skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does no one remember the Eee PC? The whole "netbook" craze? It was at least 2-3 years that each quarterly earnings call some analyst would ask, like clockwork, why Apple was letting the netbook market get away from them.

Officially, the answer that Apple repeatedly gave was that they "weren't impressed with any of the current offerings" and that they would not "rush to market with a product we're not proud of" (not exact quotes, but probably close enough). The unspoken truth of the matter was that the margins on existing netbooks were razor thin. When Apple finally did introduce the MacBook Air, it was more powerful and with better economics than anything else on the market by far.

The Eee PC was discontinued in 2013. The MacBook Air (and now MacBook) are still going strong today. Of course, this shouldn't be a surprise, Apple did the exact same thing with the MP3 player.

I suspect that something similar is going on with VR (and a whole host of other technologies). Until the first products hit the market and Apple has a sense for how the price/features/demand equation balances out, they'll be more than happy to sit on the sidelines. So no, I don't think there is a skunkworks team fashioning an end-to-end solution. This isn't about Apple not wanting to accommodate third party parts/devices. It's about building something that is good and makes money.
as a user of some of their medications, they can go to hell. $950 for a tube of cream for a skin condition (without insurance) and $5 for the tube with insurance.

Its crazy. First prescription I got was through philidor and i never saw the cash price for the drug, after Philidor went under they partnered with Walgreens and thats where i saw the cash price for the drug.. holy crap.
Utah Republicans Could Challenge Online Voting Record
A few years ago, there was an online poll to name the next Mountain Dew flavor, which was supposed to taste like granny smith apples.

The winner was "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong". Other top contenders included "Gushing Granny" and "Fapple".
Here's a entertaining/embarrassing story from Spain, related to this.

A few years ago (2008), the Spanish organisers of the Eurovision contest thought it would be a great idea to allow the public to decide who should represent the country in the Eurovision contest. Amongst all songs entered was this silly parody from a comedian, playing a fake musician called Chikilicuatre [0].

So well... After some heavy campaigning/trolling by the TV channel that 'created' this character and song, it came out as the winner. You can imagine the organisers' face after this! But they sullenly accepted it and let him join the contest [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Chikilicuatre

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQhZtbm97I

P.S. They learned their lesson and changed the voting system so it could not be exploited again.
Ask HN: When to negotiate equity during spinoff
I'm an employee at a subsidiary of a corporation. If the subsidiary were to get VC investment and spin off from the parent company, equity may be offered to existing employees.

What is the right time to begin discussing this with manager? If I wait until zero-day of the spin-off, is it too late. Or do negotiations start at that point.
Don't know if this comment will make a difference but its worth saying, before you make a comment here, to mention some context on what VR hardware you've tried.

I've tried the consumer Oculus, the HTC Vive, and the Hololens.
As a person writing a lot of non-english text, I hate this feature with a passion because I constantly trigger it by accident when I'm trying to press-and-hold over a key to get to an alternate letter with some diacritics on it.

With my muscle memory, I end up marking parts of the text and overwriting it afterwards instead of inserting that one letter with the diacritics.
Do you know any book/study related with Database Migration topic?
I'm searching for references about database scheme migration books related, most like best approach to upgrade or revert a database schema.

My graduation thesis is about this topic and I would like to know from you if there are any resource that you might consider relevent

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... and this is why people with severe allergies always always always read the ingredients list, even if the packaging has not changed. And always carry emergency medication.
I also assumed it was related to Brussels. I did know Grove passed away, but I didn't notice the bar yesterday. I only noticed it this morning, so it was associated to Brussels in my mind.
I turned it off on my Magic Trackpad 2. It absolutely breaks drag and drop for me -- nearly 90% of drag and drop operations result in unintentional force click (which never does anything useful)
> I saw the black bar and thought "huh, who died?"

It's highly selective though. There are some great Hackers who have passed away recently and get no black bar at all. I guess you don't want to do it every single day, but then why do it at all ?
I'm not talking necessarily about elegance, but performance, safety, the ability to run on embedded devices, a widely-available toolchain and so on.

