skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you had something far more dangerous: plausible-sounding false claims that were repeated without any challenge and therefore ended up being believed without question by a far higher percentage of the population. At least with the Internet, you can find refutations of false claims if you care to look.
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The field was even more scarce 4 years ago. At the time, 16gb in a laptop was extremely rare. Apple won a lot of business (including mine) by showing that it was possible. Some people (including me) thought they would have spent some of the following 4 years figuring out how to keep moving up. Unfortunately, it looks like they actually spent that time pushing an MBP into an MBA chassis and adding a touch sensor that other manufacturers were shipping 10 years ago.
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The Dark Art of Interrogation (2003)
KQ: Kafka-Based Job Queue for Python
While what you're saying is largely true, the way you're stating it isn't particularly charitable. Address the facts, let the personalities and biases take care of themselves.
Has Vancouver found the solution to a super-heated housing market?
Workload expands to use all available resources. 640kb etc etc etc...
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That's true, but then the amount I'm willing to pay in the example above should be even less than the expected value of $500.
Companies will fire you at the first convienent opportunity. There is no such thing as loyalty for an employer. Don't take it personal, live your life.
I think a lot of it has to do with polish. Linux GUIs can be beautiful, but the interactions with the UI tend to be functional first and stay that way.

I remember when compiz came out and it was supposed to make the UIs really pop with a good graphics card. It really bridged the gap a lot, but the physics in the animation lacked a bit of timing finesse. The animations weren't terribly clunky, but they lacked a certain fluidity with the interaction. When interacting with a mouse or finger, certain things like input speed wouldn't be taken account for. Like on MacOS, a fast moving mouse cursor travels more across the screen than a slow moving mouse cursor. When scrolling, moving the scrollbars faster increase the scrolling speed while slowing down the movements slow things down proportionately in a very intuitive fashion, while a similar concept on Linux may do something very similar, it doesn't quite hit the nail on the head. It usually requires adjusting ones input and getting used to the tool.

Even when the OS UI improved, individual applications also needed appropriate UI updates and UX. Since a lot of GUI apps were wrappers for underlying command-line utilities, they felt a lot like thinking in command-line mode for a GUI app or were unapproachable unless one came from a technical background.

But even for people who may only use a browser, when starting a browser, the default set of fonts in a given browser were usually not that great. Not sure how much it has improved now, but I think the main culprit lies in the font rendering settings and available fonts. Getting prettier fonts have improved slightly, but a lot of the system feel comes from these fonts, especially in things like menus. So reading a webpage in some standard sans-serif may be fine on Windows & Mac, but just look slightly off on Linux. Functionally, nothing was wrong, but maybe the text box slightly overflowed outside of a div that was sized well for MacOS and Windows, but not Linux.

Small things like these add up and make people feel like desktop Linux is just not quite there. I think Canonical has done a tremendous amount of work getting desktop Linux closer to being viable. This is coming from someone that's on 14.04 ubuntu. I haven't tried the lastest 16.x series, but I'm guessing it will get closer.

The other challenge outside of UI/UX improvements really is commercial support that comes along with 3rd party products. When you purchase some printer and you see there is included productivity software, it will 100% work on Windows, 20% chance there is a Mac port, and usually 0% chance that it has a Linux port/version. Even when you purchase something OS agnostic like a cable modem, there will be Windows/Mac Compatible logos, but no Linux Compatible sticker making one feel like desktop Linux is relevant or even a prudent choice for someone non-technical to use.
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I didn't see that on the site. Where does it say that? However, vulnerabilities do exist in browsers and that is how that could happen.
What's Twitter? Oh, the social sewer that turned actually a bot wasteland!
Exactly. I'll be passionate as hell from 9-5 for the right price. Otherwise, shove your low paying but "prestigious" offer up your ass.
Reddit is ablaze. The first comments on Ars were very snarky too.
My number one consern was weight. I've been carrying my MBP for the last 3 years working out of coffee shops and co-working spaces. I'm tired of lugging around 4.5 lbs. Especially when there are 2 lbs 15 inch notebooks. Apple lowered the weight .3 lbs to 4.1, still double the lightest 15 incher.
Do it the same way you handle contaminated food, appliances that cause fire and sales of illegal goods. Fine/jail the locals selling dangerous crap

Were any of these being sold in the US?

and leverage international law to move against the people who manufacture it.

International law really doesn't work the way you think it does. International law, that most diaphanous of concepts and most nebulous of efforts, is just barely effective enough to prevent the sale of materials used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. $30 IoT routers that can be used to attack silicon valley internet companies isn't on anyone's radar.

And what does move against mean? Fines? Jail time? How long will it take to convince anyone to agree to that? Would anyone even agree on a dollar figure for damages? What was damaged here? Was any equipment broken? Was anyone killed?

