skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OKAY, so I get that they are promoting (probably) the camera/photos but with the photos filling the whole device, it almost makes you wonder if they are doing full color custom high DPI printed back covers (which would be good, since its so ugly if leaked pics are correct).

Or maybe they are going to be the first with a full slab of glass on the front with seamless edge to edge display (hah yeah right) - if its not either of those things, they just set people up for massive disappointment.
2015 R&D: $806,648,000
2015 Sales, General and Admin $1,132,164,000

I can't imagine a justification for these numbers. Twitter seems like a small company idea.
Not asking you directly, I agree with you and was trying to rephrase the notion.
When I test this out, I get a 94KB file. That's reasonable depending on what you're doing.
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> Is progressive enhancement still possible nowadays?

It's certainly possible to write a site intending to progressively enhance it. It's easy, even.

It's not possible for end users to rely on it existing, because as you note lazy, sloppy developers don't bother.

I prefer to light a candle and curse the darkness.
Nothing!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
This is a bit misleading. According to Will Scott, who taught CS in North Korea, there are some 3000-5000 sites on the national intranet, but it is entirely disconnected from the internet at large. So these zones are ones that are intended for consumption by foreigners.

Source: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-teach-computer-scien... (super interesting, suggest reading it)
I still get the 404... However, is there a typo in the title or did they do it on purpose?

<title>Error 404 (Not Found)!!1</title>
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The first self-driving cars will have to coexist with humans driving old cars without such communications.
I'd be very wary of using complex SOUP like TensorFlow, even if brought under my quality system. I think a good answer here is that once one goes under design control the subset of functionality needed should be implemented in-house under the organization's SDLC.
It doesn't cost $6M to run a couple twitter feeds for a few months. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997

And she didn't say that Correct the Record doesn't have covert accounts, she said the Barrier Breakers accounts are always marked.
I think one of the big differences between a traditional engineering degree and computer science is that in the traditional engineering education you get some insight into this expectation. I was required to take courses in public speaking and economics, because it's expected that you have some level of business acumen, and use that to make engineering decisions. I think this is because engineering is understood to be the practical application of the principles revealed by academic science / research for the sake of building things and making money. Comp sci doesn't seem to have this analog as of yet, despite many programmers referring to themselves as engineers.
I think it is rather hard to fight a rumor of 100 without sounding a bit insincere to the 20..
With my over 30+ almost 40 eyes and glasses and a 1920x1200 24" monitor fonts are simply too small.

Otherwise it looks good and I like the simplicity.
The latter is also a lot more in the spirit of gmane and less in the spirit of new hipster web design. Unix tradition places utility before form.
We did have a few cameras that supported SDXC, but the majority didnt. It was easier to just use SDHC and not have to worry about what card works in what camera. Besides, 32 GB was plenty because we almost never shot in RAW (high schoolers aren't professionals); I think only me and 3 others knew about working with RAW.

So to answer your question, space wasn't a premium, and because of the technical and human limitations of SDHC vs SDXC. I'm sure some of those cameras had firmware updates that would add SDXC support, but we didn't need it.
This feels like a better answer.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that any piece taking on a rich, challenging topic needs to be a few thousand words at least. Anything less means that important rebuttals go unaddressed and evidence gets cherry-picked. If you can fit your prescription for Syria into a 500 word column, you can't possibly have included enough information to lead your readers to an informed conclusion. At best you've offered an idea without claiming to prove it, at worst you've tossed off a handful of facts and pretended to rigor.

If you want good small, frequent posts, you'd better keep your scope similarly small. Tell me about a campaign speech and its significance, but don't diagnose the entire election. Or pick a settled technical topic and just be didactic, but be prepared to research every sentence.

It's fun to write bold, strident essays on a topic, but it doesn't do very much. The value-added part is the fact-finding and fact-checking slog, and I think a lot of people (myself included) underestimate just how much more time goes into researching a good essay than actually writing it. Just as you said, a good work on a big topic takes tens of hours, even to address one aspect.

For me, this means that I abandon a lot of work - I care enough to write about it (fun), but not enough to firmly ground that writing (exhausting). So I try to either escape the problem with speculative writing, or judge my interest early on and decide whether to follow through before wasting time.

So when I hear someone say that the analysis in their writing is weak, and their research is shallow, I'm hopeful! It means that they're writing with enough self-awareness to actually seek the truth.
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Probably about as crazy as your dad was when he was writing a file to disk, or when you post something on Facebook.
> The same logic suggests they could grab Snowden off the streets in Moscow.

