skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He increased his investment by $100ish million in 2015, which more than doubled his stake. This is easily found via Google, and is on the order of an order of magnitude below a billion dollars. You can't just make things up while decrying fake news. The trend line on these goalposts moving will eventually lead to an investment I can afford.

This is even beyond my position on the paper. You're just typing complete falsehoods and expecting to get away with it now, which is sad.
As a Game Dev and Networking Dev, i'm def. keeping an eye on the razor blade linux support. It is most assuredly a gaming laptop and I like that.
It's weird to see so many people utterly obsessed with appearances (which all of the above count as) as if the President's job was to be an actor.

Prediction: Trump's style will not make it more or less likely for him to declare war than if he had the style of a polished actor.
It is admirable to take the consequences and responsibilities of committing to a marriage seriously. Divorce casts a huge emotional, financial, and societal wake that many (including the children) never recover from. More people should hesitate before entering into it.
If they are a money "transmitter", then how are you allowed to keep a balance? I am ignorant of the lawsaround that, but it seems that's a womp rate sized hole?
One difference is you don't see people going around on forums saying "batteries suck because you have to charge them"
They wanted to consume the data for free, but prohibit you from doing so.
My kids are teenagers now, I'm looking at this too.

I'm pretty sure that going to college with only a fuzzy idea of why you're there and what you're expecting to get out of it isn't a smart move any more. Me and a whole lot of my peers did just this and it mostly worked out OK for us, but it's a different game now.

I don't know that my kids will be ready to be intentional about college at 18. They might be better off waiting a few years, working an unskilled job and learning some of that side of adulthood before going to college. Of course, "they" say if you do that you'll probably never go to college at all. I don't want my kids stuck in low wage jobs forever either.

One thing I'm hoping for is cheaper ways of getting college credentials. I've seen some stuff around the edges here, but nothing that has rung the awesome bell yet.
Why? TVs aren't very portable, carrying content over a wire makes much more sense.
Is there a good suite of tools to actually measure the quality of a wifi connection and/or surface, even help diagnose, problems?
This is one reason why the new book focuses on teaching ownership and borrowing with String and &str. You're 10)% right.
A little bit of a stretch to say this is for high schoolers for example. Do most high schoolers even know how to program ?
And they have a monetary interest in wifi not working. Of course, any intentional act to cause interference with wifi users would be illegal, there are tons of things they can do or not do that will cause interference with wifi that might not be provable as intentional interference.

You can't add more users to a frequency without the existing users losing something, regardless of how much the LTE-U people sugar coat it.
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Palm Tungsten C dates the anecdote more than using WEP.
Ask HN: Who is the HN community?
While trying to keep your identity private - would you mind sharing your age (range) and job title (engineer, pm, designer, student, etc.)?
fn main() {
let s1 = "Hello, world"; // &str
let s2 = String::from("Hello, world"); // String

assert_eq!(s1, s2);
assert_eq!(s2, s1);
}

compiles just fine for me?
Depending on laptop, quite possibly.

If it's thermal throttling, then cooling is going to help.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/06/if-you-water-cool-the-new...
Ask HN: Is it possible to connect the switch's joy-con controllers to a pc?
The US has significantly more misdeeds, e.g. ~5 times as many homicides as most West European nations. This is a result of very many things of course.

But U.S. is improving, though; 25 years ago the difference was more like 10 times. Some countries in Europe (like Sweden) have actually stopped improving, so eventually the U.S. will catch up. Then it will have less homicides, which is likely to also bring less incarceration.

Sometimes I think that the European style is not necessarily better. E.g. yesterday I read about two cases in the local newspaper crime news section. There was 5.5 years prison sentence given to a hamburger restaurant owner for tax evasion done over the course of 6 months, and 90 hours of community service plus conditional imprisonment for an aggravated child molestation over a period of 7 years. This ratio doesn't look right to me, but it's what we do to get the low incarceration rate.
If it is, is this an indictment of consciousness? Or of illusion?
Some people learn better by putting everything together from the ground up.

Some people learn better by starting with a working example and going from there.

I suspect you and I are both in the first group, but for the second group, this seems like a nice way to get started.
Ubiquiti UniFi AC or UniFi AC-LR. I'm not the poster above you were asking. Never need rebooting. Present a single AP name for multiple devices and both 2.4 and 5.x GHz. Reasonable price for home use. Based on personal experience in a large house. grk, roaming works just fine.
The protocols might be different. The MacBook (and thus its accessories) use DisplayPort Alternate Mode, perhaps the Switch uses HDMI Alternate Mode.
Well luckily there is a massive chunk of 5ghz channels that nobody is using right now so i'm okay, and the routers that use the 2 bands of 5ghz actually will step down to only 1 if they see someone else stepping on either of them.

