skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal laptop has a 256GB SSD as OS/apps drive. I treat this as expendable.

I have replaced the DVD drive with a 1TB SSHD. This is my 'storage' drive. There's a directory with stuff I need to keep, which is all on Dropbox and backed up to CrashPlan. The rest is just 'cache' (e.g. music files I can easily replace).

Looking at newer laptops, there's no DVD drive any more, so I'm waiting for 1TB SD cards (at a reasonable price) so I can have my 'storage' drive. This is great news for me, though I may have to wait some time for prices to be reasonable.
That blog post is a mean-spirited rant and mostly lacking in substantial argument.
Lenovo again. As if the recent thinkpad scandal was not enough.
Incidentally I know of another company that went to bed with MS and it didn't work out very well - enter Nokia.
If you understand great as considerably better than average, then you probably aren't great. I'm not. Almost no one is, although almost everyone thinks they beat the curve.

If you understand great to mean merely competent, then I think you're abusing the meaning of "great".
This activity was quite costly to the bank and Stumpf didn't benefit from it. Banks aren't popular, but I don't want a world where you can go to jail for making a mistake or being bad at your job.
This might be the case for this particular issue. But in the long term saying no to a deal is not a sufficient defense against freedoms being taken away.
Very interested in seeing your results. I wish I had the cash on hand to just pick up a laptop for the hell of it.
Try the definition I gave: "An ideology that requires acts of worship that have supernatural justifications". Some ecologists are indeed close to having a religion. If you recycle your trash to help your own self-sustainability, it is not an action that has a natural justification. If you light some candles on the crescent moon to help the harvest, yes, you are acting religiously.

> Any old ritual might be described as a religion

Depends on the justification. Do you do that because of nostalgia or because of habit? Not religion. Do you do it because you think the ley lines will feed you energy for the day? Religion.

> A morning commute might be a religion

Are you doing your morning commute because you want a salary by the end of the moon (not a religion) or because you think that commute helps prevent the Ragnarok (religion)?

This is not an analogy, this is a pretty well-defined notion. And you need a wide encompassing definition if you want to be inclusive to all the religions usually recognized in the world. Jealous god, covenant and hell, these are far too restrictive christian-centric (protestant-centric actually) criterion, and would exclude the religion of at least a billion of believers.
The "find random chat partner" feature was so addictive!
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I said I was running Fedora 24 on an X260, implied that it's on metal.

However, I also want to run VirtualBox inside Fedora, because my job requires me to have a Windows VM. And VirtualBox has its own kernel modules, with SecureBoot they need to be signed. Unfortunately the poor UEFI implementation Lenovo has provided won't let me enter my own MOKs into the UEFI because coincidentally that little write call is missing.

I dunno, tinfoil hat surgically implanted under my scalp, it feels like they're not making it easy for Linux, when the Linux community is doing their best to adapt to SecureBoot.

Edit: And just to be clear, I did of course disable SecureBoot at this discovery but it was sad to do so because I had hoped to see how well Linux had adapted to this new tech that came out several years ago and was heralded as a Linux blocker. ;)
I start making up a sci fi alien invasion story set in the local area, which quickly rambles, leading to sleep.
I'm confused. My impression is that Wells Fargo made de minimus profit on these practices and there's no evidence at all that Stumpf himself did anything illegal (creating shitty incentive programs is just stupid, not criminal). Maybe there should be a criminal investigation into Stumpf, but to call for resignations and bonuses to be returned is premature, no?
Keene's suggestion is basically a flat universal payment, if you have debt it must be used to pay down debt first.

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/

I don't really get how it's supposed to work though. What would ensure it increased consumption and productive investment, rather than just further fuelling asset price inflation.
Literally. An abstract category is an abstract abstraction. That's the realm of metaphysics.

Ayn Rand was a student of the classic Greek philosophy, nothing wrong with her.
I see the Labrador type of responses would be very appealing to the ego of many. Why reply with "What kind of dog is she?" when you can reply "What a nice lab". And with the emoji prompt, you'll never find yourself on the wrong side of the status quo.

What's the end game? An AI agent that handles 100% of your communication for you? Forget 'Skynet'.. we'll call it 'Mother'.
FWIW, I found 4 old SD cards (16MB - 256MB, various manufacturers) in my attic last week that definitely haven't been used in 5 or more years, and the photos on them all copied over to my PC just fine. I'm guessing the much lower density of the smaller capacity cards helps a lot in this regard.
Classic Microsoft.

