skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alan Kay: 'People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.'
This is why no one not even close to macOS and Macbook synergy.
There are other reasons other than cost that I can think of,
physical security and ability to roll your own patches to name but two.
Why Designers Need to Code, and Coders Don’t Need to Design
Graphical Models vs. Deep Networks [pdf]
because VOIP will get around that.
Facebook engineering is probability based. If you hire enough engineers and produce enough code, eventually some people are good and some code is good. The culture seems laughable.
Don't do startup for the potential payout. If you are not going to be happy and content with the salary don't do it. Most won't have any exit. Any exit that leaves one with $350k windfall beats many that leaves people with $0 and jobless. Negotiate hard on the salary. Assume the shares are worthless.
I think the difference here is you want a text editor and I want an IDE in a terminal.
At 191 pounds Cahill was still significantly fatter than he should be, and had very minimal muscle mass. We know this is true because it is extremely difficult to not lose muscle on even a small cut, much more so 290lbs over 7 months.

It does not suggest there's something more complicated than calories in < calories burned, it suggests there's something that is causing him to burn fewer calories. My explanation is that Cahill had an inactive lifestyle, poor body composition and was overweight, even after the massive cut. On top of this, no one is claiming he stuck to the diet, so it makes sense he regained the weight.

I'm not disputing that your metabolism can down regulate. I am absolutely disputing that it's a mystery and unfixable. For Cahill he needed to stay on the diet longer, and he needed to build muscle mass.
Inheritance creates an extra extension point automatically. You don't need to design for it.

A good, thoughtful design is better, of course.
But your company might have security requirements that prevent the use of S3.

For example, if you're a defense contractor that handles FOUO information, you can't just throw that on somebody else's cloud. You have to keep it entirely in-house.
I believe Amazons program was something like come to work from 10:00 to 14:00 Mon-Fri. The problem with this is that I think it's a lot easier to be pressured to stay longer over the course of a week than if you only worked 3 days a week.
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The advantage of a quantum annealer is in cases where there is a large, narrow spike in the way of moving to a good solution. The quantum optimizer has a chance of "tunneling" through the spike to find a better solution. A classical version of simulated annealing would have to "climb" over the spike, or more likely just be stuck on the wrong side.
Ha ha ha he's not though. You dont know what a globalist is.

Just being a billionaire doesn't mean he is a globalist. Running a multinational corporation doesn't mean he us a globalist. A globalist is someone who wants to subjugate the sovereignity of individual nation states under the power of a global government, whether overtly (the un) or covertly (bilderbergs/free masons/other conspiracy groups). His whole campaign was about increasing American sovereignity. Perhaps you've heard of his catch phrase, make America great again?
Your "solution" is still more boilerplate than content and befuddles people used to lisp by evaluating in the function namespace an argument in non-function position.

Common Lisp simply can't approach the succinctness and elegance of currying without adding some syntax.

Your resistance is puzzling, btw. You're not having difficulties using and accepting a programmable programming language, are you?
Are there examples of similar things where we have failed? i.e. nature gives us an example, we expend massive resources on it over a long period of time and cannot even make substantial progress? Probably I'd just say "tech in that area is only 10 years old" ;)

Is the argument that we're still just hitting the low-hanging fruit of the technological age, so have false confidence in all the things we've equalled or beaten?

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that most of the hardest things may not be logically possible (c.f. incompleteness theorem) or may not be physically possible (c.f. time travel). Having such clear physical possibility (and at multiple levels of complexity/advancement that only arose through selection and mutation) seems like strong evidence we will be able to do it eventually. A claim of impossibility is not illogical, but requires a stronger argument than "there's always a small chance".
There's a difference between saying "Group X is pretty neat" and "Group Y are the only real Americans and should have an exclusive grip on political power."

So for instance, the Democrats run on, "We need equal pay for women." The actual size of the wage gap can be debated as a factual matter (once you factor out different professions and hours-worked, it's usually about 5-10%). Then the Republicans run on, "Real Americans need to take our country back!", despite their "real Americans" (as a conjunction of features) composing a minority group that's only 20% of the country[1].

One of them plays the identity politics of inclusion, often duplicitously. The other plays the identity politics of exclusion and minority rule, often honestly.

There's a vast difference between obnoxious campaign rhetoric along the lines of Clinton and an organized decades-long campaign to disenfranchise people who don't vote the way you want or don't share your conjunction of identity features.

