skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of general "-system-✻" font & style identifiers (not merely -apple-system-✻ specific)...

1. Knowing extremes and layout boundary conditions:
You can reasonably test extremes of wide and condensed font metrics; it's not that hard.

2. Rigid designs:
If you don't want to use the ambiguous system font, you don't have to; it doesn't change that. If you have a design that requires certain rigidity and inflexibility, you can have your explicitly imported web fonts and be happy.

3. Flexible designs:
Be flexible and fluid. Be like water. Heck, there are slight unknowns with using any non-explicitly defined font. Using CSS generic-family identifiers (serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, and monospace) have variation and are not guarantees, but you can still use them without much concern for layouts that are designed to be appropriately accommodating.

4. Native look and feel:
If you want to achieve something closer to the native system look and feel, being able to use the system font from CSS helps you out immensely. For those that (1) design their layout to flow relatively nicely without being overly fixed or constrained and (2) want to have an appearance matching the system font, then it's great!

5. Testing:
From my experience, this doesn't pose any significant testing issues. Besides testing artificial extremes of wide and condensed font metrics, practical testing across multiple environments isn't anything new. It's something that already gets done by any skilled front-end designer. Many shops will test across many browsers under may platforms anyway. Sites like http://browsershots.org, https://www.browserstack.com/screenshots, http://www.crossbrowsertool.com, http://www.browsershots.atm, https://www.browserling.com, http://dev.modern.ie/tools/screenshots/ and many others are out there for people who don't have or don't want to deal with the setup in-house to do testing. (You might have to supplement it with mobile devices in-house, sure.) You can easily cover 95% of the actually used environments (browsers/platforms) very explicitly, and for the environments you don't explicitly test for, at that point of successful testing, it's very likely there won't be an issue, and if there is an issue, it should be minor and not significantly matter. Be pragmatic.
If the problem is machine recognition of handwriting, the Graffiti alphabet is both human readable and writable and easy enough for a 32MHz 68030-ish CPU to recognize in realtime.
Automatic destructuring of arguments
Nginx Load Balancer Visualization on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
Very novel, but I feel like its fundamentally flawed; for most people it would easier to remember a URL than it would be to remember a 'meshtag'.
That would be a simple problem to solve. Toy guns don't fire projectiles that travel in a straight line at 1,700 mph (the average speed of a bullet). One could easily build a system that tracks the velocity of any object traveling in a confined space, and only engage the source of an object that it determines to be a traveling bullet. Additionally, the system wouldn't have to use deadly force - it could focus on disabling the suspect with a stun gun or on destroying the actual weapon the shooter is firing.
Hawking, Musk Warn of ‘Virtually Inevitable’ AI Arms Race
>> You could achieve the same effect with a high resolution image

The first animated GIF from the article is based off of this higher resolution image:

http://kusakabeworks.net/gallery/the-house-with-signs-of-mar...

...so it would be interesting to see which people find more appealing.
You could also argue, the DA would avoid uncertain cases. That is the common wisdom in the legal community about federal prosecution. They only make a move when they are totally certain they can get a win.

Can't speak to local DAs in bumfuck eygpt. Maybe they are trying to avoid losing by any means necessary.
The Noise Is the Beginning and the End of Their Power
G+ wanted to be a rendezvous for all social/sharing activities on Google, and it turned out that many users didn't like it. Would G+ have fared better if it didn't force G+ onto every Google property? Maybe? It's easy to do armchair analysis, but hindsight is 20/20.
I've often wondered where our current air defense systems are now. It seems the government must spend a lot of money hiding them in plain sight or I'm not looking hard enough.
This brings back memories - Dr. Bresenham was my graphics instructor. We drew lines & circles - lots of them. :)

But the most important thing I learned in his class was that having a well-sorted-out compiler is more important than the choice of language. Most of the class used Borland Turbo Pascal for their projects (it was up to version 5 by that point, I think). I wanted to learn C, and with his approval I used their new version 1.0 Turbo C compiler. What I found was that the Pascal code, with no heroic coding efforts, ran 3-4 times faster than the supposedly "closer to the metal" C.
Do yourself a favor-- read up on Polyphasic Sleep, the power naps as a new dad will save your life> http://www.4hourlife.com/2012/04/29/become-uberman-sleep-lik...

A hugely positive change; expect a new social world of other young parents will soon open-up to you. These new friends will have all the latest neighborhood news on best baby sitters, play dates, and pre-schools. They'll even be happy to pass along gently used clothes and outgrown toys. And you may find your yourself gladly going to bed earlier than an Amish Farmer.

As for your old leisure activities, a lot of those things get necessarily shelved. And you'll find you're completely OK with that. Instead of hanging out with friends, watching TV, gaming, reading-- you'll spend hours joyfully with your kid eating/sleeping/crawling/bathing/learning their way around.

