skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a 2011 Air and it's the best machine I've ever owned. I'm not saying making it thinner would make it better, but I DEFINITELY get a huge amount of enjoyment from having a machine that thin vs, say, a 13" or 15" MBP.

I often travel with both the Air and the 15" MBP Retina, and despite the 15" being much faster in every way, and having a vastly better screen, I never use the MBP unless I have to for work. The Air is just so much more convenient to deal with. The size and weight make a HUGE difference.
Heh, weird how you have to use another engine to improve results. D:
I'm not sure what you mean. I was replying to user twr who said:

> Perhaps the open source movements should seek intuitive definitions of terms rather than invent vague nomenclature that only makes them unable to communicate with normal users.

The "open source movements" he/she mentioned have very technical definitions of what open source means (of varying degree, of course, but have you tried reading the GPL? Do you think it's non-technical?). Of all the valid criticisms you could throw at them, "vague nomenclature" is not one. Their definitions of open source may be difficult to communicate precisely because they are very technical, not because they are "vague".

I think "who" was quite clear in this context. Do you disagree?
Comparing wealth that was generated from/inside wealthy countries with the net worth of the poor in non-wealthy countries is not a good comparison - unless you can link that wealth as stolen from those other countries.

Otherwise, there is no link between the two.

Even when comparing the 1st and 2nd world countries you are going to have a difficult time linking this alleged wealth transfer/theft...

For example, when Apple sells a high-margin product in the USA - and the stock holders, employees, CEOs, etc, see their wealth increase - how many Rubles are stolen from the people of Russia? It is a ridiculous question.
Aren't pranks called "social experiments" these days?
Why add the requirement of naming the end tags? Seems like a relatively small change except if your trying to re-use templates everywhere
Certainly you're familiar with The Population Bomb from 1968[1], predicting mass starvation by the '80s.

Africa is huge, and 4 billion could live there. But will there be mass starvation? If they got to 4 billion, then I'd say not ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
wow! this is a good one! The Zip contains not only the logs but all the files that were part of the mIRC application (executable, config, etc). Maybe I'll try to find some old config files and explore this option.
That is what just happened in the EU parlament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20160407IPR2...

> The new rules include provisions on:
A right to be forgotten,
"clear and affirmative consent" to the processing of private data by the person concerned,
a right to transfer your data to another service provider,
the right to know when your data has been hacked,
ensuring that privacy policies are explained in clear and understandable language, and
stronger enforcement and fines up to 4% of firms' total worldwide annual turnover, as a deterrent to breaking the rules.

We'll see how that turns out.
Pardon my repeating what sounds like a cliche, but Africa is indeed a big place.

I do not know of the situation on Ethiopia, but my first-hand knowledge (being originally from Ghana and now living in the US) is that banks are generally just as reliable as in the West. It would have been shocking to lose money to bank employees without recourse.

Of course a run on the bank is a different matter, but I never saw one in decades of living there.
Brainfart said boot camp meant parallels/fusion/virtualbox. Or go to the trouble of getting Linux on it and do the reverse. It's legal to virtualized OSX on Apple hard ware.
The data in that first map doesn't match my experience at all. I grew up in Phoenix, and have never met anyone from there who has the pin/pen merger.
You're welcome. Ngrams is a great tool for questions like that.

As for the essay, "constructive criticism" means two things. One is feedback, which can be negative, designed to improve things. Peer review of scientific papers is sometimes a form of constructive criticism.

Another - the one the essay highlights - is when 'constructive criticism' is used as cover for punching down, in order to minimize the negative repercussions.

(It's also a way to enforce a "tall poppy syndrome" culture, but the essay didn't mention that type of 'constructive criticism.'

"Devil's advocate" is a similar term with two different meanings. In the best of cases, it's someone who gives negative criticism meant to highlight the flaws in a proposal, even if the speaker is not against the proposal. In practice it's more often used as a cover for someone who wants to make a negative comment without putting much thought into the topic, and who doesn't want the triteness of the comment to be interpreted as personal ignorance.
2019

That said, the decision to declare Initial Operating Capacity with a software load that only has 89% of the aircraft's functionality is some politicized bullshit by the USAF.
>Complex anonymity tools mean it can cost $100,000 to identify just one hoax caller.

>Finley estimates he spent more than a thousand hours tracking down those two teenagers, neither of whom will spend much time behind bars, yet this is a crime that can cost police departments as much as $100,000 per incident and could result in fatalities.

The number seems to have been pulled from this sentence, but it refers to the damage caused by the crime, not the cost to investigate. (This seems more plausible than thinking the number came from the thousand hours quote.)

