skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS updates are something that seems like many people look forward too. If Android updates were as unobtrusive as updates to iOS (even Windows 10 is getting closer to unobtrusive updating), then there wouldn't be much of an issue there.

We are getting closer to the point where being secure and up to date is almost painless. That should be our goal in the tech industry.
That just surfaces the complaints of poor use of screen real-estate. If I'm using the keyboard to launch things, that indicates:

1. That I'm probably at least a proficient user (newbies tend to not keyboard)

2. That I'm probably on a non-mobile device with a large display.

If I'm not using the keyboard, but rather using the mouse, that indicates:

* I am absolutely not on a mobile device.

Absolutely none of these indications point towards mobile-ification of the UI. The only way G3's UI direction makes any sense is assuming touch input.
>weekly headlines on Android security woes

stagefright is the last major Android vulnerability I'm aware of. Do you have sources for these? In my experience it's far less than weekly. Maybe yearly at most.
I think you have to be pretty crazy to honestly believe that cops can id a witness in anything other than extraordinary cases. How many tickets does an officer issue in the average day? 20? 30? 50+? I'd be absolutely shocked if the average cop could accurately id most of their traffic stops at the end of their shift, mustless days, weeks, or months later.
Honestly, I almost just want simple tables back... It really feels like we've been working very hard to create more complex layouts with flex/grid systems, and while I can see the need in some cases... I can't help but feel a lot of the more trivial things would be better with simple table.
I'm honestly not sure the assumptions underlying your comment. Solar cell to battery is pretty inefficient at the moment with the best solar cells converting 26% of the solar energy hitting the cell into electricity and the charge-discharge efficiency of li ion cells is 80-90%. The ultimate amount of energy delivered is less than 30%.

Regardless, if any of the biological/algal methods of CO2 to fuel techniques become successful, why would we care if 5%, 50%, 100% of the solar energy received makes its way to the end product. It's basically free energy at that point. The only thing that would matter is real estate to house the facilities.
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Pushing apps to the edge, Fly.io puts middleware in the cloud
Note that reverse osmosis desalination through membranes already exists as the article notes. (Not sure what the current state of the art is as I haven't worked in this area for a long time.) The question in whether this has advantages to the desalination systems used today.
>My security lies in my knowledge and my skills, and that is something I take with me whereever I am.

Sorry, I was confusing, I meant network and information security. Using a good password hash/library, not trusting user input, knowing some basic attacks or stuff from OWASP Top 10 and how to reproduce them. That stuff is still a problem. I'll admit I probably know less than I should because it's at the fore-front of my mind and I don't practice often, but it just seems weird that a company would prefer performance over secure coding.
ZipCar does not pick you up and drop you off at location. I can tell you as a Zip Car user, there are many issues that caused me to discontinue, none of which was service.

1 - the zip cars available to me are a few blocks away to walk which isn't convenient if I'm carrying something or lazy.

2 - high cost. Taking uber right now is so much cheaper. Imagine if cars were self-driving. Costs would plummet

3 - parking. This can be very hard depending on where I'm going

4 - I have to pay for the length of time I'm out, not for my ride. I also need to return the car when I'm done.

These are the biggest pain points in my opinion. Also, not needing to drive myself is a huge bonus. The leverage of solving these pain points are huge, imo.
I think it migh be the result of too much a|b testing. Everything hung feels ultra optimized for whatever metric they're going for that week.
>Then the market should automatically have shifted to 100% solar by now.

65% of new capacity in the US last year was wind or solar.[1] The world doesn't change overnight, but expect that trend to continue.

Renewable energy growth is only being slowed by lack of storage. As battery production and other storage techniques come online, it allows higher and higher % of energy to come from renewable sources.

>Don't know where that figure is from, but I guess china must be covered in solar panels by now.

