skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, the point is that many standard laptops that are not particularly light or heavy can take up to 32GB of RAM now.
Your dash looks awesome!

I replied to the Deis engineer above with my thoughts.
Does Google have anything equivalent to this?
But 14 inches (too big for me).
Relax. Alex Roy is not "a journalist".
> awful compared to keyboard keys

Don't mistake your opinion for a fact.

I'm pretty sure I hate the current situation with F-Keys at least as much as you claim to hate multi-touch interfaces.

If you truly use F-Keys by touch (i.e. without looking) forcing the touch bar into F-Key mode should get you pretty close to what you had anyway.

The F-Keys don't have the little identifying lumps (on mine these are on F & J), so you simply have to know where they are by muscle memory. The only difference is you're tapping like a track-pad tap (as opposed to trackpad click).
I'd like to see that study data as I'm skeptical that a person's name is the only factor. I can see them going the same route as Airbnb, forcing drivers and passengers to not discriminate. Unfortunately, the freedom to use your property how you want is why people are drawn to driving for Uber. Take that away, and less drivers means higher prices, and longer wait times... but at least we'll all be waiting longer together.
Besides Flow itself, of course.
No, which is why I specified dual-core CPU.

The README cites ~100ms with a Titan X using CUDA, although speed depends on image size.
In the short term, yes. In the longer term, they're subsidising kick starting a market that can only come down in price once the volume increases.

Some good ideas need a bump through the 'chicken and egg' stage.
Anyone know why Intel isn't able to support > 16GB of LPDDR4? Is it a limitation of address bus width in the design?
I just straight up say, here's a bad naive way to do this. How can we improve on it or do it differently? It's unlikely I've come up with the best solution in the world and the people on my team, who are probably smarter than I am, together will be able to get a lot closer
To go one step more the team is also acting on their intuition -- they haven't fully used deductive reasoning to come up with their own solution to the problem, it just "smells bad", and now they're coming up with rationalizations (weird that OP calls it strategic reasoning) why it's not a good way.
For personal to-do lists, I use http://www.toodledo.com/ which is great for having many options (occur every month, every 2 weeks, last Wednesday of the month, etc.), and syncs between mobile and web.

For work, I basically use pen and paper or slack reminders or self chat.
I would really like something like this, however the roof of my house has a really shallow pitch which makes it unsuitable for tiled roofs, be it glass (solar), ceramic, or asphalt.

I guess panels are still an option, though it would be nice to never worry about the roof again :)
They grew so big, they can now afford to sit at cruising altitude and release a few updates here and there.

If they're not growing to your liking, blame consumers for handing over all that cash year after year just for the Apple brand, and hopefully a useful product that turns on, turns off and all those other fancy things.
I mean right now 538 has the odds at one in four which is fairly sizable
Well there's Chargepoint.
There are probably electrified tracks which are screwed down onto the rafters, similar to the way wooden risers* are put down for clay tiles to attach to. The tiles attach using metal clips or nails. SolarCity acquired Zep Solar a while back, who designed quick installation solar mounting systems. I assume they're using that team to design something fully integrated and fast to install. You'll probably just snap the tiles onto the rails after they are screwed (bolted?) down. The tracks would just plug into each other like Christmas lights.

They said they're producing plain tiles without panels inside for edge pieces and north/east/west roof faces.

* http://www.topnotchgenconstruction.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
Chrome is more heavily advertised since it's maintained by a tech corporation with lots of resources. And Chrome is also being preloaded onto a lot of Windows machines by OEMs, so that's also pushing adoption.

Meanwhile, Firefox is relying on the same advertising it always has relied on: word of mouth. The reason Firefox became popular was because the only other choice at the time was IE 6 (which already had a bad reputation at the time). Now, with Chrome out and receiving regular updates, users have little incentive to not use the browser that "everyone else" is using.
>I also want the benefit of reinforcing my knowledge of how to write a character by hand.

