skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was all in with apple and went there for pc building help after the weak macbook update. I can get all the pcie ssds and ram upgrades I want now. Skylake integrated graphics somehow drives a 4k display snappier than a max 2015 macbook pro. Windows 10 isn't bad after you give up on the idea of multitouch trackpad and get a nice clicky-pointy mouse. I am thrilled with getting better performance for my needs at 1/4th the price with the freedom to incorporate any new technology that comes out. The best part about going pc is that this i5 cpu with stock cooler is completely silent compared to the macbook pro that revs up like a jet engine whenever anything is connected to it. My only complaint about the pc world is that all the high end stuff is brightly colored plastic when I'm looking for brushed aluminum.
It can also be utter hell though if you rely on lots of external dependencies that don't share the same lifecycle.
Callback hell is gone with promises, and async/await is shipping in ES7.

what's wrong with es6 syntax
and dependencies?

I haven't used elixir, but I see a lot of discontent with JS. Almost like its trendy to hate JS and constantly complain about JS fatigue.

There are some issues indeed, but I find they're generally exaggerated.
I used to make ivr software. Usually there's a few different systems involved in a single number, and you may even be transferred between numbers. It's all held together with painters tape, so many places for a bad transfer.

When it worked, we could get everything based on caller ID without having to ask, yet "security"
Just for the sake of reference:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel...
> a power user might feel that they focus on superficial things

battery life affects everyone and they had the competency and integrity to call apple out multiple times
That's gonna be kind of hard if it doesn't actually use Linux.
Agreed. Lattner was the only remaining engineer of note at Apple that I knew by name.
You assume that the program will recognize the edge cases. But will it recognize the edge cases of recognizing the edge cases?
Windows 10 vs Android vs iOS data collection. Has anyone written up a good comparison? (I guess I am thinking of these in their mobile OS form).
Oh yes, the smell of weed is most certainly stinky. I lived in Washington, D.C. for a time and you could regularly walk past a group of folks and get hit in the face quite abruptly by the repugnant odor.
But every time they took something away, it felt like they were giving you something in return for more money.
I have read that Antarctic ice is overall increasing. Is there a reason to be concerned with loss of ice from Antarctica? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052016/why-antarctica-s...
I did it myself, buying parts mostly on Amazon, after doing a bit of research. If you want specific part numbers / buy links, let me know.
Lesson learned; thanks!
> I used to use a PC not too long ago and nothing would work

Was this before or after the Windows 10 WSL environment was released? I think that has done a lot to change developers' views on doing ＊NIX development on Windows.
I think there are some microorganisms in the snowpack, but other than that it's a pretty barren place, at least above the water. Below, a lot of sea life congregates around the ice front - there are nutrients that melt out of the ice - and this supports an ecosystem, but that should all just move to the new ice front. The iceberg itself will probably support a small marine ecosystem as it floats away and melts.

I'm not an ecologist though, so I'm hazy on the details.
True enough, but Ross Ulbricht /did/ try to have someone killed. He began with the best of intentions then broke bad. It's challenging to find sympathy for him.
It seems like that should be something to sort out. If it's possible for a State legislature to pass laws making something appear legal that is actually Federally prohibited doesn't that show that the Federation is broken, why doesn't the Federation fix that - either by saying States can't pass laws allowing Federally prohibited activity or by saying the State gets ultimate jurisdiction and only if the State hasn't established a law on something does the Federation's legislation take over. Presumably half the States would go one way and half the other??

Any insights for a European on this?

AFAIU in Europe's not quite federated system European laws get ratified and become national laws in time (with selection and modification where the original law allows). That seems a natural and appropriate way to spread laws to member states.
Wow, such small/local government.
This stuck out for me, but I might be wrong:

Net Apps base their stats on unique visitors per site per day. ("We 'count' unique visitors to our network sites, and only count one unique visit to each network site per day.") We [StatCounter] base our stats on page views

So if an os x user read more pages than a linux user on a specific site, that same user will have more "weight" in the statcounter analysis.

Basically.. different methods that actually measures different things.
I also distinct between people that use a debugger to find problems in code and people that use the debugger to write code in the first place. The latter are the ones I've criticised in my original comment. I expected to receive many downvotes on this comment because most mediocre programmers I know rely heavily on the debugger for programming.
> true only in the narrowest sense

I think it's true in the right-width-of-sense. Illnesses like depression are difficult because they certainly _do_ lie somewhere closer to the symptom side of the "symptom-disease" spectrum than cancer.

Alcoholism is good for comparison, because it presumably falls even further towards the "symptom" side of the spectrum. But there is certainly a spectrum!

So we have Cancer which is mostly-disease and Alcoholism which is mostly-symptom, and Depression which is somewhere in between.

