skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My IO requirements haven't changed that dramatically in the past six years, and are still well served by a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro.

I've got MagSafe for power, Mini DisplayPort for video out, Mini TOSLINK for audio out, and USB 2.0 for everything else. There's a gigabit Ethernet port if I want it, but otherwise 802.11n works just fine.

I'd like faster data transfer (not that any of my peripherals are USB C compatible yet), but otherwise I don't really understand what the massive fragmentation of connector standards does for me.
To paraphrase Tyrion Lannister, we're not questioning the credibility of the source, we're denying its existence.

"Toddandclare" is, rather blatantly, a front company for some organization. There is no doubt of this fact. They probably want to be able to claim that "a UN conspiracy is silencing them", but their attempt to set this up is so ludicrous, I'm having trouble imagining who would even think of such a thing.
Have you considered running proper mailman instances for the project mailing lists instead of Google Groups?
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Things went the other way in Australia - a large number of homes in the south-east connected to reticulated natural gas for hot water and central heating because it was significantly cheaper than electricity, but now that LNG export terminals have come online the gas price has risen closer to the international market price. It's now significantly cheaper to run reverse-cycle electric heating, especially overnight with time-of-use electricity charging.
Probably this:

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/06/14/united-str...
"That said, it had a significantly better user experience than contemporary competitors, but that's mostly because MP3 players back in 2001 were universally horrible."

I love how people forget devices like Creative NOMAD, Archos Jukebox, etc. when recalling the past of Apple changing everything in personal media players. It is the same with ignoring the LG Prada when talking about the iPhone. Just stop it.
Except that it was almost entirely Clinton supporters pushing this on sites like Daily Kos, Twitter, HN, etc. Wikileaks were really late to the party on getting a press release out about this, with Buzzfeed dismantling the whole thing shortly before they got their press release out and rendering it almost moot, and the attack was timed when the internet connection cut limited their ability to respond effectively. The fact that the whole hatchet job was ridiculous didn't matter, because Clinton's supporters just ignored this and accused anyone who pointed it out of being pro-pedo, and it got almost 24 hours of being spread around the internet unchallenged. Not only that, countering it tied up a bunch of time and resources that could've been used to post things damaging to her instead.

It looks like Ecuador have also just published a press release about cutting his internet connection that's perfectly timed to distract from this too. So Clinton's in no way losing out here. She benefits from people believing that Assange is a pedo and no-one hears about part where it's an incompetent frameup. The taint from this will stick to anything Assange says about her in future.
Agreed. Furthermore, the Arstechnica article seems to point to the WiFi as the main issue.

>Microsoft's hardware isn't necessarily the culprit here, merely the victim. The NFL uses a lot of wireless hardware—communications headsets, public Wi-Fi networks, private networks for the tablets, networks for the press, and more. Moreover, key portions of the infrastructure, including the tablets themselves, are owned by the NFL itself. Belichick said that although the Patriots' IT person, Dan Famosi, did a "great job" of handling all the systems, he had no power to diagnose or fix problems with the league-provided equipment.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/patriots-bill-belichi...
I find Delta's Comfort+, Virgin's Premium Economy, and JetBlue's EvenMoreSpace to be quite a good compromise of price vs space. None are "private arm rest", but all are quite good fore and aft and my weight in lbs nearly overflows a uint8 and I'm comfortable side-to-side.

Comfort+ seems to be $99/way on trans-Atlantic and JetBlue's are $30-60 per leg on most flights.

I'm a (low) executive who probably could fly business class more (in the sense that our travel policy doesn't prevent it), but I choose not to as it's not a good use of shareholder funds. I only do it if it's <~$200 more or if I'm flying and going directly from the airport into a critical meeting. Routine travel and I'm fine in coach.
Neither; the airspeed (speed of aircraft relative to the air around it) is roughly the same.
Time files like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

Wake me up when they can match human recognition of context.
> .you mean professional journalists who actually report on subjects of their expertise?

Go read the IT section of your local paper and see if you still think that.
This is a great example of the principal-agent problem [1] that is so common in the enterprise IT world. The NFL is in charge of the hardware purchased and support of said hardware yet the teams are the ones who actually use the technology and suffer when it doesn't work correctly. The NFL doesn't particularly care about it because it has little impact on their end product or their bottom line (they are already cashing their sponsorship checks from Microsoft). The result is as Belichick suggest, there is little urgency for a fix from the NFL and the teams end up just abandoning the technology completely.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
It's weird to hear git's cli called superior. I have much more often heard the opposite.
A while ago, the Stanford dean wrote an open letter about the decreasing amount of funding for the UC system. In this letter, the dean mentioned the value the UC system provides to Stanford, the research community in general, and the state of California.

