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>>That’s a highly cultural-specific viewpoint.

What is? That the NFL has the best athletes in the world?

If the NFL athletes trained for a year to do anything else, or you put all the athletes in the world into a decathalon of power/speed/strength specific events, it would be an insane blowout.

NFL players would crush every other group of athletes individually and probably combined, and I say this as someone who has worked with Rugby Union and AFL players in Australia. There is no comparison, they are the best athletes in the world for any fair value of athletics you want to use.
Chromebooks have a fair bit of offline capability in Docs, and some 3rd party apps take advantage of that as well. Still mostly useless without wifi.
How can the entire report be sensitive? There’s always something that can become public, e.g. after sifting through a mountain of private data and finding Bug X in NSFooBar, file a bug on that and make that part public so the rest of us know.

Using OpenRadar regularly would even further increase the effort spent reporting bugs, and then: Apple doesn’t maintain it, Apple doesn’t check it, Apple certainly doesn’t synchronize with it, Apple does benefit greatly from it, despite Apple not accepting responsibility and providing a basic, foundational tool of its own.

This thread is starting to feel like a bug report in itself. Yes, everything behaves as I described, yes the issues were logged with Apple, yes it takes them months to respond sometimes (and I was being generous, sometimes it’s over a year), yes Xcode is still buggy in very obvious ways when doing very trivial things, and I’m even using recent Apple hardware and software.
Someone once explained to me that rugby is a contact sport, and American football is an impact sport. The padding allows players to hit each other harder without bruising or direct impact, while the brain still bangs around in the skull.
Hi. I write sandboxes for a living.

> Also, sandboxing helps only until it doesn't. It's a futile task,

It really isn't futile. How many major security holes in Chrome's sandbox have actually done serious damage? Yes, they happen from time to time, but not that often, and they are automatically patched shortly after (or before) disclosure, making them really uninteresting for attackers to try to exploit.

Realistically, the biggest security threat to real users is phishing or similar deception. Many users can be fooled by a page that looks like an error from their operating system telling them that their computer has a virus and they should download a tool to fix it. You don't need JavaScript for that.

Realistically, the highest-impact non-user-error security problems are logic flaws in complicated server code that never intended to run attacker-supplied code in the first place. Think SQL injection, confused deputies, missing access control checks, buffer overruns, SMB (Windows file sharing) bugs exploited by worms, etc.

Ironically, modern JavaScript sandboxing is so good -- with so much careful scrutiny by really smart security researchers -- that realistically it's not remotely the easiest target on your system these days. The easy targets are the software that isn't written with security in mind, and the users themselves (phishing).

> especially when we don't have complete control of the hardware, which we don't, because the chip developers don't tell us complete specificiations and functionality.

JavaScript and WebAssembly don't have direct access to hardware. WebAssembly is not assembly, it's a platform-neutral bytecode that gets recompiled for the host after download.
New York City has homeless shelter capacity for 60,000 or more people every night. It puts San Francisco to shame in that regard. The reason tens of thousands of homeless people aren't all in the street, is because they have such vast shelter capacity.

San Francisco can't manage to handle 3,000 to 4,000 people without permanent shelter (~6,600 total homeless), despite its immense affluence as a city. It's a failure of priorities.
Context-neutral speed, strength, power metrics would all go to NFL players if you had a worldwide combine of running/jumping/lifting/etc. It would be laughable.

See my bio if you think this opinion is subjective.
For the vast majority of their readers "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy" is just as uninformative as "CTE".
Or all bitcoin gone together with the boss. Nobody knows if kidnappers weren’t just a coverup
>>I'm pretty certain society will look back on football at all levels, most likely the younger "tackle" leagues especially, and think how barbaric it was in hindsight, specifically with the information we have about head injuries.

Absolutely. It's a ridiculous sport and the NFL specifically themselves are completely unethical scum for perpetuating the myth that they care about player safety. Yet I find more contempt in my heart for the NFLPA, whose union has got to be the least competent and least effective group of organized workers in the United States, if not the world.
First of all, you misappropriated "The Catch" from 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catch_(American_football).

Second, OBJ's one handed catch has been one-up'd by himself and other many times.

Saying "the most impressive things in the history of sports period" is hyperbolic, and simply wrong. You're neglecting every other sport, olympic achievment, or otherwise. The NE England Patriot's comeback in last year's superbowl is more like something we could talk about as being the greatest sports achievement of all time.
What irks me is how people on the one hand believe that you can't trust companies like Google or Facebook over moderate things, and say "we need federated, decentralized alternatives," and yet when it comes to government (apart from their own pet issues) we magically trust powerful bodies with even less accountability with more important things.

