skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I own the same watch...I'm intrigued. Battery life is a concern (as is integration with some stuff). But yeah who am I kidding I'll try this and even if all it will ever do is display the time there's something to be said about "well yeah I got my Linux box right here!" :D

Remembering the "runs on a toaster" shirts I am now curious if NetBSD (or any BSD) will run on it. The thought that I never even considered messing with the watch makes me a bit sad (I've turned into too much of a consumer, not enough tinkerer left :P)
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The real reason my startup was successful: Privilege
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Perhaps every case is different, but I hardly can imagine how one can remain motivated in a burnt out condition. It's not like the lack of motivation is the cause here. It's more like the lasting effect that holds your capabilities down.

E.g. I still could read the assignment, understand the problem, even estimate how long it could take the former me to complete. Then continue wasting time in front of the screen, sometimes dabbing here or there, at 1/20th or so of normal work pace. The confidence sure suffers badly, but really it was down to complete lack of will to do anything.

There was a grandsibling comment that you can actually force healthy person to dig ditches and do other menial labor no matter what. This is a problem well studied by prisons and armies of the world over millennia. Thing is, whipping isn't usually tried with burnt out devs, who knows it could have worked. It's not like your IQ drops 50 points or something. USSR and China had a fair experience of forced intellectual prison labor, and things were getting done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
There is a huge difference between using react-native and ditching native. My observation at Airbnb is we are the former, not the later.
You could still be compromised in this situation if you use 1Password to store your 2FA codes.
In some cases where the product was received damaged can't be resold a good dropshipping company should just take the hit without a return.

Depending on the shipping company in use, there may be local returns addresses in some countries that will get on forwarded, or it may be worth it for you to set something up.

Assuming you are upfront about the product coming from China I don't think it is too bad to get them to send back there, obviously in some cases a customer won't be happy and you would offer to cover the return on a case by case basis.
Seems like a cool testbed for game AI. There's even a NullBot included from my quick research :)
To further this point, don't use any library you don't need. Don't pull in Reselect until you need it (and you don't need it), Redux once you're big enough and you're passing a doTheThing() callback prop down 3+ hierarchy levels. The only "best practise" for starting is doing less, then re-evaluate when your app has too many complexities (which is the only thing more libraries will create, or solve)
What's the alternative in this situation though? If you don't have enough RAM to hold everything you don't have enough RAM.

This seems like a decent solution, because the user experience is "wait a bit when loading stale tabs", rather than "have the entire browser choke without being really sure why"
I guess stirring up drama wasn't the surest path to a good technical or social outcome after all.
You mentioned a few things about the design that I agree with but "clunky ui" doesn't make sense to me as I think as the site UI and functionality itself is very simple.

Assuming the UI is minimally usable, the main thing I'm concerned about is if the functionality of the site is what cofounders want. For example, are the questions on the "New Project" form what people care about when looking at projects. Are people too scared others will steal their ideas to create their own projects. Does the current user profile information not give enough information that users "trust" other users enough to reach out and discuss projects.
A compromised 1Password on a Mac could just read the contents of ~/Dropbox and fling it at a remote server, bypassing any Dropbox API perms entirely, even if the user of the system was using non-Dropbox syncing for their 1Password Vault.

Not that the problem is localized to 1Password: any non-sandboxed app could do that, given the default system configuration.
Well, games. And Crouton isn't a viable solution, as long as dev mode on a Chromebook still requires you to do the ctrl+d thing at boot, or whatever.

Honestly, if it's not a machine with at least a TB of storage, user serviceable, and capable of running both Windows and a standard Linux distro, then it's not something I'm interested in as a primary computing device.

I'm not a big fan of cloud storage, using more of Google's services than I need to, browser-based technologies, being forced into choice of a specific OS, or jumping through hoops to use my computer.

From what I've seen, a ChromeOS machine is an appliance. Crouton is a kludge with a few unpolished edges, trying to turn it back into a computer. Why would I buy that?
How the Government Measures Unemployment
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

Beyond the unemployed there are separate numbers published by BLS for those not in the labor force. This number is at about 95 Million.

Who is not in the labor force?
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#nilf

The numbers
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm
Capitalism, when not regulated, tends to increase inequality. This will, eventually, lead to instability and a societal reset.
My Seiko Kinetic is going on 15 years without a single charge and will probably do fine for many years to come. Also, I can just look at it to tell the time, no need to turn it on first!
Even at that, I think the rise of freelancers and devoted hobbyists is competing away value adds for mass market journalism. News will continue to get disintermediated.

