skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's sort of what I'm getting at. Perhaps the answer is to sort the students out into many more strata, instead of just the two we have, which are currently gifted programs and everybody else, including the basket cases. One of the biggest advantages of a selective school is no time is spent on classroom discipline. But we only have that for 1% of the students, while the other 4% of the top 5% are sitting around in the same class as the bottom 5% kids.
This NYT article is the best summary of the scandal I have seen thus far.
he runs rsync.net
Versioning with diffs would be nice—maybe autosaves for recovery as well as user-indicated "draft" points to point out major revisions.
In the desktop app, select all notes, click export, or... right click on "Notebooks", select export.

It lets you export in ENEX format, which is fully re-importable back to Evernote, or as HTML web pages.
And few, if any, commercial aviation customers understand anything remotely close to why a preflight is necessary, what happens when your single pilot is incapacitated, or why GA doesn't fly when commercials still can.

Ridesharing for GA aviation is a terrible idea, yet again "disrupting" by breaking the law and ignoring higher than normal risks.
I witnessed a situation at my office where an asshole called out a co-worker for his body odor.
Half the comments here are "you can't just be a 'feature' or you'll get replaced by google/apple/MS" and the other half are "why are they trying to expand beyond the core feature?" Makes me glad I'm no CEO.
I keep a copy of this on my desk. When people start smelling like it's about to leak out in the middle of conversation, I'll casually pick it up and flip through the pages. It seems to work ;)
It's a feature request.
"I have an interest in seeing my fellow white people do well compared to those of a darker skin tone." This is the same kind of feeling with the same kind of effect. The only difference is the choice of how to classify people.
Just for reference (and to see if longevity insurance is a good deal), I ran some numbers using the SSA actuary tables (at http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html). I ran a few scenarios as follows, assuming no administrative overhead:

1) If everyone in a given pool puts in $50k at age 65, the surviving members can withdraw $18k per year starting at age 85 -- any more and the fund runs dry.

2) If the fund is invested at an interest rate of 2%, they can withdraw $30k annually starting at 85 without the fund running out.

3) At 5% interest, that number goes to $62k.

For comparison, according to a random article on longevity insurance, Met Life quotes a payout of $15k per year (at 85) if $50k is invested at age 65.

Also, as another point of reference, if you invest 50k at 65 and get 5% returns, and withdraw 13k staring at 85, you will have enough to last you till age 96. So the longevity quote above really isn't that great of a deal.
Totally, and I definitely get that just because I don't personally use something, it doesn't mean it isn't useful. I don't object to any current features continuing to exist. ("Drop" was poor wording.) I would just like to see them focus on bug fixes and the core experience in general over adding _more_ new stuff.
Dropbox third-party developer here. Their API and developer support is dogshit. They spent years screwing around with photos when they could've built a platform.
This sucks.

However, in a few places like Alaska, I think the anti-government sentiment is strong enough that they really don't care what the FAA says. Good luck regulating fur trappers near the Arctic and helpful neighbors with planes.
Sure, I know Sun's JVM is infamous for poor startup performance. But Dalvik is different, isn't it? Not to mention ART, introduced in ANdroid 5.0, where Dex bytecode is AOT-compiled to native code.
First click implies one... not 3 or 5... why not make it zero and be done with it?
If I already have both there isn't much benefit of buying another device. Other people could just use the same cord as any of my other devices. If the 3.5mm jack is hidden somewhere I could see a reason for it.

I didn't buy an iPhone or any phone so I could play music but it's a good feature.
>Got some sources on the 'everyone getting richer' claim? I have never seen a single statistic suggesting that

Then you are not looking very hard:

http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...

> Also, not every form of redistribution is automatically 'communist'...

Well UBI is a welfare kind of policy and needs basically a strong State to actually work in practice. Most strong States lean towards socialism and communism because they justify their existence this way ("if we were not there, you would not have welfare, so let us increase the government budget size further") - a common trope to get folks elected.
Gerrymandering is simply incumbency protection.

Fairness is simply maximal competitiveness.
501:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199
On the other hand, you can't gerrymander Senate seats. (it's not representative now, but it's not changing either)
Makes sense. Appreciate the clarification.
I have pretty large hands and I still consider these things too big. A 4.7-inch screen is enough.

At least they're bothering to release something about like an N5 this year. This is the first Nexus phone in two years.
Remember that the JVM was originally developed by a company that sold big-iron server hardware; the software on it would typically run for weeks at a time. If you have to make a trade-off during development that sacrifices startup time for overall performance, take a guess as to which one is going to win.
You looking for a UI designer?
It's not technically racism, but it's the same kind of feeling. Discriminate against outsiders because they were born into a different class.
That model assumes that the government has absolute power over corporations and that politicians need nothing from corporations.

