skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of this, but the dongle thing is pretty silly and he does a bad job of covering it. As a developer I need:

* a thunderbolt 2 dongle for my external monitor

* a lightning dongle for my phone (not for backups, for dev work)

* a usb dongle for my mouse (the trackpad is great for casual use, but a real mouse is still far more productive -- and I hate bluetooth mice with a passion due to recharging hassles and the fact that after so many years they still haven't completely solved the interference issue)

* a second usb dongle for my video conferencing USB headphones

Keep in mind I bought one of these things the second the site opened up, but I still had a moment of "oh shit, yeah, I need to buy a lot of dongles!"

If I could have I would also have bought something that lets me use the 4 power bricks I already have with the new box. Not looking forward to having to buy a few extra of those.
Elon takes things that appeal to hippies, geeks, and the green-industrial complex and makes them appeal to the upper middle class.

Part of the reason he can do that is that he's charismatic (in his own way), resourceful, and driven.

Part of the reason he can do that is that "it's time" with the price of oil and the progress of technology and regulation.

The same sort of thing is true for SpaceX, Tesla cars, and now Tesla solar.
I recommend the Reuters TV app on apple tv. pretty slick
That depends. Some vulnerabilities aren't easy or worth the hassle to exploit. If this one is being exploited by someone already, you're letting attackers know that it's worth the effort, and handing them the manual as well.
Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)[video]
That package is highly deprecated and unnecessary:

You can now simply do

node --expose-wasm

> buffer=fs.readFileSync('test.wasm')

> WebAssembly.compile(buffer)
> I was really hoping it was actually a C64 reference, namely: "where the 'drive' goes"... ,8,1

Actually, the drive number is the “8”; the “1” is a flag which means to load the program to the same address in memory it was saved from, instead of to the default BASIC program start address.
I actually have the philosophy: "Build it for yourself, share with others." Everything I have done, I have always just built it because I have needed it and found use for it. I have then shared it with others. In a way, it is totally selfish, but I'm not disappointed if no one uses it because I use it! Why waste my time developing something I would never use? If other people use it, great! If not, I still find it useful! My first PHP project showed me this philosophy was true and fortunately, hundreds of people are actually using it. https://mypost.io/
Wait, what?

In my, admittedly maybe lacking, understanding amortization doesn't really work that way. "Amortized worst case" (for example) means that you can still bound the worst case[1], but it's just not necessarily going to be a very accurate bound. Obviously, amortized complexity doesn't tell you "<X ms" right off the bat since it deals in abstract "operations", but if you have known worst case bounds for all the "operations", then an amortized bound for a given operation will give you something equivalent to "<X ms".

[1] I mean, it's a common proof technique to actually have a non-negative cost function (+ invariant) and postulate/derive an upper bound on that, so... what gives? What's your reasoning here?
In theory you could get upwards of 108 Mbit/s if you were streaming a UHD Blu-Ray over the network. Sounds a bit ridiculous just saying it, though, and I would have saved the $1 if I were designing it.
They don't, that's why Apple considers the iPad Pro the next generation of personal computers.

I think the only thing keeping our preferred platform tethered to the future is iOS publishing, it seems inevitable Apple soon figures out how to make an IDE for iOS devices that already have big screens, powerful CPUs and gigabytes of ram.
This is news about a tech giant suggesting a database be created based on voting habits that includes additional metadata about individuals.

The fact that Schmidt obviously has ties to Google brings up the question of whether or not Google resources and user data would be used to help create such a thing.

Honestly, the political aspect is quite minor compared to the the tech aspect.

On another note, my original post included the suggestion that the Clinton campaign hire low wage workers. Implying their political passion would allow them to pay low wages. In my opinion, that manipulation is horrible.

Both of those topics seem like something the hn community would like to discuss. Unfortunately, it seems mods/admin/whoever are letting their political biased rise up above login and quality conversation.
Where does all that skepticism go when Sunday morning rolls around?
I made the vim -> emacs+evil switch a few months ago, no spacemacs.

What drew me to it at the time was emacs --daemon and emacsclient, which lets you have the same view of the same files open in different terminals or GUI windows ("frames") and saves you from the "file already open" warnings you would get from vim when e.g. editing a file and browsing ctags in different terminals.

Things I found annoying after the switch:

* lack of tabs (situation may have changed since I switched; there's an evil-tabs package but I haven't used it. By now I just got used to emacs' way of doing buffers and frames)

* I feel like I'm fighting the built-in bindings a lot in cases like e.g. dired-mode (directory browser) and Ibuffer-mode (buffer listing)

Notes which you may find useful if you decide to try it out:

* While emacs will work in a terminal, I've found it more comfortable to use the GUI, because it saves me having to think about why e.g. trying to look up help triggers a backspace (C-h).