Apart from that, it's great to have a favorite language, but choosing a hammer for every task does not seem like the mark of a great craftsman for me.
Testing JavaScript Modules with Tape
It gets more daft when every time someone tries to solve the problem, they make it worse. See the 200 version of visual C++ restributable you end up installed.

I'm tempted to say developers shouldn't have been able to target specific dll versions, but that would cause different problems.
Chrome Developer Tools: “Store as Global Variable”
What happens if there is another bomb, after someone has reported as "safe"? Are the "safe" statuses updated somehow, since the state of that person is now unknown?
They didn't actually use the original formula. They used the opportunity to switch from Cane sugar to Corn Syrup. Since people didn't have the ability to taste the difference any more, no one noticed. This let them cut the cost of a major ingredient which then translated into profit. They gained a LOT more from the failed product.
Yes but my NOPROCRAST settings blocked my access for an hour so I wasn't able to.
You may want to take a look at Swagger-Codegen (https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen) as well to generate ASP.NET 5 server stub or C# API client given a Swagger/OpenAPI spec.

Disclosure: I'm a top contributor to swagger-codegen
Common App Development Challenges That Will Kill Your Project
Tired of freelancing? Your next client should be you
"Take me in oh tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake, Take me in oh tender woman," sighed the vicious snake.

This was Reddit's advice three days ago: http://i.imgur.com/M9umIy2g.png
I highly recommend this book to any front end developer.
> Curious, what did you need to do specifically? Parameter declarations weren't inlined?

In those days HP-UX C compiler was still transitioning between K&R and ANSI standards.

We could only properly compile without strange errors while using K&R function declarations.

If memory serves me right, it was the first HP-UX release having support for 64bit file systems.
The article claims a near linear speedup for a very large query. On a 64 core machine, the query takes:

1375s with 0 workers

131s with 10 workers

56s with 30 workers
I remember reading about bullet trains and supersonic jets in this one: http://www.amazon.com/First-Questions-About-Transport-Faulkn.... Recently moved back to my home state and am thoroughly enjoying the slow process of stealing all my childhood books from my parents house.
The article doesn't go into details as to why Apple should be doing anything with VR that isn't a) a proven technology nor is it b) anything more than a fad.

I've heard of the same thing being said about 3D TV, it quickly died a few years. I have a 3d Projector but never used it. I've tried a few 3D movies but prefer the standard vision.

In addition, we went through the VR fed back in the 90s, just like 3D TV, it died out after a few years.

Google Glass itself died out very quickly as well.

I have zero intentions of wearing a VR headset all day long, so this is ruled out for general computations. Gaming? I've stopped gaming many years ago. So, what is the purpose of VR or even AR for me?

The one single benefit that could convince me to wear an AR glass (Google Glass style) all day long if it comes with closed captioning support for real life, that to me as a hard of hearing person would provide so much benefits.
That doesn't have the classic "lack of gravitas" of Culture ship-naming conventions though. It reads more like a Morthanveld or Zihdren-Remnanter ship name. Unless there's a joke I'm missing in there.
> I'm tired of calling someone a Doctor who isn't a MD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)

You realise that the origin of the word doctor is someone who is qualified to teach? That's much closer to the modern PhD than an MD.
Warning: IANAL. First, sorry for the pain! As an explanation, it's all about VAT (determining it, collecting it, etc.). Outside of Ireland we dump it on you:

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602

But specifically:

> “Business” status means that you'd like to see a potential economic benefit from your development activities, for example: using the Google Cloud Platform to develop prototypes or applications with a view to generating revenue in the future. Most software developers -- including affiliates, sole traders, self-employed merchants, partnerships, students and others -- use Google Cloud Platform for business purposes.

I can't help you decide what your VAT on the use of our services would be (this is the realm of accounts and lawyers). I know AWS makes a different decision than we do, and we're very aware of the friction (again, sorry!).

