everything else, changed root paths from Workspace->w; Main->m; Release->r, etc. I am not proud of this one...

Even as I type this I know there are tons of hacks I'm forgetting (using plastic knives as hard drive stabilizers in a significantly sized datacenter deployment) and will gladly expound if there's interest but for now I'll let this nostalgia get reburied :)
I expect the location requirement is coming to Google from the media companies. As lots of media is licensed for a particular market, and there are a number of easy VPN solutions that can disguise your IP (and your nominal location) the only way to be "sure" of where you are is to ask the GPS unit. This allows Google Play to do "region coding" and for apps to call a standard API to enforce their own region coding requirements (say netflix or other streaming services).
The release history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor) doesn't looks pretty active to me.
People used to ask me this all the time when I'd given up sugar. Everyone has their own idea what it means, but no food that has been sweetened to make it taste sweet is a good start. Personally I'll eat fruit that comes as fruit, but bread is a treat-only food.
We have literally no idea what all they're doing with the data.
Stanford: 100 year study on Artificial Intelligence
If it's Wifi, all McDonald's has to do is buy targeted ads against web traffic coming from the IPs of its Wifi routers.
if it rings ESPECIALLY true, and you've been trying for YEARS to do things EXACTLY LIKE THIS, then it seems that TechZing does not hustle, does not know how to hustle, and thus doesn't have hustle required to unpack what it means to hustle.
The Live Photo is not silent at all, in fact it is very loud with the noise of water and phone fiddling.
Video shows bacteria evolving drug resistance
Seems to be Android's answer to iOS lock-screen app suggestions (since iOS 8; 2014) - https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/apple-delivers-location-ba... ?
Feinstein, Burr circulating proposed changes to encryption bill
The author states that learning how to compromise a system is wasteful and stupid. On the level of learning to use a particular exploit that's hot this week, that's true. Learning how a class of exploits takes advantage of a class of security bugs is a good way to spot where those bugs are in your code and to evaluate how well you're avoiding them.
Not actively using (as in not having it up on the screen), or not having it installed at all?
I don't see what the issue is. Google knows your location, your phone provider knows your location without asking, and probably many other apps that you've given location access to knows where your location is.

They can use information like GPS, ip address and cell towers. So I don't know why this clickbait article is just pointing out these two google apps.
I suspect that most people don't understand much about location services and reference 'GPS' as the generic term for location tracking whether it's via GPS/Wifi/Cell tower/other. The bottom line is if your device has any sort of connectivity whatsoever that can geolocate your device, Google is using it. Off-line when it happens? No problem: they'll log it and upload the data when you reconnect.
The dairy industry is backing all these sugar bad, and implicit or explicit fat good. In particular discrediting valid research warning on saturated fats. Against the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, and even NHS.
FTA:
"The same is true of Google Maps. Although it makes far more sense for Maps to have access to your location, the latest build doesn't give you the option of turning it off. To do that, you have to turn off GPS on your phone altogether."

You can, of course, switch off location for google maps on android, and I'm surprised this article wasn't fact-checked for that. Settings->Apps->Maps->Permissions. Same as any other app.

I'm assuming the confusion is because the 'location settings' option in maps settings takes you to the phone's global location settings screen, which does only offer a global toggle. I don't think there's anything nefarious there, it's just that the settings menu isn't terribly well thought out.

disclaimer: googler on maps, but not android maps

edit: The article has been updated and now reads: "Although it makes far more sense for Maps to have access to your location, the latest build doesn't give you a decent option of turning it off. If you do cut off Maps' access to your location, "basic features of your device may no longer function as intended," the operating system warns."

Not that they've bothered to update the rest of the article.
I mostly agree. With my iPhone, I disable wifi and bluetooth when I leave the house (We don't allow cell phone wifi at work, I don't drive very often, and if I'm sticking around somewhere with wifi for a while, I may choose to turn it on there). Unless I forget, of course. A phone a while back had a feature I really want - it would do that automatically (I think it was the phone Phil Zimmerman was involved in). Don't see Apple doing that anytime soon, though.

My feeling is that the businesses and other nosy APs on my way to work and along other corridors I walk can review/keep automated logs of my comings and goings when they establish an API allowing me access to me theirs.

And this is reason #643 for why I've deleted Google Maps, only use Gmail accounts as spam-buckets, use DDG, and generally have mostly cut Google out of my life. I started with an iPhone before Android existed, so I can't say they chased me away, but $%&#, my girlfriend doesn't need to know that much detail about my life; why on earth would I pay good money to send it to Google?
I highly doubt the "evil" in "don't be evil" was meant to refer to selling your location history to kidnapping gangs.
YNAB and I just heard of an app called moneylover
> And exactly what assurances do we have that Google is properly vetting access to this information, given their complete lack of customer service and their historical inability to properly run adsense, their core business?
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You could probably ask the thousands of ex-employees who'd love to make $$ by breaking the story to the media. Don't you think it would sell?

