skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's a very good worry - that content will be end-to-end encrypted between the provider and an approved monitor, and not even the compiled client-side code will see the cleartext content.

But if the compiled code doesn't see the cleartext content, there's no reason to obfuscate it; the provider can safely do the same thing in unobfuscated JS, by just making an XHR to retrieve the encrypted media and passing it to a <video intel-drm-crap="yes"> element.

Arguing that no such API should exist in the browser is going to be a way easier fight than arguing that no compiled code should exist in the browser. There are plenty of good use cases for compiled code, but this one API is only useful for DRM.
Obviously the general statement "some people don't take responsibility" is in this context not a neutral general observation, but rather a personal implication of the driver.
Its like how theranos speaches were all about how world changing it was, and didn't include a description of what trick they used to make the leap in inovation.
I don't think that's a fair comparison at all. Having been in both places (currently live in Houston) we have a bad vagrancy problem that has only recently been addressed due to the superbowl.

Furthermore keep in mind the list price on a house in Houston isn't indicative of the true cost. There is a 3-5% property tax that is paid out annually. I currently pay $14,000/yr in property tax against a $320k mortgage. That's after homesteading discount and disputing the property value appraisal to be lower than what I actually paid for it.
I stopped using hangouts recently. Every link is wrapped in a Google redirect. It is a horrible user experience on mobile. If I click an app specific link a browser pops up, then the redirect happens and the app pops up. There is no way to disable these redirects.
What do you mean re not recognizing language as a programming language? We only counted actual programming languages, i.e. not SQL, HTML, CSS, etc.
The wired review is much more negative, if you want a contrasting view: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/review-nintendo-switch/
>JS works just fine in browser.

Sure it does. And the myriad of languages that pop up to support WASM will work infinitely better. ES6 was a huge step forward, but it's still a long way from a real language like C#.

I suspect Javascript development will always be a thing, but that front end development will fracture into multiple different languages and runtimes as full WASM support comes online.
Thanks for saving us the click. Sounds like a whole lot of obliviousness if serious (did Borowitz write the article?), almost as if they could have unironically included 'our readership has declined' and/or 'our authorial quality has reached an all-time low' among their examples.
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Then explain why my Ford Focus has the gas tank on the right, while my wife's Ford Escape has the gas tank on the left.
> Alternate input methods for games have failed

Is that really so? Motion controls work very well for certain niches. Some types of games are better without them, but so long as developers allow the choice of conventional inputs in cases where they don't work well, it shouldn't be a problem.
Happy to not be their CEO in 2017. That said, here are my thoughts:

Either:

Slowly turn it into Google+, only with users and API. (Including pseudonyms, groups and circles)

Or:

Make it a communication tool instead of a spam distribution machine sometimes used to communicate. Charge for API access above personal usage quotas (i.e. news organisations , company accounts etc).
More specifically

Drivers side is more convenient, but passengers side is safer if you every have to fill a car up by hand on the side of the road
If I'm correct, Marx always viewed his task as one to criticise the capitalist system and analyse it in terms of the history leading up to it, rather than define how a Communistic society ought to be implemented. Marx is quoted as having said that Communism is an ideal to strive toward rather than one to be implemented directly per se.

Fewer people would have to work under a post-capitalist mode of production. I don't know how it's decided who works, but generally those with the appropriate skill would share labour amongst themselves, and people would be trained in the education system to do the jobs required by society. Again, the number of these jobs will be relatively small due to massive automation, which will occur at an increasing pace compared to the current capitalist system (in which too much automation means less profit, because goods are bought back using wages).
what backend framework are you using ? i have been pretty interested in trying out spring boot 5 or vertx
So it's a PS Vita with an HDMI-out?
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Separation of concerns: the code handling the envelope doesn't need to know about the format of the payload. The JSON in that payload will only be encoded (on the sender) and decoded (on the recipient) once.
In the sense that all contracts are "verbal", sure. In the sense that oral contracts aren't enforceable, false.
It seems like weather forecasting has actually gotten really good over the last 30 years, except for snow. Are there any good statistics for relative accuracy out say 1-3 days?
> People relied on Uber

For future reference, that is always a bad idea no matter what the company.
So far I haven't been impressed with Boot Camp graduates, but people said the same thing about early mobile phones, GUIs and other technologies.
It's intentional, in an attempt to reduce spammers and trolls. Gmail also includes receiving an SMS in the signup flow.
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It is theorized that cephalopods can see color through chromatic aberration because of the unusual shape of their pupils. They don't have cone cells like humans.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/05/weird-pupils-let-octopus...
The WebRTC team has released a polyfill [0] for browser incompatibilities so that would not really be a excuse for them, especially given the fact they have some of the top web engineers around.

