skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I definitely don't remember anyone trying to work on anything with me."

This is too bad.

We really have to much faith in 'pills' when they are obviously just a temporary fix for something underlying.

I had a physical ailment that was hard to diagnose, the doctors could be bothered.

Finally I 'fixed myself' simply by sleeping normal hours, quitting the red-bull, and quit my job and took some time away from stress. That did it.

Scary: not a single doctor asked me about my habits! If they did, they would have found I was sleeping 5 hours a night, drinking 3 redbulls a day, and max-stressed. The answer was obvious to any fool! But several doctors missed it!

Good luck with your issue.
Versioning is not going to fix go's namespace problem, unless the package manager does the aliasing, like in every other well crafted language. Go namespace feature is completely broken, URL shouldn't be namespaces. This is yet another half backed feature put in Go that doesn't scale in practice. There are so many of them in the language, they'll be more and more obvious as the language gains adoption.
Sort of. What people are upset about is that there is no longer a real "Pro" option. If it had become the "Macbook Air Pro," that would complaint would still be valid. The arguments would be framed differently ("why did Apple kill the Pro line" instead of "this Macbook isn't really a Pro"), but the underlying issue would still be there.
I hate the word "fair". It means nothing.

If Tesla is charging more than you think fair, set up super-charger stations next to theirs, and charge wholesale electricity + X%; you'll make a killing.
> they created an OS that consumes 90G of disk space

Was it some sort of Sony-only release? I've run every major version of Windows over the years and never had one come anywhere near this sort of size.
Pick and place has always needed to rotate because the odds of the PCB part being in the same orientation as the supplied tape is extremely low especially for analog parts or RF parts. Even for "purely digital designs" (LOL, all circuits are analog) you never had tapes of 0.1 uF decoupling capacitors in vertical vs horizontal orientation, or four tapes of LEDs in various orientations (LEDs have polarity).
No that's basically exactly what I mean. If you really care about the environment you'll reduce consumption. If you sort of feel bad about the environment, you'll sort your trash but keep buying mountains of throwaway products that can be nominally reclaimed. It's still a massive waste of time, effort and material even if somebody can reclaim the material for other worthless products like direct-mail flyers or whatever later. There is no path to sustainability that does not entail consuming less.
Ah! Yeah, that's different, and as far as I know your way is the current right way to do it, but I'm not an expert on the subject.
Indeed.

> the basic calculations in the network happen ultimately in the form of a simple multiplication where the output Y is just the input X weighted (feedforward multiplied by W, the Weight). Y = W * X

All NNs are linear models? Wut?
Good article. I'm also in the process of getting control of my tablet, by building a custom ROM for it. However, it's not possible to unlock the bootloader as described in the article as Lenovo has decided that it should not be that easy, so I need to take care of that first.

It would have been fantastic if the tablet in the article had a locked bootloader, because I really want to learn how to unlock these bootloaders from scratch. I'm just not comfortable by downloading random binaries from questionable filelockers and loading them on my tablet, I want to know how they are produced so I can do it myself.

I'm reading everything I can find, but the information on this subject is very limited and consists most of "flash these files" and absolutely no informtion how they were created.

Does anyone have good resources on the process of unlocking bootloaders from scratch?
Yeah, I just don't think the growth is necessary any more, unless we suddenly come up with an amazingly better way of developing by using VR or something.
Interestingly enough, this is one of the reasons I still play World of Warcraft: I used to be pretty hardcore (never Realm Firsts or anything, but hard mode raiding during BC/WotLK), and thus invested into my main characters... but recently I much more enjoy leveling, questing, pet battles, and all these little things. I basically play it like a single player game and enjoy the scenery. I just can't bring myself to enjoy other new games like I used to, I have a huge library of unplayed or minimally played Steam games, because I will just play WoW anyway...
Frontend developer here. Everytime I need to create some sort of rich API I discovered that the last framework I learnt was "no longer valid". Happened with CakePHP, Webforms and now ASP.Net 2.

My feeling is that backend development is overcomplicated/overbloated. Specially with the big players (AWS, Play). Lucky me, I found my way with PHP. Simple, elegant, lightweight and fast enough. You don't need a lot of complicated boilerplate, nor learning a new template language or syntax.
The most thorough and profound defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen
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Video game developers, video editors and graphic artists are the traditional professions where more ram is always better. But, in the days where nobody pays attention to memory usage, casual use can peg all of your ram and page the living daylights out of your hard drive[0]. I've had chrome eat up 32gb all on its own. No VM required.

