skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was the bokeh functionality using software to create an artificial depth of field effect, or does the camera capture a range of depth of field? My immediate guess was that it's actually clever software, but was it confirmed either way?
Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to read?
Modern CPUs, sure. Apparently the original microprocessors were actually faster when implemented with discrete components though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
> I'm assuming that the inability of Apple to provide access forever was spelled out up front.

I don't see how that can be argued with a straight face unless when you hit the "buy" button the license expiration date was clearly marked. Obviously "we can terminate rights at our discretion" was buried in a mountain of legalese but nobody should be expected to read or understand what that means.
The US has negative money, they are in debt. I have more money than the US.
More like : You don't want to store the DVD yourself so you tell the seller to keep it and you come pick it up whenever you watch it.
It is more than plausible to abuse the legal system in ways that are (obviously) legal. If that claim is not what you are disputing, what is?
What I meant is, when did they start the switch, and which versions have already switched.
How exactly do laws that prevent development benefit developers?
Principles: Great Work ∞ Great Learning Part 3
They said all of their facilities, worldwide...

Are apple stores considered a "facility"?

Because, I cant see how the apple store in the Valley Fair Mall can get its own apple-power feed?
I got my start by getting a PhD, but that's perhaps not a practical recommendation. In reality though, you might say I started learning ML by reading Mitchell in class:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlbo...
It's dated, but it's quite approachable and does a great job explaining a lot of the fundamentals.

If you want to approach machine learning from a more statistical perspective, you could also have a look at An Introduction to Statistical Learning to start:
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
Or if you're more mathematically inclined than the average bear, you could jump directly into The Elements of Statistical Learning:
https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/

If you want something a little more interactive than a book though, you might have a look at Google's free crash course on machine learning:
https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/...
I checked it out briefly maybe six months ago, and it seemed pretty good. It seemed a bit focused on Tensor Flow and some other tools, but that's okay.
They can pry it from my cold dead hands
Since around 2007 that those pesky macros only run if the user takes the same effort as typing curl | sh.
Damnit, I love inbox and I use it everyday. Much preferred to the GMAIL ui, seemed less cluttered to me and the swiping features to archive/snooze/pin were great. Yikes. It worked really well out of the box for bundling and didn't need much configuration. RIP inbox.
What is special about implementing anything Bitcoin+Lightning? BAT clones are already being developed on EOS and IOTA (both speedy networks with 0 cost transactions). Here's the IOTA advertising project: https://oysterprotocol.com/
Unfortunately, unlikely.

For one thing, the clickthroughs are certainly important, but advertising is also just impressions and brand recognition---even if somehow everyone magically stopped clicking on ads, companies like Coke and Pepsi would still pay top-dollar to remind you you're thirsty for sugar-water right now, and if you're reading websites or watching videos online instead of watching TV or reading a newspaper, that's where they'll do it.

But additionally, a very, very small number of Internet users click on ads. And those clicks float the entire industry. I'm not super-excited about any solution that assumes a tiny minority of people stop doing a thing; statistically, it's unlikely to pan out that way.
The SE is still available: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/

"Available at authorized resellers"
Lua's feature set is tiny, and that's precisely what I love about it. Ruby feels a lot like Lua, but I vastly prefer Lua to even Ruby, because of how minimal it is. As someone who writes ES6 on a daily basis, I feel that Lua's syntax explains itself -- you can start writing Lua code in 30 minutes. People have always said that Python is fun to write, but I've never felt that about Python. On the other hand, I can definitely say that Lua is pleasing to write in. Python, to me, has always felt like a chore compared to Lua.
Apple Announces 'iPhone Xs' and 'iPhone Xs Max'
That's an excellent heuristic when the people doing the work are also the people experiencing discomfort! Each person so affected can make their own decision from ample firsthand information.

It might become more subtle in scenarios where the two are disjoint groups, raising the question of how to compare them. I don't see an easy way of quantifying each that allows for such, but I'm sure that's just my own failures of imagination. Can you help me?
I'm really upset about this. I HATE large screens and not for the lack of trying!
This is what I'm going to miss most. Heard the news and went to check the Gmail app only to realize I was going to have to spend much more time in my inbox.
Apple Reveals 'iPhone Xr' with 6.1-Inch Liquid Retina LCD Display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Per capita healthcare costs in Japan are still less than half of the costs of the US. Because of the age heavy demographics in Japan, that should be more difficult to handle than the US.
I wish we could go bac to this again.