There need to be safety and security standards developed, just as they are for almost everything else you buy

This makes sense, but I think it's a long road. Safety standards are imposed and enforced at a national, not an international level, except to harmonize regulations (not unify enforcement!) in some cases. And packets don't respect national boundaries.

I don't think regulation is tractable in this case. I think all we've got is technical solutions or 'internet governance', much like how everyone knows not to allow open mail servers on their networks anymore.
Definitely agree with you about selecting/copy paste.
Hackers are able to seize control of drones and make them fall from the sky
This is also brings weird bias to page visits. For a number of technical keywords in my ads, virtually all clicks are from mobile devices, but from organic search only around 10%.
I meant workarounds as in there are still ways to launch non-signed apps, like right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, or using the Finder widget menu) the app and selecting Open.
HN represents a particular target market. The latest Apple products were not what this market was wishing for, that's all. Probably a lot of people being vocal will still buy them. Either way the Microsoft praise after the events was much less than the apple demise posts which means people did not fall in love with Microsoft, they are just disappointed.
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I bought a Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid with Cherry MX Blues in it. I also purchased a Frosty Flake custom controller for it. Along with some software I have a fully programmable board.

http://1upkeyboards.com/product_info.php?products_id=246

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51252.0
The pro-active approach would be, actually ditch your current setup every 3 months. Like others have said, you shouldn't be keeping valuables around on your laptop.

Incidentally, this is (or used to be) the trial period for a copy of Windows.

Generally I find the data I care about is k in size, the terabytes I seem to accumulate are mostly garbage.

Given how large the size of drives of today are, and how small the data that means anything to any of us remains, the size of storage space and the almost effortless ability to replicate are the primary indication of ransomwares general irrelevance.
Author says in the comment that F1 is the only competition where you can't buy what is being raced - every other competition requires vehicles that are actually sold.

Besides, you can't buy an F1, but you will buy fast cars from manufacturers based on their F1 results. Ferrari could ship a Jeep tomorrow and people would still buy it thinking it's the fastest Jeep ever.
Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support
> What is your yearly power usage?

Shouldn't that be 'What is your yearly _energy_ usage?' ?
Or alternatively: 'What is you average power comsumption?'

2500 kWh/year = 6.85 kWh/day = 285 W, which sounds pretty reasonable

For comparison, an average male requires 8700 kJ/day = 100 W

40 kWh/day for a four bedroom house = 1.67 kW, which is huge.
Maybe it includes charging a couple of Tesla cars as well.
Do you have Marshmallow? Firefox was almost unusable with the number of crashes I had on Lollipop. I upgraded recently and haven't had a crash since. Performance is much smoother as well.

I couldn't give up background video/music, reader mode and the extensibility I get with firefox over Chrome now.
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Yea, it was 4Gbit DDR3 DRAM that made it possible in most laptops. We are now moving to 8Gbit DDR4.
I've always found Armin's posts to be intellectually honest and thought provoking. And unlike your ad-hominem comment, he itemizes his concerns and provides details (such as the performance comparison with David Beazley's curio project).

At the very least, it is a warning sign that a notable and highly experienced Python expert is having a hard time grappling with the best practices (or even workable practices) for a significant new feature set: "I know at least that I don't understand asyncio enough to feel confident about giving people advice about how to structure code for it."

As far as I can tell, not a single respondent to this thread has indicated that to the contrary, they have been able to say that they do feel confident enough to give people advice on how to structure code with asyncio.

At the very least, that means that we have a documentation and communication problem which is either intrinsic to the new API or something that will work itself out over the next few years.
Have you tried it out yet? I haven't, but my assumption is that false touch events would be pretty trivial to filter out--especially since there's no longer a mechanical click.
Here's an idea of how it could be incredibly useful for the l33d professionals: https://twitter.com/VilleImmonen/status/792840677021351936/p...
Mitsuharu is amazing and have to agree that if you’re on macOS you should definitely be using his port. He’s actually already added some support for the new MacBook Pro touch bar. I've been using his port directly off his "work" branch for a good 2 years or so now and it’s always been rock solid.
Out of curiosity, what's the lightest 15-incher you refer to? How do they compare in terms of spec? I'm particularly interested in the materials used in construction. Which MBP do you have?
That's funny, I got through the first paragraph and thought "wow, that was a short article". To my brain, chumboxes are what mark the end of an article.
> This is sort of like the absurdity in a rational agent always knowing what is best for them: it disregards computational complexity.

Somewhat off-topic, but have you seen this? Seems interesting:

https://intelligence.org/2016/09/12/new-paper-logical-induct...
Maybe they're still making money on Steam?
I was referring to something like modem, audio card or gaming mouse.

