skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's implementation of collaborative work is completely moot for the at home user.
So -- national building codes for software? Government instpectors who audit code? Building permits required to even write code, or modify existing code?

Doesn't seem to line up very well with "Move fast and break things"
That's a pretty good demonstration of some of the strengths of the ribbon interface.

After watching this, I went to Google Docs to try to reproduce some of this and it felt very clunky. The first thing I realized I didn't have is a styles manager but I was able to install an add-on. For other parts (like creating tables) I was stuck.

I wonder if a similar demo in Libre Office would be as impressive?

Edit: I just tried Excel Online and it worked surprisingly well. Last time I tried it, Google Sheets felt way better but now I'm not so sure.
Even 15, 16, 31, or 32 (all of which I've seen before) would make more sense. 12 is "odd".
Kant and Hume are assuming a mind-body dualism as in Descartes.

A great many important philosophers in the last century or so have rejected this. This includes Whitehead, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, the later Wittgenstein, Strawson, Putnam, and all the Pragmatists. And of course, Aristotle in classic Greek philosophy.
Great question, no idea who are the exact people behind this (just found this online), but according to http://www.darpa.mil/tag-list?tt=73&PP=2 some interesting folks joined them recently (after 2013):

Mr. Wade Shen (Program Manager – interests: machine learning)
http://www.darpa.mil/staff/mr-wade-shen

Dr. William Regli (Defense Sciences Office (DSO), Deputy Director – interests: artificial intelligence, robotics)
http://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-william-regli

Dr. Reza Ghanadan (Defense Sciences Office (DSO), Program Manager – interests: data analytics, autonomy, machine learning and artificial intelligence in information and cyber-physical systems)
http://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-reza-ghanadan

Dr. Paul Cohen (Information Innovation Office (I2O), Program Manager - interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning)
http://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-paul-cohen

Most of them can be found on linkedin.
You, too, need a $200,000 SAN with software licensing costs, even if you don't know it yet! Even if you're a small business that would be served well by two machines with mdadm raid6 and Linux drbd.
Drive has many reliability issues at a scale of over a few thousand files [1]. Perhaps Box is more reliable?

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/drive
thank you for the suggestion, that's what I'm planning on once I get MVP ready for customers.
Something is wrong. I just collapsed the top thread (733 comments) and it was almost instant. I'm running Firefox 48 on OS X Mavericks on a non-retina MB Pro. NoScript is loaded but ycombinator whitelisted.
I think the hackers are still using it.
Oh, and by the way, Plantinga's argument is for the purpose of promoting Christianity, but radical mind-body dualism is quite contrary to traditional Christian belief.
totally understand, and that's the plan for now.
> Schools force you to waste some of the most productive years learning about pretty useless things and are super inefficient at that too.

I don't know if this is the part of the problem for hikikomori phenomena but you are right about the above.

I started working at 16 and have worked multiple industries ever since. I've had many opportunities to advance and have a promotion but I was always held back by one thing, college. Simply because I was told to do it. I've half-assed both things, college and work, not because I wanted to or I was lazy, but because it was hard to do both at the same time. So many missed chances. "Oh you are in school? Sorry we need somebody full time for this position." Now several years later, I have a piece of paper and many lost opportunities with one weird resume. I wish I never listened to anyone about "you must go to college" and just worked and took on opportunities that I had instead of "sorry, it's not compatible with my college schedule, can't take this on".

And I gotta say that I am a "recent" graduate now who has been working since 16 but my resume looks like I am a dabbler with no extensive experience in anything. I am worse off now with a debt.

I'd be lying if I said it didn't effected me greatly emotionally and physically. The confusion about what I've done wrong is so stressful that I am a borderline hikikomori. So I think you are right in some parts.
It was first among those 3 (GCF isn't even out of closed alpha at this point)
That's one wait over. Next wait: CloudFormation support for this option.
I think the larger point is that you won't have time to take those vacations. That being said, a fresh grad that can make it into a top PhD can probably pull 200k+ in Silicon Valley.
! I was not aware of this! And you're right, it's definitely marketed as e-paper, my mistake.

