skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I didn't know better, I'd say some banks purposely make it impossible to apply through their websites. I challenge you all to try to a job at Goldman Sachs. You won't be able to get though it. Parts of the web app are simply broken.
Isn't a "battery life" discussion really a "battery size/thickness" discussion? Which developer wouldn't accept a 1-2mm thicker laptop in exchange for TB's of RAM?
I'm sure it was some sort of disclaimer (that I didn't read apparently). Like I said it was late at night when I opened the email and clicked the link with in. Still caught me off guard. I guess they record you to make sure you are doing the exercises
I used to drink a couple of Ensure every day. Soylent has more calories, protein and nutrients per serving while basically being the same price.
> The correct response is not to throw a tantrum and shut everything down.

I think the correct response is to work with them 110%. Having that government body happy with you isn't a bad thing - you could become the reference spec for self-driving if you please them to an appropriate degree.
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This comment is related to your muse starting with "I want to know why..." I'm simply pondering and looking for feedback from someone who is actually a teaching professional unlike myself.

"There [my comment: Finland], as in Japan, teachers teach for 600 or fewer hours each school year, leaving them ample time to prepare, revise and learn. By contrast, American teachers spend nearly 1,100 hours with little feedback."

This line took my notice. I have to wonder if their school systems are such that teachers do not have to be in front of students 6 continuous hours daily as my daughter's teachers do. (My daughter is in elementary school.) By the time her teachers finish with students, attend after-school meetings and grade, I can see there being precious little mental energy left for professional development.

My friend Scott made a career change a decade ago. After being a software developer for 22 years, he switched to teaching tech in a middle school. His comment to me after his first year was that teaching is much more exhausting because you have to be "on" 5-6 hours daily. If you're "off", students pick up on it and reflect it. His opinion hasn't changed after a decade.
> People don't suddenly need a new computer right now just because these were announced,

Depends on the computer. I know of many people who, after declaring the iphone 6 the greatest thing ever, suddenly realized that they were completely useless upon the arrival of the iphone 7.
Have fun in the FEMA camps, shill
Why did the car activate the airbags? What car is this? I've never heard of airbags deploying improperly before (except when we have a busted set that we use to launch a tire a million feet into the air).
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328710/apple-e-ink-keyb... There is one by Sonder
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A non-preachy education campaign would help. I'd watch a youtube channel with shorts describing how incumbents work within the existing system (no bias, just educate me) and then a small explanation about what MealSquares does at the end.
Too bad you can't short startups.
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When you work at a large financial institution in the technology division, you do have to accept the fact that you are not going to be the one making the doughnuts.

working at GS, I definitely got a little bit of the feeling of being somewhat of a second class citizen, and have many former colleagues that felt the same thing. I don't say this in a complaining kind of way, more that just my job as a technologist was supporting 'the business', rather than technology being our business.
> What I find interesting is the timing of this letter and, possibly, the fact that he wrote it at all. But we can't judge the significance of those without knowing if this is standard procedure. For all we know, he may regularly send letters that say things like "I spelled a word wrong on page 875 of our report. Agents are looking into correcting it and resubmitting the report."

> Or this type of letter could be highly unusual, especially days before a presidential election.

I can't imagine Comey sending that letter out this close to the election without having something actionable. He knows full well the impact that even the allegation that something is there would have.
I suppose a front-end developer isn't considered a developer? Linux doesn't work for me as we need Photoshop and Sketch and well, Linux kind of looks ugly as well (with the notable exception of Elementary OS, which tries to be the OS X/macOS of Linux).

It's also mentioned that the ESC key will still be there, and you can map your own keys to the Touch Bar as well, it just won't be a physical key anymore. This generalization that just because you can't use Vim anymore (which you can) the entire MacBook brand is gone to shit (which it hasn't) or worse, that Apple is stupid (it's not).
It wouldn't if you are still using the keyboard on the laptop.

Makes me wonder how common it is for someone to use a second monitor off the laptop but still use the laptop's keyboard and trackpad.
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>It will not find the meaning of the universe in our head

I was just hoping, for example, neuroscience would find out what is even ment by "meaning of the universe", because foremost, as Adams alluded, that doesn't make much sense to ask for. This is pretty simple, as you noted, because the Universe is an (the) infinite limit in the mathematical sense, that by definition doesn't have any externalities. So, as far as I can tell, the singularity is a fixpoint. Neuroscience might explain how we come up with that and rephrase it more poignantly. As I said, that question seems to be mostly an exercise in phrasing and might not become a huge revelation.

