skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does "work", but the beauty of it is subjective. Sure, if you have 10-20 devices it might work. More than that and it falls apart fast. But the reason is pretty simple - when you enable "Zero Handoff Roaming" you're making a huge compromise: 1) all UAP need to be on the same L2 network and 2) all UAP use the same channel. This doesn't work in any large scale deployment or deployment where you truly care about leveraging bandwidth via balancing clients based on channel utilization.

I've tried it (a long time ago) and yes it works. But, you will pay the price, even in your home network if you have clients doing large uploads / downloads. There's really no point since there's no logic with it either (the UAP devices don't influence handover / AP selection). If they did they could get around the limitation of being relegated to the same L2 network.

Also if you're using zero handoff you have old Ubiquiti gear (since none of the 802.11ac units ever supported it). Ubiquiti is likely moving to 802.11r to reimplement it. I wouldn't run Zero Handoff in my house with the APs I run even if it was an option (3 x UAP-AC Pro, 2 x UAP-AC Lite, 1 x UAP-N Pro).

I'm pretty sure that if you run ZHO you lose the ability to have the maximum number of SSID as well. Which is completely counterproductive from having a Ubiquiti system. I run 3 different SSID for different use cases with different security policy applied to each. One is also specifically for guests. The UniFi controller does captive portal and authentication for guests - so no having to give guests access to your entire network and you can restrict amount of time each code is valid for as well as the bandwidth a user is allocated.

$0.02.
Well, since the sort of people who set up regulatory exams are likely to be the same sort of people who design college curricula, I don't think that would be the case at all.

OK, you win. There actually would be a worse option than letting the consultants do it...
I thought I'd made myself clear in the original comment, but I'll try again: the issue with these sites is not the "channel"/imageboard format itself, it produces great results at a certain population size. The issue is lax moderation and the greater proportion of highly active bad actors when the site reaches a certain critical mass of users. To generalize your experiences on large, less niche sites like 4chan is to miss out on some of the smaller gems out there that share the imageboard format.
You're off by one there. Your "junior dev" should be "apprentice" or "student".
Presumably this is covered by the "Rackspace" entry, which is the last entry on the table.
The "basic" stuff should work without Javascript, but I don't expect much else.

If you need Javascript to display text on your page there is something seriously wrong with how you program. (And yes, I've seen sites like that.)

If you need Javascript for something as simple as submitting a form, then <shrug>, it doesn't really matter these days.
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> have to pay a greater percentage of our salaries for water

That would be ironic, because 'salary' was originally money given to soldiers to buy salt, not get rid of it.
Matrix is taking care of this problem in a big way. Check out https://riot.im/app
I moved from a Pebble Time to a Gear S2 and my experience has been overall pretty positive. A few things I've noticed:

- battery life is very good compared to apple/android. I can usually get 2-3 full days of regular use with the ambient display on.

- It looks way more like a regular watch, most people don't notice unless you start using it. It also fits a lot better on my smaller wrist.

- The screen is amazing indoors, meh outdoors. Kind of the opposite of what I experienced with the pebble.

- Very limited app selection. I don't actually use any apps besides what it came with, and even then I think all I use is just the calendar and weather. I mostly have it for the notifications, which work extremely well, so I don't really care about that. Might be a bigger deal for you.
That's a better relationship than nvidia's. https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/
Strike as non-responsive?
Ah, I see the ambiguity here. I work on Hacker News, so I updated the link of this submission to the ieee.org article, which was linked to by the futurism.com one. (Sorry to disappoint about the nags)
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
not this specific, but tried other, it helps for sometime and back to square one again.
and reddit really is just one aggregator among many others, we can play this Matryoshka thing all day.
May I introduce you to AllJoyn [0]? Proximal (broadcast domain) IoT. It's baked in to Windows 10, LiFX bulbs, a bunch of TVs... [1] It's being folded into OCF now, but the open source will live on. Don't need a gateway, don't need a server.

[0] https://alljoyn.org

[1] https://allseenalliance.org/certification/certified-products...

ETA: Disclosure: worked for Qualcomm/AllSeen Alliance for years on AllJoyn
> Justin Trudeau, Canada's Cutie-In-Chief, ...

sigh.

> ...will be moving his nation towards a better voting system in 2017.

well, you know, maybe. If the people want it in their fancy questionnaire. They might not though, since clearly FPTP is the most effective now that it resulting in a liberal majority.
Which is why we don't force an ethical code on those producing pipes. We instead decided to regulate their finished product. However if someone on HN suggests regulating encryption, they aren't met with the most open arms.
Don't some universities exist to make money?
Pixel sorting is the coolest thing you’ve never tried
I can't really defend their language choice perse, but if you look at the aims of the project - make a terminal that's consistent across platforms and focuses on extendability and interface, what IS your best option? Writing natively for each platform doesn't seem feasible. Using something browser based that has many of those cross platform kinks ironed out doesn't seem like that bad of a choice if that's your top priority.

