skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the other guys above, but I must have missed something. I am baffled why this particular set of wireless headphones has received as much press as it has. It seems so overblown that I have to wonder if people with iPhone 7s have actually been refusing to use existing wireless headphones because they are actually waiting for these.

I've had a set of $25 Motorola wireless (Bluetooth) headphones that I use on my daily walking commute to and from work for many years. They work and sound great. They double as a wireless microphone and playback controls. I charge them every day via a USB cable. Woohoo.

I can't see anything specs-wise with the Apple headphones that is interesting. Auto-pause? Okay, cool, but I can press the pause button on my Bluetooth headphones from 2010. Switching between devices? I can enable or disable Bluetooth on my devices, I guess, if I had wanted to use the headphones with more than my phone (though I do not want that).

These new features seem incremental at best. The clamor for these—and the fact that their availability is a high-ranking news item on HN—seems to suggest I am missing something very fundamental. And yet, it feels that I am not. These are wireless headphones with a couple incremental features and an Apple logo.
Medical marijuana is also illegal on a federal level.
Is Little Flocker safe? Does it work?
last time I used this, it had many significant differences from the real DynamoDB. Different enough that I don't really understand what purpose DynamoDB Local is actually supposed to serve.
Thanks! this approach has worked well for us so far, and we have a lot of product engineers writing their own ETLs for new features that launch at this point. We've found enabling teams to self-serve where possible works well for us, and it's something we're continuing to invest in with training both on the engineering side (eventing, instrumentation and ETLs) and on the analysis side (e.g., with SQL training).

Our data warehouse does look pretty typical, and this is at least partially intentional. We're cautious about jumping onto new technologies when we don't need to yet given the scale of our data, especially if it would make it harder for other teams to contribute.
That's great, but also not the same as Bluetooth earbuds. I don't have trouble either with any kind of receiver that doesn't sit within my actual ear - presumably it's something to do with either additional signal attenuation, or lack of space for a sizable antenna, or both, but whatever the reason, getting rock-solid reception in a truly wireless earbud seems to be a very difficult problem to solve.

(If you're not sure what kind of device I'm talking about here, the Rowkin Mini is a good example - note the complete lack of protrusion beyond the pinna. I suppose the AirPods themselves don't really qualify by this standard, since they seem to have their antennae in the microphone boom which protrudes below the ear; on the other hand, I'm willing to tolerate such a protrusion if it's the only reasonable way to get good signal, and improved microphone pickup is a pretty good bonus besides.)
As I explained in my other comment, that doesn't have to be a problem. Just let everyone vote with a traditional "single choice" ballot. But you also allow the voter to optionally enhance/refine their preference with a score ballot. If a voter chooses not fill out a score ballot, their "single choice" ballot will be automatically converted into the corresponding score ballot. Their vote won't count any less. It will just be a (likely) less complete representation of their actual preferences.
There are some conditions a human shouldn't be driving in. For example a hurricane or while intoxicated.

We can likewise say there are some situations a machine shouldn't be driving.

As long as the machine can identify when it is incapable as a driver, it's only the same as the human pulling over for a nap because they can't stay alert.

Sure, if you ran a taxi service with such a system you'd have to send a regular taxi to pick up the customer, but it's only the same as any other kind of breakdown like a puncture.
> The attractive thing about sulfate aerosols is that they could be formed from sulfur dioxide

So, it just a matter of throwing tons of "dry sulfuric acid" on the atmosphere?
Off topic, but too good not to mention: Even Mickey Mouse steals hotel towels. Really. Disneyland has the Mickey's House and Mickey's Movie Studio. I forget which one, but in one of those, you find (or at least used to find) towels from the Disneyland Hotel.

Really, Mickey, I'm ashamed of you.
Didn't the Amiga do something like this? (I'm not actually familiar with its OS, I've just seen allusions to how it handled file formats)
I think that is suboptimal vertical integration. Hertz is a fleet buyer for a good reason; it doesn't want to be reliant on its Hertz Automotive subsidiary to meet a production quota. It doesn't want that capital expenditure. It wants to buy cars at volume and sell them as they depreciate.
> No, not really as buses don't go where all the people live.

They do, though, you just haven't been to places where this is standard. Try finding a place that's more than 10 minutes walk from public transit: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Warsaw,+Poland/
A lot of the hype was due to people accepting Metcalfe's Law of networks being worth their size squared. Network effects are much smaller, as http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf argues, they are generally closer to O(n log(n)) than O(n^2).

