skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't know. As a butthurt BitKeeper guy I would love for it to be SCM reasons. I mostly think that had nothing to do with it but when I look at the data, I wonder. We spent a lot of time helping them with their problems, all stuff that nobody in the Git world steps up to do (like submodules that actually work). All that help may not have made a difference.

On the other hand, it went way beyond just SCM stuff, I debugged their various filer problems (that they blamed on BK and I'm happy to say not a single one had anything to do with BK, BK just exposed that the filer was buggy). I like to think our help did make a difference but I really don't know.

What I do know is we did whatever Intel wanted for over a decade and they used to have BitKeeper in ever powerpoint they wrote about new processor development. But they have a culture of tools have to be free so I guess they get what they pay for.
Unless the service dog has an "In Training" jacket, the person holding the service dog's harness is legally blind.
The thing about this advice is, it basically reduces to "don't work for startups". Because paying below-market salaries in exchange for equity is pretty much universal. It's not even malice, most startups just don't have the cash on hand to pay competitive wages.

> Negotiate hard on the salary.

Recent CS grads (who are the most common startup workers) don't really have the leverage to the do this. And experienced (or, ugh, "10x") developers can probably always get a better deal at a big company.

I feel like "working for a startup is almost never economically rational" is the elephant in the room that everyone is trying not to talk about. (As for me, I do take my own advice and deliberately work for BigCorp, but when I've tentatively brought this up to others I'm usually met with hostility so I don't do it in person anymore)
The call center might be indian, but the guy making most of the money is always an American. The people making these calls are reading of a script and entering data into a database. This script and the numbers are provided by an American client - and some of that is legal outbound marketing also. Looking at the script, it is non trivial for any agent to know whether it is legal or not.
10 years ago, there was no MacBook Air ;)
You should notice how I didn't refer to either party as mine, and specifically called them both "capitalist parties", which for me is a term of insult.

My objection is that if I work outside the two-party electoral system I am labelled a lunatic and potentially even criminal, while if I work inside it, my voice is diluted for partisan advantage.
Optimisation and Search problems are not fundamentally different; one can usually translate a problem from one world to another. For instance, take your optimisation problem and rephrase it as:

Here's a value of the fuel efficiency; find me a setting of the parameters that achieves a fuel efficiency better than that.

It's now a search problem. To find the best fuel efficiency, just binary search over possible values of the efficiency.

Where D-Wave differs is that you can only solve a particular kind of optimisation problem, and this kind of problem can't encode general computation. General quantum computers can solve general computation problems, not just the simulated annealing of D-Wave QC.
Google is winner? What do they do now? I don't remember being excited about their product for a long time. 2008 if you exclude Android. Seriously. Gmail inbox partitioning was a good thing.
" And nothing ruins our sweet moment like me stomping on babies."

Guy's got a sense of humor... :)
This website seems to be broken, because it says Amit isn't that popular in the UK. http://names.darkgreener.com/#amit
We have VC backing and are getting a pretty encouraging response, so we are optimistic about our chances.
Razer laptops have historically ran poorly with Linux. I'd look somewhere else unless things have significantly changed.
An inconsiderate asshole is completely fair if he treats everyone equally.

That's a real problem that many attempts to quantify discrimination overlook.
3Blue1Brown has a great video intro series on the topic. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw/vid...
My understanding is that the real bottleneck is that if you want to buy iTunes gift cards in large denominations you have to go to Apple or a reputable retailer and specifically ask the vendor to put up to $500 on the card and charge it to you. If you're doing that several times in a row to it probably ought to raise a flag with Apple, the vendor or possibly your bank.

Relative to cash or gold, the token also has the not insignificant problem that it's time limited and can be secretly spent or voided, which should result in the card being substantially discounted (and checked for validity with Apple) each time it changes hands. It's also officially "not for resale"...
Sometimes hackathons are for a social cause (i.e. not tied to a company's products). Even in those cases, they strongly suggest using the company's tools/products to solve said social problem. I see it as a win-win. You get to use your tech skills to solve a social need for some nonprofit (they are not required to buy anything for this solution) and the company gets some publicity.
Rai Weiss: 100 Years of Gravitational Waves
It's not a joke, and yes, it's fair. Walk down a street in San Francisco, you'll walk past literally dozens of people literally screaming for help. Feel free to try, report back after the inevitable complete and utter disaster.

