skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't give you a brand name or anything like that. I have one at home which I bought from a second hand office supply for peanuts and I didn't order the one I have at the office and it doesn't have any labels.

Just searching the Internet shows that there are dozens of manufacturers for these things and price ranges vary widely. You should have no problem finding one.

If you're a tall guy like I am, I'd go for the highest one I could find. I have it almost at the highest setting when sitting down and I wish it was higher when standing up.
I'm a fan of Juergen Schmidhuber's theory: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html
The idea is that the brain finds it pleasing to learn things. It effectively seeks novelty. Repetitive, predictable music does not sound pleasing. Pure randomness also does not sound pleasing. Somewhere in between is novelty. Patterns that are definitely real, but new. That somehow violate your brains expectations.
Another Linux Terminal App Guake
A mocking camera/video with GLSurfaceView
Nonsense. To harm or get rid of Hillary it should have been timed earlier. Wikileaks clearly needs a lot of time to process such massive leaks. They are doing journalists work after all.

A few months ago there was still a chance to get a non-criminal, not-lying nominee who would have had a chance against Trump. Now it's too late already. The only outcome was Wasserman Schultz being promoted and Trump leading the polls. All this was entirely expected.
I think the Australian system is broken in a different way.

As a fun exercise - review the AU constitution and find all the references to the role of PM.

Sean Kelly writing in TheMonthly(.com.au) recently observed after the last election:

"It’s a mistake to think that there is such a thing as the national will or the voice of the people that is somehow expressed through the electoral process, or that an election result can be construed strictly as approval or disapproval of a set of policies. People vote in all sorts of ways for all sorts of reasons – personal benefit, an attempt at dispassionate policy assessment, preference for individual politicians, habit – and the number of votes that decide any given election is always a small fraction of the population.

"If there’s one thing this election result has told us, it’s that the appeal of both major parties is still on the decline. Twenty-five percent of voters put neither Liberal nor Labor first; yet collectively they are only represented by 3% of the lower house and perhaps 11% of the senate. (Whether it makes sense to think of them collectively is a separate question.) That’s a quarter of the country who look at parliament and don’t see themselves represented."

From a purely leadership POV, US and AU have the same problem that >50% of people don't want the leader that they have - due primarily to the fixation of a) a single leadership role (bring back the triumvirates! :) and b) two-party politics.

When you're informed you only have two choices - you're probably not in a democracy.
> Samsung being so powerful that it could fork Android.

Samsung already maintains a (bad) fork(s?) of Android, as Android Devs who have have been fixing Samsung-specific bugs for years know very well.
I get very little of "real" work during regular hours, most of it goes in meetings, code reviews and of course communication. I code during the off hours essentially two jobs i guess, one I love(coding) makes the other(management) bearable .
Melody in Songwriting is a fantastic book. I can't recommend it highly enough. It covers rhythm, phrasing, melodic stability, melody as it relates to harmony (chords), melody as it relates to bass, melody & harmony & bass. It's especially good when paired with the Coursera songwriting course.

The author covers lots of ground this algorithm seems to ignore. I wonder what sort of music a program that used these suggestions could make.
I was actually implying that the submission was not upvoted solely because of its content. Because, let's be frank, the content is not worth to be the top submission on HN when compared to what one can usually find there. Even the "learning" angle does not cut it.

And it's not getting anything away from the post, rather from the praise it got. The post itself is perfectly fine (and as such I didn't flag it).
I never said I expect it - I'm saying it does not surprise me. Have friends in hedge-funds and I don't know how some of them manage to go in each day. Then again the pay's not half-bad.
As per article linked by the OP, the single threaded performance of the POWER8 is 87% of the Intel CPU at the same clock [1].

The per-core performance is higher thanks to the 8 thread SMT capability of POWER8 (although the sweet spot is normally 4) and its massive 8-way execution. So POWER8 is excellent for heavily threaded applications, but for pure single thread speed, Intel is still king.

[1] IIRC POWER8 and Intel CPUs peak at around the same clock speed.
What's wrong with them?

