skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally didn't find that interesting, engaging, or insightful, but I would be interested to hear the views of others. If you took it, did you find the results useful? Accurate? Insightful? Thought provoking?

Personally, honestly, I found this[0] far more useful, and in my experience it's been worryingly accurate given that it's obviously a parody:

[0] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/LipsonShiu.html
To create SHA-1 certificates for compatibility with older software. SHA-1 certificates may not be issued after December 31, 2015 and in any case browsers will not trust them. They created new certificates in 2016, with a "Start Date" in 2015 so that they satisfied this rule. This is forbidden for two reasons, first you cannot "back date" certificates and second you are no longer allowed to issue SHA-1 certificates, so they back dated to work around this.
You may be sharing a lot of sensitive information that you don't want to show your competitors. Albeit, maybe the team could put together a superstar demoday with those companies afterwards.
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Basically this.

I have several Thinkpads running *BSD and they are great and all, but at the end of the day I gotta use Skype and the Office suite for communicating with clients so I default to working with macOS most of the time.

UNIX + great desktop support and apps + pkgsrc offers an unmatched experience depending on what you work on.
Which, in yet another way, would be called "fraud". But may (s)he throw the first press release who does has never couched bad news in sweet sweet quantum leaps of paradigm-shifting.
> You buy a DSLR because it has a large sensor that can capture lots of light and detail.

35 mm imaging is traditionally referred to as "small format" film. You typically buy an SLR (or DSLR) because you're making a bunch of compromises to image quality because of price or convenience or similar factors. If you weren't, you'd be using a digital medium format, or large format film and a specialised scanner.

This is another option on that scale. The DSLR is hardly the pinnacle of photography, except perhaps for high-speed action.
I understand your annoyance about the class statement, but demographically speaking I'm not far off the mark. Appearances aside, marketeers don't choose names at random. There is a thought-through business plan behind this that specifically targets a certain demographic — I contend that a good part of the group targeted here can often ill-afford to invest their savings in something as ethereal as an altcoin (which is what they are suggesting on the Gulden website).

> Gulden is used for actual value transfer […]

I can see some of the benefits touted, but for most of those situations cash or our excellent system of debit cards and POS-terminals already do this, and transferring money via IBAN is peanuts (and free within most EU countries). But convenience aside, cash works without a smartphone and middlemen. It's mostly anonymous too.

Besides, I get that companies are vying for the position of the one digital money transfer 'app' here in the Netherlands, because whoever manages to do that is in for a very profitable ride (like that one similar app popular in Sweden), but linking it to their own altcoin seems like a way to propagate a pyramid scheme by means of an app some will find useful.
Currency of the future! /s
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> * Iphone calendar (with alarms) for everything I am putting off for later or need to schedule/remember

Any particular reason you mention "Iphone" calendar and notes, is there something special about them? Or will any old calendar (with alarms) and notepad app work and does the brand name not matter?
No wonder the maintainer of Karabiner ( https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ ), one of the most powerful keyboard customizer on OSX, had to start rewriting it from scratch for macOS. Maybe the underlaying keyboard/accessibility APIs in macOS have changed so much it forced a rewrite.

If that's the case then I'm starting to see the macOS major release policy as being as conservative as possible. I.e. no introduction of unnecessary changes unless it warrants advancements in hardware integration.
The actual link should probably be:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/59e9su/bitcoin_is_...
The original blog post that introduced me to this setup describes macOS setup: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...

On X11, https://github.com/alols/xcape just run `xcape -t 350 -e 'Control_L=Escape'`

On Windows, AutoHotkey: https://github.com/myfreeweb/dotfiles/blob/32c9cfd8d5e0a3a2c...
Would like to see raw samples at full resolution. Also wonder how fast the sensor will be - fast enough for video? At what resolution/fps?
I even see such constructs in Ruby periodically, including discussions that it's proper engineering that all serious people do. And Angular 1.x is famous example of this in JS.

I used Play framework that especially opposes these practices in Java but I felt like language resists such riot attempts.
In the UK you're usually paid full salary though and garden leave is rarely longer than 3 months iirc.
Well, if you query the state, you are bound to get quite a few unconfirmed number at any given time. But they EVENTUALLY do confirm, whether its 10, 15 or 30 minutes at most.
Bit of a silly title but it's chronologically close.
Blockchains are the new dot-com bubble.

Yes they're useful in some scenarios but there's a massive leap between a decentralised transaction accounting system (what it literally is) and what it could be. And it does work well as a low volume currency. 250K transactions a day at the moment for Bitcoin. VISA did that while I was writing this comment.

Articles like this seem to think that people's appetite for decentralisation is limitless but frankly, I like that I have a bank and solicitors responsible and insured for the processing of certain transactions.

