skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever driven in a snowstorm? They're popular in areas with snow because the drivetrain handles better in the snow, and the higher ground clearance means that they can handle unplowed roads.
I think that the problem lies in Touch Bar. T1 Chip and Touch strip require far more battery power than I thought. So battery is already on the edge of being disappointing if not already that. Plus lack of Non Touch Bar 15" model is also disappointing. But hey, I think that in a next iteration or two those will be great machines. With 32GB options, more battery power, reduced price and better software integration for Touch Bar. So I am patient. I bought maxed out 13" in 2015 and I can't be happier with that machine.
The U.S. Needs More Colleges
People love Linux, BSD and macOS/OS X in ways they've never loved Windows, that's why.

Most people tolerate Windows. Many are waiting for the day they can get rid of it completely except for this annoying list of Windows-only applications they can't live without.
Exactly right!

My highest loan is 10% interest (private loan), average between all of them is 5.2%. My annual return on the stock market is always well above 10% YoY... sooo it's basically never worth it.

Which is my point, the whole "we'll make you an indentured servant until you pay us back", seems stupid.
Incremental approach only works if the code was not that bad to begin with (properly modular, mostly SOLID, no need for major rework) and when you have unit tests.

Plus it is folly to attempt rework while writing features based on the old, broken code.
Depends a lot on the company. You will have more leverage with HR to negotiate salary with an M.S. for certain positions and companies.

I'd recommend it if you have the time. As much as HN likes to push "just show your github contribution", degrees do matter to companies.
> hey're required BY LAW to have the same "active" ingredients; you just might be paying for a slightly different pill shape, packaging, or taste.

Yes, but the margin of error of the amount of the active ingredient can be significant (up to 20% in either direction!).

The inactive ingredients can be relevant. Some people have allergies[0], and sometimes the inactive compound can affect the absorption of the drug (which can vary from person to person).

Generics are fine, but it's important to remember that they're not exactly the same as the brand-name drugs, and that can matter.

[0] For example, a lot of drugs contain lactose-based compounds as inactive ingredients, which is one of the reasons that a lot of drugs can cause diarrhea as a side-effect.
Google Security Through Transparency
It's important that people realize that although Epipen's list price was $600, the company saw only about 50% of that. The rest of it was absorbed by the channel as it made it's way to the consumer. Most of those dollar were rebated to the PBMs.[1]

You might ask, why raise the price 15% and rebate back 13%, when you could just raise the price 2%? Well, the PBMs can go back to insurers and say "look! I successfully negotiated a 13% discount for you! All those fees you pay us are worth it!". So the drug companies play along.

If you look at list prices for drugs, they went up 12.4% in 2015, but the net prices only went up 2.8%[1].

[1] http://www.drugchannels.net/2016/09/epipen-channel-economics...
> Plex cannot use the hardware transcoder of my NAS, only the native Synology Apps can

Not super topical, but this is what made me move Plex back to my Desktop. It's working fine with a network mounted drive, but I did like having a "Plex box" of sorts.
How we moved from Heroku to AWS using Docker
Am I right in reading that everything is free, except if you want the server to store your data? I.e., if I store data on my home server, I can use this for free?

Does your server have access to any plaintext?
Get over it. Seriously. 3D can be a shitshow of UI nonsense but the way things got reorganized is signifiantly more coherent and understandable.
Perhaps we should, as a society, consider the possibility that we might not need branding in medicine.

Also, I suspect there's a lot of doctor<-rep pay4play going on.
Alright, you're right. Maybe I was being a little idealistic. I don't think in reality things would happen that way.

But we can dream, right?
I don't think that studing chemistry (I like to think about alchemy as a precursor of chemistry) or theology should be stigmatized. I understand that it was just an example to support the core idea of the article, but it still leaves a bad taste.
A manifesto for reproducible science
Anyone know why they do those two things? Why not just deliver a normal web page that scrolls normally?
I'm not surprised that there are some people who read this much, but 1/3 is not in line with other statistics I've seen.