Nobody is under any obligation to interact with people around them, and nobody deserves to be shamed for wanting to live their own lives and let other people live theirs.
Reading the article, I thought there was a high chance it was a centaur.
The most mind-boggling thing they did with their Android app (that I know of, at least) was hands down this: https://jaxenter.com/facebooks-completely-insane-dalvik-hack...
You're missing the real story.

- Zeppelin - 0.0887 kg of CO2 per Ton-Mile

Zeppelin freight is more fuel efficient than train freight!
I believe it was Noam Chomsky who described the NYT in the following way: It's an establishment paper, but there's a range of political opinions within the establishment, and the NYT is on the left side of that range. That range is narrower than the range of opinions for the population as a whole. Thus the NYT could be described as "liberal establishment," but not extreme left.
I think that scam is particularly effective because they use gotomeeting, or similar software, to remotely control the victim's PC and then actually go through a scripted tech support session eventually running phony antivirus software which displays to the victim that there is a plethora of viruses/trojans/malware installed on the PC.

For someone who has never had someone remotely control their PC, they most definitely seem like legitimate Microsoft tech support agents. I would imagine that would fool the vast majority of people sadly.
Validating a business idea with a $50 budget
You should become famous for that law.
Eat that, Kurzweil. You found exponential laws.
We found a neglinear counterlaw ;)
Try the Asus UX305. No seams, completely aluminum body, no fans, large nice touchpad, and matte wide gamut IPS display for $600 or so when it's on sale. It's similar in design to a 13" MacBook Air but a little smaller/lighter and with a far superior display.

At first I thought the Core M processor would be slow, but it's comparable, maybe 15% slower than an i5, once it reaches the full thermal throttle.

(And the keyboard isn't backlit but I always thought that feature was kind of lame anyways.)
No... No you're not. Not at all. Why would you think this?
Southerner that visited Boston as a teenager, held a door open for a 30-something woman as courtesy and got an earful about how I was sexist. I'm no longer sexist and hold doors for everyone of all genders.
Introducing Super-Simple Workflow
It's essentially a myth [0]. According to the latest stats from the European Commission [1] the French work 40.4 hours/week on average (including paid/unpaid extra hours; excluding meal breaks and travel time), which is close to the EU average of 41.4 hours.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140312-frances-mythic-35-...

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&l...
Manà e Nicky Jam: “De pies a la cabeza”
You'd be surprised how many people fall back on movies and television to provide context and background to their lives and situations.
Implementation of HR Software: Which Project Method Is Useful?
There's always "something", for most of us.

For me, it was the unibody and screen hinges - they were just way more durable than anything else out there, at almost any price. Now I share your affinity for the trackpad.

I think I'm at the end of wanting a full-function laptop at this point. Once my 2015 rMBP dies I'll likely replace it with a powerful work/gaming PC at home and a convertible tablet PC like a Surface Pro.
SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system
The book is called "Soldier Spy" [1], by "Tom Marcus". He was on the Jeremy Vine show last week, his interview is worth a listen (starts at 33:30).

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32330232-soldier-spy
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085hbwn#play
The feature list sounds extremely similar to OpenStack Swift [1]. In fact, the first sentence on there is nearly identical to the submission title: "Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store."

Advantages of LeoFS over Swift seem to be NFS support (I think there were some efforts to expose Swift containers as filesystems, but I didn't see anything becoming stable) and regional replication (which is tedious with Swift).

I quickly skimmed through the docs for LeoFS, and I'm a bit confused: They talk about master nodes and slave nodes, while at the same moment claiming that there is no SPOF. So I would guess that there is some sort of leader election going on. Swift doesn't do anything like that; the cluster shares a ring file that determines where each file goes, and if you have N replicas, there are at most 2N locations where these replicas can be stored (N regular locations and N fallback locations).

Another thing that concerns me is that the documentation implies that the servers need to come up in the correct order (see [2], section "Method of server launch"). One thing that I like about Swift is that individual nodes and even individual services on each node can be operated completely independently, which keeps my Kubernetes setup and Helm charts simple.

[1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/

[2] http://leo-project.net/leofs/docs/getting_started/getting_st...
This is the typical response I get from Apple users whenever I ask how to do something with a Mac that just can't be done.

I've been hearing it for 20 years from Mac users: "Why would you want XYZ feature anyway?"

