skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't work for everyone, but I had trouble getting to sleep quickly, figured out why, and "fixed" it.

My problem was thinking/working while trying to sleep, too much internal monologue. I also realized I am unable to have an internal monologue/actively "think" while listening to other people speaking (I'm a verbal thinker). So I started listening to audiobooks while trying to fall asleep. Now I'm off in about 5-10 minutes every night and take a couple of months to make it through a book.
Soul.
Tolkien has a very Christian good / evil dichotomy. And Frodo at the cracks of doom fits right in.

In this scheme, we mortals are not able to save ourselves, only God can do that. In Frodo's case, Gollum turned out to be Gods instrument. But first Frodo had climb the mountain before that could happen.
Because some support people don't have a clue what they're talking about?
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I would love a resource that related the various notions, expressions and idioms of society in the way that you just did. The sophistication of this association is well beyond anything machine learning can do. Except for maybe to crawl the internet and determine it was a relevant association stated by some human somewhere.
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>On the other hand, Microsoft could have easily gotten a much more "robust" lockdown - by simply demanding mandatory, unchangeable Secure Boot like on the ARM tablets. But they didn't do that.

Didn't you hear that Secure Boot is basically broken?
Low level customer support agent is probably working off a script.
Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
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Once again proving that headlines in the form of a question are answered simply "No".
It seems that Internet Explorer and Edge users were in danger for so long
There are a bunch of Linux laptops for sale these days, they're called "Chromebooks".

You can install crouton to get a regular Linux environment.

There are limitations, of course. Especially if you want a lot of processing power. The primary places I use my Chromebook are where I have Internet connectivity, so I decided not to carry around all the computer power I need on a regular basis.
Global pledge to stamp out drug-resistant infections
If you like it, try lowering the number of shapes primitive uses. I added an example video with n=15, it works really well for simple forms. Almost like a low poly rendering.
There are pros and cons of Bootstrap just like there are with all tools.

As an example, DataTables works out of the box with Bootstrap and Foundation, but not with SemanticUI. Same with Select2, Symfony, JetBrains IDEs.

The more bespoke your application, the more Bootstrap will either be useless or counter-productive. But if you're building a standard UI, Bootstrap is great. It's easy to find junior devs who can use it, and there's good documentation and support.
The legitimacy of a company or individual is derived from the country they belong to - the country who signed the treaty would have to enforce it against their citizens.

The Outer Space Treaty will be repealed as soon as practical colonization and commercial resource extraction is viable and profitable.
Big Company + Startup = Pilot = End of Startup

That at least has been my experience. Slight as it is.
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They probably looked for word linux in a script, and typed in the answer.

In reality the script read, "can I buy this with linux installed?", the answer would be only "windows 10 signature edition".

They probably don't even know what linux is.
I was thinking the exact same thing, so it's not tenuous.

+1 to OpenCola On GitHub idea :-)

Although:

https://github.com/search?q=open%20cola

https://github.com/NeuralSandwich/OpenCola
What's dated about it?
So if I understand that article correctly, the novelty of Apple's bag is that it's made of an unprecedented amount of recycled material but still has the same strength as a regular bag.

So by patenting that, wouldn't Apple prevent everyone else from making environment-friendly paper bags, therefore actually harming the environment?
I never cease to be amazed at what the USA thinks is patent-worthy.
My laptop has 1.5tb of space. You don't know my life!
It's not exactly any less boring and predictable than the poor stupid proles needing the brave, noble righteous heir to come and dig them out of the mire
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Realtime? In nodejs?

It must be a webscale realtime, or at least reactive realtime..
I agree. In some ways the OST resembles the Antarctic Treaty: intended to mitigate the near and medium-term problems until something new comes along.

And I don't have a problem with capitalism per se, but our legal and political systems don't seem to be doing a very good job of managing its excesses.
I read this and then I read this -

Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature (http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/21/12994362/allo-privacy-mess...)

Performance for privacy - LOL
There was a NYtimes article a few years ago, which I thought perfectly captured the fundamental difference between Apple and Google's product planning process.

Apple runs on Intelligent Design. You have a room full of geniuses who decide what to build, make sure it fits perfectly into their overall product portfolio with minimal overlap or cannibalization, spend years in a dark secret room building it until it's perfectly polished, and then do a big-bang launch.

Google on the other hand, runs on evolution. You've got tens of thousands of smart people all over the company, each with their own cool ideas and visions. Director #1 decides it would be cool to have a single unified messaging/video app that works across all platforms; Director #2 decides it would be cool to have a messaging app that's perfectly customized for mobile phones and Random-Guy #3 decides to do a 20℅ project on a messaging app that integrates AI functionality. Instead of trying to pick a winner, and telling everyone else to abandon their projects, Google allows all 3 visions to play themselves out on a small scale, and then doubles down on the winner. Rather than having a perfect product portfolio like Apple, Google is almost like an incubator, full of interesting ideas and projects, even if they lack the structure that comes with Central Planning.