Whether or not that makes it a solid, durable terminal program is another question, though.
>How many support images?

A lot of them, actually. Sixel is a thing.

>Completion popups? Browsable history?

No terminal emulator supports that. Because that's not the emulator's responsibility. That's your shell's job. Asking for your terminal emulator to support command completion is like asking X Windows to add tab completion to Gedit.

Go grab a copy of fish if you want, though. I've heard a lot of good things about it.

>Current directory widget? Collapsible output?

Those are just hard to implement, and usually not worth the effort. The directory widget is essentially provided by your prompt in many shells anyways.
Google uses FUSE for shared storage, not internal app storage. Apps are supposed to keep most of their data in internal storage since shared storage breaks the whole isolated security model. Content providers and other intents are supposed to be preferred for sharing data. It might a good thing that doing things properly is faster... and throwing everything into the kernel means more and more attack surface.

Google maintain the kernel implementation (sdcardfs) too... they choose to use the FUSE implementation for good reasons. Of course, most other vendors only care about benchmarks, not things like robustness / security.
million requests per minute, is this a big deal?
In an ideal world this wouldn't even be necessary. This just speaks to the sad state of image format adoption and workflows. Every browser supports basic SVG. SVG text can be read by screen readers, indexed by search engines, found in the page, copied, resized, machine-translated, and everything else you expect from text. Why are we still taking raster images of text? I think the onus should be on the OS and browsers to implement snipping tools that can save in SVG. Regardless I still think this is a cool project for making that lost information accessible.
I mean more in the workplace, where it's possible to think of yourself as a victim, a sort of ... variation on self-pity. When I have seen this, it ... didn't help.
Your kind of thinking is the problem.

You state the rule, state one positive from it, and don't even bother to consider why it could possibly be a positive (or not). You also failed to consider any negatives.
I haven't yet written about it, but you might be interested in the film But for the Grace of God? by Ron Garret:

http://graceofgodmovie.com/trailer.html
And C-c didn't work? You must have let it run a really long time. I'm surprised it didn't error out.
There are few that turn it off, but many enthusiasts who use ad blockers and ghostery/noscript for security and performance reasons.

If your site needs a half megabyte of JS from six domains to show an article, they've already moved on, boffins or not.
Our main product uses machine learning and natural language processing to predict how long JIRA tickets are going to take to resolve.

(www.queckt.com is anyone's interested)

Without AI/ML, we wouldn't have a product.
> [He considered] bringing the company down to 10 people and just seeing what would be next.

Other than the fact that he would need to fire everybody, what is wrong with reducing costs to make it profitable like this? The problem seems like there wasn't enough profit to support a staff of 120 people. I can't imagine the VCs would object. They already lost their money.
> TCP/IP is the network protocol that is best known for connecting the machines that make up the Internet.

A factual error right in the first sentence is quite an achievement. TCP/IP is
not a protocol, it's a set of protocols, with TCP and IP being two of
them.
Not the OP, but I would presume they're referring to things a few other commenters have already complained about, e.g. as justcommenting wrote:

"Both were imperfect people in unique situations, but Gladwell's distinction seems to boil down to "Harvard, game theory, & Nobel prize winning PhD advisor" in the case of Ellsberg vs. "community-college dropout" in the case of Snowden, followed by Gladwell falling over himself to redefine "insider" right after spelling it out in detail with the language of class, prestige, and societal privilege."

Or there's the omission that tanderson92 pointed out:

"Gladwell is intentionally deceptive when he refers to Snowden "washing out" of the Reserves. In fact he was discharged after breaking both legs in a training accident. You can debate whether that technically qualifies as washing out or not, but it's quite another to lump that in with the rest of the paragraph and let the reader fill in their own opinions of the events. But perhaps that's the entire point, and part of the reason Gladwell was chosen for this piece.

Eliding certain facts can leave the reader with a distinctly non-factual impression of the man."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-army-di...
From our universe, and simulations we can create, and simulations in there, etc. it holds.

It is interesting to think that an outside universe could be so different it does not hold going up to base reality. But that implies that logic, math, and computability, are different there. That is not very likely, though ultimately unknowable to us.

Literally "a mere shadow of what others think of as reality" implies that that universe has a lot more compute. Therefor with much higher probability you would have evolved directly in their universe, on some tiny pinhead, or in a corner of their universe, not in a simulation they create, no matter how many they create.
We still have the homologues of the old regeneration genes that are still active in lizards and such. However, they're not usable because of our strong tumor suppression genes.

