skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the application: http://superuser.com/a/132722

It's inconsistent enough to be frustrating.
I almost never enter tons of numbers, so having a numpad isn't very useful for me. Especially since the fact that you have to leave home row means that there's an initial penalty to using the numpad that makes it significantly less useful for sequences of numbers <4-5 in length.

Not having a numpad means my keyboard takes up significantly less space on my desk and means mousing is more ergonomic; not having one on my laptop makes it much prettier and lets me have nice speaker grills.

I suspect that this is true of the vast majority of people, except maybe accountants, data entry folks, and some scientists. But I generally do finance, math, and programming just fine without a numpad.
Writing a single page application with redux
I bought the game but still haven't played it yet. How much of a timesink is it? Could it be enjoyed in 30min to an hour playing sessions?
Studies have found that this is not completely true. US kids who have parents who volunteer at school (like PTA) actually have poorer academic achievement on average than parents who don't. They have also found that the smartest kids in the world have parents who are not terribly involved at school, at least compared to their US counterparts. The strongest correlative of a child's academic success in the US is the income level of their parents.

(source: The Smartest Kids In The World http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061NT61Y)
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987825 and marked it off-topic.
It’s definitely the OS. Battery life on a Macbook Pro in Windows via Boot Camp tanks.

One could make the argument that substandard drivers for the Apple hardware is to blame here, so perhaps battery benchmarks on a Hackintosh vs the same hardware in Windows would settle the debate, but that's some tinfoil hat shit… Apple has been vocal about battery life as a top priority for the company going all the way back to the PowerPC/Intel switch.
I wish for a developer edition with Ubuntu.
I'm in the same situation. Perhaps we can hope to play the game in a year or so. If The Witness is even close to the quality of Braid, I'll wait.
There are right and wrong ways to monetize. Putting basic features behind a paywall and per-server licensing as you pointed out is not something I can live with. Even if I don't use these features, I feel I'm using a subpar product, and this makes me look for alternatives such as ATS and H2O [0].

[0]: https://h2o.examp1e.net/
Maybe someone using Linux on Mac could tell us about the battery life they get.

I use XPS-13 (4k display version), and certainly don't get the battery life promised by Dell.
Governments enjoy giving money away to donors, other smaller governments and large private employers, not government employees. Ask any government employee how easy it is to get cash or a raise
If you do enough data entry to justify them, yes. Can't say I've used mine in a very long time.
> If the most common call of a function doesn't fit in a tweet, you're probably doing it wrong.

As with all metrics, that can be gamed. Would

s:o:b:iGR:iGG:iGB:iGO:iSR:iSG:iSB:iSO:oGR:oGG:oGB:oGO:oSR:oSG:oSB:oSO:I:O:

(the same arguments, obfuscated), which comes in at a much-reduced character count of 75, be any better?
[C+14 Experimental Boost.MSM-Lite] EUML Like Meta State Machine Library
Tried to expand on what I mean with parents involvement.
I currently run Debian Jessie on an XPS 13 - GNOME 3 handles high DPI with minimal configuration. I'm sure KDE could manage as well, but I did not have a magnifying glass available to navigate the miniscule menus. I've run into more issues with apps that don't scale - some games and the Arduino IDE being the biggest offenders I've come across.

I agree with regard to the touchpad size/palm sensitivity - accidental clicks are a big problem.
So what you are telling me is that the people are being represented by who they elect. If the people want hard on crime to the point of violating civil rights and they get what they want, what is the issue? That a minority has to suffer because of the will of the majority... that is an inherent issue with democracy.

Isn't there a quote that goes something like: People are ruled by the government they deserve.
Yes, I just finished Elon Musk's biography and it seems the objective is to get the price down to between $500,000 to a million for getting a single person to Mars. Extremely ambitious, but if it does happen, I will sell my house plus whatever hard assets I will own at the time and take my trip one-way to Mars.
Now that's true, but I will say that HPD on Oahu are the most professional and legit police officers I've ever had to deal with. I lived in town for six years and had run-ins with the law and no complaints about their behavior, including a couple of times when I thought that surely I would end up being taken advantage of.
The ouches:

1. Extremely poor graphics performance in benchmarks.

2. More than 5 hours less battery life than the MacBook Pro. (!)

3. No Thunderbolt port that can be used while charging the machine.
Also check out our "What's New in TypeScript" page[1] for a little more detail.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What's-new-in-T...
If there's a pattern, then a second hidden camera can be installed watching the first camera.

