skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look at the ZenBook range. The range looks decent, but the 15'' has a hard drive (!) (no option to choose SSD only, apparently), a numeric keypad (!!) and the highest-performing model is a dual-core i7 with 16GB RAM — so aside from the price, not a good alternative to a MBP.

(I find the shiny brushed aluminium look to be embarrassingly tacky, though not quite as bad as the rose gold model.)
1. remove banking regulations

2. let banks farm the young via land prices

3. give boomers a cut, it's a one generation deal after that everyone else is screwed

I can understand if you are rich and have no morals why you would support this. What I don't understand is why old people are selling their own grandchildren.

Say what you will about the rich, they won't shaft their own. The boomers have sold us off very cheaply.
How's the Ehang 184 coming along?[1] That's an electric flying car, essentially a big 8-prop drone, announced last June. They're targeting short-distance travel within big, crowded cities in China. China's 1% will be able to get across Beijing in 10 minutes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4nDFgVx2o
For the OS only (not including any app installs you might need) I can install Windows 10 in about 10 minutes on an SSD using the standard consumer windows setup GUI method (no fancy imaging techniques or whatnot).
Being in space doesn't solve the problem of errant forces completely. You can push against the earth's magnetic field, for example.
> This isn’t an impostor syndrome.

Sure it is. Impostor syndrome is defined as the state of affairs where your emotional assessment of your competence is lower than your actual competence. The definition does not depend on which aspect of the task is being discussed. "I can't write code" (when you can) and "I'm too slow" (when the people who appear faster, are doing it by just sweeping bugs under the carpet) are both impostor syndrome.

I will add that by the sound of things, the reason you have impostor syndrome is because your previous bosses have been bullies, sadists and sociopaths who successfully accomplished their goal of damaging your morale for their own pleasure. This is sadly not a rare state of affairs, but it's not universal either. Never be reluctant to look for another job if your boss is an asshole.
So the examples are an ancient empire which is now in poverty, and two states with great port cities?
When I bought my notebook back in february, I went to a shop (cyberport) that had both the (then current) X1 carbon and the XPS 13 on display, which I figured were the only ones acceptable for developers.

The X1's keyboard was larger, had more key travel and all, but was subjectively somewhat less comfortable to type on (matter of get using to, I suppose, but still).

The X1 had a much worse display, and was overall bulkier and clunkier, yet more expensive. Went with the Dell and didn't regret it.

Edit: running Ubuntu on it
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Adds a whole new dynamic to the term 'fender bender'.
be an enabler.

make your eng peers do uninterrupted work, reduce meetings, cut the crap out of the corporate process.

This is not to say keep them in the dark about what is going on, but don't try to schedule a "sync" meetings, ever :)

Another thing that me and my PM peer did was, we had direct communication line. he could ping me anytime, and i could ping him anytime. We came up with ideas at odd hours that ended up making a good amount of revenue increase, but we also respected each other's time. I used him to get myself pure work time when people were asking for updates, and he used me to prototype many of these ideas.

it worked out really well for both of us.
I've been using FreshStart for that for years, but I like that this one is open source.
I'm overthinking this, but it doesn't seem odd. Us in colder climates have our hands adjusted to cold (since they are usually exposed) while areas closer to our chest and groin (such as inner thighs) not as adapted.
thx. i'm worried a little because this laptop is really thin.
especially compared to lenovo book which is also thin but not as wide as carbon.
Helicopters are actually safer (than some set of airplanes that might include a bunch of recreational planes), because if something breaks, it's easier to find a place to land.
Can you expand on the backing off part, though?

Peter Moskos has written a lot on this. As part of his PhD, he spent two years as an actual cop in Baltimore. Now he is a professor of criminology in New York. IMO, he does a good job writing in a balanced and truthful perspective about crime.

"I don't know what's going on everywhere (or even most-where), but I can tell you a bit about Baltimore. And I suspect it holds true in many cities. I looked calls for service, arrest numbers, and crimes. Most dramatic is the drop of arrests in Western District....Now there are good and not so good reasons for this drop in arrests. But leaving that why: it happened. Police were less involved, by choice and necessity, and violence skyrocketed. Just because correlation does prove causing, correlation certainly doesn't mean causation is impossible or even unlikely. I mean, what else changed in the Western except police and crime?...Cops stopped making discretionary arrests and being proactive in clearing corners and frisking subjects. Look, it's no surprise where shootings happens and who gets shot."
http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/01/the-baltimore-6-effect.h...

And then read this one about Chicago: http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/11/the-best-of-times-worst-...

And a few other posts http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/02/defining-ferguson-effect... and http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/03/chicago-violence.html

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?"

