skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any editor has to restyle all lines, even lines that are off screen, and it supports declarative themes, then it must do the very same thing the browser does. And I suspect that any editor that does this styling will end up being slower than browsers are at this task, because of the sheer amount of optimization that has gone into browser styling at this point.
> EU law does not extend to US entities that do not have a nexus in the EU.

I'd have agreed with you on that until last year, when the US decided that US law applies to foreign entities, even if they have never been in the US, never did business with US entities, never used USD, etc (the famous case w.r.t. 9/11 and Saudi Arabia which Obama vetoed).

That case legitimizes using national law against a foreign entity. And, just like in the Megaupload case, where the US seized assets of a German citizen in New Zealand, the EU could seize GitHub's assets remotely.

Such a situation has happened only once before, where an airplane of a foreign airline was seized to force the airline to issue a refund to a customer. In the same way, servers rented by GitHub could be seized, and, as argued above, enough cases exist to justify that.

Is it appropriate in this case? Probably not. Does the EU have a legal tool to enforce it? Yes.
Plain text rulez http://textfiles.com/100/whytext.oct
I love also how the settings amnesia sets in with every update- if this "forgetfulness" sets in on something that Microsoft could benefit from.
Throwing away User Works- wasn't that as the Ultimate Insult to the User in some legendary book?
Same goes for the registry rip, you have to redo to undo- "repairs" on the Cortana...
Sad. But honestly, what better way to get students excited about evolution/science than to try to hide it from them?
Forgive me if I think the EU enforcing any terms with the US as humorous. Seizing US-based assets? Not in this political cycle.
FTA outhouses in Madagascar tend to be serviced by a couple of guys with buckets.
If Apple charged 25c in the beginning and increased the price over time until they found the equilibrium then it might have been a different story.
As a developer, I only use my app on 64kbps speeds.

At those speeds, the only webpages still working are a few blogs and HN, and the only apps still working are whatsapp, some special irc apps optimized for that such as quasseldroid or irccloud, some reddit readers, and, if you have a lot of time, imgur.

Most of these also have app sizes in the kilobytes to single digit megabytes, making downloading possible within of a few minutes on 64kbps (essentially dialup).

Those speeds are basically guaranteed anywhere in the solar system, and if your app works with that, it basically works everywhere.
Two changes made a big difference for me in using Windows 10:

1. Turning off Cortana using these instructions: https://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-w...

2. Turning off most of the visual effects under "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows." (I left "Smooth edges of screen fonts" and "Enable Peek" checked)

The combination of these two change feels like a whole new computer.
Eh? If you don't have transactions of some sort you can't update multiple tables simultaneously, which you need for a denormalised model?
I don't necessarily disagree, but I'd like to reassess where we are in terms of performance once Typed CSSOM is widely used. Using Typed CSSOM to adjust the "style" properties of individual elements is awfully close to doing what you describe: the difference is that matching and cascading still happens, but the semantics become much simpler if you're adjusting individual styles, and it's not clear to me that most of the overhead can't just be optimized away at that point.
I would further note that the "Us" and "Them" are different in every scenario throughout your day.

When you listen to the news, the line may be drawn based on geographic/state boundaries. When you talk with your coworkers, the lines are based on competitors vs partners. When you bump into that college friend, the lines are based on shared experiences, fields of study, or teams. When you go home and have dinner with your spouse, it's based on blood and marriage.

We choose, prioritize, and "optimize" based on all those lines throughout the day. We choose our values and connect and share or divide and compete as appropriate.

I was going to say "until we deny the 'Them' resources, there's not a problem" but we want to do that every day right? We want our team to get the best players, our companies to hire the best people, and our work to attract the best customers.. all of those things deny resources to the 'Them' in those scenarios.
I'm extremely fascinated by this topic.

