skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MagSafe saved the brand "new" 15" MacBook Pro I bought last week, twice. Once when the young nephew grabbed the wire curious gently tugging it. Another when my mother hit the charger with her foot and sent it flying across the room. As well with the second case it also entirely prevented my mother from taking a nasty fall from tripping.

For those that it is useful for it is a big deal.
While beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, they have a very complex social behavior. If anything, their intelligence seems to be vastly underestimated. So, in my eyes, there is lots to like about them and they are one of my favorite animals.
Society's tolerance for crime is bizarrely irrational. There will be about 800 murders in Chicago this year -- yawn.

Now imagine if 800 Chicagoans were killed by radiation leaks from a nuclear plant. "Well, you can't have electricity without plutonium. Do you want to turn everyone's lights off?" Or if 800 African-Americans were lynched Emmett Till style by KKK thugs. "Regrettable, but what are you going to do? And don't white people have legitimate complaints?"

Even murder rates can be fudged -- turn the homicide into a "death investigation":

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-...

Another point to keep in mind when you see these too-good-to-be-true stories is that criminal subcultures are actually quite conservative. When laws and policies change, it takes time for people to collectively figure out what they can get away with. This makes crime rates a lagging indicator -- we're still experiencing the positive effects of the crime crackdown of the '90s, not just in incarceration rates but in cultural behavior.

The mid-'60s were another period when social scientists realized that punishment was a medieval anachronism. It took 10-20 years to see the full effects of these policies, and another 10 for the political backlash to get started. It seems like we're due for another round of this pendulum.
Minimum Wages Set to Increase in Many States in 2017
You didn't read my whole comment, then. "But it's another little device to pack and charge."
When city retirement pays better than the job
Those contract clauses are more or less standard fare. I've had several contracts like that, including at startups.

If you have significant commercial interests that require time commitment aside from your day job, you should talk about them with your prospective employer beforehand.
Haha, yeah, I get you. It's probably because I don't like spending more time than necessary when it comes to studying. I'm a really heavy procrastinator otherwise.
Good point. My trouble with the display isn't so much brightness but contrast and color range. I can attribute that partially to the touch layer, but, in all honesty, I just find it an eyesore in general.

I use the same wallpapers on my Mac and Windows machines (a set of coloured trianglify patterns), and EVERYTHING looks so much nicer on the Mac that it's just sad.
Thats my point, it doesn't exist, but for arbitrary reasons. The RAM chips in an Alienware 13 aren't more or larger than in the X1 Carbon, its just that they opt-to not offering this. The Intel i7-7500U is capable of driving 32gb, so there's no limit there, even if I would have to compromise on the quadcore.

But the Thermal Restrictions of the quadcore are imo manageable aswell, as they only have to dissipate about 20W of heat more at peak. The Alienware 13 mostly needs the additional cooling performance for its beefy graphics processor, which is not necessary for most dev use-cases.

The smallest T-Series that would fit the bill is the 14 inch ThinkPad T470. For some reason i cannot fathom the T470s only supports up to 24gb of ram, as per their press release.

The T470 is needlessly heavy, has more ports than I need and is larger than I want.

13 inch is my personal maximum, i'd rather have something between 10-12 inch. I'm lovin the dimensions of my Surface Pro 2, i just need something with a quad-core and more ram. I can compromise at the quadcore, but it boggles the mind that theres nothing below 14inch with 32gb. The Alienware 13 is the only machine that currently fits the bill, but that graphics chip and ridiculous chassis makes it unnecessary heavy.
Let humanity fester and "sperm is in the air" (Zweig). I'd move to the next one in a heart-beat.
Same experience. Everything works great except for Bluetooth
IIRC, this was still before the IPO, so FB shares were much less liquid.
Yes at some companies you start as a member of the union as a junior employee (even if you're an engineer or finance person), and after you're promoted to a certain level, you're part of management and are no longer part of the union.
> If you’re thinking of working remote, then think about what kind of working environment you’re happiest with before you take the job, and make sure you’ll have that environment available to you.

Seems to me that the best part of remote working is the ability to figure out what the best environment is for you. Don't be a theorist, be an experimentalist: try a bunch of different situations and see what you like best. It sounds like the author started down this path, but stopped too soon (at first).

> Are you sad when a lot of your office is out sick, or are you relieved?

Usually relieved, then I wonder why I bothered with an hour of driving to sit in the office by myself, when I could have done that from home.

> Do you get uncomfortable when you’re in quiet environments for too long, or do you revel in them?

Love quiet! My office at work has no windows (not even internal ones); being able to close the door and cut off the outside world is the best!

> Do you feel weirdly lonely when you’re in a noisy coffee shop, or do you feel energized?