The fact that these complications lead to weird moral baggage (socially-derived feelings of guilt, etc.) is completely separate from a good analysis of the situation. Depression and cancer are just very different phenomena.
> Limiting them city by city, county by county could make trouble for a lot of people

No it fucking won't.
I second this, as a student I definitely recommend Cloud9 as well.
I agree with your point - though I'd also say that people who actually working in the field generally are considering these sorts of issues and are not blind to them.

The "OMG only cars will exist and everything will be amazing because pedestrians are a fictional concept" crowd overwhelmingly seem to be wide-eyed futurists who don't actually have professional first-hand exposure to the field.
I had to google "Bonger Instituut" to convince myself it wasn't a joke.
It depends. My own depression was completely cured by lifestyle changes, as was my wife's (different causes for each, but mostly related to jobs).
so your argument is that you are concerned about your tax burden 50 years from now? you can't be serious.

what about the tax burden TODAY of paying for police, prison, and criminal justice system to enforce prohibition?

what about the cost to society TODAY of prohibition?
You can make meaningful and consistent groupings in a continuum . For example you can make a distinction between poor and rich citizens, even tough the income distribution is a continuum. Same goes for the rainbow, the fact that it is continuous doesn't prevent people from being able to differentiate yellow and blue.

But even so the human genome is not continuously distributed, even if the difference is linear with distance, simply due to the fact that humans are not continuously distributed geographically. You can't handwave oceans and mountains away.

The main criticism of clustering is that the hierarchy of clusters that you obtain depend on the distribution of your samples, and that we currently do not have a good uniform sampling of human DNA. In short clustering can tell you reliably if someone is Irish or Italian, but may falsely identify the french as italian if there are not enough samples for french people.
Fitbit acquires vector
Your terminology is flat-out wrong, sorry. Asteroids and comets are not differentiated by their orbital shape.

But that's not what I'm disputing. Asteroids routinely have their orbits mucked with by the planets and get thrown into (1) elliptical orbits, (2) non-planar orbits, and (3) ejected. In the first two cases, we aren't even looking for them because there is so much space that it's not worth trying.

Additionally, it is not true that we have found all dangerous NEO asteroids that are in ordinary orbits. NASA is still running a program whose goal is to find 90% of these [1]. For example, in just the past week they discovered a near-Earth object in excess of 1 km [2].

[1] http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/

[2] http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/
just asking for some info,

but how do you make sure that multiple of your db systems are in sync (specifically interested in MySql and elasticsearch)?

Hope it's alright to ask you that.
You can actually get to them without Tor via gateways, but my expectation is that sex service providers would install a Tor app on their phones to contact the hidden service.

At that point it's a matter of tapping the Onion Browser icon instead of Chrome/Safari and going to a different bookmark.
I have a 2012 model and did exactly the same thing, but also replaced my internal ssd drive with a 512gb capacity from OWC. The screen and casing were all replaced under the delaminating recall so it only cost me a few hundred dollars for a new battery.
I regret ever using Google or Facebook services so extensively. I'm on Windows 7 and intentionally never upgraded to Windows 10 due to the privacy issues. From this announcement it doesn't sound like there's anyway to 100% remove any tracking for all applications. Am I mistaken?
Fascinating. Thank you for the detailed response. This is a really iteresting project, its wonderful that you get to work on such things. I will now have to stay updated with the progress. That photo in the article of the plane wing and the fissure extending to the horizon really puts the beauty of the Antarctic in perspective. I would like to make it down there one day. Cheers.
Should have a 2016 in the title.
I know that Mathematica tries to do this with machine learning functions and its available in Mathematica 10 https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/highly-automat...
The primary purpose of the WoD is to provide jobs to drug cops. The DEA is aware that if drugs become legal, there will no longer be a need for a Drug Enforcement Agency.
Remember when people used to visit the people they care to listen to, and would actually sit down, and physically listen to them? But now our lives are too busy and filled with non-stop schedules so we just don't have time anymore. And even if we did have time, we'd feel like we were wasting time. We're missing something vital in life with all this technology running it for us. I think this app is inspired by the developers realizing we need that basic human need, but without fully realizing what it is. So they came up with a way to sort of do the exact same thing, but asynchronously, and as a social media app.
Author here..My focus isn't a google seo play, it's a 'build a business' play that leverages all forms of marketing.. word of mouth, bumper stickers, billboards, search, social.. A neat, easy to remember domain can do lots of good when building a brand..

Related domains can do as much harm as good.. a good article to read:

https://blog.nuts.com/were-going-nuts-dot-com/
When my Ham buddy passed away two years ago, I was unable to hear our local club's last call discussion for him. I wasn't able to get to a radio at the time. I wish someone had been willing to step up with some technology and at the very least, record it.