The investory sorts of people who write articles like this hark on and on about the possibilities. Rather than talking, they should be building. Stop hyping this crap up and build something with your own money.

And that's why I compare it to the dot-com bubble. The more I read stuff like this from investors, the more I think this is pump-n-dump. They bought a load of Bitcoin when it was fashionable, it plummeted and now they're trying to put it centre stage again.

Google built something. Again and again. "The blockchain" is nothing like Google.

So just remember the 90s kids. This much "it can do everything" hype with only a low volume currency or two to show for it... It's an unhealthy mix. Buy some gold. It'll last longer.
Cold start Opera 40 - 63 seconds

Cold start Opera 41 - 8 seconds

Both values are so much slower than anything recent by Firefox or Chrome..? Who waits over a minute for their browser to start?
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You're just saying the same things that are always said about Apple products

>In fact, as I look at a picture of a macbook "pro" with no physical escape key, I can't help but think of George Lucas and the re-released, re-edited star wars movies.

Is exactly what everyone said about a phone with no physical keys

Mac mini as a very nice all in one device is neutered by lack of an optical drive.

Is exactly what everyone said about an iMac without a floppy drive, or serial port, or all the other old things Apple have moved away from.

It's also fascinating you criticize their whole product line for not having all the features. Yes, the mini is "mini". It does not have optical, but happily they build a different computer that does! And yes, the MacBook has a limited number of ports - but happily they have a model with a ton of powerful ports, and as a nice hint of who might need it, they even put the word "Pro" in the name!

It's like you want them to only build one computer that fits exactly your needs. Heaven forbid they build and sell a computer that is targeted at a different set of needs than yours!

Next you'll complain that the Ford Focus sucks because it doesn't have a pickup bed, when you could easily go and buy an F150 for that....

If you don't like it, there is an extremely simple solution for you. Don't buy their stuff.
>There's more than one store.

I mean, this is an Apple thread...
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I heard that lego bricks are a better investment. No joke.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/shares/lego-a-better-in...
There was a great thread some time ago on HN about PKB (personal knowledge base). You might find there a lot of info. It prompted me to look for new solutions, I made a good progress but I'm still not happy. The best thing I use and can recommend is TiddlyWiki. I keep it in Dropbox so I can access it on mobile.
I still run into the odd person who wants to deploy Solaris instead of Linux because "it's more enterprise". Yes, that's exactly how they say it.
Excel? Uncool indeed, I use LibreOffice Calc.

Kidding aside, I don't think it's such a bad choice. I've looked for open source calendar/todo solutions and they either suck (can't be shared with someone) or can't be self-hosted. So I ended up using a file sync system with a spreadsheet. Worked well for me and my girlfriend to have a shared calendar/todo list.
> Being able to hit a function key without looking? I may be able to to touch type. But I've never trusted myself to hit a function key blindly.

Try it. Just in your IDE, since that's the only place you use them anyway. It's easy enough once you get used to it, just like touch typing in general.
Now if only they'd deliver on the marketing talk about actually getting Opera v12 features into Chromera, or at least do the human thing of opening up the source of v12.

Till then, quite a few people will stick with v12 as main browser.

Also, beware: The browser part of the Opera company was sold to chinese malware producer Qihoo 360, after they failed to buy the entire company.
I imagine that when the product is actually announced tomorrow a lot of your questions will be answered.
Were their experiments be recreated and properly peer-reviewed? Some reviewers argue that neuroscience experiments are mostly not worth the candle.

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...
Try this one weird trick: rest index fingers on these raised bumps on F and J and other fingers on the keys next to them. Then when you type, hit each key with the closest finger.

Try this for some time and you will see the light ;)
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I wonder why the debugging shortcuts never got at least somewhat standardized. I switch semi-regularly between xcode, qtcreator and visual studio and it is driving me nuts. (also I am too lazy to remap them and then hunt all of the conflicts that ensue)
From I recall from past French cases. 33% is not enough to enforce a non compete. That won't held in a court.
Right click the app and choose "Open". No need to turn it on globally.
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Isn't 30 seconds too much? I thought most of the bounces happen in the first few seconds? (Yes, citation needed.)

Google says[1] that it could make sense to define bounce timeout up to a few minutes depending on your definition of engagement though.

[1]: https://analytics.googleblog.com/2012/07/tracking-adjusted-b...
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Not necessarily, if more new transactions are created than old ones confirmed, some of them will have to wait forever.
But ctrl is FIRE! Well, it was until games started to suck.
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There were actually a couple of cameras before the P9 and G5 using dual lenses (and I assume sensors) for doing weird 3D/DOF field stuff: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/138719-dual-lens-smartphone-...

