skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an overly complicated way of saying "use bounded queues". Your system can get into a really bad state if you don't use bounded queues, and take a long time to recover. Unfortunately, limiting your queue size is not a quick hack. The reason you use it mostly that it forces you to develop feedback mechanisms, flow control, retry logic, and fairness across your whole system.
Yes, I always believed Apple programmers were aware of all the potential problems.

There are also much older implementations: Postscript has "only" 595 x 842 "logical" pixels for a whole A4 page but it's just a first step in working with any resolution of the printer.

And NeXT started with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript and Apple has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D

To competently argue the topic it's good to understand more than "this number is different than that number."
> Maybe something like an exploit in electricity itself

What is that supposed to mean?
> at the same time it's depressing to have this be the issue that makes fonts blurry

Wait, have you actually seen blurry fonts on the iPhone 6 Plus?

Do you know of any photograph which demonstrates them?
OS X sandbox escape due to XPC type confusion in networkd
Everything, I get proper referral feeds, RSS feeds, some scrapping and on-site posting. Everything that is not posted on-site is a just link to the original source.

https://englishjobs.de/faq#sources
> I recently saw a lovely email sent by Travis for an offsite reminding everyone that they were not allowed to fuck their subordinates and he, by extension, was not allowed to fuck anyone.

What's wrong with that?
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These dudes are uber drunk and blinded by their success.

Hopefully, such lack of humility doesn't make them end up dead in a bath tub like Whitney Houston. Success went to her head and as she noted in an interview the high she felt after her hit, "I Will Always Love You," could never be matched. Thus she snorted everything up her nose and then some to try and match that high. Eventually, leading her to a downward spiral and dead at 48.

Uber to become Whitney Houston possibly...
It's been extended.
In a letter from the head of a senate subcommittee no less.
The demographic information has been stated by King, maker of Candy Crush. I'll let someone else explain the irony :)
Not sure that is actually counter evidence. It says in most cases people will accept unfair splits as long as they aren't too unfair(which is why in my example I send a less valuable replacement instead of no item at all).
http://crate.io is pretty much the system described towards the end of the article.
what? Can I have this translated "for dummies" also?
Well, a good CLA should prevent them from going non-free.
How were you telling Facebook about your conversions?
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What does your post have to do with bagpipes?
Yes, it looks rather like one more confirmation that the expansion actually happened.
Why seeing is believing in Cloud, Cloud management startup news
K. Alexander has revoked read and write permissions.
One could give away a unique e-mail address to every web site. Quite a hassle though.
>I wonder if that counts as biological warfare?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_the_potato_beetle

i remember how we, schoolchildren, collected these beetles which "American imperialists send to destroy our potato crops". That could have easily been photo of me only i was in USSR, not in Eastern Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_the_potato_beetle#G... :)
They are using neural networks so they are never going to confidently say in what situations it will stop working.
The EPL is incompatible with GPL, so you lose another group.
And IE still doesn't (nor do they plan to) support declarative animation in SVGs. (SMIL) Someone there decided that script based animation is more robust so they just bypassed that capability. I think it's a terrible idea because you forego having tightly integrated SVG animation modules that can just be dropped in as needed.
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Rethinking the design for mobile
Hypothetically speaking, if there was a way to conjure patients to practice for years the same way there's a way to download and tamper with software then yes, you could become as skillful as someone with years of practice because that's what you'd have.

Your example from hobbyist to professional has real physical constraints that are huge to overcome for an autodidact like "where do I get a constant influx of patients to practice on" and that's solved with university. Building software only has "own a computer and have internet access".

As a self-taught my reasons for not attending university are purely financial. It's basically a subtle form to gatekeep lower-class "peasants" from following their own "brain craves" for knowledge and ascend the societal ladder under the guise of a higher moral cause, specifically the appeal to the professional worth. Tough luck for you and for anyone else from your social stratum that's going away sooner than you think, regardless of how loud your barking can be.

But what is more sad is the fact that there are at this time thousands of people trying to disrupt education and yet the highest rated comment in a place that should be focused in disrupting things actually tries to grip even tighter. That's what's sad.
The scale of the story is not relevant; the moral issue is.

There should be no sliding scale for things like this. Period.
> you just can't own a domain. You're merely leasing one from a registrar.

That is not true, in a very strict juridical sense.
> The diagrams are pretty, maybe, but I can't read the process calls from them (the words are truncated because the graphs are too narrow).

