skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, I don't want to dork around with spending days compiling kernel patches and installing soundcard drivers before I can use the computer.

You are badly misrepresenting the current state of mainstream Linux distributions. I've done probably 20 Linux installs, and by and large it always just works. If there is some necessary proprietary driver, it's almost always as simple as Menu --> Administration --> Driver Manager and then clicking once or twice.

Kernel patches? I wouldn't know how the hell to do that, but somehow I've been using Linux happily for a decade.
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But, can you install Linux on it?
It's really odd when people say "I need one function key for some application specific operation", when those kinds of things are pretty much exactly what an adaptable, customizable touch row is perfect for. If apple could have read the touch bar complaints before, they probably would have been convinced to put a touch bar in earlier.
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Oh, yes. Thanks for the correction.

I thought only Pro SKUs get EDRAM but turns out I was wrong.
The specs list it as 90% efficiency round trip.
The product itself might be easy to copy, but im not so sure about the product *strategy". Solarcity does the full stack, from the solar panels to the installation to the management and storage. That's going to be hard for a Chinese factory to reproduce.
The broadcomm DW1560 is the currently recommended card.

There are numerous guides on replacing the wifi card in the dell, ifixit has guides. And because this isn't apple, the laptop has a upgrade/repair/owner's manual (online).
I still don't think that it was a bad actor. The Etherium guys explicitely said that the code is the contract. If the code allows you to get all the money, then it's not malicious to do so.

It's like the tax code. Leaving your profits in a foreign country to avoid paying higher taxes at home is not malicious, it's just the best way for you to comply with the law.
there's quite a lot of bad practices surrounding the language back from where the enterprise tooling was a mess and xml was the rage, we're ten years past that but the language hate has never ceased (see my comment: -1)

I get the hate from the frameworks craze, but if one is in a position of being forced a crazy bloated framework without recourse that's not Java fault.

apart from that, you can debug servers the other side of the world with ease, hot replace code as you execute it, walk the heap with a lot of different views available, it has recently got top notch profiling, a sane injection and inversion of control framework which you can still debug at runtime, all the libraries you can dream of and bridges to hardware for the most demanding tasks.
This. It's a lot easier to horizontally scale things with a lean towards consistently lower operational latency. You can keep raking in the benefits and cranking up throughput without a whole lot of thought.

It's much more expensive and complex to take an erratic latency operation and bring it down by throwing on more resources. As far as I can tell, the normal design course is making sure all your major actions are either pure or idempotent allowing parallel (and redundant!) requests to be made... which is a large (worthy, but large) engineering effort, and then we're talking about scaling to 2x or more just so you can make that redundant-request thing your default behavior.
> Why on earth there's no startup which just puts together linux laptops?

Do System76 or ZaReason count? They even have non-Windows super keys. (Ubuntu logo or Tux, respectively)

I have no experience with their laptops, but I have a System76 desktop, and have no complaints.
I think I enjoy the idea of that sort of success far more than the guy banging out code 16 hours a day, 7 days a week.

It takes far more skill and experience to be human than it does to write code.
Inability to accept limitations of your intellect.
Was this just a face-saving way to end the project, or did he really shut down a viable project that he wanted to continue over a simple request for information by a regulator?
Well you just told that to someone who lived with GC pauses and profilers for years. And I did not say hotspot is about GC.
just close your eyes !?
No problem! I don't do Android development of any kind and didn't trust my ability to properly explain it, but it's an interesting paper. :)
The Computer History Museum has an exhibit based on the salvaged 650GB backup of GeoCities. It's a big touch-sensitive monitor that lets you pinch-stretch zoom your way into the data, eventually (with patience, which few museum visitors have) you can drill down to individual pages.

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/deletedcity/
What's the alternative?

We don't care about worst-case latency in practice, and average case is often ignored as well. We look at 99.9% latency numbers or things like that. Worst-case is for people designing pacemakers or rockets, that's not what we are doing here.
Waltham: a generic Wayland-style IPC over network
Range checks can be done by the MMU, they're basically free.
https://popehat.com/2016/10/26/if-lawbot-wants-to-know-about...
https://github.com/kanaka/miniMAL
Yes, the rule syntax is a bit like PF's, albeit still more complicated. I find iptables harder to use than PF/IPF or IPFW, not to mention Cisco rules. This is definitely an improvement over iptables from the usability standpoint.
Probably still much less pain in the ass than switching from MacBook to a Surface laptop.