It's amazing how something as simple as a toilet, that we take for granted everyday, is such a monumentally difficult thing to re-engineer cheaply for the world's poor.
What is a non-tech CTO?
Plus exchange rates

10EUR + 11 USD + 1500 USD + 500CAD in ZAR
Around the same time was the 64-bit requirement for app updates. This resulted in a dual-slice fat binary. Began being enforced in June 2015 I think, so about 2 years ago.
But what if he just keeps on slacking?

You don't trust your co-founder. Walk away now.
For those interested on a CLI counterpart, GNU units is more or less the same. The units definitions file is enormous
There's a big chance the cost of any fallout is going to hit your company harder than any extra % you negotiate.

I know it's not easy if it feels like your partner is not pulling their weight, but your focus should be on making the product a success at this stage. 60% of nothing is worth no more than 50% of nothing.
Well, the way /usr/bin/units solves it is to allow "floz", "usfloz", "fluidounce", or "usfluidounce".

Having to learn that you can type "floz" is better than not being able to do it at all.

(You could also allow "fl oz", "fluid ounce", "fl ounce", etc. if you tweak your parser a little bit, but that's the deluxe version, and any functionality at all would be a big improvement.)
It is both. There are install-time capabilities for certain known folders (e.g., music and videos libraries), and then access to arbitrary folders has to be granted by the user via the file picker. The shell provides the file picker UI so it's dependent on what edition of Windows you're using.
Random lagging on Windows is common.

My new Dell laptop often lags when opening the start menu. My previous lenovo stuttered from time to time. My HP before that would block for 200-700 ms every 30 seconds, causing lost keystrokes, until I uninstalled HP power manager.

I guess signature editions and Surface are better.
I am literally leaving a failed company just like that, except the CTO is sticking around, and he is the one using the bleeding edge tools without collaborating with the rest of the team.
I personally am fond of the 'Wagh Bakri' brand of masala chai. I'll add candied ginger after milk and the microwave because I'm lazy and don't want to oversugar it.
Love it! Also, "Fun fact: the well known ampersand, &, was originally a ligature for “et”, meaning “and” in Latin," completely amazed me. I never knew.
Why Core ML will not work for your app (most likely)
As long as our legal structure allows walled gardens and enforced incompatibility, that's what we'll get.

We need to look at websites as service providers/data carriers akin to telcos. The government has issued a slew of regulations to prevent artificially strong network lock-in with telcos, mandating wireless number portability and certain levels of device compatibility.

We need to recognize that Facebook is not a content creator as such, but a neutral carrier who transmits the data generated by its users, and that the users need their freedom and mobility to be respected if we're going to have a free and competitive market in cyberspace. There is no good reason that Facebook or Google should have such excessive unnatural ownership and access blockage rights.

n.b.: I say this as someone who is very conservative politically. Intellectual property is a government-granted monopoly that we have let run far afield.

I don't resent property ownership in the slightest, nor do I resent profit-making. I do resent an oligopoly exploiting regulatory capture and public technical ignorance (cf. Clarke's Law) to pass laws that allow them to arbitrarily and brutally crush innovative and competitive entrepreneurs.
It's great at unit conversions. You can do things like "number of milliseconds between amsterdam and paris at speed of sound". I use it all the time.
Oxford "British and World English" dictionary, post-mortem: "An analysis or discussion of an event held soon after it has occurred, especially in order to determine why it was a failure." https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/post-mortem. Maybe not common in the UK, but I'd say it's perfectly correct word usage.
I think it's not that simple.

Telling that John Doe is your patient is still different from just asking "you know John Doe?". The latter only discloses the fact that you know the name, and the rest isn't a certainty.

For example, if a doctor searched for their patient's name once and haven't ever searched for any other patient, but have searched for, e.g., a family member or a friend - it probably doesn't disclose enough information to be a privacy violation. If doctor looks up every patient they have, it's obvious they're leaking that data and if the laws forbid this level of disclosure - they should be held accountable. The article suggests something in between - so I don't think it's obvious whenever it's legal or not. It's likely to be not (in a real-world scenario), but still...

