skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never had a Mac from age 5 to age 18, despite being very interested in computers. Only PCs. Built them myself. In 2007, at the age of 20, I bought my first Mac. I've bought Macs biannually since then. I have staffed whole companies with Macs.

And I too just purchased my first Windows PC in ten years.

My new 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar hangs on resume. Whether a USB-C connected external monitor will work or not is a total crapshoot. The TouchBar display becomes decomposed intermittently. The battery runs down to zero once a month, forcing a total electrical disconnect and a hot computer. I am afraid to install flash for Safari, fearing it will cause a black hole to form in my office, so I have to run Safari or Chrome depending on the situation. Each gives me a very disappointing 3.5 hours of battery runtime. Opening the computer is a gamble: will the keyboard backlighting work or not? It's impossible to know in advance.

On top of all of that, Apple's refusal to push on component quality means that this computer is just plain slow, despite being maxed on RAM and CPU. Also it was $3000.

If you want a computer that is snappy and just works these days, you probably want a Windows computer.
Do you know if the tax applies to homes vacant for any reason, or just homes that could be on the market but aren't?
Otherwise I could imagine a particularly unwelcome situation where a market downturn or other shock leads to landlords being unable to rent their units, then get hit by both the loss of rent and the 60% tax on top of that.
HP Notebook – 15-f205dx (ENERGY STAR) Manuals – HP Customer Support
This is a sample of non-data-science job postings, which mention buzzwords like "big data".

Java is not a popular language for data analysis.
> The new MacBook Pros (...) _where_ interesting (...).
Yes, practically speaking, the way its done now, corporate drug tests are indeed of not insignificant cost and of questionable deterrence.

There sometimes is financial incentive for them (insurance discounts), but unfortunately at least some of the reason they show up here more than anywhere else is image. The modern mandatory corporate drug test in America sprung up during the Reagan era, when zero tolerance / "War on Drugs" culture was at its peak. (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/drug-te...).

"Zero tolerance" policies are rightfully being softened in some of the US, but unfortunately in certain quarters, this attitude lives on.
Instead of choosing one platform and making a big deal of it, why not just use whatever suits you at that moment and avoid features that tie you to only one platform, making it inconvenient to switch? For me, at least, it seems best to be aloof when it comes to operating systems. Loyalty to only one may have some minor benefits, but is likely to make you feel like you ought to have a say in the direction that platform is going.
I have 200 hours in a 150 and I'm your height. You'll get used to it. Keep in mind that the 150/2 is a better training plane than the 172. It will teach you to respect the rudder and the crosswinds, while a 172 is forgiving to the point that it may become dangerous. Also, anxiety is normal initially. I'm saying that because there's a difference of ... 1/4" between the two planes' cabin width (39 1/2 to 39 1/4).
> If too many people do this, the vibrancy of the city that makes the real estate valuable in the first place will disappear, because nobody will be able to afford to live there.

Already happening in some places. The average rent of a 1BR in Manhattan leveled off a couple years ago, roughly equal to the average 1BR in Brooklyn. All but the most successful young professionals have fled the city for the boroughs; the artists fled ahead of them, so all the fun night life that used to make NYC so exciting is already out in Queens (for a while it was in Brooklyn, but I think a lot has been pushed out there already, too).

NYC, now, is a lot more dead by comparison. It's still fun for tourists, and the place to be for the sort of evening life that is either more expensive (fine dining) or less capable of flight to the outer boroughs (museums), but if you're a local...
So basically you are thinking corporal punishment? Lashing probably?

In the olden days thieves who could not repay what they stole would be sold as time-limited slaves. Are you planning that too?
Some zoning rules could be beneficial. For instance, if cities started mandating 15% of new apartments had to be rentals, or 40% have to be 3 bedrooms, etc. Right now, much of the new housing stock coming online isn't really useful for anyone but single wealthy individuals or speculative investors. And so, without zoning restrictions, we are ending up with cities full of $400,000 empty 1-bedroom condos.
I wrote a language some time ago exploring the use of SAT solvers for these types of problems, trying to make writing solvers easy to reason about, never quite took off, but here's what the minesweeper solution looked like: http://sabrlang.org/mine/.

It basically translates the somewhat more complex rules into the simpler SAT rules using minisat. However sometimes needed a generator in python to make the rules :/. But still kinda nice to see it more visually, language looks like this in the end: http://sabrlang.org/code/mine/source.txt. It basically lists the requirements for middle, edge and corner blocks, than says where those blocks are on the "board."

Kinda fun, though arguably somewhat restrictive. One of the more fun ones I think is the rubiks cube: http://sabrlang.org/rubik/.
Massive?