But just the fact that the higher end routers handle the extra congestion much better was more the point.
I had to google it, it sounds selfish when the trouble is caused by many neighbors having their own APs nearby.
MIMO isn't that complex. It's using multiple antennas to take advantage of multipath propagation. [0]

If you want a very simplistic explanation, it's like giving you multiple Ethernet cables to improve throughput. (To gloss over all the details about RF and boil it down to the practical benefit: more bandwidth)

Per the article, not everything with MIMO is advertised as 1x1, 2x2, etc. You frequently find WiFi routers mentioning 1T1R (1x1), or 2T2R (2x2). Or maybe just the Chinese routers I look at.

This article is mostly on about interference, which is definitely a big issue in populated areas. But there are definitely issues with Linux and the drivers used by AP manufacturers. There's a project: Make Wi-Fi fast [1] which aims to address these issues.

They're making good progress, especially in environments with a lot of clients. Just having one 802.11b or g client can really ruin throughput for newer devices due to the timesharing algorithm used by default.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO

[1] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/wiki/
Pluto's orbit is so eccentric that perigee (the point closest to the sun) is actually inside the orbit of Neptune.
Google Exec Ditches Search Giant's K-12 CS Mission for Disney Job
>Being locked out of your cash is much worse than being locked out of your credit.

As a general principle I tend to agree. But, when traveling, having something that functions as a credit card can be pretty important. (Of course, if you have a healthy cash balance and a debit card, that works equally well.)
In Go, floating-point constants may have very high precision, so that arithmetic involving them is more accurate. The constants defined in the math package are given with many more digits than are available in a float64.

Having so many digits available means that calculations like Pi/2 or other more intricate evaluations can carry more precision until the result is assigned, making calculations involving constants easier to write without losing precision. It also means that there is no occasion in which the floating-point corner cases like infinities, soft underflows, and NaNs arise in constant expressions.
The Deep Connection Between Color and the Existence of Life
I'm not sure of immediate applications. But imagine a situation where you have robots using biopolymers [1]; such storage could be part of their long term storage (along the lines of Amazon glacier).

I could also envision a more complex scenario where specialised cells with data encoded into DNA are injected into our bodies, and these cells use recipes / content encoded into DNA to create compounds and biomolecules needed under specific circumstances. The drug glands in Iain Bank's culture series comes to mind, though I'm sure there are other examples in sci-fi.

Also, long term, self replicating, error correcting slow storage. Your storage will be a cell culture plate, or cells frozen in liquid nitrogen. Just DNA polymerase has error rates of 10e-8 / base pair, which decreases to 10e-10 inside a cell with repair / error correcting enzymes.

I'd think that's good enough if the DNA isn't copied too many times. Besides, if you have a population of cells with the same DNA, the probability of the same error across all cells (which are independently replicating) ought to be very low, even accounting for AT/CG biases, repeat sequence / poly-nucleotide runs, etc.

Exciting stuff.

[1] Get ready for robots made with human flesh - https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/get-ready-for-robots...

This article talks about using robots to synthesise tissue grafts. But you could also imagine robots with biological membranes / circulatory systems..

(Edit: added paragraph describing possible 'organic storage')
The underlying reality is absolutely not mediated by human consciousness, and I think the author's mistake here is even bringing up the human scientific fields, which muddies their point.

Dennett does end up explaining a lot of epistemology 101 because his audience isn't philosophy academia.

Dennett's innovation, which isn't described well by this book review, is to assert that epistemology is driven by reproductive pressure (both genetic and memetic).
Dennett denies his own first person evidence of his own consciousness so that he can sustain his belief that all that exists is the materialistic world view. Motivated reasoning in the extreme and completely violating Occam's Razor which is quite ironic.
>You write a letter addressing the IRS notice that was sent to the client explaining the situation along with what you have done to remedy the situation (here is the tax I owe along with penalty and interest and/or here is why you are wrong). That's it. Issue solved and problem resolved.

That's great if you actually made a mistake. What if you didn't?

My wife got a notice for her 2013 tax form. They challenged her education credits and were saying we owe taxes + interest + penalty. Respond within 30 days or pay up.

I called them up and asked what they wanted for proof. They weren't accepting the university's 1099 form (or whatever it is), because they said all it shows is the amount she was billed, not the amount she paid.

Umm.. OK. What if I show bank statements that show payments to the university that match the timeframe and amount?

"Sure!"

Reasonable people, I thought.

So we hunted down 3 year old bank statements and sent it to them.

Another letter: They don't accept the statements. "Why?" I asked. "Well, all it shows is you made payments. We need proof these were for education purposes and not, say, parking fines."

"But you said last time it'll be OK!" Their response was the formal equivalent of "Whatever, we don't care"

So I contacted the university. They said "Just mail them the 1099!" Had to explain that it didn't work. University said it's the first time they've heard it not working. So they dug up the old billing statements that itemized the charges.

