skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] simply not trivial

Well, yeah. It's not clear how hard it is. It seems unlikely a high school kid will get power from their farnsworth fusor in their garage. It's not something you can cobble together in your back yard.

In the absence of corruption, will a billion dollars do it? Will 100 billion? 10 trillion? It's not a question we can answer. The answer may be no at any price. I do think a serious effort would have some pretty cool side effects. Perhaps some advances in material science, higher precision in process control, fast dynamic control of magnetic fields.

That said, at what cost? Infrastructure, health care, the F-35, whatever war we want to have next. Dumping a lot of money into fusion power is probably not the optimal answer. But i don't think it's the flat out wrong answer. We don't know what's behind door number 2, It's probably not infinite free power. But there's probably good stuff there, and worth exploring eventually.

Anyway, it's clearly too risky for private enterprise. It seems like one of those questions that federal funding could answer. Again, the answer might be no, it's to hard to do at a reasonable price. Right now, we just have a bunch of questions. As things are, we're going to have a bunch of questions for quite some time.
Just to add on, usually salary is ~3/4 of cost to the company, so ~$150k is the average salary which seems completely inline for quality talent with experience
Mobile App to Eliminate Distractions on Smartphones
If what you need is just the video part, try https://appear.in/
It's a common term in this context, but would agree it's not completely Plain English either:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor-advised_fund
Modern reactor designs don't have that risk.
Macbook chiclet keyboards are the worst possible keyboard in terms of key placement and shape (flat-top keys) in terms of typing speed and accuracy. There is a good paper about this in the first edition of Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (copy is at home right now, will update with a better reference later). Even the "skateramp" shape of classic Thinkpad keyboards is not as good for speed and accuracy as the bowl-shaped keys of older keyboards and typewriters. The "skateramp" shape was a cost-cutting technique to enable keys to be cheaply labeled (bowl-shaped keys need to have the labels molded in in a two-step process: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Double-shot_molding).
The biggest hope I had from macOS Sierra was Picture in Picture, but sadly, iTunes is basically the only thing supporting it.

Till, then, I'm stuck using Helium.

Helium : http://heliumfloats.com
>So, there's no new features that anybody asked for

Many asked for tabs in every app, shared clipboard, more voice control, improved Photos app and better iTunes, picture in picture, and more full featured Messages app. Plus few would ask Apple to take back the ability to save space (up to tens of GB) through iCloud/Desktop integration and more.

In the meantime, there's also a new filesystem on the way, already in early public developer versions.

>and there's a ton of nonsense none of us will ever use, as the Mac platform gets increasingly complex

Like? I can't possible thing anything that got made more complex, save for a couple of trivial things (with an equal amount of other stuff or more becoming easier).

>moves away from Unix compatability

In what way it had moved one iota from Unix compatibility?

>and doesn't do anything useful with this additional complexity

What complexity? What exactly did you find more complex compared to 10.10, or 10.7 or 10.5 or whatever?

Besides something like "sandboxed apps make it difficult to piss all over the filesystem, like old apps could".
I wonder which words were not made up. The true name of God?
“Chaos Monkeys” explains why Facebook is such a money machine
In fairness, Britons don't think NICE can exist -- see this case where an American went on a radio show and praised its CBA approach, while the British participants vehemently denied that it does exactly what it actually does:

>>...Britain had achieved cost-effective treatment for everyone, at the cost of some people missing very expensive treatments that might help them. I was rather congratulating myself on this answer, because NICE is beloved of health wonks everywhere; Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is an attempt to sort of replicate it. Pointing out something the British health system can do that the American system can’t, and doing so in dryly factual tones, seemed like a good way to endear myself to the British audience.

>>The other guest, a British health official, interrupted to basically accuse me of lying; the British health system, he said, did no such thing.

