skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What annoys me with British PSA's is that they're always stick rather than carrot.

I know it may sound like I'm whining, but hearing for the 50th time today that I'll get fined some stupidly high amount for not doing as I'm told can get weary after a while.
Out of curiosity, can this apply to SaaS products at all? It seems like the provisions are relaxed in general.

I am curious if I could use this to reverse engineer a product that isn't hardware AND does not have explicit provisions saying that I am not allowed to reverse engineer the software.
What are you missing in Spyder compared to RStudio?
No more so than the wall in the previous example that created a local decrease of entropy.
This is my biggest concern as well from trying one out, but apparently you get used to it. I currently use daily:

- a Microsoft Ergonomic Natural 4000 [1]

- A Kinesis Freestyle 2 [2]

- a Macbook Pro (2014)

That's a wide range of keyboard travels and force requirements, and I'm now comfortable with all. A friend got the new MBP and said he got used to its keyboard "within a day".

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

[2] https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/
That pic doesn't do it justice. With the risers that come with the "VIP kit", you can tilt and angle it to your comfort.
Whoa! Someone from VIP is on here. How's the Burlington market? I interned with them back in 2014. Small world.
Yup! https://factr.com
Hey David, I'm curious about how frequently you upgraded in recent times. Thanks.
Apple has shown its weakness. Microsoft should HAMMER the message of how powerful Windows machines are in comparison.

That's the only thing that will make Apple wake up.
"What if it was me?" is exactly what I'm considering. Life doesn't have infinite value in and of itself. Consider - if you were in a coma or vegetative state, is that a life worth living, even if we have the technology to keep that person alive? If you had Alzheimer's and were gradually losing all mental faculties, would there be a point where you'd rather be dead?

I'd consider being in long-term or life prison to be the next closest thing to those examples; a life without freedom, friends, family, with the potential for a wide variety of suffering beyond that - poor medical, poor food, guard abuse, fights, solitary, rape - what in this is worth living for? Prison is specifically meant to be a punishment, not a rehabilitation. And then maybe you get out a couple decades later, everything has changed, no one will hire you, everyone has moved on...
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Student discounts used to be much better 10-15 years ago. These days, the only really good deals are on older hardware—sometimes previous-generation. I've seen these units sold at campus bookstores of large universities (Stanford, UCLA) but never on the web.

The last time I bought a Mac with an education discount, the computer was about 7% cheaper, but the AppleCare was 30% off. Not a bad discount overall, but not enough in the hardware department to break even on a resale, even new in box.
> So why is the discussion to eliminate the death penalty instead of ensuring more oversight or limitations?

The Supreme Court has gradually been mandating more and more oversight and limitations on death penalty cases since 1976. It doesn't seem to have made a major dent in the false conviction rate or the arbitrariness of when capital punishment is used, especially with regards to race. And while I don't think cost should even be relevant to the discussion, it's worth noting that these limitations and oversight requirements- which still aren't good enough- are the main reason why it costs 10 times more to execute someone than to put them in prison for life. Combined with the death penalty's demonstrated lack of deterrent effect - simpler and better to just get rid of it.
HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
I switched to Instapaper after a long time using Pocket. I think Instapaper's interface is better, and cleaner for reading (especially the web version). I also seem to remember Pocket's android app being slightly laggy, but I don't know if that's still the case.
Hello, Brian! I hope you will take my skepticism in good humor. While I would delight in Instapaper's prolonged availability, I trust you are aware of the widespread perception that acquisition is where startups go to die [0], to say nothing of the fact that some of Instapaper's competitors have also fallen to the wayside [1]. The final red-light comes from the tendency to make services free right before they shut down, #1 as a last-ditch growth mechanism, and #2 as a means to eliminate any legal recourse should the service suddenly shut down.

[0]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2777-what-happens-after-yahoo...
[1]: https://readability.com/
The biggest downside for me of this Touch Bar gimmick is not that I have to look at it. I can touch type, but I'd rather have this than a menu bar. You have to look up to the menu bar anyway, and reach for the mouse. Noone is complaining that menu bars are still there. This is like the Office "ribbon" in hardware form. It's fine, stop whining.

The problem for me is that my laptop is usually in "clamshell" mode. If I'm at the office, I have an external monitor. If I am at home, I have an external monitor. So the touch bar would be used for Starbucks and Planes? Meh. If at least the external Apple keyboards had it...

I too have been considering other alternatives. And that's mostly because I am feeling fed up with having multiple machines. I want a machine with a decent GPU, which you can't have in Apple land, no matter how much money you are willing to throw at Apple.

