skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would any book "not work on the iPad"? It seems like whatever math is taught in the book can be done on the iPad (either writing out the problems in a drawing app or using a special purpose one).

Was it some kind of ebook? Is that what you mean?
I have the advantage that I'm just reverse engineering the circuit to understand it; I'm not trying to re-create it. So I can just ignore transistor size, layout, etc :-)
They tried to improve Symbian - I've got their latest and greatest Symbian device, the 808 and it's a joke.

Even if they could do Maemo, there would've been no apps - Microsoft failed to attract enough devs, given that there were already 10M .NET devs out there.
At a minimum it should have only gone to a few executives and maybe some motivational coaches to make the rest of the workforce happy.
Perhaps what the first world needs is a little simulated conflict. Something a little more high stakes than video games and a little less than The Game starring Michael Douglas. Not sure what form it should take.
Sci-hub title search has never actually worked for me. I generally have to look up the DOI for the article from its title at some other site, and then search on sci-hub with the DOI.
Because the Pacific coast of Russia is thousands of land miles, and even more thousands of sea miles, from the places Russia wants to be able to influence. Having naval bases there doesn't really help them project naval force in Europe and the Middle East.
> how does bringing people out of poverty offset that?

By giving them the ability to adapt. Most of The Netherlands is below sea level, and has been for centuries. They responded by adapting: building dikes and levees and other systems for water management. They could do this because they had enough wealth to do so. The more wealth we create, the more the world as a whole has the ability to adapt.

If we knew for certain that putting all that wealth into CO2 mitigation instead of bringing people out of poverty would keep things static indefinitely, it might perhaps be worth considering mitigation (though you will note that nobody who advocates mitigation asks all the poor people what they would prefer). But we don't know that, not even close. We have to assume that things will change no matter what we do. Given that, our only realistic option is adaptation.
Nice to see Tcl used here.
I hate to admit but that's true. As long as you both are under the same government and put the contracts in a form that is can be proven to a judge you probably don't have to worry as much.

Sadly that's hardly the case for the most powerful countries.
Like https://www.exolymph.news?
If its OK to play the "why not double the price" game then at $500 you're getting close to why not get a mac laptop for $1K?
I seem to have forgotten that. Thanks for clearing it up!
It's worth noting that advanced search is a relatively new feature, developed for the premium account. The majority of discovery on Academia happens via social mechanisms on the site: seeing what people you follow are uploading/sharing/commenting on/recommending.

Even though advanced search was requested quite a bit by our users during our research around what features to build for our premium account, other premium features have been more heavily used than advanced search. The social mechanisms have remained the primary way that people discover research on Academia.
> Unless the patient was downing a gallon of juice every day, eliminating juices—from whole fruit, not processed concentrated crap—would not solve her diabetes.

It's very possible that you're underestimating the effect that drinking 28g - 40g+ of liquid sugar, per serving, has on a diabetic's body.

If her body produces enough insulin to handle what she eats throughout the day, even if it isn't conventionally 'healthy', that is diabetes in remission. She may have a damaged pancreas that cannot produce as much insulin as a healthy person, but by virtue of not having constantly high blood sugar, she wouldn't be considered actively diabetic.

However, drinking 30-40g of sugar water requires a lot of insulin to reduce blood sugar.

It may just be those excessively sugar-rich drinks, that she drinks every day, are enough to overcome her body's natural ability to reduce her blood sugar to a safe amount.
>"Libre software" and FLOSS immediately sound politicized to my ear.

They are, because pursuing your rights is a political move.

"Free software is a political movement; open source is a development model." — Richard Stallman [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-95

>Usually, you'll encounter something akin to fanatical fans <...>

As in any fight for freedom there are all kinds of people: those who do not understand, those who pretend they do not understand, those who do not know why they are fighting, and so on. No one of them defines the goal of the fight though.
> If I want to share my academic work I'll put it on my own web site.

The academic world is suffering from the same tendency to keep within a walled garden as the rest of society. It's hard these days for anyone to get people to regularly visit their blog even if the quality of the posts is high, instead people only click on links shown to them on Facebook. Similarly, my colleagues in my field generally don't visit my own website even though they are aware it's there and has links to my papers and other relevant content, but if I post a new paper on Academia.edu, I immediately get a number of views from there. It’s sad.
Interesting that they use the word "Computer" instead of "Desktop" for non-mobile devices.
Nice article. Unbelievable how simple this chip is. Try reverse engineering an ARM Cortex, Intel i7 or a Geforce 10 GPU, you'll never understand how it works completely, even if if you have a billion dollars to spend.
How Boston Consulting and Google pushed Modi to end the era of cash
Apple fans are described as 'Sheeple' by Merriam-Webster dictionary
I tried iPad Pro 12.9" for a primary portable device ... but like many others it was just too clumsy (software was clumsy) for getting stuff done, in particular if one is also dealing with a desktop or laptop with a shared file system.
"I was almost expecting this to be a late April's Fool..."