[1] -- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-20-percent-of-voter...
The fact we're still discussing the trackpad, suspend/wake, fonts, networking, and UI - in 2017 - means the problem still isn't solved on Linux. I gave a decade over to that quest (1996-2006) and then spent the next decade using MBPs. With a macbook pro, I have never once wondered about my trackpad, suspend/wake, fonts, networking, UI, or a host of other things like printers, scanners, USB, bluetooth, or external displays. That level of compatibility is a miracle, from the perspective of a daily Linux user.

I have used my laptop for heavy computation, software dev, academic work, major presentations, video and multimedia, casual browsing, gaming, etc, and it has NEVER given me trouble due to compatibility. Having spent way too much of my life thinking about those problems on Linux, you have no idea how liberating it is to be free of those concerns.

I get OCD about using a specific brand of disposable pen, so you'd better believe I think about the most important tool in my life: my laptop. The MBP is too good to accept any alternative. The 2016 was underwhelming, but it's still the best laptop/OS combination out there. It costs too much for the market and it's not enough-better to justify the upgrade, but dammit there's nothing that even compares.

I've been thinking hard about alternatives to the MBP during the past few months, and my decision is that I can't give all this up and still be a functioning academic and entrepreneur. I'll pay the $1000 premium and if I value my time at $25/hour, I'll recover that additional cost within 2 months compared to Linux maintenance. I wish it weren't so, but the maths don't lie.
I don't understand the game rules fully. What happens if a head is cut off which is connected directly to the root? Rule (2) says

Go to the node right below the node connected to the severed head—labelled in purple in the diagram—and reproduce n copies of all the nodes and the segments above the selected node. Here, n is the number of times Hercules has attacked the Hydra thus far.

But if we cut off a head connected to the root, there is no node below the root. So then what?
Google Fonts API is down
<blockquote>
Garygoyles represent the embarrasing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into seperate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. <... snip ...>

The CIC brass can't stand these guys because they upload staggering quantities of useless information to the database, on the off chance that some of it will eventually be useful. It's like writing down the license number of every car you see on your way to work each morning, just in case one of them will be involved in a hit-and-run accident. Even the CIC database can only hold so much garbage. So, usually, these habitual gargoyles get kicked out of the CIC before too long.
</blockquote>

-- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Almost as quaint has "three megabytes of hot RAM".
Ah, Infosys! My only experience of dealing with them stands out as one of the more amusing of my career. I was contracted to lead a team for a digital agency to rebuild the front-end of one of the UK's largest supermarkets; Infosys already had an existing contract to handle the back-end and integration; the supermarket had just a couple of (not very) technical leads (glorified project managers, really) to steer everything from their end.

About monthly, the supermarket's tech leads, myself, a project manager working with me, and anywhere up to about ten Infosys employees would meet up physically in the supermarket's offices. Only one of the Infosys employees would ever address the table, and rarely at that. The others all had identical laptops (perhaps even identical clothes?), and all took notes during the meeting, but never spoke, apart from just occasionally to mutter quietly to each other.

It was absolutely surreal. Needless to say, the integration did not go especially smoothly.
The name "Patel" is incredibly common (especially in Gujarat) and Amit is a very common Indian first name.
Jason Fried (Basecamp) about to launch new book called “The Calm Company”
There's more than one way to rig the system. A substantial increase in immigration and an amnesty program would have provided an even bigger opportunity for Democrats than gerrymandering has for the Republicans.
If you IPO at substantially lower prices than you thought you were valued at, or you IPO at a fine price and then shortly post-IPO, the stock value drops considerably, then it wasn't a big IPO.

Not to dismiss issues of employees being at the "back of the line" for equity payout. That is certainly a thing. But this article lists a bunch of examples of employees getting somewhat disappointing payouts when the ultimate valuation of the company was somewhat disappointing, while presenting it as employees getting somewhat disappointing payouts from "big IPOs."

A lot of people seem to have a problem with understanding that you can't just look at absolute numbers for a company's value. If your company raised a lot of money with the expectation that they would be a $4B company, and then they were a $750M company, well, $750M is a lot of money, but sorry, you had a disappointing IPO and preference is going to eat up a lot of the company's value -- maybe all of it.
I can understand your approach. It helps to learn a topic (like linear algebra) when you can immediately see it's applications. However, I'm not sure it would work here; for one, quantum mechanics is not an "easily" understood application, like, say PCA, or DFT, or other such things.
The site itself is not much of a winner: the text is right there inside the HTML body but it's invisible unless JavaScript is turned on. What for?
That case isn't what's under dispute, and is unlikely to exist, since most buildings make pretty poor Faraday cages. So it's not really that relevant.

