skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I asked: "Why is Apple the only one that can build a 15" retina laptop with 9-10 hours of battery life?" Both are retina laptops, but the Dell does not meet the battery life criteria. You're not refuting my point, just explaining why Dell doesn't meet the battery life criteria.
>During snow emergencies, cities should work with parking garages to make overnight parking for cars, free. It'll solve a lot of problems.

DC did in this case. The city warned about the emergency routes ahead of time, offered free parking at metro stations, and worked with private garages to offer $1/day parking.
Windows 8.1/Chrome 48.0.2564.97
We have 3 of the Ikea Bekant motorized standing desks in our office. They are great and we have had zero problems. My favorite feature is the simple mesh cable pocket underneath the desk, which is a great solution for hiding all the cable clutter.
They definitely need beer buttons.
Not in the class declaration, though. Why force the programmer to go through the prototype, when ES6 provides such a "convenient" abstraction around it?
Actually the original context is something like "the internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" which makes it clear that he was referring to what was involved in sending data down a single connection.

It would be absurd to infer that Stevens thought real-world truck haulage consisted of "one big truck" rather than a fleet.
It also depends on the proportions of your arms, I'm 5'10" and my desk is at 41" - maybe Scandinavian males have short shoulder-to-elbow lenghts? :)
Gaps between industrial-academic solutions to implementation loopholes in QKD
Zika virus: Up to four million Zika cases predicted
That's generous. Do you also think the city should "work with" hotels to provide free housing for people during snow storms, or is your outpouring reserved only for automobiles?
It's hard to think of a neighborhood within the limits of the city of Chicago where you could be "out of place" for being black or hispanic, since we have huge black and hispanic populations. Beverly, maybe? But that seems like an exception that proves the rule, since Beverly is effectively a south suburb.

I do not at all doubt that if you are an "urban" looking black person wandering around a suburb like Kenilworth you are likely to be harassed by the police. There are Chicago suburbs that are somewhat defined by whiteness.

But even the whitest neighborhoods in Chicago have pretty significant African-American or Hispanic populations as well (there aren't that many black families living in Lakeview, for instance, but there's a large number of Hispanic families there).

Also, no cop has ever warned me to get out of a dangerous neighborhood in Chicago. Has that happened to you? Where were you?
Alan Blinder recently estimated that a severe recession in China would have an effect on America of roughly .2% of GDP
This is an older article from the beginning the the month as China was really struggling with its stock market. As others have pointed out, debt, in itself, isn't really an "issue" so much as it is money from the future being brought into the present. And when the future has a lot more money than the present does, sending that money into the past isn't a drag on the economy. But when the economy is about the same size in the future as it is now, then that future economy is going to have to figure out how to operate without all that moeny it sent to the past.

For the government debt it isn't a huge issue because the Government can essentially decide not to pay itself back. But for public debt it means that the economy is held back. Imagine if the trillions of dollars corporations in the US are currently holding in "cash" was all going to paying off previous bond holders. That money would not be available for acquisitions or new investment. So those companies would grow slowly or not at all.
I think they were asking about adjusting the table's height.
When I was at Caltech there was an informal weekly thing where students in the freshman physics class who wanted some help or wanted to discuss some things from class in more depth could go as a group and get help from or discuss things with Richard Feynman. (One of my regrets is that I did reasonably well in freshman physics and was not smart enough to realize that spending time chatting about physics with Feynman would have been worthwhile even if I did not need it to pass the class).
Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
I thought it would be interesting to hear about the software projects people are developing. It's amazing and inspiring to see what problems people are solving through software. So, what product or app have you developed or are you working on? It can be anything from a full-blown startup to a small side-project to a quick hack.

Please keep in relatively short.

(Old version of this question here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378909
Copied some text from it because I'm optimizing for throughput:)
«And do you want me to put locks on all the doors and cabinets around the office too?"»

Every place I've worked have had that. I would have answered yes.
Where are women working in America? More women in work foce in MidWest and NorEast
Great. What's the point of snow emergency routes if you can just park there during a storm with no consequences?

Many local garages were either free or $1/day for the storm. There was no excuse to leave cars parked on these routes.
I think every generation has their big events and I think they overlap. For baby boomers, it's the JFK assassination (maybe other things). For Gen X'ers like me, it's the Challenger (and 9/11 I'd argue). For Millennials, it's 9/11.
It seems you're another person who hasn't used Apache since 1.3
You should read up on the differences between a police department and a sheriffs department, and why both exist.
I think some schools are adopting new models, but when I graduated from high school <10 years ago, all but a handful of classes were two semesters long (i.e., autumn and spring would be the same class) and all classes met 5 days a week for approximately an hour, with 7 classes a day. With 180 days of school, with most classes meeting every day of that (save exam time), that is over a thousand hours spent per class.
The larger SKARSTA is 63" wide.
I love Product Management
Do you have any books/resources that you recommend to learn Clojure?
The whole point is that you're NOT constantly adjusting the desk, but using a taller chair when you sit.
Why bother with optimizing if scaling vertically is possible? /s
He's joking. Right?
I'll be on that trip too!
These kind of things is what makes Linux so amazing [to me].

