skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered about this as well, since I have an (I think) early 2015 13" and notice some slowness when using the display scaling feature or connecting it to an external 4k monitor.

Ars mentions this:

> It’s also much more feasible to use the scaling modes with current GPUs than it was with 2012’s GPUs, which were prone to dropping frames even at lower resolutions. I noticed no slowdown or jerkiness whatsoever in 1440×900 or 1680×1050 mode on the new Pro—you don’t need to worry about performance, so just pick the mode that treats your eyeballs the best.

Doesn't address 5K, but at least seems promising in terms of the ability of the new Iris chips to drive the display at higher resolutions. Hopefully 5k won't be an issue, and Apple is specifically advertising it as supported.

My gut, however, says that if you want to run 5k without any noticeable slowness, you'll need the 15.
I think simplicity in music can often be a positive, not a negative.

I love both at times, complex music that I can keep listening to over and over and finding new elements to enjoy, and also simple music where it has been boiled down to only the essential element that perfectly expresses a particular feeling.

Horses for courses. The "sophisticated listener" should be intelligent enough to understand that.
I think they're using "race" in the contest/competition sense, aren't they? For other uses in the article:

"The “Summary” vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on Election Night"

and

"Presidential race in an entire state switched in four seconds"

Granted, they could have chosen other language that's less likely to be misconstrued. As for the choice of language, I don't think the article is all that well written (for another example, mixing "fractional" and "decimal" to mean the same thing). I don't think there was that much thought put into the language.
She doesn't say what happened after she got the paper back but going by what she wrote there is no evidence that the prof singled her out because of her ethnicity.

If he or she just handed her the paper back with that scrawled on it that's a dick move, absolutely, but she's reading a lot into "those aren't your words" and doesn't provide any information that backs up her claim her prof is racist.

I checked out her blog and the comment section is full of posters piling on the prof for being "racist".bHow do they know this? Became a stranger on the internet says so? The mob mentality that self-righteous liberals exhibit doesn't help them much in the credibility and integrity department.

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Having family on the "other side" of that divide: their lives are measurably better now than 25 years ago. Pay generally better, education is better, knowledge more common, health care better. Most things cost less. Not everything is better, and incremental fixes to policies need to take place. Probably the biggest extant bug is the cost of health insurance and its rising.

Things get much worse if you're in a rural area and not willing to relocate to better your life when the local money engine dies. That Americans aren't moving as much is a known fact; that American's aren't is likely a key contributor to certain economic 'dead sea' effects IMO.

Generally, you have to look past the panic and doom of the 24/7 cable news cycle to see the bettering of the US though. It takes a bit of a long view. The key thing - and this is what Obama is trying to go for though - is that we can't pull up the ladder behind us.

Regarding the current election.

* The cable news networks are mostly a dumpster fire: Fox and CNN more than others. Written journalism has been adequate to excellent in general.

* Mr. Thiel has been known for some time to be more of a neo-reactionary type. That he supports Trump is not surprising.

* That the Republicans turn out to support the Party candidate is not surprising. It's a known characteristic of the Republicans.

* That the song and dance of a mythical 50s appeals to so many white people should also not be surprising. We've spent 40 years mythologizing it. Also, 'Make America Great' Again largely is a dogwhistle to "Make America run by White Men Again", with a helping of good old traditional isolationism to boot. It's almost a no-op slogan, everyone can read into it what they want, based upon their current grievance - so long as they are aggrieved.

One more note. I've worked good jobs, and I've worked minimum wage jobs, and I've been broke, and I've been not-broke.

My overall estimate is that in order to assure prosperity and a better life to the blue collar workers, unions have to be re-energized across the board, taxes on corporations have to go up, and marginal taxes rates on the very wealthy have to go up. Better government services from the taxes, and better pay from the unions. This will lead to a better quality of life. That's a straight liberal playbook. We can look back on the 50s, 60s and the 90s liberal playbooks and iterate on them. There are things to improve, but they got some stuff right.
Does Intel still have a competitive advantage? It seems like they've hit a wall and competitors like TSMC and Samsung have basically caught up.

I think they've acknowledged that they're slowing down with their new strategy [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/intel-...
I thought most of that jump was made in the sandybridge iteration and the rest have mostly been gains power efficiency. Maybe I just don't push my gen 4 enough to notice the difference from my old gen 2.
But IRC was just plain text with URLs that you had to click on! Now you can post inline GIFs for everyone to see!

... Oh wait, that's actually not an improvement. :)

Also, FTFY:

> Someday we'll have federated chat servers again
From personal experience, I can tell you that I wasn't as anal about turning off lights in unoccupied rooms after switching to lower wattage bulbs. If someone left a light on in the basement, I'd figure it wasn't worth the extra trip down the stairs to turn it off -- especially if that light burning 24x7 only cost me a buck a month.

