skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add that there is poor, and inconsequential information directed at people on how to mitigate the causes of climate change.

For instance, I've seen in my surroundings a disproportionate emphasis on recycling. Whatever happened to reducing and re-using? While recycling reduces our need to extract more resources, it still requires energy to transport to processing facilities and process.

The real issue is not cutting your shower time by 30 seconds, or turning off the tap when you brush your teeth (although both these waste resources). It's the rise of sprawl and the dependence on cars that makes our society unsustainable.

Driving a single mile releases roughly 1 pound of CO2 (assuming ~20mpg). Now multiply that by the 25.4 minute commute time [0] and the rising number of cars per household [1] to accommodate our poor suburban designs, and that equals a lot of carbon emissions.

But if the American responds to climate change by recycling, they'll be mislead that their efforts are actually helping. They are not. Recycling a Starbucks coffee cup will not cancel out the effect of driving an SUV 5 miles round-trip that you used to get there.

What we truly need is effective altruism, and a public service campaign that goes after the top 3 or so most destructive behaviors of Americans. Not whether we can design water bottles that have a "slim cap" design.

> Huge quantities of fossil fuels are burned daily just so hundreds of millions of Americans can go back and forth between two points 5 times a week. It doesn't make sense; cars can be useful for certain things, but regular and predictable commutes are best done with public transit. (http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-int...)

[0] https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42...
[1] https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/UJuMkdu2LWC6AavNsVuY-mHHjIE...
I would invert your process. The idea that the best way to learn is by doing is correct; however, if you just decide on "I want to make my own Facebook" when your level of knowledge is at "Hello World," you are going to have a bad time.

As a learner/worker/human being, the ideal place to be is what is called a state of "flow", where the challenges you have in front of you are neither too trivial but also not too insurmountable. You want something to challenge you but also not something that will leave you completely lost.

So, my advice is to just flip your process. Take whatever you are learning -- be it through a book, a tutorial you are following, etc. -- and then once you feel confident you've learned some discrete new chunk of skill, try making something on your own that leverages it. But just something that you feel could be accomplished with roughly the skillset which you now believe you have. The best projects follow the mold of "I'm pretty sure I could do [x] now, but I'm not sure."

For instance, if you are learning some framework like Angular, a bad place to start would be "I want to make a real-time chat app". But as you are working through a tutorial, once you learn how to just literally put a stateless component on the screen, you might get to a stage where you feel comfortable just putting another one on the screen that does something slightly differently. Sweet, you got that down. Then, later on, you'll be introduced to managing routes; so if the tutorial you are following is a simple app that shows phones and details of the phones, make one that can show books and a collection of reviews of the books and maybe a link to where you could buy it on Amazon. And on and on and on...

In this way, you are always checking for understanding by doing and can figure out where your knowledge is poor, but never dabbling into things that you have no proper mental scaffolding for which just turns into copying and pasting code you don't understand.
When serving gzip-compressed pages to browsers that support it.
Electronics improve so quickly that it may not make sense to repair an old TV. But other goods like washer/dryers, dishwashers, etc make sense to repair.

My 7 year old washing machine broke down twice in the past 2 years - one repair would have cost $150, the other would have been $300 - $400, but the part needed wasn't available any more so it wasn't repairable. Nearly all of those costs were labor. All for a $700 washing machine. I'm fortunate that I was able to fix it myself (I found a salvaged "impossible to buy" control board on eBay). For the other repair, a contact broke off of a temperature sensor, I suspect the repairman would have just replaced the $40 sensor, I soldered a new contact to it and saved the sensor.

There's not a whole lot of difference in features (at least not features that I want) for new washing machines -- I don't need (or want) one that's internet connected, I don't need a an expensive touch screen.

I don't even use 90% of the features on my current machine, I don't need a dozen cycles and a time delay down to the second, I just want a few basic cycles and a machine that's easy to repair.
https://99chan.org/nerd/
Really, in the USA? I wouldn't have guessed from the literature or movies. I'm a European, I've never actually visited the USA, so this is genuine question about whether these kind of jokes would be considered "politically correct".
In the comment header, click the "<time> ago" next to the username - that takes you to the "permalink" page for the comment, which (if your account has enough points) has a "flag" link on it.
TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients
Or if you want to be a little heavy handed, you can run:

powertop --auto-tune

That should add a nice boost to battery life.

Also, just enabling laptop_mode using laptop-mode-tools also improves the battery life a lot.

You can go and tweak stuff individually if you want, but these two are easy wins.
All I knew of were ports. However, as noted above, there was the issue of input delay, which was very discouraging. Maybe I will try pkg next time.
Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4HL_-VT2Y

then come back and tell us how stopping eating of animal-based foods is going to help.
That's mostly because of the geography of Manhattan though. The places with tall buildings (Midtown and Downtown) sit on a solid base of bedrock, in between this base is much deeper a lot harder to build to. Housing in Manhattan isn't the big problem anyways, it's Brooklyn and Queens. But there are a lot of political issues in there.

