skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
surgeon here - the "robot" is not a robot - you 100% control the instruments. It just allows the instruments to mimic the movements of your hands inside the body, without the big incisions. I've sent patients with lymph nodes between the vena cava and the portal(not the game)vein to robotic surgeons bc the robot can be more precise than me laparoscopically
Skylake and Kaby Lake aren't supported by Windows 7: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/micro...
It is also limited in the EU.
> The problem with this view is that the vast majority of end users do not want

I'm a user.

I want that.
I'm probably not "a majority" but I fail to see how being assimilated to the majority without my consent, without even knowing it is happening, is "protecting my interests"

What would you think of a restaurant that charges you 50% of the bill as tip because "the majority of the customers does that"?
You're basically suggesting the broken window fallacy:

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

Basically, it's foolish to have people do unnecessary work because in doing so you have squandered time and resources that could have been spent creating additional value.
The physical chemist's response is that stuff gets really weird at interfaces, and a cell is a dense nugget of interfaces
Probably depends on how willing you are to live and work in China.
It is a best practice (and required by certain WCAG 2.0 guidelines) to allow users to adjust the text size to meet their needs. The 2.1 AA guideline says that websites must scale up to 400% and still be usable.

In CSS, I almost entirely use relative units so that I don't need to worry about how things will scale. If the user wants/needs their text to be larger, they will also want/need [any other element] to be larger, as well.

Of course, if you let your buttons scale as much as your text does, you can end up with buttons taking up the entire screen. I typically solve that by using max-sizing on an element, rather than using `in` or `cm`...I can't recall ever using physical units in web design.
Far-right leaders have double standards for immigrants
TL;DR: "Over the last two decades or so, as Disney’s annual profit has soared, the company has secured subsidies, incentives, rebates and protections from future taxes in Anaheim that, in aggregate, would be worth more than $1 billion, according to public policy experts who have reviewed deals between the company and the city."
Agree — that seems like a very 2003 idea. The whole Intel Inside doesn’t have the cache it used to.
> Adblock is "breaking websites"

because that's what I want it to do.
developers cannot opt-in
For a very detailed discussion of font rendering from the historical compromises that caused sever line length problems, and how to properly render with reliable sizes at at any display ppi, I recommend reading this[1] paper by Maxim Shemanarev and the AGG project.

A key reason we have font size problems today was Microlsoft's decision aggressively hint their display fonts. The hinting was so strong, many glyphs had their horizontal position forcibly quantized on the pixel grid. Thus 1% changes in font size might round to different pixels, with unpredictably and error accumulating into huge differences in length for each line. Scaling font size could make dialog unusable, so a lot of software used fixed px sizes so the GUI was predictable.

Microsoft finally addressed this problem in recent versions of Windows, but it will take time to undo the "Only 96 ppi exists" damage. Font rendering is complicated!

[1] http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
> what about defaulting to popup blocking?

that's a misbehaviour of the browser, not the developers

The browsers were designed for viewing a single page at time

popup blocking is fixing a browsers misbehaviour, as much as fixing a car that when you hit the brake accelerates
I've argued in the past[1] (and there were a few good comments in that thread, in response) that most UI elements should be measured in arcdegrees they should consume in the field of view of the user. That is, how large should this text appear, not how big should it be physically rendered, either in pixels or inches. (So some derived unit, like pt.)

As I stated in that thread, the display device would need some concept of its own dimensions (easy) and its intended viewing distance (harder, and would probably need to be configurable).

The one commenter in that thread notes, I think rightly, that,

> once you get to very small screens like phones, there is a tradeoff between keeping font and UI sizes comfortable, and being able to actually fit enough content on the screen without endless scrolling. I am willing to strain my eyes with smaller font sizes on my phone than on my laptop, just so that I can see more than 5 sentences of text at the same time.

I think is particularly applies as blog fonts get larger and larger.

> web browsers defaulted to 16 pt

Are you sure? I don't ever remember this being the case; it's always been 12pt (usually a serif font, often Times New Roman). Are you sure you're not mixing that up w/ 16px (which I believe in CSS, 12pt == 16px)?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
> In Germany, you ALWAYS put a photograph in your resume.

Not really.

The more educated people are about this topic (e.g. have read "The Google Resume" by Gayle McDowell, which I highly recommend), or have had startup experience, the less common it is.

We all should stop doing it, everybody will benefit.
In my experience, K-12 and 4-year college were all about "useful abstractions and assumptions" to help people understand concepts, and grad material was about slowly peeling away those assumptions and abstractions that made it convenient to learn and teach but were never really there (at least not guaranteed to be there).

