skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, there's plenty of batteries that can discharge quickly. You have to see
my Clevo laptop. With an i7 6700k and a GTX 1070 in there, the 100Wh+ battery lasts less than an hour...
On macOS, you can three-finger-tap (not click, tap) to invoke the right-click “Look Up” menu item. That’s my preferred technique, though it’s obviously OS-dependant.
> Curious. Will there be third-party headphones that work here?

3rd party headphones have always worked with the iPhone - what exactly are you asking?
Getting development as close to production as possible means you discover problems sooner. I've been trying to get kube-solo up running our entire infrastructure (mongo, postgres, elastic, two python 3.5 apps, one python 2.7 app) for a few days. I think, after this post, I'm going to switch over to minikube now that I know it's officially part of the kubernetes project.
Does that imply my USB C battery won't work with my new MacBook Pro? :(
>Intel will send out chips that are dated 4 to 5 years old, as they are from the first or second run of silicon that Intel did with that chip design.

Fabrication process advancements (i.e. die shrinks) in that time span are enough to rule out what you said with near complete certainty—let alone the notion Intel is somehow shelving architectures for 4-5 years at a time.

Architectures may be developed over those spans, sure—but not shelved for that long.
I have this problem too, but I love the compactness of earbuds, especially with Bluetooth. Whatever are my earbuds of the day, I order complyfoam tips for them (not affiliated, just love their product).
Slack audio calling is using webRTC tech. On Chrome, you can check out statistics and configuration for how they set up the call by going to chrome://webrtc-internals

I checked, and it looks like they are using pretty standard webRTC settings. The audio is compressed with Opus codec. They look to be limiting the bitrate to 40 kbps. (I'm not sure, but I thought Chrome default limited the AVERAGE bitrate to 40 kbps, not the peak, so Slack might actually be imposing an even tighter limit here).

Opus does a pretty nice job and is full band. A lot of older VOIP tech used compression that severely limited the frequency response.

We've been working on a more conversational video conferencing service called Locus (inthelocus.com). There we do some processing on the audio stream to spatialize audio sources, and found audio quality improved up to bitrate of ~120 kbps. The compression difference was more noticeable when processing the stream vs. directly playing back.
As an aside, a couple of months ago I found out that the PHP ISO8601 timestamp format is not 8601 compliant. If you want an ISO8601 timestamp, you have to use a different format.

I'm not sure how this fits in with Postel's law, but your comment jogged my memory of it :)

http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
nice, thanks for sharing, interesting read so far (read the introduction), will definitely give it a better look out of curiosity
The people who inspired me in 2016 – Satya Nadella
I used and developed in Lotus Notes for 13 years. All those years I heard how Notes was awful, and how wonderful Exchange and Outlook where... so when I changed company to a Microsoft centric one, in 2014, I was (eager and) prepared to be blown away by the Exchange + SharePoint + Outlook 2013 combination. Oh boy, was I wrong. Lotus Notes runs circles around the E+S+O combination. There is no way that they can touch the power and flexibility of Notes. I was even SHOCKED to see how HORRIBLE the Outlook interface is. How poor it is for a product that does two things: email and calendar. Also, I was shocked how horrible Skype for business is compared to Sametime... And I still don't get how Control-F is not FIND in Outlook...
(responding because I have a Vive)

> Outside of car games, space sims, or any other game where the main character is mostly sitting down, does VR work well?

It works pretty well. There are some pretty compelling standing/room scale games out there. Either because of market immaturity or game design limitations, "larger" games (i.e. Mass Effect is large compared to Minesweeper) seem to be a bit in short supply. Oculus may have more as of the Touch launch, but I'm staying away from their ecosystem for the time being as I think what they're doing with exclusivity is hostile to consumers.

The illusion is convincing enough that a friend of mine who tried my Vive fell over because she tried to lean on a virtual table. Neither I nor anyone I've had try my Vive has suffered from any nausea.

> Apart from games what other applications are there at the moment?

Not totally sure. A lot of the obvious things have, I think, at least been tried (e.g. CAD walk-through for architects). There is also a lot of content that's hard to define as "game" or not, e.g. Tilt Brush (a "painting" program).

> Anyone try replacing their monitor with a VR headset? How'd that go?

So far, so far as I know, all the programs that attempt to render your regular desktop environment (or parts of it) to virtual displays suffer from low quality and massive latency that makes them borderline unusable. So I don't think it would be a good experience.

> Anyone try combining a VR headset plus a kinect? Seems like a natural combination.

Probably, and there are some other products out there that try to do similar things. But the held motion controllers are surprisingly natural, especially since often it makes sense to have a physical stand-in for a held object in-game.
Can you outline the differences between minikube and kube-solo?
> This seems to have been said in jest but the main thing keeping flying cars in sci-fi and out of the real world is the human element.

