skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've quite often used it to check if I can finish the movie I'm watching for example or if I have enough battery to finish writing something during the flight and so on. I'd say especially for the movie case, it's surprisingly accurate.
> there should be no need for one adult to educate another that bad behavior is unacceptable.

In a perfect world, where each and every one of us is aware of each and every culture around the world, this is true.
Right now, we are in the middle of a process, where we encounter with culture we never dealt with before.

In some societies the boundaries for certain acts - such as personal space, physical contact, etc - is completely different to others.

Therefore I do believe talking could solve a small percentage of situations, which one considers harassment. ( Not the one in the article. )
All three of you are right: Ares advertises two different concepts, only the one they call "grid storage" uses more ballast than they can fit on their rolling stock.

The one they call "ancillary services", intended only for short term grid regulation/stabilisation", uses fixed ballast that is never removed from the trains during regular operation. This is what the first prototype will be.
Its not what people look at first glance. You get the battery percentage as default. You get this when you actually want an estimate. The wrong thing apple did was calling it 'Time remaining' and not calling it in an estimate.

If Microsoft or some Linux distro did this for user complaint I believe you would have been hard pressed to find anyone defending it. I'm typing this on a Macbook pro and while I think this is the best device for me for a lot of reason there so many idiotic Apple decisions out there that I have seen excused away that I'm frankly tired of it.
Most people aren't educated enough to know what math operations to do in order to convert and get a time estimate.
Rather than being for the value at the time of cocaine?
>Correction: it was quite useful. Now it's gone.

Don't worry, there's all kind of aftermarket crap menubar apps to put it back in.
I urge you interested readers to read Wolfgang Smith's article on this topic: https://perennialphilosophyreadings.wordpress.com/2012/02/26...
When given a request, she refused to do it, and then complained of harassment because she was the one asked to do the task. Is she always on edge like that? Notice that she seems to be the one to stir up controversy in her meetings. Why is that?

Here is the problem. She's an outsider. Outsiders, no matter what makes them an outsider, will always be treated differently. While she thinks she's a special case, and Apple must be a bad place to work, it should be noted that Tim Cook is an openly gay male who rose to the position of CEO.

As it so often is, we hear one side of a story but never the other. There are millions of stories in the naked city and this is only one of them and it's one-sided.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, as the saying goes.
I understand that, but e.g. we've had the theory of Evolution and the Scientific Method for hundreds of years. They are fantastically powerful cognitive tools that have transformed our fortunes and the face of our planet. Yes they are still extremely politicized and controversial. Billions of people question their validity in the face of extraordinary quantities of evidence being rubbed in their faces every single day.

I'm honestly not trying to make some partisan, elitist point about that. I'm sorry if anyone's offended, but there it is. Let's be fair and say many of those people have more pressing concerns to deal with on a day to day basis like making a living, maintaining social relationships and solving pressing problems in their lives. But that's the point. Actually thinking these things through takes a lot of effort which many human beings don't do. It's hard for us. There are many, many things about the world that aren't really very complicated, but I just don't understand because it takes too much time and effort and I can't work it out for myself. Because I'm a barely evolved ape. It's just a fact.
> If there were some other fundamental means by which reality might be modified besides the basic interactions we know, our standard model of particle physics couldn't work so well, right? So to our knowledge, interaction is the one and only thing that puts a thing into existence or not.

You're looking at this backwards, I think.

You claimed that a thing must interact in order to exist. If this is false then things exist but do not interact. Things which exist but do not interact with anything would not change anything we see in the world at all, and cannot in any way be tested for. The statement provides no predictions.
Most people don't understand that "1 hour remaining" will actually be "20 minutes remaining" if they start some heavy gaming either...
Ah, well.

That does explain why he came off as a bit defensive.

But then, so was I: Did I mention I'm not a CL fanatic?
> Well, it was. Specifically, Common Lisp was. But that language's standard was etched in stone in 1994 whereas languages like Python (where most deep learning user-facing code is done) continue to evolve.

This is an apples to oranges comparison. The Common Lisp standard hasn't been updated since 1994. The Python standard has not been written at all yet. Lisp and Python implementations both continue to evolve and be released.
How are they not accurate? I'm watching a movie (a fairly common thing to do, I'd say) - the movie has 45 minutes left. I check the battery indicator if I can finish it or do I need to go get the charger. If it's telling me I have more than 50 minutes left I don't get the charger.

