skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enabled two-column mode and I keep the menu open for company, so my screen is "only" about 1/3 to 1/4 empty and wasted. But this is the best case: if I click the post age (obvious...) I can switch to a single-post page.
More exactly, I can make everything else disappear; on my 1600x900 screen the width of the post DIV increases from 475 to 530 pixels and text and comments are generously expanded.

But there's more! If I click inside the search bar, i get a 2 seconds pause to load "featured collections", "featured communities", "Suggested People & Pages" and "Suggested Posts" REPLACING THE PAGE I'M ON because Google clearly knows better.
high pressure sales tactics and marketing....community colleges or legit trade training programs like an electrician apprenticeship wont call you for hours to get you to join.

Also, some foreigners literally do not know any better.
The nicest thing with using a shortcut like the one above is that all formatting is preserved, tables especially, but also other html elements with styling (mostly). This is very handy in a lot of contexts.
Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer at a single spot in Norway
Google Will Absorb Nest Software Developers
That's exactly what it was meant to express. Thanks!
Yeah but this is supposed to be a flagship product from Google. It should be an example of top-tier UX design.
This line bothered me more than it should :)

typedef std::string String;

when

using std::string;

would have done just as well.

Yes, I noticed the capitalization change. But why do you want to change the name of a fundamental type?
This isn't any new research. It is believed this (air gap) is one of the ways Stuxnet spread many years ago [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/12/hacker-lexicon-air-gap/
Which is what I'm talking about. These people only want to write "new" code. Only. They don't want to fix ANY bugs. It's "beneath" them.
A good option here is to have a variety of wellness courses on offer.

E.g. some students want to get healthy. I'm in a 120 challenge course right now. I know I never would have taken it without the coercion, but now I'm glad I'm forced to do it.

Other students will want sports (tennis, soccer, etc. are options) while others want to pretend they're not just exercising (ninja training, humans vs zombies, Nerf gun battles, etc).

As the article points out, there is an innate laziness in most people. My natural tendency is laziness. Even the fit, athletic, body building people I talk to report really struggling to keep their motivation.

Even people who like exercise often have to force themselves to do it. As long as there are palatable options, the coercion here isn't going to make people any more likely to not exercise later in life because humans are already really bad at that. Ideally the coercion would help remind students of the value of exercise building lifelong habit. If that doesn't work out, at least they'll have exercised at all in their adult life.
If you are talking about the case from 5ish years ago, that was because the court struck down the entire basis for net neutrality. The net neutrality rules themselves didn't allow for blocking p2p.
You are assuming back haul is 100% of their current costs AND they don't increase it any AND that's 1% of peak not 1% of average including 3AM. Further, this is only limiting them to saying what their current network is.

Honestly, this is like car company's advertising their top speed when dropped from an aircraft and then complaining when they need to list actual horsepower.
I said "by default", the implication being that you'd do something else if your application needs it. But it's much easier from an operational perspective if you start with a reliable system (replicated, networked storage) and cache locally for speed, then to try and make local filesystems reliable and durable.
Let me die in peace. For some reason, it is always assumed that everyone wants to live as long as possible. If you don't have a cola each day, you can dribble into a towel for another 3 years when you are older.... No thanks, Ill take the coke. put it on the reapers tab.
The DEA Is Placing Kratom and Mitragynine on Schedule I
I agree, Google+ at this point is not exciting to me at all. I don't want to join another behemoth who is just going to mine my data.

Especially when things like Patchwork are so promising.
But that's false. While exercising, we socialize, we can explore our immediate surroundings as well as provide a useful function, like getting to work. Are you saying my commute by bike isn't exercise? Do you think dancing isn't now seen as a form of exercise?
Back to "Works Best in IE"? All of these things can be done without using experimental APIs. It may be a few dozen lines longer, but its not worth having to tell people to use Chrome Canary to test your project. As a Firefox user, this is a complete no-go.
Monero is #2 in volume, right behind bitcoin, turning over about 1/4 to 1/3 the volume of bitcoin on exchanges in the past 24 hours. Coming up fast!
I believe they were inferring that string theory isn't exactly falsifiable which teeters on the edge of poor science.
Show HN: Compete with Jeopardy players at massively-multiplayer trivia
Ocropus is an incredible tool. I highly recommend it!
Very cool tip, although I use notepad++ for this because even if I shut everything down it saves any new tabs I opened as temp files without me giving it a second thought.
> Whatever you do, don't fat-finger ctrl-w or similar. :(

