skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try reading science journalism. It's absolutely riddled with errors and oversimplifications that never get corrected!

Moreover, sure NPR might fire you for repeatedly using incorrect numbers for which they then have to publish retractions but that doesn't stop you from using essentially correct statistics in highly misleading ways, a sin all major media sources are guilty of.
Here is a recipe for a successful shitpost on hacker news:

1. Write a blog post about your experience with X. Your description shall not be complete nor correct.

2. Wrap it around with a thesis on a random topic, which is semi-related to your experience, and which is by no means proven by your description.

3. ??

4. profit!
Simple explanation: the i5 and i7 in question are 2 core, 4 threads, compared to your desktop's i5 which is 4 cores, 4 threads.
Exactly. And the earlier we start paying, the more we'll get if something eventually happens. We'll need a lot of time to build as good new home as we have now, that will preserve our culture, our history and our diversity. It's hundreds of years of hard work and at some point it will not be a focused project able to achieve results quickly, but rather more like regular economic development of 2-7% per year with very slow population growth (if the Earth will be green and beautiful, who will want to give birth to their child on Mars?).
What is really needed first is rovers on Titan that can explore the lakes, ice deposits and possible geothermal energy there.

We already know Enceladus, another of Saturn's moons, has abundant water and heating from Saturn's tidal pull.
Based on the linked github page[1], it looks like that comment was an extrapolation from a guideline in Airbnb's Ruby Style Guide, where Airbnb prefers the use of `reduce` instead of `inject`:

- Prefer `reduce` over `inject`.

I haven't seen any other evidence to show reduce is more performance friendly.

[1]: https://github.com/airbnb/ruby#collections
It's not like Google particularly cares for 1. I still get a ridiculous Google-redirector URL when copying a link from the search results that has enough entropy to uniquely identify every single atom in the universe 2^128 times over.

Despite showing the correct link in the status bar. It's a scummy dark pattern that needs to die.
I'd love to see more on how he manages his "to learn" pile using Evernote. My current strategy is to let things I want to read live in open browser tabs until my browser crashes. Rinse & repeat.
I have actually seen a surprising trend to the contrary among my friends. These are people with very different backgrounds (anything from the hardly-ever-employed working class to researchers), but over the past year I can count at least five people who have started eating vegetarian most days of the week. Just like tattoos and beards, these things can become trendy, and then peer pressure takes care of the rest.
Problem 2 is underspecified so both answers might be wrong. Should the output on the string "aaaabbbaa" be "a4b3a2" or "a6b3"? Or is that invalid input? I don't think you can reasonably answer the problem without an example like this.
I am the founder of Liveform(https://liveformhq.com/) and would love your feedback. I also built (https://getsimpleform.com/) before that.
> People in China have
> put the cultural
> revolution behind them

You should solicit the opinions of some Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Singaporean Chinese about that.
If he mentioned the heresies, this post would not be read by those in the Overton bubble. An example, in the Overton bubble the cause of all differences in outcome between people is discrimination or perverse socialization. This leads to the following reasoning:

Programming is a well paying, desirable job.

White, Asian, Indian, and Jewish males are over-represented in the trade.

All people have identical abilities and preferences on average, therefore the demographics of a profession should exactly match the census.

We note that this isn't the case, therefore these demographics are the result of a subconscious and economically counterproductive racist and sexist conspiracy.

Our reigning ideologies believe in a Lysenkoism of the mind, despite all psychometric evidence. There really are blogs with better epistemology on this topic than the top universities in the Overton bubble. Ideological indoctrination is the practice of instilling in people priors of 0 and 1 on certain topics, immunizing them against empirical experience. It is the practice of making geniuses more deluded than fools.
I think you are focusing on the wrong number.

