skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently taken a Udacity course "Intro to the Design of Everyday Things"[0] and jotted down a preliminary summary[1].

Here are some of the tools they listed:

+ Hybrid paper/digital tools to animate paper pictures:

- https://popapp.in/

- https://www.flinto.com/

* Apple Keynote

* MS PowerPoint

* Google Presentation

* http://keynotopia.com/guides/

* https://balsamiq.com/

+ HTML5 prototypes:

- http://tumult.com/hype/

- http://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html

- https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

+ Misc:

- http://hackdesign.com/

- http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2012/08/30/four-ways-to-break...

- http://52weeksofux.com/

- https://www.interaction-design.org/

[0]: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-the-design-of-everyd...

[1]: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/Design/Intro%20...
You can still get discrete hardware that does a lot of that: offload of decoding compressed audio, adding effects, 3D positioning calculations, hardware equalization, etc. Most people don't bother; I think that having a "real" sound card is kind of a small niche market right now.

Going back about 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_Audigy

I've got some version of that series of cards sitting in my closet. I feel like that's about when sound cards really peaked. The hardware was mature, CPUs weren't fast enough to generate all the effects games wanted on the fly, surround sound was popular, etc. It made a lot of sense to offload that stuff to an external card.

Compare that to now: I've got some Chrome tab doing audio decoding, but my task manager reports 0-1% CPU use for each of my tabs. Audio decoding is fast enough to be done easily on the CPU. Ditto for the effects and such that are in use now. The equation shifted.
Note that that last one is based on a real poster which existed at many swimming pools when I was younger.
You can use Samba with it. Unless you absolutely require NFS, samba is far more robust and less prone to needing to be hard rebooted.
> the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.

What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?
One of the things I have a hard time giving up when looking at alternative laptops is the TrackPoint on my ThinkPad. I've grown to love it and I'm not a fan of most trackpads (although I think Apple got it right with the MacBook). That leaves the ThinkPad P50 as perhaps the only serious contender for me.
That's an interesting question. As far as I understand, yes. If you buy, say an 256GB SSD backed by roughly the same amount of storage in physical cells. Such an SSD stores 256 GB regardless whether it is compressed or not. Now suppose that we have a compressed filesystem and an uncompressed filesystem and that both the filesystem and controller compression rates are 2:1.

Now let's compare the two scenarios:

1. With filesystem compression: you could store twice the amount of data (~512GB). However, since the controller is not able to compress the data, all cells are completely full.

2. Without filesystem compression: you can store 256GB data. However, since the controller can compress the data, only half of the actual cells are used.

Suppose now that in both setups, the SSD is nearly full and we rewrite or perhaps extend some data. In the former case, the controller has to scavenge for partially-used cells to combine and erase. In the latter case, the SSD controller still has 128GB of pristine cells to write the changed data immediately.

Of course, compression was always somewhat of a cheapskate solution (and one of the reasons the SandForce controllers are not liked much). Higher-end SSDs would just have more storage space than logically addressable to have some leeway when the SSD is almost full.
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I think you misunderstood me. "we shouldn't punish anyone with the death penalty" means we shouldn't kill anyone, it allows for other methods of punishment.

The Volokh article allows for multiple levels of punishment as well. The quote from Maimonides doesn't mean we simply let them go free if we aren't absolutely sure that they are guilty, instead we would lock them up.
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I can only speak to my situation, but as the macs took longer and longer to update, I came to the realization that I might need to jump ship. And as the upgrade wasn't entirely reassuring, it seems like it might be better to bite the bullet and switch to linux full time—which, incidentally, I'm also pretty excited about and want to do.