[0]: https://www.macintouch.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1046 (Spotify is killing SSDs)
What's "klunky"? You add :from<Perl5> to module name and off you go. The only thing that irks me is Perl 5's common notation is snake_case, but in Perl 6 kebob-case is almost universal, so by bringing in Perl 5 code you break this stylistic convention.
+1 for Jade Empire
"but why does everyone seem to hate on Freud, considering he has had a tremendous influence on modern psychology?"

Because his theories were not necessarily scientific, and it was unjust perhaps that he had such influence.
> The hall mark of the pro has always been the form factor, battery life, screen, mousepad.

Form factor was always a secondary factor. First and foremost was high specs in CPU, memory, storage, connectors and screen. i.e. for a Pro-fessional user (photographer, graphics designer, film).

I think you're getting confused with the non-Pro macbooks and 'air' line.

I'm wondering what you've been using your mac for if performance isn't a concern... I'd be concerned that you might have been paying over the odds ...
Yes, I think it's the same as what I know as the "positivist calendar". I love it that the first of every month would always be a Monday. It would be so beautiful and almost perfect.
Barriers to enter are a kind of competitive advantage. According to the model, it will lead to concentration of this kind o industry on the places it is already established, and the migration of other kinds of industry to the other places.
I wouldn't recommend that for the average individual (who, unlike most of the readers on this site, don't have a lot of disposable cash in savings anyways) - at least from a tax filing perspective. At the very least you're going to have to start filing an FBAR annually, and (depending on tax treaties) have deal with withholding credits. That all aside, there's the currency-conversion hassle, and the fees associated with moving cash internationally.
The only people who win with ads are those who make money already and don't really need the ads. It's not worthwhile.
So - can the games industry be saved, or does it need to get "disrupted"?

From the outside it definitely looks like it has the same problem as the movie industry, that is lots of money going into large conservative projects, where change is perceived as pure risk and little upside.

To be honest the article itself put me off first with the "white male" stuff, but I must admit that it sums up mostly what I feel about games today. While I really admire the graphics (Battlefield 1 for example), the kind of dead end gameplay makes me sad.

I'm wondering what the necessary environment would be to incubate change there. It's still not the size of the movie industry (on a company level at least), so there should be room for development.

On the other hand, from a technical perspective, with the tools we have today (Unity etc.) there is a very solid foundation for quality independent developments. So that's at least one positive outlook.
It doesn't say "gas equivalent cost - X%" it just says "less than gas". It also mentions fluctuations related to the local price of electricity and that it won't be a profit center.
Damn, you weren't kidding - what the hell?
There is nothing to support the author's typical feminist schtick of using diversity as a shorthand for blaming white men for the problems observed. Video games already have a diverse, demographically blind audience, that's why they're cheap mass entertainment. They're class and race-blind, and women do play them.

Games can offer a free space to explore, play and excel, away from the judgement of real life, often with a completely arbitrary character. For the entire bottom half of society, that's very appealing, and it's not "pseudo-masculine nonsense". Relationship mechanics are popular with men too, with Mass Effect's crew of cameraderie and romance being a hugely popular AAA example. So popular, the lack of a respectful ending pissed off its fanbase, whose desire for meaning and depth then got spun into an accusation of entitlement and obsession.

What we've seen the last 10 years is games have become more shallow, favoring gambling systems and skinner boxes over mechanics and systems. Ironically, it's mostly women playing these social and mobile games. In fact, it is hilarious that she talks of "rich, deep experiences" but then holds up "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" as an example in the very next sentence, which is literally a cash-grab celebrity reskin of an existing game.

She complains that "we've stopped listening to each other", that the conversation is "evolving slowly" and that people don't think "women are human", but she pulls the same dehumanizing routine by painting the entire existing industry and its customers with the same tired old brush. Perhaps she should consider "that what [men] like is not less worthy nor boring nor wrong nor hard to understand". And if she wants "compassion and respect and fearlessness", she could start by practicing what she preaches.
> ... took 4 hours became 150 hours of boring side-questing ...

There's a lot of lifestyle gamers who get angry if games are 'too short'.
It's hilarious that you would interrupt a blog post on analyzing a data dump for a sermon on helmets that is not remotely supported by the empirical data.

Cyclists die in traffic because they are hit by multi-ton motorized vehicles, not any of the things enumerated here.
Really not sure where you're getting your info. The Skylake series is not limited to two cores and can handle more than 16GB. With DDR3 it's 32GB, with DDR4 it's 64GB. This is true of their mobile and desktop parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Li...

Edit:

Maybe you're just confusing Skylake and Kaby Lake?
What specifically doesn't work?