You could add a onbeforeunload handler to prevent that. You'll immediately recognize it from every other annoying web page that adds uses.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEvent...
Some social groups do not communicate outside of a single service.
Modern day hunter gatherers do not "play"?
Yes, the talent shortage is bullshit. There is a shortage of some specific combinations of credentials, but that has very little to do with how easy it is to find people to do specific jobs.
He means deploying to a public blockchain. You can then play this with your friend or someone else. It's different from running a game server since the contract will enforce the rules of the game, while if you control your own game server you can temper with it.
My secret mail fetish (safe for work)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12386556
You can get a Visa card backed with Monero from bitwa.la or use Monero anywhere BTC is accepted via xmr.to
That's a very good point - but for what we do (on-premise version control for Excel where each workbook version represents one object) we won't be getting even close to that number. But yes, agreed, it entirely depends on your use case.
I see a C&D pretty quickly on this one considering what's happened to other attempts at OSX whitebox commercially. I'd personally love to see higher end desktop between the mini and pro... I'd be happy with a higher end i7 with 32gb of ram and a higher end consumer video card (1080 gtx). Which is what my windows desktop runs. I need more than a mini, but a $4k price tag on a pro is too much imho.
Ironically, the same issue is exactly why I, as a citizen of the Netherlands, support leaving the EU.

Because even at this point, Net Neutrality is still less well protected by the EU than it was under our own national legislation.

I cannot in all good conscience support a union that has the power to undermine our civil rights. If Brits don't want those civil rights, that's their choice.

Brussels is not a force for good simply because in this case it would be an improvement for the Brits.
Is this just meant to emulate S3 for the sake of dev/test environments? Without clustering/HA I don't really see the point of using this over the plain old file system. Or am I missing something?
Current opinion is that "borg" is the holy grail of backup schemes ... it takes attic, which fixed all of the duplicity shortcomings, and improved on that ... [1]

We[2][3] tend to agree with that.

One reason it might not work for you is that we are an order of magnitude more expensive than B2, so perhaps that's a better bet for you. On the other hand, $7.20 per year for our smallest borg account is almost as close to zero as your B2 minimum order would be, so ... who knows.

One upside of choosing our service is that you can choose your location (US, Zurich, HK, etc.)

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] rsync.net

[3] http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
Well, at least Harvard has the swimming competence requirement to graduate, installed as a condition of the Widener Library family bequest (since their son Harry Widener died on the Titanic).

At least they did in 1976. ;-) I wonder if they still do?
Maybe they are completely finished and bug free ;-)
I don't know that Mark Zuckerberg's access to resources typifies that of Facebook employees in general, but I see what you're saying, and you make good points here which I'll have to consider at leisure.
"We don't do science for the general public. We do it for each other. Good day." -- Renato Dalbecco
> Working on Google+ today is probably not worse than say working on the Ads Platform

Ads funds everything else that Google does. That is where the top engineers are working.
From what i heard is that the big boys have bought out the decent ones and then proceed to scam the loan system immediately. Hell, some actually bought liberal art universities.

Now that they exhausted the supply of trade schools, they're moving on to buying bootcamps.
> If Google decides to pay to providers to speed up Google content.

The Internet doesn't work that way. If Google wants their services to work better at particular ISP they pay for bigger pipes to the ISP and/or install content caches at the ISP and everybody is better off.
Ask HN: Allowance for “for fun” post and comments?
Recently, there was post on HN [0] about SETI being baffled by a signal from the stars. While there were serious comments, there were also some comical discussions [1] as well, just having some fun. I think that these frivolous comments are frown upon here as these comments were either flagged or downvoted.

My suggestion is to allow one fun post that allows for humour and fun to be posted as well. What do you think?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388228

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389594
No, it's the same as a .unwrap() in Rust, or malloc exiting when it fails. It means the language doesn't force you to handle all cases, not that it's "unsafe."
The word "Ethereum" could appear somewhere on the webpage, if that's the case. That might be a step in the right direction.

I mean, expecting prerequisite knowledge is one thing. Expecting your audience to be telepathic is another.
I think your point is good, why prolong the end of life as much as possible? Instead focus should be on extending the quality of life. But I don't think binging coke with all health problems it entails is a good choice.
Learning to Segment
Heh, that's exactly what I do like about D—the generic programming/metaprogramming paradigm instead of OOP.

You can get some very elegant and efficient code with D, while OOP tends to have more runtime overhead.
Please, we aren't rational. The ideas just provide a narrative wrapper for our stew of inclinations. Fine philosophies will not improve things.

My bet is on drugs, art and meditation.
1. Write a webassembly interpreter/vm; (main step)

2. Using webassembly, write an html interpreter/renderer;

3. Using webassembly, write an css, js ... interpreter/renderer;

4. Keep doing this for all w3c standards for the rest of your life.

Chances are that by the time you are somewhere in the middle of step 2, people will have written the other interpreters in webassembly and the result of step 1 will be a functional browser already.
> Is a person wearing sponsored designer clothing on the red carpet obligated to declare that the didn't pay for it.

Yes? How is this even a question? A company paid them in the form of an outfit for the sole purpose of having it be seen. There is no interpretation of this situation where it's not an ad.