According to a literacy foundation, 45 million adults, or roughly 20% of the US adult population, are functionally illiterate (read below a 5th grade level), and in another survey 44% of US adults said they did not read a single book in a year [1].

I work in literacy and see stats like this regularly. I've never seen anything indicating that 1 in 3 US adults reads (and finishes) a book nearly every month. I am even a little surprised that 1/3 report starting at least 11 books a year, based on the basic illiteracy facts I've seen elsewhere. I'm certainly interested to see if anyone has seen other relevant stats.

1: http://literacyprojectfoundation.org/community/statistics/
Scientists switch on predatory kill instinct in mice
Agreed on phone numbers. Speaking of Wire, it doesn't require them.
I keep seeing this as a reason not to use Telegram, but here is what I want to know:

As a user who doesn't care about my chats being 100% encrypted, but does want the convenience of multi-platform messaging, is Telegram a better alternative to Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts or Whatsapp? My messages on Telegram may not be encrypted, but are they actively used to siphon information from my messages to contribute to my non-anonymized (or poorly anonymized) advertiser profile, and freely passed or sold to third-parties as they are with those platforms?

I've only seen hardline stances on "If you don't care about privacy, Telegram is great!" or "If you care about privacy, Telegram is awful garbage". What about the grey area in the middle? Where does it fit?
Great snooping, and an awesome writeup! As the author points out, organizations should be wary of security even when the developer/publisher claims that it's secure.
That and the vast majority of negative reviews I see for (technical) books on Amazon are solely due to the Kindle version quality/fonts looking terrible.
This widespread phonomenon of eyestrain from digital screens has always seemed so strange to me. I spend over 10 hours a day (sometimes closer to 15) looking at screens (CRT and flatscreens) and I don't feel any different. Maybe it's genetic?
A.W.E.S.O.M.O: The really big list of really interesting open source projects
X11 is "not" an operating system in the same sense that systemd is "not" an operating system. In other words, it's damn close to one.
Every state has their own commitment to testing Emission standards.

Califirnia is too strict in my opinion. (CARB--require your Smog Technicians to have two ways of verifying the Visual Inspection. Most Shops only have a inexpensive Motor Emmission Manual to verify components. It is filled with errors. The better Smog Testing Stations have Mitchell Manuals online--which are spot on.)

While, only 13 counties in Texas, require biannual emmission tests. After 24 years--no smog checks.

While in CA, it's 1974, or earlier.

(I went to automotive school, and still have had issues Smoging too many vechicles I have owned, and worked on. In all, but one case, it was a technician's error, or an error in the refrence material.)
So much Vim in that the letter keys start doing random crap instead of, you know, typing?

Some bad UX decisions get baked in and you have to live with them, though the nice thing is Blender can be switched to operate in completely different flavors. There's one that matches what Maya does quite closely for those who prefer that.

Check your User Preferences options. It's extremely configurable.
Totally agree $2500 isn't much, but when you couple it with the fact I make more money on my investments than I do from paying down my loan (plus interest), it would actually cost me a lot more potential earnings paying down my loan.
I disagree. set -eu should be at the top of every bash script.

This is the classic braceless if-guard mistake; leave it out today because you don't need it, forget, add something tomorrow and it breaks.
You want theoldreader.com. Very similar to GR without the social features.
June 15, End of roaming fees in Europe, towards the digital single market
> You don't need to build two library APIs. You can just build an Async method as the default implementation then have a blocking call to that as the synchronous method

This can lead to a nasty problem: Thread Pool Starvation. I contribute to MySqlConnector, an MIT Licensed MySql driver for .NET that implements truly Asynchronous I/O. We did this at first, but had to do a large refactor because we hit Thread Pool Starvation in our high concurrency performance tests. Here's the original issue: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/62

Stephen Toub has a pretty good article explaining why you shouldn't do "Sync over Async": https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pfxteam/2012/04/13/should-i...
Blender has keyboard shortcuts for everything. Learning these is a beast, there's just so many, but once you do things get a lot faster.
>>The standards escalated way too fast though.

