skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cynic in me wants to dismiss this as just another marketing video from a company yet to show us anything tangible, but the child in me desperately wants this to be a reality. Please, please let this be real.
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The problem is the retina - zero value for me, sucks battery, makes it more expensive. The MBair was the perfect machine.
I hope this will be open hardware. That is, without a gatekeeping entity that will control sales of software on the platform. Otherwise, meh, I'll wait for a similar piece of hardware from a different manufacturer.

Demo looks cool though.
If you have friends or family on Facebook then you may already be part of its social graph, even if you haven't explicitly joined . Ditto if you are an email contact of a LinkedIn user who is careless with app permissions.

But personally I don't think that you are missing out.
It was on a fresh windows 10 install, so unlikely. Of course, now it isn't happening any more. Either they fixed it, it's intermittent, or I'm misremembering
I think its a great fit for traveling too; other than price, I can't see a reason to bring an iPad over something like this.
Interesting. Looks similar to my version, albeit with a bit fewer features.

https://github.com/philovivero/distribution
That's a reach. I think the phrase "victim blaming" is mainstream enough to have zero racial connotations (I never knew there was one until I read your claim). Often comes up in discussions of rape/sexual assault where race is not a factor at all.
Just sign out. Facebook's response is hilarious -- they send you "please come back" emails for a few weeks.

I stopped using it a few months ago, don't really miss it at all. If you find you're missing someone whom you normally interacted with on Facebook, give them a call.
I've looked through the code to get a better understanding of this process, but I couldn't get my head around it. Could you give a more detailed description of this process?
This is a great list.

I'm equally excited for all the suggestions sure to appear in the comments (hinthint). I got a ton from this thread last time, even though they weren't data analysis specific:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10782969
Browsers are designed to use more ram than they really need.
it's worth pointing out that wariness and fear isn't the usual response to a rare sight of foreigners in many (if not most) other cultures...
Good work! I wish I had time to contribute but kudos to you all for doing such excellent work.
The point is that it's a popular color in a very important market. Someone looked at a market then chose the color. The comment to which I was replying was just one of many comments you'll see from tech types. Don't we want to have a better understanding of why decisions are made?
For me, having an FB account and not actively using it daily (hourly?) was similar to a crack-addict not using free crack that is put in their face.

It was like removing the carrot-dangling-from-a-stick when I left Facebook.
But without a formal invitation how can you just show up? I doubt the formal invitation would require facebook.
Yeah, that's kind of my take as well. But I put that in the lazy reporting category.

Seems like it would be worth the paragraph explaining the misconception and helping people realize why the seemingly weird stuff Amazon kinda does makes sense.
Adobe XD vs. Sketch App: Whoever Wins, We Win
Not sure if it's an Israeli thing, but Facebook groups are probably the biggest value I get out of Facebook (excluding messanger/whatsapp).

We have very active programming groups (Israeli IOS/Android devs, Javascript Israel), neighborhood and city groups (Secret Tel Aviv), social groups (Burning man Israel) and even a large discussion group about politics and economics.
Yeah, pretty horribly. XCode compile times are about 200 - 300% of those on a rMBP 15" for the same project. Those machines are very very very very slow.
I really want an Echo, I just can't justify the cost. And the cheaper options don't have the listening mode which nerfs the whole appeal.
I really want to. Sometimes I do, for a month or two, then I don't touch it for 8 months. I've taken weekly lessons two different times, once for 6 months and once for 3 months. I even bought a guitar that I keep in my office at work. My coworkers come in and play it far more than I do.

I just have too many things that I want to do. If I could afford to retire, I could easily keep busy the rest of my life doing all the things I wish I could do right now.
like voting on hackernews?
We have a few executives that would love one of these systems. But you cannot connect them to any of Apple's displays. Which is sort of insane to me.
Segway wasn't a scam. It just didn't take off like people predicted.
Cold emails took us from 0 to 30K MRR in 12 months
Read that one again with </sarcasm> at the end :)
Don't Trust Your Brain: Are these lines moving, or a square spinning?
> Why does government get to make laws and decide what's good and what's bad?