In that case you should just use handwriting recognition software such as that built into your smartphone.
I'm fairly certain tedunangst was being sarcastic :)
This!

I think #1 and #2 should be the same people. with PaaS I don't see any need for "operators".

If an engineer can't launch a new service with all the requirements EASILY, you're doing something wrong

You're == all of us, myself included.
Show HN: Coffee Break, Mini Games on FB Messenger
Yes Lincoln would have dropped the issue, but the southern slave states knew the writing was on the wall. The historical balance between free and slave states was breaking down in 1850s and the slave states knew that it was only a matter of time before the more populous free states imposed their will on the south.

The south chose to break away from the USA because they feared being expropriated of their wealth (most of the capital in the southern states was tied up in slaves). If the united states had chosen a path of full compensation to slave owners the civil war may have been avoided.

I am not supporting slavery, just suggesting that the solution to issues like ending slavery (and carbon emissions) is better solved peacefully and with compensation than by force and war.
I think that only happens when your swap file takes up all available space on your drive
You do know two wrongs don’t make a right?
> Do you even know anything about their production methods?

Hence the purpose of regulations...
> Aligned incentives is absolutely, 100% required for anything to work in our society. It's what we're built on.

I wish more people understood this simple fact of human psychology. It's astonishing how often people will support some system that incentivizes bad behavior, and then act surprised when people behave badly.

What's more, when faced with this situation, these same people will resort to shaming the bad actors rather than fixing the broken system.
Genetically Engineered Bacterial load balancer wins iGEM 2016
Running JIT code is only one aspect of the runtime. Parser, interpreter (if applicable), and GC benefit. C++ helper functions that get called from JIT code also benefit.
I read the comment as "simple and ease of use are not terms often associated with Kafka".
> Developers are largely moving towards Chrome as their sole browser for testing

That's the most depressing thing I've read this week. I'm not saying it's not correct, but it's fucking ridiculous.

We just got to a point where there are multiple competitive rendering engines (i.e. they keep each other honest) and front end developers say "eh, fuck it, if it works in chrome thats enough".

To the developers who have either a stated, or unstated view of "<site> works best in Chrome": fuck you very much.
Here in NZ most roofs are corrugated iron, and people love the sound of rain on them. Different cultures...

There is another good reason for our love affair with iron - we get a lot of earthquakes. An iron roof provides a lot of structural bracing, and it's negligible weight provides much less moment than slate or tile alternatives.
The X series of ThinkPads are designed to be slim and light. If you want 32GB in a ThinkPad, there are other series available with 32GB units.

Unfortunately, if you want a 32GB macOS laptop, you're out of luck with Apple.
Sure they would, it was in every silly American movie about evil Russians in the 80s.
They only need replacing when out of date.
> Chrome is more heavily advertised since it's maintained by an advertising corporation with lots of resources

Fixed that for you.
Perhaps, but that's not the case here. I have plenty of available disk space.
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"the first image"
IMAGE!
How Do We Encourage Technologists in the Public Interest?
This is an experiment and a mini side project, an attempt to create a game based on the Messenger platform. Playable entirely within Messenger, just like other bots.

With the Messenger platform 1.2 changes, adding Webview Extension and Sharing button, it feels like the tools to build some mini games on top of the platform now exist. This is an experiment at that.

One more note to add, while the mini games are playable on web Messenger, they were designed to be played on mobile and the experience is infinitely better on it.
Pretty clean code. Nice job.
They may not need it, but it is worth for the rest of us. Technology becomes much cheaper when it becomes commonplace. If we all pay a bit of that 30% subsidy to rich people, what's the matter? That will allow us to eventually buy it with more than 30% reduction of price without subsidies.
It's got potential, mashing up pipes and IFTTT with Enterprise as others have said, but I can't help hearing Admiral Akbar's "it's a trap!". It would need to be amazing and look long term viable enough before I'd suggest putting key processes in to it. Something like this seems more appealing: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/README.md
This is really disturbing. We need a DARPA-challenge level effort to get some better solutions designed for this.

