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These conspiracy theories are really getting old.

Do people really think Facebook developed and released React for the sole, or even primary purpose of gaining patent rights? It's preposterous that so many top engineers would be working on such a goal.

It seems obvious that Facebook just has some overly cautious lawyers. I highly doubt that means Facebook is going to use your usage of React as an excuse to steal your patents.
I would rather recommend

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Galaxy-Humanity-Discovered-Uni...

This is the right context for Newton, Einstein and quantum physics, it's written by an astrophysicist and is up to date, with beautiful illustrations and easy to read.
That's really strange. Wearing a helmet while cycling is just good sense: the human body was never designed to move at speeds over 10mph (and frequently over 20) on hard, asphalt roads or near concrete. One mistake can have you landing and hitting your head on these hard surfaces, which can give you a concussion or brain injury, or worse. You don't even have to be moving; you can lose your balance while waiting for a light, and fall over and hit your head. I was once told by someone who got a motorcycle and took a safety course about a video he watched: in the video, it showed numerous accidents with motorcycle riders wearing helmets and other protective gear, and walking away from pretty horrible accidents, or at least not suffering any permanent injuries. Then, at the end, they showed an accident where a guy not wearing a helmet was sitting on his motorcycle in his driveway, with the engine off, lost his balance, fell over, hit his head on the concrete, and died.

The idea that a helmet-wearer is somehow an "asshole bike ricer" because he wants to avoid a brain injury in case he falls off his bike onto a hard surface seems rather asinine to me.

And yes, glasses are a good idea too because of bugs and wind. You don't need anything fancy; just cheapo clear safety glasses will work great.
I suppose I could have just googled it myself. Thanks!
this is just fraud...
> 3g is plenty fast, for the next few years at least. The only advantage of LTE is latency

???? LTE is orders of magnitude faster.

> and there's only LTE when you're in the middle of a city and probably have wifi anyway.

Not in the US. Every marginally populated area has it.
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I don't think it's discounting the research because of intuition. It's discounting the research because, while there is a statistically significant difference, the commenter above is arguing that it is not practically significant.
if you can break out where your customers come from(which channel) you can get some idea of what the channel is contributing. but it even that's a little misleading because it's hard to get referrals if you don't have customers in the first place, so where do those get attributed to.
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That "set your attention" slider is a cool idea I've never seen before.

It's also painfully hard to use (the maximum attention setting involved 4 overlapping animations at one point), and scary in a factual relativity sort of sense I've never even tried to pin down. It vaguely reminds me of the sort of manipulation NewsDiffs was created to counter - stories changing tone and even facts in real time with no acknowledgement of that fact.

I don't see any sign of that happening on this page, but imagine one of those sliders with conflicting content at different attention levels. I find it creepy on a level I have trouble explaining.
You're supposed to downshift before you stop. With indexed shifters on the brake lever, it's trivial to do as you're braking for the stop.
Is this political protest art or some Professor Jeff Jarvis fever dream about innovention? I can't make any sense of it.
>Quickest production car currently in production (P100D), a first stage booster that reliably returns to the pad for reuse.

This is an announcement that there's an upcoming shareholder vote...
AFAIK there are no static host services that offer user defined response codes, you'll most likely have to prepare your own.
The increased cost of housing makes dealing with the problem more difficult (expensive). But just because someone used to live in SF doesn't mean the reason they became homeless was the price of housing. The report shows that over 10 years, the homeless population has only increased by 468 people, which does show any strong correlation to the huge increase in the price of housing over that period. High prices have made the problem marginally worse, but the major underlying problems are the same as 10 years ago: drug abuse, mental illness, disability. It is pretty obvious walking around SF that the problem isn't just that rents are too high. These are people who need other kinds of help, and housing pricing talk distracts from the more difficult issues to deal with.
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> I'm not saying this isn't possible, but right now you'd have to fly an enemy drone or plane near the carrier group to get any targetting information and that would be shot down or jammed well before it could determine the exact locale (...)

What about optical satellite observation?
This is an excellent argument for setting up e-mail using your own domain name, though, and for using that for all new accounts and transitioning existing accounts to your new e-mail address as soon as possible.

