skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it ridiculous? There is a cited study, which although uncorroborated (so far) but appear to be solid. Or are you saying that racism and sexism are not valid topics for discussion? My only issue with the post is the title, which implies that this is Uber doing this rather than their drivers, but that's a relatively minor quibble. Otherwise this appears to be a serious issue, and raises issues for services that require the use of real names or photos.
As an exercise to the reader, name:

1. He who works with his hands and heart, but not his head.

2. He who works with his head and heart, but not his hands.
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Cutting out all sources of caffeine (I had to; developed an allergy) and taking fast-release melatonin have lately made a tremendous difference for me in falling asleep.
I agree. Therefore "viable business" isn't how I should have phrased it.
Goodwill is the amount you paid beyond the tangible assets (cash, property, equipment, accounts paid, etc.) on the balance sheet. You can call it what you like, but basically it's something you spent cash on that you have to show on a balance sheet but has no tangible value. This is usually attributed as "synergies", "IP", "brand recognition" and other BS.
Great resource thanks. Would love to learn how to make a website like this. Not necessarily detecting books, but detecting [anything] and counting, but with the scraping features, still.
The optimists list successful nonviolent transitions where both the start and end point have roughly balanced ratios of job positions vs hungry qualified employees and ask why all transitions can't be as successful.

The pessimists point to every collapsed society or culture or subculture and every violent bloody revolution in our own past and ask why in this more cutthroat era we won't all be drowning in rivers of blood.

HN is very optimistic. Go ask the Easter Island Forestry Company what the lumberjacks are currently doing for employment. Hungry urban poor have led to all kinds of fun for centuries, in France around 1800, Germany in the 30s, arguably USA in the 60s... Arguably most transitions have been of the less than peaceful variety.
There is some that I agree with in here, and some that I disagree with. Ultimately I think it's fairly well thought out, though I am personally excited about the new apps for Apple TV.

The lack of 4k/UHD/HDR support in the Apple TV is, I agree, not cool. When the ATV4 came out, it was excusable - there was not a lot of 4k content, and 4k TVs were more expensive than they are now. In the interim, they have gone down in price and there is much more content available in UHD.

As far as the new TV and Live TV apps, I am very excited. The ATV is my window into all of the media consumption that I do on TV - I use Plex to stream things from my NAS, Netflix to watch Netflix, ABC, CBS, ESPN, etc. apps to watch on demand TV, and I am mostly very happy with it. These new apps are going to make that a much better viewing experience - syncing up all of my logins, and providing a central point to browse and stream. I view this as a pretty big win over the experience on other devices.

Even though Netflix (and I'm assuming Plex) won't be included, it's still a big step up from having to use the Fox, Fox Sports, CBS, NBC, ESPN, ABC, etc. apps to know which channel the college football game is on (usually ESPN, sometimes Pac 12 Network or CBS), or what channel airs a particular TV show.

Ultimately, I have a 1080p TV, so I'm not missing the inability to stream in 4k. My next device will undoubtedly be 4k however, and I would be very bummed if Apple did not have a device that was capable of producing 4k video.
Clinton got previews of some debate questions
It frustrates me that computers become obsolete this way. We've generated an awful lot of waste and not a whole lot of progress. Everything I do now I could do ten years ago, it's just "prettier" now. I'd go back to one of these old machines in an instant if it didn't mean that reading articles on the web would be so painful.
The best approach is to just have USB sockets and let the user supply the cable.
America has one month to stop the FBI getting its global license to hack
Ah, my mantra for rough days with side projects:

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I like this breakdown too. If we want to add luck, random-chance as * ( 1 + random-chance ) where it can be anything between -1 and 1. It can be both negative or positive or no effect at all.
The nice thing about using 1U size chassis is that you aren't reliant on a vendor specific backplane interconnect for the blade-to-blade-chassis interface. It takes advantage of much larger economies of scale in standard AC or DC power feed interconnects and ethernet (25/50/100G ethernet). And if you buy a huge enough number of things you can get a Taiwanese motherboard OEM to design you a custom ATX (12x9.6") or full size (12x13") dual socket motherboard with all the extraneous crap stripped off, like VGA displays, USB ports, 2.5mm headphone jacks, etc.

