skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Canada I don't see any point in getting rid of my 25Mbps uncapped account. Going to a 300Mbps or 1Gbps is pointless if you have a 300GB cap especially now with videos in UHD on Netflix and YouTube. I pay $183 for basic cable and 25Mbps/1Mbps but no cap since I've had this package since 2002.

Into the belly of the beats I go! ....

For Bell their 300Mbps plan is $121 with a bundle but then after three months "in market prices apply" which I guess is $300/month but after nearly 2 hours of looking I couldn't find it shown anywhere. And Bell just raised all Internet packages by $5 month in Jan 2017.

Bells' "Acceptable Use" is mentioned but I tried to see it I clicked "Terms of Use" at the bottom of the plan, new page, click to expand "Internet and Value Added Services" which has three links to PDF documents, "Bell Aliant Fibre Services" document, that document has a link in "Internet Acceptable Use" it opens a new page with Legal and Regulatory columns each with four links and each of those links go to new pages with several more links, those several links expand to show links to more PDFs. At several points on several pages and in the PDFs I was directed back to the Legal and Terms page.

I'm pretty sure that Bell Canada 300Mbps or 1Gbps plan is capped at 300GB/month over that exceeds their vague and seemingly non-existent Acceptable Use TOS. And those plans cost a lot $300 for 300Mbps which may be the vague "in market price" that's if you don't bundle them with Bell's TV and landline/cellphone.

There's two hours of my life I'll never get back. You win Bell.
Audio codecs use memory-mapped ring buffers; as long as the driver's write pointer stays ahead of the codecs' read pointer there is no way to add jitter. Note that the codec doesn't care about the write pointer, if the driver forgets to update the buffer, the card will just play it over and over again. Sometimes that happens when a computer wakes up from stand-by. The result is quite characteristic.
A colleague of mine has two master's degrees from a prestigious university, one of them is physics, and he buys bass guitar cables for 120$ and more because he believes he hears a difference between those and those that cost, say, 30$.
Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes should be a huge indictment of Tech Journalism as well. Many critics were right about her, but smeared as misogynists. I know I bought the hype, and called some friends sexists.

At least the Wall Street Journal is still doing investigative journalism, who knows what a nightmare situation Theranos would have caused it they didn't get caught.

I hope someone there is doing some investigation on Uber and Lyft as well.
I agree with the general sentiment, but, to nitpick, Facebook uses/is transitioning to http://hacklang.org/ to avoid PHP. They literally wrote a whole new language and built a VM to do JIT compilation of that new lang just to not have to continue using PHP.
I always perceive blue light as brighter. I dabble in indoor lighting, and warmer (bluer) bulbs always seem brighter. Unless the brightness of fluorescents changes with the color temperature, I'm inclined to agree with the original comment. Besides, nit picking is rarely useful.
If the song was recorded in 1991 and you're playing it now, that's 26 years of latency, no matter what.
How is this anything other than a straightforward win/win trade?

This statement may be shocking to you but people have rights and society has qualitative properties that cannot be purchased for money. 'Trade' is not the same as people's lives. If you treat people as disposable economic tools, you begin to create a culture and climate of facetious social engagement, private insecurity and fear... ie. your "win/win" becomes "lose/lose" very quickly.

there's no real old money

LKY and cronies laundered huge amounts of money from the pillaging of Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar's natural resources and established themselves as the highest paid politicians in the world. Much of the wealthy class in Singapore still owns significant business interests in those countries, such as vast palm oil plantations on recently deforested land. Meanwhile, the 'average' citizen is not doing so well, and the significant migrant labour underclass suffers daily out of economic desperation. These realities clearly represent dynastic, multi-generational wealth transfer and a stratified society. Basically, Singapore is a lot like Shanghai in conception ... rich people fled there during a period of relative instability then doubled down on exploiting regional postwar opportunities with the advantage of significant stores of capital.

the single best passport on earth

Gee, no rose-colored glasses there!
I have had 32 GB in my (i7) W530 since I got it (about four years ago) and I'm almost positive it's not DDR4, although I'd have to check to be certain.
Unless you think this would actually lead to banks taking such vulnerabilities more seriously in general--which I don't believe is the case--taking an action like that is pure spite. Consider the possible outcomes for this particular vulnerability: [1] nothing happens, [2] it gets heavily exploited, customers lose money, and it doesn't get fixed, [3] the same thing happens and it does get fixed. In all three cases, the outcome is at least as bad as it would have been had you done nothing, except possibly earlier and worse.