For news firms seeking survival or sustainable operations, you'll see your "value add" opinion pieces consume more of the content with less actual news. This is WaPo's strategy [0].

[0] http://digiday.com/publishers/washington-post-grew-digital-s...
As a customer of 1Password, I will never move my password files into their cloud.
It's interesting to note how valuable spectrum is for mobile internet use. Think about the bandwidth taken up by FM radio broadcasting next time your in a city with your phone struggling with sluggish connection.
Honestly this being on the first page of HN I was expecting to see something comparable to 0AD (probably the best RTS open source game out there), but this game really does look like it belongs in the 90s.
This is great. My only thought is that it is nearly impossible to adjust the sliders on a mobile device.
Well that's rude at best. If your patch gives you a better game play to the point of being considered "cheating", then maybe it should be made part of the game. Because now cheaters can use it silently and lough about other players stuck with their narrow view ports...
DAB service in the UK is a significantly better experience than FM when driving.

However, receivers vary wildly.

I rent cars frequently and while all new cars have DAB, the quality of implementation is not consistent.

There's a huge difference between the crappy ones that constantly drop the signal and the good ones that almost never do, even in really remote (and hilly) areas.
"using relations" or a particular data structure wasn't at all the point of this particular discussion.

The point was that, for a simple directed graph, the edges represent a binary relationship. While for a weighted directed graph, it represents a relationship-matrix. For the graph being non-directed this would mean, that the relationship(-matrix) is symmetric.

Meaning that any algebra, algorithm, proof, etc. on graphs of that type can be applied for the other interpretation as well.

Implementation is a different question. "Most" binary relations we happen upon (less-than as the obvious) have an infinite domain and infinite cardinality (when represented as a set of tuples), making it very hard to "visualize" as a graph.
I was never able to find an Edison, but did find a curie however it seems they have given up on it since their big marketing campaign. you can buy the dev boards but I found it impossible to find a price or supply for the soc itself. also the quark processor that powers it apparently has a segfault with the only workaround being disabling lock, which presents a lot of issues for certain scenarios, specifically multi-threading.(https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-22478) Not sure if that is related to their abandoning of the product line, if that is indeed the case. No idea what's going on. also worth noting, the actual SOC itself is significantly larger than all of the marketing pictures show it. Not sure if they used an alternate, cheaper form factor for the dev kit or what.
This sounds very much like a glorified OCR+language parsing application. AI? I don't think so.

True story: we sent a call out for ~10 summer interns this year, and got a big response, like over a thousand applicants total. My colleague, rather than spend two weeks sifting through their emailed-in grade transcripts and computing average grade (which we use as a first-stage coarse filter) spent one day writing a Python script that OCRs all the PDFs, extracts the grades, sums up and then gives us a shortlist of the best candidates.
That's because it IS from the 90ties. It was initially (commercially) released in 1999.
There are laptops with replaceable CPU, GPU, RAM, disks, etc. I own one, a HP ZBook 15 from 2014.

However they're not common and I see how low end laptops could become docking stations for a compute card. They're going to have an internal USB hub to connect IO devices to the card USB C, disk, screen, touch, keyboard. I wonder how much that's going to degrade performances.

There's going to be a limit to the upgrade options, depending on the cooling capabilities of the laptop.
I thought this too until recently, but Airplay does, in fact, support multichannel audio in sync–but only through playing music to speakers through iTunes Desktop [1], as its the only client to officially implement it. Of course, we don't see more multichannel Airplay clients because it is my understanding the standard is proprietary...

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19497?locale=en_US
Depending on your niche and the margins often it can be possible to be profitable simply paying for traffic via Google Shopping and converting off that.

So your website could have little social and organic search presence but still do decent sales just off Google Shopping. Certainly if I was starting a new solo dropshipping site I would be looking to optimise my Google Shopping traffic over building a following in social media or creating content to attempt to boost my organic search rankings.
At the beginning it was basically word of mouth and niche related forums on the internet.

Then I started reading about SEO and advertising. Organic search more or less work but I got almost no traffic from a couple of banners on related pages during few months. I didn't try advertising networks like AdWords.

I don't see big brands as my competition. I have partnered with some but I don't think they sell much on the internet (typically higher price tags) compared to full equipped city centre stores.
Thanks!

I didn't know about this mysterious sci-hub, but now I do.

More info on sci-hub: http://bitesizebio.com/28268/access-science-free/
Apple put an electromagnet in their newer laptop trackpads so they click when you press them, even though they can't move and aren't buttons.
Why? Your GPG key is airgapped and inextricable (except possibly via something like a DPA-style attack), and you can set a PIN required to perform any private key operations, complete with a configurable number of attempts before the device wipes itself.