It can't be that hard. A git repo per machine, recording an audit trail further verified by the block chain, could be the start of a solution, for example.
FreeDOS 1.2 RC1
Respectfully, but: I don't think Neel Mehta gives a fuck whether you use Chrome or not. He's Neel Mehta. He probably doesn't even care if people use Google to Google things. How to sum Mehta up? Even before he discovered Heartbleed, he was one of the most renowned vuln researchers in the industry.

A mental model of Mehta that has served me pretty well: if he says something publicly like this, it's probably because it's important and correct.

The idea that he'd be wasting his time on marketing stunts for the Chrome browser is a bit naive.
The range on the graph isn't necessarily the entirety of the data used for the model.
> I don't know the max.

Running `dmidecode -t 16` as root on Linux might tell you.
You can try flexjs.
I have a 4gb 2012 MacBook air that works fine. I don't face much performance related issues with it and can compile apps, use VMs(one at a time) fine with it. It can get slightly laggy at times, but most of it isn't noticeable. I usually restart when that starts to happen and it gets fine that way.

I am thinking of saving some money and upgrading to the base 1499 model and donating my air to a friend who really needs it. But it has got only 8GB of RAM. Ideally I would have gone for the 1799 model with 16gb ram which makes it $1999. But don't have that much money right now. However, since even the 4GBs of RAM have seemed satisfactory to me so far, I am thinking of making the jump. Non-apple is anyways not an option as I use sketch and need to compile iOS apps.

With my present air I always regret getting 128GB hard disk as it is too less, and I need to format my laptop every year to get rid of the junk occupying hard disk space. I hope I don't end up regretting the 8GB for the next few years.
There's still a pretty big gap between parsing and actually rendering. I don't think that spec contains anywhere near enough information to play animations the same way that Flash Player does.
Big Food and big nutrition lies?
That is utterly untrue. Compare e.g. the terse, intuitive GUI tooling you get with Racket vs. the effort required to achieve an inferior result with Javascript and the framework of the week.
hopefully I'll still have my current 2014 mazda 3 manual tranny hatch in my garage 30 years from now. It will be a classic. ;)
The way SolarCity works, you don't own the panels SolarCity does. So ostensibly you would finance the roof and then pay a locked in price per kWh which would be recurring revenue for Tesla even after the roof is paid off.
Wow, you really are. I'm so, so sorry.
I have a strong suspicion that the accent was adopted, by a newly-talkified Hollywood, in large part because the exTREMEly disTINCT eNUNciation would convey and carry better over the poor audio tracks and reproduction equipment of early theaters (not to mention the audio recording equipment of the time).

With further advances in audio capture, recording, processing, and playback equipment, vernacular accents were possible without risking nonintelligibility to the audience. James Dean's drunken ramble at the conclusion of Giant being a notable exception.
Don't you need zookeeper to use Kafka? Perhaps you should mention that in your dependencies.
Seems like IFTTT will end up being a niche for IoT-specific integrations while this will be used for enterprise integration. What is the value here for Microsoft when you can create integrations between only competitors like Google services?
- Chrome

- Spotify (Chromium Embedded Framework)

- Slack (MacGap (WebKit))/(Electron (Chromium Embedded Framework))

- Visual Studio Code (Electron (Chromium Embedded Framework))

Notice a pattern? :)
I did. The FAA power limit is a red herring. Perhaps an example will help:

High res screens require more power to run, and more power to render for... which means you could also blame the FAA for Apple not using high res screens... except Apple does use high resolution screens.

