skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it was the other way around. The expensive school computer was locked down (this was the mid-1980s) but I learned stuff there that I then explored at home on a home computer. People tried to get into the school computer to capture other people's passwords, so it wasn't a "messing with school computers to make them do new things" as much as a "messing with school computers to prevent other kids from learning anything". I'm glad they were locked down. But I'm also glad my home computer was completely open (Commodore 64, TRS-80, IBM PC) and relatively simple to experiment with. Maybe a Raspberry Pi serves that purpose today but it's so much harder to spend the time to learn that when there's a shiny ipad next to it.
Oh well. There is a js lib for it. So I might add it for fun lol. Another side project I guess.
Some need to be cooked to become edible, others at least fermented; granted many could be eaten raw, just not "all".
Blackberry owned the market though. They were the corporate smart phone. They lost it all...

Has anyone written about what blackberry actually tried to do to prevent losing to Apple? My memory is that they basically were convinced there was no way they could lose their marketshare, so effectively just watched as they lost everything.
SnapEmoji. Anyone up for it XD
They've changed their business model in the last 7-8 years to be online friendly and it's been largely a success. Might have something to do with it, might not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic....
If you're looking for the old Atlantic, a lot of their archived material is right alongside current stuff, in "Also see...". For example, "Sex and the College Girl" (1957) was recommended after I read Kate Bolick's famous "All the Single Ladies" piece (2011). Kind of interesting to have that juxtaposition.
The last line is a paraphrase of Greenspun's 10th Law[0]:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

[0] http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
I plan on expanding the emoji set.
Land may be valuable at the moment, but that will likely change in the future when fresh, clean water will be more scarce and climate changes will render parts of Earth uninhabitable.

I'd recommend you reading this interview with M. Burry (guy who foresaw the real-estate crises in '08): http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/big-short-geniu...
It's just sucrose, lots of table sugar does come from sugar beets.
...under wise and benevolent German rule.

EDIT: of course a German (lispm) would deny that and downvote me for saying so :)

But the fact is that whenever an important decision is made in EU it is first made in Chancellor Merkel's office, and then approved by EU Commision and Parliament, which act as a decoys.

The latest example of that informal decision making process is the current refugee crisis.
I used to work in edtech and had to undergo COPPA audits every year. I asked some Google classroom engineers about those audits last year at ISTE and none knew about it. Found that really strange. Dunno if they are certified now.
It's a neat implementation for a very annoying (and common) scenario. I've used various font ID tools in the past and always found them rather limited. The vast majority are manual ones that ask you to identify particular characteristics of the font in question and then go from there. While that might be helpful, it's also pretty limited. Most of the time, I wound up posting an image to a typography forum to get an ID.

A few sites like My Fonts have an API that lets you generate font samples.[0] You could probably use that to automate generating your font database. Throw in a few other APIs (Google Fonts[1], Typekit[2], etc.) and some other type stores--along with some of the foundry websites that don't sell their fonts on other sites (Hoefler & Co., cough)--and you could build up a very rigorous database/recognition tool in short order.

0. https://dev.myfonts.com/#font_sample

1. https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api

2. https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/typekit/docs/overvie...
Travelling to the US around 2005 or so - a friend got whisked away into an interrogation room without any explaon entering the country. He'd been part of the NATO forces preparing for/participating the gulf I war - and they similarly spent some hours before letting him go with a "thank you for your service". Apparently they readily knew he'd been "in the wrong place at the right time", but took some time to figure out which "side" he'd been on..
>>The minority that likes their phones may be miniscule in comparison to say the iPhone. But in the phone market a small market share can still equal billions a year.

Ah yes, the good old "even if we captured only 1% of this huge market we would make billions!" argument.
Adding randomized checks for shell submissions
Is there a German keyboard layout such as?:

AltGr + a -> ä

AltGr + o -> ö

AltGr + u -> ü

I'm Polish and I'm very glad that our most common layout is like that for ąćęłńóśźż (with AltGr + x for ź). Currently I'm in Germany and I wonder if there is similar layout for German umlauts.
For a little more, you can get a Windows laptop that runs Office, Adobe Suite and a full Ubuntu environment per Windows Subsystem for Linux.