The downside of course, is brand confusion and dilution. People looking for a messaging app, and not having the time to explore all options thoroughly, will have a hard time figuring out which Google-messaging-app to go with. If they pick a non-optimal one, it's going to hurt the Google brand in their eyes. But the upside is innovation. Allowing multiple ideas to play themselves out at the same time, allows for so much more innovation, experimentation and iteration. And ultimately, I think those are the qualities that Google wants to prioritize.
Why are mattress companies acting like tech startups?
Interestingly alcometer locks on cars and speed limiters are very rare. Except for minorities, like truck or taxi drivers. Small groups of voters, so politicians can do what they wish with them.

Seems like it's "okay" when you can get away with it. But not okay when large group of people get some slight inconvenience.
It's for this very reason that I'm still one of those old-school guys who still uses MacPorts. I was horrified to see this, and in my brief time using it, it actually caused me real problems, so I went back.
Ask HN: Technology related visit/holiday
The company I work for (Brazilian, web development company) is willing to sponsor a week long, all inclusive visit/holiday/conference/training trip anywhere in the world for our developers.

This is meant both as a reward and an opportunity for our technical staff (developers, sys admins, product and project managers) to interact with and learn from different cultures, environments and practices.

Where are some interesting places and what are some interesting activities, technology related, that they could go to?
The car handlers in Germany do not allow that for large amount of money. You can authorize a transfer without limits with your card (Lastschriftverfahren), but the handler will not have the money directly so he cannot be sure he will be able to pull the money out of your account. They want money in an irrevocable way on their account, which I understand.
So, add a distro's keys (to the firmware) or use a distro signed with the default (MS) key.

Or get those Linux community to organize, and establish some body to create, and secure, keys for Linux that will be installed by default alongside MSs.

As someone who suffered from at least a couple BIOS-based malware back on Windows PCs back in the day, I'm all for securing the bootloaders...
Not directly related, but there is a group in the University of Edinburgh that focuses on that (applying ML to source code). Their page is https://mast-group.github.io/
> And land sale? The Outer Space Treaty [1] prohibits governments from claiming ownership of planets, so where would the authority to sell land on Mars come from?

Possession is 11 tenths of the law.

The Treaty of Tordesillas gave the modern USA to Spain. How'd that go?
Got my H1B this year exactly like you described: 12+ years of experience and some good paper work. No college whatsoever.
In the short term it might not seem too interesting; but if you plan to go on in this career for a long time (perhaps you won't have, if AI singularity occurs before you retire, or if you plan to recycle into another career at some point), then I would advise you to go as far as you can studying. After 20 or 25 years, it helps to have studied a couple of years more. There's a tendency for the study time to depreciate in time, new students being taught faster what you learned in time.
Wait, when was SodaStream acquired? Last I knew they were a publically traded company.
DailyRounds is a social network/medical journal for doctors
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Missed the HP printer story. Mind linking?
Why lock on 7? (Probably same reason than promoting free 10, but I didn't get that either.)
I was talking about the last post, sorry if that wasn't clear. My point was, if other people have the same problem and find the thread, they will not read 19 pages and rather go to the last one to see where's the issue at. And there they will find nothing that answers their question. Lenovo staff could have at least have said "it is a known issue" / "it is a driver issue" / "We have an agreement with Microsoft"... Whatever the reason is.
Amassing great wealth implies that metals and barren lands on Earth are currently rare & expensive. They're not.

Metals: choose an elemental metal you think is rare. Look up it's Wikipedia entry, and look at its availability. It will be expressed in terms of a percentage of the earth's crust, something like 0.01%. Multiply that by 2.6*10^22 kg and realize that we're not going to run out of it any time soon, nor is it rare. It may be expensive to mine, but compared to the cost of transporting on rockets? Cheap.

Land: you can buy prime farmland in Saskatchewan, Canada for USD500 per acre.
Google has seven products that are used by more than a billion users per month. They are the only company in the world that can say that - that by definition IS best in class.
Zurb Foundation.

Though it is, literally, a foundation to build your own look-and-feel on.
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yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went.

or to reverse it - do you know anybody drinking coke in same amounts as usage of vinegar when pouring over salad?
Google never was a company that made best in class consumer software products. Search (maybe Maps?) is the only thing it's ever excelled at.
Well, with around 8-10% today (9.6% according to StatCounter), Apple which targets higher-end, higher-margins gets most of the profits from the home computer market, at least in the US.

