skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's clearly a pretty severely diminished return in chasing further thinness for laptops. At this point, the controlling factor for their portability is neither weight nor thickness, it's the other two dimensions (which, obviously, carry much harsher tradeoffs to minimizing than do weight and thickness).

That wasn't true five years ago, but it absolutely is today.
There is also PgQ from the https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SkyTools package, which is fantastic and mature. It's like Kafka inside your PostgreSQL. When I was at Instagram, we implemented a multi-region cache invalidation system using PgQ that took advantage of atomicity between PgQ and writes to the source-of-truth data table. http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/548723638608102/
I was unaware of that. It is a shame. I had been holding out hope that the rise of pirate parties in Europe meant that there was enough of a countervailing special interest to push things back to 14+14.
The Macbook is still on its first generation. It's nice, but there is room for improvement. The Air has had time to refine and is a spectacular little computer. It is light, has capable internals, has all the ports you need, and can go up to 13".
I have a hard time living without the Retina display now.
Define "most of Europe".

Eastern or Western?
WaPo has been running Instant Articles for a while, as have a few dozen partners. What's changed is that with general availability, media distribution is going to change profoundly in the coming months.
That's not my impression. See the other front page post about him today.
It's really annoying to get caught in a blog.domain.com subdomain without any obvious links back to the main domain.
Mozilla and Palemoon – Mozilla losing their temper?
Would be nice if they could use RFC 6238 TFA as well, it is a bit more convenient if you only have your Android device with you.

Edit: Reason for that being that I prefer having all TFA codes in my Google Auth app/Authy with requires no internet connection. Using SMS/text or other devices is a bit inconvenient when traveling and using a local SIM.
There isn't 1 button for that, but you can either drag the separator or just set all folders to "Show".
So, how committed are you to the name "Whitestorm"? To me, it brings to mind Stormfront, a white supremacist website/organization that is particularly repugnant (even for white supremacist organizations). I may be alone in having this first thought about the name; but the words "white" and "storm" are kinda linked forever in my mind, and associated with repugnant ideas. Kinda like I would never name something "White Power".
> It would probably cost more to start up the A-10 lines again than finish up the F35.

It's not just about cost of the platform, but also the capabilities provided by it. So even if the F35 is "finished" it won't necessarily fill the void left by the A-10, so more A-10s might be a better investment.

From what I understand, the F35 did not gain effectiveness in proportion to its cost.
Exactly. This is an extreme - and ever more prevalent - illustration of why I don't use air dryers in public restrooms. It also bothers when they says it's done to help the environment. Even if that's true (unlikely, but it saves money and generates good PR), it just makes the environment and those in it dirtier, which probably doesn't help most people.
Mark Manson put out a great explanation why people go to such extremes, he called them a "fake-alpha". [1] It happens when going from a "nice guy" with repressed anger and unmet needs to a so called "alpha-male" popularized by the modern pick-up communities. While the short-term it might be working, it doesn't actually make you a better person to live with. This can changed be with opening up more. [2]

[1] http://postmasculine.com/the-fake-alpha-males/comment-page-1

[2] http://markmanson.net/power-in-vulnerability
For marketing purpose. This is the only thing I can think of.
Ditto

I had hoped they would have released a 16gb RAM version sometime over the last 4 years, but alas no, here we are debating if it has been abandoned or not.

There are no compromises with this machine. Even the integrated graphics chip has seen improvements in both drivers and how newer frameworks use it. Its a beast. More RAM would future proof it for another four years.
Snowplow seems good for collecting event-data. But what about the Dashboard UI for analyzing Retention, Querying & Segmentation, Retroactive funnel analysis, etc? Collecting the data is one thing but what makes something like mixpanel great is the dashboard.

Is there a client you can put on top of snowplow that gets you the same dashboard as mixpanel?
Think about it, if peoples houses and 401Ks went belly up, there would be chaos and major fallout.
Not all, just a plurality! And getting out the vote is exactly how you do that.
So instead of realizing you married an incompatible person, you changed your behaviour to an extreme ? To paraphrase the "pick-up" jargon - that sounds beta.
>>It is amazing how terribly managed our military resources are

no really, military is a government program like any other...

Government is nothing if not terrible at managing anything
Well if nothing else, your points about corruption are arguments against government in general :-) Decentralize power back to the people themselves. If I have no power over another, then my corruption affects only me.

