skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a mechanical calculator of the hand-crank, moving carriage type to play with as a kid. This gives an insight into how multiplication and division really work.

There's a carriage with two rows of numbers, a full keyboard (10 keys per column), a hand crank, and a second crank which moves the carriage sideways one notch. Moving the carriage is a shift by a power of 10.

To multiply, you clear everything, then punch one number into the keyboard. The buttons lock down and stay down. When you turn the crank one turn, the number in the keyboard is added to the upper row on the carriage, and the lower row has 1 added. So to multiply 25 x 25, you punch 25 into the keyboard. Turn the crank once, and you have 25 in the upper row and 1 in the lower row. Turn the crank five times, and you have 125 in the upper row and 5 in the lower row. Then shift the carriage one notch right. Turn the crank once, and you add 250 to the upper row, and 10 to the lower row. One more crank turn, and you have 25 x 25 = 650 in the upper row, and 25 in the lower row. This makes it very clear that multiplication is repeated addition with shifting.

Division is repeated subtraction. You clear everything and enter the dividend. Turn the crank once to add the dividend to the top row on the carriage. Then clear the keyboard, clear the lower row, and shift to division mode. In division mode, turning the crank subtracts from the top row while adding 1 to the bottom row. Now enter the divisor in the keyboard. Move the carriage so that the high digit of the divisor and the high digit of the dividend line up. Turn the crank. This subtracts the shifted divisor from the dividend and adds 1 to the quotient. If the dividend goes negative, a bell rings and 9999 appears at the left end of the top row, indicating you subtracted too much and went negative. That's OK; just turn the crank one turn backwards, the leading 999.. changes to 000 and the bell rings again. You now have one digit of quotient. Shift the carriage left one row and repeat. Each shift gives one more digit of quotient. When the carriage is back to the full left position, the lower row is the quotient and the upper row is the remainder. This makes it very clear that division is repeated subtraction with shifting.

This is clearer than manual long division, with all that trial divisor and guessing stuff. It reflects the basic fact that division really is just repeated subtraction with counting.
The proxy is outside your ISP. The connection between you and your proxy is secure, so your ISP cannot gain anything useful from it.
> Also my favorite gimmick of all time, another now-closed loophole, was someone who realized the US Mint will sell you dollar coins at face value, with free shipping for orders over a certain amount. So buy, say, $X worth of dollar coins for $X with free shipping, charge to your airline-affiliated credit card, go deposit them in your bank and immediately pay off the card. For the cost of the time you spent placing the order and going to the bank, you get X frequent-flier miles.

This is genius.

It also helps the economy. Banks hate putting small value cash into circulation - a $1 note for example 'costs' a bank the same amount to stock in a cashier desk as a $20 note in terms of space and time needed, leading to much complexity from central banks of how to get money into circulation. Coins have a pretty good amount of time in circulation, notes of low denominations don't, don't know about dollars (probably with a long tail as used as currency in many developing economies) but a £5 note has an average circulation lifetime of around 3 months before it is too crumpled, water stained, and plain worn out.
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More food for thought:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=generalist&sort=byPopularity&p...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rennaissance%20man&sort=byPopu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=specialist%20vs%20generalist&s...

Personally, I like having a variety of skills. I want to be able to dip in anywhere on a project and be productive.

You'll naturally have focuses, or drips of paint, which I see is referenced in another post. Your focus really can only be on one thing at a time, and presumably you're not just learning for its own sake, you will be learning to accomplish some goal, which will drive the learning.

I'd rather work with a well-rounded engineer than one that is a poor communicator, tool user, etc but has very excellent skills in a very specific area.

