skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If GE can build jet engines, tidal energy farms, freight rail data systems, mining equipment, and medical devices, how is it that the world’s most valuable company can’t find the time to make a full line of personal computers and PC peripherals alongside its market-leading smartphones and tablets? "

The answer is simple. It's because they don't want to, and they don't have to. Yet another Vox media article that illustrates how poorly they understand Apple.

One of the first things that Steve Jobs did was scale back the number of product that Apple was shipping. There were probably 200 different SKUs for the Performa series alone. It was insane!

Instead of asking "Why is Apple discontinuing the Airport series?" maybe we should ask "Why would they keep making them?" The market for SOHO wifi stuff is crowded. Same with the market for monitors. When Apple makes something like that, people cry "what about the third party market? Apple is trying to monopolize things!" yet when Apple says "We're not going to make these things, y'all keep making them" then it's "omg what's wrong with Apple?"
NHS England proposed action to cut sales of sugary drinks in hospitals
The media virtually allows him to tweet to all of America. Would be interesting to see a 'tweet to all active twitter users' button implemented for celebrities. I wonder how much they would pay for this? 50,000k?
Earlier this year I spent some time moving my blog to AMP and so far I'm pretty happy with the move. It's hosted on GitHub pages and I made the decision to go full AMP (including Desktop so I never went the /amp/ subfolder route) and allowed me to convert every existing page to AMP without having to have a new set of URLs.

It's noticeably faster but there are a few hiccups I had to deal with - JS needs to be in isolated iframes and getting Disqus comments took a bit of time but in my case the performance benefit outweighs it. At the same time I could just simplified my design without going full AMP and it probably would have been just as quick. The biggest frustration is that if you make any CSS changes it has to rebuild every single page since the style needs to be declared inline rather than as a link to a CSS file.

For those interested: http://dangoldin.com/
A Year of Change
Yeah outlook is doing the same to me, keeps marking migadu emails as spam despite corrections as well as from my newly-setup-on-migadu domain.

Just upgraded to paid though, hoping it'll sort itself out in time.
This is licenced under the GPL right? A copyleft licence. Rendering it useless for most people.
Well, now who's being naïve?
The narrator on this video is Alain de Botton. It doesn't say so in the video nor the description on the youtube page. It's a shame really, since all his books are great reads.
I don't think the difference between linux and windows in terms of security is as big as you're implying.

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32238/Microsoft-Windows-1...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/20550/Canonical-Ubuntu-Li...
Correct. The HD password is a little closer to real security.

My motivation here is the same as most people buying old Thinkpads off eBay-- getting past the SVP on machines with a dead CMOS battery. I don't give a fig about any data on the hard drive :-)
How can one become obsessed with anything?
I think being obsessed with some subject is a way to master it, to create something great. It's a mark of prominent creators.

I have several interests like AI, blockchain, maths, etc. I feel like I want to create something great in one of those areas, something I can be proud of and other people can use. I make some progress in them, but I think I am very causal and relaxed to push myself to invest more into my interests. I feel like it's a lack of some focus, craziness, passion, obsession, whatever.

Is it possible to grow and cultivate obsession, passion, or it's a matter of hormones, genetics, neurology, something out of our control?
There are certain similarities in culture across the sub Saharan countries though. Dunno if you've been there?
A platform that allows Instagrammers to sell their photos to brands at a flat price of $10 per image, royalty free!

https://brandfox.io
> Hackers do not benefit from a closed box with non-expandable performance.