Furthermore, even if the building was a perfect Faraday cage, there are other issues, such as the laws governing public accommodations, and the special scrutiny imposed on "contracts of adhesion" (take-it-or-leave-it standard form contracts) when analyzing them for unconscionability, plus the FCC's mandate which doesn't stop at property boundaries and generally can't be overridden by private contracts anyway. It's not clear that it would be allowable even if you set aside the near-certainty of interference outside the property of the interferor.
I am under the impression that 6-hour days are widely adopted in France. Anyone know more of it?
I don't think they want to drive developers away, I think that the removal of the 17 inch MBP from their line was a sound business decision the only market left for them are intense gamer who are on the go (i.e 17-20 somethings in school) and developers. The MBP has never been seen as a first class game system so they where never really competitive there and developers are a small subset of the computing market and not all of them prefer a large monitor.

Soldered in ram was a decision to reduce the overall size of the MBP to make it thinner. Again this probably appeals to the large consumer market.

I don't know the reasoning for not moving the line up to at least 32GB of ram but I would assume their cost to produce to market segment came to a higher profit calculation by not doing it, maybe it offset the cost of the touch bar but that is speculation but I assume they had their reasons.

I don't think it is an intentional effort to drive developers away, rather calculated attempt to chase the largest market segment.
You can raise income taxes on the employed pay for UBI for the unemployed. Therefore, the cost would only be $20 * India's unemployed adult population, which is a lot less than 900 million.
Although it might be quicker than sea freight, if the frequency is less it will end up waiting too long to start its journey in the first place.

Speed and frequency are both important, unless you have the liberty to synchronise.
Might as well right why they are switching from Linux to OS X, Windows or something else.

I've been using Ubuntu up until 10.10 (if I'm not mistaken) and then Arch (for about 4 years). In the last two years I've gone from Android+Linux to full Apple.

The reasons were:

1) At the time there was no notebook that could compare with MBPr (late 2013 in my case). Yes, you could have find some with the same hardware and even same size\weight, but I haven't hold a single one of them that wouldn't creak. Macbooks are build to be with you all them time. Other companies build them to be compact alternative to your desktop. From what I've seen - nothing really changed since then.

2) Free\opensouce\etc shit. Don't get me wrong - free is good, opensource is awesome, freedom is what all people need. But not the price it comes to your sometimes. Sometime free can be more expensive, opensource can be more binding. One of the reasons to live linux was the number of forks of all the libs and utils in the system. Every now and then some team splits or somebody decides his new chrome and shiny fork is something people need and voila! you have a zoo of this shit. Because the very next day some projects will split because they can't come to agreement about what lib to be using now.

This is not a bliss, this is madness. When it comes to my user experience - I don't care what lib does mpv uses and can use, or... whatever. I only care if it does the job as well as before and I don't what all of the said forks in my system, this is a mess.

3) As soon as I got my MBPr I realised I want to try the so called BIG A ECOSYSTEM and bought an iPhone 6 on my birthday (my bd was on the same day the phone came to my country).

I was amazed by the level of comfort. Everything works out of the box, the god damn design is always consistent[1], no need to dive into python (or something else) to seamlessly use your phone with your computer. Yes, this comes at a price - without jailbreaking you are tied to your apps, services etc. You can't just upload your music to your phone via usb and some other things, but there are solutions. ONE TIME SOLUTIONS, LINUX!, not one week prior the next update ones.
Last time I tried Gimp (1 year ago), I searched for an option to rotate an image a few degrees. All I found, was rotate by 90 degrees - like in pre-v5 Photoshop. I went back to Paint.net, which is good enough most the times (sadly it's closed source nowadays and gets little updates) - I open use Paint from Win7 too, for really simple things it's very fast.
For many of us it can be hard to imagine what kind of gullible dweebs go for this. The other week I was quite surprised to learn from family that my father had given money to one of these scams (the "you have computer virus" variation). This is the man who brought our first personal computer home in the early 80s, got me set up with BASIC, still keeps his Fortran code around, i.e. not technically illiterate by any means. But you know what? He's in his 80s, and though he doesn't show any signs of dementia/senility/Alzheimer's, he just doesn't have the energy and interest to keep up with all this stuff anymore, and at his age he's used to getting a lot of _legitimate_ calls from strangers working at doctors' offices, benefits agencies etc. The same man who taught me to be overly paranoid about anything a stranger asks of you now doesn't have the willpower to see through these scams - why yes, his 7-year-old malware-riddled Windows PC sure does seem like it could have a virus, and this seems like oh just a business trying to profit by cleaning your computer for you, and if they can manage it where all these anti-virus companies have failed him then great! We're really in an era where extracting money from old people has never been easier.
IoT Starter Kit from AT&T
Sorta, but not really. Usually what happens is that a company works with a state or local government on custom projects for so long that they create their own niche which is extremely difficult for a newcomer to fill. This is mostly just an emergent property of bureaucracy. Eventually these niches are choked off and die, however it takes decades.
> It is estimated that 2048-bit RSA keys could be broken on a quantum computer comprising 4,000 qubits and 100 million gates. Experts speculate that quantum computers of this size may be available within the next 20-30 years.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/87345/how-many-...

I think it's possible we'll have a 4,000 qubit quantum computer by 2030 if a 50-qubit one is released this year, and if quantum computers can also follow a "Moore's Law" of sorts. At least D-Wave seems to be doing it - from 28-qubits in 2007 to 2,000 in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems

I imagine the NSA/Russia/China would be interested in decrypting communications of at least some people even 15 years after they happened, and they could find some use for them. We already know they intend to store encrypted data indefinitely and they just add new storage for the newly obtained data rather than overwriting the old one.
Inkscape is a gem! I'm glad more people seem to know of it than did even 5 years ago. I haven't tried 0.92 yet, but the one problem I have had with it is the macOS version, which requires X11 and has more problems with the window manager than even GIMP. Realistically, it's better to run these programs in a VM on macOS, sadly. On Linux & Windows, it is awesome and I have yet to encounter a circumstance where I couldn't achieve something that could be done in Illustrator.

I find it interesting how people still don't like GIMP. I always suspect people want it to be like Photoshop, but now I don't know. With single window mode, I have virtually no complaints. (beyond the continual lack of CMYK support, which prevents wider adoption)

For those developing Inkscape, I hope you realize that your efforts have helped me professionally, as I have regularly used it to design graphics and icons for web development at my work. Thank you!
I find most SPAs especially painful on mobile. HN is a great example that "classic" HTML pages can be very easy to navigate, independently of the screen size. It is very fast and behaves exactly as it should.
And truthfully, it is going to depend on the person to at least some extent as well.

IMO, anything that doesn't include being at work as part of your actual job duties should have no number of required work hours. You either get enough work done or you don't. If you aren't getting the expected amount of work done, then you'll eventually get fired. If you can out perform everyone else on the team and work 8 hours a week, so be it(just don't expect to get any brownie points when it comes raise time unless you put in more time).

Things like retail/food service are obviously things that require being at work certain hours so talking about shortening hours for that time of work is productive. For creative work/management/executive work though, I think we should move to a more flexible approach.
Transporting the water is not an unknown. It's really really expensive since water is really really heavy. If transport costs were free or a solved problem we could pipe water from wet places (like BC/Washington/Great Lakes) to dry areas. Transport IS the problem. Some Valley hipster isn't going to solve this with an app or webpage.
I know that I've tried wpa_supplicant directly, network manager, and a plethora of others... on anything that uses wifi (even when teh chip is 100% supported), it's always been hit or miss.

The frustrating thing is that nothing in the system tells you why. Networking suddenly just stops networking over wifi. No logs show that anything happened at all -- but it's not going to work again until you restart services (or in some cases, reboot).

This happens to me 2-3 times a week, usually at the most inconvenient times...

Nearly as much fun is using the nvidia driver. Every time I pull down kernel updates, I hope that my desktop will return... actualy this was a worry under noveau as well, so perhaps it's only made worse by nvidia.

With that said, I still like it better than my few years with Mac OS. It probably costs me ~2 hours a week in "crap I should not need to waste my time on", but I accept that tradeoff in order to have an environment that lets me work the way I prefer to work.

(Not to mention the bump in hardware performance, memory, and ssd size that I was able to get for the same $$)
Anyone know how big a number you can factor with 32 and with 64 qbits? Those qbit goals were a tangible thing that jumped out at me when I scanned the article.
New AlphaGo prototype is “beating everyone at Go”
opposite might be a true as well, bootstrapping founder might have unrealistic valuation of their experience and value it provides to the corporation. Most likely as always truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Excellent list.

There's a very big and important difference between "random" and "procedurally generated". Most great roguelikes (or roguelike-likes?) have strong procedural elements in their level generation, but certainly randomness is an important input.

I'll add brogue since I am a roguelike traditionalist. :)
My expectations were based on forecasts given to me by the manager at the time of recruitment, and those forecasts were far higher than reality. I believed those forecasts mostly due to ignorance.
No need for iOS at this time, but we do need Android developers. Most of our work is deployed or working with organizations and individuals in lower-income environments, so the priority is on Android. We'd like to develop equivalents of our Android apps for iOS but it's not justifiable at this stage.
How did an unkown entrant convince high-level pros to take a match? Pros don't like playing random Joes because the chances of an interesting game are vanishingly small.
And the XPS without the dGPU is cheaper too...