So far for me, it has worked every single time that I can remember.
There’s Jelly in Your Google
One important thing to add to this, is that in the US, halfway across the country is somewhere around 2,000 miles, which can easily result in $2-3000 in moving costs alone. I just bring this up since I had a conversation about a very similar topic with a friend in the UK - where halfway across the country can mean a leisurely 4 hour drive.
Warranty reasons perhaps?
I would happily pay a one time cost of $255 to run fiber to my house. I'd even be willing to pay $500 to run fiber to my house. Sadly around here if I want fiber to my house, even assuming I could find an ISP willing to run it, it would probably cost me upwards of $2000 to have it run, and probably significantly more than that. That's also not counting the cost of actually getting service, that's just the "installation fee" to have it run.
Maybe he meant that positivism is dead.
Percentage is a dynamically constructed estimate too. It's more accurate because the underlying variables tend to change more slowly and predictably, but the actual charge levels corresponding to "0%" and "100%" aren't fixed, and the calculations do sometimes drift noticeably from reality.
The article is pretty clear that she was in the US. Not sure what Australian law has to do with this.
"To-do lists" appears to be a theme from this source, since there's at least one more to-do list currently on the site:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:openculture.com+intitle...

Johnny Cash's Short and Personal To-Do List:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/johnny_cashs_short_and_pe...
The bubble thing is very real.

Isn't it interesting then that all our intelligensia is engaged in the whole apochryphal "caste-system" narrative [1] [2], while essentially being the gate keepers of a state/violence sanctioned system of linguistic apartheid ?

Even Chomsky, when questioned about his accomplice Roy, seemed perfectly okay with the current state of things. My entire schooling/conditioning has been turned on its head - I can't recommend S N Balagangadhara & Dharampal's works enough.

[1] http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/mantras-of-anti-brahmanism...

[2] https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...
GCE Windows Server 2016 Unreachable After Installing Docker for Windows
What I'm curious to know, is how will any of this truly affect users who aren't necessarily streaming/torrenting/big bandwidth users, like those who focus on education, research, computer sciences, among others. Not meaning to sound too vague, but speaking for myself, most of the Internet-related things I depend on don't necessarily involve constant high-bandwidth usage (like online gaming, for example). If the internet gets completely throttled I want to know what I have to look forward to.
They could have changed it to "about X hours" if precision was the problem.
We already know how to cheaply and efficiently build rail, rail cars, huge systems for pulling and releasing the cars (they are called engines and overhead electrification :) and in fact you can pick up a lot of the materials used for less than half the cost of new. Dozens of km of land are damn near free in places in the southwest US where you can also dump lots of solar panels. Lithium may eventually be cheaper, but not within the next decade it won't.
The modules is born just to fulfill one of our needs: we had several micro-services using redis and no DB at all, but then we find ourselves in the situation where we needed SQL capabilities, redis module where being announced and we give them a shoot.

What you mean by efficiency ? Operation at the second? Sure it is less efficient than Postgres or of SQLite embed in your application.

However if you mean convenience and simplicity this solution may (arguably) be efficient enough.

This module sit between a "full" client-server DB, a redis instance (that doesn't provide SQL capabilities) and SQLite that is not client-server.

Being completely honest, how HN teach us, build a great technical product without showing it as soon as it provide just a tiny amount of value is not desirable.

The comment in this thread indicate that there is some interest and I got some valuable suggestions and feedback on what to develop next.
Note that plenty of the security holes are actually required by major carriers to be present. Just sayin'.

Also, for trust to be thrown out the window, a lot of changes would probably need to happen both in baseband software and in the networks themselves. Not seeing that happening anytime soon.
> Ellard declared, arguing that the leaker, now a fugitive in Russia, would have received the same protections as other NSA employees, who file some one thousand reports annually to the agency’s hotline.

Am I misunderstanding this line? It sounds like the NSA is constantly doing some stuff that many of its own employees find horribly abusive, and then sweeping the reports under the rug as "resolved". How the hell was this information meant to engender confidence?
As an AAPL shareholder I want them to fix the problem so that their employees don't harass other employees.
Was it actually useful? I think I can manage the battery on my tablet and iPhone just as well as I can on my laptop. Neither the tablet or iPhone estimate how long the battery will last, and somehow I do just fine. That tells me that the time estimate is just noise that doesn't actually contribute to the utility of the machine.

I'm OK with removing it since it was never really accurate for me. The time estimates did give me anxiety from time to time. What's interesting is since removing the battery percentage label from my phone, I have less battery anxiety there and it "seems" to last longer since I'm less concerned about the actual percentage remaining.
> If you want a secure platform iOS is your best bet

iOS is far from secure, just this week they released 3 huge security breaches fix. There is even in this release a somewhat similar issue where playing a malicious audio file would allow you to run arbitrary code.
APT in Debian does not properly handle errors when validating signatures
'minority in tech' <-- phrase in question.
But that's a problem, too. You weren't there and have no way of knowing if this whole story isn't made up. What's the point and purpose of a current employee(?) at Apple running to Medium at posting such such a public article?
> So what superintelligence can do that "ordinary" intelligence in right quantities couldn't?

