skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"pushing this technology onto the public" is a bit much, as is the author's summary of Google's driving experiences. I don't think it rises to the level of fear mongering, but it reads like "I barely understand this so I'll repeat a few things I found by googling".
> Unlike the other dimensions, the difference between ridiculously thin and absurdly thin isn't terribly user-visible

What about the difference between ridiculously bulky and fat and normal size?
I really liked the message of each generation of programming considers the next "not real programming". It makes me reconsider the pushback against node-esque micro-packages: http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how.... Maybe this is just the next logical evolution of programming.
Less the cost of a car, less the time you have to go out of your way to go to a box store, less the space in your apartment to store the stuff.

I live in the West Village and just got back from picking up my weekly farm delivery six blocks away. The vegetables were picked probably in the last 36 hours and are consistently the most delicious I've tasted, including compared to my parents' gardens, where I can eat them off the vine.

I walked to the pickup place and back in less time I've seen people wait in line, or even walk from their car to the entrance of a supermarket.
Buy the three pack and sell one?
Why, in 2016, is anyone still talking about "iPhone killers" or threats to the iPhone?

Outside the US it is not the dominant platform. Sure, it has a good share of the market, but it's not like Apple even outsell Samsung's Galaxy range.
The Clean Code Talks - "Global State and Singletons": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FRm3VPhseI
I would. You must be joking.
Hyper.is – a terminal emulator based on HTML/JS/CSS
It's value isn't that stable...

It's just another commodity. It trades like a commodity, its not anything special, it's not currency, it's metal dug from the ground. People attribute way more importance to it than they should.
Big shout-out for Eero (https://eero.com/), which is the best WiFi product I've ever used.
Me. Racist. Against white people. I think you might need more practice at your local comedy club's open mic night.

What I said was, there was a hypothesis, it made a testable prediction, and measurements support that hypothesis. This is sometimes called evidence.

I then pointed out that "proof" is not a simple concept. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(truth) :

> The concept applies in a variety of disciplines,[5] with both the nature of the evidence or justification and the criteria for sufficiency being area-dependent ... in jurisprudence the corresponding term is evidence,[10] with "burden of proof" as a concept common to both philosophy and law. ... Exactly what evidence is sufficient to prove something is also strongly area-dependent, usually with no absolute threshold of sufficiency at which evidence becomes proof

I then showed examples of how people use "proof" for something more like evidence than, say, how it's used in mathematical logic, including cases where the proof can be wrong.

Now it's certainly true that there are many ways to interpret the data. That's why I wrote "Some might say this is evidence which supports multiple hypotheses". You are in that group. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I actually agree that it supports multiple hypotheses, but I haven't looked at the data or any of the research on the topic. I haven't done the analysis. I am making the more pedantic point that it's not outside the bounds of established use to say "prove" here.

Then again, it doesn't sound like you have done the analysis either, and you are reacting on the basis that you don't like the conclusion and you think "proof" only means something like "beyond reasonable doubt".

WP helpfully reminds us that in US law the lowest legal burden of proof is the far "reasonable suspicion". If you believe the data doesn't even mean that low burden of proof, then I certainly disagree.
Why do private military contractors stay in politically-unstable places?
Wait, aren't these superblocks doing exactly what all the hip urbanists complain about the suburban culdesacs do?
> It's amazing, so they'll probably deprecate the RSS feeds next week.

2 real
Amateurs.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
Speak for yourself. I can't stand the pollution it causes. I pick up nearly everything.
Oh. I've hear of GearVR shutting down mid-use due to heat (at least on older phones when it was new).
Will have any impact on the educational version of KSP[1]?
[1] http://kerbaledu.com/
> one can never fully unlock that kind of equity in his life as long as he needs a place to stay

This is untrue. A reverse-mortgage or HELOC can easily unlock the equity while keeping your ownership stake at a safe level and allowing you to continue residing.
Political solutions change as politics change...

"Mathematical security" can be politically banned, is banned in many parts of the world. You only have the option to use mathematical security because other people have been doing the politics for you.
I've actually played around with this (used to make 'immersive' 2D videos for fitness equipment; [1] is a former startup of mine). We tested existing footage in VR: completely nauseating.

That is, it's nauseating if you're trying to imagine that you're running or biking through an area, because the movement doesn't match your movements. There are a few exceptions.

Our content was live action video, but massively stabilized (it almost looked like CG; many partners assumed it was). So I'm not optimistic that standard video would work for this, at all. Just my two cents, though it's a pretty well-informed couple of pennies.

[1] http://www.vafitness.com/
That's what surrogate pairs are for. [1] You're no longer working with one code point per character, but even with 32-bit Unicode there's no real guarantee of that (consider things like combining characters, accents, emoji skin tones, etc.)