Your (and the most important) point about the iPhone 7 not being the first is bang on.
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I still think one should not make code more complicated than it has to be just to weed out the newbies.

An OS kernel is going to be a very complex piece of code (ignoring microkernels) because what it does is complex. But that is all the more reason to keep the code as straightforward as possible. (There are still going to be times where code is not straightforward due to inherent complexity of the problem, or performance considerations, or portability, ...)
You're updating the corners twice. Not really a problem with a simple assignment, but as no_protocol pointed out elsewhere [0], it could be if you ever wanted to change that to, say, an increment.

Replace your second for statement with

for (i = 1; i < cols - 1; ++i) { ...

and you're golden.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794235
> You argue through authority, for a subject where believers are infamous for throwing out their reasoning capacity (even becoming creationists)? :-( (Is this some meta level humor?)

No, i think that the categorical statement of
bleachedsleet (five levels up the tree) is a bit offending, to me it sounds exactly like if he was claiming absolute authority on the subject, which he obviously can't.

showing a counterexample is not a bad argument, at least not in mathematics.
Aside for scheduled items (they go in a calendar) and program-specific things (bookmarks go in Firefox), everything's a file.

Unscheduled todo goes into ~/todo.

Documents are in ~/d/org where org is the organization (school/company name). There are often subfolders, like subject name for school. Archive in ~/d/org/_archive/year. If a project is still running, it is still in the ~/d/org root, not in the archive, regardless of how many years it spans. I might sort by year inside that project folder if there are files ready for archiving.

Personal projects I generally sort by language (~/p/py; ~/p/php; ~/p/txt; etc.), for some reason that works well. Projects that I don't touch anymore (use nor expand) go into the archive folder (~/p/_archive). Maybe I should start sorting the archive by year as well, but it's not big enough to warrant that yet.

Collections like downloads, disk images, temporarily cloned git repositories, etc. go into separate folders, which makes them easy to manage and clean up. Unless they really belong with a project (code dependency) or cannot easily be re-downloaded, then they go in the project's folder.
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Is it possible to setup mining pool that would do only confirmations?
Why transition to a double key combo rather than use CapsLock as Esc? The other quite useful "universal" key is the § key on a European mac keyboard (which is for some insane reason just under Esc where ` normally would be)
This is actually the thing that I've been kind of missing from computers now that they come with the secure enclave, TPM and other solutions for securely storing encryption keys.

It would be pretty great if there was a way for the security chip to communicate directly with user to for example show a clear text version of the bank transaction I'm about to sign with my secret key.
Giving is easy, accepting a gift is really hard.
Based on the griping I've seen from the Amiga community, it seems like cross-compiling on normal PCs is the only way to develop for the new PPC-based "Amigas" - no native toolchain.
No mentions of promises? Any reason to rev the spec without promises?
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How do you USB-C guys deal with things like mice or pendrives?
What money is there to be made from an online encyclopedia? Selling ads? :)
I don't think I have ever learned anything from some such sites. Distilled, prepared wisdom of people with limited scope and understanding. Who is your source? It this source trustworthy? What are his/her biases and prejudices?

At least with a good book you get an expanded argument, for or against which you can argue yourself. These feel-good pages, as I call them, are as good as a fart against the wind.
Maybe you move your finger on the bar and see where you are real-time and release to execute? That'd be great - especially if combined with tactile feedback.
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I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes. They have literally no value to society, or to individual employees. They are a tool of restrictive coercion to stifle an employees freedom of movement in the job market.

Trade secrets, IP, secret sauce: covered by NDA and IP assignment agreements

Client lists, contract terms, sales strategies, reported metrics, financials: covered by NDA and in some cases SEC regulations about insider trading.

Etc.

The only thing a non-compete does is say that Employee A cannot work in their chosen field for some period of time after they are fired or quit. In doing so it offers no consideration or compensation typically in the contract.

So your employer underpays you by 40% and treats you badly? You want to leave for greener pastures at that hip new startup that offered you a Senior Engineer gig? Well, sorry to say you have a mortgage, a wife, and 2 kids and that non-compete says you are only legally allowed to be a burger flipper for two years after quitting, that software engineering is verboten.

Totally fair right?

If you don't sit on the board of a Fortune 500 company, you have literally no incentive to support non-competes. There is no rational basis to argue in their favor. Please learn the difference between NDAs, IP assignment agreements, and non-competes before lending non-competes some mystical powers they don't have.
First, there isn't an individual plane coming to pick you up (not for most flyers).

Second, you can still fly first class if you want a better experience.

