skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this point, but with laptop battery life, unfortunately the alternatives are all significantly worse than simply having a slightly thicker/heavier laptop. They almost always involve carrying additional devices (needing their own protective enclosures, cables, etc) and require additional cognitive load (Which spare battery is charged? Where did I leave that battery?). A bigger internal battery eliminates all of that. There are very few options (if any) in between.
You must already know vector math or be capable of learning it in less than a day. If you don't have that aptitude, then I put you at higher in the stack.
I can't speak for laptops but I can speak for the utility of having a thin phone and a battery pack that makes it thicker and heavier than it would be if Apple just included a bigger battery:

I've only used my battery pack four or five times in the year and a half I've had my 6s. Most of the time I'm not far away from a plug - either at home, in my car, at work, etc.

But when I travel, a slightly bigger battery wouldn't be enough. I would want twice the battery life - something I can get by using a battery pack - but I probably wouldn't get from a slightly larger iPhone.

If you have to optimize, why optimize for the edge cases instead of the most popular case and give options for those times people need it.
I couldn't come to employment terms with a start-up because they were unwilling to indemnify. Turns out executives were covered, employees weren't.

Their stance was part of early employee risk of joining a start-up is not being indemnified; that risk was part of their culture at their current stage.
I am from here, so I can't give you relevant experiences, but your question leaves a lot out. What is dating like where you came from before, and what was your success rate there, and what aspects of a relationship do you consider to be "success"? Is your goal a short term relationship or a long term one? Are you measuring your disappointment against what you are used to or what you imagined it would be like here or what you see? Specifically what I'm thinking is, when western women travel to Arab countries or to India (or many other places) where the sexual mores are more conservative, their behavior might be considered "promiscuous" by local standards. Are you judging women here on a basis that they seem to be available and they are not interested?

Or, are you dark skinned but come from places in Europe where you feel more integrated socially and you feel less integrated here? You could have moved from a more liberal place to a more conservative one. Are there other people here from your country here that you could ask how they are doing, or are you simply looking for the magic formula here because it looks to you like the people around you are dating and you want in on it too? We have many skin colors here, with many cultures represented, have you tried socializing with enough different groups here?

I'm not judging, I just wouldn't know where to begin answering your question if I had the relevant information. I'll tell you this, women here who care about "top companies" probably also care about other social status signs, and they might not consider most foreigners to have the social status they would be seeking, so you may be trying to appeal to the wrong groups in the wrong way. I'm not judging them either.
HACKER news people c'mon.
And, I should add, starring Daniel Craig as Heisenberg.
If you want to simulate our "arboreal ancestors" to improve grip strength then you could probably do no better than joining a rock climbing gym. Every time I visit mine I leave with my forearms aching and plenty of freshly torn calluses. It's fun as hell, maybe in part because we as humans used to need an inborn propensity for it.
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vertical aquaponics is a closed loop..high risk system which is limited to growing greens..maybe strawberries. i am not sold on the system.

rowbot is very specific to fertilizing corn. and they are working with just one or few corn farmers in the mid west now. automation of a farm involves several tasks.

have you worked vertical aquaponics? its very attractive as a concept. but farming is a business. lettuce glut is not a way to make money through diversified crop planning.

thank you for the pointer re crowdraising.co! i was not aware of that platform. regards.
Interesting, this is a topic that very rarely get discussed on this website, but which is probably top of mind for many here.

I am an immigrant myself, I don't think I have anything to complain about, but it is definitively harder to find a date when you're a guy on the West Coast (especially Silicon Valley) than on the east coast or anywhere else... If you are in a place like the Bay Area two things play against you:

* First the gender balance is not in your favor (Not sure how accurate it is, but check that out: http://visualizing.nyc/bay-area-zip-codes-singles-map/ ) no matter what, you will have a limited dating pool.

* Second, Silicon Valley tends to be pretty normative and it sometimes can feel like every male in tech fits a defined stereotype, which is not attractive. It's a cliche but it's one that people believe in.

In terms of solutions, I have two beyond maintaining a good physical appearance. The first one is to cultivate a real and genuine personality and find a way to let it shine by not being shy and unafraid to show who you are (haters be damned). The second one is to truly work on being OK being alone and single!
Link seems to go to "Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC" instead?

edit: oh, derp. nevermind. there's a second page: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_numb...

edit edit: so apparently page 2 can't be linked to. whatever. bottom of the article content has a "next page" link.
This sort of post is not what HN is for. Find dating and sef help advice elsewhere.

(This comment comes from an immigrant to the US.)
> claims to sell its spyware only to law enforcement agencies to track terrorists, criminals and drug lords

How would they even know, whether the people targeting are terrorists, crims or lords? That is a ridiculous statement.

