skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that XMPP is much lighter in terms of server processing than Matrix (they are doing entirely different things, after all). In terms of transport, yes: Matrix's default HTTP/1+JSON transport is heavier than baseline XMPP.

I haven't checked but my hunch would be that HTTP/2+JSON would be very similar to typical XMPP in terms of bandwidth, if not better, and obviously requires no spec changes; just an HTTP/2 capable client & server/LB.

In terms of what transport people use: well, I assume end-users will use whatever the best performing clients implement. Riot is the flagship client and will obviously do better than HTTP+JSON; meanwhile we've had a lot of pressure from Weechat to start using a better transport (e.g. websockets) for them (https://riot.im/app/#/room/#matrix:matrix.org/$1477998960439... meanwhile Ralith (the author of the NaChat Qt matrix client) has been working himself on a capnproto transport due to wanting something faster & better than the baseline.

So we're not particularly worried that most people will stick with the baseline for daily usage. Instead, it'll act as a really nice and easy on-ramp for new developers, debugging/deving on the API, etc. Anyone serious will end up using a better transport.

Finally: it's worth noting that adding E2E by default into Matrix increases the complexity of clients enormously - so we expect the plain `curl -XPUT /_matrix/client/r0/rooms/.../m.room.message --data { "body": "hello world" }` style APIs to increasingly be just for experimentation, initial dev and prototyping. As soon as you want to start talking E2E folks will reach for a full client SDK, at which point they will get access to both E2E and whatever weird & wonderful transports that SDK happens to provide. So, again, the majority of users won't be on plain ol' HTTP.
Not that i know of.
The lack of an open Fortran compiler makes installing a lot of scientific packages difficult.
Sure, it has potential to be scary, but what's wrong with encouraging people to vote in general?

Since there's seemingly no evidence of Facebook or Lyft targeting this to certain demographics, it seems neutral.
Or they'll wait for the initial hissyfit to die down and see what actual sales are like, because if sales remain good, then they'll correctly reason that the "influencer" demographic's tantrums don't actually matter that much.
Something on the order of ~50-100 mW.
How concentrated? Concentrated hydrogen peroxide (> 90%) is a rocket fuel. Above 8% is considered somewhat hazardous. Above 28%, hazmat precautions (corrosive, burns skin). Above 35%, unstable. Above 50%, even large industrial users usually don't go.[1]

[1] http://www.h2o2.com/technical-library/default.aspx?pid=76&
The "metadata" distinction is pure sophistry, metadata matters every bit as much to privacy as the data itself (often moreso). Telling Osama bin Laden you are really excited about your new dog is much less significant than the fact you know and talk to Osama bin Laden.

As for oversight, there is next to none.
But at that point you have a best-in-class laptop that can command the higher price. The problem is that the current configuration is expensive and is not really better than the competition in anything but trackpad.
Unless they discontinue the product completely, of course. The answer is "no" in that case.
Based on past performance, Apple will update the iMac and Mac mini at some point next year. New laptop designs usually launch at a crazy premium (the MacBook air and 2015 MacBook were both super expensive at launch and came down in price with each update.) The MacBook Pro will almost certainly do the same.

Whether the trash can Mac Pro gets an update is anyone's guess.
Having worked in a nursing home, the outlook someone with Alzheimer's has in not pleasant. It's confusing and, in the early stages, you're aware of everything you love and the understanding of your place in the world slowly slipping away.
Since this got upvotes, but no real answers, I have just found out about the "explore github" section and it may get me what I need:

https://github.com/explore
Because thanks to the electoral college, voter turn out in the US matters outside of the dozen contested states. /s
I'm in Richmond too. It is a great city. Very affordable, youngish, a fun mid sized city. We probably have more microbreweries per capita than anywhere else in the US.

But I do feel like we are flyover country as far as tech is concerned. Compared to northern VA we might as well not exist.