Although as a counterpoint, after getting a hybrid car, I'm not really making extra trips, even though it is saving me about $150 a month in gas. But that is more due to time budget than anything else.
They should just be creative within set requirements... just like how all creativity works

Apple envisioned a purpose for the bar. If all apps convey a consistent message about what the bar is there for, it will become easy to use. You will know that when you intend to do a certain thing, the bar will be there to deliver this predictable functionality. What it's there for will be obvious.

If on the other hand everyone uses it for different things, then the user will receive mixed messages about what the purpose of this thing is. There's no pattern. There's no way to develop a reflex without repetition. In this case it's not repetition of a certain action but a theme. Part of using the thing is conveying a consistent intent ANY time the bar used so the user receives clear messages. It's about being a good citizen. You sacrifice freedom in how you use the bar so it becomes natural for ANYTHING you might use it for on your computer.

It's to avoid the situation of taskbar icons on windows. These have no fucking purpose.
Titles are free, so there's not a huge downside. I worked at a mutual fund company which had dozens and dozens of vice presidents. The reason was vendors and institutional customers take you more seriously if your title is "vice president".
indeed, Calendar advancement is not progress.
Whoops...please pardon the typos and stray letters
I think the core of Trumps message and support base is that the people in power seems to have forgotten about, and left all the Archie Bunkers behind. This seems like a valid argument, and one that I agree with wholeheartedly.

As a gay man, I also worry that those of us who fought hard for equality may be trying to close the doors behind us, and prevent some other group from getting there.

I can't vote for Trump, largely because I consider him to be a buffoon - but that doesn't mean he's all wrong either. Even idiots sometimes have a good point to make.
> The only self-promomtion alternative is posting a sponsored headline

How about engaging?

Your bio says you produce "text-based interactive novels". While this is something I have no expertise in, I'm sure there is an active and engaged community on Reddit, at least in some form. You likely have plenty of first-hand experience on the subject if you are a producer yourself, so perhaps the community would appreciate you sharing some of that knowledge and experience: anecdotes you've picked up along the way, what works, what doesn't work, etc. Maybe even some feedback on the work of others. A little generosity goes a long way.

A great example is bandholz (beardbrand) in the beard product space (/r/beards and more).
> quality of employment, the quality of general life for the average person in the West seems to have only degraded in the last decade or two.

can you cite some data sources for that claim?
Exactly, create a single record for all the voters so they can be targeted and influenced to vote for the Democratic nominee.

Does that not concern you? Imagine that God forbid they started controlling what information was seen by people, like trending news stories etc? Even worse if Twitter and Facebook were on it!
Thick glass tends to be fairly resilient so anything that's going to damage these would likely destroy normal tiles anyway. Depending on how modular these things are they should be able to deal with breaks without significant problem just run in parallel like the good Christmas lights which still work when one goes out.
Not just households buy cars...companies, fleet vehicles, rental car companies. People lease cars and need to get a new car every 3-5 years.

Also, I'd like to think your average developer is more financially literate/savvy than your average American. Otherwise, the housing crash wouldn't have happened. You know, people with no money buying expensive houses. People carrying credit card balance and rolling them over.

Those people exist, and they are many.
China is outsourcing to the US certain factories now.
My biggest concern is that I won't like the keyboard, but I do most of my typing on an external keyboard anyway, so I suppose it won't be the end of the world. Once you get used to a mechanical keyboard it is hard to go back to typing on any laptop keyboard.
And can't open the image on mobile either. Blogger has been become cesspool of UX. What is this whole javascript mystery they are creating, it's a damn blog for christ and sake.
Probably they will rewrite in web assembly too before finally ditching it.
> Chrome's sandbox [...] on Windows 10 [...] prevents exploitation of this sandbox escape vulnerability.

the Windows version is an important part of that statement since it's unclear from this what versions of Windows are affected by the vulnerability.
Yes, I've mostly known it as being referred to as the TransAtlantic accent rather than mid-atlantic.
The "light source" is a very hard problem. "Extreme ultraviolet" is really "soft X-rays." Until recently, it took a synchrotron to generate those. Now there's a complicated scheme where a laser vaporizes droplets of tin (at 200,000° C) and the plasma emits soft X-rays.[1] It's amazing that's usable in a manufacturing process at all. It's more like a physics experiment intended to run for short periods.

I had hope for e-beam lithography, which works fine and has been able to get down to similar resolutions for years, but is just too slow for production. No masks, just writing the wafer with a scanning beam under computer control. Writing is one pixel at a time, which is why it's slow.