Agreed, and well said. This one line concisely sums up the first and last word on this whole pitch.
Similar library with MIT, if that is your cup of tea: https://github.com/rsms/immutable-cpp
Ah, that explains it. Thanks.
This is probably why the MapMaker tool is going away. Google Maps isn't supposed to be where you make stupid anti-Trump jokes. I hope that Google can (or even will) explain how this happened.
When don't need inflammatory personas like John Oliver in Europe.
It's possible they have some areas of agreement (none of them are white nationalists, for instance), but that hardly means that Pat Robertson, the Koch Brothers, Krugman and Chomsky are on the same page in terms of values and objectives

I'm sure there's enough diversity of opinion between televangelists for some of them to be on board with feminism, but that's more a sign that the US has less of a religious Establishment than many countries rather than more.
Are google ads that slow? When I look at the dozens of requests issued by slow sites, I don't see google domains. I see every other fucking tracker, suggester, sharer, and optimizer, but not google.
Ehh, I used to feel the same but once you use something nice like a Macbook for a while you'll come to realise that trackpads are better on larger work areas and multiple workspaces and you can always still use your thumb to do small hops quickly.

I personally wouldn't ever consider a trackpoint again until they do something major to improve the feel/sensitivity actual sensor or allow us to directly edit the force/velocity curves directly. God damn thing is impossible to use on a 4k/5k native display.
Thought he said book. Whoops.
>Their model was probably worse than 538's though.

why would that be, though?
It is obvious that genetics matter. What isn't obvious is how, or how much.

Ontogeny is context dependent at every scale of analysis. As such it is sensitive to precise manipulation in myriad ways, the vast majority of which are likely not yet known. We remain profoundly ignorant of what intelligence is, let alone what underlies it.

It's likely that large population differences are the result of a synergistic interaction of genetics and culture, with each depending on the other. Ashkenazi Jews benefit from one such interaction, but there may well be many others yet to be discovered.

I disagree that the social theorists as a whole are entirely ignorant of basic biology. I think they would argue that the cultural forces swamp genetic signals often enough to be worthy of criticism.

There are no doubt theorists with views that are more extreme, but the appropriate response isn't to counterweight by going further in the other direction.

Group membership cannot be destiny. If it is we're not free.
I think the concern here is how easy it is to conflate "fake" with "things we disagree with", thus turning a need for journalist integrity into a partisan play. Given the willingness of major news outlets to quote polls without questioning methodology, I think the fear is justified that "fake" can become "anti-liberal".

Luckily, outside of clamping down on social media platforms and driving alt-right to use other venues, this whole campaign is stillborn.
That might be a way to fight the cosmic rays : deflect them with strong magnetic fields generated by large superconductive coils.
They did as of Haswell. New machines are crackable too with more effort, but this simple short trick doesn't work.

No, I don't know a trick for new machines, and am unlikely to look for one. Modern Thinkpads aren't machines I'm very interested in.
> but I'll give the password to police if they have a search warrant.

That’s not right. In most countries, you don’t need to incriminate yourself. Before making wrongheaded decisions, contact a lawyer.
Pixelmusic 3000 – an open source music visualizer on a microcontroller (2008)
Would you care to elaborate? He's from Europe.
It is a regular process, but when it works normally, it is self-limiting. The idea is that recently it hasn't been successful, the political opposition hasn't been silenced (it merely moved outside the Overton window), and so as the danger signals grow, the radicalizing response grows, to a point where it is perhaps counterproductive.
One of the issues of Murder Can Be Fun was on the great flood

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-disasters-Boston-molasses-floo...
I would go a little bit further and say that, depending on which language you have your code, you can even use C/C++ to make a bridge between Java and some language interpreter. I've done something like that for integrating a lot of existing python code on a Android app I've done. There's a working sample in my github: https://github.com/joaoventura/pybridge

Performance is pretty good, and the UI is entirely native Android.
>>You're completely missing the point. You're paying for double of that battery usage and not getting it.

The point is that the marginal value of that extra time is absolutely negligible for most people.
Their web server or the actual email servers?
> Firstly, if your macro does not typecheck, it means that executing it might result in a segfault or something similar, since macros are regular OCaml functions.

I see. The only time I've extensively used (real) macros has been with racket, where they aren't regular functions at all. I suppose my ignorance of Ocaml macros is showing here.
I feel exactly the opposite as a browser user.