System76 looks really interesting and if it works like Mac, it's awesome.
The important thing is that 6.7 is more than ten times bigger than 0.6. Clearly you can safely ignore the words decade and century because they're words and not numbers.
If only advertising networks had the same disdain that perceived ponzi schemes had

everyone throws money at the click through rate casino, anyone doing studies on their ROI, or do we hand waive it away by saying they were targeting wrong
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Who said anything about getting paid badly or working overtime. All I say was that life is to short to waste in a job you don't care about.

The OP said dont make your job your life, which I think is bad advice because 40 hours a week is a lot of hours to just piss away.

edit: actually, I just re-read what he wrote and is said, dont make your _company_ your life. which I kind of agree. I will amend my original.
I would totally comment on this article if I could read it. Contrast is terrible and not even per usual design guidelines, as background is white.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

No.
How does Stackless CPython[1] compare with Stackless PyPy[2]?

[1] http://www.stackless.com/

[2] http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/stackless.html
It helps greatly to understand that early steam engines were vacuum engines -- the power stroke came from condensation, not expansion of the steam.

Watt himself was opposed to both high-pressure and mobile designs, and was able to enforce those reservations through a 25-year extension to his initial patent, at least within England.

His machines typically delivered 5-10 hp, 3.7 - 7.5 kW. Watt's company had delivered just shy of 500 steam engines by 1800, with a total output of 11,200 hp, about 8.4 MW.

One of the aspects of modern metallurgy that's been impressed on me was the improvement in batch control through sensing equipment -- optical temperature measurement and spectroscopic analysis to determine composition, both mostly post-WWII developments.

This is why sensing (and derived from that: control) are so crucial -- with increased manufacturing tolerances, you can do things not previously possible, including several phase-change type thresholds.
Probably just the luck of the draw, but Apple's recent TouchBar news and rumors of an e-ink keyboard (http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328710/apple-e-ink-keyb...) likely increased the interest in such a device.
How does it prevent them from making more money? It doesn't really answer the question why they can't release it on GOG.

Most of those games are in the phase where people who never played them buy them because they got interested in them. So it means it's not a huge, but at the same time stable influx of sales, since there are always people interested in good classic games. So selling them as wide as possible only brings them additional profit.
Need some more detail on this question. Do you mean search within a website, or a search engine as in Google?

In either case I would say, as a single datapoint, that search on mobile is just as important as on the desktop.

In some ways more important as I am more likely to use Google Maps on my mobile device than on the desktop, and I search for both specific addresses and the name of a business.
I played through the entire game in 2004 (the original, not Third Reich.) The ending works pretty well emotionally. There were a few levels that almost got me to quit, though, particularly the underground/ant levels.
> But are they actually better?

I think I get less fatigue. For example on my laptop, I feel like I keep hitting my fingers on hard surface and it gets tiring and they hurt a lot sooner than when I type on my Model M.

On laptops, Thinkpads have the best so far I've seen (tried Acer, HP, Macbook Pro).

With physical excretion, it is an interesting point. I just bolt modded my Model M (that means replacing some of the aging plastic rivets inside with metal bolts, which requires a complete disassembly and drilling holes and so on). And so for a while was using a generic keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches. Also clicky but a lot less resistance.

When I switched back to my fixed up Model M I noticed my fingers were weaker and it was hard to type. After a bit of time on it was back on track. I think fingers get stronger or get used to it perhaps.

But I totally don't discount this being a placebo effect. I know I am irrational about being attached to this keyboard. I just spent a large number of hours fiddling with it, ordering custom parts, and so on. If you ask me I'll probably tell you my program compile faster too when I type them on it ;-)
It depends on what you consider quality. I personally don’t like slogging through pretentious literary twaddle and consider any book that is unreadable as low quality since it fails its primary purpose.

From the horses mouth: "The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world...” [1].

1. http://themanbookerprize.com
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The bottom comment on a previous discussion is someone pointing out that sometimes unlicensed game asset rips get on the site (And getting downvoted for it because they couldn't have an example)

Anecdotal evidence, but I saw an asset I recognized from a AAA game on there years ago. I'd be a little careful using the more obscure assets for a commercial project.
Regarding your first point: from my experience (working on physics experiments that depend on vacuum <10^-11 torr), the construction of the knife edge that seals against the gasket is fairly important - any chips or imperfections and the part is garbage. Also do people really use stainless for gaskets? I've always used (and seen other people use) copper, stainless sounds like a huge pain to torque down on.

I doubt UHV experience is relevant here though - at 100 torr you can probably get away with simple o-ring seals. And outgassing doesn't matter: even isopropanol has a vapor pressure of only 40 torr.