It is also doing quite well recently in the corporate desktop (see IBM adopting Macs, etc). Heck, they almost dominate the "startup founder/employee" desktop, as well as the "university student" desktop.
I just came back from a trip there yesterday (opportunity to visit after a great Strange Loop in St Louis) and I've been walking through downtown-ish areas most of the time - from the lake to union park in the west.

People I met were nice and all but also felt conservative/boring (not many flashy people on the streets) - I didn't find any interesting meetups when I was there either.

I'm a huge Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off fan so I was doubly disappointed :(

I'd be happy to learn that I just did it the wrong way / had bad luck and all the cool folks are somewhere else.
It still is as far as I know. There where some rumors a while back that Pepsi might have been interested in putting in a bid, but nothing came of it.
You mean Firefox UI isn't already a carbon copy of Chrome?
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They have not been acquired by Pepsi. SodaStream has a distribution deal with Pepsi.
There was a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12435425
No company runs its own support forum ... as far as I'm aware Stack Overflow is ad supported right? ;)
There seems to be a lot of hurt and over-excitement about this!

It's not even possible to re-install Windows on this machine let alone Linux.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/boar...

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/boar...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And why would Microsoft be behind blocking Linux and windows installs, and reinstalls ...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We did not invent clothes simply to stay warm
I've heard some good and bad reviews about system76 and zareason. I'm currently considering the Librem 13 on https://puri.sm/ for when they come out in october.
I'm going with this theory - it makes more sense than "MS HATES LINUX!!11!!"
There's guilty, where you have evidence that points to a suspects guilt, and then there's (for example) "I did this thing in full view of 100 people and cameras" guilty. That's already pretty big difference between levels of assurance of guilt.

As I said before, I can't come up with legal, concrete, and objective measures because I haven't studied law. It's completely unreasonable for you to ask that. Furthermore, as a taxpayer and regular voter, I help fund and choose the people that have said training. It's up to them to figure out how to implement a solution. I can't be expected to do everything.
There was an interesting comment on Twitter from Bill Cook. He’s one of the leading experts on the Travelling Salesman problem, and also the author of an excellent popular book on the subject (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9531.html).

> Stunning news that Google Trips uses Christofides TSP algorithm. Not a good choice in any practical case.

https://twitter.com/wjcook/status/778323119345901568

He did follow up by saying “Fortunately, Dave Applegate moved to Google Research NYC last month!”
>Java support is meh at best, true but Java isn't my main language, and I'd rather not learn another new, inferior text editing environment every time I learn a new language

Only most of the work we do while programming is not text editing -- we're not courtroom clerks or secretaries -- it's reading code, with a modicum of writing (less than 300-500 lines per day).

For this, a "great text editing mode" is almost of no use, compared to great language-related facilities for code navigation, AST-based autocomplete, intelligent refactoring, integrated debugger and build system, etc etc.

>Besides, does your IDE read email, come with an integrated tetris package

Thankfully, no.
You paint a pretty picture of life once you have attained "habits of excellence".

I've been going to the gym 4+ times a week for the last 5 years. And yes it has gotten easier, and 80% of the time really I enjoy it. But there are days where I am tired, or just don't feel like it.

Those days are where discipline is the most important. The ability to do that which you must, wether you want to or not.

tldr: I think real success is a balance of both, good habits and the discipline to stay the course.
I really like the way the community does it with Soylent (https://diy.soylent.com/recipes). Would love to see a community get behind something like this with Cola and improve on it / come up with variations.

There is a "base" recipe and people experiment, publish their own spin (ie we could see a cherry cola, vanilla, etc) people up vote it and the cream rises to the top and you get some great recipes.
Useless abandonware.
Startups woo Accelerate audience with climate, waste, ag solutions
Do you provide a version of Firebase's onDisconnect? https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.datab...

It's very hard to correctly manage distributed state without a guarantee similar to this.
If you're willing to put the work in to load balance then it can probably scale quite well.

I'm always baffled why people choose JS over Erlang/Elixir which is designed to do this and comes with the tools/libs required to scale.
Theranos' unbelievably cold reaction to the suicide of its chief scientist
That's not the point.

I'm not paying thousands of dollars to get something that needs to be "cracked" to work the way I want.

Lenovo will not see a single dollar of mine, ever.
>Interestingly alcometer locks on cars and speed limiters are very rare.

If the technology gets convenient and cheap enough, they might not be.
> The Windows vs. Linux battle is long settled

What makes you think that?

