skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially since the whole virtual escape key thing– being a default layout vim user for 20+ years– I'd love to follow suit, but I need Adobe Creative Suite. The tools available on Linux aren't even ballpark. Getting OS X on a VM has always been fussy and frustrating, and if I wanted to work with Windows I'd just use a Windows laptop. On top of that, the apple magic trackpad is just great. Fussing with extracted bootcamp drivers to get it to work on a virtualized windows so I can run some essential software? No thanks. I need quick access to a comfortable, familiar replacement environment if something goes wrong with my regular computer. I can't afford to futz around with that stuff.
> Those Top 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old.

Trying to write a list of 37 things when you can only think of 7
Yes the entire city of Boston is perfectly safe, we have no murders here /s
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It is easy to be classy when you have superprofit.
Ask HN: What are ways to schedule tasks for the future? (web dev)
In this particular case it's for a tracking system.

Namely what I want is a non-performance affecting, for example I may want to gather the ip, time, what a person did (what they clicked on) but instead of doing all of that. You'd just say "Hey task manager, this person did this" but not do all the computation that goes into your database eg. inline in your server-side scripting or multiple calls from the front end.

What technology am I looking for here? I currently use the LAMP stack but am open to other solutions as I have to evolve eventually to keep up.

To further elaborate:

To do this right now I would have to create several inserts in the database that would happen when the person clicks on something that I'm tracking. Rather than doing that, I'd do a short thing like sending a JSON string that has the details I need to insert to a background process that then does this insert outside/away from the main part that handles front end use.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I don't mean crontab either, unless that is relevant.
Well yes really. You might disagree but I think a society that knows what Pluto looks like (for example) is a better society than one that doesn't, even if that knowledge does not make that civilisation any materially better off.
3/4 of the Google Map reviews for this SEO agency are from their own staff
Well. That doesn't justify one way $150 administration fee
As mentioned in one reply to the parent comment, hashing here usually is not cryptographic.

I'm familiar with location-sensitive hashing[1], which acts like a dimensionality reducer but, instead of receiving as input the image itself receives a feature vector extracted from it (or something analogous that allows for similarity assessment).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
I live in NYC, but have also lived in Boston, London, Paris, Tel Aviv during my professional life. These are fun cities with lots of young professionals with many things to do. There is lots of networking and international communities. Lots of Jazz, Blues, and other cultural attractions.

The cause of the high cost of housing is not that many want to live in these cities, but rather the "rent-seeking", a market failure or market inefficiency which is caused by a politically induced scarcity of housing through the use of zoning density restrictions. The inefficient markets interfere with wealth creation and instead the use of politics transfers wealth to special interest groups, in this case wealthy landlords like President Trump from people who rent and are buying housing.

Economist David Ricardo first developed the concept in the mid-19th century and joined British Parliament just to overturn the rent-seeking which harmed the British economy. In his particular case it was the "Corn Laws" which taxed imported grains of all types with the result that bread and basic food cost more for consumers. Farmers would receive more money for their grain, but ultimately the landlords who leased the farmland to farmers simply charged the farmers more money as a result. Thus, there was a politically induced transfer of wealth (ultimately) from (often lower class) consumers to wealthy landowners.

This is analogous to what is happening in the housing market today.

Japan fixed the problem in 2002 when it passed a federal law taking zoning authority away from local municipalities. The result: in 2014 Tokyo built 140,000 housing units compared with 20,000 for all of NYC and less than 90,000 for the entire state of California.

Interested readers should consult writers of Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser, Economist and Financial Times Columnist Tim Harford (book, "The Undercover Economist"), and articles by Steve Beyer

Edward Glaeser: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

Tokyo's Affordable Housing Strategy: Build, Build, Build
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...

What Liberals Don't Get About Affordable Housing: Filtering. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/02/19/what-libe...

See also "Green Belt"
Miami's fight against rising seas
I've often thought of this as a dystopian future where employees are routinely chipped. Those who refuse, are either fired or are not trusted. Now, it appears, someone is doing it.

I view the danger not so much in loss of privacy, which in any case is virtually gone already, but in that NFC chips are easily spoofable. Someone could simply carry an NFC tag in their hand that has alternative information, for example to impersonate another employee.

There are emulated NFC smart chips which are more difficult to duplicate and do provide transactional security, however.
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Given Apple's uncertain "Pro" roadmap, I've been on a beefy Windows workstation for a few years for some digital hobbies, but it occurs to me that I'll happily take a look at jumping back. The transition to Windows got me in the habit of relying most heavily on crossplatform software, so it would be a smooth transition back.

