skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a meritless lawsuit brought purely for political purposes. My question is who is funding the lawsuit?
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Uh, well, I don't think the metro Boston area is an area known for particularly high car ownership in the US.
Brietbart has a very negative reputation for reporting on political drama in misleading ways. Search "liberal" on Brietbart and you'll see what I mean.
I feel that CSS in JS is real future. They already allow to create truly dynamic applications, with theming and on-the-fly styles changes. I know that you can do that without it, just applying different classes, but now they are truly first-class citizents, without any constraints.

So I definitely recommend everyone to take a look at them (I guess, styled-components for react is the best library out there, but not sure about other frameworks).
I see. Little too late as I don't browse it any more, but thanks :-)
EFF Asking Copyright Office to Protect Your Right to Fix, Study, Secure, Remix
The True American: On Henry David Thoreau
Is there a chance of actually getting money from Google? The precedent fear will guarantee that Google will fight this tooth and nail.

Pro-bono I could see firms taking it, lots of press and the chance of being defined as a top tech-related litigation company. Or Google's many enemies could finance this.
To play devil's advocate, there definitely is a disconnect between when you think you're fine and when you're dehydrated
Not really, Google Play exists in a privileged position on Android phones because it's a system app. Other 'App Stores' are basically glorified downloaders and require a huge amount of manual intervention by the user. 3rd party app stores can't actually install or update applications.
See: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/docs/zx_and...
As far as I know, gab is more closely a competitor of Instagram and Twitter, neither of which is a Google product.
> It was because, if not officially, probably also for his politics.

That's a serious claim to make without evidence. Perhaps you have evidence and you're not sharing it. If that's the case you should ask yourself why you're not comfortable sharing that evidence, and if that discomfort should apply to making the claim at all.

Alternately and more likely, you have no evidence, in which case you should certainly not make such a claim.
> "Congratulations to you all," Maize announced to applause. "It's been an incredible mission, incredible spacecraft, and you're all an incredible team."

And one final note: we have just about run out of budget on this, so back at your desks you'll each find a security guard and an empty, commemorative JPL cardboard box and if you can just fill that by 4 pm and ...
This is a totally different issue. Distro package management isn't perfect, but you don't have to worry about a random malicious individual squatting on "opensssl" and including compromised code. That's a whole different ball game than a bug inadvertently introduced during a backport.
> If we want to remain logically consistent, shouldn't we lock up the Trump supporters with the baby killers?

No, we should let them participate in society. Political discrimination is the same as religious discrimination: bad.

What is the difference between these two statements?

1) Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to run social apps

2) Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to run social apps

Same shit different religion.
Yes, and it's about to get even lower.

Are you even arguing the same point that I am?
You don't have to be a Facebook user for Facebook to track you. They create "shadow profiles" for non-users.
There is a lot of money in sex. Patreon is basically "will undress for money".
The Convair F-106 Delta Dart from the same era was likely faster (Mach 2.3 vs. Arrow's fastest test at Mach 2). And the Delta Dart was no great interceptor, they only built a few hundred. This was the era where Air Power doctrine had to painfully accept that high speed high altitude was becoming too vulnerable to SAMs.

The fastest war plane of the era was the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie, which was an enormous bomber which cruised at Mach 3+ and 70,000 feet for nearly 4,000 miles. Neither the Arrow or Dagger could touch it, but SAMs could so it was canceled after a very successful test flight program.

The world changed to low altitude penetration, a role which would have cut the B70s range substantially because it's design actually far more efficient at Mach 3/70,000 feet than it was at Mach 0.95 at 1,000 feet.
What exactly is a "sexist game" ??

Is it one where female characters are portrayed sexually? Because the "reverse" exists: http://store.steampowered.com/app/654880/Dream_Daddy_A_Dad_D...

And considering how many female players kinda like games like Final Fantasy X (where Tidus was a somewhat cute male main character), or Zelda (Link is also cute), I think that "bringing sexy boys" into games would make the overall game industry better in general.

In essence: there's nothing wrong with "the male gaze", as long as there's an equivalent amount of "female gaze" going on. We're not at that point yet, but there's definitely more and more games being developed with a "sexy boy" with the female player in mind.

Much as Laura Croft is primarily played by male players who find her sexy. Or a more modern example would probably be Nier: Automata's 2B. Its a game more or less designed for the male audience with a sexy female lead. As long as there's enough studs like Nathan Drake (Uncharted) for female players to also gaze upon, I don't think there's anything wrong with sexy.

For a "mainstream" example... the Bikini Armor of "Xena: Warrior Princess" is contrasted against the perfect abs and pecs of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Beastmaster". As long as things are fair for both genders to enjoy, I don't think its a bad thing.

