skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even my $150 marine VHF radio (which is about average cost/features) on my private boat has an AIS receiver and will scream like a bleeding goat if we're on a potential collision path with any AIS devices within a selectable range. You actually have to disable this feature manually as it is on by default.

There is zero reason in 2018 for any commercial or military boat operating under it's own power to collide with anything carrying an AIS beacon. This problem was solved in 1983 with the invention of AIS and all commercial boats have been required to have it since the mid-1990s.
It's an IDE whose only existence was due to their _wildly_ popular open source software, so they seem to understand it pretty well...
You Should Have the Right to Sue Apple
This reminds me of the (relatively) recent post about breakdowns and descriptions of major and well-crafted applications.

Link: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

A lot of Computer Science graduates, and/or self-taunt engineers are missing the commentary of 'masters' or senior people who can say why and why not this or that way.

Just like the difference between building a bridge across a river and in your backyard is far more than just scaling up, seeing design patterns and common pitfalls writ large is one more step towards proper education needed for a modern programmer IMO.
NASA, FAO Launch Next-Gen Geospatial Tool to Track Land-Use, Landscape Changes
For most intents and purposes, that's who started it.

anti-communistic fervor was, and is, a massive boondoggle.
"In the 2000s (decade), onion prices were significantly more volatile than corn or oil prices. This volatility led the son of a farmer who initially lobbied for the ban to advocate a return to onion futures trading."

This is the important part -- ag futures are insurance for farmers. You don't have to get it, but it limits your downside when you do, which is extremely important in low-margin, capital-intensive industries like agriculture. Banning the insurance may prevent one-off manipulations and limit the upside captured by speculators, but it also makes the industry much more dangerous, particularly for smaller players.
Their existing cards?
> Then now they figure out this log thing. ElasticSearch is great but try to run it yourself. On a 50 nodes k8s, I bet your first ES config will down after 10mins the first time FluentD come up and send all the log under the sun since the cluster come up

Put a buffer in front of it, pace the initial ingestion and Bob's your uncle. If that was the main problem operating an Elasticsearch cluster it would be all roses.

I like the E?K stack a lot and I admit that operating ES is not exactly easy, but the initial ingestion issue the easy to solve.
Yeah I saw that. It's just maintained by some random guy. Which is great and all, but something like fft should really be part of the standard lib.
Also see his revised edition to DOET and Emotional Design. It’s part of a broader evolution from UI to UX and experiential issues more broadly.
Wobbly windows just recently made a revival with the original author separating it from compiz:
https://github.com/endlessm/libanimation

far more info here: https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/libanimation-for-...
Something feels off to tax an industry more when their revenue goes down. Am I missing something here other than the usual California hunger for taxes?
> the largest Cloud TPU Pod configuration tested (256 chips) delivers a 200X speedup over an individual V100 GPU

So a Cloud TPU chip is slower than a V100 chip? Seems like that's the answer.
I don't think Microsoft has stated a position on this yet. It has mostly just been Apple pushing for WebHLSL as the shader ingestion format, with most everyone else in favor of SPIR-V with a restricted execution environment.
What about something like google glass, voice recognition, a good 4G signal with a decent PC running in the cloud, and then just go walk in a circle the countryside.
have you looked at any legacy code bases lately? ;-)
Badass: Making Users Awesomeby Kathy Sierra

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24737268-badass

is a good book, though its primary focus is more to do with how to work out what kind of UI to build not the specific details of the UI itself ( which is quite fickle ).
That's interesting, because it's the reason I do use vscode. I just want to work and it takes a whole of 5 minutes to setup and get going, on basically any OS I want. It can't be light weight and also include every feature everyone wants.
> Social media companies are incredibly clear about what information they gather and how they will use it: everything and however they want.

OK, but...the thing is, that's not actually true, however much their less ethical executives might prefer it to be.

They don't, for instance, collect data on what games I play on my iPhone, because that information is not available to them. But while I have enough technical knowledge to understand that they don't have access to that, a) not everyone does, b) while it's true on iPhones, I don't know if it's true on Android—and there may be different answers for "can Facebook track that on Android" and "can Google track that on Android", and c) there are probably things they can do that, despite my relatively good understanding of the subject, I'm either unclear on or at least suspect they can't do.

Similarly, there are many things they don't do with it, because they can't, due either to technical or legal restrictions, or because it's just not profitable. But I'm much less clear on what these things are, and I would very much like to know.

Of course, they don't want us to know either of these things. Right now, most people generally fall into one of two categories: those who, like you, have just thrown up their hands and said, "They collect everything, and there's nothing we can do about it!", and those who don't really know/understand much of anything about it.

