skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've read the article and watched the videos - I haven't seen any actual quotes where any spokesperson had said it was unavoidable outside of the headline and first paraphrased sentence. I only mentioned this initially because it seems like a sensationalized headline of a statement.
The more I read about this, the more I kept waiting for a Douglas Adams joke. Science is just silly sometimes.
In browser, I can use this plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...) to destroy those annoying popup.

In mobile, no such luxury, so instead always use the web app version unless unavoidable, like whatsapp.
You don't slow down and proceed with caution when overtaking a bicyclist in an adjacent lane?
In Sony v. Bleem they used blackbox testing and created their own original code from that. If Google had done the sam they would have been fine.
Here is an example of an API subject to patents in MTC user equipment.

http://patents.2012.apievangelist.com/2017/12/07/2012-08-23-...
I find it fascinating when old establishments don't embrace new technology, until their in the weeds or so behind that it would take a whole slew of new hires to get them up to date.
Yeah I'm not surprised. It's really hard to track how any online advertising leads to B&M purchases. On the flip side, I have no doubt online retailers thrive with Faceboook ads.
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Or maybe fuser
Look, I'm not making this up. Lots of people and projects do exactly this. Tails, the super-secure privacy-focused version of Linux asks for donations in exactly this way [1] (and if you go to blockchain.info you can see a full wonderful list of all the bitcoin addresses who have donated to them [2]). It's a totally reasonable way to set up bitcoin donations (hell, it's even recommended by the bitcoin wiki! [3]) and it's a significant weakness of bitcoin that these transactions are not private.

It is absurd defense of bitcoin to say "well, it COULD just be as private as these other things, if you only jump through ten more technical hoops and not use bitcoin as intended". Clearly, these other cryptocurrencies offer something that bitcoin doesn't.

[1]: https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=contribute

[2]: https://blockchain.info/address/1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7x...

[3]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Receiving_donations_with_bitcoin
Jaruzel - in using Facebook since this purge, what have you noticed? Less relevant ads? Bad friend suggestions? Other?
What's reallly non trivial is getting developers to uptake a new APi they are unfamiliar with.
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I'd really recommend "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice". Headphones REQUIRED :D
I swear i have seen some video from a conference or similar where Brevik talks about being staunchly in the turn-based camp, until he sat down and implemented real-time (the game already ran on a system of ticks so he basically allowed the ticks to run even without any input from the player) over a weekend and had his proverbial mind blown by the experience.
This. My wife uses a iPad + keyboard as her sole computer, and lack of a mouse is her only complaint.
> biggest reason that Chrome is gone from my mac

You can do the same thing with Chrome profiles, Chrome Canary and Choosy. This multi-container thing (per OP, don't know if you are using the same one) appears to be FB only. So while it is effortless, it's reactionary and limited. The general solution is better and doesn't force you to a specific browser.

https://weblog.bulknews.net/mac-routing-links-to-chrome-prof...

Disclaimer: When I use google (search, gmail, etc) and facebook I use specific profiles for those activities. I use a default profile for everything else. So, I don't actually use the above solution myself.

I used to alternate between browsers for different uses but after the Pocket debacle I abandoned Firefox "for good". Since Quantum I haven't liked it anyway.
One of my biggest lessons from the book is right in the introduction. To paraphrase: "If a change you want to make to the codebase is hard, refactor the codebase until that change is easy, then make the change".

I always try to either be refactoring or changing behavior but not both at the same time. That has kept me out of a lot of trouble.
We would be using Atari, Amiga and Macs instead, and maybe some UNIX variants as well.
Cutting this out puts a company at a disadvantage to competitors. This is a case where the government "of the people and for the people" should step in and write some real legislation, and enforce it. Unfortunately, "of the people and for the people" is effectively ancient history now, they're far too busy bickering over Russian trolls and fulfilling their donors wishes. What a sad state of affairs.
Thankfully, we are finally seeing how vulnerable we have left ourselves.

Just like the best time to plant a tree. The best time to address strategic resource vulnerabilities is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

We've been too complacent for too long, but now this issue has now been pushed into the public conversation.
This has been going on offline since long before the modern Internet. I first heard about it in 1990.
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¿Porque no los dos?

When you say this is why we've been calling for everyone to take it slow that's a defensive move.

When you say your setup would have detected her a second before the impact, that's an opportunistic marketing opportunity.
A trip to the museum, from your desk.
first of all Mobileye does have a self driving system (their EyeQ4 chips is for Level 3-4 self driving). However Amon was referring to their EyeQ3 chip from 2014 which is installed in 24 million cars and have billions of miles
There is something unintentionally hilarious about the title 'Take control of how you are being tracked.'
I own the first 12.9 iPad Pro and it has no Apple Pencil lag that I can detect. It also does not have the Pro Motion 120Hz display.