If they just gave the cash it would be different but now you actually have to buy that.
General questions about the Airbnb Community Commitment
As someone who struggled with bipolar for years, his writing reminds me a lot of the shit I used to write in notebooks when manic. I was always convinced I had figured out a way to live a purer, better life without the bullshit everyone else always managed to slog through. And I never even had to sleep, except on the occasional bench in the middle of the day!
Alphabet did not invent the self-driving car or AI lol. C'mon dude, most of Alphabet is PR to recruit the <<best and the brightest>>. Half of the stuff they start up at X they shut down in a year and then don't even release the source.

As much as I want your analogy to be true, it just isn't.
Elon Musk: "Solar glass tiles can also incorporate heating elements, like rear defroster on a car, to clear roof of snow and keep generating energy"

-- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/792218248917811204
http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/

An excellent talk on this subject from 2010.
Elon Musk: "Should mention that the Tesla solar roof is robust against any weather, incl heavy hail. Also, higher insulating value than a standard roof."

-- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/792213393943826432
Do you have any contact information? I'd be interested in producing a different food bar for a specific market.
+1 trolling :)
I personally don't care. When I look for future employers (as a male at least) I don't care how many women work there. I care about the work being done (is it interesting?), the team I'd be a part of (is it a happy team?), the compensation, etc. In short: I'm not sure who the sales pitch is intended for? Single men? Women who want to work in a less male-centric organization?
ISP Owner here. I wouldn't call their hardware visually appealing. In UI, we mostly use CLI - so not sure what more can be done in that regard. A visual way to looking at live traffic info similar to iftop/htop would be nice.
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In case of Java there is also a JVM implementation that does pauseless GC (zing): https://www.azul.com/products/zing/pgc/ .

For OpemJDK/Hotspot there will be a <100ms GC in Java 9: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189
Ask HN: Looking for web app feedback / career advice
I apologize if this is the wrong space for this, but things have gotten somewhat dire for me. I am writing looking for two things:

1) Is feedback on my webapp / idea(s) behind it, and if its worth pursuing. As the YC credo of “build something people want”.

The web app is called brainswole. Its an attempt to support a learning style, that is self directed and driven. The model can be:

curiosity of a concept/course -> consume best accessible explanations -> virtually play with concept -> screencast a demonstration of concept

I created STEM course syllabi (calc, linear algebra, data structures), and with Reddit-like fashion, gave users ability to post links of web resources for concepts, e.x. youtube explanations, interactive demos, or problem testing module (Khan Academy, Brilliant.org).

The 2nd part of brainswole is a tool to aggregate all your online learning data from learning providers (Khan Academy, Codecademy, lynda.com) into one syllabi view. From that data, it creates profile page showing number of problems done, videos demonstrations, and the resources used

An illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Unaz6HSI4

My brainswole profile link: brainswole.com/profile/neilbarduson

I think the most efficient way to learn abstract STEM knowledge is through a digital experience. And I don’t think its going to come from a monolithic source, but through a multitude of companies, groups, and individuals. It would be cool for a place where all these services can communicate.

Sign up with a dummy account, try it out. Im aware the front-end is very basic, but I concentrated on a working minimal prototype.

2) The last 4 years I've spent by myself coding brainswole and other projects and I have decided to come out of the cave and I would love to join the Ed Tech community. What advice would you give for me to land a programming gig in the ed tech space, or by chance, know of any opportunities that would be a good fit?
Original article with images and more details

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6306/aaf1420
I actually changed my approach to lifting a little and now following the principles described by Greg Nuckols in his article about increasing work capacity

http://strengtheory.com/increasing-work-capacity/

So essentially every week I'm doing just a little bit more volume in every exercise, either by adding a little weight, or an extra rep. So far I'm able to do it consistently for a few months so I guess I'm recovering well.

Then of course there is all that "getting used to it" thing where you do something long enough and get into it gradually and increase little by little and you're fine.

I worked originally about 5 km from home and it felt like it was enough cycling there and back. Then I changed my job and now I was 11 km from home so I started combining bike + train for a while because that felt like too much to cycle. Then one sunny day I cycled all the way home. I realized two things: 1) I'm not that tired and 2) I cut 10 minutes off my train + bike commute. So now I bike all the way and save time and money at the same time! Win-win!
> ... it's easier to do that from their small business sections ...

For the last few years, I've recommended to anyone buying a "personal" laptop to order it from the "small business" portals/sites instead of the normal "consumer/home" ones.