You are correct when it comes to discipline, the police union will stand up to bad actor's behalf. That cultural issue will be a tough nut to crack.
If, like me, you're considering getting one of these to install linux on (to replace a macbook pro or whatever), you should check out the archwiki article on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15

Even if you're going to run a different distro, I find the arch wiki to be one of the best resources for "should I try installing linux on this?"
Another option (much cheaper!) that I'm monitoring is UX501VW:

i7-6700HQ, GTX960M, 512 GB PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD, 4K IPS display 15 inch for $1500

Unfortunately, even though it's been out for over a month, no major websites have reviewed the laptop.

http://www.amazon.com/UX501VW-DS71T-Touchscreen-Skylake-H-i7...
That doesn't remove everything behind process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' though.

Though, you do need webpack/browserify/etc to take advantage of that.
Without the walkthroughs though, many people most likely wouldn't have gotten the real ending.
Blogspam. Source is https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/i-n...
Almost every city is drastically different in America.
Have you actually tried it for a significant period of time?

Most (but not all) people who have used lisp for significant projects find that they either like the parens or are simply neutral about them.

There are very few people I have heard from that have stuck through a significant project in lisp and came out hating the parens still.
The article asks "Should Los Angeles County Predict Which Children Will Become Criminals?"

That is a bunch of hooey. We can't predict individuals' behaviours. We can't even predict the behaviours of whole populations with anything approaching reasonable accuracy. And even if we could somehow predict future personality development we would still not be able to predict whether the person would survive long enough to become the criminal they're predicted to become. Noone in their sane mind claims to be able to predict things like accidents, diseases, etc. a few years down the line.

Let's be absolutely honest here. This "predictive analytics" is no more accurate than reading tea leaves. The people selling this technology are charlatans, fair and square. They are obviously well aware that their tech's ability to "predict" anything is no better than chance, but they are also aware that they are selling it to people who can't tell the difference.

>> “They looked at these public-health models and said, ‘This isn’t rocket science.

Well then it must be Common Sense.
Why do you think it's not useful in reality?
I would argue that the best PC laptops are the old IBM ThinkPads. The best PC laptop in production, I'm not sure. The Panasonic Toughbooks are pretty nice for their purpose.
I'm not talking about people who "rant against school". I also hope that you realize that my post was not a "rant against school", but a rant against taking away millions of people's right to vote just because they didn't learn how to shut up and do what they're told. The people I'm referring to would likely not rant about school, because they likely wouldn't have graduated or even attended in the first place. When I see people ranting it is usually people who have taken on debt via student loans.
This only works on a KVM host or one with actual mount points though, correct? Like it wont work on a virtual host with a shared kernel correct?
"Amazing 512 GB PCIe Gen3 x4 solid state drive"

Couldnt they just say NVME so I know what they are talking about? Industry standard terms exist for a reason. Imagine if someone stopped using USB port and came up with their own description of the standard.
At a certain point the ThinkPad keyboard fetishization has to take a back seat to the awful screens and miserable touchpads, no?
Is that with the 'Infinity' screen or whatever they called it? I just got the 1080p one and don't use scaling. I had a Yoga with a hidpi screen and agree that a bunch of programs just don't work at all with scaling in Linux.
Just based on the photo showing the two models, it looks like a case of corporate synergy. It looks like they just dropped the 13" keyboard into the 15" tray, saving mechanical, electrical and software engineering effort.
The key is "Nipper47". Only 8 characters in the standard "short english-ish word starting with a capital letter followed by a couple numbers"-pattern. I'd say it's less that pg_crypto is easy to crack, and more that the key is trivially insecure and easy to brute-force. But sibling is probably right that it was just sitting there.
Agreed, putting any distro on there other than what shipped def helped me.

Also take out the broadcom wifi and burn it with fire! Replaced with Intel wifi card and have zero wifi issues.
Tesla will reportedly debut a second car at the Model 3 event in March
That would be a fantastic idea in general (tax money funds a specific project), but you'd still have the problem of the unpredictability of the tax revenue.

It would be great to fund a new program using a gas tax like the one you suggested, but could you imagine the blow-back if oil prices went back up and suddenly closed the new program down?
"It's just a few pints of Ebola-blood."
Great in theory, horrible in practice.

How much time did you spend setting up the plumbing for the project? That's key.
Predictive analytics can't even figure out what ads to show me.

I don't have any hope of it determining when a young person will become a criminal.
Founding a new university can't be cheap. Who's going to pay for this? Does she have funding lined up?
> but it does a really good job teaching kids to read; and for the few kids who fail to learn to read,

Depending how you define illiteracy many children can't read. About 20% of children are functionally illiterate when they leave US highschool.

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

> The study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced[clarification needed] for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."
The first part requires platform on both platforms. You are correct about the latter.
That, plus its creator is one of us: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jblow. Of course this belongs on HN.
or other nice laptops could offer optional trackpoints, so they are usable.
> Do you mean you don't want your compiler to ever reorder instructions?

