skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my intuition and very shallow knowledge about the patent system, this would be very likely true.

Definition of the inventive step in most patent systems is very weak.
Here's how I handle online abuse
We very quickly went from Representatives of well-known internet security firms have stated that they believe the attack comes from the Russian government, but have nothing to provide other than their professional opinion to a giant, airtight conspiracy.
The "American Revolution" was just a struggle for independence. The "revolution" in the true sense assumes a change in values on multiple levels.
>> modern consoles (games, graphics if you will) is which RAM?

Except the modern console generation doesn't have dedicated GPU RAM. They are using AMD APU's that unify System/GPU ram.
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Yeap, and 90% of mine is - but sometimes you are at a conference, doing something over the weekend, or on a plane, and an external monitor is not possible.
As a web developer I never had to use Photoshop. A graphic designer does that for me. Gimp or anything way less powerful is enough to crop the images I receive. The same goes for Illustrator.

A much better example would be the native clients for GitHub or tools like those. I use the web ones and I'm happy with them.
> If you have a free market for the media

And how would a new player in a "free market for the media" enter the playground? If you have to say "A new player has to be more than an individual" then it's not a free market.
You're not wrong to ask if my new time use comes from my new living situation. It's inherently easier to work out and do errands when you're not working 12-hour night shifts. B Also I've just got more motivation while building a new life.

It's true that I buy time with money now when I never used to (I made 25-35% less but saved enough to cover the years off without touching my retirement). I think it's temporary while I have such extreme studying/shopping demands from the new job, and I will eventually have time to shop around again.

One change is that I spend less time on video games because I realized while I had two years off that I was not getting around to them not because I didn't have time, but because they weren't my favorite thing to do in reality.
>surround myself with people who I can learn from.

This is my biggest struggle. I am the only dev in what is primarily a graphics place. I've come a long way on my own since I started here, but I miss having a mentor or at least someone whose code I can look at and learn from and know I'm looking at GOOD code.
Commodore 64 RAM Disk. I remember having 64k of RAM soldered on a generic bread board with a 9V battery as backup. It made the computer ridiculously fast when you had slow floppy drives for I/O. I also made it work for the Amega but the payoff was much lower and I stopped using it because the floppy drive and hard drives were faster and the bottle neck was at the CPU.

Video Production - If I could store my video projects in a RAM Disk it really would be pretty amazing. The issue is SSD have really been able to speed up the input so much that the benefit would be much smaller. In video your write to disk is actually very small and usually only happens while you import, preview or render (Which is faster on GPU RAM). There is a lot of work to get a production RAM Disk up and being ready with a low benefit. It still would be nice to have all my clips just reside in Ram and able to "real time" render with less stutters on previews.

Data "Science" - I most use R and that is 100% in memory so it certainly has been a boom for that in my own usage. 64 GB of RAM is pretty cheap and then I can also use Spark if it isn't enough. My current biggest time restraint for big data sets is getting the sets more then anything else. Having large data sets reside in a RAM Disk would really speed things up but we now have Spark for the actual big data sets.
Anybody have success with Linux on a Surface Pro 3 or 4?

I am considering the purchase of a Surface Pro 3 i7 w/ 512GB for Linux web-dev.
Project Euler has always seemed to be more about mathematical "tricks" than about imparting any kind of understanding of a computer science topic through a structured set of challenges. The only thing I found amazing was how little fun I have undertaking Project Euler challenges :^)
Yes, but those aren't the devices normal users get on the store.
Whole WP ecosystem is a huge pile of crap

This is the sort of noise that should be soundly knocked down when seen.

I decided to start working on my own blogging platform that will be SEO-friendly and clean

Hilarious. Doomed Project 101 right here. "Good luck."
Usability Testing Might Be the Key to Your Mobile App’s Success
Twitter Is More Media Than Tech
In Task Scheduler, expand the Task Scheduler tree to go to Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> UpdateOrchestrator -> Disable Reboot task

In the folder %Windows%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator remove write permissions for all users from the reboot file.

https://techjourney.net/permanently-disable-prevent-automati...
I think you are right that big updates on Linux are just as difficult on Windows, but the point is that you shouldn't have to deal with the issue.