Point being, sometimes more modern technology can be better than the old stuff. If he had instead had social circles interested in a more modern platform, then maybe I could have been a part of it. I'm all for people like the OP here trying to innovate in the audio space. I think the medium has a lot to offer.
Show HN: A step sequencer built with Vue.js
maybe because of how negative it is. The idea that there is not 1 innovator at apple is non-sense. A lot of misses lately, but stuff like AirPods show there is still lots of talent at apple
Interestingly, he can still be arrested for DWI. This would be an interesting case, though, because the mens rea is clearly not present; the human intended to be conveyed by a capable transportation system, and didn't intend or attempt to control a vehicle while in motion. I look forward to the result of this case for legal precedent reasons.
I think it's not quite that simple. Your analysis seems correct, as far as it goes, but overlooks the argument that the owner of the computer may have consented to give that Best Buy employee access to his files. That aspect could make this more akin to, e.g., a roommate consenting to a search of your shared apartment, and it is well established that such a search is permissible under the 4th amendment (unless you are physically present and object).

Edit: Put another way, the following is not necessarily true:

> Best Buy employees were working as agents of the FBI and any searches they did require a warrant.

Agents of the FBI do not need a warrant to search premises or possessions that you have voluntarily given them access to.
>Sea ice doesn't contribute to sea level rise when it rises

Isn't there a small but not insignificant sea level rise due to warming of the water due to less sea ice (less light reflected, greater warming of the sea than with an ice layer)?
Many communities have been using their own solutions for it for a while (e.g pylint / pep8 if you've used Python, clang-format for C++, js-beautify for javascript, etc) and many companies use "linter as style enforcer" but you still need to watch out for some things that linters don't catch in most languages.

FWIW if you use vim, this plugin is great: https://github.com/google/vim-codefmt
Razer’s laptop concepts were stolen and the company is offering a big reward
I think the most telling part of the story was that Apple seems to have lost the Good, Better, Best split. Way back in the olden days of Apple you had to really pay attention and work to find out which system would be best for your needs. Then Jobs came along with the 4 quadrants of computers (Personal Portable / Personal Desktop / Professional Portable / Professional Desktop) and suddenly everything was much clearer. Over the seasons that morphed slightly into Good, Better, Best laptop or desktop, but it was still pretty easy to pick your system. Fast forward to today and the Apple ecosystem is a soup of MacBook / Air / Pro / Retina / TouchPad machines that are nearly impossible to tell apart. And that's just the laptop line; forget talking about phones, tablets, and desktops!

I used to be able recommend the perfect device for almost anyone, right off the top of my head, without doing much (any) research at all. Now, I don't think I could recommend anything in the Apple lineup with confidence. This to me is a huge failing and saddens me beyond whatever particular piece of hardware Apple has built lately. :(
Sounds like the octopus from Finding Dory!
Driving a known "autonomous safe" route, or map region, and simply not driving if the conditions aren't ok (it's snowing, there is construction in the area so maps or lanes are poor etc) works. But that's basically taking the "mostly autonomous"-level driving, and just adapting either the environment and/or the restrictions/schedule/routes to that.

Uber could probably also just have defensive systems that simply park the car and wait for a human driver to arrive, if there is a problem. It's good business for them to have 3 cars per driver. It still doesn't approach the interesting problem though, which is autonomous driving on a human level (Autonomous Uber without backup drivers, in an entire city). That I think is far away.
Reminds me of party lines and voice bulletin boards, perhaps created without awareness of them?
Yeah, but that's not what I said.
So after truck drivers, data scientists are next on the list of people who will lose their jobs to ML.

It seems that this new technology impacts the poorly and highly educated alike.
Macro+Fast+Mass+Ejector+&+Split+(Best)
I've run across this quote a few times recently and like it a lot. But there's always the nagging doubt / imposter syndrome telling that you don't really have taste either.

Like the people who can taste good food, can't necessarily cook good food.

Perhaps it's just enough that you care about something and want to get good at it.

I liked Sal Khan's TED lecture [0] about the possibility of us all having the capacity to be cancer researchers in the same vein that people 200 years ago assumed that only the best would be able to read.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTRxRO5SRA
> easy to become reliant on the technology and have a serious accident when a sensor fails (particularly for blind spot detection)

Recently realized this myself when the blind spot detector light went out in our SUV. It's gotten me thinking about how manufacturers would approach a situation like that without forcing the user to undergo (or more accurately ignore) safety tests like a walk-around prior to driving or something similar. Or perhaps the intended use of these sensors should be stated as supplementary - ie "do not rely on them without verifying it's safe to merge yourself"? People would ignore that too. It's an issue I haven't really seen a solution to anywhere.
Differences between Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, and Death Metal
It's not about having them in my native language, it's about having them on my phone as an app instead of a website.

