skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mate is looking at getting one of these, interesting bike. It's a single huge cylinder which is probably part of the problem as well as the carby, at least until you hit the highway. The carby is just a relic I think, these things stay in production a long time, the CT110 for instance only had it's first major redesign a couple years ago which moved to fuel injection, before that it was pretty much unchanged since 1980 (and even then it's pretty much identical to the old C90's that preceded it).

Sorry for the rambling, I've been really getting in to bikes since starting this project, hahah. I'll abstain from asking any more questions about the bike or Prius, thanks for taking the time to reply!
I think you meant Debian.
I would say that the problem here is the difficulty in <re>installing windows due to liscencing and the pile of drivers you need.
I threw 'real' in there to cover that. Maybe that's not fair though ;)

More seriously though: if the oracle were perfect, you should have to do almost nothing (i.e. the relative time savings would be near 100%; e.g. creating pizza: the oracle, you just tell: "get me pizza", whereas with the bike, you have to bike there—which I admit may be fun)—so as long as you have things you enjoy doing more in your non-productive free time, then it shouldn't be an issue. (Not that I think that's necessarily likely...)
I'm not sure if this will lead to a new revolutionary battery.

But I'll say this, the man/woman who creates a company that builds a new revolutionary battery that will keep your laptop humming for a week; will be very rich. Probably the next richest person on earth.
While this may seem silly to some people, I definitely appreciate the sentiment. "The compiler is smarter than you" is thrown around often here, and on Reddit, and a lot of people consider it "common wisdom", but it's not really correct.

Writing code is having a dialogue with the compiler, it can do better than you sometimes, and vice versa, but treating the compiler as a magic box that always spits out faster code than you is pretty silly.
Haha, this is very similar to the list I came up with when I was flunking at Caltech:

1. attend all the lectures

2. attend all the recitation sessions

3. do 100% of the homework, and on time

4. make sure to understand every homework question and how to solve it.

5. write legible notes

This was good enough to get a baseline B. To get an A, you had to put in much more work.

I know this stuff seems obvious. But it took me a while to figure out I couldn't just coast and wing it like in high school, and many other students had the same experience.
It's a bit disingenuous to say java has given up and created a binary tree fallback mode. It doesn't actually switch the whole hash table into a binary tree, but rather it switches the linked list inside each bucket into a binary tree, and only when a certain threshold is passed.
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A tablet computer that does not need external power would be nice. Even using this in an e-book reader with an e-ink display would be great.

A wireless mesh network that needs no external power for emergency communications would also be nice. Just imagine being able to place nodes on utility poles and not having to worry about paying for electricity.
Interesting mix of gift stuff. Some of it definitely piqued my interest and I will probably return and consider it. It's all sort of semi-luxury goods, but that's, well a holiday gift kind of thing. And it's hard to make money selling to people who don't have a lot of money.

Wheely's Cafe is probably the most interesting gift there to me. It appears to be a franchise-in-a-box. I wonder if there's one in Seattle! Probably an ideal gift for an 18 year old with a work ethic and lack of academic passion.
What to do when you land your first software job or when you are starting a new software job.
Device tree is actually a reasonably flexible and precise way to describe all of that, the problem is that many vendors just don't use it.
Another common Raymond Chen reminder: "Local Administrator != Domain Administrator". If a user gains administrative privileges on their own machine as part of a corporate network, that just means they can bork their own machine and IT will have to come and take it for repair (and they'll likely be disciplined for doing stupid things against IT policy.) If becoming a local administrator on your own machine allows you more privileges on the network, there's something wrong with the network's security architecture. (After all, in a regular, healthy corporate network, Bring-Your-Own-Machine scenarios—where everyone is their own local administrator—are common without posing any threat.)
If you're sitting at the craps table then you're the only one who is likely to win...
I started as an early employee and grew into a "co-founder".
Jamming is the only serious contender in anti-drone technology. Somewhat infuriating watching the latest new fad in the news every week.

Using eagles to take out drones is tantamount to animal abuse, expensive guns that shoot nets are easily overwhelmed by simply buying another drone, none of the these fad solutions can scale.

Meanwhile companies like Department 13 and few others in the sphere have some fairly advanced tech and could take on swarms. They can safely hijack the signal to bring it down in public areas rather than bricking it 200m in the air like most jammers seem to do. Not necessarily the best thing in crowded areas.
I think implementing lazy evaluation is a common use case of macros in languages that don't support it otherwise, but there are plenty of other uses (some questionable on balance, but all with their upsides).
This is a great example of the Ned for a free and adverbial press. It's also a good example of the need for independently run forums. Sadly both are under assault.