I think Apple did something along the lines of doubling the sampling rate (not sure of the exact number) of the capacitive layer to eliminate pencil lag. Seems to be fine, at least for me. Maybe they did something similar with the new iPad?
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And what criteria should be used to tell when an API is complex enough to be copyright-able?
Moo. I said moo.
Maybe people should increase their human capital by perhaps developing some sort of valuable skill. The fact is their skills are practically worthless because almost every adult can do what they do. Instead of crying that their so-easy-a-caveman-could-do-it job driving a car isn't making them enough money, they should do something else that generates more value and thus pays them more.
> NASA is developing one of them into a telescope called WFIRST

Yes, the Trump Admin just tried to kill that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, the NRO telescopes are just as powerful and capable as the HST as telescopes, the difference is the field?
Is it the Democratic Party's position that GMOs are bad and so are vaccinations? I hadn't heard this before and I think it's completely untrue.

You took my quote out of context. I was saying that it is mostly Republicans and not Democrats who tend to be anti-science "when the science in question contradicts their party line."

There is no party line to speak of with the Democrats and vaccinations and GMOs. Yes there are crazy people everywhere. It is not that these people are told by Democrat politicians to hate GMOs! That does not happen like it does with Republican politicians encouraging their constituents to think that high school education leading to further education is a bad thing.
I had pretty much the exact same experience and it seems we're about the same age. It was my first exposure to online gaming and I remember being so amazed that you could play a game like that over the internet with total strangers!

Cheating was a big downside to playing on battle.net though, in my experience. It got so bad that you would enter a game and another player would either crash the game (by dropping a modified ear IIRC) or everyone would be playing with god-mode on. And creating an open, "legit" game only enticed cheaters to join in order to kill everyone. Oh well. My friends and I had plenty of fun playing over IPX and later LAN, or having password protected games on battle.net with people I met in the chat rooms.

I was surprised to find that only a handful of years ago people were still playing on battle.net. Not a lot, but enough to join a couple games and have some fun. Didn't see any cheating, either.
Forgive me but... we call them "trains," they run on time, rarely crash and usually go where we want them to -- once the government(s) agrees to build them that is!

Seriously I do wonder, though, if the design of townships like yours will be directly affected by the rise of AV's. It would seem to make sense for Waymo and others to effectively lease depots (holding pens?) for when you and your fellow travelers need to hail a car. Are you/we effectively trading your individual garage space for a collective AV parking lot on the outskirts of town? And whether that development would compare favorably to investing in more intercity trains?
Has anybody here read the first edition, and what was your impression of it?

It's a decent book, though obviously looking a bit dated now, particularly in the OO-centric presentation. I would confidently recommend it to someone like a junior developer at work or a keen self-taught programmer who had figured out the basic mechanics and was starting to explore ideas about building and maintaining bigger systems. I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone further down the path, though, just because the techniques described tend to be quite simple and they're mostly things that people learn with experience anyway.
Allow me to quote Diablo developer David Brevik describing when he finally yielded to demands and hacked together a "real time" version of his turn-based Diablo, by making turns elapse the rate of 20 turns a second.

'I remember taking the mouse, and I clicked on the mouse, and the warrior walked over and and smacked the skeleton down, and I was like "Oh my god! That was awesome!".'

'And the sun shone through the window, and God passed by, and the angels sung, and sure enough that was when the ARPG was kind of born at that moment, and I was lucky enough to be there.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc?t=27m

If you're in this part of this comment thread, you'll probably enjoy the whole video.
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Keep in mind that the original was written back in 2000. So most of the ideas in the book are pretty much mainstream these days. The second edition should be pretty interesting because of the move away from being class-centric.

When I was in college, I read "Refactoring to Patterns" which pretty much sums up Refactoring in a short chapter. The ideas aren't really that complicated, but seeing some practical examples is pretty useful.

[1] https://www.martinfowler.com/books/r2p.html
> The important thing is would it have saved her life?

It probably would have. Slamming on the brake for 1 second would have reduced the car's speed enough to change things from fatal to seriously injured.

According to: http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/Physics/PhyNet/Mechanics/Kin...

In one second you can shed 20 miles/hour of speed. That would take the car from 38mph to 18mph. (Those numbers are overly precise, but gives you an idea of the reduction that can be accomplished.)
I think it matters because people blame individuals rather than the system.
> Isn't it surreal that the people who yell and scream about the government regulation and interference are the same ones with their hands out looking for government money to subsidize the animal feed they use?

It probably is a facet of, or closely related to the Fundamental Attribution Error: If I'm benefitting, it's because I deserve it to balance-out unfairness out there, when some other moocher out there gets a hand, it is a waste of money and a symptom of the bureaucratic nanny-state.