1) Yes, all OSes should respect something like the root/home separation and let you just nuke the system. But this is a lot easier in a world where all your apps are just an apt-get away.

2) In comparison to MS, every Linux seems to be a "rolling release". When we use linux we like it that we always have a not-too ancient version of GCC. But when Windows 10 starts upgrading continuously, sinister stuff gets mixed in.
Linux containers in 500 lines of code
If it had happened to me I would be really mad, but it hasn't happened to me, so I can talk about how I feel about this in an unbiased way.

And I feel like this: I'm happy to see that a product that has no actual value (a retractile stick) is produced at a very cheap price. If only the "inventor of the retractile stick" had the rights to produce it, he'd do it at a very inflated price. Now he can't, and everybody (except him) wins.

(All of this assuming he would be granted a patent on a retractile stick, which I very much doubt)
You wouldn't happen to be in Dunedin are you?
Patents were designed to address exactly this problem. Unfortunately, patents are flawed too – possibly more flawed than the problems they're designed to fix.

The article discusses other options (brand recognition, software lock-in, less common materials, etc).
Repeatedly telling someone that they are annoying is in itself quite annoying.

Any examples of your own lisp systems?
... or 'duck' a la duckduckgo.com

And knowing "how and what" to search is really teasing out of the index the magic combo of jargon, phrases, and synonyms through repeated refinements on your query. That approach works just as well on Google or ddg for me and the bang syntax on ddg for domain specific searches has really sped up some of my searches over what I used to do on Google.
I was surprised to hear that RethinkDB was shutting down, since everyone that used it seemed to like it.

I looked into their business model a bit more... and it was like, super difficult to figure out how to actually pay them for anything. Seems like having a push-button managed DB option on AWS/Google Cloud/Generic would've been awesome for them? The company just didn't seem like it was set up to make money even though people liked the product.

I know, hindsight and everything... but without going to a page linked from a random github issue that I found via Google I couldn't even find a page talking about pricing. To build a business you have to not only make something people love... you also have to let them pay you for it.
I'm having the same problems and have came to the conclusion that .NET Core isn't really ready for application development. Maybe by 2.0, but this 1.0 release has just enough for library developers to port over to the new framework. Without those libraries, app development is severely hampered.
You're right, with on PS4 it being GDDR5. It leaned towards graphics, not system, requirements. Not exactly the breed you'd find in regular stuff.
Not really, a diagnosis of a mental disorder isn't an attempt to slur a person, it's recognition that they have behavior patterns that inhibit their ability to engage with society. That's something that can be assessed pretty objectively.
In a thread yesterday, sama qualified his status as a "part-time partner" but nonetheless he is involved with YC.
"..And most landlords (again, US) will accept a bank statement with 12-14 months rent.."

When I was starting a company and without a salary it was really hard to find a landlord who was OK with this. Some seemed to be thinking "eh, this is different from the norm and I have plenty of applicants so it's not worth the mental trouble", and others "irregular income situation probably means they sell drugs".
I did not see that, looking at it now. Thanks.
You mean pulling the plug instead of shutting down normally? I suppose that'd work but usually you only realize that Windows wants to update _after_ you hit the shutdown button. And powering the machine down in this state will likely result in an unbootable machine.

And good luck fixing that, especially if your hard-drive is encrypted.
Sad but true. Too many beautifully rendered games that aren't terribly engaging because amazing graphics are what the mainstream market demands. (I've avoided buying the latest gen consoles partly because of this, but mostly because I just don't get the time to play games that much these days.)