One of the best teachers I had forced us to write or assumptions down every time for every problem on the test. If you didn't write any, you got zero credit. "What's the point in learning equations if you don't know when they stop applying?" You also got _negative_ credit if you applied the wrong assumptions because you were just guessing or going on habit.
Has she consider using Uber of Lyft as they are right now?
From my cold, dead hands...

My wife and I were discussing American culture today and some of the reasons we'll be hard pressed to do anything to solve our present issues with mass shootings and I look at car culture and see the same kind of value. Americans aren't really good at giving up freedom, for any reason, no matter how many people will die. Cars and driving represent a freedom that I don't think we're going to be giving up any time soon. As you likely assumed from my first line, I'm part of the side that would fight tooth and nail against any attempts to legislate away independently owned and operated automobiles.

I won't waste any time trying to convince people who hate cars that I'm right but I'll tell you that Uber doesn't come near my house and that's a perk. I live 30+ miles outside of the nearest "city" and loooooooove driving/riding (motorcycles) back roads and hills. I'm not trading in my car or truck or jeep or bike or bike for a blob that slips in and out of a pneumatic tube, no matter how much I love Futurama.

ps- Some of my neighbors ride their horses on the same road I drive. We wave.
Thankfully, this strategy didn't work. I wonder how often it does though.
Wait, can you approximate protons and neurons as excitations in proton and neutron fields instead of as specific valences of a quark-gluon plasma?
Few is not none, besides that those people who are very productive and that make very few mistakes usually also were younger when they were still learning and likely learned a lot from those mistakes so now you see the end product.
Very interesting. Has anyone noticed any difference in boot times?

If they are announcing things like a brand new hypervisor ahead of re:Invent one wonders what they are saving for the main event...is it too much to hope for managed Kubernetes?
How to download macOS Sierra

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?ls...
After some more checking, when I had a bit of time, I installed it.

Those are also things I look for.

Still seems to be in line with my basic point: On Google Play, it's up to the user to assess the item's legitimacy. At least, so far, Google continues to provide these data points to the user; as long as the Play Store itself isn't compromised.

Keep in mind, some of the items recently in question in the news are reported to have had a million plus installs. Separately, fairly recent news stories have described ways in which third parties have managed to glom onto prominent domains -- particularly those providing extensive user services -- to gain the addressing of that major domain for their own functionality.
1. What if I need to print some form and 100mm box shall be precisely of that size on paper. How would your default-font-relative-length-system work?

2. What if I have touch screen and need to make that button to be clickable by a finger? Like: button { width:1in; height:1in }. How would font size (consumed by eyes) be related to size of the button on touch surface (consumed by a finger)?
Richard Adams's passing was not too long ago, just December of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13265256

Another great article: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/04/richard-adams-...

Was blown away to discover that Adams had written WD, his first attempt at a book, at the age of 52, and that it all came from an impromptu story he made up during a car ride: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/04/richard-adams-...
> there is no robot providing haptic feedback on the market

So like driving an old car with power steering that has zero road feel.

Great.
Of course. I mean, of course… https://xkcd.com/1301/
The broken windows fallacy is not apt in terms of what lobotryas wrote. If we had enough resources so that everyone had a home, health care, and access to a livable amount of money each month then that would be good. Wouldn’t it? Lobotryas did not state how to accomplish this. Just said it’d be great if we lived in such a world.
One request :)

Please consider a Fully Dead Edition. It would give access to all the digital content, but include a paper version of the book. Thanks!
Disgusting. If he doesn't go to jail, vigilante action would be justified.
If Brendan Eich lost his job for supporting Prop 8, and James Damore lost his job for writing his famous memo, of course a company can fire someone who flips off the President. For better or worse (my opinion is worse), Internet activists have created strong precedents for private companies to terminate employees who aggrieve the Internet with their off-duty activities.
The Bitcoin community seems to have shifted the terminology away from currency to a digital asset or commodity.

US regulators have classified it not as a currency, but as a commodity. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/bitcoin-i...

Side note, the talks of micropayments and currency use has shifted due to high fees and a paradoxical aversion to updating the network to reduce clogging.
I feel like we should start organizing the resistance to this "you just call for it" now.

I liek my car. I like owning my car. I like keeping my random stuff in my car. I like being able to jump in my car and go on a trip if I want. I like having my dog in my car.

How is "oh well you just call for a car" better?
"My younger siblings had seen the animated adaptation and had told me there was a lot of blood."

I too always associated this story with violence before I read it. The violence in the adaptation has really shaped the reputation of the story.

The story has some intense moments, but there are far more memorable bits, like the language and the puzzles and the relationships.