The compiler's job is making code run faster while preserving intent. If I can write a 33bit shift in ASM, then I should be able to write it in C. How the CPU executes the code is my (the programmer's) business, not the compiler's.
It would help if Mac OS properly implemented the track pad for people who use tap-to-drag. You cannot disable that tap-to-drag drag-release delay, which makes dragging behave wrong compared to Windows, Linux and Chrome OS. You need a third party app (BetterTouchTool) to make it work properly.

Just another third party app you need to make MacOs behave like a normal operating system (on top of the one that enables proper tabbing, oh and one that makes the alt key work properly in the terminal).
I'd rather suffer along on my XPS 13 after Lenovo's Superfish fiasco.
That is true. I was particularly interested in tag-based cache purge and although there are similar open-source Nginx modules [0] and [1], they still don't have that out of the box.

[0]: https://github.com/pintsized/ledge

[1]: https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-selective-cache-purge-mo...
Statsbot itself is not open-sourced. But framework which powering Statsbot is open-sourced - https://github.com/keydunov/rebot.
I was JUST solicited by phone on the day before yesterday, by our local FOP in Jupiter, FL.

Let me tell you how that went (I'll call the caller Albert, to avoid using his real name):

Albert: Hi, <my full name>. This is Albert from the Jupiter Police Department...

Me: Hi (...shit, did I cut somebody off and they called the cops?).

Albert: [nothing for 3 seconds while I ruminate in my paranoia]

Albert: Don't worry, there's nothing wrong. I'm calling about officers in need. I'm from the Fraternal Order of Police... Each year we... yata yata... we help officers that have been injured on the job and officers whose families are in need... can you help us out?

Me: [how does this guy know my mobile phone number and full name, anyway]

Me: Possibly.

... some back and forth - him trying to convince me that the only amount that can be accepted is $285. Me having patience, thinking about how, despite all the police brutality reports out there, etc., there are also a lot of public servants in need that are now doubly screwed by all the bad press, as a result of the few that do bad things, also how the Jupiter Police Department has always been really great compared to anywhere else I've lived... basically, I'm sympathizing with the officers, rather than wondering what this FOP organization is, and why they're being allowed to say they're calling FROM the Jupiter Police Department.

Me: Ok, I'll donate $90.

... quick discussion about check / payable to, etc...

Albert: Ok, I've got you at <my address>. Is that correct?

Me: [what, does the police department give him the address from my license?]

Me: Yes.

Albert: Ok, I'll have our guy come pick up the check tomorrow.

The call basically ends there, but I'm left with this uncomfortable "well, that guy seemed like a hustler to me" feeling. I do a quick search, pull up their website, and immediately find that they offer legal services, etc. Instantly, I'm thinking, "wait, I was just bamboozled into donating to a fund that is probably used for lobbying / bargaining, and for protecting police that are charged with murdering innocent people! I was donating to help officers directly in need!". I called back and cancelled the donation.

Organizations like this are, sadly, basically large gangs, and they only serve to ruin the establishments they "serve" by adding unnatural protections that lead to corruption and abuse.

Note: My full name is on my profile page. I only mask it here, in case this comment was, for some reason, copy/paste quoted on NYT or something ridiculous.
Well then we can just add "if you have to abbreviate your function name and arguments for the common form to fit in a tweet, you're probably doing it wrong".
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
He's still doing live coding sessions on Twitch. Nothing has been released yet. Despite that there is already at least one comprehensive Jai language tutorial that I've seen and also syntax highlighting rules for at least one editor.
The technical challenges of bodycams for small-town cops
I've been using https://github.com/drizzt/vps2arch since a "long" time for the same task
I'm sitting on the couch right now with my employer's ThinkPad. The touchpad is disabled, as on any laptop I use. I detest even a single touchpad caused accident, and I actually like the fine control I get with a mouse. My couch, desk or thigh is my mouse pad.
GroovyLab – Matlab like user friendly scientific programming using Groovy
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
At a huge cost of moving the keyboard off-center, no thanks.
You're welcome. I'm glad that it might be useful :-)
Sounds like a dilbert cartoon!
I love Thinkpads, but the thing that really annoys me is just how much Lenovo charge for upgrades. I end up having to buy with the smallest memory and storage they have, and then separately upgrading them. The Lenovo prices are often up to ten times the market rate for the same items.
I don't living in an area where mosquitoes spread any diseases, but I would still like to eradicate them just to make it more enjoyable to take a stroll in the forest. I imagine people in the tropics might feel the same.
I have one I bought a couple of months ago hooked up to a 44" 4K Visio TV via HDMI. It is my main development machine and I love it. I bought it through the Microsoft store to avoid crapware (via their Signature Edition line) and it was actually cheaper than the same specs on dell.com at the time.
> dd if=install.iso of=/dev/sda - right over the top of the partition table and everything.