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Similarly, "Damsel in Distress" isn't innately a sexist trope if there are enough "Dudesels in Distress" to compensate. That "Super Princess Peach" video game where Bowser steals Mario and then Princess Peach rescues Mario is a good example of this inversion.

I agree that most "people in rescue" today still are female, so its a female trope in general. But there's really no reason it has to be locked to the female role.

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Its hard for me to fully understand what's wrong and whats right, especially when I start talking to female gamers and learn which games they play. I mean hell, I've met female gamers who actually play the crap out of "obviously sexist" games like Senran Kagura.

So what is and isn't "sexist" is a very confusing subject to me. Mostly because even feminists don't agree on what is and isn't "sexist".

First Generation Feminists would argue that "sexy" representations of women is sexist for example. But a 3rd Wave Feminist would argue that sex-negativity is sexist, and that positive portrayal of sex is better for the feminist cause.

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I think Nintendo managed to hit a good spot with their new female characters this generation. The Squid-Boy and Squid-girls have universally been accepted as positive character portrayals.

Pokemon's "Male" protagonist and "Female" protagonists is quite inclusive, even if its quite simple. And while the male "Red" is undoubtedly the strongest NPC of the in-game universe, strong female characters like "Cynthia" are remembered by the fanbase.

And finally, the "ARMs" characters have some degree of sexiness built in but nothing as outrageous as say, DoA. And as far as I can tell, "ARMs" is getting a positive reception overall.

But maybe these games are just too new, so there isn't much analysis on them yet.
That's actually the conversion of oil into biomass.

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

Details and other topical information can be had here:

"Toby Hemenway - How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo

Long story short: even a grossly inefficient process can produce massive growth if you have a torrent of free energy.
A lot of fonts feel like this. It's only once you set a whole page set in them it they start to look different especially when you do side-by-side comparisons.

Programmer fonts are even more samey as they are used at such small sizes comparatively and of course have the additional constraint of being monospaced (most of the time).

Personally with the amount of code I stare at each day even an oddly placed pixel can be annoying.
>The big difference this time is that the ceiling with machine learning is high enough for large-scale profitable applications. That wasn't the case with the previous rounds.

My company (fortune 500) depends on expert systems, some even date back to the 80's AI boom. Doing what we do, at the scale we do it, would simply not be possible without them.

Lots of companies make a lot of money with expert systems, but they have no incentive to fund AI research since expert systems have hit a clear capability ceiling.
The best solution for the name collision problem that I've seen so far is used by Discord and Battle.net, both in the gaming space where username is often much more prominent than the real name.

You can set your username to whatever you want (e.g. "jakebasile"). You then get a randomly assigned four digit number appended to the end (e.g. #5024). To add someone as a friend, you need the full username#0000, but thereafter it is not needed. To mention someone in a chat (in Discord) you type @ and then start typing - it will match on either the user name or display name, but only complete the user name. The key is that when you actually send the message it will show that user's display name in chat and notify them as you'd expect. Display names in discord can be overridden at the server level and in Battle.net games there is the concept of Real ID instead which you can choose to share your real name on a per person basis.

In both of these situations you are only using one account and one username across either multiple games or multiple servers. This avoids having to use many different accounts within the same application which is one of my primary gripes with Slack.
So, in essence, Credit Karma is going to use ID monitoring as a lead gen tool for their affiliate/ad business model.

Will be interesting to see how LifeLock responds.
I am ALMOST right there. I have had a few minor paper cuts.

I love that I can get Ranger working.
> You can also use a non-Google app repository with automatic updates, if you want.

You cannot unless you've rooted your phone. F-Droid as an example cannot actually install or update packages without a system app connector.
Google wants developers to demonstrate that they take active steps against such content. The TOS of the apps you listed prohibit such content and they do remove the content if it gets reported. I doubt if Gab operates that way.
You said that PG had no clustering solutions, I showed you there were. Some of them may require more work than others but there ARE clustering options none the less for PG. It's inaccurate to say there are none.
Well, we could start by not comparing Trump supporters to child murderers. It's one of those comparisons that might be useful in conversation but ends up demonizing them.

Andrew was kicked out among other reasons for saying "Build the wall" to a YC alum who was expressing concerns about Trump's proposed ban on immigrants (and how the ban might affect their life directly).

Your point is an important one and worth serious discussion. Ultimately, people have always demonized some subset of the population; it's what people do no matter the century. It's certainly traumatic, but what's to be done? Even scientists give up, and they're a stubborn bunch: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376
> The real mystery to me is why Canada has any software engineers at all.

