skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When have companies ever p published honest battery light estimates?
But now you're getting into scope creep. What was asked for was a robot that could clean toilets, or a robot that could make a sandwich.
This sounds plausible, and it chimes with the article's statement that the new supply is at the high end. Thanks! If people were only blocking certain kinds of development, that would explain why low-end prices stay high even while there's a lot of construction causing the median price to drop.
Obama didn't have his fellow-citizens shot by firing squad without a trial merely because they were political opponents, like journalist Yvonne Conde's uncle [1].

Agreed the sanctions were unproductive. More than anything else, US sanctions helped Castro stay in power for half a century.

But to blame the sanctions for his atrocities - or to say the good he did outweighed the bad - is to be willfully blind: When Cuban government ships spotted a tugboat full of refugees headed for Florida on July 13, 1994, they blasted it to pieces with high-pressure fire hoses. “Our tugboat started taking on water,” recounted one of the survivors, María Victoria García. “We shouted to the crewmen on the boat, ‘Look at the children! You’re going to kill them!’ And they said, ‘Let them die! Let them die!’” Forty-one of the refugees did. [2]

While you write about the good things he did from your comfortable home with high speed internet, with the rule of law in a capitalist liberal democracy, this is how desperate his citizens were to leave this country of “good things”, and how barbarous was Castro against his own people.

[1] https://twitter.com/YvonneMConde/status/802587003057410048
[2] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045797
I don't know about Android, but UIScrollView does all its work on the main thread of the app.
The rent concessions are the real leading indicator. As every month of "free rent" in a 1 year lease lowers gross rent by 8% (4% for a 2 year lease, and 2.7% for a 3 year lease) As a strategy it assumes that the rent will come back up after the lease period. When it doesn't the rents actually get lowered to avoid being the highest rent in the list.

Also there is an impact on increasing AirBnB regulation both from cities and from landlords. Now there are often very explict callouts in a rental lease that specifically mentions getting money for the use of your apartment from non-family members. That means you're not going to be able to monetize that second bedroom to pare back your housing expense.
> I have discovered that I have a habit of resting my thumb just below the space bar and now I tend to bump the pointer on accident now

This is surprising and disappointing. I really enjoyed using Apple's touchpads with tap to click because their accidental press recognition was good enough that I never really worried about this. I typically had to turn tap to click off when using Linux because I would randomly click while typing.

I wonder why they haven't been able to get it to work as well on the new touchpad
I think it's mainly because software engineering is still more an art than a science.

The use of the word "still" here implies that it will be, or that it should be, more "science" than "art". As an act of creation and navigating ever changing constraints, I think it is more art, and will have art be a major component of it for a long time, if not forever.
It's great if there is text to read. It sucks if you built an HTML5 gesture-based game and pinching just zooms you into the middle of a <canvas> showing already-blown-up pixel art.
A re-implementation of MetaOCaml was released last year (http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html).
Thanks. I assumed iOS was like Windows. Although Windows also has scroller controls that you create on the UI thread but delegate the actual event handling to the compositor.
> here is a list of all news sites that PropOrNot has flagged as being pro-Russian propaganda:

If I understand correctly, they are flagging them for repeating Russian propaganda - including as unwitting 'Useful Idiots'. They aren't saying all those sites are trying to spread it.

Skimming the list briefly, I don't see any that surprise me. I think the propaganda has been very effective and Americans don't seem to have skepticism about it.

> Their tweets sounds like lulzSec

I agree that their tweets, as presented by The Intercept, are disturbing. But after reading The Intercept and then the WaPo articles, I no longer trust The Intercept - their portrayal of the WaPo article is deceitful.
If you're just breaking into a new topic (such as game development), I find it very understandable to not want to learn a new language at the same time.
To not piss people off with changing the port on the iPhone again.
I'll always remember Ron from Barney Miller. Truly a classic.
Hey, thank you for the link to you article. I've read it throughly and I cannot agree more. And that was written two years and a half ago, before the AI "explosion" that we saw later.

Actually, checking against confidence is something that we've tried to play with, but to my knowledge there is not a model that allows you to compare speech confidence against an specific text. Public APIs like MS ProjectOxford.ai can return a confidence, but against the "recognised" text, not against a predefined text.

Going further, this kind of approach can be very effective on words and small sentences, but I'd really love to see which specific phones the learner is failing, which can help in analysing full speaking exercises.

It works, but I am sure it should be possible to do better
@raybb Out of interest, why are you asking?
10 out of 12 here. This list immediately resonates with many devs, for good reason.
Amazing, supply and demand actually works!

Someone should tell all the protestors who opposed construction of new luxury condos because they thought it would somehow increase rents.
honestly why does the iPhone and iPad use Lightning when USB-C exists??

