skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their website:

"Consumer Reports tests hundreds of laptops each year, using identical procedures in highly controlled conditions.

For the battery test, we download a series of 10 web pages sequentially, starting with the battery fully charged, and ending when the laptop shuts down. The web pages are stored on a server in our lab, and transmitted over a WiFi network set up specifically for this purpose. We conduct our battery tests using the computer’s default browser—Safari, in the case of the MacBook Pro laptops.

During the tests, we set each laptop screen to remain on. We use an external meter to set the display brightness to 100 nits—a typical level you might use indoors or out. And, we turn off any automatic brightness adjustment in the laptop’s settings."

While not explicit, it does seem to imply that they conduct the same test multiple times.
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Some are close enough that they're believed to have inspired the xenomorphs directly

http://www.livescience.com/43076-meet-phronima-the-barrel-ri...
Well, you've got to get some benefit out of older siblings...
They say at the end of the test they use Safari, but got much better results with Chrome:

"Once our official testing was done, we experimented by conducting the same battery tests using a Chrome browser, rather than Safari. For this exercise, we ran two trials on each of the laptops, and found battery life to be consistently high on all six runs. That’s not enough data for us to draw a conclusion, and in any case a test using Chrome wouldn’t affect our ratings, since we only use the default browser to calculate our scores for all laptops. But it’s something that a MacBook Pro owner might choose to try."
Here comes type hinting.

> PEP 484 introduced the standard for type annotations of function parameters, a.k.a. type hints. This PEP adds syntax to Python for annotating the types of variables including class variables and instance variables:

primes: List[int] = []

captain: str # Note: no initial value!

class Starship:
stats: Dict[str, int] = {}
Nice. I really like the look of f-strings as well. All the power of str.format() with none of the verbosity.

>>> name = "Fred"

>>> f"He said his name is {name}."

'He said his name is Fred.'
Darpa seeks to expand wireless underground
The thing is, that you're incredibly successful. You live life the way you want it and have the freedom to decide what you want to spend your time on. This, for me, is success.
Nice theory, but not true. You're allowed to use your GSM phone the second you land, but there is still plenty of critical communication to be done, like negotiating crossing other active runways while taxiing. 100% of runway incursions happen on the ground!
I'm not really a fan of Mac's, but I don't think too much weight should be put on this. Everything that Apple delivers is greeted with negative reports, and yet it turns out to be successful.

Also... i've never even heard of "Consumer Reports" before.. but the name is pretty subjective.
Also, don't greet your friend Jack.
Hmmm. I'm curious. Alpine Linux 3.5.0 just came out, so I wonder - how long will it take for this to be shipped with the next release?

(I maintain https://github.com/rcarmo/alpine-python, which saves me hours and hours of deployment time)
Salesforce is a pain in the arse to deal with. I would be surprised if its the worst, but it makes easy stuff far more difficult than necessary.
Read from the orginal source[1]. They do their laptop tests with default browser, Safari, and got those highly variable results. They then did tests with Chrome and got more consistent results (but still lower than Apple's promised estimates)

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/laptops/macbook-pros-fail-to-...
> Semi-related, if you made a giant brainlike calculator out of water pipes and valves and shit, and asked it a question, then turned all its pipes and valves for a while... it would probably just say "please kill me."

Um why? Most humans don't do that.
This is where it gets more bizarre. They did not use Chrome. According to their website: "We conduct our battery tests using the computer’s default browser—Safari, in the case of the MacBook Pro laptops."

They proceed to find serious aberrations with battery life under Safari.

Then they say, "Once our official testing was done, we experimented by conducting the same battery tests using a Chrome browser, rather than Safari. For this exercise, we ran two trials on each of the laptops, and found battery life to be consistently high on all six runs."

Chrome giving much better battery results than Safari? That is unheard of. It's not a software issue either. I can confirm that with the latest Chrome my Air runs for about a third of the time that it runs with the latest Safari(I have the most recent Sierra).