They could have used those speedy thunderbolt connections to power external GPUs, much like Razer and Dell are doing. Even Microsoft is kind of doing it, with the GPU in the Surface Book's keyboard. If there's a company that knows how to do this video card switching thing, it's Apple. I can never tell when the MBP is changing GPUs.

The Surface Book not having Thunderbolt was a surprise to me. I guess that's out then.
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For me the issue is with ports. I have exactly zero devices that I can plug into the new fancy USB ports. None of my monitors will connect. I know, they are better, yadda yadda, but I am tired of being held hostage until the "industry" understands how the new ports are better.

Right now I use a MacBook Pro to do my work ("pro", remember?). I need a faster machine, so I will have to upgrade. And I will have to deal with all the dongles, carrying them, remembering about them, losing them, etc. I expect I will eventually make an idiot of myself in front of a client, once they hand me a flash drive with their data and I'll have to admit red-faced that I forgot the dongle thingy.

MacBook Pro used to have the "pro" philosophy: stick every port in there, so that the only thing you have to carry is your macbook and you're ready for everything. Then it started: ethernet disappeared, DVI went away, and successively all ports went away until now we are stuck with 4 ports of the same kind, that are useless (but hey, they show great promise!).

I don't want a thinner machine. I don't need a lighter machine. I need a machine so that I can do my work. Pro, remember?

Price is largely not an issue if you actually use it for work, so I have no complaints there.
In theory, homebrew is inferior. In practice, I find homebrew is actually easier to use than apt/yum. For example, installing fonts or (de)installing GUI applications is simple and clean. brewfiles are awesome for machine setups. PPAs do make apt as powerful, but there's not always one for the thing you want. With homebrew, you can create your own "casks" (definitions) and tell homebrew to load them from e.g. github.
This kind of apologist attitude, just like everyone throwing money at them when they unilaterally took away the headphone jack, tells Apple they can disappoint and dictate to their customers as much as they want, and will still make money hand over fist for it.

Is that really what you want?
Great project IMO.

But the conceit that cell towers are 'badly disguised' is incorrect; the goal is not to successfully hide, but simply to meet the much lower bar of obscuring a non-conforming shape in the environment, so that it doesn't trigger human perceptual interest.

You don't put duplicitously palm fronds on a tower to hide it; you put them so that someone scanning the cityscape from a mile away is not distracted by the utilitarian tower.
It's a great idea, keep it up
VR will come to Project Scorpio when it doesn’t feel like demos and experiments
I made my point, with some arguments, I'm not here to join Systemd holy war, it would be an off topic.
To each their own, but I find the design of Razer machines to be a bit on the gaudy side. The Dells also don't look much better, although they at least lack the crazy green logo...
The article doesn't mention CloudFlare?

The common argument is pricing, many people seem to prefer a relatively reliable monthly amount (that in the beginning might even be zero) to CloudFront's potentially expensive traffic costs.
Mailfence
If WASM runs on a stack machine, I wonder how hard it would be to map the instructions to JVM bytecodes? From the example in the document they look similar...

It would be interesting to be able to take code compiled with Emscripten for example and run it as part of JVM applications, similar to what NestedVM can do.
We (as in "us who know IT stuff") may not use it, but the rest may very well be using it. It's a concept very similar to the App Store and the Play Store (or Android Market), in that it's the place where the "common user" (however you define that) goes to get applications installed in their computer.

But yeah, we agree that for games Steam is a lot better, but the target audience clearly knows how to get that -- I get the feeling the Windows Store is aimed to the completely oblivious user.

Anecdotically, a friend once asked me if Windows 8 was better because it allowed you to run the latest version of office (back then it was Office 15, the first with the minimalist visual style)... I have the feeling that he's precisely the target of the Windows Store.
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Any (Linux/UNIX) stack works. We're not big enough to be doing much training language-wise so you'd have to be excited to learn more Python or JavaScript if you don't know those well.

We use ElasticSearch too so that's another technology that you'd have to be interested in.

On a side note, we use Amazon Aurora (MySQL 5.6) for the core data but most interactions are with ElasticSearch and Redis. MySQL is just our definitive datastore.
If Big Corp has a US patent and Inter Corp is infringing in the US then Big Corp can take them to a US court. If they win then either Inter desists in the US or pays a licence fee (or whatever the court decides).