Flame Graphs provide SVGs by default. You should be able to zoom if your broser supports it. The current version also supports "zooming" in to any frame in the stack, resetting that frame as the base of the display. Also WRT the base frames of 'node' et al its because Flame Graphs are a general use tool for stack visualization, it might be 'main' for a c program or the scheduler looking at a system.

> They're stacked, not grouped, and the color palette is quite narrow (color brewer might help here?).

Colors by default have no meaning and the palette is configurable. The current lib can also assign colors by instruction count/ipc and width by call count, if you have access to that.

> Sampling is only necessary if you've got -- really, truly, got -- big data (which Netflix probably does), but I don't think the author means 'sample' in a statistical sense.

It is sampling. Flame graphs re typically used with something like perf/dtrace/oprofile which dumps stacks at a couple hundred to thousand hertz. Actual call tracing is (typically) not feasible for large/prod stacks.
What is the use of this??

I don't have friends who don't know my language.

This could be good for travel agencies to support their tourist.
The GPL is a vehicle of the Free Software ideology. Not every open source contributor is fully committed to that ideology.

The general argument in favour of the GPL and similar restrictive licenses is that it's not possible to extend GPL code without distributing your extensions under the same license (where the exact definition of "distribution" and "extension" is the main difference between LGPL, GPL and AGPL). It's largely about "us" (the Open Source community) vs "them" (the corporations, who historically don't contribute to open source).

In practice there is a vast body of open source code licensed under permissive licenses like MIT, BSD or Apache already and companies are releasing their open source projects under these licenses all the time. Even without the GPL, open source is here to stay.

On the other hand many companies now dual-license their projects under the GPL and a commercial proprietary license, with the GPL version being often intended as a "demo" to advertise the often very expensive but non-viral proprietary license (see Sencha for a perfect example of this approach). The ability of other GPL projects to make use of these projects under the GPL license is more of a side-effect (and free advertising) than an altruistic intention.

I think this has to do with the general shift in how we think about copyright today. Restrictive ("Copyleft") open source licenses subvert copyright to create a shared commons (which everybody can use but nobody can own). Permissive open source licenses abandon most of the copyright by just limiting it to an attribution policy and some basic cover-your-ass legalese (thus creating something everybody can use and own).
For people in multilingual environments, that shortcut key is absolutely necessary.
Are you saying you have not observed this is in our age, or even in OECD countries?
Or are you objecting to the absolutism of the quote?
As someone who has worked Neovim and written Neovim plugins, can you comment on how ready it is for "production" use? Could I switch over to it from Vim now, while using all my old Vimscript plugins? Could I right now use it and write plugins that do work on a separate thread from Vim? Is the msgpack API ready and/or documented? etc.
Git-hooks: yet another git hook manager
Speaking of internal channels, even the external channels don't necessarily care more than Keith Alexander:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/18/usa-freedom-a...

"Senate Republicans block USA Freedom Act surveillance reform bill"

"Senators, mostly Republicans warning of leaving the country exposed to terrorist threat, voted to beat back the USA Freedom Act"
I wonder if it ends up being most suitable for goods where quality is fairly binary, for that reason.
How would having the phone companies store the records be better than having the government store them? If a warrant is required in either case, it seems like it would be best to go with the most secure storage option.

The various parts of government are usually better able to say no to each other, while a company may not be able to say no. What's Verizon going to do when some part of the government demands some records? How much time and money are they going to spend protecting those records?

Who's going to be held responsible when a phone company gets hacked and makes off with the motherload of records?

It just seems like having the phone companies store the records will make them less secure and more vulnerable to more requests from more agencies.
Rand Paul has done something far more important that weighing in on a private business policy.. He (along with a few others) have been extremely outspoken against the Patriot Act and warrantless NSA spying. Where's Franken's letter to Obama demanding "executive action" to suspend warrantless information gathering by the government. If Uner wants to be a shit, we don't have to use Uber. If I don't want my personal information harvested by my government, I have no recourse. I even live in France, yet my French bank records are required by FATCA to be disclosed to an American government entity simply because I happen to have an American passport. That's far more intrusive than anything a ride-sharing app can do to me. How about reports that the government has monitored journalists? Where's Franken's letter about that?

This is nearly meaningless political grandstanding because Uber happens to be both well-known as well as currently in the headlines.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/the-nsa-has-at-least...

And here's Rand Paul proposing a bill to end warrantless NSA wiretaps. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rand-paul-bill-would-curb-nsa...
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Does that mean that companies are happy to work with GPLv1 code? If so, I'm surprised more projects don't use it.
> hence every computer in practice?