AMP breaks the back button and makes it so I can't swipe to navigate back. It puts google.com in the address bar so that I can't easily copy the link and paste it to someone else. It puts a permanent, excessively tall border on top of every page that I can't get rid of, making the usable viewing area much much smaller. (Oh and that X button that looks like it would close it? That takes you back to the search results. Figure that one out.) It breaks nearly every convention my device has for webpages and is totally nonstandard.

I really really wish google gave a way to disable AMP links in their results but they don't listen to people like me.
I'd rather learn from a 99th percentile teacher using various technology (to increase their reach) than from a top 50% teacher that is located in the same room.

I didn't (and don't) get much value from my classmates anyway, so I believe I wouldn't be worse off even as some kind of remote student.
Is there anything similar for Linux? Closest I can find is https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet
Actually real time streaming over a web socket.
I'm not really interested in metaphysics, hence my opposition to the claim.

>As for your second paragraph, I really don't have any idea what you two are on about.

I didn't quite understand the parent, but he clearly related to Computational Complexity of operations on Countable Sets. I happen to study that subject at the moment, so I am taking this discussion as an opportunity to test my understanding.

[deleted] apparently I need to learn a bit more.
I plan to change it to a more liberal license for the first stable release (I should add a note to the readme). I still have to choose which one. The GPLv3 was chosen as an interim conservative option.

One way to help me choose one of the most liberal licenses is to get your company to join the sponsorship program ;)

Anyways, I and many others use plenty of GPLv3 software every day, let's agree to disagree on the "useless" part...
If the fare machines are all out of order, opening the gates is not a "precaution".
Can you explain how illegal immigrants are able to rent in the New York market? Surely the landlords will demand identification and references and would refuse someone who is illegal?
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https://barnacl.es/ (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
Ah sweet, thanks!
I don't really care about imaginary internet points - but what does irk me is when down-voted content is made hard to read. I don't want my preconceptions of a post to be pre-coloured by what everyone else before me thought of it. I want to make my own judgement.
What can a "hacker" possibly have against John Oliver? He and his team were the most effective drivers for stronger Net Neutrality policies in the US.

The man is a living legend.

Edit: 12 million views on the abstract topic of Net Neutrality.

That's what I would call a feat indeed:

https://youtu.be/fpbOEoRrHyU
> In fact, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as RJ45.

In fact, language and terms are not set in stone.
Lots of people complained about the original Apple 'chicklet' style laptop keyboard when it was first introduced circa 2006 for the same reasons. In my experience with many different keyboards over the years once you get used to shorter key travel it's hard to go back to taller keys.
In anticipating a book like this, would you ideally want to learn the math context and notation (provided one goal of the book is to teach that), or skip that entirely in favor of the underlying ideas (as in your example with Newton's Method).

Also, would you be interested in being paid to read a chapter or two and provide feedback?
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Acognative
Erm... what languages are you talking about?

I mean, I've genuinely unsure.
i love thinkpads. just avoid buying machines with dedicated GPUs as they tend to fail. my W520 with a dedicated nvidia works like a charm, but i had numerous other thinkpads with a dedicated GPU fail
Disclosure: I work at Google. Opinions are my own.

I'm surprised when I read discussions about AMP on HN (typically carrying a negative tone regarding AMP) without anyone mentioning an obvious competing concept: Facebook Instant Articles.

