skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I need to edit video or do other work that is CPU and memory intensive

A laptop is not for you. Here’s PCPartPicker. Build your own desktop. It’s like Lego, but for adults."

Yeah, cool, let me know when I can take a desktop in my hand luggage. There are people who legitimately need a lot of CPU power and lots of ram in a laptop - and there are products for them ( http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure(2,270,0)ec ) being dismissive is not helpful.
Huh. Looks like you still have to get the touchscreen model to get a configuration with 16gb ram. I was hoping they would allow that by now, but it still looks like 8gb soldered in ram is the only option for the FHD (non-touch) display.
Ask HN: Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?
Hi,
I've been waiting few months for yesterday's MacBook upgrade and I'm dissatisfied, as most of you. I read many comments about alternatives and one of recurring favorite is Dell XPS Developer Edition. Could I ask you about your experience with this model? I'm interested in high-end version (16gb and UltraSharp screen). Is it worth this money (less than Macbook, but still)? I actually want to buy "best machine money can buy", which is powerful (for JVM development, besides personal stuff like movies and web), but still easy to carry-on while traveling. Most of the machines are Windows-oriented, which doesn't fit my workflow and there's a limited choice of laptop fully compatible with Linux. Dell XPS 13 seems like one. Do you have positive experiences with this? Would you recommend it?

I just get rid of normal desktop and use mainly my office machine - heavy, powerful ThinkPad W541 with 32GB ram and i7, but it's plastic and the screen is so-so.

Thanks!
IMO a culture developed in the US in the past few decades - I would be hard-pressed to pinpoint when but it's been within my professional life in IT - that we should minimize any activities in a work environment that do not have a direct tie to revenue. The result is that professional development is all but non-existent unless you do it on your own time.

The US is scrutinizing its education system right now. Unfortunately, we're looking for simple answers and pinning blame on teachers when the problems are more systemic. My neighbor is a visiting professor from Germany. His wife is a teacher in grades 5-8 in Germany. My wife and I had dinner with them a while back. They made the observation that blaming teachers took place in Germany about 10 years ago. When all was said and done the problems were more systemic, they were corrected, and the system is considerably better now in their opinion. Hopefully we'll follow suit.
You're conflating law and risk. One turns out to be a reified political thing reflecting the powers that be of times now and past, the other thing is an engineering concern. I'm quite personally familiar with the specialized domains of which you speak. I would say that our personal ethic of engineering quality totally dominated any legal questions. I'd guess we could have smokescreened any legal paperwork if we really wanted (cough, BMW emissions scandal cough). But, we didn't! We cared, as a company.

Re comma.io - having to play the legal game is a substantial existential risk, only mitigateable with very well paid lawyers and a decent PR crew. That's very different than providing an engineering report. I would guess that if they get rolling in China, they will come back and have the funding and will to hire lawyers to sort the problems.

If you want to contemplate the difficulty of doing engineering vs. surviving the law, consider Tesla's issues selling its car.

It's not the rap - it's the ride.
My parents live in Amsterdam and it's great. When I visit I pretty much just assume that people know at least some English.
The attitude in the tech industry is to ship buggy products before they are complete. I'm so tired of wasting my time with buggy crap.

I think it's awesome that a government agency said that this practice is not acceptable when someone's life is at stake.
At Dollar Shave Club we use Vault in a very similar fashion to what's described in this article. It's a really great product, and well worth the upfront investment in terms of migration, workflow adjustment, etc. We may be open sourcing some tooling we've created around AppID authentication (now deprecated, sadly) in the near future.
Generally the devices poke holes in the firewall with UPnP. There are also other vectors (ZeroConf, STUN, CWMP).

The problem is that, once past the firewall, many of these devices have weak to no security, e.g. open telnet daemons, root:root default user/password, and other trivial vulnerabilities.
What a surgeon recommended to me was "a rigorous 10 minute walk every hour or so"
My understanding of inherent might not be right, then. I think of it as "it is definitely a danger, and thus can only be described as dangerous," which I would argue is not mutually exclusive with possible but is mutually exclusive with "not always dangerous and maybe even anti-dangerous."

So what I mean is, the autopilot could turn out to be safer than manual, in my mind, so how is it "inherently" dangerous.
True, but so can nitrogen, propane, neon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and flourine (although you'd need to be pretty unlucky to survive long enough breathing flourine to asphyxiate).

I know argon is denser than air at STP, and so tends to accumulate in enclosed spaces --- but propane is even denser. (Leading cause of catastrophic accident in yachts: gas explosion. It's not like you can have a hole in the bottom to let the gas out in the event of a leak.) And any plant which deals with liquid gasses is going to prioritise ventilation anyway, which should easily deal with any gas buildup.