Also, I'm sure were this domestic that a returned-to-China Facebook would do the same thing.
> "This ad is for your spouse who wants to see you in this."

The same reason that underpants come packaged with pictures of hunky guys on the front. The guys aren't there for the men wearing the underpants, so presumably they're there for the women buying them.
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I'd also be getting something with an Allwinner chip in it. I try not to reward companies that violate copyright law.

If they'd built it around another company's SOC, I might have bought one already...but maybe not, because the inputs look like they'd be a pain to actually use.
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How would your example differ from a government simply putting a price on various tasks (helping elderly, etc) and paying with regular money?

I'm not saying it's a bad idea (I actually like it!), but conceptually it seems no different to the current monetary system, just with governments taking a more inventive approach to paying for public services.
One thing to keep in mind is that there is a difference between a metric and measure. A measure is basically exactly what it says on the box: it's something that you have measured. A metric is a measure that you use to drive process changes.

LOC is a good measure, but a truly terrible metric. The reason it is a terrible metric is because it easily gamed (both consciously and unconsciously). The same functionality can be implemented in 1 line or 100 lines. The amount of time it takes to write 1 line can be more than the amount of time it takes to write 100 lines. You get the point.

LOC can, however, be a good measure. You can test this yourself if you like. Go through an old project (something with a year's worth of code). Make a list of all the features that were implemented in that year. Estimate the amount of work for each feature (or use whatever estimates you had before). Make a rolling average of "amount of work" over each week. Now go into your code repository and make a rolling average for the number of lines of code changed each week (so basically just add the lines added to the lines deleted).

I think you will find that there is a correlation between the average estimated effort and the average change in LOC every week. This is because over the life of a project, developers tend to use the same kinds of techniques, the same idioms, etc.

Occasionally, you will find that the relationship between estimated effort and LOC changes dramatically. In my experience, you will discover that this corresponds with a change in development mentality. Something has happened on the team that changes the way they write code.

So it's a good measure for that kind of thing. For example, I once had to deal with political problems from upper management where they were convinced that the programmers were not focusing on their job. I could show them very easily from graphs of estimated effort and lines of code that it was very much business as usual.

All this to say that if your team lead is encouraging you to increase your number of lines of code out the door, then it is indeed a flawed metric. But if the team lead is measuring productivity with lines of code, it may very well be a decent measure. You can't use it to affect productivity, but you can use it for other purposes.
Take a look at Chapter 3 of a well-researched Strategy CBC issued at http://future.cbc.ca/ - the whole advertising business model for traditional media is breaking down. Without government funding of content that matters, there's a risk of being left in the world where a handful of Silicon Valley corporations make billions in advertising profits from people sharing self-made fake news. These corporations are not subject to any policy frameworks many nations have, like mandatory quota of locally-produced content, nor are they obliged to pay any taxes to the country whose media landscape they disrupt. From here you can make an argument for redirecting the ad money to CBC's private Canadian competitors, as they are going to need all the help they can get to survive.
> It also depends where you live

Sure, but that doesn't change the actual...you know... averages the parent cited. For every household with over $51k, there was a household with under $51k.

Pointing out that some corner of the US is expensive hardly changes the point.
Small problem with this model, if you want your devices to be Google certified. Google requires that every official software needs to be certified with Google (CTS and GTS verification need to be passed at a Google certified lab).

This might not be a big problem once you are rolling after your first certification, but it does create some overhead every time you need to release a software.

I don't think MIUI is Google certified.
box-a-month clubs are a pretty solid business model, if you can do it. I floated around a business subreddit, and a number of people had quite a solid side business doing box-a-month setups.

Further, I am very very tempted by the whisky subscription deal; I'm just not enough of a whisky drinker to bite the bullet.
I'm the same age and very happy (not married, no car).
Everybody suffers. Life is about the journey not the destination.

Project Happy: Remove negativity from your life including negative people, tv news, news papers. Cut their drama. Visit humor/comedy sites instead.

Project Job: Make recruiters work for you, create a LinkedIn profile. Let them do that shit while you watch movies.

Project girlfriend: Find a place to connect as there aren't many woman in tech companies or tech university. Tinder, Dancing class (great excuse for meet/touch). Mail-order bride (if you are in a hurry).

Project Car: this is a project that can be done only after project Job.
Study something you love. Work hard. Get top grades.
Well, I don't see any problem with state owned security cameras.
Then we should work to change government. Can we band together to do that? OTOH, many want smaller government. I was raised with "let the market decide". Private enterprise is always more efficient than government.