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...
> it doesn't appear to even try and examine still image stabilisation and if it is superior to OIS as you claim.

Yes it does, but it'd be under "blurry photos" description rather than stabilization because stabilization is more inherently a video issue than a photo one.

In the case of OIS and photos you want to look at the low-light performance, which DXO did test and the Pixel did do very well on.
I'm pretty sure this was supposed to be a Nexus phone, everything points to a change of strategy late in the development. They claim that it's designed and developed by Google, but everyone that has been paying attention to the leaks knows it's made by HTC, and it shows. It looks nothing like the other Pixel devices, but it look's exactly like a Nexus phone by HTC. The Pixel launcher was named the Nexus launcher until recently. Next year's Pixel phone will probably be much closer to Google's own vision, if they make one. This years model have a premium price tag and might have good build quality and an expensive SoC, but otherwise it's underwhelming, especially at that price point. I prefer Android over iOS, but I don't think the Pixel can even match the iPhone 7 hardware for a lot of key specs, like CPU/GPU performance, camera, battery life, etc. The Pixel XL 128 GB costs over €1000 and they still only promise software updates for two years, that's inexcusable.

This reminds me of the Pixel C that allegedly was supposed to run Chrome OS until a change late in the development, and the Nexus 6 that allegedly was supposed to be an Android Silver device by Motorola until the Android Silver program was scrapped late in the development process. Will Google follow through on any hardware project from start to finish without interference from above?
Let's back up for a moment. What proof is there? A few sources "close to the matter"? Sure, that can be reliable, but it's not proof.
I see harm in what you're saying, but I also think the same thing applies to the US media and corporations. Just because the hack was linked to Russia and they have been at loggerheads with the US, you should not be using that sentiment to discredit the actual information.

I don't know what you call 'actual corruption' but discriminating against another candidate, not providing level playing ground and actively harming another candidate's campaign, DNC chair stepping down because of corruption and immediately getting hired in Clinton campaign all look pretty shady to me. Illegal, maybe not but definitely corrupt.
"mating name instead of maiden name"

I gotta admit, that made me laugh.
Because he didn't have billions and prefers that his money is spent on a future for his three children. His cancer was rare, so he donated his body to science, in the hope it might save people from what he had to endure. (In private he told me it also saves the costs of a funeral. That's Pieter for you ;-)
Why the Best Time to Meet with a VC Is When You're Not Fundraising
Both of those are extremely speculative. I can see the potential for attracting funding using the buzzword "blockchain", of course.
Why have we done this? It seems to go back very far, at least to the 30s or so. The two leading explanations I've heard are:

(1) It's a jobs program in the form of a subsidy for the construction and automotive industries, both of whom are huge employers.

(2) It's to disperse the cities to make them less attractive bombing targets, especially for nuclear weapons.

The latter seems less likely if it goes back to the 30s but more likely as an explanation for Cold War era efforts to disperse cities.

Anyone have any other potential explanations?
They're games. Not the kind I was talking about but they ARE games.

I'm not a big fan of "console/PC or it's fake" attitudes towards games. Some of the best games I've played in years were on iPhone/iPad.
This seems like a very "woo woo" theory, because few users know how big their apps are, or what a "good" size or a "bad" size for a particular app is.

So, let's assume Segment is right and there's a causal relationship between app size and downloads. What am I missing?
They also rotate the keys every 3 months, so the standard cost analysis is a bit different.
sofaking right on, especially these days.
The Rajiv Fernando appointment isn't a textbook example of 'actual corruption'?

There's no lack of other questionable appointments but this one in particular seems to leave no room for debate.
(FWIW, The Guardian, at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/... , lists 1146 people killed by police in 2015, of which 306 were black. Almost identical percentages, and it doesn't change your point.)

The tricky part is to look at how non-black people were treated in similar situations. If use of force would have been justified against white people, but non-lethal means were used instead, then it wouldn't show up in the resources you consulted.
I like a happy medium myself. For whatever it is worth, I've found that despite an appliance-like nature, I can extend iOS with third-party and custom software to my satisfaction. The key point here is that I don't have to resort to such in order to have a good experience as an end-user.

I'd argue that iOS falls between the extremes you've highlighted. It isn't really a general purpose computing platform as evident in the differences between say how multitasking and filesystems are implemented and what they expose to the end-user. On the other hand, the core OS has always supported preemptive multitasking and has always had a real filesystem to boot. The limitations of the presentation are inconveniences to be sure, but still I can slap together an app in Objective-C or Swift and slap it on the phone with ease.