We do ask this. It's the entire reason we vote in representative democracies. It's absolutely nothing like the question you're replying to.

> In any society, we have some basic rules of 'good' and 'bad', and it's totally ok to test a website on those measures.

The basic rules of societies for what is 'good' and 'bad' about websites is something that you have entirely invented here in order to make an empty, unnecessarily dismissive argument.

Here's my answer: Google decides because our governments have abdicated responsibility for regulation or enforcement. Therefore, the responsibility is taken up by the groups in the best position to exploit it for money.
Another issue I've found since leaving the 'Facebook family' a few years back; there's a large disincentive for members you leave behind to contact you. You fall out of their habitual communication methods.

The onus is on you to call them, which is already hard enough when both people could initiate the call. It becomes a much rarer event unless concerted effort is made.

So until 'the next big social thing' comes along, I'm essentially out in the cold in many respects. But it's a price I'm willing to pay. I simply can't bring myself to support them in any way. The veneer of goodwill is very easy to see through with their constant manipulation tactics. And besides, it's not all bad; it hasn't stopped me from being invited to major events in my social circle. It's nice not to feel beholden to a website, which was the case when I was a member.

The psychological effects are yet to be studied in depth, I'm sure.
Pretty much the only GUI that's StumpWM and not an application is a mode-line, notifications and help.

My setup looks like this currently:

https://klibert.pl/statics/images/stumpwm.png

and here is my mode-line config:

https://klibert.pl/posts/stumpwm-better-modeline.html

Anyway, StumpWM is great, but not because it's a tiling WM. It's absolutely fantastic because it's a live environment: you can attach a Lisp shell to your running stumpwm instance and immediately get a full-blown programming and debugging environment. See here: http://malisper.me/2015/07/07/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompil... (and subsequent posts in the series) for a good introduction to what it really means to work inside a live environment.

The problem with this is that it's very, very hard (if not impossible) to show the dynamic, live environment with still images/screenshots. I think it would be good to record a screencast showing a bit of programming and debugging in StumpWM. I wanted to do this a few times in the past, but by the time I remembered I should start recording I already fixed whatever I wanted to fix...
No you shouldn't be concerned. Facebook for me personally, turned into just "blocking" everyone on my feed, because all they posted was garbage. It was endless posts of people airing their dirty laundry. Too much drama, so at the end of last year, I closed my account, and haven't logged in since. I do however have a separate developer account with zero connections, so I can get work done.

LinkedIn, I still have an active account. But I really don't "get it". The amount of garbage and spam posted by your connections on there, is quickly approaching Facebook levels. I rarely use it, except to clear out inbox requests from head hunters. It's basically a SpaceBook for business people.
It seems Apple doesn't care much about it's software. They would probably save billions. And we would probably see some nice contributions from Apple. And it would create a lot of goodwill for them.
Thank you! That works for chrome too. Right-click => inspect, then on the highlighted line the inspection window right-click => delete element.
tinydb looks like it could be useful, thanks for this.

Whilst this isn't a data analysis library per se, PyOpenCL may be of interest for people doing data analysis work in Python:

https://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl/
On OS X, with a good flash drive, 8 GiB of ram is perfect. I never recommend average people get more - I've got 31 Apps, the entire office suite (Excel/Word/Power Point), VMware running OpenBSD + Windows XP, and Aperture, chrome with god knows how many tabs (at least 60) - and the system isn't slow in the slightest.

OS X really does work miracles with virtual memory - my 16 GiB Windows 7 machine starts spinning up and swapping if I leave google earth running in it overnight. And next morning - there is always a 60 second pause while everything swaps back in...
# Hostfile

127.0.0.1 localhost facebook.com www.facebook.com

Best decision ever.
FWIW, the sort method (and sorted keyword) take a 'key' keyword, where you can pass a function to use to calculate the key to sort the sequence with. So in your file11 case, you can do:

sorted(files, key=lambda x: int(x[4:])

, and it will do the right thing.