However, corruption at the local level affects a limited number of people, and since local politics are easy to influence, they can be changed. Local politicians get into criminal trouble all the time, so they are not immune to the law.

Corruption at the national level affects all of us, and it's much harder to change the institutions. Even worse is the bureaucracy, which cannot be changed directly by the people, but meddles incessantly with our economy.

As for escaping corruption, you can leave your city easily, your state with moderate difficulty, but your country with great difficulty.
Good luck uninstalling it. The thing was designed in the vein of malware. It was almost as hard to clean off my system as RealAudio.
Everyone who is aware of the existence of Palemoon has for sure realized that there was a big nose-dive in opinions related to Firefox from both the Palemoon maker and their community when Mozilla changed their UX to Australis.

Also, there was bad blood from their community members side in many different postings which have been not really favorable towards Mozilla and sometimes these comments had a provocative writing style. But still, Mozilla seems lately to have some real problem with the Pale Moon guys and they decided to attack them and it looks like they demand that the moderation of the Pale Moon board becomes more strict so that only favorable posts about Mozilla are published or none at all.

This was not the only attack by Mozilla's side lately. For example https://twitter.com/ygjb/status/711446711479050241 mocking their attempts to re-base Palemoon and removing Australis or as seen here http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9227&p=80772&h... where Mozilla guy Robert Kaiser accused Palemoon project of "extorting money and destroying code".

The point is: some rude comments by community members of a certain board or not...it looks like Mozilla gets incredible nervous because of their current peculiar state and they seem to unleash all their frustrations now at the Palemoon project. It also looks like Mozilla has a growing animosity with people taking and modifying the Mozilla source code and using this for own unique products and they also try to get rid of projects which have been hosted and supported so far by Mozilla itself. If you are a big developer, one can argue that you should stand above incidents like that , but Mozilla's more and more dire situation in the market is for sure putting them under a heavy load of stress.

Concluded...Most users have the serious hope that Mozilla stops their current quest to see Google Chrome as their main competitor and moves again back in the direction of a more technolog wise skilled target-user group which would re-open the door for a more larger market share than right now. Also that Mozilla gets again in a more healthy relationship with projects like Seamonkey and Thunderbird which are threatened with suffering heavy losses when Mozilla removes their recent technology and moves on to a more Google Chrome inspired one.

Time is ticking and projects like Tofino and the uncertainty what is the future for Firefox (Servo or Blink - just a guess now... most likely depending which research is more successful) including the upcoming removal of XUL and the deprecation of the powerful old add-on and theming model is not really helpful in making users again restoring their faith in Mozilla and Firefox.
Interesting to note the patterns of where you put 'default' actions.

Most of the Mac screenshots have the 'ok' button on the right, while windows is usually (but not always) on the left.

This is always a UX debate when designing something new, and you can always find supporting examples of doing it a variety of ways. It's a bit surprising that it still hasn't been settled after all these decades.
Your caps may take a breath in knowing the article actually refers to them as "swat attacks" and not pranks.
> Centralized planning worked for the Insterstate Highway System [1], which was considered successful.

Considered successful by some, perhaps, and probably not so much by others. Like people who don't like global warming or highway deaths, to give two examples.
"We have to ask ourselves does a particular plan work better or worse than some other realistic alternative."

You're arguing about the highway system. Not only is it "a realistic alternative" to your state-run theory, it's actually real.

In fact, we've had this debate, in the real world, and your side lost: every state has an extensive network of state-funded highways, nearly all of which are slower and less efficient than the interstate system.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say your country probably has self-proclaimed white nationalist representatives in your Parliment (or similar governmental apparatus), an almost entirely homogenous demographic (barring recent refugees), no free speech, and state accessible cameras recording on every corner.

It's almost like different places have different tradeoffs, and acting like a smarmy elitist in response to GP's statement about the economics of a situation is a non sequitur.
there is a considerable difference between devolution (the _return_ of authority from a central position to the states) and a weak and insufficiently binding treaty such as the articles of confederation.

for devolution to occur there must have first been a strong central authority to devolve those powers in the first place. the lack of a strong central authority can be problematic, as the situation with the articles of confederation demonstrates. that is not the situation I'm discussing though.

the example of the institution of slavery and the noxious "states rights" argument made by southern slavers at the time is a historical outlier. its such an exceptional (and not in a good way) that I really hesitate to hold it up as typical of any situation at all. its very sui generis.