We're at least a thousand times bigger than a small lizard and expect to live much longer. Sadly, evolution favored cancer suppression in our genes to ensure our longevity and regeneration didn't provide enough to keep it around. It would be an absolutely monumental task to reverse tens of billions of generations worth of genetic change, and we would basically have to cure cancer first for it to be useful.
> the FitBit isn't a smartwatch. It's designed around a single function (fitness monitoring)

While that is true of most FitBit models, the FitBit Charge 2 has some smartwatch features like notifications.
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Well Hacker News is definitely not the medium for this discussion, I'll grant you that.

It's not clear to me where is a better choice.

Could go for phys.org or stackoverflow I guess, but equally inane.

Nobody likes to talk about metaphysics, which is what this is really about I guess. For good reason I suppose.

Then again, before Darwin and Einstein, everything was very clear.

Right now very rational people are looking into string theory, pilot wave theory, simulated universes and a heck of a lot more.

Meanwhile, we are attempting to build self driving cars, automated systems that tempt us to buy crap we don't need and reduce the planet to a winner takes all philosophy. Nothing about that seems "Human"

Entertain me on why the universe isn't trying to build its own god. Happy to take the discussion elsewhere.
Can you expand more on "we do a lot of product detection + recognition + search, primarily for retailers" please? Is that something like identifying products in social media images or something?
Anyone tallied how much of John Wick is talking vs action? 76 kills in 101 minutes.
I have a very low-powered machine and sometimes I use a very lightweight web browser (Dillo), which is amazingly fast.

Your comment makes me think that a lot of the sites I visit with Dillo are accesible for users like us only as second thought or for lazyness.

Could a leap in JS crawling have accesibility as a victim?
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Depends if you want to work as well as you can in google or not - yes they can read some JS but its not perfect - infinite scroll for example
On the contrary, taskwiki provides two-way sync, so they will show up in your taskwiki lists. The feature is called Viewport, and it's a header enhanced with a taskwarrior filter:

Say you have all your work tasks tagged with 'work'. Then your taskwiki file might look like this

This file contains all the work-relevant information.

=== My work tasks | +work ==
* [ ] Implement feature X

After saving that file, you will see the task in taskwarrior as well (with the tag assigned).

If you subsequently do:
$ task add +work Test feature X

The next time you open the taskwiki file, it will look like this(syncing happens when you open the file):

This file contains all the work-relevant information.

=== My work tasks | +work ==
* [ ] Implement feature X
* [ ] Test feature X

The power of this setup is that you can add a task on your phone (i.e. when the idea hits you in the public transport), have it automatically sync over the taskserver to your desktop, and when you open the taskwiki file relevant to the project, the task is there!
Mostly the far-from-charitable interpretation of "When we talk about saving lives, when we are talking about fighting cancer, treating AIDS, ameliorating poverty, these solutions typically are not coming from government. . . . While law is important . . . at the end of the day law is simply letters on a page."

My argument was that Gladwell is painting a cheap caricature of a "hacker" when it's both easy and reasonable to interpret a quote like the one above in the broader context of the full speech/event and the dozens of others that he's given in recent years.

I'm not trying to argue that Snowden has or doesn't have respect for governing institutions. I think that's Snowden's story to tell. But my read of the piece is that Gladwell reached some "clever" sounding conclusion - perhaps in a "blink" - and then found a quote that supported his narrative, which reads more like Harvard-worship in Ellsberg's favor than careful presentation of arguments/evidence. This strikes me as misleading and dishonest in light of the sheer volume of interviews, tweets, etc. from Snowden that (at least to me) paint a more nuanced and careful picture.
It's significantly better on some benchmarks and significantly worse on others. There's no clear winner and ext4 is much more widely tested and has way more development time focused on it. Looking at only a few aspects of performance can result in either of ext4 or f2fs being seen as a clear winner but it's not representative of the whole picture.
AMD is supporting development efforts to port Caffe, Tensorflow and Torch http://www.anandtech.com/show/10905/amd-announces-radeon-ins...
Good piece but seems remiss to have this discussion without also acknowledging the ways in which our electoral system + a complete lack of transparency are also undermining confidence in the system. It's 2017 yet somehow people are waiting 10 hours in line to vote? And then there's no way to verify that your vote counted?
Type Introduction/Tutorial Multivariate Statistics into Google. I saw quite a few with those words in title. Probably what you want.
Pretty sure iterm does all those things, except maybe the collapsable output.
Which one are you specifically talking about?

The one where the images get transformed into dots is just taking the brightness of a pixel (either its RGB average, or its luma grayscale value) and then applying that as the depth of individual particles on a 2d grid. When you move the mouse the particle field rotates slightly, so it gives that impression of 3d.

The one with the Formula One car seems much more interesting. Depending on the "position" of the user in the page, it's decomposing a 3d mesh vertically and the decomposed vertices become dots that move away from where they should be. Could be accomplished manually by recreating the mesh on every new position, or (more likely) by a vertex shader.

