skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of find this video to be disingenuous. She claims that the device was direct from Apple and only proof is by the parts they used and the craftsmanship, in the comments she does mention receipt, but no timeframe so could've been replaced by Apple the later repaired by someone else, also she implies 3rd party vendors parts and craftsmanship is just as good. So wouldn't it stand to reason that it's equally possible they got the repair done somewhere else and not mention it?

I've worked as a tech long enough to know customers often forget to mention all damage, issues & past repairs. Sometimes out of malice, but generally simply because they forgot, they don't know better or they weren't privy to all the info (bringing it in for some other family member, so on).

Also, bad boards happen regardless if they're refurbished or new. With Apple supplied boards I find that to be the exception rather then the rule. Wish I could say the same about 3rd party vendors, I understand it's a cut throat business and Apple getting into the business a decade and a half ago didn't help, but this video really seems to want to make Apple out as the villain trying to pass off crap products/repairs as ok.
Minority languages also make it to Google's Statistical MT
Sounds outlier-ish. Not something I'd intuitively expect most people to do.
Lync is now Skype for Bussines if I am not mistaking
Jump to 33 min if you just want to hear about XBox dev mode.

And here is a dedicated talk on using Universal Windows Platform on XBox :
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B883
Hopefully you don't have to wait!

We're really hoping that this set of tools has only the minimal requirements, that being the kernel.

Since Clang/LLVM can be linked as a static or dynamic library, we only have a build-time dependency on those, and opt for the static library. The build scripts have steps to build clang+llvm from source if your distro doesn't include it. The binaries that we ship hide this and should (if we've done things right) only have a libc and few misc .so dependencies. A change under test even adds a fully static lua version.

On the kernel side, we don't conditionally compile anything based on kernel features, and instead try/fail at runtime. You can just upgrade your kernel and the tools will start to take advantage of the new features immediately.
Passengers also have Uber ratings. I read wjagodfrey's comment as talking about their passenger rating, not their driver rating.
Apple's refurb stuff generally undergoes a more stringent QA process than their factory stuff (in fact a lot of the refurb units are returns that were never used, but are still checked). There might be some visible differences if repairs are required, but the quality should generally be as-good or better. The iPad in this video is either an anomaly or, more likely, not an unaltered refurb from Apple.
I bet that study won't replicate. Reproducibility issues in psychology are an established fact. I think at least two studies reproduce the problems with reproducability in psychology.
Off topic: this is a horrible web design anti-pattern... a big long page in an iframe that somehow completely messes with my scroll wheel?

No thanks.
Pure CSS Free Text Logo Maker
Why would they?
Frankenstein OS (Linux + Windows) is going to break every dev tool chain you can think of. I don't see how anyone in their right mind would think Frankenstein OS is a good dev platform.

I guess if you don't mind having an unstable system and enjoy searching google for "how to get xyz to work in bash windows linux" and finding absolutely no answers on stackoverflow then Frankenstein OS is good for you. If you want to find and squash completely new types of bugs that you aren't use to dealing with, then use Frankenstein OS.

For those of us who just want a system that works and is reliable then we should stay away from Frankenstein OS.
I've been meaning to get back to learning Arabic after one failed attempt. I'm into calligraphy and Arabic calligraphy is some of the most beautiful writing in the world.
Austinite too. It's a mess that's growing out of control, but thankfully I find the suburbs more attractive as I age.

Huge issue is that the real estate market is growing faster than wages are. So you need to be able to throw down serious cash if you want in. I'm of the conclusion that you either better hustle hard and make a ton of money or move further out and schedule your commute accordingly. It's not going to change nor will the counsel fix it.

I personally think that Central areas have reached bubble status. Total dumpster fires going for nearly a million? Might as well move to the ocean for that much!

Anyway, I honestly don't think it's worth fighting. If you want in, the better solution is figuring out how you're going to get 200k cash in your bank account without devastating your life, and fast. Otherwise rent all your life, or see ya in Leander. Pick one.
> Give the average person money without structure, instruction or necessity and they cease to be productive in any sense of the word.

We know they'll be (re)productive in one sense of the word :P

But in all seriousness, everything we know presumes a world where people are expected to work and a good deal of self esteem is tied to work. In a future where machines are primarily responsible for the majority of the things that people do today, that won't be the case. Some people might lack the drive to occupy themselves with something useful, but that's okay...we wouldn't be relying on them for anything anyways. But many others would occupy themselves with some sort of creative activity. Whereas many people tend to focus on all those freeloaders receiving UBI and not giving anything substantial back to society, I choose to focus on the freedom that UBI provides to those that do want to be productive.

