skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
idime: the first magnetic, dime-sized storage expansion for the iPhone
I think I found out about Vimium through an HN post/comment and I've been using it ever since. It's pretty much the first Chrome extension I get after a fresh install, along with uBlock origin.
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I don't think 538 gets it even now.

Trump is a celebrity who gets free media coverage and people aspire to. So of course he was a serious contender from Day One.

The fact that he is not polished for the media is a plus to most people.

As one woman said to a news reporter earlier in the campaign, "Well, I could vote for the other candidate. But he's a politician."
Thanks. Git superstitions bug me a lot because it shouldn't have to be this way.
Hence we have get vs post forms.
Comcast actually shut off my Internet service mid-day when I wasn't home, because of this. I was lucky that I got an appointment the very next morning (I was on-call at the time) and the tech came out, found it was between my box and their equipment, climbed up a power pole, and immediately located a wire that had the insulation chewed through by a squirrel. They seemed very proactive about shutting my node off and then fixing the problem.

On the other hand, for all I know, the problem had been there for years.
>does not save the window state.

Do any of these options work to get your state back after accidentally closing the browser?(1) Is control-w significantly different than pressing the x on the Window? Just curious.

(1) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tab...

(Might not work if you delete history on close)
and also racism, sexism and xenophobia, with an authoritarian bent.
San Francisco is using ALPR on Muni buses to issue tickets to cars that are in bus-only lanes or bus zones.

But at least it's related specifically to buses and the equipment is carried by the very vehicle being impacted by the violation.

https://www.sfmta.com/services/permits-citations/camera-enfo...
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I'm just going to have to build better robots then, aren't I?
I think it works perfectly :P
Powershell _is_ great (I help run an OSS project written in Powershell), but it has a long start-up time. If you're doing it as a pre-build step for example, you don't want to add potentially seconds (!) to your build just to use powershell.
https://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/
>"...our early estimates of Trump’s chances weren’t based on a statistical model. Instead, they were what we “subjective odds” — which is to say, educated guesses"

People of al stripes do this in all kinds of situations. We have a hypothesis and find data to support that.

In this case both Trump and Bernie were hard to gauge. Trump just had no prior history (I said to myself) and Bernie was never notable in national politics outside a small core constituency so the default was to discount both because on both sides they were more to the extremes (left and right ends) of their parties.

Also, both Bernie and Trump are the animus the personification of the feelings of large swaths of the electorate --so it goes beyond what they represent as isolated individuals ("movement").

most of these analysts will find it hard to discount their "instinct" even if they want to be data-driven (in a sphere where data can only reveal so much.
$28 is a month's food?
Bear in mind that the tech job market is a lot different than much of the U.S. economy right now. There are fields where experienced candidates with strong resumes can go job hunting and hear crickets. To go from that to not really needing any formal credential is a big mental leap.
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APL had specialized keyboards.
To be fair, that is not new. It just hasn't been this overt since the 60s on the national stage.
This thought experiment was explored a long time ago, but without psychological part - white worms.
BOOM! It all makes sense. The Internet crowds apparently converged on a game. Now, I have to wonder if she enforces anything in the game or it "enforces" a player decision they don't like. Also, there might be a scenario involving her that people think is "bullshit."
Show HN: Simple Static React Aframe. VR Web Boilerplate with React/ES6 and Aframe
Infosphere Macserve
Possibly the best LAN server software I have ever owned. Excellent manual, and I don't recall any grief installing or using it.

Infosphere Inc., a company not to be confused with various other things of the same name.

https://plus.google.com/+DAVincent/posts/Jbc6PFbwFik
I hate to be the contrarian one in a thread full of Google fans, but I'd consider this trend of schools flocking to locked-down and largely cloud-dependent computing devices to be pretty freaking scary. Start them young, get them accustomed to and comfortable with the idea of some huge company having great knowledge of and control over their online lives... it's a great business plan, but one that I would certainly object to my kids participating in.
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=41045...
> I am not certain that I wouldn't pick Trump over Cruz, for example.

The negatives sprinkled throughout that sentence don't make it clearer.

isn't it just:
"I would pick Trump over Cruz"?
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Only the mediocre ones it seems.
I don't think 3 humans can service 4800 trucks per day either.

At least, not without more automation than existing pumps have.
So was everyone else in the Republican Primary lineup. The only reason Kasich came off as a moderate is because he smiled and didn't directly attack the other candidates.
> The fact that he is not polished for the media is a plus to most people.

