skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should they also seek to hire neo-nazis to get the nazi viewpoint as well?
What are your thoughts on VS: Code?
Manage Embedded Fonts in PowerPoint Files and Generate Responsive HTML in .NET App
Dealing with bugs against your project
Apple Store photo ring scandal in Brisbane: Privacy commissioner weighs in
It adds up pretty quickly. For 2008 and 2012 combined, he only got one state wrong. Say there are 10 swing states close to 50/50 chances, and all others are fixed. The chance of getting them all right, twice, are 0.5^(2*10) = 0.000000953674316.

(that's actually not the best method to evaluate him, because he provides estimates of chances and could be better evaluated with something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score that checks for calibration as well, but it's more intuitive).
Using webpack shoots the boilerplate up to 16 files

https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/webpack.html

The production build weighs in at a meg, for a simple hello world.
SCSS variables also make things FAR more maintainable. To change a color, you shouldn't have to change every single line where that color is used.

You update the value where your color variable is defined, and then each style declaration that uses the color variable receives the new value automatically.
That's cool if they're very strict about the end time. The one I mentioned for our Mondays can be anywhere from 15 min to much much longer if there is a lot of programming (presentations by different departments, partner speeches).
Funny - Sublime has been taking a pounding from all angles over the years, but still seems to be bouncing back off the ropes and swinging hard.

This project looked familiar, and I seem to recall coming across it a while back. As others have pointed out, the blog hasn't been updated since 2014, so it looks like a stalled project. Another points victory to Sublime perhaps? ;)
Soylent is an excellent way to control costs and calories while saving time. You don't eat it for every meal. And it makes the meals you do take the time and have the money to prepare more enjoyable. Soylent prepared from powder is $1.93 per meal (500 calories) and is easily mixed from a packet of 4 meals at a time with the included pitcher.

My girlfriend and I drink soylent just about every morning for breakfast and then have a cup of coffee. We prepare it at night in about 2 minutes for the next 2 days. It's much better cold from the fridge than faucet temperature but mixes much better with faucet temperature water. It tastes like a mild cereal with a hint of vanilla (they changed the more recent versions' taste). It's helped us lose/maintain weight and keep food costs under control (NYC is expensive).
Yeah, it's still alive and kicking. I try use it when I can, it has a lot of nice properties. As an unregulated industry it is abound with scams and fraud, but if you use common sense, and avoid anything remotely "get rich fast" or "altcoins" you'll do fine. If you're interested in it, I'd highly recommend signing up with circle.com or coinbase.com and buying $5 or $10 worth of bitcoin to play around
Uber and Lyft are demolishing New York City taxi drivers
Man, you nailed what I was trying to say. I never would have described it as anxiety - because off the cuff it actually sounds pretty silly to be anxious about food - but that is absolutely what it is.
It is, I thought it would be evident. Never the less, he wasn't a tech slouch, specially for a politician [and for the time he advanced his beliefs in tech]. To wit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...
Windows 2016 just became GA so it will still take some time for bugs to be smothered out. It addition to this running docker containers inside a windows 2016 VM does not help as you are still end up running static VMs.

Unless cloud providers offering ability to run Windows containers directly on the cloud platform, there are no efficiency gains.

[1]https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/10/12/a...
>They should be ashamed of the Oculus/GearVR developer experience, it was the determining factor in my abandoning Oculus.

Yep and I think too many have that same feeling. Not sure if they can afford that but we will see.
I'm becoming increasingly skeptical that anyone on the internet is an actual human being. Especially so if this entity decides what I'm reading and why. I want to see the source to ranking algorithms, input sources and moderation activity. Not that I don't trust the Zuck.
In 2005 I set a goal to read all of Waugh's novels and travel writing that year. It was time well spent. My favorite turned out to be the Sword of Honour trilogy, but I've re-read Put Out More Flags the most, and probably thought about Helena the most. Understanding Waugh's perspective makes it easier to laugh at all the silly social movements, businesspeople and inept bureaucrats that plague us without succumbing to cynicism.
When have you guys ever had a socialist president?
The metaphor seems to fit perfectly with what he wanted to say.

First you give people the liberty to explore and then you crush most of them with thousands of pages of legislation.

A little dark perhaps, but it fits.
Semver- the semantic versioner for npm
Given all the grief expressed in the post and the comments, it seems like if someone architected a really nice, developer-friendly native mobile API for any platform you would get droves of devs flocking to it.... Despite the two major players, the market seems wide open as long as they focused on the development experience like what Matz did for Ruby... Programmers are customers too! :)
This is why I came to really dislike angular pretty quickly. Maybe it's just evidence that I suck at javascript, but I found it devilishly difficult to debug even seemingly simple issues. But the errors were not in jquery, they were in the maze of the digest cycle. But I agree, I have no idea how beginners manage when things fall off the happy path.
Personally, the idea that there's a network my traffic flows over, where that traffic is sniffed such that its content could potentially result in things like me losing my job, is just debilitating to me.

