skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be warned that the current XPS 13 is kaby lake and has a rather slow (non-IRIS) gpu. 3200x1800 is quite a few pixels and the built in GPU is pretty weak.

Might want to consider the skylake version, sure it's the previous generation, but the CPU perf is pretty similar, and the Iris 540 is a significant GPU upgrade. Not a nvidia/ati killer by any means, but much better than the normal intel integrated graphics.

Either that or way for similar to ship in it's kaby lake incarnation.

Also keep in mind that the "upgraded" 3200x1800 screen about halves the battery life and is reflective. Not really worth it for me (at least in a 13" screen).

Sadly you can't get more ram or an i7 with the 1080P (they called it FHD) screen.
> I've had to RMA it twice, but otherwise my surface pro 3 has been the most reliable computer I've ever used.

That's... a pretty major "otherwise".
Many years ago, that's how I found a vendor-managed (but not vendor-patched) system had been compromised; I went from "why the hell is that multi-pipe command segfaulting?"to "why the hell aren't the system binaries stripped?" to "how long has this thing been compromised?"
In a world where 1) traditional gender roles and family units are the norm, 2) jobs are known to be a finite commodity, and 3) employers are expected to provide adequate wages and benefits such that employees can support their entire family, then it stands to reason that is a fairly straightforward example of benevolent sexism.
Stripe and Bitpay handle everything, there is no huge pain
I appreciate the links and have archived them. Here's one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan

Of Dr LeShan's works, The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist I highly recommend, specifically the unabridged version. He worked a bit with Eileen J Garrett[1], the tales of which are quite intriguing. This guy was (and still is @96) 100% sincere. No quackery, no nonsense. I had the privilege of acquaintance with his close friend, Dr Hauser, who I'll always fondly remember. LeShan and Hauser met in the Army as young men and remained friends for life. They were both psychologists, but their focuses diverged.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_J._Garrett
Soylent takes a reductionist approach. There are some great examples in the literature of where the reductionist approach doesn't work (i.e. calcium supplements and fractures).
I don't know about the developer edition specifically, but I just had a XPS13 (with a skylake processor, so not what's available on the store right now) with stock Windows 10 pro on my desk, and debian stable installed just fine except for the wireless card (which is the only network interface on the machine). It wasn't mine to play with so I didn't try to figure that out but whatever version of KDE that gets installed with Debian 8.6(?) seems to be 99% of the way there.
I'm not sure I understand how it's supposed to work. Say, somebody drives for Uber 2 hours per month. So, Uber must pay them whatever is minimal per-hour pay in UK, even if they had no rides but just were available for 2 hours? Then, they also have to pay them for holidays? How many hours? That doesn't sound like sane business model - pay for a whole workday on holiday to somebody that otherwise worked couple of hours per month.
Yes but no. Almost all writing systems are alphabetic, but the Chinese characters. It makes them very special and different. And China has its culture rooted in its characters. So using "alphabet" as the name of an entity with an universal reach just means the guys behind either do it by purpose or have a 25% sized blind spot.
Having a transaction occasionally declined is a small price to pay for the amazing benefit of having zero liability for fraud. If someone steals your credit card and goes on a shopping spree, you can call up your credit card company and five minutes later any fraudulent charges are reversed. With Bitcoin that money would be gone forever.
> It WAS ready product-wise AND technology-wise.

Having regularly used one at work - this is either very much not true or the "ready" product was just a bad product.

It was a barely useful product that managed to underwhelm at everything it did.

It was an extremely cool idea, but they should have never tried to promote it as a sellable product.
There's like a dozen comments saying this is a plug for Hackerrank. Yeah, that's obvious. What's not so obvious is that there are 1000+ YC companies, none of whom get this kind of coverage on Bloomberg even if they bend over backwards. Surely Vivek must be doing something right.
UCSD p-System
I think the intent is clear for people with preexisting familiarity with the same ideas. A clojure dev with some datomic. I read declarative, set oriented, database of facts, pattern matching and thought 'the revenge of prolog then'.

This is really nice work. I mean this in the best possible way: I think I could teach my children to use this.
I'm really curious to see what comes of this, and what pg thinks. My prediction is that Matt's post will pass without reply.
What are your favorite hashtags on Twitter?
Tesla Powerwall 2.0
This is probably a huge market given the number of those people I have run into in small towns. Another is tax BS with the IRS where they try to garnish but person can't afford a lawyer to show it's bogus. They seem to have trouble doing it with things other than regular, bank accounts. People getting payed on cards often have no trouble.
In both the examples you cite (genetic algorithms and neural networks), the optimization process is what modifies the parameters. The network doesn't modify its own parameters.