Annoyed by the noise mostly. Coffee shops are for getting coffee and getting out. Libraries are way better for actual work, IMO.
What will happen to the people who hunt/trade ivory. Specifically, those who live in villages and depend on it as a source of income. Will there be assistance to wean them off elephant hunting.

I hope they get new skills and do not poach other animals.
Yeah, that's definitely a thing as well. I wasn't terribly precise in how I worded things. I was getting at something like "given that going to a nice kindergarten causes better life outcomes than going to a shitty kindergarten, there's two mechanisms that explain that causal link."
... and apparently one of the most effective strategies was using Yao Ming and Jackie Chan as spokespeople against shark fin consumption!
How does iOS compare to Android these days regarding everyday concerns like sluggishness, app switching, text editing?
I built a betting platform for a niche esports game and had moderate success with it.
Mostly word of mouth, but it was a small dying tight-knit community desperate to attract knew players so it wasn't hard to get everyone interested.

EDIT: Working on a product for a community I was part of was definitely what helped me succeed. I worked on the problem I was familiar with, and I received a lot feedback and support from other people. It also helped me stay motivated. :)
Well that and they are rapidly aging which doesn't bode well for any economy.
I just keep mine connected to my headphones, since I use them more with my iPhone than a computer. Also someone made a cool keychain to attach it to if that works better for you. [1]

> expensive spare dongles

They're only $10 USD.

[1] https://uncourage.com/
The contents of the email contain an argument against this approach.
Read my other comment on this thread. I find that the pros vastly outweigh the cons, and I've been doing phone tethering in earnest since Ericsson shipped their first decent 2G phone with a data modem (the SH-888), back in 1998. :)
Few open grasslands would exist but for some of the large herbivores. The north American prairie was largely created by buffalos.
If you are seen as being "Japanese" you are expected to conform. If you are seen as a foreigner, you get a pass.

If you ever find yourself working in Japan, use your foreignness to an advantage!
Difference between 6s and 6 were also small and so are the differences between a Samsung Galaxy S7 and a S6, for example. I'd venture that is very rare these days to have a phone that justifies buying the immediate next generation one. Phones are mature enough. Good ones are really well built and will last a couple generations just fine.

As long as this is an industry-wide problem, Apple has nothing to fear. It would be a problem IF people who have waited three years to change their iPhone decide to go for a different brand.
Lost my original HN account for similar reasons. Alas there will be no recovery.
I remember the day Mr. T convinced me not to do drugs.
FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report: A Fatally Flawed Effort
Ivory and tusks, rhino horn, pangolin scales, tiger penis, tiger pelts, tiger paws, turtle shells, shark fins, the list goes on and on and on... a trip to a generic street market in China and you can find endangered animal species parts being sold openly for shockingly cheap.

How about banning any and all animal products involved in the quackery "medicine" trade or ludicrous edible "delicacy" which are the driving force behind the problem to begin with?
I'm pretty happy with this one: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Noteboo...

Especially because it is aluminium an Linux just works on it.
I like your website. Good idea with the screenshots, especially the one on the first screen, immediately got me interested in learning more about your product.
I will give it a try and see if it works for me better than Postman.
Yes, there are cities where the existing structure works for bikes safely. In my city (Los Angeles), there is simply no way to get anywhere without going on streets with cars.
> Humans are not bears. A large number of people have essentially unlimited access to food, and yet done reproduce en masse. I expect, though I haven't looked, that birth rates would actually inversely correlated with wealth.

You should look, then. Wealth is positively correlated with fertility.

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1692/2015...

What's inversely correlated with fertility is education, but fertility declines with rising education only because parents realize it is advantageous to spend more resources per child.

> Evidence suggests that in developed economies, people do precisely the opposite.

That's because you're arguing from a false premise. Perceptively, then, maybe things are not as good as you would think (especially not as good as people in the SV developer bubble think), otherwise people would multiply at a much higher rate. I implore you to do some actual math to see how much one needs to earn to be able to have kids above the replacement rate (so, around 2.2), without receiving any government assistance (thus entering a poverty trap) and where that earning rate resides relative to the median household income in the US right now.

The results may surprise you.

> A preposterous non sequitur, given that it's quite possible to imagine ways to eliminate poverty without reverting to totalitarianism.

One great way to eliminate poverty is to keep redefining the poverty line until there are no longer people in poverty! And it's completely totalitarianism-free.
>I actually tend to use Bing. hides

I would find more appropriate in the context ducks ...
I tried quite a few routers and if you are on a budget (or simply aren't fussed on giving $200+ for a router which is entirely fair) I found that the Asus RT-N18U is a fantastic device for the money. I attached my printer and external HDD to it and had almost no problems. The UI is better than most other vendors (Eero and Ubiquiti are still kings though) and on top of that they have a very decent mobile app as well.