The parent sounded like there was something specific to do with argon which made the regulators tetchy, and I wouldn't have thought that asphyxiation risk would be enough. Am I wrong?
Realized I forgot a out these day after they were presented. Perhaps because they're not even possible to buy here in Sweden...

Too bad, because they look mighty fine.
Do you mind elaborating?

If you are talking about a smart-contract being able to do stuff with encrypted data without other people being able to access the data, I don't think this would help with that, because whatever system the contract would use would be available to whoever is trying to get the data from the contract.

Though, things may be enough to make it hard for other contracts to get stuff from a particular contract? I'm somewhat skeptical of that, but maybe. Also, in any case, the "attacker" contract could just make an incentive for people to give it the information, which I think would work. (and that might be necessary for it to get the info from the defending contract anyway? I don't remember. I don't think it is, but I'm not sure.)

However, I'm not sure that is what you meant, and also I'm not sure of what I'm saying.

edit: well, there are other systems that have been designed to let contracts keep information secret but I think those are still too expensive to be used, and relied on a secret sharing scheme iirc, so would require that not all the info be on chain.
Thanks for the reply.

Another question: how does this differ from what past secretaries of state have done? I remember reading Colin Powell used an email address provided by his ISP. Not saying that makes it OK, but why shouldn't Powell be charged for the same reason?
C would be exactly the same way, if functions didn't implicitly take their own address, so that the & operator had to be used:

var(); // okay
func(var); // okay
var(func); // nope: &func required
func2(func); // ditto

C++ is like this with respect to member functions, which require the & operator to be used:

foo(myclass::staticfun); // error
foo(&myclass::staticfun); // good

(As it is, even calls in C work via a function pointer being involved. In foo(arg), foo is a primary expression denoting a function (if that is how foo is declared in this scope). This primary expression produces a pointer-to-function. The (arg) postfix operator then applies to the pointer.)
This is really interesting. I've often thought about a browser extension that could describe a web page. I don't mean text, as screen readers are (usually) more than capable there. I mean a visual description like:

"The web site has a off white background with black text. There is a horizontal menu at the top that fills the screen 95% horizontally and 10% vertically. The horizontal menu has a navy blue background with white text. There is a logo on the left of the horizontal menu filling 25% of the screen horizontally and 5% vertically. There are five menu items to the right of the logo image in the horizontal menu."

That's probably a little more verbose than it needs to be. But it could be a combination of CV, tapping into the renderer and traversing the DOM in order to best describe a page. Then if my screen reader isn't cutting it and I'm feeling lost I can just have the current view described to me.
Caucasians are a category that can be selected from that list too, right? So, the article lead should be ammended from:

"Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads."

To this:

"Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude white, black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads."

This is a good example of lying by omission. Ethically, there is nothing wrong with this system if the exclusion can be applied equally to any ethnic group.

And besides, we need this for practical reasons: there are special creams for people of certain pigments that won't work for my vanilla face...
According to Apple's presentation, the function keys are available when you press the Fn key!
Haven't explored this subject before, but I'd guess there's likely some sort of social, psychological and biological basis for why museums exist and are popular in the first place. Likely the activity involved in "discovering" objects and then inspecting them as if you found them for the first time, simulates "seeking" behavior and solidifies the memory in the context of finding the information on your own instead of being shown it.

If the reason for why museums assist in learning, and are driven by the rewards of "discovering" something and experiential aspect of inspecting something in a 3D environment, then there are certainly some fascinating opportunities to create not only augmented museum experiences or virtual museums, but take the behavior to new places. There are maybe new types of museums that wouldn't be possible in the physical world. Pretty exciting
I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 on it, and everything I've tried works. But it has taken some fiddling. (I have swapped the wireless for [1] on the advice of a coworker that didn't even like the way the stock one worked on Windows.) I can't vouch for the USB3, Thunderbolt, or Bluetooth because I haven't tried it. Also stock Ubuntu can't control the backlight brightness but xbacklight can, so it seems to be an Ubuntu issue rather than Linux.

It also installed next to Windows pretty well, once I turned off Secure Boot in the Bios. Grub worked without hassle. You may also have some fiddling with the AHCI vs. RAID sections in the BIOS; google around for info on that. You may also need to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch to avoid issues with "locked blocks" on the main hard drive so you can shrink partitions, and to deal with the switch from "RAID" to "AHCI" (not strictly necessary but if you're going to reinstall anyhow it works). Depends on the line up.

I do recommend that if you get one, you figure out whether you're going to dual-boot immediately, before you "move into" Windows. It's much easier to put together a dual-boot setup with a fresh install of Windows 10, I found. (And it's actually Window's fault, not Linux's, for refusing to evacuate enough of the drive.) If you do plan to reinstall windows, go to the Dell driver page, grab all the relevant ones, and stick them on the Windows 10 installation USB stick you make. (There's a tool from Microsoft that just lets you download the Windows 10 install media, then picks up the license off the motherboard.)