Being forced to be clear and open about what data they collect and how they use it would draw attention to it, and make it possible for people who don't want to live like digital doomsday preppers in bunkers to take some reasonable precautions to safeguard their data. It might also get (more) people to say, "Hey, the way you're doing that is wrong, and we should make laws to make that illegal."
Yeah the suspicious number of identical comments suggesting it (along with something like "I think these guys just released this today) is... suspicious.

It's cool, though, how a guerrilla marketing post like this still has the substantive discussion at the top rather than advertising spam.
I've just visited this site, and I was lost after 5 seconds. To my eyes, the design of the front page is awful.

Firstly, I read the title and the sub-header sentence. I understood that the site had generic guide on concepts designing web. Okay, I'm interested.

Then I scrolled down to the 3 categories. The first one collects some tips. None of them is related to the grand project announced in the title, they seem much more restricted.

Looking inside the categories, I don't even understand their organization. What is specific about "Articles"? The first content inside "Articles" is named "7 practical tips…", so shouldn't it be under the "Design tips" category?

So I went back to the top of the page, thinking I had missed the more generic links. Hmm, of course, those blue words in the header sentence must be links… No they are not.

Now I don't even want to read the content.
The Design of Everyday Things Is a masterpiece. The age of the book proves it. It is as relevant today as it was when written 30 years ago.

The only downside to the book is it will ruin every elevator, door handle and stereo amplifier you ever use. My wife tires of me explaining how a door that requires a “pull” sign is a major UX fail.

After reading the book it helped me understand the different models the creator and user have and has allowed me to recognize when I’m making design decisions that make a lot of sense to the creator and no sense to the user.
I strongly suspect that what you'd find is that Comcast would simply "pass" on trying to compete in those towns. Comcast loves towns where they can be a monopoly provider (like mine) and in a case where there'd be bloody competition against a municipal provider, I suspect they'd rather fight on another front.
Sure, but less Skinner boxlike alternatives have always existed. Flickr, Google Photos, Apple Photos, hell even Facebook's own photo albums are less designed to maximize engagement and compulsion. Of course, these options have smaller audiences because of network effects, fostering IG's domination, and so on.
I don't know if it is helpful to jump into political discussions, but I'll give it a try...

>...- Name a 10 year war democrats have championed...

I think the OP might have been referring to the seeming disappearance of the anti-war demonstrations once Obama took office. What changed, other than the POTUS? We ended up leaving Iraq at the same timetable that Bush had proposed.

>... Name a democrat that questions the legitimacy of employment numbers or the objectivity of the data being provided...

Well the unemployment numbers don't include the long term unemployed who would still like a job, etc so I would assume everyone should look beyond the simple number reported in the press.

>... - Name an rejection of scientific consensus like Global Warming

GMOs? Nuclear power?

>...- Name a democrat zombie policy like "trickle down economics" that keeps being proven wrong and yet they insist will work...

No economist has ever proposed a policy called "trickle down economics". The pejorative is simply used by people to attack someone else's economic polices. Using a perjorative is simply an attempt to poison the well and prevent discussion. In terms of policies that don't work. but still get support... A couple that come to mind:

- wasting money to require registration for the draft

- war on drugs

- DARE program

- three strikes (voted in CA, a heavy democratic state)

Conservatives also support many/all(?) programs, but that just means both sides are wrong.
I love this view. I googled "memristors" but still don't understand what I'm reading.

Could anyone breakdown what those are, and why they might be world changing for a non technical audience?
Building an app with react native at the moment, the team uses VSCode & WebStorm. Why would TypeScript be the deciding factor?
If you don't know what to name a variable, name it something like _whatisthisreplacemelater_ so if you ever come up with a good name, you can easily replace it. What could go wrong, right? Just an easy fix for later today..
While that's not quite how it is, I tend to agree. Also, why don't they just raise the taxes for mobile phones in general. It's an obfuscation as a money grab plain and simple.
from the article I think its a little simpler than that, they just wanted to be able to copy or 'clone' the capabilities of the US.

> The USSR wanted a clone with the same ability: "The decision to build Buran was a response to the perceived military threat posed by the space shuttle. If the Americans hadn't developed the shuttle, the Russians wouldn't have developed Buran. To them it was just another part of the arms race," said Hendrickx.
They did have a plan in place.

They didn't overbuild fabs during the gold rush, because they expected it not to last. This is one of the reasons for the GPU price hikes, and supply shortages over the past few years.

As it turned out, this was the correct call.
I'm glad you're happy with Selenium and that it's helped you out.

