skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kinds of things listed on the link have to do with project management and anecdotes about human interactions on teams that happen to be building software. You can try to tie this intellectually to more legitimately thought-out ideas, but you're stretching its content enormously. It's a farce to call this kind of thing "rigorous."
Yes, this is Hacker news. Since when did having screws accessible to the user become a bad thing?
The real issue with non-Apple hw is the OS. Linux is great for development but sucks on pro media/audio support.
That's how England and Wales does it. The police record crimes, but these are not seen as statistically sound, and so the Office For National Statistics also does a crime survey.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/htt...

> The CSEW, formerly known as the British Crime Survey (BCS), is a face-to-face survey asking people who are resident in households in England and Wales about their experiences of a range of crimes in the past year. The survey interviews both adults and children. The survey started in 1982 (covering crime experienced in 1981) and is conducted on a continuous basis with around 35,000 adults and 3,000 children aged 10 to 15 years old interviewed each year.
The RFC also limits GeoJSON to WGS84 by the way. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946
Curious what would be considered left leaning and right leaning and whether or not an "equal time" approach might reflect a bias.
The success of SillyCon Valley has mostly been from companies with close ties to the government that commercialize black and gray ops technology.

We can only hope that the next two technologies scheduled for public availability are permanent batteries and antigravity.
> For the power required to generate minimal thrust, this will not be useful in low orbit

A recent paper [1] quotes this system's predicted efficiency at 1.2 mN/kW. Hall thrusters, a propellant-throwing electric engine, perform at 60 mN/kW. Non-propellant systems like light sails, laser propulsion and photon rockets perform around 0.0033 to 0.0067 mN/kW.

If this works, and that's a big if, a 50x performance improvement over the prototype is not unrealistic.

[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/11/09/q_thruster.pdf
Use the "Account Killer" website to find out how to get accounts deleted from various services.

accountkiller.com

-dougl
You've clearly never used a T series or X1 Carbon before
I upgraded to a Razer Blade from a 2013 macbook.

Performance is great.

It is very well built, I would say on almost on par with a Mac, except for thin grills covering the cooling fans on the bottom. Grabbing the laptop in the wrong spot can easily push the grills up against the fan.

Battery life is terrible. Lucky to get 4-5 hours running a nothing but a browser and ssh client. (On windows 10. I haven't tried, but remember reading that power management on linux is even worse)

The trackpad gestures are not as accurate as on a Mac. I don't know how much of that is Windows vs the hardware.

Cooling fans are always on, and they are kind of loud even at low rpm. Not noticeable in a noisy office environment, but annoying in a quiet setting. The black chassis is a fingerprint magnet like no other laptop I've seen. The lit green logo on the lid is a bit obnoxious, and would not fit in at a very corporate environment. The actual display size is somewhat smaller than that of many similarly sized notebooks.

I'm okay with the trade offs (though the battery hurts...) but its definitely not a clear-cut winner compared to the competition.

Edit: the Blade Stealth may fare a little better battery wise, but even it doesn't have a stellar battery life.
> And being a meetup organizer for two different meetup groups means I'm forced (a good thing for an introvert) to see other people in the area who work in the same area.

Funny you should mention that. I'm a co-organizer of a pretty active meetup. The first tuesday of the month is the highlight of my social calendar.
"Deep Throat" was eventually revealed to be Mark Felt, AD of the FBI disgruntled about being passed over for the Directorate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_%28Watergate%29
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925

(3) With sufficient thrust, cars fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.
Is there any live chat service which allows custom css for UI?
Currently we are using Olark live chat, it was allowing custom css but in the upcoming version they won't support it any more. I was not able to find any service which. Another requirement is routing which should allow users to be redirected to special market which will be picked by the operators which speak that language if there is not any operator then it should be redirected to least busy person.
I believe several states in the USA have taken this approach already. Some states made the switch soon after the 2008 real-estate crash and market meltdown. They have the old plans for older employees and new hybrid/stock market based defined-contribution plans for newer employees.

Also, many state pensions aren't that great compared to California, etc. Employees only get 40 to 50 percent of their former salaries under a lot of pensions. I've never understood how California can do 80% pensions. The Federal pensions have some very high percentage too (not sure what it is).
nice! hope that comes to the next x1 yoga model too
Email us at secure@politiwatch.org if you'd like to get involved.

Thanks for the interest!
The labels of good/bad developer are not useful - just as we try to optimize the perf of our code, we should be focused on optimizing the things we can. For example, figuring out some answers to questions like "How can I get to this conclusion faster on figuring out bugs like this", or "How can I figure out the optimal architecture for this feature faster?" Putting things in front of us that are in our control and actionable is the best we can do.