Also, I found you will have to install a particular BIOS to make sure you don't get this weird and very annoying screen flicker where it dims for a couple of frames every ten seconds or so; A06 I think from the BIOS page.

It has not been the smoothest trip. But then, getting Linux running on a laptop perfectly never is. But I have ended up with a satisfactory primarily-Linux system. (I boot into Windows for games. Dual-boot is less frustrating when booting is so fast; I counted 32 seconds to hibernate Linux, reboot into Windows, and have Steam up and functioning. It's actually faster for me to do that from Linux than to start up my PS3 and be playing a game from a cold AV system start.)

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0167N9R8E/ref=oh_aui_sear...
Why do you think blackbox feels like a hack? Just because it uses a repo at the end of the day?
> Anything with "Hacker" in its name gets my eyes rolling

Ummmm.... Look up...^^^^
What does the new BIOS do?
But isn't that what you have to do to make baz($foo) work also? I mean, how do you put a value into foo so that baz($foo) calls bar? I'm guessing, using foo = 'bar', no?
Are you sure about that? In the past, I've used Centrino N6205 in AP mode to share internet connection of the Thinkpads T430s 3G modem.

iw info also says, that it supports AP mode.
Andrea from Notion here. We do have one-click export to markdown, but not an automatic backup function. We get requests for that sometimes though, so we'd consider it. :)

We've been building Notion for 2 years and have a great backing team who truly believe in our vision:

https://www.notion.so/investors

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> It's an altcoin with more anonymity than Bitcoin. That's nice, but no big deal.

From a product value perspective, that's a pretty big deal for the illegal commerce side of the Bitcoin market. Which I would guess is some double-digit share of Bitcoin (currently $11B). That use alone could make Z-cash a billion dollar product.

As a side effect, that could increase the proportion of Bitcoin transactions that are legal, which might have some nice legitimizing effects on the brand.
I think rotating with a little short-term redundancy is the simplest solution. That's what I've used myself too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12814655
Thanks, looks like things are better than 7/8 years ago.
Do you have a source for this? Pretty curious to see how that would play out.
Attacks and Countermeasures of Ultrasonic Cross-Device Tracking
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. Will try it out.
Okay, and I have 4 ridesharing apps currently installed, 2 of which were installed and setup while waiting for an Uber to arrive. There, we both have anecdata.

I asked for evidence of "consumer inertia." One or two datapoints does not "inertia" make.
The real confusing part is why this didn't happen earlier.

Or, more likely, it did happen earlier but the attackers weren't properly weaponizing or "botkilling" / patching the devices?
The question is it reasonable to assume that the person should have known that the email address Hillary was using was hosted on a private email server or on a secure government system. I don't think the vast majority of people would be able to tell. They'd likely trust her people set it up properly. Those who are technically inclined might have noticed the non .gov email but then the question is how much authority they have to question her on the matter.

Largely the onus would have been on Hillary to use a government email when engaging in business related to the state. How did that person get the email in the first place? Did Hillary say this should be for personal emails only? etc.
Such a good timing. I've been using Macs for over ten years now, but I bought an x220 for $130 a couple of weeks ago and it's been my favorite laptop yet. Super serviceable and works so well with Ubuntu MATE. The display sucks though (didn't get the UPS version). Just go ahead!
Yeah, I don't think that will happen. First, the previous report found no wrongdoing. Second, I'm sure Hillary will say that she did not break the law (which is so far supported by the FBI investiagtion unless these new emails change things). And third, Clinton's accuser's don't always care about how accurate their accusations are and Obama's pardon will just give them evidence that they were right. I don't see a pardon needed or useful.
For me Windows is fine as long as I don't have to deal with viruses, anti viruses, malwares that reconfigure your default search, and stuff like that. It's not that I'm particularly in love with MacOS UI, even if I think it's pretty good/consistent, I could adapt to anything else which is stable and works. Thanks.
They specifically state in the instructions "If you are unable to respond because you do not have all or any of the precise information needed to respond, provide an estimate." This would imply that they are willing to postpone the fine given that he is actually putting together the required documentation. The required documentation is not even excessive, he should know most of that stuff off hand and should definitely have documentation for it if he's planning a release this year.
I generally agree with your segmentation.

Unfortunately Apple does not (well, not any more). And there is a huge contingent who still wants the thinnest possible Pro model.

I would suggest further breaking the Non-pro line into super thin (New Macbook) and thin (Macbook Air) models, and the Pro line into super thin (2016 rMBP) and not-so-thin (the model you describe).
Very misleading headline from TechCrunch.
He did and the same would apply to him. He should be even more culpable as he had a background in the defense department, so he had many many years of handling classified information on a daily basis. There should have been an official inquery into his activity as soon as it came to light that he had a private email server. The only saving grace for him is that the ability to send classified email on something that wasn't physically isolated and under 24 hour armed guard is a recent capability. Previously I can tell you transmitting classified information digitally required a CD burner ( no USB or CD-RW ) and a trusted courier.
I think they start charging after the second course.