Um, no. The EPA didn't pull the numbers out of their asses. They worked with the auto industry to come up with requirements that were stringent but realistic.

Government agencies are commonly criticized for regulating industries that they have no expertise in. In reality though, things don't work that way. Either the regulators themselves have industry experience (what is commonly referred to as "revolving doors") or they consult experts.
A large part of why the original Skunk Works was so successful is because Kelly Johnson, and later Ben Rich, did not care about outward appearances. They had a job and they did it (and they made it profitable). Here's a great book on the subject.

https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
I actually use Cargo in my kernel, with dependencies like https://crates.io/crates/x86

So that just leaves toys :)
I would like to add another possible way to interpret this.
(caveat: I am suggesting stuff that I read in the blog of an Italian economist, I hope I am not misrepresenting him).

What if Productivity was driven by demand?

Do we "produce" stuff (or offer services) without any expectation to sell it to someone? If something is selling like hotcakes the producers of such item will do all they can to increase productivity, and competitors will try to create a similar product which either costs less or offers more features (or both) in order to capture the unfulfilled demand.

Ok, assuming this is reasonable, what happens when demand, in general terms, starts to lag (due to a long economic stagnation/crisis)?

(Another symptom that could help strenghten my argument: Hanjin built a large shipping fleet expecting to need it to ship stuff around and cope to increasing demand... and now: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-05/south-korean-shipping-... )
Amazon says it will create 100,000 full-time jobs in U.S. by 2018
The urea injected Diesel engines meet the standards.
Its more of aligning of values between the applicant and the reviewer - if you have some of your personality showing through from your resume, the reviewer can have a "gut feeling" about you.
Well, the problem here is also in a way with the EPA's testing methodology. I think you have to go into it thinking that someone will try to cheat so the tests need to be designed differently (eg; don't just accept whatever comes through the ODB2 port as true).
averaging 10 pct YoY? For how long? Goldman sachs might want to hire you.
You must not be very good at math.
What exactly was Newton risking? An entrepreneur who quits her job and takes out a mortgage to start a business is risking her livelihood. If she fails, she and her family could end up on the street. Newton came from a wealthy family. If he failed in his intellectual endeavors the "risk" for him was to live out his life as an ordinary rich person and only ending up in the more obscure history books.

I think Fredrick Smith (founder of Fedex) is a much better example of someone taking an entrepreneurial and intellectual risk.

http://about.van.fedex.com/our-story/history-timeline/histor...
Ansible is nice, but it has some annoying quirks:

- YAML quoting.

- Quasi Python expressions from Jinja 2.

- Which fields are expressions and which ones are strings is not always clear.
The drug is sitting in front of a spring loaded plunger.

So to refill it you have to release the tension and then correctly reset it. A mechanism that made it simple and reliable to do that would probably cost the same as throwing away the simpler mechanism. People that want to muss with vials and needles are free to do so anyway (you can buy epinephrine and needles for cheap if you aren't concerned about an easy to use and reliable auto-injector).

The systematic failure is that the FDA granted Milan exclusivity for a simple improvement on a 30 year old product. The FDA should have the power to keep small improvements off the market when the innovator chooses not to license them.

Of course this will outrage some people that believe in the freedom of companies to benefit from the patent system, but from a pragmatic standpoint the return to exclusivity was far more harmful to consumers than the simple improvement is beneficial.
The noncentral fallacy – the worst argument in the world? (2012)
They have at least 2K customers according to this: http://www.king5.com/tech/schools-businesses-emergency-respo...

