skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the airtop has open air pipes that work like chimneys, letting the heated air inside flow up and out of it. These ought to be easy to clean with compressed air though.
> I understand clockspeed is not something that can be directly compared, where MIPS might be more of an apples-to-apples comparison?

There's a joke saying that MIPS is acronym for "Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen".

It's just not a good measure of overall performance, because there's no guarantee that it translates to real world performance.

The only way to get good performance indicators is looking at benchmarks, and with an emphasis to benchmarks that resemble the workloads you expect to be running.

For ballpark estimates (of similar hardware), the power consumption is a good measure because the performance per watt figure is typically quite close for similar CPU architectures. It doesn't work for GPUs or CPUs of very different architectures, though.

For the comparisons you linked on the Surface, it will tell you how the CPU works on that particular form factor. But it's not a good estimate of the CPU power in general, because a small device like that is always going to be thermally constrained. You can't take this conclusion and apply it to another kind of laptop/desktop.
Please expand on why you want it to be spammed?
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> The experiment you can try with most kids is give them a smartphone or iPad for 1-2 hours then take it away again with minimal warning but without using force. Once you've recovered the device, the next 15-30 minutes will typically involve aggressive behaviour; shouting, physical aggression towards siblings, demands to have the device back and something not unlike Gollum desiring his Precious.

Try the same with a book they show interest in, and you'll get the same behaviour. But nobody does that with a book because it's ridiculous, right? But so it is ridiculous to do that with an iPad or a personal computer! I'd say it's a pretty normal reaction of someone who was concentrated and fully engaged in an action, only to be unexpectedly and forcibly interrupred.
Yup. I noticed Apple has updated the top navbar on the new product pages where it is enabled. It falls back to unblurred-translucent container on other browsers.

Hopefully other browsers will catch up soon.
> in the bathroom, people check social media on the toilet

I've always used the toilet breaks to read actual books or newspapers (except at work, where it would look funny carrying a book with me to the toilet), and I hope I'm not the only one still doing that. Otherwise you make very good points, never thought about it that way.
"Draw donut"

"Oh I know. It's doubt".
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>requires signing an NDA and spending anywhere from a few hundred to to a few thousand for a development kit.

>Some of this is because the manufacturer considers the information to be proprietary and also because they not setup to support large numbers design teams

No, it is what is called a pain sales tactic. You make a person to go through big pain, spend lots of resources just to get a devkit, so they would not be inclined to throw it out midproject because it sucks
One should be able to read the docs and understand things rather than have to google every other thing.

The contributors need to be actively helpful on the chat list etc
+1 for the Noctua fans and coolers too. When I need a full tower I always swap out the stock fans and coolers for Noctua.
while the headline is sensational the use of mobile devices leading to more accidents is not. as an avid motorcyclist I tend to pay more attention to what people are doing around me and especially those who can cross my path.

I cannot count on my drive to work the number of times I see people looking at their phones. The head down move which is all to obvious to the arm out towards the driver seat to the blatant on top of the steering wheel. I used to think it was bad they were using the phones while driving, but that isn't near as bad as what goes on today.

There is enough tech in smart phones to know when they are in modern cars and definitely to know they are moving. If anything they could blank the screen and with full connectivity of Apple and Google play type technologies they easily can tell if the car is operating. I know, but what about passengers. Well what about safety.

Distracted driving is as dangerous if not more than impaired driving. At least the impaired driver is making an effort at driving
If we had only bought military assets exclusively useful in a full-on strategic all-out conflict between superpowers for the last 60 years, we'd have been pretty poorly prepared for the actual conflicts and crises we've found ourselves in during that time.

For example, suppose the UK found itself in another conflict like the Falklands war? Or supporting medium-intensity operations in the Middle East? Or supporting humanitarian efforts in Africa or Asia? I imagine having a few carriers would be pretty useful.

Personally I think it's more likely we'll find ourselves in situations like that, than that we'll find ourselves in an all-our direct engagement with Russia or China.
It isn't plainly obvious to the Apple and Microsoft UI designers...
Doesn't even recognize a cup.

Amusingly, the one I had drawn looked pretty similar to one of the examples drawn by other people.
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Thank you for this! I've studied your material and I've able to understand an create a nice canvas coloring app.
Yeah, sorry about the low quality comment. But the more sincere point was, don't claims to know the global average ocean surface temperature in the 19th century with some accuracy qualify as "extraordinary claims"? I feel uncomfortable just accepting it without a) extraordinary proof, or b) some explanation why it's actually not so extraordinary, or c) maybe error bars or uncertainty clouds on the graph?
Yes, 3-5x (peak performance) sounds quite reasonable. But 10x is not out of the question under high load for extended amounts of time (like compiling big software) when you take the form factor thermals into account. A laptop like that will start throttling quite aggressively quite quickly.

The Zenbook I have isn't a powerful computer by any measure. It's a fine laptop for light use but the CPU and thermal characteristics aren't suitable for intensive computation. I'd expect any fanless desktop computer to wipe the floor with it when it comes to perf.
If you'd try to find the roots of that idea, it would certainly be at least hundreds of years old, reflecting the difference between the scientific and the religious approaches to the world.
Yeah, they ran into real problems when later titles came out.

The original C&C was released as "Command & Conquer Teil 1: Der Tiberiumkonflikt" ("tiberium conflict", instead of "tiberian dawn")

The original RA was released as "Command & Conquer Teil 2: Alarmstufe Rot" ("code red", instead of "red alert")

C&C2 was then released as "Command & Conquer Teil 3: Operation Tiberian Sun" (instead of simply "tiberian sun")

By the time C&C2 had been released the Internet was becoming a thing and still predominantly English so the different numbering schemes began causing trouble for English-speaking Germans.

I think they gave up on consistent numbering by the time RA2 came out (it wasn't actually called "Teil 4" IIRC) and if I recall correctly they just stuck to the English numbers with C&C3 onwards (yes, that means technically "C&C3" was ambiguous in Germany at that point).

<spoilers>
In Red Alert there are some clues that the setting is tied to that of the original Command & Conquer however. For example Kane shows up on the Soviet side and it's strongly hinted that he is the same Kane as in Tiberian Dawn. This led to some fan theories that Kane is immortal because he's literally the Biblical character Cain, which was pretty plausible if you consider the other Biblical references ("the land of Nod" is where Cain was exiled and Kane is the leader of the Nod Brotherhood; Seth is Kane's second in command and also the name of Cain's and Abel's brother). I think there were also some conspiracies based on the re-use of German voice actors (I think Einstein's assistant was voiced by the voice actor who also voiced Kane? I don't think this is the case in the English version).
</spoilers>

Ultimately this probably has more to do with budget constraints and that Biblical imagery is a cheap way to introduce some drama and I'm not sure whether this was ever intended as more than a not-so-subtle nod (heh) to Tiberian Dawn.

Fun fact: one major criticism of Tiberian Sun was that the publisher cast a new voice actor for Kane who sounded nothing like the first one fans had grown to love (his voice was also much lighter, leading many to joke that he sounded a bit emasculated). IIRC the official explanation was that the original voice actor had demanded too much money. In addition to the disproportionate hype the game had received prior to release that was also often pointed out as one of the major reasons it wasn't as successful as anticipated.
I'm a Portuguese native speaker. I saw a clear improvement, but I noticed errors to identify who is the subject of the context. Unlike English which the subject always is explicit (repeating a lot the pronouns I, you, they, e etc) in Portuguese we normally omit. Is quite challenging for a machine understand that.
Chrome has experimental support through a flag. However, the Apple pages are broken with the flag enabled.
Forced Americanization.
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The experience was the same if you were a big customer (we sold 8M+ units). I mean, the process you describe sucks just as much if you're an engineer at a big customer. Tons of effort to get even the slightest piece of documentation.

Presumably the experience at management level (i.e. the price - you get what you pay for) made up for it, or they wouldn't sell anything. (Admittedly, if the drivers just work then documentation is less important, too. Compare to other fields like the state of Linux GPU drivers. I wouldn't say Broadcom drivers are without problems, though :-)
>I can comfortably work in VR with multiple desktops, but the resolution is tad too low.

I am interested in this. Can you, say, write code or read text for long hours, without having to upsize the text too much?
Are you thinking of parallax, parallax scrolling?
I'm going to hazard a guess that the drug he was promoting was an antidepressant.

There's certainly an issue with overprescription of these; often to people who have nothing physically wrong with them and would benefit more from talking therapy. Many doctors treat them like Halloween candy when in reality they're powerful psychoactive agents with serious effects.

Not to mention the rather dubious assertion that depression has a physiological root cause.
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A source code version control system has to be in control of the source code. The model clearly is important to whether git is in reliable control of the source we entrust to it.

Function matters more than anything else... and exactly what "function" means and encompasses can be discussed, but it's difficult to define function such as to exclude git's model from git's function.
Every time you reference a commit by its hash, you are interacting with the model. Rebasing, merges, etc are all based on this.
>When I was more naive I used to believe that papers reported the news - now I realize that they apply their political bias to spin news. This has now happened with Twitter.

Papers never reported the news. They exist to create the news.
"once in a blue moon"

That feels like the wrong idiom in this context, just "once in a while" sounds better.

But I couldn't decide why it sounded wrong, so I googled "once in a blue moon". I didn't arrive at a conclusion, but: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=once+in+a+blue+moon

"once in a blue moon =
1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz"

Huh?!
The argument is that you are likely to be in a simulation, because most minds will be simulated minds. The precondition of most minds being simulated is massive computing power. If we can run a simulation but it requires half the world's computational resources and simulates one second per century of real time, then obviously most minds (and most moments of lived experience) would not be simulated.
Wow, something that is actually useful came out of that neural network thing at Google
It depends on the degree, I guess. Maybe you don't need to have the character directly interact with you (the player), but just with your character? I developed a feelings of affection to video game characters once or twice in my life, and that was just thanks to good scripted dialogues and long, engaging storyline.
Does anybody understand the copper heatpipes? It mentions virtual vacuum, but my understanding is that heatpipes are typically filled with a liquid that boils and turns to gas as it heats, thus moving up along the pipe and carrying heat further away to allow for a larger contact surface with the heatsink. Are airtop's heatpipes somehow different? What "virtual vacuum" and how does it work?
Wednesday, November 16th

10:00am - 12:30pm EST (15:00am - 17:30pm GMT): Keynotes by Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman

I suspect a big announcement about .NET on Mac. :)
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Yeah, RA2 really messed with fans' headcannons (sic) considering the Allied victory worked fine if you assumed the game was intended as a prequel.
Definitely. I remember an ICQ 'friend' telling me about it.

I think that is basically how I got into the deeper end of 'computing': learning about IPs, TCP/IP, playing around with scripts and hacking together my own (or more usually hacking around someone else's code to make it do what I wanted it to do).

I sort of miss those days of the internet. I am not sure how to describe it but it felt more free and less restricted. People around me in real life weren't as familiar with it either so it had this weird vibe around it; a lot of it sounded like magic to them. Whenever you mentioned 'The Internet' there was an air of mystery around it.
Wars are already won or lost on logistics. That's why, in WW2, the allies ran a near-continous near-sucicide air bombing campaign against German industrial capacity (and to their eternal shame, civilians, too). That is why the Atlantic was so important, if the Germans could have choked off the supply chain from the US, they would have won the war more or less overnight. The ability to run the air bridge to Berlin after the war was also a logistical feat.

But at the end of the day, the only purpose of the logistics are to support the fight to control the territory you need to win.
Another feature iOS has is the subtle parallax motion effect, driven by the gyroscope. I think this effect also helps perception of UI layers.
Not exactly. I would not say their revenue depended on ethics...
English docs for Element - A Desktop UI for VueJS are online now
Hmm. I suppose this would be unfair if it were just a case of "Allies won and Axis didn't, so let's tell Allied stories and not Axis ones."

But the Germans were aggressors in this case, whose democratically elected leader initiated and waged one of the most terrible wars that the world has ever seen. So maybe the reaction you're seeing is a result of that?
Git is the reference implementation of a protocol, and much like HTTP, you must learn it the hard way if you intend to be a professional in the domain.

The mistake is to believe there is a U<I|X> in the first place.

It does not, however, stop you from using one of the many graphical tools, that are fine for simple usage and will all eventually fall short.

You could use a GUI to make complex HTTP routes, through proxies and DNS records via drag&drop, and then one day you'll have some weird DNSSEC error that the maintainer does not care about, and you will have to explain that to whoever is losing money.

Acknowledging a problem is not as trivial as it was first thought is critical in our line of work in my opinion.
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Well, it is actually extremely expensive to produce customer-facing documentation of high quality. Vendors don't do that (or do to a limited extent), because a) this is big cost and time consumption, and b) because the makers don't request it anymore; even given such information of high quality they would not use it! Many of them have acquired the reflex of calling vendor's support for even the smallest question (let alone anything involved -- they will shift that job to vendor entirely), so the vendors have performed the selection of customers they can work with that way, and neglected the others (and the documentation).

From personal experience, the expectation of good documentation today for many developers -- an instant reply to a question limited to 140 characters.
I am not sure this tells us that the singularity is very far away. It just tells us that this particular system is still not universal. I mean, perhaps there are really only a couple of components missing to make it a general AI system (e.g. an associative working memory, ability to attend to parts of the text multiple times). It is hard to quantify how difficult it would be to invent these components. It could be 5 years or 50.
Arguably they've been around for a while now (I have two fanless shuttle mini PCs running on my desk, and one laptop made fanless by stabbing a screwdriver through the vent holes into the fan). It's just that whenever you want the last three inches of extra performance, you pay a heavy price with respect to thermal power.
It's been a while since I laughed so much.. My wife now laughs while doodling in the other room :)

Impressive!
Very cool!

Although I am a bit disappointed by the fact that it did not recognise my amazing whale :(
https://i.imgur.com/K5unmKS.jpg

Especially if you compare it to what it thought a whale should look like:
https://i.imgur.com/Dxh1F3c.jpg

I guess this is like everything in AI: bad data in, bad data out.
Looking at the exchange a bit and reviewing the context in which it occurred: it's a great example of someone clearly deciding what problem they want to fix, followed by defining their priorities and sticking to them. As Linux has pointed out (IIRC), doing this pointed the way toward the underlying data structures, and the algorithms to manipulate this data followed from there.

Cohen, as remarkable as always, comes across in this instance as trying to "sell" his product (codeville) and taking it a little personally when Linus isn't swayed. Linus clearly defines the problem he was trying to solve, and believes that git solves it better than codeville. He would have backed codeville if he thought it met kernel dev needs better than git. After all, he had jumped on Bitkeeper before, against other people's wishes.
To anyone else wondering: "Codeville was a distributed revision control system" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeville
After nearly two months of working with a professional translation team, we finally have all the docs translated.

Last week we released Element 1.0.0 after nine release candidates. Today, together with the English docs, we released version 1.0.1. Our community cannot thrive without you guys, so please don't hesitate to use Element today!
I'm going to reply to the top comment here, rather than everywhere else in this thread.

This comment is complete nonsense.

Or rather, it is the perfect example of the type of comment that is impossible to argue against because it is specifically designed to be never wrong.

Instead of trying to argue (for example) that one shouldn't adjust for things like changing the time temperature is measured from the morning to the afternoon, the argument is that "there is an incentive".

It's clearly useless to argue against this. One could make the point that there is always large amounts of funding available for anyone to go against the climate change consensus, but then we'd end up arguing details of funding models etc which would (in the main) be completely ignored.

You'll note that there is the concession But this doesn't mean any specific correction is based on "fabricated" research. It's probably perfectly valid. - but you'll also note that the author goes on arguing motivation points, and saying things like "it requires statistical wizardry" and questioning ice core data etc.

This is such an attractive technique for arguing on forums. It's just about impossible to stop, and much more damaging than "fake news" IMHO.
Oh god... here I go... as a motorcyclist (sorry) this is something that is utterly frightening.

I'm out there on the road doing my fu-cking damndest to make sure that I'm driving defensively and predictably, kind of just trying to ensure that I see my wife and twi girls that evening.

I'm at standing height next to your window, so I can see right in there while you text and check Facebook whilst piloting a 2 ton machine at upwards of 100kph.

The mind boggles at just how common this is, I'd say one in three on some days. At highway speeds.

It ain't right peeps.
If they want to sue someone, they'd have to definitely prove it exists and is human caused, this could be interesting.
You could use Stylish and something like:

* {
transition-delay: 0ms !important;
transition-duration: 0ms !important;
animation-delay: 0ms !important;
animation-duration: 0ms !important;
}

I believe setting delay/duration to 0ms should still fire events for the animation/transition (unlike "animation/transition: none") which should avoid breaking anything that relies on those events.
Yes, but the scrolling should happen depending on the viewpoint of the user.

I've seen a demo where the user tilts a tablet, and the image on the tablet is adjusted to create a 3d effect.
A VPS is quite a bit different than regular shared hosting though.

Like the absurdly low single-digit-per-month hosting plans with 'Unlimited' everything. They're run to push the most customers onto the fewest boxes possible, and offer incredibly large feature sets.

So, while you might be tuning your static content to be as small as possible, you're probably on a box that's serving a heck of a lot poorly optimised sites. Disk IO is probably going to be an issue if you can't keep your content in memory (remembering that memory pressure is probably pretty high)
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I guess the best bet would have been drawing some piece of clothing with the most commonly used camo pattern, sth like: https://www.google.ch/search?q=camouflage+pattern
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> 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz

IOW, once every 2.7 years. Google Calculator is genius.
I note the BCS (a professional body of sorts for British technologists) has a "public interest" clause in its code of conduct for members, which arguably prohibits the sort of behaviour described by you & in the submission:

http://www.bcs.org/category/6030#publicinterest

That said, there's no real obligation to be a BCS member, and most people aren't, which somewhat defangs their CoC: like you say, if you refuse the work, someone else will do it. Still, it's a good symbolic gesture, and perhaps points the way to go.
Japanese translation has improved recently but it still often generates pretty silly results. Though this language is one big Winograd schema so it would be hard to improve without strong AI. Shameless plug for my own Japanese translation service http://ichi.moe which doesn't even attempt to build a sentence and relies on the user to solve ambiguity.
I figure someone at Google thought it was funny to say that blue moons occur approximately every 1 / (1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz) = 992 days.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F(1.16699016+%C3%97+...