Are we conceding that only government can solve certain problems?
It depends on their size. I've only seen experiments with relatively large crystals. They won't sustain a flame without pure O2. But like steal wool, a fine diamond dust might be another matter (the industrial synthetic stuff I assume the OP would involve).
Cool, but I would call this a cheatsheet.
Almost the inverse of a cookbook, which I think of as a set of "how tos" for tasks you want to accomplish.
Are you the author of the linked post? If so I have a couple of questions:

- Why not throw out the best and worst cases for each and then find the mean of run times? Seems like a more "fair" way to compare them.

- Did you compare the assembly generated by the compiler to the assembly you wrote?
+1 for this. Libertarians are not against laws. In fact contract enforcement is arguably the most important law.
Are you very experienced with either? As someone who manages digital media for a living and has dealt with 8 figure budgets, I certainly don't feel that way. However I'm very aware of how expectations are often not properly set by either company.

In their quest to reduce the friction to people's wallets Google and FB in some ways portray it as clicking a few buttons, creating a couple ads, selecting some suggested targets and you'll make a ton of money right off the bat. And perhaps that used to work to some degree.

The reality is that professionals tend to change or disable most of the defaults because they don't perform well or have other issues. We then go in implementing tried and tested best practices, knowing full well performance will still suck initially and that we have a long, expensive road of testing and optimization before we have things dialed in.

It is a tough business challenge because to some degree it is like trying to cram something simplistic like Paint into a hugely technical and complex platform like Photoshop. You just wanted to draw a damn cat, but there are all these confusing menus and tool bars, these weird layer things, and before you know it you've wasted an afternoon and end up just paying someone to draw it for you before you waste more time.
It would be more credible if the Cabot Institute linked the paper on their "All Research Papers" page (http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/organisations/c...) or if they described how they are getting electricity out of beta decay (is it simple a thermo-electric generator? How much heat differential can they push? Or is it just bodging together chunks of radioactive material in a casement that has reasonable head conductivity and absorbs 99% of radiation.

My favorite "invention" of that form is the water heater "booster" ball. Basically you take a kilogram of spent fuel rod, encase it in a austenitic stainless steel ball, and suspend that bad boy in the center of your water heater holding tank. Hot water for the next 500 years without using gas or electricity :-).
> it's none of your business

This is a common argument used by those who want to oppress others; here's the flaw in it:

I agree! It is none of my business and that's the whole point of liberty: Individuals should have self-determination; that is, freedom. Their choices and interests are none of my business, and they are none of their oppressors' business either.

If they don't have the self-determination to control their own lives and express their own interests, then often there isn't much they can do to get it; their oppressors hold the power. That's when other people have a responsibility not to close their eyes to oppression but to do something about it. The goal is not to tell the oppressed what to do, but to give them the freedom to decide and act for themselves.

I know I have my self-determination and freedom because of the efforts and sacrifices generations of others have made for me; millions have paid with their lives and their fortunes; more gave up careers, went to jail, suffered ostracism, torture and worse; generations made it their jobs to make laws, creating institutions and more to ensure I have my freedom today. Is my response that it is none of their business? Or do I have a share of the work to do?
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I think you should take a step back and personally consider it a red flag if, after strong exposure through an accelerator, you're unable to get substantial interest from institutional investors. That's what accelerators are for.

The "checks too big" problem doesn't really fly IMO. If some strangers really want to give you a check for $X million for something that is currently worth $0 million, you should do it. Worrying about maintaining equity is silly, because you can just think of it as reducing future fundraising needs.

Also, if the checks are really too big, surely these professional investors would find another way to make it work with a smaller check, or introduce you to smaller professional investors downstream in their pipeline. Most likely, "checks too big" is their way of letting you down gently.

Do you really want to ask F&F to put money into something that professionals are not that enthusiastic about? They are most likely unsophisticated investors and you risk damaging your relationship with them. Accordingly, your confidence in the startup should be quite high to take their money.

I think the signaling risk is irrelevant. If you take the F&F money, either it will be enough to get you to the next level needed to raise more or it won't. (Or you won't need to raise more, so again it's irrelevant.)
Someone is going to get some first-hand experience with the Streisand effect [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Sorry and not to be the grammar police but it's resigned...
It is realistic under certain circumstances. Here is the advice I would've given myself at 20-30 if I could have.

One, invest aggressively in real estate or the stock market. Personally real estate is more predictable but everyone has their thing. Don't focus on startups or reducing your income with the promise of future earnings. Maximize every dollar you can make and pour it into investments. You will have an infinitely greater chance to retire younger this way.