>>Now I reiterate: I had not called NICE a death panel, or said that it was bad; I had simply described what NICE does, which is keep the NHS from blowing its budget on very expensive treatments that deliver relatively little value per pound spent. You can read NICE describing what NICE does on its website; the description is not significantly different from the one I gave. Being told that this was flat out wrong was surreal. Things got even more surreal when I began again to explain what NICE does, thinking that perhaps I had been unclear, and the host interrupted me and said something like “As you know, that’s false.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-23/health-ca...
Ah, yes, I agree completely. Definitions that bin everything into one bin are useless. I'm not sure there's a useful definition of pure for JS, though. (Or Python, Ruby, or Perl, or anything else that dynamic.)

The one where you just sort of wing it and say "Yeah, function (x) { return x + 10 } is pureish enough" is really tempting, but it will stab you in the back sooner or later, guaranteed.
Introducing Knet8: beginning deep learning with 100 lines of Julia
Do you think the people who got selected into a company like Twitter, had language issues or were incompetent? If you are not from India, I can assure you that you cannot possibly comprehend the size of the population, and the resulting competition.
It should also be mentioned that many of the divergent cases tend to be bad ideas for safety reasons anyways (passing on the right, using your cell phone when driving, even right-turn-on-red--don't do that in pedestrian-heavy areas).

Places with divergent laws make some effort to inform visitors of the divergence--you'll sometimes see electronic noticeboards saying that using your cell phone is illegal here, and sometimes permanent ones too (e.g, on entry into Virginia on interstates, you are immediately informed that radar detectors are illegal).
I had to restart my mac for a browser update? (may have missed something else in there)
Regarding your Jade Helm 15 question: round this neck of the wood we host every year the worlds largest cold weather military excercise, with 15-20 000 soldiers from all across NATO. We literally have US Marines and other foreign forces playing invasion right where we live, using air force, army and naval assets. There has never been any conspiracies or fears regarding this. Perhaps mainly because we appreciate you guys having our backs and knowing how to fight in snow, just in case Ivan comes over for a "visit".

On a related note, there is a truly hilarious story from a guy over on Reddit who served in the Marines, they were stationed in North Carolina and never been in snow; and who came to this exercise and of course got their asses truly handed to themselves in a snowball fight by a bunch of Norwegian schoolkids. Highly recommended reading; first comment after the OP here:

https://m.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/1w0sav/6th_grade_...
Different chip/vendor but Freescale's i.mx7 is an AMP design with a Cortex A7 + an M4 presumably for the realtime bits. I had the same thought w/r/t development on the PRU.

http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/...
How do these compare to Mach IPC in OSX?
x86 is transitioning into legacy personal computers, they're much more interested in the future.
I always felt like Amiga had a weird factor about it that kept it from being ubiquitous and mass-market. They had the whole co-processor fetish, even in the re-envisioned hardware platforms after all the acquisitions. Amiga always felt painfully fixed in time.

Part of piling all the features into the CPU is it gives old software a chance at longer legs. Modern PC's have the GPU, which seem to have morphed into special-purpose general processors through herculean API and driver efforts. I do wish the GPU could fade into the main CPU though, it feels like a sidecar concept until it does. CPU vendors and OS vendors need to do a better job at adding features to new software while supporting old hardware. The planned obsolescence of hardware in newer operating systems seems foolish to me.

A ruthless productivity UX is my "dream". I envision taking a non-mainstream OS like Haiku or the open source Solaris and building a new desktop environment for it. Standard hotkeys for actions across applications that go far beyond copy/paste, a very specific and detailed User Experience Guidelines that ONLY target desktop/large screen applications, and a fixed, standard desktop theme and look-and-feel that will only be updated once per decade. I would strongly encourage users to choose not to reskin the desktop or customize their keystroke mappings. Productivity demands that a standard interface is presented to all users who sit down at the machine. I would be accessibility-first, and all standards and conventions would work magnificently with screen readers and magnifiers.

