skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It almost sounds like you have no credibility on the matter along with a highly critical opinion of Musk.
'The Search For Animal Chin', 1987, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqE9JXgKJU
So how big a success your game is after all? You did not elaborate in your article. Nice observations though! Thanks for sharing.
People don't have the right to live wherever they want but in the United States the government(local or federal) should not be able to limit immigration of citizens between regions inside the country.

I fail to see the difference between visa requirements for foreigners that wish to live in the United States and a rent requirement to live in the Bay Area. Obviously San Francisco and the Bay Area are not sovereign so they can't require visas and border control but they have instituted a system that has the same effect. Notice that I assume government regulations are the sole cause of high housing costs in the Bay Area.

Another question worth asking would be how stringent do your housing regulations have to be to be considered a violation of other citizens' freedoms?
" Realistically, anything less than 10 years seems to me a very long shot."

Except in the case of climate change the time horizon under consideration should be more like 100 to 1000 years.
Presumably by constantly monitoring whatever biometrics you can gather from the wrist, thus detecting anomalies sooner than annual checkups would.
> You, on the other hand, are overwhelmed by the challenge of maintaining vacuum in a tube that spans a mere 17 miles.

You say 'overwhelmed' but I'll just point out it is built and working, and at almost-perfect vacuum.
FWIW, one of the serendipitous advantages of the disadvantages of Google Cardboard - is that being hand-held and not strapped to your head, it's a lot less of a problem because people tend to consume it in non-nauseous amounts - it's really common to see Cardboard users pull them away from their eyes every 60-90 seconds and say "man, this is awesome!" before diving back in. This means even though the headtracking is significantly worse on many phones than even the GearVR - it's super easy to "reset" your inner ear and head balance.

This is obviously content-specific, it won't help at all in a 3D fpv shooter where taking your attention away for even a second or two means getting headshot, but it works well for "along for the ride" content (like roller coasters, sweeping landscapes, and presumably skateboarding or roller blading down Lombard St)
Chinese citizens veil government criticism using innuendo ranging from obvious to subtle as a means to avoid censorship etc. Westerners often miss this subtext. The innuendo in TFA is so blunt that the translation is believable.
I suspect that we can expect a lot of bad news to emerge over the next few decades, as the promise of climate change becomes the reality of climate change.
I do experience flickering, on both a desktop Fedora 22 system and a X1 carbon 4th gen system running OpenBSD 6.0. It is usually mostly noticeable in the fringe area as well as along the divider when splitting windows. Kuddos for OP, the patch does not seem trivial and it is a most welcome change.
Personally, I would favor any mechanical with dedicated mute and volume control. Use. Them. All. The. Time.

Also, I'm not sure how good it is for your health to have WHITE backlight. A warmer color would probably be better.

If you are going to use it in a office, then go with a quieter switch, such as the Cherry MX Brown.
I've had the original Das Keyboard for 7 or so years and it works just as well as when it was new. I use it heavily, too. I tend to beat on a keyboard (literally) a few times a week, along with the usual 40+ hours of normal use per week.
In Australia we tried a scheme with very low economic impact (despite scaremongering to the contrary) carbon tax, which provably reduced emissions before its repeal.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/carbon-pric...
Smalltalk is another language where the AST is fully accessible by application code.
+1 count me in as a future contributor as well
another good reason to find space for more trees in urban developments; http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2013/nrs_2013_nowak_002.p...
What?

Do install LaTeX. I don't know (and frankly don't care) how hard it is under Windows, Mac or Android, but it has been readily available from the package managers with GNU/* and most BSDs for decades, easy to install and use. There are plenty of editors like gummi, kile, texmacs or lyx.

Seriously. You're asking people to give up their freedoms for what? To avoid typing a single line "sudo apt-get install gummi texlive-latex-base"?

I personally do stay away from "cloud"y things (or whatever buzzword you prefer for SaaSS in the stylish Apple-land), and recommend people that I care about around me to do so:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
we'll agree to disagree on whether it's in the same ballpark. I see the difference you point out, sure.
>I know climate scientists are pretty much agreed on global warming. I thought economists disagreed about minimum wage still. That Wikipedia page seems to suggest that more and more economists are supporting a minimum wage over time, but there is still not a consensus. Does that sound right to you?

Let's just say that I'm very impressed with the incorruptibility and dedication to the scientific method that ~95% of climate scientists hold. Especially since it's not like the oil companies haven't tried to tempt them to stray.

Not every profession is as upstanding as theirs when money and power enters the mix.
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Clip:

https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/aaron-homoki-goes-for-t...