Maybe they have a form that governments must sign saying that the gov will only target those people, but it is a ridiculous statement.
I imagine that it's mostly that folks like folks who are similar to them: similar philosophies, similar religions, similar classes, similar incomes, similar families, similar physical types, similar habits &c. The unfortunate thing for you is that much of America is dissimilar to you. That says nothing wrong about you (or about much of America) — it's just a fact.

It's tough for anyone who's outside the norm (again, no fault attached). You might have some success looking for others who are similarly dissimilar. Perhaps there are meetups for expats from your region of the world in your city?

Good luck!
You got the wrong impression about Chinese politics and the press. If a dam fails, officials responsible for it would be sacked immediately before getting a chance to resign and the news will be reported.

However if it's just "weakness" in dam, I don't think news media would be too quick to criticize officials, regardless of the country. It's not a disaster yet.
I believe that Abovitz has something amazing on his hands. All those faked demo videos were very convincing.
Yes! I do with NGINX using SNI (to server multiple ssl certs from the same IP) and using Proxy Protocol on the ELB to send the requests to NGINX.

What you need to do is enable the proxy protocol on the ELB and then point to NGINX.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/class...

You need to also enable the proxy_protocol in nginx.

server {
listen 443 ssl proxy_protocol;
...
}

I'll write something up and share it. But hopefully this will help you in the short term.
Partisan battle is destructive of what's relevant here. It consumes everything it touches and is not what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I started indoor climbing 3 months ago and it's done wonders for my grip strength, as well as my overall health. I can't recommend it enough for engineers and other problem solving addicts. I was, frankly, bored by weight training and other more traditional exercise routes. Now I look forward to a nice change of pace - solving physical problems as opposed to logic problems.
Even in a pointless political flame-thread this stands out as ideological and ranty. We've asked you before not to post like this to Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and we eventually ban accounts that use it this way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638487 and marked it off-topic.
Quite a bit of opinion, but no real meat.

That's a bit less interesting when you're following main stream media points of view.

Opinion pieces are not bad, if there insightful or about a topic that needs to be innovated. In this case, you don't like Trump's policies. That's hardly news worthy.

Give us an opinion that is different, you'ld have a better topic is you wrote "10 things trump is doing right". You would have plenty of people who would respond.

Just thoughts.
Sure human populations are increasing and quality of life is going up too, but what about the environment and biodiversity of the planet? We hit peak-human a lonnng time ago if you care about anything beyond how many you can pack on the planet. Toggle through these graphs and you will see everything is collapsing except humans: http://wikipop.org/species/rhinos
Cross platform support works right now but could probably get better. In terms of mobile support, that's a huge project that I would have to invest significant time into, so I'm holding off for now. It's definitely one of those things I want to do in the future for sure.

I would be absolutely flattered and would support any Collate-compatible software. The file format itself is open and MIT licensed and any contributions and discussions would be welcome!

I put a lot of thought into the file format and I'm really glad you're excited about it! Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the format or if anything is unclear at hello@collate.rocks.
Ask HN: Are there companies trying out the “Deep Work” approach of Cal Newport?
Author and computer science professor Cal Newport has written about the benefits of working on very cognitively demanding tasks in a mode of no interruptions or distractions, and progressively building the mental muscle to operate in such a mode.

He calls this "deep work" and has written about it in detail in his 2016 book of the same name: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692 . He emphasizes the increasing importance of such work in the knowledge economy.

Are there any companies or startups that allow their employees to work in this manner? Has this led to a different way of identifying tasks, structuring them and setting up the work environment?
Looks quite interesting. This could perhaps give Turkers a much needed alternative to Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
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The IPsec stack that comes your OS probably supports host-to-host mesh when suitably configured.
Pick one, learn it. There are libraries to do what you want to do in both languages.
If you get good at one, you'll figure out a way to shoehorn it into the problem you're trying to solve.
These people are lugging their laptop around all day, from meeting to meeting, or airport to airport. If you can keep battery life constant at ca. 10 hours, which covers an extended work day, then beyond that most people would prefer to have lighter/slimmer/cooler (less hot) devices than one that runs for 20 hours.
I should have linked to the second page: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_numb...

Relevant quote:

"AMD said its upcoming Zen x86 core fits into a 10 percent smaller die area than Intel’s currently shipping second-generation 14nm processor. Analysts and even Intel engineers in the session said the Zen core is clearly competitive though many confidential variables will determine whether the die advantage translates into lower cost for AMD."
Three fingers drag is buggy on the new trackpad.