The movie feels like Miike or Tarantino in comparison.
Why Americans have stopped eating leftovers
A small, previous discussion of this suggestion[1].

(And I completely agree, for most use cases.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
A postgres backend is traditional isn't it ?

Am I that old that a relational database no longer traditinol, everything has come back round again now document stores are tradtional, and relational is new and trendy ?
Oh, I mean I guess you can probably find some country that'll be able to work out a profit-sharing agreement with you and allow you to legally steal money.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/evgeniy-mikhailovich-bogach...

This guy is a good example of someone with a decent career in infosec operating on the right side of the law (Within his own jurisdiction, anyway).

If you want to do charity reporting bugs, then you obviously will get paid like charity workers do.
I went into my Philosophy major wanting to study mostly logic and math. But I actually fell in love with ethics, a topic I had never been interested in before. I think most of these social issues find their roots in ethics, so if you're interested in that this would be my suggestion: start off with Plato's Republic[1], move on to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics[2] and then Christian philosophers (Aquinas[3], for example) and then (my favorite) John Stewart Mill. I often suggest his On Liberty[4] on HN. It's one of the absolute best primers to modern social ethics around. I don't think Kant is particularly useful (or interesting), but many would disagree, so your mileage may vary.

As far as the "modern" era, I suggest reading G.E. Moore[4], Elizabeth Anscombe[5], Phillipa Foot[6], etc.) Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy[7] is one of my favorite essays ever. Apart from that, it's important to read Supreme Court cases and decisions (especially important ones: Bakke v. UC Regents, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, etc, etc.) But most importantly (and what we were vehemently taught), is to always practice the Principle of Charity[8].

Some of these books and essays are very hard to parse, but there is a lot of material online that will help figure out their meaning.

[1] http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

[2] http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

[3] http://www.iep.utm.edu/aq-moral/

[4] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm

[5] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore/

[6] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anscombe/

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Foot

[8] http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/cmt/mmp.html

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Not "hidden" from the home page at all. In fact, as I write this, the top link is #37.
I really don't like Gizmodo's comment system, so I'll chime in here.

"Even as a pretty tech-oriented person, I still can’t find the appeal in this IoT tech as it stands. It’s too vulnerable, and most of the things it does seems to be either simple quick fixes for lazy people or are solutions looking for a problem. Can anyone that’s in deep on this tech tell me what the appeal is, apart from having mood lighting in every room of your house and being able to unlock your front door with your phone?"

It's laziness and convenience. I can turn on the lamp 2 feet behind me from my watch or yelling out to Siri to turn it on for me. When I leave for work early, I can turn on first floor lights before getting to the first floor and stubbing a toe on a chair or turning on to many lights and waking up the wife. Lights turn on when you get home (geofence) so your not walking into a dark house. Or turning on the furnace when you leave work, or turn it off when you forget to before going to bed. Etc...

I don't have HomeKit door locks yet, if ever - That I don't trust. And I haven't found a drapes controller I like. I'd really like a controller for the fireplace but I haven't been able to find one yet.

Personally, I'm waiting for HomePod in December from Apple. We're an Apple house through and through so doesn't make sense to put something else in the mix when it's finally almost here.
Most high DPI web-browser/software run into the main problem that the world runs on <= 96dpi screens. So for the act of sainty they all throw their arms up and say, `We assume the device is 96dpi and we scale a pixel to that`.

Consider it this way. When you had a A4/A3 size paper it it natural to talk in point, inches because your A4/A3 sheet of paper doesn't suddenly change to A5/A6, so you're all-ways designing for a fixed size.
Vigilante justice is an affront to the rule of law and is never justified. Even in heinous crime such as those committed by Weinstein.
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I looked up the house I grew up in which my dad still owns. He paid $2400 in property tax last year. The people that bought my best friends house paid $14,000.
I agree, but I think automated vehicles will begin to dominate city and bulk freight transport. I wouldn't be surprised if automated vehicle only lanes start appearing on freeways with a higher speed limit, or dedicated parallel roadways. You can certainly move more people faster without the human in the loop.