There are "standard" widths and lengths of 1U size power supplies (Whether AC input or DC input) that are used by dozens of different system integrators. Order off the shelf based on the wattage and capabilities you need. Same thing with the chassis. At a certain quantity level you basically have a folded steel box with mounting screw holes for ATX or larger-than-ATX motherboards. With M.2 SSDs on the motherboard these days, you need only a few things:

a) a long 1U steel box with high speed 40mm fans sucking air through it

b) motherboard with cpu/heatsink/ram/storage mounted on it.

c) power supplies.
From early on in the article

> asyncio.get_event_loop() returns the thread bound event loop, it does not return the currently running event loop.

How can these be different objects? In order to ask for the thread-bound event loop, you must be in the thread, right? When/why would you expect anything else?

fyi, I don't have any background with asyncio/twisted.
Also, the owner looks like a normal author [1].

$ whois formulaformillionaires.com

Updated Date: 20-sep-2013
Creation Date: 01-feb-2008
Expiration Date: 01-feb-2018
...
Admin Name: Paul McCormick
Admin Organization: Miracle Writers LLC
...

Google says [1]:

> Some pages on this website send visitors to the following dangerous websites: apollo-computers.com.

Edit: Upon further inspection it looks like a pretty questionable book: "Become a millionaire by just following my 7 simple steps!"

[1]: https://amzn.com/0979433835

[2]: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
They certainly are!
Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar
Depends on where you live I suppose, but two of my neighbors on my street have 5 cars each.
Hah thanks! I've never noticed that before.
Yes the average users usually don't know what they want but enthusiasts are easier to convince and are more willing to take risks and innovate.

Enthusiasts are exactly the wrong people you want to talk to if you're looking to build a mass market consumer device. Enthusiasts want keyboards, for example (see the other reply to my original comment), whereas the mass market seems very happy without them (likely because they're far more likely to consume content than originate it in large quantities).

Now, in this case, maybe a device for enthusiasts is exactly what they're trying to build. But if that's true, I'm not sure why they care about a device that's "budget-priced".
Related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840068 was flagged.
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100% agreed, given that newer cars now have 4G connectivity, one ought to be able to subscribe for a modest fee to download it.
Please post a link to your microkernel, papers, and any books you have published on the subject so I can learn why monolithic kernels are boring and how to do it better. Thanks.
You're welcome! People are much more helpful here than on Reddit in my experience.
Is tech billionaire Peter Thiel prepping for a life in politics?
How cool!

I happen to have an interest in OS development myself: it seems that two things have combined to make bespoke OS development practical again. First, the world has mostly standardised on amd64, UEFI &c. None of these standards may be terribly good (e.g. I've always x86 and its descendants tasteless compared to 68000, MIPS and others), but they're good enough, and now there's a critical mass of community support out there for them.

Second, readily-available virtual machines have made it easier than it ever was to rapidly iterate on an OS concept.

My own interest is in non-POSIX, non-Unix-inspired, non-consumption-oriented systems: I think that there's some huge headway to be made in building computers meant to augment the human brain, rather than to just reproduce the past or serve as an entertainment-enabler. But Minoca OS sounds pretty neat in itself. Kudos to the guys for putting in the work, and kudos for releasing it as open source. I hope that they're able to make some money from it too — good work deserves to be rewarded.
Consider combining the best of both worlds by launching a startup based on products from your interest areas (selling them, connecting makers/collectors, streamlining processes for related manufacturers, etc). You can start on the side and quit work to focus fulltime if it grows. Lots of lucrative sub-sectors in design-related physical goods.