(And if doctor generates ton of random but real names and mixes in some patient names indistinguishably - it's probably okay, haha. Of course, that's not what happens, either.)
Yes, that's what GNU units does:

$ units
Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2016-06-21
2926 units, 109 prefixes, 88 nonlinear units

You have: 7.8L/10km
You want: miles/gallon
reciprocal conversion
* 3.0155716
/ 0.33161209

I think it's fine for a calculator to make guesses as long as it makes it very clear that it's doing so.
Didn't get past the autoplay video with sound on your page. Pah
Top U.S. hospitals promote unproven medicine with a side of mysticism
In Hindi these are called "kulhaR", and used to be found in railway stations all across British India before 1947.
To be clear, I do run Windows 7. I'm a one-man shop, so Microsoft won't sell me a Windows 10 LTSB license at any reasonable price.
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When you have a cop repeatedly yelling at you to stop pulling out a gun, it’s pretty clear the situation is getting intense. After the second time, you’d figure whatever you’re doing is wrong and at that point you’d stop... especially with all the police shootings as a black man.

Regardless this is all us trying to put ourselves in that situation when none of us were in it, the videos don’t conclusively show what he was doing, and the officer wasn’t worked up / nervous from the start – he started off very calm.

We can only speculate on the situation, without living it and fully seeing it how can we judge one way or the other? Clearly there’s a larger problem with so many black people in prison and killed by cops in this conntey, but to do justice you have to look at every situation individually.
It's not been the sole dominion of HN alumni for years, all sorts of businesses and coders are here.
From what I read it might be a Cortana issue because for some unfathomable reason their normal app search on the start menu is now "Cortana", but if I understood correctly Cortana isn't even available in all regions? I don't know how this is supposed to work - is there a cut down search service that is called Cortana but isn't Cortana? I have no idea and Microsoft docs on this are terrible.
Dark colored ship with dark colored containers on a pitch black night.
Nope can't really spot it.

Get out of the city to realize just how dark it can be.
This is an argument against running word as an admin and then explicitly allowing macros to execute, it has little to do with breaking the app-containment, which is the claim made in the article.
Actually, use of large value types in Swift can cause significant binary bloat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207752
Just ordered an iPhone 7 with 32GB, to go to 128GB is another £100.
When I have the start menu lag, it's because the search service isn't working. If the start menu takes 3 seconds to show that correlates 100% of the time with the search function not working either.
http://sprunge.us/HIYa

It must be total chaos in the UK now! 110748 super secret government emails and passwords leaked on a hacker forum :P
Tableau 10 for Data Science step by step
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≫ 1 mile / 2 km
1 mi / 2 km
= 0.804672

Great, but it would be nice to show the result's unit.

≫ 1/2km
1 / 2 km
= 0.5 km⁻¹

It's been a long while since I did any real maths, so I'm slightly stumped as to why the -1 exponent is there.
If you take over the entire thing yes. But the DAO hack demonstrates how easy it can be for an attacker to make off with a whole lot of ETH.
Indeed - and the same line varies in depth across the city. Generally lines are deeper closer to the core, and the Northern Line is anomalously deep due to being built in 1860 when soil physics was not so well understood so extra margin had to be allowed for the river.

Also, there isn't really such a thing as an "express" on the underground.
Good point. Termites will never build spaceships.

I guess I'm just partial one side of the coin, when both must be present for it to spin.

Still, it's a shame to waste all that potential... even if recent research into General Adversarial Networks hints to us that us/them is a lever buried deep.
I know how dark it can be outside of the city. I also don't carry around a radar system worth tens of millions of dollars that's operated by a crew that's supposed to be paying attention to where their $1.7B vessel is going.

Surely a ship of that sort has a pretty robust night vision system, if not multiple methods of detecting things including thermal or lidar.
Haha you're telling me, I'm also a victim of a physical assault where the assailant told all of my friends immediately after the incident that it was I who assaulted her. Lost a lot of friends over that one and got called a future rapist by people who had never even met me.

