skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uridium's scrolling on the BBC Micro was also somewhat interesting: https://youtu.be/ToTQN6dxwDw?t=243

Multi-way scrolling was common for BBC Micro games, as the hardware directly supported the barrel-type scrolling described in the article, though only on a full-screen basis. Uridium programmed the CRTC in a particular way, however, allowing the screen's base address to be set halfway down the screen, giving a stationary area at the top and a fixed area at the bottom.

I think the only other game of the period that did anything like this was Firetrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bxdd2_qrpg), which used it to get smooth vertical scrolling.

The technique is easy to do (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/programming/rupture/), but you do have to know the trick! It's know a well-known thing, and there's a couple of modern BBC Micro games that use it.
Firefighter Math
That makes sense but I'd have expected a configurable option from Firefox.
Or bail bonds
Make changes over time. When other devices are due to be replaced, make sure they work with multiple vendors or ideally, using open standards. Then when your iPhone is up next for replacement, you won't be locked in. Consider lack of lock-in a real feature worth trading for other nice-to-haves, such as price, convenience or features.
And yet that specific metric for Detroit -- "lowest number of criminal homicides in 40 years" -- is virtually useless as it doesn't account for Detroit's massive population decline.

Via the FBI's UCR tool which has data from 1985-2014: https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/Local/RunCrimeJuris...

Unfortunately I can't deeplink to pages so here are screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/LGgJh

- Detroit having ~300 homicides is very good compared to the
~400 homicides it had in 2000. However, that doesn't quite match up to its population decline. The homicide rate in 2000 was ~41.6 per 100K, compared to 43+ in 2014 (and 2015 and 2016 I think).

- Meanwhile, Chicago's 2014 homicide rate was 15.2. In 2015, it was 17.5. And in 2016, it jumped to 27.8 [0]

That jump is a huge jump compared to historic trends. But still a relative low for Chicago when considering 1990-forward. According to the Tribune's homicide tracker, the number of homicides in 2016 was 792 [1]. In 2017, it's tracking to be 664 homicides, which would be a rate of ~23/100K. Still not great but seems too early to say that Chicago is on an unchanging course of increasing crime. And it doesn't make much sense to argue but what about Detroit? when comparing Chicago to NYC.

https://imgur.com/a/LGgJh

[0] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-homicide-spikes-c...

[1] http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides
Walking around slowly and predictably can be fine. I find it the hardest when people barely move enough so that the camera has to follow only a little bit - but wait it's fine now, oh no they moved out of the frame just enough so I have to do something - oh wait they're back..

You'd think this could be solved with the proper zoom angle but then the pros get on your case with too much headspace, unfavorable body cut lines and never forget to never film the audience.

I just talked to a speaker for tomorrow who, from the video material, assumed they'd be talking in front of maybe a hundred people. They're scheduled for room B which holds about 2000 and got a shock.. so the dimensions look quite different on the stream.

The issue can be mitigated by a better filming crew really. The mixer is really important for coordinating (when the cameras do random stuff once in a while you probably have a inexperienced mixer who uses the intercom too little). It's possible to follow the speaker well enough if the mixer gives breaks and the camera tripod settings are right for you. Special cases get an experienced crew.

Not sure about the stage fright. I think it depends on the details actually, but I'm still working on that too.
Something that quickly cleans dog shit or whatever else I step in off the bottom of my shoes.
Audio to Body Dynamics
Must have been written on Adderall it’s 20 pages long...no tldr at the top unfortunately
>If you have $100B, say, you can't put it in a stock that's currently valued at $1B. But if you have $1000, you don't have that constraint.

Your argument is that there is a mispriced security somewhere that can be bought at a low price. There is currently only 1B$ of it available and so the professional manager with 100B$ to spend just doesn't bother to pick up that money. But you with just 1000$ can do it instead. What makes the professional manager pass up on that opportunity? He has at least as much money as you, why doesn't he invest at least that amount?

In reality that opportunity doesn't exist. Companies can't be consistently mispriced lower because there is too much demand for their stock. That's not how markets work for anything.
1998, but in practice from the early 90's because leaded gasoline is incompatible with catalytic converters. Leaded gas was banned in 1996 in the US, but in practice disappeared by the early 80's (catalytic converters were mandatory on new US cars from 1975). Most cars sold in Mexico are used American cars, which is the reason for the lag.
> we are still a long way from reaching the depths that Apple can go to before Apple fans will seriously consider an alternative.

You're literally proving the point here. There's much, much more transparency on the Android side of things. Custom ROMs and the stock Google Android images have been combed over for almost the last decade by loads of different individuals and groups around the world. Now, we surely don't control the Samsung-esque bloatware that they slap on top of stock Android, but there's absolutely no way there's throttling code that lives in Android that we don't know about yet.