Doesn't play for me. It's on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEERI8Y25M

Your link kind of reminded me of this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0rbxB9Lqg

A similarly incredible level of ability.
> 1) No esc key or fkeys. These are pretty important for vim, and vim is the defacto editor on most Linux systems.

Ooohhh, I can already see the angry complaints from Emacs users.

More seriously though, vim doesn't rely on F keys at all. (The only default function mapped to an F key is F1 for help, which is only there to assist newbies AFAICT.) The F keys are useful as a blank slate for one's own mappings, though, so a lot of individual vim users (me included) might be upset about their favorite functions gone.

The F keys are of much bigger importance in Xcode, where F6/F7/F8 are the default bindings for stepping during debugging. (I cannot comment on this myself as I'm from the printf-debugging camp, but a lot of people pointed to this concrete function in HN commentary in the past few days.)
Fair question, the answer is that you cannot. However, note that I did not say libertarians reject all uses of force, only that "they would rather appeal to people's self interest to achieve social outcomes than resort to force".

I think we would both agree that the generosity of your neighbors represents the ideal. But if they weren't so generous, how you get them to share their coffee plow your drive way? Would you lobby for regulations to be passed to force them to stop hoarding their coffee? Have the police requisition their plow for the greater good?

Or would you offer to compensate them for their goods and services? And if they refused, would you peacefully resign yourself to some other means of getting your needs met?

The socialist often invokes the spirit of generosity with his rhetoric, but when others are (in his view) insufficiently generous, he is too quick to trade the pen for the club.
Twitter is blocked in China.

e: my bad, TFA also uses these exact words.
Also a big thing is undocumented shortcuts (or shortcuts for functions that I didn't even know the program was capable of). Gnome's push for standardizing Ctrl+? to display a shortcut window is a good start - hitting that in Nautilus shows me a bunch of stuff I had no idea about - but that's not likely to see much adoption outside of Gnome.

Additionally, plenty of 'legacy' applications (MATLAB's linux version, the Cadence Design Suite, etc) don't use standard shortcuts at all. I don't even know how to copy/paste in MATLAB off the top of my head - just that it sure as hell isn't Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. Keyboard icons would be a boon for that.

In any case, if you don't look at your keyboard, you're hardly inconvenienced - you could even just disable the feature altogether. If these see widespread adoption/lower cost, it will aid some people while actually inconveniencing very few, so I see it as net positive.
>And this thing comes with regular usb ports and an hdmi port instead of usb-c nonsense

Just to clarify for the readers: it's got two regular USB 3.0 ports and a USB-C port, so it's got current compatibility and future proofing.

Ironically enough, if you have a Dell XPS 15 and an Android phone and you travel a lot, you should get an Apple Macbook Pro charger, because said charger would allow you to charge both items.
Usually, one must read a piece to build an opinion on its style and comment about it. Just sayin'.
West Oakland, 12th Street, 19th Street, and Lake Merrit definitely don't feel like the burbs, it is probably closer to commuting into Manhattan from Queens than from Jersey into Manhattan (source: lived in Manhattan and Astoria at various times in my life). Those stops barely have parking lots!
Windows has easy-to-use distributions of LaTeX as well (e.g. MikTex).
Freight networks are critical and hyperloop has a claim to high efficiency transport. This might not work out as hoped but it is most certainly not a joke.
I was wrongly expecting something about video game as art.

To me it is really strange that video game as a new medium for art has not taken more traction yet. Every ingredient seems to be there for the recipe: novelty of the medium, specific set of constraints that need to be overcome, ability for a single person to create their vision, etc.

I know some of them are already, e.g. Machinarium, but is still marginal it's it not?
I think it is coincident or lagging.

Also let's not forget venture beat is basing it's reporting on the seller side i.e. a real estate firm which has incentives to talk the market up.
Offtopic to the OP but related to Datomic.