I wonder if this is possible with Windows at all?
From what I've seen so far, there's no reason why you couldn't control the game with two fingers, rather than a gamepad or a mouse and keyboard. Of course, it would be less pretty with one's hands in front of portions of the screen, but whatever. :)
I only agree about 20% with this assessment of Datomic.

Their "Pro Starter" tier is free. It is plenty to get started with for many use cases.

It doesn't take _that_ long to get up to speed with how it works and how to use it, and if it fits your problem naturally then it can save you so much time and headache.

That being said, I can understand people hesitating to use it.
For the Ikea Bekant desk, I'm 6'2" and usually have it near its maximum height. I like things a bit higher (relative to my own height) than most, but I still wouldn't expect it to work for someone over say 6'5".

All these adjustable desks start to have perceptible sway when mostly extended. If this really bothers you, consider mounting your monitors separately.
...you mean, as opposed to a fake culture :)

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-aggress...
> My (extremely limited, to be sure) understanding is that there wasn't anything else that severe.

That's my understanding as well. Boisjoly wrote a detailed essay describing the thought process that they went through to arrive at their conclusion that the O-rings were a critical problem (the other three authors are a professor and two students at RIT):

https://people.rit.edu/wlrgsh/FINRobison.pdf

The essay is a response to a criticism by Edward Tufte that the engineers did not present the issue properly during the telcon the night before the launch, and that this was the reason that NASA did not agree to scrub the launch. It makes clear that, at least in the minds of the engineers, there was no other issue even close to being this critical. Granted, they were concerned with only one subsystem, the SRBs--but the fact that this issue also dominated the telcon the night before the launch indicates that there was no other issue even close to being that critical in any other subsystem either.

[Edit: It's interesting, btw, that in the essay linked to above, Boisjoly accuses Tufte of precisely the thing Yudkowsky is talking about in his article: hindsight bias. He argues that Tufte did not recognize or allow for the fact that the engineers at the time had limited information, but talks as though they knew everything that was known in hindsight.]
What can they do? They can sell their US IOUs at a loss.
I don't mean you can understand the full depth of each topic in an afternoon or two, I mean at a working level you could get an understanding of the topic.
> But HTTPS does not mean 100% secure, it's easy to be hacked by MITM or traffic been spied.

I don't know what properties you think HTTPS lacks here, but no, HTTPS doesn't allow "easy" MITM or eavesdropping. If you want to break HTTPS, you either need to compromise an endpoint, or pressure an accepted certificate authority to risk destroying their entire business by issuing a fraudulent certificate.
Is your screen glossy that reflects the lights around? I am asking, because I am also using a T450s, with matt a 1920x1080 screen. It's the best screen I ever had. I can work with any ambient light, does not reflect, it is not as sensitive to viewing angle as the screens that I had before and has very lively colours. I absolutely love this machine.

Maybe we don't have the same screens, i.e. there are different models?
I dunno, not having much of a plan seems like an appropriate measure for storms that only happen every 5 years or so.

Which sounds glib, but it takes a lot of equipment to be able to rapidly deal with snow on a lot of roads, equipment that would be sitting around rusting a lot of the time.
I still remember the words the announcer said just before it happened, it was that deeply etched into my brain.

go for throttle up

and whenever the news shows that Y trail plume it still makes me ill to this day
So you're buying a house, and decide you're willing to downgrade to a school district where 85% of kids meet the testing standards because the kind of house you want is $100k cheaper than in the district where 93% of kids meet the testing standards. "Going with that logic," are you willing to downgrade to the inner-city district where the house is $200k cheaper but only 45% of kids meet the testing standards? Do you see why your point doesn't make any sense?
As with many things in life, reducing activation energy can have dramatic effects.

