skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably good news in the long run, but there might be some severe pain in the short- and medium-terms if you believe Ben Thompson's argument that "sports is the linchpin holding the entire post-WWII American economy together". You can read his reasoning at https://stratechery.com/2016/the-sports-linchpin/ and https://stratechery.com/2016/tv-advertisings-surprising-stre..., but it basically goes like this: (statements in parentheses are the companies that are going to be hurting bad if sports takes a dive)

- Sports are the only reason left to tune in to live TV

- Live TV is the only reason to have cable (telcos, cable networks)

- Live TV is the only reason to buy TV ads on broadcast networks (broadcast networks)

- TV ads are the thing propping up a lot of "old-guard" companies (retailers, CPG companies, car companies)

Essentially the old order is a mutually self-supporting structure propping itself up (Retailers and CPG companies need TV to reach a mass audience, TV needs these companies to buy ads), and sports is the thing holding it together.

Again, if this falls apart it might be for the best in the end, but it's going to be a bumpy time if telcos, retailers, large consumer goods companies, and broadcast networks all get hammered at the same time. Collectively they account for quite a bit of employment and GDP.
The point is that due to the much better backward compatibility and do-it-all nature of USB Type-C, consumers are much more likely to run into incompatible devices and cables than ever before. Walk into any store and you'll see dozens of cables and peripherals that look the same but perform differently (or not at all) based on a confusing array of protocols and standards.

It's true that USB has always been a bit confusing, but now we have many, many more incompatibilities to worry about.
>On insulation, I'm assuming you mean in areas where AC isn't heavily used insulation doesn't help electricity bills if heat is provided by gas/oil?

Correct. Heavy use of electric heat is fairly uncommon as it's relatively expensive. (In the Northeast, it would be considered a serious negative if a house had only electric heat.) Of course, insulation helps with overall energy usage if there's either a lot of heating, a lot of cooling, or both--however it's provided. I'm also sure the US tends to have larger houses, more large electric appliances, and other home features that increase electricity use.
One thing about NFL rights that I haven't really seen discussed is they're so regional, and that doesn't seem to make much sense anymore, at least in big cities. Having lived in NY and SF everyone I know who's into football has a different favorite team, since they grew up in a different place.

But the broadcast networks can all only show regional games in each area. There's no way to subscribe to all games from 1 team because the networks all get exclusive rights to different games. In the US there's not even a good way to subscribe to all games on a single service other than I think direct tv which is a pain in the ass and doesn't work for apartment buildings. This doesn't solve ESPN's problem, but for the NFL offering these two services on demand at different price points seems like such an obvious way to boost viewership.
Who cares, now the LED is connected to the "secure enclave" ARM, previously it was connected to the SMC ARM.

The point is: no frikken ARM should control the LED.
As I noted in another comment, it's 60W rated while the new charger is 87W http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNF82LL/A/87w-usb-c-power-.... Confusion indeed.
At least you (or technical support) can look up the difference. If the cables all look the same then you need to physically test the cables to know their capabilities, which is a waste of time and resources.
Crap. I missed that. You're right.
> Don't you want to know if your recipe takes 10 minutes or 10 hours to cook?

Yes, the first time, then it becomes a skill learned from experience.

I started learning Big-O a few months back and I have been working as a programmer for several years, not knowing about Big-O didn't stop me from becoming a lead of a development team. Knowing about Big-O is important but humans learn more from experience (aka. trail and error) than anything else. I started learning about Big-O just because I am interviewing right now and many tech companies love to ask those questions, but if I were not interviewing I would probably leave that topic for another time.
Abstract: Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network classifier, we show the existence of a universal (image-agnostic) and very small perturbation vector that causes natural images to be misclassified with high probability. We propose a systematic algorithm for computing universal perturbations, and show that state-of-the-art deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to such perturbations, albeit being quasi-imperceptible to the human eye. We further empirically analyze these universal perturbations and show, in particular, that they generalize very well across neural networks. The surprising existence of universal perturbations reveals important geometric correlations among the high-dimensional decision boundary of classifiers. It further outlines potential security breaches with the existence of single directions in the input space that adversaries can possibly exploit to break a classifier on most natural images.
I activated W3TC and CloudFlare so it should be working now
Any idea whether this secure enclave will work if you are running Linux? (I like the hardware, but I am more used to the Linux/GNU/gnome software)
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The one thing I will say is even though Apple's software quality lately has taken a hit. Their commitment to security has only gotten stronger.

The secure enclave, hardware level security, all of the things that came up with the FBI request have become a self serving prophecy for them.

I applaud them for this and it looks like the MacBook Pro is going to be one of the most secure laptops around. Nothing is perfect of course.

