skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Elementary had to copy the Cmd+spacebar shortcut to mimic the Mac OS experience (Spotlight), but on that count, Windows' just-press-Win-and-start-typing experience is much better. It's just one key less, but opening up a program is used ALL the time, and eliminating that key press makes a huge difference, IMHO. Not sure when they introduced it in Windows, but that was a good one.
This is HACKER news. This guy is definitely a hacker.
Given the Apple Watch has wireless charging and this https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/31/foxconn-iphone-8-wireless-cha...

And Apple's obsession with removing holes, I would put money on it.
Why is that bizarre? It looks like a major passage to me. In a nuclear first strike scenario you want your nukes to be right at the front door so hopefully you can take out some silos before they launch. The militaries of the world have no doubt sprinkled hundreds of thousands of sea floor devices around the world since probably the 1950's. Some are probably nuclear powered, long since forgotten about, and will continue to emit for decades. There are fleets of autonomous ocean vehicles that go and gather their data and transmit it to satellites.
See https://reddit.com/r/hailcorporate

Spottings of planted / submarine / astroturf pieces.
It could still attach magnetically like the Watch charger, just no actual hole.
NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise
I really don't want to sound like a hater here, but my only takeaway from this article was that the author is a high school junior, with some iOS app chops and he wants me to subscribe to his music discovery newsletter. It's not a piece that's information dense.
Show HN: Hot or not for yachts called Yacht or Knot
Is democracy a failure? (1861)
It's not a lie, and it's not misleading.

The concept of 'server' loses all meaning in this given architecture.

You create 'Lambdas' - units of functionality - and they do that they are supposed to do entirely independent of the underlying architecture.

In fact, using the concept of 'server' in a Lambda situation probably obfuscates the situation and adds unnecessary complexity.

A 'server' is an implementation detail that concerns only those providing the container/Lambda services. As long as the implementation lives up to the SLA (i.e. performance, uptime, security, price, redundancy) that you have agreed to - then it doesn't matter how it works.
Other manufacturers dropped them not because of apple though but because they were no longer needed.
Thanks. My main fear is that my Siemens top loading washer will break. It was unique in how its control panel was located, making it possible to slip under my sink. Now this design is totally gone from the market, and I will not find a design that will fit. It is interesting that almost all models, for all brands existing, to buy new look the same.
Recommend some best book about... Timeand space complexity of algorithms....
It is actually more then 10x. The annual cap for H.264 royalty fees is 6.5M from MPEG-LA. For H.265 it is 25M from MPEG-LA, AND 50M from HEVC-Advance. That is a total of 75M. And like others have pointed out there are Technicolor patents fees not included.

So it depends how these royalty works in details. If only the chip manufacture are paying, Mediatek, Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple. That is at least 10 players paying maximum. And if you consider small players, the total contribution of Royalty fees to HEVC is 1 Billion / Year. ONE BILLION!! In the life time of a Video Codec that typically run at least a decade, these patents are 10 Billions.

Do you think that is a fair price, i think everyone should decide for their selves.
I had to google your word "lede" in order to understand what you were saying.

I found this:
http://howardowens.com/lede-vs-lead/
Is it just me, or is anyone else a little disturbed that some of the greatest minds in AI are optimizing it for winning at a highly strategical/tactical game of warfare..
I used a chromebook for about a year, and would RDP to my home desktop when I needed anything beefier... after that I went back to a new rMBP because I needed macOS at the time. The 16gb is rarely an issue for me, but I could easily see certain classes of workload that could make it so.
Hi! My projects weren't supposed to be the focus of the post. It was supposed to show that I'm coming from a business/entrepreneurship standpoint. The plan which I think is most of the post was supposed to be the focus. Thanks for the feedback!
The term 'Lambda' has a basis in Computer Science as a type of 'anonymous function' - in which case the name is reasonably well suited.

'Serverless Computing' as a term to describe the paradigm I think is very neutral, descriptive and apt. It's even a little bit boring but it does the job.
I go with Winodws+R and there is a software called Everything http://everything2.com/.

Windows + Space is for switching input language or keyboard layout. But other alternatives are win+Q or win+S. It just works fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
That includes more than hacking and startups.
John do you know where all the patents on Framefree ended up?
Another explanation is that the people reporting it were lying and stopped their false reports when the investigation was happening to protect their lie.
Yeah, you were wise to listen to him. Another tell is to go into used appliance stores and see what they carry the most of. Most used appliance shops won't even bother refurbishing many machines now because it's not cost effective and they don't trust that they will make it out of their warranty before breaking.

