skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Having to repeat some of those modifications 3-4 times because I'm using a slightly different terminal app for each individual task would, I think, drive me batty.

I have no idea what you're talking about. What are these "slightly different terminal apps"?
The W3C standard shall be a plagiarised, outdated, incomplete copy of the current WHATWG standard forevermore.
Scala Tutorials Part #5 – Classes – Madusudanan
> The key detail for me is that if you delete the call from the log on any device, the next sync will delete it in iCloud.

I highly doubt that it is a hard deletion of data. My guess is that it would be a soft delete, so your call log won't show up on your iPhone, but the data will be retained on Apple's servers.
You already have one of those. If you are driving a 4-speed automatic, you can see that you are in 3rd and sense that it might be about to upshift and a turn is coming up, you can whip it from D to 3 to hold it in 3rd for the duration.
The first thing that comes to mind here is that data is only good if it is quality data... dirty data isn't good or reliable.

Coming up with a way to dirty the data from our IPs (i.e. a program that randomly hits domains via multiple browsers that everyone just runs as a background service)
Snoopers charter did get coverage. I didn't think it would pass. If people in UK voiced enough against it to their corresponding representative and this still passed, what good is democracy. It's a new government. They can keep it untill next elections unless there is massive rally against it. By then all this becomes status quo and the slippery slope continues
I'm not downvoting you, but I disagree with your line of reasoning.

Just because YOU don't see why a feature might be useful does not mean that it isn't useful. It just means you don't see a use for it.

Similarly, while cutting the fuel on break application might be useful or even beneficial in the case of a normal / particularly bad driver (slamming down all the peddles in an emergency) it does mean a drastic change in the human/machine interface. I would say that just like ABS is a good safety feature and airbags / restraint belts are good safety features, the vehicle should CLEARLY MARK these features. Their automation may (EG as in the cases of baby seats) be counter-intuitively less safe in circumstances.
Most traffic will let you be consistent, even if it's at 2 MPH :)
I suspect they just put a sensor there and inject fuel if it cools too much. For short coasting it's probably not a problem.
Am I the only one who thinks Asana's performance is just fine? Do you have hundreds of users and millions of tasks or something? For my startup it's been fine and I'd recommend it to anyone.

The startup time is a bit of a pain I guess but I only launch it once or twice a day.

And it's a shame that it's totally hopeless at bug tracking, because I'd love to dump JIRA.
ECO REUS: Activitats ECOREUS 2016
We are speaking of the church calendar. All Christian churches (there was no single "Eastern" church) as far as I know used the Julian calendar (named after and instituted during the reign of Julius Caesar) until Catholic church adopted Gregorian calendar.
I am at my cleverest when it's completely by accident.
I'm not in Russia but I can pretty much confirm this. It feels like the number of reposts on VK containing videos from small companies asking for referrals to fill positions has almost quadrupled in last several months. I guess it's working out quite well.
What do you think a beat cop does on a daily basis that requires the threat of armed violence from that cop in particular?

"gang culture" and "lots of firearms" are not reasons for beat cops to be armed on a daily basis.

"how many times has a police officer been shot during routine daily events?" - this is not relevant. Having a gun does not protect you from being shot. Quite the opposite, in general.

If a police officer is attempting to make an arrest and experiences armed resistance, then it is of course necessary to have a small, dedicated part of the police force that is authorized to use firearms.
Servo for example cannot come to iOS because of Apple's restrictions. It doesn't matter that YOU are fine with WebKit, some of us want to see dfferent rendering engines seeing how they're kind of core to the whole browser. WebKit is slowly but surely becoming another IE, something I think we can all agree would be a bad thing.
What production minivan has a V8? I can't even think of one looking back to the 1980s.

I've ridden with people that drive like that. Self-driving cars can't come soon enough.
See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#his...

>In 2011, however, the groups came to the conclusion that they had different goals: the W3C wanted to publish a "finished" version of "HTML5", while the WHATWG wanted to continue working on a Living Standard for HTML, continuously maintaining the specification rather than freezing it in a state with known problems, and adding new features as needed to evolve the platform.

>Since then, the WHATWG has been working on this specification (amongst others), and the W3C has been copying fixes made by the WHATWG into their fork of the document (which also has other changes).
I don't think the law defines monopolies so narrowly that it's useful or interesting to narrow it down to "devices compatible with Apple's Ax series chips."

Back in the MS monopoly days, there were a ton of things people wanted to do where they had no choice but to buy Windows if they wanted to do them. Today, there is very little that people do which requires an iOS device. Apple has many closed features (the App Store, iMessage, iCloud) but open equivalents are available. Almost nobody is buying an iPhone because they need an iPhone in particular to do something. They're buying iPhones because they need a smartphone, and they prefer an iPhone.