However, the Stanford Dean also said something interesting, he said that Stanford can't provide an education on the scale that the UC system does. While I agree Stanford can't match the entire UC system on scale, I have to ask, why not on a scale similar to a UC Campus?

UC Berkeley, for example, has over 27,000 undergraduates, with a vastly higher percentage of low income students than Stanford or any Ivy. At Stanford and Harvard, total undergrad enrollment is below 8,000. As a result, Berkeley educates more low income students than the entire ivy leave combined. This is true of a number of UC campuses.

It's clear that the elite privates have decided to keep their undergraduate populations very small. Even if they do improve the percentage of low income students, the scale is so minuscule that they can't really be large scale agents of social mobility.

So, why aren't Stanford and Harvard enrolling 25,000 undergraduates? If UCB and UCLA can do this, why can't they? These institutions do enroll comparable numbers of graduate students, the big gap is in undergrads.

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2014/10/13/why-elite-private-unive...

Because these universities get a huge amount of money from the government, and a massive tax exemption, they end up being far more heavily subsidized per student than even the elite public universities, with far less restrictions on how they are allowed to operate.

I'm not absolutely against the exemption in theory, but really, why should Harvard and Stanford get to keep this massively valuable tax exemption if they're going to refuse to scale, offloading the massively important task of educating large numbers of students to state supported universities. Really, if you look at the public funding (including the favored tax status) Harvard and Stanford are essentially state supported institutions.

I'd say, privates need to either scale like UCB and UCLA, or lose the exemption.
We still have the revolution-via-vote of rejecting the 2 major parties and casting in with the upstarts, even if they won't get in this time. It doesn't need to come down to unrest and violence. Rep vs Dem is a false dichotomy; it just has current momentum (which happens to be falling fast).
It's the same as cloaking a tank in a tank battle.

If you didn't take the armor off it's great. But if you did then you've put your eggs in the don't get hit basket.

The trick is figuring out if you could have bought more armor with the money you spent on the cloaking device.

Or, if enemy weapons are so good that armor doesn't matter, then it's time to think about cloaking very seriously.

It's a balance between probability and impact. With cloaking you're reducing likelihood. With armor you're reducing impact.

But in both cases you're reducing risk.
> one of Donald Trump's campaign promises is to put Edward Snowden to death.

That is heartbreaking. Thank you for informing me. Whoever we elect, this absolutely cannot happen.

He has also suggested, "going after their families" as a strategy to combat terrorism. Can we elect someone, to stand over the world, who has made such statements? We really need a third option. A quote from some wise-guy somewhere [0]: "315 to 320 million people; this is the best two that we can come up with?"

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3O01EfM5fU&t=37
Keep in mind that the OS eats, IIRC, 10g-ish of that supposed 32. And you'd better keep another couple g free for OTA updates. So you're now down to more like 20g of useable space. On a phone that shoots hd video.

Me personally: a 4g spotify cache so I don't burn through data, cached maps, lots of pics and video, and I'm constantly dealing with out of space warnings.
> it is quite literally silently swallowing ALL exceptions thrown

Technically, it propagates the error along to any dependent promises. If nobody's handling errors, then yes, they get swallowed. If that bugs you, all you have to do is add this once when your app starts up:

process.on('unhandledRejection', function(ex) {
console.error(ex.stack);
process.exit(1);
});

I think that should have been the default, personally, but it's a nuisance at worst. Throwing out promises because of this is absurd thinking.
> Theil voluntarily choose to strongly support Trump without thinking he owed anyone an explanation.

He is right that he doesn't owe anybody anything, but he provided ample explanations for his actions anyway. They are easily accessible too.

> but it doesn't afford him much favors in the form of being a part of the community.

Is it me or you feel like you can decide who is part of the community and who is not? Why is that?

> People have the right not to support Thiel or organizations he is a part of.

Sure, they do. It's not what we are talking about. We are talking about people wanting the situation to be that "not to support Thiel" - including mandatory declaration of such non-support and cutting all ties with him - be the only right possible in this community. I don't want such a community. Such community sucks big time.

There's a big diff between "you are allowed to be vegetarian or to eat pork, as you wish" and "if you eat pork, you are outta here and everybody must never speak to you again". First is normal, second sounds like a totalitarian sect.

> Is it more fair to boycott YC and the companies they have invested in rather than to ask for the resignation of Thiel?