So this makes very little sense.
How so? Mobile chips are based on the same architecture, aren't they?

They often lag behind or are cut down (fewer pipelines, lower clocks) for lower power consumption, but they aren't entirely different designs as far as I can tell.
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My year with Elixir
If you mean, what stops an AI from locking humanity into a virtual reality simulation and using its collective body heat as fuel - simple thermodynamics.

The Matrix of the original film was originally envisioned as a bootstrap AI, in which the machines were farming humans for their collective processing power - and the simulation that was the Matrix was integral to this purpose, as it served as an operating system for the imprisoned human minds. However, the film's backers felt that concept was too complex for the average moviegoer, and forced the change to "humans = batteries."

But, the canonical Matrix would be too inefficient to actually work. The amount of energy needed to maintain a human being over the course of an entire lifetime far surpasses the amount of energy that can be harvested as body heat - and adding some kind VR simulation over that just to keep people who are already physically trapped from "escaping" would just a pointless waste of resources.
Carrefour is not the only shop here to have introduced it, I have seen it in Match as well (in Leuven).
The smaller shops of Carrefour, the "express shops" don't have it iether, so not all stores of carrefour do, but then again they are smaller shops and there usually are not _that_ much people.

Colruyt, aldi and lidl might consider the expense of the machine + people to do the random inspection as a cost they do not want, as they do aim to keep the price as low as possible. Wether you pay people to sit at a checkout or wait to check other people, the amount of money you might end up saving might have been considered not significant.
(Approx) pricing is now a column/filter! :)
Alpine has (usually) 6 month long development cycles.
It's possible that the brain is a huge tangled mess of rules and special cases that we will never be able to fully understand and reproduce.

It doesn't seem possible. Our brain, like the rest of our bodies, develops from a single cell. It's DNA (maybe also some other markers) that directs the differentiation of every part. So DNA is where the blueprints of that huge mess would be.

I believe that self-organization is a better way to explain how mind emerges. There's a basic try and error mechanism with strong rewards. The rest is the result of a life of learning.
(You didn't)
PerfectScript from WordPerfect 5
Ideas themselves should not be overrated. People often think the main part of building a successful product is having the right idea, and expect some form of compensation for submitting a good one. But as a matter of fact, if there is a problem to solve, many others have probably had similar ideas and the difference will be made in their implementations.

So the "compensation" of ideas with other ideas like here seems perfectly reasonable to me and should not be extended or gamified any further.
I found libtool extremely painful to work with; it will hide your compiled libs in a hidden subdir, will wrap your compiled executable in a fscking shell script that then calls your real binary, it's unable to isolate a build against libs that may or may not be installed on your build system etc. Yet for all magic it does, libtool still doesn't solve the problem of building for a PREFIX (eg. /usr/local) in a temporary directory, and you need a chroot-jail or something for that.

From the libtool manual ([1]):

Currently it is not generally possible to install into a temporary
staging area that contains needed third-party libraries that are not
yet visible at their final location.

So to build against a shared lib provided by another package, that other package has to be installed at the final destination already.

I seriously considered going back to just static libraries at some point. I believe the build system of git does away with autotools alltogether, consisting of just a simple Makefile.

Also, a link to phk's libtool rant seems apt here ([2]).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Instal...

[2]: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257&ref=fullrss

Edit: typo; make links work
Twitter has become what comment section at Yahoo News once was, which ultimately what YouTube became.
The crowd has just shifted over to Twitter now. Nothing anywhere is any different, when it comes to unmonitored platforms.
13 things you need to know about React
It sounds like a bug in Safari causing the cpu to kill the battery. Possibly a race condition since it's random. Guessing this will be fixed in an OS X update shortly.
I've been a happy Mac user since 2006, it's been great. Cypher was right. He should have taken the Blue pill!
I wrote it in so nice way. I'm usually more harsh to people.