As far as I can tell there is still a reasonable chance that Linux and Linux-typical software like LibreOffice will gain more market share at the cost of Microsoft products. Especially with preinstalled and -configured notebooks working with Linux.
And the weather is much nicer, even in Saskatchewan! You get all the air you can breath!

Honestly though - isn't Venus more likely to take well to terraforming
Because he has no clue? He is a tech support person ("product expert") answering forums questions.
For the past couple of years I have been consistently amazed at how bad Lenovo has become.

What a bunch of morons are in charge.

Every year I wonder if it's going to get worse and sure enough they do something stupid.
> If we can't terraform Earth's deserts, do we really stand a chance with Mars?

It's not that we couldn't, it's that we don't care to - partly because the reward isn't there, and partly because there are opposing interests. Humans absolutely have had (and are having) large-scale impact on the Earth's climate, and that's while mostly trying not to.
We could do the impossible if we stopped fighting each other.
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It does indeed appear to be their strategy; although it seems to work well enough for them. It's just a bit frustrating for users who periodically lose an app they came to depend on.
Actually, this is scientifically wrong.
The myth that artifical sweeteners are a bad as sugar has been disproved some time ago.
For the harm, e-smoking may pose, one cannot really tell. However, the sole intake of nicotine is not as harmful as smoking tobacco. This difference is mostly due to the presence of MAOI in tobacco.
Citric acid actually is worse than phosphoric acid, but how many sirups are made with citric acid? Also, if you limit your intake, you should be fine. Alas most juices comprise in part of citric acid.
But do you need half a litre of vinegar to clean a toilet?
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I guess there is some logic, in that refurbished Lenovo laptops are still one of the more popular vehicles for Linux. I just installed Fedora on a refurb T410, slapped in an SSD, and for my (rather light) workload I notice no disadvantage compared with desktop Win10.
So? Most of the time we fail to sleep because we feel anxiety, and our brains tells itself it's never going to sleep

it's mostly mental, not physical. Hence a placebo is precisely what we need.
Bootstrap is bloated and identifiable within a second of opening a webpage, it's eventually removed from every project that goes anywhere. But it's a slow and painful process, because it has hooks in all over the place.

It's better to start out with some very simple css boilerplate, the app is new it doesn't need to look like Twitter... if the app is new it probably shouldn't look like Twitter anyway, it's current-year.
> Does a Chinese planet and a US planet and a Facebook moon represent a useful and viable future?

I'd say it's a better future than the "no terraforming at all" future. And I suspect the "wait until UN-like bodies are competent and willing to organize terraforming" future is actually the "no terraforming at all" future.
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I was addressing the toilet cleaning statement. How much do you need to use for that?

But ok, to make break your point I need to provide you with an example of a liquid that cleans the toilet just as well as coke but is healthy while drinking similar amounts. How about lemon juice, diluted to be drinkable without any direct adverse effects on your health and with the same pH as the coke. I'm just guessing but I think it is possible to do that.
Pesky Nash equilibria.
So could we engineer ourselves to be able to withstand more radiation? Perhaps with advances in cancer treatment and CRISPR-style modifications on the most fragile parts of the genome we can make us more resilient so we can become a multiplanetary species...

On the other hand, sending life to Mars, due to that radiation, would make it evolve much faster, right? Perhaps we can start terraforming it and study the evolutions of plants and animals there to gain insight in how to overcome our frailties.
As they say, increase the size of the hammer if it initial does not work.
Has anyone tasted this? What was it like?
This reminds me of Astro Teller's recent article:

http://qz.com/536483/why-its-compeltely-ridiculous-to-think-...

"""...we live on a planet that is perfect for us, and we seem to be unable to prevent ourselves from making it less and less habitable. We’re like a bunch of teenagers destroying our parents’ mansion in one long, crazy party, figuring that our backup plan is to run into the forest and build our own house. We’ll worry about how to get food and a good sound system later. Proponents of Mars colonization talk about “terraforming” Mars to make it more like Earth, but in the meantime, we’re “marsforming” Earth by making our atmosphere poisonous and annihilating our natural resources. We are also well on our way to making Earth one big desert, just like Mars."""
It can also be used to clean battery terminals among other things.

But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I've used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Vegetable oils and waxes are used in industrial applications: Soy can be used as a base for ink and lipstick.

Stomach acid itself is about as strong as battery acid, actually. And this is something your body produces and is necessary.

Basically: There are a great many chemicals that have multiple uses, and are only dangerous when used in sufficient amounts or on specific surfaces.
Think about this when you're hiring developers
The research community is way past that stage already.

This is a journalistic account of a scientific result. It's important to keep that in mind.
Have you ever flown over northern Canada or northern Russia? Empty land is ridiculously plentiful on earth.