My reading is that there is a total breakdown in discipline in many of these families and communities. The kids that end up being problems are not getting discipline at home, and they're not getting it from the school (see http://www.isegoria.net/2014/12/the-monster-factory/ or http://www.anurbanteacherseducation.com/2011/02/tfa-alumnus-... )

I also think that when you have open-air drug dealing, and gangs openly controlling the streets, then that turns senior gang members into role models, and it incentivizes young teenagers to join gangs for protection. Then as part of joining, they get involved in beefs and violence. That is my take from reading various ethnographies.

The reason nothing is being done is because prevailing opinion does not agree with me. The emphasis over the past fifty years has been less discipline in schools. ( http://www.city-journal.org/html/who-killed-school-disciplin... ). There was a police crackdown in the 1990s, but it was more targeted at keeping violent people out of the nice neighborhoods, rather than completely eliminating gang violence in the ghetto neighborhoods. I think that is because the liberals see the police as suspect and problematic, and don't want to empower them, and because the conservatives don't really care about the ghetto as long as it doesn't effect them.
energy efficiency.
People go over the handlebars on braking because they use the rear brake, or are not properly braced on the handlebars. If you use the front brake (and brace properly) there is little practical limit to braking force. You are more likely to skid the wheels than go over the handlebars.
What's with the downvotes to this? If there's something to be debated I would have liked to read it because this comment, I don't disagree with.
> We don't need science if we are just going to rely on easy, intuitive explanations of everything. Anybody can decide that eating fat makes you fat and fills your arteries with fat; you don't need any particular expertise for that.

Science comes in when you want to know how plaque consisting of macrophages containing fats/cholesterol on arterial walls are embedded, and how macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol is increased/decreased. There's current work in trying to understand the role of TMAO (primarily from animal foods) in increasing macrophage uptake of fats/cholesterol:

http://journals.lww.com/co-lipidology/Abstract/2016/04000/Tr...

The research in this area is promising enough that insurance may derive TMAO-based measures of heart health:

https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/files/Winter2015/Artery...
jokes on the coder, that's actually written in recscript, a little known scripting language with a sort of C like syntax targeting Microsoft's old ActiveScripting framework.

The Document object is one of the 7 special objects available in the language (others: Resource [every other special object is an instance of Resource], Sheet, Calendar, Sound, Presentation, Database, Browser). Since there isn't any use of the Create Document statement before usage I'm guessing this is after version 2.14 of the language in which Create was dropped as unnecessary (a bit of syntactical sugar).

Anyway Document instantiates a Microsoft Word object and saves it to recscript Documents folder automatically, all text inside of it is indexed, so you can also do stuff like Resources.find("you’fe killing me! Contact me because I desire this");

By the way the recscript code editor which provided an advanced code execution environment to develop in (something like JsFiddle only years prior) also supported open and close parenthesis.

IIRC the open and close parenthesis had special semantic meaning in the language.
It might be that you're better at the management side of things. But don't be tempted just by "grass is greener" thinking: Try to imagine that every job could be hard, that you jump in, discover you don't know what you're doing and you're under a lot of pressure to find a solution, to take action and write documents and schedule meetings and send emails. Will you be motivated to struggle and prevail? More motivated than your worst days in previous jobs? If your response to that is "bring it on," then the shift will be good.
This has a magnesium chassis, so it should be stiffer than aluminum. It is also carbon fiber, not plastic.
Hmmm. The Salem episode lasted seven months from the first accusations (March 1692) to the last hangings (September 1692) and the dissolution of the court appointed to try those people (October 1692).

The war on drugs is now about a century old, and going strong.

Hopefully, future people will look on both as some kind of collective self-delusion. But the comparison is otherwise unfair to Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, and the rest of those Puritan ghouls responsible for that episode. And I can't believe I'm defending them.
For the love of God, make something affordable (50's? 60's?) and I'd buy one in a snap... my daily commute is PITA and sore nead of drone'ification.
This is really neat. I can see JS compiling to WASM as a gret way to get early adopters.
Yeah, I know a helicopter pilot, I was shocked when he told me that. Would love to hear a aviation enthusiast compare safety differences and failure modes between helicopter autorotation and plane glide...
A communist society where the government owns all the means of production and everyone gets a $60,000 UBI can still use markets to allocate resources for production.
Out of curiosity, do you tell ddg which country to search in? (there is an option somewhere inside the hamburger menu)

I don't think they use IPs to geolocate, so I find myself using yelp (or sometimes tripadvisor/citysearch) for local results.

Maybe a geolocating custom search / instant answer box (that can be opt-in/out) would help. It is one step down the slippery slope of search bubbling/tracking, but maybe that isn't the end of the world -- it could be done by town or something.
Interesting title considering the article's as much about Uber and battery efficiency a la Tesla as it is Larry Page.