It didn't when Apple started using Lightning.
That's not how electricity works.
Sadly the Nexus 6P doesn't support any kind of direct video-out (USB-C, HDMI or otherwise). It came out before the USB-C screen mirroring specs were finalized. All you can do is chromecast over the network.

But hopefully by this time next year, new cell phones will generally support screen mirroring over USB-C. Some phones (like the LG G5 [1]) already support it.

[1] http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2016/06/connect-your-lg-g5-t...
Just speculating here, but this is precisely the sort of thing Apple generally fine-tunes and fixes with software updates in very short order. I would expect it will be so this time, too.
Yeah, it ended up feeding millions that live in the island, training thousands of doctors, and providing all that's required for all the cubans. And it's not enough to live up to the standars of the rest of the world, which could live far better with better distribution of wealth.
I think this is something where webpages people open in safari and web-technology based apps people install as a little icon on their phone should probably be treated differently. I have run into unintended zooming as an app usability disaster as well.
Age 9. Apple ][ (1 MHz MOSTEK 6502, 4KiB DRAM)

No Plus, no Applesoft BASIC, no disk drive. Loaded software off cassette tape.
WTF, 2016. Just fucking end.

Seriously, the year that won't fucking end.
Thanks, but I'm just curious and don't like videos. The world needs more things like that, though -- it was nice to hear of it.
Hmm, what about contracting? Exactly what Cygnus did with GCC.
My experience with two 2015 rMBPs and an Air has shown that for light work, 10 hours is a completely reasonable estimate, which matches what Apple estimates.

Of course driving an external monitor, streaming video from the Internet, and using your computer for more than just word processing and web browsing, your system will use more power.
You're looking at the wrong numbers. What are the watt hours?
Fun fact, if you're fired by a startup and own explicitly own stock (not a vested option, but a vested and exercised option) and they are Delaware C corp which has not been explicitly "uncertificated", you can demand a stock certificate for your shares. Really annoying for the people who fired you.
Since macros aren't just a plugin but are directly baked in the compiler code, error messages can be anything we want… what are you suggesting?
> To be frank, something like this can't happen in the US.

Yeah? In Redwood City, in the heart of Silicon Valley, freight train lines run right down the middle of residential streets with no fence, raised barrier, or anything. The trains only come through in the night, but kids live in apartment buildings on that street. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chestnut+St,+Redwood+City,...
To be honest, I don't look at Wikipedia references. I think Wikipedia is the prime example of people's willingness to accept misinformation on the Internet.

I would expect the owner, not the editor, determines the politics of the editorial page. Newspapers don't change their political stances significantly when they change editors, but they do when they change owners.
i assume all the time you save reading summaries and notes allows for more introspection on the more serious, though-provoking, and fleshed out non-fiction books you read, regardless of their length (article, essay, essay collection, what have you).
You already weren't supporting this website. You want them to produce content and then give it to you for free while using Adblock.
Because Lightning is significantly thinner, also less wide, and mechanically superior in very way. There's a much firmer "snap" when you plug it in, the connection stays connected, and the port itself is more durable as well, due to not having a plasticy thin thingy in the middle that holds all the contacts.

Lightning is a superior connector design.
+1 to the wonderful resource of the public libraries.

I find that I retain more if I actually read the book then write my own summary in a journal somewhere. I learned that habit from a friend and once in a while I'd go back over the notes.
There are two kinds of real estate "prices": rental rates and property sales prices.

Ceilings on property sales prices are very rare. Probably the most common example is resale price caps on government sponsored housing for lower income buyers.

Price ceilings on rent are more common but still rare. This is commonly known as rent control.

Like all price caps the result is shortages in varying degrees depending on how binding the ceiling is. If the rent/price is set below operating/construction costs you will see very little avalabilty/construction. On the other hand if the ceiling is set well above the "natural" rent/price there will be little if any impact. In between you will see increasing shortages as the ceiling decreases.

This is generally basic economics but can get pretty complex depending on the details of the specific policy. Taking thsee details into account as well as the unusual nature or real estate (durability, immobility, etc.) the actual results have lined up very well with the theoretical predictions.
Given the numerous trials and inquests, include one which made sure to include members of the community, it certainly seems ambiguous. I'll ignore the fact that I mentioned head of state for the purposes of discussion, but what in your mind makes the situation unambiguous? I've only know heard of Fred Hampton, outside of a Rage Against the Machine mention so I'm certainly not well informed on the matter.
Wow, that's more horrible than I thought. Thanks for the summary.

I am honestly befuddled by USB-C. The allure of a universal connector? That's kinda pointless when the cables look mostly the same but support different feature subsets. It's insanity.

It's bad enough that many manufacturers (I'm looking at you, Dell) don't differentiate between USB 2 and 3 Type A. C is so much worse for this.