Anecdotal evidence of my own: I have a Nexus 5 that's nearly 5 years old now that my kids use daily. It's using a stock Lineage ROM. The battery certainly isn't the best anymore, but the phone doesn't feel different than the day I bought it, and it doesn't crash.
Recommend restic for backups. Great new software that's under active development.

Recommend Debian for the distro. It does a lot of things for you, and correctly, but it is also infinitely configurable. It can be the "just works" distro you need, as well as the hacker's tinkerable distro you want. And it has staying power and consistent security updates. Mix stable with testing/unstable and get stability where you need it and recency where you need that. Plus the community and documentation are very good.
Startup CEO? Delegate or Fail
Since transit buses are on fixed routes, I wonder why they didn't go with trolleybuses instead - no expensive batteries to replace (trolleybuses do have vestigial batteries, but they're much smaller and used for backup), thus better power-to-weight ratio, no need to wait for charging, and otherwise just as if not more environmentally friendly. When I was in Beijing, there were plenty of those.

(I know the ultimate source of power may be coal or oil, but it seems to me that even then, going directly from a power plant to the motor would be more efficient than an intermediate charging/discharging step.)
"Esperanto is also much harder to learn for people without western language backgrounds."

Harder than what? At least the grammar, pronunciation, and word-building are very regular. Almost any national language will be harder than Esperanto.
I'm still using my 2009 Nexus One. It is painfully slow, and won't run any modern apps, and I've tried to find a suitable replacement several times but it seems a shame to throw away a perfectly good phone and I just haven't found anything that is of comparable size and build quality without having to sacrifice screen resolution, FM radio, removable battery or microSD slot.
I believe there are laws against using credit cards for the purpose of ID'ing and tracking customers. I don't know if they're state (I'm in CA, where consumer rights are stronger) or federal.

Do the theaters share purchasing information with studios or others? I would think that in the age of privacy policies, they would have to tell you if they want to do this.
I wish I would have known about this sooner. I taught an undergraduate OS course last year and the students found the Tanenbaum book to be very abstract and dry. It would have been nice to mix in some of this material.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that Apple uses some of the smallest cells in the industry.

iPhone 8, 8+: 1821, 2675 mAh

Galaxy s8, s8+: 3000, 3500 mAh

That's a huge difference.

Apple gets away with this because the iPhone is more energy efficient than comparable Android phones, but that's only on average -- peak energy consumption is still comparable.

And when cells age, nominally larger cells retain the ability to drive peak workloads without browning out (even if they drain really fast), while Apple's tiny cells eventually just can't do it anymore.
Do you live somewhere cold? My old devices are perfectly fine indoors but if I step outside in the winter they shut off in a few minutes
Responding to your 1: “failed to support” doesn’t mean that they found evidence that contradicted the lead crime hypothesis. The data they found is entirely consistent with the lead crime hypothesis; it’s just that it’s within the realm of possiblity (5%ish chance) that this data would emerge even if the lead crime hypothesis were false. So they’re “failing” to support the lead hypothesis when they’re exercising that scientific caution which encourages false negatives instead of false positives; that doesn’t mean we ought to do the same.
Learn to speak the way Jony Ive speaks when he says:

> One of my memories at Apple would be less the actual products that we developed, but the way that we developed them. I think that's been something that I, everyday, feel grateful for.

https://youtu.be/ef69BUlge-A?t=1m9s
You can get some of the battery stats via the (Mac) app coconutBattery: http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
In this example, and like High Sierra root bug, these are primarily software-based issues that have no transparency to the public to evaluate their true origins or resolve on their own; instead it is masked behind a mostly closed-source multi-national corporation caught evading taxes, abusing workers, and now slowing old phones that further exploits their socio-economic divide:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/04/apple...

Let's see what Google says and does instead for their source code:

https://source.android.com

"We also wanted to make sure there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. The result is a full, production-quality operating system for consumer products with source code open for customization and porting."

Let's see in terms of Android hardware, what you can get on Amazon that will outperform a $500 iPhone 6s and has better specs.

http://a.co/b16AAfJ
http://a.co/d4XxSlO

Those are just two options, both better specs and over $300 cheaper. What is Apple really selling you aside from a status symbol and the feeling that you belong to some unique elitist club?
Cixl – a minimal scripting language
I was reading the news with Safari on iOS 11.2 with a new iPhone X recently. As I was browsing different sites I noticed I was getting redirected to those scammy "You've won a cruise" style websites. I had no idea ads were so out of control. I've been using ad blocking technology for 10+ years and never see it first hand. It's pretty crazy that website operators have to create such a terrible user experience to survive these days.
I'm quite happy with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A.
It takes a long time to build a language. Rust was in development for many years, and it has had the benefit of backing by Mozilla.
The consumer-friendly response is a large notification that explains that the battery should be replaced while also downclocking.
>Better is worse?