I really take issue with the notion that security is important, so you're fully justified in screwing people and companies over as much as possible to prove a point. That seems to be a common attitude in the security community. I get the frustration people have with the intransigence of corporations and programmers, and people's general stubborn unwillingness to understand the severe impact of vulnerabilities, but if just security-shaming companies into fixing bugs actually worked we would have a much more secure internet today than we actually do. Unless you can get regulatory agencies to start holding companies and individuals legally accountable for security issues (that is, making it more expensive not to fix than to fix), nothing will change, even if you have all the technical solutions and social pressure in the world.
Just google e.g. "admob cordova". There are several plugins. Some of them also have Ionic Native "plugins", also easily googleable. If you need help with installation and configuration, forum.ionicframework.com or StackOverflow is probably a better place to ask for that.
Check the slideshare link OP posted. (Pun intended?)
Martinis' group has laid out a plan to build a 49 qubit quantum computer that can solve a problem that is intractable for classical supercomputers with any known algorithm. If they pull it off we'll have the first provisional evidence that we can build quantum computers that can solve a problem classical computers cannot in a reasonable amount of time.

Caveats: it is possible there exists a superior classical algorithm that can solve the problem efficiently enough, and that we just haven't found it yet. It is also still within the realm of possibility that there exists an algorithm that can simulate any quantum computer with only polynomial slowdown, which would show quantum computers are not drastically faster for any problem.
The writing on this _Popular Mechanics_ article/memoir is superb, filled with rich detail and expository flourish.

For example, this passage succinctly and adroitly presents the landlord's peculiar fate.

> For a landlord, all stories end on a broken aquarium. Or
> maggots in the unplugged refrigerator. That double-pane
> window that "fell out" during some Halloween party. The
> climax of a story belongs to the tenant. The denouement is
> the landlord's burden alone. And it generally involves a mop.

A pleasure to read such good writing.
This deserves its own post... Are there previous conversations around this? A quick search isn't giving me much.
These two sentences contradict each other. It's good for nighttime to be dark. Berlin sounds quite appealing as compared to other cities, in this respect.
It would be one thing if we just knew these companies used these technologies, and that was it. Instead, we have conference talks, testimonials, and evidence that they are working well for them.

Obviously you should not use a technology without understanding it. Does this really require a discussion? No one is on the other side. But going "Well that technology is just hype" isn't understanding it, it's dismissing it.
Note that this doesn't actually work any more. I investigated this a bit a few weeks ago, but didn't finish yet: https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-to-build-a-today-widg...
Depends on the kind of code you write. std.algorithm? No problem
Being able to afford health care does.
Ah, you mean the entirety of Windows 10, and just... all of Google and Facebook?

> Uber

Oh.

> Then there was Facebook

Ah, here we go.

> The company doesn’t distort reality—but it often seems to lack the ability to recognize it.

Wait, but... they do though. Among many other evils. You're just upset they said something tone-deaf at a press conference?

> Juicero [...] After Bloomberg News discovered that you didn’t even need the $700 $400 juicer to make juice (there are, apparently, these things called hands)

Crappy, stupid products and founders who can't turn off Always Be Closing even when it makes them sound kinda dumb? That's sort-of bad I guess, but who really cares?

This misses the point. Some specific scandals and dumb, wanky marketing-speak are the least of tech's problem. Spy-vertising is the heart of most of the big players, and it's rotten to the core.
That's not what most folks use them for. If you use them for maintenance and generally fielding complaints they get expensive quick.

You are in the very extreme minority of people able and willing to perform maintenance and repair work yourself. We're a dying breed it seems. For most it's simply not a realistic option, due to the lack of "real world" experience/skills most in the position to buy an investment property are in.

This is why it's generally considered a poor investment choice for most people just looking to put money somewhere.

If you are willing to roll your sleeves up and have some handyman skills? You'll certainly enhance the return on your own capital that way. I see such businesses (and they are businesses - not remotely passive) as a means to ensure your money is working for you, which feels much more satisfying and honest to me than just stuffing it into some ETF somewhere.
Look at ordinary people and societies and notice that they calcify and grow shells which make it harder and harder for change to occur. Only a profound influence such as brain trauma or war can make them to see things differently. Whereas an outsider can develop in his own way, guided by intuition rather than by the social forces which stultify.

The genius is an outsider.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226320/

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4480-you-know-what-the-fello...
Neither operator overloading nor built-in numerical types are necessary (or arguably even useful) for scientific computing. Further, Python also lacks built-in vector/matrix types.
It's not only about programming: Facebook uses open offices, so MUST we!
"Sure, people can still live in poverty even here, but this is not due to a lack of aid, but due to people's own decisions."

really:)? People still make decisions in Germany after all you have described?
Just don't open the box, and we will all be fine.
Why isn't it the audio codec's write pointer and the driver's read pointer?
Except that's a terrible argument (I wasn't swayed by Russian interference, therefore no-one was). Yes, the citizens of the UK voted (just) for Brexit - because it was a referendum - that's how they work (assuming no ballot stuffing etc). Would everyone have voted the same way without the (alleged) interference? Possibly not.
Just what those people living in those places need. More investors making money off their condition. The rent is already too damn high.
No adding/removing/modifying elements in a list is very simple and fast, even with thousands of elements.

