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So what, we are doing it on Windows laptops and no one is ever allowed to touch Github beyond getting stuff out of there to spare money on licenses.

So no, Githib is not a metric for enterprise development.

And you are right Winforms is legacy, all modern Windows applications are written in WPF.

I have been doing it the last 4 years, and dispite the HN Web bubble, out there in the enterprise there are companies actually adopting UWP and migrating their laptop fleet to Windows 10.
Yes you can block. See the YouTube example.

As long as you have a valid reason to collect the data for the benefit of the user experience, you can make that a requirement to use the site.
That, along with many other parts of the GDPR, is both open for interpretation and may vary from country to country within the EU. See https://aristilabs.com/how-the-gdpr-apply-to-your-us-based-c...
Has anyone else observed that ratings inflation is even more extreme in the USA than in Europe or Asia? This goes back to eBay, where "A+++ five stars" basically means "I got what I ordered and it arrived in time" or "I didn't but the seller resolved it reasonably and in time".

As others have stated, a single-dimension scale is difficult in Uber where it compounds the basics (get to my destination in a safe and hassle-free way) with the extra mile (some drivers are extra nice, offer you water and snacks and let you play your music etc).

If everyone who fulfills the basics are supposed to get five stars, how do we signal the extra mile except for tips?
That seems like a overly complicated workaround. The solution is to make the electronic banking work properly! Seriously how can that be?
Not a majority. But I know GA is staying in the "not trusted" list of Noscript.
Back in the day uuid as pk was very inefficient due to sorted nature of pk. Time dependent uuid might be less so.

You are right, another uuid field would have solved this.
And, interestingly, you can always prevent the paradox with toll roads and congestion pricing.
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This does nor preclude the use of threads or SIMD.

Essentially this library is a demo toy that will need a lot to work to make useful in real conditions.
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"It’s developing a service code-named “Viper” to parse data from thousands of live camera feeds ... The ultimate goal is to juggle 100,000 feeds simultaneously."

Technically, this sounds very ambitious. Assume a 24/7 video feed is several gigabytes a day, meaning at 100,000 streams they'd be processing several hundred terabytes a day.

Furthermore, as a conservative estimate, assume face detection is run once per second, half the day (maybe they shut it off when nothing interesting is detected), that's over 40K frames / day to analyze. So 4B images / day total. AWS charges about $60k / 1M images with face detection only, that's $2.4M per day. I'm sure SenseTime's costs are lower than what AWS charges, but that's still some serious computing power. Their customers (presumably Chinese government) must have really well lined pockets to make this sustainable.
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There is substantially more land allocated to crops used for animal fodder than human consumption.

We should probably be focusing on reducing/eliminating animal agriculture instead of further increasing farming intensity.
Depends a lot. My ISP's (both mobile ISP and DSL) have pretty slow DNS providers. My mobile connections were significantly quicker after I switched to using VPN with Cloudflare DNS as resolver (or even the local resolver, though that is normally a bit slower than Cloudflare/Google DNS due to caching)
Even within an office, it's a general rule of office politics that when asked, if you can say something good about someone without lying, you should do so, and you should generally avoid saying bad things about other people.

I mean, there are exceptions, but at the individual contributor level, that's a pretty good heuristic.
It's efficient but not so precise and efficient that the modifications can't be seen as different that the background genome.
SNI is just an ugly hack because IPv6 is not deployed widely.

You could have a server listen on a subnet and clients randomizing its target IP.
Back alive atm ( disabled RSS sync :p )

If anyone knows how to performantly sort on non deterministic computed columns ( eg. the ranking algorithm for votes of posts + comments) in MS SQL server -> https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/203331/slow-calculat... i'd be very happy :p, it's killing my "trending topic" performance...

Edit: added non deterministic
Except it doesn't work in academia, because it's the same system that's commonly present in corporate-land, and in practice it's horrible and has multiple flaws.
Fair point, i assumed using iceberg was his idea, my apologies if it wasn't. Can't comment on the stability of bloc, other team-members did that part of the project.

OTOH, please note that iceberg was only the tip of the iceberg (i am a huge fan of the name), the IDE itself did crash many times and corrupted my image once. The formatter moved comments into other blocks which changed their meaning and combined with CTRL+Z it deleted code after cursor in some cases reproducibly.