You can also take a sabbatical/time off/holiday to refresh your mind, explore ideas, tinker with related hobbies. If you stick to tech, consider taking similar but shorter breaks regularly (e.g. 1-3x yearly).
Good question, I'm currently doing a "retreat" at the recurse center:
https://www.recurse.com/

Good idea on the upvoting. I haven't added that as a signal for interest in an article. Right now it just redirects to the HN url upvoting that article.
I wonder if ad networks try to fight back against adblockers using web assembly? In theory, it should be easier because you can avoid dom, but who knows what the future will bring.
I still don't understand why the ATV doesn't have gigE. The BOM differential for 100mbit vs gigE can't be more than $1...
Indeed. GPL makes sense in the short term, but in the long run an permissive licensed project forces its branches to contribute back to avoid divergence. GPL makes it harder for commercial entities to invest into it and also a permissive licensed project makes a bigger competition to e.g. Linux.
ycombinator.com is not handled by Cloudflare; it appears to be on Amazon.
I've used this for quick-and-dirty ASCII diagrams. They might need a bit of touching up to be usable with Spongedown.
http://asciiflow.com/
One thing that MS can't say yet is that a Skylake-EP server is "rumored" to have a larger socket and 24 DIMM slots instead of 16 so it needs to be physically wider.
The issue as I understand it is that having a discussion with a Trump supporter gives their views a platform and potentially exposes other people to them.

Arguments that wide-scale non-white immigration is detrimental to white societies, that the black-white IQ gap includes a non-zero genetic component, that biological differences exist between men and women, etc. cannot be refuted through rationalism, so we have to resort to other methods to prevent their spread.
> Science doesn't justify introversion v extroversion

> No studies cited

> Obvious logical fallacy comparing fitness v intelligence and liking talking a lot v not liking talking a lot

OK
There is nothing that prevents a monolithic kernel from using the same model -- no theoretical barrier to it, in any case. Linux doesn't do this because its developers don't want it to.
Ask HN: Is discussion of wikileaks not allowed?
I submitted a post about Eric Schmidt working directly with the Clinton campaign and, in an email, stating, "Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them."

The post was flagged and removed. Not sure why other than wikileaks discussion not being allowed....
The World Is Full of Placebo Buttons
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Heh, I'd bet evolutionary pressure means that in the long run, races using DVCS with superior interfaces outcompete ones using Git.
> The "insanely great" perceivable customer value was missing in the presentation of the last macs for a lot of reasons (memory, keyboard, cable integration with iPhone out of the box, mag-safe, extension cord, higher price etc.).

Exactly this. For the past few years I've been an Apple apologist in regards to the "overpriced hardware" argument: it was nigh-impossible to get a well-built laptop with comparable specs from a PC OEM. But the new MBP costs more while delivering less.
Netflix won't be included. https://www.wired.com/2016/10/apples-new-tv-app-wont-netflix...
" I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally. So when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment, or things like that, the question is not are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China, or how exactly are you going to enforce these tests. What they hear is we're going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy."
So you assume that he's lying and secretly agrees with you. There is no way that could possibly backfire.
It's clickbait, and I seem to recall hearing that it's a deliberate strategy from Hacker News – that they want people to be "intrigued" by the headline. I hate it.
But.. Clinton is in cahoots with Google. We've all seen the articles documenting Eric Schmidt's relationship with the Clinton Campaign. This is absolute insanity.
Heard they're going to remove it in the next version, as well as hdmi. A USB dongle will be required to connect to your TV and internet is wireless only /s
No, it would only be a violation if you reused IP (which I don't see how you could avoid in your setup). I am not a slave to my employer, and my employer does not own me. I consider this an issue of fundamental human rights. If you do not pay for the work that I do, you cannot be entitled to it.
Have to agree about the good work part. Sadly my personal opinion is that I really, really dislike the NT coding style. Now that makes me wonder how coding style affects peoples will to contribute. Compare this to the Linux kernel coding style and they're on different sides of the scale, I wonder how it will affect contributions.
Sure, I mean in finance everyone is a Vice President :) But in a consumer-facing startup like Giphy, I've honestly never seen a company at that size and stage do that. "Director of Engineering" typically has a particular meaning that differs from "Senior Engineer".
It's difficult to justify spending $7k for a motherboard and CPU that only sometimes matches the performance of an Intel equivalent at $500. Only the most security-sensitive applications could justify that price. They need an investor with deep pockets and no compromising motives.
This is just me guessing, but it kinda feels like Plex won't either.
I did an analysis on this a while ago since no one publishes median figures [1]. Average base price of the top 20 best selling cars in the US is a good proxy, and that amounts to a bit over $23k. Bolt is obviously way higher than that. Of course, then people go and add several grand worth of upgrades so that base price doesn't reflect the true transaction price very well. Average transaction price in the mass market segment is around $31.5k