I'm still curious about how highways for these types of aircraft will be implemented. I imagine the goal is ubiquity and at some point, with thousands of these things flying around, flight paths will be the bottleneck.
First comment makes a good observation. When a plane loses power, it glides. When a helicopter loses power, it autorotates [1].

If a single engine on a quadcopter loses power, it crashes [2]. There is work being done on mitigating this, but I don't see why you'd go for a quad versus tri- or helicopter.

(Quadcopters are better than other aerial platforms at one thing: maneuverability. To get this agility they sacrifice speed, efficiency and payload weight.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

[2] https://www.quora.com/Can-a-quadcopter-fly-without-one-rotor
>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".

I think cityzen mean $30k a week vs. $30k total. The wording was maybe a little loose, but that is what I gathered from it.
> They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy

The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time.

It feels light years ahead of the super-heavy aluminium-nonsense Apple is trying to peddle. Count me happy my laptop doesn't double as a bench-press.
> El Monte has a history of generous employee benefits — including a four-day work week for civil servants, who put in 10 hours a day and have Fridays off.

Working 40 hours per week is a generous benefit?
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Apple has a real opportunity to modernize iOS a lot and kick Google in the nuts since they are very content sitting on their ass doing practically nothing for Android.

- Dark theme. Customization = good. Sends a good message.

- More separate volume controls. For me one volume level for notifications and phone ringer is absurd in 2016.

- LCD displays, really? The iPhone 7/Plus and the iPad Pro 9.7" are first of Apple's devices with an almost 100% correct color reproduction on the professional scales. About time for [s]AMOLED displays.

- More privacy settings and abilities to break the sandbox if the user so desires. If I want 3 apps to have access to the same vault of files, then I should be able to!

Since I sold my 6S Plus back in July I forgot the rest of my complaints but I remember them being between 10-13 in total.

> I think one of the glaring areas for improvement is battery life.
> Won't someone give us the option of a 10+mm thick phone with a huge battery in it. Please.

That I absolutely agree with. The obsessiveness with thin phones is something many of us hate with passion. I am a 115kg man at 184cm and pretty strong -- and a bit overweight :D -- and I honestly can't tell the difference between 140 and 200 grams in my hand. I'm sure a 300 or so grams of a phone would be perfect for many people.
The XPS 13 developer edition looks nice and comes with Ubuntu 16.04 but doesn't have a pointer stick. I love the pointer stick, faster than trackpad.
These are based off my current experience in transitioning to a management role. I'm still a dev, but my manager is "testing me out" for a management role.

- Keep current on technologies, what your team uses and wants to use, and also technologies that might be useful.

- Know your developers' strengths and weakness, both technical and interpersonal.

- Time management. (Can't stress this enough).

- Ask lots of thoughtful questions (informed by the first item in the list).

- Develop relationships with other managers, teams and executives. If you want to manager bigger things, those guys need to see you and know you can do it.

- Don't hold grudges. At the end of the day, go home and forget about any bullshit that occurred.

- Trust your developers.

- Don't be afraid to say no.

- Take risks. Accept responsibility when those risks turn into failures.

- Give genuine praise.

One sort of cultural thing to keep in mind. It may not apply to you though. After moving to the Bay Area several years ago I noticed that behavior with organizations often defaults to passive-aggressive, especially when there's disagreement. Avoid being passive-aggressive and correct others (in a professional manner) when they're being passive-aggressive. I used to deal with more aggressive people when I worked on the East Coast. You know where you stand at least. PA behavior allows bad sentiment to stew and kills progress of any sort. Being assertive most of the time will solve this.
I was thinking of a quadcopter taxi design that could be designed to protect the passenger in the event they fell from many stories. Something that would suspend the single rider's seat in the center of the cockpit from cables attached to the shell. Whatever the best design for the classic 'egg drop' test would probably be a good start.

If you could guarantee survival from terminal velocity I think a drone taxi could become a viable mode of transport.
Before the remodel Ritual was open until 10pm every day except Sundays. I would occasionally do some work there in the evenings. It was convenient, but it didn't seem like they had enough traffic to justify being open that late.
The war on drugs comparison is really commonly compared with war on illegal wildlife, however the two differ pretty drastically once you stop thinking of them as just "bans on things". For example, the prevention strategies for these two are vastly different. Furthermore,

a.) There are legal drugs and substances that can be used to manufacture illegal drugs. You cannot fully outlaw these, unlike wildlife animal products.

b.) IIRC the vast majority of illegal wildlife products come to the US (and US is large consumer of illegal wildlife products) via ships (as opposed to by plane or truck) and is only a handful of ports that need to be secured. There is like an infinite number of potential access points for drugs. And even if you succeed 100% in preventing smuggling attempts, you will still have domestic manufacturers.

c.) The reason why the two are banned are really different to. With wildlife poaching, the damage is done during the "manufacturing" of the products, whereas with drugs it's mostly the consumption and trade that cause the damage.
I've had similar self-doubt in the past, I considered myself fast but sloppy.