Link to the pages you find interesting. Forget SEO. Find more pages by following recommendations. Allow ourselves to create "ugly" pages.
Apple iPhone jumped the shark a long time ago. Riddled with terrible design flaws the have lost their way..
Quite right. True ownership means you can sell what you own. Instead you only have a license to use, hence you are never owner, but only a user. “End-user license agreement is a holy binding contract”.
Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 4
> coercion is not a requirement for government

Then you and I are defining the word "government" differently. What I am arguing against is coercive enforcement of rules. You can call it whatever you want; if you don't want to call it "government", then let's just avoid using that word at all so we at least know what we're talking about.

> what happens if I don't agree with a rule. And then I break it? If there is some sort of punishment, then there is coercion

Then, once again, you are giving different meanings to words than I am. "Coercion" as I am using the term means forcing people to do things they would not voluntarily choose to do. Letting people voluntarily choose to do something, in the full knowledge that they will suffer consequences, and then imposing those consequences, is not coercion.

Also, you use the word "punishment", but I haven't used that word. I have not talked about throwing people in jail. I have only talked about things like refusing to interact with someone. Unless you are going to claim that you have a right to have other people interact with you, no matter how much of an asshole you are, then I don't see how you can call it "coercion" when people refuse to interact with you because you refuse to regulate your behavior in order to facilitate cooperation.

Violent consequences are a more complicated matter, yes, but (as is discussed, for example, in Friedman's book) there is still a key difference between violent consequences from private entities (who have to weigh the possibility that they will in turn be targeted by violent consequences from other private entities) and violent consequences from governments (which do not suffer any consequences in turn, because they are allowed to do things that would be considered crimes, at least on their face, if private entities did them--in fact, this is how Friedman defines a government).
Practically, how do you see this working? I get it that very senior management could work with HR on information/promotion discrimination. But do you expect the rest of the company to have discretion in executing information security when so much information flows freely inside divisions? By seeing who has the thickest accents? Or perhaps people could wear bands on their shoulders? Why stop there--maybe we can mandate it in the public sphere too. I don't mean to be sarcastic or insensitive, but motives and intentions can be blurry.
I tried to move to Inbox but kept having to use the Gmail app after I would see alerts for mail and then was unable to find the message in question in Inbox without searching, which is tedious. The "missed messages" problem was one I couldn't ever get past (maybe my own settings were to blame -- but at the end of the day it wasn't worth the time to figure out).
Occitan is closer to Catalan than to Spanish.
clearance, not approval.
This is why I dont use Google products. They get a life of ~18 months and then they are sent to the farm up north.
New Tree Species Discovered--and Declared Extinct
I am impressed the X(s) has more screen space than my 8+ has in a similar form factor. So I can have more screen without having to jump up again in size.

I do admit however I would have liked to see an X in the same size as a base 8.
If I buy a game from Steam then contractually that is a rental, but it behaves like a purchase. I can install it anywhere I like, I can back it up to a physical disk, and most importantly I can redownload it in perpetuity; even if the same item is no longer for sale on Steam.

The only risk in comparison to a physical copy is that Valve fundamentally changes or goes bankrupt. Both seem unlikely. This makes any purchase on Steam basically as safe as a physical purchase, resulting in Steam basically replacing physical game purchases on the PC.
But it also doesn’t mean that they are addicted, or that the social drinkers are just fine.
> span
> number of column the grid spans
> number
> —
> 24

It's not 2010 - we have grid for grids. Unless someone is paying you vast quantities of money for IE support why use something else?
This strategy makes perfect sense, but does come with a psychological component that is difficult to overcome. When you but the 7 or 8 there is a sense you are buying an out of date product as opposed to a new, lower-end product. I'm sure managing the products this way saves a fortune because they are always only working to engineer the latest products and coasting on previous years' work for the cheaper models.
Pointy-haired boss: "I've been looking at our numbers and they aren't great - Google is getting a lot of installs via their Chrome ads on Google properties. Is there anything we can do to stop them stealing users from Edge? We control the desktop, right?"

Engineering lead: "I'll ask the Edge team to add an overlay when the user visits a Chrome download URL, but that might change. The installers are signed though, so we could check the package name and author at install time..."

Boss: "Great! Go for it- give me a timeline, this has highest priority for the realease in N weeks"
I'm sure it's a little bit of both, right? If 99% of Gmail users had voluntarily migrated to Inbox, I'm quite certain it would not be getting shut down. That doesn't preclude that there is a significant contingent out there that loves Inbox.