However I do think it is a good place for startups if only because there is an outsized amount of talented engineers stuck in corporate jobs here. It shouldn't be hard to poach some of them before they give up and move to SF or DC. Especially easy if you offer nationally competitive salaries.
Or utterly failed ones...
Or, make the headline outrageous, but in the body apologize for the clickbait headline and proceed to say a bunch of nuanced and reasonable things.
The people who claim that high-IQ types are doomed and will be 'The Outsiders' and will be discriminated against to the point that 90%+ of them will not get appropriate higher education (I won't link to the pseudo-statistics that supposedly 'proves' this) are claiming very large effect sizes (and blaming that for why they need shelter in high-IQ societies).

In this case, such large effects can be rejected pretty soundly; with the sample sizes given, 23 vs 1058, you have 80% power to detect `pwr.t2n.test(n1=1058, n2=23, power=0.80, alternative="greater")` ~> d=0.52 (which is, for example, about half the size of the black-white IQ gap, and considered a 'medium' effect size).

In addition, the longitudinal cohort studies of the gifted like Terman, Hunter, TIP, or SMPY, do not find any signs of severe emotional/behavioral/social difficulties, the genetic correlations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation#Intelligen...) are all in the wrong direction, adults are more able than kids to self-select into stimulating environments (possibly why heritability of intelligence increases with age), and so on. A new review paper which is relevant: "From Terman to Today: A Century of Findings on Intellectual Precocity" http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/From-Terman-t... , Lubinski 2016.

From a statistical perspective, this result doesn't tell us much about gifted adults not because the sample size is far too small, but because IQ scores at age 5-6 inherently don't predict adult IQ sufficiently well. This subsample of 23 kids with mean IQ of 134.6, selected because they are past the 130 threshold, are going to regress to the mean as they grow up. With the usual r=0.5 of 5yo/adult scores, their adult mean IQ will be more like 117 - which is above average but not 'gifted' by anyone's criterion. To try to study gifted adults by starting with them as kids, you would need to start another standard deviation up, around 150 IQ, which would be extremely difficult. (The correlation rapidly increases up to middle school, which is why TIP/SMPY don't suffer from this issue as much: much higher threshold and also much more reliable tests.)
agreed a thousand times! as a CTY alumni, my fond memories of being at CTY are of the first time in my life where i was surrounded by equals! it was such a positive experience for me.
You won't be easily manipulated by virtue of having strong opinions, as long as they're weakly held, because you'll probably state your strong opinion to someone who knows better than you. If your opinion is actually weakly held, you'll recognize that their opinion is closer to the truth and adjust yours accordingly.

Often my own intuition is at odds with the "evidence I have" and I turn out to be right later.

I mean evidence in a broad sense, encompassing all information available to you for basing your worldview upon, including your intuition. If your intuition has been reliable in the past, and the scientific evidence was being put out by entities with obvious incentives for a certain conclusion, then it's rational to weigh your intuition highly relative to the scientific evidence.
That's not a foregone conclusion with Apple — whether it's the XServe in 2011, the 17" MacBook Pro in 2012, the expandable Mac Pro in 2013… there's a wall, folks, and it's got writing on it.
A little off topic but I also got my start on graphing calculators (Ti 83 plus)!

And your experience mirrored mine as far as external interest, outside of games and in my case, programs that "did the homework for you", no one really cared about the process of making them, it was all about if the end result was something they could use
That's also my impression of a good chunk of the adults in my limited exposure to Mensa, so I don't think it's just a kid thing.
My imagination says lava cakes. That's what he finds interesting.
When I was a postdoc at UCSF there was subsided housing at the Mission Bay. The price was like $1000 below market rate. I think they still have it, but space is no doubt very limited.
What issues are you having? Containers are not really different from non containerised environments. Have you filed an issue?
I can't imagine what your use case is that requires running bleeding edge database servers in production and that cannot be managed via native OS packaging. Would you please enlighten us?