Example:
https://pastebin.com/Fu39i47z
> I worked at a Taco Bell and Starbucks. People yelled at us and treated us like scum for the offense of working for minimum wage.

A good manager at a Taco Bell* or Starbucks would put a stop to that. It's so frustrating when you're just trying to get along and have to go along with the a-holes of the world.

* I worked at a Taco Bell in the 90s that was fortunately managed by two of the best managers in the region.
We get the it, you work for Cruise.
Diversity is the main "excuse" I hear when speaking about the inequality problems in the US.

USA is in no way more diverse than Europe. Are you saying that a guy from Lisboa and a guy from Prague (who, by the way, don't speak the same language) are more similar than a guy from LA and another from Columbus?

The root of the inequality in the USA is political, not the diversity.
With just a bit of Google-foo and some persistence, you can have working emulators of the 8-bit systems by the end of the summer if you put your mind to it.

While I've not used it, this website seems pretty solid: http://www.codeslinger.co.uk/pages/projects/gameboy.html (You may want to make other choices; personally I'd go straight to the gameboy because it was a real console and skip the Chip8, but your mileage may vary.)

It's an excellent project. Great on a resume, too; if I saw a fresh grad show me their Gameboy emulator they wrote from scratch my head would be turning. I personally would expect you followed a site like that and know it's perhaps a deceptively simple project compared to what most would expect, but I'd still be quite impressed, and you have a pretty decent chance of hitting an interviewer who quite overestimates its difficulty too :)

And the power differential between the Gameboy and a modern computer is so vast you can even use Javascript in a browser if you like. Use whatever language you like. C/C++ is still not necessarily a bad choice or anything, but don't fall into the trap of thinking you need their performance in this case. You've got gobs of power, you can afford any current language you like or would like to learn.
That's only true for victimless crimes, and the bulk of the increase in non-index crimes in the study was drug-related. The study mentions increased reporting due to visibility as an explanation.

The index crimes increased as well. Those include homicide, assault, burglary and theft, all of which have victims.
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We actually have a few examples of an absolute speed up for quantum computers, though none of them are exponential and some of them are problems nobody cares to solve. For example, Grover's algorithm is superior (O(sqrt(n)) vs O(n)) to the best possible classical algorithm for the same problem.

If you are willing to accept comparisons of best known classical algorithms to best known quantum algorithms (without a guarantee that the existing algorithms are ideal) you can add others like factoring to the list, with exponential speed ups.
Been a landlord for about 13 years. People here say it's hard - I disagree - it's often very easy, until suddenly it's not at breakneck speed. You'll have weeks, sometimes months of easy and then suddenly a pipe will burst and it will consume 100% of your time. Or a furnace will fail. Or a dishwasher will explode.

You could probably figure that out on your own, though. If you still have interest in being landlord, here's something nobody will tell you: you will see people at their lowest, and you will see people at their worst.

I had a tenant argue with me over a door they kicked in from the inside, "Why should I have to pay for what I did when I was drunk!?" I had a tenant weep openly while she explained she had to break the lease because she had terminal cancer and was moving into hospice. I had a tenant cry while he explained that he lost his job and had to break the lease because he couldn't afford to house his family there anymore. A few months ago I had a very nice family move out of one of my rentals and the young wife teared up because she "hoped that one day they could buy the property from me." - The husband worked for a large corporation and had been unwillingly transferred out of state.

The nice family with perfect credit and references will turn out to be dirt-bags who wreck up the place. Sure, you've got that security deposit but you'll still spend hours doing the labor yourself or managing contractors.

My best tenants were a group of college kids who rented my biggest property out and left a year later with the place in better condition than when they moved in - they had no credit or references, but I had a good feeling about them.

The point is, is weighs you down, if you're a even a little bit kind-hearted. I started selling property off last year. I don't want to be a landlord anymore.
Those are things that should happen anyway.
But no joke the world is not in a good place with how things are presently regarding climate change.

Two parts of carbon pollution are difficult.
1. It's a diffuse source pollution problem. You can look a coal fire plant, and yes these are great contributers but so are cows and just general agriculture. Emissions come from everywhere!

2. dealing with gaseous carbon pollution is also tricky because its up high and CO2 is reasonably stable. If we are going to try and filter air from the atmosphere we are probably going to have to either look at biological sequestration solutions ie. algae etc or energy expensive options to break down the carbon.