That's still pretty cool! I guess that explains why the display goes dark if the battery actually dies though, as it does require some power to maintain.
> What would it break that isn't user-hostile?

The Facebook "Like" button for starters.

Is that user-hostile? Is that important?

It's in the eye of the beholder, but if Firefox "doesn't work" for a large tranche of non-technical users, that's a big problem.

It's also not clear how much it would achieve. It's not that difficult to turn a 3rd party cookie into a 1st party one.
The problem is when blame is not cast on the removal of regulations that let banks run wild, and it is not cast on for-profit healthcare companies that post massive premium increases while posting massive profit increases.

Instead, some of those injured rally around the same group of people that deregulated banks, the same group of people that killed a public-option plan, and the same group of people that make it illegal for the government to negotiate lower costs for drugs, bolstering the current run of multi-thousand-percent cost increases.

I'm really at a loss. I agree whole heartedly that the destruction of the middle class while the super-wealthy get rapidly richer and corporations post huge profit increases while dodging taxes lead to absolute disillusionment. But this time around doesn't feel like disillusionment on its own. It feels like it's being married heavily to racism and religion, which really does skew things.

Edit: although, maybe that's not all that different than usual. It's just a lot braver and mob-mentality-ish.
Re 3: he does say (at some point in the latter half of the video, after the OS X beach ball spins for several seconds when he tries to do something very simple) that Excel for OS X is a lot less stable than for Windows.
ELB is now legacy. I would be very surprised if they add HTTP/2 support to it; it was one of ELBv2's big launch features.
Same delay on iOS, but still much faster than scrolling past 700+ comments.
Do you have any support at all for these assertions?
Shut-ins and NEETs are the last people you'd go to in order to improve demographics of any country. These are the people who generally avoid social contact much less talk to members of opposite sex.

I don't follow Japanese politics, but implicating NEETs in their demographic problems seems completely out of touch.
> Karpathy is pretty famous for his blogging and open software.

Yes, he's famous for that, but that didn't earn him his PhD nor would it have gotten him tenure. As he remarks about his teaching of his course, him doing a good job actively worked against him because... it's not writing a sexy new paper or networking.

> He also recommend you to release code in this article, so I'm not really sure what you are getting at.

Releasing code isn't the same thing as creating polished end-user applicable stuff on the level of char-rnn. In ML, you're increasingly expected to at least chuck over the wall a barebones implementation to demonstrate it works at all, but there is no expectation that it will be generalized, well-written, or polished, or maintained, and typically they are not. (Most ML releases I've looked at are kind of horrifying from a software engineering perspective. Just thinking about improved-gan makes me shudder.)
a@[IPv6:2001::1] is, unfortunately for your validation regex, a valid e-mail address.

[EDIT: I see that you consider TLD-free e-mail addresses undeliverable; still!]
This might already filter out legitimate users.

dig MX io.

Also, you don't know what new TLDs ICANN might come up with at some point. I am pretty sure there are service providers that do and did limit the TLD length and then TLDs like xn--vermgensberatung-pwb came up.
Except if you only need the first 50k to render the page, and can wait for 50k of Javascript to come later, your page is going to display a lot faster. Standard technique.

> Loading 100k from one source is faster than the same aggregate size from multiple connections.

Usually doing things in parallel is faster than doing them serial. That's why HTTP2 loads slower than HTTP1 - you are sucking everything through single TCP pipe, even though it is multiplexing within.
Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
Why do headphones need wires? Why should your phone power them, or send them analog signal decoded from digital? Why not let music fans listen to their decoder and amp of choice?

Wires suck.