Understand the girl you married is also going through a tremendously difficult period physically & mentally. (Duh!) But this requires you to be extra mindful of her state-- 10X more helpful and attentive. Her transformation into a Mom will blow you away.

All the best; Godspeed!
"Nice idea" very bad implementation.
It released with an outdated Android OS running on pretty lame hardware, it had tons of compatibility issues and you couldn't play allot of the Android games on it at the time even if you managed to get the store working.

The store was also an issue they couldn't really figure out what they wanted, their own store, google play, amazon or any other 3rd party service.

It was way to expensive for what it did, under powered and obsolete out of the gate considering that you could buy cheaper and better Android4TV setups from DX or any other Chinese dealer at the time.

If you want a TV micro console done right look at the Shield TV from NVIDIA.

Pretty much the best hardware on the market at least as it goes for CPU/GPU combo some X86 CPU's might be slightly faster than the A15's.

Streaming capability from your PC (NVIDIA HW required) with pretty much no perceivable lag.

Streaming from the NVIDIA game cloud (GRID) with very little to no lag with a decent (10-20mbit stable) internet connection.

Tegra X1 specific game ports with quite a few games including HL2/Obox and Crysis 3 ports.

4K media support, including future 4K game streaming, the box can handle it it's about 2-3 times as powerful as the 360 in terms of pure GPU performance...
Wild blueberries have between 5g and 7g sugar per 100g.

I just searched for that, and saw 10g.. link please?
The tldr is that that are not rogue nor ignoring corporate HQ. They are just operating under a very old agreement (dating to the 1940s) which offers the local owners more flexibility. That allows them to offer their own menu items, close during winter, and make standard DQ items in nonstandard ways (which my local DQ is happy to do as well, FWIW).
It appears you'll be able to purchase tags. No info on how long the purchase lasts for.
When I joined facebook, you had to use your university email address. There was zero expectation of not being linked to your identity. Perhaps Facebook broadened after that, but the Facebook culture was already established that you expect to see real people you know there.

Google instead tried to shoehorn existing users with a different culture. Perhaps they could have created a separate service with different expecteations and grown that, but they seemed to feel entitled to a create a short cut to success at their user's expense.
Can somebody explain this to somebody without a background in graph theory?
What if you want to call the mission off? Let's say the enemy gets a few key hostages, and holds them in this building. They'll be killed by their own side.
The article is heavy on narrative, light on facts. The punchline is buried in the middle:

> “When confronted with loan after loan in which the paperwork was allegedly falsified, a grand jury voted to indict the bank and other individuals,” her statement said. “Eight individuals publicly accepted criminal responsibility for their roles in this conspiracy by admitting to crimes they committed while employed in Abacus Bank’s loan department.”

A different article has more details on the indictment: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-01-31/mortgage-fra....

> Abacus lied about applicants, Vance charged, because otherwise its loans wouldn’t have met Fannie Mae’s income requirements, and the bank depended on Fannie’s money for a significant chunk of its profit. The indictment stated that between 2005 and 2010, Abacus sold hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudulent mortgages to Fannie, reaping many millions of dollars in commissions and fees.

The other article also has descriptions about the "cooperation" missing from the NYT article:

> The Abacus clients whose aborted closing sparked Ken Yu’s termination lost their deposit on the property when the loan fell through. They went to the police and filed a complaint, mentioning that Yu had falsified their mortgage application. The police referred the matter to the DA. Abacus says it had already launched its own inquiry at this point, and that by mid-2010 it had hired two well-regarded fraud consultants, Vitale AML and the Mercadien Group, to do external investigations. The DA’s office declines to specify when its own investigation started, but says the bank only brought in the outside consultants after prosecutors started asking questions.

The NYT article also leaves out the gist of the reason the bank was indicted rather than just the individual employees:

> In April 2011, Yu pled guilty to grand larceny, fraud, and falsifying business records, and is cooperating with the investigation. Six others have also taken pleas. The DA’s argument is that fraud was standard operating procedure at Abacus, that it was taught there, not just tolerated. New employees with no banking knowledge and rudimentary English were instructed that mortgage origination was an act of financial sleight-of-hand: fake gift letters, fake verification of employment forms, blatant misrepresentations on loan application forms. The accused employees include Yiu Wah Wong, the bank’s chief credit officer, who reported directly to Jill Sung; and Wai Hung “Raymond” Tam, the loan origination supervisor, who trained the bank’s loan officers and processors. According to the indictment, the two managers “falsely told employees that the exceptionally low default rate of Abacus-originated loans made the underlying accuracy of loan documents insignificant.”
I think the general point to take away from notions like this is that many of these very profitable opportunities (Uber, airbnb, instacart, even private MOOC to replace education) are all responses to public infrastructure failures as our voting population becomes more and more self-centered and focused on individualist (i.e. extremist capitalist/Libertarian) economics and less willing to fund public infrastructure, be it in transportation, education, any public good really.