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but again IANAL.
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We have a DK2 at the office and no-one has experienced any nausea. Anecdotal but still, I think that was a much bigger problem with the DK1.
I used to have a bound set of schoolboy magazines (emphasis on the boy bit there) from the 1950s. I think my parents picked them up in a charity shop. They were amazing --- gleefully inaccurate articles about space travel with shiny pointy rocketships, excited cutaways diagrams of cities OF THE FUTURE, illustrated articles about the joys of electromagnetism... and, for some reason, I remember a semi-comic serial version of _Last of the Mohicans_. All done in 1950s two-colour printing with the occasional colour plate. Brilliant stuff.

No idea what happened to them. I'd love to see them again, although I'd probably cringe about how dated they are.
> It combines proven technologies into polished products.

Is that not innovation? Maybe technically the iPhone was just a combination of existing technologies, but it went above and beyond them to the point that it was essentially new.
I see its dictionary is optimized for web content.
Seems a bit like cheating ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli
Unlike most general purpose compression algorithms, Brotli uses a pre-defined 120 kilobyte dictionary. The dictionary contains over 13000 common words, phrases and other substrings derived from a large corpus of text and HTML documents.[6][7] A pre-defined algorithm can give a compression density boost for short data files.
Periscope - https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OdKrnDBYbkKX
Again, what indication is there to let us know that the black bar is tied to anyone's death, and not just a CSS change for the sake of it?
I think this story is actually a pretty incredible one. Just logistically it's a very interesting story that they were able to keep their collective corporate mouth shut--and even though it seems they're gearing up to milk the marketing effort now, that they did this without immediate payout in terms of brand marketing is surprising. And it's not like we're talking about a processed food brand with a million variants on the shelf either--we're talking an iconic, one-note Kraft dinner.

I'd inquire about the taste, if it's any different, etc, but I haven't had Kraft in, uh, a long ass time.
Computing Pi with Peachpie: blog.peachpie.io.
There's a big difference between Apple making their own VR hardware and shipping a computer with a fast enough GPU to run other VR hardware (or ability to have a fast enough GPU via something like the Razer Core).

The latter would be necessary for Apple in the growing VR ecosystem but it could be great for many other areas that require an intensive GPU. And that's the argument of the piece.
An amazingly high percentage of the effort in coding goes into error handling, particularly if you think of error handling as an afterthought.
Which, in a single lane scenario, have the additional benefit of decreasing collisions and injuries for pretty much all involved. They are also successfully proven in a roadway network (the proposed scheme here doesn't consider that case). Roundabouts are a great analog tech.

Roundabouts get less compelling when they are multi-lane (can start to suck for pedestrians and bikes in particular). They can also take up lots of space. But, on the whole, roundabouts be good.
I can't help but think there's a little bit of a Welcome to Night Vale influence - but a (distorted? misinterpreted?) Southern Gothic trend started around 2012-2013. I saw a lot of revisiting of dark recolorings of reality in that vein crop up when that podcast came out, particularly on tumblr.

If you look up the "Southern Gothic Meme" or "____ Gothic" memes (for your city, state, concept, etc) theres some really entertaining shortform writing out there. :)
If you get the first one wrong the rest of the list will not matter at all. The most important questions are, who will my advisor be? What is the completion rate for graduate students under their care? What kind of personal network does the advisor maintain and what kinds of roles do the graduating PhDs go into?

I wish I had known to ask that sort of thing. My advisor typically kept a lab of a dozen postdocs and a single PhD at any given time. I think in 25 years of being a research professor with sizeable grants that advisor only graduated 4 doctoral students, and a rather distressing proportion of the postdocs left not only academia but science after that lab.

I would also try to hang out with the current doctoral students and assess their psychological well-being.
Definitely agree. If you're thinking that you're missing out on life then make the change, go down a tangential path. Do not go through life bitching & whining that you didn't make the most of an opportunity.