So it appears whoever wrote the sub headline didn't actually read the article.

Edit: also re costs in crime to allowing anonymity:

The stated argument for allowing anonymity doesn't extend to anonymous calling of emergency services. The article points out that such swatters already need to use the loophole of calling a regular number and getting routed to emergency; why not display to that operator whether the call is anonymous, and if so don't let them route it to emergency services? Are there a significant number of legitimate anonymous calls forwarded this way?
What you may remember as red pill and what the red pill community was at the beginning wasn't misogyny.

Sadly, you only need to take a look at their subreddit to see that everything went downhill from there.
No, the severe depression came from childhood trauma and abuse. Acting like a child all the time, however, when you're a grown adult and never doing anything responsible is entitlement.
PM Justin Trudeau explained quantum computing
https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
Tracking code changes with motion bubble charts
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-con... another great similar article. Linked to in the comments in this article.
Usenet / NNTP
Don't see any contribution information? Are you planning on developing all of it yourself?
> Some things need to be guaranteed for every American citizen, and that can't simply be left up to the states to "experiment" with. We're talking about government here, not scrum teams.

There is virtually no way to have a consensus on what precisely needs to be guaranteed. I would personally prefer to move to a state that does not "guarantee" health insurance (I will pay for health insurance myself).

But like I said, moving isn't a liquid matter. There's quite a bit of friction involved. So states are imperfect, yes. But I still prefer 50 imperfect laboratories to 1 imperfect monolith. The potential of moving to a local maximum of ideal-fit with my tastes means a lot to me.

For what it's worth, the same rationale is why I do not believe the United States should adopt any given policy simply because it is done by a majority of other first-world countries. Policies should stand on their merits and should not be adopted simply to be aligned with other countries. I prefer diversity.
The One Thing Facebook Announced at F8 That's Already Affecting Your News Feed
Yep, pretty much. As a die-hard train lover, I've moved on to autonomous cars as the hope for civilized travel in the future.

Like a tiny train that takes you wherever you want to go. Plus, the era of public spending on public good in the US is over.
To be fair, that's quoting an 11 year old quoting his art teacher.
I have a 2012 Air and it's the best computer I've ever owned.

Coding, testing, Lightroom, Photoshop and some FCP, with >10 hours battery light and extremely light for carrying around every day.
"Jupyter is the extraction of the language-agnostic stuff from IPython; IPython is a really important web-based scientific computing environment."
> "In my experience, Africa metaphorically is a jungle. Only psychopath and predator minded individuals thrive there."

I would think HN readers were a bit more enlightened that this, no? Such absolutist pronouncements remind me of Yahoo news
Managing One of the World's largest Clojure code base [video]
This type of gerrymandering or repartition is a rich part of US voting history... In the 21st century, these might be solved with computational geometry.

Or by getting rid of the notion of apportionment altogether.

There's no reason, in an always-connected society in which people can telecommute to work, that people's votes should be aggregated (counted up and applied) based on their geographic proximity.

Instead, votes should be aggregated exactly at the level of governance to which they apply. For example, representatives to city government should be elected by city-wide ballot, not ward-by-ward. State reps should be elected by state-wide ballot, not district-by-district. National reps should be elected by national ballot, not state-by-state.

Forcing geographical aggregation on people just strips geographically-distributed minorities of their power. If, say, 5% of the country's population consists of radical vegetarian pacifists (RVPs) who would vote for a RVP slate, then why shouldn't 5% of the nation's representatives (give or take) come from an RVP party? Yet if those 5% are distributed evenly throughout the country, they can have no party, and no dedicated direct voice, because the current system dilutes their votes among those of people who happen to live near them.

"Let the people gerrymander themselves!"

Of course, this would require changing the system, and would reduce the power of those who control the current system. Therefore it is extremely unlikely ever to happen.

(By the way, some might object that such a change would make small states lose their voice at the national level. But everybody who thinks their state's interests are threatened by some national policy, can form a party and vote its representatives into office. I'm not saying geography shouldn't be considered at all-- I'm just saying it shouldn't be the only means of aggregating votes.)
If there's no receiver/listener running, or if there's some error while processing the message, the message is forgotten. That's the biggest drawback.
Yea, they are producing a non-functional aircraft, that under preforms, and can not keep pace with aircraft 20 years older than it...

Yea USAF....

the F35 is terrible plane...
> In that case, if the design itself is still viable, it seems like it would make more sense to just produce more A-10s. Tooling up won't be cheap, but it might be cheaper than throwing yet more money at a wastefully expensive replacement.