I do the same thing. Then reboot and use fdisk to delete the main partition and recreate it again, except this time using all the available space of install drive. Then resize2fs to expand the filesystem.
To add to this, as a student in India, I would often run across people who thought Bill Gates was an Idiot. Not sure from where that caricature arose. But some people simply hated Bill Gates, and believed he didn't deserve to be the richest person in the world.

I'd have to talk to them and explain he was a work horse extraordinaire, and was the equivalent of great project manager, programmer, and a business guy all rolled into one.

Its very common to hate successful people, who don't fit our narrative of what a hero should look like.
It's at minimum a sad and awful story, but HN is not the place to sift through the evidence about it, and that's the only thing that will shed any light on what happened.
No worries. I am actually in conversations with a client right now about multi-channel attribution, as I know it's a problem. The reason I responded the way I did was about your comment here:

> If FB can provide advertisers with the tools to more definitively say "this is making you money" and not just "oh, we summed up all these random stats and call it Engagement--look at the shiny engagement metric!" I'm confident they would find advertisers even more willing to open their wallets, shift spend away from the GDN and exchanges, and stop questioning or caring about click fraud since it would be a self-correcting issue (ie. high levels of click fraud would in theory result in lower perceived incremental lift if proper analysis was conducted).

Engagement metrics to me are much more about brand awareness then it is converting sales, so I didn't understand why you would point to engagement metrics when questioning tools that drive sales. Are you saying that you use conversion based ads on FB and aren't confident that their attribution window provides a highly accurate view of their performance?
H2O – Optimized HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 Server
It may be different in the more rural regions of Russia, but I'm from Saint-Petersburg, and I've never seen anything similar to a police officer go "in 7-11's, local shops, etc, just walk in, take what the want, and leave". They're usually civil, and sometimes helpful (you can ask directions, etc).

There is corruption here, but it seems to be more prevalent among the civil cervants and the higher ranking police officials.
What about parental involvement at home?
You're disagreeing with the guy below me, right? It sounds like you're agreeing with me.
I'm a part of 10 Slack groups and I don't hate it. I also don't hate email, but I don't like dealing with it either...I think if I had the perfect email app, I'd be fine. I'm on top of my email with folders, organization, &c. Idk, I don't think it's a big deal.

That being said, I am trying to figure out new ways to display email in a way that doesn't make it seem unbearable to deal with.
Relevant (and great) talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
I built a custom VMWare install of Windows Embedded (well, they're all custom) running just Chromium. I think it's pretty secure - the footprint is tiny, I was actually more concerned about switching off some of the fancier features of Chromium (such as Canvas and WebGL).

In theory it would make an excellent thin client to use with an OpenBSD isolating proxy - i'm actually curious to hear what others would think about using embedded Windows (XP or 8 or 10) in this way.
Your example actually looks like a namespace disaster about to happen with "id". Needs some prefixing and/or improved naming conventions. I'm not really how making your template have "less logic" than your example would produce a usable template language.
I got one of these in November and primarily run Ubuntu on it, and I'm really happy with it. The only thing that (really) sucks is that Suspend/Resume is broken, so you get a kernel panic if you shut the lid. Otherwise, it's wicked fast (compiles LLVM in 10 minutes and CoreCLR in about 2 minutes) and the display is really nice.

The only gripe I have with the layout of the keyboard is that sometimes the palm of my hand grazes the touchpad while typing, which on Ubuntu causes a click and moves the mouse cursor - a minor annoyance when typing but easily undoable.

The Ubuntu installation process is a little dicey but some person on the Ubuntu forums posted a detailed list of instructions and they mostly worked for me. Upgrading the kernel did not fix my suspend/resume problem, though. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2301071)

The battery life is not as stellar as a macbook but I don't mind. It can last through a flight across the United States, so that works for me.
Has DeepMind really passed Go? Separating fact from hype
I don't see how the original transparency comment has anything at all to do with union busting.
The supply has something to do with the price and the USSR had no shortage of titanium, so the accounting in your example would have been valid only for one side of the iron curtain.
Making your 2nd or 100th contribution to the Bluemix Docs
Yes, you can leave the game in almost any state and then pick up where you left off later. The only exception is suborbital flights, but getting to orbit takes 3 to 5 minutes max.
Thank you, I will put SEOMOZ on the integrations list.
Pirates of the Caribbean theme sounds a lot better with e guitar
Not really. Did you notice the enormous 1-inch black strip of bezel at the bottom with the giant DELL logo? That's also where the camera is.

The bezel looks sexy on top, but overall, it's just more crappy design decisions from Dell.