the current situation where southern states (the same ones that used to be slave states, it seems), are trying to pass laws to institutionalize anti-gay bigotry is an interesting discussion that I'm willing to have on this issue. you make a good point. there are definitely people in those states who are putting forward a pro-devolution argument in favor of their stance.

as a counterpoint though, I would say that the movement for gay marriage itself began using exactly the same strategy. gay marriage advocates (and I was one in New York) lobbied their state governments to pass laws that supported their position. they were willing to do this without the support of the federal government and in fact for many years the gay marriage movement was deeply hesitant to elevate the issue to the federal level for fear that a federal circuit court, or congress itself, would shut them down. it was only once critical mass of cultural change had occurred that the gay marriage movement was willing and able to successfully make their case at the federal level and win the supreme court decision.

my point is that devolution is just a methodology for governance. it is neutral with respect to policy. which policy the people want is determined by their culture. devolution of authority allows cultural movements to work with relatively less impediment from distant central authorities that might want to shut them down. we should still participate actively in our local cultures though, in order to transform society into what we want it to be. less bigotry. more love. those are my goals for cultural transformation.
Deploying Go (or Node, or Ruby,) Applications in Docker
So far my experience have been terrible. Worse experience than the previous version. It is difficult to understand how stories work.
It doesn't fit well with the Facebook messenger platform.

Lacks documentation and examples. There is no support for story branching, conditional flows, or intents.

What is Merge supposed to do.. How is it possible for my server code to know what to merge the entity into context, without knowing the intent.
> What is it about the states that make them the right level to delegate power to?

Nothing in particular, but states are smaller than the federal government. For most things, more local government is better in my opinion.
More from FSF:

"Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux"

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/
If you're a university student, Microsoft has an academic program where you get access to the "Windows research kernel", which is the NT kernel.

Also, the Windows 2000 code was leaked back in 2004; there's a torrent floating around in your nearest pirate bay. Disclaimer: I'm not promoting doing anything illegal.
Africa has never been short of potential, but that doesn't mean it will live up to it in our lifetime.
Interesting idea, but just reads like a lot of hand wringing to me. And comparing centralization of the web to colonial rule is ridiculous and honestly pretty insensitive.

I like that it acknowledges that running a personal web server is out of reach (technologically and financially) for most people. But I'm not sure if its proposed decentralized network is any better, because creating web content and having a large number of people see it are not easy.

At the end of the day, most people using the web do not have a technical background and really just want to microblog to their friends using a simple interface. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and hell, even Snapchat do that. I'm having trouble imagining a decentralized network that replicates that.
Start a good API foundation with Go
I'm not a cryptography guy myself but thanks for the tip - still on time to learn a few things!
Why not train all the combat forces up to the point where they can operate from ships? Because reasons?

Here we are discussing a lack of procurement for a vital role, ostensibly partly because command is not structured in a way where capability is a priority, and you are doubling down on the traditional structure being obviously sensible.
This is what I've been using it for lately.
Their landing page of their site isn't too bad the first thing you see is The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much more.

Though I am not sure why their blog doesn't link to the landing page of the site.
>Our Chancellor is governing our country while some others prefer to sue comedians. ;)

Did you miss the connection between both? The refugee crisis.

>And we'll never ever sue our comedians.

What? I think there was a time where Stefan Raab got sued on a monthly basis.
Getting rid of lead pipes would do little. Flint is a special case because the city did not add the proper anti-corrosion chemicals to the system when they switched water supplies. Probably every old city in the nation still has lead pipes, but most have properly coated the pipes with treatment so there is little to no lead leaching into drinking water. Of course there are exceptions, but it's not widespread.
> The internet has been stolen from you.

This isn't a felt need. I don't feel inconvenienced by this. I don't feel the loss of something I once owned or had the benefit of.

> The solution is to decentralize further,

The solution solves a very abstract problem. I would go so far as to say it's a religious or spiritual need only that is solved by this. Decentralization will not improve my life or meet any felt need (I am not less hungry, less lonely, more clothed, more sheltered, or more socially connected as a result of this product). The only benefit I could have is if I had a religious belief in the moral need for this type of system, and that system satisfied that moral belief. I think that's a very small minority of users.
The cost of the adapters is only part of it. Adapters are inconvenient, and IMO the reduced thickness isn't a good tradeoff for that extra inconvenience. (It has been in the past - losing the optical drive and ethernet port was absolutely worth it to me for a lighter & thinner machine.) Not to mention you only have one port, so even if all your USB devices use type C, you'll still need an adapter just to charge your laptop and use a USB device at the same time.
there is exactly one "senior technical fellow" at the company - davec.