Deciding not to have kids because it's too much of an effort is so selfish act. You're throwing away all the effort your ancestors put in to get to the point of you being alive.
Revolutionary.
There's a huge difference between https://www.coop.se/PageFiles/4406/toppbild-ShopExpress.jpg and http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/11... .

With the handheld ones (first picture) you just scan the products and put them into your bag when you pick them up at the store aisle. To pay, scan a special barcode at the checkout and put your card into the machine.

No need to rebag your stuff, shows you your current total to pay at all times, and it's simple enough that I've never seen it out of order. Oh, and there's no risk of getting stuck behind that family that apparently wants to get the whole year's food shopping out of the way.
Anybody knows what´s the state of python 3 right now? I mean, are there popular libraries and frameworks that still uses python 2?

Or this is no longer an issue?
Philips is offering the Lumify at $199/mo https://www.lumify.philips.com/web/

The device is used with a mobile and is portable anywhere. I found it has an excellent value-proposition and potentially revolutionizing the space
There is no disconnect for those drone pilots, who become as troubled as anyone who killed someone with a lesser distance between.
They could do both? Offer the separate parts in an easy-to-use way, and have the bundle re-use those parts.
Just discovered my fist wordprocessor had some kind of scripting inside...

... because you're talking about that Wordperfect 5.0 with blue screen on a text terminal, right?

I knew you could do some mail merge stuff, but nothing more.

Thanks!
I've had mine for a week now, and have been able to use it alongside my late-2014 rMBP, which has been a solid workhorse. I'm starting to notice very subtle preferences for the 2017 model creeping in - after an hour of typing, for example, going back to the old keyboard feels really, really inefficient and antiquated, and my typing rate is lower than on the new rMBP.

I also really enjoy the Touchbar - it hasn't been too intrusive, and binding ESCAPE to Caps Lock has been an acceptable re-configuration for me as a vim user.

Speed: okay, it seems slightly faster than the old machine, but then the old machine is 95% full while new-rMBP is not even 5% full yet, so .. no indexing hassles. (old-rMBP would often become unusable during Spotlight re-indexing..)

All in all, I'm happy with the upgrade - but with one huge big fat caveat: I didn't buy it. My work did. If it weren't for this fact, I'd be very reluctant to upgrade..
Most of the really small stuff is written bare-metal in C or assembler. E.g. http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/PIC10F200 : 384 bytes of code space, 16 bytes of RAM. More constrained than the Atari 2600.

$0.31 each, available in 2mm x 3mm packages.
I'm guessing he meant Quake 2. He mentions x86 and [DEC] Alpha. Did a Q3 port to the Alpha even exist?

>> The main FP work I did on that thing on the
alpha improved the framerate by about 50% on alpha - FP was _that_ critical for it.
By 'rape' do you mean she had sex outside a legitimate marriage? If so, she is guilty of prostitution or adultery or illicit sex. There is of course no such thing as marital rape. For rape to be proven there must be multiple adult male witnesses who will testify. The penalty for 'lying' about being raped is a year in jail.
And the penalty for abortion is death.
If cash-out is around latest valuation, weird terms will only change the $ amount by <10% or so.

If cash-out is less than the latest valuation, then it starts mattering. At ~40-50% of latest valuation, common shares can end up effectively worthless, for example Good Technologies.
From the study,

> Both IQ and personality remain as important predictors in wage equations when both are included in a regression
3D letters .js experiment
If you believed the hype your toaster oven would have exploded on Y2K because it had a clock on the front.

A lot of work went into fixing the real problems but there also was a lot of fuss about nothing.
Shit. The older I get the more I realise I may have missed or misinterpreted cues. I've started wondering if I am on the spectrum.
Dropping Python 2 in 2017
What if you claim to not have any account, or refuse to provide it? Does it default to "terrorist"?

Also, I think there would be a better solution: Just give travelers a form with one question.