Not sure what each customer was charged, but it sounds like the app/system was resold to individual customers at a pretty hefty price.
Recently Plex has become quite unstable for me. Constantly causing clients to disconnect, even when they're on the local network. All started happening after they added in th "brain" feature.
I don't think he is a denier, I honestly believe he is poking fun at the supremely confident masses who are absolutely sure climate change is precisely as the scientists say, and that anyone that disagress in the slightest is a denier/idiot/whatever. He also happens to be correct, the general public doesn't understand the intricacies of climate change.

I'm no denier either, but you'll have to pardon me if I choose to not join the unthinking hordes who insist we must do something now, and no we will not think while we are doing this. Dissension is explicitly not allowed.

Oh, is that not exaaaaaaaaaaaactly what the message is? Of course not, but there is some truth there. There are highly trained scientists who don't fully support the party line, and they are not allowed to speak. I believe it is not an intellectually honest conversation, and I'm old enough to remember other situations where dissent was not allowed and it turned out not so good.

Also, don't forget that Scott is a humorist author, and part of his schtick is to deliberately cause outrage, especially with people who take themselves way too seriously.
I'm not sure we need to litigate this, because it's not like John Viega and David McGrew contributed the production versions of AES-GCM that everyone uses.

More importantly: whatever you think of Bernstein's packaging, an area of expertise he clearly shares with just a small subset of cryptographers is the design of cryptographic primitives optimized for consumer compute hardware. There's a reason his primitives tend to outperform the ones they supplant: until relatively recently, Bernstein was the cryptographer who took this challenge most seriously.

Finally: whatever you might think of things like qhasm, it's just a fact that the only mainstream crypto library a majority of crypto engineers are comfortable having generalist developers use is designed (in part) by Bernstein. When you use libsodium, you're (usually) using programming interfaces and constructions he designed.
Take that privacy statement with a grain of salt. That's for microsoft.com accounts. When you install Windows 10 they allow you to create a local-only account and opt out of any data collection.
In that case, the measurement is wrong.

I didn't dig deep enough on it to make my mind, and there are plenty of reasons to think it's flawed.
I've never really been particularly interested in a OSX emulator for Linux --- but a MacOS emulator would be really cool (not a machine emulator, but a 'syscall translator', and yeah, I know that MacOS didn't really have system calls).

Does anyone know of one?
Sure, sixsamuraisoldier [at] gmail [at] com

That's, my personal email.
Twitter Deletes Trump
Potential damage to the injector on each use makes it hard to guarantee a refill will work the same way.
If you just bet that for example string theory is a good enough field for research then you'll be deeply disappointed if it turns out to be nothing but a mirage.

These people live for research. They can work on anything (because interests them) and no matter if it has earth shattering consequences or small breaks they can still be happy during the process, so calling it risky or dangerous is laughable.
Should You Be Hiring Freelance or Full-Time Developers?
Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB of Data Stolen
You're replying on a post about how "we" are all moving away from Apple, so you have to remember that context. A lot of these replies are challenging that premise, especially when the author of that article provides no evidence of their headline.

I've seen no evidence or numbers of this mass exodus from mac->linux that people claim except a few loud/popular blog posts by individuals who have done it. That distorts what is actually happening.

I actually agree with a lot of what is said in the article, but I dispute how many people are actually moving to Linux. I looked into moving to Linux this past month because I needed a new machine, but went with a 2016 MBP instead. I really wanted to go Linux, I love Linux, but I just don't think it's there yet if you want a portable. There needs to be better collaboration between a hardware manufacturer and the distribution, which is really what MacOS continues to excel at. And for all the hate the new MBP received on this website, I like just about everything about it.

I have a lot of gripes with MacOS and where Apple has been taking it, but I still think it's a better experience than Linux on a laptop. Yes, that is a personal opinion, but this is coming from someone that has been waiting and waiting to switch to Linux if the right machine came along. Still waiting. I do not want to be fidgeting with drivers whatsoever. I need it to just work, so I can get to work.
I got into analytics while using the quant investment site Quantopian.