.. there's no pleasing some folk.
The canonical solution to this problem is the Framemeister XRGB-mini, which can convert pretty much anything into a 1080p HDMI signal.

https://solarisjapan.com/products/xrgb-mini-framemeister-com...
Mumbai and Bangkok are not Asian cities. Those are South Asian cities. A far lower standard of living than real (east) Asian cities such as Shanghai or Tokyo.
If you take wants into account, we will never be in a post-scarcity society.
You can try it on any Mac with https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp however the touch bar does not seem all that useful to me and I think that the previous model, (2015), is all around a better buy, higher performance CPUs, standard USB 3-A, MagSafe...
Why is it unacceptable? No, I will not email you to get my account unbanned. You haven't even explained why I was banned.
Consider the basic state - the minesweeper board is built around your first move. If your first move is not a void, but has one or more adjacent mines, all you see to start is a single open square with a number. At that point you're already making a guess. Even if it's a 1, you're guessing about your next move.
Just to encourage you, starting a new city that survives shouldn't seem impossible because it has literally been done successfully tens of thousands of times: every town on the map is a working example to prove it.
There's nothing squishy about string theory. The line between currently untested hypotheses and those supported by reliable experimental results is quite clear in physics. You frequently see journalists representing the results of unreplicated garbage psychology experiments as scientific fact yet you never hear anyone claiming string theory is any such thing.

We know how to test string theory but we lack the ability to generate sufficient energy to do so. We don't even know how to reliably test many of the theories generated by the social sciences. That's the difference between a robust science and a squishy one: effective methods for generating and testing hypotheses. String theory is part of the "generating" process. It makes falsifiable and (theoretically) testable predictions. There's no reason that experimental results are required for that process, so long as everyone is clear about the hypotheses not being experimentally supported yet. The separation between theoretical and experimental physics is particularly necessary because testing quantum physics hypotheses involves multi-billion dollar investments in particle colliders. Yet once that investment is made, the experiments are effective at testing the theories and the theories are effective at being tested by experiments. You can't say the same about the squishier end of the scientific spectrum.
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I'm interested in what area the overhead lines are only 1.1 kV. From what I have seen the high-side voltages are much higher, in the range of 7 kV or 14.4 kV line to ground.

Also, most overhead transformers I have seen are entirely single phase. Often you will see a bank of 3 single-phase transformers if a customer requires 3 phase service. Larger customers are connected to a pad-mounted 3-phase transformer connected to the primary overhead service through an underground dip from the pole.
Would you mind sharing the technicalities of splitting requests for your blog across 3 providers? Is the 'load balancing' part done at the DNS level?
I'd go for the DC3.
I think New York is doing great. They're rezoning neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn to allow for more high-density housing. One of my favorite little factoids is that Brooklyn had four different tallest buildings in 2016 and they were all residential. And it's working -- average rents in Brooklyn are dropping.
What version of windows are you on? (10 or 7)?
I don't know how well Cortana works, but Siri works very well for English. It is passable in Swedish for every-day language (like "påminn mig att köpa mjölk ägg och smör" will be fine) whereas anything remotely technical or heaven forbid English will be a jumbled mess. Google is understandably leaps and bounds ahead of Apple, and it's not surprising that there is essentially nothing in the field of machine learning coming out of Apple, whereas Google is basically _the_ ML company on Earth right now.
> I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory.

You mean you had to enable swap to run the Let's Encrypt client?
Tell me about it :-/ I've been trying on and off to hook up my PS2 to a 55" flatscreen TV, and it's been a trial. The TV has component video inputs, and I have the appropriate PS2 component cable, but certain US games cannot be played because the TV cannot handle "too low" (480i) resolution.
The driver's pay is really what makes it more expensive. These ride sharing companies will only really become sustainable once self driving cars become prevalent. Even if it just allows the car to get to you, and then have you drive it where you need to go.

I'm not sure what other costs they can cut easily.

Unfortunately for them, second and third players entering the market has a huge advantage in terms of less spent on development and exploration, because they had an example to follow. Uber made the way for them, by building the app first, and testing regulators and authorities.

And there is nothing keeping Uber's user base from using competitors instead. They should probably have thought about some kind of reward system. Or anything to make their users invest and want to stay more.

I think they've got big problems. Problems that will be overcome better by their competitors.
OK, we added a question mark to the title.
If you want to measure it, an oscilloscope is the wrong tool.

You can see it - very clearly - using a lab-quality audio signal analyser from a company like Audio Precision.

https://www.ap.com/

And a popular way to model it is with a DSP technique called a Volterra series.

You may want to consider that impolite words are also used about people who consider themselves very knowledgeable about domains where they show no evidence of understanding the fundamentals.
Though I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith ...

Peace through strength is not something that requires additional military resources. I'm not sure why you're being obtuse about this.

He promised during the campaign to cut the debt; his proposed budget would do the opposite.

