skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sethish has some comments about the Precision M3800 I think (he mentions Thunderbolt and the 13 only has mDP), but here is a short list:

- Keyboard drivers (phantom keys, double key registers, no registers). Keyboard was basically unusable until kernel 3.19.
- Synaptic PS/2 mouse drivers. Like keyboard, mousepad was unusable until 3.19. I still can't use it with tap-to-click because palm detection is so bad. But that is ok for me since press to click is my preferred anyway.
- Power management was awful (again until 3.19)
- Misc. usability problems
- mDP/external display connectivity issues
- Suspend/resume issues

Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. At this point I think I have a stable machine, but with some quirks...but as a Linux user I sort of expected quirks so they aren't deal breakers for me anymore. Still, I would recommmend M3800 over the 13" DE.

Oh one more:

- Sometimes PS/2 drivers report mouse movements as touch movements (I have touchscreen)...this means using Chrome is impossible since moving the mouse "scrolls" as if you were on a touch screen.
This is precisely what the Burr-Feinstein bill that was just introduced would require - providing access to the government no matter what, even if you have deployed end-to-end encryption. rodgerd is correct, this is a political problem.
Everybody should know this amazing game called 'Urban Warfare 2'
Are there any tax benefits to such writedowns?
Thank you for this refreshing take. Overstretching the limits of statistics simply gives you a shit in - shit out model
In addition to the factors you mention, I think low voter turnout breeds monoculture and allows minority interests to dominate.
For example, a
typical C program to compute the sum of a list of numbers includes three kinds of parentheses and three
kinds of assignment operators in five lines of code

Let me take the opportunity to plug a new language which I have spent the last 5 months designing: github.com/jbodeen/ava

An ava solution -- 9 lines of code, and 1 set of parentheses -- would look like this:

let rec sum list =
let are_we_at_the_end = 0 in
let take_a_number_and_the_rest_of_the_list n list =
add n ( sum list )
in
list
are_we_at_the_end
take_a_number_and_the_rest_of_the_list
in

Maybe we need to zoom out of ancient languages into more intuitive paradigms if programming is to become easier for more people to access
> The list of things they taught kids for the PacMan study also seemed very... well, technical.

What list? Perhaps I'm just missing it or there's another link I haven't seen but they don't seem to mention having taught the kids anything--especially anything technical--before the Pac-Man study.
Presumably it's because the leader of the group should be apparent without having to ask. If everyone's leading, no one is.
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Or at least I think so. @outstandingthoughts

Relatively clever stuff you might enjoy!
Sorry, but at best, this is just your personal experience. At worst, this is a damned lie. I don't mean to attack you, but I do mean to vehemently attack this sentiment. I feel I have to because this perspective is pushed so often with little push back from the other side...and believing it lead to my own personal detriment.

I recently bought a macbook after being a gnome 3 user for a few years. I had heard the anecodotes: many linux users, even some high profile ones like Miguel deGuza, had switched to mac, claiming that it was unix but with a better user experience, without the mess...cleaner, put together, smoother, etc, etc.

What a lie. Yes, some things are as smooth as they were on gnome 3, but the differences are to be very honest, not that significant. Gnome 3's window management, short cuts, everything was orders of magnitude better than mac os x. An interesting comparison, I've been using mac os x for 8 months, and it still feels like a kludge, I've adapted to it, rather than embracing it. For Gnome 3, I adapted to it within 2 months, and after that, I could use nothing else because of how fluid it is. Finally, workspaces on gnome 3 make me feel organized. On this macbook? My windows feels like a constant mess, and I still haven't figured it out. Again, it's not familiarity! Gnome 3 was weird at first but I fell in love after the initial hurdle. For this thing, if this is an initial hurdle, I still haven't found the valley after almost a year!

Oh, and the "it's unix", what a lie! I don't care if it's "unix(tm)", either I am so steeped in gnu-isms that I can't live without them, or the commandline on mac is so inferior it's not even funny. So yes, those "linux users" will tell you it's still unix, they won't tell you can't run gdb without signing it[0], they won't tell you that half of the super easy commands you find online will not be available because either the available versions are so old or they are bsd stuff. I was once open minded to using bsd but after having to suffer on apple garbage for a year I think I'll avoid BSD for the most part. Moreover, brew sucks, so bad. "Package management" (ie., dealing with conflicts between brew and the defaults that you'll sometimes have to fix manually) is just like the gui, pretty on the surface, but tending toward mess when you need control.

It was such a falsehood, to the point I either feel whoever bewitched me into thinking mac would be a "prettier" linux were either not the type of people I should have been listening to either way, or they were deliberately shills or something. Of course the latter is ridiculous, so I'll go with the well known maxim here[1] and pick the former.

Mac does one thing well, typefaces, although that's probably just the retina screen.

