skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dell XPS 13 looks not too bad http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd

The only Linux Laptop I know that could be sort of compared to a macbook pro. But still from my point of view not even close to the asethetics of a mbpro.
And the discussion wouldn't be complete without this link: https://www.facebook.com/TrolleyProblemMemes/
Is Android really free software? – Richard Stallman (2011)
Sounds like a Microsoft response, please stay away from my GNU/Linux thx.

(but yes using Ubuntu MATE is a perfectly viable option)
Why should an unfortunate death involving something mean that their marketing can't be fun or lighthearted.
I live 2.5 miles from my job, I don't see a chauffeur adding much. I already don't cook so a chef is not really that useful. I don't use most of the space in my apartment as it is, so more would be rather pointless.

A faster computer, ehh possibly. I am kind of annoyed they have are not getting dramatically better all the time. But, automation is not producing new things, it's producing old things more quickly. Apple does not make a faster iPad than the one I am using so at best I would have spent less not gotten a faster machine.

Which is the real issue. There is plenty of stuff I want but the problem is it does not exist.
Yes, Unity was a huge step down. The fact that it combines windows of the same binary into one icon drives me insane! Because that means I now need two clicks to navigate to those windows, costing me multiple seconds with every context switch. Someone asked a question on UX stackexchange on how to turn off this behaviour and the answer was along the lines of "it's impossible and you don't need that because you don't know what you want". Frustrating.

EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot. The fact that the little 'x' close button of maximized windows cannot be clicked if a smaller window is active and in the foreground. That drives me nuts.
There are multiple gdrive clients, even one made by Googlers.
I work in the automotive industry for a manufacturer. All of our prototypes have big emergency stop buttons in the center console using 3D printed adapters to slot into the cup holders.

They just kill the engine and disconnect the battery. It's a legal requirement. Nothing fancy.
It's just like how Mercedes (and others) have shown some fantastic "Tesla killer" electric vehicle concepts. That's nice, but it's not really something that competes with Tesla until it's available to buy.

While the others make promises, Tesla's making cars.
While watching Harry Potter. Perhaps the Harry Potter theme would have been more appropriate, but I'm sure that licensing would have been prohibitive. I can hear some similarities, so maybe it was an NN based suggestion
Google’s iron grip on Android (2013)
How great science fiction works
Antitrust is designed to protect consumers, not downstream firms. Restraints on trade are only illegal if they are 'unreasonable' in the sense that they are viewed as likely to lead to long-run harm for consumers.

To some extent, it is a company's job to 'harm' suppliers, sellers and competitors.

It may well be possible to tell a compelling story that this is an unreasonable constraint (I'm not an expert on US case law). I just find it interesting that so many complaints on the topic fail to directly articulate the theory of harm for consumers.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
But why wouldn't they use old training data to make it even better ?
Considering Windows 10's privacy scandal, the Microsoft response would rather have been "You can limit it by scrubbing the settings or disable it completely by buying the Enterprise version".
The Amazon thing was disabled by default in 16.04.
I think the point of what they're saying is that the algorithm largely doesn't bring additional biases.

This paper is showing there's a detectable difference between the criminal and non-criminal faces in their dataset. Obviously, this would be the case if criminals actually had different faces. However, it could also be the case that people with more extreme faces are more likely to be convicted. That is, this paper could be showing that their dataset is biased.

Personally, I find this paper really interesting. I wouldn't have previously believed you could train a classifier so accurate just from facial images. It could be revealing some really strong biases in the criminal justice system and I'd love to see this kind of work used to help combat human biases rather than simply reinforce them (which seems to be how most people envision this will be used).
S3 is based on regions.

200ms of latency is quite normal for S3, not designed with that in mind.
It makes me wonder how the grandfather Schultz could REMAIN ON THE BOARD as all this happened and even invite Ms Holmes to attend his 95th birthday.