One extra funny though harmless bug was that shift+click didn't select a range of items items in some listboxes. It selected just the new one but left the old one highlighted. I clicked a few items and sometimes it selected the whole range. When I released shift and clicked more items, it played back the clicks i made earlier and selected those items instead. We joked that smalltalk did not only invent OOP but also command queuing in strategy games. Yeah, it was mean but we couldn't imagine what code had to be behind the listboxes to cause this behavior.

So yeah, maybe someone else thought OOP students would make a good typechecker for iceberg and designed the class accordingly but what i think and say about pharo still stands.
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I think both uber and lift allow you to 'leave a complement' where you can write a short bit of text that other people can see.

My guess, though, is that the driver would prefer the tip.
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That takes me back. In the WinNT 4.0 days my NTFS hard drive would become so heavily fragmented that it would take Explorer over a minute to display folder listing as it hunted around for file icons and other metadata. And then Explorer would randomly decide to rebuild its icon cache a freeze up for another minute.

The built-in defragmenter did nothing to improve things.

Our idiot IT guy said I should compile less often.

I had to resort to WINFILE to do anything with the file system, at least until I convinced my boss to get me a Norton Speed Disk license.

And yet when Win2K came around I refused to upgrade. It'll be too slow and buggy, I figured.
> When paying by card you can still stick a few pounds or dollars in the sleeve.

That would seem cheesy af to me. Like "Here have some money you poor thing!"
>how do we signal the extra mile except for tips?

I mean in the case of Lyft I give them money. Why should another adult care how I "rate" them?
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The more information any one entity has about any individual, the more accurate a profile they can create. The more thinly spread your metadata is, the harder it is for any one corporation to create a profile. Clearly there is no perfect solution, it depends on what sort of privacy risks you are trying to mitigate.
It seems that you also need to install mirrors in the area you want to check. So it really is a system and not a device.
RSS never died. On the contrary, its usage for content aggregation & monitoring has been increasing over the years, specially in the business world and niche markets.

I'm speaking from my own experience running a growing & profitable startup, Feedity - https://feedity.com, that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.

Our upcoming API and content explorer (a different kind of 'feed reader') have received thumbs-up from some customers who opted for early-testing.
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It is not, as one could say it is a tyranny of majority...
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No science behind it but I just like the way a Nikon looks and the way it feels when I hold it.
I love that the site itself looks super shady and has no HTTPS
One thing that immediately caught my attention: the fact that it is possible for a single query/command/request to wipe everything.

To be frank at a place I worked there had always been something like this too: if you were logged in as super admin, wiping all data is just one POST request away. That was super convenient when testing things, but having the same in production made me uneasy. Fortunately before any incident happened I added additional checks that required special command line flags to enable this API. Perhaps still not super foolproof but I felt much better.
Raise money to pay the engineers.
There is a difference thought - you can't have multiple governments to choose from at any given time. State always limit the choice.
You can do user sessions/workshops, which would be more valuable.
Orbán is not Euroskeptic, he does not want to leave the EU. CNN can't even write a title without falsehoods.

> Orban has criticized the European Commission despite Hungary's status as one of the largest recipients of EU development funds, which account for more than 4% of the country's Gross National Income, according to EU budget figures.

So he is not allowed to criticise the EU in exchange for money?
> I love this new company that Microsoft has become.

I'm not sure if it's sarcasm or not, but there is no "new" Microsoft. Their sole aim is to use all means to crush competition; they will embrace open source when it suits them and doesn't pose any threat. When they work on Linux, they do so to make it easier for people to run Linux instances on their proprietary cloud. They were losing bad on many fronts so some changes were inevitable, but fundamentally nothing changed at all. You can see the fundamental contempt for the user with the telemetry settings in Windows 10, with pushing upgrades to everyone, with ignoring users' settings and so on. Even something as simple as dual-booting is still problematic after so many years: even with Windows 10 you have to still install Linux after Windows. If you install Linux first, Windows will happily overwrite its boot sector. As if Linux didn't exist.
> Essentially this library is a demo toy

It's 200 lines of C, what were you expecting?
Or weight the 'value' of your stars by how many stars you normally give, so a 5-star review from someone who normally gives 3.5-star reviews is worth more than a 5-star review from someone who always give 5-star reviews
I think you may have transposed some digits. According to Wikipedia [0], the NYC Subway has 472 stations. Or 424, depending on how you count.