[0] http://andresabino.com/2015/04/14/codesign-gdb-on-mac-os-x-y...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Does anyone else find it ironic that this is coming from Microsoft, yet they can't even open source a freaking web browser? Really?
Given that the author hasn't really taken the time to step through their proposed alternative in detail, I think they proposed the universal moral algorithm thing as a decoy to justify the article to hyperliberal readers who claim there's no alternative to just trying really hard to be empathetic, which is just code for "support our particular in-group, soldier"
(Add to that several million the million+ GOV.UK Verify users of SAML2)
The beverage, when consumed hot, is also classified as a probable carcinogen:
http://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol51/03-mate.html
Exactly my thoughts. I have no reason to trust Microsoft at this point.
Sure, but the reality is that none of the ISPs are going to lay any new cable. Don't forget, all of the original copper laid was financed by the govt back in the 50's/60's. For fiber, unless there's a real need for an ISP to add more, they're just not going to do it. There is absolutely no incentive.

I am not a believer in big or overbearing govt per se, but I feel like, just like power or water, Internet is a utility and it needs to be regulated - hard. The future depends on it. Imagine you're a startup and between 2p-6p you don't have any or super stoddy internet access. Kinda like Comcast from 5p-11p actually..

Anyway, It's pathetic really; we invented the f-ing internet and other countries completely surpass our speeds and ability to access. My brother teases me all the time because he has gigabit in Japan (in the early 00's, he had 100 Mb).

Step outside the US and you realize our options are a total joke.

(Edits: spelling)
How is linux a server os and not for the desktop?
On the east coast they buy assets, in the midwest they buy sales, on the west coast they buy ideas. Valuation is subjective dependent on how you evaluate fpv. Risk quantification is not a science it is an art. Capital allocators are allowed to evaluate roi however they want my point is that the current trend of marking down companies isnt a sign of decreased value it is a signal of decreased risk appetite.
How do you ensure encryption when something is closed source?
I don't think the people who are upset about both white flight and gentrification think of things in 'white people' terms.

Rather they focus on blacks (or whichever minority the whites happen to be fleeing or displacing). It's a natural liberal tendency to focus on the 'underprivileged'. I believe it stems from the (unconscious) belief that the whites will look out for themselves - but blacks et al need to be helped. White man's burden 2.0, if you will.

For example in today's NYT there is a long article about lack of black pitchers in the US baseball league (they don't count spanish speaking blacks as aa). And there is a regular recurring piece about lack of black players in certain NFL positions (while they're actually 70% of all players).

Meanwhile I've never seen a similar article about dearth of white players in the NBA or the NFL. To an outside observer this might appear racist - but the journalist writing these pieces probably think that looking out for minorities is just what good people do. And whites will manage to take care of themselves.
I imagine it depends on your desktop - I buy a lot more servers than desktops, and care about NUMA because of the effects on VM and JVM behaviour.
Imagine your business was making a solid $1m/year in profit. But, if you had a one-time cash injection of $10m, there's a good chance you could expand to $5m/year in just 2 years. That's a risky but potentially profitable investment that is not interesting to big name VCs. It is an inefficiency on their part. But, their schedules are already overfull juggling the moonshots. I expect there are people working in that space, but they don't get a lot of press coverage.
Secrecy is great for Microsoft when it's in the form of extorting Android OEMs with bogus patents for billions of dollars a year. Or copying Google's search results. But not when complying with government data requests. Got it.
Maybe, but what is the slope of the curve?
Express Scripts to remove PillPack from its pharmacy network
If you and your friend have previously exchanged public/private key pairs and used gmail to transfer encrypted messages, (which is what parent is referring to about providing service to only one part of the process) the government cannot impose anything on gmail to hand over your actual message.
> The small, high-powered team of former DEC engineers and one existing Microsoft employee (Steve Wood) began by spending six months creating a specification for the operating system ­­– the specification that now resides in the Smithsonian Institute.

I had to look for this, information is available here [1] but not an electronic copy. Some Googling turned up this [2] but I'm not sure how authentic it is.

[1] http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...

[2] http://gate.upm.ro/os/LABs/Windows_OS_Internals_Curriculum_R...
My favourite feature, and I suspect of many others given how often I saw this at demo parties etc.:

The split screen, pixel perfect zoom.

I've been looking for paint apps for Android for years, and one of my pet hates is that finding one that didn't do bilinear filtering was incredibly hard (I finally found one I like reasonably well called "Artflow").

But even without filtering, having a quick and easy (one keypress) zoom that keeps the un-zoomed image visible on one side, and shows the zoomed region on the other, was vital to me, because it was one of the most frequent operations. Pretty much every paint app I see either complicates this with multiple separate views in separate windows, or by showing only a zoomed in view.

I find one of the biggest problem with modern paint applications is that they crowd the screen and don't surface the most important paint tools very well - they try to be too many things.