I'm very happy with my Xiaomi piston earbuds, good sound quality, survived 1 year of use so far and only ~£10.

I've had one of their phones a few years ago and found it to work well. Just annoying that they'd skinned Android rather than providing stock.
"Explain like i'm five"
It's real metal, and carbon fibre (rather than plastic).
If I lose my wallet with my 2FA bank access token _and_ my password together, will the bank be responsible? No.

The problem with Bitcoin is that you are your own bank. Implementing personal bank-level security is hard. There is no tech support to call and no authority except your own.
Ноuѕе Rеmоvаlѕ: Аѕ іt’ѕ thе mоѕt соmmоn оf аll rеmоvаl ѕеrvісеѕ, іt’ѕ uѕuаllу bооkеd bу tеnаntѕ, ѕtudеntѕ, аnd реорlе whо hаvе рurсhаѕеd а nеw hоmе. Тhе ѕіzе оf thе рrореrtу dоеѕn’t mаttеr - frоm 1-rооm tо 3-4 bеdrооmѕ hоuѕе. Вохеѕ аnd расkіng саn bе рrоvіdеd оn rеquеѕt fоr а ѕmаll аddіtіоnаl fее. Nоrmаllу іnсludеѕ bаѕіс dіѕаѕѕеmblу аnd rеаѕѕеmblу оf lаrgе furnіturе іtеmѕ.

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I have a Xiaomi Redmi 1S phone. It has not received any update of any kind in the last 3 years, it's still running on Android 4.3.
Other than being kept outside rather than in a barn, what are the reasons for these clones having longer life expediencies than Dolly the Sheep? Improvements in this somatic cell nuclear transfer process?
Does repmgr handle most of this?
I don't know anything about electrical engineering, but could it be possible to optimise that ?
Much smaller state space so a much easier problem than formally verifying software.
Acer/Lenovo/Dell can't risk getting sued by Apple.

Xiaomi is a Chinese company they don't care since if they ever do get sued the Chinese court will always side with the Chinese company.

The again if the clone works just as well as the original I don't really care but this would have been a really good chance to copy and improve.
And if you are not confident enough to set up your own security, you can store your money in external wallet, like Coinbase. They will be your bank. Just like IRL!
The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters
For a cheap, lightweight development laptop I use a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2015) with a 240GB SSD fitted. Build quality is not up to Apple standards but is still decent.

Screen is much, much better than Macbook Air screen though. Battery life is very good. I use Arch Linux and With a bit of tweaking, everything works (bluetooth, wifi, keyboard backlight, suspend/resume etc).

I can also dual boot into ChromeOS which is quite nice in it's own right. Lovely machine for the money ...
Eight was an exaggeration. It's five, counting my ATM card. They're all personal accounts. I only know the PIN for the ATM. They're all on autopay and it's not like I come anywhere close to the limit on them, so it doesn't matter.
That's not a good example - the conversation with the car would be "take me to {someplace}", which couldn't necessarily be a specific name of the place, it could be "where I met with {someone} {sometime} ago". Think Star Trek conversation with the computer ;).

There would be no point in micromanaging the car using a limited vocabulary.
I know one company where semi-formal ultra competitive asshole culture worked.

It worked because it was only applied at senior level (80% marketing and sales) and there was extremely strict policy for not behaving like that for outsiders or underlings. Boss giving temper tantrum or bullying his workers resulted creative and humiliating punishments. Employees who were not part of luscious bonus program knew they were safe.

My theory is that forcing people to change behavior in different context was easy way to differentiate between people who enjoy aggression and job insecurity from people who are assholes 24/7.

Obvious downside was very self selective almost exclusively male club that had to exclude talent that could not adjust. But those who liked it had incredible job satisfaction and earned lots of money.
Вохеѕ аnd Расkіng: Саn bе соmbіnеd wіth thе оthеr rеmоvаl ѕеrvісеѕ оr bооkеd ѕераrаtеlу. Маkе ѕurе аll уоur іtеmѕ аrе wrарреd аnd расkеd іn рrореr bохеѕ, еѕресіаllу thе frаgіlе оnеѕ. Аѕk fоr ѕресіаlіѕеd соvеrѕ whеn уоu’rе mоvіng ѕоfаѕ, аrmсhаіrѕ оr mаttrеѕѕеѕ tо рrоtесt thеm frоm duѕt аnd dіrt.