For example: Most of the people I know, even the health conscious, don't get annual physicals. I pressed them on why, and it came down to this: They didn't want to spend a half-day getting it done. There's just too much activation energy: scheduling, commute, checking in, waiting around, finally seeing the doc for 10 minutes, driving back to work. It's even worse when you have to return for labs because they didn't inform you that you should fast before drawing blood for labs. Simply reducing the activation energy goes a long, long way!
Clever, but it's not adjustable.
Ask HN: Pager alert hardware
Does anyone use dedicated hardware to receive overnight alerts? Not wild about leaving my phone / email on loud.
160 cm! Thanks.
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Or why you should never lock your computer, so you can claim that you have been used as you print away.
More than one group uses that varnacular, but yeah that's a good context clue. Freemasonry is frequently popular among law enforcement types.
Oh, then what's the point of comparing it with the Sit/Stand desk in the submission?
I love my Jerker 2.

https://www.jerkersearcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bw...
btilly was talking about the disk space as if it were important.

My opinion is that Python is more productive than Lua, but if you disagree by all means use Lua. But if you're talking about saving 200mb of disk space as though it makes the difference, then I think you're using the wrong criteria for choosing your language.
Please please please do NOT PUT SPOILERS INTO THE SECOND COMMENT IN THE THREAD. That's incredibly rude. At the very least, if you're going to do something like that, rot13 it, because people like me will see the spoiler before they read the word "[Spoilers]".
Apple: iPhone, therefore I am
To be more precise, they offer no defense against MITM on first visit. Once I've pinned a particular self-signed cert for a particular site, I'll be quite suspicious if that cert ever changes.
Private Chinese debt becomes public if the Chinese government intends to backstop private losses.
I get your point but being able to place your feet on the floor anywhere in front of you is different than just putting your feet on a metal bar that's attached under your chair. I use a footstool because my desk is too high and even that I don't love. Having a desk at the correct height so you can put your feet flat on the ground is the best.
You don't.

That's the point: the table never moves. You buy a table thats tall enough for comfortable standing use then buy a chair tall enough to that you never adjust the table. What's great about this is that there is no conscious effort needed to switch between sitting and standing you don't have to set a timer to remind you to stand up, crank your desk into standing position, nothing. You just flow on and off your chair.
Both China and Japan have extremely high amounts of debt relative to GDP, and are both are still increasing spending.

Short term, the Chinese stock market will continue to fall - it's still incredibly overvalued from the bubble. US and European stocks should continue to be slightly affected. Anyone with a clue has already priced the Chinese effect into stock prices.

Short and mid term, any money that can will continue to attempt to escape China. Land/Houses/Industries in popular areas may be a little overvalued in the popular places in the US and Europe.
Car-hailing apps in China: More than mobility
Oscar Niemeyer? Frederick Law Olmsted?
What do they do, ship you an Amazon box, a pair of scissors and a can of spray paint?
Jobs in poor countries may be especially vulnerable to automation
"Printing your way out" isn't really a solution, either.....Zimbabwe tried that for a while, but gave up after inflation hit 80 billion percent per month.

Prices would literally go up two or three times a day. If you had Zimbabwe dollars, you would try to get rid of them as fast as possible, either by exchanging them on the black market, or by buying something. If you waited until the next day, you would lose a lot of money.
Here's how Winter Storm Jonas affected pedestrian activity in NYC
Why a bunch of Silicon Valley investors are suddenly interested in basic income
Let Tinkerbell Tinker
Hmm inclusion/switch to systemd on something that purports to be a 'secure' OS for private browsing seems counter-intuitive.
Printing money is not the only option, governments can devalue their currency instead and China is already doing it. Greece, of course, has none of these options.
iPhone? Add PagerDuty to your favorites and use DND; set skip for favorites.
Using github regularly was what got me to learn markdown and I'm very grateful as I've found it useful in lots of different places. I'm not convinced this change was really worth doing, especially if it was at the expense of features people have been asking for.
But it's assets are huge, such that there's a net $128 trillion. The question is, what's the other side of China's balance sheet look like?
I don't know about US politics. But I have seen people unjustifiably bash successful people. In fact, this is the common place ideology in today's feel-good culture to deride other people, to make their own shortcomings look acceptable.
If you're talking about the Bekant, I have that too and am comfortable using it. I am 6'2".

I keep the desk surface such that my elbows are about 90 degrees while resting on it. I have a monitor arm that puts the center of my screens about 18" above the desk surface.