I am very much not a fan of Apple's approach here, I just don't see anything illegal about it.
David Ferrucci: Machines as Thought Partners [video]
VeraCrypt and CipherShed picked up where TrueCrypt left off.
3G becomes saturated quickly as the number of devices on the network increases. I would suspect West Africa would have much less saturation than say New York City.
>Don't take it the wrong way, but that sounds like a personal problem

Yes, and in addition one that exists regardless of what OS/WM/DE you're running, since Vim and Emacs configuraion works basically the same whatever platform they're on.
This is a great free resource, progression makes a lot of sense and it doesn’t hold your hand too much. I tried the HTML and CSS one and it rocks!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is Apple's ecosystem. 2 years is the very real artificial lifespan of "current" whether we like it or not.

Fun fact: I still have an iPad Mini 1 running some very ancient version of iOS that I use once in a while for single-page browsing. It gets the job done for very short sessions. I'm amazed the battery is still good.
I thought about buying coffee.blog but the fee was 100k per year! Insane!
If your off to study journalism you might fit this that I just published today handy. It's important to remember that surveillance in both the media and activism scene in the UK has also meant significant physical surveillance. Meaning both surveillance of movement and also infiltration. We are writing a series of things about this (secure meetings with sources, covering protests, dealing with arrests etc) based on the content in Umbrella App.

"How journalists and activists can identify and counter physical surveillance"

https://medium.com/@roryireland/how-journalists-and-activist...
Oh my, are they still around? I was one of the volunteers on the team back in 2006.
I was going to ask if this was like PAR.
That is one of the reasons i like Linux very much! Still, bspwm is my favoriete because i van everything togheter as i want :) And a tilingwm is increasing my workflow! Still considering to leave osx (or called macOS these days) behind. But there is still the osx only software problem.
Media needs to change: An election autopsy
Not really, there were actual problems with the Copernican system, mostly because it still required epicyclics. The favored system at the time was the Tychonic system, and what actually allowed heliocentrism to prevail was Kepler's introduction of elliptical orbits.

Some of Galileo's points, for example his explanation of tides in term of heliocentrism, were downright wrong---which is fine, but trying to mix theology and astronomy, which he did, and putting the pope's theory in the mouth of a character called "Simple" were not the best political moves.
Our post-election thoughts on healthcare
I have never been to Puerto Rico, but in Nicaragua and Honduras is highly advantageous for your health and safety to flow with the rest of traffic. He is completely right, this comes in handy because so many roads (especially in mountain areas) are very inconsistent and messy.
For those wondering what helm is all about:

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. It allows you to search for and install "charts" - which are pre-packaged applications that can be deployed on Kubernetes.

I have been using it for the past month - and am really enjoying it.

Congrats to the helm team.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jeremy_howard
Correct. A good driver knows how to maximize the efficiency of an automatic, and minimize the wear on it.
> time that should be spent working is spent on tinkering with the DE

The counterargument is that time spent optimizing your workflow by tinkering with the DE pays off 10x.
'Cause it's really hard to distinguish words with no separators and is a bad convention. It's not that bad in the standard library cause there's very few functions that are more than one word in length, but once you start writing more code it's terrible. I don't know of many lua libraries that are bigger than a few hundred lines that follow that convention. Most libraries i've dealt with use either snake_case, lowerCamel or UpperCamel.
How to Hack the Presidency and Save the World
There's nothing forcing you to use the native terminal under a new DE/WM. If your neurons have hardened on the gnome-terminal way of doing things, it's no biggie to just keep using that under KDE or openbox or twm or whatever, modulo (maybe) a little twiddling of desktop shortcuts and menu entries and the like.
> The entire field appears to be little more than a collection of fallacies in action

It "appears" this way only to someone who is completely uninterested in anything more than a cursory look. After getting my bachelor's degree in mathematics, I went to grad school to study history (which entails studying some sociology), and I can tell you first hand that it is no such thing. Even a shallow overview of the social sciences and the rigorous methodologies they employ will convince you of that. Obviously, those are not exact sciences, and social researchers are well aware of that. But the rigor of their methods is not much different from those employed in, say, medicine. Does every social science result deserve the same degree of epistemological confidence as a mathematical theorem or a physics experiment? Of course not! Are there false or even ridiculous "results"? Certainly, although the field as a whole eventually rejects them. But it is far, far, more rigorous and valid than the beliefs of people based on personal observation and gut feeling. And I hope this is obvious: even an ancient Greek who looked up at the skies and took notes of stars' positions but knew nothing about gravity or Copernicus, knew more about astronomy that a person who isn't even interested in studying the skies and recording observations, regardless of how incomplete the Greek's knowledge was.
"Equivalent" - is a tricky word.

If you can't tell the difference in the quality of the work, then I would go with the degree. All it really implies is that the candidate can stick with a plan and follow through.