In real life, governments need to negotiate with corporations, because individual politicians need corporate sponsors to finance their campaigns, so they sell their influence.
Apple?

Nexus has so far been the one Anroid brand that people considering future updates were buying.
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Picking out one random letter from one person who had a bad premonition around when the atomic bomb was dropped is pretty much the exact opposite of evidence for anything at all.
That's horrid. This is exactly the kind of thing Evernote should be prioritizing above all else.

It is a good example of why it's so important to keep your own incremental backups though. I wouldn't be comfortable relying on EN as much as I do if I didn't sync and back up my entire note store. (Similarly, although I trust Google's reliability far more, I still keep and back up a local sync of my email.)
I wonder if this is why I saw so many notifications from Evernote lately for me to verify my e-mail address trying to churn up some apathetic users?
Top researchers look for institutions where their work will get the best support and exposure, and top institutions look to bring together the best researchers. As a result, much of the most exciting new research is concentrated at the top, and just as importantly in this context, the work at those institutions has generally better marketing/reach, so is more likely to be familiar to folks in charge of picking MacArthur fellows.

To answer your question: yes, a substantial proportion of MacArthur fellows every year are affiliated with places like (from this year) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, UChicago, Cornell, Columbia, etc.
This doesn't help OP but I am new to evernote and naively excited about it. One thing I like about it is that I can export my notebooks to an XML text format that contains the encoded images. So it seems to me that I can put my notebooks into git and not worry about losing anything. This thread is making me think I should investigate whether that is automatable; I was assuming it would be.
I modified the description of the second benchmark to be a little clearer. I can see why you were wondering about Kronecker segmentation. By "univariate" we simply meant generic univariate rings, over other generic univariate rings. But I removed that word altogether to prevent confusion.
<meta name="generator" content="ckan 2.3" />

Good to see ckan used again in this space. It's really gaining a lot of users.
A single engine plane, I'd want to get to know the mechanic that last overhauled it and watch them work.

The pilot, has to in near-constant disaster-drilling mode and flying regularly.

Without those, which is most cases, I'm not stepping foot in said bug-smasher, because you're gambling with your life with someone whom may not be both experienced and competent enough to survive failure, no matter how well-intentioned or seemingly confident.
Google keeps trying to force me to open files in Docs, Sheets, etc., which is very annoying. It also tries to convert Excel files into Sheets.
This is something made at the last minute, Google saw the Ipad Pro, so they made a tablet quickly to show / to compete with Microsoft and Apple.
Found the Chicago grad...
Limited in what respect? There's plenty of Linux distros which run on ARM/ARM64.
No one ever thinks of it that way.
In the last 5 years I've accumulated some 8 000 notes in Evernote, which I would love to move to a safer platform/format in light of recent evidence of data loss and speculation concerning Evernote's longevity. What are the alternatives to organizing this second brain/memory?

50% are < 1000 words long texts written by me, transcribed from an audio/video/paper source or saved/clipped/copypasted from elsewhere

20% complete webpages or complete articles deemed important enough to save a copy for later
10% graphics, annotated images and PDFs
10% oneliners and quotes
10% todo-lists, task lists, shopping lists, etc.

Every new piece of information I have been exposed to and deemed important enough to return to later has gone into my Evernote inbox, from where it would be weekly sorted into an appropriate notebook by subject, life area, etc. Most important ones are tagged for regular review. Everything else gets some regular dedicated random browsing time, and is often discovered in research when preparing presentations, writing or thinking about any particular topic. There are 80+ notebooks in 10 sections.

Organizing this corpus efficiently and engaging with it with an appropriate interface would effectively be a multiplier for the ability to utilize knowledge and experience. Interacting with such data accumulated over decades through a combined voice assistant / mind map / dashboard / big screen (Microsoft Surface style) is a futuristic idea of knowledge work - the only question is whether there is a large enough consumer user base for such an infovore/generalist/researcher approach to information.
Um, no. Here's one example: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/janet-adkins-corinne-...
Let me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music?

My hypothesis is, you don't actually need 68 GB of music around with you. In fact, it doesn't confer any meaningful advnatages.

Using http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp..., I can see that 64 GB of music at 256 KBps is around 559 hours of music - I really doubt you'd listen to any meaningful portion of that in a month.

See, I used to have a 64 GB MicroSD card, and keep music with me. But then I just ended up using Google Music, and streaming everything. I can pick anything I want, and just listen to it on demand.

Let's be honest, most people can't tell the different quality wise anyhow, so the quality argument is moot.