It's like calling pencil and paper self-modifying because somebody could use a pencil to write down plans to build a better pencil.
Interesting. I usually found the reverse to be true - i.e. my Russian credit cards worked just fine in New Zealand, Canada and US, but my Canadian and US cards are usually rejected by Russian online stores.
Wow, that's even worse. The entire reason cryptocurrencies exist is to do away with a governing party. If what you say is true, Zcash has an administrating government, while developers of Bitcoin design the algorithm only for the benefit of the community.
Closer to Truth: A Tribute to Marvin Minsky
This is not the future, it's the temporary present. This is a uncomfortable transition period, but it won't be too long until USB-C is ubiquitous and you're not carrying dongles anywhere.
Not to go too far off topic, but I'm surprised at the number of vim users in this thread who still use the escape key and haven't mapped it to something that doesn't require you to move your finger to the most inconvenient spot of the entire keyboard. Sometime 10 years ago I took someone's advice and remapped jj to escape in my vimrc. By far one of the best changes I've ever made. the speed gain is significant (unless your name is JJ Abrams)
" I'm really thankful I have multiple credit cards which don't seem to all use the same fraud protection algorithms so I usually can just cycle to the next card"

That's actually a great observation that might fit into security advice on this issue somehow. Keep track of which banks freak out about which things. Get cards from more diverse-thinking ones. Reduce odds of unnecessary freezes or rejections. Now how to do the assessment itself...
Freedom to use for illegal transactions can be a pretty big deal, when you consider the kinds of transactions that some countries consider illegal.
I really liked the physical feel of the trackpad. It'll be a sad day when that rubberized cover gets nicked. The KDE system setup couldn't set the trackpad up for taps instead of clicks but I didn't spend a whole lot of time with it. ISTR that kernel 4.4 had wireless NIC drivers but I didn't have time for that.
The socialist leanings of the people used is incidental to what I was saying. I may not have stated myself well. For a productive conversation here, are you unclear on the position or do you fundamentally dispute it?
That blue on blue when you open the sidebar! WTF people?
In person the card works just fine, but online retailers won't accept it.
Is it easy to modify this script to run over all lines that have ever existed in the repository history?

For example, could you pipe the output of `git log -p --all` through this and filter out all the commit hashes somehow?
I'm interested in this as well. The main fork is so bad, that if a fork existed, most Zcash users would flock to that.
You can customize a almost everything using the Keyboard panel of System Preferences. Yes, 3rd party tools like Karabiner are needed for control of absolutely everything but that is pretty rare.

Also note that accessibility must be “unlocked” because it fundamentally adds a security risk: processes that can inspect inputs in arbitrary unknown applications have a lot of power. What macOS does is actually a feature and it prevents one of the “tire fires” in Windows.

Beach balls in my experience are usually produced by problems in drivers, or programs that are unnecessarily complex (like the ones that are 400 MB installs with entire virtualization layers instead of being all native code). The OS can only do so much.

External displays: yes, definitely buggy on Macs these days, and with some obscure settings. Something to try: with at least 3 desktops/Spaces defined (need to use "+" in Mission Control), you can right-click on the Dock icon of an application to specify the default space to use for windows in that app. These menu commands are not available with less than 3 Spaces created.
Regarding Clinton's emails being seemingly less sensitive: "In one case, according to media reports, one of Clinton’s potentially classified e-mail exchanges is nothing more than a discussion of a newspaper story about drones. That such a discussion could be classified underlines the absurdity of the current system. But that is the system that exists, and if and when the agencies determine that she sent or received classified information through her private server, Clinton will be accused of mishandling national-security secrets." [1]

I'm not sure we know much more about the contents of Clinton's emails. I think it's safe to assume some were as "highly classified" as the things Petraeus disclosed. I don't think the law cares, or should care, about whether it's mundane stuff about drones or North Korea's nuclear program, or if it's about covert agents' identities -- if it's classified, it's simply illegal to disclose it to unauthorized persons or through unauthorized channels like a personal email server. It doesn't matter whether your reason is so that your mistress can write your biography, or so that your colleague can do their job, or so that you can use a Blackberry to access your email -- doing it the wrong way is mishandling C.I no matter your intent. (But I'm not a lawyer.)