* my evil config, for an example of some settings and how to tame bindings: http://pastebin.com/TxxuSU8u. Not just mine, a lot of people post their init.el online, and they're often a good reference.
Don't forget that rooftop solar panels reduce HVAC cooling needs in summer, and I would bet they also slash blackbody radiation, reducing the greenhouse problem. Absorbing the light ought to be as good as reflecting it.

a 93-square-metre (1,000 sq ft) white roof will offset 10 tons of carbon dioxide over its 20-year lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_surfaces_(geoengine...
https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#p=0
presumably this could be done by enlarging image A image by 500% and getting and cropping a relevant 1/25th of the image?
I had this happen to me and that's how I consoled myself after someone took my idea had way more success than I did. It helped that I wasn't trying to monetize the idea in the first place.

I had made a religious app for Muslims to keep track of how many of their daily prayers they had missed (since they're supposed to make them up). I called it "Islamic Debt Tracker" and it was downloaded a few thousand times: http://www.appsgalery.com/apps/islamic-debt-tracker-255723

Then someone else came around, used the same core UI, but gave it a way better name "Missed Prayers" and had more than 10x more success than I did. Now I even see the same feature and UI that I designed copied over in other apps across multiple smart phone platforms.

I just remember that my whole reason for making this was because there was no tool like this available and I wanted something like this to exist in the world. And now it does thanks to me and people are benefiting from it.

And lesson learned: Names are Important!
You also need to be concerned with the posibility that an opportunistic party will steal the idea, pattent it, and then try to monetarize it in some way that does not involve (and might even get in the way of) actual implementation.

Pattent trolls come to mind, but are certainly not the only way to do that.
Hmm, with all the renaming and so forth, so many links will rot. >.<
You can now simply do

node --expose-wasm

> buffer=fs.readFileSync('test.wasm')

> WebAssembly.compile(buffer)
No, I mean all these apps and sites that make jokes about Trump. They are in the front page for months. Only now the joke is starting to get back to people that threw it. Here from distance, I'm laughing off Clinton supporters. The most funny thing is that a lot of these stupid guys are famous in tech, and consider themselves smart.
You are forgetting that people like to buy Apple product for status symbol. Like $10,000 gold Apple Watch. It works same as $400 watch but along with that it also work as a good reminder of your wealth. Apple products are not for poor folks and it has been made clear several time.
Where might I find a download link not behind a reg-wall?
How to pick up DevOps without tears
Walk around. Go outside. Enjoy life.
Apache Maven Compiler Plugin 3.6.0 Released
The problem with 4K availability is that content providers have put so much effort into preventing leaks by strangling their content with tons of DRM. That means, HDCP requirements, absolutely no playing content on a PC, etc. It'll be years before you see any kind of UHD via cable.

Not to mention consumer internet providers provide horrible service across the US which can't even support the bandwidth needed for those streams.
Depends on whether you define “key” to include only single-purpose hardware keys or include several decades of prior art referring to “soft keys”, “virtual keyboards”, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_key

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_keyboard

I personally don't feel the need to be that pedantic — since I've used both good touchscreen keyboards and wretched hardware, I'd prefer to focus on the quality of any specific implementation rather than philosophical debates about the nature of a “key”.
It does if you think at grid level rather than building level.
True. But that segment does care about aesthetics and build quality; which is arguably what they understand most about their Apple machine. They also tend to care about their social projection. As long as Apple remains king in those areas, they can continue to charge the prices they do. Anecdotally, every Apple user I talk to says agrees their machine is expensive but also says it's worth the price.
I don't think it will take long for apple to create a new apple TV with 4k output if the market goes that way quickly.
Academics argue over how many people read and cite their papers (2014)
This makes complete sense to me, but the fact that they felt the need to gut the MacBook Pro name for this purpose is what's strange. Is the idea that these people want to believe that the computers they use for elementary computer tasks are made for "professionals" who require significant hardware?

And why do people who want to do the basics on a computer require such an expensive piece of machinery? What does Apple expect people who actually require ports/hardware to do?
Which one would that be?
A "Follow the Money" picture worth a thousand words:

"Fossil fuel and other monopoly utility-aligned groups backing Yes on 1 for the Sun"

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/energyandpolicy/pages/...
Yes, yes they are... they are far more durable than their counterparts. Remember there are may types of glass, including 'bullet proof glass'.
Ask HN: Data to make soft hacking of YC application process
Hi!
I would like to make soft hacking of YC application process. Lookig for breakdown of companies who made to YC by industry, country, b2b\b2c, Global \ US Market, business stage, product development stage, money raised befor applying, number of employees, number of founders, founders background - for the last 5 batches.
I'm usually good at sucessfully entering highly competitive clubs - I made 50:1 to McKinsey, 16:1 to Stanford GSB, 100:1 to Citadel hedgefund. I know that selection triggers exist and numbers work.
Will appreciate help with statistics - this will help all of us avoiding info asymmetry in the future, and spend our time and efforts wisely.

