skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Still, I miss MagSafe. It was metallic and elegant and had the perfect little charging light. This plug is white and plastic and cheap-looking and no light... it's a shame.

I think part of this transition is Apple subtly suggesting that people don't need to have their laptops plugged in as a default any longer. The Magsafe is so easy to attach, most people I know have one in their usual work spot and just snap it on every time they sit down there, even if it's just for 10 minutes to check email. The comparative inconvenience of the USB connector means they will likely be a little more intentional about plugging it in...but the incredible battery life of these devices now means you really don't need to. There's no need to snake a power cable to your table at the coffee shop when your laptop gets 10+ hours of battery life. You don't even need to plug it in on your desk at home, or working in your bed, on the couch...if you're just plugging it in on a side table when you close it up for the night now, the whole tripping hazard becomes a pretty moot point.

Edit: ah, I see jakobegger has beat me to this comment below ;)
Not true: https://www.gitkraken.com/download
I bet sorting the letters by frequency in the English alphabet would make it faster.
Macbook Prair?
You can buy a waterproof case with a strap for like $6 that's clear and supports touchscreens so you can take pictures in the water. So basically anyone that wants to can.
Just don't live anywhere near the North side of Rochester, homocides, and violence are high there. Suburbs(where most live), Park Ave, Brighton are all fine.
I forgot my power brick the other day, and used co-worker's USB-C phone charger. Someday has arrived.
I think the article makes a valid point but it can't get past Americanisms like "noon" or "4 p.m."

Americanisms? Noon in French == "midi" and in Spanish == "mediodia". I'm guessing you're British? I'm pretty sure people say that there in the UK, as well.

The sentiment that 24H time is less confusing to express than 12, I do sympathize with.
The Stack was introduced in the 6th edition rules change (1999) and still works the same way today. The 6th edition rules also unified the instant and interrupt types, because the separate interrupt type was only necessary in the old "batch-based" system.
"Today, I only charge my Macbook at my desk, where there's no danger of accidental cable-yanking. A full charge easily lasts all day, so when I'm out it's never actually connected to anything."

This is a good take. I hadn't thought of this argument before. It makes sense.

I know I'm in the habit of keeping my laptop plugged in as much as possible for those times when I do need to rely on the battery. I generally get only half a day with my MBA (13" early 2015) running multiple JVMs, Mail, and Safari with lots of tabs. I do find I get better performance when I turn off WiFi and dim the screen.

According to the tech specs, my laptop should get "Up to 12 hours wireless web". The 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar specs at "Up to 10 hours wireless web". I wonder if this means I'll get less unplugged time with the MBP.
A GPU enabled AMI for deep learning
The Blood Telegram (1971) [pdf]
> With GraphQL you need to set up your security constraints once

I'm only superficially familiar with GraphQL, (and not at all familiar with Intercooler), but I always felt that security was glossed-over and not a core part of what it offers.[0]

Authorization is challenging enough on the server, but having a query-language power client-side, feels like a pretty fragile thing to me to secure properly. Definitely not something you just set once and forget about...

[0] http://graphql.org/learn/authorization/ - if I get it right, it gives a good example of row-based authorization and essentially tells you to figure it out for yourself in your business logic layer.
As this version of the thread seems to have more points I'll comment here.

I completely agree with everyone using UTC for numeric time numbering.

I DISAGREE, with remapping 'noon', 'midnight', 'morning', etc. All of the relative descriptions for when in the local solar day a thing is should be approximate local references.

An example: 'lunch' and 'noon' would still be the time in the middle of the local solar day that people get a meal. (Somewhere around 11AM to 2PM in current local times)
We have different definitions of "hijack" then. I think "hijack" is broad enough to include sending mail as someone, rather than just spoofing them.
At the same time, completely locking down your opponent is the most fun way to win.
Having taken more to wondeering what the questions should be than the answers, I find this brilliant. Possibly also a guide to some difficult conversations and questions from others.
But the Scandinavian governments and economies are not socialist in the sense of "the government/state/collectives own the means of production". It's true that the Scandinavian countries have high levels of taxation and redistribution, but for the most part the government does not own much of the economy - with the exception of some natural resources and utilities, most of the economy is in private hands. Indeed, they're often cited as among the most "free market" economies in the world in this sense.
Imagine buying a multiplayer game from Target and being unable to play against people who bought it from Best Buy.
Startup Grind with Dennis Mortensen of X.ai
"We co-slept with each of our 3 kids when they were newborns (which is not recommended by American doctors but is very common throughout the world)"

Remember: all of the statistics and scare stories about co-sleeping are related to alcohol or obesity.

If you are neither drunk nor obese[1], you shouldn't think twice about co-sleeping.

