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The folks who consider WebGL as a 2D API include some of the the browser developers who implemented it. That said, I don't fully agree with them. If WebGL were simply a 2D API, this example, from a talk I gave way back in '13 wouldn't work. In this example, one triangle is clearly drawn behind the other using only raw 3D coordinates with no projection yet.

http://www.vizitsolutions.com/portfolio/webgl/animatedWalkth...

It also isn't a fully 3D API either, otherwise we wouldn't have to be so concerned about the order in which we draw transparent objects. This is the result of using a 2D drawing surface plus a depth buffer.

That said, it might be too subtle a point to open with. Especially since you are showing code, the understanding of which requires material that they haven't covered yet.
> Swattings still happen on a regular basis despite pervasive metadata collection. Is your argument that we're not collecting enough to stop them?

Actually, I don't believe that the local police are taking advantage of their resources. I think better organization needs to be done around the metadata that is collected so that it is better distributed between the police officers in the case of a swatting incident.

But actually _having_ metadata is a necessary first step to beginning any swatting investigation. Or do you not think that the first step is figuring out the phone number that the Swatter called from?

Next: I'm not entirely sure that Swatting will ever be stopped. Nonetheless, I'd like to punish those who are swatting, and I think that if they are removed from society... that is one step towards fixing the problem.

If a swatter gets caught and his criminal record is updated such that everyone knows he is a swatter, then society will benefit from it overall.
I still have my own website, though it feels more and more like a relic as time goes by.
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For developers seems like GitHub is enough.
I have actually used that page a bunch and thought at some point about using that page as a starting point for a pocket reference.
I couldn't help but notice this slightly, uh, controversial part of the codebase:

https://github.com/sloisel/numeric/blob/656fa1254be540f42871...
This is the problem with using that HTTPS everywhere extension - there's lots of domains that are listening on 443 but don't support https. visiting sites using broken https doesn't really make you any more secure.
I'm surprised when I hear about community colleges without vocational programs. The combination is really helpful and better serves a community.
Yeah, says that at the bottom of the page.
The WordpressCom HTTPS Support Page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

Interestingly only says things about enablign HTTPS for the admin panel and how to get make "those annoying security warnings to go away". Nothing about HTTPS with custom domain name. Nor do they have any HTTPS info on the Custom Domains section at https://en.support.wordpress.com/category/domains/
I have no idea if I should fear Apple. Then again, I have no idea if what I say affects my relationship with Apple. But assumptions emerge in this information vacuum, and because my relationship with Apple is the only 'legitimate' way I have of getting my Apps on a user's iOS device, I have to be concerned with this.

No wonder conclusions like this emerge. And while it may have cost more money to market software in the 'bad' old days, you could still give it away for free, which is NOT possible on iOS or Windows Phone, and even Android requires extra hoops which many users are not savvy enough to jump through.

So Fear of Apple makes sense if you think they can hurt your bottom line. And given that Apple (or at least Steve Jobs) has been a very spiteful in the past, I think it's more than warranted. And just because it's better now (which it is) doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to push to make it even better.
Absolutely agree. Everything you just said I've heard or experienced in just a few months.

> There's a lot of groundwork to lay before we can start applying state of the art algorithms to ag.

We have experts in algorithms, embedded systems engineering, computer vision, software engineering, sensor technology, and robotics at our company (along with a few other specializations). But before we can utilize that talent to its fullest, we have to build the foundation. So that's what we, and a whole bunch of other really talented companies, are doing: building the foundation. Hopefully in a few growing seasons we can start to really apply what we've learned.
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> https://time.com

> Is that last one the best experience if you don't have a cert?

Ironically, in order to serve an HTTPS to HTTP redirection, you need a valid cert. Indeed, time.com has a valid cert.
Not the best endorsement for Wordpress VIP as a service, though. For what they're paying (and for a service which is specifically targeted at hosting on a non-wordpress.com domain), I'd expect at least that they support SNI to get the correct cert for browsers that support it, if not dedicated IPs so that SSL works everywhere.

Sending a *.wordpress.com cert along with an "enterprise" service is sloppy and doesn't really inspire confidence in their product.

(Although it does seem to be possible for at least some Wordpress VIP customers-- time.com has a valid cert (but redirects to HTTP), and fivethirtyeight.com has fully working HTTPS. So maybe it's actually techcrunch's issue?)
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HTTPS Everywhere has a whitelist of sites and only forces HTTPS on those sites. It doesn't force HTTPS on every server that merely listens on port 443.
I have a Wordpress blog, but it's on an AWS micro, and seems to go down all the time. I actually have a WPEngine account, and put the little bit of "web" work I do there, but haven't migrated the blog. I may convert it to Jekyll and put it on my GH account, but increasingly, I feel time blogging would be better spent doing freelance or spent on a side project.
I’m pretty sure most free software authors would be interested in being paid for it, if this wasn’t an unsolved problem.

Here’s one attempt at a solution:

https://snowdrift.coop
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Well, they sort of have to be accessed by unencrypted HTTP, their HTTPS certificate gives a huge warning. Any site doing journalism needs to have their SSL setup correctly if they care about the privacy of their readers.
I have one, but not for online presence. I first got it to learn how to setup a website and I still keep it for learning purposes. First started with html+css. Then learned some jquery to add awesome animations all over the website! Around 2010, I watched DHH's setup blog using Ruby on Rails in X min video. I was blown away. I also created website/blog using Ruby on Rails. Then came backbone.js which was another mind blowing thing back then. Switched to that now. I'll probably change it to React to see what the hype is about soon.
I have fond memories of CodeWarrior, but have never really liked Xcode. It has approached calm once or twice but then Apple has gone and messed with it again, and they have no tolerance for people who want to support their more recent operating systems without necessarily adopting their more recent UI changes.
Retroactive taxes are not legal.
It there a 'quick-start' guide or getting started tutorial anywhere?

I'm really interested in using Shill but all of the instructions I've found in the past is either the whitepaper or man-page style documentation. It seems to be missing the human-friendly first time guide as you find on most modern language sites like Go/Rust/Ruby. For ex: https://golang.org/doc/code.html
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Why China, and not the US, which also engages in these kinds of shennanigans, and has a massive domestic surveillance agency? If you want a big brother that spies on your comms and kicks down your doors, we already have an English-speaking role model. And it already has it's tendrils entrenched - it's not like anglo democracies will extradite their own citizens to China, but it happens with the US.
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It's odd how there's prison time for price-fixing collusion between competing entities, but obtaining a monopoly (and therefore price-fixing) is far worse, but usually doesn't get punished or even questioned until the public starts having problems with it.
> when a risk pool goes from large to very large, the proportionate amount of necessary reserves does not decrease meaningfully

What? Summed random fluctuations grow like sqrt(N), so per person risk "grows" (falls) like sqrt(N)/N. Larger population = less risk = lower cost of risk because the Law of Large Numbers is on your side. This is how casinos work. It's also why you aren't crushed to death by thermodynamic pressure fluctuations in the atmosphere.

> the costs of managing the complexity of the relationships with all parties - employees, customers, providers - increase, in some cases, [grow] exponentially.

The hell? Do you really mean to claim that having 5 different insurance companies and 100 different policies all with different paperwork is going to increase efficiency vs having one for everyone (nevermind the overhead of all the fighting over who pays, advertising, paying for access to capital, etc)? Neither common sense nor reality agrees:

Medicare: 3.1% administrative overhead
Private Health Insurance: 14.1% administrative overhead

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...
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I do, it is mostly for me to record thoughts and document projects - I generally don't expect people to visit it, which is a shame I think.

In my opinion websites display the true intent of the web, decentralized spaces for people to express ingenuity and share ideas. I dislike the centralization of the modern web (I say that with a LinkedIn, Github and Twitter account) and the effort to streamline and reduce the variety of presentation of information.

I guess that is why I keep a site around, it lets me hold onto the web I remember growing up in, and that one day I hope it will morph back into.

And I had the domain for an email address and may as well have put something there.
In high school, I took all the shop classes - wood, metal and auto. The auto shop teacher was angry with me, told me I didn't belong in shop because I was going to college, and that I was taking the place of some other hypothetical student.

My view was I like making things, which is why I wanted to go to college to learn engineering. Those shop classes wound up helping me a lot in my engineering work. I've known engineers who've never used a machine tool in their life, and frankly their work is crippled as a result.

See the book "Herman the German" by Neuman for a similar viewpoint.
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Unfortunately, Jeri starts with silicon wafers which have to be obtained somewhere outside of home usually.
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Irrespective of whether or not you're wrong, when the law is practically a blank check, staying within its bounds isn't much of an accomplishment.
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Many ad networks don't work over https. As these news sites are ad-based businesses, unfortunately this forces some bad decisions.
Eh? I didn't say not in their own government. I said that people who are not French citizens can't vote in the French elections, and it's not a violation of human rights that they can't. I didn't say that Russians shouldn't be able to vote in Russia.

Stop strawmanning my words.