Thank you

Igor
In all fairness...
They don't need $500 leather jackets and whatnot, either, but the local cafe near me is full of them.

In the world of general ("non-technical") commerce, branding is very important.

And Apple has nailed that down, in spades.

Thought, the last year or two, I've seen more and more people with non-Apple ultrabooks and the like.

Personally, I don't like the latest changes to the Mac laptops. But Apple may indeed see where the broad, commercial demographic is going.

As for me, personally, I've long hated "giant" palm rests in front of the keyboard. Anywhere I cannot optimize my position/posture (i.e. desk at home), the front edge ends up pressing very uncomfortably into my wrists. And after decades at keyboard and managing to escape nascent RSI, I find this immediately and, increasing rapidly, extremely uncomfortable.

But, that doesn't seem to matter to most people. Again, I'm not the target demographic.

P.S. I should add that people also moved to Macs during a time where Windows machines were increasing sh-tfests of black-box breakage, malware, and frustration for the "average user".

And, as other people have pointed out while discussing this launch, Macs tend to "just keep working" for a lot of people a lot longer than Windows machines do. While providing a perception of "quality" and many hardware aspects that people have also found very attractive.

I don't know whether Apple has "lost it". But I do suspect that "developers" are not central to its product planning and marketing projections.
Now think about what will happen after water makes its way into that crack and goes through a few hundred freeze-thaw cycles.
This is a bit of weak spin on the obvious news that they probably couldn't comply with the government requirements.
It seems they'll almost have to have non-solar tiles that match. Currently, most people don't cover their entire roof with solar panels if they have sections that don't get enough sun to make panels there worth the extra cost.
For a number of years, a lot of developers considered Apple hardware to be the best-available dev machine (powerful hardware with nice design, good connectivity, pleasant but powerful OS? Nice). I think that it was a result of coincidence. Developers aren't really who they're targeting, but coincidentally computers that were nice for their market were also nice dev machines.

I expect Apple to design for their intended customers. I also expect devs that liked the coincidentally-nice Apple hardware to complain when Apple's designs drift away from devs' requirements. I don't expect the complaints to change anything, but I expect them to be loud and all over the place for a little while.
I was shocked by how eurocentric this is. Expected to see China SOMEWHERE . . . since printing was invented there . . .
it is cool though, if incomplete.
In Florida, amendments require 60% of the vote to pass, so I'm hoping this one won't. But the electric companies have spent over $18 million in support of this amendment, ten times the opposition. There are constant ads on TV now, and none that I've seen that are against the amendment. https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Solar_Energy_Subsidies_and_P...
At the same time, my electric company is asking to raise rates by $811 million. It's pretty much a monopoly/oligarchy. http://protectingyourpocket.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/10/2...

My roof was damaged from hurricane Matthew, and I'm drooling over the new SolarCity/Tesla solar roof, but it looks that won't be an option for us in Florida anytime soon, especially if this amendment passes.
Is this still happening to anybody? I am with Cloudflare and will escalate if still a problem.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk again finding a way to maximally exploit government subsidies for clean tech.)

The tesla car itself could count as well, but felt less "design driven" imo. If this fails, everyone will call it obviously due to bad tech. If it succeeds, I'd say it was because the tech was barely sufficient to keep up with the excellent luster.

On a side note, I wonder whether or not the heavy government subsidies will be forgotten in the lore of clean tech, just like silicon valley seems to have forgotten the complete and utter reliance on government funding in it's infancy(or possibly even today)
You're a male. You can reproduce when you're 80 years old. Plenty of men have children in their 40s and 50s. You can make it happen if it's what you really want.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840038 and marked it off-topic.
I appreciate the apparent social value of remaking Ghostbusters using an all woman cast. The only problem that I have is that - the movie is crap. Sorry but I'm not going to go see a movie to make a social point.
Where precisely is the evidence of that "100% proves" the existence of "thousands of online bullies" that were "paid"?
> Remember this is GM's third generation EV, so they have a lot of experience, but not the volume of Telsa (yet).

GM is definitely at about the same volume as Tesla -- They've sold ~130,000 Volts / Amperas, maybe ten thousand Spark EVs, and a few thousand Cadillac ELRs..

As of the end of Q3, Telsa has sold 160,000 total vehicles, so GM and Tesla are likely within ~10%-15% of each other in total EV sales.
No kids or pets, clearly.
Google releases oss-fuzz: continuous fuzzing of open source software
I did -- it looks like 3000 people were killed in it. Less than the myths would have you believe, but still a lot of people to kill on purpose (especially if they're not actively trying to kill you). I'm just not a big fan of using fairy tales (or anything else besides open hostility from belligerents) as an excuse to kill other people.