YMMV. There is lots of value in having deep skill sets. There is also a difference between being a "dabbler"/"knowing enough to be dangerous" and being a competent engineer.
Ammon Bundy and 6 followers found not guilty of conspiracy
I appreciate your position. I agree there is more to good than mere nutrition. There is also a segment on HN that likes the idea of hacking biology, especially their own. They seem good more as fuel for an engine than something to be enjoyed.
The civic that allowed you to do that was explicity called Slavery though.
16 GB memory for starters
I couldn't find an API for it, but some Apple apps do in fact do this. I've seen three examples of it:

- Media playback: When a song or a video is playing in a background app, there is an extra button in the system button part on the right that lets you access a media control strip. From it you can pause the current video / audio and even scrub through it.

- Xcode debugging: While Xcode is attached to a running process, there's a button in the system button part on the right side of the touch bar lets you access a debugging control strip, which lets you pause execution and step through the program. This access button is actually in the same place as the media control button, and in cases where both would be shown, the media control button wins.

- QuickTime screen recording: When you start recording the screen from QuickTime, the current recording time + a stop button is displayed in a touch bar overlay even if you focus a different app. However, once you do switch to a different app, you can close the overlay, and it minimizes into that same button slot on the right of the touch bar.

It surely would be nice to be able to do these things without private APIs, but I couldn't find anything so far.
What exactly do you think "pro" means?
No he told us about something he claimed to see at a place. A lot of people say the same thing about UFOs.
wow.. looks too good to be true!

Ive been searching for something like this..and never heard of this!

Thanks a bunch!
Out of curiosity, why do you care if you can vote with your shares on a company this size? Unobtainium shares(class B) already control 64% of the votes, so the odds of your vote mattering is essentially 0.
Ask HN: How can I know the top level cert was used to terminate HTTPs?
Some people use proxies and other random certificates to terminate HTTPs and I want to flag the ones which are non standard and hence wondering how would I know the chain of trust
Feel free to email me if you're interested (even if you don't feel as though you're an ML expert)!
> adaptor for headphones because I use hd598s and will never use wireless headphones

The MBP has the standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

> I honestly can't point to a gain except maybe able to click on a emote faster using the magic bar and other odds and sods that a magic bar offers.

You're sounding awfully negative about something you haven't even used. For example, the F-key shortcuts you mentioned, if Microsoft is smart they'll add Touch Bar support so you get even better shortcuts than having to remember which F-key does what with what modifiers.

> yubikey will be useless and will need a replacement

The whole world is slowly moving to USB-C, this had to happen eventually. The fact that Yubikey doesn't have a version that supports USB-C is their own fault. And in fact 3 months ago they had a whole post about how they have a prototype but don't want to bother actually bringing it to market yet (https://www.yubico.com/2016/07/yubikey-route-usb-c/). I sure hope that today's announcement makes them realize that they do need to get off their ass and release the USB-C version.
> I should have said 'government'.

Ah, ok. Yes, the government--specifically the legislative branch--can always modify or repeal a law.

> The government can always modify or repeal the act that defines their constitution and authority.

If by "their" you mean "the FCC's" (or some other agency), then yes. But if by "their" you mean "the government's" in general, it's not so easy. A Constitutional amendment has a much higher threshold of passage than a simple law. It takes a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress to propose an amendment, and then it takes 3/4 of the states ratifying it before it actually can take effect.

> If you don't like an act, get them to change it.

Sure, as long as enough other voters agree with you to get their attention. Which practically never happens.
I agree USA has an impressive track record for space exploration and is at the forefront of computing, but that seems like more of a reflection of our economy and top talent than overall math literacy. Ideally we would have the best of both worlds: good high school education, and a good economy, but for some reason the former lags behind.
> There are a limited number of ingredients, all of which are surely well documented and tested.

There isn't really any bright line between edible and poisonous. E.g. if you buy a bunch of field guides, the exact same plants and mushrooms will be listed as edible in some books and poisonous in others. There are lots of species that are widely considered poisonous, but many people eat them anyway without any ill effects. And others that are widely considered edible that people get very sick from eating.

