skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen this happen a few times. Sometimes businesses switch to turnkey/template sites, but if all they need is an address in Google Maps it isn't necessary a lot of the time.

Conversely, as a web developer, I have stopped working with this segment completely. Non-tech organizations of 1-2 people are way more hassle to deal with than larger organizations.
FWIW my teenage daughter has been complaining about this latest Snapchat update for iOS the past couple days. It constantly crashes and causes the phone to reboot itself. Looking at Twitter, there's tons and tons of people reporting the same issue, so it seems pretty widespread. Wonder if it's related to this NTP issue.
I used a really old laptop that had a mini-trackball. I personally think that was the best human interface device I ever used on a laptop.
What I am trying to understand is how is underground compressed air storage not the solution to the energy storage problem. LightSail is doing this, I don't see why others aren't too.

The tech is simple. Dig a hole in your backyard, put a large steel tank in it with an air compressor and a small turbine generator.

Putting the tank underground vastly improves the safety of the system and hides it. You can also derive heat from this process.
Show HN: Aquarium for Mac terminal
FWIW my wife underwent a drastic personality change after giving birth, and I would definitely agree with this being one of the symptoms. But just one data point of course.
> By the way, why do you think wealthier people shouldn't get more advantages in life?

Wealthy people will always have nicer cars and better vacations and bigger houses, but that doesn't mean the children of poor people should be relegated to terrible schools where they'll have no future.
Wealthier people do have more advantages in life. It's tautological to the extent that it describes what it is to be wealthy.

We're talking about public education though, ideally, public education would have a universally high standard, and making funding for public education based on something like property values ensures that in certain areas it will be underfunded.

So it's really about whether we take universal public education seriously or if we're just providing education to some and a state sponsored daycare service to others.
It does depend on the item. More consumer oriented things tend to have more fraud, because they know there's a more gullible, and larger audience.

Things like guitar effect pedals. I ordered one where the plastic molded casing design was such that it would never click the switch underneath, and never could have :)

Most of the orders I do are basically trying to find new sources for things we sell, so I have a larger sample size...more than a thousand orders over the years.
Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar
HelloFresh raises 88.5M in a down round
Serving our own slice of Earth
Can you explain what you mean by "Maybe if RISC-V is lucky, semiconductor companies will start to allow customers to program the RISC-V core"?
You're not missing anything. As user joncrocks comments in this subthread, the actual study[1] does not do anything other than measure the structural changes. The "why" of the grey matter alterations (which appear to primarily occur in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus regions) and their resulting impacts are not quantified at all beyond offering hypotheses for future studies.

It is disingenuous to call these alterations "improvements" and any attempt at extrapolating the results to real-world improvements in e.g. perceiving threats in strangers is complete speculation. There simply isn't any material in the research to justify labeling these changes as positive or negative.

The authors do give a few good-faith remarks about how these changes could improve e.g. facial recognition (for a certain subset of defined metrics to satisfy "improve", of course), but there isn't actually evidence to support this. It's conjecture based on what we know of the brain.

What we can reasonably say based on this research is that women experience grey matter reductions after pregnancy that may have an impact on their executive and social functioning skills (if we extrapolate from the specific areas impacted in the brain). Obviously, this depends upon the statistical rigor involved in the study's interpretation as well, but I'm not going to comment on that.

As a meta point, this study is another disappointing demonstration of the way in which the media frames legitimate studies and primes scientific discourse. It is excellent research that stands on its own, and a great contribution to neuroscience at that. There is no need to color the results with speculation, which is cleverly couched between actual results in an optimal context. My partner brought this study up with me at dinner last night, as it had already started making the rounds. Naturally, when I asked her for concrete examples of these "improvements" and how they were supported by the study, she couldn't offer any, and was annoyed by my questioning. Not only did the articles do an intellectual disservice to her (and others!) by priming her expectations with illegitimate results, they encouraged a "pre-chewed" version of the study that would not hold up to real challenge or inquiry. I subscribe to Nature (and many of its subjournals), and I absolutely refuse to read scientific literature from secondary sources if I can find the study. But this isn't a reasonable expectation for everyone; in a world where most people aren't going to click through to read a 4 - 20 page study, this sort of coverage diminishes the general public's appreciation of scientific results at best, and encourages dangerous interpretations of legitimate data at worst.

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1. http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nn.445...
>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average of $13.04 per faked view.