Each byte of base64 produces 6 bits of data, so the boundary aligns at 32 bits. LCM(6,8) = (6•8)/2

Each byte of base122 produces 7 bits of data, so the byte boundary aligns at 56 bits. LCM(7,8) = (7•8)/1

Edit: Due to the variable length encoding, there is no guarantee of byte alignment.
Is it just me or is his improved solution a possibly incorrect way to solve the second problem? With his solution "aabbcccaa" compresses to "a4b2c3", but I would expect that to compress to in "a2b2c3a2".

Am I misunderstanding the problem here? In the context of compression why would it just be about counting letters? Why wouldn't you just use a hash of character counts if that is all you care about? Don't you want to maintain the form of the string also so you can unpack the original value?
I've never done Ruby, but what I don't like about that second solution is how much logic it puts into formatting directives in a string literal:

> "#{x}#{input.split('').count(x)}"

Just because Ruby apparently allows you to do that much in a formatting directive doesn't mean you should.
In Allo (and similar), if I begin with when, where, who..., a ? should magically appear at the right end of the line and float along there as the question fills.
Here is the link to the test. Only in German and behind a payment barrier: https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2016-25-XPS-13-Developer-Edi...
Books or video tutorial: the best way to learn coding?
"Octet" is still commonly used, often in network protocols.

It always means "8 bits", unlike "byte" that usually means "8 bits", but may mean some other quantity (although it is rare nowadays).
But skylake, not kaby lake...
It's less arbitrary than you might think. I've been half-heartedly shopping for a new TV in the past couple of days and it's amazing what you can get now. Here's a 49-inch 4K LED TV for $350: https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre-U508CV-UMK-49-Inch-Ultra-Mode...

Sure, it may not be exactly what people here would want, but it's not necessarily a bad TV, if we hypothesize someone who is choosing between repairing something 5 years old or buying a new one. With what the TV industry has done lately, it's almost certainly better than what they're replacing.

And at the very least, you're risking $200 for a repair. Labor may not cost that much out of the gate, but repair parts can get expensive fast simply because stocking obsolete panels for several years before someone finally buys one has a certain cost associated with it. Factor in the risk of expensive parts, factor in the risk that the repair won't actually work for one reason or another (misdiagnosis, the repair fixes one worn part but there's a dozen others ready to break), and it doesn't take much before replacing the TV is the better choice for the consumer.

That said, TVs are also the worst-case scenario, because TV prices have plunged lately in a way that even the computer industry would be a bit jealous of. It makes the case for repair pathologically poor. Many other things have much better cases to be made; appliances haven't plunged in price, and have large landfill footprints. Bicycles can last a long time if you care for them, and bicycle shops have the ability to repair most things quickly enough that they don't have to charge "by the hour" but can just charge flat fees for various tasks. etc.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but where in France did you experience this? I'm a non-native speaker of French and I have never experienced this, not even when I was in my teens still learning French.
Tell HN: Allow your users to report fraudulent signups without signing in
It seems like every day I get someone signing up for an app and using my email.

There really needs to be a new standard one-click way of saying "this isn't me".

The current options are suboptimal for both "user" (aka victim) and company.

1) I try to unsubscribe and it works. You have a user who doesn't receive any email communication from you.

2) I try to unsubscribe and it requires a login. You have a spam report.

3) If it's an app I may actually want to use in the future, I have to go through support to get your user kicked off their current account, possibly annoying them if they were a legit (but lazy or deceptive or whatever) user. You have two annoyed users and a support burden.

In neither of these cases is the actual person who signed up: a) dissuaded from doing this again, if on purpose, b) corrected and set up with a valid email, if by accident.

I've also noticed that for the few apps that make you confirm your email, failing to do so often does not prevent future marketing / re-engagement emails from showing up. So what was the point of requiring confirmation?

Does anyone else have this problem?
In my particular comment, I meant that THE Universe (proper noun) could have different physics. Max Tegmark uses the term a bit differently, but he's quite clear about what he means.

As for your second paragraph, I really don't have any idea what you two are on about.
Is this the article? https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2016-25-XPS-13-Developer-Edi...