That being said there are also many beautiful games that are amazingly fun, and the graphics do add to the experience, but they're more like the icing on the cake. That's not quite the metaphor I'm groping for, but you get the idea: the gameplay is a fundamental that has to be right, and then the graphics can really add something; without the gameplay the experience is always destined to be flat.
I've always understood it as you write the code but also you manage the systems the code runs on. Development and Operations.
Yeah, the tech talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqH-oZ4UXI and the links/slides/URLs are in the description. :)

What do you plan on testing?
I agree completely. I have been using a Ubuntu desktop as my primary workstation for the better part of three years, after fifteen minutes of using a MacBook attached to a 27" screen made me want to switch.
Makes sense, that's a solid approach. No nesting or any other nonsense. But clearly it takes quite some bootstrapping in order to make this functionality solid (as it should be out of the box)...
i question the validity of your test and/or it's application in the current context.

what I am hearing is "the average non-technical person incapable of using Google."
Not all prisons allow you to write. In addition, some allow you to write but you must first purchase writing materials and this cannot be done at liberty, only on occasion. Finally, they may have limits on how much writing materials you are allowed to have concurrent access to or keep (which means that your maximum program length and effective mental program swap memory are artificially reduced), as well as when and for how long you may use them. So there are quite a number of limitations.
It's not such a tinfoil idea. The US has been pretty blunt and public about the fact that they think the DNC hack was performed by Russian hackers. RT UK's bank accounts have been frozen, and Julian Assange's internet has allegedly been cut off "by a state actor". The push back against Russia is not secret, but quite public. Recall the recent statement by the US that the CIA would cyberattack Russia. Given the very public statements made by the US, I'd say it isn't really a fringe conspiracy theory.
Just stating this so people don't view this as a slight to R, because I don't think that was your purpose.

I started in Python and then Pandas and moved to R and haven't looked back.

R vs Python is really just a personal experience. They are both great choices. I just like the R world more and the way everything can be integrated with each other. For example the Hadley Wickham Universe of Libraries.
Really nice execution!

I remember seeing similar projects [1][2] in the past and pondered usage of the `currentColor`.

Btw, there are several occurrences of white components [4]; they are necessary for "breaking" lines, but surprisingly there are very few of them and overall do't break much [3].

[1] http://cikonss.zzapdeveloped.it/
[2] http://one-div.com/ (warning, hugely ad infested currently)
[3] console: document.styleSheets[0].insertRule('.iconWrapper,.iconViewer{background-color: #999 !important}',0)
I also think you better adjust your view instead of that suggestion. If that kind of factor influences your options for loans then don't loan that much money. Wait for a better time to buy a house, find a better house, save more, or simply never buy. Financially it's not smart to buy a house in the current market in most places I've heard about.
Today's discussion about said Wikileaks activity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722929
> With "the cloud", these days that is not necessarily true. a t2.large / m2.large are 2 cores, 8GB RAM. - well within the reach of a basic laptop.

Which is why we just connect to "cloud" and clone our own instance from a production server, if we really need to.

> Never debug in production. No developer should have access to production.

Maybe in a perfect world.

On real life I have been in projects where developers were exchanging dlls and jar files on them.
Does this connect to the other report about Julian Assange's internet [0] being cut by state powers? It is honestly really difficult to believe that this is a coincidence. And, although obviously this opinion is completely circumstantial, perhaps a clearer head should look closer.

If it is the US government moving to constrain other powerful media establishments that could counter their voice, it does make you wonder what they are so worried about being released.

Are the emails really so bad they could lose Hillary the election? That would surprise me.

I guess what is particularly strange to me, is why do this now? If they knew they were badly exposed, surely they could have taken action a long while ago when the spotlight on their activity was lower.

[0] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088 (HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722929)
As a amateur photographer, I have always been attracted to the Fuji X-series products. Currently I'm packing Nikon FX system but before my current camera body I had X100s which I carried with me on many trips and really loved the results and the joy of photographing with it. The fixed focal length was non-issue 95% of the time. Now having returned to the Nikon system, I can totally get results that are what I'm expecting but it doesn't feel the same! Maybe one more generation and I'll sell my FX gear and move to the Fuji camp.