Here is an excerpt from Facebook's FAQ on instant articles:

> Rather than loading an article using a web browser, which takes over 8 seconds on average, Instant Articles load using the same fast tools we use to load photos and videos in the Facebook app

Facebook has drawn a line around the open web and stamped it as slow compared to Facebook's proprietary content delivery system. If nothing else, AMP is a timely wakeup call for content publishers: if you like the open web, better start producing content that loads quickly on a phone over a 3G network. Otherwise, we will incrementally lose openness at the behest of users who will demand the superior experience of channels like Facebook Instant Articles.
For most people? I highly doubt that. But it might make it unuseable for you.
I'm glad they list the limits clearly. Other e-mail services have similar limits by nature but you only find out when you hit them.
For Unity: https://github.com/limpbrains/somebar
I think the benefits of two factor authentication are pretty obvious.
Just to make sure: You built all binaries and linked libraries yourself, from scratch, with the same optimization settings, right?
I only know these things from clojure on the jvm. How do you implement these without Garbage Collection, since freeing the wrong memory in one version could spell disaster for another version of the structure due to structural sharing.
You think that just because I disagree with you I haven't looked into it? While what you are describing does sometimes happen, the idea that it's the primary mode of operation, or even a significant one outside the fringe of the left, does not match what I see.

People can, and do, discuss these issues without being called bigots or racists, people can, and do, attack minority candidates for their policies.

That said, if you disagree that people, regardless of race, religion (or lack thereof), sex, orientation, etc... deserve the same basic rights, damn straight the left will call that out.

This attempt to push this idea that the left is wrong for pointing out discrimination is an attempt to push fear into the hearts of the privileged. I am one of those classic straight while males that should apparently be so fearful - but I'm not, because I don't see this attack. We want to allow people the same rights we already have! How is that an attack? How is that 'special rights'?

There are no 'special rights' being granted - just the same rights you and I have. That isn't a cost to us, it lifts us all up.

Yes, there are the minority few who will claim any attack on a black person is because they are black - and that is wrong and gets called out in the rare case it happens. It is not a common or powerful viewpoint.

Yes, the right does try to disadvantage groups. Look at the voter suppression by closing polling stations in areas with high minority populations, look at the fight against marriage equality, against the right to choose. All of these are aimed at pushing certain groups (minorities, LGTBQ, women) down. Pointing this out and trying to help those people get or maintain the rights we already have (I can get out and vote, I can marry who I want) is not 'identity politics'.

Either you are buying into this fear - which you shouldn't, because this is a positive thing, or you just don't want your ability to discriminate to get taken away.

I'm not saying there are not people wrong on the left, or people who don't understand the issues and propose poor solutions - speaking out against those people doesn't make you a bigot. Discussing these things to understand them doesn't make you a bigot. We don't want people to be bigots, we are not pushing for that, but we can't tolerate the denial of people's basic rights. That's unacceptable, and we will not be 'shamed' by this crazy fear.
It seems you need to manually implement tail recursion.
Yeah but now he isn't (in Europe) ;)
JFYI, comparing apple and oranges can be accepted:

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/ai...
Good job. I'm personally a big fan of the alpine distro.
I like the trend towards taming async networks, like the nopaxos paper which show's what's possible when the network layer provides a total order on client requests.

Seems not completely unrelated to prior work to turn async networks into timed-async networks like with Spanner.
Well I'm sure some people lost the respect for the guy after he jumped on the "vote for Hillary" bandwagon. But yeah, things like the Snowden interview, Net Neutrality and some other episodes are simply brilliant.
You don't need to take on cryptography to fight cybercrime. Cybercrime usually leaves huge trail of evidence. Usually in form of lost money (transactions) and bricked devices.

Fighting cybercrime has different obstacles: it's usually cross-border, and its victims are usually common people. Nobody cares terribly much when a commoner loses $100. Even when there's a thousand of them.

What you need to take on cryptography, is "to snoop".
Why would you need that, huh?
Can anybody point to organized lobbying efforts we can support to maintain all of this as far away as possible from Europe ? My country has refused to give the answers citing security reasons (according to the article).
Except you can already use key disclosure laws[0] against those people.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
This. In the U.S. at least, the 5th amendment gives you the right not to incriminate yourself. A search warrant doesn't change that.