> The official count of stations is 472; however, this tabulation classifies some transfer stations as two or more stations, which are called "station complexes" within the nomenclature of the New York City Subway. If station complexes are counted as one station each, the number of stations is 424.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_stations
How do you automate checking if person requesting the data is the person claims to be.
How do you automate reading an email and giving meaningful response?
It’s not perfect, but it’s much more meaningful than GPA.
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You can argue that GA is critical to the existence of the site, so you are allowed to block non-consenting users. I hope anyway :)
I have the same in the UK
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Vocalizing internally is your muscles doing what they would do when you speak, but moving ever so slightly or not at all.

I guess the device was first build to recognize actually spoken speech with the signal that is transmitted to the muscles. They gradually reduced the speech levels, and now the system is efficient even with tiny signals.

Producing speech is an incredibly complex task; taking most humans more than 2 years to acquire. Loads of different muscles are involved. I would not be surprised if the different signals they collect in their device are more than redundant for the task.
Regardless of whether or not this is true (and really it seems to me to be a bit more malicious than large groups of people are consistently capable of), this isn't a super useful way of looking at it. Rather than speculate on why things are the way they are (especially if in this case it's pretty much unsolvable without really big changes), shouldn't we look to solve the problems this is causing (which by and large involves "merely" collecting large amounts of data, which is much less difficult and much more attainable in the short term)?
This was really educational. Good vocab lesson. +1
This is probably also related to what happens with the senseless custom of tipping. Does anybody actually spend time evaluating the service they got? Do people carefully adjust the tipped amount to correspond to quality? Unless the service was a real disaster (happens maybe once a year), I just give 20% all the time, because I don't even want to think about it. Same thing with Lyft or Uber, five stars and move on.

And note that tipping also saw inflation. If you read old newspapers, the standard amount used to be 15%, and 10% before that. At least with stars it's capped at five.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#Rai...) says "There are 882 interconnected rail stations in the Tokyo Metropolis, 282 of which are Subway stations, with several hundred more in each of the 3 surrounding densely populated suburban prefectures. There are 30 operators running 121 passenger rail lines (102 serving Tokyo and 19 more serving Greater Tokyo but not Tokyo's city center itself), excluding about 12 cable cars."

I could probably believe the 2,100 number if you include all the surrounding prefectures that are in the broader Tokyo area, and if you count stations multiple times for each railway operator services them (it's not uncommon for a single station in Tokyo to be run by three or five different companies).
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The simplest solution though is to replace the arbitrary and meaningless 5-start system with a simpler two choice system: "Did a good enough job" or "Should probably be fired"
It doesn’t have to be personally identifying info to qualify. If you are storing data on behalf of the user, you have to get consent from the user.
+1. I start each morning in the office by firing up my RSS aggregator. Have been since the early days of Google Reader. I can skim through my feeds in minimal time, especially when compared to any other alternative.
It's the same in the US. For example, there's a fee for getting a passport, and it's not considered to be a tax.
> That page is likely not completely serious.

The third line of the readme says "We are finally at our April 1 Release (v4.1.2018)." The date may be relevant. ;)
Doesn't GDPR say that 'informed consent' cannot be a condition of providing a business service? So as far as I can see the supermarket cannot say, "In order to receive the store rewards benefits you must agree to us selling your data to third parties".
I just checked my contacts privacy settings and 10 apps have permission while 29 do not.

Contacts, Mail, Agenda, Messages legitimately want contacts.

All google apps ask for contacts (Photos, Keyboard, Maps, Docs, Keep, Play Store...), all (undeactivable) samsung doppelgangers also (Browser, Gallery, AppStore, Music), as well as all (deactivated) microsoft apps (Powerpoint, Onenote, Excel)...
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I was linking this to the same topic.

But then I remembered David Graebers notion of bullshit jobs.

The best explanation I came across so far was that in todays economy, the supply side is not a problem. So actual work has to be put in to create demand: That's the advertisement industry.

Sadly, I don't have a link at hand to the article explaining this idea.
Besides the other posts about simply comsuming as much English I'd like to offer my tip that helped me a lot:

In England there is (/ was?) a tradition of making middle and high school students read increasingly more difficult books throughout ages 11 - 18. There are entire book series written with this concept in mind. These are excellent to pick up.

Harry Potter is a good example of this: the first Harry Potter book was written for 11/12 year olds and the books become longer and more mature with every next book.

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban was the first book I've ever read in English when I was 14 or so and since then I always try to read books in English if the original is.
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It does, because the tax office very frequently sends undercover inspectors to buy something in your shop, and if they don't get the receipt they will fine you huge sums of money. My employees certainly have it drilled into them that any customer could be an inspector and they have to offer the receipt to everyone.