It's forever in the back of my head that some of my remaining friends still secretly believe I did it. All because I had the courtesy to not immediately tell people about what she had done. Learned my lesson there. The first to report has the upper hand :)
Will Decentralization End with Humanity?
Each item costs so little I don't think it would work very well.
Could this approach be used for media compression? I've wondered how compressible a popular-music track could be if you had a sufficiently rich language to describe it. This seems like a method to answer that question.
I'm a little confused as to how this improves on GNU units, which seems to support far more:

$ cat .units
period(len) units=[m;s] 2pi*sqrt(len/gravity) ; (period/2pi)^2 * gravity
$ units
2980 units, 109 prefixes, 97 nonlinear units

You have: period(20cm)
You want:
Definition: 0.89729351 s
You have: period(20cm)
You want: ms
* 897.29351
/ 0.0011144625
You have: period(2ft)
You want: ms
* 1566.5419
/ 0.00063834872
You have: 5 GiB
You want: bytes
* 5.3687091e+09
/ 1.8626451e-10
You have: 5 hundred million
You want:
Definition: 5e+08
You have: tempF(100)
You want: tempC
37.777778

is it supposed to be a competitor? learn how to use a new language? I don't get it.

I like the idea of keeping units, but I'm not sure this makes things easier:

≫ V * A / J
V × (A / J)
= 1 V·A/J

You have: V*A/J
You want:
Definition: 1 / s
The thing is - you like Win7 because is basically Vista with years of polish! It's done. I'll be perfectly happy with an LTSB version of Win10 but right now Win10 is where Vista or Win8.0 was. If you run Win10 now you will want that first year of polish.
I'm forced to run Win10 and my home machine (which is on the fast insider ring) is so much better than my ltsb machine.

If I were risk averse or preferred stability then I wouldn't run Win10 at all, I'd do Win7 for another year, until there is an LTSB version of what Win10 is now at the most recent builds.
I meant western europe. Sorry for the misunderstanding. But I got hit with karma regardless.
That's the unfortunate truth... so he should have gone after a large settlement, citing that very reason.
Huh, interesting. I got a banner message in the uber app yesterday saying I'll need to update soon. I declined to do so over cellular because of the apparent size of the app. Glad to know that's just the worst-case scenario, not the likely download size.

I wonder how Apple could efficiently display the relevant download size to users based on device type and previously-downloaded version. I would imagine this would not be easy to do quickly and accurately, but most users would probably be happy just have a rough estimate of what the actual download size would be.
Hype Machine is struggling to stay online, and that’s a shame
To be able to see and show them everywhere without having to download them.
There is not much information about what Andrew Ng is going to do with deeplearning.ai .

All hype no content.
The people who jailed him are from different humankind. They probably used his code contribution to Debian open source on their devices to catch him and in their everyday life. They laugh now at open-source community, because all that Debian can do is blocking Bogatov’s compromised keys. I guess there must be at least partially closed-source community (instead of total open-source one) in the ideal world then this community will have a power to help his member using sanctions in their soft. Remember also Ian Murdock case. I guess creators deserve more respect in this world. So the more powerful tools creators develop the more they need to move away from open-source.
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I don't want to turn off Cortana, I want Cortana not to exist. How can I accomplish that in Windows 10?
> HIPAA rules specifically permit incidental disclosures that accompany a permitted purpose such as relating to safety, patient communication, or health treatment, including payment.

I think those really are very different cases. For example, telecommunication is protected by other laws. So, yes, a doctor may call you and even speak into their telephone about your medical information, thus effectively transmitting that information to their telco, but then, telecommunication providers are not allowed to listen to calls or use the contents for marketing purposes, or whatever.

> If your doctor has a reasonable reason to Google a patient beyond mere curiosity, HIPPA would allow the search to take place because the revelation of a name is considered a 'minor' disclosure, and was incidental and as minimal as possible.

First of all, it's not just the name being disclosed, it's the link to the doctor that's being disclosed. And the question is: Well, was it minimal? How do you determine that? And was it incidental? What are the criteria?

Imagine a doctor called everyone in their city, asking them if they knew anything about their patient. Not out of curiosity, but because they are trying to get a better understanding of the medical situation of their patient. They are only disclosing the name, so it's a minor disclosure, right? And also, it was just incidental, right? They didn't call to tell everyone who their patient is, they called in order to collect information they thought could help them!

Now, how exactly is that actually different from asking google? The number of humans involved? What if you hired a detective to collect information on your patient? At least, you then could put confidentiality clauses into the contract, instead of giving the information to a company where your use of the service implies accepting some TOS that allow that company to essentially use the information to make money in any way the like!

> If HIPPA didn't have such exclusions, merely calling a patient by name in a crowded waiting room would be a violation.

Well, that doesn't seem like a particularly convincing argument to me. They are physically present and essentially identifiable to the other people in the room anyway, and essentially due to their own decision to go there. So, yeah, there probably is a need for exclusions that allow this, but that example doesn't really help with figuring out where the limits are or should be.
What you describe is roughly how the AppContainer used by modern apps on Windows works. Windows RT could only install apps based on this system.

The problem is that Windows RT was perceived to have failed for lack of compability. So they introduced Centennial which brings back compatibility with some legacy Windows apps, but also brings back most of the same problems that drove them to want to move away from legacy Windows apps in the first place
It's not so basic though. Google knows the current value of most currencies, for instance. It's actually more efficient for the central servers to pull that data and the clients to query once in a while, rather than every single client (local calculator) to constantly keep all that data up to date. And that's just the currencies.
What about "Privacy Shield Framework"? EU is pretty serious when it comes to handling its' citizens personal data.
Also, according to the EU law even storing personal data is regulated.
Would probably require an enormous dictionary on the decoding end
Komputation: A neural network framework JVM written in Kotlin
More like Server 2016.

In embedded version you have more fine-grained pick of components to install, and you do this before even storing your image to installation media.
> dating (used fleshl...joking!)

Lol
> I can't imagine "shorting" these cryptocurrencies will be possible any time soon

You can short Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies on a number of exchanges right now.
Slow news day?

I understand Prof. Ng's contributions to the field. That being said, AI is so full of hype at this point, I'm not really getting why a placeholder page warrants a whole article, which frankly has a similar level of information in it.

Wake me up when there's a demo to try.
Congratulations, you published the genome of all your relatives. Did they consent?
I'm not sure where I argued an equivalence between these forces. Western fundamentalism doesn't have to be equivalent to Isis to be damaging in nature. It's my position that the counterterrorism movement is off the rails -- a negative, objectiveless, and misguided force on the world that is more damaging (because of scale) than terrorism. There are many different groups of people who support and feed the counter-terrorism movement -- among them are many people who are happy to advocate for extreme levels of violence against unknown or imagined enemies. If you ask, many people in the us support "turning the deserts to glass" -- they have perceived enemies in the deserts and don't particularly care for who else they kill in pursuit.

People in the west want to pretend that terrorists are unique in their lack of regard for civilian lives -- but there is an objective question we can ask to determine the truth of this. Who's actions result in the deaths of more innocent civilians? These numbers reveal that western hands are not so innocent as they pretend. Semantic quibbling (and often misdirection) about the relationship of "intent" to these deaths is the manipulation tactic -- a frequently biased mechanism for the whitewashing of responsibility and guilt off the hands of the chosen marked as noble without regard to evidence.
The FBI kept a list of D&D players as part of its hunt for the Unabomber
> I think it's not that simple.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. But I guess my point is: It's not as simple as "well, if the information is not 100% certain, it's fine" either.