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You say "yet" but "and" would be more appropriate. The fertility rate is a symptom of, among other things, high child mortality and low access to birth control.

you need it to pay taxes.

Pimps were higher status than innkeepers and wine merchants?

Did ... how could ... I think I need to lie down.

btw, we don't have a problem with recommending good, well-maintained third-party libraries. no reason to reinvent the wheel.

(although lawyercat wants me to note that a recommendation is not a guarantee of fitness, if it causes your machine to blow up we're absolved of all blame, etc.)

What do you think of this diagram? https://developer.android.com/images/topic/libraries/archite...

From this page we launched in May: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/l...

REST - we recommend Retrofit, and don't have plans to do anything else here.

sqlite - please check out Room from Architecture Components (soon to exit alpha, already pretty stable)

permissions, transitions - haven't done work here but will look into, ask people who do

cache - we're aware there's a gap here. if there's a library here you think i should look at, let me know.

outdated info / blog posts - we're looking at how to improve developer.android.com to make sure people get the latest guidance. i'll see if we can expand scope to include blog posts. btw, if anyone has recommendations for how to address people finding outdated answers on StackOverflow ... i'm all ears.

too much time & attention - definitely agree with the general point, and for RecyclerView specifically yes, I think we can make this simpler.

Android Studio UI - we have some very good UX people now, but (1) it will take time for their work to launch and (2) there's only so far we can move from IntelliJ's approach, which is very much "we'll give you lots of options and you can customize to simplify"

thanks for the brain dump! very helpful.

Hi, I work for Google on Android developer UX, including Architecture Components and the Support Library. Looking to collect as much feedback as I can. Requirements+approach+pain points preferred, but if you prefer to just vent I'll also take it as data. Thanks, and sorry to spam the thread.

It's uh ... speculative to say the least. But it's a fantastic read.

They mention "Inside UFO 54-40" but don't have a graph for it :( which is a shame because it would have been the only disconnected graph

Apparently if you break things down by gender the story is not as positive:

'But purportedly “near full employment” conditions notwithstanding, the work rate for the twenty-plus male was more than a fifth lower in 2015 than in 1948.'

http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/men-withou...

I know Mastodon is only for super-nerds right now and probably won't become big. But if it does it'll be SUPER interesting, since it can't be bought. Sorta misleading to mention Mastodon without noting that.

Since the head of communications is definitely to blame for all the negative press recently, I think this is a great move that shows Uber is committed to fixing its problems. Really impressed by Travis Kalanick's bold leadership here and I predict smooth sailing from here on out.

I only have issues with SizeUp and Notational Velocity crashing. SizeUp just released a new update that fixes that issue. NV will probably never have another release :(

(nvALT isn't as pretty)

if you don't know what an SRE is, you're not the intended audience. probably half of the articles posted to HN are unintelligible to non-practitioners of that particular subfield, don't see why this should be different.

<fist pump>

lol, you can troll better than that, c'mon :)

it's better than bittorrent because you don't need a centralized tracker.

IPFS isn't meant to provide hosting. It's meant to help you scale distribution. If Joe Blow's content isn't that popular, he doesn't need IPFS anyway.

The idea is that some fraction of users will be configured to reshare content, which helps distribution for popular content scale. This seems to work in practice for bittorrent.

I work at Google (I don't work on this stuff though, so I'm basically just another random commenter.)

We do send an email when you log in from a new device. What would you do if you got an email about failed attempts to login / reset password?

Do you have a mobile client you like? I remember being frustrated by what I could find for Pinboard, as far as replacing Instapaper.

Post starts off kind of dense. Finally we get to the section "Word embedding models" and I say "ah ha! here we'll get a concise definition." Cut to ...

Naturally, every feed-forward neural network that takes words from a vocabulary as input and embeds them as vectors into a lower dimensional space, which it then fine-tunes through back-propagation, necessarily yields word embeddings as the weights of the first layer, which is usually referred to as Embedding Layer.

Naturally.

(Thanks, I believe that it is a great blog post, but I might look elsewhere for an intro ... :)

as if Tencent needs the help!

dude! rss feed!

Why is it a denial of anything? Machines can go faster than we can and we still have the 100m dash.

disclaimer: I work on Android dev tools

It depends. For example, let's compare providing an event listener via a lambda vs an anonymous inner class. Using the lambda will increase your method count by 1. However, if you're accessing class member variables, it will reduce the method count for each variable you use, because it's added as a method of the containing class and doesn't need to generate accessors.

Good for them.

Disagree on the land point - land in/near cities is immensely more valuable due to network effects, and land use restrictions create artificial scarcity there.

dammit, first rule of soulseek is