Even though I applaud them for this I am still pissed about the headphone jack.
But still you had to hear about it sometimes, somewhere, it's mentioned in pretty much any serious text on algorithms. Thing is that many people see it mentioned, but never bother to stop & learn what it's all about... and that's telling something about their approach to programming (and life) in general.
As per the article, they provide the option to only target (for example) African Americans (or to exclude them)
As a self taught programmer who did no math in university, the most valuable thing to me was the discovery that the math really isn't scary. Once you understand the symbols and notation, most concepts are rather easy, given you commit time to learning it.

I strayed away for so long until I watched the MIT lecture series on algorithms and it all just clicked. The best feeling was was seeing the math on the chalk board for how you determine the complexity of operations on various graph layouts and just getting it. I struggled in high school math and rarely got that feeling in class.

It was just one of those, "holy crap... It's all just an array and how we organize the data in that array that gives various benefits and drawbacks!" Incredibly empowering.

Edit: This is the series I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSuA80QTyo&index=1&list=PLU...
This strikes me as being the same situation as hdmi cabling. Anyone who has bought a 1080p tv then a 3D tv then a 4K tv then an hdr tv knows that not all hdmi cables are made equally. This is not great, but it's very far from a nightmare.
Cutting the map in the Pacific just makes a lot more sense rather than cutting it in the Atlantic. Do we really need most of the space in the middle of the map to be water?
Describing that collection of tools as "minimalistic" was indeed a touch of irony.

Angular (1.x) might not be "cool" anymore, but it can be pretty darn "minimal" to set up: https://github.com/roboprog/ang-prog-enh

(above not quite done, it's for a presentation I'm going to do in December, but it's pretty close)

React works better for many things - server side rendering for SEO; endless scrawling wall of chunks of more-of-the-same (social media...) - but it's not "simple".
Yep, the one thing everybody hates in baseball is the national broadcast. Interviews during the game, commentators getting lost in the stories they're trying to tell while important things are happening on the field, generally a lower emphasis on the actual sports.

ESPN's in an interesting position right now because of slim cable packages. If I could get the Big Ten Network on Sling, I'd have very little use for "real" cable. And I don't have to pay for Sling year round if I don't want to use it outside football season.
They have a point though. Why would there be any software that controls the LED? Is it not more secure to have it hooked up directly to the camera power line and turn them both on and off inseparably?
How many pages have equations on them? I'm inclined to view your comment as cynical, but if it's more than 10 I'd admit that you've got a point.
I don't think that word means what you think it means
Hi brudgers, it uses `aes-256-ctr` encryption algorithm.
Thanks for letting me know about Show HN.
Will be sharing repository soon after cleaning up code and moving it from bitbucket to github.
Is the long term dongle free? C to C everywhere? My TV could have USB-C instead of HDMI ports. I could use the same cable I use for charging my phone to hook my laptop up to the TV.

This solves the cable problem (every cable should support the full spec) but it doesn't quite solve the support question. Just because I have a cable that works between my phone and TV doesn't mean it will actually do anything.
Either Airbnb should leave the decision of who to accept in the hands of their hosts or Airbnb should force their hosts to accept everybody so that hosts know exactly where they stand with respect to control over who is allowed to stay in their houses and sleep in their beds.

A 'middle ground' is nothing but a fig-leaf.

See, no inconsistency, both solutions are going to be clear for all users and hosts. In the first case some discrimination may happen and that will likely get Airbnb in trouble with the authorities in some places and may give them bad press in others, or they can take the moral high ground and really accept everybody without making any illusions about who is in control of the premises.

Anything in between is simply window dressing and will not change the situation in a significant way.

Anyway, I feel like I'm repeating myself so I'll leave it at that.
The rise in esports and computer games doesnt necessarilly dictate the losing in popularity of conventional sports. ESPNs statistics can just as easily (with more evidence) be correllated by their focus on drama in sports. Ive seen numerous complaints about espns love of the kardashians or other non-sport related aspects.

I dont think the tech industry or a rise in videogames is necessarilly a driver in popular culture. Sports stars are viewed as heroes and often are the subject of jealousy and interest while success in videogames Is associated to a sacrifice of health and looks. There also is fun/humorous cultish mentality related to sports. Instead its viewed as depressing to the point of mental illness. In sports, celebrating your team in a big way is celebrated in a way everyone can get involved.