Unfortunately, I'm anticipating something with an outrageous design premium and so hyperspecced at every turn that it won't make much sense for me. It's a shame - shouldn't the company able to make a $300 iPad be able to make a dream $2500 workhorse for the amateur musician/videographer? I've been reading these kind of wishful rants since the 90's, so I know not to expect much.
I'm in the same boat ... except I ended up buying to insulate myself from a ridiculous housing market since there are lots of jobs within a 30min trip of my place.

The glorification of home ownership really baffles me, although I still ended up purchasing after careful consideration of things like:

http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrib...
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> A lot of brick and mortar shops actually have a sign that says "We reserve the right to refuse service."

Seems like a direct descendent of the "no dogs, no natives" signs - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/475.html

The only difference is that now they are smart enough not to spell out the criteria for discrimination in public access venues.
Well I do concede that I was on the tower side.
Tuition + room and board was about $40K for 4 years.

The school has a good internship/co-op program, so I was fortunate to step into a junior engineering role right after graduation. I'm a C+/B- student. Graduated with a 2.98 GPA.
I agree. Most of the high earning young people I hang with basically have to be willing to uproot for opportunity.

However, owning a house (I think the term home is something distinctly different) could be used to facilitate moves though. I don't have to be in the same state/country as my rental property (though countries are starting to crack down on foreign rental property ownership).
I got flagged yesterday for submitting this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017345
Remote working needs to become a standard practice. It's the only way to escape the neverending rise in housing in places like SF, and give people the ability and stability to settle down in a place they love, raise a family, and invest in their housing.

Think about all of the coming job losses to automation ... what if high earning tech workers could stay in their communities, and spread some of that SV economy around.
Ok that makes sense, thanks!
It was actually neither ZSNES or my keyboard, but SNES9X :)

from:

https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/docs/changes...

0.72 released

...

- This time really fixed Allegro library keyboard handling (DOS port); it
was missing key some presses/releases (was stopping Chrono Trigger
Left + Right + A button combo from working).
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Most STEM people are honest? No. Having worked decades as an engineer, sometimes over scientists, I can tell you that STEM people are just as susceptible to human frailty and peer pressure as any other group. Some of them dont need help to be dishonest.

I posit that none of you have any daily experience with science, otherwise you'd appreciate that 95 percent of PhDs dare not stand up against the groupthink. You would also appreciate how much if clumate science is total garbage.

What an echo chamber. Thankfully, the political pressure to accept climate orthodoxy is currently waning.

And i give a damn about your downvotes, or your unqualified replies.
Is it really? Would it not be easier to find consensus (hence more productive) if we were to focus on whether the climate is changing (and not why)? Determine what the impact of the climate change will be and how we should address this problem?
Well, if it was like the old pros, modular like: RAM, HD and Graphics cards could be upgraded.
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Yup, checking the source there's a cell component in addition to the sheet component, so it would just rerender that cell.
Yes, but that's also true for any non-GPL compatible license, not just the GPLv3. And it's a result of Linus Torwalds not using the GPLv2 as intended by removing the "any later version" clause.
You would think "please don't be an asshole" would be common sense, but I suppose adding it your product description about you providing support is being explicit.
Yes. Cook.
The biggest thing is greater than 16GB of RAM.
The kindle may not have killed the book, but it has made a massive dent in the paper-book market, despite substantial problems with e-books. It will likely continue to eat away at it.

If self-driving cars has as massive an impact on car ownership as e-books have had on the paper book market, that will be a dramatically noticeable change in most cities.
These things are related. You don't get a price war over someone that results in paying them $100m if you don't believe that person will create over $100m in value.

And since this person went off, started their own company, and sold it a couple years later for $1 Billion, it seems whoever was offering that paycheck was right to do so.
The most interesting thing I found was that a strong majority, everywhere, claims to trust climate scientists about global warming. But huge areas of the country disbelieve the fact that most scientists think global warming is happening! I'm not sure whether this reflects widespread cognitive dissonance, or merely demonstrates the effectiveness of propaganda.
Brand loyalty is silly. It does mean I need to avoid platform lock-in, but it is completely worth it. I buy the best machine available for me at the time. When it was time to replace my MacBook Pro 2011, it wasn't a machine from Apple. I bought a Surface Pro 3 and thought that I'd switch back to Mac when Apple sorted out whatever their problem is.