Edit: The hyperloop design is at ~1 torr, not 100. Still, I'd imagine outgassing is not a huge issue.
I've contemplated setting up a small home server with write-only shares for backups, but ended up not doing it because of the cost and time. If there were a reasonably priced off-the-shelf product for this, I'd recommend it to everyone I know.

On the other hand, if there were an off-the-shelf product for this, it would probably have unpatched security issues two weeks after you bought it, and if it were in common use you'd see ransomware targeting it. Tough problem to solve if you're not running and maintaining your own devices.

I suppose tarsnap or S3 would be the way to go, I'm just not that into cloud backups. Maybe it's time to get over that.
Heaven forbid someone updates their beliefs
I've been using jrnl (https://github.com/maebert/jrnl) for this. Pretty similar idea - still plain text, but adds a CLI wrapper with a few more features.
Did they actually leave though? Or just switch up their corporate structure to reduce tax?
We know it's you Armin!
so? the point is that the sim IS there already. yeah you can have more vulnerabilities, but that one is a given.
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the selling point of the sim is that it it "trusted computing". meaning the user is left out by design.
Fortunately, there do exist several inexpensive and user-friendly incremental cloud backup solutions. For a few bucks a month you can back up everything to Cloudflare or Backblaze and be fine even if your primary copy and recent backups all get hosed.
Interesting link, thanks! I should have clicked more on the original article. :)

This seems to be the comment in question:

> This is worse than sideways acceleration: track standards for vertical acceleration are tighter than for horizontal acceleration, about 0.5-0.67 m/s^2, one tenth to one seventh what Musk wants to subject his passengers to. It’s not transportation; it’s a barf ride.

I find the statement that vertical acceleration is 'worse than sideways acceleration' to be highly suspect (otherwise why would you bother to bank into turns?) - I would guess that the track standards are for +/- 0.5ms^-2 and mostly target short-period up-and-down bouncing motions rather than smoothly applied upwards acceleration.
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For the folks from MIT, that's 0.082 - 0.1 smoots.
What about a versioned filesystem (like ZFS)?
yes.

the sim has direct access to the radio and other modules, by design. it only needs the actual phone cpu/os for use interface.

if it wants to take the radio out of silent mode it can.
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I'm sure that besides what appears in the various media outlets, this being one of them, plenty of people are communicating their dissatisfaction directly to Tim and others in Apple management. But I've come to the conclusion that they don't listen to customers, and they don't really care what we think. So rather than write emails to Tim, I'd like to try and start communicating with Apple's board. Any ideas on how to reach them?
Mostly the latter. They have large - and growing - offices right in the middle of the Sydney CBD.
Versions are kept for a month. I once had a few hundred versions of one file a while back.
This should definitely happen, if at all possible.
I am not sure if developers and designers fill a similar function as sneaker heads do for Nike. Those savvy consumers are also influencers and trendsetters who keep the brand strong.
I would think that the fact that it is fresh water vs. salt water wouldn't impact sea level on the basis of changing density.

Take two situations:

1. A mass of sea water is replaced by the same mass of fresh water. Sea levels/volume would increase as the average density would be lowered. (this is not the case)

2. A volume of fresh water is added to the ocean. Then V_total = V_ocean + V_freshwater.
Broad question but say for a typical website you should expect ~30% of your traffic to come from mobile. This naturally varies on geography and site function.

From this classic search is still the most important from a pure eyeballs POV but mobile is significant and ever growing.
This is true in name only. NASCAR, despite its name, races cars nobody produces. And you can't buy a MotoGP-spec motorcycle without essentially ordering one custom-built. The same is true for rally car races.
One thing that is cheaper, because you avoid the cost of shipping heavy items to orbit, would be manufacturing space vehicles.
The keyboard on the MB takes some serious getting used to (actually, in the 8 months that I used that computer, I never became fully used to the keyboard), but the screen and physical size of the MB was better than the MBA.visit here: http://www.bestessaywritingservice.co/
You don't want to do that. That level of complexity will consume power by requiring more transistors... For something that can be done once, on compile time (instead of each time code is run). Already we have things like microcode translation and out of order execution, which can be thought of as "hardware JITting"... And x86 is running against a power/performance wall. Probably a better solution will be to backend microcode compatibility on our compilers, and then "run once to generate optimized".
The 13-inch model has only two USB-C ports instead of four.
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Yes, Scala is multi-paradigm and it support OOP as well as imperative programming but the community is very much dedicated to FP. All I see is typed FP that expands my mind.
I installed the extension and it's incredibly easy to use. I tried it on a personal site, google.com, etc and it's interesting to see the various performance metrics for each site. I'd be curious to see what the highest PWA (progressive web app) score someone saw for a major website (for reference, I got 44/100 for google.com).
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