skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want a laptop with 16 GB of RAM, HiDPI screen, a discrete GPU and 10 hours of battery life, then there really aren't very many choices.

Off the top of my head:

Dell XPS 15 has up to 17 hours of battery life, a 4k screen (that can be upgraded to a touchscreen), dedicated Nvidia GPU and up to 32 gigs of Ram

The Razor Blade and perpetually on the horizon Razor Blade Pro have QHD or better touchscreens, 16 gigs or more of RAM, and the best line up of dedicated graphics cards you're going to find in a laptop. Oh, and they did reactive/programable touch keyboards without removing core functionality from the device. Can't find specs on battery life at the moment. Plus, mechanical keyboard and glowy lights!

And there's the ThinkPad line up which has basically everything under the sun now.

Not to mention the Surface Book, which claims 12 hours of battery life, meets your dedicated GPU and RAM needs, and has a killer scree, that supports a some rather interesting input devices. And it can connect to an iPhone 7 without a dongle.

There are options out there.
The Republicans dislike Obama just as much as Clinton, yet his presidency has been virtually scandal-free and he remains quite popular. Clinton's problem is that Democrats and Independents who aren't politically predisposed to dislike her have legitimate concerns about her trustworthyness.
No, you don't understand. I'm coming from the opposite perspective: all of the tone policing and condescending attitudes and elitism of the left is stifling discussion and democracy. It is a soft form of totalitarianism. When you say that "Language like this makes it even harder for people to hear what you're trying to say" what I hear you saying is that my opinions are not valid because I'm not saying them properly. That is no different, from my perspective, than someone not listening to hispanic people's political opinion because they speak spanish instead of english.

tone policing, like you are doing, just causes people to stop listening and dig in. It doesn't change people's minds.

> Ignoring the tone, do you think the content of what I wrote is constructive or useful? If so, how would you choose to convey the same message?

by saying my views as bluntly as possible and actively rejecting your tone-policing and condescending attitudes.
It took me a while to get this (the fact that I won't be able to set up on a mountain high enough); you unfortunately make a really good point.
Distributed processing of Landsat data in Python
Spotify's Mac app also gobbles up memory. I regularly see it consuming more than a gigabyte. As someone who's still running an 8GB machine, that bytes.
That's not the case. Unemployment has been steadily dropping in recent years. The problem is that the new jobs require an education:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-r...

http://www.businessinsider.com/gap-between-unemployment-amon...
You're right that information doesn't perfectly filter through and starts aren't a particularly reliable metric.

My intended point was very narrow though: your default assumption should be that changes in expectations of future cashflows have an immediate impact on price, unless you can point to a particular market friction that prevents this adjustment.

Basically, you should distinguish between timing of cash flows (which don't generally matter except for discounting), and the timing of the information flowing into the market (which does).

If there were a credible plan to build more much housing and the market believed in it, it should affect the price more or less immediately. Discount rates are very low -- $1 a year from now is more or less worth $1 today.
I agree with you. I feel that Airbnb is unfairly becoming a scapegoat in the larger issue of housing supply in SF.

I would rather see a new approach to taxing activities such as short-term rentals to increase funding for modernization efforts in SF such as high-density housing and rapid public transit.
You can run `uptime` on both OS X and Linux to see how long a machine has been running.
It's real, but volume is typically much much lower so it tends to exaggerate in either direction. I stopped trading futures at night because lower volumes messed up my strategies.
How to Have Effective 1:1s
Ah I see the disconnect, I think the underlying piece I glossed over was the fact that dict objects and set objects rely on the same hashable property of objects. This is in part due to the "one way and only one way" rule of thumb of Python's language design.

For me, talking about how dicts handle hashing keys and sets hashing members are equivalent in the context of the Python language.

Given that context I was saying changing the "hashable" nature of default objects would be counter-intuitive as the new behavior would be in contrast to the expected behavior of sets and/or immutable equal types in dict keys.
I remember this being worked on some time ago, but don't recall what happened to it. Might be a switch buried somewhere.
With app store for blockchain on cloud, just maybe.
Mind you, AIPAC and co. have a massive influence in the US relative to the size of America's Jewish population.
Yeah, the explanation they followed up with makes no sense. Supreme Court judges with lifetime appointments don't care about your political activism, no matter how good you are at it.
It's so silly that people still assign intent to stock market movements. Stocks go up when gamblers/speculators/investors think they will go up and down when they think they will go down. Didn't we learn anything from fucking yesterday when the markets indicated a clear victory for Clinton?
Elitism like this is part of the reason democrats lost this political cycle.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I haven't found that to be my real-life experience.
And of course they'll grandfather in the people who paid for the now free product less than 6 months ago, right?
The conservation easement is likely to be durable. So the protection should survive sales and such.