I'd say "transparency is better". They should've done years ago what they're now doing, especially given the rumors that have swirled about phone slow-downs for so long. By not addressing them when they knew them to be true, they were tacitly denying them or--and this is a very generous read--at least denying even their concerned customers the right to know.

>people would still complain that Apple is pushing users to replace their batteries

You seem to be suggesting that purposely deceiving customers is better than being honest with them and having them think they are being deceived. I don't see a moral universe where that's the right choice. At the end of the day, that argument essentially says that a company is right no matter what it does, as long as it can get away with it.

From a technical perspective, their scheme was certainly explicable, as evidenced by the fact that so many people are willing to accept it now. So, they could've just as well been forthright years ago and taken precisely the same approach they are taking now, without having to be "caught" first.

But, in the meantime, they enjoyed years of upgrades, many of which can reasonably be assumed to have been at least partially incentivized by performance issues.

I don't think you have to be a conspiracy theorist to find this a little too coincidental.
That would probably require a lot of work and testing, oh and hardware, but it's probably the right place to find people. Not sure how a computer would do with regards to the uncertainties we already struggle with, so maybe a state augmentation would the way to go. Hm...

The other issue I spread discussed at length in a sibling comment.
We can't because we do not care enough. You don't have to boycott Apple largest apple shareholders are pension funds so intermediaries owning shares of Apple on your behalf.
With only 533 test subjects (most of whom are not criminals), divided into even smaller groups by levels of lead exposure, it’s not surprising that the evidence is unclear.

I’d like to know more about why the males had higher lead levels than females.
Ads are inherently psychologically abusive, targeting your insecurities and exploiting sex and basic instinct to move product.
There needs to be a fundamental shift from the old tv and radio model of advertisers targeting everyone through inescapable ham fisted and manipulative ads, to a system that is all but dormant until I query it for a service.

Show me nothing, nothing at all, until I make the effort to ask the question "what products are available for $need?"

If I'm on a website and begin searching, give the site the ad revenue.
The amazon tablets aren't great, but if you're just using them for games they're plenty good enough. Especially at $50-80.
Believe it or not, I first heard about Esperanto in a Man From UNCLE book (The Monster Wheel Affair), where the bad guys used Esperanto so no one would know what country they came from.
The SparkFun sensor is the Lepton 1 with 1/4 the resolution of the Lepton 3 (80x60 instead of 160x120). He really did get a great deal on the sensor!

A quick google search shots GroupGets [0] has a Lepton 3 sensor, no breakout board for $240.

0 - https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/flir/products/lepton-3-0
I had the same issue with the 5S I'm typing on now, and replacing the battery a few months ago entirely solved that issue for me.
My point was that it's a sensible strategy for the demo of a technology that's still under development (like this project), where you don't actually have any "customers." In production, you'd let it scale unboundedly, and combine it with some sort of anti-DDoS technology like Cloudflare.
Manhattan is saturated with police as well as integrated with a web of linked surveillance cameras. Brooklyn has fewer but still far, far more then other parts of the country, especially out west. New York City has roughly 50,000 police officers and a police budget of over $4 billion dollars just for the city alone. On top of that you have state troopers and a variety of other agencies (like the MTA, the many federal police agencies in the city and the heavily armed army/national guard troops that are often visible in uniform/armor at Penn Station and other places around the city) who have their own police officers. Within 30 miles of the city you have thousands and thousands more police officers from Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, and other surrounding counties (as well as additional police forces from towns within these counties). You're talking about 70,000+ officers within a 50 mile radius.

By comparison, Arizona has a total of about 14,000 police - for the whole state. Colorodo has about 12,000. Most states are comparable to this. You are just far, far less likely to see police officers in most other places in the country. As a New Yorker, I'm always astonished by the lack of police presence in other states (let alone other countries) because policing is so ubiquitous here.
Lead cleanup for example is way underfunded. If we put the same effort into that as we do after each terrorist attack there would be no lead paint houses left in the country and no lead pipes. Car pollution rules would be much stricter. Stay in an area with no cars for a few weeks and come back to a city and you suddenly notice how incredibly suffocating car exhaust gas is.
This is especially good news:

As of Dec. 20, police officers intentionally fired their service guns in 23 encounters, a record low, down from 37 in 2016. The Police Department said officers were relying more on stun guns, which were used 491 times through November, compared with 474 times during the same period in 2016.
The Nvidia shield tablet, but thats also discontinued (and won't be replaced as it's too close to the switch they're making the SoC for for Nintendo now).
> is it just burnout and a good long holiday or a hobby can solve or is it something more ad I need to change my line of work

Burnout can be both. My understanding is it's where your line of work gradually starts to get associated with unpleasantness. There are levels and degrees of it and it can get worse over time. Sometimes taking a break works, changing companies, finding another niche within the same profession, or sometimes you really do need to find a whole 'nother career. For some people it's a lifelong battle. I recommend taking a few days and removing yourself from work just to think it through.
I'd love to have something like this, as it's got all of the practical information needed that most other books don't provide, but with so many volumes at >$22 each, it just seems a bit pricey.
It’s worth noting Drum’s actual position on The Bell Curve: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/charles-murray...