Take the sabbatical and go to Europe for 6 months. If it turns out to not be what you expected, so what, you've learned something and grown.
Bob Ebeling, Challenger Engineer Who Forewarned of Shuttle Disaster, Dead at 89
I feel like that kind of comparison is a good candidate for a side project. Take picture, OCR, compare to old list, turn red if it's different
My point was that it is really easy to say that any big city will have a terrorist attack. So it's never if, but always when. Yet with all the surveillance and lockdowns they have, they didn't see this coming, which was the point of the parent, that more surveillance is not going to solve anything.
Or, alternatively, we could just get off HN and get some work done.

What's that you say? But I'm writing this on HN? Oh right, er, uh..

/me takes his own advice and closes HN.
I've done this kind of "NAND mirroring" technique before but in the context of SSD failure analysis and debugging. We built a special board that would dump the contents of the NAND to a file and restore it. That way we could be free to do failure analysis without losing our only evidence. And the effort to build this infrastructure was not difficult at all and paid back in the first use.
Agreed in full; see my other post in this thread.
I would be willing to bet that the difference in numbers between people using email and people running JS is enormous.
>The article doesn't go into details as to why Apple should be doing anything with VR that isn't a) a proven technology nor is it b) anything more than a fad.

You could say the same about cars, but Apple is supposedly working on building one. The same could be said about watches before the Apple Watch was released too. I agree with your point, but I'm just playing devil's advocate.
No, it's marketing more than innovation.
Firefox handing mailto links to mutt
The same thing has happened in the Python/Java/Ruby/etc. world. There's a reason "written in pure Foo" was an expression even before Node.js.
You can use google sheets IMPORTRANGE function to make your own copy. For example:

=IMPORTRANGE("1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l0FEykKsQKttu7O6q7iQd2bU", "'Salaries'!A:L")
what VR hardware have you tried?
'overly aggressive'.
The default movement keys are (I believe) inherited from emacs.
If the private key is compromised or the HPKP header is changed through some other vulnerability in your site, the attacker could still satisfy the existing pin header. The attack for clients with cached pins would be a bit more involved and would have to be done in two steps¹:

First visit: Add a new backup hash for a certificate that the attacker
controls.
Second visit: Use the new backup certificate for the TLS session
and set a new HPKP header that excludes the keys the site owner
actually uses.

¹ This is assuming browsers won't accept HPKP headers that don't pass for the current connection. I haven't actually checked this.
> Coca-Cola Classic saw much better sales than the same coke did before that. Making people wonder if the new coke fiasco wasn't intentional.

They're not that dumb, and they're not that smart.
My city's water comes from deep aquifers. In theory it is high quality, but in practice it tastes horrible because it is so hard.

My city just kicked off a project to deepen the wells so they don't need as much anti-bacterial treatment and the savings will be used to soften it a bit.
Computing Pi with Peachpie (PHP Compiler to .NET)
Beewake: book hotel rooms, meeting rooms or office space for single day use
I just bought my first Windows PC in 13 years to power a VR headset.

And after removing all the unnecessary HP crapware, driver installation headaches and navigating the weird hybrid UI, I was reminded of how much I haven't missed.
I have never heard of Andy Grove before today.

Perhaps that is working as intended.
Where in the US are Juniors regularly getting 100k to 150k?I need to move if this is the case.
Apart from your comment, it would appear.
Maybe they worried too much. Even though the change was written on the box, nobody noticed or commented. That's how much people cared.
Neither Dynamo nor BigTable are document stores.

And there is no reason why Postgres couldn't handle this kind of stuff. Sure it doesn't come with the needed scaling tools built in but it's doable. I'm running billions of rows through a Postgres analytics setup.

A purpose built system can be more efficient but it also doesn't need to mean NoSQL. You can see some of the serious-scale datastores adopting SQL-like query interfaces. For example Hive for Hadoop or PlyQL for Druid.