The anger/frustration about the new models is about accepting that my time with the mac might be over (a ride which I began back in the OS 8 days). However, seeing how disappointed I've been has only strengthened my resolve to switch as I don't feel I should become that emotionally attached to a company or product (I went through the OS holy wars as a middle schooler, so I can forgive it as a folly of my youth).
The RAM issue is a different one. Someone who wants 16GB RAM isn't likely to complain if 32GB is an option.
Which makes me wonder how Stingray/Hailstorm works. Does Harris Corp have a universal key for LTE?
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Yeah, there are plenty of two-lane roads (one- and two-way) in the real world without markings
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Any specific article explaining what the difference between the two are ? My google being in french, I don't get much results...
it's not just that the grip is different but you draw (pull) the pen rather than push (pushing, especially with the stiff nibs, causes a skip). You grip a biro much more firmly so that it doesn't move around as you push it. I believe this is why the fountain pen doesn't fatigue you as much.
Are you telling me people have to be responsible for their own money? The horror.
>Even if you assume that everybody is guilty I'd still make the argument that people can genuinely change and that no matter what you do you will not be bringing anybody back that's already dead.

That may be (and I agree with it), but I'm critiquing PG's argument (in particular his assertion that it's obvious), not his conclusion.

>The extreme example of that is a society that simply kills everybody that is convicted of a crime, after all, why not, it makes society better, right? Or does it?

You need different punishments for different crimes, or someone who commits a small crime has no more deterrence against big crimes. I'm not sure what point you're making with this.
Well, given how many millions of devices they sell, maybe they can allow a couple more options. We don't all need the exact same device.

(tbh, avoiding sd and hdmi doesn't make sense to me. What do you have to lose?)
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I've implemented the stack-machine validation rules, and they're very similar to the postorder AST validation rules. In some areas, they're actually simpler, because the stack-machine rules accept roughly a superset of the AST rules, so there are fewer constraints to enforce.

The stack-machine rules were indeed added late, and it's reasonable to ask whether they might have been improved if there had been more time to iterate. It's also reasonable to ask whether a simple register-machine design with a compression layer on top would have been a better overall design.

However, code size is important for wasm. Smaller code size means less to download between a user clicking a link and viewing content. Networks have gotten faster on average, but bandwidth still matters in many contexts.
So? I adore the buttery smooth feeling and even more so the consistency of all switches: blues are super inconsistent in sound if you pay attention and browns feel like there's sand in the switches.
That review is from May, so it's for last year's version. This years has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card.

Although I expect the battery life to still not be up to the MBP level.
I think what turns it into "terrible hack" for me is the fact that it won't properly handle the situation where the machine reboots after firing the cron job and before the sleep completes. Having an extra process sitting around for potentially hours doing nothing but waiting also seems ugly. Neither is particularly important though....
Several months ago I tried their hiring process for a position not listed here.

Hopefully this can help guide anyone interested in applying. You can have an idea of what to expect.

Basic timeline:

Day 0 - Saw advertisement on Who is Hiring thread
Day 2 - Applied via an application form that asked
me for some personal information and to complete
two tasks. I had to send a POST request containing
some specified information and write a bash script
to process some data.
Day 12 - Saw HN frontpage ad for same position and decided
to send the same application materials again.
Day 16 - Response from a human who explained they were working
on other roles for the last 15 days and now they
were finally ready to look at applications for the
role I applied to. Asked if I would take a 60 minute
HackerRank assessment. I agreed to try it.
Day 17 - HackerRank assessment available for 2 weeks. Message
explaining a 2-3 week timeline from that point until
possible offer. Steps listed included:
1) HR assessment
2) phone call
3) take home project
4) 2 technical phone calls
5) background & reference check, meet team
6) offer
Day 25 - I completed the HackerRank assessment.
Day 31 - Response that the position had been filled but they
were interested in speaking with me for future openings.

Overall it seems pretty typical. I was a bit surprised by how many screening tasks they had. Two just to submit the application, an online timed test, and a take home project seems like quite a lot. No further contact since then, although I haven't been following closely enough to see if they ever posted the same or similar positions again.
This is awesome! Thank you! I love the vibe. I knew about Tokimonsta and Fat Jon (Soundgirl Personal is an awesome song) but the rest is super new to me. Also Emancipator is in there which I love and completely forgot about - not quite hiphop though :)

Check out Sketches in Colour by Kaiori Breathe for something cool like Emancipator-ish.

