skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's going to annoy everybody who likes things to happen fast all the time because Face ID will definitely cause a delay and frustrate every user at some point."

It doesn't. FaceID is faster and as reliable as TouchID was for me. Not to mention, with winter coming, have you tried using TouchID with cold fingers? Spoiler alert: it mostly fails.

"The lack of a home button is probably the worst design decision."

Disagree. App switching is faster than ever, the new gestures stick after ~30 minutes of use, unlocking my phone takes less time.

"Half the time when I start scrolling near the bottom of the screen the control center shows up."

The control center isn't accessed by swiping up on iPhone X, it's accessed by swiping down from the upper right "ear" of the screen. So this is a non-starter.

Source: I've been using my iPhone X with FaceID since Friday afternoon, iPhone user since 2008.
it's obviously higher but it's nowhere near an effective rate of 50% for a lot of US citizens
Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
What the parent is talking about is most likely the yearly tax you have to pay over your (already taxed) savings. E.g. here in The Netherlands you have to pay 4% tax a year over any savings over 25k euro. This includes anything like investments as well.

The parent is considering that 4% the “rent” after you already paid 52% tax to “buy” it.
You joke, but this is exactly why I recommend Macs or iPads to all of my elderly friends and family. Trying to run Windows safely turns into a level of knowledge that my 75 year old mom isn't able to do.

I don't yet know of a good alternative. I desperately want one because Apple kit is expensive. But for now "$500 for an iPad" is the advice that gets me the fewest calls for support.
Or, like, my life is a nightmare for reasons X Y and Z and now I can't even go on vacation to a warm place when the winter comes?

How much of flying is business travel anyway? You think people are going to tell their bosses they're not taking the plane for that sales meeting because of teh climate?

Maybe a tiny amount of virtuous people, but generally hell no.

The vegetarianism and animal rights movement has had many decades to convince people to give up meat and it's just not happening. People eat more and more meat.
it's a little difficult when they can see out of each other's eyes. granted one of them can only see out of one of the other's eyes, it's still difficult and probably so unique/case-by-case that it would be difficult to come to any conclusions
Mazda is downplaying screens to save its soul
http://www.skatteetaten.no/en/Tabeller-og-satser/Formuesskat...
It was quite common in many European countries.
I've never heard of that term being used but parametrize helps in situations where:

a) You have a slew of test inputs that all need to be tested through the same function, but you don't want to duplicate code.

b) You want something like "test with every combination of [x,y,z] for parameter a and [j,k,l] for parameter b". This is probably what the grandparent is referring to.

c)You have an even more complicated scheme, which you can define.

This is better than just having a for loop over a pre-generated list of parameters and calling a function with the same assertions, because pytest sees and handles them as separate but related test cases (e.g. when reporting errors, crash handling, fixtures, etc)
Say you have N random walks.

The probability that the second derivative at any point is of the same sign for all walks decreases with N.

Right?
I think the end goal is to implement the jvm as a bytecode interpreter on top of truffle/graal and export it as a standalone executable via svm.

This also means that it will be easier to make vms with performance comparable to java.

One could, for example, design a functional bytecode and an svm based bytecode interpreter for it and write a language that compiles down to it to get a compiled language with a jitting (functional) vm!
I think it's less applicable now that the world is getting more homogenous - i.e. you can go to almost any country and spend most of your time in your American hotel, drink coffee at Starbucks, shop in American-style mall and even speak English to lots of locals. Of course, you can go out of comfort zone and interact with local culture, but in the past it was a necessity and now it's an effort you need to consciously make. Not to mention that a lot of the local "authentic" "experiences" you can stumble upon are actually a show for the tourists, so you need to make an extra effort to filter them out.
net-glimpse – Real-time visualization of network traffic
Look back to an end-of-life LTS kernel: 3.10
How about nationalize all Uranium on planet Earth thereby resolving fuel costs only to the cost of extraction, and building 1000 CANDU heavy-water reactors in Northern Ontario in a 10x100 grid - building only 3 variations (proven models) with very simple designs, and then simplifying the fuel cycle process dramatically.