With respect to the HDMI port on the separately sold docking station, define "does not work correctly" :)

Usually if people are having issues they post them to Barton's blog so that the issues get visibility and to discover whether other people are having similar issues. The problems that you refer to will probably be mentioned there in soon-ish.
I'm a bit suprised: While Rainloop seems to the most modern opensource webmail client I could find (and I did do some research), from their github: _This is NOT a stable version of RainLoop Webmail. It's not recommended to use in production environment._
From my own testing there are certainly still a few bugs. Interesting they go with this for their primary webmail.
That is the trade off though. If you want a secure device you need to accept the risks that if you forget the passphrase you are fucked. A false sense of security isn't a good thing.
Yep, I just posted almost exactly this on the blog.
Westworld also did some interesting hints to "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes a book that if you haven't read it yet you should. It's up there with GEB.
To limit a good education to "It doesn't take years to check if a child can read and write." is condescending.

Free markets might work for some things well, for education they don't, not in development countries nor in developed countries.
The use of codepoints below 32 (space, start of what's usually considered "printable") makes me a bit hesitant. A lot of systems won't preserve those characters. Base85 is a more efficient alternative to base64, and doesn't use that lower range:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85
A word of warning for those interested in this machine or the 15 inch version: there are issues with the keyboard resulting in double characters when typing fast [1]. I have the precision 5510 (basically an XPS 15) and have the same issue, it's driving me nuts and Dell won't (can't?) do anything about it.

Also, I'm currently on an old (1.2.0 instead of 1.2.14) bios firmware because they managed to introduce display flicker on on all but the highest brightness setting.

In short: there are real problems with quality assurance at Dell - be ready for this if you decide to buy one of their laptops.

[1] http://www.dell.com/support/Article/nl/nl/nlbsdt1/SLN297563/... - here they suggest to adjust the key repeat/delay settings as a last resort (doesn't help on my 5510)
Can I build this for a floppy? I've got an old machine I want to install into.
Cassini gave us so much amazing information. Lakes on Titan, giant geysers on Encaladus from an underground ocean, a moon that looks like the death star, our first lander on an object further than Mars, etc.
I admit the numbers are arbitrary, but I do claim they are realistic. Based on personal experience and some insight into the pricing of electronics and cost of labour (in a Sweden-like environment).

If you change the purchasing power parity figures a lot, then it will be different. Fixing a TV may make more sense in Russia, for instance, than Sweden, not to mention some third-world countries.
Let's use the equally arbitrary "Finnish Litmus Test": In the group text they joked that I would go out and play ice hockey all day, only listen to death metal, eat exclusively pickled fish...

Just sounds funny to me. Almost like a history of oppression is an integral factor in this, and joking about the diligence and work ethic of a group that's found huge success via those is different from joking about a group that's been literally enslaved, marginalised, and overtly oppressed by the group the jokers belong to.
Jason Fried: Teams and Work at Basecamp
Those are grammar/style issues, though: 'did' is a tense error, and 'came also' is a reversal of the normal phrase 'also came'. (Not capitalizing 'English' is just being sloppy, as we can safely assume that they know English is a proper noun, since even non-English speakers know that.) Grammar and composition are hard to fit into the SRS framework because you need feedback on subtle errors and exposure to a wide variety of native writing. As far as vocabulary goes, which is what spaced repetition is particularly claimed to be good for, he looks fine to me. Certainly he's better off than if he had tried Rosetta Stone or something...
It's crucial to evaluate encoding space usage in the context of compression. For instance gzip(base16(data)) is often smaller than gzip(base64(data)) for practical data. Even though base64 is more efficient than base16, it breaks up data across byte boundaries which then makes gzip significantly less efficient.
Don't forget that if you look at the spectrum of provincial and national politics in India over the last 60 years, we've seen literally everything - linguistic regional movements for state formation, religious voting blocks, caste based voting blocks, thug-rule strongmen, regionalism (Bal Thackery etc) communists, dictatorship in all but name as we as well as educated socialists & professionals. These things have gone in cycles & overall all things considered the current set of political leadership in provinces & center seems to be a marked improvement over history (except possibly in Uttar Pradesh - but that's coming up for elections in Feb 17)
People want to live a comfortable life and they'll give up with natural meat if they'll be given good artifical alternative (especially, with genetically identical alternative). Green energy, effective water recycling, disposable packing materials and automatic sorting and processing of garbage are the things that, given the adequate technology, can make the sustainable life style smooth and easy. We don't need to change ourselves and consume less - we need to be innovative enough, so that our consumer life style will not harm the nature.
>The problem is more that Apple are thoughtlessly losing their reputation among professionals, because Cook, Schiller and co don't seem to be thinking hard enough what they're doing, and don't appear to have an understanding of what their professional customers are looking for.