I am in the same boat as you. I am currently doing Udacity's Machine Learning Nanodegree. But I think I would have felt lost if I hadn't done the first two courses of that Coursera Specialization.

Just started, but it seems that Pandas and SciKit-Learn are very similar to Dato/Graphlab from a usage perspective.
Is it really necessary to disable Secure Boot?

I've got one T430s that dual boots between Windows and Fedora, and Fedora is fine with the Secure Boot on (if you use your custom kernel modules, you will have to sign them, though). Windows, on the other hand, can be annoying when the Secure Boot is off.
They may turn a blind eye in certain cases but China doesn't screw around if something goes wrong. You do hard time or worse.
Which hand signal (brake, left, right) do you most often give when having your arm out the window? Do you mean it, and follow through, or is this the old-fashioned equivalent of leaving your turn signal on?

Note: hand signals are still legal, still tested on driver exams, and (as I saw a few weeks ago) still actually used for real.
How about a basic CRUD application to manage virtual domains, virtual users, and virtual aliases for Dovecot/Postfix in a MySQL|PostgreSQL database? I could use something like this. :)
Agreed, so then most programming systems are wrong if things are not obvious?
That's my point - with stripe, you don't have to deal with the exchange rate. You say "I want $X" and magic happens. Stripe takes care of the messy details of fluctuating exchange rates.
Unifying to one standard port is kind of cool, except for the fact that not even Apple's other devices use that type of connection and users will have to buy dongles for almost everything. That represents a concrete step backwards in user experience.

There is a time to be bold and throw your weight behind a better standard, but there's also a time when doing so makes things inconvenient with little to no benefit.

That wouldn't be so bad if the Macbook were significantly more powerful but here we have a machine with the same max RAM as the Macbook they sold 4 years ago while PC laptops are shipping with 4 times as much.

It just seems like Apple is focusing on making a sleek and visually pleasing device, rather than a device that will be most useful to those who want to work on MacOS.
I think a lot of people are going to disagree with you because they _want_ you to be wrong, but my observation (as somebody who got a solid education and a good GPA from a tier 100 university) is that in a lot of places, this is absolutely the case.
You pay taxes when you withdraw from a 401k, and the IRS has minimum distribution requirements that ensure you will pay taxes on all that money at some point.

Personally I think a Roth IRA is the better deal from a tax standpoint -- pay taxes on contributions and then you're done. With a long enough time horizon and a little luck those contributions will be dwarfed by earnings, and I would rather pay taxes on the lesser amount.

A savings account earning >=1% interest is a negligible tax burden. What you lose from inflation is far greater than what you pay in taxes. Even so, saying it's "the absolute worst place" to put money is beyond hyperbolic.
Joomla Exploits in the Wild Against CVE-2016-8870 and CVE-2016-8869
I'm just a grad student (but I've seen plenty of paper reviews and heard plenty of discussions at conferences), but at least in my corner of academia, the older and more established folks tend to be more visionary: they're more distant from the publish-or-perish scramble of assistant professorship and they've seen cycles of fads come and go. Of course a lot of younger profs bring fresh approaches too but IMHO the tendency to conform to 'accepted' topics to survive is much stronger on the early end of a career.
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I do a fair amount at a desk with external monitor/keyboard/trackpad. So, yes, it will be interesting to see how the absence of the touch bar in that context will feel after getting used to it on the MBP directly. I have a feeling I'll want to get away from my desk more often. :)

However, I have no doubt Apple is working on a external version of this, though after hearing about the complexity of this solution inside the machine (using a variant of watchOS, ARM chips, etc.), I suspect this is a ways off.
I agree. I think he hit a wall with his tech, realized it and was looking for an out.
"Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times."
You know the vast majority of consumers need less resources than a developer though.

So what's with the "because I need it, everyone would need it" attitude?
My statement was that "ongoing events that have proven that so-called autopilot systems are inherently a danger to the public at this stage". The important part to note is "at this stage" where at this stage refers to this stage of development and implementation.

Contrary to Tesla's publishing several occasions where Autopilot has possibly saved lives, there have been concrete incidents where people have died while Autopilot is being used. Tesla has backed away from these incidents with the same hand waving that NHTSA has specifically touched on here: that the user is exceeding the system's design purpose.

In this context ("at this stage"), where consumers have historically and will most likely continue to exceed these systems' design purposes and operate them outside of their intended scope, it seems very clear to me that these systems are inherently dangerous to the public. That is, there is no way to make these systems not a danger to the public in their current form.