Oooh, there's many more computers around you than you think ;-) Nearly every modern piece of electronics. Many don't run browsers. For instance your washing machine has an OS, but it probably doesn't run Javascript. Same goes for your car, washing machine, dishwasher, microwave, central heating system, stereo/hifi, etc. And of course the more obvious "non-PC computers" like routers, printers, scanners, TV (might actually run JS if it's "smart" and has a browser), computer monitor and who knows what else. Coffee machine. The "fancier" it is (for a rather low barrier of "fancy"), the more likely it is to have a chip in it that runs some firmware/OS something, equal in power of what people ran as desktop personal computers a few decades ago.
Ian Jackson had nothing to do with the founding of Debian, Ian Murdock created (and named) Debian.
There's an element of pissing in the wind to the majority of "actions" regarding online privacy. People are worried. No one knows what to do.

The best example is the EU/UK "cookie law." It was impractical to begin with, mostly serving to allow legislatures the opportunity to be morally outraged and incensed. Then it devolved into "all sites must have a nagging popup."

Realistically, the only way to achieve any of the law's goals was in the browser, not laws dictating what websites can do.

This letter is mostly is mostly a criticism of Uber's bureaucracy. Privacy policies, training, etc. Again, not really the place to tackle any of these issues especially if the intent isn't there. Maybe, phones could do a better job of letting users control the data they leak. We don't really know how to deal with data in which the quanta is not sensitive, but aggregation makes it scary.

An interesting point here is that the "statement" really sounded like tipsy macho bullshitting, not an actual threat or indication of intent. What the statement does indicate is a violation of the "don't be evil" maxim. Hey, Uber have assholes in high places. They have a lot of power. How many assholes are out there with dangerous access to data?
Long live Bitbucket's POST service issue for git repo
Great to see that! I am only worried this will be ultra-expensive based on the assumption that people who actually want to do some real work on a computer (and not just play games or watch movies) do it for money, so they can pay the price.
This may be an interesting contrarian position to argue, but come on. The NAT situation takes us toward end-to-end and away from middleboxes? In real life it's more likely for communities and systems to bow than rebound in response to strong chilling effects.
Who really knows, but it will certainly keep your log files cleaner and this alone makes it worthwhile doing.
While I only looked at the performance implications back when, here are my 2¢:

As far as I can tell, all the problems you describe boil down to "In order to make things look good at arbitrary resolutions, we want to round to device pixels."

As TFA shows, with iPhone 6+, you can't. Round to device pixels, that is. I wrote about this when the 6+ came out[1], it's good to see it confirmed empirically (awesome job by Ole, incidentally!).

So there no longer is a choice between your options 1 and 2, because #2 is out the window, no integral scaling available.

Of course, to make #1 work properly, what they need to do is remove all the places where snapping to device pixels is done, because otherwise you get pixel cracks, and those are noticeable.

The anti-aliasing effects are apparently theoretical at this point: yes you can create test cases to show them, but in practice the resolution is high enough that it no longer matters. From TFA:

"I am actually surprised how little of an issue the automatic downsampling is in practice. As I mentioned, I simply don’t notice anything of the effects I have illustrated here in real life."

Or as Jon Gruber put it: "Its 401 PPI display is the first display I’ve ever used on which, no matter how close I hold it to my eyes, I can’t perceive the pixels. "[2]

I do think it makes more sense to do the scaling directly in CoreGraphics, disabling all the features that make snapping to the pixel grid possible and letting the pixels fall where they may. It would certainly be less work overall and use less memory. I can only speculate as to why it wasn't implemented this way, my guess would be that getting all the pixel-snapping out is not that easy, and possibly it was a rush job (as suggested elsewhere) due to last minute unavailability of the higher resolution display.

In the future, I would expect either (a) an actual 3x display or (b) the display stack adapted to your (1) choice.

[1] http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/09/iphone-6-plus-and-end-of-...

[2] http://daringfireball.net/2014/09/the_iphones_6
:) imagine say 2 objects in space moving toward each other like 2 cars in the opposite direction lanes. Imagine there is a long metal bar across the road such that these 2 cars hit it simultaneously from their respective directions - the bar will rotate - i.e. the combined system of these 2 cars has angular moment. In space there is no bar, instead there is gravitation - these 2 cars would get clumped together (on the "divider" between the "lanes") due to gravitation pull between them. The resulting clump will rotate as result of the angular moment preservation. Now if we expand the model to billions of billions of rocks and gas clouds which form the filament ... :)
EU rejects UK's bonus cap challenge
I think the most important question this raises is will Smart Pipe executives protect our sensitive 'topographical' data and only use it for 'legitimate business purposes'?
Cool, thanks for entertaining my superstitions :)
It would be nice to have search engine keybindings too. Stupid example Ctrl+K Ctrl+<Initial> to pick an engine (hopefully not too many starts with the same letter).