Some of the best advice I got from a well-known mycologist is when in doubt about whether something is edible, set up a TV in the bathroom first.
"Not putting solid food into your system for long periods of time will destroy your ability to digest solid food when you start refeeding"

That is an unscientific statement based on no citation.

Top it off, I have personally lived of Soylent for a year. I go out to eat only a couple times a month and I do not die from horrendous suffering everytime. In fact, nothing changes.
- The US debt is almost double of what it was in 2008.

- Interest rates are already close to zero.

The Fed is out of ammunition this time around...
Yeah, I guess I didn't make it clear in my OP, but I didn't mean to suggest that the way I feel about employment is "right" and the way those women talked about it is "wrong." I just wanted to offer a different lens through which I view the employer/employee relationship.

For me personally, it give me the creeps when my employer encourages or discourages behavior in my personal life. It's why even though I've never even smoked pot a single time in my life I'm opposed to workplace drug tests unless you operate heavy machinery or something. I'm as upset as anybody that Hobby Lobby gets to exert some ethical control over its employees personal health choices by not offering insurance that covers abortions or birth control. If it's not your employer's business when you choose to not have children (birth control/abortions), why is it their business when you do choose to have children?

It's not that people who want that stuff are wrong. I just honestly can't relate to wanting my employer to be involved in my personal decisions.
I do wonder what this means for the wider industry. The fact that they finally got bought means that other methods to grow revenue are failing (compared to, say, 2-3 years ago), and now directly buying revenue has become the dominant way to grow.

When reading financial textbooks they talk about how this happens in the last stages of the business cycles, because it makes sense at those points : economy steadily worsening, but only slightly (easy to mask on company results, so companies appear attractive, but management knows they will be significantly less so in a year's time or so), combined, especially today, with the massive availability of cheap credit, and the idea that "rates will be lower for longer" (history, of course, teaches us they won't).

The purpose here has to be to conquer more of the market by limiting options and moving towards more consolidation.
Ensure and related products in this space have a lot of research behind them, which Soylent appears to have completely ignored. However, this particular problem appears to be a basic processed food production screwup.
Very strange. What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key? Ctrl-c and ctrl-[ don't work in some Vim emulation tools or for browser extensions that provide Vim keybindings.

Function keys are important for some things. F1 (help), F5 (reload page), F11 (full screen), F12 (browser dev tools), shift-F2 (Firefox terminal), alt-F4 (close window), etc..

I almost bought a Macbook in August, but I decided to get a Thinkpad 460 instead. I deleted Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.04. The Thinkpad was $1,000 cheaper than the Macbook and has better specs (24 Gb RAM), except for the screen. The screen on the Thinkpad is better in one way though: it has a matte finish, so there is less glare. There is also a middle button on the touchpad, which is great for copy/paste in Linux.

Hearing about the missing ESC key makes me very happy that I didn't switch to Mac.

Edit: I see that there is a touchbar, but I have a fully touchscreen keyboard, and it's impossible to type without looking at it. A touchbar seems like it would be less efficient than keys. Keys are programmable too, while still providing reference for your fingers.
But the parents also suffered through incompetent math instruction. Unless they are among the few who loved the subject anyway, they're not going to be able to help.

> Just an aside, wouldn't this be expressed as "taught poorly"?

I don't think there's anything wrong with "badly" here, and at least one dictionary [0] seems to support me; see esp. sense 2. But "poorly" works just as well.

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/badly
I was trying to give RH the benefit of the doubt. ;)
The iPhone 7s can have it. Apple can do a massive launch, with the only difference being the charge port: now charge your MacBook and iPhone with the same charger! rapturous applause.

(I'd actually love it, I use a MacBook and a iPhone. One charger would be great).
"Accessibility" is kind of the catch all super-permission to give to hooks into greater parts of the operating system.

For example, Dropbox requires it for some features, as does an App that hides menubar items.
No, because they don't actually know exactly what it is.