No chasing fads, no reporting user telemetry back to the mothership, privacy is a given. My unparalleled stability and north star vision will be my only real selling points. I'd charge good money for my OS, and my slavish fanboys would pay up for every upgrade and t-shirt I put on offer after my yearly mock turtleneck pitch. That's my dream, at least, hehe.
If any LE staff are in here, I'd happily chip in on a Patreon.
Says who?
> Corruption is the #1 thing that destroys countries. Nothing else comes close.

Really? Militaristic jingoism has historically been a pretty popular choice to commit national suicide, for example.

The thing about corruption is that it's not violently destructive. It slowly erodes the system, but it takes a lot of time, and the process is reversible at practically any point.

> A "sociopath with megalomania" on the other hand can't really do much to hurt the country (no one would let him).

That seems to be a common retort that I've encountered among reluctant Trump supporters - that checks and balances would prevent anything really damaging.

I don't feel like it's particularly well supported by experience. Just to give a simple example, not only Japanese-American internment during WW2 was found to be legal and constitutional, but the corresponding SCOTUS decision (Korematsu) still stands. Which means that the president can sign a similar EO, and it'll be in force per existing precedent until SCOTUS gets a chance to overturn - and even then there are no guarantees.

And then there's a slew of accumulated post-9/11 precedent, which, in the hands of someone who thinks that torture is a good idea, among other reasons, "because they deserve it", could blow up big time.

> And I don't see how "a definitive authoritarian streak, and a massive populist backing" are a problem.

I'm not sure how to respond to that.

If you mean that you don't see it as desirable, but also don't think that it's dangerous, I would like to remind you that this is something that has repeated many times in history in the past 100 years alone, and pretty much every time resulted in authoritarian societies, with all that entails - political dictatorships, massive human rights violations, and often, wars with neighbors.

If you mean that you actually see it as desirable, I don't think that we have sufficient common ground to meaningfully discuss this subject.
I just did that (redux -> mobx) as mentioned in another comment and it made the code easier to understand, everything typed with less than half of the code. No more connect or action, we just call the store method (equivalent to a reducer fn) directly.

I also moved most of the components that had state to use observable variables and it's been working well.
ES6 only defined syntax for modules, it didn't define a way to load modules, that's a different standard
All words are "imprecise" and "made-up".

My understanding is that performant is totally legal French, meaning efficient or effective, with usage dating back at least 4 decades. If you're not into stealing random words from other languages, I have to question why you're into English in the first place.
Nutanix’s Conservative IPO Pricing Underscores Shifting Unicorn Valuations
Do you consider earnings to be "spoils of war"? Or has the tradition just evolved to include all income.
That seems to be the norm for OS X / macOS releases lately... I definitely won't be upgrading any time soon.
I have both the latest Dell XPS 13 and the Dell XPS 15, either of which would meet your requirements.
But then you have the whole of Eastern Europe and south Europe to visit too, which is pretty awesome. Also, rent and food is probably your biggest budget. The beer is also awesome. And you get 5 weeks of vacation like everywhere in the EU.
> I indeed haven't used CCS-Eclipse in years. Has it finally eliminated its lag and RAM usage? I was always amazed how it managed to continuously stay just ahead of Moore's Law in terms of resource usage.

You're right, the lag was bad. Recently I haven't noticed it much, maybe I got used to it, or maybe it's been improved. Currently my instance of CCS 6.0.1 uses around 286MB of RAM, CCS 6.1.0 uses about 480MB of RAM. In comparison PyCharm (2016.1.4) is using 927MB of RAM :(

How did you debug code running on the hardware without an IDE? Is there an easy-ish way to do that?
Notably, the ApplePay API is entering general availability (GA)[1].

The following networks are supported[2]: amex, discover, interac, masterCard, privateLabel, or visa.