In a sense you are both right, you can keep asking for ever, but the answer will always be the same: "a rose is a rose is a rose ..."

What I just wonder is, how that actually refers to ourselves. "We are what we are" is not exactly a satisfying form of self-awareness. In differential equations that is called a stationary solution. Rephrasing the question could show a different mind frame concerned with, well, notable differences. What I really don't know is how emotions play into the development of reason, e.g. the fear of pain and, by extension, to die.

Your last paragraph is vexing, but I am rambling, too, so who am I to criticize.
switch banks?

When my bank does that, they have a number i can call 24 hours a day. I also believe the last time it happened they called me.
No, Bush just commuted his prison term. He was still convicted, disbarred, and had to pay the fine.

Obama pardoning Hillary might prove to voters that the system really is corrupt... That could backfire in a big way.
+1 for images. It's been my main reason for looking into tools like doxygen
Or Jon Lovitz.

"Acting!"
Back that assertion up with polling data. The polls I've seen show the opposite.

edit: referring to the claim that Clinton voters aren't voting for clinton
The justification isn't just "they're old" though. It's "they're old and almost completely unused."

I know in Windows there are actual actions on the f-keys (F1 for help, F2 for rename, F5 for reload, etc.), but the Mac has no such equivalents. They're used for hardware and music control, and have this whole secondary mode of fn+F_ chords that hardly anyone touches.

The touch bar will be useful in nearly every app. I wasn't about to set up and memorize custom F-key bindings in every piece of software I use, so it's going to be more useful. And it allows for types of input that buttons couldn't offer to begin with.

With the headphone jack, it was "it's old and we have something better," which I'm not thrilled by (but I wasn't planning on getting a new phone anyway). The USB-C and removal of F-keys I'm totally on board with.
There are a lot of good online courses to get started, I like the Stanford CS231n lectures -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-g0-6_RRUA&list=PLLvH2FwAQhn...

For keeping up with the latest research, once you know what you are doing, reading papers on Arxiv daily/weekly is a great way to keep up, nearly everything gets published there
Not to mention that waiting until after means she controls informally if not formally many of the levers that would be used in the investigation. Can a sitting president be trusted not to interfere in any way possible in an investigation that would take from her her highest life's goal? It gets very muddled.
I can't find the article but I read that you're more likely to experience a head injury as a pedestrian in a major city than a cyclist, and yet I always wear my helmet on my bike and never when I'm walking around.

I guess it's about finding that balance between protection and, what, fashion? I don't know.
> The only thing stopping me doing (c) is identifying a laptop which I can stick Arch on and have all the hardware Just Work™ with decent battery life and sane fan usage.

Check out the Dell Latitude series. I've got an E6230 (by now quite old) and everything just works. I also get 6 hours of battery life in Arch on the 6 cell battery (which itself is a few years old). The fan is off pretty much all the time unless you're doing something heavy like compiling or gaming.

I've also heard good things about the Dell XPS 13, although I'm not keen to drop that much money on a laptop!
Other politicians wished they were held to the same standard as the Clintons.

The Bush admin had plenty of other controversies and they were reamed by the media repeatedly for those (and justifiably so). It's not like it was hands off.

Maybe this is a bigger issue because of the continued lying about what happened, which is an ongoing issue for Clinton.
Sirajology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A
Political people say "clean this up" about anything they don't want in the media. Anything. Everything.

(I know this because I over consume political news media and they have adopted it as a term; it's really horrifying, they talk about the campaigns attempting to manipulate them instead of doing real analysis)
Yeah, I was gonna say-- pureeing berries severely impacts dietary fiber, which in turn impacts glycemic index, since your body no longer has to work around nearly as much cellulose to get to the sugar. It's a physical process that has an impact on a chemical process. And of course you chew your food, but you can't chew anything nearly so fine as your blender does.

Here's a more concrete analogy-- sawdust is highly flammable. Many times more so than regular old wood. Why? Better oxygenation, higher surface area, lower per-unit thermal mass (which means less energy required to get a particular chip of wood to its combustion point).
When you want to interrogate time series data against exogenous variables
eg weather, holidays, political events, etc... Do you do so in an ad hoc manner or is there a service(s) you use?
With that kind of talk, only those "well connected" can readily do that.