The Internet works just fine when it's decentralised, but particularly with e-mail, relying on the big service providers (or an ISP-provided address, for that matter) immediately locks you into someone else's systems for no particularly good reason.

Registering your own domain and setting up mail forwarding can be done with any number of services and costs less for a year than many people pay for a week of their cell phone service, and crucially, the domain is registered by some specialist service but is your domain and can be transferred to another service any time you want.

Unfortunately it can be a scary-looking process for non-technical users, but for those with enough confidence to arrange it, I highly recommend it.
Right, you can't tell if there is a hidden malicious component that hasn't been activated yet. You can extract assumed non-malicious data without giving a malicious component the ability to do anything, if it hasn't an build-in data exfiltration channel (microphone and wireless transmitter could spy on you without attacking your system)
> I understand bb needs to make money

They're an Atlassian product, they're pretty ok on the cash-money front.
If you're comparing dollar value, then you'll need to compare relevant quantities there though. "hundreds of dollars more per year" over several decades is tens of thousands of dollars.

What is the relative expense of "section 8" than public housing, since it doesn't produce better economic outcomes than public housing?

But like you mention, there are other axes of evaluation, such as fighting segregation, classism, etc., in addition to basic social justice. "Market soultions" are quite (most?) often the best solutions along these axes, but being a market solution is not an end within itself, IMHO.

This study is just one tiny aspect of the big picture. But its still worthy of publicizing because it's not what I, or many others, expected.
Hi vegardx, I'm the lead Product Manager on Pipelines. First of all, thanks for your comment. It's still early days for us but we've had some great feedback from beta customers and making it available to all customers allows us to help a lot more teams on Bitbucket. Regarding the failed builds you can use webhooks [1] today to trigger actions after the pipeline completes and we'll work on extending this capability in the future.

Our first focus was to make a platform that can scale on demand without hard constraints on the number of containers running. We know that we have some gaps to fill but we're now moving fast and we've added several features in the past weeks (repo status, notifications, pipelines statuses everywhere).

Thanks again for your feedback. Let me know if you have any questions.

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[1] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Notificat...
The thing that always impresses me about Google Now and their voice parsing in general isn't so much about speaking answers back to spoken queries but just how good it can be at guessing what you mean.

My favorite example was a couple of years ago when I was at a bar. There was a song on the jukebox ("Coffee Pot" by Cajmere) which, for reference, is a house music song with a repeated vocal sample that says "It's time for the perculator [sic]". I assume they mean "percolator" but that's how the guy pronounces it in the sample.

Anyway, we were joking around and even though the bar was quite loud with people talking loudly all around and music playing, I pulled out my phone and asked "Ok, Google: is it time for the perculator?" I pronounced it incorrectly like the guy in the song and within seconds, I had results. The top one was a link to the video for "Coffee Pot" by Cajmere on Youtube and the rest were links to other stuff regarding the song.

Now, this was at least 2 years ago and possibly more. The response to my silly joke of a question wasn't so witty as to give me a spoken "it's time for the perculator" or anything like that....but it could parse my words despite all the noise and competing speech around me, it understood a mispronounced word, and it knew that this lyric sample referred to a song with a different title (Coffee Pot) and linked me to the video.

That was seriously the first time I was really impressed by their voice assistant even if it was a ridiculous request. No idea what the result would be on today's Google Now or tomorrow's Assistant (guess I'll find out when my Pixel gets delivered). Still, even if just from an engineering and software angle, that made me grin a bigger geeky grin than I might have imagined.
JavaScript is overused today, even for stupidest things. If needs to be done in JS, you'll see God knows how many frameworks included. This idea reminded me of: youmightnotneedjquery.com
And I almost worry that it might get someone hired. The New Digital Age is all about this kind of pervasive physical/digital monopoly/monopsony, essentially pitching 'deep company' structures as a successor to 'deep state' ones.
I've tried most alternative meat products on the market.

Beyond Meat is fairly low on my list of favourite meat alternatives. The texture and taste just aren't quite right, sort of in the uncanny valley, if you will.

