skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not really. When my purchase was made, the Macbook Pro had the nicest screen and form factor with 16GB of memory.

I debated the Carbon X1 at the time, but I recall it was limited to 8GB of memory. I regularly work with Java-based ETL tools and datasets that spill out of 8GB, so having 16GB was important. I could have gotten more memory if I wanted a bigger form factor but I really didn't want to lug a "workstation replacement" around.

A couple of years ago I said if the Macbook lasted as long as my Thinkpad X200 did (4-5 years), it would be a reasonable purchase.

If I was buying today, I might just buy some type of large screen Chromebook and do everything on some cloud VM instance with even more memory.
> "How will you pay for the roads?" has been posed to libertarians as a rhetorical question so frequently that it is now a warning flag that means your discussion counterpart has never bothered researching the opposing position even one iota before judging against it.

I'm familiar with the libertarian arguments. There is no need for me to mention them every time I make an argument of my own. Omission does not imply ignorance -- I know the libertarian arguments, but I just don't take them seriously enough to mention them every time I talk about taxes.
Is management of digital experiences lost on CX pros?
Yeah no kidding. I would regret my decision after about 45 minutes sitting up on cold mountain. Shit, I probably wouldn't get service even if I hadn't given my phone away. What now?

People would spot me outside the library in town, resisting the urge to go inside... To return the edible plant id guide and maybe I don't know surf the web just a little.
I just don't understand why. Encryption and stickers and gifs are things you could add to hangouts easily. 'Assistant' is just a wrapper for google now in a less convenient form. What is the point.
Care to elaborate on what you didn't like about S2?

I enjoyed most of season 1, but started to get turned off by the philosophy/politics towards the end and kind of stopped paying attention.

Now I'm seeing people say S2 is more critical of the characters and explores the ideas in some more interesting ways, which has pretty much convinced me to start watching again.

You're the first I've seen who specifically didn't like S2.
A random X does not reduce the entropy of bcrypt(B), just fails to add any additional entropy beyond bcrypt(A)'s.

Assuming C, where len(C) < 72, I don't know if it is possible at all to chose some value of Y such that:

D:= C+Y

Entropy(bcrypt(D))< Entropy(bcrypt(C))
Thank you Mike and team, seriously. Homebrew is a must have and I can't function on a machine that doesn't have it.
Author of `rails5-spec-converter` here. I've been looking for ways to advertise this gem and wouldn't have guessed someone would find it via the reverse_dependencies API :)

I don't think there's anything RSpec-specific in the gem other than the default filename glob, which you can override on the command line. If there are any other issues transforming non-RSpec suites I'd love to fix them.
It is entirely in the customers interest for a business they support to be profitable, which advertising promotes.

I'm sure residents of the DPRK would disagree that our ads are as invasive as their government propaganda. Or maybe they would agree with you... not sure that proves anything though...
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The last two projects mentioned in the article (Literome and better interpretation of medical images) sound like they may be useful. The projects that are described as cell-debugging and cell-reprogramming sound like the sort of hubristic projects that someone with a good computing background but less than an undergraduate knowledge of cell biology might propose (at least as the projects are described in the article).

About a decade ago I was involved with a US Department of Energy effort to model radiation damage to DNA in silico, and more peripherally involved with a proteomics effort working out of the same institution. They didn't work very well. The number one problem was that we didn't have good baseline data from experiments to work with. IMO, you'd get better mileage out of automating in vitro experiments and ensuring that the data is reproducible before you start trying to leverage the latest in computer science. How much can you machine-learn from garbage inputs? Biology experiments even at the isolated cell level are notoriously fiddly. Let the biologists (or at least people who have worked with them) explain the problems that need solving in biology, and then bring in CS people as required. Starting with a computing-oriented perspective is just begging to misunderstand what biological research needs.
> I'm a normal person and I don't have difficulties in dealing with other human beings.

Then why are you so insecure about it?
I don't know why he asked, but I was confused about your statement. I wasn't sure of your intent. Were you asking if the user "did not buy it" metaphorically? Or were you suggesting that because the update is free (therefore impossible to buy), users should restrain (or properly frame) their criticism?
Are we witnessing the first steps towards interplanetary turn-based seed driven gaming?!
Almost none of the things in your first paragraph are true.
Excellent tip! Thanks!
Animal Menagerie
That blew my mind the first time I read it. There's also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser
I'm pretty sure this is what a salt prevents.
Not "the entire time" -- they have changed the way that unemployment is calculated multiple times over the years, and always in favor of lower unemployment. And while it's not a secret, it's definitely not actively publicized. That's the point; lower unemployment numbers are published to try to lower unemployment.