You probably know about Nujabes, but specifically check out the Samurai Champloo soundtrack!

Also for something slightly different but close vibe to that playlist, check out Zero Seven!
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I am looking to drop my cell service provider and exclusively use a VoIP app or service instead. Some considerations:

* Cheap

* Can port my current number.

* Prefer not running my own server for this

* Can receive calls through phone (or app) if connected to wifi.

Constant conmectivity is not important, only that I receive vmail & texts when I connect. I dont really care much about vmail. I plan to get a calyx router when I can afford it which will provide wifi continuously. I have os x and an iphone.
Also illegal. Call FCC.
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The major flaw with that proposal is that the government has shown itself to be exceptionally incompetent (just like everyone else) when it comes to security.

For example, the NSA's security -- not some underfunded, minor agency, but the NSA itself, the world's leading cybersecurity agency -- has had its security breached on a large scale basis, multiple times.

And that is just the beginning of the very long list. It's not unique to the US, either; other governments are the same or even worse in terms of security.

Given that government cannot even create working policies to secure systems that it directly controls, even in agencies with practically unlimited budgets and the strongest possible security mandate, how on earth can it be expected to create policy for anyone else, to supervise systems it does not even control, for commercial users with tiny or no budgets?

Issuing nice-sounding legal regulations that say 'go forth and be secure' will accomplish nothing.
When NTFS was first released Microsoft claimed it was so awesome it didn't need defragging. In later releases of Windows NT they added a defragger. By around the time of XP this was automatically scheduled to run in the background.

tldr: NTFS does a better job of avoiding fragmentation than FAT, but both need defragging.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Could you clarify?
Additional context: the game he was referring to was probably Titanfall (the first one), which had ~50GB of uncompressed audio. This included audio for every language it was localized for, which was surely unnecessary at runtime.
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I was curious too - apparently it's a "Guinea", equal to 1.05 GBP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin)

"Even after the coin ceased to circulate, the name guinea was long used to indicate the amount of 21 shillings (£1.05 in decimalised currency). The guinea had an aristocratic overtone; professional fees and payment for land, horses, art, bespoke tailoring, furniture and other luxury items were often quoted in guineas until a couple of years after decimalisation in 1971.[9]"
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If only there was some robust, open, mature protocol supported by every device on the planet that supported encrypted sessions using an open, mature form of encryption.
I played through the whole original Freedom Force when it was originally released. Loved it. Didn't go for the "Third Reich" expansion because I was not super interested in more WW2 sounding stuff at that point and as a youth my gaming budget was quite restrained.
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It was done before. See Signal's predecessor, Textsecure (before they added Signal protocol, pre-2.7.0).

If I recall it limited encrypted messages to 60 characters before splitting. It was also annoying in that you needed to initiate an OTR handshake to start messaging.
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Further down is a comment by LukeShu that explains the difference a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12849105
> They're going to have a GSM for IOT and LTE for mobile communications. It's kind of insane.

I don't think this is that insane. I doubt there are many devices that only support UMTS, but there are tons that only support GSM, including many in embedded systems that can't easily be upgraded. So by using most of your spectrum for LTE, you get spectrum efficiency, and supporting GSM you can support everything that doesn't do LTE (just not at high speeds).
And here is one reason to (perhaps partially) justify the premium price:

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/2016-macbook-pro-ssd/
No I don't think it does that either. What it dampens is the vibration caused in the steel plate due to the switches - aka the dreaded "ping" - bottoming out can be a factor of course, but so are switch springs moving back into position or even just banging the keyboard.
The number cited in the article is probably limited to a certain release-based window.
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"I don't see the controversy you do."