It was certainly interesting reading, though. Thanks for the link. I learned quite a bit from reading it and the linked main Inquisition page. It does seem to be used as propaganda out of proportion to its true toll.
> You do have to buy a new cable, yes, but you don’t need any clunky adapters [to plugin in an iPhone 7 to a new MBP]

I think the semantic distinction he's trying to make is that a new cable is a replacement for the old cable, and that you don't need to carry around a new thing in addition to your charge cable.

But for most people, we'll now need to carry around two types of iPhone cables: one for use with our shiny new MBPs, and one for use everywhere else. My wall chargers? USB-A. Every charger in a hotel room, coffee shop, or airport? USB-A.

So while it might be possible to buy a new cable, it would actually be easier (and five bucks cheaper!) to buy an adapter because it's smaller than a cable, and multi-purpose.
Darn, was hoping it was Paris Hilton.
> The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account.

Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original tweets? I don't understand how this will work.

Edit: The more I think about this the more confusing it sounds. Will the tweets be deleted? Will all the links break? This seems like a very messy way of handling the transition, unless I'm misunderstanding how it will work.
Of course Dragon is not written in 'node' - nobody would write such a thing in javscript, moreover, if it were, it would be described as 'written in JS' not 'Node'.

Second - what you refer to as 'just some bindings' is false.

The Nuance product I have access to (NTE) - is probably something you don't have access to, as very few do.

There's a huge pile of code written 'on Node' because just as JS would be the worst choice of languages to write Dragon in - C#, C++ or Java would be the worst choice in languages to do the stuff they did using Node for, which has a mostly to do with HTTP services, file management, versioning, REST api etc.. The choice of Node + platform libraries made perfect sense for Nuance - and it's perfect validation of Node.

I'll wager you any amount of money that Node is going to grow quite a lot over the next 4-7 years to the point wherein it will be seen as de-facto institutional.

Node has flaws, many of them due to JS, and they have some ugly new NPM fragmentation issues, but it's only growing to grow. Of that there is no doubt.

Node will replace a significant chunk of Java and more-web oriented backend stacks in the years to come.

We've even replaced a bunch of Python scripts with JS, not because JS is better than Python (Python, syntactically is superior) but because of the libraries and platform opportunities. JS/Node is a much more natural fit for large, async tasks than Python.

Finally - the ability to use the same object mode on both front end / back has significant operational advantages when it comes to reuse of components, which we do quite a lot - and don't have time to deal with various bindings.

Node is 'here to stay' as much as any other technology is/was.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
Why should encryption even matter? The principle is, you may not keep any secrets. If the government suspect you know the time and place of a planned terror bombing, then logically, they should argue you be punished if you don't tell them some plans, even if they don't claim you ever committed encrypted plans to paper or bits.
It's also not just the gigE port, remember. It's stuff inside the device to handle 1Gbps on that interface and do something useful with it; i.e., actually render a video stream that is FAR higher bandwidth than anything we're using today, which likely means more CPU and better graphics hardware.

All this, for really no reason at all, since all video streams for the foreseeable future will fit just fine in under 100Mbps.
What they hear is a racist dog whistle. If Thiel believes otherwise he's deluding himself.
The 16GB limit is the real issue for me personally. There are plenty of Windows/Unix laptops that can do 32GB or more so all the excuses I've been hearing are ludicrous.
41 here and totally agree. I got into a long term relationship at 20, and because of that I missed a lot of opportunities.

I eventually got a divorce at 30 (unrelated), and I had some great sex for a while but then got married again. While, I love my spouse, I think back on those moments of freedom and wildness often. Wish I had more memories of them.

Some tips (from the person who started late): Don't do one nighters - they're just not memorable long-term. Don't do it drunk - it dulls the memory. Don't do it just for the sex either - it's way, way more enjoyable when you're really into someone. And, don't waste time with people who have no passion or intuitiveness. If they can't kiss well or seem to lack interactivity, it's probably not worth it, no matter how much they may want you.
>Search for images of solar shingles and you'll see what I mean about previous attempts.

The first 9 images Google returned in the top 2 rows for "solar shingles" have 2 pictures from Tesla/SC's presentation. (~22%). The 3 top rows (13 images) contain 3 images from the presentation (~23%). It looks like you're right about the change to come.
Seems like adopting ClintonWhiteHouse.gov etc (the alternative is not something I wish to ponder) from the get go would make more sense.
> If you find yourself saying that, it indicates your understanding is deficient, not the other way around.

My philosophy professor used to give us a ethical debate prompt, and we'd develop our initial positions. Then he'd have us argue the opposite position. Extremely helpful exercise.
In the linked video Elon mentions a "lifetime" of use. If that's true, then sign me up.