(I am a Mac user, but Windows + WSL would probably be my first choice after a Mac. Especially if Microsoft would stop spying on their users.)
The tie-breaker is this—would you rather have a 'laptop' with no keyboard or mouse but a touchscreen or the other way round.
The big deal with iPads ate my local district was "interactive textbooks". All the books we got never lived up to the hype.
I seriously tried to make an iPad Pro (9.7") work for writing my book (ETA sometime before I die). All the tools I need are there. I fly a lot so the form factor is perfect. I just couldn't stomach the keyboard.
Sooooo basically the same as in 2016 and before?
It's much easier in a college setting. Much easier.

I've now moved a couple of times in my adult life. I find that it takes about six months to find a group of people to hang out with occasionally, and two years to acquire a small group of friends that I feel comfortable with. It seems to get harder as you get older, too.
I wish I could edit the title of this post.
Actually Nokia market cap is 30G, while Apple's 750G, 90% of which is "the handset business".
I'm coming more to the conclusion that to be "successful" (i.e. achieving your goal), one must have a substantial layer of good marketing behind it. No longer can a scientist say "take this vaccine so you won't die," now they must also have a witty sign that infotains people. While I'd like to see a more facts-based approach to civic life, this is the world we live in. All the better that people who are historically bad communicators (scientist, engineers, doctors, etc) are realizing that they too need to apply a marketing "layer" to their speech, otherwise their message will be totally ignored.
Intelius/Spokeo/Whitepages/PeopleByNumberdotcoms
Ssh'ing into Linux servers and using vim doesn't do much for school kids.
In other words, you'd readily give Snowden a high clearance?
Do you mean cypherpunk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
I would suggest getting a "Benchmak Maps" atlas of the state you are traveling in. About $25 each. The whole state at 1:300,000 with comprehensive coverage of many features. You will find all the dirt roads and many trails. Good for driving into and around the back country. For hiking, especially off trail, I prefer good old 1:24,000 USGS maps.
I actually really like general tsaos chicken and often seeek it out as it's a dish you can't get in China. It only appeals to more people more from the south though or have sweeter cuisines like Shanghai.

Many chinese people in the bay area who can't stand it don't like sweet dishes in general. If they're more from the west, they often complain about not being to find authentically spicy food.
>Republicans continue to grow towards something that incrementally becomes a planned economy.

This is worth repeating twice, in case people missed it. The irony would be funny if it weren't so damn catastrophic.
What "strenous" arguments would occur against this?
I don't disagree with you, and I don't think I made an assertion to the contrary. My "if you're consuming smoothies..." statement is very carefully qualified and I intended it as a response to comments elsewhere in this thread trying to poke holes in the article, which I think on balance is delivering a good message.
First, just to get this out the way:

> are you just dedicated to slander Phoronix with baseless assertions?

If you think anything I've said is slander, you don't have the first clue what slander is.

> Yet, from all benchmark sites on earth, somehow you single out Phoronix as a site whose benchmarks somehow are "dubious".

There may be other bad benchmarking sites I'm not aware of, but they aren't the ones in the article? Not sure why you think this is "singling out."

Here's some excerpts from a discussion of the topic on reddit[0]. I tend to agree with their characterizations of Phoronix' flaws:

> Apart from sensationalist headlines where he (Michael Larabee) tries his hardest to manufacture controversy I also think the benchmarks are the worst aspect of Phoronix as they are typically so poor in their implementations as to be worthless and generally only serves to spread misinformation.
>
> The compiler benchmarks are a joke, only recently has he even started to display the actual compiler options used and not even for all tests, secondly he doesn't even understand how compiler options doesn't correlate and make totally pointless tests of -O2 versus -O2, -O1 vs -O1 etcetera
>
> ...
> The we have the operating system / distro comparisons where he doesn't make a lick of effort to have them use similar settings, for example doing game benchmarks where one system also runs desktop 3d compositing and the other doesn't means that the end results are inconclusive enough to be worthless

> copy-paste articles, especially wine announcements or information from mailing lists, where author just copy-pastes what message said, without apparently having any understanding of his own on the topic. nothing really annoys me more than that - lazy journalism for the advertising dime.
posts without links to original source, or with barely any links. but tons of links leading back to phoronix are sure to be always there.
benchmarks where results visible on the graphs are summed up by some inconclusive filler banter that doesn't really say anything relatable to data represented on them (and sometimes is quite the opposite) .
>
> phoronix is basically total opposite of LWN. nearly zero effort/research goes into each article, beer promotion all the time and extreme amounts of self-referencing links. it's pretty much clickbait all the time, where a single quip from a mailing list can get into a full blown article.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ittd8/why_all_of_th...
I agree that this is a good goal, but Craigslist had some unusual advantages against classifieds: they undercut the cost and were national; newspapers were in denial about the internet, lacked technical knowhow, and fragmented into many local markets. I think if you made a good, free Facebook killer, Facebook wouldn't just let itself be taken by surprise to the same degree.
That's not the point I'm trying to make. A simple way to test this system would be to allow the 'owners' of the gold to count it once in a while. As it is, there's no verification of anything.