And it's not like streaming music chews up that much bandwidth.

Doing it this way means I can listen to my music on any device - my desktop, my laptop, my phone, tablet - etc., my playlists are synced, my most recently played lists etc. And I don't need to worry about having to backup my music (I used to do it on my NAS), or worry about syncing up new files.

It's *incredibly convenient - and I can't see any meaningful disadvantages.
I'm totally on board with starting over with new state boundaries.
How-To: Translate from MapReduce to Apache Spark
Slide to the assistant, if your phones is full, it will suggest deleting photos that have been copied to the cloud already.
Who's going to pay the cost of a basic income system? Right now the tax base rests on the middle class (which is rapidly collapsing).

The globalization that allows the wealthy to eliminate their first-world workforce also allows them to avoid just about any tax they don't feel like paying.
I wondered this as well. My last laptop purchase was the Lenovo X1 Carbon 3443CTO, which I believe is the 2013 version. It's not easy to get to the WWAN card and replace it, and no idea if the BIOS would even let you.

Shortly after I got the laptop, Optus rolled out LTE in my city on a non-standard frequency (LTE-A on 2600mHz). This is one of the reasons I prefer a USB dongle or Wifi "hotspot".
> Scientists are learning much from all this tinkering, but experts say these big projects—if they work—are at best decades away from commercialization.

I don't understand what the rush is. Are we really that shortsighted that we can't wait a few decades or even centuries for the ultimate energy cure-all? We continue to enthusiastically support a space program, even though we know the practical payoff is a long way away. Why can't we have the same attitude about fusion? Traditional nuclear and associated advanced concepts can carry us in the medium term, albeit with some proliferation risk.

It's a shame that the smaller projects got cut from government funding, and I'm glad venture capitalists are stepping in and contributing. But it seems that they are outright dismissing of mainstream academic scientists, and believe that nothing useful can be learned from the scientific community. This seems hubristic, and will just lead to wasted resources and good will.

Plasma physicists have tried many things over the decades and have gotten good at pointing out failure modes. There is no good reason why there can't be more collaboration between academia and industry in this space.

If it's secret, it's not science.
You are right, on average doubling every 10 years or so - I suppose that is considerable improvement, though still frustratingly slow compared to advances in transfer speeds, computing power, disk/memory capacity etc.

It would be fantastic if this was a problem where solutions are accelerated significantly (ie. 10x jump in a few years) by throwing more money at it, but I am not sure it's the case.

Here is a relevant Quora thread:

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-battery-energy-density...
We ask verified pilots on Flytenow how often they have been flying, you can see their total hours and previous 30 & 90 day hours as well. We don't let pilots post who haven't flown regularly, recently.
Markdown support has been a common feature request for years, with many feature requests in their forums as well as entire blog posts from fairly prominent bloggers – just try googling "Evernote markdown support".

I've had the strong suspicion for a long time now that they simply aren't listening to these sorts of feature requests that don't tie into their enterprise/business focus – at least since about 2013.
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Why do all the Pixels look like Gen 1 Apple products?
I was always under the impression that nothing really gets deleted online.
> I predict we'll see a rise of better, automated mailboxes, probably loaded from outside.

Probably, but then it will take time, again.
Giving the users what they want?
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This certainly isn't universal. I graduated from IMSA and many (likely the majority of) kids stayed on most weekends, including myself
I'm sure you'll be able to rate the experience soon, ala Uber Style, and the experience will be awesome.
Om Next demo at ClojureNYC [video]
It's an issue or some wacko can come to your door pretending to be a delivery person.
I'd like to see Apple commit to making Apple Pay available for online commerce. That would allow Apple to get rid of the hundreds of millions of credit and debit card numbers they retain in their private servers. If Apple's card number information ever got hacked, it would be a disaster for Apple and their customers.
In my opinion OneNote is by far better than anything else out there.
I guess I was only referring to being able to install anything precompiled for Intel linux, which would include just about any proprietary software. I had a few problems running things in my past attempts with this (running Ubuntu on an Android tablet). However I was surprised to see from Googling around that people have indeed now got most common dev tools working on the Samsung ARM chromebook so I might be completely wrong about it
I'll tell my reason for going 6P: I loved my N5, but the lacking battery life was annoying, and a total bricking after a full discharge (not eligible for another repair, since it was already fixed from being dropped in a puddle a few months earlier...) brought it's life to an end.