As for Apple, I actually wanted to start investing myself in their ecosystem but as you very eloquently put it -- it seems the businessmen took over and things just go worse and worse with time. :(
They need to go further and ban any and all exotic animal trade for the quackery medicine and delicacy markets.
One of my interview questions as a new grad was "are you going to work here until retirement?" ;)
I haven't bought a new phone since they stopped the practice of subsidizing a new phone purchase every 2 years. I can't understand how they wouldn't expect that to have killed sales. I had been buying a new phone every 2 years but now I have no plans to buy one until I absolutely need to.
You make an intresting point about the stats. Can you expand on the backing off part, though?

And the question I would ask is, "what should have been done to prevent this spiraling into a life of crime, and why wasn't it?"
Critiques of the DHS and FBI’s Grizzly Steppe Report
Having an exhaustively thorough scope of all elective offices, rather than the most-sought subset, magnifies the task tenfold or more, especially if that data isn't already available to them in their existing sources. Such critiques strike me as unduly harsh.
This is like saying, in response to a crackdown on mugging, "I hope the muggers get the assistance they need to get new skills and not move on to other crimes."

I'd prefer if the poachers actually all got arrested, and got new skills breaking big rocks into smaller rocks.
Getting a girlfriend who also works at home may be hard, but it can fix most of this problem. I liked working while my girlfriend was working at the same time...with some fun interruptions.
Well if you're a Python person, Django is amazing, and if you're a golang person Gin Gonic is amazing. Not everything webapp is Rails, although Rails is wonderful for prototypes. The only two very large rails sites I was ever consciously aware of were Twitter (now all java) and Groupon (now mostly node).
Poor Indians lack a lot of things that people in the developed world take for granted: sanitary water and sewage infrastructure, toilets, electrical infrastructure, lighting, refrigerators, washing machines, clean heat sources for cooking... All of these things can, in principle, be manufactured by AI instead of by human labor. The Indian government currently aids the rural poor by providing (e.g.) water pumps and electricity to farmers below cost. In the future the Indian government could import AI systems to build pumps and solar panels faster, better, and cheaper than human labor, thereby accelerating the provision of useful goods to low-income Indians.

The main purpose of a refrigerator factory isn't to provide people with jobs, it's to provide them with refrigerators. If manufacturing goods becomes a lot easier and faster due to AI, that's going to raise India's material standard of living faster than if manufacturing still required a lot of human labor. Poor agricultural workers can skip over that whole generation-or-two process of leaving their villages for the city to work in export-driven factories starting from the low end of economic value. They can just enjoy the latest and greatest output from AI systems (assuming that their government cares at least a little about them, and I think India's government clears that low bar). In countries that industrialized in the past a lot of rural-laborers-turned-factory-workers preferred the landscapes and social ties of the countryside and only came to urban factories because of desperate poverty. If low-income nations have a chance to raise the material standard of living for the rural poor without mass migration to cities, because AI means you can provide abundant goods with very little human labor, that's a blessing for the global poor, not a curse.

You might as well mourn for all the economy-growing switchboard operator jobs that low-income nations are being deprived of by going straight from "no rural telephone service" to "automated cellular networks for rural telephone service." Why don't they first wire the countryside for landline service and employ humans to manually connect calls, following a strict historical reproduction of the USA's development path? Because a strict historical imitation of the USA's development would slow rather than accelerate the overall process of raising the standard of living, that's why!
Well I already interviewed some people and I tought wow, they didn't programmed a lot during their studies.
And I actually tried to study, but it was more like 10-20% science and the rest around business, that's why I canacled it after a year.
Well I know a lot of smart people already and their were pretty smart directly after their graduation, but somehow I already seen a lot of people who just graduated and have no idea what they are doing.

I actually think that's the people I compared myself with and I know that this is maybe not the best idea.
(I already had some people that wanted to hire me, but they wouldn't have paid me 60k (the highest was like 45k-50k or so and some didn't even written what they offer but probably not more than 45k.) or more and it would've involved moving and that's what I didn't wanted, at that time)
Thinkpads T have a huge range of specs.

For any reference, there are hundreds of sub-references with different combinations of hardware.
1) Users do not know how to tell a good search engine from a bad one. There has been a lot of research on this, and it has been shown in many different ways. Here is one paper that is ranked highly by google scholar. It shows users cannot reliably tell a good result ordering from a bad one -- the result presentation is more important than the ordering. Other research has used more sophisticated techniques than "ask the user" to show that there are, indeed, "good" and "bad" orderings.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20941/full

2) There is at least one ddg developer here (not me), and HN is generally a good source of constructive feedback for startups. Maybe the original commenter's query string would help ddg or a competitor improve their product.
Doubt they withdrew after having undesired working conditions. Many just do not actively seek jobs.
I used to work in software training. We charged $4k/day as a base rate. Travel was charged separately. Most contracts were M-F. That's $20k/week, and that doesn't count that your employees weren't doing their jobs for that week, they were learning stuff. Also, literally our entire curriculum was open source, so it's not like that was secret sauce.