It actually doesn't, since the logic at issue is "they have shown both the capacity and the will to do this to planes they believe are carrying Snowden from Russia to South America in the past".

They clearly have not shown the capacity and will to grab Snowden off the street in the past.

Its certainly not impossible that they could, but its a different category of risk from something that they have demonstrated both the capacity and will to do against the specific target in the past.
I was under the impression that most of the requirements only applied to registering a car in that State not operating the vehicle??

So, for example, NY requires yearly safety inspections and you'll get a ticket if your inspection lapsed. But you don't have to get a safety inspection to drive in NY if your car is registered in a state that doesn't require safety inspections.

I could be mostly off base on this one.

Though some laws are so local sometimes it's impossible for an out of towner to know the local laws like going right on red is, as far as I know, illegal in NYC but legal... Everywhere else? How does someone from Texas supposed to know that?
Yes, we're working on writing it and will let you know.
A lot of functionality is being gradually replaced with GDS services (*.service.gov.uk domains), though.
Yeah, that wasn't exactly what was promised in the preface. In fact, unlike many other his posts, this one is worse than a commonplace math-heavy explanation. That way I wouldn't even understand what is the problem we are solving, as drawing x with probability p(x) given p(x) for every x in finite set X sounds pretty trivial thing to program w/o knowing anything about Markov chains and stuff: I know for sure I can generate random uniform number y somehow, so this one is a solved problem, and mapping y to the distribution over a finite set D is simple: if y <= p(x1) return x1, if y <= p(x1) + p(x2) return x2, ..., return xn.

The link to stackexchange in the comments is way more enlightening.
I know it is much more satisfying to go with the under producing team in India stereotype but generally there is much more to it than just the team that was laid off. Who knows if higher ups at twitter had a proper vision/plan for the team and how much authority they were given for instance - both very crucial to getting things done.

Example: Had a chance to work with a team from Poland couple years ago. Great people with lots of experience and skills. By purpose or not, they were just not well integrated into the existing team. They were never given clear targets, nobody ever thought what they had to offer and how they could fit into the overall structure. A project later everything got blamed on them and many from that team disappeared - many left because of the whole negative experience, some were let go. I would not say it was their fault for under producing really. It's not that simple when you don't get to define producing what is valued and what is not and you don't have much authority over changing things.
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'Not that many' is not really acceptable for many applications, and I'm not talking only about IoT, but self-driving cars, surgery robots, rockets, etc.
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Are you formatted as exFAT? Because it's my understanding that Windows will refuse to format an SDXC as anything but.
2 cameras aren't enough for an accurate depth map though, right? I thought you need infrared.
String theorys second life
I hate the Anthropic principle.. it appears to be able to justify anything
> If we want to be pedantic, there is no such thing as a pure JavaScript function. If the stack is full, ...

Under this definition, Haskell has no pure functions either.
oh wow, nice reference. but, then you have a car thief use case, and it screws the whole thing up! :)
While it's certainly hard - and remember, people don't manage that either, at least not as safely as we will require self-driving cars to operate - I don't see why it'd need "full-AI". Recognizing the road is not a matter of general intelligence, it's a matter of having very good but very specific recognition abilities.

Besides, remember that a self-driving car won't have to operate with just a couple of eyes stuck inside a cabin. Lorries won't blind radar.
Deliberate practice in discipline. Working backwards from a vision helps as well, no matter how unrealistic the 'end goal' is. That whole cliche about landing amongst the stars if you shoot for the moon or something.
I'll be speaking about these various ACME packages for Go at dotGo next month. ACME is a little tricky, and each package has optimal use cases for best results.
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Even if you can wish away all the problems with the technology (good luck), molten salt reactors are too easy to modify to produce weapons-grade uranium/plutonium. Not something I'd want to see most nations to get their hands on.
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Google has been making noises about Android for Work for a while. To get businesses to start taking Android seriously, Google needs a flagship line of devices with business-class software support, especially in terms of security patches. Even though many apps have been moved to the Play Store, Google Play can't patch problems in the kernel or system libraries.
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The reason is that there are and for the foreseeable future will be things that are not networked. Lots of legacy cars, bicycles, pedestrians, trains. In some areas probably even animals on the road. If cars don't work in these environments they are pretty much useless.
> (incidentally, Individual Computers, which this article is about also produces a number of accelerators etc. for classic Amiga's).