That said the power of owning the standard is hard to overestimate. I highly recommend a close read of http://gunkies.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin_OS/2_usenet_post to see how important it is, and how much of a disadvantage it is to have to play catch-up.
Now I cant unsee two cigarettes stuffed in to this guys ears.
> It makes sense to not store empty strings, they provide no value

`""`, just like `NULL`, is semantically difference from absence of record.
This is actually something that can be done in the IDE distributed with Racket (https://racket-lang.org/). When I first started playing with the language one of the biggest things that stood out was the ability to embed images straight into the source code. It's pretty neat and I other platforms adopt it.
There is remedial level Apple marketing babble on that page.

The biggest public facing change at Apple since the death of Steve Jobs is their move to terrible marketing copy and ads.

Under Jobs, that quote would be reduced to just a few words, whereas now it is a slog to get through. I've tried re-reading it a few times and still haven't made it to the end.
AWS does the same. They have debian mirrors.
I dislike your sarcastic winky face, but I agree with the sentiment.

Unless you plan on handing amazon your money forever, you should always steer for agnostic solutions you have the ability to host yourself.

As much as it may not 'scale' if you manage to get a passive income with decent understanding of load, then purchasing hardware is almost certainly cheaper for you.

Cheaper is good, it means more return so you can invest that income in your new project (and pay amazon for easy scaling again, if you want). But removing that ability not only locks you into their platform which may change prices at any time... it also means you can't move to self-hosting when the time is right and save quite a lot of money.
Certainly worth the time investment when i can get to it. My biggest problem at the moment is that I have no admin interface. I have to dive into the db to make fixes/changes for people. Once I get an admin panel built out I'll be able to bring on help easier. The other issue is that I actually get so much great info about my users needs from the support requests that I cant detach entirely.
I just do. I used to do psychoanalysis before coming to the US and that helped a ton. I haven't looked for a therapist here, so it's a little worse now.

One thing that helped me deal better with it was getting married, and specifically getting married to a woman who had a child. This suddenly took a lot of my focus out of myself, since now I have to care for others. It also puts me in a "I can't fail" mental mode which has me worrying somewhat less than in years past. But it's still pretty bad, I just don't panic as much anymore.

Another thing that made a significant difference was starting an exercise routine. It makes me feel healthier and therefore less worried about coming down with a terrible disease.
5.1 on Windows 10. Admittedly, I never really tried iwr on older versions. Heck, the last time I tried downloading something with PowerShell to a file I went the WebClient.DownloadFile route, so it's been a while.

You can probably install a more recent version of WinRM on that machine, though (or by now probably the open-source version of PowerShell).
So it's not possible to have something like vims quickfix?
Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women
The Samsung gear earphones do this
Actually it does work there.
Most commonly? Drawer handles in the kitchens at work and at home.

Second place: the corners of my desk (or maybe doorknobs). Basically, any protruding object in a tight space.

It's pretty unlikely to happen if you're sitting still, but it's routine if you wear them while moving around inside.
What's the Google "dogfooding" scenario.

Because, absent that, I'm not going to place any trust in longevity.
Gray text on black background => Epic fail.
Agreed. This is exactly why I hate driving behind SUVs. I like to be able to see the car in front of the car in front of me. It gives some additional reaction time.
The Go Programming Language book, published 08/2015, was typeset using troff (well, groff, the GNU version). Maybe because it was written by Kernighan (of K&R C fame):

https://rkrishnan.org/posts/2016-03-07-how-is-gopl-typeset.h...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11470905
the remote driving possibility will open the pandora box of remote hacking.
Raspberry Pi 3 Nextcloud Box Running on Ubuntu Core
http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-stop-ios-nagging...

Ridiculous, right?
Can someone give me some examples of cases where there is a strong semantic difference that you'd want to represent with a blank string vs a null?

I'm interested in abstract concepts, not "I'm trying to port from Oracle/Mongo/whatever and this is how it works". Assume your designing against some generic record store.

I'm having a ton of trouble thinking of a case where that's a big problem (again, ignoring trying to save time in porting) and I was wondering if someone could provide me a few examples.
Ack! I can't edit so I'll say here- you guys are right. My mistake. :(
I and my parents use it all the time. setting timers, directions (Apple Maps is inferior to Google maps but is often good enough e.g. "take me home"), call folks, basic operations is often easier with Siri than unlocking the phone - esp. if you have a BT headset and the iPhone is in the bag or on your table.
Why Google, Microsoft and Amazon Love the Sound of Your Voice
>> lack of wires ... I no longer need to take off my headphones ... when I leave the desk to grab something

I usually use earphones, with the wire tucked under my shirt(it's not noise cancelling), and connected to my phone - that way the cable doesn't get stuck with things.

The cable is also long enough use the phone for surfing too.