Never trust numbers if the one collecting the data has any inclination towards the result, no matter how trustworthy the source seems to be; bias will find a way in. Any government's numbers on unemployment and inflation will always be suspect for that reason. S&P/Moody's/Fitch? Years ago, I remember a trader in Zurich laughing at my question as to their trust-worthiness.

If I was a full-time investor with a large portfolio, I would pay to do my own tracking of prices across a wide basket of goods, as well as research to get my own numbers on unemployment, underemployment and jobless, the same with credit ratings. Any large discrepancies with the official numbers would be a sign as to what is being sold and how desperately.
Please read the "Can I post job ads" part of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
>could help convey a conversational tone.

Plus saying "your baby" is potentially overly familiar and possibly confrontational. Using baby with no article makes it indeterminate - it's the idea of their baby as opposed to the actual baby itself.
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One Upbeat.
I guess Lenovo should make it clear if the computer is locked or not and maybe offer an upgrade option to get it unlocked.
An easier strategy for giving up Facebook is to simply unfollow most of your friends for about two or three weeks. After a while, you will probably notice a huge decrease in your cravings. Once you feel comfortable not seeing updates from everyone all the time, you can try deactivating your account for a week or two, and overtime you start feeling like you don't actually need to use Facebook anymore. You certainly don't have to delete your account or unfriend everyone to do this.
Dropbox. I disable syncing for certain files, and its only stored in Dropbox. I need access again without using a web browser? I turn on syncing for that folder again and the files are synced back locally within a few seconds to minutes.

I priced out getting an external SSD drive ($300 for 1TB). Its cheaper for me to just buy a year of Dropbox at a time (1TB @ $100/year if paid annually).

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/113
1. Gmail
2. Chrome
3. Heroku
4. Youtube
5. Spotify
6. Dropbox
7. Gyroscope
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Ben Franklin effect
More like 1%. Sometimes the rate is higher than inflation, since 2008 it's been lower.

The point is that SS administrators would rather lose a small amount of value than put that giant-ass lump of money into the market. It creates risk, and more importantly, creates a situation where the government is manipulating stock prices with their picks due to the massive size of the trust fund.
> Advertising is just oppression by private companies, I don't see any difference with government ads.

You see no difference between ads that ask you to buy something and a government that uses torture, murder, mind control, propaganda, and fear to carry out the destruction of free will of its citizens?

Ok.

> it's even more invasive and everywhere.

Yes, being sent to labor camps to work to death is just as invasive as having Google know that I like video games.
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Season one ends with a lot of momentum. Season two starts very slow, for good reason. It doesn't stay that way.
>Parent #1: aaaargh he's quiet we haven't looked at him for five minutes is he still breathing???

>Parent #2: meh, let him play with knives on the kitchen table. If he falls off he'll bounce.

Is a far bigger problem
No hindsight. Communist takeover plans were very well-know and public for a long time.

Moscow hardly had a monopoly

Nobody claims this.

The fact of the	matter remains:	the KR and Pol Pot were	created
following the standard communist script for "liberation movements"
in the
developing world (i.e. thinly veilded preparations for communist takeover). All the ideological training was provided by the
Soviets and their allies, as were all the many weapons and other logistics. The US was
in East Asia primarily to counter the communist threat, not to prop up
French colonies.

All responsibility for the KR and their actions is with the communists
leadership in Moscow (and Beijing and Paris and Belgrade and Hanoi).
"Prisma is over capacity. There are too many people using Prisma now, please try again later."

First time I've seen an app get slashdotted. (HNed doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?)
Ask HN: How to get a high load on a website in a short time?
Simple question for you. I wait for some answers.
>To me this seems like pure win: Facebook already had ads, so it's just a matter of them getting better. WhatsApp can be free for everyone in a sustainable way, instead of the western-iOS-users-get-to-pay-for-everyone model WhatsApp used before.

In what way is that a win? Giving up my privacy to save $1/year? Please, I'll take privacy all day long.

As for EU governments "hating" American companies: BS. They're actually sticking up for user rights and privacy rights. Something I wish the US would do.
Max out your 401k and Roth IRA. You won't be able to retire by saving cash unless you have an extremely high savings rate relative to your income -- and even then, inflation will erode the purchasing power of your cash.