My favourite alt-meat product would have to be Quorn.
This is something that comes up once in a while as a technoutopian future where our spectrum is free and there is fiber to every blade of grass on the planet. There are way bigger problems than the access and ownership things mentioned here. The frequencies used by 4G and 5G will not benefit from the low heights of telephone poles...radios don't work the way this person think they work. We need spectrum reform and wideband radios before we even think about something like lightpole-based Internets.
I'll disagree about them having good source data, or if they have it they're not showing it.

Public transport info is only available for very small set of predefined cities (e.g SF, Paris). Apple Maps doesn't even show the stops on the map, when every OSM app has them.
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Polymer has nearly the same provision. They're sneaky about it as it doesn't appear in the main license. http://polymer.github.io/PATENTS.txt
Also, think of most small service businesses they hustle their ass off in the beginning with horrible CACs but then they start getting referrals and LTV/0 starts looking pretty good.
As someone not in America I find your reality difficult to understand, it's hard to understand how its citizens see so much unnecessary disparity for a public good like education as being normal.

Are roads in wealthy neighbourhoods repaired on a different schedule than poor neighbourhoods too?
You can cheat on the "Solitude game" (that I finished few times already) by double-clicking on hidden cards to add them to the top if they are the matching cards.
THIS SO MUCH ^

I work for one of said financial firms and you simply can't beat algorithms with directly connected market data feeds to the exchanges unless you also want to pay for them.
By this logic, Steve Jobs has nothing to do with the iPhone.
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I legitimately can't tell if this is a serious proposal, a work of dystopian/cyberpunk art, or somehow both.
Interesting concept, even if a bit too hacky, thanks for the link! (and probably possible with all kinds of fast-ish systems with DMA)
Head injuries in car accidents are very uncommon, and the same with pedestrians. Pedestrians aren't likely to hit their heads on concrete at speeds well beyond that which the human body was designed for. Car accident victims don't have hard surfaces to hit their heads on in cars, and instead get other injuries. That's why seat belts are required by law in most jurisdictions, and also why airbags are mandated in all new vehicles.

Are you trying to argue against seat belts and airbags now? Are you going to claim that you're safer being thrown clear?
if you're interested in this check out "Reasoning, Attention, Memory (RAM)" NIPS Workshop 2015 organized by Jason Weston (Facebook Research): http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/
To explain to both of you:

Noone gives a f* about the code you have in your github. Noone will read it ever.

When I say a "good" profile. That means you put a link in your resume to ONE project you want to show. The landing page is a README with a paragraph to explain what is the app, a quick start, and a few screenshots.

If you've got a link to the website (or desktop installer) AND there are a few icons of external integrations in travis-ci/appveyor/unittestthing/packager then your repo is absolute perfection. =)
> Reverse scrolling? It's an option on the touchpad / mouse settings to scroll naturally/unnaturally

Yes, but do you want to have different setting for your trackpad and mouse at the same time? You need a third party software. It's not as bad as I told the story

> Going to sleep - it's under power options in Settings

But I don't want to open the settings and change the behavior of the whole system if I right now need to have it awake for 10 minutes. Sure I could launch `caffeinate` on a terminal, but a clickable applet would be better. But of course it's either paid or buggy.

> writing to NTFS is not a problem they care about.

As to say, they don't care about something very basic that their users might need and don't need much implementation.

In fact I think you can simply `mount -t <ntfs_or_something>` your drive or add a line to `/etc/fstab`, but you won't have it in finder.

> When's the last time you wrote to ext4 or HFS+ on Windows natively without extra tools?

This just makes windows a worse OS. If you compare it to a real OS, like your favorite linux variant, you can.

> Do we get upset with Microsoft because they don't support HFS+?

Actually I do. This is exactly what I'm talking about: it's just a business practice to enforce their own standards, since the whole implementation wouldn't be so hard: they could just add a pop up upon installation that says "This software is not guaranteed to work, use at your own risk".