Although with natsort, you don't have to parse the actual strings yourself.
If it meets the guidelines and want feedback, this might make a good "Show HN".

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Apple is annoying the crap out of me with their Macbook line.

I bought a 13" Macbook Air in 2011 that I still use. It was and is an amazing laptop. It's really in a sweet spot for size and power.

For years buyers including me have wanted a retina display and (ideally) the option for 16GB of RAM.

The Macbook is just too much of a compromise. Crappy keyboard. Only one port that's also used for power. Really low power CPU.

Why can't I just get the Macbook's display on a Macbook Air?
CRISPR between the genes: how to experiment with enhancers and epigenomics
Sort of similar: I've only kept my Facebook account because I need it for work. I log in to Facebook (Business) and check that our product feed is behaving, and log out.
I only have been able to find this http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=153... which is Gmail, not the API.

I wonder why they don't have an API status page or, if they do, why it is so difficult to find.
I have friends and family scattered all over the place. They're all on Facebook. That makes it really easy to connect with them, which reinforces the loop.

I use Facebook Messenger more often than texts now.

But perhaps more interestingly, I'm neither addicted to Facebook nor worried about this trend. It just fades into the background for me. The real value is the communication I have with other people. And as for the ads... I rarely notice them anymore.
> I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it.

I strongly agree.

I also believe that it is very easy to disturb their black magic.

Ever since I started using Stylish to customize the interface, I find myself less compulsively drawn to it. My version of Facebook remplaces all the blue for red hues and adds a wallpaper. I find that this makes Facebook more tiring to use.

This must be why Facebook is so against browser apps that change their features even when it's only minimally.
This is the same problem with claims that life expectancy in the middle ages was 25 years or so.
I am very interested about Google Cloud and Machine Learning. Did you try to use other libraries than TensorFlow? What is your experience?
9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First SaaS Business
I've been a very happy StumpWM user for years. Switching back to any other windowing system - Cinnamon, OSX, Windows - is like working with one hand tied behind my back.
MacBook. Light. Years ahead
4 hours per year on facebook is pretty good :)
Wouldn't it make a little more sense to spread those four hours out over the year? I never spend more than a few minutes at a time on Facebook, because there's never that much new stuff since I looked at it yesterday.
I love that this is based on a vibrating fiber optic designed for colonoscopies.
This sounds reasonable to me. Can anyone point out some shortcomings of an auction-approach? The only thing that stands out to me is if a party has the means they can buy every auction out.
I'll be the first to admit (and have, on many many occasions!) I have no idea what the average consumer sentiment is. When the original iPod came out I thought it was going to flop (mainly because the internal hard drive platters were prone to failure when jogging.) I stick to B2B/enterprise startups whenever I can for this very reason.
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I don't understand, do you mean RT is not at all representative of the Russian worldview, or do you mean RT is bad because of the influence it has on the Russian worldview?
Communicating Estimates
I feel that you are misrepresenting the study here.

The conclusions from the abstract:

In the United States between 2001 and 2014, higher income was associated with greater longevity, and differences in life expectancy across income groups increased over time. However, the association between life expectancy and income varied substantially across areas; differences in longevity across income groups decreased in some areas and increased in others. The differences in life expectancy were correlated with health behaviors and local area characteristics.

The figure you point to absolutely does not say that income inequality does not have a significant effect. Figure 8 shows that the association between life expectancy and income varied substantially across areas; differences in longevity across income groups decreased in some areas and increased in others.