"Peace Through Strength" is, again, a platitude, but even if we take it at face value we have strength at 4x+ and other nation.
I too have become annoyed recently at really basic stuff not working in macOS, like I can't drag and drop a picture out of Photos app into Pixelmator to edit. In fact, dragging and dropping a picture out of Photos into any application is completely broken and doesn't work. Its as-if the Apple QA team no longer tests to make sure their applications play nice with each other in a way that has been fundamental to desktop computing since the desktop OS was invented.
Unfortunately not. The arm64 architecture is a requirement (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5xgf8u/gokrazy_a_pu...), and the Zero W uses the older BCM2835 SoC, which is not arm64.
Pretty sure everywhere but earth is going to be extremely inhospitable
A great studio or alternatively a great bathroom :)

Jim Morrison’s Bathroom Vocals On “LA Woman” At The Doors Workshop

http://www.feelnumb.com/2009/07/03/jim-morrisons-bathroom-vo...
C++ 17 – All in One
Liberalism or leftism? A lot of the modern trends you see from the left actually feel very illiberal.
Still, though, you basically back's the article's the point "design syntax last". You like Ruby syntax and it has semantics you like; but the semantics was there first, then Matz came in with the syntax.

"Design the syntax last" does not mean that syntax is an unimportant afterthought.
Ezra Klein is unbearable. And their "Explainers" and "Here's what you need to know" posts give me the creeps.
I don't quite understand the often made claim that there is simultaneously a dearth of 2+ bedroom apartments in Toronto, as well as a huge demand for them, as well as them being unprofitable for developers.

Shouldn't savvy investors be able to see the market opportunity and put money into larger units?
Lovely kit but also £450 in the UK :-(
current owners want to keep the
inventory low [...] owners are
afraid tall building

I'm slightly sceptical of this argument, because every individual new building isn't enough to impact the market.

In big cities the value of
a low-rise house is almost entirely the value of the land on which it
sits, and the owners would vastly increase their wealth if the zoning
laws were changed so as to allow high-rise construction. Source	of
information: I own a low-rise house in the center of one of the
world's biggest and most expensive cities, and I've tried hard to get
building permission for	adding a single floor, but that was denied
on ground of making my building "out of character" with the
neighbouring building.

I suspect that re-zoning is simply not a vote-winner (like e.g. adding
a new runway to an airport), so politicians from all sides shy away
from it.
Whatever the problem is, more government and taxes is surely the solution.
Why change it at the consumer level when we can change it at the governmental level?

Personally I think trade with China should be banned until the CCP is gone and democracy installed. I think trade with China is wrong, we are helping prop up an unelected, oppressive and illegitimate government which massacres its own people every time they call for democracy.
Gaming, VR, upcoming 3D and Cortana are a few reasons I can think of why someone might pick Windows over MacOS.

I think you're discounting the performance aspect as well - if workload X is too slow on the fastest mac, it may well still run on a windows machine since they can be specced higher. Cost isn't a factor for everyone - sometimes you literally just need the fastest possible machine, in which case Windows can be it.
I didn't say they do nothing, I said they don't work for it. Travis Kalanick is a billionaire but he didn't get that money by driving millions of people around in his own car; he paid people (with investor money, no less) to do it for him. You can talk all you want about the huge risk involved in growing a startup but guys like Kalanick will never end up on a street corner holding a filthy cardboard sign.
Great comment. Agree with you on the solutions (sourcing).

I don't have a clearly defined political identity, so, mostly by accident at first, I tried changing my own ideology. I discovered every ideology has a pretty much coherent worldview. Just frame the world in a way that's unjust, and threatens you personally in some way, assign low social status to opponents, and make it a part of my identity. It's crazy how I managed to identify with everyone from the social-justice-left to the alt-right, including the Clintonites, Trumpers and social conservatives in between). Fun to do if you want to learn about cognitive dissonance.

The only thing that determines which ideology you end up with isn't facts, but temperament (personality) and social circle.

All of these ideologies are coherent, and therefore don't provoke much cognitive dissonance (if they did these ideologies wouldn't be evolutionarily "fit", and the ideologies would die out). BTW, if Facebook wanted to be more evil/involved, they could change the political opinions of vast swathes of the population by deliberately triggering cognitive dissonance, and then exposing them to material from the other side when they're much more receptive to it. The only reason why that doesn't work so often currently is that cognitive dissonance hasn't yet been completely weaponized, but as we understand it more, it will be.
I use "massages" to cover two factors. First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has redefined the way it measures unemployment and employment several times over the decades. In addition, there are a range of seasonal adjustments and other possible variations in the surveys and number crunching that are more difficult to understand and less well documented.

See for example this discussion of discrepancies between the BLS unemployment rate and the Gallup Poll unemployment rate (since 2010):

http://unemploymentdata.com/unemployment/is-the-government-f...