Conceive of answers to this question that we can't. Do you really believe the human imagination captures all of possibility? Why?
Having a growing list of real customers isn't an echo chamber. It's reality and means we're solving a real problem.

Hardware isn't hard because it's physical. It's hard because there's still a lot more progress left to go. There are no physics limits to making it orders of magnitude better on many dimensions. We just need to revitalize a stagnant industry.

"Moore's Law to manufacturing" means taking the gains of computers and applying them to manufacturing where they're vastly under applied. Visit IMTS or Fabtech and you'll see how behind everything is - machines and software designed 10-30 years ago.

Plethora is more than putting CNC machining on the internet. It's a new way of thinking about manufacturing. About taking the analogies of software and porting them to the manufacturing world.

We've made a debugger, compiler, simulator, etc. for manufacturing CNC machined parts, but that's 1% of what we'll do.

In the end, I suspect you're reacting to our optimism about radically changing a system - which I find funny for a user with the handle "RebootTheSystem" :-) Have fun out there.
I'm perfectly happy with that "power imbalance", whatever that means. Why can't the union refuse to protect non-union workers against this "imbalance"?

It sounds like the union needs special legally granted monopoly powers to sell me services I don't actually want. The term for that is "rent seeking", actually.
Every one of these proposed quality signals is prone to error. Publication history I would see as a negative quality signal. Less experience means more likely to be up-to-date on latest treatment techniques and algorithms. Reputation in the "Best Doctor" survey sense usually correlates with years in practice more than actual quality. The best indicator, in my experience, is to ask a nurse at that hospital who they would send a family member to for that specific problem. Even board certification does not hold great discriminatory power, in my experience. Analysis of these indicators would make for a worthwhile research project, but the more beneficial project would be to try to identify and disseminate those behaviors that form mechanisms of quality.
True, but by using "external fact checkers" they are more or less reverting to the old system. Similar, anyway.
I don't doubt that the ability to have the average man on the street report on things and upload them to twitter etc. is a force for good, but the potential for miscommunication due to the lack of structure surrounding such uploads is a weakness that traditional media does not experience given that all work must pass editors in those cases. I know that doesn't stop all BS stories but its a check/balance at least that doesn't currently exist at all on social media.
Why is this the victim card? It's an anecdote that one persons grad class is a certain way. How does this reflect on the demographics of the industry? I've been to many companies that are majority white male.
I agree; on my 2015 MBP the time remaining is extremely accurate. Probably because my behavior on the machine is very consistent.
They still have the percentage indicator, which is presumably directly proportional to mAh remaining, and people generally have a good understanding of what percentage is.

Using your analogy, your gas gauge doesn't show the number of gallons, it shows a relative level.
Game Physics (in Assembler) – Computerphile
Having the same issue since a few days
Just trying to think back that far makes me dizzy.
> Approximately 50% of American citizens are made to believe Snowden is a traitor.

He took highly-classified information to China & Russia. What other word than 'traitor' applies?

He's not 'the defender of democracy and freedom'; he's a criminal, a spy and — yes — a traitor.

Nothing he has alleged is illegal or unconstitutional (the Constitution does not mandate all good things, nor does it forbid all bad things). He didn't expose massive wrongdoing: he exposed lawful, constitutional intelligence operations.

I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell, but honestly I don't care: it is both correct and should not be forgotten that Mr. Snowden broke the law and violated the trust which his nation put in him.
Growing number of Venezuelans trade bolivars for Bitcoins to buy necessities
Genius is often coupled with depression; sometimes in order to see the world is different light you need a different brain to see it with. I often wonder how a genius like Pitts can appear out of common people with no apparent genius in them - genetics is often a cruel process where amazing results are often coupled with not so amazing side effects.
I was pretty negative when he was nominated and very pleasantly surprised and happy to be wrong about my initial concerns.

I have a lot of respect for the man now, in fact.
How to Create Responsive Content Using CSS Regions
This example of "everything as an expression" doesn't take it as far as Tcl, though. In the above code snippet, the conditional body is surrounded by braces, which are syntax. In Tcl, the second argument to the 'if' command is also an expression, which only uses braces as a quoting mechanism, if it needs to.
The whistle-blower is still working at some app store, and the administrator who illegally crucified him is still on payroll. Meanwhile, thousands of reports of wrongdoing are "resolved" quietly by that office. What exactly is getting better?
It's very important to understand this risk, but also to keep it in perspective.

Both the two major phone vendors --- Google and Apple --- have teams of people who are acutely aware of the baseband thread, many of whom are equally as talented as RPW.