That's a very sad thing for Tyler to have to get through. At 95, one can drop dead literally any minute. The fact that elder Schultz is not prioritizing family over the board makes me think the guy is mentally checked out.
> Granted the accident would legally be the meat driven car's fault who bumps into the suddenly stopped Tesla.

Exactly. If you bump into the car in front, because they stopped for a percieved hazard, it is your fault for tailgaiting, not their fault for percieving a hazard.
Trains are complementary but there will always be need for personal transportation.
Jiyein Kyun-Dum Maaro Dum-Cover-Ekansh Ft. Himanshu
Hear hear. Equality before the law is the true egalitarian ideal.
I too have been put off by Unity when it appeared, and moved to Mac. It's sad that they lost so many people, they were on the path to become the leader OS, and not only among the Linux community. Did they even gain more of the target users (tablets) they hoped to reach with Unity?

But there's always one guy to say "Hey, I like Unity, plus you can always configure Gnome or get Kubuntu if you like" and the mere doubt of a debate dillutes the elephant in the room, which is that Unity wasn't capable of generating massive adoption, as opposed to most other DEs. Yep, some people liked Unity, but it's only some people, that's the problem.
What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance?(2013)
"Generic Euro"? I'm not sure where you're from but I'm German and I can't think of any European accent I'd consider "generic Euro". There are a few accents (e.g. Dutch/Swedish/Danish/Norwegian, German/Austrian/Swiss, Spanish/Portuguese) that sound similar to each other to me but they're generally still in distinct clusters.
Ancient Latrines and a Lucky Horse
That's still just an allegation from the driver of the semi (he said he heard harry potter playing, and there was a portable DVD player found, nothing more was released).

But what is confirmed is that he was speeding at the time as well, and after that incident Tesla put out an update preventing autopilot from being set for more than 5mph over the speed limit.
Can you point to any publication of this elaborate experiment?
But hasn't satellite technology changed significantly in the interim since 90's with much smaller payloads i.e CubeSats and FemtoSats. These should theoretically result in lower deployment costs:

small sattelites:
http://news.mit.edu/2016/better-views-smaller-satellites-071...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/the-next-big-thing-in...
Why in the world would anyone switch from Apple to anything?
You drop the cash, pick up the vertically integrated product, turn it on, and get done whatever you need to do without hardware or software getting in the way.

Time saved: priceless.
This government seems determined to destroy the internet in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/nov/19/pornography-...
>I imagine that when the very first computing systems were being built, some humans were still on parity / better than the new systems.

I mean I guess it depends on how far back you want to go. The early electronic systems (Collosus, ENIAC, the crazy relay boards and bedsteads in the Newmanry at Bletchley) were all pretty much built expressly to solve practical and immediate problems (breaking ciphers, calculating parameters for nuclear weapons) that would take too long or contain too many errors if done by hand. Babbage got his freak on because of error rates in (IIRC) log tables. My Mesopotamian history is a little rusty, but it's easy to imagine a similar development story for the abacus. (In the sense of 'tool to surpass unaugmented human in speed and accuracy of computation' rather than 'hacking crypto and nuke yields'). But I dunno. Maybe.
Principles for how to deal with stability and dependencies between modules
Please read where the "dark matter" term came from. It's not a faerie dust
that facilitates magic use. It's just a hypothetical matter in the universe
that we can't observe, because for some yet-unknown reason it doesn't emit
light. There's no reason it can't be just regular matter.
GravityCats – funny game where you build a pyramid of kittens
I agree that the news situation is terrible. I don't know if it's useful to make it a partisan issue. From what I've seen on HN, people of all political persuasions aren't happy about it.

Let's call it out when we see it, leaving partisanship out if it as much as we can. This could be an issue that unites us, rather than splits us.

Something that makes this increasingly difficult is that we're having difficulty agreeing on shared truth. I think it's right to increase scrutiny on sources that are proving themselves untrustworthy, but we need to start trusting (and verifying) somewhere.
Convenient. If it changes, its a rule. If it hasn't changed (for a while) its a law. Do I have that right?
I'm curious about the implications of this technology (which is amazing) on courteous driving habits.