The solution that is always suggested is some form of leaning in harder to Libertarianism and trying to explain away how private control of infrastructure with a profit motive is somehow a good thing. Which makes sense taking the world view that [private profits == good, market economics are the only solution to any problem] for granted and if you're likely to be the private person controlling the infrastructure and its corresponding enormous untouchable profits. Incidentally, the private structures are even certainly better for everyone than the broken dilapidated infrastructure that exists right now (see: Uber) and so it's a net gain for the public in the short term, but it's dystopian in the long term.
NewsBlur is probably the best of the Reader replacements. http://newsblur.com/ https://twitter.com/newsblur
Probably not as interesting as the others here but I have a blog where I write about my snail simulation (and in the past other hobby projects). Not all posts contain code but many do, especially in the 'dev' category:

http://liza.io/category/dev/

Maybe she should start a blog, too! I love following other dev blogs and I found that writing down what you've learned in a day or thoughts in general really helps to solidify the learning in my head, so blogging helps in that way.
This is already trending on the front page:
Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers (futureoflife.org)
The World According to China (Visualization)
I can see my (childhood) house from there.
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But wouldn't there be a trail of notifications, or something?
As the developer of a mobile todo app, I would love to know why. Was there something missing?
ZStack 0.8 RC2 is released
Dr. Kalam didn't want to run for a second term. He wanted to go back to his passion.

Please don't bring politics into it.
Hopefully those who make texting apps will be sensible and push out an update that 1) has a message about the vulnerability and 2) that disables auto-downloading of mms.

Edit:And I say this because even though old phone don't get updated, their apps do. Tenuous at best, but still better than nothing.
I see the absence of a value judgement in the observation of the infrastructure of a developed country falling apart and as explicitly saying that it doesn't really concern him.

As a citizen, investor, whatever, that fact should be frightening for all sorts of reasons. The investment opportunities are, if anything, a minor consolation.

I don't think you'll find a lot of people cheering for obscenely bad causes, but you'll definitely find a lot of people who have very neutral opinions and opportunistically seize business opportunities without much regard of the externalities and systemic effects.
Overkill.

This article isn't a dictionary entry, an encyclopedia, or a research paper. It describes what's necessary to build a programming language for someone who has the necessary skills, which is someone who programs.

The entire premise of this programming language isn't based on as rigorous ideas as what you're criticizing, and that's been the reaction since the first time I posted about it.

As for what I was talking about, I'm only interested in dynamically typed languages that are compiled and provide support for 'eval in this case, because I don't believe that this is possible without providing a complete library for an interpreter with a compiled executable. For every other case, who really cares? Being able to replace every variable declaration with the keyword `auto' does not a new (or useful) programming language make. Additionally, all of these other gray areas in-between are not something I am interested in.

For this purpose, when speaking of the Duck programming language, dynamicism refers to being able to literally manipulate types and data in any way imaginable, both in terms of runtime behavior AND typing. In any case, it is designed to be the most dynamic language, as the union of all of these features, and as such that invalidates a huge number of complaints.

>> Attempting to access a value that has not been named in a relevant scope leads to a syntax error issued at compile time.

> A syntax error? Really? Syntax?

This is a very minor complaint and mirrors 99% of the criticism I've received.

I wish I could get more interesting feedback for the content of my writing rather than the semantics.
Strong, ME: The Rise and Fall of the Toothpick Capital of the World
There's nothing rogue about this DQ at all, this is just a corporate press release that has unfortunately gotten picked up a bit. If you look at their "local items" that are supposedly rebellious, it's just hot dogs like every other DQ that serves hot food serves.

My local DQs close for the winter too, there's nothing special about that either. It's typical of DQs with no indoor seating in northern states.
Pakistan bans BlackBerry messaging, e-mail for “security reasons”
SKA CSP Proposal [pdf]
The blue house with the white roof of the far left closest to the cliff looks like the most precarious... that's scary!
> You could also argue, the DA would avoid uncertain cases.

TFA seems to illustrate the opposite.

The real effect is simply a much harsher one: If you're poor you're going to jail, guilty or not and if you're wealthy you can afford to defend.
Heh, HP donated two rx5670s to Snakebite, you can see the one I managed to rack here: https://youtu.be/X_IfRHgJubM?t=60.

Huge power hogs. Even more than my ES40.

The iLO stuff is phenomenal. As is all the hot-swap support ... DIMMs, CPUs, fans, you name it. This goes back to 2003, too.
I think there are tradeoffs here, right?

For example: YC knows the Bay Area well, their roots are strong where they are situated. If you're not in their area of expertise, you're potentially missing out on a lot of their resources right?