(BTW the same goes for the old HN hobby-horse, Reader. If it had had a billion users, it would never have gotten shut down.)
It's not like Apple or any other entity doing this is building new last mile electrical distribution, or putting new PV on the roof of malls. They're buying "credits" for kWh from solar/wind/hydroelectric generation sources, which feed into the same electrical grid operator, matching the number of kWh that the meter for the store consumes in a month.
Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers
I could do with less video presentations, they break the flow too much for me. It is almost like intermission during a movie.
>It remains disruptive, unsettling and expensive, not to mention unnecessary

Nobody will do this, no sane legal department signs this off or approves of such behavior. Doing otherwise is a great way to incinerate their legal licenses. There are fines for behavior like that.

The best outcome for the suing party of such a scenario is a 5 minute court room appearance in which the judge slaps you with a restraining order and closes the case.

This has literally never been an escalating problem in european courtrooms to my experience because judges don't like that behavior and laws exist to prevent it.
That's new, all previous keynotes it didn't work in Chrome at all as it didn't support the streaming stuff they were using. Needed Safari or (surprisingly) Edge.
Amazon used to offer this in their Amazon Music offering, but they recently shut down the ability to store arbitrary files that you uploaded yourself. If you had any self-uploaded files in your library, they were purged.

It's difficult to understand this move from a customer service perspective. Does anyone know what's going on?
Human weighting of incentive signals differs. "We should not go against slavery, it's an $X billions industry" isn't precisely how the US South thought about the problem, but ultimately they did go to war because they recognized that chnage in the status quo would bring utter economic ruin to a powerful sector of the populace with the political and social clout to goad the rest into war.

So yeah, "That industry makes an awful lot of cash" is useful to factor into one's thought process when one tries to reason through how one could tear it down. If nothing else, it's a first-approximation barometer of how much people will spend to oppose your efforts.
> I'm using the common, accepted definitions

I strongly disagree, but at this point I don't think further argument will help. You and I are simply speaking different languages, and I don't have the time or the inclination to try to learn yours, and I get the idea you feel the same about mine.
Yeah, this feels like a huge shame. Android doesn't really offer anything comparable either. I realize the market for smaller devices is a minority one, but it is really so small that no-one will cater to it?

You'll have to remove my SE from my cold, dead hands. It's not just one handed operation, it's simply a much better size and I'm yet to see any reason I'd want a bigger one.
On that same note:

I think we're seeing 2 problems:

1. People really don't want to get together due to the consequence of callout culture/(PCism/SJWism). This has caused people (I'm seeing the effects with the communities I currently and have previously maintained) to be less likely to share, be willing to meet with people, and even branch out their friend circles. Censorship/Censorship has been the conservative "let's all get along" response.

2. Technology has become a detriment, I'm not sure when we're going to have our WWI for personal technology. (WWI introduced the concept that all of these improvements in technology may also bring death and destruction) Given the hooks of technology, we're going to get to a really nastic predicament here. I'm not sure how to describe what it will be, or how we can fix it. But we're losing valuable communication skills and we're making things worse for society. (That has been an ongoing thing for a while) My theory: We're going to go into a dark age.

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Lastly: If you found this article somewhat helpful, I would suggest reading Captivate by Vanessa Williams/Edwards?
First of all: I agree that this is bad and that these developers should choose portable tech when building these sites.

But as of now, Chrome is and has for a long time been the only browser to support:

Shadow DOM:
https://caniuse.com/#feat=shadowdomv1

Custom elements:
https://caniuse.com/#feat=custom-elementsv1

CSS Paint API:
https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-paint-api
I still use Inbox and I love it. I snooze reminders all the time for bills and regular maintenance tasks. If I snoozed something for a few years from now, does anyone know if it'll work in gmail?
European parliament gives thumbs up to internet censorship
I can't speak as a user of said framework, but as a developer learning Vue I like it!

I like it because it's not over-engineered with like 10 classes to do a simple dialog. You can go to any .vue file and look how they do it. It's not very difficult to copy some bits of the code and css, to do your own components. They use a bit of mixins and whatnot but for the most part you can reuse some of that code without having to bother with the node packages and whatnot. Plus they have a bunch of useful little bits of js in there for dom manipulation etc.

I also learned how to manually instantiate components and passing props to them, from this codebase. It wasn't made obvious in the Vue docs.. and it's actually SUPER useful when refactoring old codebases (like YUI2).. where I do'nt have the luxury of wrapping everything in a view, I can make a Vue dialog, or a Vue bar chart.. and "mount" it to the page. Then I can use the webpack build, single file components & all the good stuff from a modern Vue build in a legacy web app.
> So... they just gave up on gcc, and then per the remainder of the blog post spent "3 months" fighting linker behavior to get LTO working on clang?