Who on earth pays that kind of price to have someone watch their ad video? Serious question.
I made an aquarium for the terminal, written in Python (needs termcolor module to run). It was a project I wrote to help me learn OOP.
It randomly generates a unique aquarium ecosystem every time you run it.
It adjusts to your terminal window size, so you can run it fullscreen or just have a tiny little aquarium off to the side to keep you company while you work!
Try it out, and let me know what you think :)
Run/Schedule stand-alone scripts on a REST endpoint(serverlessly.io)
Show HN: A tiny serverless computing platform for ruby developers. You can Run/Schedule single-purpose ruby scripts on a REST endpoint. I used Redis, Sinatra, Sidekiq to develop the stack, Its running on unicorn & Nginx. Ruby version is 2.3.1p112. Let me know your views on it.
I'm kinda in the same boat.

I want a laptop with Iris Pro 580/p580 and NO dedicated GPU. The 580 has a bit over a TFLOP of compute (plenty for games like DoTA) and more importantly, the drivers don't suck on Linux. The issue is that any laptop that ships with that processor also ships with a crappy dedicated GPU.

When I have a 45w processor, I want to pay a few hundred extra for a 55w Nvidia M2000m that has 10% more compute power (granted, more efficient at GPGPU) and horrible drivers.

What I want:

15.6", i7-6770HQ, 32gb DDR4, M.2 SSD, high-res IPS screen, Thinkpad-grade keyboard, good webcam, decent ports (At least 2x thunderbolt, 3x usb3, SD, 3.5mm, and ethernet), a little thicker for a battery that lasts a couple days, durable build quality, large trackpad with builtin wacom, NO dedicated graphics.

I guess that's too much to ask.
I have surfed through distros, desktop environments and window managers for nearly a year.

My equillibrium point is suckless.org's dwm[0] with all defaults except using Terminus as font and Super(windows) instead of Alt key.
~6 months, no irritation, no configuration change.

Tiling window managers which have extensive configuration options are useful as tinkering material, but not actual working environments. If you want a tiling window manager not for eye appeal and beauty but for simplicity and ease of use, look at r/unixporn/ and use whatever they are not using.

[0]: http://dwm.suckless.org/
Classic TDD or "London School"?
That seems to be the case here. Visiting http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/ from my german IP yields the same result. Unbelievable. Frankly, the whole site looks like a mess to me.
From what i understand, (I could be VERY VERY wrong), Evan idols Steve Jobs (and exclusively uses Apple products). Hence, the iOS app gets insanely well tested and developed while the android app is created because of it's market share (just having an iOS app would not allow Snap to get to where they are today).

All that said, Android (even today) has that uncool vibe to it (generally it's considered a cheaper alternative to a better platform -iOS) and that has not helped either.

FYI all the above are NOT my personal opinions but generalizations based on what I've heard talking to people that are not into tech. (I use a 6P as my daily phone)
Honestly, I keep a spiral notebook.
I hate how the author, a purported CEO, doesn't know the difference between "lost" and "spent". For example, "That means that GitHub lost $27M while generating $95M in revenue."

GitHub spent $27M. To "lose" $27M, they would have had to spent $122M, and subtract their $95M in revenue.

A CEO should know these terms like the back of their hand, and should be more precise with their terminology.
I bought the SP a while ago, before the two monitors. If I had my druthers I'd go with something more powerful. Either a dedicated desktop rig or a beefier laptop
Yes, the wealthy will always find ways to gain an advantage. That doesn't mean society should design the system to given an inherent advantage to them from the start. At least make the system fair and make the wealthy have to find a loophole.
Is anything <your_average_mega_corporation> currently doing not shady ?
That's becoming a really big problem.
sorry, but schools are a lot less important than families.
Petrochemicals are only 4% of the oil market: http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx

If switching to solar from oil would eliminate 96% of our use of fossil fuels, I'm pretty sure those "environmentalists" you refer to would still be happy.

But honestly whenever somebody brings up plastics in a discussion about sustainable energy or climate change I always assume they just like being contrarian.
another bbc link at the bottom of the article: "scientists say baby brain doesn't exist" lol

such bad reporting. i digress. btw, small sample size too -- only 25 women?
That's Uber's claim, but given their behavior over the years, I see no reason to believe them.
I've been using firebug pretty much since it came out. Firebug was an amazing leap forward in web development. I totally understand why its being deprecated but we can all tip our hats for the innovation that it brought. It really can't be understated.

As an aside I always kind of wondered why all browsers started including developer tools by default as they are not of use to 99.9% of users. Maybe because it's just easier than making them optional extensions? Does anyone know about what year this started?
I have "old" one 9550 i7, 4K, 32GB - as a device for this money I wouldn't expect that I will have:

- unaligned Jack socket, so that only one channel plays

- Flickering backlight, where only one rescue is to downgrade BIOS: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/...