Neither is fair or sane.
You really need to stop confusing the opinion of a propaganda site for reality. Shame on you for being so completely patronizing and such an asshole as to imply that I haven't spent any time thinking about this. This issue affects me directly, so you can't possibly know how little regard I have for your anti-intellectualism (and you've been anti-intellectual for years here).

You believe what you want to believe and you find propaganda a that fits it and you define it as truth.

You're a exactly as intellectual as a religious fundamentalists. In fact, you're a jihadist. No amount of intellectual dishonesty is "a bad tactic" when you have a "good target".

Shame on you, you patronizing bigot.
Unless you're a utopian anarchist some form of government is essential to the operation of society. The alternative to democracy is non-representational government. In other words, democracy may not define freedom by itself, but it's absence is certainly non-free. Feel free to point to a government that is non-democratic or imposes significant restrictions on democracy that has a free society.

On the other hand there are a number of countries that restrict capitalism in some way but have free societies.

Of course it depends on what you mean by "freedom"; if you mean it is "free to move capital around" but not "everyone is free to elect their leaders" then sure, but that is not how I understand the term.

[OT but pretty pathetic that I got downvoted for my previous comment by someone. Tempting to speculate it was (hilariously and ironically) by a Thiel supporter sore at the idea that he might have his views being suppressed.]
License plate technology lets the police identify you from far away and in secret without ever talking to you.

(with some chance of error)

The government being able to figure out who you are, is not a story.

(Systematic & automatic use of ID information to continually track you, is)
Ah, that makes more sense. I should have read the full comment XD.
Back when I was still buying local newspapers they had very little local coverage anyway, it was mostly regurgitated national news. And lets face it, there isn't enough local news to justify a daily.
When he started chlorine and barrel bombing civilians?
Yup! And I wish the likes of Rightside would scrap their extension and just use Gavin's work.
Sendgrid Tests 233 API Endpoints in Seconds
and a few of the pumped hydro facilities are only designed to consume power to use up extra baseload power when the supply is expected to outstrip demand.

That doesn't seem right - if you want to temporarily curb the output of a thermal power station (eg. nuclear or coal) without actually shutting down units, you can just bypass some steam around the turbines.
The hospital ship is one of the greatest charitable concepts for me.

http://www.mercyships.org.au/on-the-hospital-ship.html

Imagine every wealthy country supported one of these traveling around the world.
what about retiring TLS 1.2 then?

[banking industry gasps]
At first I wondered whether you meant to type it that way to make a deeper point, but I'm assuming it's just a typo.
What is monotheism but a comprehensive collection of thought experiments regarding the behavior of a Bronze Age singularity? :D
> Trump reasoned that his push for new members of Congress will make it "so that we can have a government that works again and can function properly."

That is perhaps necessary, but not sufficient. That is, I can't see any way to fix Congress without doing this, but I suspect that doing this, by itself, is not enough.
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the biggest ever expansion of Internet namespace, aimed at improving choice and spurring innovation for Internet users

Not sure what exactly it was really for, but my guess is not that.

On the other hand, maybe innovation is spurred by letting google own ".dad".
If Assange had 'an agenda' (how nebulous) then why would he have been successful at interviewing the world's most cited academic, Noam Chomsky, and other high-level thought and political leaders? What exactly is the 'agenda' he is supposed to have? You are spreading fallacious FUD.
Maybe, maybe not. The way the media works these days, you need very little to weave a narrative - a tear, a hug, a sign of rage, a simple speech in the right place... She's not a crowd-pleaser the way GWB or her husband were, but I'm sure she can muster a decent "Joan of Arc" in the right circumstances.
Trinity site is an interesting place to visit - it's open to visitors twice a year. http://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/Trinity/Pages/Home.aspx
Odd that the article didn't actually tell us what will happen next...
Meaning will always escape us when it comes to language.
Not only will there always be a disconnect between the speaker and his or her audience, there will always be a subjective perspective that cannot be tapped into. Can AI ever really be compared to a subjective perspective?

Although the article recognizes that perfection has not been assumed, parity might not even be a capacity.

Conversation is difficult to measure. Take a look at the philosophical viewpoint of Deconstruction. Food for thought.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/deconst/
The fact that Heartbleed remained undetected for two years certainly revealed one uncomfortable truth about the "security by openness" paradigm: the one agent who actually bothers to audit the source code may be the bad guy.
Bill Belichick fed up with Microsoft Surface: 'I'm done with the tablets'
The selection of books will generally be the same everywhere in the western world, news isn't.
It's probably an advantage of having an ugly asymmetric face - depending on the angle they may not recognize you.
> Thiel has openly commented, for example, that he thinks "democratic capitalism" has been harmed, if not outright destroyed, by extending the franchise to women

Actual quote:

The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.[1]

As we can see, especially if we read the whole article and grasp the context, Thiel is not arguing that women voting per se is bad. He is arguing that the consequences of woman suffrage and other changes since 1920s were summarily bad, because it led to increase of government intervention.