I thought it was that winged flight makes for crappy cars and wingless, vectored thrust flight is horribly fuel hungry. (Sci-fi versions are usually wingless and either have magic drive systems or just ignore the fuel issue.)
What? No. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding: only bytes with the top-bit zero are valid ASCII, and all of those bytes represent exactly the same character in UTF-8. UTF-8 is a strict superset of ASCII and this is not by accident.
All languages have tones. See how the 'a' sound is different in 'car' and 'can', or 'make'?
> In cities, everyone uses their car at exactly the same time: roughly, between 8-9 in the morning and 5-7 in the evening.

Good question. How the system deals with congestion. Two things:

1) Taxis make variable pricing possible, which gives markets an incentive to spread out demand. "Would you like a $15, 45 minute ride to San Francisco by 9:15, or $4, 25 minute ride arriving at 10:30?"

2) In big cities we'll start to see quick transfers to- and from- mass transit.

You'll push a button on your phone. The phone will say "Ride begins in 8 minutes to minimize transfer time". You finish your email, put on your coat and walk outside. A car picks you up, drives you to the transit center. You get out, walk across the platform, get onto a train. Train stops, you walk back across the platform into another car. It takes you to your destination.

Why? It will save you time in traffic if you care about, and it'll be cheaper if you care about that. Of course during off peak times, you can just take the cab the whole way for the shortest trip.
"Communism" in the sense of "stateless, classless, moneyless society" has rarely if ever been achieved in real life. "Communism" in the sense of central planning by an undemocratic bureaucracy with totalitarian power was a fucking disaster.

All totalitarianism is evil.
I feel incredibly satisfied by my decision to never buy them.
How is this a win? Instead of opening a text file we have to write update statements to change any setting. Sql is itself a verbose language that should have been discarded in the 80's.
Wasn't that long before we knew what USB-C would look like though?
No, usually there is an enterprising analyst who knows a bit of SQL and wants to write a particular report, but doesn't want to wait for an IT cycle to free up. I'm the same way so I empathize. Most of the time it's Excel, because they all have it by default.
"They have better drugs now" could also be followed by a list of common prescription drugs. I think there was a previous thread about this study showing that Adderall and methamphetamine are, at similar dose, indistinguishable.

http://theinfluence.org/neuroscientist-meth-is-virtually-ide...
I think they initially do not realize that they're spending that much. They instead spend a little bit each time, adding up to those amounts.

Now, usually, they build some sort cult around them in forums and that validates their weird spending behavior and makes them feel good.

Then, people that spend a lot of money and do not win, get angry and retaliate trying to get refunds.

I think that this activity should be regulated more. Allowing this type of excess is a disservice to society.
Depending on where you live, "can pass a standard driving test" isn't necessarily saying very much.

In any case, I'm not talking about whether it "should be allowed to drive", I'm talking about the level of capability an autonomous car would have to reach in order to become a viable product.
I was at AWS for 6 years. Believe me if I tell you that Amazon's PR is very... unique, at least in the IT industry.

I shared some of my stories here, a while ago: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/f-ck-you-vs-thank-you-b25...

(and of course I could do that because I am no longer employed by AWS - I left in 2014).

Happy to hear your comments about it.
ha, nice call out to the DeWitt clause instead of just saying DBMS X.
Because if you're calling someone you expect them to say hello. It's not that easy to explain to a user that the call they just placed was dropped and they're really now answering a call.
Can you provide references ? I'd like to know what researchers think about it.
I heard rumors (just rumors) that Internet providers in China limit your connection speed to servers outside China unless you upgrade your service and pay more.
I'm really hoping that Apple opens up an API to them. They have built in mics like here-one and the new Bose headphones. I would really like to see what app developers can do on a (somewhat) open platform. Intelligent noise cancelling, lowering the volume automatically when it detects someone talking to you, etc.
I don't think they see this as a music device either. I think they see it as a way of making money from their decision to remove the audio jack from the phone.

That said, you're spot on with your forecasts of how great this could be, the AR of audio is potentially awesome.
Building Tesla's battery range calculator with Angular 2 reactive forms
I would assume it wouldn't take me to any meetings I had not accepted.
I've seen Lotus Notes client installation's folder being migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 then onto RHEL and finally onto macOS.

Suffice to say that all of the user settings were preserved and the data was readily usable on each platform. This happened over the span of 10 years.

Given the observation, I wonder how many other applications with similar complexity would last even one migration, let alone rolling migration across 4 completely different platforms.
Can you find an industry collaborator to work with on a research project? I'd wager someone in your department is willing to bend your ear about interdisciplinary collaborations. Finding (or proposing) something interesting, then applying data science techniques could yield learning, funding, and publications. Rinse and repeat until you've got the skills you want or the new job you want.
I have the exact same problem. Check out 'earhoox' -- they solve the problem perfectly.