In real life, many of the self-taught candidates are substantially better. If you're self taught and your work looks just like a someone who went for 4 years of mindless classwork - that's not in your advantage.
Court nominations? I don't think so, I believe it just requires a simple majority (>=50%) to approve a court nomination.
If your concern is data _loss_ as opposed to data _ownership_ you can still use Google all you want as long as you use it redundantly (backups, separate domain, &c.) What you're saying is more applicable to people who want Google not to see their data.
Just run a tor exit node. Problem solved, sort of.
The DNS resolver is configurable, not hard coded. Forcing a switch would require OS vendors to ignore the resolver issued via DHCP, which would not work on many corporate networks that block outbound DNS not via their resolver.
> iOS has a defacto 100% monopoly on devices compatible with Apple's Ax series chips

Sure, and equivalently Apple has a 100% monopoly on Apple devices. How does that make sense? One problem with anti-trust laws is that the market is not well-defined. Is the relevant market Apple phones? Smartphones above some price point? Smartphones at a price point? All smartphones? We can always pick and choose to make it seem like a company has a monopoly.
The layout here shouldn't be difficult at all - but the other feats are quite impressive, still :)
I know for a fact key Dragon solar array team members at SpaceX have extensive solar car racing experience, so if they're not trimming cells for maximum coverage, it's for a reason. (I would suspect the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost and/or risk.)
Now there are 1,000,001 crap solutions.
Why the "?m=1" in the URL ?
I wonder why not DuckDuckGo. Perhaps Mozilla has a sponsorship from Yahoo.
Totally agreed. Will do!
It's not that I disliked Firebird because Borland. I disliked it because tools
and procedures (mainly the latter) were underdocumented and felt unpleasant to
work with from a sysadmin's perspective compared to PostgreSQL and MySQL.

At that time I didn't care about Borland for a long time already, because
I was a Linux sysadmin then.
The Tesla Webbrowser is sending a custom user agent:

Model S (4/8/14, v5.9) = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtCarBrowser Safari/534.34
Women need to lean in a lot harder–about $11,103.65 harder
I am not arguing for "All Lives Matter", but fighting against awareness is a very low bar for "abuse".
Based on the outcome of the elections - you/we may in fact live in the bubble
> How many times police was shot on routine daily events?

About 64 officers die per year. Not all of those are shot.

In 2013: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...

>> 76 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2013. Of these, 27 law enforcement officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 49 officers died in accidents.

Most of those felonious killings were by gun.

>> In 2013, of the 49,851 officers assaulted while performing their duties, 29.2 percent were injured. The largest percentage of victim officers (31.2 percent) were assaulted while responding to disturbance calls. Assailants used personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.) in 79.8 percent of the incidents, firearms in 4.5 percent of incidents, and knives or other cutting instruments in 1.8 percent of the incidents. Other types of dangerous weapons were used in 13.9 percent of assaults. Expanded assault details have been included in the 2013 publication. Data for assaults during which officers were injured with firearms or knives/other cutting instruments are located in new tables, figures, and selected narratives.

From this I don't know if the 4.5% of gun incidents refers to 4.5% of 49,851 officers assaulted, or to the 29.2% of those which were injured.

How many people are shot and killed by police each year? We don't know, the police don't count these numbers. How many people are shot and injured by police each year? Again, we don't know, because the police don't count these shootings.
Cool. Thanks for the specific suggestions!
If this bothers you, what are you doing about it?

Is your company retaining data that can be used against your customers? Is it implementing tech (end-to-end encryption, data minimization, anonymization, decentralization, etc.) to reduce their exposure? Don't wait until someone shows up with a NSL, claiming all Muslims are terrorists and therefore spying on everyone who believes in Islam or is suspected of being a friend of a Muslim person is a national security issue. Then it will be too late. Start now. We are all responsible for what happens next.

Are you calling your elected representatives? Let them know now that you abhor civil rights violations, especially in the name of security, and will hold them accountable - now before they are caught up in sensationalized threats and secret briefings.
Cost is another driver here; touchscreens are significantly cheaper than buttons, and can be used to do more things -- at the cost of being awful for typing on.
[llvm-dev] RFC: Insertion of nops for performance stability
This is just crazy. It like anyone could be a criminal, so let's treat everyone like one? Feels like a huge invasion of basic human rights.

Alas, I feel like the US isn't far behind. It feels like this will be the norm soon enough.
what happened to "Oblong" technologies (the guys who actually did the minority report UI/UX and turned it into a conference room app/system)
Love it, I'd say it preps beginners well. Got an idea for when the advanced stuff will be out?
It seems pretty obvious that accessibility is always going to require extra thought. Some people are paralyzed from the neck down, but we still have keyboards.