So the situation is not one of forced compromise so much as Apple having different priorities from its users... which is where we thought we were before you brought up the FAA.
It's sad that elections, one of the most important things we have here in America are ran on closed sourced copyrighted systems owned by corporations. They say it's rigged, I would hope it's not but really who knows if they don't have access to the code?
They're trying to charge for the ease? of doing things like sending notifications for item creation in Sharepoint lists, when Sharepoint does this already for you free. It looks like a hard push for transitioning the whole suite of products to the Azure cloud. $$
Vulpix, express.js framework like in .net core
I would also love to see a mechanical switch with thin travel.

I want to build a custom keyboard for a laptop, even a way to build a custom keyboard using scissor switches would be cool.
Totally wrong. All of that turbulence goes into heat, which must be sunk through the walls (or something else), and is therefore lost. "Fully turbulent flow" is a reference to the transition away from (low-friction) laminar flow. Flow gets to be fully turbulent by experiencing high internal fluid friction due to its own viscosity. Air's viscosity is low relative to water, but it still isn't zero. 500 mph flow through a big long tube is extremely lossy.
GIF site Giphy has, along with numerous other of its kin, found its way to my firewall's /etc/hosts blocklist on account of the overuse and abuse of autoplay images on far too many websites.

Until such time as browsers and animation-hosting sites refrain from autoplay defaults, and worse: failure to provide any mechanism for overriding this at the device, user, or application level, that shall be my SOP.
and b.t.w, this is all AFTER you have a docker container. Lets not forget about the huge leap of master -> ci -> docker -> deploy headache.
The Debian Cloud Sprint 2016
Is Cringely trading his shtick of being almost always wrong about IBM to being almost always always wrong about Apple, but writing 4 follow-on articles about the tiny sliver of the story he's actually got right crowing about how he's a fucking genius? Has IBM ever actually gotten around to laying off as many people as he absolutely, positively confirmed would be layed off in the first quarter of last year? How many times has Cringely declared that IBM was definitely, positively going to die in the last 2 decades? Like next month. Without a doubt. He's like one of those end-of-the-world types constantly spewing up the same prattle because one day he might be right.
that specific article has a pinch of criticism in a gallon of praise ;-)

That said, I'm fine with Gruber being such a fanboy. He fills a niche, makes a great living, and his readers are happy. All good.

I personally find his writing amusing is all.
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn frontend development nowadays?
Hey everyone! I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades programmer and have done basic frontend work in the past, but I'd like to get up to speed on frontend development circa 2016. I'm a fan of server-side rendered templates, not too much javascript, and practices that can be learned and implemented quickly. Looking at the frontend landscape today is, to be blunt, frightening. It's changing so quickly and I get anxious just thinking about it. Any advice or tips on how to learn contemporary frontend dev without pulling my hair out? Thanks in advance!
Is it wireless, both between halves, and to the pc? Strangely I don't see anything about it on their site, but the pictures do not show any wires
I get the uplifting idea, and without coming off as a 'killjoy', I feel 'greatest' for whom must be clearly articulated.
She prolly has both of them. Would u want a bunch of unknowm ppl bothering u on your main line?

How many email addy's u got?
Yes, the pattern is not lost on me :-)
Everyone knew it was going to be a solar roof. Musk said so. What no one predicted was that what they actually introduced, which is roof tiles indistinguishable from slate or terracotta.

The headline is about the specific Tesla Solar Roof, not the general idea of a Tesla solar roof.
Wow, very interesting! I would love to use these for a custom keyboard.

Now how can I buy the switches individually??
Twenty years a Debian developer
I am not up-to-date on the TPP, but my vague impression is it's 1) sort of like NAFTA but for a different set of countries, which 2) happens to include treaty obligations to implement IP laws that resemble SOPA/PIPA, and 3) was negotiated under more secretive than usual discussions. Is that roughly correct?

I think the hacker crowd (including Google) should be strongly opposing #2, and maybe also #3 for making it hard to object to #2 without objecting to the whole treaty, but #1 sounds like a thing that many reasonable people are likely to support, yeah.
You need to figure out if you are in fact offering the same service or do you have significant differences in product, market and customers.