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That's outside the scope of this tool. Go has already adopted the npm style submodules that you mentioned (I.e. Answer = you install both versions in their respective vendor/ dirs).

This tool just tries to help you manage that. Not that I'm a big fan, either way, but still.
Man who lives without 90% of his brain challenges our concept of 'consciousness'
The $540 version uses Core M3, which basically has 15% lower performance than the latest iPad, so I doubt it's going to be too great of a dev machine (just because the iPad seems fast with 1 app per screen, doesn't mean the same performance will be enough for 20 tabs and 5 other programs running at the same time):

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/221881-apples-a9x-goes-hea...
Privatizing extradition: investigation into criminal justice system’s underbelly
I have a Samsung Series 9 15" from 2011 - well built, stylish, decent specs and still serving me well!

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=samsung+serie...
Super fun paper.

It seems like their modification to Aaronson's algorithm would also work for Yao's garbled circuits, i.e.

1. Alice generates a long random bitstring s, and publishes hash(s)

2. Alice crafts a garbled circuit with just one AND gate, where the false output is 0+s, and the true output is 1. Alice sends the circuit and her input to Bob.

3. Bob gets his input from Alice using oblivious transfer. He evaluates the circuit, publishing the result.

4. If the result starts with 0, Bob verifies that hash of the rest of the string matches the hash published by Alice. Alice also checks to make sure the rest of the string matches her original s.
I have both air and xps 13 and to me they are not even comparable. Yes, thin bezel looks cool at the first glance but that's about it. Instead of metal under your hand you have this weird something, keyboard works much worse, they did not even make reasonable handle to open the laptop like there is in macbook air. Also the power supply is chunky and you cannot fold it nicely.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really good laptop and I've chosen it over so many others on the market. I would probably still choose it for my linux laptop (lenovo x1 is neat but I'm done with lenovo with all the stuff they've done lately). It just looks poorly to me in a direct comparison.
Vodafone, Helpchat – Is this negligence? Or just plain dumb?
In regards to SNES / NES sucking.

I tried the retropie about a year ago on my Pi2 and there were no issues at all. Sega Genesis/Megadrive worked well too.
> Would you prefer to trust the Federal Reserve, with all its own internal goals and motivations, to print money "honestly", or would you rather have an algorithm that adjusted the block payout rate to maintain constant 1% inflation in the monetary base, relative to monetary velocity? IE, when the money slows down, which implies money is being hoarded because its value is rising, you print more to offset it, and when money speeds up you reduce the printing speed to try to keep the velocity stable.

At the moment I'd rather have a (democratically accountable) human in the loop. I don't have anything like the level of confidence in economic theory to trust any argument that 1% is the "right" level of inflation for all time. If there are unforseen shifts in the economy and we end up thinking that (say) 10% inflation is the best thing to do at the moment, I'd rather we had the capability to do that.
I've always found the American 'no-filtering' rule incredibly strange. Whenever I'm stuck in traffic in the UK (in a car), it's a completely normal sight to see bikers and cyclists filtering to the front of the line.

I've seen large motorbikes fitting through gaps that simply don't look big enough, but I've never actually seen anyone get a wing mirror knocked off. (I guess bikers develop a very accurate mental picture of how wide their bike is).

Nobody considers it rude, as it doesn't slow down the cars in the slightest. The bikes simply fit through the gaps. Can anyone explain the American take on this?
How much of it is due to El Niño, and how much due to global warming proper? Is it difficult to figure out? The article doesn't say.
An Air clone to me would have a metal body as that's a pretty defining characteristic.
There are laptops which are thinner, faster or has better graphics than MacBooks. But as much as I have checked, every one of them falls flat on battery run time comparison.