Hmm. Regulatory capture? Yeah. That.
Strange - my bank immediately calls me in such situations and asks me if the transaction was correct, immediately restoring the card if so. They've even started e-mailing recently.
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> I can't imagine Comey sending that letter out this close to the election without having something actionable. He knows full well the impact that even the allegation that something is there would have.

He apparently was legally required to because he previously testified that everything had been looked out. There is now more to look at. This was a savvy move by Rep Chaffetz, not a strategy by Comey (Chaffetz is also who characterized it as being re-opened, Comey said no such thing).
This surprises me, because LPDDR3 looks to operate at the same 1.2V as DDR4. I'm guessing that LPDDR3 has some aggressive power saving functionality not illustrated by operating voltage.
Ok, so Hillary Clinton was and continues to be a corrupt, deceitful, and self-interested operator. She's doubtlessly done all kinds of both borderline and outright illegal things throughout her career. No big surprise here. If elected, she will continue to work the highly imperfect system we've got in lots of shady and questionable ways.

But please, let's get real. For all her numerous faults, her opponent represents the very real specter of the end of democracy and the closing of our free society.

Honestly, I hate to say this, but we are past the point of laws here and the fairy tale than ANY sufficiently powerful person will be held accountable for their misdeeds. I've never been one to buy the two-party lesser of evils narrative, but we are really and truly at the edge of the cliff right now. Do we let righteous indignation push us over the edge? Or do we live to fight another day?
Two things:

- can you give me some details on your remap setup on macOS? if you have dotfiles somewhere that'd be great.

- as a vim user who only uses vim as an editor, I challenge the assumption that touch Esc is a horrible thing. Esc is a very special key and it may turn out to be ok for it to _be_ different, and _feel_ different.
A state transfer diagram would probably be more useful as a view on the code (similar to how the Smalltalk browser is a simple graphical representation/layout of code. Or indeed any IDE with advanced code folding (show me the class name and public methods only).

But there's ways to mix the two: Python doctests is one. The lp approach is to "escape" the code, not the comments. I really do think some richer data structure than flat text files is needed - simple multi-/hyper-text seems like a minimum. Not only links (most ides have this: hoover to display help, click to goto definition etc).

Why so few seem to successfully add vector graphics and diagrams I don't know. I guess jupyter / ipython might be a rare breath of air. But who really wants to maintain 10k locs of code and 15k locs of tests in ipython notebooks?

We need something more (lively kernel might be more interesting here - webdav for persistence Web browser for run/edit/view - I'm not sure if the required power Canberra realised any simpler).
> See how many 15-16 year olds going into college know what a SD card or a USB drive is.

All of them, they are on sale on most electronic stores and big supermarkets in Germany.

> Kids in high school are provided with chromebooks.

Here zero of them know what that is.
Yeah, but my point was that if they were too far along with old tech, there were still drastically better pre-existing options for a product that isn't really mobile.
This is definitely the risk. Especially with so many Dems saying "no one cares."

People do care; the way for leftists (like myself) to show that they care is by simply abstaining or going third party which would obviously cripple her.
The only issue I have with the 5510 is they keyboard. Compared to my 2011 MBAir, this thing is really sub-par.

There is a lot of trackpad jitter as well - which is easy to disable when a mouse is plugged in, but still.

edit: the camera is also in a stupid place.
I think you're overestimating the younger generation's exposure to technology. The Wii U and 3DS haven't really been the blockbuster sellers that previous game consoles have been, and really have not made it that deep into pop culture. Gamers will have them, but most teenagers are content playing on their phones. Most of them being iPhones, but even Android not all that commonly supporting (or needing) SD cards on every model.

And you're seriously misjudging how often a teenager needs to share a 5gb+ file... basically never. The days of pirating, ripping CDs, ripping DVDs and sharing them are basically over. If it's not on Netflix or Amazon, it's not worth sharing. And in the rare case, Dropbox does the trick.

Sure most teenagers are aware of flash drives and SD cards, in the same way teenagers 10 years ago were aware of floppy disks. They used them when school required them to, and haven't seen one since.
(I'm the post's author)

> The whole point of a startup is to make a bold bet on something not entirely proven and safe. That doesn't mean take DUMB risks, but this piece actually says you should try to get your business to the sort of low risk situations I list above.

I agree with you that startups are often making bold, unproven bets. The post was trying to say that yes, you're starting somewhere risky, but how can you de-risk your assumptions? How can you start proving the unproven? The proof might be a 5-10 year process, but it's important. The goal is not to reduce risk for safety's sake, but to validate that your end goals are reachable.