With X-series Fuji provides the proven UX to handling the exposure settings, compact sizing and excellent image quality. Secretly I'm still hoping for a compact Nikon mirrorless FX body with Df / Fuji X / traditional exposure settings. Let's see!
Is this post part of a series (intentionally short?) while I liked the post it wasn't long enough for me.

It was only:

1. Apt-get is cool
2. Vim
3. Sublime
4. Atom?

I felt a little more effort could have been put into this post (similar to a tutorial?)
Well, that's a fair point.
On a side note, the current pattent system needs combing. There are so many junk previous-art patents that one has to wonder how they got granted.
White House says U.S. will retaliate against Russia for hacking
Why license an OS when you can grab it for free (beer)?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was mad about that. My PC just shut off and started doing updates, in the middle of the day.

My friend said "how much did you pay for Windows 10." I said "nothing, it's free update." then he said "There you go."
https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introd...

In R we have a neat Library that really shows the simplicity of called dplyr. If you just look at this little vignette I think you will see the simplicity we are moving in as a language.
So the message 'do not turn off your computer' is just a suggestion?
My setup is similar to this except I use XMonad on Arch instead of i3wm. Each desktop is a "context". I have rxvt on the first one, firefox on the second, emacs on the third, the other desktops are for transient stuff. 95% of the time I use the fullscreen layout. It helps me focus.

At work I use OS X and compared to my setup at home, it's passable at best.
Nation’s high school graduation rate reaches new record high
So this seems interesting, it seems like it improves on Bitcoin in some ways.
I should have a look at the PC version. Is it really PCM audio? Is it seriously not worth it to even compress with a lossless codec?

I miss the days of the PC RIP, where every byte counted.
Just to be clear, "ruining people's lives" by reporting true things, at least in the case of Thiel and Hogan.

I mean, reasonable people can disagree about the bounds of journalism. It is not crazy to say that outing someone or publishing a sex tape is scummy. But it is not true that this had "nothing to do with freedom of speech," and your rhetoric seems awfully overblown. Is Thiel's life ruined? Hogan's?
The Open Source version of CF (http://lucee.org/) is better than the Adobe-owned version at this point (IMHO).

I started with CF back in 1996 as well. So cool to see JJ still working on this stuff!
It is now in number 110 in page 4, among much older stories.
> Gabriel's Worse is Better already tells you that growth has more to do with network effects and marketing than technical correctness.

Something that can readily be observed in action with systemd.
You also need to allow for failure conditions. If a power tube fails as a short or low impedance, which will vaporise first: your thin tracks, or your fuse?
This is infeasible when upgrades are monthly or biweekly.
So you installed a WP plugin without doing any research and hoped it would make your pages faster by using unicorns and magic, or to quote

> Most importantly, I was surprised to find out that instead of redirecting users to an optimized version hosted on my server, Google was actually serving a snapshot of the page from their own cache.

and now you're upset that they really only made it faster via caching it, not actual magic.

Were you perchance born yesterday or are you just very naive...?
What's the big deal? The discovery in this case is not how to build a selfie stick box, it's the realisation that people want to have such a thing. That shouldn't be patentable, it should in fact be the free-for-all that it is.

It's no different than putting up a picture of a burger with 4 patties made of different meats, with a soft-ice on top and a waffle on the bottom. It's not a mystery how to make it, it's a mystery why anyone wants it. But if loads of people express admiration for it, why on earth should there be any protection for the guy who came up with it? He's not taking the risk on buying the meats, setting up a shop, marketing, and so forth.
Yeah, i3 for 4 years now -- great tiling window manager, straightforward config with performant and powerful set of features.