He is EXTREMELY polished. He's a professional personality. He's been doing it for a decade, wooing audiences. He knows how to do it.

What he is not, is a politician.

> Well, I could vote for the other candidate. But he's a politician.

exactly.

People aren't happy, and they'll vote for anyone that isn't "more of the same". eg Trump and Sanders.
> I am sorry, but it's not. Being car doored is the type of incident where a helmet won't make any difference. For a simple reason, the cyclist hits a car door with his upper or lower body, not with his head [0].

Yeah, and then you go flying and your head hits the ground, or a lamp post, or another car. Not always, but often enough.

Head injuries are pretty common in car-pedestrian or car-cyclist accidents even though the average car is much lower than the average head. Collisions don't end at the moment of impact.
Because then you wouldn't have to write in Bash...
Just bought it today, can't wait for the dead-tree version to get here. Looks pretty interesting.

BTW, Manning was running a promotion on their mailing list for a 50% discount today.
The Day You Became a Better Writer (2015)
>So why is it that many engineers are so ready to see complexity as the product of conspiracy, rather than organic evolution, in every other field?

So you are saying that separating voting rights of millions of shareholders and granting them to the hands of a few elites at banks is just a total evolutionary accident? I don't recall getting the option to restore the voting rights of the shares in my index funds - and nobody appears to offer it?
ctrl-left arrow does it too. I usually right click with my mouse and select the first option from the list.
Worth noting that pundit Carl Diggler has not had any trouble predicting results even without a fancy statistical model
They don't have a significant advantage. The price of non GMO food is only slightly higher. Most of the cost of food is from processing and transportation, not at the agricultural level.

But to the farmer, GMO yields are significantly higher, and can be the difference between making a profit or a loss. It also means less use of pesticides, and safer pesticides, among other possible advantages like disease resistance. On a world scale, we produce more food with less land, which is definitely good. And especially important for the third world.

The future of GMOs also has a lot of potential. We could engineer plants with many times greater photosynthesis, or the ability to grow in salted land, to not be damaged by frost, etc.
The problem with PowerShell is its syntax, not the extra features of the shell environment. Trying to expose the .Net runtime to the command line is an admirable goal for a scripting language, not a shell. It comes down to this, PowerShell is a catherderal, bash and tools are a bizarre, and that's why they win IMHO. Personally the best shell for any Windows box is to install cygwin and treat it like a Linux box, and on Windows 10 just install Ubuntu and have a real Linux shell.

Windows servers are a dying breed and Microsoft knows it, they've lost that war and are quickly porting everything they can to run on Linux including their .Net runtime and Sql Server; they know they've lost the war, it's only a matter of time.
Yep. I try to work from the bottom up on threads likely to have group-think. The troll stuff is usually grayed out by the time I get to it. The answers with little info are easy to skim over. That gets to the dissenting opinions quickly.
To be fair most of these schools probably already have iPads anyway. My mom's school gave out iPads and MacBooks to teachers and classrooms like crazy.
>That's the kind of thing that makes people take their business to the other middleman across the street.

Yeah except name me a "middleman" passive index fund that allows you to exercise voting rights at your discretion? I would take my business there, but it doesn't exist.
No; the evidential "I am not certain" is not logically exclusive with its negation, "I am certain". So the principle of double negation does not apply.

Brought to you by a partially wasted youth as a philosophy major.
> While I'm sure that the majority of Republican voters would prefer "not Trump," who that "not Trump" candidate could be was never clear.

Why are you sure of that? He's gotten a record number of votes for a Republican primary. It's very clear that, in fact, the majority of Republican voters want Trump, along with a sizable percentage of independents who voted in some of the primaries.

It's this kind of wishful thinking by non-Republicans that leads to all the laughable errors of the pundit and pollster class.
It's ironic that, despite its intrinsic openness, the biggest users of Linux are in the most closed ecosystems like smartphones/tablets, Chromebooks, various proprietary IoT devices, etc. where being open-source essentially means very little to the ease of users modifying, recompiling, and tweaking the software on them.
There are no good data sources for politics now. Gallup admits that well over 90% of the people they call for polls won't talk to them. They can't call cell phones for polls. They can try focus groups, but that gets you people who have time to waste.
Yeah, my guess is we'll see convoys of automated trucks first, with one operator for each line of five or ten trucks. In part for small upkeep and correction in real time, in part to increase the risks of straight up highway robbery... If you can blow out an automated truck's tires and know it will take a day for a repair vehicle to show up, you might as well go for it...
Having to apply for it still sounds a lot less convenient than just using bitbucket where it's free to begin with. What does github offer better besides brand recognition?
We will also need a dashboard like Akka for profiling concurrency will be a bonus.
> These fundamentals usually consist of economic indicators and various measures of incumbency.