Personally, I don't want to live in these new developments because I find them ugly. You can't tell the difference between a new flat NYC, London, Amsterdam and Paris anymore.
In BIOS, the camera and microphones can be fully disabled.
Moshe didn't so much demonstrate as state.

That said, remarkably convenient that apparently people who don't already agree aren't even capable of hearing examples and evidence, thus rendering it not just unnecessary to substantiate the claims but imperative not to.
Quick point to add for you, Zuck has far more control over vendor lockin and hostility towards his users than Gates does at this point.
I think that the pursuit of knowledge is a really good way to spend your time, but I do not like when simple solutions to real problems are sidelined in favor of the latest buzzword-oriented technology fetish. In times when the president-elect has announced that he is shutting down NASA's climate change research, ostensibly to fund space exploration, I think we need to remind ourselves that any work we chose to pursue has an opportunity cost. I really believe that we can address the main issues facing our society with pretty simple means, but that will not happen if everyone is too busy looking for problems to solve using their favorite tool. In the terminology of Hacker News, I guess what I am arguing is that colonization is bike-shedding for the reforms that I have mentioned in my first comment.
Wouldn't say that $X is not proportional to $Y/Z%. It's the other way around, that $Y is proportional to $X/Z%. If Z% decreases, that value increases. The utility of a property can serve multiple use cases -- it could be rented, lived in, or used for parking wealth. Financing allows people to purchase property at rates higher than they would be able to with all cash. That specific rate is material to the deal they get on their mortgage at the time that they finance it.

Therefore, low interest rates inflate the prices of real estate because they encourage people to take on debt because it's at more favorable terms. They also encourage people who have mortgages on worse terms to refinance. With higher interest rates, the ratio of mortgage to all cash buyers would decrease, and so the appraised market value of the property would decrease as well.
Just want to say that it's been excellent so far!
Unfortunately your explanation is not correct. For example, it does not explain the extensive coverage of Donald Trump that was used to get clicks and sell copy, despite his violation of everything liberals hold dear...

Early in the campaign, Trump acknowledged his media advantage. “I’ve gotten so much free advertising, it’s like nothing I’d have expected,” he told the New York Times in September. “When you look at cable television, a lot of the programs are 100% Trump, so why would you need more Trump during the commercial breaks?”[1]

[1]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-gotten-nearly-3-b...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-t...
I disagree. Technically the aggregate of "you" is the product. in the case of GNU it propagates via free labor. In aggregate people contribute to the product providing free labor.
True, a byte could mean something other than 8bits when dealing with deep legacy hardware systems.

But that ambiguity has almost vanished now.
If you have a Mob i.e. a group of uneducated and disorganized people then it can really help to put someone in the front to lead them. In all other situations pair programming is more effective.
We're basically able to literally grow meat anyway.
There's also zoho.com that offers free mailboxes with custom domains.
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Most likely referring to the deeply segregated neighborhood population percentages.

http://graphics.wsj.com/baltimore-demographics/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/data/bal-baltimore-segregat...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/baltimore-segregate...
The coverage of Trump was entirely negative, though. It makes perfect sense that one could sell a magazine to liberals by attacking the main competitor to liberals in the Presidential race.
They are also structured in a way, that they do not have the final say. E.g. teachers can book them. No booking, no influencing.
India can afford a Stalin (we already had one wannabe, his name is Sanjay Gandhi), but not a Hitler. Because India is not a ethnically cohesive state. Now, people talking about fascism in India are doing some lazy extrapolation. If RSS has their vision, you end up in Hindu Republic theocratic state, a weird Hindu version of Pakistan, not some gas chambers. People of India should be more worried about Statist and Stalinist figures like Mamata Banerji, J Jayalalitha, who are more autocratic than Modi ever will be.
This is only from little experience with Ubuntu and the like, but it seems that mainstream Linux distros, by their very nature, contain many separate components installed by default that could be doing something with the CPU despite not really being necessary, with no one group responsible for overall power management/resource use (unlike Windows or MacOS).

It may be open-source and free, but if the user doesn't want or need it and it's installed and actively consuming resources, it's bloatware nonetheless. I'd be interested in knowing the battery life with a far more minimalist distro.
> developer edition

I still wish there would be some options to get a display with a 4:3 aspect ratio. This way you could build small-ish display with still enough room to display a few more lines of code.