In reality, it wasn't this short. We had about twice as many back and forths with the IRS as I indicated above. The process took 6 months.
Two more splits: In my hometown (in Tennessee), the split was originally K-3/4-8/9-12, but around 2000 they completed the construction of a new high school, so the old high school became the new junior high and grades 4-8 got redistributed so that it was now K-2/3-5/6-8/9-12.
And of course I stupidly used the wrong term for perihelion. Perigee refers to the closest point to EARTH not the SUN.
> it would be really annoying to have my stuff washed away when folks knew it was a possibility and didn't even offer me the chance to move it first.

They were more concerned about getting the evacuees out of the way before they were worried about getting the evacuees' stuff out of the way. Houses, furniture, and belongings can be replaced after a disaster. A bunch of people twiddling their thumbs in anxiety over a potential failure while not ordering evacuations to minimize or prevent loss of life is potentially criminal.

Also, people tend to panic. Telling them that there is a probable problem, and ordering a mandatory evacuation long before danger is imminent so that, if the worst case scenario occurs, the evacuees will live gives people hope that officials are just being overly cautious. Telling people that they have 5 hours to evacuate before it is guaranteed that all of their belongings, and their lives, will be lost forever will cause panic and potentially loss of life in the chaos alone.
> Base64 and 85 are pretty much the opposite

I know and that's the purpose I use it for: to smuggle in binary data as text, but no reason why an encoding scheme should not be dual purpose. Thanks for the tip about ISO-8859
Physics is the issue here. The 5GHz band is going to be better if you are in the same room as the AP. However, it does not penetrate walls as well, so depending on your set up (and the construction of your walls), that might explain your experience.
Why Pets Could Ruin Your Credit Score
Your last point is a good one. People started paying attention to the environment in Japan after four major incidents of people getting fked up by industrial pollution.

I guess people will only start caring when we literally run out of fish or Alaska melts.
thing is, this is ripping out someone else's ideas. One thing is to donate the software/hardware, the other is to steal it and call it open source
actually the imgur.com comments were very insightful

one of several recommended videos about the topic, this one is quite funny even if it's very real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8&feature=youtu.be...
The description at the end of this article is exactly what I want as well. I've searched and searched for it, not believing that it doesn't exist.

I'm not trying to make a sale. I'm not in sales. But relationships are very important to me and my work, and I just want a tool to track them...

Anybody have any recommendations?
That's just a wordy way of saying that we evolved according to Darwin and our consciousness was selected. Not terribly original or deep. Yawn.
When Facebook was hitting performance issues with PHP, they decided to rewrite the entire runtime instead of rewriting in a different language.

If Facebook with its billions decided it was cheaper to rewrite PHP, the cost/benefit analysis must favor optimizing current code than doing a rewrite
You've never jaywalked in your life then, right?

The law is generally something that evolves, because the world evolves.
Expired .CO.ZA WHOIS Server Hacked and Inserted Spam Messages into Domain Records
Here I see HN discourse slowly descending to the /r/the_donald and 4chan level of paranoia and hysteria.
first person evidence doesen't lead you anywhere. Its a = a, true but quite trivial.
That might work well enough for C++, but I'm not sure how well it would work for other languages. For example, apparently gdb doesn't work all that well for debugging Go programs?

Each language has its own peculiarities for how objects are represented on the heap.
I don't disagree, but when you're an old-school developer it's hard to get this stuff right!

I wrote a console-based mail client, and I struggled with UTF for months before it was all done, and even then there were niggles caused by libraries - for example passing a C++ string to a Lua script, and then using the `string:len()` lua function would return the number of bytes, rather than the length of the rendered string. Something I had to work around:

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/issues/277
Foot meet bullet
It's easier for most consumers to just put their new TV where they want rather than knock a bunch of holes in the wall (or ask their landlord to do the work)
Never even heard of them! Thanks for the tip!
This animates smoothly and is pretty fun to scroll on my phone (the text is a bit small, so perhaps a tablet would be better).
Xcode – tips and tricks
> I'm at pretty much a loss as to why anyone who doesn't specifically need something that btrfs and btrfs ALONE provides (writable snapshots from the top of my head although I'm not sure how that's different from a zfs clone.. One command?... I'm sure I read something cool about 'cp' being faster or whatever; is there anything else?) wouldn't go with ZFS instead.

Licensing: the ZFS license is, last I checked, incompatible with the GPL. That makes it a non-starter for me at least.
Every time I see these types of visualizations, I get the feeling of sadness, that we'll never visit other worlds outside of our own. The immensity of space is just incomprehensible. The closest star system Alpha Centauri, is over FOUR light years away. Time dilation will ensure that we will never again see whomever we send out into deep space.
Huh, I have an older Airport Extreme, it doesn't look like I can disable 802.11b. I can't disable the 2.4GHz band either. Airports were never known for their configurability.
Cloud SMS: Combining Google Voice and Boomerang
Is it that weird that there's an expectation that the US president should think about things before communicating them?