When YC gave a call for research on UBI, everyone assumed it was an assuagement of guilt thing where they wanted to prepare for a world where they've disrupted everyone out of their jobs. But I don't think that's why YC is interested in UBI, or at least it shouldn't be. I think they want UBI because of how much easier it would then be to become a founder. Ramen profitable would suddenly mean the business actually being able to lose money each month. A break-even business where founders took no salary would have an infinite runway. First hires could be compensated solely in equity and YC could seed with lesser amounts of money since the amount of money spent on employees would go down significantly. Paying rent rent and buying food for the founders of a company increases the challenges that need to be overcome and means that starting something becomes unthinkable to many people with family obligations. Imagine if that challenge and that fear over supporting one's family disappeared. How many world-changing startups are we missing out on because someone with a killer idea is too afraid of failure to try?

In short, I see UBI helping creative members of society create so much more easily than they do today that I have no problem believing they'd more than make up for people that simply took their UBI and did nothing.
Each service is the sole owner of their own namespace.

If you want to solve this, go distributed and own your own namespace.

Instead of ${walledgarden}, run your own GNU social instance and federate.
This is extremely similar to DevCards for Clojurescript, https://github.com/bhauman/devcards, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_g2fnEDg
More generally, presence is the missing piece. VR is one possible solution to that, if you can solve the motion-sickness issues. Holographics (if real-time holos ever reach commercial viability...there's some interesting research on it now) is another possible solution. Perhaps there are other possibilities that people haven't found yet. Wrap around screens, like the Google Liquid Galaxy display? Projectors?

But someone needs to invent a way for office workers to feel like they can have an impromptu conversation, casually, with a coworker thousands of miles away before remote work really takes off.
Suborbital is like building a little 2-seater Cessna. Orbital is like bulding a Boeing 777. Actually, no, it's much harder than that.

Just look at the size of the vehicles to get a sense.

If you are interested, read-up on what it takes to escape into space and then to orbits as high as 22,000 miles.

Beyond that, landing a first stage from orbital escape delivery of the second stage is harder than landing from zero velocity suborbital.

And then, add to that landing from orbital delivery to an orbit that leaves you no choice but to land on a postage stamp sized barge and, yeah, there really is no comparison.
I've been considering getting a Pentium II thinkpad and going all Debian 3.0 on it, KDE2 and probably StarOffice something. Not as antique, but there is USB and thus Wi-Fi or cabled ethernet.
Somebody did an actual anaysis of that leak, and the code was considered high quality overall.

You get dodgy comments in the Linux kernel to.
Much of Silicon Valley is actually zoned multi-family. The big problem here is height restrictions, not single vs. multi-family.
I've heard the moderator, dang, say that the duplicate system is imperfect. Sometimes it's just luck. It looks like this has been posted several times over the past few days.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20to%20Build%20Your%20Own%...
My mother was severely burned over a large portion of her body in 1988. The amount of effort (and knowledge) to save her back then at MGH was tremendous, even with out the access to information we have today. Materials, grafting techniques, processes, equipment, medications, rehab, etc. [1]

I have to say medical progress is incredible (to me) now and yet still feels slow to reach patients. Most progress seems to be slowed by regulatory and financial systems. Coordination between research, government, commercialization and patients is complex. I know I'm stating what is obvious to many, but I still hold on to the fantasy that a single medical researcher can discover a breakthrough, apply it, save many, and integrate into mainstream medicine in a course of year. With science advancing more quickly, (and perhaps when machines can accelerate it orders of magnitude), the future bottlenecks will only be regulation, coordination and distribution.

What startups focusing on improving the aforementioned?

[1] - related - in 2008,2011 there was this spray on skin gun but it used stem cells.
http://gizmodo.com/5019710/spray-on-skin-gun-shoots-stem-cel...
http://gizmodo.com/5749968/the-skin-gun-that-sprays-new-skin...
Well Solaris has always been a technically superior OS, but the userland was unfriendly compared to Linux.
To some extent, yes. But if the company is private, a minority shareholder can only sue a majority holder under the terms of the sale. In a public company they can sue under the terms of the SEC. If the company is private, the majority shareholder can act against financial interests if they like.

Public companies are trying to box out specific areas where they might legally do that: C-corps, mission-based exemptions during public sale, etc

But—and this is full on opinion now—I suspect when the chips are down, the courts will rule that Google can't just burn a pile of value because "we like Science" or somesuch thing. They'll get away with it as long as the pile of money is growing. And hopefully that's "forever". But maybe forever isn't as long as we think it is. The world is changing. Snapchat cometh.
I haven't found a citation on this, but I'm pretty confident that the folks who gave us explicit racial segregation said some pretty terrible things about poor people that I'll be able to cite. Unfortunately, the time I can spend on this is limited.
I'm in full agreement that running's best enjoyed, but be fair to the writing and the audience. In the very next sentence, she explained exactly why to start by picking a race, and it wasn't about earning stickers or getting tshirts.