Exhibit 1: "I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No."[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTwpBLzxe4U
"Ah, fresh meat!"

I still recall opening a door in the game (with hints of something odd about the tiles behind it) and hearing that come out of the speakers to this day.
The YouTube video has plenty of sections in less well-lit areas. For example: https://imgur.com/a/9L53u

No cars, a light only one one side, and you can still see much further than the Uber video makes it seem. If the Uber car's sensors can't get a better idea of its surroundings than a smartphone video, Uber's management should be liable for criminally negligent homicide for letting them out on the streets.

Plus, the Uber car itself has headlights.
Yes. One thing that will happen is that people will not care anymore about how fast it accelerates but more about how smooth it goes. You don't want to spill that wine glass on you.
Copyright exists to protect artistic expression, not functionality. Functionality is protected by patents.
Ublock + NoScript + self-destructing cookies makes one much less convenient to track. Your IP and browser headers are all that's left.
It works in New York since we have 24/7 subways and are very densely populated. It's a pedestrian city.
Hog and wild boar grazing destroys ecosystems because they eat roots and even tear up the roots of plants and trees they don't eat. Hawaii's forests are being killed by boar (http://hawaiianforest.com/wp/species/).

The vision of Hog Cowboys is nice, but how do you ensure the grazing is light and the hogs stay controlled? If they get loose feral boar is a completely different beast than feral cow.
People want government to do its job properly and to not overreach that. It's no more surreal than people here wanting net neutrality enforced through government regulation while blacking out their sites to protest SOPA.
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I don't know, but I have noticed that among the Republican types I have in my circle of friends, a surprisingly large number of them work for a government either directly or indirectly. Same thoughts about cognitive dissonance.
I'm not so sure regarding the F-22: production costs are only one side of the equation. Its maintenance is very expensive, and there may simply have been no solution in sight to reduce these costs. I think the stealth coating in particular is very expensive to maintain. It's hard to find reliable figures, but it seems to be roughly $45,000/hour, compared to about $20,000/hour for an F-15.

Adding more F-22 would absolutely have reduced the per-unit cost of production. But unless you can lower the cost of flying them, it will just make the operational, ongoing cost of your fleet go way up.
Just like the headphone jacks?

The problem with physical phone keyboards is that they still tried to be like desktop keyboards. They needed to be more like console controllers.
Not if you are a government.
> freeing it up to execute more JavaScript and reduce jank.

^ I 'grok' this, but is there not a more proper technical term for this given the tone?

not complaining.. just wondering
One time I briefly looked at the man pages of all the binaries under /{bin,sbin} /usr/{bin,sbin} that I didn't know about. A basic Debian install has only 555 binaries (https://pastebin.com/raw/VnrqDdq0). Maybe 100-200 are new to you and are worth checking out. Do it.
Note that `impl Trait` in argument position has been stabilised and should be in a beta soon, and stable after that - so your latter example can be simplified to:

trait Frobber {
fn frob(&self, something: &impl OtherTrait);
}
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Isn't Java open source? (Does this not include the APIs that are part of it?)
https://www.abine.com/deleteme/ Anyone have direct experience with Abine’s deleteme service?
Well if you look at my comment I mention this being the wrong mechanism for them being punished
That's the story Google likes to sell.

Nokia and Sony-Ericsson flagship phones were quite good.
Haha, I was typing my post before I saw yours, else I would have made it a reply!

For "over a weekend" read "in a few hours" :)
I'm wondering whether GDPR is going to make this worse.

It used to be that the GWR train Wifi would automatically log me in. But now that has changed, and it takes me to a pre-populated log-in screen, which requires me to untick the "Add me to the mailing list" button, and tick the "T&Cs" and "Privacy statement" buttons.

I suspect that this is a GDPR hoop to show they have consent for every bit of data they use. But all I have to do is forget to untick the "Add me to your mailing list" button once...
I think because there are no identifiers. The BIOS API is: fill registers with these values, run this interrupt. That's different from openFileWithName(String fileName).
Because of Java's reflection, a black box approach would have given you the same API names that are being discussed here.
There’s potential for it, of course. There’s also potential for massive upsides.
HPA?
Jank is the technical term. https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-prof...
if that happened today, they might, but until three years ago, APIs were not copyrightable. Or at least not thought to be by most developers.
I can't help worry that Path of Exile has become a victim of its own success. Lately the updates seems heavily tilted towards trying to "catch" hardcore (one character death and it is out of the league) characters, leading to a "death spiral" of sorts between the top players (more often than not streamers that dedicate their days to playing the game live) and Grinding Gear Games.
What was that about freedom of speech again?
It is a great idea, and I think it can be pulled off without being (easily) detected as decoy activity by making occasional submissions, than like 20 submissions a minute. A very simple way to do it on top of my head:

- Seed a crawler with your own profile (or any other). Make it find 50~100 public contacts with public timeline in your network. Scrape their shares along with their timestamp deltas to their corresponding previous shares. Omit the very first, for that it lacks a proper timestamp delta. Put them all in a collection.