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-does-typical-america...
Apple's "app revenue" is slightly in the black but really is designed to break even with costs to running the App Store (trivially verifiable from profit reports and other extensive analyses, including comments from Tim Cook on earning calls). Apple makes money on hardware, and to a much much lesser extent on media: apps exist to make their hardware enticing, nothing more. So maybe "if I were Apple I would be very worried about web pages undermining the platform lock in achieved through my leading native app platform", but poking at revenues just repeats a falsehood (which as was pointed out in the article here yesterday is how false information becomes engrained).
HN is full of memory holes and thoughtcrime is punished.
> Double pinyin is still pinyin. Zhuyin works

Double pinyin is zhuyin on a keyboard.
Is this actually true? I always see it bandied about without data.
Your comment seems to imply that you got into a physics PhD from a non physics background - is that the case? If so, how can one message you to chat more about it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839757
I felt this way as well (since the mid nineties) until a couple of weeks ago when I read _Social Architecture_ by Pieter Hintjens. It has a strong idealogical flavour. He stresses that you should focus on building a community, with the code and platform as happy side-effects of that community.

For that reason, you want GPL because it forces everything back into the community. He gives examples of a friend of his who slaved on a BSD project that got forked with the friend having nothing to show for it. And NT adoption of much of the code from the BSD sockets API.
Have we ruled out the possibility that African-American passengers might be disproportionately likely to cause problems for the driver?
Qemu can emulate it now :-)
I can believe that the 3.5 jack will be removed, but only to be replaced with more convenient open and not proprietary standard--analog standard. I can live with USB-C, that, btw, already has analog audio implemented, when it de facto becomes industry standard for audio output. Just hope they solve simultaneous charging with headphones plugged. Two USB-Cs may be.

But definitely it is not going to be proprietary lightning digital audio port that requires external DAC and licensing.
BeforetheFlood.com is now streaming everywhere for free
It's not the cost of the rewrite, it's the immense cost of problems relating to the upgrade.
The first smartphone game controller fitted on the screen cover
Where is that quote from? I can't find it on any of the three announcement pages.
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If you follow Leslie Jones on Twitter, you'll know that this isn't crap. Leslie (@Lesdoggg) who is famous yet both black AND female has terrible luck with Uber.

Here is one example:
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/776425898299957249

If you search around you can find a lot more horror stories from her and probably others.

I'm a white male so I've never had an issue. I love Uber, but they can certainly do a better job.
Games, yes, but this would probably also open the door to high performance web apps.
The iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit
And their frustration is that others do take him literally but not seriously.

As if I should take someone seriously whos literal ideas don't even show internally consistent thought or reasoning.
Curiously some of the server names are misspelled, wouldn't expect that from a dump.

s03.informatik.uni-bremin.de -> uni-bremen
They want an OS that's smarter about power management and easier to maintain. They describe their high-level objectives in their FAQ:

Why is a new operating system necessary?