Just imagine a MacBook Air with a display which is ~1 inch taller than the current version.
When I meant "one of them is a failed state", I was referring to West Bengal. But, both states are breeding grounds for terrorists anyway.
Repair labor is a huge percent of the repair cost, and includes no warranty, and hence the incentive to just buy new. If the government is going to intervene, maybe what they ought to do is a.) reduce the VAT on repairs, b.) require a 90-180 day whole device warranty, c.) increase the VAT on new products. a) and b) would approximately cancel each other cost wise to the consumer, but give them more confidence in the repair process, which a) alone doesn't do; and c) increases the spread in cost between repair vs new which was the point of a).

Of course the ideal would be to make it just as easy to disassemble consumer devices as it is to assemble them. i.e. if the cost of disassembly were equal to or less the value of physical materials in the product.
Uganda in particular and africa in general has always been a black hole for investment. Any money not squandered will be stolen, make no mistake.
Powertop I did not know about, just googled and it looks nice, will definitely investigate more.

And the laptop is a few weeks old. I spent 24 hours on Windows just to see how it has changed as I haven't used Windows in about 5 years (used to be 50% Linux, 50% Windows, last 5 years 100% Linux).

I didn't enjoy Windows, and sorely missed i3wm. But in it's favour, the scaling was perfect everywhere, the battery life really blew me away, and it the boot and shut down times were incredible.

I was tempted, for a moment, to consider Hyper-V Linux on Windows 10 Ent, but just went Linux instead. Knowing it has that battery life under Windows means this temptation remains.
We have a team of non-native English speakers at my work. Hindi, Mandarin, Italian, Argentinian Spanish, and some wacky english accents like Newfie, Scottish, Irish, German...

After a while they all just become "language" and your mind handles it fine. But new people have such a hard time swapping between hearing the different languages.

But yeah some people are just jerks too.
The classic, slashdot.org
These are orthogonal issues. You are right that avoiding these kinds of catastrophic events will require technology (many solutions other than colonization have been proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance).
My point is that there are issues that are more imminent, and thus deserve far more attention.
I am getting tired of people seemingly ignorantly repeating "echo chamber" and using it every time someone mentions Twitter. Systems like Twitter provide great ways for disseminating information -- there is nothing inherent about these systems that makes them "echo chambers" and they're definitely not worse in that aspect than mass media or other social networks like Facebook. So stfu and approach the discussion constructively.
What is font-size?
What was the other mathematician?

Thx for posting this excellent article.
What if it's a more benign reason, like they just want to prevent leases from ending in fall or winter when the demand is lower ?
Key qualities of Elon Musk one could most easily emulate
Just like commies and pseudo-seculars are working overtime in mudslinging Indian government. Are you one of them?
I think you'd be surprised by just how many bicycles with flat tires and/or broken (actually, usually rusted solid) chains end up abandoned in the backs of garages, never to be ridden again.

I volunteered for a couple years at the Ohio City Bicycle Co-op[0], and helped fix for sale countless bikes that needed 15-30 minutes of work to correct whatever the original problem was.

You're right that a bicycle with busted chain remains viable transportation given a little elbow grease. That said, people who bought a $150 bike probably aren't that invested in cycling anyway, and so when it breaks, even with a trivial repair, it's effectively done for.

I know I'm invoking stereotypes about people who aren't invested in something and get into it in the cheapest way possible, but easily-fixable cheap bikes are the bread and butter at OCBC.

[0] http://ohiocitycycles.org/
True, but I think calling this usage archaic is still ok(ish) unless we are in pedantic mode, and of course sometimes we must.

Since you say yourself, non-8 bit bytes are no longer at large.

I agree certainly that in networking and when dealing with just legacy ASCII, byte is an imprecise term.
> HN will make this a SFO story because it's HN

Actually, the rents are far higher than they should be in not only SF, but NYC, DC, Boston, LA, London, and many other cities and the reason is structural -- the use of zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity of housing to help the special interest group of wealthy landlords to the detriment of renters. Many people trying to make a life have trouble making ends meet while Donald Trump and other wealthy landlords have far more wealth than they would in an efficient market.
Yes the labor cost of manufacture is a) almost entirely automated and b) applied to a million count so the cost of that automation is subject to economies of scale. The human component of diagnosis and repair is not scalable, and isn't distributed. About the best way to approximate it is a $30 per year surcharge on all such products to pay for an extended warranty; that everyone would have to pay.
Of course you can also just find the biggest prime powers and multiply those. This immediately tells you that the smallest number divisible by all of 1,2,...,20 is 2^4·3^2·5·7·11·13·17.

This is somewhat more difficult to program, but definitely the more efficient way of doing it.
Is there only a single configuration available in Canada? Some of the higher tier models sound really nice but the model available in Canada has exactly the same specs as my 5 year old Thinkpad.
How's the extra ram affect the battery life? Recent HN discussions seems to point toward a heavy battery penalty because of the type of ram needed. (NB: I am not a hardware nerd, looking for actual information here, not just an idle question)
> lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea).