So yes, the differences in life expectancy are definitely related to income inequality. But the strength of that correlation varies depending on region.
Been trying to follow this development specifically for a while now and glad to have a long-form write-up about it. Behind the scenes is great. I just wish it didn't read like they'd spent five months guzzling the kool-aid. I mean, okay I get it, sounds exciting, you got it see it up close, we haven't yet, etc. Reads a bit much like quotes from a movie poster though..."Unleashes the potential of the Internet! Immersive! Astounding!"

>Very soon, perhaps in five years, the bounded worlds within virtual reality will begin to be networked together into distributed virtual worlds.

So, just like XBox Live, teenagers can yell obscenities at you! Half-joking here. Also relevant:

"Lenny! I don't deal black-jack clips! It's policy. I got ethics here." (Strange Days)
If a service offers a feature, it's within customers' rights to use that feature. If Viber is unilaterally deleting messages, that's an issue (as ephemeral messaging doesn't seem to be their primary intent). But if Alice is able to delete her messages to Bob on Bob's device, and both know this (or should know this, they chose the messaging platform), Bob has not had his rights violated. He's complying with Alice's request (automatically).

The comparison to Amazon is not apt. That was Amazon, not the seller of the book, that chose to delete it (in that case because the seller didn't have a right to sell, though given it was 1984 it was rather amusing/ironic). If, for instance, Amazon's digital platform allowed sellers to remove their content from Amazon's listings AND from "buyers'" devices, then 1) no one should be too surprised when it happens, 2) no one should use that platform.
It's a "sneaky collaboration effort". The original tale is that travellers couldn't get any food from the nearby village, so they started a pot boiling with a stone in it. They then asked the villagers for little bits to flavor it up and after a while they had a hearty soup and just took the stone out.

How recently have you played DCSS? I find the devs have been pretty aggressive about cutting out the un-fun elements. Example: Not long ago (.16?) Trog worshipers could sacrifice corpses for his favor, but since that was practically always the Correct Decision, it was cut out and you received favor for just killing enemies.
I was forced to uninstall Viber on account of the SPAM I was getting. I have been trying to figure out how the spammers got my viber contact information.
It's likely 32 bit (http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-compute-stick-stk1aw32sc-r...) but I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
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At the moment, the frequency of social app turnover is much higher than the rate at which people become old, even for definitions of "old" as low as "30". Facebook is bucking the trend, but it's still not possible to know whether that's a "permanent" situation or just a trend-bucker. There's no guarantee they'll "end up" on Facebook.
Firebird 3.0 is released
It looks very cool, but they definitely moved & rotated slowly in the video. Hopefully they can keep the motion tracking processing latency low enough to not cause nausea.
> "Could become an ancient ancestor to "ghost in the shell" type of living with external memory."

If you like anime and AR, you may be interested in Dennō Coil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Coil
I wonder if they're using Brotli. http://9to5google.com/2016/01/20/chrome-brotli-compression-l...
awesome UX tool
A couple of tweaks needed to get the example in the README to compile: wrong number of arguments in call to nk_button_text(), and need to take the address of ctx in the call to nk_end().
Exactly! If daytime electricity was cheap enough I would double the size of my refrigerator and fill it with water to increase thermal mass. At night time it would stay cold enough to not use any power. Almost all energy except lighting is good to go. My laptop already has enough power to last the evening. I just need a few watts for the router.
Although I use Bluetooth headphones on a phone or tablet, I would be disappointed if I was required to use them on a laptop I'm using all day long.

Normal usage time is about 4 hours on the cheaper units I use, and that's just playback without any microphone use. Maybe longer on more expensive units, while they are new, but I doubt many would get you through a whole work day of continuous activity.

Also, pairing is still fiddly and would probably put off a lot of casual users. (Especially when you have a N-to-N mapping between devices and headphones.)

USB-C could still work if there are enough ports. While it's been great having a common standard for headphones across devices (partly thanks to the original iPhone not requiring a custom dongle), it does start to feel a bit of an anomaly in an era where everything is converging on the new USB standard(s).
> Ever since I started using Stylish to customize the interface, I find myself less compulsively drawn to it.