Pretty good summary of the situation here: [2]

"In 2015, China installed half of the world’s wind power and a third of its solar photovoltaic capacity. Last year, solar capacity jumped 81.6 per cent and wind capacity grew 13.2 per cent. Greenpeace has said that China’s renewable energy growth rate is equivalent to installing one wind turbine and covering one soccer field with solar panels every hour. Five of the world’s top six solar manufacturing companies and five of the 10 biggest wind turbine companies are in China. By 2020, half of the country’s new electric generation will come from solar, wind, hydro and nuclear power."

[1]https://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2016/dec-energy-inf...
[2]http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/03/03/will-china-take-the-...
>So your screen-reader enumeration of the document structure is unpolluted by the physical layout which is stored in a separate data structure in a separate language. And that's... good, I guess?

Yes, that's very good.

You don't have source order independence with <table> either.
Billboards would be blood oaths guaranteed by the life of the firstborn of the CEO.
The same thing goes on with government. Every time something goes wrong, there's a call for more regulation and more oversight by the government, often far out of proportion to what actually went wrong. People believe that sufficient regulation of minutia leads to utopia.
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They presumably have a charter to operate from a government that is supposedly by and of the people (all chuckling aside). That type of ideology is cancerous (it uses the resources of a host to replicate itself without regard to the host's well-being) to a social system.
I'm 99% certain it was a joke...
Institutionalized debt slavery.
Srsly. Is this AI stuff ready for ux/ui designers?
I never want to see that in my life.
I once booked a room with a king size bed through one of the OTAs. The bed size is extremely important to me so I make sure of it. When I found the room, it was barely large enough to contain the bed. I found out from the desk that it had been a "run of the house" booking, which sounds like it should mean, do whatever the customer wants but it apparently means the opposite. Long story short, when we complained we got moved to a penthouse suite, and that was the last time I used an OTA to book anything. BTW this hotel was a landmark in its own right, and the price for the room was very reasonable.
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A controversial way to deal with generational wealth, but probably not the most controversial
I mostly agree with you (Mencken's famous Quote about complex problems comes to mind), but I don't think we shouldn't assume no responsibility on Google's end either. This whole economy of "throw-away devices" without much more than a couple of very late patches seems to have been facilitated in ordes to boost Android's adoption - which arguably worked out for them.

Sadly this also leaves us with the current sorry state of affairs. I don't think much "could've" and "would've" would be helping there, but I would very much like to see a major economic force guaranteeing some common grounds for devices. Imagine what an "IBM clone era" of phones could mean - all it would take would be a common ground w.r.t booting and a couple of drivers.

Sometimes I'm really left wondering why we can't have such nice things...
I swear I've heard about this before... is this one of those stories that emerges about a technology that never seems to enter the market? That "super slick" coating for condiment container interiors is another that springs to mind.
Ultimately, the customers, the source of demand. Markets work so long as politics don't keep them from working. The real estate market in San Francisco is constrained by politics, keeping the supply from growing to meet demand, but nobody is forced to want SF real estate. Prices find an equilibrium, and everybody makes their choices about where they want to live and how. That's how markets are supposed to work.

Facets of the tech job market bring a huge influx of tech workers to the SF bay area, perhaps the workers would rather live somewhere else, but they make the choice to work in SF. No political constraints here, just people's power to choose at work.

The job market right now has a culture that keeps workers close to the companies, but that culture is malleable, and the thing that shapes culture the most is economic incentive. Other tech companies relocate, AmaGooFaceSoft's employees express a preference for escaping the Bay area, and eventually the incentives that created Silicon Valley will reverse.

The reality is the tech industry has gotten too big for SV.
Aut.Des is going to be an ongoing experiment in adding AI/ML to the user interface design workflow. I’m planning to check out (all) tools that are available, write about them and share the results online.

Let me know your thoughts and if you are using something worth calling AI or at least algorithm based in your workflow.

I'd love to know!