I just wanna know what cable they use when they need to plug their iPhone into their MacBook. I don't seem to recall Apple selling a usb-c to lightning cable.
Aren't there security concerns using gzip and HTTPS? Could this be a space efficient alternative when gzip is disabled?
yes, if you type while using it your hand also cover the camera. it is useless. its only there to tick the box on their marketing material
It will freeze; water-fiber composite roof material, sprayed/laminated from the outside?
> It's very easy to write a cache-timing-safe version of base{16,32,64} encoding ...

> Base-122? Not sure if it's even possible.

Parent is clearly referring to his previous statement, not that Base-122 itself is not possible.
Yes, the tension is mainly economic. Without a vision of opportunity everyone operates from a zero-sum game perspective. Identity politics becomes a way of marshalling power to fight over fixed resources.

Blyth has the best analysis of the changes the West is undergoing. I recommend the video you linked to everybody.
It's worth pointing out, though, that the source of a lot of this performance drain is ads. And Google are the main provider of ads across the internet.

To me, AMP feels like a method for Google to sidestep the real issue at hand.
I skipped to the conclusions as I have no interest in reading over 100 pages, and there is no statement in the conclusions that migrant workers are more likely to perform untaxed work than local workers.
You don't become a better programmer by doing Project Euler like problems. Pick a real world project that's of interest to you and try to implement it. When starting out, it's not the worst idea to pick something that's been implemented quite a few times so that you can reference other people's work if you get stuck. You'll be surprised how much you can learn from implementing e.g. ls.

Also, you can contribute to open source.

Btw, this project I'm contributing to called AudioKit (if you are interested in audio stuff on Apple hw, you should definitely check it out) is looking for contributors

https://github.com/audiokit/AudioKit
Meh, it's alright. I've found it to be completely dominated by people who are only interested in or talk about deep neural nets. That's fine I guess, it's certainly popular. But there are vast areas of applied machine learning that rightly use other techniques (deep learning isn't AGI!) and it's really frustrating to try to ask questions about RF Tree Pruning or SVM kernel functions only to get a bunch of vacuous "you should try deep learning" comments.
Would the train not need to lurch to the right for the thumb to slide to the left? Since, based on the sentence structure, it is obvious that the writer always sits facing the direction of travel in a train... ;)
But there is also vastly more jobs than apartments on the peninsula.

I think it's the East Bay and Deep South Bay that gets "dumped on".

The fact that it's seen as a burden/sacrifice for a city/region to provide housing tells you a lot about what's wrong with California.
How could it be..? https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ruby_2_3/enum.c#L3509-L351...

I prefer `reduce` too, because it feels conceptually easier to understand (similarly `foldl`, though Ruby doesn't have that).
Yeah you'd think that isn't very hard, but time has proven that we are quite incapable of writing websites with sane amounts of ads, trackers, and JS libraries.
Also, it will be frozen solid; in a dome shape it could support itself.