This is already a solved problem, just let the NCAA regulators handle it [1].

1. http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/unc/genrel/auto_pdf/hand...
One of the likely contributors is the unhealthy long-chain long-shelf-life fats of most prepared foods, which didn't arrive until the 30's and 40's.

Given that most people don't make the time to make fresh meals from scratch, they're getting fairly unhealthy food even if they cook at home. (And many folks short-cut with fast-food options, which are usually worse.)
Jiri is a tool for multi-repo development
I don't see it on the printplayproductions site. Has the setup work already been done, or would someone interested in a copy need to re-make the arrangements?
What ethical standard is there that can determine how much tax a person or corporation should pay, apart from tax law?

It's not like there are pre-existing moral rules in the case of taxes -- taxes exist only because of tax law; tax law defines what taxes are, who is to pay them, and how much they ought to pay. Tax law is the only authoritative standard to which someone's behavior re: taxes can be submitted.
I think we're in for a slow painful transition until people (in aggregate) intuitively "get" exactly how invasive and unfriendly data-correlation can be when you expose yourself -- and your friends -- to when you share seemingly-innocuous facts with our welcomed-digital-overlords.
I like to keep a record of 'How will AI do this?' as part of my driving day. Today I drove down a road that had parked cars blocking one lane. Half way down a rubbish collection lorry came round the corner. He couldn't go back, and nor could I due to the cars behind me. We rolled down our windows and shouted instructions at each other as he inched back a little and I bumped up the pavement and drove half past him, then he jiggled forward a little to let me past. How is AI ever going to do that?
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So, a single GTX 1080 GPU deep learning box would come around 1500$, if you pay 0.7$/hr for your cloud server, you should buy if you use more than 1500/0.7 = 2142h. So, if you need more than 90 days of GPU time, you should probably buy your box. Of course, if the cloud server is slower than GTX 1080, then the benefit is multiplied.

But ... your own box would not be scalable. You'd still need AWS to speed up training.
Ask HN: Is the Win 7 experience better since the free upgrade to 10 expired?
Now that the Windows 10 free upgrade period is over, is the Windows 7 experience better? Have the nagging pop-ups and sneaky attempts to force an upgrade stopped? Is the user still in control of things like if/when Windows Updates run; turning off Defender; turning off telemetry data; etc.; or has MS forced that stuff through Win 7 patches and ruined a perfectly good OS? If it's as good as it used to be, I'm thinking of upgrading my Win 10 VM to Win 7.
"Play" isn't exercise for the sake of exercise.
Like how the robot Baxter has eyes on a computer screen.
rkt tries to stay out of the way for everything that isn't "download, validate, and execute a container". For example, it doesn't know about networks but will hook out to CNI to setup a network namespace. It isn't an init system and will instead rely on a system init system to monitor it. It doesn't do any clustering but can be used by things like Kubernetes.
That information is even less useful than what ISPs provide now. Home users really have no reason to value the worst case scenario speed since it never happens.

If my ISP was going to tell me either the limit they cap me at and the speed the can guarantee me at 100% use, I'd pick the former.
How is this procedure remotely legal? This man undergoing this "surgery" has virtually a 100% chance of dying and being killed in the process.

I'm baffled by this, and can only assume it's all a big publicity stunt by the doctor.
Cars have body language. Small moves are useful, such as edging towards the side of a lane to indicate a turn. Edging towards a crosswalk where pedestrians are crossing against a signal will probably be necessary in some cities.
Google already does some of this. This is probably more useful than adding indicators and signs.
"...Christiaan Barnard, a South African who performed the first human heart transplant, technically killed the first donor, a brain-dead woman, by taking her off life support without her family’s permission and giving her an injection of potassium to render her legally dead."

I was surprised to read this and naturally did some googling. I couldn't find anything about Christiaan Barnard taking the donor off of life support without her family's permission. Anyone know of evidence for this statement?
I wonder how though they could possibly target properly implemented crypto peer to peer exchanges?
That's a bit of a straw man. You can choose alcohol or no alcohol. But you don't choose mac n cheese or not -- you choose mac n cheese or some other food.
Some of these performance tips are just not believable without some kind of justification. I'm to believe that garbage collection can't work if you use delete? That seems pretty silly.
I think I know why it's different: James Bond is a fictional character and if he likes Smirnoff vodka that doesn't mean Daniel Craig likes that brand.

Daniel Craig is being paid to portray James Bond, but that doesn't need to be pointed out, right?

I suspect if movies had to put #ad on screen whenever a product is placed, it would be like the California cancer warnings. They would soon become meaningless and invisible.
This is an extreme case, but if the policy is to slow down and/or stop, then that can be manipulated. Imagine your car takes you through a bad part of town and a group of people want to rob you -- they just have to stand in the car's path and it will stop.