You usually get better support (or better support options), including US-based phone tech support (personally, that doesn't really matter to me as long as I can understand the support agent but, honestly, it does matter to a lot of people) and sometimes better warranties as well. It may cost a few bucks extra but it's well worth it when the time comes that you need it.
How long are the batteries going to last? With phones, we expect the battery to deteriorate after a couple of years. This is an investment. Will it need to be replaced in a few years' time?
I'm sorry but your algebra as English prose analogy makes me think you haven read the article. I could be wrong of course, but i don't see how you could draw that analogy after seeing the Eve code snippets on the page.
Or it asks the user to use tabs? Or an editor that inserts spaces when you press tab? Indentation has never been a stumbling block for anyone but the most junior of programmers.
How to create more effective product roadmap?
> I agree to treat everyone in the Airbnb community—regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age—with respect, and without judgment or bias.

This isn't really "non discrimination", this is a vague non binding statement. The FAQ doesn't even says what happens when that "commitment" is broken. Just that you have to accept it. So the title here is misleading.
>>Most people aren't sufficiently informed to be able to make those decisions in a reasonable way

Exactly. The vast majority of people aren't aware that their "smart thermostat" can be hacked and used to perform a denial of service attack on websites.
This film is a great intro to Wingsuit BASE jumping and participants; it pops up on local PBS stations every so often:

http://www.birdmenthemovie.com/home/
See also: https://www.mailvelope.com/
I wonder if the nft rules are order sensitive, because iptables arguments shouldn't be.
if other than mac, I has a solid trackpad like apple's. Then I switch right away. Anyone recommend something good? Thanks
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Cross border electronic payments are a pain because many US companies won't ship internationally because merchants are the ones that are liable in cases of fraud.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is just his theory, Tomasso Pogio mostly does not seem to disagree. Reading the summary of that link, it appears he asserts the ventral stream (one of two streams) is well explained by convolutions. So he does not assert the same about the dorsal stream, any other brain region, or any other non-visual domain of deep learning.

It bears noting that our visual cortex is one of the simpler areas of our brain, considering that equivalent functionality is in all sorts of animals.

It's not a coincidence that DNNs and mammalian visual systems both decide to represent edges first. That's exactly what Yann Lecun was trying to do when he designed convolutional neural nets! You've got the causality mixed up. Yann Lecun explicitly wanted to model the visual system so he came up with a system that would give him the results he wanted (edge detection in the first layer) - which meant linear filters.
Fake accounts and manipulated upvotes.
Pretty sure this has been done by gender for a long time but perhaps that was just by content categories...
Lenovo-Linux debacle [update]: BiOS update brings Linux support
Personally found Java's GC to be a little tricky but generally awesome.

However, 100, even 200ms pauses get "lost" during network coms.
But users tend to notice if a page takes 30 seconds to load rather than 1 second (differences i've seen optimising Javas GC, don't know at all how Go and Java compare).

That kind of difference would be very expensive to solve using more servers.
I don't use apple products because of the shiny, sexy hardware. It doesn't hurt to have a visually nice looking device to look at when you are spending most of your day on it. I use apple computers (don't use iPhone), specifically because of the OS. I just can't see myself working on Windows ever (unless it makes some major leap of improvement).

MacOS has its problems, but its still many time better than the POS Windows OS. The only other option is Linux/Ubuntu, which is nice but wouldn't be my first choice, but definitely a second choice.

You can't cover a shitty OS with a Shiny dress and fool most people who have been burned by it. They can copy all they want, at the end of the day it still has windows installed...
>killing machines
You mean like guns?
Maybe so, but the 2015 is available new from non-Apple retailers while the 2013 is only available used so you're rolling the dice.
Did you just not read two paragraphs below that where it says "What if I decline the commitment?", or do you just think it's pertinent for some reason?

Seems pretty clear: You can't discriminate, if you do we terminate your account at our discretion.

Edit: I read the question only in the narrow sense of "what if you refuse to accept the new policy" v.s. "what if you break the policy once you accept it?".

