skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i like that soylent is attempting to hack nutrition itself. i think something like soylent could have a huge image on global public health.

hopefully they can figure this out.
Issue #16: How IO Lists Help Phoenix Be Fast and Why Ross Is Betting on Elixir
At the very least, there is then a missed opportunity on Apple's part to continue serving an audience that:

A) Has been served by Apple in the past
B) Provides value to Apple in the form of developing all kinds of software solutions that it's other users directly benefit from
I'm quite happy with my mid-2014 Macbook Pro, but if I were in the market for an upgrade, I'd buy a Razer Blade Stealth and install Ubuntu on it.
I am duel booting ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 on my asus ROG-G501VW

Fantastic laptop with some amazing specs. The price was just right.
https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-G501VW/

The only problem I have with it is the battery life. I am using this for around 5 months now, and the battery life when running Ubuntu is 2-3 hours only. I installed ubuntu on the ssd and windows on the hdd.

I can play almost any game on this one (of course not many on ultra).
Dirty Cow Exploit Explained [video]
It's a choice NeXT made, though.
I mentioned power poses and psychology because it occurred to me as an example since you happened to mention psychology. I don't personally have any knowledge regarding your attitudes towards psychology nor did I intend to frame what you said in any way.

Prior findings must be indeed critically evaluated. That's not the issue. The issue is refusing to even acknowledge them or to acknowledge current field wisdom due to some unwarranted sense of superiority. Taking the dangerous and daring approach to crossing expertise fields instead of being careful is fine, of course. Everyone is free to do whatever they want! But if the daring do fail, they will look like complete asses. They had been given plenty of warning before hand.

And, this is the key and the real reason why I'm saying all this, the daring will fail more often than the careful. The most frequent reason why people try to enter a new field is because they think they might have some superior insight on the matter, whereas the development of each field is chiefly constrained by the amount of data available to it. Ideas are never in short supply relative to data. This isn't to say that outsiders can't make meaningful contributions, or that cross-field collaboration is useless, far from it. But that there isn't much that can done beyond what's warranted by the data.

I'll pass up the opportunity to talk about Musk, because I don't feel I'm qualified to do it.

But as for your nitpick: I don't see why top performers incorrectly gauging their own ability would be "okay". They would pass up great opportunities because they perceive their ability to be lower than what it actually is, and they might experience unwarranted anxiety and feelings of inadequacy (something like an impostor syndrome) if they incorrectly perceive their ability to be lower that that of their peers. There are many ways in which this might not be "okay".
Yeah, my personal experience with teens is that they are anxious and full of self-doubt. I certainly don't see an excess of self-esteem. I wonder how much hard-science there is on the harmfulness of praise
The Great Third-Pound Burger Ripoff
Am I the only one wondering about this and Ethereum...
I see this claim tossed around a lot, but is there really a documented significant effect on safety from not having an engine up front? I mean, with a car having that huge front, is there not so much space for crumple zones that engine or not is insignificant?

Now I know the Model S claims "best in class NHTSA rating", but no comparable luxury sedan has been crash tested by either US NHTSA or Euro NCAP.

That's right, neither the BMW 7-series, the Audi A8 nor the Mercedes S-class have been tested. So we just don't know.

Edit: Update: I've checked various other cars, and the only one I could find where both an EV and a non-EV version have been crash tested in the same year is the 2014 Kia Soul (a small MPV) Euro NCAP tests. For that car, the diesel one did worse than the EV on driver protection, specifically of the feet, which was caused by spot welds (presumably in the torpedo wall) breaking and sharp edges protruding near the driver's feet. But for child safety, which is more focused on just acceleration and thus a better proxy for crumple zones, the cars were equal. So this seems more indicative of a design fault with the Soul than a lack of crumple zones.
Tesla vehicles have the highest safety rating for resisting a side impact protrusion, one of the more difficult safety vehicle tests.
And keep in mind that most US states have sales tax which is not included in Apple's price. For example, that $1,799 computer would actually cost me $1,906.94, unless I cheated the system by buying from out of state and not reporting it. (Which is easy, and common, but technically illegal.)
VM's, development environments, editing photos/video. There are people who do actual work on computers, and yet Apple seems to not acknowledge the ones filling their App Store.
Show us, won't you?
ctrl-c sends a SIGINT to the terminal, it's not a quit command. F10 is the original quit for htop along with F6 being sort, F3 being search, and so on
BBC to deliver 4K ultra HD iPlayer streaming content service with HDR
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: everyday life goes 4.0?
Apple is unifying their operating systems.

Apple has always wanted to be a closed system. In the beginning, Jobs made the Macintosh, the first computer he was truly charged with designing, a closed system. Literally. The case needed a special precision screw bit to open. Next, the original iPhone was so closed that it didn't even have an app store.