I changed my opinion after a workshop on different team roles at my previous job. A lot of it was boring workshop fluff, but I loved the core message: that many personality traits aren't purely positive or negative. Perfectionists are nitpickers. Fast developers are sloppy. Experienced ones overthink stuff. Bleeding-edge evangelists ruin long-term stability etc. There are two sides to every coin. We tend to value traits we have (or desire) and judge people based on that, but it really depends on the team and the task.

Need a quick-and-dirty prototype ASAP? Give it to the framework hipster. Planning architecture for a complex long-term project? Ask the boring slow guy with 20 years experience. Build teams with enough variety and try to solve problems through process. Don't scold the fast guy for being sloppy, give him tasks that require speed and solve bugs with better QA and tests.

TL;DR: A damage dealer will beat a healer one on one, but that doesn't mean he's better. You need them both (plus a tank) to run a dungeon successfully.
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I'm conflicted, because both of these statements are true.

People are going to come to you with unrealistic requirements. This can't be a discussion- you have to say “No, there's no way my team can pull that off, we need to fix this”, and you have to have the relationship and credibility for them to believe you, trust you, and know they can work with you to come up with a solution. That's ambiguously like being a peer that also has the authority or respect to have the final say.

At the same time, you'll find out that every new project starts with the same response from your best developers: “No, I don't think we can do that”. 99% of the time, there's some ambiguous requirement making them apprehensive at a totally reasonable request. You have to have the relationship to firmly say “I'm willing to put in the hard work to figure this out with you”. You should have the credibility that they will have some kind of faith that you can better scope requirements in a way that alleviates their concerns.
We wanted portainer to mask the underlying complexity of Docker, without totally removing the functions that is making Docker legendary. Its a balancing act between hiding and removing compexity, but thats what makes UX design.
I feel somewhat qualified to speak on this since my startup, Pembient, biofabricates rhino horn. Basically, rhino horn has been banned in China since 1993. Despite that prohibition, much rhino horn still ends up in China, where it is used primarily for decorative purposes and not medicinal purposes as is widely reported [1].

From a policy perspective, bans often don't work because they induce a "forbidden fruit" effect [2]. Or, in the words of Walter Lippmann [3]:

"We find ourselves revolving in a circle of impotence in which we outlaw intolerantly the satisfaction of certain persistent human desires and then tolerate what we have prohibited. Thus we find ourselves accepting in their lawless forms the very things which in lawful form we repudiate, having in the end to deal not only with all the vices we intended to abolish but with the additional dangers which arise from having turned over their exploitation to the underworld."

It is especially strange seeing wildlife policy push further towards a "war on drugs" stance at the same time that many are claiming that war has been lost [4].

It will be interesting to see how things play out, but I believe policy in this area is fundamentally flawed and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, the animals will survive our blundering.

[1] https://wildlifejustice.org/cn/overlooked-rhino-horn-demand-...

[2] http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=33...

[3] http://www.unz.org/Pub/Forum-1931feb-00065

[4] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/war-on-drugs-legaliza...
He gets bonus points for mentioning "extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims" twice in the article!
The camera placement is bad. I don't use video much at all, but when I need to on my XPS 13, I actually use a separate USB webcam. The built-in camera is just really strange to use - to others it looks like you're looking off into the distance, and if you type, your left fingers will cover up the camera entirely. All that being said, this is an excellent laptop otherwise, and I really enjoy using it daily.
It's something a lot of people want but most workplaces won't accept.
The impact isn't necessarily overt in this type of situation. Not just talking about Tumblr/Yahoo, but in general -- when evaluating an acquisition after-the-fact, there's more than just overt branding to consider. Think about amount of support from the parent company, rate of feature rollouts, ad quality, company culture, turnover / morale, hiring bar, internal transfers, etc.

Despite being an M&A buzzword, synergy is really important and doesn't mean meddling or interference. With Instagram and Facebook, consider that FB already had massive expertise in growing a successful social network, and ditto regarding infrastructure, as well as monetization. FB also advertises Instagram in-app for free. And Instagram is "cool" so there's major motivation for talented people at FB to do an internal transfer to Instagram.

Similar situation with YouTube and Google. e.g., Google was undoubtedly able to increase YouTube's growth rate by virtue of being the top search engine and tightly integrating all YouTube content into Google search.

With Tumblr and Yahoo, it's just not the same situation. They aren't headquartered on the same coast; their audiences don't overlap, which is especially bad for monetization; their products don't naturally interact in any way; the parent company has no experience with running a user-generated content property of this size; and the parent company has been viewed as being in decline for many years.