There is still a lot of good reasons why sports will not die and a lot of reasons why espn has activily repulsed its audience
Sure but port scanning and forming a massive botnet is impossible if they are not even capable of listening on an open port which NAT gives you for free. It's like the lemonade you could make when life you gives you lemons. Except now it's spoiled too.
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Calm down. Stephanie has worked at Oculus and Unity and continues to do contract work in AR/VR while running a two-person company with Rich Geldreich from Valve.

I have some problems with the post as well but the author's knowledge of graphics is not at stake here.
Oh sure, let's pick on the fat kid :-)

Yeah, there's a lot of evil lurking in Java-land, but that doesn't stop people from having to use all those things, either.
Don't worry, it's not really 'what the kids are into these days'.
They already should [0]

> All USB-C to USB-C cables are considered full-featured USB Type-C cables and must be active, electronically marked cables that contain a chip with an ID function based on the configuration channel and vendor-defined messages (VDMs) from the USB Power Delivery 2.0 specification.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Type-C
Meh, any scaly with a remote control can fly a drone. The concept that every UFO is under the control of a "powerful entity" is as absurd as theories get. No idea why you would jump to that conclusion, and there are a multitude of reasons why any number of state entities would want to interfere with an Israeli satellite. The $200m in uninsured damage that resulted is reason enough for half a dozen countries.
Only one major generation of MacBooks (2013~2016) used a different MagSafe connector. AFAIK any charger will work with any MacBook, just at different rates of charging.
You'll get plenty of people to disagree with this opinion (even the networks / NFL themselves: see all the different reasons they come with for ratings decline).

But this is exactly why I and many of my family and friends have:

1) stopped watching the NFL this year and

2) stopped watching ESPN years ago

Another contribution to decline of NFL is the scandals involving domestic abuse. All of these factors come together to alienate the audience, who is increasingly at odds culturally with the message being pushed by ESPN and the like.
Gingery did even better than showing how to bootstrap from a lathe. He showed how to bootstrap the lathe itself starting from building a charcoal foundry and chunks of raw metal. Be careful, though: this is a rabbit hole that draws maker-types like rare earth electromagnets. Once you read through Gingery's books, you can easily find yourself wandering down the library stacks and Net pulling up information about how to make more-precise machine tools from less-precise tools.

It is information like this that makes you realize how incredibly fragile our civilization's tech stack is. Most of our physical tech stack is read-only executable code: there isn't a civilizational "source code" that shows from first principles how to build up to our current technology layer. For that matter, not even from first principles to turn of the 20th century technology level. We take a most of our tech stack for granted. This would matter if we had a civilization-wide energy crash, so if the catastrophic-scale climate change or oil crash predictions come true then this would be more than a passing interest for just the recreational primitive tech hobbyists.
You mean the headphone jack that is still there?
By making it one of the conditions for licensing the specification and permission to use the USB trademark to you.
The USB 3.1 gen1 and gen2 thing still really boggles my mind. It's almost as if the USB-IF was trying to confuse people. Who retroactively renames a standard?
That's impressive, but the invention of sawmills didn't need to wait until the industrial revolution. I've just come back from The Netherlands, which had massive uses in wind powered technology in the 1500's, including windmill powered sawmills that led to the Dutch golden age because they could build boats faster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Corneliszoon_van_Uitg...
I feel like there must have been some string pulling that made this book so popular.
I'm guessing it's not that simple because there may be situations when the camera has power and is capturing an image (think hot-standby) but is not transmitting image data to the world outside the sensor package.
> (a) there are three monitors, a mouse, and keyboard waiting for you, and (b) none of those devices have a built-in USB hub.

I don't know of a monitor that doesn't require a USB A-B cable to provide USB, so you're looking at three $70 adapters, plus three USB A-B cables. Sure maybe all that lives at the office. It's still less convenient.

I still can't get over the fact that you can't plug your new iPhone 7 into your new Macbook Pro without a dongle.
Something not mentioned is consumers are now less tolerant of commercials imo.
The fact that certain devices cab be damaged by the wrong cable is inexcusable.
Not once you tesselate the maps
GPL is Free as in "don't use this if you want to close it".

If you infringe the copyright on something closed, you do it by spreading that thing when you aren't supposed to. If you infringe the copyright on something open, you do it by refusing to distribute your enhancements to it when you're required to. They're not directly comparable situations.

Freedom goes in two directions. "Freedom to" and "Freedom from". The BSD license is a "Freedom to enhance the code as you wish" license. The GPL licenses are "Freedom from someone enhancing the code without sharing those enhancements". A "freedom to" license is great in the short term; it encourages individual products. A "freedom from" license is great in the long term; it encourages growth of the ecosystem as a whole.