If you're trying to use a laptop sitting flat on the desk while standing, that is going to be uncomfortable at any height because your eyes and hands/arms need to be further apart.
China is impervious to any amount of debt and should let it all default right away. Normally if you are heavily in debt say you have a bad credit score, no one will want to lend to you. However if you have a bad credit score and millions of people moving from poverty to the middle class and companies around the world want to sell to them... that is a different story altogether. It is not like there is another market like China available. China is the only growth market available, anywhere. Companies are so desperate to sell in China they have transferred all of their intellectual property to companies inside of China for the privilege even though it will destroy the companies in the long run.
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Email and being expected to read every email as soon as it arrives and craft a perfect response in a timely manner while hitting all deadlines. Then, if you don't answer quickly, three people come swinging by your office asking if you've "seen that email" yet.
Totally offtopic: Is your desktop's wallpaper publicly available?
It's outrageous that anyone might spend money on this (probably overpriced) software instead of on resources that would actually support children's development. That being said, I suspect that predictive analytics in this case is just a buzzword for actuarial science [*].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science#Actuaries_in...
May I inquire after your basis for the apparent certainty you have for this position?
Amazon Tanks 11% After Reporting Strong Q4 Miss with $1.00 EPS, $35.7B Net Sales
So we can expect Bay Area home prices to continue their trend for a bit longer?
How does it work when China has bought a ton of US Debt in the past? (Though they apparently sold a bunch last year) [1]

1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-18/china-s-se...
I think you have it the other way around: liquidity providers as a group make less money because of HFT, not more. Ordinary investors now pay less for liquidity than they used to because of HFT and the complaints are largely coming from traditional liquidity providers who were able to extract more for providing liquidity in the absence of competition from HFT. It is a zero-sum game but I think you're ignoring the presence of other rent-seeking players that HFT has now outcompeted.

Now things are a bit more complicated because HFT is a fairly broad term but this is true in a broad sense.
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For a good context on this, I would highly recommend "The Global Minotaur" by Yanis Varoufakis. It really changed my understanding of the use and flow of debt, specifically sovereign and institutional debt.
I've had the Bekant desk for about a year now. I haven't had problems with the motor or controller. My experience is about the same as the reviewer of the Skarsta. The Bekant isn't super stable at higher heights, but works well. I recommend it.

I'd consider the hand crank next time or if I were filling an office with desks. Motorized isn't really that much of a bonus for me.
Only because it's my first blog and I'm new at high-traffic web stuff. I picked what appears to be a very lightweight and easy-to-tweak blogging engine (Anchor). Which stack do you recommend?
#code2015
It's a reasonable question.

I am not against advertising per-se. I think there is some truth to the idea that advertising keeps the Internet free. It's also a part of the sales cycle that drives the economy, and keeps a lot of people in work. I think the fear of tracking is a little overblown, too - everything I've seen about tracking in my company is extremely focused on keeping user data anonymous (at least as much due to fear of a lawsuit and bad PR as out of ethical standards). I've never heard anyone suggest doing anything with that data other than trying to use it to deliver better results for our clients. We have massive amounts of tracking data, but we don't know who anyone is or where they live. We seem to try hard to keep it that way. Now, it may be possible for someone with sufficient access to take the data and figure out names and addresses, but we never even let that data into the system, and we have stringent, externally audited controls, so it would have to be a malicious act. You'd be out of a job in a heartbeat if you got caught doing that.

So, I don't have a moral problem with the way my company in particular is using data. I think the fact that your mobile phone operator will sell your location is much more concerning. There are a lot companies in the ad tech space, and I'd bet a lot of them care a lot less than we do about personal user data.

On the issue of fraud in particular I can truthfully say that I've only just become aware of it. I am an engineer on a small component of the platform. Communication between departments is not great, so I have been disconnected from the reality of how campaigns are run. It wasn't until I looked into our data while diagnosing another issue, and subsequently reached out to account management, sales etc that I realized what was going on. That was in the last few weeks. Since then the issue has blown up and we're working on a plan to deal with it. Whether that plan has teeth and is enacted will tell a lot about the willingness of the company to do the right thing for our customers. I'm cautiously optimistic, but that optimism is tempered by the general negative attitude toward transparency that I've seen from leadership in the company.

I also am planning to leave the company before the end of the year. This is as much for personal reasons as work ones. The company is dysfunctional and oftentimes its own worst enemy. I wouldn't work for a company like this again, and would ideally stay out of ad tech entirely.
Oh it doesn't completely erase the signal, but it minimizes it. P8 Orions have a plasma induction magnetometer in the back that is supposed to be able to see the degaussed submarines. The Russians did something even simpler: they took photographs from space and saw where submarine propellers were causing churn in the ocean cyanobacteria.
If they declared your house was in an emergency route and you had to move for a few days then yes.
I just had a genius revelation: I, like another poster here, don't like resting my feet on a bar all day. I like to have them planted firmly.

What if we had tall desks and tall office chairs with a flat, elevated platform? Then you could easily plant both feet on the platform and it would feel just like a regular chair, but then you could easily stand up and have a standing desk?

Something like this: http://www.lkgoodwin.com/more_info/brio_series_chairs/brio_s...
I'm with you too. 25 year old developer here, and I had to be taught by a 15 year old how Snap chat works. And I still don't even know how it works.

Just... why???