Construction: Start with a solid dome, layer water/fiber composite on from the outside, then remove the solid dome from the inside?
Trump Tower Turns into 'Dump Tower' on Google Maps
How's the Linux support?
This. The effort to terraform the Earth and learn to get along with each other is much easier here than anywhere else.
Understanding Snapchat’s Business and Sponsored Lenses
I have an i7 one, and I mostly love it. The issues though, they irk.

- I can't get over the battery life difference, it actually tempts me back to Windows.

- If you get the highest resolution screen I've found that not all programs in Linux handle the scaling correctly and if you don't scale the text is unreadably small. This is especially telling with notifications.

- If you have DisplayPort requirements you're going to be in trouble, there are few to no DP dongles and the ones that exist don't pass through USB Type-C and so you need multiple dongles off of dongles because there is only 1 USB Type-C.

- If you did go for the touchscreen version, the touchscreen doesn't seem to always work after waking from sleep.

Aside from those things, the Ubuntu install went smoothly with everything being recognised immediately and no need to muck around with anything.

Still... that battery. Makes me wonder whether I should switch to VMWare on Windows to run my Linux.
Also feels very different compared to other Vonnegut. Definitely more sci-fi feel than social commentary as in his later books. Sirens of Titan aged better past my teen years than did, say, Slaughterhouse Five.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot that I love about later Vonnegut. But Sirens of Titan stands out as an early gem.
I would be interested to learn more about those concerns. My "default" setup these days is HTTPS & gzip everything, but I can't say I've read any white papers on the security implications of that.
Is it possible and does it make sense to migrate old emails from GMail to Migadu?
The NIH plan to fix social science
NIMBYs are also a major cause of the wealth inequality we are seeing.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...
I love this chart: Delta-V required for various solar system destinations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/534ylb/elon_musk_on...
Not obvious to me at all.
I disagree that the whole argument is moot but the yes those are made up numbers. The gist of the argument sounds about right to me. I had a vacuum cleaner break and I took it to a local fix-it man and he wanted $80 dollars to fix in parts, labor and tax and wanted it for the week. The vacuum is $130 dollars (MSRP) on amazon right now and $70 on sale. My used vacuum probably is only worth $30 working. I'm pretty sure that this is because there are not many stores of that type and he probably doesn't get much traffic so charges appropriately. I could shop around and find someone better but there are few options and that quote was already a waste of my time at this point.

I think that over time these costs could come down if there was demand as there would be competition and probably sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile. I would like to see more devotion to maintenance and repair but currently the numbers seem unfavorable at least for small appliances.
This is awesome! I'm going to try this to cross-compile for ARM, so MLL might be the embedded linux 'boilerplate' which I need.
I've tried Notmuch after considering it and mu4e (they looked very similar, don't recall anymore why picked one over the other), but it's not my cup of tea. Also none of these eliminate mpop, msmtp or procmail, I want to use Elisp tools instead of these (the actual one that has no equivalent in Elisp is procmail). I currently use mairix, which is similar to notmuch and mu in that it provides fast search across my mailboxes (which are my inbox, and quasi-periodical archive files [archive000, archive001, ...]), but it supports mbox format which I like for various reasons (doesn't eat up inodes, easier to check integrity [just hash the single file], no file-name portability issues [which I often had with Maildir], simplicity, out-of-the-box support on any Unix-like systems, etc.). With it I can treat multiple mboxes like a single one, and I've written an org-mode link type for mairix so that I can easily link from my org files to an email (via message-id) or a mairix search w/o thinking about which archive file the mail was in.

Edit: I also don't really use tags etc. to classify my mail, and don't have a plethora of email as I delete most of it after reading, so a list of all I have is the best interface for me, which Rmail provides.
> Honestly why not?

If we go into making greenhouses out of celestial bodies, asteroids are a much more compelling target than the moon.
@pksadiq,

>> [citation needed] (considering his involvement in Gujrat riots and Babari Masjid issues.).

What about those Hindus burnt alive in a train by muslim terrorists? Do you support them?