The fact that Inter Corp is incorporated somewhere else is irrelevant as it's its operation in the US that will be brought to book. Outside of the US it's a different matter and will depend on what international patents Big Corp has, where Inter Corp is infringing etc.
It has happened though. https://system76.com/
I don't know why any developer in 2016 would buy an apple machine honestly. What little software perks they offer aren't really applicable to coding (over what's available in linux and increasingly windows with the linux subsystem), and any productivity requires an external monitor, real keyboard, etc so a lot of the nice build quality features are wasted too.
> I guess there's an assumption around here that "My $THING" implies the owner is the creator. It is indeed an assumption

What would be the point of showing people your first $THING if you didn’t make it?
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I played with the editor and a js plugin to create pdf a little
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https://plnkr.co/edit/R68wzJbtsJXUIZppmETj?p=preview
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> What better monitoring and tools should provide is better quality anesthesia, which is a whole big story in itself with many interesting components.

To add to this, my wife is studying to be a Nurse Anesthetist and I'm always amazed that there are plenty of docs who insist on using the intubation tool that doesn't have a camera vs the one that does. I'd say around 20-50% the time they have to get the one with the camera to help out anyways. Why not just use the one with the camera if it's there.

There's a lot of value to be added in the complementarity of humans and machines, particularly in anesthesia.
Wimpy proposals. In 1924, there was a proposal to fill in the East River, diverting the water to the Hudson. Now that was thinking big.

The article has one of those conceptual drawings of super-lightweight monorail structures. There's nothing wrong with monorails; lots of cities in Asia have them. But the rail is far more bulky than that drawing. Here's a real suspended monorail, in Chiba.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR0QXyYG3Yo
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As a former upstate NY resident, I'm all in favor of improved rail throughout the state, but as a current NYC resident I'm skeptical. My major question is: will adding better rail service to Western NY actually result in reduced development pressure in NYC?

The estimates in the first link you provided pegs travel time at 6 hours from NYC to Niagara Falls. Albany is already less than 3 hours on the Amtrak from NYC, but is still failing to "shed development pressure" from NYC. It's a chicken-and-egg problem: how do you convince jobs to move upstate without people, and how do you convince people to move upstate without jobs? Adding a train isn't enough unless it's quick enough to be a daily commute. There are other ways to entice residents but, at least in Albany's case, restrictive zoning and land use laws get in the way.

In the 1950s, the US federal government decided to go all-in on highways for medium and long distance travel. It would be costly to attempt to switch back to long distance rail now and would have a deep impact on American life. The reasons rail is so desirable in an urban context doesn't often translate to a medium or long distance route.

> even the most expensive improvements under consideration at $15 billion are cheaper than projects in NYC such as the Second Avenue subway (estimated completion at $17 billion for 8.5 miles!)

Sure, but in terms of how many people would be served by the 2nd Ave subway vs a long distance cross-state route (200k/day on the 2nd Ave subway vs 4m/year on the train line), it seems less absurd to invest that magnitude of funding on the subway.
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The F buttons aren't going away, just the physical keys are.

Personally, I find the idea of a customizable, context aware, not-just-buttons, function row very interesting.
So how do people ever change their mind on anything? I'd say that within any group with a certain conviction there will always be people at the fringes which are less convinced and who are willing to explore alternatives.

I once believed in the death penalty. I once believe in God. I was once a libertarian. Of course a single person didn't change my mind on these points, but being exposed to alternatives by many people over time changed my perspective. Although I guess often simply seeking information is what eventually does most to change opinions.
I stopped paying for their service as I was broke and they kept billing my account leading to several insufficient funds fees on an overdrawn account that they wouldn't stop billing.

Can't say I'd even use their service for free.
While this is great and serves as a good starter for those looking to get a basic understanding of computer vision.

I'm not so sure if thats what real self-driving cars use. It seems too basic to apply a Canny-Edge detector which is taught in 3rd/4th year comp vision classes. I'm skeptical but also not very knowledgeable about the tech that goes into self driving cars- so if anyone with real experience can inform would be great.

I've written a survey paper about various edge detection algorithms and while Canny is one of the better ones, it still leaves a lot to be desired.
That depends. If you spend long enough isolated from society you won't be able to function in it anymore.

People coming out of jail after 10 years of imprisonment are used to the original iphone as the only smartphone. They don't know about Uber, Venmo, Bitcoin, Amazon and Google have both changed dramatically. Now you need an EZPass for most roads, healthcare laws are different, they missed the whole Snowden ordeal. Weed is borderline legal, gay marriage is legal, etc etc.

Things have changed a lot in the past 10 years. If you weren't allowed to keep up with it, you probably don't know how to navigate society anymore.