One hiccup to that idea is that apparently the original A-10 blueprints were "lost" over the course of several defense-contractor mergers. I don't think that should be a huge hurdle to overcome though, since they've been able to modernize the planes and design and build major replacement components for them (like new wings). However, the Air Force brass would probably make a big deal out of the missing plans in their smokescreen.

I think they should just transfer the close air support role (along with the planes, personnel, and all associated budget) to the Army.
And also "if you can't figure out who the sucker is in the room, it's you."
Thinkpad X250
As someone who until recently knew next to nothing about networking, it's been a real eye opener reading up on it and discovering how shitty everything is. WPA supplicant because people didn't think to make it secure in the first place. Deauth "attacks" - well, if you can even call it an attack. "Kick everyone off this network now".."ok!". "Uhh.. how do I stop that?" "You can't". Some real bozos put this shit together, didn't they? Can we start again please, and do it properly this time?
> The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media.

The best place to start is probably https://try.jupyter.org/
As others are saying, I think you will need to address food safety regulations very strenuously to have any hope of making this fly. Like offering classes and helping get people certified or whatever and standardizing packaging somewhat or something like that.

I have a serious medical condition. I get food poisoning super easily. Even if the government did not shut it down, I would absolutely not partake if you didn't have some system in place to assure me that this is reasonably reliable in terms of food quality, from a food safety point of view. If I am going to get sick eating this, it makes absolutely no sense for me.

I am kind of an extreme outlier in terms of sensitivity, but anyone can get food poisoning. You need to know how you are going to assure quality control wrt food safety.
>karma having no actual value

I believe additional HN abilities are granted based on an account's karma number.
>Pilots of this type of mission are going to come under fire, which is something the air force is fundamentally unwilling to accept.

O.o O Rly? and of the entire spec ops community down in Florida?

>Given that CAS pilots must work most closely with those on the ground, it makes little sense for them to be air force.

We literally have an entire command-control element built around reducing the latency between ground and air assets called the TACP (tactical air control party)

>drones are probably the real A-10 killers.

Alright, you earned some street cred back

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It works really well in a class scenario. A professor can just show a notebook on the screen “live”: walk through it, or even change things and demonstrate the effects. And when finished, the whole thing can be posted as a file for students to download and try themselves.
I mean, it's clearly available as a cheaper + faster alternative to the rMB. Buying the Air isn't a dumb choice by any stretch, a similarly-specced 11" Air (8GB RAM is the only difference) is $200 cheaper and more powerful than the corresponding rMB.
"Speaking as an avid desktop user, every smartphone looks like pure garbage next to my 3 GHz processor and 16 gigs of RAM and to add insult to injury you need to power it from a battery that can run out, for the privilege of a worse experience.
They're expensive, you look incredibly stupid using one, you'll beat the crap out of the processor to make it work all for the joy of running the same programs you would've been running from a comfortable chair on a superior machine, on a screen less than a quarter the size."

VR headsets are fundamentally different from a screen strapped to your face, and provide a fundamentally different experience. Rotational and positional tracking with low latency mean that your view matches how you rotate your head, as if the entire environment around you is a screen. And tracked inputs give you ways of communicating 3D data that otherwise aren't really done on computers.

The Virtual Boy was a sad imitation, and while the Rift and Vive aren't legit holodecks, you're doing yourself a disservice by writing them off completely right now. I'd recommend trying a demo if you can find someone who has them!
> Note the J in JSOC, discard the existing branches of the military and build integrated units around desired tactical capabilities.

> I guess you'd still have room for a Navy doing it that way, but you get the idea.

So, you'd have a Navy working with ships, and you'd probably have some sort of infantry carried on ships to project power in emergency situations. You might call these marine infantry Marines.

Then you'd have the rest of the military, ground-based. You might call this ground-based military force an Army.

The Navy, the Army and the Marines would all have air arms to fulfill their particular needs. The Army would probably be in charge of homeland defense (to include nukes) and the Marines would own expeditionary warfare.

It's so crazy it could work!
Ignoring whatever the hell Oculus is trying to do until their motion controllers come out, roomscale VR experiences are fundamentally different from anything that can be done on a 2D (or 3D) monitor. VR isn't at the stage where it can replace monitors for standard computer usage, but it isn't trying to do so.
Pro lines are premium until they become the norm (MBP), in which case the pro line is killed (or specialized) in favor of the default line (Macbook). 'Light' or 'Air' lines are minimized initially, and then their internals come up to parity with the default line and they are killed off for being redundant. Then you have a generation or two of iteration for the main line before new Pro and Light lines (with new branding) come out with 'innovative new features' of some higher specs or lighter weight.