Now Apple starts moving more and more code execution to Ring-0, on the newly rebranded macOS. macOS, iOS, watchOS... And now the inclusion of watchOS within the Macbook Pro. They're all trending toward the same goal: to create a unified platform across all their devices.

But what type of operating system will it be?

Recently Apple has enjoyed substantially greater ROI on devices that run restricted operating systems. I suppose they'll have a "developer" mode for creating applications, but macOS going to become a walled garden for the average consumer.
It's a great thing for everyone, developer or not, professional or not.

My sister's boss at her first internship took her to her desktop and gave her a keyboard which had absolutely no markings on it. Her first task was to force herself to learn to touch type.

And she still credits that to saving so many hours in college, simply while typing out esssays, and has obviously been tremendously useful in her professional life.
Redfin Survey Shows 83% of Parents Check Their Child's Candy Before They LetThem
Exactly: in each of those situations, your virulently anti-LGBT manager or HR person will find out what you are, and then use it against you in overt or subtle ways. It's hard to hide your lifestyle at work.
> Think about all the possibilities that could evolve from self-maintained programs.

What are some that you are considering? Most maintenance I do is in the form of bug repair and change requests. Most of those wouldn't be fixable (or even identifiable) by machines. It's not errors like "value x should be y" (almost all of those get shaken out in alpha.) It's requests like "When I get to step H in our workflow, I shouldn't have to fill out form 2 to get information about the customer I'm helping."

I mean, for technical things like encryption, I could see a lot of growth potential. Other algorithms where there is a good metric for "better" would also be candidates (compression also springs to mind.) But on the whole, most applications have a lot of human interfacing and critical thinking that needs to happen. AI is going to take a long time to get to the point where it can fix those kinds of problems.
As an add-on question: how can one figure out if a laptop supports Precision Touchpad rather than trying to emulate a mouse with the trackpad? Does Precision Touchpad actually make Windows trackpad usable and enjoyable like the Mac ones? Is Precision Touchpad supported by Linux distros?
Given that the pound has dropped almost 20% against the dollar, an increase of merely 16% is a pretty good deal.
Thanks, I modified it from an example one but introduced some mistakes. I've corrected it and tested it this time.
Evidence that few read the article: no-one yet pointed out it is (2014).
This random article puts the driver at $0.36 out of $1.38:

http://www.findatruckingjob.com/trucking-info/trucking-artic...

That's pretty substantial. If you have 2x the utilization on a cheaper to operate vehicle, that's where new investment is going to go. Or take a retrofit kit. It can cost ~$80,000 and be a pretty obvious investment to make.
SlimFast is designed to "supplement" food in that they suggest you replace two meals a day with it. The difference is that SlimFast doesn't suggest replacing three meals.
Dynamic Projection Mapping
Not should, but could? Yes, if the site demanded the designers to sign strict contracts.

For example, if it requires designers to only work through them, be available 9-5 every weekday with x holidays to be asked for weeks ahead, and accept a fixed hourly rate, I'm fairly sure the U.K. would judge the designer to be employed by the site.

Alternatively, if the site only is a broker who brings designers into contact with clients (free or for a fee), and a designer works for a single client for years, chances are (IMHO, IANAL) the U.K. would judge the designer to be employed by the client.
Infrakit: HPC Infrastructure
I'm tempted to qualify the second point as optimist.

US voting machines didn't have to deal with legacy technology and still turned pretty bad from an infosec POV.
Do you actually think the kids don't know where they screwed up their parts?

And even if they didn't know, right after the show isn't the time to mention mistakes.

It's hard enough to get up in front of people to speak, much less perform, so I think the situation you describe, if followed later by a discussion on what to improve and work on, is entirely appropriate.

Did you know that Steve Jones, the guitarist from the sex pistols, had to have another guitarist play behind a curtain for him for the first few shows? It didn't stop the band from changing popular music, and it didn't stop him from developing a very tight technique.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbSGR846nAg
So, this is what GNU info was supposed to do, twenty years ago. And yet, everyone hates info because they can't figure out the interface and they want manpages. Or because info manuals are too verbose, perhaps.

I wonder if having everything on a web browser is what should have happened (and this is what GNU info does too). Or maybe the problem is that nobody likes writing documentation in a format such as info.
There are a lot of commenters who are misunderstanding the implications for this. This doesn't mean that every platform is now an employer. This case just happens to have many, many reasons that point to the drivers being workers not contractors. It's worth reading the judgment, but they have a useful summary of the points:

The contradiction in the Rider Terms between the fact that ULL purports to
be the drivers' agent and its assertion of "sole and absolute discretion" to
accept or decline bookings.

The fact that Uber interviews and recruits drivers.

The fact that Uber controls the key information (in particular the passenger's
surname contact details and intended destination) and excludes the driver
from it

The fact that Uber requires drivers to accept trips and/or not to cancel trips,
and enforces the requirement by logging off drivers who breach those
requirements.