The jack, dongle, charging are only problems if you assume wires persist. If only Apple were positioned to persuade a popular headphones company to ditch them...
> (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when

I remember the lack of Flash support on iOS being fairly controversial at the time. IMHO, it was the combination of lack of iOS support + iOS usage skyrocketing that killed Flash; not that iOS dropped Flash because it was already dying.
For some reason, I'm a fan of this one: http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB/
I think you can solve this by limiting anonymity. You won't see people dressed in penises once you're connected to your FB friends.

I know there's valid arguments against forced real identities to be used, but it's always a trade off between signal and noise.
They all focused on selling service contracts and not hardware didn't they?
1- You are assuming the wired headphone market has a strong growth future. That's could be reasonable but is by no means certain

2- do you seriously think a company with a $515B market cap is doing this solely for the financial reason of adding a $30M/yr revenue stream? If Apple TV was considered "a hobby" for years the wired headphone market is... I don't even know. A momentary flash of color?

Can't the reason be exactly what Apple said? Wired headphones using an analog connection kind of suck. wired headphones with a smart connection are a little better because power and noise cancellation or other "smarts" don't have to all be bolted on to the earphones, but honestly still kind of crappy because of wires.

Clearly Apple thinks that wireless audio is the future but today wireless kind of sucks as well (pairing, moving between devices). Apple thinks it can make that better. So if in their view that is the future why would they waste energy and time and space on a 2nd dedicated IO port for audio?
You have the athlete judged by results, and the knowledge worker by some kind of proprietary algorithm that attempts to derive mental state from somatic clues. These are in no way parallel cases.
One more point. Hoffman claims he is making a scientific argument, and it is based on scientific concepts like bacteria, sensing, and evolution. But if humans can't know reality, then these concepts, developed by humans, are false, and so his whole argument collapses. That is, if his argument is true, then it is false.

Actually, he is really making a philosophical argument, one based in the radical skepticism that has plagued many (but not all) Western philosophical schools since Descartes, but dressing it up in some quite poor science.
This sounds like a fun (albeit depressing...) weekend project.
There is also a pretty gnarly bug in excel when it tries to import a CSV with the asci string "ID" as the first two characters.

http://superuser.com/questions/210027/why-does-excel-think-c...

Very Frustrating
• is Option-8 on a Mac.
For context, the majority of lawsuits in construction involve defects that are far from life threatening. Waterproofing, insulation, or, say, windows not working quite right are more common. There could be millions of dollars at stake because a defective building is worth less as an asset, but there are rarely lives on the line.

I don't think many architects would be comfortable taking risks with critical structural details. Also, even if a firm isn't found technically liable for a deadly building failure it can still be very bad for business.

That said I'm sure some architects still put people's lives at risk to avoid liability. I suspect it's similar any other industry where, sometimes, collectively people in a company put the public at risk for the sake of financial gain - pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, mining companies, etc. No individual feels personally responsible.
Kindle Support
I seem to remember that people were already using "front-end" and "back-end" in the 1980s when "client/server" computing was the big trend of the times. The front-end clients were GUI applications running on PCs and the back-end servers were mainframes or minicomputers. Some programmers worked on both, some programmers specialized on one or the other. Just like today.

The use of "front-end" in computing probably originated from its much earlier usage to mean the front part of some machine or vehicle, e.g., front-end loader, front-end alignment, etc.
And in 2D it is 1 but complex numbers have two parts. As I tried to explain, there's simply some redundancy in the representations because it's just unit complex numbers/quaternions that we're interested in. We accept that because it makes the math prettier. Heck, matrices, the de facto standard for representing rotations, have much more redundancy - four and nine elements in 2D and 3D respectively.
I still don't understand what it accomplishes. Why does inline matter?

The vulnerability means they can inject arbitrary markup including <link> or <script> that load offsite sources.

You can use CSP to whitelist allowed offsite domains. But if you're not careful, "you never know" and "you might as well" are more likely to waste your time chasing low value things.