If there was anything that comes close to Macbook's 12 hours run time, I would have seriously considered switching.
Well looking at how things are going with Niantic and Pokemon Go. I feel Google missed an opportunity to get back into social. Pokemon team based google+ groups and internal chat system for pokemon go based on goolge+ groups could have really boosted the users numbers.
Old Friends Reunite
Stephanie Culley and Beth Laitkep first became friends in high school. But after graduation, the two drifted apart as life took them in different directions.
All of that changed when Beth moved back to Virginia where Stephanie resided with her husband, Donnie, and three kids, Cole, 10, Hayden, 6, and Calen, 2.
Recipe for burnout is inverse of recipe for success: https://imgur.com/a/5yrMm

Understanding Burnout [0] by Christina Maslach [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLPyV8lBbs

[1] http://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/christina-maslach
Facebook published Reason a few days ago and after the initial surprise and thinking “hey, this will be good” I am a bit disappointed. I am aware that this is a preview and changes are to come, so this blog post is to give my initial impressions, coming from a person already using OCaml on and off since a few years
While this is true, I think that what the article is trying to point out is not that climate change is worse, but that the models we have do not work in the current conditions. This is scary, because scientists have been anticipating climate change for decades, but now we know that what they anticipated was not as accurate as we thought.

If predictions from 10 years ago, let's say, had been replaced by worse predictions one or two years ago, we would still know with some certainty what will happen next. But what the article says is that everything we know is that things are getting worse than expected and we have no way to know how worse. Scary.
It uses Windows though, which should support Optimus and allow it to switch to integrated graphics.
Lenovo is also a Chinese company, no?

And Acer is Taiwanese.
Does the go toolchain allow you to freeze your dependencies to specific versions like pip, etc? I think that could be preferable to committing all your dependencies.
I cannot trust Lenovo being competent at what they do after superfish, I wonder how can any of the readers of hacker news still think of buying from them... (this doesn't mean that competitors are competent or anything, but being caught like they were undermines my basic trust threshold)
Goedkope vluchten naar Timişoara op Wherewefly voor € 27
Go nvidia all the way. Ive got GT460 and it still gets up-to-date drivers (look how old that thing is!)
I dont like the shape of it :) That triangular body (or trapezoid in this case?) is not pleasing to my eyes. It could also be that its just something to get used to, but still.
While the article is discussing PostgreSQL vs MySQL, Uber's actual win seems to be from switching their data model to their sharded Schemaless key=value store. I expect they would have got this win no matter what backend they chose for Schemaless.
> When I talk to people about wanting to work reduced hours, take a teaching job, or whatever is required to lower my stress level, I get nothing but encouragement.

I guess that this depends a lot on the society that you're in. While it's a good thing, it's unfortunately that this doesn't really hold in various parts of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI

Indeed, even subtle variation can be enough to turn something "musical".
Ask HN: How common is it to be ripped off by a Citibank ATM?
I had an extremely frustrating and frightening experience at a Citibank branch today when attempting to make a cash payment on a Citi credit card.

Although I've done so on my other two Citi cards many times over the years, this particular branch insisted on two forms of photo-ID to accept a deposit (which I did not have on me).
They then directed me to instead pay at their ATM, which had no ID requirement at all. Summary: the ATM aborted in the midst of my transaction, keeping all of the cash, but giving no receipt or acknowledgment.
The branch, as yet, still refuses to give me any written acknowledgment of any portion of the payment and refuses me access to the surveillance video or other supporting data.

Have others run into such basic systemic/design failures with Citi ATMs, and if so, were you able to get access to supporting surveillance data?
Thanks for that post, that's interesting. Do you by chance have any pointers to a good textbook that covers these things?
Windows? come on, come on.
They do security updates for Redmi 1S regularly though afaik. They also update their phones with the new version of MIUI. MIUI 8 is coming for Redmi 1S next month. [1]

[1] http://en.miui.com/thread-301820-1-1.html
Front-end libraries and frameworks – Which to choose for your project?
If you're down to relocate, we're based out of Malaysia and growing fast. Sounds like you might be a cultural fit.

https://vase.ai/careers/

P.s. We might be able to help with the flight ticket if you're an interesting candidate. And Malaysia's cost of living is just way cheaper :D
Here is the point people are not giving enough time to.