Imagine somebody saying "last redistricting led to Trump supporters now having majority in my state's Senate, this is awful" - do you think he argues against Trump voters having voting rights or against concept of electoral districts? He is unhappy with the outcome, not the process that led to it.

Thus, it is clear that what Thiel objects is removal of freedoms and not giving it to somebody who is "not like him".

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
But you can't really talk about revenue in the absence of expenses. It costs money to print and distribute newspapers. If it costs you a dollar to print a newspaper and you have a million subscribers, you have have a million dollars in revenue even if they're only paying seventy five cents for a paper.

She's made a compelling argument that news organizations are having a lot of trouble making money online. But it's not at all clear they can make money off the print edition either.

Newspapers are in a vicious cycle - they have fewer subscribers so they cut costs, which makes the paper less compelling, which leads to fewer subscribers...

News organizations aren't moving to the web because they want to. They're moving because their old business model was destroyed (by craigslist, mostly). I haven't read him in awhile, but Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine.com) used to be a good read on the subject.
I think you make an important point.

Its one thing if you are partaking in free service such FB or Google et al but when you are exchanging money for good or services I think this crosses the line. Recent examples of this I have seen are AT&T who sent out notice about Customer Proprietary Network Information, basically selling your data even though in the US you are likely paying AT&T > $100 a month. This blogs has the actual notification:

http://ivebeenmugged.typepad.com/my_weblog/2016/03/att-cpni....

Ditto for Verizon with their supercookies.
In Verizon/AT&Ts case their position seems to be "well Google and FB are doing it." and we need to compete.

Another recent example was was ING now Voya Financial Services that manages a 401K retirement accounts sent out a notification to customers explaining that they would be sharing your data with third parties.

This is really a disturbing trend. If the service is free then I think your infomration is fair game but when I am paying for something it needs to be opt in.

And almost without waver the reason these companies give for such actions is "so we can provide yo with better service"
"No Country Redirect", I believe. Specifies to avoid geolocation
Well, yes. I imagine Assange has become a huge pain for Ecuador in recent weeks.

What I wonder: why are Wikileaks holding onto these emails and selectively releasing them at various points? It makes it look a lot more like a political attack on Hillary Clinton than simply freeing information.

They should have posted all of the leaked data as soon as they had verified it.
No, Clinton has not made a public declaration that Snowden should be put to death, as Trump has.
At least in the US that's not how any other product category works. People have offloaded all safety and security concerns to the government or the market so that it's just assumed that any mass-produced product is safe enough and customers don't need to worry about it.
And I honestly doubt that anyone here or most places has an issue with Soylent as start-your-day food.

"Powerfood" additives, being basically an orthogonal component -- aside, it's basically a powdered (or perhaps pasteurized concentrate, a la Minute Made) remake of the classic, fresh-everything version of your regular breakfast smoothie.

You don't see any issues with that?

The hackles come up when it's promoted or discussed as a broader meal replacement.

Which just so happens to be Soylent's business plan.
Plot twist, Microsoft's researchers aren't human.
What a shit article.

Get this clickbait off the front page.
another disgusting, warrantless, un-needed and un-asked for imposition of the police against the citizens.
Collecting IP addresses maybe?
Nearly all manufacturers are moving away from removable storage in phones.

For the majority of users, it complicates things, and can lead to nasty edge cases if they don't understand it.

Note that iPhones have never offered removable storage.

Also, SD cards can often be of dubious quality. Even good quality ones would never be as good as the NVMe (or similar) SSDs now used in high-end phones.

Put it this way - for your laptop, would you rather a NVMe SSD, or a MicroSD card you bought from Amazon? One is going to have much more predictable write performance under varying conditions, and you know will last. The other, well...I know what I'm trusting my data to.
Well, unlike gTLDs, ICANN have no control over what ccTLD registries do. Personally, I much prefer dealing with ccTLD registries who behave like gTLD registries (.me, .co, &c.), but those are few and far between.

Smaller ccTLDs are unlikely to use this though: it makes more sense for them to contract out the technical side of things than run their own, with .cm being an example of a registry that shouldn't run their own infrastructure.