Vapour Race 2017: Next Gen MacBook Pro or Surface Pro 5.

It would be nice to have a real GPU again....
Just a perfect explanation, thank you. There always seem to be those catch-22's in these techs; I just wish the articles didn't come out in this predictable pattern of pulses.
If they want to demonstrate their commitment to pro apps they could start by bringing back Aperture.
Serious question: What room is there for improvement and innovation in displays for MacPro's target users, aside from price-reduction?

I can see how photographers want faithful color reproduction with a wide gamut, good image consistency across the whole display, good resolution, and a decent size (maybe 32" tops?)

But AFAIK, monitors with those qualities are already available. The only thing I can think of that would make them better suited for professional work is to bring their prices down. (Because even pros have a budget.)
You can try enforcing those standards, as this company did. But you may find that doing so causes your business to be economically unviable. That's fine as long as it's your preferred outcome, but if it isn't, you need to suck it up and deal with people who don't treat you how you want to be treated.
Which is rather a different point than "you must solve the no-trust problem to have an irrevocable ledger", isn't it?
Apple has “great” new iMacs in the pipeline, slated for release “this year”, including configurations specifically targeted at large segments of the pro market.

This just fills me with dread. It just seems like Apple continually doesn't get it and the "iMac is a pro computer" is the canary in the coal mine. We already switched to Adobe for all video editing after the Final Cut Pro fiasco, and if this crud keeps up I can see some serious pressure to just move to Windows boxes. I'll hate it, but I'll understand.
A better example than horses would be the decline in solar prices over the last half century. No amount of asceticism, or holier than thou preaching, or apocalyptic ranting, or suicide, or willful destruction of the economy could produce that graph of capitalist cost decline in solar energy. Enormous effort on the brains of STEM people, sweat from the craftsmen building and staffing the factories, bean counters financing incredible expenditures... that's how that cheaper than coal solar panel got made. Doesn't matter if one or one billion flailed themselves or felt really guilty, the rise of solar energy is a triumph of the right and capitalism not the left. Thaaats how coal dies as an energy source.

We didn't leave the stone age because of social status signalling holiness spirals declaring the in-group hates stone and stone workers. Or by making everyone feel guilty about the earth only having a finite calculable amount of usable stone. Or by patting ourselves on our backs for a job well done by lowering the third derivative of stone use to a slightly lower yet still large positive number.
I don't think they had an issue with design so much as only having a single team as bottleneck for the entire product lineup. They really need the equivalent of Intel's tick-tock strategy where the designers can be going full speed on the cool new manufacturing techniques but a second team is just taking last year's industrial designs and shipping updates with current spec / capacity components so they stop drifting so far behind the market every time the design team isn't ready to ship a major change.
graduating from college makes you almost as likely to own a home, by age 36, as someone from a high-income family.

I assume they mean "own" in the sense "get a mortgage on" not "have fully paid for", no?
I ran a Hackintosh for about 1.5 years. I just recently went back to Windows 10 after the integrated Linux sub-system came out with the update. Most of the software/tools I use run in both OS X and Windows, so it wasn't a huge deal breaker for me.

One thing I didn't like about the Hackintosh was maintaining it during updates, having to wait for the right NVidia web drivers, and then remembering how to update all the stuff specifically.

What I did like was that I had a computer that I built for $1100 that scored about 16,000 on the Geekbench, without overclocking.

Note: I still use a Mac Book Air 11" because it's the best laptop I've owned. I think the trackpad and sleep/wake functionality that just works is the best ever, and makes it really convenient. Obviously, these two killer features for me matter a lot less on a desktop.

Second Note: I built mine with an aluminum Rosewill Legacy U3-S – Silver/Aluminum Case that was both compact, and really good-looking.

[Edit, updated type of computer cost from $110 -> $1100]
It is incredibly un-Apple.

But its like when you're on the freeway and see billboard for your favorite restaurant 40 miles away. It gives you the motivation to not settle for something else.

It might work.
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He invented the URL, which is the most important component of the web, since this is what makes cross-system hypertext possible. Hypercard was not networked and Gopher were not hypertext, and neither allowed you to link to external objects. The genius of the web was that it was not a closed system, but via URL's allowed links across information systems and protocols. This is probably why the web succeeded while all the other walled-garden systems failed.