I wish there'd be some consistency.
The problem is that the NFL stifles and blocks as many methods as possible in this regard. Though I'll admit it's rapidly changing, and for the better.
I'm also really happy with my Tab A 8.0 with S-Pen.

I thought a smaller tablet with active pen features & microSD slot for ~$225 USD was a bargain, definitely made the iPad Pro look ridiculously overpriced. Unfortunately it seems Samsung never sold the 8" S-Pen model in the US, and have discontinued the S-Pen on the 2017 8" models. It's still on the 10" model though.
starting at the DNS level makes things much smoother: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
I like some content. I am willing to pay ten times[0] the revenue ads would generate, potentially more, to see the content without ads. I want to pay for only the content I read, and not a monthly sum. Why am I unable to pay, and what incentives would change the system so that I can pay, other than using an ad blocker?

[0] Say a website has a CPM of $5 and displays 10 ads to each user, such that a single impression from a user without an ad blocker earns 5c. 50c is entirely reasonable, particularly if a user can refund clickbait.
> High BTC Fees are hitting lots of legit businesses

Why do people always think that BTC—only because it has started as a p2p cash system—needs to stay there?

From my point of view BTC evolved to the best value storage system available:

- Limited supply

- Easily available in any country without a bank as an intermediary (try to purchase or sell gold without a bank, good luck and real, physical gold as an value storage is just cumbersome)

- Probably a good value storage when the stock markets crashes (because again no banks are involved which might also go bankrupt, in particular in countries with a weak economy/currency/infrastructure)

- The strongest brand and most popular with mainstream and retail investors, just go to Google Trends and you see that the search volume of Bitcoin is insanely high (~50% of 'iphone' just to stress how much mainstream bitcoin went); just imagine: which crypto people will choose to put a large part of their money first when a crash comes? To the biggest brand I guess

- Biggest ecosystem around (wallets, etc.) + high reliability even if slow (just look at some other coins with a huge market cap where people even struggle to send and receive coins)

- Highest liquidity

This is a very strong use case for me to buy and hold BTC. If there is any other coin better as an value storage please let me know.
The other user probably did understand supply and demand. Consumers being priced out of the housing market can be a market failure. And in this scenario, it is a market failure. For every homeless person living in the street, there are 6 empty homes in the US, but a couple with 2 jobs and a down payment can't get approved for a home loan? Most definitely there is a market failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
I'm not worried about it, it's just an observation that I was surprised not to see mentioned since it may be just as big a motivation to mandate collecting the data as the crime/oversight uses.
Is this free software? I wanted to build from source buy it seems like they only distribute binaries?
Firefox has built-in tracking protection. Enable it in about:preferences#privacy.
> Yet, a diverse neighborhoods have better chance in demanding for better resource distribution

I think what you see when you have new populations come in (be they foreign or domestic) is "gentrification". The newcomers can instigate redevelopment and reinvigorate a neighborhood. Sometimes this result is not well received by some locals, but usually other locals with some interest in the community welcome the newcomers.
the article it from 2005, you're not wrong.
Per the FBI there are 10,000 MS-13 members out of an estimated 1.4 million US gang members total. MS-13 is in every major city in the US, the scale obviously varies. They get so much attention due to the extreme violence they tend to utilize, rather than the sheer number of members.
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Have you tried extracting the .deb?
Most bigger US cities look and feel like Disneyworld compared to Berlin (including SF). Yet, you are much safer there. Dirt is not the problem.
from what I understand, it is currently a chemical test that requires a biopsy or tissue sample, which is difficult to get from the brain because well, you remove part of the brain, which is bad.
The sandwich analogy doesn't really hold up.
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Yeah it's an impressive catch but I can recall a number of equally impressive catches from cricket too.
The only places that buy and sell user data are spammy mailing lists. That's it.

Browser history predicts almost nothing, anyway. There is no market where user data is bought and sold, except for spammy mailing lists to other spammy mailing lists.
But it's the shills who give cryptocurrencies their value!
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> OBJ's "The Catch" is one of the most impressive things in the history of sports period.

As someone not familiar with football (not from the US), can someone explain to me what makes this catch particularly impressive? Is it the speed (difficult to assess from a video)?
My point? Homelessness and mental illness and drug issues are problems. However, tolerant attitudes like those in Santa Cruz attract people from out of area that make it next to impossible to actually deal with the shear numbers. Yet, local compassionate policies refuse to try and handle the obvious problem -- you can't help everyone. A city of 60k can only do so much.

Hawaii is another place that has exploding homeless problem. Another place with compassionate policies and warm weather.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2016-6-insane-re...