And conservation of mass being what it is we are going to end up with a lot of waste to store.

And that article talks about 8 million pounds....oh well.
My first thought: iTunesU, Youtube, etc... there HAS to be tons of videos on "entry level" stuff like this...

Yale Entry Level Physics Class: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/physics-video/id3416518...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yale+physics

MIT Quantum Physics: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/quantum-physics-i/id887...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mit+quantum+mec...

quick google searches should yield more classes easily enough.
I think like some countries do mandatory military service, mandatory retail experience would do a lot of good for some people. Not until you have dealt with retail or restaurant customers are you truly armored against harshness the world. Seeing it from the other side also helps to build empathy for the people working the retail space.
Show HN: Two player game of Half Board Chess
That's ridiculous, but somewhat understandable. That's an analog signal, so subtle differences in how it's transmitted could at least theoretically have an effect.

Doing this in the digital realm is a whole extra level of crazy.
One not only has to worry about lifespan but geography.

http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/12/1391494...

Not sure if CAPEX as described below includes everything.

direct link to map

http://calculators.energy.utexas.edu/lcoe_map/#/county/tech
Agreed 100%.

My experience is that being a good programmer is more than a matter of intelligence. It's a certain thinking style that lends itself well to organizing data flows and presentation. It's a certain ability to focus on abstract structures and keep chains of relationships in the mind while envisioning how to manipulate them. And a lots of otherwise smart people just don't think like this natively and "teaching" them is both painful for everyone and has limited effects.

I bet most of us have met perfectly smart people who just didn't click with coding. Just not a good fit for their thinking style. Even if they nominally want to be programmers for the money or cool factor or whatever. Even if they take a bunch of classes. They just never quite get there.

And square pegs beating themselves into round holes usually does indeed cost more than it produces. People should play to their strengths instead of chasing external expectations. It's better for them and for society in my estimation. But certainly if people want to give programming a try they should. And at least "some" experience in programming is better than none. But most people can't/won't become professionals.
Can you talk about how you use cloud9?
Because this is about audio output?
Plenty of people have been thinking about it for years and developing encryption algorithms which should remain secure even if someone manages to build a working quantum computer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
Some useful historical context if you're much younger than I am: a lot of things that would be Python libraries today couldn't be in 1997, because there weren't mainstream languages for professional development other than C and C++. In that world, the thing you did if you wanted to express programs as cleanly as you would in Python was to build scripting languages to express them in.

We did the same thing with raw packet programming; the only realistic alternative at the time was pre-8.0 Tcl.
10% is standard
Bose Connect Privacy Evaluation [pdf]
Not really. Car exhaust contributes to both. Reducing car exhaust will reduce particulate pollution and CO2.
The culture.
well, it is better to identify with what you have been doing all your life, than identify with couch, beer and TV.
Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14148145 "Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says"
For comparison a recent Vox article had coal mining jobs at 50,000 employees. Another reason to favour renewables. http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/2/21/14671932...
Yeah I think one of the important things is that the work is genuinely necessary.
Yes, we do a lot of inlining at the end of a view. In every case when the javascript is only usable for that view we find this very clean, every developer can immediately see what javascript is running on that particular view.

We have our own small library for the more common operations, for small things like more effecient navigating of the DOM three or more complex "components" that for example convert a select element to a nicer selectbox with built in full text search. That library is included for every view. This library weight around 50kb gzipped.
I was at a client site that used Trilogy (an insurance company using their commissions engine.) One day, i'm told that Trilogy HR [unintentionally] implemented an exponential bonus scheme for referral hires. $1000 for one referral, $2000 for two, $4000 for three, and so on. The Trilogy consultants at our client site were laughing at the matter and joking about pooling together all the referrals so they could get $1000 * 2^10 in referral bonuses. Needless to say the bonus scheme was revised.
So with zero evidence it's the result of shadowy US influence? C'mon man, even socialist utopias can make mistakes.
Depends on what you mean by powerful and how that can translate to a meaningful calculation.
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I have seen two kinds of teams succumbing to hype,a team of novices who do not have experience/skills and are looking for a silver bullet to solve the problems. Second type is 10x developers pushed to leadership given a simple problem, to justify themselve they have to make simple problems into distributed big data problem, with some cutting age framework and database.
A deque is probably a better option for performance.
Conference talks, testimonials, etc are often biased towards the positive. It drives me nuts when someone tells me why I should use some technology, without telling me why I shouldn't use it, and what its constraints and limitations are. Those are equally as important as the features. Project documentation are the worst at this, painting a rosy picture of how the tech will solve the world's problems, without telling you the practical realities of using it.