That said I'm sure there are some tasks more easily achieved on traditional systems. That noted, if memory serves this was also the case with the PC/desktop transition. Desktops couldn't do everything big iron could do, but they did enough, it would seem.
Small lots means no garage or even driveway so street front park is all you get. Imagine forking over several hundred thousand for a house and then a few years later finding out that you cannot park in front of your own home like you have done for years.
As someone who writes a lot of Go I have mixed feelings about it. The problem is that there are implicit errors regardless and the explicitness in err != nil tricks beginners into thinking that they've covered all edge cases, they haven't. Recover() is probably the only way to handle internal panics and even then it only works if you know to that internal call might call panic().

That said I can't think of an alternative other then to reduce the number of panic()s hidden in various libraries.
Open Source Projects/Platforms:

ADAM (Big Data Genomics, code-base I think worked currently by UC Berkeley AMPLab and Microsoft Research group focused on cancer research)
https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/labels/pick%20me%20u...

BioConductor (R package that is very popular for crunching different genomic analysis, RNA-Seq)https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/

Galaxy (Platform for reproducible genomics workflows in the cloud)https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Support

Public Available Data Sets:

Cancer Genome Atlas (contains expression data for different kinds of cancer) http://cancergenome.nih.gov/

NCBI Short Reads Archive (contains the genome assembly of a lot of published papers): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra

European Nucleotide Archive: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena, e.g.,

For a recent major paper, "The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations"; you can grep for "accession code"(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...), follow the link and download the whole raw assemblies of all samples here: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB9586

MOOC:

https://www.edx.org/xseries/genomics-data-analysis

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics

StackOverflow:

https://www.biostars.org/

http://seqanswers.com/

Jobs:

NYGC, JCVI, CRB, Sanger, BGI, Broad, NIH, NCBI, Janelia Farm; any research group in universities; any informatics job at pharmaceutical or pharma startups.
Edit - With regard to your editted question "I don't understand what you are saying - is there anything new or controversial to report here?": yes.

First: the material that the NYT specifically edited to display wasn't new information. To the contrary, the information edited out would be new information to a lot of people (including yourself if you look at your own comment wrt 'that's not true' and 'most of this is disputable').

Second: the point of the comment, even if you choose to ignore/disbelieve things you do not want to believe wrt Syria, is that the NYT is very selective about what they choose to publish. Indeed, take a look again at what parts the NYT chose to include and what parts got small versus big font, and how context was edited out of the snippets.

> They include Kerry espousing the principles of Democracy, but not the fact that he was trying to convince the opposition (which does not want an election, including one overseen by the US) that they might want to have an election.

I'm speaking here about both the 'majority consensus' of the opposition, and what is spoken by the leadership of the opposition in the leaked audio.

In any case it's an important omission by the New York Times, which is the point of the comment.

> That simply isn't true.

> The second map ...

It definitely is true. I doubt how closely you've followed the Syrian Proxy War.

But the point (again) here is that John Kerry said it, and said it to opposition leaders behind closed doors, and it was edited out.

> I haven't listened to the whole tape yet

Keep listening.

> I haven't heard this yet, but it sounds correct to me? I don't think anyone in the US is advocating for an invasion are they?

There have been many attempts to find a political basis for US coalition invasion of Syria. However at this point the better of those options have run out. The remaining options are:

A. Provoke or simulate Syrian government attacks on US forces (think Tonkin) at which point it is legal based on self-defense.

B. Get invited in by the Syrian government (not likely to happen).

C. Get the UN Security Council to justify it. Unlikely as Russia or China is likely to veto it.

D. Establish a legal argument that the US is justified going in because of atrocity. Right now this would be an uphill legal battle as it is not the consensus that this can justify an invasion.

Other options (besides the diplomatic track) for the US geopolitical objective of regime change include some covert, illegal options such as assassination of key Syrian government officials, more proxy support including of al Sham (al Nusra's new branding), and leverage on Russia/Syria in other contexts (sanctions/economic warfare, more propaganda/information war, etc).

There's current emphasis on the possibility of building support, under the authorities current present, to establish no-fly zones to give Syrian terror/opposition/rebel groups cover for ground offensives and to let off government and Russian strikes.
Saving Colombia’s peace agreement
That was one of the many I tried.. but it was really reader + igoogle that did it for me. I use the iChrome extension to get a lot of that, but it's not the same without the reader module, and the reader apps themselves aren't what I want for my start page... :-(
Yes - just my quirky sense of humor! It isn't being documented as being safe (that I could find), so it should be checked IMO.
Yikes, that's only 60 sold licenses to pay for a whole year's worth of salary. They have sold over 1.5m licenses on Steam alone:

http://steamspy.com/app/220200

Absolutely shameful.
Sorry I should have clarified. React + node.js. We need the option of HTML being sent to clients so React + Rails wasn't an option
Except a version of the Peace Corps where the suits are raking in tens of millions of dollars on the back of your nearly free labor.
> Inappropriate parking requirements, in particular, can raise the expected rent in a new development by as much as 50 percent

Not only this, but why are houses required to keep a 30 foot lawn extending from the sidewalk to their home? Not only does it require considerable irrigation, but that land can be much better suited as increased living space.
At the UC Berkeley AMPLab we're working on scaling genomics [0], all open source under Apache 2 license. Or more generally, any of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)[1] projects could use a hand, open source licenses vary.