It's hilarious and there is no wonder in my mind as to why the vast, vast majority of businesses use Windows and not Mac.
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Being ethical?
Maybe the engineers need to have some ethics but not all products do.
The fact that they're wilfully interfering with communications.
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Thanks. Then I think the problem / bottleneck isn't with speed of the train. More likely it is stopping at each location waiting for custom clearance.
Agreed with most of the disadvantages.

Your processor is also quicker / more power efficient.

16 GB DDR4 will impact the battery life negatively, while 1920x1080 display will impact it positively. Both have their price.

The weight of your laptop is more than 2 times the weight of the 15" MBP 2015, approx 1,5 times the weight of a 15" MBP 2010, and roughly 2,5 times the weight of a 15" MBP 2016 (there is no 17" MBP anymore.)

DVD drive or burner I won't miss. I would've removed it from my old MBP 2010, but I am afraid it will cause instability. Its also a bit tricky to remove.

1 TB HDD is also IMO pointless. I just use networking if I need to access data. WiFi is quick enough.

A major advantage of your beast is the graphics card. If I'd find that important (I don't) I'd consider a eGPU.

Regarding bad battery life, if a device uses USB-C I can see power banks being useful in that regard.

Good luck, hope to read from you how it works out for you.
They're abandoning it because of an obvious requirement? Did someone not realize that in a 24 hour operation that consists of physical activities, cutting hours would require more people to carry the same workload?
I added the maintainer email address for the v0.2.2 deploy, can you confirm this is working for you now?
Ludicrous? No, Faraday Future’s Tesla-Fighting FF 91 Is Downright Unbelievable
> On iOS, you can listen to something, unplug the headphones, do something, plug them back in, hit the play button and you carry on where you left off

In my experience, this doesn't work very well anymore on iOS 10
Well, that's a lot better than the nagware that used to run during our first-thing-in-the-morning calls 3 or 4 years ago. Hopefully corporate IT doesn't screw it up (of course looking it down, fully screwed).

I still like the Mac's unobtrusive "get it tonight after I shut down" option, though :-) (or Ubuntu's "I'll get it when I'm good and ready", but that's not a system for worker bees)
Not sure I follow. I usually carry both as part of my carry-on.
According to the user guide

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/starterkit-assets/ATT+Cel...

The sensor is an ST HTS221 capacitive humidity sensor.

http://www.st.com/en/mems-and-sensors/hts221.html

Honestly, this is just a development kit that AT&T contracted Avnet to design just to get developers using a cellular modem over AT&T's network. The development system (from Freescale and Avnet) and transport (Microsoft Azure, which is plenty secure) is unimportant.
I think a convincing case could be made that the human body is prior art.
Best part, "With this in mind I played more MarioKart to record new training data. I remember thinking to myself while trying to drive perfectly, “is this how parents feel when they’re driving with their children who are almost 16?”"
When I was in sales/marketing, it was all about hitting your quota. If you were good, your boss didn't care what you were doing as long as you hit your quota every month. It gave the higher performers the leeway to work when they wanted to, and also give an incentive to the average sales people to up their game to be able to do the same.

As a developer, a majority of the companies I worked at there was no incentive to go above and beyond, even at the end of the year in terms of bonuses. Sure, the guy that was burning himself out for that extra 1% yearly raise usually got it, but it never made any sense to me to work that hard for a few more pennies over the year.

Now in my 30's, my attitude is to get my stuff done and stay off my managers radar. My sanity and work/life balance is too important at this point in my life.
Swift Wrapper for Facebook’s Yoga CSS Flexbox Layout Engine
I think there is some truth to that. When you are young, you have really only had time to give serious consideration to one angle. As you get older, you are given time to start to ponder other angles, and will naturally want to discuss those other perspectives to see how they fit into the big picture.

The problem, however, is that those who only have one angle of perspective start to equate what they can think of and with what they believe. When someone suggests a different perspective (questionable ones included), it is assumed that is their belief, but in real world there is a clear separation between ideas and beliefs. Often the points are presented simply to understand the nature better.

After all, you don't really understand something unless you can argue several different points of view.
Oh man, I thought I searched that list fully before posting. Thanks! I edited my post to be an expansion of that item, rather than a new addition.
>the big cities will tend to steamroll over the priorities of the rural voter

Only if there are more urban voters than rural voters, with little spread of suburbia between them. For almost all of American history, this wasn't true.

The original reason to over-enfranchise rural areas was because in the Colonial period, rural areas were wealthy and urban areas were perpetually in debt. The Founders didn't want the urban areas, which held pluralities but not majorities of the population, to vote away their debts to the rural landholders.