The whole windowing system (layers upon layers upon layers), Finder, iTunes, spinning beach balls, etc. is just not in any way appealing from the Linux side of the fence. Sure, "It Just Works"; same with Windows, you get a lot of functionality out of the box, but you can't choose, it's the kitchen sink or nothing.

Choose nothing ;-)
I think the article is on the wrong track regarding autopilot speculation. It seems unlikely that "a new product unexpected by most" would end up being an autopilot upgrade.
Have you ever gone through the process of being so mentally ill you can't work? It's quite difficult and not something one undergoes just because they want free money. It's dehumanizing and degrading to have to list all these ways you literally can't function like a mentally healthy human being. I know people who frankly have to choose between that and homelessness. To imply there's nothing wrong with these people and in fact the problem lies with the idea of mental disorders existing expresses to me a perhaps lack of exposure or understanding of people who are sick.
Also for public information: There are hacks that allow wired connections to be set as metered:

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-ethernet-connection-me...
This improves on bitcoin in so many ways. watch this boom take hold the crypto revolution the evolution of the mind of the banking world. our finance world is changing in ways you never dreamsed and it all started with bitcoin, and it carries on to the next world of crypto currency. This is it The Das Coin!
(I'm not your parent poster.)

I made similar switch from Linux workstation to Mac workstation about 10 years ago. The biggest challenge with Linux workstation were hardware related issues: accelerated graphics / suspend-to-disk / battery life, etc. Too much endless tweaking. Mac offered "ready-to-use" solution with familiar unix tools & DE with virtual desktops.

I guess the driver situation is now somewhat better but I'm now too accustomed to Macs & Apple ecosystem. No other laptop manufacturer can really compete with Apple in objective quality. No Linux DE feels "smooth" or polished enough after using macOS for long time, at least for me.

In the end, almost all open source / "unix-like" software runs fine on Mac. Still it's difficult decision between supporting "the ideogically right choice" and enjoying admirable industrial design.
Ruining people's lives like doxing a woman hiding from her stalker because she bought a gun to protect from the very stalker.
> ... were not in the labor force, which means that they were not employed and were not seeking a job.

Does entrepreneurs constitute labor force? If so, then "labor force" and "not employed and not seeking a job" are not exactly the same
John Kerry's name appearing in the recent SHA256 checksums[0] might have spooked them, but it's entirely conjecture at this point.

[0]
pre-commitment 1: John Kerry 4bb96075acadc3d80b5ac872874c3037a386f4f595fe99e687439aabd0219809
What was the cause?
It's been known all along that Google AMP serves pages from its CDN and that Google adds a bar at the top. The author would have know as well if they had paid attention from the get go instead of bragging about their 5 minute "install". Nothing to see here, move along.
Outsourcing was done with great care by a few big name corporations. And after their apparent success every two bit public traded company went on a "me too!" outsourcing rush to try to goose their share value.
If it's a pure dev machine than it's already feasible, but not perfect yet. If it's an all purpose machine , ie. gaming, dev, sound vsts etc. Than no. Mainly because of the gaming side unfortunately. I hope Vulkan starts to change that. Btw.: I'm intrigued about the forced updates. Never had them. Computer only updates when i want. Maybe i changed some config when installing the OS.
Unemployment causes depression and other types of mental reactions that are classified as disorders or diseases.
Making mental and emotional wellbeing scalable, accessible, and cheap
"It's now safe to turn off your computer."
While true, EULAs aren't valid in many countries, regardless what companies wish for.

Having said this, I also don't agree with using Hackintoshs.
Hey I'm not claiming nobody's sick, just that if that many people have problems functioning in society then society's probably a big part of the problem.
Agreed. "Unexpected by most" has to mean a new product line, otherwise the wording doesn't make too much sense (and would build up unnecessary hype, were it only an evolutionary update to an existing product).
I would likely go mad if I had to use a Mac keyboard without a 'delete' key. Why did they remove that?