The French do 85% of their Electricity on Nuclear because they built a bunch of identical plants at the same time thereby saving massively on costs.

And then repeat in the Nevada desert.

Costs have a lot do do with 'insurance' 'fuel' massive overhead of bureaucracy. It's like building a tunnel in Boston - massive soft corruption, stupidity etc.

The actual, bare-bones costs of a nuke plant should not be that high.

Do 1000 at once, as an 'international project' ...

And then coordinate with major economies to do likewise: China, India, Europe & Africa (built in Sahara), Middle East (built in Saudi Arabia defended by American troops), Argentina.

Built in regional pricing mechanisms (i.e. guaranteed x% to Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Vietnam, Brazil etc.)

And 15% goes directly to atmospheric CO2 capture.

Now there's a 'Marshall Plan'.
Well Oracle was the last big company to join Cloud Native foundation. They have realized that Kubernetes, containers are becoming new standard layer of infrastructure. Combined with fact Oracle donated JavaEE to Eclipse foundation, effectively washing their hands of legacy tech.
You might want to try some things.

First, make sure you’ve got at least 1GB free space on the device. iOS starts thrashing when free space is low.

Second, tap Settings > Battery to see if any apps are excessively burning the battery (and by extension, the CPU)

Third: Settings > Privacy > Location Services and make sure every app is set to Never, unless giving that app location services has some benefit to you.

Fourth: Settings > Background Refresh. Turn off everything except apps you want to refresh. For example, apps that sync data via iCloud.

Last suggestion: back up via iTunes, restore to factory settings, restore from backup. In my experience, this is iOS’ dirty little secret, sometimes it gets into a state that can only be resolved with a wipe.
Either the author fixed it or your browser is doing it -- they show up as the text versions for me.
This depends very much on whether the underlying algorithm is ASIC-resistant or not. The lessons learned from the BTC mining power laws prove that coins that allow for ASICs to be developed and come online will see the trajectory you have outlined. Less so for ASIC-resistant coins like XMR.
> All I can say to that is: lolwut. If it was obvious to me that the WMD story was nonsense, surely the top minds of the United Kingdom could have figured it out.

I think it was slightly more complex because Iraq was refusing UN inspections and because they did have a history of using illegal chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War.

Interviews with Hussein (after he knew he was facing death) revealed that they refused UN inspections because he was more concerned that Iran (their neighbor and enemy) would see their vulnerabilities, which he perceived as a more immediate threat than the US.

I don't know why the US was convinced that he had WMD in the first place though. Hopefully there was more to it than just out of control hype that was fed by Iraq refusing inspections.
My understanding of the Emoji acceptance process is that such characters only get accepted if you can prove that people have been using the emoji as a text-like glyph in other contexts (usually either on paper, or in a proprietary forum/chat system.)

Unicode’s aim isn’t to serve as a useful “palette” of characters that people should actually want to type ever. It’s to serve as a single, unified encoding for archiving existing texts. If people persistently write the same odd symbol on paper, then Unicode aims to ensure that they’ll have a common codepoint to encode that symbol to.

The worst case scenario for Unicode is a world where people encode texts onto forums with millions of little proprietary Emoji images, and then those sites close, the images are lost, the URLs of the images are just UUID.png or somesuch, and so the contextual meaning of the text is lost.

The second-worst-case is one where such texts blanket the internet, and—because of their various derivative-proprietary encodings—it becomes impossible to make such texts machine-readable/indexable/sentiment-analyzable/etc.