- random freezes: Whole computer hangs, there is no error in Windows log, it's not related to nVidia card, it's not related to load.
I think 13.04 would be the CPM, not per view. I'm not sure if that's high or low for video ads, but wanted to stress that number isn't per view. If it was, they would have made slightly more than $5mil. :)
I know for me the big take away for having bootcamp is PowerShell. I work in Office 365, so the modules aren't built to work with it yet, even though there is a working version of PowerShell. Other than that, a couple interactions with Active Directory always cause me problems, so it is easier to just have a Windows Installation hanging out.
Explaining My Configs: ssh client
"Hume, the probability of people inaccurately claiming that they’d seen Jesus’ resurrection far outweighed the probability that the event had occurred in the first place."

Is there any evidence that anyone mentioned in the bible actually ever existed? What is the point of examining the claims of fictional characters about a fictional event?
Show HN: Razorframe – a Node.js module for empowering real-time apps at scale
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Razorframe is a Node.js library for enabling the effective backend scaling of your real-time application. Built on top of Socket.io, Razorframe’s simple server-and client-side API allows you to easily employ the task processing of multiple, parallel Node instances in conjunction with an in-memory queue.

Our team set out to deliver on pushing the impact of real-time web through maximizing backend resources provided by multi-core server systems. By allowing your Node.js server to run on multiple threads and ensuring data consistency through an evented queueing system, Razorframe makes your application’s backend more resilient and performant under duress.

We'd love to get some feedback on Razorframe and ways in which we can make it a better solution for your next Node.js project. Feel free to check us out on GitHub!

Thank you!
> before I start getting responses about this, if your suggestion can be found on Google I already tried it

Not on Google maybe, but still the page that you want: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/new
> It has been known since 1984 that most allocations “die young” i.e. become garbage very soon after being allocated.

1983: A Real-Time Garbage Collector Based on the Lifetimes of Objects, Lieberman/Hewitt

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/GC/Realtime/Realt...

Since objects with short lifetimes account for a large
portion of storage use, it is worth optimizing a garbage
collector to reclaim storage for these objects
more quickly.
10 Amazing Scala Collection Funcitons
Wow that's really cool. I didn't know about this project before. Thanks for the headsup!
> the free content ad network failed to disclose

Interesting they don’t call it a ‘social network’. ‘content ad network’ is more accurate in my opinion.
Nvidia does top down, so 1080 first, 1070, then 1060 on the desktop. Then a few months later on laptops. The 1050 was recently announced for desktops, and is now about to hit laptops. I expect to see many more 1050s, likely a ton will be announced at CES in Jan.
I got told off for diagnosing issues in the past. The IT director is a megalomaniac and interprets it as a challenge to his power. The only time I offer suggestions now is when one of his employees specifically asks me for help.

Edit: I realize "got told off" didn't really capture what happened. I came in early one day and noticed we were having a dns issue. I manually refreshed my DNS cache and it started to work. I sent him an email to let him know that the DNS cache was expired. He told me I was out of line and complained to HR.

I had to go meet with HR, which was pointless since they think he is on a power trip as well. Anyways he added a line to the IT policy that specifically prohibits "performing a diagnosis on the network or any of IT managed systems."
In addition to cost overruns on new plants, estimates on the cost of decommissioning are balooning on the other end.

Sellafield: 2005 estimate: $59 billion. 2015 estimate: $155 billion.

German utilities set aside $45 billion but an additional $26 billion may be needed

The EU estimated recently that funds set aside to cover the cost of decommissioning 16 nuclear plants would fall short by $137 billion.

Source: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/soaring_cost_german_nuclear_shu...
Foldist:file your clothes like books
Foldist is a tool to fold clothes and let the clothes stay folded until we want to wear them.

It is fun and simple to use. It acts like a spine of clothes so different kind of clothes can ‘stand up’ and be organised like books with the help of Foldist. A specific item of clothes can be found easily in this way, the way we look for a book in a library. It’s now on kickstarter. Check it out through the link below:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inventeer/foldist-the-spine-of-your-clothing
> Available with Windows 10

so sad

> Dell Thunderbolt™ Dock | TB16

I wonder if they fixed all the issues? I doubt they didn't.
Man, the only thing I can say against this is that it doesn't have a MagSafe power plug.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. (Andrew S. Tanenbaum in Computer Networks)
I get a cheap thrill out of clicking ads to make people pay.