I saw Rich Hickey's talk about Datomic recently and immediately thought it would be ideal as part of a distributed runtime. Without having actually programmed in Erlang, but having seen plenty of Joe Armstrong's talks, I understand that the point of replicating data in messages rather than passing around pointers is so that if a machine dies, the data isn't lost. But if you built a distributed runtime that used Datomic as a distributed heap on which you allocate large amounts of data which you expect to pass around a lot, you could instead pass around only pointers to the data and not worry about data loss, and save big time on message throughput. Does anybody know if something like this already exists?
Duh. The important thing at this instant is to develop a self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colony or a means by which some people can survive far above the surface of the Earth for 30-80 years. Life on Earth itself has less time than most people are even ready to know. Something on the order of 1-10 years left. There are massive changes coming which will destroy all human civilization on Earth. Global warming is just the first step. It's like a fever in a human. 1-3°C is no big deal. 3-5°C is extremely serious. We're talking massive tectonic activity, volcanoes, and huge tsunami(s) caused by a huge wave of energy originating from Earth's core. This situation is caused by a problem in the circulation of the gravity field. I've met many scientists but aside from even finding people who understand this topic, I have barely even found anyone who genuinely wants to know either. And this is the very reason this phenomenon of collapse is determined to appear in this age of mankind.
Not really - they're just Clevo rebrands with the bare minimum effort. When graphics switching was new, they were quite helpless.
What about one where you feel that, acting in various directions, at every curve, every speed transition, and every elevation change. Because that's the "barf ride" being discussed, not merely getting thrown to the back of your seat during initial acceleration.
> 5. I have a number of Alfred workflows, and enjoy using Alfred in general.

You may want to check-out Albert. [0]

> Yes, there are a number of open source alternatives, but I've built up enough inertia on OSX it's going to be very difficult for me to switch.

The longer you work on one platform the more you get locked into it. This may not be a problem for the time you are happy with the platform you are locking into. But keep in mind that you are currently locking into a closed source platform. I migrated from MS to Linux about a year ago after being on Windows for about 2 decades. The burden migrating out of it was heavy. With the upcoming closed source cloud platforms this will get even worse. An open source platform gives you more control and freedom over your workflows and data. IMO this is something which cannot be valued highly enough.

[0] https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert
There is nothing we can do, as long China and India get a pass, 3.2 billion people in 2 country doing nothing. Even if the US disappeared off the face of the map, its still to late. I say let it happen, it will propel us into a new era off innovation and environmental awareness. No one is going to take it seriously until its to late anyway .
My company issued me one when I started a few months ago. I tried really hard to make it work, but the thing was too buggy in too many different ways. I finally gave up and grabbed a random old Lenovo out of storage, put an SSD, 16GB of RAM, and a new battery in it and it works great.
This makes me wonder. Could it affect seismic activity?
And yet the one time they tried, they were stopped by force. De facto, not necessarily de jury.
Don't worry that you can't see a solution right now.

Take your time to actively process your feelings.

Leave your daily routine for some time and give your brain room to work undisturbed. Do something that keeps you physically active all day. Do something creative.

Explore your feelings and try to find out where exactly they come from. Don't give up just because thinking about it hurts more. It will help your brain to cope.
Actively think about the countless positive memories you have. Bad emotions are much more powerful and tend to overshadow everything else.

Learn to accept.

Get plenty of sleep, it helps a lot.

Be strong.
Silly as this product is, as a kid I always wished for something like this to up the immersiveness of video games. Maybe it would be doubly effective now with VR.

Getting it in a reasonable form factor and some practical issues (stinking up the house) seem like roadblocks, but I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this come back around, focused on gaming.
Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
As the sea level rises, its surface grows by the square. So, more and more water is needed for it to rise more. So, all linear predictions are flawed anyway. What do you think, the sea is suddenly going to rise by meters? Get a grip on reality. I really dislike these alarmist articles.

EDIT: Okay, I checked the math and the square really doesn't weigh much at this ratio of sphere radius vs. sea level rise. I guess I should rely less on asymptotes in the real world ;)

Still, I remain largely unconcerned about sea level rises since even if it were to continue linearly, it's completely unproblematic except for some coastal/below sea regions.
I'm not ideologically in favor of smaller or bigger government. I want smarter government, and there's nothing smart about passing legislation that will reduce the state government's revenue by between $80 and $900 million a year without defining what services to cut.

Also, "bigger government" is a vague enough definition that it could easily apply to this initiative. It creates a new category of tax, and a new category of tax credit. It will probably reduce the government's revenue, but the legislature can and most likely will raise revenue in other places to plug the gaps rather than cutting necessary agencies.
Ah, reality is an infinite source of irony.
Well this is the internet. We're all just assholes with opinions, aren't we?
Devil's advocate: So why not kick out tech workers instead? What makes us so special? Because of the Facebook/Google/Apple lottery?
Tesla Solar Roof
That looks great! (Why is char query[128] apparently unused?)

Is USDT expected to become the de facto standard for userspace probe points?
Yes! I meant VM. I was just setting up some VPS and mistyped it.
> http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha....

Poor reporting:

Moore's law describes that trend for computing performance – processing speed, memory capacity and the like - to double approximately every two years, named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who first outlined his theory back in 1965.

That's not what Moore's law is, and is an example of what I meant when I said it was incorrectly explained for decades. The very first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I originally cited shows this.