Dishwashers, stay away from Frigidaire entirely. They are made disposable. 2-3 years is the average life before needing a repair. I've had the best experience with Whirlpool dishwashers. KitchenAid has gone downhill in the past 5 years or so, in terms of quality.
I think the idea for this is either tune it for your problem cases, or if it's an issue at your scale, divide and conqueror your use case (small tables in one physical DB, large tables in another).
It'd be nice to not have a set() method, but instead use property accessors. That way data-binding frameworks like set properties will just work.
To-may-to, to-mah-to....
Reverse question that no-one seems to ask: What's the advantage of running a DB on a container?
Parse Server X Firebase – Who Wins?
People always mention things like this when they badmouth PCs. My MBP freezes once in a while, the keyboard sometimes becomes unresponsive and I frequently have to plug-in my ethernet adapter multiple times in order to get it to connect.

I'm sure many of these issues would be easy to fix, but that isn't the point. The point is that MacOS if often reported to be a miraculous piece of software that always works and never has the issues that Windows/Linux have. I use all three operating systems on a daily basis and MacOS/Windows are honestly about the same in terms of random, petty but annoying issues that pop up out of nowhere and demand attention. Linux isn't too far behind, but when I do have a problem it generally takes longer to figure out how to fix it on Linux.

As far as the hardware goes. My MBP has slightly better build quality than my T550, but IMO they ruined the keyboard on the new version. My T550's keyboard has the function keys acting as function keys only as a secondary function and its really annoying. My MBP's keyboard is close to perfect (keys are a little worse than T550, but the layout is better).

I think the touch-screen bar should have been an addition, not a replacement.
To get solid metallic hydrogen, you'd need both high pressure and low temperatures; in the celestial bodies that can provide the former, the latter seems unlikely.
Question is: what is considered 'junk science' at the time it was used in court?

Because I'm sure we are using some 'junk science' we just don't understand at the present time.
You can make things up for the sake of starting a conversation.

But when you do so, you clearly label it as fiction.
I'm confused -- there's a section mentioning a benchmark, but I can't find the results anywhere on the page. Chrome 54 on macOS 10.12.1.

There are sections for "PURE JAVASCRIPT" and "JAVASCRIPT & TURBO.JS", but they only display a triangle/circle illustration.
"Hello Flyweb"? smh blasphemous hubris
yeah I don't know what to think of it. A search turns up a lot of news articles, all posted within that time range, and it doesn't look like a fake at second glance. But who knows.
I apologize for the plug, but I invite folks who like OCaml to check-out Tezos, a project for a self-amending blockchain in OCaml. http://github.com/tezos

I think it's a really neat piece of engineering that demonstrates the strength of the language. We have some really nice uses of the GADT and we try and squeeze as much guarantees as we can out of the type system. The modules give us a natural way to follow the principle of least authority by restricting the visible surface of each implementation layer as much as possible.

Some of the core Tezos developers are also behind the recent mooc and work on the OCaml compiler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Superconduct...
Open the console and look for errors?
The U.S. has two types of schools:

- excellent, well-funded schools in areas not experiencing socioeconomic stress

- underperforming, underfunded schools serving troubled areas

These ideas would be nice additions/improvements to take the good schools to the next level. Unfortunately, systemic issues are challenging and would be exacerbated for the troubled schools.

Also note that it is really hard to teach things like critical thinking. Also note that while creativity is super important, forcing everyone to take art classes hurts more than it helps - math, science, and engineering are all deeply creative in their own way, but the whole 'forced to do it for school' thing really kills all that. Rarely have I seen an art class that is more fundamentally creative than a traditional lecture.

I would love to see more emphasis on real-world projects and exploring things that are interesting to the student, ideally tying the personal interest topics in with the mandatory topics.

My high school really focused on a 'depth over breadth' concept where students would do in-depth research on a topic (using modern tools), then compile and present the research in some creative way. That is a really powerful way to learn, promotes research and critical thinking, and helps form a base of long-lived knowledge. One example: while learning about 'the gilded age', we went to an art museum with artwork from the area, read one of a selection of novels, wrote a research paper about art styles at the time, then painted a scene from the book we chose in an art style we learned about. That knowledge stuck a lot more than any of the test-memorization things I learned later; another take on quality over quantity, with the twist that too much quantity leads to absolutely nothing in the long run.
I'm not so convinced.

It's profoundly easy to be fooled by someone who's bent on fooling you. We know that "Jackie" from the story was misleading both Rolling Stone and its reporter Sabrina Ruben-Erdely.

I can see a strong case for negligence claims against RS and Ruben-Erdly. Both should have pursued fact-checking and cross-referencing single-source claims, especially when made against other people and institutions. And that's pretty much what the court here has found.