Their supposed FOSS turn is an obvious trap. Trust them at your own peril.
Those portfolios are not even remotely compatible. Hangouts is the only viable product there. Meanwhile, all of Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and FB are each very strong products with extremely, almost worrisomely strong network effects. Clusterfuck is a bit vague and maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but you've got to admit that it's truly hard to think of Google as a company that makes best-in-class consumer software products anymore.
Kind of off-topic, but where can I find the OKL4 source code?

All I have found is a really old version that doesn't seem to have much in common with the current one.
> I hope one day it can imitate me so well I can delegate all my chats to it. It will be like a mini-me!

Next step is when both ends do this and cut out the human middle (wo)men.
> I'm getting 29k€ (tax excluded) per year.

Ask your employer first how much it costs to pay you that. It's probably much more than you think. The LE people get paid <=3x as much as you and that's easily justified with SV salaries in general and their expertise.
I just tried "meditation" last night. Not being ready to sleep, wishing to "read more on the web" ... 10 min of trying not to think and I was a lot more ready to sleep on schedule.
I agree its super complex, these bounds wouldn't be limited to integer based variables. I would also argue there are very narrow instances where you would want to bound a variable and also do arithmetic on it. The language should make the bounding optional and unbounded possible.
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/8e81585a4712ef69f...
I think claiming that any single member of the troop saves the world misses the point. All of them had a part to play. At best you could argue Gandalf was the one who moved the pieces into place and made it happen.

I accept the premise that the gambit was won not through great warriors, but by folk of spirit, loyalty and fortitude disproportionate to their stature.

One thing that really struck home as a youngster reading was of course Eowyn and the witch king.
I am quite sure requiring such extreme measures shouldn't count as "support".
New kernel drivers from Intel, most likely.

djpohly and the BIOS hackers deserve some credit too for their REing:

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Request-Lenovo-Yoga-9...

Conditional flag locking users out of the Advanced settings page (with the RAID settings) of the BIOS, as shown in disassembled code:

https://lnv.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76843...
Ask HN: Do I do my masters in CS if it means staying an extra semester?
I can finish a "masters" (no thesis) in 2.5 years (as opposed to the 2 years I have left). I would only do it if the master would earn me more money quickly enough to justify the cost of another semester of tuition (~28k).

Thoughts?
Tardigrades can live 30 years in a freezer&survive in space, and now we know why
You seem to be relying on the Browsers ability to decode and show the feeds... Not every browser can do this, and some (Chromium Portable in my case) just show the raw XML.
Let's look at Wikipedia's definition.

> Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it. Metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:

> Ultimately, what is there? What is it like?

Does category theory have anything to do with that? No.
> Name one situation where you would really benefit from a remote-controlled candle.

As well as the D&D example, I can think of a couple of daft romantic gestures it might enhance. Assuming the target of the gesture is a little nerdy of course, otherwise it might detract from the atmosphere rather than enhance it.
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Have you ever met really anxious people? Some of the items listed here, such as L-Theanine (tea extract) are weak relaxants that help with reducing anxiety and related issues. Thus help anxious people to get work done. There are a lot of plant based nootropics that help with overall brain function and mood and focus. While they are still considered drugs, together with exercise and good night sleep, nootropics help you with getting that focus and calm mind.
> what makes me feel secure about Google tools, is his business model, if they have a breach and expose people's data, they simply bankrupt, so their business relays heavily in security.

I wouldn't disagree with a statement that Google pays a lot of attention to security, but I doubt it would go bankrupt if there were a breach. There are many big companies that have suffered data breaches but haven't gone bankrupt yet. They just move on with some impact and/or some compensation to their customers, like identity theft protection. <insert any "free+you're the product" quotes here>
Matt Levine gives a great rundown of this https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/wells-far... ; you're exactly right, this wasn't Wells Fargo cheating customers. It was Wells Fargo putting some pressure on their employees who turned around and gamed the system in a way that earned the bank almost no money and mostly didn't cost their customers anything. Yes, some of the customers got some fees charged to them, but they were mostly small and most of the customers with accounts opened didn't lose anything.

That this should cause the CEO, who was several layers up the org chart from the person who came up with a bad retail bank employee performance metric, to go to jail is madness.
How did that strategy work for Buzz, Wave, Lively, Jaiku, Meebo and Talk?

Their strategy seems to be throwing stuff at the wall and trying to get something to stick.
With closed source software, such as the firmwares and MacOSes of the world, it is impossible to have 'checks and balances'. Yet without computers to run and develop open software on, it is that much harder to create alternatives to those closed systems.