There's a difference between "polished actor" and "careful diplomacy".

You don't think his communication style might have been risky during the Cuban missle crisis, for example?
Jupp. When you speak, keep your audience in mind. It is for your audience's benefit that you speak, not necessarily for yourselves.
Doppler shift in a radio wave at 10 mph? Wouldn't the Doppler shift be around 36 Hz in that case [1]? That's about 0.015 PPM. Seems temperature would have a bigger impact on frequency stability than that.

[1] ∆f = f0 * (∆v/v0) = 2.4 GHz * (4.5 / 3e8) = 36 Hz (using 10 mph = 4.5 m/s)

Edit: I'm certainly not an expert in RF. I checked my intuition against the datasheet of a radio module I've been working with (RFM69HCW), and found in a footnote of an equation (on page 31):

> crystal tolerance is in the range of 50 to 100 ppm

Here's a link to that datasheet: https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Wireless/General/RFM69HC...

It seems that the Doppler shift (measured in PPM) would be well within 0.1% of the crystal's tolerance.

Edit #2: Doppler shift is 0.015 PPM; not 0.150 PPM as I originally stated.
That is soo cool!

I tell my wife [a software dev like me]: "I love it when you talk nerdy"
Where do you write this documentation? Directly in the source code? Or in something like github's wiki? Or something different? If not in the source code, then how do you make the docs discoverable for people reading the source?
I had an existential crisis after scrolling 50 times and revealing nothing but more background-color: #000000;
Nor Canada. (Notorious for this)

Nor US. (Didn't evacuate citizens)

Pick any country you think does this well and I'll find examples where the country dropped the ball.
It's nice to see this again. The revelation that space is so big and empty is one that more people need to see. I especially recommend finding and visiting one of the scale models of the Solar System. I visited and walked the one in Melbourne, Australia.

They are referenced in previous discussions of this particular item. Here are some:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690 (178 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790954 (20 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551423 (17 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217129 (11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038584 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419190 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233679 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876633 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834512 (1 comment)

There are other submissions without any comments - for completeness I thought I'd include those that I could find - there may be others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13285043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12870694

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12273629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10943525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240476

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9469999

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728435
Indeed - my frequent complaint is how opening slack and trello will use up half the memory on my small laptop.
I didn't say most men. I said thousands in my state. And, the problem is worse than you know. For every man jailed for non-payment of support there are (anecdotally) probably 50 or so desperately struggling to meet their support obligations AND find time to have an impactful presence in their children's lives. I can tell you from personal experience and those of my friends that these struggles are met with indifference by the Courts and Legislators. Worse, the struggle is used as leverage by non-support paying spouses to control and alienate. Until you live it its impossible to understand how inequitable the process is.
Can we have "home" (home Wi-Fi) added to the title? I agree with others here - the author doesn't talk about how amazing it is that you can connect to a busy cafe WiFi in a busy street with five other networks coming in strong, and a dozen (or few dozen) people using the one you're on, and it still more or less works! (Wow.) Their only focus seems to be on fixed installations, specifically at home.
I would strictly call that an "if expression" rather than an "if statement". It is equivalent to ?:, even though it is also a bit more verbose.
Don't forget about California income tax off the top. Then their is the basics like food which is more expensive in SF and finally cost to raise kids. It's pretty easy to believe his story.
> but it's not impossible for hitting a pedestrian to be a non-crime because of the absence of the mental state required for any applicable crime.

Out of curiosity, under what conditions would this be the case?
Some even more in depth slides about why wifi doesn't always perform: http://apenwarr.ca/diary/wifi-data-apenwarr-201602.pdf
Merchants don't always prefer cash. There's trade-offs to both. If merchants always preferred cash then there wouldn't be merchants who go cashless, and there are.
Even B&O made a couple atrocious UI mistakes. I remember one, the Beosound 5, that completely failed when you had hundreds or thousands of audio tracks accessible bringing up endless lists of things to finger-drag through. Of course, it's not an easy UI problem to solve, but that thing should have never appear in a store that way.

Of course, most of the time they get it right.
Its not marriage. It is legislation around marriage and children that reflects the disproportionate number of voters and political doners who either don't care, are misinformed, or benefit from the system.
yeah, sure. my entire world view is based on my assumptions, many of which you probably disagree with. what do you want me to do? be you instead of me?
I've definitely felt the effects before and have dropped at least one job over it. So why are these threads filled with people complaining about unreasonable workloads but we don't hear it from coworkers? And what is a burnt out dev to do if they don't wish to work in the standard corporate structure? I mean, even Google don't offer 6 hour days or work from home (unless you're SRE for which work from home is required).