As for the rest of it, I asked a rhetorical question that you dismissed out of hand and then went on to talk about IE6 in a timeframe about 10 years later than I was. I tried to correct your wrong frame of reference and get back to the question at hand. But, I'm happy to drop the topic as well.
Well, you lose some performance to distributed memory overhead of course, plus the TPU measure for that number is a previous generation TPU. The new ones are a decent bit faster. Plus you get four chips per "Cloud TPU". Putting all that together, TPUs are certainly a very competitive offering.
How these chips work is pretty reliant on Google's specific infrastructure and there's a stark difference between the work needed to offer a service and selling chips. It isn't a matter of bad will or trying to slow ML progress but a matter of what's practical.
They issued an update today with quotes from the West Virginia Air National Guard:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25451/a-west-virginia-a...
True, but I've often switched back and forth between Personal Results and Global Results and rarely see a difference.
In the cases as this, if you don't firmly deny everything, you basically confirm that it's true. And people responsible for issuing categorical denials might have had no awareness of any vulnerabilities, even if they actually existed.
definitely second Tufte, lots of good info on consolidation and creating coherent charts and maps from large datasets
> If Verizon DSL is in town,

apples and oranges. Sure technically they are both provide "internet", but this day in age DSL speeds are just plain unacceptable. You might as well make the argument that residents don't have to go with Comcast, they can get AOL.
Mmmm eGPU + Passthrough would be sweet. Imagine gaming or using GPU heavy applications on a Windows VM with dedicated GPU and without the need for a separate set of monitor and input devices like Looking Glass does. https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
> Instead of thinking (...) "slimey marketing guys", they think "financial and social engineering".

That sounds even worse to me. "Turning lying and scamming people into an engineering discipline".
> They're archaic and silly.

They may seem that way to some, but they still provide a surprisingly versatile and useful user interface. Terminal programs and scripts are easy and fast to write, easy to interact with, easy to change, and trivially portable across POSIX platforms; hence, when writing a tool for oneself or another developer, most developers will usually opt for a CLI-based UI. Terminal program UIs are also very stable (in addition to being text-based), making them arbitrarily composable into scripts and workflows without fear of them breaking in the future.

Modern graphical UIs are usually easy to use, but they are far-removed from the code and tools that are used to write them or interact with their APIs programmatically. Terminal program UIs, however, are very close to the environment they're built in -- so the line between using a terminal program and interacting with it programmatically is delightfully blurred.

I use a multi-paned iTerm2/zsh window every day as a front-end developer (I'm on a Mac running macOS Mojave). I can't imagine working without it. There are a lot of good reasons npm, git, and other popular mainstays in modern development workflows are terminal-based.
And, to be fair, the ones paying money to stay in those mini-hotels.

(And, to be clear, "the ones making money" includes local businesses benefiting from increased tourism, and their employees.)
Suspect Tech to pilot real-time public surveillance facial recognition software
No, it's specifically what this thread is about.

The thread-parent absolutely cast a wider net than warranted, but everyone in this discussion who has experienced this problem knows exactly which one we're talking about, and the rest are all, "I've never seen a problem!" or "It's probably just extensions." Meanwhile, there's reliably a sub-thread somewhere in the discussion on nearly every article about Firefox, about this problem.

I find it profoundly ironic that you comment down-thread that "humans are very prone to confusing things which affect them personally with the general case" about a thing which you haven't personally experienced. You talk as if those of us for whom this is a 100% reproducible problem are an edge case, based AFAICT solely on your own not suffering it, coupled with your (not incorrect) beliefs about people poorly attributing performance problems in general.

That juxtaposition is really galling.
Many of them already do weight contributions to open-source projects heavily, particularly their own open-source projects. I remember that when I was in college, over a decade ago, one of the major reasons to contribute to open-source was to build your resume and develop real connections at companies.

The reason they give you code tests is because very often the type of work you will be doing on the company's proprietary code base is different from fixing bugs & implementing features on an open-source codebase, and they want to ensure that you have the skills to do real coding where there isn't an existing codebase to build off. For example, my referrer at Google was someone who I'd worked on a volunteer PHP-based Harry Potter fandom website with. That's great, but very different from the sort of heavy algorithmic code that much of my work at Google entailed.
Would you rather compare it with the antiquated sewer systems that dump untreated sewage into local rivers every time it rains? https://wtop.com/dc/2017/07/heavy-rain-raw-sewage-potomac-an...

ISPs are closer to rail than say water. Most municipalities get along fine with water systems built a century ago. But broadband networks require active maintenance and continual upgrades. Rail technology moves incredibly slowly--D.C.'s system featured automated train control when it was built in the 1970s. But the government couldn't even keep that system working so they had to turn it off. I have zero faith these same people could keep up with upgrading switches, routers, etc.
Spain's minimum wage will jump by 22% in 2019
Nuclide replaced FBIDE, the internal pre-setup web IDE that Facebook used. Having a pre-setup environment is a huge productivity boost:

- dev env onboarding takes a minute instead of a week

- employees can code "on the go"

So predictably, if they get rid of Nuclide there needs to be an alternative and doubtful they've built something new because... why.
I personally don't, that was just a way to explain the whys. But this whole thing is probably a good reason to ask whether staying in git, the completely decentralized VCS, to work in a centralized manner, is the best way to go. As the sibling comment evocated, our traditional tooling is limited in that way of working but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad; maybe we need new tools?
> I met a windows kernel engineer who used notepad as his primary source code editor.

oh man! He is missing out a lot.