[1] http://spie.org/newsroom/4493-making-extreme-uv-light-source...
It's something we've discussed on various occasions, usually after in-person meetings. So far it has not been the highest priority additional feature, since one can always FFI to JS in the mean time, so that gives us some breathing room to see how usage patterns develop before committing to a potentially large new API surface. A step along that path is just the ability to refer to JS and other objects directly through opaque typed references, and that is more likely to happen sooner rather than later.
Prestigious University: Your Multi Factor Authentication Is Cancer
Well, maybe the reason is that these regulator requests costs tons of money to fulfill because no, you cannot you give simple laymans answers to the questions, you need a team of lawyers to do this work, because everything you say in these "simple" requests can and will be used against you.

And perhaps there are better uses of their time, and better regulatory environments where they can release their product.

Maybe in a couple months we are going to hear about the imminent release of the Comma Two in Not-America. I seriously doubt they've gone home. There are tons of places where they could starting selling right NOW.

America's loss, other countries' gain.
The gap between the upper 5% and the bottom 95% is larger now then at any time since he 1930's. Thats not an accident its a predictable consequence of the Free trade agreements that were enthusiastically promoted and enacted by the that same 5% at to top that has benefited so spectacularly from them.
Wait a second. I keep hearing that Donald's biggest voter group is unemployed, poor white guys. Which one is it?
Only two years for the latter.
His defense will be that he never had criminal intention, that it was an unfortunate accident, that can be chalked up to inexperience and curiosity. That he didn't take measures to hide his identity and that he was attempting to report a security issue and that the version that dialed 911 is a very very stupid idea of a joke.

And the prosecution will argue that the very action of writing a piece of software that targets a critical infrastructure is proof of in itself of criminal intention.

It will be up to the judge, but hopefully he will be lenient.

This should serve as a warning for 2 things for you younger cats out there:

1. Learn how to disclose responsibly. Use proper channels for disclosing vulnerabilities and don't post exploits online like that (only after you have made contact, reported it and discussed a reasonable time table for patching or not at all). Or know the risk of full disclosure and go with that, but still never post a exploit like that online like that.

2. Any idea of a joke that involves the authorities should trigger a "Yeah, authorities are not well known for their sense of humor. They tend to not be amused" moment.

Edit: The attack against 911 was in the code itself and that argument won't stand a second in Court.

Be smart, stay safe, happy hacking!
> Then, they canned Chromium OS!

Chromium OS is alive and well. Perhaps you're thinking of the Chrome-specific "application" APIs, which have been deprecated in favor of web technologies?
Even so, they aren't truly subject to it for this purpose.

And the idea that only those subject to the draft should be voting is absurd as it neglects the rest of the current military.

Along with neglecting every issue that's effected by voting (well, by our representatives) that aren't military/war. Everyone in this country is a stakeholder in these elections.
GM agrees with you. Which is why they came out with the Chevy Volt years ago.
The article was a mess to read, and very hard to find the actual reason for rejecting the amendment. The two best reasons I've seen for rejecting this amendment are:

1) it already duplicates existing law and protections, so no real reason to have this;

2) net-metering will go away.

I can see the reasoning for 1 and it's debatable if it's good enough to vote "no." I'll vote "present" on this one.

For 2, I think it really comes down to what is considered a "subsidy." In my mind, it's the installation subsidy---that is, it costs (I'm making this up as I haven't actually researched this) $20,000 to do a solar installation for a home, yet "the government" will rebate $15,000 of it (through tax breaks or an outright check---does it matter how it's done?). I don't see "net metering" as a subsidy though---you are generating a product (in the form of excess electricity) and are selling it to the power company. But having read the "fabulous" article, I just see "this will end net-metering!" without any proof.

On the power company's side, running a grid is hard. They don't just run "all the generators" at 100% all the time because doing so would harm the transmission equipment; excess load is excess heat and over time damages the equipment, so the power companies try very hard to keep the generation matching the load (generally they run a bit high to cover demand spikes but not so high as to do damage to the equipment---it's a fine line). Net metering makes this a bit harder to manage. Traditional sources are more consistent in output and can be controlled better than solar, which is dependent upon too many different conditions over the day [1].

If there's proof that "net-metering" is considered a "subsidy" by the proponents (or the power companies) and then, maybe, I'd vote "no." But the current "net-metering is going away!" fear mongering is not helping here.

[1] Especially here in Florida. It can be party cloudy and still raining. It can be clear, then two hours later overcast with a torrential downpour, then partly cloudy an hour later. You're a power company that needs to maintain power generation to within 5% of load, now do that with unpredictable power supply.
+ no more js

- Idapro/radare for web debugging
Disclosing in-the-wild vulnerabilities like this 7 days after their discovery has been Google's policy for more than 3 years now. https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...
Waiting for coordinated disclosure should not delay disclosure indefinitely, though. Google decided on 7 days as per https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...
There's a narrative that the blue collar class have that politics is dirty and you shouldn't get involved. Then, because those who show up to vote affect the election...