It's working for me but I would love to have an example of breakage to take to my IT as another reason they should allow the company machines to be updated.
Or like 12 chrome tabs....
Most people need 32gb ram for bragging rights. You don't seem to understand why that's a big deal

:)
He's probably subtracting inflation to make the interest rate of Tesco relative to the rest of the economy. Stuffing money in a mattress is a pretty poor idea when it should be very easy to find an investment scheme that covers inflation.
I think it's a lot because many of his ideas that were revolutionary for the time are considered obvious in hindsight. Mental illness at the time was often considered to be the result of some moral failing, and those with it are degenerates and beyond help. Freud and other founding members of psychology presented a radical idea that mental illness is a disease, its sufferers should be treated with kindness and compassion, and it can be treated by talking.
What mobile processor will address 64GB 3 years from now?
One thing that is used to prevent bad situations is to place wide round columns before the exits. This will direct the flow around the columns creating a little more time for people behind the column to go thought the exit and remove some pressure of the people in front of the columns.
How not to behave at tech press launches
I (former Perl5 dev) am amazed that Perl6 actually has become "production-ready", after all those years. I find it quite good, and there are many interesting new concepts.

However, some things seem to be harder. For instance, it seems that I can't use the handy =~ s/.../ string replacements anymore but have to write grammar rules. Is that true?

If the old way is still possible (without Perl5 mode) then I cannot find it in Perl6's documentation.

Apart from that -- good work!

BTW: There is only one thing which I really dislike about Perl6, and that is that "nifty logo" :-) If you want to attract professional developers you should provide a professionally looking logo.
For reference, I am the author of Easy Passwords extension which uses a very similar concept.

Your concerns are valid of course but not necessarily for PBKDF2 which is used here. As long as a significantly high number of iterations is used bruteforcing any non-trivial master password from a derived one would take so long that it becomes unrealistic. Of course, ideally you should pick a strong password as your master password (Easy Passwords actively encourages that), it would also be recommendable with an encrypted key store. LessPass uses merely 8192 iterations however, this is way too low - recommendations vary but I would consider anything below 100k insecure these days. But with a sufficient number of iterations and a strong master password your biggest worry by far should be a malware infestation on your computer - both with this approach and with an encrypted key storage.
You forgot to divide by two.

It's actually 1.6 MJ, not 3.2 MJ.
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The author does sound like the type of person that would complain about braindead blockbusters in cinema and literature too.
It's almost always better to change the incentives to encourage the desired behavior rather than to try to police behavior directly.
Not to mention: written by someone who doesn't haven't a clue about what they are writing about.

I quote:

> ... although conventional batteries have a slower recharging time, the fact that they maintain their charging capacity over a longer period because makes Li-ion the more efficient choice over carbon-based supercapacitors.

Nope. That's not it.
Seems totally reasonable. Gas-powered cars cost a lot to fill up and electricity isn't free either, so this totally makes sense. I'd rather go the "pay by the kWh used" route than the "pay the entire expected lifetime cost of charging built into the up-front cost of the car" route, because I know I drive significantly fewer miles than average.

This charge also changes the economics of rolling out Supercharger stations, to the point where they might actually become profitable (rather than being loss-leaders). This means that more of them will be built. That's a great thing.
This is not at all a new problem.
Yes they are cheap... but their hardware has a high fault-rate. Hardware support is there but the software support is crappy at best. Allwinners SoC's pretty much have zero support in the open source community. They use old kernels. You will be running old kernels and graphics drivers. Also... the old Orange Pi SoC got notoriously hot. 60-75 degress celcius. You needed an active cooler or very big passive one. Lets not forget the ridiculous patched kernel by Allwinner. They forgot to remove their "debug" code which basically allowed total control over devices shipped with the kernel; http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1108-security-alert...

I'd be very causcius about using this SBC. Sure it's fine for fiddling around. You're better of with ODroid.
In the US, the Pi 3 runs about $35 on Amazon. VAT may effect pricing in other places.
Also its worth mentioning that none of this was 'free' to begin with. Tesla could afford to run these stations with no cost to the customer because the customer just paid $100,000 on a car that had enough margin to pay for perks like these.

With the Model 3 coming, I imagine competition from Chevy and others will keep prices low, so that means a cooked in premium to pay for the Supercharger network isn't in the cards anymore. Personally, I prefer things this way. Whenever a resource is free, it means the average users are simply subsidizing the heaviest users, who are often abusing the service, like ride sharing and taxi services are now. Metered pricing with a lowered up-front makes a lot more sense.
AFAIK, those are still much slower than RAM.
There are a whole class of applications that solve REAL problems that require "a bit of nudity" that Apple disallows.
According to history, an executable is the perfect thing for a Word document. ;-)
No. They buy insane amounts of RAM they don't need, open up the resource monitor, see the greedy apps taking over 19GB of RAM and scream "see guys!! i told you i needed 32gb!1"
Sorry, but this is wrong.