Also, often when I hear stories about that company not providing support, it's for a service that has at the very least hundreds of thousands of clients/users, a lot of whom pay very little or nothing. How would you provide support to all of them? Would someone who spends $1Mil / yr on Ads have trouble reaching someone quickly?
And as if on queue this article shows up on HN: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_se...
> an average public school teacher with seniority paid 120-200k

While teacher pay definitely varies by district in public schools, that range seems absurdly high. I'm unclear precisely what you mean by "with seniority" but often the max comp for teachers is defined as being at the highest salary level with "Master's Plus 30".

The NEA lists average teacher starting pay at $35k, and it doesn't exactly rise dramatically after that. A teacher making six figures in the midwest is almost unheard of. A common max in Ohio is $65–75k.

http://www.nea.org/home/20620.htm
I have a Powerbook G3, running Word 5.1 on OS 9. The sole function is "writing machine." It's around 20 years old, and still runs just fine. It's a lot more convenient than an IBM Selectric, although not quite as fast. The Selectric never lagged.
Calling bullshit on this. In the pre-iPhone era:

- Mobile internet access was prohibitively expensive (sometimes as high as a penny per kilobyte), browsers were terrible, and some even pushed for an alternative language to HTML for the mobile web. [0]

- Every phone was running a mobile JVM, but apps still had compatibility issues across models and carriers.

- Camera quality was horrid.

- Many phones had poor or inconsistent support for MMS, group texts, and visual voicemail. Even the iPhone itself didn't support MMS at first.

And these were problems even with the devices that were marketed as "smartphones" back then. Mobile phones were awful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
You can use Android phones without a Google account or Google Play. But, as an act of revenge, Google broke voice dialing for people who do that.
Spacemacs layouts are like having clippy in your text editor. "It looks like you're opening a tab, would you like to continue?", "What would you like to name this tab?". Vim just opens a tab.
It's time to switch to Apple.
No. Our definition of low-hanging fruit is ever evolving. There's always the next lowest fruit.
In other words, it's a typical Wordpress site.
Anecdotally, my wife has been flossing forever and has cavities all over the place. I, on the other hand, never ever flossed, rarely brush my teeth more than once a day, and have no cavities.
> Apple has iBeacons which can do this, sans GPS. I wonder if this user would be just as upset the prompt wasn't initiated from GPS location tracking?

> Personally I think they are cool tech in theory but in practice kind of creepy.

If it was a beacon, a little message explaining so would go a long way towards making the experience less creepy.

I've found little bits of "unnecessary" why-type explanation go a long way towards increasing user comfort.
The basic principle is to avoid refined carbohydrates. If a food is unrefined, then it is ok, with the exception of potatoes, which have way too much carbohydrate.

A good book on this is The Instinct Diet by Susan Roberts, who is a well-known nutrition researcher.

The paleos say we should eat the same diet as our foraging ancestors. The problem with that is different foraging tribes had very different diets. However, one thing they all had in common is they didn't eat any refined carbohyrates. That leads to the possibility our bodies are not well adapted for them, and there is a great deal of research that is n fact the case.
That's an incredibly useful post.

Anyways, I only suggested it because you seemed interested. There's certainly no requirement to do so. And since you'll never master every feature in Vim, you'll never use Emacs if you have that requirement.

The sad thing about Vi is its Lisp mode: the original Vi had a pretty nice mode for editing Lisp, which most clones have not recreated.
People just hate all old and we'll used languages. You hear javascript, java, and c++ getting hated on all the time. I feel like as languages age people just find all the stuff they hate about it. That being said javascript was a uniquely poorly designed language that only gained popularity by people being forced to use it. At least the modern versions of it seem to be have fixed many problems.
Ask HN: Easiest way to set up a static HTTPS site in 2016?
Github pages + ? Kloudsec is dead, so you have to do SOME work.
I always get worried when someone uses a lib that's 2.2kb vs 55kb (turbolinks) just to save size...when the two do the same thing. what are the 53kb doing? nothing?
Harvard: Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy – Airbnb Field Experiment [pdf]
It's time to switch to an iStone,I mean iPhone.
> it helps keep the economy churning

Do we need so much of it?

Can we just cut out about 99.99% of advertising? Can I see 1-2 ads per day instead of being bombarded constantly?
Agreed. Just asking this question is crazy.
Use Cyanogenmod sans Google, or Replicant. Use OpenStreetMap apps like osmand for navigation.
I agree with all of your points and would add:

1. Why is it so hard to keep track of recently recently touched files and folders in Finder?

2. Why does the save/open dialogue constantly forget where I was just saving/opening stuff?

3. Why doesn't opening a new tab open to your current location instead of ~/?

4. Why can't I completely customize the sidebar in a Finder window?

5. Why isn't there a native window switcher keyboard mapping?

6. Why do menubar items just vanish without a trace when menus need horizontal space?

I could go on but these things persist as problems for years while Apple focuses its efforts on superficial UI gimmicks.
Amazon S3 + Cloudfront.
That never worked on windows.
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