And they're on me all day long, either in ear or on the shirt. And i prefer that arrangement to my long lasting(13 hours) bluetooth earphones.
Proxmox VE 4.4 released
troff takes a little bit more work but it can put out some very nice-looking documents with a lot of control over the formatting and some pretty handy utilities for tables and math and such. For example, pretty much all the Plan 9 papers were written in troff: https://9p.io/sys/doc/
Utah’s Guv seeks $50k from taxpayers for anti-pornography push
I think the question here, implied but not directly asked is: did Donald J Trump commit an act of treason by collaborating with a foreign power (and their military) to undermine our electoral process?

I don't know that we've seen evidence of that yet, but it's possible that someone such as the NSA has evidence of the collaboration from secret channels.

I certainly believe that a man whose entire campaign was based on lies and whose business dealings are littered with fraud and broken contracts would betray the nation while campaigning to lead it. His economic decisions (and appointments) have already betrayed the very people who got him elected.

So I hope we get a detailed report before Obama leaves office -- because no person should be allowed to serve as president if they've committed an act of treason (and particularly if they committed treason during the election)!

Tl;dr: Spy agencies, please help us know if Treacherous Trump is really Treasonous Trump.
Mind sharing what issues? A few keys are the target of a disproportionate amount of transactions?
No, I mean Apple shouldnt have given app developers the option to not allow "only when open". So app developers request the highest amount of permission, and either that (or less) would be granted:

Uber would like to access your location at all times

[Yes, allow in the background]
[Yes, only when open]

[No, deny all together]
You can generally do this in your computer's sound settings by specifying that you want to listen to your recording device.
> If you need a non relational data store for use inside an AWS deployment, you would be hardpressed to find a better alternative.

RDS Postgres supports HStore and JSON types.
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> Can someone give me some examples of cases where there is a strong semantic difference that you'd want to represent with a blank string vs a null?

A null middle name means "we don't know their middle name, we added it to the schema after that user signed up or didn't ask them". An empty string means they explicitly don't have a middle name.
There will most certainly be a server variant. Currently on schedule for Q2 (this article is about the desktop variant, which is scheduled for Q1. Maybe at CES?)

For both companies, you typically need a different socket/chipset/mainboard for the server chips.
Reckless driving is already a crime (not just a civil offense) in many states. In New York:

"Reckless driving shall mean driving...in a manner which unreasonably interferes with the free and proper use of the public highway"

Simple aggressive driving as described in the linked article is, well, not a real problem. Unless you cause an accident.
I know dynamically linking to libraries is the Linux way, but wouldn't just bundling the correct version of glibc with the Slack app solve the problem? Sure, the app gets bigger, but a missing feature is worse than that, I would imagine.
>"1) How do I restore the output window I clicked it away in order to make the editor usable in the first place?"

There are many ways, it comes down to personal preference. For example, would you prefer restoring the Output window using a keyboard or a mouse?

>"2) What the heck is a "project" and why do I need one?"

The same reason you probably use a makefile when working with Vim, to manage your dependencies and build configurations.

>"3) Why do I need so many frigging clicks to get to the debugger (the debugger itself is nice though I have to admit)?"

I don't know what you're talking about here, the debugger is accessible with hardly any effort at all. How many clicks are you using to bring it up?

>"The list goes on an on. All these things are far simpler with vim and gdb: Need to debug x87 fpu registers? One simple google search and you have an instructive plaintext website that tells you everything and off you go."

Depends on your use cases. I've personally never found MSDN documentation lacking, plus it's ridiculously easy to use. For example, when coding in C#, highlight a language keyword and press F1, you'll be brought to online documentation about that language feature.
Just watched this minutes ago on The Crown on Netflix. Interesting that they made it so political even back then.
This reminds me of Gough Whitlam, former Australian Prime Minister ~1975:

...Gough also took aim at Sir Winton Turbull when the rural MP shouted: 'I am a Country member'. Whitlam quickly responded with 'I remember', which earned an applause from both sides of the house.
A lot of that will be best solved by making a lot of other actors communicate directly with the car.

Traffic lights will send out the same messages they send to humans by red/green lights to the cars using radio.

Emergency vehicles, roadworks, traffic signs etc will do the same.

Or so I assume, because it makes so much of sense. I know there is vehicle-to-vehicle communication in the works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-vehicle
Looking at commits to the code base alone is a risky way to judge engagement. It would be like saying you cannot use AWS unless you contribute to the code. We saw the same false logic in the OpenStack community that drive a lot of marginal activity into the code base instead of demanding operability.

We really want these projects to have vibrant ecosystems. Canonical (and others) is contributing to that and helping users build solutions based on the existing code base. Adding features is great. Adding users is equally important.
A link to a 15 page wikipedia article is not a rebuttal.
We actually control access to our raw data sources. The vast majority of people looking at data look at data we surface in our BI layer in Looker (or in Aleph if they know SQL).