"less battery is possible without less battery runtime" -> doesn't work with CPU bound software like Hangouts or external appliances that need to be powered. Fact is the battery is much smaller.

- Better display: granted

- Better sound: Nope, there's no substitute for bass response, all of which gets better the larger the speaker and enclosure is

- Lighter: Yes. This is a professional's priority number 2749 though.

- Structural engineering: It's half as thin. If you know mechanics, you'd need a material double as tough in order to make up for the loss in structural stability. Not gonna happen, maybe their most recent super duper aluminum alloy is 20-30% tougher. Overall, a thinner structure is ALWAYS more brittle.

All in all, OP is completely right: This simply isn't a professional machine.
I can't imagine realistic social gaming given today's technology. Relationships are complicated - much more complicated than game graphics. A system that accurately modelled human relationships would probably need to be within throwing distance of passing the Turing test.

One reason the industry keeps churning through the same ideas is because they're relatively tractable. Graphics, physics, texturing etc, are all solvable bounded problems.

It's easy to make trite multipath social games, but it's incredibly hard to make a social game with genuine depth. And realistically, if you do that you're not competing with other games, but with dating apps, job interviews, and the real social world.

Second Life was an interesting experiment. It started off as the great new hope for social gaming, and turned into a sterile strip mall and giant pimp hotel. It turns out that even if you give people free rein with their fantasies, most fantasies aren't all that original or interesting.
It might also signify a tourist area - near Central Park, I usually see people who look like locals riding in the street, and people who look like tourists riding on the sidewalk.

(Tourists tend to have bikes with bike-rental logos, or Citibikes; locals tend to have their own bikes, or if on citibikes, are dressed more like locals.)
Is anyone naive enough to believe that newly build dense housing is going to bring down the cost of housing? It doesn't work that way.

One of the biggest contributors to high housing cost in San Francisco is rent control. It benefits some tenants, but it results in more and more rental housing being turned into TIC buildings under the Ellis Act.

My wife's family had a four unit apartment building in SF and they had to sell it because with rent control, and de-facto vacancy control, it was a money-losing proposition since there was no way they could maintain the building and pay the mortgage with the rents they were getting. My wife may have married me for the free handyman services I provided to them. I'm sure that the new owner did a TIC conversion. In a way it's good that more people become owners rather than renters, but it does not increase the supply of housing or lower the cost.

There are also a lot of houses in San Francisco with empty in-law units because the homeowners are scared to rent them out because of all the laws on rental housing, even in the cases where the in-law unit is not covered by rent control. So we're in the odd situation of having a housing shortage with tens of thousands of unoccupied housing units.
In the screenshots, they lead with a huge "40 - 55% off retail prices" which is a very effective way to trick someone into downloading a retail app.
The article's final solution (sum3) is exactly this. It does a memcpy into a temporary.
However it's a console escape key, which means it doesn't work in graphical applications (VS Code, Atom, IDEs, ...). You might also want vim mode there. Or want easy access to escape for other reasons (intellisense can sometimes be annoying, ...).
I've been thinking along the same lines. I really wished there was an open protocol that provides all of twitter's functionality (and no more, to avoid scope creep).

But as much as I hate to admit it, Twitter's value is Protocol + Moderation. I'm not savvy with their operations but having worked with other cloud platforms, I know that any platform that has even a modicum of visibility is immediateley abused in many ways that are hard to forsee. Malicious attacks against the platform itsef are also an issue.

Email is a good example of open and federated platform, which unfortunately carries more abuse & noise than actual signal.

I still think building a protocol that incorporates a form of moderation is possible, but I'm not sure how to solve this.
I agree with getting rid of the DST switch. But getting everyone to use UTC is messy.

If you're going to overhaul the system, why not base time on the longitude where the sun is at the meridian (noon)?

Of course, you'd have to use degrees with decimals to avoid confusion over minutes and seconds. And even then, it might be better to use a term other than degrees to avoid confusion with the weather.
Except for when it's pronounced "fifteen-hundred".
The inevitable decline and fall of Hadoop
Mind giving us examples?
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Does it officially support every major browser on my desktop and phone? Anything that doesn't is still less useful to be than LastPass.
> JetBrains should sell hardware that is fast enough to run their software.

Sun tried that. Didn't go well.
The s/// is still there. You just use ~~ smartmatch operator instead of =~ binding operator. I did get it to pop up in the docs search results: https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-s%2F%2...

I personally like the method version: .subst() and .subst-mutate()
What type of work do you do exactly? I'm just curious because in my experience, I've never run virtual machines with front ends. As of late, I haven't been running VMs at all and have been using Docker containers on my Mac to emulate the environment I need something to run in.
How much does it cost to charge a Tesla at home on average?
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