Trump ad ... click
Comcast ... click
Ambulance chasing lawyer ... click click click

So that would be better than random - a plugin that clicks the ads for things you don't like or aren't interested in.
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I for one am shocked - shocked! - that Snapchat would be the kind of company to be cavalier about this kind of thing.
As someone who is running not a Saas startup but a sideproject sell a fairly popular productivity app which I am making good money on I couldn't agree more.

I would even go as far as to say that your customer support is one of the key differentiators when it comes to establishing your product as a high quality one.

The difference between me helping someone right away and then being a little delayed (it is a side project after all) is huge.

People can have serious issues with the app but as long as you support them they will thank you for your great product.

Other can have less serious problems and if you ignore them too long they can turn really sour.

One thing I also do is ask people I interact with to go write a review about the app if they are happy with the support. That's something most are happy to do as long as you provided them with support and acknowledged their problems.
This is a really weird comment format. It almost suggests a lack of syntax highlighting.

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>more bidding for AdWords, which drove the pricing up there

This situation for the local SMBs that I know is unbearable. They seem to see more viable prices in Facebook, for example, thus reinforcing the trend of moving their presence to social networks. Websites out in the wild seem not to offer any ROI for the dollar spent on adWords.
This sycophantic gladhanding drives me up the wall.

>> ...it does result in truly impressive results from time to time, like the recent AirPods, which are an incredible weaving together of Apple’s hardware and software teams to produce something that works so much better than what came before it’s laughable.

If apple focused on great hardware and software like it did through the 2000s rather than unnecessary, un-asked-for "courage" bloat, people wouldn't be asking these questions in the first place.
Sorry, but my parents were both teachers. Summers are spent planning for next year. This idea that teachers get 1/4 of the year off is total fantasy.
Can you elaborate how the music business is cheating? Are they tampering with the charts?
Use the five whys to get to your value proposition
Well there's https://adnauseam.io/

Sends a click to everything blocked in uBlock Origin.
One issue would be the webcam placement, it's below the screen.
If you get the XPS 13 don't make the same mistake I've made, don't waste your money on this POS http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk...
Linux support is very bad, it uses a proprietary technology. Get a USB-C to HDMI adapter instead.
> By the way, why do you think wealthier people shouldn't get more advantages in life?

Sure, let wealthy ADULTS have more advantages. However, children have no say in their circumstances, so I do think it is right to at least give CHILDREN equal opportunity and resources.
I use putty. Haven't found a compelling reason to use anything else yet.
The article has since been updated, now it mentions $13.04 per 1000 views:

>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views.
Ah yes, that does make sense. I guess it wouldn't be very lucrative to sell non-working electronics components. But consumer things that are just way worse quality than expected (or just not caring about manufacturing defects) could probably turn a nice profit :(
Maybe because it's only coming out in january.
A generational GC is way more efficient than `std::shared_ptr`. `std::shared_ptr` is implementing a reference counting garbage collection, which is like the most inefficient way of implementing a GC.

FYI:
- Allocating memory in a generational GC is as fast as allocating something on the stack. It's basically changing the value in a register. It's order of magnitude faster than calling `malloc()`.
- A generational garbage collection is slower than freeing a stack frame, but has a lower per item overhead than calling `free()`.

tl;dr: for most programs, generational GCs are the fastest at allocating dynamic memory.
This actually exists. I tried it out in a separate browser profile for a while, seems to work well, but I've since gone back to ublock origin.

https://adnauseam.io/
Is that the biggest? From 'the past' I believe (but no proof) that the fraud on normal display ads was/is much higher. Bot generated ad clicks, bot generated content to drive up ad prices etc should be much higher than $5m even by individual hacker groups? Maybe video ad clicks are easier to fake but worth less?
However, if I put my business hat on and am preparing to bid on a project, I find myself without a strong argument for favoring RISC-V instead of ARM or MIPS.

I think I agree with you on that. It is still early days for RISC-V and it would be a big risk to use the core in an SoC now. Every time I take a look at it as an SoC engineer I see a lot of work that needs doing to integrate it.

- Basically you would be using a heap of dev tools that you never touched before.

- The bus is something called TileLink which is their own protocol so all your peripherals have to be compatible or wrappers have to be made.

- Verification IP seems minimal and not SystemVerilog so you'd have to write it all yourself.

- Your SW guys would need a good emulator. Don't know if theirs is any good.

Other posts are going on about features but if I think about how much SoC work would be required I question whether it is cheaper than ARM or MIPS.
> But what I value in a computer just doesn't align with the value that premium ultra-thin laptops provide.

It's not about being ultra-thin as much as the quality and experience of macOS over anything else.