The Unicode Standards Body might be behaving rather silly from the perspective of someone who just wants to be able to record their own thoughts—but from the perspective of ensure the Internet and all its documents remain amenable to library science, the standards body is behaving perfectly sensibly. They’ll give people whatever they need to keep using Unicode in place of some proprietary extension, because that’s how you keep text on computers interchangeable.
Borland manuals were great!
Sure, they can replicate much better and then shut it down later on.
I think I would disagree. One of the aspects of an MIT education (c/o 2017) was the fact that we were forced to decipher problems from statements in a similar way that one would be forced to do so in real life. Problems should (and almost never do) come packaged in a neat and nice way that is easy to solve, hence why I believe that word problems and sometimes confusing problem statements are beneficial.
Copyleft licenses force people to release their modifications as source code

Only if you distribute the software.
Or perhaps shrink the size of the military industrial complex, which makes up 29% of the country's energy usage: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3181:the-military-assault...

That's probably not something the Washington Post is likely to advocate for though. Their relationship to the military industrial complex is eerily close, especially now that they're a big customer of Bezos: http://www.accuracy.org/release/cia-cloud-over-jeff-bezoss-w...
Thanks for making and continuing to improve WebPack. I use poi.js which uses WebPack internally for low/no config dev.

https://poi.js.org/
A wealth tax is exactly equivalent to a rent. There is a genuine owner (the state) which has control of the property in a default, there is an unlimited recurring fee set by the owner (the state), and access to the property is predicated on paying that fee.
The median net household worth in the US in 2013 was still below 100k USD as per https://www.yahoo.com/news/median-wealth-whites-us-nearly-16... (can’t find newer numbers atm, but I’d be surprised if the median did move significantly upwards) Keep in mind that wealth in the US is extremely unevenly distributed and you might be making observations in a bubble. The white median is for example about 50% higher than the combined.
In my youth, my favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo, in college it is The Mind's I by Hofstadter and Dennett. (Actually for both I read their Chinese translations as I was in China).
My favorite English book is The Fall of Hyperion.
I believe in the German principle of a proactive defense of democracy. There's only one option to be used against neo-nazis, and it is to silence them. No, they won't grow bigger because of that. You would certainly think this is anti-democratic and paradoxical. Well, it's not, because I'm defending democracy from the people that would destroy it, so in the end, I don't fucking care: they deserve no right to spew the kind of hatred they spew. We have a duty to stop them, because they're dangerous to society.
And fucking NO, you can't extend this line of reasoning to other forms of contrarian speech, so don't even start. It's true only for neo-nazis. That's it.

tl;dr: I'm sick of neo-nazis.
Or, can I as an individual who is an employee of the company, but not the company, "use" it myself and then "sublicense" it to my employer?
Even Trump Is Vulnerable to Internet Chaos
>For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle. You may live and work far from this conflict, but it exists, and in some part the diversity modifiers for emoji provide folks with empowerment.

Have you ever considered how condescending it is to these people to say that white people need to be the ones to give these people the ability to "reflect their world" via technology by encoding things relevant to other groups of people in the specifications they write? Why don't these people "fighting for recognition" write their specifications, and their own software? Making white people do it for them cannot be empowerment - it's charity, and with that charity comes dependence, which is the exact opposite of "empowerment". The only real empowerment comes from the self, not by other people deigning to give you things for free so their peers will think more highly of them.
Thanks. Doh.

In Israel we have a classic song that goes "if you're cooking spaghetti and the water doesn't boil, how about turning the stove on, because that's what everybody does"
Thank you for trying to respond a bit more rationally.

I'll break this down further: Of course she could be uncomfortable. Lets agree she's actually reasonable in doing so.

However, you don't know what will make one person uncomfortable or not. Can you? You can guess, you can try your best, but ultimately you have no idea what someone will find offense. Can you? Is there an algorithm for it? No.

Ok so that means that sometimes people will be offended by things that weren't intended to offend. Now we're to the point where the offended person gets to React. How do they handle it? Do they think of all the angles?

What I disagree with is her reaction. You don't seem to disagree. This is what I am saying should be changed.