One has to break the block of being afraid of failure - we all fail at various tasks. The important part is how we respond to this failures.
Based on discussions with my wife and her friends, that's a feature, not a bug. You can post beach pictures for example, and be relatively comfortable knowing that people can't (casually) zoom in.
If by "flying car" Larry really means "Toyota Camry that can fly with middle class people inside" then that's obviously preposterous to anyone with the slightest shred of general aviation experience.

If he means "VTOL Cessna with really good avionics" it's still a tall order but perhaps within the realm of "eventually possible given great determination and unlimited money" instead of "laugh him out of town."
This is true, in the UK at least. Insurance is the most trailing-edge industry I've worked in... incumbent firms are full of servers under desks, proprietary bloatware with no APIs, spreadsheets-as-databases. In my experience tech could make large swathes of the insurance sector redundant without even needing to resort to AI.

Insurance doesn't suffer the same degree of competition as other parts of the economy... it has a triple-walled garden of hefty regulation, significant capital requirements, and the chicken & egg problem that you already need to have relationships and experience in the insurance sector to do business there... or spend time and money buying them in. Even the banks white-label their insurance products from insurers.
Your contact me page isn't working.
the internal politics of the DNC

...which is not actually part of the government. I expect political parties to have internal politicking, which is somewhat bad. But ultimately parties are private organizations that are subject to quite different laws and obligations than parts of the government.
> If this works by impelling against the Earth's magnetic field

That's a completely different premise than the em-drive has, though. It's supposed to not depend on an external field; developing a force between two magnets wouldn't exactly qualify as (non-)rocket science today.
Your surprise informed her answer.
Mac OS X 10.6 was great.

I remember when Apple released it saying, 'no new features'. Just bug fixes and speed improvements.

We need one of those again.
>> he would have to liquidate some stock [...] which would have the effect of depressing the FB stock price

Depressing the stock is not the main problem of that. Insider trading is (he cannot liquidate FB stock on short notice as he has material undisclosed information pertaining to it).

He might elect to use a 10b5-1 plan (which basically empowers the broker to make the sell decision autonomously in the future based on a target price), but if you want that cash tomorrow, borrowing against the stock is more appropriate (see for example http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-has-a-10b-credi... ).
ˈfʀɛmtˌʃɛːmən, or if you will: "FREMT-shay-men". (You need to gurgle a bit, or at least hint at gurgling, when doing the 'R', now).

However you pronounce it -- I find it hard to have any kind of empathy at all for recruiters (internal or external), and hence, can't quite imagine myself "feeling a sense of shame for them in their place" (per the generic translation).
> Has Scheiner written anything on this report?

Don't get your hopes up. Bruce Schneier drank the Kool-Aid and is completely on board with the "ruskies did it because experts agree" narrative: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/hacking_the_v...

Look at how he calls whistleblowing "organizational doxing" and he urges a swift and exemplary response to the "national security threat". Somewhere along the way, the respectable security writer became a silly neo-mccarthyist pundit.
Now we just need to get Japan to stop whaling in the name of "science".
Iirc they introduced that with Win8
as a sidenote contrary to the rest of the world there is no regulation in the USA for a electrical LSA Ligh Sport Aircraft because it can only be powered by internal combustion engine the FAA is taking more than a decade to add two words to the regulation "and Electrical" imagine how much will take to develop a completely new regulation for electrical VTOL.
i'm using a 4th gen x1 carbon as my work laptop. it's the machine google settled on as their 2016 linux laptop after doing a bunch of research on current models from various manufacturers, and it's worked perfectly for me. i used the 1st gen for a few years before that, and that was a great experience too. (the 4th gen has worse speakers than the 1st gen, which was kind of weird to realise, but other than that i've been happy with the upgrade too)
Why does 10-bit save bandwidth, even when content is 8-bit? (2010) [pdf]
Video: Amazon Echo Gets Porn-Y Real Quick When Child Asks for a Song
Not yet, maybe.
It sounds like what you're doing is accurately assessing your lack of dancing skills, not doubting your dancing ability. A hallmark of self-doubt is the nagging unknown, a questioning, a debate that goes on in one's head as to the real truth of the matter. I'd bet such a debate doesn't exist about your dancing given the rational part you mentioned. If it's actually a correct, accepted, rational evaluation, then what you have is self-fact: I can't dance well; rather than self-doubt: I'm not sure if I can dance well. The rational evaluation part eliminates the doubt once it's accepted, as you've arrived at a rock-solid conclusion.
But it would represent an improvement on what we have today, which is a finite amount of fuel use to keep the satellite in orbit that eventually runs out.
But the question is, why are we looking for a Swiss Army Knife?