It's like a brand model treadmill.
Of course the content producer is free to block or nag. I was just commenting on the legality of ad blockers in general (definitely legal).
I was extremely excited reading your comment, given the prospect of a Xeon laptop.

According to dell.com, it seems there is no option for ECC ram on this device.

The sadness continues...
> You are paying your developers how much?

How come nobody asks how much you are paying your executives? Can't we find cheaper executives in other countries?
Companies are made out of people who interact with other people. Why would people want to work for a company that acts like a dick?

Not only is it self harm, but it also pollutes the public space, and the public has a say in that too. We don't yet live in an autocracy.

I can see we're probably not going to come to any resolution. I think you believe more strongly in absolute property rights, while I believe that if you want absolute property rights, you should relocate outside a city where you don't have neighbours. Neighbours make all the difference. They have to suffer your outward appearances. If you're going to put up a hostile face, they're going to be hostile right back, and there are more of them than there are of you.
> This is true - I've been told that Twitter has actively recruited university students in Romania.

This may be because Romanians seem to have a disproportionate interest in natural language processing.
You never test drive libraries or pieces of code in a REPL before you integrate it into your application/codebase?
> The right certainly demonizes those who don't/can't work more than the left so I'm not sure your equivalency tells the whole story.

Well yes, but how is that relevant to what he said: "even most liberal or conservative ideologies agree that working is good"?

The point was that work and willingness to work are almost universally seen as good in American politics.
How is it tautological? Signals like that can be terrestrial in nature. In fact, recent story:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/05/microwave-par...
>Finley used an email address associated with one Skype account to uncover a personal website for the second swatter, whose online handle was Obnoxious. Using that email, he found a page on the text-sharing website Pastebin where one of Obnoxious’s enemies had revealed his name and address.

$100,000 OSINT... the police did no 'heavy lifting' in this case
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/01/subway-sued-ove...
SYAC: It's Instant Articles. Which is wrong because WaPo ran them when they were first announced awhile ago.

Also, the "The One Thing" headline trope is usually linkbait.
I explain notebooks as just how-to's with embedded coded/graphics/data that are editable in realtime; possible that's just as vague, but notebook sounds like a plaintext editor to me; term comes from logs, kept in notebooks, used in science labs to note/reproduce prior work.
Well written article. Dude fucks.
What would make that setup superior for you to a Skylake MacBook with another USB-C port or two?
>Decentralized technologies (today) offer no such improvement

Other than all of the inherent benefits of decentralization, of course.
The Northeastern megalopolis, stretching from Boston to Washington, contains more than 50 million people and represents 20 percent of America’s gross domestic product. Greater Los Angeles accounts for more than 10 percent of G.D.P. These city-states matter far more than most American states — and connectivity to these urban clusters determines Americans’ long-term economic viability far more than which state they reside in.

This reshuffling has profound economic consequences. America is increasingly divided not between red states and blue states, but between connected hubs and disconnected backwaters.

If you're wondering why 8 million Americans[1] have voted for Donald Trump in this election cycle, look no further than this snippet. The elitist garbage is so thick and so deep I had to put on waders - the ones I normally reserve for venturing through my backwater community. Using faceless macro-economics to justify ripping power away from suburban and rural communities is the exactly the type of liberalism that pissed off every person Trump is appealing to right now.

The very idea that a nation state should be organized not according to the political will of its citizens, but according to the most efficient allocation of capital, is contrary to the very idea of the democratic republic America is built upon.

Furthermore, I echo the opinions of others in this thread who have suggested that the individual rights of citizens are better protected when power is decentralized to the states, and after the states, to county and municipal governments, hopefully leaving the bulk of the authority in the hands of the citizens themselves.

Power to the people.

[1]http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/repub...
To piggyback on this, any strategy that requires competing with these established private web companies is doomed to fail. People will not choose a lesser service for moral reasons. Rather, as you indicate, the key to keeping things beneficial to the community at large will be through political power.

So we don't need another facebook. We need digital tools that organize meaningful political power in an effort to re-establish a government for and by the people.
I put into practice what I've learned from red pill because of my own relationship dynamic. I never said I worshipped it like it was my religion. It's not biased when it is what it is
The Air is really an amazing computer. Sure it's not going to win any benchmark or resolution competitions, but it's extremely reliable.

It also has amazing battery life.
ROBLOX has Builder's Club which is subscription, but you can also just buy some ROBUX from time to time if you don't want to subscribe. It is pretty playable with very little spend, most games on the platform aren't play to win (because the players themselves make the games).
I recommend adding as many of your devices as trusted devices as well as other phone numbers in case you need to recover the account. Apple can not really assist in that when Two Factor is enabled.