> The problem is trade policies, environmental regulations, the legal environment, and immigration policies reflect the concerns of well-educated upper-middle-class and wealthier people to the exclusion of everyone else.

Welp, if you don't show up to vote, you don't get to push your policies and concerns directly. Instead you have to organize in more indirect ways.
LCA 2017 keynote – Dan Callahan explores designing for failure
>Well, maybe the reason is that these regulator requests costs tons of money to fulfill because no, you cannot you give simple laymans answers to the questions, you need a team of lawyers to do this work, because everything you say in these "simple" requests can and will be used against you

No, what you need is to have followed a sufficient quality process to begin with. Lawyers aren't involved heavily in this sort of thing; your quality group is (well, it may take more lawyering for them at this point.)

This guy obviously didn't have a clue when he set out to build this thing and now his ignorance is biting him in the ass. I've worked on FDA regulated devices my entire career. You don't get to just throw things that represent a substantial safety risk onto the market without oversight, and that's a good thing.
> since it's unclear from this what versions of Windows are affected by the vulnerability.

If anything, this just makes it worse, since it tells me Windows 7 users are SOL.
Not only is that not hypocritical (I would try actually looking up the definition, for one), it would also be monumentally stupid for security researchers to wait until all products at their employer are fixed before disclosing outside vulnerabilities.
Your home’s online gadgets could be hacked by ultrasound
It might be possible for aligned individuals to conspire, but it's unlikely.

When the community is sufficiently engaged, either you have differing political views and thus don't have to worry about conspiracy, or everyone has the same opinion and the conspiracy would just reinforce the true outcome.

Regardless, the possibility of that conspiracy is another great way to encourage participation. Republicans and Democrats both have an interest in the other side not tampering - combined that turns into a pretty strong interest in removing tampering altogether.
There is also many bands with fake accents, like 1980s Minor Threat with whatever UK accent Ian Mackaye was channeling
Oh please, every politician does that. I'm going to solve problem X by doing Y. They say it because it gets votes. Not because it's true.

A great example is closing the gun show "loop hole". Is it a smart thing to do? Sure, you can think that. Will it reduce gun crime? Probably not since most guns used in crime are acquired through illegal means.

But it get votes!
I suspect Thiel might be willing to argue against his obvious business interest (in re Palantir) and would rather that the government not be in the business of spying on its own citizens.

I have no shame is taking money to do a task I wouldn't ever do myself. Thats part of why they're paying you. So long as I'm not doing 'hard evil' (direct physical, mental or emotional harm to a group) - everything else is open to interpretation.
In the USA,

- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- LIHEAP
- exemption for farm vehicles on fuel

See more:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/04/25/the-surp...

Some people construe foreign military adventures such as Iraq 1991 and Iraq 2003 as oil subsidies. Without those, oil markets would be less stable, and consequently oil would be much less attractive as a fuel.
The wall has been hit in some areas. CPU clock speeds maxed out around 3-4 GHz years ago. Getting rid of heat now dominates chip design. This is why 3D chips are limited to mostly-inactive structures such as flash memory. Feature density is already approaching the size of atoms, which is why ICs now fail over time from electromigration.

There's no longer plenty of room at the bottom. Atoms are too big and the speed of light is too slow.
are you living in a fantasy world where polls don't matter
There are side channels for places like apartment complexes that want a much longer device lifespan and are willing to pay for it. Planned obsolesce is much more common on the 'mass market' channels than the industrial channels.

You really can still buy refrigerators that will last 30 years. They just don't have built in ice makers etc.

PS: The 50-200% premium may seem steep, but if it lasts 5x as long then you more than break even.
LaTeX: Create bibliographies for DBLP references
It's not like Google hasn't been doing the same under Linux for years:

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45290.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/llvm-dev/UOJqp0f9MBY...
who's running these proxies? The idea is to have a replacable flash player that works out of the box with all the flash content on the web.
I took it to mean "put the sentence in your own words in a shorter way"
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this has been Google's disclosure policy for more than three years.

https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...

Stop spreading FUD without evidence.
>The gap between the upper 5% and the bottom 95% is larger now then at any time since he 1930's. Thats not an accident its a predictable consequence of the Free trade agreements that were enthusiastically promoted and enacted by the that same 5% at to top that has benefited so spectacularly from them.

That's an oversimplification. You have to work backwards into the Reagan era and the deregulation from the 70s before you can start really taking NAFTA into account.

If you want to throw turds at the top earners, look at the total system and don't just blame single causes. It's a very complex economic system.

Further, consider the advantages of free trade: millions (billions?) of people in China have gotten better lives.

Protectionism and mercantilism is not a great system for increasing total wealth...