Aaron- maybe her talk would have helped hundreds of people. All those people lost out. Could she have asked the organizers in advance to change the image? It looked like they these went out privately for approval. Maybe I mis-read that?

Lets assume that they never asked for her approval and 5 minutes before she goes up, the slide goes up and BAM she is uncomfortable and feels sexualized. Again, its about her reaction.

Others in this thread commented they would roll with it, be resilient, etc. This is what we, as society, should reinforce in each other. And yes, we have to make judgments about where the line is. I don't agree with her judgement, I'll state that clearly.

Think about this: I think she only thought about herself and PROJECTED onto everyone else that they would stereotype her. What if I were in the audience and saw the image and also thought "oh wow that sucks for her, ok i'll be extra supportive of her and try my best to not sexualize her".

So, when you support her reaction, you are actually making a negative judgement about everyone else in the audience as well. I'm curious how you think about that?

Maybe i'm missing another perspective. Please let me know and i'm curious to introspect my own thoughts further.

I can't help but think if she just went along with it, everyone would respect her as a woman in tech to a much higher degree because she would have actually been a woman in tech doing real tech talks. Now shes a woman in tech not doing tech talks. It's kind of sad.
The median net worth of Americans is $97k. [1]

As for owning homes, many Americans don't own their home but rent.

[1] - http://www.newstrategist.com/median-net-worth-97300-in-2016/
This would be a cool black mirror episode. All the billboards are just white with large black font: "COKE". "FARMERS INSURANCE". Or maybe instead of brands you just get assigned some short ID. EAT SUGAR CEREAL#21. TV commercials can only have average looking actors dispassionately read off product features that have been empirically validated by a third party. Store shelves just have Dharma Initiative style plain cardboard boxes. There would be high stakes government run double-blind tests to determine the best drive through burger or shower gel. It'd be great.
I'm non-white and live in Eastern Europe. I love the humor here. :-D
Probably a cultural carryover from The Simpsons, as mentioned in the article, where the yellow people where generally regarded to be white, as opposed to characters who were clearly black, asian, or other races.
I learnt to fly in a 150. Yeah you can't tell exactly where the balance is from a picture and it depends where you've put the luggage and so on.

Edit: Pausing the video at 32s it seems he's pulled back on the stick and managed to lift the front wheel a few inches https://youtu.be/1dLAmhDWEE8
The Paradise Papers – 1.4TB leak reveals hidden wealth
Now I’m curious whether white minorities in cultures (e.g. in Hong Kong) are more likely to use the modifier.
Paradise Papers: A Special Investigation – Paradise-Papers – The Guardian
An insightful list, but one part bugs me: the approval of working so hard you can't stay awake. This is bad for learning, and apparently there are even experiments showing that it's bad -- which casts an ironic light on the part of this list about demonstrably knowing things vs. bullshitting.

Maybe there's a deeper reason it's good, but I'm skeptical.
This depends on whether or not you think the coins will appreciate in value. If you think the coin's current value is the likely projected value in 12 months, then buying coins does nothing but mining is profitable.
OwnCloud / NextCloud includes native support for CalDAV and CardDAV (using SabreDAV internally).
You can synchronize your music library too.
"it makes for fewer extremely rich people but to an overall happier society."

The extremely rich are still going to be extremely rich after paying taxes.
It's seems easy to screw up authentication with Face ID. Apple really did swallow a fly here [1] I wonder, has anyone compiled a full list of iPhone X fails? There are getting to be more than I can remember, but let's see...

1 + 2 + 3 = 24 [2]

The letter 'i' doesn't work on the default keyboard. [6]

$550 to repair the back glass, breaks on first drop [4]

Faster Geekbench, but slower real world usage than Note 8 [5]

Dropped fingerprint scanner because OLED [1]

Dropped face recognition accuracy because of supply issues [3]

Screen burn/color shifting because of OLED [7]

The camera bump and screen notch seem almost like forgetable fashion fumbles with all these issues. We are nearly to a Letterman top 10 list with iPhone X issues. I'm sure Samsung's ad dept will make lots of hay with this stuff.