I didn't focus on this in the article, but in addition to removing sensitive information, that layer simplifies a lot of the complexities of our app's data models. Core calculations like the one in your parenthetical example live in core dashboards that the Data Analytics team owns.

Raw access is limited to our applications like Airflow and a small number of authenticated users. So an engineer can easily go into our Airflow repo and add some new columns to a table in the BI layer by updating the SELECT clause of the query that creates that table, without needing to access the raw data themselves.
Glad to hear this exists. Ive had a few whims to build something similar myself over the years but cellular data was missing or spotty in most resorts so i tabled the idea. How do you get around this problem? Or perhaps coverage at resorts is much better than it was now.
I agree that it's safe to assume folks at these companies are aware of these issues. But if I'm going to risk my life by using one of these systems, I'd want to have good answers to how they have solved them. Until then, I think it's fair to keep asking to avoid unrealistic hype.
It looks like they (Zuckerberg?) realized that high end device model by Oculus is not competitive compared with the mobile VR solutions like Daydream.
I think it's fine if there's a human in the car, simple, they just take control to manage the incident. But to truly disrupt our lives (24 hour robot trucks, autonomous taxi fleets ), which is what all these companies are aiming for, the car needs to be able to drive without a human.
AMD typically includes ECC support in "consumer" chips. Not all boards, do. I'm worried too, though, that this still hasn't been confirmed yet. An 8-core at 3.4+ GHz sounds perfect for a workstation.
If you don't understand why anyone would use DynamoDB then MongoDB is probably perfect for you.
Before Uber, the taxi company I used had an automated system which send a taxi to my place if I pressed 1, and connected me to human that took a new address when I pressed 2. Even with a human in the loop, it rarely took more than 40 seconds. I agree that Uber app is more convenient than that, but it really wasn't an order of magnitude improvement -- what was a deal maker for me was the fact that Uber automatically charged me, and I didn't have to put a card in and input PIN, or scramble for cash.
The AMD server line has usually been named Opteron.

And by the way, Xeon CPUs aren't usually faster than regular Intel chips. They may have more cache or more cores, which might speed up some programs. But otherwise, they're the same. Or even slower since their motherboards don't overclock well, overclocking not being a big selling point for servers.
I talked to some folks at a company called Alation a few weeks ago at Tableau conference in Austin - interesting tool they've developed for working in this space.

Their product is almost like social querying, where usage and context become visible and useful metadata for a data warehouse.
The Reality of Cryptographic Deployments on the Internet [video]
Your personal workflow isn't really a generally applicable benchmark, and if Apple had gone with the 15W TDP processor people would just have more ammunition for the "it's not pro enough" argument.

The Surface Book is probably a better choice for you, though. My workflow sounds pretty similar to yours (maybe not quite as heavy a background load, though I do some incremental compiling and whatnot), and I have the mid-spec 12" Macbook which routinely gives me 10+ hours of programming and web browsing (I use Opera with the adblocker and battery saver turned on). I simply didn't need more power; this little machine handles everything I throw at it. I think a lot of people fetishize computing power to the detriment of their own convenience.
>Anyone that thinks that Facebook integration is going to bother the average person (or care that Facebook just owns the company) is out of touch.

The average person is not an early adopter of expensive tech gadgets.
We constantly have problems with Slack audio calls, they seem not to be stable even over very stable internet and wifi. I wonder if being in Europe is a factor
Pick up bluetooth device. It's dead. Press and hold buttons.
Wave phone around. Turn bluetooth off and on. Press and hold buttons again. Blue lights appear. Stare at empty pairing list. Wonder why it's not working. Curse at it.

If they can make wireless not-be-shitty, that will count for 'magical' and 'not possible before' afaiconcerned.

Except, Apple laptops are plagued with "wifi broken after sleep", so I have no hope that they can.
Hertz lives in an equilibrium where lots of people buy and operator their own cars. Autonomous cars may well move us to an equilibrium where most people do not own cars and instead rely on services. That totally changes the economics of the situation.
It's a fair point, but when you stick to the same ecosystem you save a lot of time in terms of setup for credentials, monitoring, backups, devops etc.
I used MongoDB in the past too. Now, I'm using Elasticsearch as a document store. Aggregations are good, and you can do some very advanced stuff with it (geographic clustering, scan left, range and exact match, range buckets, histograms). Of course it comes with a set of limitations, but it might be worth your time to investigate (especially if you want to use it also for full text search).
> There is a huge amount of research to create an "algebra" of synthetic biology

do you have links to such research?
What service do you use to rent it out?