while is wasn't entirely a solo effort - folks like forrest foltz, landy wang, etc were involved - it was amazing coming in on a monday morning and seeing the email that said "sync your enlistments and rebuild, you'll see a new amd64 version" and 95% of the system was now building and running for x64. it was crazy.
Actully, that's exactly what we say in Sweden: Tjeckien. It would translate Czechia.
* Courtesy the American Society of Civil Engineers
This project looks really cool! I'm very curious to find out more about how you make sure constants are correct across platforms and architectures. I will be poking around!
It seems to me that a few simple pieces of information can greatly help police departments know if it's a malicious hoax:

1. Is the call coming from a voip service?

2. Can the residence be reached via their normal phone line?

A small amount of caution should be used before local (and often times militarized) police forces go busting down doors.
I know nothing about maps / cartography but why wouldn't they include a section called "the mid west?" It just seems that that is a term that so many people use, at least where I am from.
I got MacBook due to its screen resolution and because it is silent. Owning fanless Dell Latitude X1 decade ago spoiled me as even rather silent quality notebook fans had started to bother me.
I'm African btw. My personal experience from my own country, neighboring countries and what I've read made me come to that conclusion.

Nice people are routinely walked over and preyed upon. On the other hand, people whose only care about you stops after collecting your money are the successful ones.

You may have found genuinely successful nice people. But I haven't.

For instance, my mum's business remained very unprofitable until my dad... One who fits the psych group above took over money matters.

I lost my own life's savings at one point and owed some more after running a joint business with some friends. The business was very successful in my point of view.

I set out to make sure that the customer experience was superb. And that our customers were always satisfied. I achieved that. The partners on the other hand were emptying the company coffers.
Spelled "kestral" in Nethack. :)
> I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that Apple will never release a new [1] product with the ‘Air’ branding again...

> [1] “New” meaning redesigned, I expect Apple to continue selling the MacBook Air and wouldn’t bet against a CPU upgrades.
This is one of the cases where using an "offshore" account to hold most of your money is probably justified.
Passively trying to meet anyone's endless irrational demands never works. It is not a gendered issue. Crazy is as crazy does.
This test was done with a hand dipped in a virus. When in real life this is only used after you wash your hands.

That doesn't seem like a very accurate test IMO.

Science.
Apple 'abandons' QuickTime on Windows
This project doesn't serve a felt user need. If you've ever worked in a startup attempting to do a consumer product you know exactly what I mean. It's extremely hard to get a user to even use a product that solves a problem for them, and much harder if they already have a product that they think solves the problem. If they don't feel the pain of the problem being solved, it's impossible. I don't think many users have a felt need for this product, whether or not the developers believe it solves an abstract moral or spiritual need.
This is totally not a problem. La-la-la.

Which is why this submission of mostly factual material got 8 or 12 points in ten minutes, climbed to the top 10 of the front page ...

... and then vanished from the first ten pages of the site, having got 17 points in some 15 minutes.

Algorithms.

La-la-la.
Newsonomics: With new roadblocks for digital news sites, what happens next?
Not just currently...

The USAF experimented with synthetic-reality environments for piloting in the 1980s with projects such as VCASS. But eventually they settled upon augmented reality, as did the Army.

30 years on the 'how' of synthetic / virtual reality has advanced hugely but have we answered the 'why'?
Is it okay if the poorest 10% of the world's population has negative net worth?

Should somebody who thinks inequality is bad ignore statistics that don't ignore people with negative net worth? If so, why?

Oh, and from the report:

"The average wealth of each adult belonging to the richest 1 percent is $1.7m, more than 300
times greater than the wealth of the average person in the poorest 90 percent, although for many people in the bottom 10 percent their wealth is zero or negative."

So they didn't ignore it anyway.
David “10x” is just statuplandia shorthand for substantial better than the competition.

These were not my critics of your startup, but my paraphrasing of the comments on your Apply HN application. You can choose to take them on board or not.

The reason investors care about 10x is that is what is required to convince customers to switch. Your product may well be 10x better (I am not an expert in this area so I can't answer this), but I do know that databases are an incredible crowded market with some very fierce competitors. To succeed you have to have a product that is at least 10x better and you have to be able to communicate this very clearly to your potential customers. It is great that you have customers already (hopefully paying ones), but if you want to grow rapidly you need to have a really compelling product and pitch. I wish you well.