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if you're going to commit a crime, always make sure it's a $50MM+ crime. that way you can squirrel away the money and pay for lawyers.
They demo'd it, but they didn't ship it!
It should. The reframing the context of what "slow" means is part of what makes you consider the adage on a level deeper than the surface, looking for a way to resolve the apparent paradox.
It's not misleading at all. My portable power drills can injure you if you aren't careful. They are very powerful. Fiberglass is like butter to a hole saw. A carbide tipped hole saw can cut high grade steel, including stainless. It might not make many holes, but you only need it to make one.
Because they don't take debt, in particular private debt, seriously, including Krugman and Delong.

Steve Keen explains how wrong this is.
Even low end cameras capture in the order of 10 megapixels nowadays, which is around the res of 4k screens. It shouldn't be much of a stretch to go to 20 or 30 megapixels for this sort of thing (yes, optics and sensor size are also very relevant)
Quite.

This road seems a much bigger existential risk than any AI holocaust scenario I can imagine. It's very scary stuff and everyone in the field seems to be brimming with glee at how easy it all is.

Just consider that the very mundane HeLa cell line alone managed to jump continents and invade the most stringent safety precautions at dozens of labs. At least they are pretty benign.

Now imagine a nice mosquito delivery vehicle with payload strapped on that nobody has a real clue what it is capable of. I shudder to think.

A lot of people talking about how to re-establish the baseline and that it's not a big deal and nobody should worry.

I get that there are very many wonderful things that can come from this as well, but on the other hand the research is going very fast and this is one area we should be exercising extreme caution.
they still have to be able to collect. and knowing how profligate Uber is with spending, i wouldn't be surprised if a large part of the Otto acquisition was immediate earnout for Levandowski.

frankly, if he comes out with $10MM after it's all said and done, he's still ahead.

it's totally possible for this to happen.
The sentiment in general is reasonable to me: that humans are generally more effective and more productive when they have something to do and work on, even when they're not getting anywhere with their main project(s).

It's not at all clear to me that a menial job is a strong solution to that problem. I would expect that in, say, a world with UBI, that also recognized this problem, people would find better ways to keep themselves feeling like they are at least doing something and making some contribution, than working on things they don't care about or believe in. There are plenty of meaningful volunteer opportunities in the world that would be much more effective "make you feel useful" solutions than filing papers in a bureaucratic office.
Sometimes companies are forced into doing metrics. If you need to fire someone for poor performance, in order to avoid a lawsuit, you'll need to document it, and that requires metrics. The same goes for lawsuits over who gets paid how much.

As long as there are regulations and lawsuits over this sort of stuff, there will be metrics.
I learned from a great dev not long ago that the data structure is often the most important aspect in developing a system. Like you, I was thinking - why would products, likes status and like count be a different call for each individual card. That is obviously inefficient use of both network and drawing as the DOM will be continually drawing as the requests return.
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In today's media environment is it strange scary-sounding headlines are published without deep analysis or actual evidence to back them up? But headlines saying devices are vulnerable is not evidence that the Android users are adversely impacted by PHA.

On the other hand, I referenced a report with actual numbers of devices impacted. Obviously you should be skeptical, but as you point out, if millions of devices affected is true, shouldn't we be seeing millions of instances of Android spam, remote roots, SMS fraud, botnets, etc.?

Yes, it is true that some users sideload, and threats to Android users vary a lot by country. There is only so much Google can reasonably do, and this is appropriate given Android is open source and has so many participants (device vendors, carriers, app stores, etc.). But it turns out with good integration with the developers, the distribution platform, and regular check ups, you can do a decent job at protecting your users.

You can also compare to other platforms and recall how devastating actual malware on Windows was, and how long Microsoft struggled (and still struggles) to protect their users. In Android, yes there are many vulnerabilities like Stagefright found, but in the end Android users are surprisingly safe.
So by 'requires' you mean offers it as one possible option? Your post already mentions the most obvious alternative - update via iTunes, and you can also use the lightning-USB adapter and a USB NIC.