Yeah, it's not the exact skills you're talking about, but it's similar.

I guess I'm also confused about "I don't believe any of them would pay $30k a week for" vs "I could very easily see a company hiring someone for a $30k contract to do those things". Isn't hiring someone on a contract to do these things for a week consulting?
What did those crows ever do to you.
I find this very inspiring, because it seems like he's not necessarily a genius but just worked really hard and didn't give up. Also, he was in his late fifties when he published his proof, going against the commonly held belief that mathematicians do their best work before 40.

[edit:] Peter Sarnak from Princeton does call him a genius. When you read about him online, you actually find several other people who have known/worked with him to call him that as well. So I guess I was wrong.

> Why did you solve this problem and not somebody else?

> I think the important reason is that I persisted for several years. I didn’t give up.

> How long did you work on your conjecture?

> I worked on my conjecture for four years. I worked on it seven days a week. I didn’t take any breaks almost. If we count the time I spent thinking about the problem, then it was more than 10 hours a day. If you count sitting in front of a desk or using a computer, then it was five or six hours a day.
Thanks. That's a very underpowered machine (dual-core, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, integrated graphics), though. I neglected to say that I'm looking for a MBP 15'' alternative.
> I pull out my iPhone 4S running iOS 6

Does iOS still spam you multiple times per day to "upgrade" to the latest version of iOS? That sort of constant nagging has me seriously thinking of ditching Apple products entirely.
Or maybe they're building smaller, useful, and profitable companies and don't need to be the next Google or Facebook?
What it's actually being on Shark Tank and doing a deal
huh, it looks like he might be under the mistaken impression that he's actually pouring it into small airplanes, as was I after reading the article.
Only $10??? That is a lot of money for something that shouldn't be needed in the first place. I haven't spent $10 dollars on my phone since I bought a case for it in 2013. Then again, I have expandable memory and a headphone jack (Galaxy Note 3).
I'm guessing iPhone 8 will be a enough significant design change to maintain sales.

However we are getting to the point with smartphones like we did with PC's ten years ago where they just became "good enough" for everyday use so the constant upgrades were less necessary for normal use.
What flavor do you use? any driver trouble?
It's working. I just changed the "@" sign to avoid spam bots.
You're supposed to go to the Surface Book line. And there's a Pro 4 model with 16GB of RAM and an 1TB SSD.
What's an "off day"?
Uh, only unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County (and those few cities who subcontract law enforcement to the county, like Cupertino) fall under Smith's direct purview. Like most cities, Sunnyvale has its own P.D. (Department of Public Safety, in Sunnyvale's case -- combined Police and Fire).

That said, the jurisdiction of any given sworn law enforcement officer in CA is statewide, so any officer could pull you over regardless of what city you're in, theoretically.
Actually you can try out VSO Monaco easily at https://tryappservice.azure.com/. It supports Git, file management, a console etc. For a set of short videos see https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco
>>> Home office vs. Coworking space

I'd recommend a mixture of both, plus visits to coffee shops and libraries, depending on what type of work you need done.

Learning what is effective and finding the right balance can be one of the trickiest elements of WFH.
Return of the Living Datalog
Tons of problems with this article.

> The truth is, a dedicated IP address from your hosting company would not boost your SEO but increase website loading speed

A dedicated IP does not make your web site faster. I think the author is confusing dedicated servers/VPS with dedicated IPs. (Possibly because private servers typically have their own IP.) Plenty of companies offer dedicated IP addresses on shared hosting plans, which doesn't affect performance at all.

If they're suggesting getting a VPS instead of using shared hosting then I fully agree, but that's not made clear.

> Having your own private SSL certificate

SNI solved this. Very old browsers don't support it - the Android 2.x browser and any version of IE on XP are big ones - but many web developers have stopped supporting them for other reasons by now anyway.

> Enhanced performance and security: for websites attracting huge web traffic, a dedicated IP address would be the best bet, as a shared hosting IP address would be used by thousands of other websites

Again, confusing dedicated servers with dedicated IPs.

> However to use an SSL certificate on your website you need a dedicated or static IP address.

The "dedicated or static IP address" bit is odd because those aren't the same thing. A dedicated IP means you're the only one using it, a static IP means it never changes. One doesn't necessarily imply the other.

> As a business, you don’t want anyone cloning your website to gain personal information but with a proper SSL Certificate, it would be hard for anyone to clone your website.

I can only guess why the author thinks HTTPS makes a site hard to clone. Clearly it doesn't make doing File -> Save As any harder, so I guess it's because the impostor wouldn't be able to get an SSL cert? Lots of of phishing sites use HTTPS these days because it's so easy to do.

Maybe they're referencing MITM attacks, but that's not really how most phishing attacks are done.

> The Internet consist of several computers

Indeed.