For all kinds of political and social reasons, I would never move to the US. Key examples:

- The disaster that is the US health care system
- Even more endemic systemic racism than Canada has
- Even left-wing politicians are to the right of what I prefer in Canada

All that, plus I'm not in this for the money. I make a comfortable living and live in a gorgeous city, and there aren't any cities in the US I would want to live in.

I'm happy in Canada. I'd probably also be happy in Europe or even Asia, but I can't picture being happy in the US.
You're trying to tell me I live in a place where people are way less likely than average to use Uber to go everywhere and don't buy cars while I am telling you the opposite is the case.
It has to be constrained to something reasonable. You can't guarantee the software is safe, but you can guarantee it is published by someone who is who they say they are, similar to EV certificates for domains. You can also refuse to publish packages with intentionally-confusing names.
Yes if you regulate Google as a utility. This maybe like the way that cable companies were forced to air public access television. Google may be force to add them to the Play store but with an 'explicit content' warning.
The Summer of Bitcoin Ends Badly
While I agree that Google has too much of a monopoly over Android apps to be able to make the "It's our platform, get bent" argument, they also have a lot of products or services where they should be able to regulate the content. In my opinion, it would be a shame if we applied the same rule to all of their services.

EDIT: Could the downvoters please explain what they disagree with or why this post is low quality, if only for my edification? Is it controversial to think Google's control over the Android app store constitutes a monopoly, deserving special regulation? Or maybe that we should be nuanced about which services should be regulated as a utility? I'm open to persuasion here.
Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones (Papers We Love)
Even speaking as an ardent free-speech supporter, there's some pretty clear evidence out there of Torba being kicked out not strictly because of his politics.

He was doing a pretty good job of not being particularly nice to someone in the screenshots I saw. I won't go out of my way to witch-hunt him or anything but implying he was kicked out strictly because of his political viewpoint is a really tall claim to make without evidence.
They don't now. The spec will almost certainly allow some form of dynamic code generation/loading in the future

http://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/#platform-indepe...
This is the pretty much why I oppose no-platforming people.

If someone is going to get punished and excluded anyway, why would they care about the fine points of what gets called "racism" and adjust their behavior to stay in line? Once people aren't following the rules, the rules cease to be an effective way to modify behavior. Drug dealers don't pay taxes, and alt-right pariahs don't care about how offensive they are.
Looks like maybe:

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/xmlcmds.html
Skinner box essentially means slot machine.

A tremendous amount of games on phones are either glorified slot machines, or a normal game with some kind of slot machine tacked on, such as a loot system.

Some even produce loot that can be traded for real money...

You have to vet every game now.
> Hacking used to mean something specific: it meant you were free of channels

Can you explain in greater detail what you mean by this?
this seems overly simplistic. Surely the concentration of such offensive content is higher on Gab than on tumblr, twitter, facebook, etc. And intent should matter as well, no?
Is there a porn angle here? Seems like from Googling there's a decent amount of sexual content. I wonder if this is like Tumblr with a seedy underside of adult oriented growth.
> the amount of labor required is totally unsustainable to feed billions of people.

I disagree: in a well-designed system there may be a lot of labor in the beginning, but it should fall off within a year or two to a very low level, much lower than conventional farming.

(I admit a lot of "Permies" don't seem to set it up this way.)
Oh well I didn't think I'd applied any subjective notion to my recognition that it sounds like the paradigmatic event that Kohn describes. And having recently gone through the book it was the first thing I noticed.

My admiration for Hinton there lay separate from my remark about Kuhn.

I'm not quite sure where you got that I think scientists must learn from Kuhn's observations. But I will say, that while it's kept me away from my other studies (for the obvious displacement of reading one thing and not the other), I don't see the harm in indulging in such reflection. But my background isn't engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences before my more recent work. It's in humanities and the arts where multidisciplinary studies are encouraged. I suppose I'll probably always carry that with me. If nothing else, perspective is a good thing to have -- and not all thoughts, reflections, or ideas entertained need be engaged.

At any rate, the book was recommended and I try to remain open minded.
It's not about "being right". It's about understanding how another person can hold a worldview completely opposed to your own and still "be right". It's accepting that the world is a complex place and that humans being innately attuned to pattern recognition and self-reinforcing bias are really bad at attempting to see how someone who doesn't hold the same beliefs and viewpoints may very well also "be right" or that in the end your own views "are wrong".
The lawsuit in the US involved bundling IE with Windows specifically to push other browsers out of the market. Google has never really been antagonistic toward other app stores. Lots of phones get sold without the Play Store installed.
I used to think that, then I saw Monaco on an old Mac at 10pt and I changed my mind.

Windows doesn't render fonts the same way so I wound up creating a near clone of Monaco @ 10pt on a Mac and called it Monocle. I fixed some things that annoyed me along the way.