And yes, of course - the tax office inspectors are doing this to make sure that taxes are paid on each sale - but it has the added benefit of making sure that the money for each sale is actually going in my register, not in the pocket of my employee.
That is untrue - aadhar introduces the problem of false rejections.

First - Most of the savings which the govt has attributed to aadhar they later walked back and admited it was due to gas price reductions and not because of aadhar.

Second - auth failures result in people not getting their ration- these are then counted as savings by the govt. if they were correctly accounted as a liability not only would the savings vaporize, additional costs would appear.
This is the problem with wikileaks. This has nothing to do with protecting people, or informing them of shady goings on. Wikileaks doesn't like The Guardian's reporting. So they're trying to claim that they're doing something wrong. In reality every single ad-supported website will do the same thing- including practically every website in existence from Breitbart to WashPo.

So next time wikileaks sends out leaked info about bombs in Syria or intelligence gathering in the US ask yourself this question:

Are they telling you everything, or are they serving their own political agenda?
OT: I did, it asked me to select traffic signs. No picture had any. Not marking anything is not an option. So I marked 2 traffic lights and a gas station sign. Accepted. :(
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You need to boost other public transport services to provide at least some level of late night service. In Sydney, they run substitute buses between many railway stations from 0000-0430 - it's not great, but it's possible to use buses to provide a minimum level of service coverage when the railways are shut down.
Thanks to this comment, I've now spent this past weekend binging the entire Ben Eater 8-bit computer series this far. Very entertaining, and I certainly learned a few things about computer architecture. I'm very tempted to do the project myself.

There is a very, very base level of electronics understanding for a couple things that are below the scope of what he covers. You're expected to understand what a pull-up resistor is, for example, and he briefly touches on RC circuits but I don't think his explanation would be sufficient for grokking the concept from scratch. Overall though, he is an excellent teacher and I think he makes concepts quite clear.

I personally ran a few parts at 2x speed, and skipped the Turing machine discussion entirely, but I'm sure the info is quite necessary to some people, so I'm glad he included it all.
On the other side, many of the machines I use don't even change the text at all: it just keeps saying "leave card inserted" and the cashier tells me "just remove your card... it's long done".
OT: what has become of TechCrunch? I'm on a wide screen (1920 pixels), don't expect me to read paragraphs with 16px font! So I scroll down without really reading and I see "view comments", I scroll down a bit further and I see there is more stuff so maybe they buried the comments and I don't even need to click? I scroll further and... lose the whole article to land automatically on the homepage. Such a layout is plain horrible and I won't return to TC for a few more years.
> Print news media was dying for decades before online media came online

Any sources for this? I don't think this was the case at all at least in my part of Europe.
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I think it's fine. It's a measure of gas flow I can relate to.
I'm not entirely sure about it but I guess they used "human exhalation" as a somewhat relatable unit of volume for a gas but the actual system has nothing to do with detecting humans? That's the only way that makes sense to me, although if that's the case that's really needlessly confusing.
They do, in very trace amounts. The exhalation of inflated amounts of methane during a breath test is actually often an indication of a malabsorption syndrome.
Simple: let it grow. If it turns into purple zombies and eats the town (or otherwise shows unexpected gene expression), you failed.

A variation on this is to also have it do an easy to check change, like various forms of fluorescence, then check for the easy to check ones and assume that if that one happened, the important one happened too.
In essence(aka common use) it's bullshit.

There are some examples (Not sure of any outside of the original coal example) but people seem to be quoting the fact when things become cheaper or easier, use goes up, this is not Jevons paradox.

The fact the "See also" is Downs–Thomson paradox which has zero proof it even exists should tip you off.
When I'm looking for libraries to use on my Cortex M0 and M3 embedded devices, I prefer small code size to fast execution (as long as it's fast enough) and don't have SIMD and no use for threads. Sometimes size does matter greatly.
That's probably due to the rather unusual recent history of Serbia I assume
Hopefully using this eventually, instead of the real thing: https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
Uber introduced tipping a while ago.
You can command click on the icon in the titlebar to drill down in the path if you like that better.

Also it works everywhere there are document proxy icons in the title bar.

Final cool tip, you can drag and drop the tiny file/folder icon in the titlebar, it’s a proxy for the file/folder itself.

Oh and that icon goes grey when the file isn’t saved and that’s also when the close button gets a dot...

As long as we’re talking macOS tricks: you can enable tabbing through the UI with Command-F7 and space activates the outlined button, while enter always activates the “solid” button.
It doesn't change the fact that it is there. :D
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