I'm all for punishing Petraeus harder btw, as he got off pretty easily for what was practically treason with his mistress! But if keeping "books [with top-secret information] in an unlocked drawer in his study"[2] is part of the grounds for his eventual conviction of mishandling CI, so is Clinton's keeping it on a personal, not-well-secured server in her home.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hillarys-problem...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/petra...
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I just don't understand why people can't be honest and say "this is great for mail order drugs, guns and kiddie porn, which I enjoy." I really do hate cryptocurremcies because of their ludicrous waste of fossil fuels, and because so many arguments smell of the above.
This is kind of what I like about Windows 10; it can be a dumbed-down experience for people that don't care, but if you want, there are gradually escalating levels of configurability. Settings -> Control Panel -> fuck it, I'll edit the registry directly.

I would definitely not want to maintain this codebase, but as an end user, I'm happy.
Lol @ the idea that IT guys at Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs get paid half a stick.

Many of the senior traders have mediocre academic backgrounds and no marketable skills outside of finance. Plus, they're stressed out all the time. The assholes among them will take out daily frustrations on junior employees, IT guys, and quant strategists that don't run their own risk. Lost five million today? Solution: Go red in the face and loudly berate the kid who developed your pricing model for something that isn't his fault.

This is part of life at a bank. Nobody wants to admit it here because the guys here who work at BBs are generally on the receiving end of the abuse.

It is not unusual to see a math PhD, who is a vice president and writes code for a living, get a very public reaming from an executive director (one rank higher) who drank his way through a bachelor's program at a lesser Ivy.

Bosses don't do anything about it because they don't care and because they are beneficiaries of the pecking order. Subordinates don't do anything about it because they don't want to risk their bonus numbers.
You are completely missing the point, so I'll try explaining via a Reductio ad absurdum hypothetical.

Lets say that Semi-Autonomous Cars are currently tested on about 80% of the tasks that humans currently face in the real world, and that through some feat of engineering and design we don't have to worry about the ridiculously messy transitions between Autonomous Mode and Human Mode.

And let's say that for those 80% of tasks, the Semi-Autonomous Cars have a 0.05% accidents/100k miles incident rate.

And let's also say that Humans on average have a 1% accidents/100k miles incident rate.

What you're telling me is that the Semi-Autonomous car has a much better safety record, so give us Semi-Autonomous RIGHT NOW OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

But what I'm telling you is that you don't know enough to make that decision yet, because you don't know exactly how well humans do on the 80% that Semi-Autonomous cars currently handle, you merely know the average accident rate over the current 100% of scenarios. For all you know, Human drivers could have their average 1% accident rate as a result of a 0.0% accident rate for that 80% subset and a 5% accident rate on the remaining 20% that Semi-Autonomous cars can't handle. And if that were the case, then forcing us all to use Semi-Autonomous cars would actually increase the average accident rate from 1% to 1.004%.

Until you fully understand what Semi-Autonomous Cars are capable of, AND know how well human drivers do on that restricted subset, you can't definitively say that current technology is better than humans.
The American Cloud
Fewer numbers, better science
This is part of an encouraging larger trend of using tech to make food production both cheaper and more humane. A choice quote from the end of the article:

> According to Chad Gregory, from the United Egg Producers, there's huge demand within the egg industry for a way to solve this problem, and the first company to create a solution could earn a lot of money. "Over time, worldwide, it could be worth billions of dollars," he says.
Hey, and when writers of newyorker.com do it, it is called "fantastic journalism"…
I think it has less to do with fiscal paradise, since that's probably not overly correlated with fraud, but rather the fact that it's a country of 3.5 million people. That means there's little to no incentive to support transactions from Panama - so it tends to be blocked by default along with most other countries you're not likely to get sales from.
I'm surprised by the number of people concerned about the lack of ESC key. I literally never ever use it. Perhaps that's because I've been a Linux user for most of my life and only recently began using Macs. I use emacs as my only editor. What do you use ESC for?
It does on my install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I've only ever come across arguments against changing how a webpage responds to scrolling, and I'm curious what's the argument for using something like scrollify?
If you know how memory addresses map to row/column, it should be possible to force refresh the entire array with a few tens of thousands of reads, rather than delaying for 64ms. (At least on conventional DRAM, reading a row implicitly refreshes it; I presume it's the same on DDR SDRAM.)
If a company can offer a product substantially cheaper than a competitor with lower reliability but offer acceptable customer support for dealing with these issues, the hours of my time I spend fixing the issue might very well surpass the extra money I spend on a competitor.
Eh, more cypherphreaks and cypherpunks. Not academics, and definitely not the sort of people at banks who'd call themselves "experienced cryptographers."
Both quantitative finance and more general data science draw heavily from physics PhDs (you can see this if you look at job listings for these jobs; physics is almost always listed next to math in the list of desired PhD degrees). Depending on area there can also be a significant number of industry pure-research positions available; quantum information is a good example.