Ever since I added the following entry in my /etc/hosts file, I find myself less compulsively drawn to it:

127.0.0.2 facebook.com www.facebook.com
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Everyone likes the idea of carrots. But I prefer sticks.

Landowners get windfall gains from surrounding development and government services. We should have a high land value tax, to tax these unearned gains, which would ensure that only people able to make productive use of prime land will hold onto it.

For instance, a subway stop will boost the surrounding land value of every property by hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet everyone else is footing the bill for it. And worse, if the taxes are low enough, landowners can, in effect, hold that prime land for ransom, and do nothing with it. https://vimeo.com/32548658
How's the power management on it? That's always been the weak spot for me with Linux on a laptop.
“A medical journal article reporting that income is significantly associated with life expectancy is a call to arms,..."

Yet the gender disparity is much greater (and rising), and that is a call to...[crickets]
While I agree with the premise, considering the source is a Bezos owned paper it's a little funny. That's amazon's modus operandi.
Israeli startups raise $ 290M in Q1, 8% increase from last Q1
This. I spent 95% of my time on Facebook in groups. Its definitely not a Israeli thing. In Nepal too, we have groups of programming language, groups about all sort of stuffs.
SDL is not a GUI library: it doesn't have any buttons, sliders or text controls. That's what this library provides.

To get on something on screen, it provides a number of backends, including SDL. However there is also one that talks to X11 directly, providing the minimum dependencies needed on Linux (as far as I'm aware).

Basically the library generates a list of drawing commands. It is up to the underlying backend (SDL, GLFW, X11, your own embedded one,....) to draw these on-screen.
Developers' Perceptions about AngularJS
They claim that it is sharing a lot of the existing code. Although I'm sure they could name it differently if they wanted to.
MacBook Buy Button Is 404 on Apple.com
FWIW the 13" Air was updated to 8GB RAM standard (non-upgradable). The 11" remains at 4 (upgradable to 8)
Immersive Videos with Spatial Audio on YouTube
The bonus isn't anywhere near what the larger tech companies do. I get it, they are cash strapped, my perspective is that they should go back to the VCs and double the size of their investment rounds to accommodate bonuses that are nearer to upwards of 50%-100% of the base salary. And the boards (which also include the VCs) shouldn't be balking at the idea of having employee equity pools greater than 5%.

They are acting like they are doing you a favor, but the current reality is based on greed (from the board) and it will simply take a collective of engineers to simultaneously realize they are undervalued, just like some financial professionals realized in the 80s.
"We the people" of course.

Yeah there will be some nice absurd law fights before the wars.

I wonder if generally law applies to earth only.
How would you classify them? (genuinely curious) Everything they offer centers around consumerism, and separating your money from your wallet in exchange for some product or service. Even things that don't quite fit into that category (the tech stuff) are ultimately there to facilitate the purchasing of said goods and services.
> Life's too short to work or play without love.

Amen to that. My problem is that there are too many things that I do for love of the game. I want to spend more time reading, and drawing, and painting, and carving, and tinkering, and gaming, and gardening, and blacksmithing, and cycling, and motorcycling, and writing, and paddleboarding, and traveling, and catching up on TV, playing boardgames with my kids, going to movies with my wife, and cooking, and skating, and lifting weights, and playing softball, and walking my dog, and working on my house, and calligraphy, and on and on and on...
Storage on Steroids: Intel Bets on PCIe SSDs, and Optane Storage as Fast as RAM
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Isn't this just jira?
"The reasons for the difference are not clear, although the authors point out that cities like New York often have aggressive anti-smoking policies and make it harder for people to eat trans fats, and drink sugary sodas—which are implicated in common diseases like obesity and diabetes"

Anti-smoking in NYC is ~14 years old and the sugary-soda crackdown is less than 4 years old. How can these policies be proven to contribute to life-span data?