The fact that Uber sets the (default) route and the driver departs from it at
his peril.

The fact that UBV fixes the fare and the driver cannot agree a higher sum
with the passenger. (The supposed freedom to agree a lower fare is
obviously nugatory.)

The fact that Uber imposes numerous conditions on drivers (such as the
limited choice of acceptable vehicles), instructs drivers as to how to do their
work and, in numerous ways, controls them in the performance of their
duties.

The fact that Uber subjects drivers through the rating system to what
amounts to a performance management/disciplinary procedure.

The fact that Uber determines issues about rebates, sometimes without
even involving the driver whose remuneration is liable to be affected.

The guaranteed earnings schemes (albeit now discontinued).

The fact that Uber accepts the risk of loss which, if the drivers were
genuinely in business on their own account, would fall upon them.

The fact that Uber handles complaints by passengers, including complaints
about the driver.

The fact that Uber reserves the power to amend the drivers' terms
unilaterally.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/asla...
https://electrek.co/2015/05/24/spacex-transferred-novel-weld...

Friction stir welding was developed in the 90’s, but Spacex perfected its own technique to adapt the technology to large sheets of metal like the ones use for the aluminium tank of their rockets. They developed their own technique and equipment and perfected the process. Here is Musk explaining the process to Wired back in 2012:

Instead of riveting the ribs and hoops, you use a special machine that softens the metal on both sides of the joint without penetrating it or melting it. Unlike traditional welding, which melts and potentially compromises some metals, this process works well with high-strength aluminum alloys. You wind up with a stiffer, lighter structure than was possible before. And your material loss is maybe 10 percent, just for trimming the edges.
Sounds good. Sadly, six months ago the bot brain predicted the day we were planning with .98 confidence.
Next version touch bar takes half of the bottom, and then eventually we will just have 2 ipads. It's the beginning of the end.
from what i know about Japanese culture, they are not overwhelming their children with unnecessary praise. Korea also.
3 years with the ErgoDox
shoegaze music on youtube
Yes a lot of them, although you have to sign a proper employment form. And you can't turn off your phone whenever or work for other companies as well. You have a proper schedule.

Uber works differently. The driver chooses when and how many hours he wants to work and when to pick a ride. If what was decided above applies for every uber employee its not gonna go down pretty well cause :

Uber is going to become one more minicab agency, where it employees people with a schedule and its price is going to go up by a lot.

Customers won't benefit and drivers won't either.

Most of the drivers I've spoken to and I use Uber a lot have told me that the job is not as great or the pay depending on the amount of time they work and if they are actually renting a car or having a car on lease or own it, the thing that everyone told me is that they get to work whenever they want and thats awesome about it.

Apply rules to the Uber is gonna force rules to be applied to drivers as well and thats not gonna go well.
I think you have an imaginary view of what Musks thinking process is like. The reality is he pays top dollar for experts in every field on his interest or that will advance some other goal of his.
Dear down voters: it should be obvious that just because smoking is not literally guaranteed to destroy your lungs, and you can find plenty of counter examples, it's still a very good idea to warn people that "smoking will destroy your lungs".

And it would have been a good idea to do that back in the 50s when doctors were calling it safe without the science to back up their claims. "You have no evidence" is what you say to justify avoiding something suspect, not what you say to justify consuming it!
I've been using a "refurb" Macbook Air 13 for the last 3.5 years. It was scuff-free when I bought it and it's been great so far. I've started running into some issues now such as battery health and the fan going on for extended periods of time since the last OS update.
7 Accepted Startup Principles Violated by Steve Jobs
Thanks, this actually sounds like the best compromise.
yeap, interning this semester at Cockroach Labs, Inc.[1] where their central project CockroachDB[2] is open sourced under Apache-2.0.

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/

[2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/
Really interesting that for the first ~6500 steps Eve was better at decrpyting the messages than Bob, which had access to the key.

Would be cool to see a setup like this in which Eve is a cohort of decryption tools, otherwise your Alice network will just overfit against its mechanics. Ie, if Eve uses lockpicks to open a door, an Alice solution would eventually replace the key-lock with a number pad - not necessarily any more secure, but will foil Eve every time.
I don't get this backlash. I'm a developer. I touch type since 20 years back. I haven't used the F-keys in probably just as long. At this point, all I do with those keys is raise/lower the volume/screen brightness.

The only key I'll miss is ESC, but I'm sure I'll figure out how to survive.
Here you have the statement that there are no plans to support MFC on UWP.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2013/08/20/atl-and-m...