For example, if you came up with Snapchat 10 years ago, there would be many risks, including "do people want ephemeral messaging?" and "can an engineer build this product?" I would argue that the first risk is much more important to validate, but a lot of founders -- especially tech founders -- would focus on the 2nd risk. Using terminology from the blog post, the first risk starts out at a 1, and the second starts out at a 4, but too many people would focus on moving the 4 to a 5 instead of moving the 1 to a 3. A 3 still isn't a home run, but at least you know you're on the right track.
It's not a premine.

https://z.cash/blog/funding.html
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The Soylent people address this on their site:

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204197379-Californ...

Really, I think the concern here is quite overblown. For example, Soylent 2.0 contains lead at a maximum rate of 0.010725 µg/mL. The FDA's action level for food intended for infants and children is 0.5 µg/mL (which is 46.62 times higher).

Source: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=7&po=8
Every company needs a human-readable definition of what a product does. There is no way to eliminate the problem of keeping prose and code in sync. Traditionally, we just hide the problem by keeping the prose and code entirely separate. Keeping them together makes it harder for them to drift apart.
I agree. Even if you don't pre-mine, the random early adopters will be getting an "unfair" share. I'd rather it went to the founders than random users.
Your example doesn't make sense to me.
If I see a comment that says something different from what the code does I assume that the comment is wrong and I do a simple blame that will show me the jira that has been implemented in that code to double check.
For sure I don't need to read all that is specified in the Jiras whenever I look at any piece of code.
The code explains itself quite well.
If you write code that is not understandable then that is the problem, and adding thousands of comments in the form of documents will only make the things worse instead of solving your problem.
There's still code here, the text is just for people, so I wonder if this is maybe a misunderstanding.

The language presented is a variant of datalog and is as formal as any other language. If you're curious in the semantics, they boil down to Dedalus [1].

As a simple example of that, here's a clock: http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/clock.eve

[1]: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-...
> (Chaffetz is also who characterized it as being re-opened, Comey said no such thing).

I think there's a technical correctness to that. The FBI won't look into anything if there isn't an open investigation. So it'd have to be re-opened for them to look into it.
Lots of things are susceptible to misuse. That doesn't invalidate them unless they are in fact misused.

Moreover I don't see how you can conclude on a whim what's possible to estimate and what is not. Given these things take expertise in the relevant field and more than just casual analysis.

Finally, it's not like there is a small margin of error. Can you even really comprehend 30,000 deaths every single year caused by conventional cars and drivers? This is fricking 9/11 times ten happening every year, and you're not even willing to consider that speeding up r&d might save a few lives?
The machines are actually very high tech although the UI may not give that impression sometimes. They withstand extreme weather conditions, vandalism and have to secure a large amount of cash. They are built like tanks and anchored deep into the ground.
There are a lot of reasons a consumer wouldn't get a bank account in the first place.
Their perpetual self-doubt is probably a component of their mastery. If they assumed they were right after a point they would stop learning.
Career government officials are not likely to be activist about investigations. As with Clinton's denials, which are very passive and "I didn't know" or didn't question something, one can cover oneself very well by simply not offering anything or refusing to ask for something. Sins of omission are much harder to prosecute.
I wonder if there is a way to make this thread NOT be flagged to extinction. Perhaps talk only about the technicalities behind this, or compare to distant history.
> Sensor fusion is not new

Nope. In fact, this is the oldest method of radionavigation available. A beacon of some sort sends a radio signal, and a directional antenna identifies the bearing to that signal.

Toss in some sort of embedded signal (like, say, a tone-based code which uniquely identifies a beacon), add another such beacon, and you can fairly reliably locate yourself in a two dimensional space.

Throw in some form of DME transceiver (it receives a radio pulse and returns it with a fixed latency between) to give you a distance to that tower, and you don't even need two of them; just a compass.

I honestly wonder how long until some enterprising soul starts implementing VOR and DME at a city block level...
I've got the XPS 15, and it is the best laptop I've ever owned. I actually opted for the lower resolution screen because it is matte, and you get more battery life.

Windows 10 is actually pretty great, it gets out of your way for the most part. Linux runs perfectly as well. The hardware is flawless, great GPU (Nvidia), nice keyboard, and probably the best touchpad I've ever used on a Windows laptop.

I also own the XPS 13. It's great in all the same way, too, I just found that I prefer the larger screen.