When I used Deluxe Paint, I wanted as little clutter as possible. I'd paint with everything off except when I wanted to change a tool, or change colour - and this to was one keypress away.

Though (relatively) low-res pixel art also tends to lend itself to using far fewer tools. I tended to mostly use the "spray can", smooth, and zoom in and draw individual pixels.
If you're referring to Cinnamon, that's actually a fork of Gnome 3.
Analysis: non-programmers don't naturally code to the Von Neumann machine architecture. They instead declaratively define higher-level rules and operations with a naive grammar strongly influenced by human language and experience.
Confirmed. (I'm also from Film and Television.)
Microservices with Apcera
Microsoft Windows NT OS/2 Design Workbook (1989)
Because the cannon is useless. It's only there because every time you point out it's useless people start yammering about the F-4, a plane that came out five decades ago.

Even when the gun is working, the A version is only going to have 120 rounds. Which is three seconds worth of ammo.
I am a consumer that pays Netflix. Where is that in your diagram?

If Netflix wants to subsidize my Verizon bill I am okay with that. Yeah yeah I know...how will startup X have a chance to compete with Netflix then? Guess what nobody can. And even by some miracle if they get disrupted the benefits again will keep accruing to a handful of people. So what the point of the story?

Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are unregulated monopolies that I worry about much more than Comcast and Verizon. The EFF needs to bring that onto the table every time they talk about Net Neutrality.
Here's a copy of a comment I left on the post:

1. Better abstraction (e.g. the example of a function that produces docker images).

2. The Hydra build/CI server obviates the need for paying for (or administering a self hosted) docker registry, and avoids the imperative push and pull model. Because a docker image is just another Nix package, you get distributed building, caching and signing for free.

3. Because Nix caches intermediate packages builds, building a Docker image via Nix will likely be faster than letting Docker do it.

4. Determinism. With Docker, you're not guaranteed that you'll build the same image across two machines (imagine the state of package repositories changing -- it's trivial to find different versions of packages across two builds of the same Dockerfile). With Nix, you're guaranteed that you have the same determinism that any other Nix package has (e.g. everything builds in a chroot without network access (unless you provide a hash of the result, for e.g. tarball downloads))
FreeType just did some massive improvements to font rendering. It's available now in the Fedora 24 alpha, and its gorgeous.
In software terms, nothing (though personally i feel it is slowly crapifying in recent years). What is needed, and has always been the problem, is physical products on physical store shelves, backed by support on par, or better, than current MS based products.
My worry is that a day will come when rents start to increase. My great fear is that this will happen precisely when interest rates are high. What will we renters do then? We will truly have no choice then. The housing market in the UK is going through something like this now.
My point with the "involuntary" aspect is that if you had this thesis, you'd still get power law returns. I'm not sure this has been pushed as hard as it could be, but this is very consistent feedback from VCs.

And my personal experience of investing.
What's naive is describing Congress and the FCC as monoliths with singular, easily defined interests.
My mistake, that list was something the researchers before the task was conducted, not part of it.
For reference, I left a comment further down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509065
yep-- proud owner of a DAC + speaker combo that decides to turn itself off because the "signal volume is too low" and then never turn itself back on again until i cycle the power. oh yeah and "volume too low" == "volume is at a level respectful to people in adjacent rooms"...
Contacting your representative might change their view. However, it will definitely make sure you are aware of their view, and remember it when they're up for reelection. The latter is valuable even when you can't affect the outcome.
It's not just about non-programmers being insufficiently precise. It's also about the different ways they express precision compared to how you have to do it for existing programming languages. For example, the paper talked about how the participants tended to talk about doing something to everything in a set in vectorised terms whereas scalar languages tend to be more common outside of scientific settings.
I've never heard the regional "apetite" broken down like that before. But it feels right. I'd love to see some numbers/more data on this regional mindset.
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E-skin 'can monitor body's oxygen level'
This is not new, this is exactly the same friction that already existed between 2D movies and 2D games.

That extra dimension--the sensation of depth--doesn't change the fundamental rift between passive/interactive camera control. Just close one eye while watching/playing to see why...
> Although it seems like established cannon today that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own a gun

That's one of the more amusing typos I've seen lately :)
Yes, except where what the 5th graders come up with fails to meet other important criteria.

A lot of notation is the way it is because of history and inertia, rather than because practical considerations or requirements means it needs to be that way.

If there are changes we can make to make languages more approachable without making them worse in other ways, it makes sense to opt for making them more approachable.
The Teradrive – A Sega Mega Drive and IBM PC Hybrid
Adam Waytz is a social psychologist and professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Sorry Mr. white male authority, but on the limits of human psychology I'd far prefer to trust a skilled long term meditation practitioner, who come from ancient traditions that have survived (because they are not codswallop) and are scientifically demonstrated to be successful at achieving real biophysical change with metta (empathy + loving kindness) and other related meditation objects.
I recall reading about cinemas that were experimenting with streaming live operas etc from major stages around the world. Filmed such that the screen became a stand in for the stage.
I am also a big fan of mint, have been using 3-4 years (and before that Debian > Ubuntu > Gentoo > red hat > slackware). Mint with cinnamon is also interesting.