[0] https://github.com/webrtc/adapter
This was not a mere failure of niceness, as if he didn't say please and thank you.

He was also unkind, arrogant, self-centered, thoughtless, ungrateful, and foolish. As well as failing to demonstrate compassion and moral responsibility.

You're also wrong on what CEOs are supposed to do. Companies are made out of people. His primary job is as a leader of people. The way you build a company is mostly through getting a hundred thousand small interactions with people right. He visibly failed as this guy's boss, just as he's been privately failing to build a sane company culture.

An important secondary job is being the public face of the company, the human representation of the brand. Even if you are a terrible human being, it's your job to get up there and simulate being the kind of person that people would like to associate with your brand.
> reason to outsource from AU to US is if people in the US can do it better.

That's rarely the case
More often it's about follow-the-sun
"I don't know what magical spell has India cast over Americans"

This is a common question esp. among Pakistanis ("m23khan" is someone from Pakistan living in Canada, available from his HN comments). Please let me explain.
(1) India is the biggest democracy in the world. US is the oldest democracy. We share common values like liberty, equality, secularism. (2) India has the potential to be largest growth market for American companies (think Android, Uber, American defense companies, etc.). (3) No Indian has been involved in terrorism attacks in US. (4) Indians integrate in US much faster than other immigrant communities, reasons could be familiarity with English, belief in freedom of speech, etc. (5) Significant contributions made by Indian-Americans - look at their work as Professors, as doctors, as CEOs, as journalists. (6) In spite of sharing many values with US, India is not afraid to distance itself from American policies when they do not agree, e.g. India said no for troops in Iraq, led the non-aligned movement during Cold War. My guess is that America respects a principled country more than a country which keeps asking for more $ while pointing a gun to its own head.

So it should not be difficult to understand why India is considered as an ally by US.
That's a fair point, walkable city definitely have to reach a certain density/population to be succesful.

However, I would argue that the number is not necessarily very high : for example Niort (110k inhabitants) is also pushing pretty heavily to get rid of cars in the city center [1], making tranports free [2], and having experiments to push people to get rid of their cars [3]. All those have a pretty positive feedback from the local population

Albi might be to small for it, but not necessarily by much, and I think it is also important to have support from the municipality

Sorry about the links in French, but it's pretty hard to find infos on Niort in English :)

[1] : https://www.vivre-a-niort.com/cadre-de-vie/quartiers/centre-...
[2] : https://www.vivre-a-niort.com/fr/actualites/dernieres-infos/...
[3] : https://www.vivre-a-niort.com/fr/actualites/dernieres-infos/...
How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?
Got any link to good echo cancellation hardware? Not that I'd every buy it, I'm just interested in tech (and businesses) that's not for average consumers.
The lossy part of PSTN occurs at the front-end where only a 3KHz band of audio is passed through the network.
That's why companies like Uber don't try to recruit people like you.

Most people have a very poor ability to assess and measure risk. These drivers see an opportunity to make money, and use that to get a loan to buy the car.

Everyone is losing here. The driver goes bankrupt, the metro area loses as Uber puts cabs and black cars out of business and takes business from public transit, and ultimately the investors since Uber tapes $10 bills to each ride.
>Julia is an interesting language for those of us that know Dylan.

Interesting. I had tried out Dylan briefly (in one of my occasional spells of trying out multiple new / different languages), but long ago - and at that time I did not understand it much, maybe due to knowing less about some of the advanced programming language features and their benefits than I do now. Can you elaborate a bit on Dylan's features and the connection with Julia?
Mostly, for me, it comes down to union types, intersection types, the ability to disallow implicit nulls (meaning null must be declared as a valid value at the type level, and therefore cannot creep in unexpectedly), string literal types, discriminated unions (most of the good stuff from algebraic data types), and index types.

All demonstrated here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

The result is a very nice, expressive way to state your types and get maximal benefit from the type checker.
I assume is a form of internal corporate welfare. One has to assume that the company would be bigger and healthier without the hardware division.
I don't doubt I will change, but his or her comment was implying people can radically change and do a complete 180. In my experience in life so far, that almost never happens and I was asking for famous examples.
Networking speeds are pretty much universally represented in bits (per second) -- "little b". Storage, on the other hand, uses bytes -- "big B".

So, yeah...

> I have 240MB/s at home ...

You're saying you have a 240 MBytes x 8 -- or 1920 Mbit/s -- connection.
I don't think that chasing money is a good idea at all. However if one is looking to create change, with actual external results to show for one's passionate labour, one has to come to grips with the market. Sustainable, continuous innovation is something that I personally value more than a life time of ideas with no results to speak of. I definitely admire Tesla and Edison. I only seek to emulate Edison more.
I'm a bit new to .Net but doesn't the shift to .Net Core hosted on Linux and compatible with MySQL/PostgreSQL address all these concerns?
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Our old '77 Cadillac had the same feature.