It feels weird saying this, but there is a sort of physical threat that being behind the wheel gives you.
It really depends on personal traits. At our company we keep weekly training sessions to align everyone to have some minimal breadth.
This one is easy and points out another problem: The ability of businesses to write off expenses.

The cost of goods inside airports would be significantly lower if business travelers couldn't just expense everything they buy. As long as it's max 1/3rd of the usual food allowance businesses can charge that amount and be assured that business travelers will pay.

If you take away corporate taxes then "expensing" will go away entirely. Along with all those receipts you have to save and the entire industries and businesses that profit from it (e.g. fake receipt producers, Concur, etc).

Wealthy individuals wouldn't be able to expense their purchases through subsidiary corporations anymore which would necessitate collection via sales tax. If you think that's an awful lot like the Fair Tax system you're not far off.

I'm actually not an advocate of the Fair Tax or even a Federal-level sales tax because it would be very regressive: Vastly unfair to the bottom 50% of society. Having said that, if you abolish corporate taxes it's one of the only ways to obtain tax revenue.
Your out of date and worthless references don't do you, or anyone else any favors here. The article from 2011 about China overheating is laughable.

China's economic numbers have long been known to be fiction, regardless of the truth or facts that may play a small part in their creation.
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21689628-chinas-obsessio...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034481045791521...

Current articles about energy oversupply only reinforce, in a current context, the fact that their GDP, growth and other financial numbers are fabricated:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/china-ener...

The only way to understand Chinese financial conditions is through hindsight. This is problematic for the global economy, but it's even more problematic for China. While their resources are massive, they are not infinite. The point is that it is not sustainable and eventually they will be forced to operate in reality and communicate their reality.
Do you think something like lightweight modular staging (https://scala-lms.github.io/) would allow fairly high level code to get to the theoretical limit?
https://delight-im.github.io/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper/

Except that it does resemble a plain A4 loose sheet of paper -skeuomorphically! :)
I had the same thought at first. Weirdly, I'm more curious if this was a herd that someone laid claim to or the more wild sort of reindeer. Mostly because if it is a persons or group's herd, they just lost a good amount of meat and income.
I think it's important to distinguish that the government should not be directly approving of universities. Instead they should approve professional accreditation organizations that manage their own standards (which is what they do). In no circumstances do we want elected politicians to be legislating what goes into a university degree.

The Department of Education just needs to give a little bit less leeway to low quality accreditors. (and even then, the decisions should be made by career bureaucrats led by an appointed secretary, not by legislation)
Kim Dotcom permitted to livestream his appeal against extradition on Youtube
> Not everyone lives in areas served by a bus system..

Totally not related to the discussion. The rule does not say "If you live in a place served by busses, you cannot buy a car with student loan money"
The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
The NFL is putting tracking sensors inside its footballs for the first time
They hired 6,000 people across Ireland.

http://www.apple.com/ie/customer-letter/
I can watch a Netflix movie in 3G at 320kmh (TGV, in France). So you're right, video consumes fewer bandwidth than we imagine. But it's common that I can't view a proper Youtube video on ADSL. ISPs are really being deceptive when they provide a connection to "the Internet".
I think one of the challenges for me in learning Kubernetes is that the a lot of the tutorials do take a quite "run this script and things happen" approach which is great in that it gets you up and running quickly, but is less good for understanding what's under the hood, which is really needed before some people will feel fully comfortable with the technology.

Obviously there's Kelsey Hightower's great Kubernetes the hard way tutorial, but even there some details are quite GKE specific.

It'd be nice to see some tutorials that make no assumptions about running on a specific cloud provider or using automated tools to bootstrap the cluster.
you're thinking of RethinkDB https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5
A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket
How dare you forget my favorite text editor in your list.
Also, a quick way to get a scratch pad in Emacs is to switch to a non-existent buffer. C-x b foo RET and type away in a buffer called foo.
You seem to be contradicting yourself, confusing "things which happen to be exercise" with "things which are intentionally exercise."

Your argument was originally that the ancients performed the latter, but you've supported yourself with examples of the former. Hunter-gatherer tribes certainly did and do activities which happen to be exercise all the time, and that (and other reasons) are why they didn't need to set aside time and energy for the express purpose of staying in shape.
> This honestly isn't true, because if we had a marketplace for ISPs, most consumers would pick the cheapest option, which would probably be the one that subsidizes it's revenue from charging companies like Netflix.

The marketplace doesn't work that way. Neither Netflix or any other content provider has any interest in paying any ISP for the pleasure of serving their customers. Netflix would just refuse to pay the low cost ISP and tell it's customers to change ISPs if they complain.

The only reason Netflix is paying Comcast is because Comcast has enough market power and captive users to blackmail Netflix into paying them, lest Netflix be denied access. If there was any alternative to Comcast, Netflix would just say screw that.