Otherwise it really sounds like you're using a non-best practice (running a DB in a container) to paper over another non-best practice (treating your DB as a non-sacrosanct piece of infrastructure by introducing intentional instability through frequent needless upgrades).
So why did the Soviet Union have private housing (and the ability to inherit it)? Why does the modern USA have public lands, managed by the government for the free use of all? How do you classify Chinese communism?

It really isn't an either/or proposition; you're only taking the absolute extremes of the concepts. If it was such a proposition, where does the switch take place? At what point would a nation 'flip' from being 'socialist' to being 'capitalist'?
HooD let's you chat with the neighborhood around you no matter where you are
Plenty of reporting, if you look outside the Twitter bubble that declared it dead.

For example,

http://www.snopes.com/scientists-pronounce-great-barrier-ree...

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/14/us/barrier-reef-obit-trnd/

The reef is damaged but far from dead.
I don't agree with this at all. People naturally draw diagrams to demonstrate complex things. Any time a technical discussion gets complex, someone walks to a whiteboard or pulls out a piece of paper and starts drawing flows or interactions or whatever to clarify the discussion. Never have I seen someone say, "this is getting hard to follow, let me write some prose".

If class diagrams are useless then so are bar graphs and scatter plots. You can just list out the data points and everyone can read them.
How does Signal compare to Telegram? Would you recommend Telegram as better or worse then Signal.
I'm confused by the negative reaction. To me, these new laptops seem like the ultimate pro dream machines.

I can understand the frustration with with lack of other Mac updates somewhat, but really, Intel has not been giving much reason to update the cpu for a while now, so it is somewhat justified. Ram speed, and ssd speed, are more important by far now.

What puzzles me more is the lack of Mac mini action. Isn't this an excellent route for Apple to introduce new customers to the Mac? Why don't they make it compelling, and a tiny bit a loss leader? I know Mac revenue is a minor fraction of apple's revenue now, but on the same token, a reduction in asp for macs would be minor overall as well.

My guess: they don't want the cost and hassle of providing apple-grade support to new Mac users.
Never thought you could do that much with just JSON, this looks very promising for students or for fast prototyping.
TinyBuild claims G2A sold $450,000 worth of its keys without paying a penny
> Richard Stallman's opinions, outside of the realm of free software, are irrelevant in the context of the GNU project.

But his entire point is that free software is a moral imperative, and that it is morally better to have no software at all than non-free software. How can you separate morality into parts?

And, if you do, where do you divide it? Are politics that affect what copyright laws may exist relevant? Are meta-politics like voting rights or styles of government or campaign finance relevant, if they affect how copyright laws get decided?

> the focus of the GNU project is to develop a fully free operating system, and maintainers should focus their efforts accordingly

Right. It seems to me that becoming a GNU project means that you are required to focus your efforts in certain ways. You are completely free to focus your efforts in those ways without being part of the GNU project, though. It simply restricts your options.

If you trust the GNU project to be better at you at finding the morally right thing to do, then it makes sense to ask GNU to restrict what you can do. As a churchgoer I totally understand why you might want to outsource your morality to a larger organization consisting of more people than you who think harder about things - but it matters a lot that you find the right organization, and that you can trust the people who run the organization to be making good moral choices in general. There are a number of churches where I do not, and I don't associate myself with them, no matter how much I agree with most of their views. Similarly, I find it hard to trust the future moral decision-making of someone who supports eugenics. If I support their current moral stances on free software (and, as it happens, I agree with the vast majority of what Stallman says about free software), I can always just adopt those stances as my own.

> I wouldn't call GitHub a competitor.

Sorry, that was unclear - I meant GitHub and GitHub's competitors (in case you philosophically disagree with GitHub). It gets you a lot of stuff self-service that years ago was much more easily had through affiliation with GNU, or Apache, or Red Hat, or someone else.