I make all kinds of search queries but I only use privacy centric search engines when required for my particular concerns. In my opinion, the best way to stay anonymous is by disguising yourself as normal. Today's browser are capable of switching search engines with the use of a single letter before the search query to make use of a particular search engine. And one can easily visit Firefox search engine database to include it in their list.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?atype=4

I haven't use DuckDuckGo's bang features, so I really don't understand what are they trying to achieve other than proxying the search result which I already satisfactorily achieve by having multiple Firefox profile with different proxies.

I think this is never ending quest of integrating new search engines in DuckDuckGo. But it will never match the native use. For example, take Wolfram Alpha or TinEye(Reverse Image Search).

Bottom line is that there are million ways to stay anonymous while using native search engines instead of routing it through third party services.
Bring Back the Rails (2011)
I did the switch. The most important thing is reading these 2 books:

* Peopleware

* The Mythical Man-Month

I can't think of better books on managing software projects and software developers.
Got the previous generation (9333) running Ubuntu 16.04, no troubles.
It's as easy or as difficult as getting any other programming job. The more you know your stuff and good English, the better the job you'll find.
PUFs, protection, privacy, PRNGs
White people and black people commit drug crime at roughly the same rate, but black people's drug crime attracts more policing and higher sentences.
i love it, but i wish it were a little less stiff. even turned up to the maximum sensitivity it's giving me rsi twinges.
I am curious, which animals are elephants endangering?
You do realise that what you've written makes no sense, don't you?
How on earth did a leak of DNC emails, but no corresponding RNC leak, help people figure out the lesser of two evils or provide a level playing field?

Seems obvious that leaks assisting the pro-Putin candidate were not altruistic.
They are going to be pardoned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37711518

> Gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales are to receive posthumous pardons, the government has announced.

> Thousands of living men convicted over consensual same-sex relationships will also be eligible for the pardon.
If you want there was a P series of thinkpads that are designed to be milspec and IP60 something.
India is mostly 2g and 3g, though there's a major new 4g network being rolled out now. That said, recent studies show that 4g networks greatly reduce in speed as they near capacity; many US cities have seen 4g speeds cut in half as more people have come into them.
I wouldn't want to fly any kind of helicopter or multicopter into a door in the side of a traditional multi story parking building. the sudden and asymmetric entrance into ground-effect will roll the aircraft, and I'm not sure what having a roof above your rotors would do - possible choke them of airflow and force them into high-speed-stall.

airflow near walls is turbulent, and the funneling effect may suck the aircraft towards the wall.

Solvable problems - you just have to build a landing pad away from the side of the building.
Can you help me see how the title is clickbait?
I have a gen 4 X1 carbon.
top 16gb ram 1tb hard drive all in. Is the best machine from last year.
Questions about Superoptimization
Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, interesting problems?
This is open for interpretation. It could be a problem that's technically hard, an idea that's trying to disrupt a technologically backwards industry, etc. And interesting in that it's working on a novel solution to a new or existing problem, and not just another boring photo sharing app. Again, this is subjective, but I'm sure your responses will be valuable nonetheless.
Ask HN: Recommendation for a non-Linux OS to play around with?
Looking for an OS to install into a partition and experiment with, besides Linux. *BSD, Chromium OS, Firefox OS, Haiku, AROS/MorphOS, OpenIndiana, OpenVMS, what's worth checking out?
Not quite. This tool takes it a step further.

The Win8 Refresh/Reset was based on an image preloaded by the OEM, or installed as part of a Win8 install. If you reset your computer, you'd get all the bloatware back unless you clean installed (which replaces the image).

Win10 Refresh/Reset doesn't have such an image, and just reconstructs a fresh state as part of the process, but then runs a package that the OEM preloads on the computer after resetting.

This tool basically deletes that package so that when you reset, you get a fresh copy without any of that bloatware reinstalled.
They'll have the 4C model in the T470p

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Classic-ThinkPad-models-...
No, it doesn't. California pensions for example are such that even if the state dropped all other obligations and paid only pensions even with massive tax increases pensions could not be fully paid. This mess will unwind in the short term. Yet another argument for some kind of basic income alternative.
off course it will be possible when batteries tripple the density without increasing weight.

You will get a 25 minute around 30 miles ride with 20 minute reserve
The Crowdstrike co-founder and CTO is also a Senior Fellow at a think tank that seems particularly giddy about the new Cold War: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/dmitri-alp...
A Fujifilm Instax camera. Maybe not very exciting, but reminded me of how it feels to have a photo in hands, and to browse them by spreading them on the table. Awesome.
I agree with you that this isn't science, but I also don't see how they're portraying it as such, so your comment sounds unnecessarily hostile.
How to do your eyebrows
So he can fly over, and get a closer look at, people living in RVs on the street just a few miles from where his employees eat free steak and sushi every day.