I think what this article misses is that although non-owned automated vehicles would be great for commuting or leisure activities they wouldn't be great for shopping or road trips. There's going to be a place for the personal car for a long time.
Considering that you are a not a city dweller and most people are (I include suburbs and exurbs in this) I think it quite possible your view is not normative. I don’t hate cars. But I can’t wait for the day I can go without ownership of one. What I do love is not the car but the freedom it gives. If I can replace car ownership without giving up that freedom then I will gladly do so.
Bracing for downvotes, but surely somebody has some unflattering nude shots of Harvey somewhere. Wouldn't be terrible (well, in some ways) if those surfaced.
Thanks, I appreciate your help.
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017
20 million reviews per year * 1/(2000 hours per personyear * 10 reviews per personhour) = 1000 people

Facebook could afford a thousand fulltime account reviewers, they just don't want to.
In another comment someone said that YTKids has an option to disable related videos, that could be a good start.
Title is incorrect. She lost her job because she outed her self on a controversial image that went viral. She then shared that image on her own social media.

tl;dr - she played herself
Why is moderation needed?
> Americans aren't really good at giving up freedom, for any reason, no matter how many people will die.

Another way to look at it is a lot of Americans risked their lives for our freedoms, and a large percentage of them died for it. The price of freedom is always blood.

We should be exceedingly careful about giving up freedoms so dearly purchased.
> He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations ... One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan

This goes way beyond simple work place harassment. This is a predator taking advantage of his position of power to prey on others. Its reprehensible and deserve jail time.
Basically:

“There were two big reasons people threw out edible food,” Gunders said. “They thought it had spoiled, or they just didn’t like leftovers.”

Also, food has gotten very inexpensive. That lets people pay for variety.

I'm not sure it's wasting something if people genuinely don't want it, but anyway...
West coast has a bunch of know it all liberals, so I guess theyll have this fixed any decade now.
Windows: pixels are pixels. Some systems there (e.g. WPF) use also dip units (Device Independent Pixel, 1/96in == 1px in twisted CSS terms). And that's how it should be done in CSS form the very beginning.

MacOS/iOS uses screen units. Each such unit is of N physical pixels. Where N is a number obtained by [ nsscreen backingScaleFactor] function for particular screen (monitor).
Yea agreed - which is why it seems silly to even bring up.
No, it doesn't.

His victims rightfully could have exercised their right of self defense (and perhaps did, I'm not following the story); but it's a far cry between someone engaging in self-defense and suggesting granting a pass for extra-legal, possibly violent, action against another... no matter how reprehensible the target.

I hope you're not actually making a call to extra-legal or violent action and, if so, I hope this community doesn't sanction it.

[edit for clarity]
1. why would you not automatically figure out the IP address from ifconfig?

2. why wouldn't you use pod ID (i.e. hostname) as the seed?

3. how exactly Kubernetes is relevant to unique ID generation? :)
You may find yourself happier working for a smaller company.
Seriously, not relevant here on HN, guys.
An amazing expose of the tools available to the rich and powerful to suppress the truth and get away with morally monstrous behavior. Remember that an individual like Harvey Weinstein represents the tiny tip of an iceberg of reprehensible abuse of power. If a Hollywood producer makes use of these kind of techniques, imagine what is possible for the heads of large corporations and the leaders of corrupt nation states.
Yes vigilantism is an affront to the rule of law. But if the rule of law demonstrably fails then it is necessary. (It shouldn’t fail but that’s a different matter.)

This is the ethical dilemma, deontology (rule of law) vs utilitarianism (best outcome). It is always easy to construct counter examples to supposedly perfect laws. Don't kill people. Sorry, I'm gonna kill Hitler. Ultimately everyone is a relativist.
I don't really care about people dying but I would gladly eliminate human operated vehicles if it meant that speed limits and traffic were a thing of the past.
Skylake should be more energy efficient and denser (cores/rack) than Broadwell, so it makes sense for them to be cheaper.

Also, I wouldn't assume Amazon pays anything close to list price, or even necessarily runs publicly announced parts.
You were saying "make it de facto illegal to operate a multinational" and that is not on the table and has never been anywhere close to it.

Are you walking that back, and want to talk about loopholes now?
Music Is Not for Ears
Pricing seems to be about 15% cheaper than C4 with slightly more RAM and the same ECU equivalence
Some of the value of a network comes from everyone else being on it. The term for this is even literally called "network effect".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
I’m always amazed how quickly most people’s principles go right out the window the moment they’re angry. Publishing unauthorized nude photos is wrong, period. Doesn’t matter what a piece of shit he’s accused of being. He deserves prison if he’s guilty of these criminal acts. With the number of instances he would reasonably spend the rest of his natural life in prison, after being duly convicted. That’s what’s right, and that’s justice.
Colors, smells, pains, etc. are not part of the mathematical or physical description, so you can't simply dismiss the problem of qualia by labelling it as dualism. Where do the colors, tastes, feels come from? What sort of math would result in those experiences?

Here's another problem. You know about the physical/mathematical properties of the world by abstracting away from our experience of a world with color, sound, etc in it. Remove the colors and how would you know about shape, extension, mass?