The other articles seem to be about density scaling, which is only part of what goes into "how many transistors you can fit into a dense integrated circuit." Cores, obviously, allow us to mitigate this to some degree.

For example, in this[1] article, you'll find a graph that shows transistor count over time. It's fairly easy to see that as of a couple years ago, Moore's law was still going strong.

1: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-...
3D filesystem browser (2001)
They did make over-ambitious claims when they were initially crowdfunding/scoping, but I don't think it's their fault that Intel run the processor market for laptops. I think it's good (if naive) that they were shooting for the FSF hardware badge.

I've spent a few minutes on a Librem 13, and it seems like an extremely high quality piece of hardware. It's cool that they're assembled in South San Francisco, too. I really really want to like System76 machines, but they're just so damned ugly!
Here's a task for you: whenever you see a piece of research posted to HN, run it through a checklist from this article and post it as a comment. I'll happily upvote. It will surely keep the discussion going on HN constantly :).
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a regime that live up to such lofty standards. Ok, maybe the Swiss.
The 15inch MBP has i7 Quad Core processor, Radeon graphics and double the RAM than the default 13inch models. This is not a minor jump in performance.
I agree that they do sometimes prioritize size, thickness and beauty over performance but I don't see what else could go into the 15inch MBP that it currently lacks?
Something being all over the media doesn't mean they knew about this.

Stop 10 random people on the street 5-8 won't know about the Samsung note exploding....
Many nonlinear problems can be approximated as linear and in this case the rough sea level rise (think altitude/distance) so ridiculously dwarfs the radius of the earth (the square in your argument) that the linear approximation is pretty good.
Why stop there? Let's build a ML system that does this for us! How long before the Show HN submission?
I took the dive on an ergodox ez a couple of months ago. It took me nearly a month to get fully comfortable with it, but now typing on a regular keyboard just feels less than ideal. I just ordered a second one for my home computer.
I have mixed feelings about f strings. Having the string literal bound to the variable name feels kind of backwards -- that one could break interpolated strings inadvertently by refactoring a variable name. On the other the str.format syntax is a bit verbose, even in shorthand notation.

That said, I use Python 3 every day for almost everything without need to use every shiny new feature.
Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips
Doesn't that assume perfectly flat coastlines?
Good counter-attacking football is very effective against teams that play possession football. That includes Barcelona.

Teams that have beaten Barcelona often just let them have the ball, then wait for them to make a mistake. And teams that are set up for long periods of possession have a hard time quickly switching to defence.
If I take your first paragraph and replace Hyperloop with Space X, it sounds like something one could have said back when that started. Yet here we are.

I'm no expert either, but that sounds rather hollow..
Some websites can use security vulnerabilities in different parts of the browser (rendering, image format parsers, Javascript, PDF, fonts, and everything else supported by the browser) to run code on your machine.
To be honest that zoolander phone is utterly excellent and if it were a real thing i would buy it in a heartbeat.

If only so i have a phone i can use for phone calls where i don't need to worry about the battery running out, and which i can stuff into any pocket on my body.
>I am glad you elaborated. So how this information is produced. In order to produce the information, you will rely on the works of centuries of collaborating between individual and groups.

That information is freely available. And making use of it and generating value for myself does not make me indebted to you and does not give you a right to use violent force to compel me to forfeit this share of my income that you think I owe you.
Didn't you just just acquired by Apple?
Spotify might be killing SSDs by design errors?
It will be interesting to benchmark the new Razer laptops against these new MacBook Pros. On paper the Razer will seemingly far outperform the MBP, at the same size, at actually cheaper cost. That being said, I'll wait for benchmarks to draw final conclusions.
> why would I ever buy perfume again

Because it would be cheaper, in greater volume, and easier to apply to your person than the smells generated by the device.
That isn't an honest question. The honest fact in this case is that decades of anti development activism have resulted in a huge gap between demand for housing units and available supply. If large numbers of people choosing to move to an urban area were fundamentally impossible then Tokyo and Hong Kong would have overheated and melted down a long time ago but they didn't because their rules for development are different and do not have this failing.
Right, but the point is the specs really haven't changed since 2013... it's a very minor upgrade over the 3 year-old laptops. Would be curious to see what the benchmarks come back as, but I'd guess no more than a 10% improvement for common activities at most.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 16 GB
An escape key.

(Sorry, it was too easy)
That's very far from the reality of European politics. Iceland has had left governments before, and many Western European countries do have left wing governments. Why would the us suddenly start assassinating people?
It was an irresistible title for me. I think it had something to do with the fact that I was hungry when I read "Buttery Smooth Emacs" and before I knew it, I had read the article.