- Pick any one by random, post it all the same, after the same amount of delay as the original share against its previous share. Repeat.

You may shuffle the sentences whenever there are more than just one sentence, to obfuscate things a little.
Not everyone cares about accessibility.

They did not care with Flash, neither they will care now.

Just wait until we get Flash like tooling for WebAssembly.
Can't you change the style of a Bootstrap layout without changing the functionality? I thought that is the point of all the different "themes" they have.
Eavesdropping on Geeks: did anyone like 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'?
It’s too bad, I looked into them a few years ago when I needed to ship a couple hundred items out over the course of a week or two. Ultimately it made more sense to spend 150 bucks on a label printer and clobber together a workable system to do it ourselves. They were focusing on consumers at the time but had they provided a scalable turn-key solution to small business at the time I think they could have made it work.
Furthermore I am sure the extension came from the Mozilla Corporation side and not the Foundation side. Based on the last audit (2016-2015) if I read it correctly 52K was brought in through "receivables" which includes search engine deal revenues
The API is less like the blueprints and more like the building code. This is perhaps a bad example as many building codes are copyrighted, but a lot of people find this as absurd as copywriting an API.
Nice. Please do VueJS next.
These crazy expensive one-off projects are the natural result of trying to spend as little as possible each year while completely ignoring spending in the long term.
Thanks for mentioning what that dilemma was called.

For those interested here is an interesting article about the Trolley Problem.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/the-trolley-problem-w...
Do they know you care? Have you written to them? Called them?
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You might want to try Grim Dawn. If Turn-based works too then Darkest Dungeon.
The rush of cheating wore off pretty quickly. I think everyone went through their 'ear collection' phase, but it was rather beating Diablo on Hell difficulty as the real accomplishment. I always found the Lazarus quest to be harder though.

I remember first discovering online mode. Clicking Multiplayer and seeing some sort of "you must be connected to the internet" type message. I started up the dial up connection and tried again and then the world opened up to me.

As much time as I spent on D1 and enjoying myself, it paled in comparison as the gateway drug to SC:BW for me.
Ah, cool--I didn't know that.

In this case however I think it's more open source fanboys no-matter-what downvoting, because I dared criticize an open source project made by poor volunteers that work on it on their free time, and if you say they are not getting something you're entitled and you should go fork it and do it yourself.

That's my impression, anyway.
The sibling comments make it clear what the split could be. In fact, people who say #deletefacebook are both overreacting and overreaching, when a much easier solution is at hand. It should really be #splitfacebook - that is an excellent outcome for most of the concerned parties (except maybe FB shareholders, which might as well be a good thing).
Up next: how I wrote a comment hating and contributing nothing to the discussion.

Well, it does something: it erases your public comments on FB, and even more so, shows in a few steps how a programmer can go about doing so. Not everything has to be about what FB knows.
> ...are doing it to secure 'jobs' in their own districts...

In 2004, the GWB administration created an initiative ("Vision for Space Exploration" = VSE, see [1,2]) that substantially refocused NASA on human spaceflight. Significant money was redirected from technology research to launch vehicle development. This is (partly) visible in the dip in the gray portion of the funding strip-chart in [2] ("aeronautics and science"). It looks small, but its effect was much larger.

The original VSE implementors were highly motivated, but attention wandered, after a few years the launch vehicle effort (Orion/Constellation) stalled, and the BHO administration cancelled Constellation.

Outside observers wondered whether the GWB administration really cared about the VSE, or just wanted to do a favor for the large manned spaceflight centers in Houston and Florida. It is probably not a coincidence that GWB is a Texan, then-House-Majority-Leader Tom DeLay's home district abuts Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Florida was in the GWB camp in the prior election by just 537 votes.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/aldridge_commissio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_for_Space_Exploration
Those aren't 'small to medium ways'.
That's just my opinion of GIMP.

I can sugarcoat it, but we're all grown ups here I thought..? I didn't offend anyone.
Not only that, but all the data could be recorded and replayed through other software, so they could conceivably say what it would have seen and done.
Hilariously true
I think most of the feedback they got was "copy Photoshop's interface", but I have to agree with some of the other users in this thread that Photoshop's interface can be shockingly non-intuitive in places.
Understand that the kids with Chromebooks are learning how to use Linux while they improve their typing skills.