Instead of a pretty good $1200 13" Air we have a $1800+ cersion that's lost features (MagSafe, worse keyboard) to be a hair thinner that also requires $200 in dongles to connect to anything.

Seriously, fuck you, Apple.
No, that is obviously a mischaracterization of my statement. Not only is the missile crisis a quite separate event than the imposition of sanctions, I was not discussing the agency of Castro but your assertion that the US had no agency over its foreign policy towards Cuba once Castro had power.
I submitted the same url earlier, but it seems the duplicate dectection didn't prevent this story from being created. Maybe because the headline was different? Not complaining; just contrary to my expectations. What is the logic behind HN's dupe-detection?
Why Red Hat is happy to have others make billions on its open source dime
Hah I love those people.
Mike Neumann only just published his look back at Serentity:

https://youtu.be/mHo78pqvgFs
Luxury highrise condos and apartments have been showing weakness all year due to oversupply. Deeded land single detached homes (where the strongest coalitions of SF NIMBY lobbies reside) are still very supply constrained and are still very strong wrt price. This is the source of the discrepancy you're talking about.

Source: friend who's been in Bay Area real estate for over a decade.
I recently used temporary per-transaction tables (CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE .. ON COMMIT DROP, basically CTEs that persist across statements, and that can be indexed) with json_to_recordset and turned a three-minute ruby ETL background process into a sub-1-second inline call.
Let's not forget not properly shielding and some USB 3 devices killing WiFi with interference.
Making any judgments like this on battery life after a single day or even a few days of use is VERY unwise.

The main reason is that your system needs to index your entire drive; this will require MUCH more power than typical power use until this process is complete. Should give a new system at least a week to shake out before freaking out about battery life.
Fedex is a strange company. I recently had an item shipped and it was listed for delivery on Friday. It was signature required and I happened to be out of the house when they tried to deliver it; I was left a notice saying they would attempt a delivery the next business day. The next day - Saturday - while I was at the rink skating (hockey) they tried to deliver it a second time. I couldn't believe it because typically you pay more for a Saturday delivery and I hadn't done that. The slip said they would deliver the 'next business day' again but now I had no idea if that meant Sunday or Monday. I tried to call them no luck... I was home sunday so no biggie, no delivery.

On Monday I worked from home to make sure i was there for the package; they didn't attempt to deliver it however. The next day - Tuesday - I finally got the package; I asked the Fedex guy why on earth they tried to deliver it on Saturday when I didn't pay for it, and then after marking it 'next business day' they didn't come monday (and monday wasn't a holiday). The Fedex driver told me they - the entire company - is closed on Monday - and that they have never delivered on Monday.

I didn't want to ague with him but I was pretty sure that wasn't right. I looked into it after he left and apparently there are two Fedex's, the one we all know and typically think of as FedEx and they usually deliver from m-f during business hours; there is a second variation though called Fedex Home (or something like that) and this is who was attempting to deliver my package. Fedex Home does not work on Monday but does Saturday deliveries.

I have no idea if this is public info, or if there is even a way to specify which you are using when you place an order. It's highly confusing and honestly I'll just avoid them going forward, it was a huge mess.
I don't use Perl much these days, but 10 years ago I would have really benefited from containerization of Perl code. That said, Perl really does become rather unmanageable for any sizable project, and was probably best used as a light weight scripting language with a great regex engine. For that limited type of use case, https://perlbrew.pl is a very handy tool.

On a semi-related note about Perl and later technologies, I was somewhat surprised Perl didn't receive more of a second wind from the early Hadoop days with 'hadoop streaming'. It seems they would have complemented each other well.

(edit: added that last paragraph)
A thousand bucks for the https://holidayhole.com/
It didn't help that the US actively supported the previous dictatorship in Cuba that Fidel was red to overthrow. And whilst the US didn't really help batista to stop Castro it is hardly surprising that Castro did not want to deal with the US.
Or you can just pull the SQL for the stored procedure from a table column and execute it dynamically.

Now it's an ops problem :-)
It's unlikely to slow down San Francisco's unstoppable march towards the most legislated society in America.
They never saw it as the future. Jobs just didn't want to give up control and they didn't want to release the real API too early as it was probably in serious flux.

I'm sure if web apps worked Jobs would hav been happy to leave it there. He was against iTunes on Windows, the move that made the iPod what it was.
Yeah, well, not everything everyone says is objective.
1988: The Year of the RAM Drought
I think a lot of people end up not reading because of a certain misconception about human knowledge acquisition. I often hear this complaint that reading seems pointless because they'll have forgotten most of what's in the book in a year, or whatever.

But this is just an indexing issue: when you read a book, you acquire more from it than some list of facts you can intentionally recall afterward—that's just one way of indexing knowledge, and not a particularly useful one.