Are you a terrorist?

[yes (default)] [no]
I get the feeling that not many people in this thread actually know how AI and related concepts work.
Bitcoin Nearing All Time High in Canada
With our current push towards solar and wireless, don't you think these particular circuit breaker paths against a rogue AI are going to be unavailable sooner than later?

Antennas and solar panels can be smashed, but they can also be protected, since they would be mostly concentrated in one area.

Throw in EMP hardened circuitry, and things get a bit harder to destroy.
Moving Out from Our Last Data Center
The amount of pain you'll experience is dependent on your area of work. E.g. web-dev, systems, science.

Most certainly use Python3 for any new projects.

Here's a quick overview of the most popular PyPI packages and their support for Python 3: http://py3readiness.org/
I'm sure it's intentional they don't have a term for that.

If there's no name for it, you can't accidentally name it.
According to the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers[1], almost every commonly-used library has adopted 3. Now the problem is getting people to realize that... I was talking with someone just a month ago who said that there were no numeric processing libraries on 3 and so they couldn't switch.

[1]: https://python3wos.appspot.com/
Wow. I remember using tiddlywiki _long_ time ago for documenting a project without any kind of backend database.

Thanks for remembering that software. I will look what can I do today with it.
Consumer Reports has been around since 1936, worth checking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports
I flew from UK to Germany and back on Ryanair last month. No announcements about the Note 7.
Thanks! Am building out more stuff & would love to hear your take. My email is in profile, would shoot you an email but don't see your contact info?
Agreed, when I read they got longer results with chrome I did a double take. It's never even been close in my experience so clearly they screwed something up in safari.
Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) #28: Debian update mechanism vulnerability
Wise decision. Don't even visit the gulf states if you've ever worked for someone there and something went wrong, even if you weren't at fault and the work was done elsewhere. You have no rights in their system.
That was pretty much what I found while I was using grocery delivery (Peapod) because I was on crutches. This was a while back and there are generally more options today (though not where I live fr the most part). I'd get substitutions I didn't care for and random common items I absolutely needed for a recipe would be out of stock.

I could imagine using a reliable service again but, so long as driving to the store and shopping is straightforward, ordering online for delivery isn't something I really need.
> The study found that grades and achievement-test results were markedly better predictors of adult success than raw IQ scores. That might seem surprising -- after all, don’t they all measure the same thing? Not quite. Grades reflect not just intelligence but also what Heckman calls “non-cognitive skills,” such as perseverance, good study habits and the ability to collaborate [emphasis by me] -- in other words, conscientiousness.

I would consider myself as quite conscientious - but working together with people who have less of this trait always ends/ended in a tragedy. So I would rather assume that there are also reasons for the hypothesis that conscientiousness rather hinders your ability to collaborate.

> University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth found that IQ scores also reflected test-takers’ motivation and effort. Diligent, motivated kids will work harder to answer tough questions than equally intelligent but lazier ones.

When I was at school I took multiple IQ tests (I don't know what their exact scores were, but they were really high). At that time I found the problems in the IQ test really exciting. A few years ago I had to solve some "logic puzzles" (what image in a 3x3 or 4x4 box with one missing fits by the hidden rules). 15 years ago I would have considered them as really easy (though "formally" they were not). I would say that since I finished studying mathematics, I find these puzzles much harder. Did studying mathematics make me worse in logic? Surely not (quite the opposite). Did studying mathematics make me worse in solving "logic puzzles" in IQ tests? I'm very sure it did.
A counterargument would be that it's harder for a big government to change direction easily, once decided and set in motion. Wrong decisions can compound because it's easier for a large organization to stay its course, even in the face of increasing harm, as evident by the Vietnam war.
This is still a regular supermarket with cashiers. Your can either :

- leave your trolley to the shipping service and pay everything when your are shipped.