Given that they're trying to align their C++ and Rust build tools -- the latter being based on LLVM -- the lack of interest in solving issues experienced with GCC is understandable. Also, given the complexity of the application and the platform diversity involved spending only "3 months" on such troubles is heroic performance.
Their ability to communicate to terrible english speakers is also incredible.
GDPR consent doesn't work like that...
Can't wait getting some classics removed from my movie library automatically when the algorithmic Zeitgeist decides they violate some new sensitivity. Funny this was predicted in detail 10 years ago (how to build such a system starting with secure boot loader) and we just go full steam ahead. "Masters" now have a perfect tool to rewrite history; all contradicting documents can disappear from devices at will. Seems like mindless hedonistic consumption bruising quiet virtuous parts of population without loud voice will be the only thing allowed; everything else would be polarizing and suppressed.
You forgot Bootstrap-Vue, Bootstrap without JQuery.

A Nuxt core member is a core contributor to the project.

https://bootstrap-vue.js.org/
I am interested in the idea of having one and using it on multiple members of the family, can it differentiate among a number of users? That would be a nice feature. Kind of how you personalize a car for multiple drivers.
Because if it is whitelisted then anything new or obscure is blocked. Fine with enterprise IT but not consumers.
I can't imagine it would hurt a blender. Aerosil is an extremely fluffy, almost airy, material that has some interesting physical properties on its own. It's dirt cheap to buy (around $6 a gallon - http://www.uscomposites.com/fillers.html).
I use it fairly regularly - it's a thixotropic agent for epoxy resins.
I never used Inbox, but this seems like another sign that Google has moved to the next stage in the corporate life cycle; they don't need a testbed for innovative features because they're no longer in the innovation business.
Can confirm that what I want is Inbox's UI. The ease of postponing items into the "Snoozed" queue, and low-effort addition of task items, are both lacking from the stock GMail app.
I've wanted to for a long time;Inbox put that on hold because it made my email manageable again. Clearly it's time to start looking for alternatives again.
Noooooo. I love bundling and the Gmail UI is just so cluttered with stuff.

EDIT: Okay, they are porting bundling to Gmail. I hope they also clean up the UI. The settings dialog is a nightmare to look at.
And indeed, it feels like one should assume that a program that replaces page-originated requests for web resources with requests for different web resources would look an awful lot like malware to a naive heuristic based on the design of past malware.
I'm a happy and heavy user of Inbox, this came as a shock to me. I guess I'll wait and see by January how is Gmail, but I'm not looking forward.

> By retiring Inbox, is Google losing a valuable ability to experiment with new email functionality in a way that’s tough to do with a billion-user mainstay?

I also agree with this. If Google decided to let Inbox go, same way as with Wave, then the next "email UX experiment" will be another codename. Why not use the existing Inbox product to do the next innovation? Its base is formed by users which already showed adoption to new ideas and UI.
I am not a native speaker but the repetition of "best X we have ever built" or "best X yet" or "most advanced" and their unimaginative variations took away what could have been one of the best (pun intended) product launches of the year.
Both are a lot like Spanish (unlike Breton or Basque).
Gmail doesn't have reminders - and my reminders that I've saved and snoozed, many of which are past March of next year will apparently just disappear once Inbox is sunsetted?
I wonder if they're gambling that Brexit will implode?

Seems like a lot of people are. ;)
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Nope; Lua is not a good choice for a website's frontend.

But people use Javascript for a lot more than just websites, and I've lost count of how many times I've been frustrated that a JS library is distributed exclusively through package managers like NPM even when the library is not specific to a browser.
> And you're only talking about the current situation, while I am making a pessimistic prediction based on the current attitude towards freedom of information exchange and some past experience.

It's indeed a pessimistic opinion but I understand where it's coming from based on where you live. I was born in authoritarian country also and lived in it when I was a kid, I am living now in western democracy in EU and based on my experience, knowledge and after reading most of the legislation myself I am more optimistic.
> do you expect the rest of the company to have discretion in executing information security when so much information flows freely inside divisions?

Finance and law are decently adept at erecting information barriers. Roping off certain information to non-Chinese nationals would be annoying but with plenty of precedent.
Sony offers top tier Xperia models in compact sizes, and has for several years.

https://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/#filter= (ctrl+F for "compact").
In June, I too had an auto-update from Beyond Compare failing due to Malwarebytes and it made me think their servers were compromised. Nope, false positive.

It looks like this happens often enough, there is a whole page dedicated to false positives.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_virus
> This board has standard I hope it strives to keep.

It seems to have done its best to downvote you.