Calling it "theft" is a stretch, just like in other cases of copyright violation. Still, the community is owed a release of the modified code. "Theft" captures the spirit of the situation, even if it's not applicable in the literal sense.
I'm not good with Google Maps, and I don't know London that well, but I think these are the locations of some of the images.

Warwick Lane, London: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5158118,-0.1005718,3a,75y,...

St bartholomew the Great and Clothfair: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/St+Bartholomew+the+Great...

This is Aldgate High Street, which is I think where the "Old Houses Aldgate" is taken: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5139372,-0.0756649,3a,75y,...

http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Aldgate/TurksHead.shtml

I think this is the closest street view can get to The King's Head yard, Southwark: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/The+Old+Kings+Head/@51.5...

St Mary's Axe: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/golden+axe+st+mary's+ax...

Temple Bar: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Temple+Bar/@51.5140487,-...
Didn't know that the "O" in Big-O actually means "order". I guess it doesn't really matter too much.

If you really wanted to get theoretical, you could also talk about the whole family, including little-O, big-omega, little-omega, etc. :)
My Apple monitor at work provides USB and Ethernet over the same cable (mini-DP) it uses for video. Every day I go in I just connect the mini-DP and MagSafe (both of which come from the monitor) and magically all my peripherals are connected.

It seems like in the new USB-C world, I'd only have to connect one cable. Bonus points if it's sturdier than mini-DP and less flaky than MagSafe. Sure beats those weird-ass proprietary docks that used to be common ~10 years ago.
I don't think it matters. I charge my MBP using a smaller MBA charger and vice versa with no ill effects.
Hosts already know where they stand, the policy is pretty clear.

I don't really understand your reasons for objecting to a middle ground, or why you are so convinced that you know Airbnb's precise motivations for going this route, so I guess we'll leave it at that.

But I'd also like to point out that if the middle ground is just "window dressing" and "won't change anything", and if you were ok with the previous situation where hosts could discriminate for any reason (possibly limited by the law in some instances), then there is really no reason to object, since your own position is that everything will continue on exactly as it did before this policy was put in place!
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Demographic and generational shifts are clearly part of it as well, but the numbers are quite sudden which indicate a more immediate cause, in my opinion.

I think it is foolish to dismiss any one particular contributing factor, particularly for ideological reasons. Reality is more interesting when one is able, as best one can, to set aside ones own ideology when observing.
I assumed this was made available as closed beta to popular software
Post 2013? that's exactly how it was hooked up.
I think Ajenti or Webmin might suit your needs perfectly.
I guess I should have said it is helpful that somebody is putting together a tutorial for what they feel is a useful path to a certain destination.

BUT, the author might want to address the "elephant in the room" that there is a certain amount of necessary complexity if you want to meet certain goals.
I'm tempted to blame ultra-loose monetary policy, but I'm not so sure. I live in the Bay Area where house prices are also out of control, but I'm not sure why we focus on prices (rather than monthly debt payments) since what, 90% of the market is payment buyers?

In any case, I do believe the current interest rate environment has distributional consequences that haven't been well-studied. It seems the biggest beneficiaries of this environment will be people with lots of debt-financed assets who manage to sell for high nominal prices. On the other hand, a lot of people think rates aren't coming down any time soon (check the yield curve on US treasuries, the 30-year rate is like 3.4%) so maybe this will be a one-time shock where people who took on a ton of debt ca. 2008 will reap big one-time profits as cheaply-acquired assets realize big capital gains.

In any case, I think it's naive to assume holding rates so low, for so long, doesn't have major wealth transfer effects.
I want to add the cisco-IOS is an absolute clusterfuck. There is so much room for improvement I wouldn't know where to start. Please have a loot at Mikrotik, they are doing a pretty decent job for a small company. If their devices were powerful enough to handle our edge router traffic, I would drop cisco like a brick. I am not kidding.

Someone really needs to fund Mikrotik big time.
Safe to say I have no opinion I take seriously, for the reasons you mention. It's interesting as all get out, though. Thanks for the links.
Your comment reads like you don’t understand either 1. the intention of the GPL (copyleft), 2. how it’s supposed to work (requiring derivative works to also be GPL), or 3. you don't think it’s legally enforceable (it is).

Whether or not the GPL is a ‘good thing’, the scenario in question is pretty cut and dry. The problem itsn’t “people like Matt Mullenweg”, it’s people and organizations who don’t RTFM on the licenses of the code they decide to co-opt into their mainline product. It looks an awful lot like Wix is afoul of the GPL, and therefore has probably committed copyright infringement.
So let's offend them, because denostating products/companies (as childish as it is saying M$, CrApple et al) in your opinion is the same as denostating other human beings, why not just ignore the bad jokes?
Also, it is Qt and not QT