- leave your trolley, pay everything there pick any item your want and be shipped the rest later. (Depending on the crowd, there will likely be checkout line)

- go to the cashier (or an automatic machine), pay there and bring your stuff home yourself. (Checkout line here also)
Unfortunately, as someone who has lived in many, many places, this is true. People are socializing everywhere and if you're lonely where you are, you will probably be lonely anywhere. Unless you're flamboyantly gay in Aleppo, or something, moving probably won't affect your ability to socialize too much.
I was wondering how the new `datetime.fold` attribute would avoid breaking old code. From looking at the full PEP, it appears that there are new fold-aware tzdatas that you have to choose to use.
god, you must be young :-)
The only store in Bumfuck doesn't operate a giant online marketplace and therefore is very unlikely to refuse to serve me because of a computer glitch, or because someone somewhere hacked my account, or because I changed the username on my Kindle (https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/5gvgdl/using_a_amaz...)

In any case I can always walk up to the manager at Bumfuck General Store and resolve any disagreement we might have, simply by... talking. Also, said manager is in charge, he can make decisions and reverse previous decisions.

Amazon employees aren't in charge of anything, the system is. They can read what's on their screen, and press a few buttons on screens that have choices, and that's it.

The problem with automation isn't only that robots are displacing humans, but that at the same time it's changing humans into robots (dumb ones).
The funny thing is, Snowden had no intention of going to Russia. So here you have a contractor who worked for the CIA and the NSA, and is clever enough to get a huge collection of documents out of the NSA and fly to Hong-Kong without anybody noticing.

And then you force that guy to go to Russia and be debriefed there.

Monumentally stupid doesn't even begin to describe that strategy.
Also, IQ tests become less accurate in the outer deviations. Just about impossible to test for a difference between 140 to 150 IQ, or 60 to 70. How much sleep a person got and their diet can change a brain's plasticity by more than that number of points.

IQ tests aren't a great measure of plasticity in the first place - they're just the best thing we have to measure on a wide scale. Plasticity is a far more personal attribute. Many IQ tests just repeat the same problems, and a person can improve their score without really learning anything but how to take an IQ test.

Throw someone something entirely new and you may get real insight into their mental plasticity.
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Show HN: Virtual “stress-o-meter” to stay calm and carry on
OK, I did a better search and found something relevant in the fricken Matrix FAQ:

* https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#i-installed-riot-via...

>I installed Riot via F-Droid, why is it draining my battery?

>The F-Droid release of Riot does not use Google Cloud Messaging. This allows users that do not have or want Google Services installed to use Riot.

>The drawback is that Riot has to pull for new messages, which can drain your battery. To counter this, you can change the delay between polls in the settings. Higher delay means better battery life (but may delay receiving messages). You can also disable the background sync entirely (which means that you won’t get any notifications at all).

>If you don’t mind using Google Services, you might be better off installing the Google Play store version.
Great; thanks, will add it to the reading list. I took a statistics course this past summer, but it was poorly taught and used Minitab as a package. Hopefully self-study with this text will be better.
A "luminotherapy" app
>Remember when the idea that the NSA was recording everyone's emails was paranoid conspiracy theory talk

No, I remember the time that we'd known there were various signal intelligence programs operated by the US government for decades, and it was just a matter of guessing what the next and biggest one would be.
The difference is that AI might have an "intent". It may be just a statistical contraption married to some descendent of a heat seeking missile sensor, but from the outside it will look like "intent". Perhaps even without the double quotes.
I think this is what you are referring to: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Mobile chips are whatever architecture the manufacturer has implemented underneath. There's a bunch of them - Mali, Broadcom, IMX et al - and they're famous for ignoring the industry standards. Just how badly is something you find out for yourself when trying to write GL applications on embedded devices.
The real danger of ai is that they allow people to hide ethically dubious decisions that they've made behind algorithms. You plug some data into a system and a decision gets made and everyone just sort of shrugs their shoulders and doesn't question it.