I've been scraping by on a Nokia Lumia 530 for about 3-4 months now. Great little phone for 40 dollars, but I'm getting tired of the subpar GMail, HipChat, SubSonic, etc clients that come with having a Windows phone. I figure that as long as the 6P is as good as the original N5, with a better battery life, I should be satisfied for a good long while. I didn't go with the 5X because I am genuinely worried about the subpar battery life again.
Was your comment a joke based on my previous one? People dying from starvation are very much a thing of the past. and good medical care has never been as widespread as it is nowadays. 100 years ago you could die from a benign infection, nowadays, not so much.
Assuming that if the system work out when everyone/every company pays their required share of tax (otherwise, it's back to the wealth creation issue, and advocating for more economic inefficiencies won't help), and it's just a problem of tax avoidance, then the solution is to fix the taxation system.

I'm not saying that everything is fine and dandy, I'm saying that pointing finger to random chicken in the sky and shoot them won't solve the real issue. There are a lot of problems, but American politics right now is a bit engrossed in the wrong kind of trivialities.
I had no idea this was even a thing. It already looks interesting, unclassified archives:

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/cryptologic_quarterl...
You know, auxiliary stuff like business socks.

https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/socks-en_CA?sku=SOCK...
Not sure what changed, but the SDK doesn't place any technical restrictions on being used on the BB-8. It works just fine.
Ah, in the pictures it looks larger than the previous one. Glad to hear that it's actually smaller.
Hey guys,
Thanks a lot for your interest in our devKit!
For an overview on our technology, feel free to have a look at this MIT Technology Review article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/535376/new-display-tech...

In response to your questions:
Yes, we are commercializing an auto stereoscopic display which produces 8x8 (horizontal x vertical) images to give a natural 3D experience.
The devKit is able to show monochrome images, in principle in any color. Hence the baby in our promo video is legit :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5ypUbCuoc

In essence, we use a nano-technology backlight which is carefully aligned behind the actual LCD matrix, to send specific pixels in specific directions.
In this way, we are able to send different images to you left and right eyes; no eye-tracking, no head-tracking; and no lenticular image breakups.

Our devKit has a native resolution of 1600x1600 pixels, which means that each of the 8x8 views will have a resolution of 200x200 pixels.

We have freely available webGL and unity plugins for people to create content, and support the developer community.

Since one cannot see the full 3D effect of our display on a normal 2D screen, we invite you to come and meet us during one of our upcoming meetups (RSVP at address below).

In the meantime, here is a short video showing the devKit (remember your 2D screen won’t give you a full 3D depth experience):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBT3dNA1MtQ

Thanks!

Armand
RSVP: armand.niederberger@leiainc.com
This is an elegant solution with a lot of good properties: Equal population balancing, politically unbiased, reasonably understandable by the layman, typically geographically compact districts. But where's the discussion of the desirable and undesirable properties in a districting algorithm and how this algorithm achieves or doesn't achieve these properties?

specialist already mentioned maximal competetiveness, ROFISH mentioned clustering due to natural features. Is regional or ethnic representation important, or is it an undesirable bias? How about travel distance (either for voters or campaigners)? I'm sure you guys can think of others you'd like to see or to avoid. Feel free to suggest some, I'm curious.

There is a little more information at http://rangevoting.org/SplitLR.html but did I miss the real weighing of the tradeoffs and advocacy for this particular method above all others?

Edit: Found a discussion of the theoretical issues at http://rangevoting.org/TheorDistrict.html which touches on some, but not all of the points raised.
Ship old people to Cuba, now that we're removing restrictions. Cuba will be the new Florida.
"Evernote, The First Dead Unicorn"
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Ask HN: How do you automate logging bugs in your product?
TL;DR : How do you log bugs in your product in an automated manner without dirtying up your bug tracker?

Recently, at my place of work, we've come into a bit of an issue with the way that log our bugs. Currently we automate logging many different types of exceptions and errors to our bug tracking system from our product. We're currently using unfuddle (which is a whole different religious war) to track bugs.

We've noticed that due to the automated manner of tracking bugs we have started to decrease our signal/noise ratio in our bug tracker due to the large number of duplicates that we're seeing. This makes triaging time consuming as we aren't sure which bugs are legitimate issues or possible duplicates of other bugs we've seen before.
Our team has been on a recent stent of patching noisy bugs as they come in, but it feels like these are merely bandaids to a larger problem.

How do you automate logging bugs in your product?

Some examples of bugs that we've been having issues with :

- Loops in automated processes can hit states that raise exceptions. These can generate a large number of bugs.

- Database restores that may fail in a staging/production environment
The H1B process is slow, but pretty much deterministic within a period of few months (every year). On the other hands, the EB1/2/3 and various O visa is very indeterministic (you won't know what happen, for how long), especially when those varies depends on the country of origin.
i am thankful for the opportunity to attend TAMS :)
Units in C++