NoSQL is a loose term for a mish-mash of technologies.
Google's Brotli Compression library
Vacations cost money.
Apple TV OS 9.2 gets folders and voice dictation
NAND mirroring technique this article describe is just absurd.

It would be more believable to me that FBI will try to steal the Apple's secret signing key or to bribe the Apple engineers in two weeks.
> The people who drop out of PhD programs usually are plenty smart enough, they just don't know how to make things happen.

Generalizations like this aren't useful. I could just as easily say "The people who finish PhD programs are plenty smart, they just don't understand the sunk costs fallacy."

I dropped out to make things happen. I took a job where I learned and developed myself more than I did as a student.
Not really, most of the states in the US are not Direct Democracies.
Is this a Silicon Valley TV show joke or is this real?

Not sarcasm, real question.
But then you'd go to add / remove / change an init script and realize that the world had been completely changed underneath you.
The conjugate issue of "the war for talent" is what happens to the talent when they get hired.

Until I got into my 40's I had no sympathy for anyone who felt their "work was meaningless".

Then I thought things through and realized my main bitch was working on projects that were doomed to fail by management, that wasted huge amounts of effort, etc.

For instance there was the project that got delayed by 6 months of "side projects" directed by management, maybe 1/3 of that was a project to develop a successful one-off system for a delightful customer to work with (really) and the other 2/3 was an ill-begotten project that got no revenue and ended up in a dispute with partners (mgt thought about filing a provisional patent application but couldn't scape up the $300.)

Then they want to bitch me about about the main project being 6 months late and I could show exactly where those 6 months went...
Ice, Ice Baby
Apple's target customer doesn't need a graphics card to do anything more demanding than video editing. It's been probably at least 7 years since you could get a Mac with anything like a top-of-the-line graphics card. Are there potential customers that Apple is not grabbing by not having a high-end graphics option? Sure!

But Apple doesn't care...

The thing about Apple is that, unlike almost all of their competitors, they really don't care about a "Mac in every home". They'd much rather target specific slices of the market where they can excel and make a lot of money (think BMW, not Ford).
I'm sure Japan has. This is a normal continuity of business protocol, with a cascade down reporting lines. If one fails to respond, cascade to the next layer of reporting down. And have an actual cascade plan in-hand, at home, at work, and on mobile.

All businesses should have one, and they are useful for many reasons. Test it annually or more, depending on business. And have results posted back - who responds, who doesn't.
Fair enough, though you could revert back to a new 5S and be no worse off. It's a bit sluggish here and there but I'm typing this post on one and it's still my only phone and holds up for 95% of tasks.
Eurovision is supposed to be fun though. At least, that's the UK's perspective. Everyone else takes it more seriously and submit almost exclusively tedious rock ballads. They're been a few non-boring entries though, including a finish metal band and a pair of clowns from Ireland.
Pepsi changed the formula for Diet Pepsi in Aug 2015. The change was mainly to remove the aspartame and substitute Splenda. Some folks are very unimpressed.
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Rocket vs. Docker and the Myth of the “Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform”
Exadata:Hardware used to be competitively priced (at least in the x4 age), its the licensing for the software on top that makes it really expensive.

The other thing is that some oracle features only work on exadata or other engineered systems. The hybrid columnar compression for one and query offload as well as some forms of the in memory stuff. The problem is that these are very high end features and most of us live happily without these. Postgres is going after the bread in the oracle db market while exadata is the exclusive cheese shop. Much smaller market even if the margins are better.
To me it just feels rather curt. I suppose it saves the effort of trying to write something meaningful.
>That second form to filter should be a function, but in this case it is an expression that returns a boolean and is not itself a function.

I'm pretty sure this is Clojure or something very close to it. ->> is the thread-last macro. What it does is take the first expression, ($alice) and inserts it as the last expr in the next form so that the second step (assoc $friends) would eval to (assoc $friends $alice). It continues this by inserting this expr into the last part of the next form. So the example would reduce to:
(filter (> age 20) (assoc $friends (assoc $friends $alice)))