I looked at a couple links, and couldn't quickly find the exact "fundamentals" he refers to. For instance, do they include campaign financing (corrected by peculiar things lke Trump's free media coverage, and perhaps whatever unpaid labor of Sanders' supporters)?

Given that politicians spend enormous time on financing, this is an obvious indicator. But it may be politically incorrect to use models that imply money drives the US.

(Chomsky mentioned, "At the moment, the polls indicate an even race. Usually, US elections can be predicted pretty well by the level of funding, overwhelmingly from the very wealthy and corporations. In the early stages, Bush was far in the lead, not a surprise in the light of the enormous gifts his administration has lavished on a very small wealthy minority and on corporate power. However, that funding gap has reduced considerably in the past months, apparently reflecting concern among elite sectors over the extraordinary incompetence of the Bush planners and the harm they are doing to core elite interests." https://chomsky.info/20041011/)
You can side-load Android Apps on Android.

I'd be pretty surprised if you won't be able to side-load Android apps on ChromeOS.
The Chinese will get there, if they haven't already. They have got top universities, the economy rivals Japan and Germany and soon the US; the tech powress is on display with giants like JW, Baidu, Ali Baba, Tencent making mockery of the competition. Not to leave out the hardware sector-- Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Xiaomi and countless other companies gaining market share from their US counterparts world wide...

Are an overwhelming number of Chinese ladder climbers? I don't think so.
Neither business sense nor marketing know-how have been absent from political campaigns before; plenty of politicians (and many of their close advisors, as well) have been quite successful in business before or between political campaigns, and the people running campaigns are generally experts in marketing (many of them quite successful in that in the commercial realm before and between political campaigns as well.)
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Identifying the Reasons in hindsight is not the point. There are always Reasons but if you can't reliably identify them before the event rather than after then it's not of any predictive interest.
Well said. Also, what could be called perfect today is not necessarily "perfect" tomorrow. Example: other frameworks solve the problems at hand in a better way.
Forcing people to relate exclusively under free market rules is very much deciding the conditions under which consenting adults have sex.
If all the factors you mentioned don't lead to a big price difference, then that's the market telling us that they don't really matter. If production is cheap, then there's a lot of supply, and there's little to be gained by optimizing supply.

I stand by what I said. You cannot simultaneously have GMOs that are a significant improvement overall without them negating the "minority" argument, and ones small enough to be undermined by a vocal minority shouldn't matter.

"many times greater photosynthesis, or the ability to grow in salted land, to not be damaged by frost"

If any of those were a real problem, then production would be a greater percent of the final cost. If changing those doesn't really change the final product price, then they're not important.
I understand this concern. I've helped deploy chromebooks and linux based laptops and pcs at my daughters school. I am pro open source and would love to see lots of digging into understanding the systems. However I am also in favor of chromebooks. Here's why:

The alternative to chromebooks isn't a glorious world of non-locked down non-cloud dependent machines. It's a world of poorly managed, crappy windows boxes. A world where students pass around USB keys. A world that is at least as locked down as a chromebook but much less secure and in many ways less flexible.

Chromebooks, as locked down and hermetically sealed as they are as an ecosystem, are great for one simple reason: they free up time and resources. I'd rather see a fleet of chromebooks that are dead simple to manage and deploy and then take all that extra time and money and spend it on equipment a linux or osx or whatever based lab full of machines students can hack on and learn to code on and hook up to actuators or whatever they want to do.

90% of computer management in a school is dealing with day to day "can't print / how to load a document / etc". I've seen this completely evaporate at my daughter's school after rolling out chromebooks. It's amazing.

So bring on chromebooks as locked down, easy to manage dedicated "get homework done" devices and free up time and money (because man are they cheap) to teach programming and hardware and everything else in a real computer lab.
Not necessarily. I know a few people who had emailed their ID cards (which had validity) as a proof for student status because they didn't have a student email. You could give it a shot.
Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) called it months ago[1]

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/131749156346/the-case-for-a-tru...
>Is your bank a middleman for mixing your dollars with other people's dollars?