A system with no transparency or verifiability is just waiting for abuse.
Back in the 80's we had computer labs full of Apple II's, which were used for educational (for the most part) games like Number Munchers, Carmen San Diego, and Oregon Trail. Then maybe some Print Shop, teaching typing, and using the computers to write reports for other classes.

They did the job perfectly well - why aren't today's computers being used for the same things? You don't even need books. Class, take out your device and open Wikipedia to the article on volcanoes...
I did the same thing; never finished Grade 10. Had been playing with coding since I was 5 [1]. Always knew one day I'd "do something with computers". My dad wrote one of the first books on the Internet in '92 so I got some good exposure somewhat early. Moved to a third world country at 15 cause they didn't card for booze. Ended up with some web site contracts, and kept diving deeper until I was a "real" programmer (not just web/CRUD stuff - but high perf, high-scale, life-critical, reversing, etc.).

It was only hard for the first little bit. No one takes a 17-yr-old seriously. But I had a 24-yr-old business partner and that helped. I managed to get a speaking slot at a 300+ person business conference and picked up some solid clients that built portfolio. Plus it was 2000, so a whiz-kid-Internet-thing had some sort of cachet perhaps.

I already had a real career and some recognition by the time I would have graduated, so, eh, it worked out and was fun. Though I do regret not knowing maths and not having taken really solid algorithms classes (OTOH, no guarantee I'd have gone to a real school - might have gotten fake CS classes like so many end up with). And I wonder what kind of connections I might have made if I had stayed with it, especially staying in the US.

1: Most elaborate thing was designing a fake grade tracking program (demo) to convince other kids I had hacked the school's systems (hint: they used paper) and could change their grades.
Nokia couldn't do what Samsung did. They lacked factories for NANDs, CPUs, RAM, screens, camera sensors.
Where good ideas come from
Having a touch screen now also enables the Chromebooks to run Android apps. My inexpensive $250 Chromebook from last year became 3x more useful when they added that functionality - there are just so many Android apps and a lot of them are less cloud-reliant.
> No longer can a scientist say "take this vaccine so you won't die," now they must also have a witty sign that infotains people.

Implying that this wasn't the case before?

From what I remember, the guy who said "wash your hands so your patients don't die" basically got ostracized [1], and even Leonardo Da Vinci had to sell himself in his resume's cover letter [2].

I think Dan Ariely has the right attitude towards all of this [3]. When we design things like buildings and bridges, we take physics into account. We know that we can't build a bridge a certain way because it'll collapse. Similarly, when we're designing for people, we have to take human nature (behavioral psychology, whatever you want to call it) into account.

Facts are important, but so is a sensitivity to the person you're trying to convince of those facts. That's just the reality of communication, I'm afraid.

_

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/37566392...

[2] http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/skills-of-da-vinci.html

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_...
one may naively think that drinking a glass of juice is 'healthier' than drinking a can of soda- when in fact the caloric values and sugar contents may be similar.

that is the important thing to take away from this article IMO.
Not all apples are for pie and other types of filling.
Concept of an ingredient being healthy does not exist in science. Is diet filled with fruits and vegetables healthy? Of course. Starchy foods with high nutrients per calories ratio have super high unattainable overdose amount. That's why they are safe.

Eating 3000 kcal of bananas metabolises quite differently than 3000 kcal of glucose sugar.
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Here's a fixed link at. http://emojilog.surge.sh
It suffers from the same malaise that all online publications suffer from – articles and headlines are increasingly optimized to get people arguing about it on Facebook (and Hacker News, and anywhere else).
Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood
Republicans love subsidies as much as the next party.
You know you can always rent a dedicated server, right ?
Yes?