TLDR: he thinks that there could be an genetic difference in racial IQ levels, but that the evidence is against it and it makes far less sense than the environmental explanation.
A clock on PST (I live in EST).
3d Printed various objects.
3d Printer (I overtook the desk next to me).
Lots of clutter. Papers, Misc. Junk.
Misc D&D items (Team building).
Peak Proformer Award 2017 (Q1).
Scatterd notebooks and pens.
Of course Computer, 2 monitors, 3rd USB smaller monitor.
Nurf Gun.
Cirtic Acid.
Water bottle.
Chromebook as aux computer.
5s here and still running iOS 8 to avoid the planned obsolescence. The phone is still blazing fast, but in the last year or so I've been out of luck with installing a majority of the apps that I've wanted.
Their current population is half that of 40 years ago. Rates matter more than absolute numbers.
my nexus 9 has kind of shocked me as well. Originally i was unimpressed, but three years later the software has gotten to the point that it's totally stable and all the overheating issues seem to have been worked out. the build quality is still kind of shitty, but overall the tablet is working better than when it was new and i have no need to replace it (other than the ever-present want for shiny new things).
There have a lot of hit jobs on index funds in the last few years, often published in the Wall Street Journal. Active fund managers are getting really scared that money continues pouring out of them and into Vanguard as it becomes common knowledge that actively managed funds almost never beat index funds net of fees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368136#12368902 <- I said this a year ago and it's going to continue
Who’s Winning the Culture War? Corporate America
Huh? By that logic, the car performs 40% worse _seconds_ after it leaves the lot.
Am I wrong in thinking that Google is crazy to not have a proper linux option for the Pixelbook?

They get alpha geeks away from OSX and Macbooks. They get a platform they can own and leverage. Get the developers, expose them to the tools, let them build stuff, and cross compile it or whatever to ChromeOS and Android.

Have it dual boot into ChromeOS so your family can give it a spin.
With enough armed bodyguards you aren't going to be kidnapped at gunpoint. Why risk your life going after a hardened target when there are so many vulnerable ones.

I imagine its quite easy to find mercenaries that are willing to fight back. There is an entire industry for hiring people to fight wars.
> Politicians in the US do not do what their constituency wants.

Actually they do, if enough of them care loudly enough to organize and push back. Constituent participation in the ACA Repeal debate earlier this year caused the measure to fail. They had to sneak a small, partial repeal into the huge tax bill they just passed. When the dust settles, blowback from that sneak might cost more then a few their jobs.
> Ads are inherently psychologically abusive, targeting your insecurities and exploiting sex and basic instinct to move product.

This is a pretty wild claim. Most ads I see are relatively tame (like the “Build on AWS” and iPhone X ads I see around San Francisco), and I don’t see them “exploiting sex or basic instinct.”
How is this different than him renting the building(s) and donating the money to YWCA? (other than saving on taxes)
That's quite a simplification of the situation.
While shareholders technically "own" a company, they usually don't have that much influence over a companies policies.

This holds even more true with matters that will cost the company a lot of money while giving no added value to the shareholders, such as those externalized costs by polluting the environment.

Why would any Apple shareholder willingly take a hit to their portfolio just for a "nice feeling in the tummy about having done the right thing"?
Not to mention that with most publicly traded companies there's only one "right thing": Increase shareholder value, everything is optimized around that and pretty much only that.

And sure you can vote people into Congress, but what leverage do you have that those people actually stick to their word once they are there? Imho that's one of the major flaws with most representative democracies: There's only positive voting, you can't "vote out" people who didn't hold up their end, you can only try to replace them with somebody who got more votes and hope he/she keeps their word.

In the end, this is also a question of how do we want our economies to be built: For supposedly perpetual gains and growth or for a sustainability which accounts for the actual scarcity of resources not easily measured and accounted for, like a clean environment.
This study does record details such as income and economic status over the lifetime of the participants, so in theory you might be able to control for those effects. But the sample size is not huge, and there is a risk of overfitting.
there are companies that specifically market as CDNs to advertisers to allow third-party scripts to appear as first-party. it's nasty shit:

"The company's technology disguises third-party network requests so they appear to be first-party network requests."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/ad_blocker_bypass_c...

however, the demo page linked in this thread failed to work for me as uMatrix blocked an injected 3rd party script
If it was simpler, it wont command such wages, and would be automated out sooner.

Humans' current advantage is the ability to tackle complexity and uncertainty.