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> Serious question: whose WiFi is not working, to the degree that they think, "I really need to get a modern router to make this Internet thing actually work."

With stock ISP router, I see occasional connectivity problems with several devices connected and one of them is streaming video (even though there is more than enough upstream bandwidth capacity to handle multiple devices streaming), all reasonably close to the router, and greater problems when one is farther from the router (even without any of the streaming video), in a relatively modest suburban house (<1500sf).

Anecdotally, I've seen lots of similar complaints from other people.
Exactly, and neither is strict moderation or a userbase that has no interest in that kind of thing, and no strong inclination to respond in kind. Still, the idea that somehow 4chan acts to contain the problem is unlikely. If you lance a cyst, you make a mess for a while, but that doesn't mean you've done much more than expose what was already killing you.
You skipped part a which includes:

> (i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights

Guthub can take this down fast. And if you believe everybody with a trademark lawyer, they might have to in order to preserve their trademark.
For decades the answer has been a "normal" lens e.g. 50mm on what is now called "full frame", 80mm on medium format.
the number of networks i see living in a densely populated city (NYC) is pretty intense. Most modernish routers indiscriminately broadcast on both the 5GHZ + 2.4GHZ band, plus create an automatic (or, at least, one-click) guest network. So in a given building there maybe something like 2+ SSIDs per apartment.

that alone creates plenty of noise to wade through...
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No, it means Microsoft and Alphabet are not commenting on evidence implicating Yahoo!'s surveillance with the NSA.

It's basic PR for big brands to avoid getting quoted in the messes their competitor gets into.
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Fair point, that said, don't forget libraries, they're full of gems.
WhatsApp encryption is used by Signal, the gold standard for encrypted messaging apps. Signal developers did not respond to a request for comment.

Wrong. WhatsApp uses the protocol that Open Whisper Systems (who makes Signal) designed.

And if memory serves, they had a similar problem before because WhatsApp didn't implement the Signal Protocol correctly.
Your borderline autistic model of privilege is being used as club to justify systemic abuse from the same authoritarian forces you are attempting to describe with your faulty model.

You should feel bad, but I know you won't.
What a garbage article. It goes on and on about how weird cryonics is without discussing the science or whether or not it works. Of course cryonics is weird. That's not an argument.

Cryonics works. The connectome of your brain, what makes you, you, is preserved. At −238 degrees almost anything organic can be preserved for a long, long time. And with careful procedures done to prevent the formation of ice crystals, the damage done by the freezing process is minimal. It's by far the best chance you have of surviving.
The way I see it is pretty straightforward: my life, my decision. That suicide and euthanasia are illegal is illogical to me; it just seems like a way for life insurance companies to avoid paying.
Pixel smartphone camera review
In the context of his post, it seemed like a pretty obvious joke to me. Maybe not that funny, but killing your girlfriend is so far out of the bounds of remotely reasonable that I didn't register it in the broader conversation about gender in society.

Maybe in order to update the joke to today's sensibilities you might say "killing your ex" instead, but it's still so clearly out of the bounds of reasonable that it's clearly just a joke about how you don't really see ball peen hammers used for anything else in movies/TV.
This is not what Google is betting on, hence the DayDream VR.
I've done a site redesign and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it now.
Like this?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/382110/
I would assume it's based on the number of uploaded photos taken with those cameras. I'm not sure the Flickr API, for example, even gives you a good way to look at it per user. (You'd basically need to iterate over users and only count a camera model once per user.)
You would also have a 360° view, much better then double/triple/x-le screens.
I was there a few days ago and while walking around the Encants neighborhood, I was using a maps app and looking at the block I was on, which showed a hollow interior (similar to that seen in overhead shots of BCN). But I don't think that makes it anything more than just a block with a unique design.

Like you, I didn't find a superblock but I think that's due to it being a concept and not something you can necessarily visually see (as explained in the somewhat recent Vox video).
You can tell this product is made by people who live in suburban McMansions. In a 1 BR NYC apartment, you have no problems with wifi coverage.
> I just bought an OnHub last year. WTF Google?!

Do you get upset when a new phone is introduced a year after you bought your last one? A new car?
I clicked on this hoping to see a story about using the Rio player to house a Pi Zero or something like that ... Maybe I should dig out my trusty companion...
Maybe you're right and I'm overestimating the potential disappointment from gamers. Nevertheless I think we agree overall that after the release of HL2 and Steam the company has effectively transformed. In fact I have primarily focused on the financial motivation and I think you're making excellent points that not just financially but structurally Valve might not be in the position to be able to pull of any projects that require much coordination.

I think the point you're making on structure, could also explain the failure of Steam Machines. Something that would require quite a lot of people coordinating not just with others in the company but also with people outside it.
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> Cloverich stated that using jQuery was fine and the article was exaggerating how far it has fallen out of favor, but you have stated that anyone using jQuery is out the door when interviewing with you

That isn't what I said in the slightest. My criticism had nothing to do with jQuery. Go back and replace jQuery with underscore, lodash, ramda... I'm not saying that I would turn away a jQuery developer when interviewing for an angular position. I said that a negative defaulting to a framework/library to solve a vanilla problem is a problem in and of itself. "One of these things is not like the other" is the native Array.prototype.forEach(). It's literally built into the language, and the person added a script tag to include an 85kb file just to run a loop over 3 elements. THAT'S the problem.
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The mother of all demos by Douglas Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

How I met your girlfriend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xRRF5GfQs&t=66s
They did bring back the viewmaster(vr)
https://www.amazon.com/View-Master-Virtual-Reality-Starter-P...