I visited lobste.rs once, liked what I saw, realized it was invite only and then I never went back there.
The hydrogen-powered generator that was almost a home-shopping hit
https://xkcd.com/1232/
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Fear sells better than anything. You would think the liberal papers would get more clicks talking about how Trump was winning. Also, if Hillary voters think the election is in the bag, more would stay home versus if they thought it was close.

Perhaps polling is just more or less accurate because fewer people take part in polls.
Do they have a ViewPager? A DrawerLayout? Swipable rows in lists (eg: to delete an item)?

Also v2 is not the best thing to point to because it's very new and I don't think many people are using it compared with v1. And closed issues don't necessarily mean fixed, eg: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues/9052 -- I believe all WebView based apps suffer from the problem described in this issue.
I haven't tried this on anything newer than Sandy Bridge, but yes.

I've never seen a BIOS that actually had anything but application-level password check for the calls from OS mode to rewrite the BIOS passwords or settings. No idea whether you can leverage TPMs or some of the enterprise trusting features to change that, though.
European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption of Data
Seems equivalent. The 16MB TinyCore is the x86 version, whereas the x86-64 port takes 25MB.
How Trump built an identity database
The celestial body from the Oort cloud will eventually solve all humankins's problems, because civilization will reboot.
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"Luckily, the young generation is far less bought into the current system, and I believe we will see a move to a saner way of life over the coming decades."

I hope you're right, and don't want to say that we're doomed. But look at the 1960's and '70s: the young people of that time were far more committed to a radically different life than the young people of today -- and were so on a much larger scale, with the sense of the immanent revolutionary overthrow of society being in the air.

While their dedication was not fruitless (bringing us the likes of environmentalism and feminism, both of which are very much in the mainstream today) we still wound up where we are today -- very far from their vision of a radically free, non-hierarchical, loving, and "back to the earth" society.

The changes that young people seek aren't always necessarily positive either. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's good. Witness Pol Pot, China's Cultural Revolution, the Hitler Youth, etc. Radical changes are often very bloody, and result in a system worse than what it replaced.
Just out of curiosity why the trackpoint requirement? I've always hated those things, wondering if I'm missing something.
Increasingly, machines can and will be handing out "free lunches" of production. Under traditional assumptions, these free lunches belong solely to the factory/AI owners, and those made thusly obsolete can fuck off and starve or lobby their representative forms of government for crumbs of the pie. Or we can start recognizing that now more than ever the fruits of capital and the means of production must be redistributed.

Think of it another way, we're getting the above mentioned losses of human production anyways, because vast swathes of human mass will be made completely obsolete. Except without redistribution they won't be playing video games, writing bad poetry, or going rock climbing, they'll simply be starving. The question is do we let them hang, while those lucky enough to inherit server clusters running AI and fleets of self driving cars sit back and solely claim unprecedented concentration of capital?
No, but your comparison will be flawed.

PhoneGap isn't comparable to native development on one platform; it's comparable to native development on multiple platforms.

Until you've done the latter, you don't have a baseline.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045768
Python: IA to win the game of the Hangman
While I completely believe this story, makes no sense to talk about "African courts" in general. AFAIK Uganda and Nigeria are countries far from each other, with different forms of government and even different ethnic groups.
And the coverage of Hillary wasn't?
its in the name. united states of america.united states.
> In the meantime, rote memorizing your multiplication tables and polynomial expansions might be a necessary evil...

I disagree on both ideological and technical terms. Won't students lose the "flow" as soon as they start memorizing? It seems like an anti-intellectual activity to memorize data or particular steps (e.g. (a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2). I think the further we stay from memorization the better the learner's experience will be.

Now for the technical objection. You said some degree of memorization might be a "necessary" evil, but I have a counter example: me. I've been doing math for the past 15+ years, but to this day I never learned the multiplication table. People are often surprised when I need 78 and I have to do 74 and add the result twice. "I thought you were a math person, and you don't know the multiplication table?" some will say... and I'm, like, yeah.
My last startup sent me a stock certificate upon exercise, without even asking. I've had this happen a few times, all east coast startups. Maybe it's an east coast thing?
Seminars are often about current topics. If you look at his 2015 and 2016 lists they're entirely different papers.
We have an Overton window here on HN. It's enforced through downvoting. I would very much like to see downvoting eliminated, or at least modified so that a small number of upvotes can counteract it.

There are a number of perfectly reasonable comments in this thread that carry the stain of appearing in light gray.

EDIT: It appears that I've been downvoted, and I don't know why. Anyone care to explain?