In any case, why do you think that using gripping as a UI action implies that you'd need a strong grip to use it?
There are a few distinct issues at play:

1. Authoring software

2. Schema and metadata that relates the entries to each other into a cohesive whole

3. Format of a single entry at rest, including multimedia

4. Persistence and backups

A lowest common denominator solution is "plain" text files with all the entry metadata included in each file; or a dated folder for each entry and all associated data (pictures, videos, etc) in that folder.

Email does give you an out-of-the-box solution for this, because authoring software is widely available, and each MIME message includes the posting date, the author, the body (in multiple formats, if you so wish), and any attachments.

IMAP can be used to copy messages up and down, POP can be used to download them such that they disappear from the server, and some cloud providers like Gmail have their custom APIs to access messages. A robust way of backing this up is to have a custom script that downloads messages through IMAP, copies them up to a different cloud provider, and saves a local structured backup (.mbox or Maildir) as well. These formats are commonly understood and don't venture very far from the innate structure of Email itself, so even if software to parse them becomes rare, they can be understood in a simple text editor, and could even be reasonably reverse-engineered.

For multimedia, stick with formats that are widely deployed today and backed by major standards bodies or industry consensus -- even if they are patent-encumbered. Installed base often trumps ideology, for practical reasons. JPEG is 24 years old and still in common use. H.264 is an official codec for Blu-rays, so it'll likely be supported for a long time, similarly the older codec MPEG-2 was used on DVDs, and is unlikely to irrevocably disappear. Uncompressed PCM, MP3, and AAC-LC should be your choices for audio.

I'd be wary of the archival potential of formats that are solely used on the Web with little usage on tangible physical hardware by major commercial publishers -- the Web of today moves very fast and technologies come and go. Google is pushing WebP, WebM, but work is already under way on a big consensus format called AV1. When AV1 comes out, new VP8/VP9 content will likely no longer be produced. Browsers periodically prune older features, 20 years is almost as long as the web has been around, and given enough time support for the format may only be available in software that make format coverage an explicit goal (ffmpeg, libav, VLC). Opus is being made a mandatory audio codec for WebRTC, teleconferencing is usually ephemeral -- will there be lots of .opus files sitting on disks in the future? Too early to tell, not worth gambling on.
Totally. It's about control now, the possibility of control in the future, and taking away opportunities for control over you from your adversaries.
> JSON should have a nicer way of dealing with double quotes in data. That would avoid many encoding mistakes.

So you update the standard to this nicer way of dealing with double quotes, and now people forget to indicate whether they're using the nice new way or the ugly old way, or they mix the two approaches ….
I was part of their beta for awhile and requested this as well. No response.
I'm more productive when using GNOME, to me is the most usable DE out there.
When are people going to stop mentioning that dead.horse?
Delete and Heal for Vector Networks
Even if you don't intend to go racing, a manual is just a bit more interesting and keeps you paying attention the whole trip, in my experience at least.

I'm confident that the same thing was said about manual spark advance in the 1930s when mechanical and vacuum advance became more common. No one today would argue that we need a lever on the steering column to advance and retard the ignition.
Cool. Thanks for the feedback.
You sound a lot more het up about this than the parent comment. The parent just suggested that this article is ignoring some things that should be considered if you want to talk about designing interfaces for real people. It's important to design things that don't fail when confronted with edge cases.
I think quantitative analysis is at fault. The thing is, mathematics is a language and I can as easily produce a model that encapsulates the lies we tell ourselves in Newspapers, as I can produce a model based on Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Actually I thought yesterday about how to misconstruct a human detector for photos, one possibility would be to have face detection and then measure the average pixel color of the face. That would get me probably quite nice detection rates if I test on a dataset that has a racial markup as the average CS lecture. The thing here is, that I push the false negatives purposely to people of color. It is not hard then to invent a story about how 'mathematics proves' that black people are more similar to apes than white people.

We currently just don't have anything to ground models of human interaction in,^1 and what is worse most people treat models just as previous generations treated prophecies. They don't understand math and believe in it because they don't understand it.

^1 I am actually not saying that models are worthless, I am saying that most complex models only show what the author wants them to show and they can be as easily manipulated as an essay.
just like there is freedom of speech, there should be freedom of browser choice. either device is browserless, or, it should allow for more than one browser. I'd add this to modern commandments, somewhere between net neutrality, independent DNS and guaranteed free internet access for everyone.
Yes, I'd never heard it called that before
Speaking of window managers - is there a successor/branch of scwm (Scheme Constrained Window Manager) that is being maintained currently? I loved how that worked...
I'm just going by the article:

> One way call logs will disappear from the cloud is if a user deletes a particular call record from the log on their device; then it will also get deleted from their iCloud account during the next automatic synchronization.
Apple and Oranges. You still can transfer the data out of Russia, you just have to "give" them a copy.
Google, Intel announce alliance to accelerate cloud adoption in the enterprise