Further, though the article seems carefully written enough to avoid the misconception, the basebands on modern phones don't get direct access to AP memory, but are instead connected over a high-speed serial connection with a limited command set.
I just use an extension to disable JS.
> no one believes women when they say there are problems and hence there is no progress ..

There are huge public awareness campaigns around all of these issues.
That's a good idea.

Although they've been working on TCL perf (and even compilation) and there have been some improvements, especially when you're not doing metaprogramming. But still, using it on heavy loads isn't a great idea...

(I mean, honestly. I'm starting to think picolisp might be faster, and picolisp has 3 types and one data structure. Haven't run the benches yet, though.)
The Brexit vote isn't "the virtual world" though, so I'm a bit confused here.
Huh, I've know about Da Vinci's mirror writing since I was a kid, and I've tried it and never thought about it as something that might be hard for anyone. I just tried two sentences and the first one was hard - I kept wanting to do the shapes "the right way", but the second one was pretty speedy.

I wouldn't say it was very readable, but then again my normal writing isn't either. I'm left handed, though.
"Creative" is a well established commonly used term from the publidging and advertising worlds. Definition #2 at https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/creative#Noun
"there was no harassment according to legal definition. "

He's extremely lucky.

In Canada, and in a growing number of jurisdictions - there is 'harassment' so long as the victim feels as if there was.

If a girl feels harassed - then that's it. Guilty.

It's a deep breach of our fundamental rights, in that crimes should be determined objectively, and not subject to the whims and feelings of a victim.

Obviously, this is a complex problem, and a lot of actual harassment does take place and it needs to be dealt with.

But so many authorities screw it one way or the other: by ignoring it, or handing out wicked penalties in knee-jerk righteous fear.

The Github case, in particular is pernicious: the CEO lost his job after trying to reasonably handle supposed harassment case, when there was absolutely no indication of it even happening.

Ironically, this girl, Julie Horvath - is a pariah and a terrible example for women - is now working at Apple.

Ellen Pao comes to mind as perfectly the wrong candidate in any way be representing 'women's rights' at work.

The movement needs better leaders/examples.

It also blows my mind that things like this go on - after the girl in this article complained, the other people on the team should have just shut up about it. I mean - there's 'ribbing' and 'fun' but when someone is really hurt by it ... you just stop man. Get on with your jobs.

Also - I'm not sure the 'ask the waitress for the cheque' is really a form of harassment. It's just weird.

It seems as this poor girl really has a case, that said, there's two sides to every story. I guess we should take her word at face value, but it would be helpful to hear about it from other voices.

Pettiness, vindictiveness, and the intersection of 'crude, boorish behaviour' with 'easily offended victims' can sometimes conflate to create bad situations that might seem like harassment (and often really is), but is really about another set of infantile behaviours altogether.
Verlinde’s new theory of gravity passes first test
I agree that those are all valid problem. My point is more that it's not such hard lock as people assume who never built a "cloud native" infrastructure. I wish we would discuss more specifics.

So what are we talking about? Snapchat running on app engine is probably one of the more extrem examples. Let say they aren't happy with that anymore. So far they deployed easily by using the google apps api and since want to keep a similar workflow. They could setup kubernetes for that. Same for managed data stores. Maybe there is no 1:1 open source equivalent, but most likely there is one similar in design which won't require much change in your code.

Of course all this takes time and live migrating your site isn't trivial.
But so does building on bare metal from the start. Sure, you don't all the fancy self-service features right away, but you want them eventually.

So even if you realize that moving to the cloud, or a specific cloud was a huge mistake, it's not like being locked in a trunk.
No it's not. It's a [my political enemy] regurgitation outlet.

See: Hostile Media Effect [0], a perceptual theory of mass communication that refers to the tendency for individuals with a strong preexisting attitude on an issue to perceive media coverage as biased against their side and in favor of their antagonists' point of view. Partisans from opposite sides of an issue will tend to find the same coverage to be biased against them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
Picolisp can match it in dynamism.

Seriously, Picolisp is absolutely insane.
That a thousand reports are filed doesn't mean that a thousand issues are found, and even where actual issues are found that doesn't mean that they are all 'horribly abusive.'

The mere fact that someone reports behaviour doesn't mean that a) the behaviour is criminal or b) the behaviour exists. No doubt people file false reports, and true reports of legal actions, all the time. Individuals can be incorrect: that's why there are processes in place to take a clear look at allegations and determine their veracity.
Question: what would a LISP dialect with static typing look like?

EDIT: Found an answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3323549/is-a-statically-t...
TL;DR know your audience
For the average person paying 60 bucks a month for internet today while only using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Netflix, this sounds like a great deal.