Between my visit in early 2010 and 1016 to Oahu, I was shocked to see so much more homelessness in 2016.
I think you need to account for the fact that SF has a population of ~860,000 where as NY has a population of ~8,500,000. You also have to account for the weather in SF vs NY. Not defending either city just trying to put the numbers in to perspective
On mobile Android I mainly use Firefox equipped with ublock origin in order to save battery, bandwidth and boost performance.

- This helps with all types of ads for many news and reading,

- the big benefit is: opening all youtube videos on Firefox with ublock origin in order to get rid of youtube ads -
> Users can install ad blockers or tracking protection extensions to prevent tracking by invasive third-party scripts. The domains used to serve the two scripts (behavioralengine.com and audienceinsights.net) are blocked by the EasyPrivacy blocklist.

Firefox has built-in tracking protection that should block these scripts. Enable it in about:preferences#privacy.
There is a burst of NY times articles with annoying paid plans
That’s not how batteries work. Degration over time causes a battery to not just store less total capacity on a “full” charge, but also to output less current at the required voltage. The latter is what is preventing the phone from operating under a full load at peak performance without a hard shut off.

The issue is the device shutting off while there is still charge on the battery, not the battery reaching 0% faster.
I'm sure they do. This doesn't redeem the engineers working on it, in fact it damns them even further.
Dear downvoter: I dare you to provide logic or a source that rebukes my point.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I worded that horribly. I concede to your point in spite of you being so gracious about it.
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Are there any examples of states or countries that handle this the right way? Can this be applied to NYC?
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> If you're someone who was treating your iPhone as a digital musical instrument, for example, bluetooth's latency probably makes it a no go for you.

If you are a musician that can actually hear, Bluetooth headphones of any kind are a non-starter. It is mathematically impossible for BT to have sufficient dynamic range and low enough noise noise floor for classical strings, for instance. Bluetooth sets my teeth on edge.
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WHAT?!

Then shoot those people, or, less hyperbolicly, throw them in prison.

If your cops or military have to live in fear of being murdered for merely wearing their clothes, then your/their country has incredibly serious problems and needs to start treating them directly instead of hiding the consequences.

I have zero frame of reference to understand that kind of environment. I literally can't imagine going out to the store and thinking, "Well, I better not wear that shirt, or I'll be murdered."
Advertisers need to fuck off. Ads are never going to work on the web - the ad bubble needs to pop already! Advertising on the web is a horrifying web of fraud, psuedoscience, and invasive tracking and sensitive data hoarding. Frankly, it should have been outlawed by now.
Looks interesting, I think I'll stay up late to watch all of it. (Or... maybe I'll wait until tomorrow.)
I'm pretty sure my heart rate was consistently higher than Neil Armstrong's just from the stress of watching that
The best way to start saving lives is to get people to stop playing these types of sports.
If you want fast and cheap have a look at RaiBlocks (XRB).

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/raiblocks/

https://raiblocks.net/
Modelling tennis skills on serve and return with Glicko2 (2013)
XGBoost has GPU support. It is recent: the paper was published in 2017.

http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gpu/
At that distance, at the complete edge of the field (could’ve easily gone out of bounds), swarmed by two guys, with one hand. Most impressive things in history of sports might be a bit hyperbolic, but it’s pretty incredible.
We have an intuitive understanding of impacts that don't reflect the reality of the risks...

Boxers wear gloves to protect hands, not heads, and those big pillows mean harder hits mean more brain damage. Bareknuckle boxing is better for the brain.

No rugby player is lining up his skull and charging other players skulls like a ram or a goat, that would hurt, so they don't do it.
Football players really need less protection for their heads so they stop doing things that are dumb for their brain.

The challenge with football is that the obvious corrections to the game would seem to be quite fan unfriendly... Touch football is hard to imagine on FOX SPORTS.
>what incentives would change the system so that I can pay, other than using an ad blocker?

That's really simple, more people need to be willing to pay.

I mean, I say in other parts of the page that I can't pay what the content is worth, but I'm actually not sure that's true for myself. But it is true for the general public.

And it's not they can't because they can't afford it, but rather, they don't want to. So we can make it easier to pay, for example. We can try and explain what advertising is doing. But in the end, I don't see a change happening.

People just seriously undervalue content.

People won't pay 99 cents for an app, so the market switched to IAP and suddenly people were gladly be nickled and dimed for more than 99 cents with intrusive applications designed from the ground up to drive IAP.

It's not like content generators wouldn't rather just take your money. I'm sure they don't love the hoops they have to jump through (it cost money to implement those ads too) to get inconsistent ad revenue that is often not very transparent and rife with pitfalls.