As an example, let's say you've read a book on compilers. Is it more useful for your brain to organize the information from the book so that when you think of certain aspects of compilers, the information is recalled; or is it better to have the information recalled when thinking of the book that it came from? Recalling the info. in connection with the book itself typically offers much less value than recalling it in connection with the book's subject matter.

You don't know about most of the knowledge you have, though it is still active in the sense that it participates in interpreting your experience and determining action. Additionally, reading (without intentional memorization) will add to this knowledge.
So build up. Here in London people don't build up, for some reason (I mean other than office spaces, obviously). I think it's this nefarious british mentality that old is good. So you never demolish any 2 story buildings, you just build more outwards. Then you complain that the prices are insane.
Congress poised to pass sweeping biomedical innovation bill
>a real problem world-wide

Not everywhere though -- Tokyo rents are stable (if not decreasing, for older units) due to their decades long building spree. If this building boom had ceased, they would have been supply crimped just like many countries in the developed world, since there's an ongoing migration of rural youth into Tokyo for employment and education.
The morning paper (a CS paper summary each weekday)
The "historic boom" is big compared to the very low rate of new construction of the last few decades, but still small compared to the need and potential. There is a fair amount of construction downtown, but most of the city remains frozen in time.

That said, I wouldn't blame it all on NIMBYs. Few changes of any kind get done in this town.
From the site:

The Morning Paper: a short summary of an important, influential, topical or otherwise interesting paper in the field of CS every weekday. The Morning Paper started out as a twitter project (#themorningpaper), then it became clear a longer form was also necessary because some papers just have too much good content to get across in a small batch of 140-character tweets!
Such places are common in Texas.[1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/the-amer...
On the previous version there were only two, so I guess you're that much closer to your 5 devices you need.
Building Mobile Web Apps with Views
We need to wrap Willie Nelson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in bubble wrap. (Uh, leaving holes in the plastic so they can breathe.)
60fps isn't extreme
A closer analogy would be if grocery stores were giving you reward/savings cards that you have to scan on every purchase. It is advertised as providing you a small discount after a certain number of purchases but really it is meant to track you over time.
Actually, whereas the word literally means that, the use of the word philosophy to mean a disciplined investigation into questions actually predates even Plato's Academy.

The reason why academic titles have the word philosophy in them is because modern investigations have developed from the philosophical tradition.

For example, philosophers may have a question, "what is value?", or "what is the nature of the world?", born out of the philosophical tradition.

Then, after sufficient discussion and philosophical investigation, they figure out that certain methods, approaches to answering these questions, are very fertile and lead to informative answers, e.g. value as a real-valued mathematical measure, or the nature of the world as a generalization of empirical observation.

Such methods may prove to be so fertile that you may have academics spending decades or centuries investigating the implications of that method. Hence you have economics and philosophy.
CREATE TEMP TABLE is really awesome. Not really related, but I used it at my previous gig to optimize the unit tests. They would previously all use the same database that devs use during development, so scans over some large tables were particularly inefficient, and tests could break when someone modified table contents for some development task.

I implemented a small function where you could list the tables that you were working with, and it would create empty temporary tables with the same name in a namespace that takes precedence over the normal namespace in postgres' search_path, therefore giving you a blank slate to work with for the unit test, while the other tables were still populated with useful data. (Some of these data come from expensive infrastructure scanning jobs, so starting from an entirely empty database was not an option.)
sure, if you have a metal disability
> CG code to calculate area proportional venn diagrams

Is the matrix in this case guaranteed to be positive definite? I would expect a non-trivial nullspace, and hence semi-definite matrix.
London, I believe, has a big problem with the Brexit because many banks plan on or are already leaving the country. No banksters, no tenants for outrageously expensive properties.
> It's a sleazy, amateurish operation.

If I still believed The Intercept article, I'd agree. But after reading the Wash Post article myself, I found The Intercept was deceitful and don't trust anything in it. I'd need to (and would like to) see other evidence.

> Look how they accuse sites critical of regime change in Syria as supporters of Assad (https://twitter.com/propornot/status/802095838965022720)

I don't see anything wrong with that tweet, which doesn't say that opponents of regime change are Assad supporters (EDIT: though it implies complicity). First, the tweets it responds to:

1) Rudolf E. Havenstein ‏@RudyHavenstein Nov 24: The one common denominator in the PropOrNot @WashingtonPost "fake news" list is opposition to disastrous neo-Con military interventions.

2) Rudolf E. Havenstein ‏@RudyHavenstein Nov 25: Obviously @NatCounterPunch and NakedCaptalism (and other sites PropOrNot listed) are not pro-Trump, but they are anti-war. @washingtonpost

And then the tweet itself:

3) PropOrNot ID Service @propornot: @RudyHavenstein @NatCounterPunch @washingtonpost They're not anti-Putin/Assad/etc-wars, though! They love those

Sounds like a good, fair point to me - if true (which I don't know).