Even better, hell revolutionary : multiple search at once. /s/m
I would say this is more of a mature software versus new software rather that open versus closed source . Node isn't even at version 1 yet.
There are things like this absolutely everywhere. My favourite is that where I come from you can't fill your own LPG gas tank in the car, it has to be done by a "qualified" person(because it's too dangerous to do it yourself!), which means you have to ask someone at the station to do it for you, but when filling any other fuel we have those little locks on the pistol which let you put it in and leave it until the tank is full.

In the UK on the other hand it is the exact opposite. You can fill your own LPG tank no problem, but I have not seen any pistols with the locks on them, because "it would be dangerous, what if you leave it in and forget about it??". It's just a matter of interpretation, a thing that is seen as dangerous in one country is completely fine in another.
Ash HN: Alternatives to YubiKey NEO-n?
I'm looking for a OpenPGP compatible USB-token with a button you must press for each signature generated.

I'm currently using a OpenPGP SmartCard and a USB SmartCard-reader with a PIN-pad, but it's too big to carry around.

I've just purchased a YubiKey NEO-n, but it turns out the key button is only a on/off button, so an intruder with access to your computer could easily generate an extra signature just before you turn it off.
I'm a bit skeptic. They have several very good examples, and those are really impressive. Everything about how often these striking results occur is 'coming soon' though. And since it is neural network-based, being lucky sometimes doesn't say anything about the statistical performance. What percentage of the test dataset was labelled correctly?
One man's bug is another man's misunderstood feature. Cf. Shellshock.
"Good" is a definition that differs, depending of the side you are on.

Also, what is "non-free"? Some FOSS advocates would say that they just did that, because it now allows building non-free derivatives for everyone without user-rights to the source.
Learning a single-variable polynomial, or the power of adaptive queries
I partially agree.

I simply don't accept the complaints over people not coming to see the live shows. If people don't care enough to come out and pay to see you perform, it seems to me the answer is more likely that the artist is insufficiently popular to fill the venue - which I assume in principle was profitable given a certain level of attendance.

However, CD sales pay a hell of a lot more per play per track than 0.06 cents. According to my maths[0] for an album (songs ~4 mins long) you'd have to spend 1000 hours listening to make the same $10 as a sale. However, is this not how radios have paid artists for years? Now we get to listen to what we actually like

[0] (10/0.0006)*(4/60) =~ 1111
Russian site lists breached webcams
Yeah ofcourse and for you too. For example, when you will be traveling to another country.

You may be meeting your client from different country and because of accent problem not getting what he is saying. It can help us in such scenarios.
Nah. I really don't believe that this idea of a ban in the EU is supported by facts.

For me these things are rather uninteresting, but dangerous? The inside is quite huge and yellow (a capsule of sorts, containing the real toy). Inside of that you might have small stuff/a real choking hazard, depending on what you get (some things need to be assembled from parts).

My son is two. He wouldn't stuff that in his mouth. My daughter is 9 month old and stuffs everything in her mouth, so this is about as dangerous as ~everything~ in my household, including the toys of the 2 year old.

Plus .. I personally think that kids that still cannot distinguish between edible or inedible things shouldn't have chocolatey treats in the first place, but that's a different problem.

I mean, I guess the aluminum foil wrapping seems more dangerous to me then the toy inside, if we're talking about choke hazards.
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Route53 does have a powerful API, can be wrapped with git (e.g. dns-api.com) and hasn't had any 100% outages ever (so far).
Ah good plan. My main complaint is the breaking of "normal" window functionality though, not specifically access to calculator - that was an example.

But great idea nonetheless!
I wasn't disputing what you were saying - just pointing out that the idea of a lower pixel density on a monitor that's farther way doesn't work for me, because my eyes can't focus back and forth like that. All my monitors have to be at about the same distance.

If someone can easily focus at different distances, then of course that opens up more options.
You know how people want to interact with products? By using them. Not "engaging" with them as an abstract concept on Twitter.

They don't give a crap about having a conversation with a Mt Dew representative. They do give a crap about a YouTube video of a guy jumping out of a plane with a wing-suit and if it happens to be covered with Mt Dew logos, it might just help move some product.

You know what all this "social relationship" and "engagement" talk reminds me of? Telemarketing. New buzzwords for what seems to be about as effective as calling up someone while they're eating dinner and trying to talk about their favorite brand of dish soap.