It's pretty darn good. No strap too.
People like Nacchio are exploiting the good work real privacy advocates do, for their own personal enrichment.

Or it's possible for people to be dual-natured: capable both of flagrant chicanery and abuse, as well as acts of conviction and principled defiance.
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Or this http://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/
I use Mozilla Thunderbird. It doesn't synchronise between devices (as far as I know), but for work-related feeds I use my work computer 99% of the time anyway.
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Despite their claims of being designed for user privacy, I'm wary of anything Google puts out. What information does it report back to the mothership?
I can't read this article without paying for a subscription.

Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
Chromecast is pretty amazing
No need for you to apologize - you never said systemd was at fault. (Neither did I - the point is that systemd has to be careful with its inputs, since they won't necessarily be coming from someone with root shell access.)
Is "Pynchon Gate" named after Thomas Pynchon?
Until very recently, and thanks to the likes of The Guardian’s The Counted, Fatal Encounters and Campaign Zero’s Mapping Police Violence, the data to prove the systemic racism that results in the police killings of unarmed black people has not been widely available to the public.

It doesn't sound like, according to the article, the California initiative is to prove racism but rather track, identify, and reduce police initiated violence. Is this the writer's bias?
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Is there position tracking? Or is this just for watching 3D movies?
Lots of otherwise smart people hold dumb opinions all over the map.

Karma on here is really not a great badge of achievement. If I had started ten years ago, based on my current karma gain rate of talking out of my ass and posting anything interesting from my newsletter and RSS subscriptions, I could be a top 10 karma user here. It's really less a measure of performance than longevity.
This article is pretty sparse on information, but previous journalism about this experiment have swallowed Uber's marketing hook line and sinker. Unfortunately I doubt Uber will be very honest about their failures, so this is the best sort of reporting we can hope for on the topic.
Probably photos published on "enthusiast" sites where camera/lens info is readily available, as opposed to stock photo agencies or major commercial publishers.

The number of photos taken using phones would no doubt dwarf the data used here, dedicated camera/lens combos are becoming something of a niche market, albeit still a sizeable one.

I use the Olympus EM-1, way down on the list. Nonetheless I found it interesting that the most commonly cited lenses used were the 12-40mm f/2.8, and the 40-150mm f/2.8. These are both excellent quality lenses, but relatively massive and quite expensive, at about $1000 and $1500 respectively.

Saying goes the merit of a photograph depends much more on the person using the camera than the camera being used.
Me. I'm in the market for a new wireless router. My N66U drops out hourly. It never had great coverage. I have tried different firmware in an effort to save it but I believe it's dead.
Oh, I didn't click that... Derp!
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> You can tell this product is made by people who live in suburban McMansions. In a 1 BR NYC apartment, you have no problems with wifi coverage.

More relevantly, for instead of by (though its quite possible both are true), but, sure, in a small urban apartment, coverage isn't going to be your big issue, and you aren't going to need a set of routers forming a mesh network.

OTOH, lots of people don't live in small urban apartments and use the internet.
> And that they're more inclined to post to sites that tend to be associated with photo enthusiasts.

This. Of my friends, most people seem to have a bottom- or mid-range APS-size sensor DSLR from Canon or Nikon. But the two of my friends who actually have a 5D iii and a 6D, respectively, are the only ones who a) shoot photos that are interesting to people outside their immediate friends/family and who b) post those photos on flickr.

(While I'm the geek with the superzoom, or the '72 Nikon Nikkormat loaded with Tri-X when I'm feeling analog.)
Well people aren't taking breaks, it's just a natural random variation. It's the sound of a Poisson distribution.
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I'm not sure if it's documented, but for WSJ you can click the 'web' link, or do the equivalent of what the web link does.
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My Dad is a consultant radiologist, recently retired but still doing some part time work. When I've had conversations about whether he thinks his job might be automated, he says that the main problem he's seen with current ML systems is that they throw up far too many false positives. They also aren't great for unusual or corner cases. For example, in one scan he saw recently the very corner of the picture was occluded because the radiographer had left something on the machine (not quite sure what). He said most trainees would have just ignored it, but he sent it back. Turns out it was hiding a tumour. Now I know this is just one example, but he said you'd be surprised by the number of weird things that turn up like that. Where he does see it having a place is to help radiologists from missing really obvious things because they're tired. Most people don't realise how much concentration is required to just look at scan after scan for miniscule clues indicating a potential problem.
So split it with a couple of neighbors...
Did they abandon the OnHub?
The creepiest part of American public culture these days is all the smiling. It's gotten to the point where people have learned how to smile while speaking. I noticed Hillary Clinton's campaign exec Kristina Schake doing this on all her TV media rounds and it's honestly very disturbing. If you watch talking heads on TV they're expected to smile at all times when not speaking. Americans are always supposed to be smiling and for no reason. If you are not you are told to smile more. There's this overall obsession with fake positivity that really gets to me. You can't say anything remotely negative in the workplace or you're deemed as not a team player. I know of a person who came from her home country and was there considered to be an extremely positive and cheerful person then came to the US and was told by her managers that she was too negative! This culture is actually pretty destructive because the voices that might speak up and say "I think we're being overly optimistic with our forecasts here" or "Maybe we shouldn't do X, because Y is on the decline" are silenced.
Some people here laud some companies for being good about user privacy and security. This shows they have not yet reached table stakes for privacy and security.