I drink soylent 2.0 every day of the week. I ate a bunch of bars and boxes of 1.6 without issue.

I also got violently ill off 2 separate bars on completely different days.

If I had a soy allergy I would not be able to eat 2.0 either.
because the FDA can only regulate food
The use of vim requires neither the use of the Escape key nor key remapping. I'll leave the "how" as an exercise for the reader, it should be quite discoverable (discoverable for vim, anyway).
Avoid the ESC key in VIM
It actually appears that the 'T1' processor, running a watchOS variant, in the new MBP might be controlling the Touch Bar so this might very well be possible.

Source: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith
A well cooked meal and wine - my greatest joys in life. Simple, romantic and fulfilling. Add butter. Add cream. A beautiful pan sauce from a well timed reduction. A cool glass of white wine in the hot kitchen as all the flavors come together. The scent of fresh cut shallots still lingering as the garlic in the pan sweats.

I don't judge anyone for making food and drink a footnote in their life. I enjoy cooking as much as eating but I don't expect anyone else to enjoy either of those, much less both. But I must admit, I sure don't understand the sacrifices of taste, scent, sight, texture and accomplishment for productivity or convenience.

Perhaps this is a reduction of the "Chicken McNugget"?
> Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance

Can confirm. Got up to 15GB RAM usage today, before closing 30+ tabs to get back down to 7GB. Maybe it's ridiculous, but based on the information I'm needing from those tabs--100% text--it's infuriating.

Oh, and also sitting awfully comfortably in that 7GB area is Dropbox, which is doing who knows what with all of its RAM...I do like the Linux command line tool though.
Its not quite what was described but refeeding syndrome is an interesting somewhat related thing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC390152/
Couldn't we spend less than $300M on our telco infrastructure to prevent shit like this? Black listing rented phone numbers, preventing caller ID spoofing, etc...
Macbook Pro should be for people like me, and people editing HD video, and creating deep learning tools and running 12-node security network labs.

Also, MBPs are expensive, but long lasting. People use them for 5 years. 16 GB will be nothing in 5 years.

It might cost Apple like $0.50 to add a SODIMM slot. I think it was a mistake on their part
Your dismissive attitude discounts:

1. People lie.

2. People believe things to be true that are not, in fact, true.
I've gone through a few cases of the premade drinks. My first bottle or two did the same to me but never since. Pretty sure it was the high amount of fat (~50% of calories) coupled with an empty stomach. I keep them at my desk and in my car for occasional usage.
The power connector had a good run but they couldn't get the video connector right! Every new generation Apple laptop I buy has a different video adaptor.
Yeah, as I recall when I watched that video the other students struggled to remain respectful but eventually started to openly laugh at her.

You wouldn't necessarily know it from the framing text search engine bots would have scanned.
I loved Vine. Short hilarious videos galore. Not long winded vlogs on youtube.

I'll be pretty sad to see it go. :/ I think that the time limit was great and made people quite creative with how they used the time. the ehBee family was one example.
I don't really care about food. If I didn't have to eat anymore, that would be amazing! I tried Soylent and it was disgusting, though. Couldn't stomach it.
Pretty much any vegan diet is sufficiently efficient, if your goal is avoiding killing the planet. No need to eat powder.
Tried it recently. The biggest problems I had with it:

1. With what's built-in, it was non-obvious how to access most of the apps available to Ubuntu/Debian. The large rectangles in that app menu are horrid compared to the rest of the macOS-looking (nice) interface.

2. It claims that there is no need for terminal, and yet with very little searching, I was finding posts online with "how to make ElementaryOS better" that all involved use of the terminal. I don't mind opening a terminal shell and doing this, but it seems like there would be another way that is easier for the casual user.

3. It can't just be the desktop that looks like macOS; one of the big things in macOS is how intuitive every user task is. For example, in ElementaryOS, you can't right click on the desktop to change the background. But, there are many other things as well.