Comfortable, secure people are often oblivious. Redwood CA demos are changing very fast; we'll see if you're still as blind in a few years.
You lost me at "locally". Of course if you take a closed system A and make it a subsistem of some bigger closed system B you are going to be able to diminish entropy at A by increasing entropy even further at (B + !A).

My grandmother's freezer was doing this 50 years ago, and I am pretty sure the engineers who designed it did not think their work was fundamental research in any way or form.
> There's a reason that the PC and internet and mobile revolutions happened via capitalism and private business.

You realize that Internet was first funded by the government, right?
It only happens to 1/5 of us 1/3 of the time. :) Plus Postmates at least reimburses us for the missing items.
Even if the essay isn't persuasive the discussion could be.

I also think that your flag-marshalling is in pretty poor taste, flagging it yourself for whatever reasons you have is fine but to call on others to do so as well is really not good.
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Let's Encrypt doesn't charge anything for cert issuance; the 10% figure was someone's suggested donation based on being appreciative of cost savings. It's true that if Let's Encrypt did begin to charge $40 instead of $0 for certs, and maintained even a moderate percentage of current issuance rates, it would have revenue in the millions of dollars.

(Also, Let's Encrypt doesn't issue wildcard certificates at all.)
Totally agree with the sentiments here that this is a first pass and not for production use. In fact, that's exactly the intent of this project. It's meant to be a very first pass for people to get a sense of what's possible with simple off the shelf tools and a basic understanding of CV. We expect students to do this within 7 days of starting the program!

There will be a far more advanced lane detection project further in the Nanodegree that is intended to cover all the use cases that people have pointed out here.
There are two versions of the Dell XPS 13" variety. There is the 1080p version and the QHD+ version. The 1080p version is non-touch, the higher res is touch enabled. The 1080p version goes for €1,149.00 (with discounts)[1] from where I'm at right now. I found a HP x360 priced at €1193.00 locally[2]. Interestingly from a developer perspective, the Dell XPS Developer edition comes with Ubuntu 16.04 SP1 out of the box so no Apple or Microsoft or Google tax. Isn't that neat? System76 is the only other well known system builder that I know of that does this. I'm happy to be corrected on this.

Let's compare the HP Spectre x360 and the Dell XPS 9360.

component HP Dell
---
os Windows 10 Home 64bit Ubuntu 16.04 SP1 64bit
processor 6th gen i5-6200U (3MB cache, <2.8GHz) 7th Gen i5-7200U (3MB cache, <3.1GHz)
memory 8GB LPDDR3 1600MHz 8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
storage 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD 256GB PCIe SSD
graphics Intel® HD Graphics 520 Intel® HD Graphics 620
display (13.3") FHD IPS LED-backlit 13.3” FHD AG (1920 x 1080) InfinityEdge display
touch screen (1920 x 1080)

ports 1 headphone/microphone combo 1 Headset jack, 1 Noble lock slot
3 USB 3.0 2 USB 3.0 - 1 w/PowerShare
1 HDMI, 1 Mini DisplayPort 1 Thunderbolt™ 3
expansion 1 multi-format SD media card reader 1 SD card reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC)

So the big plus for HP is that it's a touch screen which opens up possibilities for using it as a tablet which is a very convenient. The minus is that it is Skylake instead of Kabylake and slower memory, last gen integrated graphics, and no thunderbolt 3. A minus for the Dell is, like the new Macbook Pros, that you'll need a dongle to connect to external displays. (But at least you get an SD card reader and regular USB ports which Apple in its infinite wisdom has deemed superfluous to basic requirements now!)

:)

[1] http://www.dell.com/ie/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?oc=cnx93609&l...

[2] http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx?productcode=WCEW8Y31E...
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Because there is a new resume/GitHub static generator every week?? I know it's not a sole reason to ignore those purposes but he has much better chance appealing to a niche audience with such a common product.