Edit: to be clearer - being able to get involved in your own government is a human right. Being able to vote in the French elections is a civil right, reserved to French citizens.

All cats are animals, but not all animals are cats.
The problem seems to be: find the smallest regular k-gon that covers all the points. (now, assume the total number of points is n, and k = O(n))

One can transform the problem to the following, and solve it in around O(n^7) time.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=73853

There probably exist faster algorithm for this special case using smarter parametric search...
> "We ask people what they think about diversity, and we did weed people out because of that"

Is that kind of questioning even legal during an interview?

Or is it done after hours, at a drink to get to know the candidate better? Does the interviewer pretend to be a bigot just to see what the candidate's reaction is?

What happened to just hiring the best people for a job rather than trying to create a corporate utopia?
I worked my way through college by being an electronics technician. I got paid twice for it - once in cash, and the other ever since in having learned the real world side of electronics.
I agree with your assessment, at least in the Midwest these jobs left with manufacturing. Perhaps now that they have dismantled the unions they are planning on bringing some of these jobs back. In the late 90's they were training a lot of people for bottom end drafting jobs so they could work cleaning up the architects drawings during the housing boom. I sure hope its not in preparation for a future conflict, my welding teacher said they were training welders before WW2.
It's an entirely different proposition to kidnap an "enemy of the state" from an embassy than it is to kidnap one from an entire country.
That's sad. Futuristic stuff often gets to the prototype stage in Japan, such as maglev trains, mobile robots, and vertical/horizontal elevators, but large scale deployment isn't happening.

If you have a cool idea for Japan, there is now a well-funded "Cool Japan" venture capital fund.[1] The government of Korea is funding K-pop, and the government of Japan wants to catch up. So far, they've bought a translation/subbing company, started up an anime streaming site (daisuki.net), and are funding a food court in Singapore and a green tea restaurant in the US. They need more advanced concepts to fund.

[1] http://www.cj-fund.co.jp/en/
Please don't "people like you" on the internet, towards someone whom you've only ever encountered through text.
The hash tag text highlighting was a neat trick! The code is not obfuscated, at the bottom of the page (Line 1920) when you view source. There's no copyright notice, not sure if that means it's free to copy.
I'm at the university of Wisconsin. We're nationally ranked for graduate computer science.

The issue here is that there's quite a disconnect between our research and our teaching. They take tenured profs that aren't capable of doing research and stick them teaching undergraduates. Everyone else that is worth a damn is inaccessible to us. (I'll make one exception: Jin-Yi Cai is amazing.)

I don't even know what to say, besides that our CS program for undergraduates is kind of shit. These people are academics. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's not like they're at the head of their field either. They're at the head of the field from a decade ago maybe.

The woman teaching the intro classes, the guy teaching data structures, and the woman teaching machine programming (low level) all have been doing so for over a decade. Their classes don't change either, you can find their powerpoints and handouts from 6 years ago and they're the same damn thing, give or take some small changes like the date.

Let's look at two 500 level classes, my compilers class and the OS course. There's two profs teaching OS. One is the chair of our cs department.

Searching google for "<their name> site:gmane.org" returns no results for the non-chair OS prof and no results for my compilers prof.

The chair has a few mailing list posts, such as one on the ALSA list with an amazing subject of "help with first ALSA program, please?" And this wasn't from 1999 or anything. He was the active chair at the time of asking. It was less than 2 years ago. It's embarrassing, honestly.

As for guest speakers, that's another subject. UW has a lot of smart people around it. It's just that they're entirely separate from the 18 year olds.
That's a neat trick. I think it's doing it a disservice to say there's no difference except the name, though. While true, I think anyone who prefers hg to git (self included) shouldn't undersell the importance of interface.
But the government does. Often mergers between large companies will be prevented if they'd create monopolies. Is there something in particular you're thinking of? One exception in particular is patents.
"upgradation of access networks by the TSPs".
This is really funny.
Yes, it is legal. Your opinions on workplace diversity are not a protected class. If it's not a protected class, it is legal to discriminate based on it.

Hiring standards cannot create an "artificial, arbitrary, or unnecessary barrier to employment" ... "which adversely affects equal employment opportunity for a protected class of persons." So e.g. weightlifting requirement, if not central to the job at hand (as in the case I quoted) would not be allowed because it's an artificial barrier which excludes women.

This standard is arguably artificial and unnecessary, but it would be hard to show it adversely affects employment opportunity of a protected class.
Outside security services working the dorm desks? Sounds like MIT -- probably like a lot of other places -- is headed toward in loco parentis helicopteri.
Thanks for your confirmation - I've been almost a decade in Japan and been following its unfortunate technological decline for a while before I moved here.
Which monopolies are you talking about?

In the OP, some small fish were colluding. The only unregulated monopolies I can think of (Google search, Apple App Store, Monsanto, Boeing) are very large and powerful, and they'll certainly have many national politicians in their pockets.

So I don't find it odd that large monopolies aren't busted very often. It's a predictable outcome of a money-driven political system.
It is funny... I get the feeling that they still give this response, because everyone who's gotten it doesn't know how to respond, it's so obviously wrong.

They use a lot of open source software and make firmware updates and controller software readily available, so how could they not know that

* The GPL's legal requirements come before your products needs, your users security or whatever. If you can't use GPL'd software, then don't.

* open source software has always proven to be more secure, because relatively serious and obvious security bugs linger in closed source software for a long time. How can we know that your closed source software is better than history suggests (unless you release the source...)

ridiculous. I kinda hope some of their engineers notice this on HN and can use evidence of "public" (engineer) sentiment to pressure the management
If you are not careful while solving problems in programming contests you are screwed. Because if you have limited time you don't have time too find problems.
Why is it pedantic to be confused by a naysayer who is twisting your words to say something you did not say or mean, and try to reclarify it? If someone accuses you of possibly playing language games to be obtuse, why is trying to clarify the issue considered pedantic?

Edit: it's also a bit weird to accuse someone of pedantry when the topic at hand is the subtlety of difference between terms ("what defines a human right as opposed to other rights").
For Mercurial, you create a new local branch by committing at a point that's not a tip (or not HEAD, if there's just a single branch).

By default, it doesn't have a special name (like a git branch does). You can give it a name via "hg bookmark".

The feature set is honestly fairly similar, it's just different in the way it is presented. In git you go into a "detached HEAD" and have to explicitly name a branch or commits will get lost. In hg you commit and it creates a new tip, but it doesn't have a name unless you explicitly name it via bookmark.
Yes, obviously when we founded a new country through a violent revolution grounded ideologically in civic freedoms, those freedoms increased. The racheting effect is only argued to occur within a given government, i.e., between revolutions or other massive shocks.

I agree that some nuances having to do with time frames were lost when this was converted to a slogan; I think we just disagree on whether this is critical. You're right that the War on Terror never ends, but that supports my point: the actual threat of terror is small and transitory, but the machinery created to fight it (including the curtailment of freedoms) persists indefinitely.
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In a similar vein I don't get these people that lionize Salk or Newton. Isaac's physics isn't relevant. Now that we have quantum mechanics what purpose is there in studying the process, people, materials and mechanics of a bygone era? Give me my atomic bomb and penicillin but Lord! Spare me the tiresome explanations. What value could there be in that fool Einstein's physical works? Burn it with the Rossetti archives and smother the ashes with Jerry Mcgann's tears.

(excuse me, I'm off to play call of duty with people who understand games are supposed to be fun not make you think.)
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Nearly every solution for this I have seen or implemented uses a combination of 2 divs with tables inside to work the scrolling.

Yes, we use a variation of that theme as well.

It works to a useful degree, as long as you have enough control over the dimensions that you don't wind up with the row heights differing between the row headers table and the data rows table.

Of course the mark-up is semantically poor, but then HTML's enforced columns-inside-rows nesting for tables is already horrible to work with if you want to show a data record per column and use the row labels for the fields rather than vice versa, making any sort of templating system fragile as well. Rather like floats, this is one of those areas where no amount of CSS tweaks can now make up for underlying weaknesses in the spec of HTML itself.

Tables just aren't built to do that well in my opinion.

We could do better than what we have, though. Hopefully we will before too long, if position:sticky becomes standardised, complete with the notes about making it work properly in a tabular context where some other positioning explicitly isn't required to.

I'm not sure how effectively we'll be able to write a comprehensive polyfill without resorting to JS, so maybe we'll have to settle for gracefully degrading to having the entire table scroll without locking the row headers in place. At least the table mark-up will be more sensible than having two completely separate table elements with some sort of wrapper(s).
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This is going to get pedantic, but I'm so tired of seeing the verb "eating" applied to software.

It makes no sense. When something is eaten, it's digested into something unrecognizable and then discarded. That's a terrible analogy for what software is doing to the world and, in this case, to companies.

For unlucky people/companies/industries, software is simply replacing it. You could perhaps more accurately say that software is outmoding those things. "Eating their lunch" maybe, but not eating them.

For lucky people/companies/industries, software is a lubricating or accelerating factor. It's not eating them, either.
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