Most people don't buy BMWs either, but enough do that they stay in business. Uber doesn't compete with public transit by bus, either.
I've been trying out jj as escape, but I keep forgetting to use it.
Related: A group on Kickstarter are producing a reproduction of the Voyager record [1]. It closed a few days ago.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-gol...
> > is male wouldn't generally want to be labelled as an 'MRA' or 'male feminist'

> your claim that both MRAs and feminists

I didn't claim that. Read my post again. I've included it above to help you. 'Male feminists' have a very different reputation than feminists per se.

Similarly, I didn't claim there was a 'war against men'.

You make up awful things I don't write and then respond to them. It's lazy and rude.

Now please disengage.
I would be surprised if any developer who regularly used an IDE hadn't memorized the various function keys for debugging etc
I see a lot of bad C# code, but I don't feel the need to make snide comments about C# whenever I see or hear it mentioned. It's pretty clear to me it's not the languages fault.

There's nothing in Java forcing you to make deep class hierarchies or leaky abstractions.
I wonder if this is rand corp finding a chink in the armour.

Increasing block size will only postpone the problem and splitting the network will introduce a whole raft of unknown vulnerabilities.

At a minimum it seems like a fairly cheap and easy dos attack vector.
"Please don't perpetuate this myth of Apple being first with such and so. As a rule they are not first with anything, instead they see what others are doing and produce their own version of the idea. A refined version often, but that does not make it the first version."

I really don't understand why people are getting so worked up of company X of Y being first or debunking Apple myths....

I personally couldn't care less (and I think most consumers) because I value a good working implementation before the fact that a brand is the first in anything. Why does that matter?
He hasn't suggested deleting anything. He just suggested waiting before adding it.
Noticed the same thing, but only in the third, cleanest version. No better way to illustrate its merits relative to the initial two versions.

Spoiler alert: flipping that single bit from i=0 to i=1 might deserve a little comment of the "why" category.
I believe it's supposed to be measured at 4 degrees C

Correct; it's because at that temperature water is at its densest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#States
That would help to keep addiction going, sure - and it is much the same as a nurse getting addicted to opiates (albeit in a different form).

But I'd expect the trend to trickle down to pharmacists and pharmacy techs, who handle the drugs quite often. It does happen, but I don't know if it happens as much as physicians.

The main curiosity to me is what leads these professions to develop a substance abuse problem in the first place? It isn't just opiates: If I remember correctly, nurses have a high rate of alcoholism. I nearly always have access to alcohol, and I don't drink regularly. Access in itself isn't nearly enough to cause addition or even use.
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Wow! Thanks for the link.

Can we map the latent chemical space directly into a word space (can we ensure grammatical correctness? semantic correctness?)

> "We report a method to convert discrete representations of molecules to and from a multidimensional continuous representation... We train deep neural networks on hundreds of thousands of existing chemical structures to construct two coupled functions: an encoder and a decoder. The encoder converts the discrete representation of a molecule into a real-valued continuous vector, and the decoder converts these continuous vectors back to the discrete representation from this latent space..."

Consider the set of all chemical structures composed of between 0-6 carbon atoms, 0-4 oxygen atoms, 0-12 hydrogen atoms, 0-4 nitrogen atoms, and 0-1 "functional groups" expressed in the SMILES chemical nomenclature; for instance Alanine could be represented as O=C(O)C(N)C; Serine as C([C@@H](C(=O)O)N)O

Can we create a correspondence function that takes a given SMILES chemical structure, such as O=C(O)C(N)C, and returns a sequence of english words that encodes the same structure, such that, read left to right:

- each atom is represented by a noun or adjective that starts with the same letter(s) as the atomic symbol; (pronouns don't count)
- double or triple bonds are represented with prepositions
- charge is represented numerically
- branches are represented by subordinating conjunctions
- verbs and articles and other parts of speech (non-subordinating conjunctions, pronouns) can be used freely for grammatical correctness

it's hard to select word strings that are semantically meaningful sentences, but haiku-like forms are easier.

So Alanine ( O=C(O)C(N)C ) might be:

(1) O-Adjective/Noun preposition proposition C-Adjective/Noun subordinating-conjunction O-Adjective/Noun;
(2) C-Adjective/Noun, subordinating-conjunction N-Adjective/Noun;
(3) C-Adjective/Noun.

(1) Oranges blossom under and above Cherries where the Orangutans roam;
(2) Conscious, unless Nocturnal;
(3) Change coming."

Clearly many interesting structures could be expressed with semantically-invalid sentences.

But conversely, how often are "interesting" sentences chemically pointless or invalid?

Could we bias sentence construction to be more interesting by constraining it with the semantic vector space of a big work of literature, such as phrases found in Infinite Jest or the collected works of Shakespeare?
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