But until enough people to at least cover the cost of content are willing to pay, we'll see ads be king.
For crying out loud the prices are higher than they were a few days ago when everyone freaked out about the "Bitcoin crash."

The media is really doing cryptocurrencies a disservice by reporting on every up and down of their prices, especially when it's the "tech media" doing it, and not say stock-related media. Not to mention sites like TechCrunch basically have little clue about what is going on so they don't always report accurately what happened or what will happen.

I've also always said that I don't think price-related stories belong on HN. If the price skyrockets, then everyone who has invested in the cryptocurrencye just wants the stories to be seen as much as possible here and everywhere else, so the price can rise even further. If the price crashes, then everyone who has said that "Bitcoin is like the tulip mania" wants to show everyone else how "right they were" because "Bitcoin is finally crashing." (spoiler: so far, it's usually been proven they weren't right a few months later).

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that 99% of the price-related stories are either hype or FUD and they are worthless in essence.
I mean, you're using moralistic arguments to defend a clearly immoral market actor whose entire business model revolves around abusing lack of regulations to collect and sell consumer information without their knowledge or informed consent.

You're defending a business entity whose entire existence is against your personal interest. In market terms, you are not a rational actor maximizing self interest. If you're not brain washed, what are you?

Just like businesses would be irrational if they didn't use every legal tax 'loophole' to make sure they pay no tax, you are irrational if you don't use available legal avenues to get the content you want for the lowest price - in this case, viewing it with ad blockers. If that means content providers go out of business, that's okay. New ones will show up with new business models that are actually viable. The free market expects individuals to maximize their self-interest within the confines of the law. If you're not doing that, you're just harming yourself for no meaningful reason whatsoever.
> When you join the game, you're born as a helpless baby, with another player as your mother.

A perfect opportunity to make storks bring new babies, since you already have to wait for some player on the other end of the world to decide to start playing. :)
> The labor deals negotiated between the unions and construction companies also ensure that workers are well paid. The agreement for Local 147, the union for the famed “sandhogs” who dig the tunnels, includes a pay rate for most members of $111 per hour in salary and benefits. The pay doubles for overtime or Sunday work, which is common in transit construction. Weekend overtime pays quadruple — more than $400 per hour.

The article correctly identifies the number of people are working on a job is about 4x the normal rate when compared to Asia and Europe. However, when you take the hourly pay rate you quickly see it for what it is. This is fraud.
Marathon runners, climbers, etc you mentioned have a pretty narrow field of physical competence. No way in hell a climber can compare athletically to LeBron James.
> HTML is capable of a dynamic interface

HTML is capable of very specific, fixed functions. Sure, video is one of them. But video is not very interactive. You press play, and then you watch. Interactivity in plain HTML is very difficult.

> People are trained for certain behaviours and often don't want to change from that. On the other hand they like new shiney software and things to try out.

No no. People don't use these products because they were "trained" for it. The world of installed native applications existed before the web. The web took off because it's actually way better for many people. Not having to manage installing apps is awesome. Being able to access your data from multiple devices trivially is awesome. Not having to worry about backups is awesome. Being able to collaborate in real time is awesome. People don't just like this stuff because it's "shiney", they like it because it's really, genuinely useful.

> I could imagine markup-only webpages which can call locally installed programs to appear in the tab, but the prorams are installed in trusted ways.

That would actually be way less secure, because those locally-installed programs are almost certainly not security reviewed to the extent that the JavaScript sandbox is. They are far more likely to have exploitable bugs than your JavaScript sandbox. It doesn't matter that you "trust" them.

In practice, the vast majority of programmers do not know how to write secure code. We can't realistically fix that. The answer is to give them programming environments where they can't get it wrong, or at least they can only hurt their own app. We accomplish that with sandboxing.
Sound Transit is spending $54 billion to build a few miles of light rail.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sound-tra...
Well it's a complex subject that can't really be boiled down to analogies and idioms as much as people like to act like it is. The analogy is only meant to give a slight glimpse at the direction the entire rest of the comment is going for, not explain the current market.
The answer to your question is: Because of hyperlinks (ie, the way the web works), it's not practical to tell people "hey, you clicked on the link, you agreed to pay them via advertising". A publicly accessible page is like a public space in that way.

If a company doesn't want to offer free access to content that costs them money to produce, they can create a login system and a paywall.
What people are missing here is that while Apple now confess that they did slowdown the iPhone 6 and 6s when they released the 7, they are not saying anything about earlier models.

They are however lowering the price to exchange batteries even for older models. Why would they do that if they where not affected? Why don't they say this practice started with the IOS 10 update? They just say they did it in the 10 update. For me it's obvious this is just a PR "puff piece" and looks like a majority here is buying it... So well played Apple.