Control strip is buggy, especially when using external monitors. The software is not able to adequately deal with external monitors being connected and disconnected throughout the day.
Seems to be https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5m8f32/found_a_smal...
Aka the pussification of America.

Move along, nothing to see here.
Link points at something else. Even the edited link below..
What is SS7?
Something like

assert(x);
int y = *x;

is probably closer to the intended meaning. Checking if(!x) afterwards is still dead code, but at least the program is guaranteed to fail in a defined manner.

Of course, if implemented this way, every dereference would have to be paired with an assert call, bringing the performance down to the level of Java. (While bringing the memory safety up to the level of Java.)
Max Planck and the origins of quantum theory
Important features for QA automation – care to share your opinion?
I can only imagine there has been some study of how long between charges people go on average/median. I imagine most people aren't going all day without any chance to charge (the world seems to have gotten more charger friendly) and there are probably lots of weirdos like me who work from home and never take their MBPs anywhere.
Add/Update Layers in PSD File and Convert PSD Layer to PNG Format inside .NET Apps
AMD really needs to start competing on price. Match Intel and Nvidia performance, at 75% TCO.
It's a placeholder until a name is chosen. It is temporary and expected to be revised. At the hospital I know, the mother's (who carried the baby) full name is selected, e.g. "Baby Jane Doe." Notice no name transformation is required so it generalizes. I don't know what is used in the case of a surrogate mother.

If parents get offended by this straightforward default-naming algorithm, the recommended workaround is to name the baby.
@ryanheybourn This is a better way to get people! I wasn't interested in the bookmark but an ext maybe!
Or just have an external battery pack that powers any of your USB devices. As you say, this represents maybe 5% of my usage. Most of the time I don't worry about battery, but sure enjoy having a slim phone.
> You don't know how to use conventional tools, and and go on to blindly rant

That crosses into personal attack and incivility, which breaks the HN guidelines regardless of how wrong someone else is. Please don't post like this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13631069 and marked it off-topic.
Theranos all over again
Often enough. I've stopped traveling with my MBP in favor of a 12" iPad pro. Likewise, on a day full of meetings, my MBP stays at my desk connected to a giant monitor and I walk around with the iPad Pro. I am not alone from what I have observed.
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Three major differences

1) SLA (Quality and turn-around times) assurance

2) Fully managed solution. Just send us the data and guidelines, we take care of the rest.

3) Support complex workflows

We wrote an elaborate piece on our differentiation against mechanical turk! Check it out on - https://playment.io/playment-vs-mechanical-turk
Free time i use mostly php/python. Havent given Ruby on Rails a go, how does it compare with connection pools? Oracle db connection drivers and Postgres databases?
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That doesn't take away my argument though: It would be too boring if there was nothing patternless.
I feel like I get cut off sometimes multiple times per journey, while I only cut off somebody perhaps once a month, if even that often.

Everyone else is a terrible driver!
Hey, thanks for the tip. I will work on it.
Scientists watch supernova explosion for the first time
Totally anecdotal here, but I would not hesitate to wager that many climbers' grip strengths lie way outside the normal range. The sport has a higher grip exercise-to-cardiovascular exercise ratio (however you might measure that) than probably any other sport that exists today.
gcc had a huge integration test suite, which is different from unit test suite.
There's a lot that goes into CPU performance. Go to http://wccftech.com/ryzen-smaller-die-intel-zen-architecture... and search for "Table courtesy of the Linley Group" without quotes to see an extremely interesting table: http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Zen-Doubl...

> Intel has a double precision IPC of 16 FLOPs per Clock with Skylake as well as 2x 256 bit FMA whereas Zen only has 8 FLOPs per clock and 2* 128 bit FMA.

FMA=Fused multiply-add. It remains to be seen whether dollar for dollar AMD matches Intel or not -- it's likely to be very application dependent.
Daily chart: Migration and labour shortages in Asian countries
"This sort of post is not what HN is for."

If the poster finds this ^interesting^, why not? Within the bounds of HN. Not interested? don't read it.
They're requesting to run commercial services on public spectrum.

As for directional antenna, the antenna doesn't effect propagation, which is a function of wavelength, which is what we were discussing. Obviously having more of the signal directed in one direction mitigates the marginal propagation at higher frequencies. But a sector antenna isn't exactly omni and down-tilt to limit cell horizon is still going to include lots of people and buildings.

Your scarecrow argument about webserver on a phone as the only reason for having a real connection is either laughable or intentionally disengenuous. There are a million other reasons from privacy to p2p and beyond.