For instance, inline CSS is valuable as an intermittent developer convenience, and disabling it takes that away while protecting your from an unlikely event.

Also, you generally should be escaping-by-default and not sanitizing. A templating system should escape by default and make it obvious when you opt out.
I didn't even bother downloading The Witcher 3 on Steam because I knew I'd get sucked in, and would wake up months from now filled with deep regret. But then you are saying the absolute opposite.

Why did I have to read this comment ... ?

:(
> But mostly I think the effort towards explainability is fundamentally misguided... explainability is a mysterious unmeasurable goal.

Do you think people should stop working on it?

Most interesting things seem difficult to measure, until someone finds a way, and then it seems obvious. An example is search engine quality. At first this might seem too subjective to be measurable. But Google started measuring search quality using a panel of humans, and now everybody does that.

The whole idea of these challenges is to broaden the search, to hope for key insights that by their nature seem elusive at first.
No just an hourly employee. Support technician at that.
I totally understand how they can say it. They are being machiavellian and know that saying that is a form of propaganda that allows them to slide in something unsavory.
I'm not sure that they do actually have someone handling trademark complaints. At least on YouTube, they handle copyright claims by simply taking the video down as soon as a copyright claim comes in and then you can try to appeal afterwards as a YouTuber.

But even if they do have a person handling incoming trademark complaints, that doesn't mean that they have someone handling appeals. They can face legal damages, if they don't handle trademark complaints. They can't face legal damages, if they pull through on one too many trademark complaint.
Honest question; what numbers are you using to say it's a comparable amount? My quick search shows total 2016 expenditures of ~$3.9 Trillion. If you assume welfare is everything non-interest & defense related, that's about $3 Trillion; there's other non-welfare lumped in that number, but let's just use it anyway. That's $9,250 per person.
That might be true, but web-search is an absolutely vital service for cultural health in the information age, like the telephone system used to be.

Every search engine does sell ads, which seems to be working for them all so far. If that ever stops working, we might see web-search become a public utility funded by tax dollars.
As a side note, current versions of Excel still opens and even can save Excel 5.0 files by default but no longer ships with VBACV10.DLL that converts the VBA code. It was easy to find bugs in this code when I was fuzzing using HxD years ago.
I'm going against the grain here and say that not being able to play 4K Blu-Rays isn't as big of a deal as some are making it out to be. I'm someone that bought into the 'death of the physical media' era so the fact that games and streams can go 4k is enough for me. I have not and do not own a single blu-ray disc and I don't ever plan to. I consider this in the 'bells and whistles' category. It may be good to have but is probably something that I will never use.
An interview with the punk victim of Spock's vulcan nerve grip
You often can't find so much as a blog post for early stage companies that have failed. Given you can keep a mostly dead service with few customers running as is for such a small yearly cost.

The giveaway is usually a blog or social media accounts that haven't been updated in years.
Interestingly, one of the major contributors to the original OED was a prisoner who had lots of time to read lots of books and research first uses of words. He had a prodigious memory as well.

I suspect Shakespeare gets the nod so frequently because he wrote a lot of stuff in Early Modern English that survived and was widely available in the 19th century when work on the OED began. Other writers' works were extant, but not widely read or available. The OED notes the earliest printed use of the word meaning, so even if perhaps some dullard like Algernon Sidney used a word first, almost no one actually reads those works, nor read them in the 19th century.
Ah, the DJB[0] look. Good times, good times.

[0] Example: https://cr.yp.to/highspeed.html
A tiny but memorable role, from a man who played a much bigger role behind the scenes. This is a fun interview.
Yeah, the author seems to be taking the modernist approach aesthetically (where the goal of art is to convey an emotion, idea, or state of mind) and suggesting that games can produce states of mind that other forms of entertainment cannot. He seems oblivious to the advantages of other art forms that just don't work as well in a gaming medium.
> The beacons tracking your movements are omitted from bathroom locations, to give you some privacy.