This is why no provider can be trusted. Every routine communication should be e2e encrypted. Otherwise this WILL happen.
Yeah I suppose I am talking to myself. I'll try to stay on topic.

With the browser DOM model, end-users perform the DOM mutations. This generally means that they must keep the application state in sync with the DOM state, manually.

React's VDOM model encourages pure render functions, since a new VDOM is constructed every time and mutations are performed by React itself.

Also, nothing stops you from writing impure functions in PureScript either. You could define FFI functions that claim to be pure but aren't. I guess PureScript isn't pure then? Oh, and Haskell isn't pure due to unsafePerformIO. So nothing is absolutely pure; the question is what style is generally encouraged by the design of the framework/language, and to what degree. (there are no absolutes)

And PureRenderMixin isn't default because it does a shallow reference comparison on props/state, which only works reliably for immutable data structures. If all JS datastructures were immutable, it would've been used everywhere. However thats unrelated to whether `render` is pure.
That was true for a long time but some sort of medium wide to medium tele zoom has been far more common for ages. I'd be pretty sure that the percentage of people who even own a 50mm prime is pretty low these says.
- Positional tracking, being able to move around in your environment rather than just move your head (will be solved eventually on mobile, see inside-out positional tracking)

- Custom made screens for VR, Rift/Vive have 90hz refresh rates, I believe Daydream phones will be 60hz (same as GearVR)
In many cases, it's social virtue signalling, with no real sapience behind the actions.

See how virtuous I am empathizing with lower-order animals' suffering.

See how virtuous I am championing the sanctity of human life.

A lot of the latter can be mitigated: make those who want human life preserved "at all costs" pay cash-over-the-barrel into that "at all costs" effort, on an individual basis. Voluntary, elective euthanasia becomes an option when no one steps up to pay for the extraordinary efforts. They either withdraw their opinion immediately when they can no longer externalize their social virtue signalling choice's costs onto everyone else, or they go broke very soon and those who are suffering can make a free choice.

Or we can pursue the sane choice and legislate elective assisted euthanasia with safeguards like Switzerland's or other rationally-chosen parameters. It is long past time to recognize that our medical technology has far outstripped our ability to reliably deliver an acceptably high quality of life.
Yahoo was attributing its recently announced data breach to state-sponsored attackers.... Maybe that wasn't so far off the mark after all.
I really liked "The Life and Death of Javascript" by Gary Bernhardt
Actually, it describes several ways in which it does not work.
Take a look at this extension if you wanna read WSJ: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/
If you can get the cursor to disappear with the display still running, the bug is related to this bug. Maybe the fix isn't complete enough.
Alas, Google Maps has a ton of errors and omissions that can only be corrected with a lot more human work than these companies are ever going to be willing to put in.
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636520.
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I don't see anything wrong with that. If something failed to get traction then barely anyone would have seen it. So posting it again will cause very little annoyance.
A compiler will also rewrite the entry point of your program, and probably just call your main() from another place.

Yes, it's all about reasonable, documented and well defined APIs. If your framework has those, it won't get in your way.

If you framework lacks those, it will get in your way with an intensity that libraries just can't match. But frameworks do not pose a completely new level of problems, your compiler, server or OS will create just as much trouble.
This is substantially worse than PRISM which operates on individual targeted persons and the upstream Verizon, AT&T program which collects plaintext over the public Internet.

This involved bulk search of data past the decryption layer.
This is why the benevolent dictator is the best form of government.
Geoffrey Hinton "The Next Generation of Neural Networks". A google tech talk from 2007 about this newfangled "deep neural network" thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M
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I can assure you that both the View-Master and helmets are still around. If you don't want to strap something to your head, then great: don't (although I really do recommend wearing a helmet while biking).
Cardboard does fill the low-end 'view-master-like' niche, but until the display technology gets a lot smaller, strapping something to your head is the most practical solution.
Sure, but the post is by some random guy on his forum.
I think part of the problem in the US is the culture where for example police departments compete for resources, basically to make their own department bigger. One of the ideas in the Ron Paul movement was that governments needs to be smaller. Of course, in the real world it probably should not go as far as Ron Paul suggests, but....
A few people in larger buildings are indeed having an issue with connecting to the base point.

This access point 'network' uses each other to make a mesh network, increasing the chance that the nearest access point has a connection to the base access point, which has a connection to the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking