skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most ( All ) of the problems with the current (Smart)TV are those who manufacture them aren't Software company. They may not necessarily make bad TV, after all we are only left with a few Display Panel manufacturer to choose from. But they simply give up OS update / software development after they are shipped, (this is also true to most IoT Devices.) And in the case they do ship and update, this is an example what we got from Samsung.

Luckily, there is finally leaks that Apple (0) may be making its own TV Set (1), instead of STB. And even Benedict Evans changes his tone on the subject. (2)

I never buy the argument that Apple should not enter the TV market because it is low margin, slow replacement cycle, and small unit volume. Because that would means Apple stop making its Magic Keyboard, Mouse, Router.

Xiaomi 60" 4K TV Set using LG Panel are sold for ~$750 USD in China. If we assume TV Sets in China, due to fierce competition are all selling at Zero net profits, there is no reason why Apple cant sell the "same" TV set with its tvOS for $1K. And it would still sell well.

[0]Apple may not be the best Software company, but software update for their Appliance, AirPod, AirPort etc has been very decent so far in their History.

[1]https://twitter.com/VenyaGeskin1/status/897741302573535232

[2]https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/899715811278966784

[3]http://www.mi.com/mitv3/60/
To e or not to e? US statue sparks debate over how to spell Shakespeare
>"For the record I am indifferent."

For the record: If you're indifferent about Trump at this point, it's because you believe conspiracy theories and fake news and blatant lies.

Do you actually believe that there really were "some very fine people" marching with the Alt-Right, Nazis and KKK in Charlottesville, and that the anti-fascist protestors deserve some of the blame for Heather Heyer being mowed down and murdered by a White Supremacist, or are you actually indifferent about the Alt-Right, Nazis and the KKK?

And do you also believe PlannedChaos's claim that Scott Adams is a certified genius? "Just sayin'."

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

>"I once spent an hour pointlessly debating a Scotsman who turned out to be a Truther (I'd never met one)."

No Truther Scotsman would pointlessly debate you for an hour. He must have had a point. ;)
Blind-hiring worked to remove the gender gap in orchestras. Why wouldn't it be good to use in college admissions?

http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact....
I don't understand why they are choosing to host on tor instead of choosing to use a bare IP address if they can't get domain registrar to issue them a domain name. Surely it is easier for their readers to type a dotted quad address in a standard web browser than to install tor and type in a 32 character base32 address.
Eliminating Dark Bandwidth: scalable, efficient performance, post-Moore [pdf]
I'll take a broad interpretation of 'CS' and throw out a couple of personal highlights.

C. Shannon, "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" (1940): https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/3454142...

Shannon's master's thesis, which introduces boolean algebra to the field of digital circuit design.

R.W. Hamming, "Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes" (1950): https://ia801903.us.archive.org/1/items/bstj29-2-147/bstj29-...

In Hamming's own words: "Damn it, if the machine can detect an error, why can't it locate the position of the error and correct it?"

J.T. Kajiya, "The Rendering Equation" (1986):
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ravir/274/15/papers/p143-kajiya.pdf

Kajiya introduces the integral rendering equation, which is the basis for most current techniques of physically based rendering.
And what of studies that give evidence for racial biases in standardized testing?

Your suggestions are all well and good, but do you see any of those happening soon? It's not like anyone is even remotely discussing this anywhere and with the current administration, it sure isn't happening soon at a federal level.

The question becomes if affirmative action is better than nothing at all.
Would you mind giving the brand and model of the TV? I've been searching around, and some Vizio models seem close, but otherwise it's just monitors, mostly on the smaller size, and much more expensive (?) at the larger sizes than "smart" tvs.
They are comparing it to Uber the company, not the drivers or employees.
$110 Tai Ding bot being used for SNES Classic pre-orders
I remember there was similar noise with Ben a while back about a similar "outcry", but this time (along with the general IRL environment) it seems stronger.

There has to be a general attitude of focusing on what matters and not implicate irrelevant things to technical matters. Same thing happened with Brendan Eich (Mozilla) and in part on Palmer Lucky (Oculus).

This is getting ridiculous.
There is a logic to following trends, but it has nothing to do with the problems being solved and everything to do with remaining relevant in the workforce.
How to write your first React.js component
Paragraph 2 is worth more discussion. I work for a moderate-sized private university in an urban environment. Beyond the startup and labor (staffing, administration) costs of the amenities, they require real estate as well. While suburban/rural universities may have options for constructing new buildings, we have to rely on purchasing real estate in a fluctuating market. Then we have to re-purpose it, often bringing it up to modern health codes. This is expensive to undertake.

A ramification of purchasing real estate, for amenities in current demand, is that we can get stuck with expensive real estate when enrollments are down and, correspondingly, the amenities in those buildings are less used.

The amenities come due to demand. But, they're costly. When amenity use is down, we're kind of stuck with those costs unless we can unload or re-purpose the real estate.

[EDIT: Added "costs" in sentence 3 paragraph 1.]
I think it's less to do with recognition as much there just not being as much money in European businesses, particularly startups.
Ugh. I hate to be the guy to defend him, but watch a YouTube video of the guy. He's just a troll. He doesn't hate poor people. He hates the media... I don't really want to explain why but there's a video of him talking to an 18 yr old kid and it became obvious he wasn't evil, he's just a dick for sport to people that want to make him look evil. I put down my pitchfork at that point.
TW employee ~200 here (now ex). The vast majority of the profit was invested in expansion. You can't grow from the low hundreds of employees in year 2000 to almost 5,000 in 2017 without many tens of millions of dollars reinvested in expansion.
Barclays pinned to an intermediate. Here's what happened: https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2016-November/008989.h...

It worked out OK for Barclays in the end, but only because Symantec was willing to violate the Baseline Requirements to help them out. (I wonder how much that cost Barclays.)
And they are experimenting with removing the AMP page indicator in search results.
Ehh. TBH, the people who provide what's effectively counter-intel about these particular white supremacists won't be deterred by them not being on the open web. The information necessary for countering them will not really be hindered.

It makes demonstrating their ugliness to normal people marginally harder, but only marginally. People already don't click links, screencaps are generally sufficient.
Are you asking generally the benefit of SVG over icon fonts? Github made a nice summary:

https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg
So during each winter storm, the roads will be lined with cars full of people freezing to death (literally) because their cars decided they can't drive home. And people trying to walk (in the roadway) to shelter, which isn't much safer.
In the crowdsourcing page, they say it can be used with a regular carrier number, or with mobile data plan + VoIP, or just WiFi + VoIP (see section "A No-Carrier Phone?").
I've always been more excited about a Moon colony than a Mars one.
I mean, compared to Mars, the Moon is ridiculously close.

Many of the same benefits Musk seeks (backup for Civilization, excitement) for a fraction of the cost.

Low gravity and atmosphere on a dome would be more complicated, but again, compared to Mars, it's right there.

It would be a more humble and realistic first step, IMO.
I feel like all the mucking about with Bayes' Theorem, while technically correct, is completely missing the point. 100 people getting a color wrong seems impossible, so if it were to happen, I would look for deeper explanations rather than jumping to probabilities. Perhaps it's because those people are from a country/culture that doesn't distinguish blue and green (many don't, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...).

While this particular example is unimportant, I think it illustrates a point that just paving over statistical oddities can cause you to skip important investigations.
It absolutely matters, because if the officers do search your phone without a warrant, none of that information is admissible in court.
It looks like some sort of power grab. Do these people even care about Node.js at all? How did they get on the Node.js TSC in the first place?

Good luck to Ayo.js... and anyone who ends up using it.
No, support for the airliner includes things like tons of people seeing the thing fly over I-395 right before it hit the Pentagon. There's a taxi driver who nearly got impaled by a lamppost the plane knocked over.

One thing I've noticed with 9/11 Pentagon conspiracy theories is that people don't seem to understand the geographical context of the building. They talk about it as if it's some isolated installation in the middle of the woods or something. It's actually spang in the middle of the #6 largest metropolitan area in the country. The path that AA77 flew took it right over one of the busiest highways in the region. Literally hundreds if not thousands of people would have seen a cruise missile if it had been one.

I've thought about this and looked into it extensively. I have not seen one single reasonable piece of evidence to support any of the "alternative" theories. Every one I've seen is based on speculation or outright falsehoods.
My impression is that the introduction was pitched to eighth graders... the piece [0] got better as it went on. The actual point, that some people, for biological reasons, have more trouble with the speech police than other people have, seems obviously true? A case is made that those neurodiverse people are still worth having around... you may disagree! Either way there is nothing triggering in the piece itself, nor in the tweet pointing to it. The various board members seem simply to have a disagreement here. If they can't stand to be on a board with people who disagree with them, they certainly should set up their own board so they will be more happy.

[0] http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-spe...
Some of the best-funded and worst-performing school systems are ones in inner cities with high minority populations. Baltimore, MD public schools spends more per student than the wealthy D.C. suburb of Montgomery County, MD, despite having a lower cost of living.
"Basic" or "simple" are how I'd describe them...
The advertising industry's policy seems to be that the well is infinitely deep, and therefore no amount of shitting into it is too much.
Honestly, when mastery of the subject becomes detrimental to teaching the subject, your not taking the highest-level courses.
A great researcher has to teach and convince themselves, those skills translate to teaching at that level.

I'm mostly thinking about the highest level math courses though.
In my experience, the passive voice weakens a statement because a verb's subject is vague or undefined. As a result, the reader must go through additional cognitive steps to parse the statement.

Especially in technical writing, using an imperative verb is generally more efficient and effective.

E.g.: "The process is completed by clicking OK."

Reader: "Who completes the process? I do. How? By clicking OK."

vs: "To complete the process, click OK."

Reader: "To complete the process, I click OK."
I would add to this that making the system fairer will inherently decrease the chances for the higher starting players. That is because they had a higher chance to start with. The lowering of their chances is not a bad thing, it is perfectly just. But it's hard to get those players to accept that when they are starting from that position of power.
None of my friends/family outside tech have any idea of what is/has been going on inside Uber. A bit unfair to say "they don't care".
What's the value proposition of building a whole new client? If your goal is to give people a client for your cool new protocol, why would you waste any development resources on squashing fiddly UI bugs of your own doing, rather than, say, providing a reference implementation by forking the Signal app and swapping out the pieces until it's talking Matrix instead of TextSecure?

I see this mistake constantly. The ring.cx folks did the same thing. Inevitably, everyone ends up commenting how poor the app is—some of them even saying how much they'd like to be able to use it and would if it weren't for the UI. It wouldn't be so silly if there weren't plenty of essentially ready-made solutions for the problem.
It's tiny, no more than the size of a single company in the real market. Crypto is cool, no need to exaggerate its size as more relevant than it really is, right it it's a tiny drop in a huge ocean of capital, it is not significant. The market cap of just the top 500 companies is $17.4 trillion.
i think the long and sordid history of industry would suggest nobody has cared for a very long time. when it comes right down to it, moral consumerism is a luxury good.
Well, what is "blue"?

(900 of 1000 people say a person is funny. What is the probability the person is funny?)
HPKP is based on the public key, so you don't necessarily need to obtain signed certificates in advance - generating a key pair and keeping the private key safe would suffice.

There is some value in ensuring that a CA is willing to sign a certificate using those keys in case something went wrong during the key generation (i.e. a key size or curve that's not supported by the Web PKI), so it might be considered a best practice to do that regardless.
Chill: Robots Won't Take All Our Jobs
> Keep in mind that Trump too in the past leaned Democrat but ran as a Republican

Trump cultivated Democratic political connections as part of being an NYC-based real estate developer, but has been on the political right (and specifically the nativist/nationalist right) for quite a long time. His first Presidential run, which was abandoned early, was in 2000 when he threw his hat in the ring for the Reform Party nomination.
When you phrase it that way, it sounds like you think it's hopeless to have a system with objectively fair rules.

Notwithstanding the probably uninspired resulting college environment, I think it would be hypothetically fair to admit people solely based on their standardized test scores without any other consideration. The admission standard while somewhat arbitrary would be clear, such that anyone who wants to get admitted could work towards it.

If someone is provided with a substandard K-12 education, it would make it harder to work towards admission. In that case, maybe we should look into the K-12 environment. Maybe it turns out that it's not as much the K-12 environment, and it's actually home life. Maybe home life issues are related to incarceration or maybe they're hereditary. I think this is what an effort to root-cause the problem would look like. When you find the root causes, then you could provide help for anyone with that root cause problem.
What's the deal with removing the AMP indicator logo in search results?
My last phone was OTA updated to start showing full page ads.... Almost drove me crazy looking for the source because it looked like it was the launcher or some other app. Finally solved it by installing a firewall app, and will never buy that brand again (Kingzone) despite loving the hardware. It's the first phone where I've gone back and bought a second device of the same brand when I wanted to update because I loved my first one, and they've now burned that loyalty forever.

I wonder if the ads will make up for the lifetime loss of the people the piss off.
I've started tagging my bookmarks, by simply adding a bunch of words that I associate with a page behind the bookmark name in parentheses. So for example, I might add "(open source svg icon fonts font set)" behind the bookmark name for this.

9 out of 10 times I can easily find the bookmark I'm looking for, by entering a few of those words into my bookmark search and/or address bar, and it doesn't require any special extensions or services.
Micro Influencers vs. Celebrity Calculator
No, it isn't. It would be hypocritical to say "slavery is bad and it was done to black people so we should make white people slaves now". It is not hypocritical to say "black people were mistreated because of their race and this has disadvantaged them as a group, here are some ways to make up for that previous treatment". If one kid gets singled out at school to be beaten up, it is not hypocritical to single him out for medical treatment afterwards. You are not giving him medical treatment because he is a nerd/funny looking/unlucky,you are reacting to the situation he is in now because of past unfairness.
Guy L. Steele.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
Not to this, but some things got added to the language:

* core.async
* pulsar

Also a lot of the stuff just didn't turn out to be as common as anticipated when idiomatic Clojure is used.
Specific issues causing Ayo's creation: https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...
Thanks for the feedback. Will make those changes
Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in 'biggest attack' in 50 years
This sounds a lot like how it's possible to fit a square peg in a round hole if you have the right drills and grinders and so on.
> Part of the linked paper's point is that because computer systems involve many "levels of failure", even a more careful programmer cannot usually rule out every class of programs.

The programmer only has to comply with the specification. The specification is a finite syntactic entity. If the specification doesn't capture what the user really wants, or compliance is undecidable, or <insert problem beyond the programmer's control here>, then the one at fault is the specification writer, not the programmer.
Thanks for the correction. But no thanks for the snarkiness!
This was last month. Another analysis this month by a different organization reached the opposite conclusion.

[1]: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/analysis-rusty-lunar-rock-sugg...
Maybe ads are getting more aggressive because we are all using ad blocker?
Anthology of Technical Assets on Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming
Well, it's probably just as politically incorrect to let your post with its rebellious attitude stand with positive vote count, so I upvoted it.
Yeh seriously, I've always said it as well. Establish a base there first, figure out what works, and what doesn't work. I really think Mars is just too much, too fast. It's way too harsh, and a one way trip. At least we can realistically send help to the moon.

I'm guessing the long 28 day(day) cycle is the biggest issue, along with few natural resources.
mind linking to the panel you use?
there are aggregations of Rich's talks on clojure. Here is one: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
This is answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091742
In general, the 4th amendment protections against search without a warrant don't hold at customs. See the 'border search exception' [1]

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
the alternative is what OP is attacking - affirmative action.
That's no Moon!
> I can't imagine how much crazier ads have been getting

I would certainly argue the way this comment (and many others in a lot of threads about ads here or elsewhere) seems to imply that ads are at their worst ever.

I mean either people forgot or are too young to remember, but in the 2000's alone ads had both their "pop up and sound and unclosable javascript spam" and their "flash everywhere turning your modern supercomputer speed into that of a 80's calculator" eras, and probably a lot of other ad-cancers that my brain chose to forget.
The entire reason the ios/flash debate happened was because 1 - flash was on every page and ad, 2 - flash was eating every resources you would throw at it and still need more.

I mean, I agree totally that the web without ad blockers is insane, but I think many also see how it used to be as much better than it actually was.
Because the input of applicants is the original problem. Affirmative action is intended to select more from the limited applicants, which in the end is a small effect in comparison to getting more black/hispanic students who are able to go college at all. Solving that takes a lot more, and affirmative action is attempting to stopgap for that.
Some people never got a chance to become prepared.
+1 thank you uber for triggering the entertaining outrage
Their IP address could still be revoked by a hosting/server provider for violation of ToS (or any other reason). In addition to that, there's a lot of security and usability problems, like using TLS without a valid domain name, having the IP change over time, having websites impersonate them, etc.
Instead, if they use a tor hidden service, it's must more difficult for a single entity to take them down.
It is usually shaped like a J. Here it's reverse, so your brains goes "that's not how J are supposed to be".
Linking in a non-triggering way to a mostly-thoughtful article by a professor of psychology about the challenges faced by those with autism and other neural diversities is not "being an asshole". If that's "asshole" to you, I'd like to trade entire families and sets of acquaintances and business associates with you...
This is a visionary comment. It's looking at the 10-year future. Let me add two thoughts:

What we do now is "surf". We view info as pages, which are presentations constructed and filtered by someone else. What you're suggesting is that instead of surfing the surface, we could dive deep into the info-ocean and construct a presentation for ourselves. The future-browser is the tool to enable that.

I'm guessing that eventually we'll each have an AI that learns how we want to consume info; an AI that eventually becomes an assistant. She will become the layer between us and the info-ocean, filtering, organizing and presenting, and even suggesting, guiding and teaching. She know our interests and habits, read our emails, and take our phone calls. She may be owned and controlled by a corporation, like Alexa, Siri, Cortana or Google Assist. Or maybe we'll be able to construct our own AI-assistant, integrated into our browser/phone/AR-headset.

Right now we're the fish, hooked by advertising and branding schemes coated with a layer of technology. Someday maybe some fish can hide behind a technology layer of their own.