(They're silicone EarPod covers with little hooks that keep them perfectly placed in your ears.)
earbuds fall out all the time for me because generic earbuds are not shaped to fit everyone. it happens most often when i'm walking.
Because they tried to model neurogenesis, the same way that artificial neural networks were invented while trying to mimic some parts of how neurons work I guess..
I have to echo what others are saying. I don't see how you could possibly forget they're in. I've had issues with every Apple earbud design falling out when I lean over or even just move the wrong way. I'd be constantly worried these would fall out and be damaged. If anything, I'd be constantly reminded I'm wearing them.
Thanks for sharing. It's hard to imagine how difficult that life would be, and also sad to realize how many people will be losing access to mental health services as Obamacare is repealed.
there are plenty of language and coding forums you can seek out to drop your questions onto. seems like you want to discuss, so lean on irc communities there are plenty in nearly all languages and topics. if you don't fancy that, hit the meet-up or hackathon scene and get some face time.

HN works too, but it'll be hit or miss
Many people get excited and interested in blockchains because they want to radically alter the existing social order and they see blockchains as the most effective path to bring this about.

Thus, when these people make progress they cast it in those terms (radical social change). This becomes a feedback loop which attracts more radicals to the blockchain space and also amplifies the current radicals belief that they really can make a difference. This has both negative and positive effects:

* the negative effects are hype, the desire for ideological purity, expectations which can't be met, and irrational optimism,

* the positive effects are large numbers of smart motivated people who are willing to think big and irrational optimism.

I think spaceX and the startup world in general operates under a similar feedback loop (see "making the world a better place").
Are you aware of any resources/perspectives that talk more about the balance between freedom to access data and the need to control the accuracy of what is taken out?
I think people get uncomfortable because people will run with the data and enact policies that are potentially detrimental, and then people will game it. (You see this happen all the time with "velocity" at agile shops). Data itself is great, it's just scary what happens with it when it falls into unwise hands.
I had horrible heacahes from ~16-19 years old... I never made the connection until a professor in college mentioned 'caffeine withdrawal headache', and it totally clicked. And I switched to decaf for the next 15 years. Totally paranoid about waitresses filling my coffee cup up with the wrong pot.

However, a couple of years ago, I noticed that I can actually drink caffeine without getting any withdrawal problems at all, making me think it was all in my head...
Stupid question: Have you been able to side-step the limitation because an empty string is stored as NULL?
That's fantastic, but let's just take a look at the documentation a few years ago when I discovered this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130102210613/http://docs.aws.a...

Huh, worded slightly differently, isn't it? They DO allude to this perhaps being the case in https://web.archive.org/web/20121221003912/http://docs.aws.a... but it's not made clear at any point that scans will yield up keys neatly bundled by shard.

It is not the case even now that the scan operation is using your capacity to cause this, it's because of the way shards enumerate their keys and that is not done simultaneously and mixed for you before sending it. You can redirect write traffic to another table and still often exhibit a rate limit effect even though the scan isn't consuming writes for that table.

That, I think, is still quite surprising.

You can take for granted how great the docs are now, although I still submit that this aspect of the system is quite poorly documented. AWS in general is fantastic at conveying API endpoints and very poor at offering a new developer a narrative on how to use the product.

The reason that the docs are as good as they are now: people like me have been around yelling at Amazon for years to improve their documentation, and telling tech reps to better document things. I hope you in your capacity do the same. And I will continue to offer insights like this on forums like this precisely because there are lots of relatively new platform engineers here. It's one of the few things I _like_ doing on hacker news.
The site guidelines actually ask you to prefer the original source, when available. It's not complicated at all in this case.
I'm in the same boat as you -- they just don't fit me.

Check out "earhoox" (or, if you prefer a non-branded item, just search for "earpod covers" on Amazon, etc.).

I have no connection with that particular (or any) brand, but I did the thing I tend to do which is spend $50 buying every single model of silicone earpod cover on Amazon, try them out, and figure out which is best. Earhoox won.

Solved the problem perfectly, and I actually enjoy wearing my earpods now.
It's almost as if it's marketing material and not an objective third party review. Sickening they'd put something like that on their own website. No other tech company would ever say good things about their own products.
This is my view on this as well. I don't really see Apple opening up into this space unless there's an experience to be had from it. Apple likes to take lackluster experiences that end-users "just deal with" and make them into something excellent. They like to use the word "magical" but I think that's a bit overboard.