There are DPA attacks to be worried about, but if you set a decent PIN and limit the number of failed attempts your GPG keys will probably be safe if your Yubikey is ever lost/stolen.
sorted() is widely used, adding will extend coverage considerably.
I wonder why these elite traders don't want to come to Berlin, which has plenty of culture/nightlife/etc within short walking/subway distance of many central spots? Certainly more interesting than Frankfurt.
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It doesn't matter what you call the thing under the hood. It taps into the Android app ecosystem now, so from developer and user perspective, it's Android for netbooks.
It could have an air of insufferable smugness and sigh with the satisfaction of a job well done. I say that only slightly in jest; this whole "smart connected everything" movement really smacks of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and that was meant to be dystopian humour, not a promise of a brighter tomorrow.
Based on Zeitgeist I'd say Palantir was a huge winner. Sadly, I feel the shift towards way more surveillance is only a matter of time in many European countries. All ethics aside, If I had to pick one company where all my money went it would be them.
This really is amazing. Probably one of the best clients that's out there at the moment. I recently built a one myself with Angular (https://github.com/hdjirdeh/angular2-hn) so I'm always amazed with all the different clients out there with their own unique twist.

I've always been interested in using Vue, how do you like the framework? Also, which Hacker News API are you using to power this? I'm on mobile so I can't see any of the requests at the moment. But since this is SSR, I probably wouldn't be able to see the API calls anyway.
I think the rise of freelancers and devoted hobbyists is competing away value adds for mass market journalism.

I think there's some truth to this. I think there's also a need for accreditation or other validation/reputation services, not to serve as a gatekeeper, but to assist in helping people determine which sources are likely worthwhile to listen to. If the vetting needs to be done for each person on a per-author basis, that can be overwhelming, not dissimilar to the paradox of choice.

In some ways this may end up looking similar to existing publishers, though with a little less tight-coupling between author and publisher. It's pretty clear there are large changes underway.
I see how this game is being played now.

Does it work the other way too?

The real reason my startup was a failure: Privilege

Oh no? That must be because you are a loser. Come on now. Is anyone else getting tired of this "privilege" talk?
embed a cpython interpreter into the Go runtime as an embedded interpreter?
Thoughts on Amazon Lightsail
Prior to the NHS 111 service that this article mentions they offered a helpline called NHS Direct. This was staffed by trained medical staff. It was excellent. They were able to assess issues and escalate them as appropriate.

So, if you had a non-emergency issue (I.e the person isn't dying right now, but appears to be critically ill) you could call the number and get real advice.

With 111 you are put on the line with in-trained call center staff who walk you through there a set of questions programmed into their knowledge system, they don't understand the questions, they can't help in any way.

Answer the questions "right" you get escalated to an on call doctor who rings you back after about 5 hours in my experience.

This is not good. In the situations I've needed it, I've found it extremely distressing.

I expect this system to give users access to the same system the call center staff are using, and to be similarly unhelpful.
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I'm not sure what sort of distinction you are trying to make here. Again, the two options are:

1) One big switch. Can probably be done faster, but has more risk that big problems won't be discovered until late in the game and has user-visible benefits until the switch happens.

2) Incremental changes. Take longer to complete, but allow for better mid-course correction and can show user-visible benefits much earlier in the process.

Which of those will lose more customers? It really depends on the market reality and at how successfully the incremental changes can be made.
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In reality Intel processors are more power efficient doing something useful than devices from other vendors.
I imagine that I could be happy building wood furniture. Or maybe becoming a car mechanic. I think that I'd still like to either make or repair something, if I wasn't going to be a software developer.
Hrm. Okay, let me have a go.

If I had to use one word to describe systemd's integration and adoption into the Linux ecosystem it would have to be "hostile" - the label has unfortunately been applicable in both directions.

Most of the feathers flew around 2012 when the major Linux distributions adopted systemd as their default init system, irreversibly pulling in all of systemd's system management policies as well, many of which were poorly designed.

Several big names in the Linux community (Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, to name two) have had heated discussions with Lennart Poettering and other people behind systemd about major bugs, design flaws and policy integration issues, with the systemd response consistently being "the way we're doing it is the right way, no patches will be accepted, go away" even when shown multiple times that something contravenes design best practices or tradition (aka principle of least surprise).

For this reason I dislike systemd's highly bureaucratic "manglement" style, and am very sad that all major distributions have adopted it so widely. systemd uses a very dictatorial approach which makes it very very hard to use any other init system without nontrivial and obscure system reconfiguration.