It's very nice, and probably the best install and desktop I've experienced in Linux thus far. That says a lot since I've been using Linux and installing it for a few decades. However, it is not ready yet. It is getting very close, though. The things I miss from macOS are:

1. Spotlight

2. The intuitiveness of the macOS control panel

3. The macOS activity monitor

4. Easily stylable terminal with options

5. Dock/OS notifications (number and bubbles)
Auto sales are slowing [1] [2], subprime auto loans are beginning to default [3].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/ford-profi...

[2] http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/ford-mustang-plant-temp...

[3] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/losses-on-stretched-subprim...
But it is a different situation. The implication is people posted on Facebook and it wasn't Facebook who ran the IRS scheme by reading the data on the backend, the data was shared by the users. WhatsApp doesn't work like Facebook's main product, it is more like SMS for example.

So the ownership of Facebook is irrelevant in this case.

Now perhaps it is possible to argue if someone hacked into Facebook to steal all data. But I don't think that's the case here.
> There simply isn't the market for a small laptop like there used to be.

Well, the new MB is only 12". It's just not small and cheap.
One reason might be that, if you buy a Macbook with a touchscreen, there is less reason to buy an iPad in addition to the Macbook.

I had one laptop with a touchscreen and it was so annoying that I disabled it. Every time I would brush something off of the screen, or someone would point at my screen and touch it, unexpected things would happen. Keyboards are much more efficient than touchscreens, so there didn't seem to be any point.
Have you tried zimwiki?
http://zim-wiki.org/

* It's basically a collection of text files

* Uses a markdown like syntax

* Has built in git support, so you can use git for versioning and looking at edit history.

* There is a gui that let's you edit in wysiwyg style
* Can link between pages

* Written in python, so pretty much runs anywhere (no proper android/ios app still though)

* Todo item support

* most importantly, it's open source

* plugin system so you can add functionality easily

I pretty much use this as a knowledge management, daily task tracking system. It has a journal plugin that essentially creates a files for each day, similar to what you are doing.

I have it for both work and personal stuff.
No. I am asking why I wouldn't want to live forever.
I have to agree. I'm not saying that people on liquid diets don't have digestion problems, but the liquid diet alone likely didn't cause it.

Even if you eat no food, you'll still have bowel movements as your intestines shed cells and mucus. If you have a colostomy done (intestines no longer connect to your rectum) you'll still pass small small amounts of stool out the normal way (anus).
There seems to be this amazing doublethink in Silicon Valley where people convince themselves that their startup is going to make the world a better place in some huge disruptive way, while arguing that companies have no responsibility to make the world a better place in small, normal, achievable ways, like setting family-friendly policies.

Silicon Valley startups are apparently so powerful that they will fundamentally disrupt and reshape society, but also so fragile that having some women with kids on staff will cause total mission failure.
My thoughts exactly. My next laptop will be a Surface Book as well.

Limited RAM, no Fn keys, no ports used in enterprises all over the world... I'm not carrying the lightest laptop money can buy if it has to be accompanied by the largest bag of adaptors.
There can still be a JS API for it that's not standardised. See Apple's JS APIs for Force/3D Touch in Safari on Mac and iOS. Unfortunately though they both have different APIs :(

In saying that though, I doubt Apple would actually make this available for website.
It's a fair concern, though many people forget that reducing food wastage is a great way to scale too: Roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year. http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/mb060e/mb060e00.htm

At Infinite Food we are working to offer a broader, home kitchen-like degree of choice in personalized hot meal preparation, but using technology to reduce waste in areas like transport, processing and storage through features such as seasonal ingredient discounts, shared transport infrastructure, electronic monitoring, personalized servings and discounts on reduced packaging/cutlery/napkins. http://8-food.com/
Brilliant time for someone to make a move in the Linux space. I do not want a Windows box, but would love something as refined as a Mac running a slick GUI on top of Linux.
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