This donation, earmarked as a "conservation easement" (which typically require landowners to forfeit the right to develop, subdivide, or otherwise interfere with the preservation of a natural landscape),
I guess bookmarking would explain it, but seems like the wrong tool for the job IMO. Forking means you have to do extra work to get the latest version of the code, even if you're not making any local changes. Using the "watch" or "star" feature or an actual bookmark means you'll always go straight to the most up to date version.

> Hell, I even fork repos that I explicitly hate, just so I can keep tabs on them or learn more about them.

I don't know what it means to "hate" a repo, but whatever it means, forking the repo actually means you won't be keeping tabs on them because your personal fork will have no activity until you pull from the original. And if you need to go to the original to get updates, why not just go straight there?
It's more a hobby thing, non-commercial open source project:) We have a discord chat, you may join us there: https://discordapp.com/invite/frNetGE

We are just Three.js fans who want to make it better)
> This is definitely at the extreme end of the list of possibilities.

Color me crazy or something, but it's the possibility of being shot that stands out.

It's extreme only in its brutality, not its rarity.

> Even speeding tickets are handled more and more frequently by mail.

Right, but as soon as you don't agree with the outcome the men with guns are right there.

> a law is a codification of desired human behavior.

A self-help book is a codification if desired human behavior. (The author usually doesn't threaten to beat/jail/kill you if you don't follow their advice.)

Law is a set of rules and punishments.
Let me tell you why dialogue doesn't work in this case:

Now discussing Donald Trump
Now Talking with nigger lyncher
nigger lyncher's Description: i love to lynch niggers

That conversation is over before it can start. I'd rather fight these idiots in the streets for the next 4 years than make any type of attempt at dialogue.
Don't think it was so much desperate as you don't want to make an early call on the presidency without being sure. They acknowledged that they didn't really see a path, but wanted to get specific info in (like absentee ballot numbers) first before making the official call. Some states still haven't been calling half a day later.
The relevant figure here would be how long Spotify had been running, wouldn't it?

There's probably some way to get that info too, but of course I killed the app as soon as I saw what was going on, so it's too late!

Edit: uptime does give it a firm upper bound, at least. My current uptime is a bit over 12 days. So that's an average of 80GB/day at least, more if I started Spotify sometime after boot.
Why (or how) should I pay for Atom?
He is not. He is wrong when he wants the government to force companies to bring jobs to his front door ("influencing companies", if you like smooth talk).
It is his choice to live in a good place OR next to a good job. It is not government's problem in any case.
> Is Elm open source? If so, couldn't the author implement the feature themselves?

Yeah!

Just create and maintain your own damn dialect of a language!

It's OPEN SOURCE, that means you automatically know and are an expert in anything it involves!

It's 2016, we can stop with that meme now.
Well, it kinda is, because low-power/long battery life is a reasonable requirement for a laptop, and it is a limitation of the Intel chipset that doesn't allow more than 16GB of low-power memory. Or in other words, how could Apple solve the requirement of low-power/long battery life together with 32GB RAM without Intel?

Also, if low-power, long battery life and low weight are not your requirements, maybe you're not in the market for a laptop?
No, I don't think so.

If you don't want a job don't take the job. Otherwise you do it to the best of your ability.
Tech is only a means to an end, not a system to decide ends.

Voters decided the ends when they voted for Trump.

And no, I don't think this event was bad.
Where would be a good place to start? OpenBSD? http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-ab... Another platform?

It's tricky. You could for example pick seL4, but then you have no router. That could be interpreted as an amazing opportunity to make a new stack, or a feat significantly less interesting and more strenuous than climbing Mt. Everest.

Then on the hardware side, do you pick x86 (complete with firmware that lets you use fallthru to ring -2! \o/), ARM, MIPS, or what? This is a question I've no idea how to answer.

Also, heh, I'm reminded of this:

1. Search Shodan for JAWS/1.0

2. Take one of the results, go to the IP[:port], append "/shell?" and a command, eg "/shell?ls"

3. Try running "whoami"

4. Go back and look at the number of results

5. Visit the IPs normally, and learn that these are DVRs, for security cameras; alternate between dying inside and reattaching your jaw.
Hi Alex, I think we met at ISEF 2016 (if not mistaken), and it is great to see this project continuing to evolve and on display on the HN frontpage. Congratulations!
This is an interesting assertion. Can you cite it?
While I understand the author's perspective of the ease of smartphones for photography he is really only viewing a subset of photographers. In this instance his audience would be photojournalists who need to minimize the time from capture to presentation. Once could also see those casual users who want to share their images on social media quickly too.

The author's view excludes fine art photography as well as a number of other types which value quality of speed and quantity. If you need or want to deliver images fast then yes camera companies are in 'denial', but I would argue the majority of photographers aren't.
What Will Trump, a Global Warming Skeptic, Actually Do About Climate and Energy
I mean, as a (legal) immigrant it's hard to believe that that's not the case, when I've been shouted at in the streets and told to go home to my country. Or when my (American born and bred) wife has been heckled for daring to show up wearing a hijab at an Indiana primary by white folks wearing Trump gear. I'm sure there are a lot of good people who voted Trump, but a whole lot of wicked people who threaten me and mine's existence in this country did too.
The lack of clarity is kind of a feature, as Hyperledger is intended to be a modular, completely general framework for building any possible blockchain you can imagine.
Palin is the perfect comparison to Clinton because there was just as much smoke around her. For example Troopergate[1] is the exact kind of non-serious controversy that has hounded Clinton her entire career. Except no one really cares when Palin did this because she never was that close to actual power. Meanwhile if this happened to Clinton there would be endless discussion of it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissio...
Facts are boring I know, but Clinton only labeled half of his supporters as deplorable racists (etc.)
I've never heard that second idea before. That's a really good idea.
Which is probably what led to The Trews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trews_(web_series)
Gah! I can't get a conversation to stay connected. So many cool people I would love to keep talking to. Is there an alternative that is not getting HN hugged?
Is that really a big problem? I mean most modern SSDs works fine until at least 600 TB which is like 16 years with that 100GB/day rate

>Errors didn't strike the Samsung 840 Series until after 300TB of writes, and it took over 700TB to induce the first failures. The fact that the 840 Pro exceeded 2.4PB is nothing short of amazing, even if that achievement is also kind of academic.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
We will be happy to give credit, let me contact you to see how to do this the best
> I'm excited about the reductions in size and weight. I carry my laptop to/from work with me every day (45min NYC commute) and I often have it with me other places because I'm on-call. Other people may not care about size and weight reductions, but I do.

Same commute, same city, and I've never really had a problem with laptop weight and size. I stick it in my backpack, with other stuff that ends up weighing probably 3x what the laptop itself does.
The use of the term "witness" here comes from constructive logic, where proofs of propositions have actual computational content. There "witness" means the same thing as "proof" but is more evocative that the proof is data that can actually be manipulated.

You might like this article if you're interested to learn more: http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2015-01-09-constructivism....
Brute-force solution: save this as spotify-fixer.py, run it as cron job:

#!/usr/bin/python

target = "/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify"
with open(target) as infile:
bytes = infile.read()
with open("./Spotify", "wb") as backup:
backup.write(bytes)
fixed = bytes.replace("VACUUM;", "xxxxxx;")
with open (target, "wb") as outfile:
outfile.write(fixed)
Oh, he's going to break promises (all Presidents have), but probably not the ones you'd prefer he breaks. Ultimately Trump has shown a stark lack of concern whether his promises are kept or not.
Yes, let's decentralize our business. Scatter them throughout the country. Let's put some roadblocks on being able to co-mingle with other businesses

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I do semi-agree with you. I think remote work is the future but part of that equation is manufacturing jobs are gone. It doesn't matter if we shut down 100% of the jobs in China and Mexico and bring them here, manufacturing jobs are dying.

Anyone in manufacturing needs a way out. Either they need to find it or we need to help them but twiddling our thumbs and pretending like automation isn't coming is short-sighted.
Care to outline your thought process? I was trying to find unbiased election coverage, and I read Nate Silver's book a few years back and liked it, so I read 538.

As I mentioned above, I was disappointed that he couldn't resist inserting petty personal insults about Trump into his articles. He was clearly invested in the outcome of the election, which isn't what you want from an analyst.

While he wasn't as bad as the NYTimes, and he hedged his language, he was pretty firm in claiming a likely Clinton victory for the 3 months before the election.

So I was honestly a bit surprised when Trump started winning, and then won decisively. I'm always interested in the areas where reality breaks models, where practice differs from theory, and this is an overt example.
Remember you don't need all of the data for estimating models.
Yes, BUT these small countries do not pay the heavy Global Police tax to keep the world safe for example from Terrorism..we DO! Thus its not the same thing fits both small and big countries..
Just to add to the pile-on, displays are the new hubs. If you're plugging into even 1, you can get a whole range of ports available again.
You'll have to ask them that. I got a pretty quick response on twitter, or there was a rep in this thread earlier
Spotify doesn't forward the stream. When you tell it to play with another device that's running Spotify, it simply instructs that device to play the stream; unlike AirPlay it doesn't send the music to that device.
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook
...partner found: Whats up man, aer you doing OK?
> whole separate ballgame than if

This is the game libertarians play with 'Initiation of force'.

You're saying that you're allowed to disagree, can negotiate with an unarmed judge, won't be hurt, etc, but then if you ignore a ruling - boy howdy you initiated violence against the state and they have a right to hurt you.