I think this is very much a sliding scale. And that therefor the quote very much applies.
Reminds me of when Facebook got slammed about their auto-happy-birthday feature:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/facebook-...
I'm just as happy not using them, but try convincing clients/bosses to live without rounded corners.
Meanwhile with iMessages encryption is standard and "quick reply" + "App interactions" are available...

So basically at Google encryption is a separate feature and come at the cost of the others cool features. This combined with the confusion between "incognito mode" and "porn mode" may contribute to a slow adoption of crypto-features in Allo IMHO...
I doubt it's Linux they're concerned about. I think it's more likely that the driver in question only works for Windows 10.
But Linux doesn't care and lets them run. Unless you mean those on the Windows side. In which case - why does virtualbox honor bios settings of the host machine?
I really enjoyed this!
Note that this study uses the opposite convention when talking about the angles - original article calls screws screwed down "positive" but the MRA study calls them "negative"
Ha, just tried to read a Colorado tape backup from 98 (tape might be from 96 even, HP T1000 drive) and it ran like a charm. I didn't even realize it was an 18 yo storage until reading your comment.

Even at floppy speed, copying the 400MB wasn't that long, and it's lovely to hear the cute drive noise (for retro lovers).
I used to have problems falling asleep, but after I got on a strength training program known to be effective [1], the problem mostly went away. I turn off the lights, do some reading in bed (with flux on), and just drift off into sleep.

[1] http://startingstrength.com/
Out IT team had asked us to hold on the update as it's stability it's not yet solid.
I just wish firefox would learn from the UI and adopt it (or provide an easy conversion), then I'd switch back in a heartbeat.
The consumers are using different browsers. People who write HTML are often not very competent and cannot make page display properly everywhere.

I use Chromium (because unlike Chrome it is open source). Video playback doesn't work even on twitter and vimeo (who can afford to hire good developers) let alone smaller websites. But it works on Youtube (not always, some videos require flash) and Wikipedia.

UPD: That is why I think people sould learn from Wikipedia developers and not some hipster guys explaining how to connect Redux to Angular2 using ES7.
I mean just keyboard. I would love to have one which would be compatible with PC.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Yoga-900-13ISK...

> Thank you for confirming it is still not possible to install Linux on Yoga 900-13ISK2 systems.

> This issue has been escalated to the Development team. I am unable to offer a timeframe for fix at this stage in the investigation. With previous cases, BIOS fixes have been delivered anywhere from several weeks to several months.

> I will post again when I have more information on the investigation.
30 minute brisk walk morning and evening has helped me far more than any nootropics I tried.

I still try various 'stacks' that people suggest (often Tim Ferriss), and am currently on Ubiquinol, Creatine and Policosanol before bed.

If I don't perceive any benefit after a month or two though, I tend to move on, as there's a huge commercial market wrapped around all of this, so evidence is required for me to keep spending.
Check the power status of the card. Make sure it's getting enough juice.

http://sirsql.net/content/2015/02/12/fusionio-and-the-go-fas...
I don't understand this.

In order to use formal verification you have to provide a complete and correct specification of what you want the software to do. We already have formal languages for doing this called programming languages.

How is this any different from a programming language?
Ranking algorithm is not the best. Some top quality posts disappear quickly, but some others linger on the front page.

Also some sort of communication mechanism like Reddit. The orangered envelope.
Exactly. Upon reading that I considered buying into the candle crown-fund just to irritate people like the author of that article.

Then I thought... Maybe this is the next wave of negative marketing - a step up from those adverts that are basically intended to _annoy_ you into remembering a specific product/service being to pay for articles slamming the whole idea of your gloriously decadent whatever-you-are-selling in order to get your attention. I certainly wouldn't put it past TechCrunch to entertain the idea if there are a few $s in it.
The touch equivalent of a right click is a long press.
What's the seek time ? I use tiny usb keys as live image source, even as stateful system half the time, and it's a bit touchy. When the cache gets full, the kernel will get stuck in very long syncing mode, so much systemd starts to complain. On non recent (say 2013) usb keys, it will even trigger kernel error messages and lockups.
Do co-working spaces enhance productivity?
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Show HN: How to Build a Wireless Machine Vision Robot Kit Running Arduino&Linux
The ideas id to combine the camera processor with an Atmel MCU and a MT7601 WiFi module to create a wireless camera board to be used with OpenCV, and even provide a complete affordable $69 robot kit. It should has more tutorials and guideline, which can low the barrier on building a robot easily. Here is the link. http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/09/21/hicat-livera-machine-vision-board-and-robot-kit-feature-hisilicon-hi3518-soc-crowdfunding/
Yet another React Example
Israeli crowdfunding leader OurCrowd secures $72M in Series C funding
> 6. opening your window for sunlight during the day: get vitamin D first thing in the morning.