I always had Batman fantasies about that thing.
Hmm, the battery life is kinda disappointing. I'm not interested in Switch as a TV console (PS4 does that significantly better and has better games for when I have time to give them) and it seems it's going to struggle as a 3DS replacement when it can't even live through a rather average flight :/

I do still hope the best 3DS franchises will make it to the Switch and I might pick it up after price drops under the price of PS4.
I had an '82 Chevy pickup with that shifter arrangement and it actually wasn't that bad even though the bushings had long fallen out all the joints so there was a good inch of slop in the travel of each of the arms.

Still shifted fine. Unless you didn't get it all the way engaged and the gears would bounce instead of mesh and jam the transmission into 2nd and 3rd at the same time requiring you go get out, open the hood and give the control linkage a good yank before continuing.

Still miss that truck...
I wouldn't touch Java if I could write something in Kotlin instead. I'm using Swift on a daily base and while it still has it's issues (compile times, breaking changes) it's a great language to work in and extremely similar to Kotlin.

Better type safety means less crashes.
Yes; rather, a systems language like Zig is an activity you can do in Lisp.
The article doesn't have that many sources
> You can't do that e.g. with c#, where one class will never be exchangeable with an unrelated class , no matter how similar the definitions.

Agreed. Duck typing is a killer feature. I can't say how many time's I've rolled a new class for no reason other than data structuring, which would have been far preferable as something just defined inline.
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Sure, Firefox 49 for Android in a OnePlus One with OxygenOS (Android 5.0.2)
Joy stick for fighters.

Mouse and keyboard for FPS and similar games.

Traditional controller for platformers/side scrollers

Touch for a few types of games on mobile, not many though.

Almost never do I want to use motion.
I've got serious neck and shoulder pain from wrestling in high school and college. Currently don't have the time to get proper treatment. Doctors have tried to prescribe opioids and even tranquilizers for the pain to help me sleep but I'm terrified, with good cause, of becoming addicted. I took a run of percocet in high school for my wisdom teeth and enjoyed them too much to ever have that be a regular part of my life. No mater what the pain is like I don't think I'll be able to feel comfortable taking any opioids.
From experience (old gen and next gen consoles) there is 0 cooperation from manufacturer that you really need, other than available SDK and docs. Yes there are bugs in compilers and the consoles themselves (firmware, HW) but you can usually work around them.
Good thing is that you can use almost any powerbank with it, thanks to it's charging through USB-C.
"Jack of all trades, master of none." It's not a console you'd want to own without another console, it's not a portable you'd be able to use like a proper portable.

So what is it, other than something for people who already knew they'd buy whatever Nintendo had to offer?
I really wish these reviews would tell us the display's brightness.

It's weird to criticize battery life without saying how many nits the display is outputting and what the battery life would be at, say, 200 nits with a demanding game.

So far all I've been able to find is that Zelda lasts 2.5 hours with full brightness. How bright is full brightness? It's a mystery!

Edit: Digital Foundry says that max brightness is higher than the 3DS XL and visible in daylight. So 500-600 nits maybe?

They also say that it lasts "just over 3 hours" with the display at half or low brightness.
And GraphQL is listed as a database... I would take these charts with a huge grain of salt, they seem to basically be a single person ballparking things on a curve.
Talend makes my teeth grind. I don't understand why an ETL tool uses a strongly typed language for a foundation. The number of fun productive hours I've spent swapping chars to varchars, int to decimal & vice versa. In 2017 computers can read a registration plate from a blurry photograph and spot a criminal in a stadium, but a user puts apostrophe in a CSV file and schmoo leaks everywhere.
Uber needs to stop playing this game. They need to be quite and let the courts/legal system deal with any issues. 99.99% of people don't give a shit about any of this and people have really really short memory.

Someone is giving them bad PR advice.
It's pretty good in an automatic since there are only 3 or 4 positions people use, and it isn't moved while the car is moving.
> To you the fact that there are still black people who lived through Jim Crow matters more than the fact that there are Asians today who are turned down by high education institutions because of their race.

Yes. Absolutely.

The structural effects of 200 years of overtly racialized legal frameworks did not magically disappear with Brown v. Board. To claim that Jim Crow doesn't reverberate today in very concrete ways for millions of minorities in the US is ignorant beyond reason. And I even mentioned one concrete way that they reverberate today that is unimaginably worse than Affirmative Action (WoD).

> Why can't a Chinese person tell you that you have no qualms with racism - only with racism against black people?

Well first they'd have to determine if I support Affirmative Action...