And lets not forget that all wireless telcos have absurdly low data caps; that's the primary reason most people switch to wifi instead of staying on their LTE connection.
As far as I know strength in general follows a fundamentally similar pattern (i.e. strength gain doesn't translate much among different movements); I assume the difference is that there are more joints in your hands and hence more permutations of angles under tension.
A lot of things in the past should not have happened, it's easy to waste time with useless hypotheticals.
Groxx has the correct link
We banned this account for trolling. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.
That's pretty much what they do.
The problem-solving aspect of climbing (esp. bouldering) is definitely one of the best parts. Very easy to get sucked "into it" once you get started.
Two differences between a data scientist at the capability level of someone reading this article in earnest at a SV startup and an enterprise company in most of the rest of the country are cost of living and the assumption that moving past step two is a question of one person's independent ethical decisions
It reminded me of "thinking fast and slow" book where the author refers to the study conducted by Terry Odean and Brad Barber:

"In a paper titled “Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth,” they showed that, on average, the most active traders had the poorest results, while the investors who traded the least earned the highest returns. In another paper, titled “Boys Will Be Boys,” they showed that men acted on their useless ideas significantly more often than women, and that as a result women achieved better investment results than men."

and concludes:

"It is important to remember that this is a statement about averages: some individuals did much better, others did much worse. However, it is clear that for the large majority of individual investors, taking a shower and doing nothing would have been a better policy than implementing the ideas that came to their minds."

Kahneman, Daniel (2011-11-03). Thinking, Fast and Slow (p. 214). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Boston Dynamics “nightmare inducing” wheeled robot “Handle” [video]
Ask HN: About to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on?
iOS Developer about to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on?
Given early benchmarks are showing that the Ryzen 7 1700X ($390) is performing similarly to the Intel Core i7-6900K ($1050), they definitely are going in that direction.

http://hothardware.com/news/amds-ryzen-7-1700x-delivers-i7-6...
Yes, it is. Full time employees usually work on their laptops, which can be stolen or hacked especially when they're outside work. Ultimately, people and culture are usually the weakest links in security.
Some people swear by arenas, some people swear by GCs, some swear by stacks, and others swear by malloc. There are probably people who swear by things I didn't list. Compiler writers are people, too, and so they swear by many memory allocation styles.

When I first started writing compilers, I learned the craft from people who happened to also be GC zealots, and they insisted that it was not possible to write a compiler any other way.

I remember once talking to a VM hacker who wrote compilers in C++ and was shocked that it was even possible to write a compiler in Java.

Then I saw LLVM, which mostly just relies on new/delete and an intuitive ownership model. I've done that ever since.

But as a memory management nerd I have to say that there are some advantages to every approach. Arenas are cheap and intuitive. GCs mean you don't have to care about lifetimes. Malloc/free minimizes object drag. Pick what you like and don't let anyone tell you that any one of these approaches is inherently better than the others.
sadly not... it was my first personal project ever and I didnt know that documenting projects was a thing :) I'll try to find the phone, get the logs and document it next time I visit my hometown.
Thanks for the interest!
Cyber security: Queen to open centre to protect against attacks
How to build a 8 GPU password cracker
> failure teaches circumspection and trains you to question your assumptions and reasoning when challenged.

In smart people maybe...

Just thinking out loud, but maybe dumb people continue to do dumb things because they don't have the insight or motivation to question their behaviour or the possible outcomes of their behaviour? ie they're not as good at learning from their mistakes?
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I once refused to sign a contract that had me indemnify the employer for losses in the event that they terminated me. They wanted to be able to terminate me without cause and then recover damages that they incurred as a result of doing so. This was a big company too. Luckily the HR person didn't understand the word "indemnify" and so agreed to strike the clause. Afterwards the legal department tried to force me to sign a new contract, implying that I would no longer have a job if I didn't sign. I sent them an email saying, "Wanting me to sign a new contract does not seem to be one of the reasons for termination on my existing contract. Are you saying that you will fire me unless I agree to a new contract?" Contracts signed under duress were not legally binding in the country where I was working. They did not reply and I kept a healthy distance from the legal department for the time I worked there.

Contracts are annoying. Next time I look for work, I'm seriously considering just hiring a lawyer to handle all the negotiations for me. One of the reasons I agreed to work at my existing job is that the contract had virtually nothing on it. I'm working on contract with them now, not full time, and they asked me to draw up the contract. I really like working with people like that.
The few people I know who upgraded from their 2012/2015 model to 2016 have complained about battery being worse :/
Apple should lower the fees for desktop apps. The developer license, while only 100$, is still a factor that prevents indie developers from considering the App Store. Perhaps make it free for free and open source apps. And only take a commission for paid apps. The mobile app store was different because that was the only option for developers at that time. Apple would ideally like to make it that way even on the desktops eventually, but that would suck.