Just look at any product in their history - they took music players that were fine but bulky and time-consuming to use and turned them into a single intuitive device that could fit in your pocket, carry your entire library, and sync to the computer without any user intervention. I know a lot of tech people are annoyed with iTunes and want to be able to manually drag and drop the files that they want, but, for the non-tech user, iTunes (which already had all their music organized) would just let them sync their music by plugging in without any intervention at all. Apple may have made an assumption for the masses by assuming everyone's music was organized on the computer they were syncing from (and in iTunes, no less), but, when it worked, it was amazing from an experience standpoint.

That's what these headphones are. Just think about the list of things that suck about headphones in a perfect world - cables and wires suck on anything, wireless is more convenient in every case, pairing bluetooth headphones sucks when they get disconnected, the batteries on wireless headphones suck. These are their answer to those complaints - headphones that last much longer than others with a charger that is also a case that syncs to all your devices and intelligently plays wherever from whatever device you're using. Whether they succeed is another story, but the explanation for this product is there.
The increased fear is not based on the capabilities, which as you said have existed for awhile, but on what Trump will do with them. They feel he has fascist tendencies or intentions and does not respect for American traditions or law.

(I'm not trying to make partisan points; I'm only saying that there is a large cohort that feels that way. Obviously, many in the U.S. voted for Trump.)
Does the company still need someone? If so, they will probably be happy to talk to you. They may be concerned that you'll take the job, but leave the moment you find something better, but maybe if you spin it as you realising that this is what the market is willing to pay you and make it not seem like you're going to only stick around long enough to find a new job.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Is Hiring a Sr. Mid Tier Admin
Finally, the legacy burden of vim and neovim gone, and a whole new world :D Thank you a lot!
How does this compare to Ghostery?
Thanks for saying these! As a Chinese as well, I agrees with you with these facts, they makes China less favorable to many of us. For some of your points, I'd share some different interpretations.

1. Yes - Housing is a problem. I think it is a salary problem. As tech corps in US earns money from the whole world, most Chinese tech corps can only attract Chinese customers. So the value generated from a same piece of code, is better in US. This makes US engineers' salary and status relatively higher in the society than those in China.

2. Yes - people are working 996. But I won't blame the law. I'd blame the culture, or the competitive nature of Chinese tech industry. Union doesn't do anything in China, but labour law does. It is written in favor of workers and executed properly, ask any entrepreneur in China. The problem is, I never seen anyone sued their employer. And there are a damn lot of people that actually working 996 voluntarily without asking by their boss, making the normal ones less competitive if they don't do this.

3. No, I don't agree here. - In tech companies of both countries, I found no difference, relationship does not matter that much even Chinese employees do have a closer personal relationship than US employees. And in other industries like finance, there are no difference either, b/c both countries are 'relation-oriented' in these industries.

4. Yes - I would not say its cruel tho. India, Korea, Singapore are all like this. Its just very competitive due to the limited educational resource and the amount of people who wants to use it. But yea I wouldn't send my child there (If I have one).

5. Pollutions - Sad, Beijing is not a human-habitable place anymore... Shanghai is still okay.

Again, I think the facts you provided are main reasons that stop people going back. Those in the article are slightly wrong(Github, VPN .etc) or not important(foreign business entry barrier) for individuals like me.
No its not, that is kind of my point. It only needs to be better at driving than the average human to be technically viable. And yes, it may very well be allowed on Indian or Chinese roads before its allowed in America, but that's human fiction at work not demonstrable ability.
Could be that the kids who used to be likely to smoke cigarettes are all on adderall instead.
China's system is basically just "No, you can't stay". As of 2010 exactly 1,448 living immigrants had managed to become citizens. In contrast, the US naturalizes 700,000 every year.

The country actually has more billionaires than non-Vietnamese refugees.
>To be fair, the manifesto was written in 1996.

Too soon to judge as we are in a moment of backlash against these trends, lets see how 2196 views the manifesto.
Many people have gotten fired by saying something politically incorrect on Twitter or Facebook. When free speech is called into question, the standard response is that it's not protected because a company is not the government and can do as they please.

This is the other side of it. Based on this same thinking, a company can also fire you if they don't think your marijuana usage looks good for their image.
IB/management consulting are paying you $100k+ at the entry level and $200k-$1M+ at higher ranks. PE is paying you $300k to multi millions. All three professions are extremely high status professions. Lets just say we are not comparing the same things.

Goog/Face/App/Soft are offering you completely voluntary perks. You are free to not eat dinner at Google and go home. In fact, you can just eat dinner at Google and then go home immediately. Or even grab takeout at the cafeteria on the way to your car! Lets just say we are not comparing the same things.
Until the day the AMD ships.
"Answer a survey from a third party researcher to gain access to premium content. Surveys longer than 3 questions provide a survey-free experience for 7 days."

Blargh, no.