Like the Chavez family, for example:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/28/silicon-vall...
Electrodynamic tethers push off the Earth's magnetic field directly and don't need fuel.
Communication above all. Make sure all stakeholders agree and understand goals, scope and trade-offs, and that progress is communicated often.

Don't overcommit.

Address the biggest technical risks early.
Running up $120k in credit card debt? Paying $3k per month in interest on that debt while piling money into an app where "expenses grew faster than revenue"?

I know this stuff happens. I've been there, done that. But I don't have a reputation as a business guru, either.
One thing I think you will notice both with him and others who are successful was that they never were interested in fame or success. He seems to do mathematics merely because he enjoys it.

What I'm trying to say is that perhaps you shouldn't worry too much about whether you are a genius or smart enough but just try to be happy by doing something you enjoy.
Geographic Routing without Location Information (2003) [pdf]
Don't forget AIM!
Super-Tall Robotic Arm Is Made of Helium Balloons
Here are my notes to fix the overly sensitive trackpad on my Lenovo Carbon X1 (they'll probably only make sense after reading the links) from https://major.io/2012/12/28/handy-settings-for-the-touchpadc...

synclient "PalmDetect=1"
synclient "PalmMinWidth=5"
synclient "PalmMinZ=40"

Or soft link to a file from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf.

To get middle-button scroll with trackpoint:

From https://askubuntu.com/questions/578600/how-do-i-get-the-trac...

edited /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d\11-evdev-trackpoint.conf upated the line:

MatchProduct "TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick"

to

MatchProduct "TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

Sorry if they don't make sense, but the links are where I got my information, so they should help. The changes made a world of difference.
Your OS manages all of your memory. You can't get any memory at all without asking it for it. How much memory were you requesting, and why didn't you get it? Is that the problem you were solving? Is there some reason you suspect the OS preferentially gives memory to web browsers?
This is really great news! But we can go even further, let's continue with banning Rhino horn markets (would we call it keratin markets rather than ivory?). Keratin would be primary component here, the same protein that makes human fingernails also is what composes Rhino horns.

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-vietnam-rhino-traf...

In Vietnam and some of China there are some who cling to a belief that eating the Rhino horn will cure/prevent cancer or increase libido. Those who believe this probably aren't aware that eating their fingernails would have the same effect.
Yes, to which I replied "Because who doesn't want free money?"

Companies don't give a shit as to who wants them or who doesn't, because they get free money for each install that includes the bloatware, and that's all that they really care about; maximizing the profits.

Microsoft's profits are probably negatively impacted by the bloatware in the form of a bad experience, and probably pays the OEM some amount to offset the removal (I don't work in sales, I have no idea how those deals are made or what they contain) so that users have a better experience with Windows.

OEMs can choose to go that route, or not, and the reason why most computers are not is that they probably get more money from having the bloatware in there; otherwise, we'd see Signature Edition as the default.
Do you have a source? There has been no leaded fuel (for on-road use) in over 20 years.
Yeah, plus you stamp it in oil on everything you touch. For the billionth time, fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. If you model it as such, you get a much more realistic idea of where it is and isn't appropriate to use.
My fault; I should've elaborated. I absolutely do believe that underlying technology will improve and get cheaper. I don't think that the cost of getting that technology in the air (FCC certification, maintenance, etc.) will come down significantly.

Small aircraft are already not a whole lot more sophisticated than a production car - and often less so. But nonetheless they're still an order of magnitude more expensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_transform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Golay_code
> Design is part and parcel of a laptop's usability and usage, and impacts its effective lifespan (you can get mileage out of a laptop while it's falling to pieces but that's not an enjoyable experience).

I don't think that's a fair characterization of the thinkpad experiance. I own one, and every other owner I know, hasn't had these things crap out. Also, if they do crap out there are guides telling you exactly what to do. The case also exposes the screws you need to take out to fix certian problems.

Spill coffee on your laptop and need to order a new keyboard and trackpad module? Flip over the laptop and the screws are labeld with pictures of a keyboard and a trackpad.

> And of course a laptop is not stashed away in a corner of the desk (or under it hidden from you), it's usually right in front of your face and right under your fingers, liking how it looks is a pretty good idea

A computer is a tool. Would you buy a shovel if it was very bad at shoveling and had a pre-determined lifespan just because it was colored to match your khakis?