Not all authentication methods are equal it appears. Fingerprint, facial recognition, other bio-metrics aren't considered the same as if you need to "speak" your password to someone. In other words, they can make you scan your finger or look into a camera, but they can't force you to tell them your password.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be adding support for additional fields soon.
The solution is very simple.

Google's spider uses headless chrome which runs Javascript (to index flash and Ajax content). Why can't they detect how long it takes to run your page before getting useful content?

What about just penalizing Javascript?

What about penalizing download size?
ebay works fine for me. checking local classifieds (craigslist, gumtree, olx, ...) is very fruitful too. word of mouth brought some beautiful devices to me

as for reviews. wirecutter, notebookreview, pcworld, ... trying a machine myself out before purchase is a must. recommendations from people i trust rank pretty high as well
As attractive as American military budget seems, why would it be in interest of USA to colonize another planet? A different nation would be formed with no more sense of attachment to USA than to rest of Earth.

Rather, evolution teaches us that we have to form next stage of complex entity before these kinds of funding can be secured. Atoms -> molecules -> amino-acides -> self replicating compounds -> multicellular organisms -> conscious organisms -> packs/schools/flocks/tribes -> nations -> ...world government seems to be the next logical step. Before this step happens, planetary exploration is crippled by lack of interest in non-scientific majority of population.
I think the request was for subreddits though.
I have one of these laptops (since Friday):

* ) Batt -- Still tweaking things, I dropped the ubuntu install pretty quick for arch, but I recon 9-10 hours is where I'm sitting atm.

) Headphones sound fine here...

) Wifi Perf? I get ~250mbit on fast.com from my house

The bigger issue is the graphics card whine under high load....
I run Linux VM on windows and would definitely say I got more battery life out of the machine. Not sure how it affects non-battery life performance as I haven't run anything intensive yet, but it was worth it for me.
I would imagine that shielding a ship be easier than shielding an entire colony (unless of course one accepts the underground colony approach)
This looks really flexible, thanks for sharing.
All it takes is one large-ish asteroid to wipe out everything except maybe a few lucky smaller organisms/viruses that get ejected into the open space. AFAIK, a 300-mile diameter asteroid would sterilize the planet.

That's why we should become multiplanetary species sooner, rather than later.
New app for LDR couples, feedback on the landing page?
I'm developing an app to enable long distance couples virtually interact by hearing each other's heart beating in real time, manage time via a share clock that syncs with different time zones and watch videos together.

I have not started development but I have up a landing page and sign up form as I plan to bootstrap an MVP.

What do you think? Would love some feedback. Anything I should change? Most of all, does it tell you what the app does?

http://closerthanapp.com/
/r/futurology, also /r/science
The AMP only js, hot linking and non-local copy is part of the cache magic that makes it work so I wouldn't expect that to change.
As a user, I can't stand amp -- issues are 1.) no link to original site. 2.) top banner plague 3.) weird smooth scrolling that messes with my muscle memory.

There are two workarounds to avoid amp all together: 1.) use DDG and prefix all queries with "!g" or 2.) visit encrypted.google.com that does not use amp.

Given that I tend to stay on a page for 2-10 minutes, shaving off 1sec is less than 0.8% improvement. This is not worth it given the horrible drawbacks and UX.
Another article on this subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/how-your-c...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694

And a good conversation with Robert Sapolsky: https://www.edge.org/conversation/toxo
Seems related to Dunbar's number -- hard for larger groups to remain cohesive:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
On the other hand, not giving your password right away may be interpreted as an indication that you have something to hide (which you inevitably do), and they may tag you for even further scrutiny.

Also, UK: don't give your password, go to prison. Indefinitely.
And its offshoot, soylentnews.org
I'm just speculating here, but if I remember correctly, PHP5 uses significantly more memory than PHP7, and the E5 has a 2.5x larger L3 cache and almost twice the memory bandwidth of the E3. Perhaps that has something to do with it?