Yup, I have one inside my A1200, along with their Video-2-DVI scan doubler that clips onto the Lisa chip, and provides a perfect XGA resolution display over DVI on ALL Amiga screen-modes.
Hello! Happy to answer any questions you have about 18F. The basics: we're an office of federal employees inside the General Services Administration that helps other federal agencies improve how they build, buy, and share technology. Other agencies have to pay us for our work, so we operate in a similar way to a private business. You can see a summary of the types of things we ship (with examples) here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/. More info about the micro-purchase platform here https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/micro-purchase-platforms/

*I'm an 18F employee.
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May you rephrase the question please? I don't understand it
"you think this is hopelessly daft, you think no will care about it, and slowly de-motivation creeps in."

When you get here, start talking to other people about it. Run it by your pals, your internet friends, whoever, see if they think it's good. If they like it and give you positive feedback (hey I'd use that library! I'd play that game) then it's both encouragement and a sign that you'll have at least something of a receptive audience for it when you're done.

Well, that works for me at least.
Rule #1 is bogus. If you're starting with a language that's 2-10x slower you're always going to be behind the curve. There's a reason C and fortran haven't gone anywhere.
Did you use Firefox? Facebook has strange bugs on Firefox but not on Chrome for me. Firefox is clearly dying at this point.
Did they so state? The only reference I can find to the quoted phrase is in a reader comment from 2007. I'd be interested to see the statement to which you refer.

In general, it's very true that the Reg doesn't mind stirring up a bit of controversy here and there. (I'm pretty sure they're still permabanned from being credentialed to cover Apple events.) But that's not the same as saying they don't care about facts, or that they're more interested in controversy than in accurate coverage.
You mean a slab of glass, most of which is screen?

Wow. Design award of the decade... Or actually simply what people thought about before but wasn't possible until then. (The LG Prada around at the same time shows this)

It's pure fanboyism.
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JS interop backed by Dart Team works pretty well for me:
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/js
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Louisville, KY has a definite hub and spoke layout with both I-264 (East/West) and I-265 (North/South) as increasingly outward rings (and several state routes and major parkways are additional "rings" in between). Many natives don't know the cardinal directions of the interstates or state routes and there's a lot of landmark-based navigation (towards the Fairgrounds/Airport, away from Downtown, et al). I like using clockwise/counter-clockwise directions myself and after an initial bit of confusion it's fun when fellow natives blink a bit and recognize it's not a bad system. (Thus far haven't made any converts to it, though.)

Further aside, given the the similarity in numbers of I-264 and I-265 they are more commonly referred to by their expressway names, the Watterson and the (Gene) Snyder, respectively. Louisville is one of the few cities I know of where you'll meet natives that don't actually know the interstate numbers they drive on sometimes every day, you have to mention it by name to get the right directions.
Funny how nobody seemed to think so until now.

I did. This was just one of many mini-scandals under Bush that never really seemed to boil over.

I thought it was a problem then, still think it's a problem now, but now know why nobody held him to the fire: they were doing that shit too.
Side note: I'd really like to visit this NK ski resort. It'd be amazing to snowboard on what looks like completely empty snow.

http://masikryong.com.kp/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masikryong_Ski_Resort
My uncle runs a korean restaurant, and has a bunch of guns. He keeps a shotgun and a some kind of pistol there. He even took me to an NRA basic safety pistol course which was FULL of women. I was pretty shocked.
Agreed. We plan on fixing that. Thanks for taking the time to review!
As with everything, this is a huge oversimplification (i.e. Go = faster than scripting languages). I'm dubious if the algorithmic part of static site generators dominates. Would have though it's I/O bounded to some degree, in which case Go isn't going to be faster than anything else.

Besides, caching solves this issue better, unless you change the underlying templates.
Stuff is so complicated that even thinking about answering this question is giving me a headache!

There are new Amigas (on the horizon and people have gotten hands on some already), but future is a mess IMO.

I'd like to see a comeback of heterogeneity among desktop (home) computers, but I doubt it will happen again. If anything, the exact opposite happened and then mobile took over / moved in.
See? Offloading computation onto the GPU was inevitable...
But don't ignore improvements in low temperature superconductors engineering:

https://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/91644

...I also believe that GE is working on a MRI using liquid hydrogen as the cryogen.
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I was using Android studio from beta until the early 2.x series. It has been some time but there were indeed many cases in which I had to go dig in the XML representation of the UI file. I do hope and believe it is getting better.
#BionicManDiary, entry 008: The one where I contemplate the jobs of the future
"The user's service provider or corporate firewall blocks ssl"
Google breaking its contracts over Analytics Premium would severely negatively affect it, given that it's a product a number of very large companies and organisations use.
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No, but the LG Prada was released in May, 2007. It is the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen.
> the Yanks... Well to be perfectly honest I'm not sure,

I'm not sure either, but setting up a traffic accident wouldn't attract too much scrutiny today.
> I'm pretty sure that I engage the visual part of my brain in those moments when I truly understand algebra.

With no offence meant to your self knowledge, and with the understanding that you were probably not one of those tested and that our (meaning their, I guess) understanding of the workings of the brain is imperfect, I think that the point of brain imaging software is in large part so that we don't have to rely on "I'm pretty sure", and indeed can have confidence even in unintuitive conclusions.
Guys have had a good time with RPi3 running emulated Amiga. People won't stop raving about it.
What I'm taking away from this is that you have never had a Nexus device, or even used one.

* The Nexus devices (during lifetime, usually 1 year less than iPhones) are patched sooner and more often than iOS.

* Google Play Services shouldn't be able to patch system libraries or the kernel, that would be a security issue. Patching those is what a system update is for.

* Nexus devices have (IMO) much better "enterprise-grade" software support than iOS, whatever that means. And it's only set to be better with N. [1]

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/three-important-security...
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> Rumours are that the smaller version (Pixel) will cost $649, with the Pixel XL costing $749. Ridiculous. You don't compete with Apple by copying their pricing

That's fairly normal pricing for a flagship smartphone today, regardless of brand/vendor.
Unless it's taking 8 seconds to load because your user is on 2G. Then the only way you can avoid that hit is by not making the requests in the first place.
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That completely misses the point. Without wanting to sound brash, you know jack about music and you should act accordingly, that is, don't spout ill informed suggestions when you clearly don't play an instrument or studied this mater well enough to give an informed opinion.

Scales have 7 notes, not 12. A musician plays music in a scale, they aren't a computer outputting pitches, they are a person playing notes. Music notation has a reason to be this way: notes in the scale don't have flats or sharps next to them, accidentals do. Reducing everything to a number describing absolute pitches is the right thing to do for a computer to play (see midi). It's not the way to go for a person that actually has to understand the logic and patterns in the music.
Nicely animated "Loading...".

( Firefox user here, with messages like "The Application Cache API (AppCache) is deprecated and will be removed at a future date. Please consider using ServiceWorker for offline support." in the console when trying to load the site. Chrome is fine. )
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> The full verification of seL4 came a lot earlier (by about a decade) than I thought possible.

Is it a full verification yet? I am by no means an expert, but IIRC, they were still using a simplified model MMU in their proofs.
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The last few years I've not been offered a contract, but the ability to finance the phone. An inversion of the prior contract model, it's more what you expect. There are separate fees for the service, and for the monthly payment for the phone. After X number of months (choosable on purchase, affects per-month phone payment), the phone is paid off and is no longer part of the bill. It's much more straightforward and easy to reason about, and you don't have to immediately try to upgrade when your contract is up so you don't feel like you're paying for more than you're getting.
A puppet state is one that is set up to look like an independent state but is in fact entirely de facto controlled by (i.e. cannot do anything without the approval of) another state. Iran between 1953 and 1979 was a U.S. puppet. Syria seems to be on the road to becoming a Russian puppet. SK is not a US puppet, and NK is not really a Chinese puppet either (that's what I meant by the "Chucky" comment).

It has generally become unfashionable to have puppet states nowadays. They're too hard to maintain.
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cheaper, less maintenance. dynamic platform still needs more setup than static site generator + cheap, html only hosting (e.g. github pages).

besides, mis-configuring a static site generator has way less security implications.
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I and my friend have been working on this project. It is a website where developers will be able to show off their projects and write technical articles .It is written using rails. We are still working on it. Improving it and adding new features. We have decided to host it on Heroku as we don't any DevOps experience and want things to go smoothly when launched.The real problem is about money. If the number of users soars so will go up the hosting costs. We don't want to launch poorly .We do have a paid job posting facility on the site but we can't depend on it since day one. We even don't have any idea how much it will cost to sustain this project for at least 2-3 months if no one posts any jobs and users keep growing.Any idea where we can make some quick money to bootstrap this site.
Does anyone know of a decent sub 5-inch phone? All the reviews sites seem to ignore this factor. My old 4.3" moto X is dying and I'm hoping to find a truly pocketable replacement.
Not to mention old sci-fi movies and tv shows having similar looking devices for decades.
I almost feel the same way: I love reading mailing lists and RSS feeds with Gnus via NNTP.

But the Web interface to mailing lists and groups is also extremely useful. Nothing like clicking a Gmane link in LWN and being able to instantly browse the thread like a newsgroup.