As long as you are willing to go into industry, you're looking at a 90-100k starting salary[1]. That's pretty damn good considering that in the US nobody pays for a physics PhD; the average TA stipend is around $30k with tuition and medical insurance covered. You also have a decent chance of getting a research assistanship to provide the stipend once you start working seriously with an advisor.

The high number of physics PhDs getting postdocs off the bat is driven by people who want to go into academia/research, not by a lack of industry options. Admitidely if you're dead set on going into research (especially right off the bat) you better be ready to play the same low-paid tenure lottery as everybody else, but if you're just looking for a good career a physics PhD is a pretty good bet.

[1]: https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/statistics/employmen...
It feels above average compared to the typical government site, but still a decade behind modern design. I wonder if open source will improve this? Props to the team for open sourcing it.
NYT comment I found interesting:

At this initial stages, one can only make reasonable inferences. As a former Main Justice public corruption prosecutor (with the Public Integrity Section), one can reasonably infer that the emails on their face appear pertinent, as otherwise the FBI wouldn't have reopened the investigation (in other words, in DOJ speak, they provide "predication," that is, cause for reopening the investigation). In that these emails weren't produced by Clintons' team of lawyers, this calls into broad question whether Clinton's attorneys selectively produced emails and selectively disclosed information or otherwise intentionally failed to inform the FBI of limitations on their disclosure and thus committed obstruction of justice. This calls into question the thoroughness and integrity of the investigation. There is no doubt in my mind that that initial investigation was conducted in a tepid manner (as evidenced by the lack of the use of a grand jury and side agreement that were struck with Clinton's lawyers that would not have been entered into if a lower-level public official was being investigated). The FBI has a duty to the public to now conduct a vigorous and swift investigation.

- William M. Palmer, Esq. Boston http://nyti.ms/2dPL5s3
NATs allow outbound connections by default; UPnP opens up incoming connections.
> A day later, Apple ended the long wait for laptop users yearning for an upgrade by unveiling a new line of MacBook Pros.

Was this a coincidence? I'm guessing not but no idea really.
Thanks HackerRank, now I want to work as an anonymous cog in a behemoth bank!

What a silly puff piece for JP Morgan and the 'coding bootcamp' puppy farms.
This is not about banks.
Can you recommend any Swedish acts? I thought of Junior Senior and Röyksopp but it turns out they're Danish and Norwegian.
CNN's Jake Tapper: "Carlos Danger is Chekhov's gun."

What a perfect way to put it.
I am a nihilist.
President Trump.
I'm talking about contemporary migration mostly; although IIRC some migration waves in the 20th century were more about perceived opportunity as opposed to desperation.
Barely. He created them with about no effort at all while other peoples hard work and real dollars spent would turn it into a fortune later. That counters wyager's claim a bit where there's definitely an unfair advantage in terms of financial distributions. Quite like the U.S. system it intends to replace. :)
Because the second most important thing that to a currency is network effects. If it doesn't 100% replace my credit card, I still need a credit card, which so far works MUCH better for me than Bitcoin.
I wish you well and will help in any way that I can. ld
Things like touchId were amazing features in their own right though.

Now the best they can do is a second lens for kinda bokeh and adding a touch bar instead of physical keys on the macbook.

While dumping the headphone jack and magsafe (and HDMI and SD).
Basically what happened is that tech companies started paying similar or higher amounts than finance.
Definitely my favorite one. Most of the others I clicked on were very gimmicky.
Does it run Linux?
I have a similar story with my T430. Ivy Bridge CPU, 8GB, and two internal SSDs (one msata). It's a tank, and worth the $300 or so I paid. Upgraded it to add the msata ssd and add a backlit keyboard, and it's a great beater laptop for when I don't need portability.
Bizarre role reversal? I still remember MSFT and IBM doing the same thing in the 90's.
Really? They're offering me $400 for my 256gb / 2.4ghz late 2013 retina model. Pretty bog standard and 3 years old. That's enough to make me seriously consider it, since I've been eyeing the surface book for a bit. Mainly I need to figure out its Ubuntu compatibility now.
Because the OP was laying this at the feet of ethnicity, which I feel (at least in many cases) is far from the only possible explanation.
C.f. the NSA tapping Google's and Yahoo's internal networks since the data passed in plain text. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...