I regularly stop to let people cross the road, I cross the center line when safe to give people and cyclists (if I plan to pass) extra space etc. I suppose, in this Tesla at least, you can just take control, but some other proposed implementations seem to have a less traditional UI.
I would recommend Debian GNU/Linux over Ubuntu for the following reasons:

* Stability: I consider Debian testing/unstable more stable than Ubuntu stable (Try updating an ubuntu with lots of package installed).

* Privacy: Debian is more concerned about User's privacy then Ubuntu. If your iceweasel (now firefox) automatically connects to internet to load some data against your wish, you can consider this as a bug in Debian (and several other examples).

* Community support: You get community support from both Ubuntu and Debian communities.

* Truely free software 0: No non-free software by default. No binary blobs. But you may choose to have, if you wish to.

* Truely free software 1: In Debian, if you solely install packages from 'main' repo, you can safely use it, even in commercial setup. But in ubuntu, there can be packages that may commercially have several restrictions (and those repos are enabled by default).

Everything is from upstream: GNOME, wayland, flatpak ...
There is a Ubuntu that does GNOME straight from the install. I've been using it since it came out a few years ago:

https://ubuntugnome.org/
There's not a good reason to treat people differently under the law or for 'hate crimes' since 'crime' is itself sufficient.

You clearly have no knowledge of the Roman or the Arab slave trade which traded in all people including whites. There where white slaves in the United States, so your narrative of all the white people teaming up against the brown people is just a tool used by others to manipulate your opinion.

White slaves were actually owned by blacks and Indians in the South to such an extent that the
Virginia Assembly passed the following law in 1670: “It is enacted that noe negro or Indian though
baptized and enjoyned their owne ffreedome shall be capable of any such purchase of christians...”

(Statutes of the Virginia Assembly, Vol. 2, pp. 280-81).
Negroes also owned other negroes in America (Charleston County Probate Court Records, 1754-
1758, p. 406).

While Whites languished in chains Blacks were free men in Virginia throughout the 17th century
(Willie Lee Rose, A Documentary History of Slavery in North America, p. 15; John Henderson Russell,
Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865, p.23; Bruce Levine, et al., Who Built America?, vol. I, p. 52).

In 1717, it was proposed that a qualification for election to the South Carolina Assembly was to be
“the ownership of one white man.” (Journals of the Commons House of Assembly of the Province of
South Carolina: 1692-1775, volume 5, pp. 294-295).
Negroes voted in the Carolina counties of Berkeley and Craven in 1 706 “and their votes were
taken.” (Levine, p. 63).

I could also talk about anti-Irish prejudice, or anti-Catholic prejudice, or Jewish and Protestant slave ownership rates in the American colonies but these too don't fit your narrative of the white oppressor against the 'minorities'
> without hardware or software getting in the way.

I see you and I have had different experiences with Apple laptops.
Could be wrong, but thought when I tried it out it was still installed and would show up in the menu even if "disabled," and was a PITA to actually remove completely.
Perhaps the car knows it's own capabilities better than we humans do.

Maybe it knows that if the joggers were to suddenly jump out, doing what you or I would do isn't enough, so it slowed down to a near stop just in case.

Also, it's a bit of a "blind corner", so drifting out toward the middle of the lane might not be the best idea (again, even though it's probably something I as a person in that scenario would have done).
You sound like someone who has never been badly injured, nor lived long enough to deal with an aging body.

Exercise does work wonders. And will solve SOME problems. But some problems really do need their own solutions. And sometimes it does take time and effort to figure out exactly what that solution is.
Show HN: Oh, hi Mark! – Chrome extension aiming to end the bookmarks nightmare
I agree, legal or not, I very much rely on other drivers "signals" when driving. Over the years you learn to predict what the driver in front of you would do in a normal situation and adjust your driving in advance. I'm still able to break on emergency but when you can clearly see way ahead of the car in front there is no obstacle and yet they still brake it's extremely risky and frustrating. Young drivers here usually mark the car some way to warn you to be super aware of their unexpected behavior, I'd expect self driving cars would to the same.
The corrupting aspect of power is nonpartisan. It affects the right, and it affects the left.
> should making a deal with an ISP be the marketplace in which content providers compete

That's a business issue, not a packet delivery issue. I guess I don't see how this threatens net neutrality as long as the business deal does not degrade the experience of ISP customers who choose not to participate, and does not give preferential treatment to that content provider's packets.