Here's an earlier version that I used to show people: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/517659/monoclefix...
That's the same problem: your IPv6 is worse than your IPv4.

The lesson learned from 6bone, HE, 6to4, 6rd, and Teredo is that we need native IPv6 or nothing. Tunneled IPv6 is worse than no IPv6 due to its unreliability.
It's pretty easy to argue Google is a competitor. Look at Google+ for example.
Why are you changing the subject from the reliability of the source to the correctness of a specific article?
What's ironic is that morally speaking, they should milk those nazis dry. Instead, by being racist, they aren't getting targeted advertising, which is likely to their benefit.
Mine's just a dev tools hack (literally just changed some CSS classes around), so the obvious solution for mine would to not show a circle.

I've never been a fan of traffic light style visualizations, which show a shape even when there's no value. The empty tic-tacs in the original do this, and prevents any advantage in parsing the vis you'd get from cognitive dissonance of the shapes. Not showing a shape when there's no data is the correct solution.
For Twitter, you can disable video autoplay in the account settings and whitelist twitter.com in the extension. But there are other sites where this doesn't work.
Person A asks for 90 dollars per year; Person B asks for 100 dollars per year.

Person A does not ask for a rise after one year; Person B asks for 10 dollar rise after one year.

TBH I don't see how it is a company fault.
Wait, so the general idea is to now trust them (for some reason) to handle your personal information properly? This seems like they are preying upon folks who do not know any better.
We needed to go cold turkey off the ipad too. Its different from computers or television. The apps they choose to play are like literal drugs, constant events and things to tap on.

Anyways after the cold turkey we now have 40m of video games per day, if they talk kind to one another and listen quickly. They can choose what they play.

They always choose the damn "addictive" tablet apps.
>So that leaves little room for alternative language paradigms then. If you want dictionaries to look like JS or Python then what are languages like Lisp and APL to do, not use coherent syntax.

Yes, but what about the benefits from the regularity and uniformity?
This whole problem exists not because taxis didn't embrace technology soon enough, but because in 1936 they put a cap on issuing new medallions in NYC. Which meant that since then, irrespective of the economic growth and the number of people, the number of taxi cabs became severely restricted. This created an artificially increased prices for taxies. In the year 2011 a taxi cab medallion was sold for $1 Million in 2011 [1].

Taxi Cab industry is a heavily regulated industry which was screwing only one group of people, i.e. the consumers. This is why there is little love for the cab industry in America. For more economic analysis on this, check out the lecture by Murray Rothbard given in 1989 at NY Polytechnic [2].

1. https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/2-taxi-medalli...

2. https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Government%20Cartels%2... [Part about taxi cab medallions start from 29:21]
There's zedboot too.

See: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/docs/gettin...
Sure, but the Google Play store has a privileged position on users' phones that can perform actions that a 3rd party app store cannot, namely installing and updating applications.

And Google Play only really has that privileged position because they develop Android. I think it's honestly pretty clear cut here.
My brain is full of fuck
There's not actually gas, or a tank. Most space probes like this are powered by radioactive decay of a plutonium core.
Problems like this were litigated in the railroad era. See
Memphis News Pub vs. Southern Railway (1903).[1] Could the railroad transport one newspaper, but not another? The Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled, "no". That was even before the US had Federal antitrust law.

Railroad law and regulation from a century ago is worth studying when trying to figure out how to deal with monopolies with strong network effects. Railroads had even stronger networking effects.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=sU0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA202&lpg=...
And there cases of WaPo doing the exact same thing against the right, especially towards our President.

Those posts are easy to spot and even easier to dismiss.
I'm asking about the article specifically - is there something in it that Breitbart is misrepresenting?
Viewing that story on a 2560x1440 screen is... yeah

I mean I'm young, but my eyes can't do that. I don't know anyone who can :x
> the Army wanted to use it as a subsonic, all-terrain troop transport and reconnaissance craft, but the USAF wanted a VTOL aircraft that could hover below enemy radar then zoom up to supersonic speed. Avro’s designers believed they could satisfy both services

This is step 1 in creating a multi-million/billion dollar boondoggle.
Why not just ask Social Capital to invest out of their VC fund? The only difference is liquidity in public markets, and if that's all you want, why are you giving up 20% of the upside from your current valuation when it would cost you less than 1% of your current to IPO yourself?
> Weirdly, English doesn't seem to have any problem with red and pink; you'd almost expect it to use "red" and "light red".

I recall a throwaway joke in the Borderlands presequel, involving a particle effect a designer wants to be 'light red' but 'NOT PINK'. Which it turns out is a reference I didn't catch about from ye olde RvB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgi_YPxE5Kk