Yes? That seems pretty obvious to me. Mingling segregated accounts is certainly a bad idea if the customer thinks that you have a bailment contract: https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking
It's currently the first result for "Reason language", which is impressive for such a new project.
If you open a pull request to the base repo and it gets accepted, then it shows in the history.
HN crowd is pro-Google, I feel. I get pounded with downvotes, the moment I speak against the darling of the Bay Area (?)
Maybe extortion. Perhaps some vigilante tracked them down and threatened them with bodily harm.
The absence of government regulation is not the same thing as "forcing" anything.
https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti and similar are pretty easy to spot. As a user I'd be biased to someone who used that for fun over someone who ('faking' or in all seriousness) has a ton of repos with lots of activity that are ultimately just things like node's left-pad...
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you can install a tool "pwgen" on linux machines that will generate you passwords, configurable with size and types of characters included.

pwgen -y 40 1

Generates one password with 40 chars, including special chars (-y).
> Plus the -P flag is available on both GNU ...

[pritam@PritePad ~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release
LSB_VERSION=1.4
DISTRIB_ID=Arch
DISTRIB_RELEASE=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"
[pritam@PritePad ~]$ touch t
[pritam@PritePad ~]$ rm -P t
rm: invalid option -- 'P'
Try 'rm --help' for more information.

`man rm` does suggest looking at shred(1) in the SEE ALSO section
Google VR
Notepad++, anyone?
High power cell phone jammer backpack jammer military jammer
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quikfix.solutions

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It's only a matter of time before these streetview cars become autonomous. It's a safe bet that the self-driving project and maps teams already have a lot of interaction.
Not only did he call it, he explained and predicted in detail. For example, he predicted the Megyn Kelly interview.

Edit: He predicted the interview and that it would mark a turning point where Trump softens his image, destroys Clinton's image, and coasts towards a landslide victory. The interview happened and the polls are turning now, on cue.

He also predicted Trump would use the word love and possibly be seen hugging minorities. Anyone see Trump's Cinco de Mayo tweet?

Unfortunately, Trump is our next president.

Second edit: I highly recommend Scott Adam's blog. He and Trump are both psychology geniuses and the blog explains it.
This kinda thing has been visible in social media for quite some time now. For example in Adamic and Glance's “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election” the authors study a network where blogs are connected based on hyperlinks. I made a visualization of their dataset here:

http://ryancompton.net/2014/10/22/stochastic-block-model-bas...
There were really no other compelling candidates in the race.

Last year, the 2016 GOP presidential candidates were referred to as a "Republican dream team" by Karl Rove. That was true only by comparison with the 2012 field, which was more like the Republican clown car.

Really, the disappointment here is that the candidates just weren't very good. The choices were a few second-rate governors (Bush, Kasich) and a bunch of far-right nuts. None of them would measure up to Eisenhower, or Reagan, or Bush I, or even Nixon.

This setup where you become President by raising your own money and running your own campaign isn't working.
Better (and not tainted by association with AA...)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Software companies aren't the only people who hire developers.
I spent today (I'm a non-technical product owner in an enterprise) discussing middleware which will transform 10,000 miscellaneous transactions from multiple line of business system every night into our ERP. There's lots of domain logic and we're paying the supplier a lump sum more than the annual salary of a new CS or BC grad. It isn't a simple web page.
Say the transformation from source to target with good sorting would take 100 milliseconds. If it took 10,000 times longer, that's 17 minutes - and that would meet my user requirements. If it didn't I'd expect the supplier to fix their SQL indexes. So none of their technical guys need to be good at sorting.
They take this away after 2 years. Bitbucket gives students an Ultimate account for free, forever.
is the JS client or the backend for any of the fastly-debug/perfmap stuff open source? I like the approach.
This discussion is about whether GMOs will naturally be phased out of the market because of a minority that refuses to eat them. Just like it's hard to find non kosher food, because there's a minority that won't eat it.

If the government just outright mandates how food has to be produced, then no one has a choice, and of course that won't work. That's a different situation entirely.

Anyway your generalization is overly broad. The US also is restrictive of new things. Especially in e.g. the medical world. See all the startups running into trouble with the FDA. But also things like drones were banned commercially until recently. Even GMOs did have to get FDA approval, so your statement is simply wrong. You can't just go out and make your own GMOs and sell them.

I think it's just a general trend, that richer countries become more conservative, and more afraid of new things (and able to afford such policies.) Many technologies we take for granted would never be legally viable if they were invented today. Early automakers would have been sued out of existence for all the traffic accidents they caused.

Or, speaking of GMOs, traditional crop breeding literally involves letting the crops randomly mutate in unknown ways (sometimes artificially through irradiation!) No way that would have been approved by modern regulators.