I'm not sure I really understand the purpose of your post here, unless it was to incite some sort of ire from Apple haters?
Mee too. My wife's a runner and we found the documentary on iTunes or Netflix or something, and really loved it.
I still use:

.mytable{display:table}
.myrow{display:table-row}
.mycell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;}

Simply because it's been the fastest and easiest way for me to vertically align stuff. Plus very backwards compatible. But I think I'm in the minority by not using the flexbox, etc.
Ah you cute youngling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

At the peek couple of months your computer would BSOD _during_ installation process, right after initializing network interface and RPC service.
Please try the text-scaling-factor trick I detailed above and report back. I'm curious.

Try i3 as tiling WM. It might look intimidating at first, but it really improves productivity (and I say that as someone who refused to use one for far too long).
That's essentially what incentive pay is: payments tied to achieving particular objectives.
Generally speaking, the Aussies and Israelis have some of the top of the line Reverse Osmosis Purification Tech. I saw a ROPU (reverse osmosis purification unit) truck from the Army Corps of engineers when I was active duty US Army and that thing was unreal. You could ingest raw sewage into that thing and out would come drinkable, albeit not wonderful tasting, clean drinking water.
I have a bunch of experience in this area. Domains are almost always acquired by a brand protection company like MarkMonitor or CSC. The domain is then transferred to the brand company or a shell company they own.

A few years ago I sold a domain to a major video game company. They created an entirely new Delaware LLC to receive the name and hide the fact that it was an upcoming franchise.
> 1. What percentage of Android devices download apps exclusively from Play?

The entirety of China doesn't even have Google Play Store.
Nobody thinks national debt doesn't matter. They think the long term costs of endemic poverty or economic stagnation outweigh the long term costs of carrying a deficit.
Same thing applies today. Just fire up a DO instance and tail -f access.log

You will see random scanning attempts within minutes. Same principle , minus the effectiveness.
There is not one trusted oracle. The oracles are determined by the MKR holders, and MKR holders can easily replace oracles if they act badly. MKR ownership is decentralized, hence I don't think it's accurate to say there's one trusted oracle.
Sure, someone COULD do that, but how long and how fiddly is that process? How big of a risk is there to disrupting internal components.

What if you sandwich the sensitive layer as a thin mesh encased in weak resin between two metal plates?

The point of security isn't absolute, but to ruin the risk + effort vs reward balance.
Hack imo
Am I being cheated on or scammed? I need to know how to hack his imo account to find out
D'oh! Thanks.
I don't get how the first person to complete 4 loops had the "choice" to decide which way to run the last one. Was he choosing for everyone? This doesn't make sense, because my understanding is runners can go ANY direction they want. If they have to reverse for the 5th loop, they have to reverse relative to their OWN race direction.
China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage
> This is like standing in the crosswalk screaming at the cars that you have right-of-way.

This is literally what people do where I live. I once saw a guy stop walking in the middle of the street and flip the bird to a driver who didn't seem to be slowing down. I almost had a heart attack when I thought I was about to see the pedestrian get plastered, but the driver swerved to the other lane and drove past him. Then the pedestrian yelled "fuck you!" after him.

I haven't seen anyone get hit yet, but I feel it's bound to happen one of these days. The pedestrians around here are insane. It's amazing what they'll do just because they have the legal right of way.
You may want to reread the announcement. I came away with the exact opposite impression. It allows you to spend cash on amazon, not amazon credit at the store.
I could be exaggerating a little bit, but do check https://arstechnica.com/security/.
Not with a gene drive, that's the whole idea behknd it AFAIK. A gene drive copies itself and the payload to 100% of the host's offspring. So, as long as a host is able to reproduce (which granted has lots of implications) it will spread the payload. This accelerates the spreading of a gene tremendously, covering the whole population in just a few generations.
Because it's too inconvenient to carry a badge? Or make the badge smaller/nfc-tag-like?
Would you sign a 30 year mortgage denominated in BTC? I don't think so, it's neither a good unit of account or store of value. Looking back at the past when you know the previous value is not a good test; looking at the unknown future is.
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Dawn mission detects organics on dwarf planet Ceres