Note that TBL never expected HTTP and HTML to replace all other protocols, they were just intended as a hypertext system which could connect to all the existing systems like Gopher, NNTP and so on, thereby increasing the usefulness of all the systems.
Been running hackintoshes since 2007 or so. Mostly smooth sailing. Off the top of my head:

- It's all about making it easy for yourself. In short, motherboard and GPU choice change the experience from 'almost effortless' to 'never gonna work'. Get a $20 USB external soundcard to get rid of any audio configuration quagmires. Get the most compatible, widely used motherboard and Nvidia GPU, so you can get support on Tonymac should you need it. Stick to wired Ethernet to avoid meddling with bluetooth and wi-fi if you can. Everything else (PSU, CPU, RAM, hard drives and case) isn't an issue.

- The tradeoff is time invested into initially understanding how it all fits vs. money saved and increased knowledge of how MacOS ticks (a good thing regardless, if you're a power user). How much time depends on how much of a PC tinkerer you are already. If you already built PCs and tried getting Linux distros going it's gonna be second nature.

- You'll still need to check out Tonymac when a point update comes out for tips and warnings. The easiest solution is to install the fully up to date next-to-last MacOS version (install El Capitan 10.11.6 now that we are in the Sierra cycle, for example) and keep it going until you're forced to upgrade. Staying a generation behind, both in hardware and software, is the safest strategy. Hackintosh and being on the bleeding edge don't really mix.
> solve a very specific and usually uncommon need.

Perhaps i'm a strange case, but the only times I or anyone I know have ever had to use support are for these cases.

If an issue is common, its not an issue for support, its a failure of ux or design
> What struck me about this is that Apple was framing a discussion in which the big news — the whole point, really — was their pre-announcing a “completely rethought” next-generation Mac Pro by emphasizing that most of their pro users use MacBooks and most of the rest use iMacs — and that they have big plans in store for the pro segment of both of those product lines. It’s exactly what I would have expected Apple to say if they were breaking the news that the Mac Pro was going away: We’re dropping the Mac Pro because its time has come and gone — all but a small percentage of our pro users have their needs met by MacBook Pros and high-end iMacs.

It is also exactly what you would think Apple would say if they know this is going to be an extremely expensive device. Much more so than the current Mac Pro.
Sure. And if you are the maker of an App or product, the customer can then give you a poor review, or make his story go viral and totally fuck over your business and you proceed the recieve hundreds of poor reviews.

Feel free to piss off your customers at your own peril.
Isn't the identity monad isomorphic to normal functions? In that sense normal functions are a monad.
Yes, but a lot of cases these days have easily removable and cleanable filters so that most of that dust doesn't make it inside the case.
Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? I mean Windows is good, but nowhere good as OS X. And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). Also god forbid you have a problem (especially a hardware problem) and then try to debug it. Good luck searching online for a resolution.

I never had success with Linux. My Macbook pro has had its shares of problems (Wifi issues that later resolved with a system update) but it's nowhere my experience trying to install Linux and battling the drivers issue.

Anyone figuring out the Linux/Laptop problem is re-inventing the Macbook Pro/OS X.

Here are things that I'd pay $1,000 on top of the current Macbook Pro model:

- Thiner/Lighter

- Longer Battery Life (5+ hours)

- 32/64GB RAM

For OS X:

- Less cluttering (ie: remove all Apps and let the user decide what to install, like Siri and crap).

- Native Package Manager

That's about it. I'd be buying the new Macbook Pro in a month. But if Apple releases something like the above, I'm more than happy to drop 5-8k usd into it.
The GPL does not taint anything. People like to use pejorative terms like that, or "viral", to make the GPL seem like something that spreads on its own. It is a software license like any other, and every developer can make the decision of whether or not they want to use software available under those terms.

The rest of your reply reiterates the usual developer focused "open source" viewpoint while mistakenly suggesting that it's also the focus of free software. The goal of free software has always been user freedom. Source code in the hands of users. It's not about upstream contributions. Having a free library used in a proprietary program does not advance user freedom, though it may lead to a developer improving the library. All the upstream contributions in the world simply do not matter if the user is not entitled to the complete source code of the programs that they use.
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Apple themselves admitted as much. They focused too much on making something beautiful and small. Neither of those things matter to a pro, especially for a desktop.

And not only that, even Apple with its vast resources cannot keep the machine up to date because the components are so tied to the case design.
Oh, because we had a talk about all the places that he looked for and the Laundry was the only place he hadn't look for, he didn't remember he went there. In the activity visualizer you can tell how around 3:00am there was activity on the laundry zone twice. We knew for sure when they keys were lost, after he arrived home.
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