I'm thinking of trying Ubuntu mate in a new build though, there's a new version out that's supposedly very usable (previous versions have been strongly beta apparently). Clearly, distros rise and fall.
Idea that major inventions are by design is flawed; as such, any analysis of the age of an inventor's age when discovering an invention is useless in my opinion.

If you want to invent, do it.

If you want to discover a major invention, invent more often.
I hate text messages. Prefer authentication can be used with 1Password or 'Google Auth App
Because you don't engage manually any more. As I pointed out in above, the A (air superiority) version has only 120 rounds of ammo, which is three seconds worth.

If you're using the gun you tell the computer "I want to shoot that guy", at which point you try to get him onto the pip on your display, which is going to move around depending on your relative velocity and distance. The computer actually fires the gun when it decides the round will hit. If you had to do it manually you'd most likely run out of ammo before you hit anything.

The air-to-ground system is similar.

So the software isn't just firing the gun. It's integrating data from all its sensors to figure out when to fire based on what you're trying to hit. I assume they have cut-outs friendlies as well, so you don't accidentally shoot your wingman.
Is it that difficult for the site owner to add a simple link?
Right now it's just a bill.
Part of Minnesota really belongs to The Great Lakes--the eastern half isn't very "Midwest/Great Plains".
What do you mean by buy sales?
Perhaps the least understood view of lobbying that really informs how perverse the system has become is that as a general rule people believe the lobbyists are calling the congresspeople to offer them money. In reality, it's the congresspeople, desperate for campaign cash, that are calling the lobbyists for money.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/27/145923803/the-f...

The cost of congressional elections has increased so much that it has become essentially required for someone aspiring to political office to raise enormous amounts of money. As a result they're asking lobbyists to contribute. As a result they're more likely to take positions that are friendly to those interests.

Effectively the polarity of the commonly stated narrative is backwards. It's not lobbyists giving money for special favors, it's congresspeople needing money who give special favors in the hopes of maybe getting money. This is even more perverse, and harder to fix than the former. Essentially, I wish my congressperson was more traditionally corrupt, that's an issue we know how to solve.
So the amount requested is not all that much money for a radio telescope. A world-class ham radio tower (200 feet or so with appropriate beams) will run about $10,000 per each. So the cost requested here is not that out of line.
I think the issue is there's no one else at the theater. At least in SF they've been trying that for years. I've never been but I'm just guessing attendance is low. Being in a 200-400 person theater with 10 other people watching a concert is not remotely the same experience as being at the concert with 200-400 screaming cheering singing people around you.
> Would you design mathematical notations based on the opinion of 5th graders?

It's not their opinions. It's about how they naturally think.

And, yes, if I could change mathematical notation in a manner that made it easier to learn without introducing a more significant disadvantage, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Things are the way they are for a reason but that reason isn't necessarily that the way things are is the best.
The pallete shifting was implemented in the game.

At the time, the video cards worked by having a 4 or 8 bit image resident in video RAM and also a 16 or 256 entry pallete of colors as well (18 bit was common in VGA, you didn't even get 24bit palletes!). The card would do the pallete transform every frame pixel by pixel as it scanned out the image to the CRT. The point being: at no point in time did a 18 bit, full color image exist anywhere in RAM.

That meant even on a machine that was too slow to even just upload a whole frame of 320x200 8 bit pixels 30 times/second, you could still easily upload a pallete of 256 colors every frame. Just doing that would change how the whole image displayed without actually doing the work of touching any of the pixels.
simple script to brute force goog.gl urls for fun.
:)
https://gist.github.com/cyc115/f22db26de6a5d723ef6094a97f0ed...
Joseph Nacchio who was run under the bus

Yeah, a link to one of Putin's propaganda sites. Stuff like that happens in Russia, but the following doesn't often happen here:

- Co-opt the SEC into bringing charges of financial fraud[1]

- convince a federal judge to go along with that, and convict him

- convince a majority of a US Appeals court to go along with that

Or, alternatively, and probably closer to the truth: Mr. Nacchio was convicted in 2007 on 19 counts of insider trading for illegally selling $52 million worth of stock six years earlier, after insiders warned him that Qwest could not meet its targets. [2]

Edit: even better than that was Nacchio's excuse. It's one for the ages: Nacchio claimed that he was not in a rightful state of mind when he sold his shares because of problems with his son, and the imminent announcement of a number of government contracts. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Insider_trading...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/business/26qwest.html