Don't buy whole life insurance. It's a pretty bad idea.
I was under the impression that one of the iOS 10 betas added support for getting at notification options without 3D touch on devices that don't support it, but since all of my personal devices support it I can't actually test that (and the development device I use is intentionally still running iOS 9).
True, but the Islanders aren't. (Well, a few still are.)
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Out-of-process iframes are now enabled in Chrome M55
It's not very practical to use without an iPhone in many circumstances. If I use iMessage people will message me there asking to meet up, etc.. and actually I won't receive those messages until I get home and boot up my Mac. Most people spend the vast majority of their time at work, or out of their home for whatever reason. Using iMessage on a Mac without an iPhone is a bit like the messaging version of only having a landline phone.
Pensions are managed by pension funds. Can't touch 'm until you're 67 (in the Netherlands). And even then you won't receive a lump sum, but a monthly allowance (that's how I see it). All employees take part in a pension fund, as mandated by law. It's one very important reason why I'm self employed. It's the only way to avoid this nonsense.
Thanks for that. Any other NK-related films you recommend that go beyond surface shock value (e.g. Vice documentaries) or ignorant comedy (The Interview)?
"When you move matter from one place to another it moves, it's not copied."

Matter is not being moved here.

"There is no physical of philosophical argument differentiate between "real" teleportation and "just moving state"."

Sure there is.

Arguably - that nothing was copied or transferred in the first place and that the particle was always in a given state until it was observed.
What is the reason for doing this though? I don't feel the need to do this. It feels like a solution looking for a problem. I realize Facebook takes up time but I usually have fun on Facebook. But I probably use it to make up for weaknesses and to avoid being alone with my thoughts at times.
David, Weebly is amazing! It's what I used for some of my earliest projects and kinda want got me started down the path of web development. Glad to see that it is growing!
I literally waited 10 mins to see a full rendered homepage.
If they announced that they would accept payment in Bitcoin for their cars, or installed a dashboard camera with a social media sharing button, their valuation would instantly triple.
They all had their quirks, but overall, they were all meant to be relatable to in their own way. Of course, some were really out there (Kramer, Soup Nazi, etc...), but I think Jerry, George, and Elaine were all kind of normal.

I believe that the show was so popular because many people saw connections between the characters and people they actually knew in real life. Compared to Mr. Robot, I would say that the characters in Seinfeld were far more normal.

So maybe relatable doesn’t necessarily mean normal, but that’s what I was thinking.
Weebly is one of the companies from our batch (W07) that I would have wanted to invest in, if given the opportunity. They just build really cool products for non-technical folks. I've been recommending them for years (even though they kinda/sorta indirectly compete with what we build).

I've been surprised by how important and effective email still is to most small businesses, and it's a hard problem to solve; having it integrated with the rest of your site and commerce solution is even harder. Ecommerce is a more obvious need, but has a lot more solutions available, including for non-technical folks.

Congrats on launching cool new stuff all these years later!
That is literally five years old at this point and is at best, a cheap shot. Let's be better.
Combine this with Tesla's acquisition of CF expertise, and I would wager that more CF is going to be used in electric vehicles in the near future, providing even greater range.
But I want to be able to utilize all this cool free stuff that boosts my quality of life without seeing ads! It's my right! STOP OPPRESSING ME!
1. Emacs - I might have moved to something else if Spacemacs weren't so good.

2. Apple nearly everything - I've switched to Android and back several times, and have used Linux as my main desktop quite a bit, but I keep coming back to the Apple ecosystem. For all of its shortcomings (and there are certainly a few), Apple makes decent products that still mostly just work, and I like the fact that they make their money selling products, not ads, which is one of the big factors that has kept me from migrating to Google everything.
it's funny, but other than a few basic tools, most of what I get from homebrew is versionables (nvm, pyenv, etc) of other programming utilities, in that, I don't run brew update very often, usually only before installing something new via homebrew.
I often wonder this as well.

Why can't they store my public key and authenticate me the way Github/Bitbucket/SSH all do?
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
I just tried Homebrew for the third time the other day and it made a complete mess of my /usr/local/bin and also screwed up my install of rvm ... never again will I give it a chance. Sorry, but IMO Homebrew is crufty, opinionated software with poor separation of concerns. Macports is the (objectively?) better choice for my needs.
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Plus: It's not only the crib that's about to be burnt by all the clothes and didactic material...
Rates stayed the same.

How much of this decision would you say is political, and how much is informed by data and analysis of economic factors?
SPAs are basically an exploit, taking advantage of a dynamic document model and a language intended to layer a little bit of behaviour atop that model, and using it instead to deliver entire applications. It's a little like noticing that sed is Turing complete, and thus writing a text editor in sed.