If I worked for such a company, all my traffic would be flowing over a VPN, full-stop.
What was that about "a friar... who is trying to understand Bitcoin encryption... from the perspective of the Catholics"?
Grasping requires (1) proximity, (2) contact and (3) pressure in that order
The Nissan GT-R already does that automatically https://www.engadget.com/2007/12/22/nissan-gt-r-disables-spe...
That's only in certain jurisdictions, I guess? Around here cars either have a big warning sticker not to put children backwards in the front passenger seat or have an option to disable the airbag. I don't think I've seen one that does it automatically. The only use the sensor gets is making noise when the passenger doesn't use the seat belt.
I am an expert in iOS dev but I use and want to like Android. It is quite annoying... I really do not like the walled garden of Apple and on Android devices, even cheap MTK ones I am quite handy at installing what I want, but for some reason I find Android development a real pain compared to iOS where I find most older things (stuff, as it goes in life, needs to mature) very obvious and easy.

I would say what most annoys me about iOS is the GPL thing which is the reason, among others, there are no emulators in the Appstore, at least no relevant ones. As owner of a museum and fan of old machines I cannot do without emulators. On my Android tablet I have around 50. Emulators is a niche but no GPL is hampering a lot for everyone on iOS.
I just want to say, I absolutely love that you used a whole bunch of unicode characters for math. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen someone use the superscript characters in a legitimate context (well, beyond my own very occasional usage). And you even threw in stuff like U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN (×)!

As a side note, if anybody here is on OS X and wants to be able to type these characters, years ago I wrote a DefaultKeyBinding.dict file that adds bindings for these and a lot more (including the greek alphabet). You can see the file at https://gist.github.com/kballard/7584246fa5d5fcb684e996ff095..., and if you want to use it, just put this in ~/Library/KeyBindings with the name DefaultKeyBinding.dict. Any running apps may have to be restarted to notice this.
A software company employs infinitely less people than a manufacturing plant used to and doesn't provide the same mix of high skilled and low skilled labor. That's the problem that many areas of the country are dealing with: that the economic boom is becoming a lot more concentrated than it used to, which only increases income inequality.
Nice try, bot!
Distributing things equally is not possible. For example, if you need heart surgery, who gets the best surgeon? For another, who gets the dwelling with the nicer view? Even parents who try to treat their kids equally soon realize it is an impossible task.
Electric design in FreeCAD
This depends greatly on where you live. I grew up in a middle class town in CT but now live in NYC. The price differential for groceries is huge. And compounded by the fact that you don't have a car, so you're limited in the stores you can reasonably go to and bring groceries home from.
agreed.

> 100 calories of grain we feed animals

100 calories grain we feed animals...

...that humans cannot consume
...that is produced more efficiently than any other crop
...grown on land in climates that is not suitable for "vegetables"
...that makes the most productive use of the land
...that requires few people and simple mechanization to tend

The entire midwest is just a "solar farm" for our diet using vast amounts of land to sequester energy in arbitrary grains that are used as the fuel for the next level.
the article itself is promoting fake news that 9/11 was not controlled demolition.
At this point, I actually trust them more than your average startup. They have cleaned house and really made a deliberate effort to shift the culture. Firing a lot of people (starting with the CEO founder) is a decent sign of really wanting to change. The newer people definitely seem much more level-headed and less aggressive. Of course this is all subjective, but trust always is.

There's also the part that further scandal would almost certainly destroy the company completely. So Sacks is likely making an effort to avoid scandalous behavior even more than the average startup.

Compare Zenefits's response to that of Theranos, where Holmes remarkably still has her job after being literally banned from the industry.
Often if you understand the equations you can "half re-derive" them from the given information. That is, you can start to work them out from first principles to jog your memory, then write the rest from memory.

Other times, e.g. in probability theory, there are just a lot of equations, so even if you do a lot of practice problems, you will not have memorised all the equations. In these cases, usually a formula sheet is permitted on the final exam. Otherwise, you have to study math the same way you do biology - summarising and constant revision.
Don't believe that FizzBuzz trope - there certainly are candidates that can't code their way out of a wet paper bag, but they are hardly the majority. I'll also point out that 90% of companies could care less about time/space complexity, optimized algorithms and data structures more complex than a hash table. Business apps are everywhere and don't require a fancy CS degree - some folks thrive in these environments, for others it's personal hell.

I guess what I'm getting at is that the onus for company/team/culture fit is on both the interviewer and the interviewee. Bad luck aside, there's no excuse for running into irreparably lousy workplaces time and time again.
Almost everything you have said is false. Please cease this defamation.