> ...hierarchy of grievances... This is not however the only possible definition of racism, nor the original definition, nor the definition used in the report.

This discussion is about what the Chinese government chooses to emphasize. So context and degree both matter, because if China were truly critiquing racism then they'd choose the strongest argument available.
I'm not sure that changing the dynamic range and tuning the notes constitutes restoration. Artists work in a medium and for some artists the medium is as much the recording technology as anything else. For example, replacing a photograph with a hologram or a video is not restoring it.

Another example is applying deep learning to old recordings to do the things mentioned might be a new medium for contemporary artists.
My opinion is quite similar to yours. I have never worked in videogames but my, uninformed, opinion has always been that open source videogames lag so much behind other types of open source programs because they require a lot of non-programmers to work. I don't think the complexity of the engines is the main problem, after all operating systems or compilers are also quite complex and critical software. So, what is so special about programming that makes people want to share their work for free? The only other field I think that has a similar collaboration culture would be academic research.
Health is a precious resource you don't squander. Lack of it can take down even the richest of men. Steve Jobs.
Correct, a "North American" account would not be able to message or otherwise interact with a "Oceania" account (the region which contains Australia). That being said, an Australian could register an NA account, but shouldn't expect bearable ping/latency.
People say that boot camp graduates are not impressive, but you could say the same thing about new college grads, as well, IMHO. Many of them have little / no real experience, except for a few unambitious projects. This is not the case at all schools, but I've definitely seen some expensive CS programs like this.
I consider working in a leadership role, for a company you have a significant share of ownership in, to be active income.

There are billion-dollar founder-managers. There are billion-dollar investor-board members. People like Carl Icahn blur a bit of the line between passive and active income, but changing the direction of a company via votes and proxies is work, too. Even managing a hedge fund involves some work, as it involves calculating alpha, beta, and correlation rather than direct management of one company, but that's applying a lot of information-leverage to a little bit of work, and I consider that to be mostly passive income. The work itself is worth maybe $100k to $500k/year for the financial analysis, and any excess is passively gathered as dividends from the portfolio companies and as fees from the fund's investors.

It isn't a binary "good rich" and "bad rich". There is a continuous spectrum from not a dime that wasn't earned to not a dime that was. The tech company tycoons fall mostly on one end of that, and the Saudi princes fall mostly on the other.

I think that as a gross generalization, those who have had to earn some of their wealth have a greater right to spend what they have as they please, without consideration for societal expectations. There's no noblesse oblige for the person who does not passively benefit from the collection of the taxes.

But if you're a wealthy monarch, or a trust fund baby, you had damned well better think of the children before you try to go to space.
The answer to all of your questions is, "No".
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I'm sympathetic to that argument, but this isn't about demanding access, this is about incentives / soft encouragement.

Many websites today have readable JavaScript because that's the natural thing to do; you just send down the JavaScript source in the original form and it runs.

Many native applications today have unreadable source because that's the natural thing to do; you compile your C or C++ code, and you only need to ship the binary. Your binary even gets smaller if you remove debugging symbols.

You can do otherwise in both cases (obfuscaters in the former, provide source in the latter) but it requires an active decision to do so. Much fewer software authors make the conscious decision to leave their source code readable or unreadable based on what they want a priori. Same with server- vs. client-side development; you can easily hide all your source by keeping it server-side, but for the sake of some technical goal people will decide to move parts client-side, and decide that having it be world-readable is okay.

OP is advocating for a world where people continue to default to providing their source, not one where people are compelled to.
There is a big difference, but since we're talking about any language "deemed not good enough", a language similar to Brainfuck definitely applies, and perhaps is the shining example.

The original suggestion was that people would use Javascript, or any other language in its place, simply by virtue of it being the only option. I argue that the wrong language would hamper adoption, and eventually some other language – like, say, VBScript which came only 6 months later – would have taken over.

Javascript persisted, and eventually completely dominated, because it was good enough. A language not good enough would have not had the same success, even given the otherwise same environment to grow up in.
Vert.x though recently I switched back to Dropwizard for a prototype... it works mostly fine, but I think I've kinda fallen in love with Vert.x

I think the only thing I find really annoying about Vert.x is the lack of built-in JSON -> object binding. I've written some cheap glue code to fix that though.
Part of Steve Jobs success was attributed to the fact that he was an asshole not despite of it. Read his biography.
This site seems to share the common theme - a Braille tablet:

http://blitab.com/videos/
Try a 4K TV. I bought a card with 4K HDMI2.0 (for 60 fps) out, plugged it into my 46" TV and never looked back. The only drawback is needing to use the remote to turn it on/off. The monitor shuts off with DPMS but when the machine is off it still searches for signal. Doesn't bother me at all
Emacs challenged?! Nonsense! ;-)
Never said he was.