I understand Lennart also built PulseAudio and got it integrated into pretty much all Linux distributions. PA works well now, but if it's having a bad day and I really need sound working in a pinch, I can just kill it and use ALSA/OSS directly.

systemd categorically isn't like that because it's (ostensibly) an init system. However it comes with so many extra "side features" (which an increasing number of things are depending on) that temporarily shoving it out of the way to became impossible very quickly, and before any real documentation was established. I think it's understandable a large amount of the Linux community have growled and snarled when presented with this set of circumstances.

Nowadays, systemd is pretty much part of the woodwork now, but the communication and social issues continue.

The first reply to a previous comment I made about systemd was extremely enlightening to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12877934
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SiFive have opened up all the digital pieces of the design (namely HDL and SW), but a lot more is needed to make an IC. Analog I/O, power supplies, clocks, PLLs to name but a few.

Currently "open source IC's" extend to the HDL piece only - embedded flash in 130nm is a highly complicated piece of IP and is either available by third party or through the foundry under license. I am assuming the SRAM physical IP (16KB) in this chip is also a propriety library as well.

Having recently been through building a not dissimilar IC I rushed to be first in line to pick up one of the founders HiFive1 boards (its a great board - really tidy) - this project is a huge step in the right direction. Consider this alternative - in trying to figure out some complicated ARM Cortex-M bug recently, the final solution was found by 'a friend sourcing some information from China'; this is for IP that we'd paid for (although not enough!). ARM are not bad at support at all, but we are very small and help doesn't often come to those who need it in this situations, but those who find it. I'd much rather have an IC with all the digital pieces available and an open community of people integrating it into various projects when trying to make my own project succeed.
And there's a epoll() equivalent of EV_ONESHOT, EPOLLONESHOT.
Consensus from a lunch table in Norway: It was stupid to spend money on DAB now, it happens right as people move from radio to streaming. Many will move to streaming on 4G instead of DAB (which seems to have as good coverage or better, at least for me...then consider if the money spent on DAB had been spent on cellular instead).

The populist party that kicked it off in the first place is now the only party to oppose it, now that they know it is too late to do something about it...
If you run a mailing list on Mailchimp, it provides stats on the email clients that subscribers are using, presumably detected from the User-Agent that HTML email clients send when downloading images.

My tiny email list (at indieconference.com) has 8% of my subscribers using Apple Mail, and 75% still use desktop/laptop for checking email.

Email Client Marketshare also shows Apple Mail with 7% marketshare as of 1 January 2017: https://emailclientmarketshare.com/
With that device it would run faster than an ARMchair.
Depends what you see as your competitive advantage. Of course it is easy to be seduced by the possibility of big margins in scaling up like that. If you are a software developer looking to run a solo or small business though you are suddenly spending most of your time doing deals and managing warehousing and inventory.
I know I am properly a outlier but how many people on HN actually listens to radio over FM/DAB/Other non IP systems?

I dont remember when I last listened to radio. Even in the car the entertainment is one or more of the following from the connected phone:

- Streaming or locally stored music
- Podcasts (which may include shows produced by radio stations).
- Audiobooks.

At home its the same, either played directly on the playback device (sonos) or from the phone.

I really dont see the allure of flow radio, I hate listening to something I have no control over and if there are commercials its even worse.

For my sake they could shutdown all radio broadcasts and use the bandwidth for mobile broadband. (Ok, maybe keep a single station running for emergency broadcasts).
yep. it's a fork from several months ago. too bad he didn't use the button.
I'd probably go into a medical or bioscience field. It's always fascinated me (and I read medical journals as a kid).
I've never seen a visualization of a graph at the scale of Wikipedia that conveys anything useful in the visualization. You just get a big hairball.
Where is this role?
He's into computer-aided manufacturing these days.
If I were a male rat living in a cage in Binghamton, NY, I'd be stressed out too.
I would like to be a painter.

I used to learn to paint during the whole my childhood, but I gave up to be a painter and switched to be a tech guy.

I really like paint and I do some doodles in the weekend now.
My guess is that seccomp blacklisting file access should be enough. It wouldn't be too hard to patch graphviz to disallow file access. And/or containerising it to only have write/read access inside a single, dedicated folder.
when I coined it, I was thinking about color-schemes that are aesthetic and well maintained.
My only concern with smart watches is battery life.
Interesting approach. Do you hibernate the system before pulling out the drive or just shutdown and reboot?

I wonder if the HD (or SSD?) connectors are designed for thousands of pull/push cycles. How long you've been doing that?

I read the review at http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/lenovo-thinkpad... and it seems there is a screw in the way to the HD. How fast is it to remove the HD?