>IRCv3 is an almost closed group of friends, mostly znc core developers

There is only one ZNC developer actively involved with IRCv3 (DarthGandalf) and even they have not been particularly active in the last few months.

>who have decided they can choose what the future of IRC looks like.

We accept any reasonable proposals providing you are willing to provide a strong rationale for it.

>They have put lots of pressure on and harassed other developers of clients and networks, sending them patches and infiltrating their devs if necessary, so their ideas are actually implemented.

No IRCv3 technical board member has ever forced a developer to accept patches. Some people have contributed patches to various IRC implementations in order to improve IRCv3 compliance but those patches have been accepted out of the free will of the maintainer.

>If you complain about those ideas and specs, they'll tell you to refer to their github issue tracker,

We prefer that discussions happen on the tracker rather than IRC as it is persistent and can be referred to in the future.

>they mostly ignore those who are not part of that core group I mentioned.

This is completely false. Please provide evidence of this happening.
Downvoted you because I don't quite see how this connects with GP other than a by being a Godwin laden form of "I'm not going to explain why, but trust me you're wrong"

Worth a read IMO: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Perception and control stack for Kinova arm autonomous manipulation
by the way, very interesting, where can I get that viewpoint?
same feeling
> I can imagine trying to be both iOS and Android developer would be about as insane as trying to be both .NET and Java developer.

Why is that insane? Sure, your core APIs and tooling change, but software developers should be able to learn, and read documentation. Chances are, you're writing the same sorts of applications in both, and the same principles of good software development apply. Why would a Java developer be water in .NET's oil? Or vice versa? They're reasonably similar languages targeting similar niches. It's like saying that a Django web-dev could never move to a RoR job.

I'm curious because I spent a few years self-learning .NET (C# but I love F#) because I was trying to get into the industry in a town dominated by .NET, and ended up being hired by a Java shop.
Google’s new Sprayscape app is purposely imperfect
Yes. He also got paid on it.

Vanity metrics aren't just for tech firms!
I do.

I don't have a crystal ball or any insider information but I believe the stakes are higher for a corporation than for the plaintiff because defeating an assault could send a message to other potential claimants. (Think runaway juror)

I don't know how much weight you'll give to some study but for What it is worth, here's a semi related article

http://nytimes.com/2008/08/08/business/08law.html

https://archive.fo/rTQIF

Of course, the defense knows this and this unwillingness to go to trial factors in when talking about exact dollars and cents of a settlement.

At the end of the day, it doesn't even matter because I imagine most of the share holders of Wells Fargo are not in on any deal like this and arguably are the victim here more than the customers or the employees of Wells Fargo.

I feel the same way when some city pays to settle a case brought up against a city employee's actions. Cases like this are a net loss to the society because likely nothing will change for the better. The cost of getting caught just gets factored into the cost of doing business.

Sorry if I sound ambivalent or worse cynical. It is because I'm trying to tell myself that I'm wrong and things will change for the better if this woman wins her lawsuit against Wells Fargo. However, I know that this John Stumpf fellow will be back as either a consultant or a board member within a year. He didn't lose anything. Others have little incentive not to follow his lead.
I also want to know why it's better than the myriad of other text editors out there. Evaluating a text editor and it's extensibility is a time consuming task.
What is the error rate of fake news over verified (real) news? A 5% margin of error could be acceptable. A 50% error rate would indicate a serious problem.

> As part of a larger audit of Facebook’s Trending topics, the Intersect logged every news story that trended across four accounts during the workdays from Aug. 31 to Sept. 22. During that time, we uncovered five trending stories that were indisputably fake and three that were profoundly inaccurate.

Yes, but out of how many Trending stories in total? Eight fake stories over a three week period seems like an acceptable rate of error.

Trending stories are popular stories. A fake story has an element of satire. These stories could be popular because of the satire (and the subsequent humor). Trending does not imply veracity.
I've heard a lot of praise for the Windows phone developer experience, but what really matters is the audience. Dev's flock to the audience. Even just a small pay difference will dev's to deal with the most terrible of developer experiences(ex. Sharepoint)
The post made me wish I majored in Physics!
538 didn't give any predictions on the primaries. Yes, they wrote articles saying that he had no chance, but those are separate from their statistical predictions.

And, regarding the volatility: the probabilities reported by 538 are closely linked to betting/prediction markets. Anyone with a better model could parlay into money quite easily.
very good point! Indeed, if fake news are trending, they should be on Trending. Its a feature, not a bug.
>ZNC guys and Atheme guys did not get along because political reasons, so they threatened to fork the project.

I do not wish to start an argument over things which are long dead. However, I think it is important to note that the "political reasons" were that you were constantly derailing discussions and threatening people.