I would strongly support criminal claims against "Jackie".
-Erdely. Both sh
Wish some of the hardware sites mentioned were more en-US friendly, cool to see though.
I do, but mine only works when unlocked on my desktop screen... it's just faster than typing for quick searches.
That not only assumes it could never happen naturally, but also that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

The aliens working undercover among us now are rolling their 7 photoreceptors at our anthropocentrism.
For anyone curious about this who didn't want to watch the video, the trap consists of:

1. A large woven cone

2. A smaller woven cone without a tip

The smaller cone is placed in the larger one; shrimp swim into the small cone to explore, but then get caught in the space between the two cones when they try to get out (presumably because it's difficult to find the single entrance).

He mentions that the only skill necessary is basketweaving -- I wonder if it would be possible to carve something similar (two interlocking geometric shapes) or if the trap being woven is essential to its function, for example, for allowing flowing water in to entice shrimp.

One of the parts that stood out for me was

> In practice, a long stretch of creek might have several traps collecting food each day without any effort on the part of the fisherman.

If he were to go whole hog long-term, shrimp traps would free up his time for doing other crafts in ways that spear fishing or actively hunting wouldn't, though I suppose the local yield of shrimp would factor into that (whether he could collect enough calories consistently to fund his other efforts).
"Now that is the cup of a high-pressure physicist."
The only time I remember having a problem with Homebrew is in the summer where I'll run some beta version of the new macOS on a testing machine while trying to use Homebrew which does not support the beta.
Other than that it never fails for me, and I install a boat load of tools through Homebrew. I even install as much of my GUI tools as possible using brew cask.
Rigging the Election
Perfect Muta flocks.

They regenerate, so the AI just has to keep them alive and do damage to win.
Not switching anytime soon. No reason.
Ring Joins GNU – Beta 2 Released with Multi-Device and Decentralized Use
I keep hearing that System 76 laptops are just rebranded Clevos, but I haven't personally looked into it yet.
I'm an iOS developer. Everything is irrelevant.
It sounds like there are no window offices. From the article:

> Inside, UBS has significantly reduced the number of individual offices, by about 40 percent. None sit against the windows, allowing light throughout the building.
Thanks!

I've thought quite a bit about it. I think the demand is there now for well-built machines as people are realizing now that their old machines were built much, much better and lasted longer. Before now, people really didn't have a contrast for those machines, so they really didn't understand how good they had it.

If someone was able to buy the patent for Whirlpool's direct drive machine, that would be ideal, then just start manufacturing those things again. People would weep tears of joy if they could buy those machines again, not exaggerating.

As far as design, there are only two designs that have ever been used. The top loader with the tall agitator and newer top loaders have the low profile agitator.

I'm still not quite sure why Whirlpool stopped making their direct drive top loaders. It was the biggest step down in quality I think I've ever seen. Machines went from lasting 8-12 years before needing some routine maintenance to mostly breaking within the first 3 years on the newly designed Vertical Modular Washers.

With enough resources and determination, the appliance industry could be turned on it's head, at least starting with washers and dryers.
I thought about it, but there's not really much I can do.

testData is undefined on line 28 of benchmark.js.
I agree the hardest people to prosecute here are the editors, but they should have insisted that the story was fact checked to a much great extent. This is not a story where you can be flippant about minor details like facts.
It would be interesting to see how this plays out with websockets based torrent clients.

Meshnetwork torrent trackers with DHT anyone?
I meant in the sense that you have to anticipate your opponents' intentions and perhaps try to mislead them as to your own.

It's different yet similar.
Pokemon GO API reverse engineers come to a full stop
> "If I like a glass, did I really like it, or did I just like the experience? Or did I feel pressured to like it? Or did the high price tag convince me I should have liked it and if I didn't I just don't have a refined enough palate? Should I stick with it to see if I acquire a taste and understand what all the fuss is about?"

You're not asking "Did I really like it". You already answered that, there is no 'true' liking. You're asking "Would I have liked another one better, all other things being equal?"
Square pops after earnings; CFO says company firing 'on all cylinders'
Like it or not but we're already well into the "unimaginable disaster" phase for climate change.

The biggest group of climate change denialists are those scientists that insist we can cap things at 2°, which at this point is about the same as thinking that Santa is real.
Sounds like WebGL didn't initialize. Do other WebGL demos work in your browser? If yes, I'd report this issue to the dev.
5 Hurdles Faced by the startup in mobile app Development
Partnering with global carriers to upgrade SMS
The story I read from this is that:

1. It's very easy to be fooled by someone who is bent on fooling you, especially where they've got strong motive to do so.