I mean, there's a good chance that the person you're complaining about didn't have all the same benefits you've had -- education, mentoring, upbringing, genetic, whatever. It's a very explicit "why can't everyone be as great as I am?"

It also makes you a bad coworker: if you have energy to whine, you have energy to teach.

Ed:

It would be nice if the people who disagree would explain why.

I'm honestly curious why people complaining about coworkers think it's anything but an entitled whine.
Show HN: React Native API – Quick Reference for RN Props and Methods
If anything the case for science and facts is better than ever before in history. People were burned at the stake for talking about facts in the past that didn't agree with authority or mainstream.

Of course, human nature (when given broad free choice) is to polarize into Pro- or Anti- (science in this case) which is bad for the overall conversations.

Solution: Stop caring what others think and accept that the world will often make bad choices, and do what you can.
It struck me that the last point was the strongest. Entertainment is a fantastic way to humanize politicians and demystify complex systems from their state of worship, but the real danger is the marrying of entertainment to politics, rather than the other way around.

Is there a way to strike a boundary? We can't fault celebrities for using their influence for political effect, and I doubt we can fault them for not doing so either - but does that make entertainers qualified political movers? One joke that often circulates in leftist circles is "J.K. Rowling explains why Harry Potter would support the state of Israel", but it has a ring of truth to it as well. If entertainment becomes the primary way of thinking about politics, it will need to lose a lot of freedom to bring it up to a standard we deserve.
Excuse me sir, but it appears that you're trying to have fun. This is Hacker News. Fun is strictly prohibited.
They love subsidies, but to different industries run by different people and concentrated in different regions of the country. It's pork politics.
All of your questions are actually unanswerable with certainty from the current state of nutritional science if you replace the word 'vitamin' with 'nutrient'.

Actual plant food or fruit is loaded with phytochemicals like polyphenols, carotenoids, flavonoids, etc. most of which we seem to be able to survive without, but at the same time exert real testable effects on our metabolism and immune systems.

But we don't know in detail what those effects are yet since there are literally tens of thousands of these compounds, and we've only just started to scratch the surface.
Choosing Android would not have saved them. Google didn't like Nokia and would've given new OS versions to other companies first. Nokia had to buy most of the components from Android phone manufacturers - Samsung, LG, Sony. They stood no chance.

They were doomed by the Symbian technical debt. When the iPhone came out, a very smart person posted a comment on HN saying Nokia is dead and he was right I guess :)
I rather be downvoted and told why than left clueless. I guess my mistake is in seeing UEFI and UEFI Secure Boot as the same problem altogether. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.
You say it needs more than speculation, but you are speculating about an alternative explanation (to be clear: I am not calling the Banque de France statement you quote as speculation, but the implication that it is the explanation for the stalled transfer appears to be so. Note that the Banque de France is itself performing the recasting of its American bars.)
You're correct, I wasn't precise there. Good call! In fact, now that I think about it, there's also another potential and innocent explanation for this (pure speculation, though): Maybe the insurance companies for the transport only accepted to insure LGD bars, as otherwise they would have to value each and every individual bar prior to shipment to determine the insurance value.

(Opens up new questions for speculation, though: If that was the case, why didn't the Bundesbank disclose that as the reason for melting them?)
My touchscreen Chromebook has been the most cost-effective and versatile computer purchase I've ever made. And with a crouton chroot I can do anything I'd do on a regular Ubuntu laptop outside of high performance and games.
> If anything the case for science and facts is better than ever before in history.

Oh man, you just reminded me of this really depressing passage I read in a book about biology that I had put out of mind. A career scientist was complaining about how basically he got into science hoping to do science, but witnessed decades of academic politics hampering scientific progress. It's distressing to think about how our own nature holds us back.
It happens all the time even in small scale. One of the food fests for example, when I got there, there were foods that had nothing to do with the theme and they started mark up prices on the spot because there wasn't enough. Never mind I had to pay to get in on the first place and the food was horrible.
> Hacker News: She Knew Arc

Poetic and true (if we're a little generous with gendered pronouns)
Second class citizen is right.

In my OPINION the add-on keyboard on the Surface Pro 4 is the best attempt, but even that pales in comparison to the Surface Book, and real laptops like last year's MBP and Thinkpads.

3-in-1s might have a legitimate future (e.g. Surface Book). But they have real keyboards, not sketchy addon ones. Real laptops aren't going anywhere for people that actually need to be productive.