Notepad struggles a lot with edit history. Undo\redo is completely messed up. I try not to do with it. Gone through a really bad experience, many times.
I’m surprised to see an engineer admit this during an interview (assuming it is true, sophiebits has mentioned that it she doesn’t agree with this). Presumably this is the time when you talk about how much cool open source work you do?
I wasn't aware I had to propose a better alternative in order to be allowed to offer a critique.
My local only landline costs $35 a month with $10 of that being a lot of different taxes. Seems like a lot to me in this world of cheaper unlimited long distance cell phone plans, but I like the landline for having subtle, IRL like conversations with people on the phone without the lag an other problems of cell-to-cell conversation.
Please make it more obvious with exact examples of how to do this.
That would be D+Enter if you indeed use it regularly. Add it yo your bookmark bar => no typing :)
One note: this was a special town meeting just for this issue and not the general town meeting which is in the spring. A lot more people show up for the general meeting.

I live one town over from Charlemont and as a now 20-year New England transplant I've grown to love town meeting. Everyone's voice is heard and you can make a real difference with just a simple speech. I was able to help defeat some ordinance language against WISPs at last years town meeting that another resident with "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" had tried to get passed.
This is what NVidia says [0].

Notice how Google did not submit benchmark results for several tests.

[0] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/12/12/record-breaking-mlp...
Is this supposed to have a link or a citation? How much will it jump to? Seems like a very vauge post...
> although games would have to build Nvidia specific features which doesn't bode well.

Actually, nVidia's raytracing stuff is—somewhat-uncharacteristically for the company—all done in open APIs.
> the seeming disappearance of the anti-war demonstrations once Obama took office. What changed, other than the POTUS?

"Other than the POTUS" seems to brazenly ignore the significance. For example, it would be absurd to ask, 'When Trump took office, what changed from Obama other than the POTUS'?

When Obama took office, the new POTUS' policies aligned to a significant degree with the anti-war protestors. Obama had opposed the Iraq war from the start and promised to withdraw, which he did (though the withdrawal was also required by the agreement Bush made with Iraq). Obama also wanted out of Afghanistan and, after a policy review, set a timeline for it (a criticized decision that was later changed).

> both sides are wrong

This is true "political correctness" (a term that I think is almost always misused). The odds of both sides begin equivalent seem slim; it's not at all unlikely that of two parties, one would be significantly worse than the other. It's sort of like looking at two software programs and saying 'both have bugs'; sure, but that's meaningless - it's not at all surprising when one is much superior to the other.

But people like to be even-handed, out of some misguided (IMHO) view of fairness or not wanting to offend. But the stakes are too high; you wouldn't say that if you were choosing between airplane autopilot programs. In this case, if you make the worse choice then it can result in catastrophic climate change, nuclear proliferation, war, mass oppression, the undermining of democracy and liberty, and more.
Haha I actually opened this thread intending to post it. It looks really good so I'm thinking about buying it.
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That is the cost for two lines, right? Just think of it as a baseline cell cost of having a signal. Voice and sms data is small so they just include it in the price to compete with others. Then $10/Gig for data. Does not seem so bad. I think it is a decent deal.
NZ courts banned naming accused killer. Google just emailed it out
Tiny implantable wireless device could help people repair nerves and lose weight
I wasn't meaning to use a plugin, or necessarily specifically target Google. Everybody manually click on ALL ads they see on ALL platforms. Make it so "the ad and tracking system" model just doesn't work and becomes to expensive for them to justify. They claim all of this capturing our data is to "provide better, more relevant, personalized targeted ads." They charge companies for those ads. We can basically make them ineffective by overwhelming them. All of them. I see nothing wrong, legally or morally, with everybody clicking on all of the links that they are putting before us. That's what they are there for, so let's utilize them en masse. If everybody did that on ALL platforms, what would happen? Where would they go? They would quit spending as much on these platforms, which is basically the entire revenue model of the platforms. The platforms would be forced to shift their behavior once it becomes literally ineffective for them to do business the way they have been and profits start to shrink, wouldn't they?

Another thing we can do: when you do a search, perform another search for the opposite. Or perform 2 irrelevant, random searches on things you literally don't care about or have nothing to do with your life. If we give them more crap than actual data, their algorithms would probably become ineffective.
Same here. Clicked to check if it was posted by a new user account and it is. Colour me suspicious.