In the end, it is clear that a OS which support more FSes (especially the most widespread ones) is better than the same OS without that feature, and I say we should complain that we can't get it.
I was recently looking at BitBucket Data Centre, to move our in-house git server to something with better clustering & high-availablilty & failover (rather than doing it ourselves). I was a little disappointed to find out the HA features are provided by storing your repos on an NFS server, and detaching/attaching it to the primary node.
Then, yea, your examples are outside of those two cycles--to be fair I didn't say the ones I listed were the only two possible chains. When I think of "good schools" though, I don't think of "temporary wealth" exurbs where accountants are buying McMansions. I'm thinking of schools that feed into the Ivy League and fiercely compete with elite private schools that also feed the Ivies.
I think (hope) they are taking "Google" as a concept for marketing/impact purposes, not as Google per se. That said, if there's a company that'd dare to implement this, it'd be Google.
I also use seperate browsers for some stuff, but these two addons is a must:

https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/self-destruct... together with https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
So then let's continue to make it even harder to live? I don't understand your point.

I've seen first hand in Boston how hard it is for someone in public housing to get a job. Can't imagine some random suburb.
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You are probably thinking of the PRISM program, which demands information from technology companies based on warrants from the secret FISA court [1], and the MUSCULAR program which sniffs internal Google/Yahoo cloud traffic from servers based in foreign countries. MUSCULAR is completely warrantless because the information is collected outside of the United States [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...
>I'm perfectly fine with it all going to zero, as long as Musk and Company make as much headway as possible towards electric mobility and shifting us to renewables.

You know you can root for Tesla without risking your financial future, right?

Do you support the auto majors who are also doing much of the same work, but less so in the public eye?
If I am not mistaken doesn't with Xamarin mean you need to build the UI code once for each platform?
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I spent many afternoons trying to get tesseract to read Dwarf Fortress screenshots, such as http://i.imgur.com/32vVhnH.png - including much pre-processing, such as converting the text to black and white. Alas, I never even got close.

Edit: just tried Google's, and it had one mistake for that entire file. That's pretty impressive.
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I use all 3 of those and a few others, yet it still detected quite a few sites I was logged in to.
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Other frameworks could infringe the hypothetical React-related patent. There is no safety from infringement as long as software patents exist.
Geotagging is something that tends to be on by default, and lots of people aren't aware they can shut it off. (or that it's happening in the first place)
There is value in conveying your message clearly.
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More like, I don't usually want to watch something that I have to be overly attentive with or that others are buzzing about. It's not really anti-social although I can see that interpretation, I just like to put something on and have it be an escape from a reality that includes office talk.

Also, movies are subjective and honestly IMDB's rankings don't include the stuff I generally like to watch. Do people actually sit around and watch critically acclaimed Oscar winners all the time? I don't usually like Oscar winners, they always feel like they are trying to hard. It's boring.

I watch a lot of Survivor and Jeopardy.
> it's probably best to assume police and other government agencies can access your social network data.

A hundred times over. Your social media posts are included in both your credit score and the criminal risk score algorithms used by police to prioritize covert civilian investigations.

The ACLU has spoken pretty powerfully on the use of police risk scoring algorithms and individualized data tracking, but it's the wave of the future with states and municipalities being pressured and incentivized by federal police to adopt the technologies and practices. IIRC it's close to a hundred US cities now that have official per-citizen social media and data surveillance feeds?
I think Cordova is increasing in relevance. Over the last couple of years mobile devices have reached a level of performance that makes hybrid apps feel native. When you combine Cordova with Ionic you can create write-once apps that deploy to any device and have a native look and feel.
The United States was founded on the principle that yes, you can harass hundreds, possibly thousands of innocent people just because you feel put upon. I think that even has been called the American revolution (With a little helping of the Civil War.)

Not to mention that almost every form of social progress came at the cost of inconveniencing all those poor, poor people who want nothing to do with the struggle for civil rights, universal suffrage, etc...

When you put convenience and order over basic human and constitutional rights, yes, you bloody well should be inconvenienced. The status quo 'inconveniences' these people every day - far worse then a blocked freeway. Perhaps you should channel your inconvenience at the oppressor, rather then the victim.