The reason is motivation, and having a deadline and a financial commitment is motivating for most people. This was written for an audience that isn't running yet, and most people who aren't running yet do need to have tricks to motivate.
>can't pretend I wouldn't be super excited to run a Microsoft Linux on my dev machine

Seeing as MS is basically a branch of the NSA I'm not excited about that at all. I might be slightly excited if MS went open source and allowed people to include their tools in other distros, but the NSA would never allow that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400322
Ask HN: How do you learn complex/difficult material online?
I'm trying to go through some archived Coursera courses. Sometimes I have questions about the math in the slides or the lecture and I want to ask questions but I'm not sure where to direct them.

The discussion forums aren't active anymore since the courses are archived. Sometimes I use StackExchange but it doesn't always guarantee answers. Also sometimes people answer questions there in terms of other complex topics that you don't necessarily know about.

So what I want to know is, when you're studying something complex or technically hard to understand, how do you get your questions about the materials answered?
Restocks (YC W16) is hiring a full stack engineer
Restocks is a Y Combinator funded startup that is backed by some of the most prominent names in tech. We’re currently looking for smart and passionate engineers to join our growing team as we redefine the way consumers shop.

To make this happen, we have a backend built on top of Postgres, Node, and RethinkDB. We’re excited to talk to you if you love Node, Go, geek out over deployment strategies, and understand the unique challenges that crawling 50,000 products in real time can pose.

On the client side of things, we’re using web technologies like Angular and are working on porting our app to more modern (and native!) technologies.

Working on Restocks presents a new opportunity to build a new way to shop. We’re looking for ambitious engineers that want to build a rock solid tool for the most passionate consumers to purchase goods and build a new marketplace and community on top of it.

As a first hire, you’ll have opportunities to build new parts of our tech stack with freedom. We’ll respect the tools you want to use if you can justify it -- from Go to Rust to Erlang, you’re going to make decisions on the most crucial parts of our infrastructure that haven't been written yet.

You:

* are excited about the idea of joining a small but fast growing startup.

* enjoy autonomy, and taking responsibility for helping achieve shared goals

* are a strong communicator, and enjoy helping ensure that the right things happen

* You’ve built, deployed, and maintained an application
Proficiency with JavaScript and other modern languages

*Are comfortable with the following technologies: AWS, Angular.js, Node.js, Rethinkdb, Postgres

Bonus Points:
Swift / ObjC experience is a plus!
If you live for sneakers, streetwear & software you will love working with us.

What we offer:

- Company focus on shipping awesome product. No politics.

- Competitive salary and equity packages (as a first hire, we will compensate you accordingly)

- Healthcare benefits

- Unlimited PTO

- Sunny office in SOMA

- See something you love in the app? We’ll reimburse you

- Equipment to get your job done (pick your own setup once you get here!)

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you. Please send us an email to jobs@restocks.io and include whatever info you believe is relevant:

resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.
The spec contains sample payloads for pretty much every resource. In fact, you can build a functional client for http-01 just by looking at the examples.

On top of that, if you're using a programming language that's at least close to mainstream, there's a very good chance someone has already written a library which handles most of the nitty-gritty details of ACME. As an example, this is all the code you need with the acme-client ruby gem in order to solve a http-01 challenge and get a cert (slightly abbreviated):

require 'acme/client'
client = Acme::Client.new(private_key: private_key, endpoint: endpoint)
registration = client.register(contact: 'mailto:contact@example.com')
registration.agree_terms
authorization = client.authorize(domain: 'example.org')
# serve challenge.filename with content challenge.file_content
challenge.request_verification
# loop/sleep until challenge.verify_status == 'valid'
csr = Acme::Client::CertificateRequest.new(names: ['example.org'])
certificate = client.new_certificate(csr)
# certificate.to_pem contains your signed cert. done!
Yeah admittedly that judgement largely depends on where you live and the cost base. In my opinion, that wouldn't buy you much in SF or NY. For somebody located outside of a city, it could have a much bigger impact.
I do have to apologize for that piece of code... I wrote it down more of a reminder... I didn't check the syntax if it works. I guess not. It will be fixed.
I am out of the loop, but I have a few questions, from a scientific perspective.

Inputs into system can be either boundary/initial conditions and constants. It seems like here, you essentially have to design the number system to match the problem, is this correct?