It is difficult to know if in practice the household surveys are done the same way each time and also what seasonal and "one-time" adjustments may be occurring either during the first measurement or subsequent corrections.

As the discrepancies between the BLS and Gallup numbers indicate, there is evidence of shorter term massaging not captured in the major redefinitions, such as excluding "discouraged workers" who want a job but supposedly have not looked for one recently, in the 1994 revisions to the unemployment measures.
Imo the Windows linux compatibility layer is a nice gesture, but there already existed stuff like Cygwin that did most of the stuff.

I haven't really paid any attention to the feature set since I've only used Windows for games for past 5 years and ~6 months ago I gave up on Windows completely, but let's say it give you everything Linux gives you. You can just use rvm.io to install your ruby and then use gems to install everything else you need (author used Jekyll as an example). What is the real gain to be have'd?

I can not see a single reason to switch over to Windows from perfectly working OS just because Windows is catching up. Only argument you can reasonably make is that Apple has neglected Macs and you can build faster/more powerful PC and run Windows on it, but what front-end stuff needs that much power? Imo unless you are working with 3D or something like a game meant to played on Windows there is no benefit switching to a more powerful machine.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, maybe the author was upgrading from early 00s model of Mac/MacBook, but if you have anything even recent-ish from Apple, I see no benefit in switching.
Buy a breakable USB cable? I've had MacBooks for 10 years, and I'm ecstatic to see MagSafe gone. Apple chargers have always been shit, and Apple laptops have never been compatible with off the shelf battery packs. Moving to USB-C and detachable, replaceable cables, is a huge step forward.

Also, what PC alternative has a MagSafe equivalent?
Not for normal minesweeper, but there are always-solvable variants: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines...
> I'm still playing ZX Spectrum games once in a while in the urge of nostalgia.

Me too. Was playing Horace Goes Skiing earlier this week, but my all time favourite game is "Chaos: The Battle of Wizards":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_The_Battle_of_Wizards

(This is available to play in your browser, online. Fun!)

Back in the day I used to hack games for infinite lives, and received a bunch of swag from Your Sinclair, and Sinclair User for posting them.

I credit the 48k Spectrum with getting me into programming, first BASIC then Z80 machine code. (Largely because the "bundle" we received had a dead tape-deck, so for the first couple of weeks the only thing we could do with it was read the manual(s) and type in simple programs..)
Hmm. While this is an excellent description of a downside, I don't know if it's ultimately a bad thing.

You'd figure that in such a situation, the landlords are immensely incentivized to sell, or to lower rents, which may continue to be very unwelcome to them...

...but if the point is that real estate speculation is the problem, wouldn't the looming possibility of that situation result in less speculation, or very careful speculation?

On the other hand, that would hit less wealthy landlords harder (larger percent of their wealth), encouraging them to sell, possibly simply driving more ownership to landlords with deep enough pockets to stomach the (temporary) losses?

Complicated!
Quite. This system is called Georgism, after the economist who first proposed it.
Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH):

https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar...

Edit: I've submitted it as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
This is a nice read for anyone who wants to know how the whole NaCl/libsodium relationship works:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)
https://www.google.co.in/amp/indianexpress.com/article/india...

A solar power plant in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu just became the world’s largest plant. the plant was built at a cost of $679 m and was completed in just eight months.

So yeah... we're getting there.
> Explorer itself beats Finder and Nautilus

Have you checked out Nemo, which is basically the good old, full-featured Nautilus?
The equivocation between parties is pretty weird, considering that a substantial chunk of the Democratic platform was about things that would offer real help to these suffering areas (for example, subsidized education in new fields), while the Republicans offered pixie dust and the claim that outcompeted mining and manufacturing jobs would magically reappear.
I say the OS is getting worse, the quality of the software is nowhere near what it is used to be. It's clear that they need to put more effort and polish Mac OS.

Apple laptops are still successful as for now, they sold wagons of the latest Macbook Pro, but it is not going to last if they don't fix the OS ASAP.
Actually they do tell you: there is no appeal so your only option is to leave the platform.
commits messages like "Open Sourced!" annoying
Looks awesome. I typically use and recommend ScreenFlow[1] for mac but it is a bit expensive at $99. ffscreencast looks like a great option for quick recordings.

[1] - https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
System preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion.
You're, welcome.
A circle is a human invention. There are no perfect circles in the universe.

Euclidean geometry is a human invention. In the real world, spacetime is curved.

Real numbers are a human invention. The universe does not seem to be built of numbers with infinite precision.

I would go further and say that the number "two" is a human invention. The universe could carry on just fine without any life anywhere having the concept of "two". But the case is certainly stronger for calculus and geometry being human inventions, than it is for number theory.
Japanese village creates field-sized 3D paintings made of coloured rice shoots