2. It's very easy to fool yourself when you decide on a narrative and start looking for facts to support it.

I've long maintained, and I'm finding some good sources (skeptics-based work) that it's only in specifically seeking to uncover truth that you will do so. If you instead presume some previously-determined proposition, you're simply going to make a case for that argument. Most insidious is when you don't realise you're pursuing the second avenue. As Richard Feynman said, you're the easiest person to fool.

Susan Haack, in "Science, Scientism, & Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism", Skeptical Inquirer Nov/Dec 1997 wrote:

A genuine inquirer aims to find out the truth of some question, whatever the color of that truth. This is a taugology (Websters: "inquiry: search for truth..."). A pseudo-inquirer seeks to make a case for some proposition(s) determined in advance.

Question your evidence, question your sources, question yourself, question your premises and propositions. Question them again. And then have someone else do the same, independently.

To draw another recent online element to this -- a week or so back a video clip circulated of the South African university student "fallist" movement claiming that science was a western imposition, and that it needed to be "decolonised". First, that neglects the long history of non-western science -- from the Middle East, Africa, Persia, India, and China. Second, it is contradicted by the motto of the Royal Society, from which the modern tradition of scientific inquiry did arise: "Nullius in verba" -- "On the word of no one". That is, science -- knowledge -- doesn't arise on the authority of any one person's voice, but on the fundamental testability and verifiability of facts.

A lesson Rolling Stone and Ms. Ruben-Erdely might take to heart.
Don't use this. It'll install and patch a bunch of stuff that won't get updated and will eventually break your system.
In the old mechanical brained dryers a simple set of thermostats regulated the temperature. They can be purchased for $5 on ebay to replace if they act up. A new computer brain? $100-$200
Mashing two buttons that are literally side by side vs. pressing one button is not really a huge usability boost.

Having a key like Option which allows you to easily type accented characters and other things quickly is a big deal.
> you will get a nasty glare.

Indian here, my dad used to hit me if I moved a book with my foot. That is just not acceptable.
Damn so there is a remaining patent. Buy it or not, there's at least a ticking clock toward a reliable machine. :) I reposted your article in Lobsters forum. Curious what you would reply to Ted's interesting points:

https://lobste.rs/s/3rcyqa/they_used_last_50_years_appliance...

He raises a few good points but one I don't have any detail on is the commercial washers and dryers. How much better or worse are they? What's the arrangement like in terms of is it the same crap with a profitable service contract or much better with maintenance provisions at reasonable points in time?
I agree. I guess the other accelerator likes to imagine that they are the cast of The Shark Tank.
FSF now offering paperless option for all copyright assignments
When the UVA rape story unravelled, there was heightened scrutiny of Erdely's other work. I remember that a 2011 story of hers got particular notice:

This 2011 story, "The Catholic Church's Secret Sex-Crime Files", was also published in Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-catholic-church...

A Newsweek writer, who apparently covered this altar boy case as a reporter in Philadelphia, wrote this critique a few weeks after the UVa story collapsed:

http://www.newsweek.com/another-rolling-stone-rape-article-h...

> Erdely’s problems with the Billy Doe story began when she accepted as gospel, as did other reporters, a 2011 Philadelphia grand jury report that claimed Billy was raped as a 10-year-old altar boy by two priests, who passed him around like a piñata, and then a year later, by his sixth-grade homeroom teacher at his parish school. The Philadelphia district attorney, Seth Williams, also ran with Billy’s story without doing any investigating.

Not sure if Newsweek's allegations ever amounted to any action -- by this time in late 2014, RS and Erdely were so up shit creek with the UVa story that there wasn't much interest in how she might have screwed up in the past.

But Newsweek did write a lengthy follow-up about the altar boy case in 2016, continuing to argue the case that the alleged victim lied: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/01/29/billy-doe-altar-boy-sends...

To be clear, Erdely's 2011 Rolling Stone story was not what sent the defendants to jail. Her story was based off of a grand jury report. The story was published before the men went to trial, but it's not as if her story launched the trial. So the Newsweek 2016 followup only mentions her in passing, as the real purported problem is with the district attorney. Erdely is just faulted for not being very good at scrutinizing the prosecution.
I was thinking IPFS
what's your problem? just ignore it if it doesn't resonate with you
>I took deceit to mean tricking your opponent into thinking you were doing one thing when you were actually going to do another. You can't do that in Go or Chess?

Well you can technically but it's horrible. No above amateur player tries to play 'trick moves'. Skilled players try to find the objectively best moves in the given position because tricks are just way to easily spotted.

The "betcha didn't see that coming!" thing is only something they do in dramatised films. Stracraft and other RTS games on the other hand abuse lack of information quite heavily. 'Cheese strategies' or unorthodox openings are very frequently used at the highest level.