How can someone solve odes with this? I can see this solving constraints (which is basically algebra) but how about dynamical systems, especially when you don't quite know the behavior of the system, specifically, the bounds of your solution (which allow you to define your interval boundaries)? For example, what about chaotic systems (which are difficult in normal math too, I know). How about min/max problems (finding the global minimum of a function)?

It sounds like one would have to iterate your number system until you find your solution, which sounds like just offloading the difficulty somewhere else. (For finding the minimum of a function, you iterate as well, essentially). I think it makes sense that this does some problems well, but I need help to buy that it does all problems well.
They are the last ones who should have an opinion on the matter, as pain clouds their judgement towards revenge.

Besides, they'd be saying the same things for anybody, if they were convinced or led to believe that he/she was the culprit, even if he/she were innocent.

Only if they were against the death penalty should they be heard, because that would be a sign that they speak putting revenge and petty sentiments aside.

The justice system shouldn't be a mechanism for revenge but for the protection of society.
Interesting read, but… Specifics? "Hope and teamwork" was all it took to get on top of a crushing backlog of support requests? Sounds like a fairytale…
WebRTC Experiments and Demos
Palo Alto is utterly stupid, and here's why: The last time a multi-unit building (ie. Apartments) were built in PA was in the 70s. They haven't approved one since, despite many hundreds of applications to build such things since then.

The middle class don't need subsidies, they need affordable housing. The best way to get that is to let people build affordable housing.

It's the same as with SF -- the city won't let people build to meet demand. You don't get to complain about the high price and then not let someone who wants to fix it actually fix it.
I can afford to buy in central Austin. We should fight for those who can't. This is a battle that can be won, and if you're interested in helping, join Friends of Austin Neighborhoods, a group of individuals and neighborhood associations who love their neighborhoods and want to share them with others.

http://www.atxfriends.org/
>yes, people would be fired and there will be serious pain in the short run

If by serious pain, you mean profit margins take a serious dent, then yes, there will be pain.

There's a LOT more whinging and stamping of feet by profit-focused lobby groups...

http://conservativetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bi...

...than actual lost jobs, however:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-seattle-s-m...
The author is working from the assumption that it's easier to make governments and authorities infallible and incorruptable than it is to deal with a world with encrypted communication.

Coming from a reporter (someone supposedly professionally versed current affairs), this is contemptibly stupid position to take.
To me, VR is presence. The metaverse has existed since the first network was turned on. It's the sensation of presence in the metaverse that people are referring to when they say "VR".
Brand doesn't matter. Comfort and fit are most important. I'm currently running in Asics and Nikes. I've worn Mizuno's and New Balance in the past. A running store will generally match your foot to a category of shoe (stability, motion control, neutral/cushioned), then pull out various brands of that category till you find one that's comfortable. But the category part is bunk. See the NYT article on shoes I linked to and also this page http://fellrnr.com/wiki/The_Science_of_Running_Shoes

If you want a specific recommendation, give the Saucony Kinvara a try. It's more shoe than I normally wear, but I needed a red shoe as part of a costume for a recent marathon, and found them not bad. :-)

I'll also refer you to Fellrnr for more info. He's reviewed a ton of shoes - http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Shoes

If you go to a running store, ask to try on a variety of cushioned shoes till you find one that's comfortable.
The Mission is up and coming, it's now one of the hot real estate areas. I'm pretty sure Marina is more expensive, though it's not listed on the map.
I don't agree that 2 million lines of code is "going to take a few minutes to compile no matter what [compiled] language it's written in." Based on my experiences with Go so far, I believe Go could get that significantly faster, probably under a minute. Also, the "several minutes" number I quoted is also for incremental compiles where only one very small thing has changed, not just for full compiles, which take even longer.

TIOBE is a poor measure of programming language popularity for a lot of reasons. But even if we accept that Java, C, C++, and C# are the top languages, I already commented that Java's build is not that fast in the real world (except for very small projects). I don't have any first-hand experience with C#, but I've never heard anyone claim fast compilation is an advantage of that language. C and C++ are slow builders, as we already know. So the top compiled languages are rather slow compilers, which is one reason why scripting languages (I assume you mean non-ahead-of-time-compiled-languages) became popular in the 2000s. This is one part of what Rob Pike was talking about when he said "poorly designed static type systems drive people to dynamic typing."
But that's exactly the point -- it makes a lot more sense for someone like "Adam Sandler" to have "Adam", rather than someone less popular. So it's not at all the position you were in before -- this is the whole improvement!
We're saying the same thing. I've found that it's harder to convince people when I talk about buildings and economics, so I talk about the families our laws prevent from living in our neighborhoods.