The following products are prohibited[3] as well as many other services:

* cigarettes or tobacco products;

* firearms, weapons, and ammunition;

* illegal drugs, non-legally prescribed controlled substances;

* items that create consumer safety risks;

* items that are intended to be used to engage in illegal activities;

* pornography;

* counterfeit or stolen goods; or

* collection of charitable donations;

A paired iPhone or Apple Watch device is required (re: the macOS Sierra app), as well as iOS 10 and macOS 10.12.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/reference/applepayjs

[2] https://developer.apple.com/reference/applepayjs/1916082-app...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/acceptable-use-guideli...
It's a common way to claim tax benefit now, but control (to some extent) giving in the future. E.g.,

* https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/

* https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/
I don't know about everyone else but I HATE AMPed pages.

The idea is good, but being Google they've done.... something. I'm on iOS and the way pages scroll means they feel like they've got a different weight, they've adjusted something. And it makes interacting with the frustrating because the Google results page feels like any page in Safari and then you click into an AMP page (which does load very fast) and it suddenly feels wrong.

I bet it feels 'normal' on Android.

I have a feeling this is going to drive me nuts.
Sunlight Foundation shutting down Sunlight Labs
It is astounding to see so many people here who think employee cost == employee salary.
How to turn every customer complaint into feedback
Safari 10 seems to choke while I'm reading this page:

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/lectures/01-intro.h...

Usually about the time I get to the section on Animations.
- Programming language does matter. You will not be able to get the same performance in any programming language you choose.

- Abstractions are the enemy of performance. You can't get high performance through many layers of abstraction. This relates to my previous point.

- Algorithmic complexity matters when dealing with large data sets. Abstractions can hide the true complexity. (e.g. the famous string append example from IIRC Joel Spolsky).

So the key to high performance software is:

- As close as possible to the hardware.

- The right data structures/layout (taking into account the hardware).

- The right algorithms.

- Measure properly and optimize.
Because blind adherence to the "Make it work then make it fast" advice has been the bane of my career.

Generally speaking, I have not found it to be true that you can make something fast if you didn't think about performance first. If you thought about it, and came to the decision "it will be fast enough no matter what we do" bully for you, but for me that happens way less than 80% of the time.
Rent is ridiculously cheap in Prague, I had friends renting a 73 square meters flat in Zizkov (in the good parts of Zizkov) for like 400€.
this is a great example of the title change rule making a title worse

i think taglines/subtitles/subject sentences should be eligible for titles too
Almost all of them interact with other services to do something or other.
Wait but why? Are they using this for their next generation iPhone packing (wastage as it is otherwise called)
I wish there was a way to donate money towards a fund - like, give $100USD, that goes into some index fund, and then LetsEncrypt withdraws $3.50 (as per https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Safe_withdrawal_rates) a year until the sun burns out.

I'd much rather spend my money knowing its a small ways toward making this kind of thing self sustainable.
Indeed. Anything before "late-2009" MacBooks (not Pro) and iMac is cut off: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-...
> My dream is to buy up the Commodore / Amiga IP and make a "true" successor (as I have stated in the past several times!).

Honestly, good luck and success! I owned a C64, and I remember a lot of fun I had with this thing at young age.

I wish such a revival would also happen to Atari ST. I owned this thing myself, and I remember how incredible performant it was. It was the first affordable workstation. There was software like Turbo-C (the harbinger of Borland C) and Tempus Editor. Tempus Word was a word processor that was more performant and responsive than today's MS Office on a 4 GHz workstation, despite lack of coprocessor and GPU, and despite the fact that the 68k cpu operated with just 8 MHz. Can you imagine that? I am not exaggerating. You have to see it in action to believe it. Only BeOS was performant like that.

That was possible because the ST didn't have all the bloatware of the current PC generation. I am really sick of all the Mac-only and UEFI/SB Win10-locked hardware, and I don't have much mind anymore to be continually aware of rootkits, ransomeware and all the nonsense on Android and PC. Even iOS devices have been hacked already. I don't have the mind to purchase a new device every year or two just to have a rather secure OS version.