At the same time there is a critical factor to never forget. If you are miserable doing your job it isn't worth the sacrifice. So when you are choosing to "maximize every dollar" as I say, that really means maximize within the limits you are comfortable or happy with living under. A little sacrifice is fine but do not suffer with the thought later in life it will be great as you never know what the future will hold and if you are miserable for more days then you are happy in a given month, quarter or year you should really reevaluate.
My 2006 has a workable solution as well that doesn't require a traditional key, there's a slot you can put your key fob in to start the car even if the battery in it is dead (only option on trims sold without the Smart Key System) and the driver door has a mechanical lock that can be opened with a key hidden in the fob.

Keyless entry and ignition is a great convenience, especially for my wife since she can keep the fob buried in her bag - and it makes it easy for me to put my daughter in the car without trying to wrangle the fob out of my pocket to unlock the door. But it floors me that so many manufacturers just ignore the use-case where the battery in the fob is dead...
Suspicious: sounds like a con, in every breathless undocumented wild claim.
VIA, thanks to Centaur, was first with the low power plus had PadLock Engine with TRNG and crypto acceleration. Their ARTIGO's made nice little boxes for $300.
People with bad credit scores tend to be irresponsible in general, have unstable personal lives and are generally less reliable. They might not be someone you want as an employee especially if the position requires any significant training.

As an employer I would view it as a red flag, not disqualifiying but it would take some other evidence and good references to offset it.
And there's no active VAX port of Fedora anyway.
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Thanks. That's kind of my instinct on the matter too -- that this sort of situation will arise. Actual knowlege will always trump certs every time unless your interviewer(s) don't really care (which is a red flag in itself).
He is not going to jail because they did nothing illegal, and most likely didn't even have negative intent.

You are speaking like someone who has little experience with sales culture or sales incentive structures.

You also seem to be naive to the level of fraud, theft and lies that "working-class" people regularly commit. Get out of the kumbaya bubble and wake up to reality.

Workers do bad things all the time. They fired people when they caught them doing fraud. They never encouraged or enabled people to do fraud. They should have pushed for stronger top-down communication to state that they are investigating it and shutting it down.

I'm not saying these guys are angels. I'm saying that people are blowing this out of proportion comparing it to Enron.

That's my 2 cents. Take it or leave it.
It very much depends on your goal. Many advertisers, myself included would say "it depends on your goal." Search has some major limitations over paid social for things like branding campaigns. Even for direct response it is hardly black and white. I have FB campaigns that have performed better than some search campaigns.
Re-read the comment. The commenter knows that. He or she purposely reinterpreted the misspelling as a different word, "re-singed" as in "singed again".

(Also, the original mistake was not a grammatical error, but rather a spelling one. If you're going to be pedantic at least get it right.)
Although I think it's strange what they exclude. For example, they didn't include Calculator in Windows Server 2016 LTSB:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-server-2016-ltsb-whats-...

Sure, maybe you wouldn't use it that much, but it's small and useful.
Not only might it be more fun, but you'd build a better intuition about what to expect from it (or even how it works).

It's like how people often make fewer mistakes with slide-rules or abacuses than pocket calculators, since the former two require you to check your answer against your intuition, while the latter just tells you "the answer" to your (potentially ill-formed) query. Trusting a black box can be quite dangerous.
What do the units specified against each course signify? They do not seem to map to the syllabus.
Diamons will burn at 690°C in pure oxygen. Houses burn at around 590°C. Maybe if you rupture an O₂ tank in a house fire right next to the diamond battery you could pull it off.

I wouldn't worry about small diamond batteries. There is already 1 part per trillion carbon 14 in you. The odd telemetry battery that gets caught in an oxygen fire isn't going to shift the scales much.
I can't imagine what's arrogant about it. It's hardly the only reason someone might choose an Android device, but it definitely influences many consumers, and thus the market as a whole.

If someone wants to spend $100 on an unlocked phone, it's not going to be an iPhone. There are entire market segments in some parts of the world that Android basically has 100% market share in, because the cheapest iPhone is still too expensive for mainstream consumers in that market. It's not as much of a factor in the US, but it's still a factor. It's a huge factor in some other parts of the world.
One of the barriers I've erected in my own head is whether my unsafe code is generic or not. As soon as your unsafe code starts depending on an arbitrary T (or some trait that T satisfies), then the scope of what you need to consider seems to widen quite a bit. I tend to either avoid this type of unsafe or find a way to constrain my problem. Using `unsafe` for pointer tricks or efficient movement of memory on concrete data types feels more self-contained to me, and therefore easier to verify.

(I don't have any particular point to make btw. Just sharing thoughts.)
Right. Like the dumb criminal who says "I didn't steal these shoes" when a policeman walks by in silence.