> The conflict of interest that Net Neutrality is concerned with...

And that conflict is specifically one in which connectivity with non-preferred providers is degraded and/or connectivity with preferred providers is given preferential treatment. That becoming such a "preferred" content provider also involves a business deal does not necessarily mean any business deal between an ISP and a content provider impinges upon net neutrality.
I've always hated the default Ubuntu since they switched to unity. I used Lubuntu for a while, and now use Xubuntu on everything.

I love it, and wouldn't switch back. But everyone has their preference, I find this very usable and out of your way
> but I thought javascript was taken into consideration by web crawlers?

It's still kind of crappy. So people end up building more complex solutions like this or using stuff like prerender.io to work around this issue. Just adds another layer of complexity to the already way to complicated stack of modern SPAs (in my opinion)
I've wondered about this. Totally defensive driving would reduce a car to 5mph - somebody might jump out from behind every blind corner or mailbox.

Truth is, we all drive fairly irresponsibly, trusting in the rules of the road and human self-preservation to keep most stuff out of our way. And if we do hit somebody who dashes out on the freeway, well that's an accident or 'their fault' or 'nobody's fault' so no foul.

Will we allow automated drivers that privilege?
I tried out in the shop XPS 13 and new MBP. Even though XPS is a really nice laptop MBP is nicer looking. I changed in 2006 from Windows to Mac but now I am really struggling to decide if I should go back to Windows with XPS or buy that overpriced MBP.
Not only does it not emit light, it does not interact with electromagnetic waves in any way.
Apple's Free Hour of Code Programming Workshops 2016
I suffered from intense pain on wrist/arm. After starting the gym (weight lifting + cardio), the problem ended. Zero. I mean, it's been 10 years without ANY pain. The benefits are many for those who work sitting all day long.
No, he had less leverage. Ongoing lawsuits are embarrassing. Being deposed as the sitting President is really embarrassing. Settling the case was the smart thing.
This experiment has gotten a lot of attention and has been discussed by many with great interest. Drafts have been also discussed here.

It is a significant event that now a vetted paper is published. This is experimental data from a highly regarded institution that went through a thorough review process. Yes, it leaves questions open. It does not explain what has been observed at all and sticks to the experimental results.

It is not click-bait. It feels like it is coming again and again but it is officially out NOW! This is legitimate news. But it is also a dupe here on HN.

THIS HERE IS A DUPE.

Main discussion is directly linking to the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992536
Protecting downstream firms (in aggregate), also protects consumers. From the site you linked to:
"to protect the process of competition for the benefit of consumers, making sure there are strong incentives for businesses to operate efficiently, keep prices down, and keep quality up."
And it doesn't obscure light - doesn't leave a shadow. No, its not regular matter at all. Its definitely something strange.
RSI is a category of problems, and everyone will have their own specific flavor of problem. While there is a lot of good advice out there, just ask a doctor. They can diagnose exactly what is wrong, and filter the advice down to the problem that you actually have.
You're betting against history.
Ubuntu has several powerful image manipulation programs. Gimp, darktable, and Inkskape will do what Adobe products can. Plus, they are free, which is a huge bonus. Adobe products don’t currently run on Ubuntu but there are plenty of replacement software options.

That's a pretty debatable paragraph, and one with which most serious Photoshop and Illustrator users would really struggle.
The unfortunate reality of censorship is that it allows ideas to be rewritten because the past has vanished. Re-branding doesn't even require a name change. Take a look at Wikipedia; even though controversial topics may be locked down or contain some bias there is a history of the edits. Who said what when.