[1] Granted, this does rule out a significant portion of the US population ...
so theyd report 53.56% occupied rather than 53.57.. is that sucha big deal when its very very close and performs much better than alternative methods on an extremely technically challenging problem?
Show HN: Mulle-container: Sets, hashtables, arrays and more – written in C
They are afraid of Microsoft, not Google.
I don't think it's a question of effort: it's a decision on the part of Apple to keep a minimal product line.
You haven't really written anything different here.

I was hoping you'd elaborate further on what you mean by this, rather than restating the same thing in only-slightly-different words.

I'll have a stab at it. Are you implying that the people who wrote the software for the internet banking website and phone app I use are the same ones who wrote CryptoLocker?

Surely there's some sort of gradient though, right? Like is Facebook malicious software (I tend to think so and I don't use it) or is it benign?
> which is only his own code by the way

Yes, working in a team is definitely a different endeavor. If your teammates or organization aren't open to changes to the style guide then I wouldn't recommend turning syntax highlighting off.
I've stopped carrying a charger since I got a >10hour laptop, Not planned, it just happened. There are USB chargers everywhere already provided you have an A-C cable, they just aren't fast.
Coloron Game: Inspiring Developers to Use SVG Animations, ES6 and Flexbox
As a non fronted developer playing arond with web technologies I was impressed by IC.js. It is really easy to get it work (is like boring HTML) and it works pretty well with web2py. Using it does not feel like "engineering something" but some people simply want to drive a car without getting their hands dirty.
`XMLHttpRequest` is a bit sloppy to use admittedly, but you can encompass fetching into a simple function that's less than 10 lines long. Then, it's a matter of placing what you fetched into an element on the page. That is one line.

If I do it myself I retain full control over the functionality, it's faster because fewer "kitchen sink" properties need to be evaluated. It's easier for future developers to pick up and understand. There isn't any chance that the dependency or any of it's sub-dependencies go out of date and need to be replaced.

In software development there is always more than one way to do something, and this way will work today. But in what circumstance is it better? I don't want to attack this library. I'm trying to say there are too many libraries that act as an abstraction of something that would otherwise be simple to do.
Principles for smooth web animations
Talking to RabbitMQ with Python and Kombu
That has been my experience. I have noticed that my mechanical keyboard is much gentler and less likely to induce RSI relate pain because I almost never have hard impacts due to bottoming the keys out. On my MacBook (2013 15" rMBP) it's a different story.
Sure, also let's chuck scrollback in our terminals. What's done is in the past, people.
Nope. BSD and, as an experimental project, HURD.

https://www.debian.org/intro/about
Interesting thought experiment, but what problem does it solve?
What about a sentence like:

Moe, Curly and Larry should never hear about this.

Does the system suggest to add Moe to the recipients? Will Moe get mad about this? You are too close to adding some unwanted recipient.
mod: Can you please combine the three threads?
So, basically, everyone's preparing for this election to drag out worse than Bush v. Gore did, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court deciding the election.

Anyone think this election will end on November 8th?
Ah, don't worry(although I am not the creator of the app) I am using it and I don't have any issues with my credentials. Btw you can email the for any feedback, they answered me 1-2 times.
Wayland is actually there; it has been shipping with Fedora for some time and for 25 (release in less than two weeks), it is going to be default.

There is still problem with switchable GPUs: namely those, where one GPU is using Mesa and the other is not (i.e. Nvidia). Those computers didn't disappear for the face of the Earth, people are still using it and expect it to work, even if there are never laptops available on the market. It is being worked on (https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/01/discrete-graphics-...).
Get good at math.
Played paintball for fifteen years, competitively, traveling all over the country, also ran a large online forum. That is not true at all. Especially today, the differences between the high end, and low end guns are at this point, just looks, and luxuries.
> trains zipping through the Irish countryside.

Calling bullshit on his performance claims. None of our trains ever "zip" here.
What will Jon Skeet do now?
Indeed! It would depend on whether the city wants data for further analysis or will act directly on the data (e.g. new taxes). If the city just wanted a punitive tax on non-occupied housing, they'd probably be better with LVT or a revenue-neutral shift away from sales tax or payroll tax towards higher property taxes. This would indirectly affect non-occupying owners without needing to target them directly.
Well the two general things to look for would be things which you've studied in the past and wish to review or things which you've never studied.

In general, it's probably a better idea to strengthen one's foundation as they serve as the prerequisites for more advanced subjects. Google's guide to technical development [0] is a good place to start.

As far as just finding courses to take, you could just search the course catalogs of sites like Coursera, edx, Udacity, and Stanford's online offerings [1].

[0] https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn...

[1] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses
@wsx:

I'm not sure exactly where you think the problem lies.

If you install a root CA certificate, yes, whomever has the private key can potentially intercept traffic.

If you install a root CA certificate, yes, your machine will trust any certificates that it signs.

That is the whole point.

If you don't trust it, don't install it!

This is all BY DESIGN, so I'm not surprised that Microsoft was so dismissive.
They just permanently introduced expedition cards which are even rarer

In the current set they're known as "inventions"
What's the current state of air cleaning technology? Plants (e.g. moss), or did someone engineer something more efficient already?
Looks paywalled to me.
Hmm...this is an interesting idea. However, the core of the argument seems to be this:

> “The economy — that’s all of us — would receive a permanent ‘harmonization dividend’ ”— the efficiency benefits that come from a unified time zone.

But this editorial is pretty light on actually supporting that. The basic argument seems to be that it reduces 'translation costs'. But..does it? What about the benefits of being able to refer to times without having to localize them? If my friend on the other side of the country says "I woke up at 9 this morning", I have a pretty good idea of what that means. If we used this new system, i'd have to mentally translate.

In terms of scheduling things, it would get easier in some ways and likely harder in others. If say, I want to schedule a conference call at 3, yes, 3 is the same time for everyone, but i'd still have to do some mental sanity checks to ensure that that time is reasonable for everyone who might be participating.

Overall, is there really an efficiency gain to be had here? I'm not taking the firm position that there isn't, btw. Just a bit skeptical and curious to hear a better argument in its favor if anyone has got one.
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The article is upside down.

"Perhaps you’re asking why the Greenwich meridian gets to define earth time. "

It doesn't. Everybody gets to have their own, proper time.

In comparing times, we +/- based on an arbitrary spot, and that's it.

Time zones are a great solution to a problem.

People want their time in local terms.

Everyone waking up and going to bed at different times is an utterly ridiculous concept.

FYI - if you want to use UTC - you're free to do that today.

To those suggesting we should use UTC: walk down the street and look at regular people. 'Other time zones' are irrelevant to them - utterly. There are very few people who need to deal with other time zones.

It might be remotely possible to put an entire nation on one time - i.e. put America on 'Mountain Time' - it might be possible to convince New Yorkers and Californians that they are getting up earlier/later etc.. But even that wouldn't be very useful in the end.
A crazy thing my brother and I noticed this morning that the last clock we have to manually change ourselves is our watches. Yes, even the oven had a built in DST time change.
This should be one of the few things governments _should_ be in charge of.

But wouldn't using a blockchain be a better idea for something like this?
In other words, they are insulting the intelligence of their potential customers; that's what they do differently.
Where? I've never heard of that. It's not terribly relevant, anyway, because nobody makes you go to college in the US, nobody makes you work for a certain employer, and no employer can make you live anywhere.
Those two A's have completely different meanings though (add all, commit amend), not sure I understand how it's relevant to the parent?
Jason Snell used to be the editor of MacWorld.
Thanks for the info! We did a little research ourselves and the scariness didn't seem to outweigh the benefits of having the baby close enough to hear our breathing (which people say makes a difference in their self-regulation?) and my wife being able to breastfeed without getting out of bed (this is the big one).
many subsidies are not actual savings but "we could've charged you more, but we're not"
I'd be happy with doing away with Daylight Savings Time.
Wait until we go interplanetary. :)

Then also "let's talk in 5 mins" won't work anymore.
The article explains you can only declare Crocker's rule on yourself, and can not force it onto others who have not accepted it. A discussion will only work under Crocker's rules only if everyone consents.
How I see negative emotion is, it's similar to what physical pain teaches us.

You touch a burning stove. It hurts. You learn this action -> undesirable outcome and avoid doing it. (Sometimes it can take a few times though!)

Just that with negative emotions, sometimes it's less obvious the cause or it's an interplay between a few. And sometimes, there's a time delay between an action and the negative emotion. That's why self-awareness and introspection helps a lot in learning from your experiences.

I think the "you can choose to be happy all the time" movement maligns negative emotions too much - it can be an important warning "hey something is wrong" system in life. Also, I believe the use of the word 'happiness' often leads to misunderstandings.

You cannot be happy, the emotion, all the time. Hour to hour, day to day, we all go through different emotions.

You can however be more consistently happy, as a perspective on life and approach to life.

That I believe is what people really mean when they talk about 'being more happy'.

But a lot of people misunderstand that, thinking if you aren't feeling weeeee most of the day, you aren't really 'happy'.
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Come Back to Earth
It is not intentionally dumbed down. Current AIs are just too stupid at strategy and tactics to beat competent human players.
Regarding UTC: when I've tried (as a European) to coordinate online meetings with Americans (working in tech companies) using times given in UTC, it's gone wrong about 50% of the time. Usually caused by people confusing UTC and British Summer Time (UTC+1).
On my last box I found the AMD drivers were injecting a DLL into almost every process - including the brand new program I was in the process of developing.
The claim is that homeopathic medication contains zero active ingredient, and so it can't harm you.

But just about anyone can set up a factory making this stuff, and there's not much regulation, which means we have no idea what's really in there.

Homeopathic teething gels are linked to possibly 10 deaths, and 400 children harmed. That's after the manufacturers were warned about incorrect dilution.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/fda-homeopathic-teeth...

> Last month, the Food and Drug Administration warned parents to stop using homeopathic teething gels and tablets, which may have been improperly diluted. Yesterday the agency said it is investigating 10 infant deaths and more than 400 reports of seizures, fever, and vomiting that may be connected to the use of the teething treatments in the past six years.
A friend of mine told me that when he was a baby, his parents were US diplomats stationed in East Berlin. Knowing that the East Germans would be assigning someone to go through their garbage, they made sure to put bits of paper in the kids' diapers.
So you want to abolish time zones (https://qntm.org/abolish)
Sounds good to me. If the farmers want daylight savings then simply go to work at a different time, UTC.
Sounds great to me. If the farmers want daylight savings then simply go to work at a different time, UTC.
Here are two unrelated (and unsolicited!) pieces of advice that I think are worthwhile:

First, parents should give serious consideration to sleeping in shifts or sleeping in different rooms. Don't sacrifice your health and sanity on the altar of "healthy couples always sleep together every single night no matter what".

Second, take note of the fact that kids do not generally throw fits about being put in their carseat. That's because they quickly realize that no matter what they do, no matter what happens, no matter what the situation - they always have to go in the carseat. That's interesting because it demonstrates that you absolutely can successfully introduce any arbitrary behavior in your child ... provided that you enforce 100% compliance. 99% compliance ? Expect WW3. Expect pain. But 100% compliance - you can make that work.
That's cool, but it's rated to 60W and I believe the 15" MBPs are 87W.
Depends on what level of general electronics knowledge you already have. If you are an EE, you could take the exam after only an hour or two of reviewing the test questions. If you don't have any pre-knowledge, then a week or two with one of the study guides should be enough. You can take practice exams at qrz.com and many other sites.
> You aren't living with authority figures. The RA's that you live with are also students. So minimal conflict of interest in living your life.

You're living under the university's code of conduct, and the RA is there to keep tabs that you do. Many students do move off campus for that reason, and for privacy reasons.
It's worth pointing out that ROCm is basically AMD's answer to CUDA. Similar programming model and everything.

Let's hope it gets picked up by machine learning frameworks etc., because this market badly needs the competition, as your comparison of per-dollar raw performance numbers shows.
More advanced tokenizers are able to emit different tokens for those scopes, but not all syntax highlighters differentiate between them. The online Textmate theme editor is a good place to examine what's availabe because many text editors are able to import .tmThemes or use them directly (Sublime, VS Code).

You can see here that the Monokai theme supports about 20 tokens and doesn't differentiate much between scopes: https://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai

Personally, I prefer highlighters that do something to highlight variables differently, like this variant of Monokai (ie around line 45 for the JS example): https://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai...
> For unknown reasons, Windows 10 Store customers are segregated from customers who bought the game from Steam, which is by far the most popular platform on PC.

> Gamers are used to the separation of console and PC multiplayer communities. But PC players aren’t used to companies gating them off based on where they purchased their game. It’s a ludicrous policy that doesn’t serve anyone’s interest and it’s another black eye for a digital storefront that PC gamers already avoid like the plague.

I think that Steam might actually be to blame here. Steam provide the SteamWorks API [1] which handles all the low level networking 'boilerplate' stuff for you so you don't have to, and that actually adds up to quite a lot of functionality: setting up lobbies, player connecting/disconnecting, player authorisation via Steam IDs, voice chat, sending/recieving packets for PvP play, setting up dedicated servers, NAT punching, matchmaking search with filters and so on. There is also the integration with Steam achievements and the Steam Workshop.

For a developer, the API is a no-brainer to use when targeting Steam as a distribution platform. It is problematic though when you want to distribute elsewhere as games using SteamWorks actually require the Steam client to be running in the background in order to work. So I imagine the Windows Store version of the game must use a completely different networking API under the hood, and therefore is incompatible with the Steam version of the game sadly.

[1] https://partner.steamgames.com/
John Podesta
How many years do you think it'll be before somewhere like Estonia does something like this to ensure transparency in an election? Put me down for $100 on "Fifteen Years".
Ask HN: Does anyone want a small project in React.js done for free?
I've been learning react, have quite some experience with web development, but I'm quite new to react.

Though the project will be done for free, the execution and delivery of the project will be done on a very professional way.

I'm feeling particularly uninspired about what example project to do, so if anyone has a vision, I'll make it happen.

I know small is a relative term, but something that could be done in around a week, or a month (part time) tops.

I would really like to post the code as an open-source project as showcase of my react skills, but I'm open to discuss it.

You can contact me at [myUserName]varela+react@gmail.com