...The design requirements of today's devices have drastically evolved in areas of power management, security, serviceability, and virtualization... By starting from a clean slate, Minoca OS is able to incorporate those core tenets into the very fabric of the operating system...

How is Minoca OS different from other operating systems?

...One of the most noticeable differences at the kernel level is the uniform driver model, which provides a maintainable interface between the kernel core and device drivers... Another very noticeable difference is our strong emphasis on the kernel development environment. Being able to step through code in the kernel, boot environment, and even firmware was something we felt was critical to quickly developing and maintaining kernel-quality code...

http://www.minocacorp.com/support/faq/
The frontpage is either:

1. Being heavily censored by admins

2. Being heavily flagged by butthurt Hillary supporters
There's the old telecom standard for 23" racks... Other than facebook I wonder who is building new hot aisle/cold aisle separated environments for wider-than-19" standard.
> It feels like we’re often treating symptoms like problems

Agreed.

A just society requires that we assign positions on the basis of merit. But to obtain the skills and knowledge that constitute merit requires fair and equal opportunity to institutions and resources.

The "discussion is broken" because it ignores the systemic causes namely socio-economic problems like inequal access to education, which are then confused with race, gender and identity politics.
In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, but for Noise, Too
I await the first few apps to put ads on the Touch Bar. It seems all but inevitable.
How a movie changed one man's vision (2012)
Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Good, sensible guidelines from Apple, and it's not like you can't ignore them and distribute your app outside the Mac App Store.
Pixar story rules (2011)
This has actually proven to be the case; there are a number of studies on assaults committed against taxi drivers, and all (I've seen) come to the conclusion that males and African-Americans are much more likely to be violent.
This happened to a site I managed a while ago. The cause was a comment a user posted that was flagged as a "batch virus". The content of the comment was all text, along the lines of

@echo off
echo "Speeding up your PC!"
delete c:\Windows\system32\

Thanks Norton!
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It's not really a static blacklist as such. Sites are added and fall off of it regularly.
"sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) ... In this case, the first course of action is to remove all clothing and perform chest compressions ..."

I admit my CPR training is quite awhile ago, but I don't remember "remove all clothing." The premise of the article/advertisement is plausible, but this just sounds weird.
It's becoming very clear that no matter who wins, we all lose. I can't possibly express enough disappointment that the American political process has co-opted the tagline from Alien vs. Predator.
Related thread, NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840068
Yet another huge FU to developers.
Evolve polygon pictures in your browser
Because they can!
So, you've dropped the laptop and the fan became noisy, which would also lead to CPU throttling because if the fan isn't working right, CPU is going to overheat and your laptop is going to suffer as the result of this.

Did you even take the back off to try to reseat it or clean up the laptop? You can try to take it to an authorized Apple repair shop to see if they can re-seat the fan/clean up the fans for you.

I have same '12 rMBP and the performance is just as snappy as it was back in '12 and I've never reinstall OS either, so it's all consistent and snappy.

I have no plans to upgrade this because there's nothing else that comes close to replacing it right now, not even '16 rMBP.

As for the disk, I put my VMs on external SSDs, works great. Certainly cheaper than replacing the laptop and easier to upgrade every year to more storage.
I was kind of a fan of "Trump" after reading The Art of the Deal. It was only recently I found the actual Trump didn't write any of the book and the guy described was basically fictional.
The announcement also says:

> compatible and stable implementations of WebAssembly behind a flag on trunk in V8 and SpiderMonkey, in development builds of Chakra, and in progress in JavaScriptCore

[Emphasis Mine]
> Who wouldn’t want a stock ticker there, or a Twitter feed, or a progress bar for downloads and file operations? There are plenty of possibilities to explore here, and it seems a disservice to insist that things remain monochrome, key-shaped and static.

No Mac user has ever thought "gee, this third party design is so much more tasteful than something that follows the HIG!" Apple is right to keep designers on a tight leash.