It makes it easier to paint a rosy picture of your cause when the previous stuff you said has vanished from public view. It is very possible that censorship of ISIS content on Twitter (I'll take an extreme example) actually has made it easier for them to spread. You are both able to rewrite history and harness whatever in a human brain likes things which are forbidden (aggressively used by musicians and entertainers for decades in the West to market to a younger audience.)

The biggest weapon against people with really bad ideas is definitely an undeletable history. In Europe, they no longer have that tool.
It's interesting, though, to see rise of the robots talk breach tech circles and enter into mainstream economic and political discussions. Between the arrival of imagenet in 2011 and now the drums have been steadily getting louder.

In 2013 an oft-cited and alarming study out of oxford suggesting most jobs will be automated over the next decade was released. It was followed by a series of influential books whose authors ran the lecture circuit: 'The Second Machine Age', 'The Zero Marginal Cost Society', 'Superintelligence', and 'The Rise of the Robots'.

There were some bold bold and well publicized statements from respected luminaries such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking.

Aggressive maneuvering to hoover up machine learning talent, and bold investments from automakers pursuing autonomous driving has only added gasoline to the fire.

Automation became the talk of the town at Davos in Switzerland. There's been a rising chorus from Basic Income supporters.

Now the hype is out of control. Nobody is actually looking at the technology. It's okay, though. Hype is self-correcting.
I saw it in theater when it came out (twice), and then later again a few years back.

Except in the latter case they clearly played it from DVD, interlaced even! At first I was like "I can't watch this!" but after 3 minutes I was so captivated I didn't even notice anymore!
The best abstraction I have heard is that in terms of developer experience, containers/Docker are a way of versioning execution environments that's analogous to the way VCS/git versons source control.

When it comes to deploying an execution environment, containers/Docker have an advantage over configuration tools (such as Puppet/Chef) by being atomic. Containers cannot be partially deployed and therefore put a machine in an arbitrary state. Orchestration layer tools (Kubernetes/Swarm) handle deployment at the level of multiple containers.

Generally, containers reduce dependency conflicts between applications. On the other hand, there's another level of indirection that may not be appropriate to a particular business model or make a particular developer's life easier. That doesn't mean they're not worth checking out.
Am I the only one who uses Flashback Metacity?

It's nice and fast, no bells as whistles.
Building a Family Dashboard with DAKboard and Raspberry Pi
> EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot. The fact that the little 'x' close button of maximized windows cannot be clicked if a smaller window is active and in the foreground. That drives me nuts.

I don't understand: That's default GTK/win behaviour when the smaller window is part of the background window (like LO prompting for closing/saving/cancelling the document you are editing when you click the close button of LO). It's a pop up.
I've bought twice from system76. Replaced Ubuntu with Arch on the first, & Windows on the 2nd (would've preferred Arch on the 2nd, but alas, I'm a Windows dev by shameful trade)
> Has Unity stopped from being a slow and unresponsive mess?

No. Still slow and unresponsive, more or less works responsively after reboot and if you kill the hud-service and disable some other stuff, but starts to get to barely working after a bit.

Lubuntu is the most responsive one from the Ubuntu family I think.
What's the switching to Debian learning curve like, regarding command line tools etc?
> the increasingly popular Ubuntu distro (released in 2004 and since 2013 branching out to mobile phones itself)
Make sure you try out Windows 10 for long enough before you really consider such a move. Imho macos is still way smoother... (I have a Mbpro and W10 Desktop and VM)
Or heavy rain will do the same. When it's dark and rainy, we often have to drive almost blind here.
Yes, it makes sense when you close your word processor and you have unsaved work, that the popup asking you to save your work has priority and prevents the close button from being clicked.

However, it does not make sense that if I have a small console window in the foreground and my word processor in the back, that I cannot close my word processor with one click - but I can't. That's default behaviour in Unity.
The feature set is impressive. Here's the Wikipedia article for the tool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlantUML