skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there exists an absolute reality it only make sense to be non-objective [nirguna brahman in advaita] nothingness, in contrast to objective nothingness which conceptually is nihilism.

Mathematics can be used to study the universe at the objective level but do not make the mistake of treating numbers as ineffable, existing in some platonic realm outside of space/time/causation or talk about the "real" reality and mathematics together. Through mathematics we learn more about the limits of our own model building/cognition than any secrets of the universe.
It is much easier to send on Titan a bunch of seaweeds, various seeds, etc. And let an ecosystem eventually arise by itself. Of course, we should send some bibles too. So the Titan creatures can learn who/what their mighty creator is.
Amen.
While I think that the Dell XPS is the most beautiful of the Dell machines, I think that the lattitude, especially the e7470 model[0] is a better development machine as they're more easily upgradable (at least regarding the RAM and SSD).

[0]http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e7470-ultrabook/p...
Seems like it might work fine on a couch or such.
> I need an SSD (~512gb) and a recent cpu with 16gb+ ram.

Can you expand on that? I've seen this with folks in the movie/production industry but for webdev it seems like that's more of a want.

What's your daily task load, where integrated GPU and 32GB of ram are tasked?
Correct usage of ORMs if it's not in the database is another important and easy thing to get right. This often gives a 10-1000 times performance improvement just due to the avoided "ping pong" game by using eg. query annotations that tell the ORM which related objects you'll access.
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Yeah good point. The timing does line up.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2453929/microsoft-subnet...
All the Sublime Text 3 themes (nearly)
> Alright, so currently we can't even predict how bad osteoporosis becomes after a flight to Mars

On a trip to Mars, I think gravity is not the problem. We can perfectly generate gravity by e.g. sending two modules instead of one, linking them by rods or cables, and then rotating them on the central axis, while sending them forward.

Changing gravity on Titan, of course, is a different problem, although at least Titan is lighter than Earth.
They should, in all things that include a summary, web article or otherwise. When a tl;dr is at the end of something, it is tl;ar (too late; already read). It drives me nuts, it defeats the whole purpose.
I use Twitter as a reminder of all the good things I read on the Web. Basically i use it like the "Star" feature of (good old) Google Reader. Is there a way to convert my tweets into flashcards?
So i can keep in memory all the good things I met of the Web ?
<snark>But it only has 16GB, obviously that's not enough for developers!</snark>

(Typing this on the new MBP that people tell me is not a "Pro" machine -- but it's the best laptop I've ever owned!)
*Killer cards are a branding of Qualcomm Atheros. Their Linux drivers are open source and the firmware is now upstream.

This is very interesting. I am glad they are trying to include as many open source drivers as possible!

On a side note, Dell seems to be putting a bit of effort into this series. Do you guys think they are selling well enough for them to continue doing this or are they doing this as a hedge against Microsoft ?
One problem might be the sulfuric acid rains. The SO2-cloud layer is well above the '1 atm'-isobar level (~50km). So we would need building materials that are resistant to sulfuric acid.

But other than that I also find the idea highly fascinating.
Why do all discussions of basic income omit the best argument in favor of it?

I would think, especially on a site like HN, that people would realize just how valuable BI would be to entrepreneurs. Many people don't pursue business ideas for fear that they'll burn through savings or have problems paying for the necessities of life. With BI, that concern goes away. You may have to scale your lifestyle back a bit, but you basically start at ramen profitability.

And yet all discussions of BI tend to frame it as an extension of welfare given to people who can't earn enough to support themselves. I'm not against taking care of the poor, but when you frame the argument like that, you miss the benefits to society from all that extra entrepreneurship.
Presumably it would be energy intensive, especially at Mars' temperatures.
Must be the americans downvoting me :) This isn't a new thing to anyone in the EU... I think?

http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_402_en.p...

Employers have every incentive to save that 30%+ by paying their employees in cash.
Thunderbolt 3 is not a "special Apple variant". Most new high-end laptops these days have Thunderbolt 3.

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/products?tid=14&field_comp...
If you have any interest in firearms or warfare/military history, /k/ can be surprisingly good at times along with operatorchan. Those are obviously very niche though.
Isaac Newton: The man who discovered gravity
Many of the things I bookmark wouldn't be interesting to this audience, so it'd feel a bit abusive to try.
The second message is arguably clearer, but I don't think anyone would be really hindered by the first one, especially given that, unlike in C, application of printf have an explicit type:

# Printf.sprintf "some int: %d another int: %d";;
- : int -> int -> string = <fun>

I think a general tendency in statically typed languages is that we like to write stuff using only the type system, rather than adding code to the compiler. Same for macros: we will rather have them proved correct by the typechecker than make them raise errors (also it is possible, through exceptions).

But maybe this is detrimental to clarity of errors in some cases. I'd be interested to see how Racket handles errors.
Might be good if you don't type touch then. It'll look like you're looking at the camera (them) more often. (As for myself, I'd just look arrogant...)

The minute someone can magic out a way to turn a monitor into a multi point camera, add some eye tracking logic and integrate that with the conference display, we'll have a small video teleconference revolution on our hands.

Unfortunately, doing a search I see that Apple has already thought of that.. http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent...
It has already affected it to the extent that we have a cold spot out in the North Atlantic (it's been there for about 10 years - caused by melting ice in Greenland, probably):
https://climatecrocks.com/2016/03/01/mystery-deepens-around-...
No, that's the headline or title.

The final paragraph makes it pretty clear that it's really encouraging the readers to think about how precious our home planet is:

> There is no quick way to move off the Earth. We will have to solve our problems here.
From the function names in the stack trace, I assume it's the internal protocol used for "Reading View" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17204/windows-10-ta...
You don't need the card number, the name + zip (+ store location) is enough to correlate enough of the time.
The title has two facts:

1. Uganda is shutting down a given set of schools.

2. The given set of schools are funded by Gates and Zuckerberg.

The only thing that is arguably inaccurate is that the shutdown order is currently stayed until December 8.
I'd be interesting in seeing how it is failing for you? Timeout, or something else?

As far as I can see the server is up and running on both IPv4 & IPv6. Load is low, and I see no failures logged.

Edit added to github pages:

* http://skx.github.io/bookmarks.public/
If it were natural language rather than a programming language, ability to write something that works after a few hours study would be a significant accomplishment. Non-trivial understanding of any programming language
simply takes time.

Anyway, most code is just hacked together because writing working code is hard.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
The I/O ports on it seem wrong. It would be much better if it lose the power plug and one of the old USB ports for two additional TB3 ports. Love the power gauge, although I rarely use it I really like it on my old MBP and miss it on the new ones.
Clean SQL
That will clutter up the user's downloads folder with a bunch of files they don't understand what they're for.

.torrent files are also superseded by magnet URLs for public downloads
I agree 100%. I just wish I could take the gmail interface and use it to manage my mail on my server. It's the UI that keeps me on Google for email.
Are you saying that you do not see the massive opportunity that is establishing a foothold in school systems in developing countries?

More specifically, Facebook owns Oculus which puts them in one of the best positions to replace schools/teachers with technology/VR.
We sort of already have this. Nuclear submarines. I wonder if they've ever planned for repopulating the earth? They should carry frozen embryos on board.
They currently offer only one low end model with the non-touch screen. I wish they would offer a few better options with that screen. The regular HD screen meets all my needs and takes much less power.
Have a 15 XPS that I installed Ubuntu on.

I tried the 13 but I personally like bigger screen to work on.

Everything worked perfectly with Ubuntu 16.10 except the headphones which I found a pretty simple solution for online.

I love it! Highly reccomended.
It really doesn't. I've got the XPS 15 and the camera is similarly placed. The optimal solution is to just run a USB webcam to the top of an external monitor.

On the go, you're SOL. Not only can everyone see up your nose, but don't even try typing unless you want to distract everyone with some nice finger close-ups.
But wait: this XPS actually has 'only' 16GB RAM.

Why doesn't this seem to be a problem now? Is it replaceable?
I wonder if they've fixed the coil whine problem with this iteration. That's the sticking point for me currently.
Here's the correct search link, which gives better understanding: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is...

10 open, 40 closed issues related to gestures in v2. It has not yet reached release stage, but already good enough to start the development of the new apps.
Interestingly, they use the Nodejs-based Haraka MTA instead of a more conservative choice like Postfix or Exim. I wonder what exact advantages they traded in more mature and certainly not much less performant software in for?

A very good and even cheaper alternative to this service I can recommend is mailbox.org, run by German IT service specialist Heinlein. They deliver a full OpenXchange setup (mail, calendar, contacts) with custom domain, 3 different mail aliases and additional + aliases and good privacy policy for 1€/month. They are very realiable (using a more conservative MTA, postfix), and the company is mature. They provide better value for money than migadu.com just by looking at it.
Additionally, I'm not saying I disagree with Gates/Zuck. I'm sure they only have good intentions.
You could do Griffin BreakSafe style on the charger side and not laptop side, so it would look nice.
I mean, I can "get by" on anything - an iPod Touch that runs Emacs 23, just to pick an example off my desk. When the chips are down, I'll get the job done with it. When the chips aren't down, and I have something more closely approaching my druthers with regard to the tools I use, I'm not going to go for the iPod.
I didn't say an integrated gpu and 32gb are taxed... I said I needed an SSD greater than 256gb (512), and at least 16gb of ram. However, in many corp environments if you need those, you get a hefty machine.

If it's being taxed, it's probably because some idiot spec'd an HDD that pulls resources too slowly For modern JS dev, you really need an SSD more than anything else. Mainly because the build/watch process is tracking many thousands of small files which is significantly worse on hdd. 60+ seconds vs. under a second for any change to take effect in the browser. This can be as much as an hour a day wasted. The 5 hours of wasted time in a few weeks are more costly than the upgrade to ssd.

-- edit

As to 512gb, it's because after all the software, that can take 100gb... creative assets well over that depending on the projects... it's easy to hit 240gb between the OS, software, projects, and assets.

Beyond that, show me off-the shelf hardware that can be configured with 16+gb ram and a 512gb SSD that doesn't have the other stuff I don't need?
Good books, all classics. Weinberg's book is frequently cited by one of my favorite tech books, Roy Osherove's Notes to a Software Team Leader.

@otoolep, your spam detection missed the one comment to this post. :)
I've got last year's model and the ram has never been an issue for me, in fact I manage to run 6 to 7 workspaces, each with a chrome window with a few hundred tabs, terminal windows and an atom window all running really well. I do have the great suspender installed which obviously helps.
I've stayed at 2 of this guy's (Vic) properties. The first time was in the sunset in SF and it was pretty great. The cops did come bursting into our bedroom at midnight on a weeknight once, but besides that I have fond memories of it.

I also stayed at Vic's hacker house in San Mateo, where the stoner host and his buddy were often up to no good... One guy actually decided to stop paying rent, and exercise his tenant's rights. Basically things were going horribly there so I was able to convince my fellow tenants to split a 3 bedroom apartment near by.

I get that Vic takes care of the house that he lives in. It's just not the case for all of his properties.
Dell also make laptops with far more ram, so it's not a choice of ">16GB or dell" it's just with this specific line of laptops.
I love how fast the website is.
If I recall correctly, they have some laughable storage limits like 250 megabytes. Not a big fan of storing all my email locally and doing backups myself + no mobile search. So 1990ish, in my opinion.
Can I get these in India? There's currently NO Linux pre-installed laptops available in India as far s I can see (apart from Chromebooks). In the article, there seems to be some secret list of countries beyond EU and the US. What's the barrier making these available more broadly and have straightforward buying process?
I've just got the previous version and the coil whine is really annoying. I'm debating whether to keep it. I actually wouldn't mind as much if it's constant, but hearing a "brbrbrbrbrbr" whenever I scroll is very irritating.

There's a lot of static on the headphone port too, which is disappointing.
Cringe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiAhxaE_oI

I don't think I've ever met anyone in England like this, but I can well believe they exist.
I switched from a macbook to the previous model a year ago and put Arch on it. The machine is really really excellent.

I recently walked in a cafe in NYC and saw 6 of them and two macbooks, which I was shocked at.

So I hope Dell keeps it up. It's about time we had someone make decent laptops, besides apple, again. I was really missing the IBM Thinkpad series until these came along. Lenovo did not carry the torch well.
This is how I do email:

- Use my domain providers 1GB mailbox.

- IMAP on the phone, POP3 on the PC.

- I'm currently not subscribed to any high-volume mailing lists, and won't unless I'm a very active contributor. The only lists I follow is the announce lists from GNU, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. You don't need to subscribe in order to post to many email lists.

- Pop my mail into my computer, use procmail to check for spam & virus (spamassassin, clamav), sort likely spam into spam mailbox, non-spam into inbox, rest to /dev/null (spamassassin score>5 and/or clamav virus check positive). If I'm on any moderate-or-high-volume lists, sort them into different mailboxes (most the content there is not sent to me, so no need to have them in front of me every time I look at my inbox).

- My inbox receives many updates from services and newsletters I'm subscribed to. I delete most mail from those if I won't have to return to them (e.g. a message about an event next week, I add the event to my agenda if I'm participating, and delete the mail; copy the relevant text to my agenda if necessary).

- Report to spamassassin and delete any message that escaped it and made it to my inbox.

- Check spam every-so-often, report ham and move to inbox, delete the rest.

- Use a combination of mpop, msmtp, procmail, spamassassin, clamav, Rmail, Org-Mode and mairix to get all this going (K9 mail on Android for IMAP there). Sounds complex, but isn't, nowadays I've tuned my setup to be pleasing. The only thing I'd like to do in future is to do POP, SMTP, sorting and search in Emacs instead of through all those programs.

One shortcoming of my setup is that once I pop my mail, I can't view it on mobile anymore. That's something I can fix (maybe there's an app for Android that can read local mail in the SD card), but I haven't had a problem up until now. And no, I'm not a unix-vintage-guy or whatnot, this setup is practical and pleasing to use (at least in my case), and I own all my mail the moment I pop it from my server, and nobody has a copy of it. If it's not on your disks, you don't own it.
There's a lot of substance to the stack chosen. The performance Haskell or Go offer over Python let alone Django, a fat framework, make them far better picks for thin wrappers around an RDBMS.
An MBP with the same configuration as the Dells priciest model costs $700 more.
Unless the title's been edited, it does say "tech-related subreddits", one would expect reddit to feature heavily in the replies :)
This may sound snarky but we've run the 7370 version of their lineup and chosen to abandon them for T460s at the time being. There are some pretty not cool things going on with the thunderbolt subsystem when it comes to displays and network cards.

Edit: to go into a bit more detail, we seem to see arbitrary packet loss on the thunderbolt based network cards (pigtails and docking stations), as well as sometimes the MAC changes, which messes with our radius system.

Furthermore, there are some issues with hardware acceleration on skylake so having a QHD screen is basically a waste if you want to try and view any QHD video content.

We ran Arch the entire time my team was on these and we kept the wiki up for this product. It just seemed that we were fighting a loosing battle with Dell's docks and with Intel's skylake stuff.
Yet Americans would tell a stranger that they're tall, or occasionally short.
The same reason Ted Kaczynski isn't being imprisoned "essentially for dissent".

You're allowed to hold any opinion you like in the US and the government can't touch you. That's what dissent means. But if you commit crimes due to your dissenting opinions, they go after you for those crimes.
> Protectionist trade policies are going to be great for software engineers.

So in addition to manufacturing jobs coming back demand and therefore jobs will increase for one of the best paying professions in the country.
Why on earth would they place the webcam there?
I would call that anything but boring. There is too much information to take in when you first start for sure.
But as a slither and agar.io fan. I can see where between the excitement and money it could be quite a heart pounding adrenaline rush.
You just described institutional vs individual racism. The former is anchored in society and has deeper and multi generational damages.

A lot of people on the left now describe the latter as discrimination, arguing that only institutional discrimination can be called racism, which can make some discussion confusing.
DISCLAIMER: Any discussion of how to crack security on even vintage machines is banned on most ThinkPad forums. So much as mentioning this page can get you banned in some places.

IBM/Lenovo also says the only way to "recover" from a lost password is a new motherboard. Meanwhile eveyone else has figured it out. Great example of security theater.
I work remote for a startup out of San Jose ;) SV job, BFI house.
What would be the reason for such (seemingly bad) decision?
I've always wondered whether Apple takes its website "down for maintenance" before a product launch out of necessity or simply to build excitement.
The current gen XPS 15 can be upgraded to 32gb. Not sure about the 13.
So the exact metro I live in has about 250-300k people. So there are tech jobs.. maybe 100-200.

But yah, not great. So I work remote.
Nice! I have a developer version of the Dell precision series that is 2 generations old at this point. It has one of the best screens I have ever seen.

> I recently walked in a cafe in NYC and saw 6 of them and two macbooks, which I was shocked at.

Interesting! Is there any chance you caught what OS they were on (i.e. Linux vs Windows).
You can simply buy Windows versions of these laptops in India and install Linux. AFAIK, the hardware is identical on both devices. If you install Ubuntu on the machine, you will get all the drivers during installation. You might want to wait for the Kaby Lake versions to hit Indian online stores though.
The stock market oracle values a dim chance for massive growth much higher than a very large likelihood of continued existence at current levels.

Overoptimistic money drives out realistic money and then suddenly the corporation has to fulfill expectations it might never have actively encouraged. Or else you lose at capitalism, whatever that means.

The only chance to not play that game is to have patient majority owners who are fully willing to ignore temporary devaluation when disillusioned optimists jump ship.
That reminds me of a trick I discovered nearly 10 years ago on an Acer to reset the BIOS Password from Windows.

There was this eSettings.exe which let you change some BIOS Settings from Windows, including the password. Of course it first asked for the old password and showed a prompt, denying the request if it was wrong.

I fired up good old OllyDbg and traced the prompt in the ASM code. I changed only one bit IIRC (jne to je, or similar), saved the .exe and tried my luck.

It let me through the prompt and I entered the new password. Amazingly the BIOS gladly accepted it!

I didn't bother to find out what functions it exactly called to set the new password to write a small tool, because I already had one. ;)

I wonder if this still works... If not with an Acer, maybe with some other make?
Ask HN: Parenting App Idea
for those of you with kids, would use like an App your kids can use to interrupt you while you're working. i.e. they want your attention and you want to keep working. The way this app would work is like Uber with surge pricing. You set your price per interruption and the kids learn when it's $5.00 per interruption I'll just wait for that surge price to go down to $1.00 per interruption unless it's really really important.
The Precision 5510 is basically the XPS but with far more upgrade options.
I've tried and it works perfectly;
Well I left Chicago, and am planning my return. I won't return to my same condo, but I will still return!!

Living like a king in the sticks is overrated IMO.
Decoding Z80 opcodes
So you don't need a powerful machine, but you're still willing to pay a premium for one because it's small with a big battery? That makes even less sense.
Handcrafted Online Radio Stations
One of the biggest problems is migrating your data to match updated code, while the system keeps running.

It's like changing the engine of a driving car.