If I'm not free to ignore the outcome of the first issue (speeding, as you say) then the men with guns have metaphorically been there all along.

Stop dodging and just admit it - our laws are backed by the threat of lethal force. All of them, from murder down to jaywalking or posting speed-trap data on twitter.
hillary had those emails tho, so its ok.
Projections that went terribly wrong
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best...
There are lots of ways to objectively quantify racism and sexism. Just off the top of my head:

- Are women/minorities legally allowed to vote?

- Do women/minorities vote at the same rates as majority men?

- Are women/minorities represented in office at the same rates as majority men?

- Are there any legal restrictions against women/minorities that don't apply to majority men like the right drive, the right to own property, rules around dress or appearance?

- Are women/minorities paid as well for their work as majority men?

- Is abortion legal?

- Do women/minorities have equal access to education as majority men?

- Is interracial marriage legal? How common is it?

- How integrated is housing? Do people of different races tend to live near each other?

I'm sure this list isn't exhaustive. As I said, just a start off the top of my head.
It likely just stops Spotify from VACUUM'ing the SQLite database it has.

Spotify stores a local SQLite database file (by default on a Mac it's at ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/PersistentCache/mercury.db )

The file is only about ~100MB (on my computer). With databases, you issue a vacuum command to defragment a database (reclaim space from deleted/updated rows, re-sort the data, etc). SQLite's VACUUM behavior basically just recreates the entire database from scratch in a temp file, then replaces the live file with that[1]. It makes the file smaller and more efficient to run queries against. Spotify must be triggering a VACUUM statement too aggressively (possibly after every change), rather than on a periodic schedule or after a certain amount of fragmentation. By breaking the VACUUM statement with this solution, you prevent the database from getting recreated so frequently. The file itself will grow slowly (since you're not reclaiming free space like a VACUUM would) and possibly slow down queries against the database, but that sounds like a far better tradeoff than excessive wear on the drive from recreating the file so often.

[1]https://sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html
I've been having this exact conversation today. I didn't want either of them, but now that we have Trump what does that mean. The world is not going to end, and he is not taking away voting rights from women (legit comment on my FB feed this morning). But what will he actually do. If you look across the few things he has said not all GOP types of things, and some align much closer with a Sanders agenda.

We definitely have to wait and see, and I think that is what really bugs people.
> Tax receipts as percentage of GDP have been remarkably stable over time

That may be true, but since the sources you listed contradict each other, I'm left confused. I can find supporting evidence of the graph[1], but not of the wikipedia entry. The world bank apparently thinks they are all wrong[2]. Then there's a report that Norway is actually doing it with much less taxes than Denmark and Sweden[3], but that might be likely due to oil revenue. I'm left to conlcude that without a lot of research to look into the specifics, there's quite a few ways to measure this, and I'm not sure which are most relevant to the discussion at hand.

1: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/source-revenue-sha...

2: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS

3: http://www.thelocal.no/20151204/norway-leading-the-field-for...
Too lazy to even screenshot them or provide a use case? Next.
Nate wasn't changing his model, the polls changed. His model just accounted for the high number of undecideds and the correlation of errors between states, and the possibility of systemic polling errors which accounts for his divergence from other predictions.
Like Brexit, in ten years the demographics will have shifted to the point where the vote would never have succeeded.
You can 'watch' repos. You should do that instead of forking them.
We have to factor in, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, some people are too proud to admit they need help.

The reason they want Trump is he promised that he will make it where they can help themselves.
Commodore 64

M.U.L.E, Frogger, Q*bert, Commando, Royal Rescue, ...
Blog spam pass through to the original: http://sebastianruder.com/optimizing-gradient-descent/

Useful reference, 6 months old.

Side note, anybody aware of any implementations of the "learning to learn gradient descent by gradient descent" work [0]? I'd love to boost my training time, but I'm worried implementing it myself will just result in an additional set of hyperparameters to tune.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474
Probably the easiest lighting solution is to use the existing cable with USB C to USB A adapter (couple $ on Amazon)
15 days uptime on mac. 1TB written
Except that all is normal politician CYA type doublespeak. That isn't a good trait and it is something Clinton is certainly guilty of doing, but it is something almost all politicians are guilty of doing. Like I said, Clinton isn't a great candidate without faults. However a large group of this country has worked tirelessly to make these common politician flaws appear as if they are completely abnormal and disqualifying for the presidency.
I only know Hadoop from reading about it on HN, and the blog post I remember the most is "Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big"

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

TL;DR

> But my data is 100GB/500GB/1TB!

> A 2 terabyte hard drive costs $94.99, 4 terabytes is $169.99. Buy one and stick it in a desktop computer or server. Then install Postgres on it.
Yeah, it is pretty easy to offset that with a solar panel. On a sunny day, it would probably only take about 4 panels to do it for such a small commute.