On the other hand: There's probably a lot of opportunities YC is missing out on because they understand that there are people out there that cannot make that long-term commitment.

In the end, this is why I understand that they're running this as an experiment. And I hope that their hypothesis proves to be that remote YC companies work so that they can apply this to their flagship program.
People who still use that tired "Don't be evil" line are the same ones that still use M$
Honestly it sounds like corporate has their head up their own butt. I understand why uniformity sells, DQ becomes a "known quantity" and if you're driving in an unknown area you can hop in and know exactly what you're getting.

But you can accomplish that AND allow individual stores to excel by allowing them a few bespoke/store specific items. Just call them "store specials" or something.

I think DQ HQ sounds too arrogant, instead of trying to bring this store in line, they should be looking at what they're doing that makes them so popular and try to replicate core elements of that across other stores.

DQ as a brand, to me, is one that is slowly dying or at the very least has hit a growth stall. They may not be struggling, but the storm clouds are off over the horizon, and around here places like Menchie's are much more popular for desert.
Why you can’t trust journalism
>In an age where globalization permeates everything, Tectoy’s success—not just as a toy company, but as a local filter for that globalization—is actually kind of refreshing. Sega chose wisely all those years ago.

Kind of weird reading this. First because Nintendo also had a local partner during NES age with a company called Gradiente and launched a local version of NES called Phantom System. I owned one, and there was the traditional rivalry Sega vs Nintendo in the form of Master System vs Phantom System, with no clear winner as the article seems to assum.

The other weird part is that it look like a success Tec Toy still be selling Master System consoles and games for low income customers. But Tec Toy is a broke company, it filed for bankruptcy, and the shadow of a company that still exists today survives more from videoke machines and some local mobile gaming than from Master System current sales.

So my impression is that the article is more biased to corroborate its title than reality.

Edit: just learned that Gradiente's Phantom System was a clone of NES, not a Nintendo's local partner. So I retract that particular criticism. SEGA handled brazilian market better than Nintendo, but still Master System was not a clear winner versus Phantom System.

Edit2: Phanton System console for the curious: http://s382.photobucket.com/user/Sr-Ferraz/media/NES%20Syste...
> Could you please reference where I said that the specific activity in the article was some form of best practices? Or where I even mentioned (or even implied) the article at all in that first response to you?

Given I was responding to specifically what happened in the article, you are taking my response out of context if you are applying it to anything other than the population of the police in the article.

> You've created your own contradiction, by the way. In this frothy rebuke to me, you've claimed that the police in the article do not care about their personal safety much, yet the first comment you made is bitching about them putting their personal safety as a priority.

> It honestly sounds like they are so self-centered that they only care about their arrest stats/job performance + personal safety. They care nothing for anyone else's safety if it gets in the way of their job performance numbers. That is a horrific concept, honestly.

I pretty much baldly stated they care about job performance numbers more than anyone else's safety. I also focused on job performance over their personal safety. I think the issue here remains you just didn't understand I'm talking about "job performance is #1" followed by personal safety as #2.

> Perhaps you should do some of this 'thinking' you so proudly throw in my face?

I pretty clearly said "job performance is #1" and you are insisting otherwise. I just didn't say it literally which is why I guess you got confused?
Drone defense is indeed a hot thing right now but it's not fundamentally different from protecting yourself from any other new type of threat. There's measures and there's countermeasures (http://petapixel.com/2015/07/23/anti-drone-systems-are-start...). At the point of (strong, general) AI though all bets are off the table.

Warfare is becoming more and more asymmetric and nuanced, that for sure. I'd posit some form of media training enabling one to be less vulnerable to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare would do more good than rifles and bullets at home though.
> Wondering how it fairs in a lightning storm.

"I thought about this some time ago, lighting takes tge path of the least resistance, so theoretically it will just travel straight down the main column and into the earth"

From his facebook https://www.facebook.com/theskysphere
So, in effect, it has become nearly impossible to build Debian as a whole from scratch?
It is pretty well known that Sonia Gandhi wanted a sycophant at the position of President and she achieved that by appointing a Gandhi family cook and the least inspiring lady as the President. Even with the limited powers that the office of President has in India someone like Kalam would had never been subservient to someone like the Gandhis and instead focused his energy (like his first term) on whatever he can do to inspire youth.
>What could have been done besides throwing more money at it?

A physical media format. So that buying games has real meaning to the user.

First-party games, instead of relying on third parties to supply the system sellers.
Closing your eyes, shutting your ears and yelling "La la la la" at the top of your lungs is probably the simplest method.

Otherwise, the learning and pattern recognition features needed would be remarkably sophisticated. Then there's the complicated problem of how you actually abstract away their physical presence. They can still see and hit you even if you can't them.
If malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.