I should really get automated curtain opening. Surely there are some programmable/wireless buttons these days.
Try listening to podcasts. It completely cured my inability to get to sleep. In fact, there are podcasts aimed directly at people like you (and me): http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/

Some other 'sleep favourites' of mine would be Skeptoid, Lore, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, 99% invisible. Give it a try. I use the Stitcher app and set the timer to turn off streaming at the end of an episode. I'm usually asleep within 10-15 minutes or listening.

Edit: Also try f.lux on your computer and Twilight on your phone. They work for me, but I'm more than willing to accept that the effects my be purely placebo.
Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I see no conspiracy here, just an OEM that doesn't get it.
> But Linux doesn't care and lets them run.

No, it doesn't, at least on Fedora[0]: “When Secure Boot is enabled, the EFI operating system boot loaders, the Fedora kernel, and all kernel modules must be signed with a private key and authenticated with the corresponding public key.”

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/24/html/System_A...
The code is very readable! Especially because it's not using a lot of external libraries. Including the twitter bot is a very nice touch. Awesome!

One of the key features of golang is concurrency. Your code is single-threaded, even though hill-climbing and annealing (and also all kinds of image operations) could be highly parallelized. Maybe that's something rewarding to look into at some point?

If you ever find the time, can you outline your strategy for your choosing a convergence algorithm? How did your experiments go for choosing the parameters (you called them maxAge, maxTemp, etc.) for those? Why did you currently end up choosing hill climbing over annealing, here: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive/blob/master/primitive/...
Notice the mismatch between the URL and the title...
Ask HN: is there a cross-device calendar with tasks outside of Outlook and iOS?
Since I've always been forces to use outlook for my work I've never really had to dig deep into an alternative.

I have a PC and an Android Phone.

I've just become self employed and am looking to set up a workflow outside of Outlook that involves a calendar with tasks that syncs across devices.

I'm shocked to see that google tasks does not work on mobile (except for in the browser). Google have introduced Reminders into their calendar but this is only working on mobile for me, not on desktop.

I dont see any To Do apps with a smooth integration into google calendar (presumably because google calendar does not have a coherent task/reminder feature which would facilitate an integration).

So how can I have tasks/reminders and a calendar all in one that works on mobile and desktop?

It never even occurred to me that something so fundamental could be a problem. Has anyone solved this? This seems like a massive problem to me.
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That was the whole thing about PCs - if my memory of Cringley's "Triumph of the Nerds" serves, the genesis of this category was IBM rushing to a market where other "closed" vendors such as Apple were already established. It wasn't that PCs were open "by design" but more that they did things quickly and gathered other vendors "off the shelf" notably Microsoft and Intel, and had a copyrighted "BIOS" holding the whole thing together. Once Compaq reverse engineered this BIOS (through some legally clean techniques) the market was blown open to the clone manufacturers and Intel and MS were happy to play along since at the end of the day they were just shipping more units .... probably couldn't do it these days due to DMCA and other modern copyright legislation in other jurisdictions.
MacOS Sierra released
You can set any available username in Telegram and give that out to people or point them to https://telegram.me/yourusername

These people would be able to converse with you on Telegram but would not be able to find your phone number on the app/site.

Wire is a platform/client that allows setting up accounts with email address and/or phone number, although when I set it up I had to provide a phone number. Contact sharing is not perfect yet. It also has end-to-end encryption by default, has multi-device and multi-platform sync, and some other cool features (doodling, for example).
You can use Secure Boot with Linux to make sure you run a signed kernel with signed kernel modules. That's what doesn't work with VirtualBox modules.
I think the Sync Server seems to be a secure idea and would definitely give it a shot
If this wise man, who cannot see all ends, witnessed a wolf with a flock of sheep, would this same logic apply?
I shed a tear every time I see something like this:

> I got a Macbook Air even though I couldn’t afford it, (believe it or not, my intern salary was pretty low)

Why? Because somewhere someone is not reaching to his/her full potential because it has beaten in to his/her mind that a $200 windows laptop is not enough to start learning.

I know of a successful startup that started on a 10" netbook...
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What it's like to work at a Startup Accelerator program in San Francisco
The admin interface has a convenient “Setup” menu point that does all this for you :)
Say hello to privacy invasion
Have a baby. Your sleeping less is my average night's sleep, split into two or three chunks. Amazing how easy it is to get to sleep when you've spent the last two and a half years in a low level state of exhaustion ;)