Everything is helped by having an additive blending mode for the particles. It creates this effect where things just turn white and it's always a nice effect for particles.

TL;DR: WebGL and well combined tricks
Also never underestimate the costs incurred by sufficiently bloated bureaucracy.
> The term "bias" leads you to believe the algorithms are generating results unrepresentative of wider reality, which simply isn't the case.

But unlike the loan example they are; that's precisely my point. In the loan example the algorithms (or actuaries' calculations) are often entirely accurate in identifying that for whatever reason $ISBLACK is associated with statistically significant increased likelihood of default after controlling for other variables, which may result in an unbiased estimation model assessing a particular person falls into an unacceptable default risk category (which FWIW isn't the same thing as accurately predicting a particular person won't pay, which is a more dangerous conflation of concepts...)

That doesn't apply to the examples discussed in the article - where Asians aren't blinking (or statistically more likely to be blinking), people trying to game a Twitter bot's corpus of conversations are not representative of human interaction patterns, nobody seriously believes social media bubbles represent reality and even the very important recidivism risk model is 50% more likely to be a false positive if a suspected repeat offender is black, and less likely to be a false negative if the individual categorised as low risk is white.
The people whom disable javascript by default actually valuable enough to make the app non javascript?

I haven't seen the recent percent of users that browse the web with javascript turned off but I assume it's really small.

If the site has to be supporting Tor users, well that is one of the times you can't really use javascript.

I'm guilty of not caring about non javascript users and I believe catering for those users is a huge waste of my time.
The article you linked just quotes Snowden about the reason for discharge; there is no actual verification for the claim. The U.S. Army has declined to comment, claiming it violates privacy statutes to release Snowden's medical records.

The reason for his discharge isn't publicly known with high certainty. The only public source is Snowden's statement.

(Some background; the 18X, Special Forces option, allows a recruit to be contractually guaranteed a Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) slot. Beforehand, he attends a 14-week combined boot camp/infantry training, and then a 4-week course to prepare him for SFAS. Someone being discharged at the 5-month mark would have, given the fastest training schedule possible, been in SFAS at time of discharge.)
Riotjs is rocking for me much better. Its really light weight and straight forward flow.
How to Build a Startup as a Non-Tech Founder
Firebombings cause a lot of ash with little boom.

And TFA talked about a nuclear winter from burning cities when using a hundred Hiroshima bombs, not the US/Russian arsenal. We ought to have learned about those effects, just from WW II.
That's great, thanks for sharing.

FYI: If anyone is interested in the section about git rerere (reuse recorded resolution), the link at the bottom of that article leads to a 503; a repost can be found here:
https://git-scm.com/2010/03/08/rerere.html
IRC is for people who participate in the internet. For them it isn't hard to host their own website or just use any of the innumberable image/video/whatever hosts and paste a link. Discord is for tech ignorant people who consume things pushed to them by companies over the internet.

Bundling up everything into a centralized, proprietary package will go bad for the consumers eventually. But for now they'll trade away their freedom for convenience and enjoy it.
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>Personally I prefer websites that work without Javascript, websites that only use HTML/CSS

You need to explain what kind of website you had in mind.

Is it a website that's meant for text content like Wikipedia, The New York Times, or TIAMW[1]? Yes, a lot of technical folks will agree with you that Javascript is unnecessary and is only prevalent to push ads.

Or is your website an "app" like Google maps or the shopping cart checkout page with dynamic elements like recalculating shipping and sales tax when a shopper changes an item quantity? Yes, you can make a "maps" website without javascript (reload every page like the 1990s MapQuest.com). And make web shoppers click the "update cart after quantity change" button so the server sends a brand new webpage (which is very jarring, user hostile, and heavily penalizes mobile phones with slow connections.)

[1]http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Saying the list took a dive when it came to Friedman is colorful writing and not epistemic closure. It did take a dive. This is 2016 and Friedman has been around for ever. He's been insistently wrong over and over again. The Iraq War. He was so wrong about that he even has a measurement unit named after him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit

He's on TV, he's in the NYTimes, he's on NPR, he has a book. Am I being closed minded if I say enough already? What has he ever been right about? What continued claim does he have on the national discourse?
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To be fair git could be given a tiny bit of "smarts" per language it's looking at. So say 2 different people add attributes to an HTML item it could use some sort of system that let's it run an HTML merge resolution routine that says "hey that's cool let me just combine those".

At the same time adding extra smarts like that, while providing a better UX when it works, the times where it doesn't work especially if you don't notice it stopped working in a specific way...that all scares me.

I'm not sure we're ready for smarts in our merging.
You can also do it the opposite way if you want less specific numbers. Multiply by 60 and round off for the units per hour!