Why does this system allow the user to exceed the posted limit? The navigation system will likely know the posted limits.
I went to this in 2014 (they didn't do it in 2015 I guess?)
The BBQ event night before was more awesome than the actual event! Although I was too shy to network, luckily I found some other introverts :D
Visiting the YC HQ was a dream come true for me.
Too bad I am away and won't be able to attend it this time.
Willy Wonka and the Product Leader
The Olympics have always been protective of their brand. I was doing some research a few weeks ago because my start-up (https://doarama.com) is creating some 3d maps of events at the Rio games and wanted to make sure I wasn't going to get on the wrong side of the games.

My research resulted in this discovery that the Olympic rings are no longer under trademark protection (according to Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_Rings.svg I don't see how they can ban anybody from tweeting about the Olympics as it is news.

It would be nice for the Olympic committee not to just throw out these empty threats.
Windows and OSX's unpredictability with time for updates to install is a key issue. Sometimes my machine can be down for 20-30 minutes, which as a developer completely ruins flow. So I put off any restarting update for as long as I can tolerate the stupid annoying box.

How about working on getting me updates-without-restarts like ksplice instead of changing the colour of the buttons.
There has been a Macbook Air clone （13.3", i3-5005u, 4GB, 128GB) floating around on Taobao for 2400 CNY / 360 USD:

https://world.taobao.com/item/528554912918.htm#detail
I guess a lot of (good) information on this site, but who can read these wastelands of texts? This is huge.
This laptop takes a lot of inspiration from Dell XPS' small bezels plus a lot of (what seems like) other similar ID inspirations... I love my XPS, but this is more affordable. Would love to give this a test run. Is this laptop running Windows?
I don't mind startup MVP stuff, I mind when it goes on to becomes a "standard" with little to no modification. WPAD/PAC is one. See also the "api" for document.cookie, which entirely consists of assigning strings to document.cookie.
There are always advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. I always shudder when I recollect configuring IIS using GUI ;).

CLI does not need to manipulate text only necessarily, see the command line in AutoCAD for example.

But yes, GUI in many cases is a better way, I wouldn't want to have cli-only Photoshop-like app (or even cli-only CAD modeller). The point is to recognize effectivity of both approaches for a given problem, at the given abstraction level.
Because the media reports on unusual, often negative events as if they're the most common thing in the world, and makes things look worse than they really are.

Which isn't surprising. People care more about bad news than good news, hence the former gets the most clicks/reads for journalists.

And so it makes those who read more news into more negative people.
Taiwan isn't China. Completely different legal structure.

And Lenovo is a Chinese company, but I guess they've made the cost-benefit analysis that they have more to lose getting sued by Apple in the US for copying their products than they have to gain by selling a cheap Macbook knockoff in an already very competitive Chinese market.
HTML5 animations for video overlays
TL;DR: So you say OS X users are safe with default config?
Not sure why do you classify "preserving a corporate culture that works fine" as downside. It surely looks like a great place to work.
Ethereum Hard Fork, Hard Lesson
I don't want to spoil your fun but the Macbook Air's shape is even more pointed: http://as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/aos/published/i...
There are a few things here I could nitpick about. I'm never really a fan of the textured look of the material surrounding the keyboard - I don't know why so many people who design laptops opt for this. Would much prefer just a solid matte black, no texture. Also I don't understand why the bottom of the laptop and lid are one color and the inside is another - why? I think a single color across the entire laptop would look way better.

Sure, it's a lot sleeker than most laptops (not made by Apple), but its design leaves me asking a ton of "why did they choose that?" kind of questions.
Why would you not want to be (practice as) an MD, but would be willing to consider being a PA, especially when the much higher cost of becoming an MD (time, effort, money) isn't even a factor for you (you already paid and won't get a refund)?

(I'm not challenging your choice; I'm hoping to learn something that might be useful to a younger relative of mine considering a medical career.)
LastPass autofill exploit
This is the lunch box which everyone wants
Absolutely. I think it helps tremendously to be a Scandinavian country.