The Web is supposed to be about resources and links between them; that's what REST is about (in a very real sense, REST is the driving principle behind the Web). In pretty much every case, those resources can have an attractive, human-readable HTML representation (but they may of course also have easily-parsed JSON or high-performance Thrift, flatpack or protobuf representations). One should be able to use a browser as one's user agent to use a web site built on REST principles to perform any sequence of operations that web site makes available.

Now, one might provide quite a lot of JavaScript over top of that REST interface, in order to provide a more user-friendly experience (one could imagine HN using JavaScript to allow inline commenting, while still preserving the ability to POST). In general, one should provide the plain resource-oriented interface first, and only add JavaScript later. For one thing, this helps one think clearly about the API; for another, it's a lot easier to take a clean REST API and use it from JavaScript than it is to take a purpose-built SPA and try to turn it into a proper REST system.

Now, there do exist some systems which really, really don't make a lot of sense as primarily REST apps — in my post, I used the example of chat apps. Certainly, they should have REST APIs, but honestly I can't see most people wanting to use them that way (although … it may be convenient in order to avoid distraction). For that sort of app, it's conceivable that one might properly begin with the SPA. Another example might be the 2048 game, or similar things. As much as I'd prefer a native gtk+ game, it is true that most people haven't yet upgraded to Linux; it's also true that as terrible as the JavaScript privacy & security stories are, they are much better than the native app privacy & security stories.

All those are good reasons to write an SPA.

But if one is building a brochure site, or a blog, or a magazine, or a trip planner, or an e-commerce site, or pretty much anything that most of use — then starting with an SPA is wrong. All of those should be modeled as resources and state first, with UI added later.

An example would be that I discovered it's impossible to checkout using Target's website without JavaScript; I was just trying to send a gift certificate to a friend, and now Target isn't seeing that money, due to a poor design decision. There's absolutely no reason that Target should require me to enable JavaScript in order to POST them a credit card number and a quantity.
> It's free, what is there to buy?

A new Mac for those on an unsupported one.
This are some news I am not happy to hear since I am a really heavy user of WhatsApp. I gues is time to move over to Telegram or I could give Signal Private Messenger a try.
How can you promise that as you don't know me and don't know how i use Facebook, right? Maybe I'm having a fun time and also projecting good energy out to others. Or maybe I'm delusional. But how do you know with such certainty that my life or any other individual's life would be better without Facebook? I understand if you observed them mindlessly posting updates about minutia and robotically liking this and that.
Given that it's not multiplatform it's kind of irrelevant. It's not a replacement for any of the others. I mean, yay for better encryption, but it's not going to help anyone on Whatsapp today.
While reading your comment I was reminded of this method [1] I saw awhile back of having an index in the back of a notebook and marking the edge of pages at the point of the corresponding index item. It's an interesting concept if you don't need a ton of granularity in your ability to search.

[1] http://www.highfivehq.com
It is "mere communication" in the sense that the whole action is communication, as opposed to eg also physically gaining access. The strict sense you're attempting for "mere" is nonsensical - every communication is for some ultimate purpose, and so can be described as that purpose. By a strict sense, asking Aunt Mildred for her cookie recipe wouldn't be "mere" communication, because you're also "making cookies".

The dual criminality thing isn't surprising because it's the crudest way of resolving the immediate conundrum. But this case precisely highlights its flaw - a person has only violated the law if they are found guilty in a court. Lauri has not been found guilty in a UK court, and therefore his actions have not been found illegal under UK law! Not to mention the vastly different punishments between the places (owing to societal differences that he never opted into). So either the principle needs to be extended to take these things into account, effectively making him stand trial in a UK court but perhaps with a US prosecutor, or another basic principle needs to be found.

Obviously there is no legal precedent, because if there were we wouldn't be having this conversation (it is the tendency for these systems to grow and erode rights). But I'm arguing that there should be - if someone is not physically present in a jurisdiction, how can they be said to have positively assented to that jurisdiction?

In the age of instant global communication, we either have one world jurisdiction (role currently being filled by USG) or we need to adopt logical demarcation points between different ones. I believe freedom of speech scaled up to nation states makes a lot of sense, for the same pragmatic reasons that it makes sense applied to individuals - a receiver of information is able to easily filter much garbage, and so the onus should be on them to prevent being affected by it.
>Like millions of dinosaurs wishing the asteroid hadn't hit because it would make their world better, it doesn't matter, the fact still stands.

That's what they get for not investing more into a space program.

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