I concede that donations and marketing are things you get from GNU that you wouldn't get from GitHub etc. (Although I think many projects find that being on GitHub gives them visibility in a way that seems likely to make up for the lack of explicit marketing, depending on the project.)
AFAIK H.265 is basically the standard for 4K streaming and is used in all 4K smart TVs.
What if one party offered to pay transport costs for people voting for them? Would that be classed as bribery?
Inside a nucleus---yes; from protons, not really. Helium-2 is as unstable or possibly more unstable than the tetraneutron; lithium-3 and beryllium-4 don't exist at all.
My fiancee is currently going through the same process. She's going to, but not taking seriously, the interviews she has in Manhattan.

OTOH, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and a few other cities look promising.

Some of the programs in Manhattan and Brooklyn are paying ~55000. She's in (we're in) >400000 in debt from the med school loans. There's no chance we can go there. (Maybe if they paid ~100000.)
Competition is desirable for the consumer, not for the producer.
Voter turnout doesn't matter anywhere, on the margin.
I agree with your assessment completely. I actually want to start a startup in Harrisonburg VA, but there are problems with starting one in the area.

It's much harder to raise money. There are very few investors there who can help you. There's less of a support system to help you. Fewer potential customers in the area. It's tough out there.

Very nice city, great beer for sure, low cost of living, very little opportunity if things go south for you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12881822

If you could elaborate a bit on how to get involved in the non-programming piece for us non-programmers, like designers and copywriters, the world will be a slightly better place.

Thanks.
How frequently? And can you quantify those benefits relative to the risk and amount of work involved? How do you know it passes the cost/benefit ratio test?
That doesn't sound like a sound advice.

If the author of the repo can't be bothered to look at the issue or a PR then I don't see how they'll be receptive to emails.

Most projects don't have other ways of contacting the people involved (very few list their e-mail addresses and even less have dedicated irc or slack channels).

Yes, it happens way too often that issues and PRs are ignored but realistically it's a strong signal to stop investing more time into such projects because it's unlikely things will improve.
Apple only allows the iOS WebKit framework, so in a way, all apps that show webpages are simply wrappers around an Apple browser.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they react to that differently.
You can run the latest MacOS in VMware on Windows. It works perfectly - Google "VMware Unlocker" as a starting point. This setup actually runs faster than the older Mac Mini I bought specifically to develop for iOS, and it's obviously much more convenient to be able to use a Mac from Windows whenever needed. Both Xcode and a $99 Apple Developer subscription are required if you wish to distribute the app anyway, so I'd suggest you go the VMware route if you don't want to buy Mac hardware or use a cloud service.
Interesting they leave out places like Raleigh, or Columbus.
That's completely different, I'm talking about normal laptops with touch screens. Which is what a touchscreen MBP would most likely look like since a (thin) transforming laptop using a full TDP mobile part hasn't happened yet afaik ( I'd imagine some of the old thick Wacom tablet style foldables might have back before the ultra mobile TDP processors came out)

My Spectre's touchscreen was great, I even shelled out for the active stylus to go with it because of how well the folded form factor worked for me.

The Zenbook I got after only folds as much as a traditional laptop, meaning all touching is done with the monitor more or less 90 degrees to you. I've plain never felt the urge to use that touchscreen.
Getting Started with Kubernetes using MiniKube
Yup, "groping around" is not at all the same as "groping"!!!
All the containers are available after termination, yes, so you can investigate.
Who bootstraps the bootstrap nodes?
You're right, Earth will be very different 50 years from now, but it's a matter of degrees (literally).

Here's a good rule of thumb[1]:

* Pull up 25% fossil assets - 2°C - Costly, but livable
* Pull up 33% fossil assets - 3°C - 1 billion fewer people on the planet
* Pull up 50% fossil assets - 4°C - 1 billion people on the planet
* Pull up all fossil assets - 5°C - Mad Max

So it's all a matter of how fast you can stop pulling fossil fuels out of the ground. Luckily, oil prices are getting cheaper which cuts out a large chunk of assets (tar sands, etc.), so we'll likely not hit 5°C. Hopeless ensures 4°C, profit motive makes 3°C possible, smart people working in the field makes 2°C possible.