"MFC can't be used for for Windows Store apps because it uses too many APIs that are banned for store usage. In order to allow MFC usage in your scenario we would probably have to break MFC into multiple DLLs, which would be a prohibitive amount of work."
Well, a lot of people came to America hoping they would need math less. Americans stink at it because they feel they don't need it and when they feel otherwise it will be too late. It's easy enough to encourage seduction too math as the article suggests, but the real challenge is somehow blocking out more and more distractions (other options) when you can't reduce them because freedom and democracy are national ideals. Math can be interesting but how do you keep it more interesting than video games when you don't have a culture willing to regulate them as harshly as South Korea or China? How do you keep people from following Howard Hughes and having fewer friends, staying mostly home, and watching an astonishing amount of recorded video? Howard Hughes was hardly someone who could do nothing with math, but there are a lot of pitfalls in America to which the schools are blinded or can't do anything about. How do the schools, with such little authority, reduce problem behavior AND help something more difficult and at least supposediy more healthful fill the void. This is the problem with the democratic subject that Plato described: in democracy so many behaviors must be acceptable / not disqualifying for power and respect that people cycle through a great diversity of them. This is far more a pressing issue than whether teachers already trying to teach math do it this way or this other way: if they still have to compete with more and more cell phones and games and other entertainments and Babel, they will get diminishing returns.
I just gave you a link that shows that the costs of warehousing and shipping are much closer to £20 than £200. The cost for their retail stores may have decreased, but even then it's certainly not £200 per device.
Maingear's Pulse lineup is worth looking at. I got mine with an Nvidia 980M and 4K display and love it. They recently updated the line and offer it with a GTX 1060 too.

Not quite as thin and light as a Macbook Pro, but not far off: 17.5mm and 4 lbs.

https://www.maingear.com/custom/notebooks/pulse15/index.php
In a way I don't disagree. It depends on the person though. For a person that struggles with the abstractions, drilling is necessary because it forces one to spend enough time with the subject until it "clicks."
> the new rMBP 15" is a less good machine than the 2013-2015 model

That's what drives me nuts. It would have taken very little to keep being the best: more ram, refreshed chipsets, refreshed ports. Instead, they went backwards "because 10% thinner", then tacked on the touchbar to distract you from that fact, and increased prices.

Btw, if you are looking for alternatives, there's also the Razer Stealth - especially if you're in the US, where they actually sell the eGPU enclosure. I'm really tempted by the XPS 15 as well, the price is really good and it might get a newer GPU soon.
I don't get how you're privy to what components MS has available. I think you assume ANYTHING in that machine is a stock PC part off the shelf.

It's not. It's really not. There is no damn room.

It's the same with the MBA, it's the same with the Surface 4 and Surface. Hell, it's the same with every all-in-one now.

I'm trying to take you seriously here but you keep repeating this line that makes it sound like you have some deep and clever insight into a machine the press has barely touched, let alone teardown specialists. You're mad because it's not a full SSD on principle but you have no idea what the hot set size of the hybrid is. You've got a bone to pick with performance but Surface devices have always been forced to use custom configurations of hardware (e.g., every Surface Book has an unusual configuration of their video card that gives substantially better performance).

I think you're arguing based on theoretical specs and without knowing the domain. Unless you're an ex-Surface engineer with special insight, I don't see why anyone here should trust you about this given how you insist this is all stock parts and it's trivially verifiable that that's not the case.
Which isn't the same as a multitouch surface.
> ...you're just stupid if...

We've asked you to not to include things like this in comments before, so please stop or we'll ban the account.
I really hate these sites that totally break on mobile. In safari it just shows boilerplate. Ugh.
> In your logic you equate statically typed and object oriented vs dynamically typed and functional.

Yes. JavaScript's structure is usually heavily functional and can often be non-modular. Typescript goes away from this somewhat with the construction of objects.

> Object oriented programming is by origin (Smalltalk) dynamically typed.

Really? Object orientation is all about forming your own types, so how could OOP have an origin in dynamic types?
I think this is just more evidence that Twitter shouldn't have been a company.

I'm not saying that Twitter shouldn't exist or that it's not a valuable service, just that Twitter, Inc. is the wrong model for what Twitter is.

Twitter should've been like email: an open, interoperable standard where ISPs and other companies operate Twitter servers that federate with each other. Actually, Usenet is an even better comparison, as Twitter serves the same role in the 2010s that Usenet did in the 1990s. Back in the day, every ISP had an NNTP server, as did other companies like Forte and DejaNews/Google. Twitter should have used that model.
What rose 25% in all countries since the beginning of the year?

The entry level macbook pro (ignoring "legacy" models) is 15% more expensive than the previous model in the US, 20% more expensive in Switzerland, 45% more expensive in the UK.
I switched to 50% Soylent for the 6 month period following the year, with a break for "normal" food in between. The first year was almost 100% Soylent, with some occasional solid food when Soylent wasn't available. I had no ill effects from any of these temporary diet changes, nor the period immediately following either period of long-term usage.