[0] - https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam

[1] - https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Main_Page
I feel the same way. There's so many options on the market, yet I don't like any of them. Is Windows mobile 10 a hopeless case?
For two years I used an S4 I put CM12 on, and now I have an S5 with CM13. I get all my phones for <$180 after they are two years old and just stuck a 64GB SD card in the S5 with the mergable Android 6 storage for room.

I've never seen appeal in new release phones. If there was some high end Android game I'd want to play, I wouldn't want to play it on a tiny screen anyway and I'd just play it on ARC. As it was, I still think the S4 is plenty spiffy a device for day to day use, and my S5 is even faster than that.

It is similar on the desktop. Who needs a high end i7 when an AMD APU does good enough? Unless you need performance, riding the bleeding edge is a waste of money and frustration when things break.
Is it possible that the board would simply remove the CEO in time for the government to have its way with the company, in hope of averting financial Armageddon?
If this was important to you, why not purchase land with a private spot, instead of presuming continued free private use of a public resource?
Cambridge has also historically been pretty hostile toward building parking garages. Parking permits were pretty cheap but garage parking was very limited and very expensive. So it's not really a free-market-ish system. Agree with the basic point which is essentially how things work in areas like Manhattan where people can't generally depend on inexpensive on-street parking.
Black Hat USA 2015 - The Memory Sinkhole Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuIGLz01hE
> Prostate cancer screening did not significantly decrease prostate cancer-specific mortality in a combined meta-analysis of five RCTs. Only one study (ERSPC) reported a 21% significant reduction of prostate cancer-specific mortality in a pre-specified subgroup of men aged 55 to 69 years. Pooled data currently demonstrates no significant reduction in prostate cancer-specific and overall mortality. Harms associated with PSA-based screening and subsequent diagnostic evaluations are frequent, and moderate in severity. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are common and are associated with treatment-related harms. Men should be informed of this and the demonstrated adverse effects when they are deciding whether or not to undertake screening for prostate cancer. Any reduction in prostate cancer-specific mortality may take up to 10 years to accrue; therefore, men who have a life expectancy less than 10 to 15 years should be informed that screening for prostate cancer is unlikely to be beneficial. No studies examined the independent role of screening by DRE.

— http://www.cochrane.org/CD004720/PROSTATE_screening-for-pros...
I greatly enjoyed reading this, although the author takes (more than) a few liberties when comparing the Roman and the various Asian empires:

> Imperial Rome was a dim backwater by comparison

This is a slippery claim, especially when you consider how long the Roman Empire lasted and how widely its relevance and regional dominance swayed over its lifetime. During its peak, Rome spanned dozens of cultures on two separate continents and liberally imported other peoples and norms into their own. That's not to say that the contemporaneous Chinese empires didn't do the same, only that the distinction between the two in this aspect is less stark than the author would have us believe.

> Rome’s legions were fighting fiercely for control of Gaul (modern France and Germany), Britain, Egypt, and various parts of the Balkans; while a succession of (often unfairly maligned) emperors scrambled to hold Rome together through an endless series of famines, wars with the East, coups d’état, refugee crises, and revolts.

This is not strictly false, but it's again muddied by the extreme duration of the Roman Empire. The Pax Romana lasted for two centuries, spanned three major political dynasties, and is generally the period people think of when they think of the Roman Empire (or Rome in general). By the time the Chinese Empire(s) had begun trading silk with the Roman Empire, peace was already the norm in the Roman world.

The author is correct in his characterization of Rome as less artistically and creatively inclined than it perhaps ought to have been, considering its size and wealth during its peak. That being said, Rome's accomplishments in architecture and culture are visible (and audible) everywhere in the Western world. I don't think that any one Eastern power of the same period can claim such cultural permanence to any comparable degree.
Deploying software support for dynamic transmit power control would help a ton without requiring more wired infrastructure or more spectrum, both of which tend to be extremely expensive. When your laptop is in the same room as the access point, there's no need to be transmitting loud enough to clobber your neighbor's traffic. See https://github.com/thuehn/Minstrel-Blues
Pretty much everything is worse than Samsung.

Galaxy S7 Edge is f*ing gorgeous.