I'd humbly request that people reading this look into advanced energy software jobs when they plot their next career move.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_bubble
> Follow the original coding style exactly.

Personally I would take any formatting and just run an auto-formatter over the code section when I work on it the next time in case it bothers me.

Correct and sane code are far more important than hassling someone else to conform to a particular style.

In my opinion applying styles is a task for machines, not humans.
Proposal for a community run replacement for Signal and WhatsApp
You can't hire the people working for megacorps if your company is in Virginia because they are more likely than not bound by noncompete clauses. Only California throws them out as a matter of public policy, which is one of the main reasons why Silicon Valley is where it's at.
Problems we have and may never be able to solve until a collapse:

- Electoral college - YES only a few states decide the president! Everyone else should just stay home!

- 2 Party system - LOOOOONG campaigns flood money into the two major party candidates - no one else will ever have a chance

- Term Limits - they would have to vote for it themselves when they ALWAYS significantly increase their net worth while in office

- Open primaries - If we could all vote for primary candidates REGARDLESS of party, we would have more centrist choices and not lunatics.

Thanks for your comment.

/endrant
I meant it made no difference with respect to influencing election outcomes because of how you can make close-enough legal offers, not that the law is hard to apply as written.
Proposing buzzkill measures like this is a large part of why green movements always struggled to get mainstream traction. I call myself a fairly rational actor and still I deeply resent being forced to separate my rubbish - if green politicians had put half the effort they put into forcing this issue at political level, into pushing the disposal industry to come up with better technological solutions to do that for me, they'd be heroes of the people.
Hmm, the '5' disappeared off the end of that comment for some reason.
That'll mean a whole new set of softwares. The current software (think photoshop) won't work on ARM processor
Or you could stay calm, walk more and pee on a tree.

http://peeonatree.blogspot.com/
I agree about the user name vs phone number. Federation issue was addressed here[1] for what it's worth.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Just because my country does it doesn't mean I agree with it. I feel that the public should have a streamlined voting process for making their opinions heard on ever government related matter
Should have 2014 in the title.

They demonstrated a technology the size of a contact lense, but did not make a functioning prototype that resides on an eye.

Still a neat approach.
Nor does Youtube have any tubes.

Words change, but technical jargon changes faster than most.

dongle: "a small device that plugs into a computer and serves as an adapter or as a security measure to enable the use of certain software"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dongle
Horrifying and/or hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBqiW1R5_JM
Yes, like in most social and behavioural science, unfortunately.
I think the key win here is very highly stylized native components that very elegant which solve specific use cases (content selection, database browsing, shops, etc). That way you can compete with react and friends who try to be everything to everybody.

I have built similar tools as well. You can't be generic because that requires programming skills. Focus on high value niches

And make everything look very very good. And perform very very fast.
I worked in mobile development for a while and had this idea in the back of my head during that time. I am glad to see that you have implemented it! Most frameworks walk the ugly line of having one foot in a standard stack (like a web stack) and one foot in the native-mobile world.
Knock the Keyboard Challenge on Achiever Is ON
I've looked for tech jobs in Eugene and found virtually nothing. The only tech workers I know there have remote-work jobs in bay area companies.
Less downtime and automatic recovery, I'd say. When the host machine goes down, the scheduler will pretty quickly start the container on a new machine. There the container will startup much quicker than a VM would.
Hey, sorry for late response. I've just saw your comment.

You can look at https://github.com/nenadg/traquer/blob/master/public/lib/tra... (core method).

You can find `play` function in it. `play` function calls for `eventsScheduler` that does replay part by calling actions (events) on saved objects in pre-saved time (ie. time you moved your mouse and clicked here and there).

If you have any further questions email me. I've attached my email to my hn profile.