At least the website seems to work well on mobile.
Perhaps. This is probably why I ain't a psychologist :)

The definition linked above does seem to generally imply (and in some cases explicitly state) that depressive episode/disorder symptoms better explained by some other diagnosis or situation (like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) should be taken as further symptoms of that disorder/situation rather than a separate diagnosis of MDE/MDD. I guess the question is whether or not symptoms induced primarily by external stimuli (as opposed to when the symptoms are expressed as irrational thoughts regardless of external stimuli) ought to be under a similar banner of "these are symptoms of $SOME_OTHER_CONDITION rather than depression". My (again: non-professional) opinion leans in favor of "yes" being the answer, since it likely has different treatment implications (remove patient from symptom-causing stimuli v. prescribe cognitive behavioral therapy and/or medication to patient), but that's the thing about brains: nobody really understands how the brain (and thus the mind) works, and thus it's unclear whether or not such a distinction would actually be useful.
To that end the company instituted a points-based incentive program the year prior, geared towards bringing on more hispanic, black and female workers. So far, it hasn't worked out too well (no, Peter Thiel doesn't count). And now it appears we finally know why.

Because a "points based system" comes frighteningly close to tokenism?

According to a Bloomberg report, despite a number of minority candidates making it through the rigorous interview process, the final decision always fell on engineering leaders who nearly exclusively picked white or Asian men.

Oh.
Facebook 'to launch ads within videos'
Strictly speaking from my own personal experience, I found that guided meditations are much more effective and helpful in building a daily habit of mindfulness. A couple reasons:

1) I love learning new techniques every day and this really motivates me to meditate daily. For instance - This morning, I meditated to Simon Moyes' new year meditation on Simple Habit and I learned how to associate a happy moment with an unhappy moment in my day and that was super interesting. I can't laern new techniques from unguided meditations.

2) When I meditate to a guided meditation, I build a personal relationship with certain meditation teachers (even though it is just through recordings) and this helps me to look forward to meditating daily. Perhaps I feel more accountable for meditating.
The web-based dashboard is for your MS account. Keep reading and you'll see what's coming to desktops.
Talking about Template Tags
Thanks for that. I _still_ can't tell, from looking through it -- are they going to stop harvesting wifi access point passwords? That alone (along with many of the other items) is a non-starter.
You are not. MS is playing intentionally dense with this PR post. It is infuriating that one can't disable info (keystrokes, crashed dev apps with source inside) leaking out, on a machine paid in full. Hardware and software.
Thanks for this! What a gorgeous photo. Still looks very surreal.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169348
First release of NNCP store-and-forward files/mail exchanging helper utilities
How can we help you move to GitLab EE? (As you indicated it scales to 100k users so that shouldn't we the problem)
Snapchat Parent Moves to Book Revenue Where It Is Earned
Click on the image to get the image in a modal. Right click on the image. View Image. Then it will be in a new tab and your cursor will turn into zoom.

At least in Firefox that's what I did.
Well, there's one comic that is his motivations for building the app, which while admirable, but I'm not sure if appealing to my pathos makes me want to use the app any more than I would have otherwise. The other comic is better directed at why I/you might want to use it.
This is a very true point and sad consequence of both globalization and technological interconnectedness.

In New Zealand I have heard stories about how a few decades ago in rural parts of the country, pubs used to stay open well past national closing hour limits, due to a general nonchalance and attitude among the locals that we "we-just-do-things-differently-here." Local police just looked the other way.

That kind of flagrant disregard for laws where they don't fit the desire of local populations is starting to die out, as globalization combined with technology is sterilizing the power of local cultures to develop their own quirks, customs and ways of doing things without accountability. Where local discretion used to reign, rigid codified standards have taken over.
I have a hunch that police didn't uncover lots of child sex trafficking rings on Backpage, nor were they interested in doing so.

It was far more useful as a honeypot & revenue generator for them through John stings. Setting up a fake Backpage ad for a weekend and raking in $20k through the relatively safe act of fooling non-violent offenders is the best deal out there for police.

At the end of it all you get a nice feel-good headline about how the local PD arrested 40 sex offenders.
I didn't read the article, but the title makes me assume that I have no privacy. Good news doesn't get delivered with titles like that.
We're about to really get to know and feel the exponential property of technology.
I'd add:

- disincentivizing investment and innovation in public transit
Right, but that's a single relatively new language.
I've had a diagnosed depression that I treated for many years with medication. And that course of treatment prolonged my illness and didn't ultimately work. What did work was to alter the way that I thought in the way I described above. And I'm not alone...research has shown that CBT and mindfulness training can be more effective than medication in treating depression.

The view that depression has only biological causes is dangerously naive, if not flat out wrong. Depression absolutely can be caused by unhealthy thought patterns.