Mostly you use python numpy and scipy to analyze a large time series data set (stock market) to predict pricing while having a low correlation to the overall market movement.

I had some success and won their 6 month contest, but I still feel like a bit of a hack. I'd like to move into the financial quantitative analysis industry.

Would you say this GT program would be a good stepping stone?
Yes, this!!

If you want to visit "good suburbs" (single family homes and duplexes mostly, but with variety, character, mixed use, and you can get around by transit, walking, or car -- and a reasonable tradeoff of affordable housing but reasonable commute time) like this in the USA, the middle areas (not center, not outskirts) of northeastern cities developed before or around the time of the rise of the auto have some. Queens, Bronx, outer (ie, not the currently trendy part along the East river) Brooklyn for example.

So often we frame it as a choice, quiet but car-enslaved suburban living versus hectic but convenient urban living.

Wrong! You can have it all. You just need your government to not be stupid.
The only one's claiming something is objectively better, are the ones saying they moved onto Linux. You know, like the entire point of this article titled "Why are we all moving away from Apple?"
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The vendor was notified three weeks before this public disclosure. Is this reasonable? How should a timeline for public disclosure be determined?
I thought the same thing. My strategy was just to pay down loans as quickly as possible before putting money in stocks outside of retirement accounts. A flat year in the market doesn't make the OP's strategy worth it, not to mention a decline. Even in a really good year, $2500 isn't a huge amount to offset gains.
How does this facilitate positive changes in the world? I could be wrong, but I'm not seeing it.

It feels like preaching to the choir. It is also fairly antagonistic, which people generally respond defensively too.

It looks like it was pretty fun to build though!
The great thing about the premature resume shit-canning is that it leaves a ton of talent available for smaller or lesser known employers.
It's an incredibly efficient chip for deep learning. Similar to what Nvidia has...except up to 40x as efficient...
And don't forget: at least 99% of users will be completely unaware of AMP. They'll use it by default because lots of Google search results use AMP.

Google gets to make this happen because they own the users, and there's very little to be done about it.

The only countermeasure I can think of is if lots of publishers were to boycott AMP en masse. But publishers have been unable to reduce web bloat any other way, so what would their upside be?
I may be an educational purist, but to me I cringe when I hear universities boast about the "practicality" of their degrees they offer. You get a degree to prove you can learn. The courses should be heavy on theory and concepts. If you teach these well enough, ideally your students should be able to easily pick up whatever FOTM development stack or tool is out there and roll with it. I wish we could reverse this trend, but it just seems like it's too much good PR to say "hey everyone! come to our school and you are guaranteed to get a job!"
Adobe is forcing people to install a Chrome Plugin
well a lot of issues arise because of conflicting and unclear regulation. this certainly isn't limited to the auto industry or environmental concerns.

industries as whole do a great job of self regulation because its not profitable to be caught and everyone gets caught. the trouble is that with conflicting agencies involved you can even with the best intents get caught between two.

there are also times when someone who is responsible for passing something up the chain forgets and no one follows up. that is a process failure and again these things get fixed because its not profitable to be fined, investigated, etc
Ask HN: Refundable deposit in an app a good idea?
Does anyone have experience using refundable deposits to filter out serious applicants/users from not-so-serious ones? Does it work? Why or why not?

An example of a service that uses refundable deposits is Crew (https://crew.co). After submitting your project specs to them, they ask for a refundable deposit to gauge your level of intent before making introductions.
Big cars were always popular in the US. Until the mid 1970s when fuel economy standards and an oil crisis or two changed the market. The oil crisis passed, but the economy standards did not.

Trucks weren't held to the same standards as cars, so manufacturers started making more carlike trucks to meet consumer demand for larger vehicles. The improved visibility and image of toughness and independence also helps drive truck and SUV sales.
It doesn't work for me, and never has. Also on Safari and iOS 10.2.