I can publish all of my IRC logs if anyone wants evidence of this.
As far as I can tell the only upsides to car navigation (embedded or a standalone TomTom or something) is independence from live data link and battery constraints. Unless I'm going somewhere without a data connection, I think the phone is strictly better.
In the case you describe, "they" tend to be a) propagandists and b) poorly-informed people robotically repeating the last political meme those propagandists spoon-fed them.
Inflation has nothing to do with scarcity. It is the result of the supply of money increasing relative to the value in the economy. It's supply & demand, which applies to money just like everything else.

Scarcity does raise prices, but that is not inflation, because if X's price rises, you spend more on X, but you have less to spend on Y, which lowers that price.
Thank god someone is writing about this. Recently I've been on the Yahoo's homepage a lot, because of Fantasy Football, and I noticed that a lot of the content is exactly like the article says, fake news from right-wing propaganda sites.

And no, this is not me expressing my liberal bias. It's one thing to have opinionated headlines like the Huffington Post, it's another thing to have a completely fictional headline created by right-wing websites. Something along the lines of "Obama lets immigrants across border to kill white people"...

I think tech culture's misguided desire to treat everyone "equally" creates a huge imbalance. You can't put the NYTimes in the same category as Breitbart. Just as you wouldn't compare it to "National Enquirer".

Edit: To keep my reply on topic, I am adding this thought: I think Facebook knew this would happen and that is why they had humans curated the trending list. I don't think they deserved the negative backlash, although I understand the slippery slope it creates.
Not great with large files.
Interesting comment. I had not considered central bank monetary policy was holding back corporate profit repatriation, which would realize significant revenues for the federal government, which could be spent on infrastructure.
It is my perception that people with the middle views you describe would still be considered "pro-choice" and would largely vote "pro-choice" but perhaps I am wrong. If those people were split 50/50 in the way that they vote I would concede that there is a middle ground in that issue.
Charlie Brooker is amazing, love everything he does.
This title made me laugh. Reminds me of how The Onion used to be in its heyday.
Still way better than Atom though. VS Code's biggest weakness is the poor selection of third-party plugins. That's primarily why I'm still using Atom.
You're kidding, right? Wanting to have accurate information is sexist now?
React Native is getting there. It's still early software with a lot of problems but it has a lot of promise. My anecdotal experience as someone learning mobile development was that React Native was a lot easier to pick up and learn than native Android development. Despite a large number of issues the developer experience has been really slick and I've been able to iterate much faster.

Give it a couple of years and I think it'll be exactly what you're asking for.
Could be FireWire charging--the original iPhone and earlier iPods could charge off 12V (FireWire), whereas the 3G and up only took 5V (USB). Adapters were available (although Apple didn't make them themselves)

Also with the early iPhones, if accessories were just "Made for iPod" certified but not "Made for iPhone" (which usually required TDMA emissions testing and iPhone testing) a message would pop up.
This is not how IRCv3 works. We have contributors from almost every single major IRC network and implementation.
I started making a semi-complex android app as my first project. Saw the recommendation to use fragments, and I have never looked back because I am way, way too far down the rabbit whole. It's main advantage to me is perhaps nothing. I have no idea and no real way of knowing. But is has tripled my code base, so that is a good thing!
Can you come up with a better one? Because it's as fair a summary as I could write within that space, and the article was pretty much what I expected before I clicked.

I see no harm in headlines that create interest as long as they are not misleading.
People might be interested in this one too - got a weird name, and it's still under development, but it seems pretty good http://www.vim.org/
I appreciate what the FSF has done, and I generally appreciate their hard-line stance on free software issues ... but it's corner-cases like website javascript where I think they've gone off the rails.

The browser running the javascript can be free/libre, the OS it is running on can be free/libre, the javascript language and browser environment is relatively standardized, it's sandboxed ... The JS is really just part of the page and/or service API.

FSF doesn't have as big a problem calling banks that use closed-source telephony software or making api requests to closed-source webserver backends, there's really not that big a difference from a fully free/libre client interpreting a script in a standardized sandboxed environment, which it just received from a service, as part of using that service.

The other odd FSF corner-case is that firmware blobs that you can't update are OK, but firmware blobs that you can update are not OK (even if they are freely redistributable). I'd say having a hardline stance on this is just not helpful.
What if it's the first HID you connect? How do you confirm?
Hacker news has been left wing hack news for a long time. I'm still waiting for them to downvote me out of existence. It's taking too long.
:)
Dubai Apartments getting more Affordable in 2017
Just curious--why do you still remain a customer of Wells Fargo?
This is not a problem because there is no such thing as generalized AI. There's just specialized AI for lots of things added together. Keep getting better at things and after a while you are good at lots of things, so appear to be general to an observer (until they see you outside your domain of expertise).

This theory compactly explains why no one knows how to do general AI.

I don't believe there is a special sauce waiting to be discovered.