If it's the same service, then who is right about the better business model. You think this service provides enough value that people will pay for it, this competitor thinks free is better, who is right? who is more right?

Sometimes business models change (ask newspapers) or competitors force you to take a loss/make changes on things you would rather not. This is business. Hopefully not, but you might have to build that freemium version for the short term and figure out a way to add better price discrimination to it.

How much market research have you done? Entrepreneurs building for themselves have a huge advantage but are also often most likely to not do enough market research, assuming many others out there think just as they do.
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From the article:

It can also be fitted with heating elements to melt snow in colder climates

(not quite "run current through", but ...)
You might have already seen this but you might want to check out [1] for inspiration.

[1]: https://github.com/segmentio/stack

It came out of our infrastructure at Segment and works really well.
Pretty much the same case here. I've a 1979 Honda CVCC ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Honda/comments/1q9tww/just_finished... ) that I don't really need, but it's practically free to register and insure, and it has sentimental value, so why not?

Besides, there have been a couple of times where simply due to bad luck both of our newer cars were in the shop at once. Having the backup of the CVCC for a few days was genuinely useful.
I think it would be nice to have the source code open for review. However, that doesn't solve the problem. It's very difficult (impossible?) to guarantee the reviewed software is what's actually running on the machines, not to mention how does one validate the compilation, the OS, the firmware, the hardware—you get the picture. And the voting machine itself is only one part of the whole voting system.

It sounds like this is something you're interested in. I encourage you to take a look at what's being done. I've shared a couple of links elsewhere in this thread, which if nothing else can provide a starting point.
I think the right question is why are roofs not already made out of high-impact glass? Did nobody ever think about this before Elon? Maybe.

More likely a glass roof is a net negative that has to be offset by the solar cells, making them less cost effective than otherwise.
Donald Trump can't read
Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/kenrick95/c4bot
So... this is... apples automater?
The Chinese did have movable type and all of the building-blocks centuries earlier, though.

Unfortunately, much of the head start the Chinese had in printing seems to have been chewed up by their devilishly difficult writing system. Learning the thousands of characters necessary to become literate in Chinese is a steeper task than the couple dozen of Latin letters and the few tens of ways that they combine phonetically. Not to mention the purely prosaic result that a Latin script requires far, far fewer different varieties of type for printing.

On the other hand, I am not sure that European literacy and printing would have exploded so quickly without the Protestant Reformation inducing demand for the printed word, or rather Word.
I am typing this on a 2013 MBP with 16 GB of ram. If I get a new machine today, I'd like to keep it until 2019 or so. The resource that I feel most pinched on with my Macbook is its ram.
"that specific article has a pinch of criticism in a gallon of praise "

No disagreement here :) Like I said, just a little push back :)
> Applications have for the most part proven that they cannot be trusted to get text encoding and decoding right, especially not in any consistent way.

That's because text encoding and decoding is a mess. Operating systems doing it doesn't make it any less of a mess; it just inserts the mess deeper into everything. For example, look at all the quirks and edge cases in file name handling between different OS's, simply because nobody is willing to just admit that to the OS, file names should be sequences of bytes, which are easy to share between machines running different OS's.

The basic issue is that text encoding and decoding exists because bytes have meanings. But unless/until we invent artificial intelligence, computers can't deal with meanings (because the meanings are not simple computable functions of the bytes). And OS's, particularly, should not even try. Applications might have to try, but the cost if they get it wrong is much less.
It's a $150 device, not $200 base price, and that argument applies to almost anything apple. The phones, laptops, even the airplay wifi spots are more expensive than an equivalent. They also retain their resale value, so selling the old one isn't hard or a big loss compared to the android equivalent. They also care about security and will get updates for many years to come, also unlike most android devices.

People also update their other devices at a much higher frequency, I don't think the 4K edition coming out is going to be a big deal.