Oh why even bother. Just do it in the bathroom as well. I like how it tracks everything and then throws that little -- but look, we are concerned for your privacy, we are not creepy at all.

> If you don’t give people choice, if you don’t aggregate instead of showing individual data,

Yes, let's aggregate data in some obscure way, while hand waving about "anonymizing" stuff. People will totally buy that, and trust us.

> Their bodies swiftly respond to stressful situations and relax when calm returns, leaving them primed for the next challenge,”

Lovely.

-"Steve, I think that patch froze the kernel".

-"Sorry, I am doing my daily hyperventilating and then calming down thing, to get my stats up for upcoming reviews. Ask the intern to restart everything. I'll be there in 30 min".
Apple Plug
Or you can buy a better phone.
I don't need wildcard DNS, I have a catchall on a single subdomain.
Ah yes, "Papers, Please" is also up there. I remember when the game was in alpha people asked he author if he would add keyboard shortcuts and other amenities to streamline the gameplay. He decided against it, and I'm glad he did because I feel the clunky monotony of manually shuffling things around is part of what builds empathy for the role. The work isn't supposed to be fun or feel fulfilling; perhaps that's why some TSA folks aren't pleasant and seem to relish the few opportunities to wield power over people.

That the gameplay is actually fun is what makes PP shine to me. If it weren't fun, then you wouldn't put in the time needed to feel like an overworked border guard.
This video of Martin Shkreli using Excel [1] is what really made me realize I suck at Excel...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw&feature=youtu.be...
> casting a float into a bool

Haha, a geeky yet very apt expression.
Keep in mind that you can inline images as SVG as well, which often results in smaller images, included with your HTML or CSS requests.

Not all browsers support SVG, and not all support all properties, but those that do give some pretty good results.
Sony Announced PlayStation 4 Pro (PS4 Pro)
Does anyone know why Amazon doesn't enable gzip compression on Elastic Beanstalk servers by default or give you an easy option instead of having to use the .elasticbeanstalk configuration files to do it?
I had that happen because of length at an online service we needed to use in high school. I believe my password had 9 characters. After requesting a password reset and experimenting I found that the registration form would allow you to enter a password of any length, but the login form would only accept up to 8 characters. What really shocked me was that I was the only one of my classmates that used a password longer than 8 characters.
so, hoster doesn't escape anything the users provide, and is more concerned about CSS instead of JS?

And then their site broke as soon as I clicked a link
Companies that do this should stop saying 'employees' and use 'meat robots'.
BrowserAuth: Toward Stronger Authentication for the Web
Dfield and pplane – software programs for the interactive analysis of ODE
Yeah, okay, so the plot sucked you in, but are you happy afterwards that you did that?

Uh, yes.

Why wouldn't I be?

Should art not be compelling? Enjoyable? Must it necessarily be "challenging" (whatever that means) to be "worthwhile" (whatever that means)?

Frankly, the real problem with the author is they give a crap what people think about games as a medium.

Art. Not art. Who cares? When Dickens was writing, he was writing to entertain a mass audience. At the time I'm sure there was someone somewhere complaining that since it wasn't written in Latin and thus accessible to folks it wasn't worthwhile.

And in the end it just doesn't matter.

So enjoy your games or books or comics or whatever captures you and let others do the same. Life is far too short to waste time giving a crap about stuff like this.
It certainly would a huge change. I'm not suggesting it should happen, just imagining that it _could_.

There are pros and cons to it. It might lead to higher salaries for engineers - liability bringing licensing requirements which could restrict supply.
So annoying that every new feature they release will take weeks before it's available on CloudFormation. :/
Perhaps a fear of British car electrics?
$60 buys you entire radio unit that supports iOS USB cables, full control of playback using remote, etc.
If they really believed, Humanyze's own employees would be using it. I saw no such mention in the article.