Note 8 <check mark>

iPhone X

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-10-23/apple-l...

[2] https://qz.com/1114019/if-you-type-123-into-your-apple-iphon...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/apple-reduced-iphone-x-facei...

[4] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-x-drop-test/

[5] https://youtu.be/s-Vn0h8Wfo0

[6] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/01/ios-11-predictive-text-...

[7] https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/03/iphone-x-oled-burn-in-color-s...

Steve Jobs would have fired a lot of people by now. I guess everyone feels job security with Tim Cook around. TC usually defends huge mistakes like these.
Let me start by saying that I am essentially just paraphrasing the article here: "That Simpsons yellow was read by some as white and non-inclusive, and here is where things start to break down."

It doesn't say who the "some" was, so that's an inference on my part.

And when you bring the Simpsons into it then, yes, yellow represents white people. That's how the show does it.
It's certainly true that FPTP doesn't help, but I wouldn't single it out as the primary cause. 70 years ago we still had FPTP and things were not nearly as bad as now, and at that point we had been using FPTP for more than 150 years.

http://www.mamartino.com/projects/rise_of_partisanship/
Gut bacteria may make or break your chances of cancer treatment working
Did author check ARKit? It’s the new frontier and Apple is definitely in the lead. Right now we are just staring to experiment. Wait till when you can place your ikea furniture and instantly order it.
Reason Syntax Proposal: Hash Tags–a way to think about polymorphic variants
A place that has high-paying jobs will have residents out-bidding each other, driving up the prices of the housing market

Not necessarily; some cities simply build enough to keep a lid on housing prices: https://www.vox.com/cards/affordable-housing-explained/. Many Texas cities do this and even Chicago does to some extent. Tokyo also does this: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-....

We have the technology to build a lot of housing units on a given parcel of land, if doing so is legal.
Land and housing is cheap in the U.S, relatively speaking. in Norway, wealth taxes start after about 40 sqft of out-of-town apartment.
So read what you wrote and take note that you've implicitly assumed that Unicode and so on are strictly a product of "white people", a ridiculous notion.
Looking at the comments, most people don't understand what this is.

In the geospatial industry, there are many organizations that produce free open data.

For example the NAIP image data comes USDA and has been paid for by the US govt so the city/state can used it for agriculture - hence why the images are not just RGB, but they also include an infrared band so they can be used for agriculture algorithms like NDVI results. For that particular dataset the license is very liberal. In case you are curious about that particular problem, you can find more info here: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photog...

The problem with dealing with datasets of this size is that just the mere collection and storage of it, is a problem of resources. This AWS link here is saying that they have grabbed all these datasets from various govt and non-profits and are hosting them in raw form so you can use them. Because the data comes from so many different institutions, the license is different - but practically speaking super liberal.

It is not competing with any previous commercial service from any vendor, nor it is meant to be a solution of any kind... Just big public spatial datasets hosted at AWS.
I mean the second they decide to license their Google Earth data including the cleanups they do on it, their offering will be unparalleled. There's no other org who has gone through this expensive process other than google.

Even if they decide to shut it down soon, the value companies and scientists get out of it will be worth it.
Of course not. You still own whatever you own, and can still sell it, destroy it, modify it, whatever.

You do pay tax on owning it, in a system that taxes wealth, but that does not mean someone else owns it.

Calling it rent and calling the state the true owner doesn't really make sense--you're conflating two separate ideas, I think, to play on people's emotions ("oh noes, the state owns everything!"). It's not true or accurate, though.
What you pay taxes on doesn’t matter. It’s the part of your income, assets, inheritance that the society decided you have to contribute to be part of it. Call it donation, rent, protection money or stick with a less loaded term and call it taxes.