The answer to the latter seems to be:

1. You have to agree to Airbnb's TOS to use their site: https://www.airbnb.com/terms

2. Section 24.C ("Termination for breach, suspension and other measures") refers to section 14 ("User Conduct") which says you can't violate the "Policies and Community Guidelines" which links to https://www.airbnb.com/help/topic/250/terms---policies

3. That links to their nondiscrimination policy (https://www.airbnb.com/help/topic/533/nondiscrimination), which seems to be the longer legalese version of what the linked blogpost is a tl;dr of.
Exactly my thoughts. Every DSL needs an escape hatch at some point. What do I do when EVE isn't fast enough or lacks some feature I need.
The WP article isn't really central to my point -- that outside factors have more to do with poor math performance than anything happening inside the schools. I worked in a public school as a tutor for kids slightly behind their grade level (not with the kids who were really struggling) and I have plenty of anecdata from that experience. Kids with drug-addicted parents, kids with parents in prison, kids not having enough food at night, medicated kids, obese kids, a kid who had to move mid school year because his house was shot up in a driveby, etc.
It's probably closer to 90% as another person notes, with far greater power efficiency. If that's not enough, feel free to complain to intel or alternatively, the laws of physics

If you expected shit to shrink linearly over time, our transistors would be occupying negative space right now. If you expected clocks to increase linearly, we'd need liquid nitrogen and shit would be full on behaving like waves. That is the reality until we leave silicon land.
This thread might give you some ideas: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/15548...
Also known as the "frequency illusion", though this is less picturesque
indeed, i believe Apple invented "competent technology marketing" as well. But to market to a cynical and highly skeptical group, they wisely chose the "inside-out" marketing route. So eg, when addressing a skeptical crowd (eg, developers) and you tell them how great you are, if they listen at all, they'll infer the opposite. On the other hand, if they over-hear one of their own talking about how great is the Mac, they are far more receptive.

Jean-Louis Gassée (head of Mac development and later global head of marketing, '85 - '90) seems to be have been the intellectual force behind this in Apple.
how would you implement it?
If you're constantly using one or two function keys, it's fairly common to do it by memory. For example I can hit the volume and brightness buttons and f5 without looking. But really, all the other functions that will become available with the touch bar will more than make up for the time lost looking down.
Everyone, because It's still NS and UI in Swift...
Lincoln was a much smarter man than Ron Paul, with his limited education in US history, thinks he was. https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/2...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation

"During the Civil War, in 1861, President Lincoln drafted an act to be introduced before the legislature of Delaware, one of the four non-free states that remained loyal, for compensated emancipation. However this was narrowly defeated. Lincoln also was behind national legislation towards the same end, but the southern states, now in full rebellion, ignored the proposals.

"Only in the District of Columbia, which fell under direct Federal auspices, was compensated emancipation enacted."
I don't use Airbnb and most likely never will.

However, let's say for argument sake I do want to rent my extra bedroom out. What if I don't want rent to some weirdo crust punk? I wouldn't feel like my children are safe. I would probably only rent out to single professionals only.

I guess Airbnb is not a good fit for hypothetical people like me.
Another approach you can use in some cases with the JVM, which is often the simplest, is to set up the JVM so it doesn't GC (give it a lot of memory), then either just spawn a new JVM to take over, or take the machine about to run a GC out of your load-balanced pool before running a full GC, then put it back in again.

Doing the manually triggered & staggered GC trick on a pool of machines you control can give you very low latency guarantees, since no production request will ever hit a GC-ing JVM.
Exactly, but the author of the post didn't realize that.

Instead

> Some may frown reading that I suggest leaving the private key in the hands of your e-mail provider. I agree that this means you lose some privacy to your e-mail provider.

It completely defeats the purpose of encrypting the message. If you are sending encrypted email from (example) your Gmail account to another Gmail account, the message must be totally protected from Google to read, index, possibly giving it to any third party. So, no encryption and decryption using sw made by Google which could be changed in every moment to spy on you.

I just don't see how encryption could work in a web mail. Only client side will do.
I can't stand the whole Airbnb image and culture. Your typical highly privileged founders, born into wealth running with the winds at their back, while they try to claim they are making the world a better place. And their engineering propaganda and how young college students are obsessed with working there. I can't think of how this company is technically innovative and solving hard technical problems like other unicorn startups are doing. At least companies like Stripe are actually doing interesting technology things.
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No, that's not clear.

What's clear is that if you press "no" on the popup, they'll terminate your account.

What will happen if you press "yes" and then continue to discriminate however you like? My guess: not much.
So now someone could / should...

- fork this

- remove the 10% economy imbalance

- remove centralized alerts and anything centralized

- integrate ethereum & namecoins

- Get a governance body that would be very neutral and protect principles of the blockchain (EFF? ...)

And then we could have a normalized, standardized, basis for the rest of blockchain based protocols...
That's what happens if you decline the commitment. But what if you break the commitment? (That is, accept the commitment but discriminate anyway). I'll bet nothing at all, unless an egregious incident starts trending on social media.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I discriminate against people based on their national origin AMA.