Of course, nowadays it's the opposite way around: the cities hold the wealth and the rural areas are in perpetual debt, as well as constantly receiving net transfer payments from urban America even when rural citizens are not actually poor at all. If we had a one person, one vote system, I would be happy to discuss the cultural and economic divides between urban and rural voters. As it is, we have a system in which rural voters just count for more seats than urban ones, so the particular parties and policy positions don't matter nearly as much as that foundational issue.
I dont think anyone really debates the need for such escorts, the prez needs to get to the airport securely. But perhaps due to my locatuon ive witnessed many ridiculous uses.

Training. A good number of these police escorts are training senarios. Police need to train, but the use of force to detain members of the public during training is a step too far imho.

Some VIPs arent very vip in my book. After concerts downtown, in the traffic chaos, it is not unussual to see police escort performers to the airport or hotel. Taylor Swift doesnt qualify as vip imho.

Questionable destinations. Taking someone out to lunch doesnt need the police convoy. Send for take out. Dont block a bridge or manhandle me off my motorcycle just because a visiting vip feels like italian tonight. Let the food come to him.
The criterion for success for an economic intervention cannot be "riots didn't happen." The only word for this reasoning is absurd.

I'm not sure where the rest of your argument is going. You seem to be saying that Indian lives are cheap anyway.

The declared criteria for the success of demonetisation has shifted twice so far. It started as "we'll stop corruption", then it was "we'll go cashless" and now it's "we've converted cash saved at home to cheap loans". But even the BJP has never claimed that it was "this will not cause riots".
Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs
So? Alta Vista was in the search business long before Google was a PhD thesis.
- The output is a reflowed PDF. It keeps 'PDF quality'.
- Any PDF reader/device could display new version paper technically.
- Kindle has supported.
Show HN: IOTIFY- a Rapid Prototyping Tool for Building IoT Systems
Dear Hackers,
One of the most common problem when creating IoT solutions is to build something starting from scratch. There are plenty of great cloud platform providers out there, however, we have observed that currently there are no easy ways to simulate an entire IoT system. The dependency upon hardware and sensors make it even more complex to work out a proof of concept and showcase a viable end to end solution.

At iotify.io we have built tools which will help you prototype a large-scale IoT solution with ease - working with cloud provider of your choice.

The Database generator could generate a large amount of Sensor data based upon the template you specify and save it into a JSON file or inject it directly to MongoDB/ElasticSearch (any many databases in the future). The idea here is to quickly get you started with offline sensor analytics. You could write custom functions and control the pattern completely.

Network Simulator (coming soon) generates real-time traffic from thousand of IoT nodes (MQTT/HTTP and many other in future) in a similar way, thereby simulating a live IoT system. It would be very useful for stress testing your solution as well doing some real time analytics.

Virtual IoT lab allows you to play with different hardware and sensor projects which are completely virtual and programmable in your browser, thereby allowing you to prototype PoC quickly. We will be working to make more boards and sensors available in the future.

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The OP is suggesting that taxes on the employed go up by >= $20 at the same time that they receive a check for $20. No net benefit for the employed while they are employed, but the checks keep coming even if employment stops.
DVD.com – A Netflix Company
Your comment reminded me of an amazing piece of journalism, about people who accidentally leave their babies to die in hot cars:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-dist...

Warning, if you're a parent this story is heartbreaking and may give you nightmares. It has haunted me ever since I read it.
> in this day and age of networked computing and fast WiFi why would 256 GB not be enough?

My rMBP is only 256GB, and while it's "enough" - only barely. Having to think about disk space regularly and make sure to remove software I'm not using regularly is something that I've not had to do in a very long time. It's tight enough that I'm hesitant to dual-boot Windows with Boot Camp like I have on every other Mac I've owned for gaming and such.
The problem of 'scale' they were addressing in the iOS app wasn't scale of users, but rather scale of devs. They have 18k classes because they came up with a rather clever way of allowing many separate developers to all work on different features of the same app, without stepping on each others toes. This might not seem like a hard problem if you've never worked on a non-trivial iOS app, but it is a pretty impressive feat.

Facebook wants the shortest possible time between product idea and real world users interacting with it, which is why they also have a solid CI/CD pipeline. You might not agree with the tradeoff, but the pragmatism is impressive
"Being ethical is a core value of the company."

How does it make them stand out? What does it translate to in practice?