It seems that we have no other options than to go back to the roots if we want get rid of all this trouble.

By the way, my personal dream is a workstation which is completely based on open hardware and software. RISC-V would be a good foundation.
Why? you went to war with less proof.
In a "free market", I'd agree to do it for the same minus the local road association costs. Sorry, you're out of a job.

Edit: People downvoting reality. OK.
To my knowledge Three UK doesn't. That's based on using them and not noticing any degradation, or the click-to-view-original-quality javascript that T-Mobile were (are?) injecting.
I'm curious, what advantage should Picture in Picture have over Helium?
I can't view any of the individual donors on Chrome. I scroll to the section, see the top of a couple heads, and as I keep going down the page it reverse-scrolls a white bar and it's all gone.

What is this style of page? I see it everywhere, most egregiously Medium, where the title and some enormous graphic take up the first full screen and I have to scroll just to get to the content. I can't imagine it converts well, but I also can't imagine so many people using it if it doesn't.
Well as long as the former racist said hes no longer racist then case closed. I couldn't fathom why a KKK member would want to pretend hes not racist.
Those pics remind me very much of the old game Out of this World. I wonder if someone can modify this to encode video. It would make for an interesting effect.
It allows you to significantly mitigate tax in high-income years (e.g., an exit) while providing a steady flow of money to charity even in lower income years.
Money Flows Back into Biotech and Pharma
And so Google edges a bit closer towards complete and through world domination.
I consider jury nullification to be a right. I don't consider it to be a moral duty. An impartial jury, from that perspective, is the one that rules according to the law as written.

(I wouldn't do so - but I wouldn't consider myself impartial, either.)
Generally speaking I don't. The only way I've ever been able to be successful on the performance front is to conclude that code that is slow is broken, not that it is working before then.

Backing into acceptable performance after the fact just doesn't work for the problem domains I work in (which on first blush have not been exclusively performance based).
Doesn't work for me. Google cache at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B3U3vwv...
Exactly. Especially if you consider the total IT workforce in a place like Bangalore. It is not rare for 100 candidates to show up for walk in interviews even at small IT companies.
Also if people don't like the Let's Encrypt budget, they don't have to donate, and they certainly don't need to use the service.

The important thing, to me, is that Let's Encrypt is being open and honest about how the donation money is spend.
you're describing building an A frame - one of the most efficient ways to build a house
My wife and I aspirationally own half a dozen scented candles. We never actually use them.
For those asking about a web version of this, I made a similar thing with HTML5: https://franciscouzo.github.io/genetic_art/

It employs hill climbing and supports different kinds of shapes.
> Oil accounts for half of the Venezuelan government’s revenues

...Who thought that was a good idea?
I haven't installed yet as I'm just waiting for a current backup to complete. However, generally you have to run the command below after every OS update since El Cap.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
Thanks very much for the link.

I'm in shock at how many applications that are incompatible. This is far from a upgrade, considering it's breaking nearly every essential application I use in my workflow. You would assume that backwards compatibility is Issue #1 in regards to operating system updates.
They've had them in Google News for ages. I've been using them for a while, work great (I'm on Android). So well in fact even though I am on the 0.1% of the population that's consciously aware of their tactics, they have already trained me to subconsciously prefer clicking on websites that have their AMP logo, compared to the rest, because I subconsciously know they load much faster.
Do we even know anything about their defensive operations?

I'm almost glad we don't since defensive capabilities are the kind of thing you'd rather not disclose to your adversary until you truly need to leverage them, but at the same time, with all the leaks, it's as if the NSA just runs offensive operations and reactive analysis/reconnaissance.
> Your value shouldn't be tied to where you live per se.

If that was the case people wouldn't make $200k in SV, $75k in Omaha, and $9k in Phuket for the same job.
That's a pretty damn high salary regardless. But I think that's fine if most of that money end up paying for the engineers who do the actual work and not the management.