I did, too. The date was the first thing I checked. Well, I guess we can email money around on our insecure devices now. So, with Apple Pay and Gmail Money, we might finally develop something along the lines of WeChat in China where many people are constantly just using mobile to pay each other.
That's a good idea. It's already possible to search for author names separately and then find the papers on their profile (if they have one), and it's also possible to search for a research interest tag and find the papers tagged with it. It would make sense to unify those with the title search.
If your database knows a user's password, you are doing it wrong no matter what persistence layer you are using.
Thus, the quote is true?
Yeah I've tried to make do with just a tablet when traveling but just can't make it work. Even with a keyboard it's just too clumsy to select things, move the cursor around, etc. And, as you say, multi-tasking.

So I almost always travel with a laptop-like thing (whether a Mac or a Chromebook) and a tablet-like thing (whether an iPad or a Kindle). Frankly, devices are small and light enough today that there just isn't a huge win to paring down to one device that doesn't do some tasks well.
ROI went down. End of story, unless you're a social justice warrior, in which case, shriek as loud as possible.
When I talk about free software I make sure to mention the word 'infrastructure' because that's what it is. Just like roads or electricity it is a predicate for building a business (life) on top of.

Look at the biggest companies in the world (google, apple, facebook , amazon, microsoft ..) they own platforms i.e. infrastructure! but since these platforms aren't free you hear constant complaints from those who try to build a life on top of them (app store ranking not fair? Search not fair? OS/messenger/web browser/social network is walled garden? Etc.)

But even breathe the suggestion that taxes should support building reliable infrastructure (i.e. already existing free software projects) and you'll get a "government shouldn't interfere with functioning business" response.. no matter what structural risk that business carries for society and even though the "interfering" is just offering a viable alternative.
I think thats why https://brydge.com/ was built?
Thank you. I was thinking about CPU microcode, but the problem would apply to the ME, I'd guess.

Seems to me the CPU microcode could be hackable given NSA or Israeli govt resources.
Somewhat agree, I have a 950 and a lit of android/ios apps are here just not all. Last time I checked out of the top 20 on android windows phone has 17/20.

I find most games pointless battery life on all phones already sucks.
Isn't that 37.5g figure for added sugars? I.e. Non-naturally occurring sugars in the food we eat.
Apple is still the most profitable laptop/desktop producer in the world, but that market is dwarfed by the smartphone market.
When I used to spend more time in Phoenix, it was a semi-regular stop. I look at it as its own thing, not to be judged against its component cultures.
I had a Windows Phone, battery life was much better than the Nexus 5/X phones I've had since.

Windows Phone was much better about resource usage than Android, so the numbers you saw were pretty meaningless.

The lack of apps was a real issue though.
PuTTY 0.69 has been released
Will make sure to add more links when back at my machine
This is a bit funny. His argument is that the "Free Software" explanation is longer and thus gives you more opportunity to explain it properly.

However originally the opposite is the case: The FSF explains free software with the four freedoms [1], the OSIs Open Source Definition has 10 points [2]. If you dig into them you'll realize that they more or less mean the same. Which is also usually the point I tend to make in these debates: How you call it isn't so important, important is what it means.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

[2] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Just curious: Where is 'here'?

And did you consider trying to get a German Blue Card after graduating in your home country?
Those are actually expanded (in the recursive fashion you would expect) before any "star" matching is done.
HyperLogLog sounds interesting, but looking at the Github page of that extension it mentions that it has been tested with the versions 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and the last commit is 2014. Is it just finished and doesn't need any updates to keep up with newer Postgres versions? Or is it more of an abandonded project?
The problem with projects like Kafka is that they are geared towards cluster scenarios on beefy machine and cannot be embedded in other projects and used as a message bus.

An example for which Kafka is not a good fit: embedded system which reads a few sensors and does a bit of image processing. Such a system should really be compiled to one or multiple native binaries and does not really need JRE.
You are right, password strength is an example for an application layer constraint.

However, by constraints I was more talking about things like "these properties need to be unique", "this column here must reference that column over there", "this column's values must be in this set" and so on.

I know I could enforce these things in the application layer, but I don't think that's feasible.
People don't seem to have a problem touching the screen on their phone why is touching a laptop screen any different? I suggest you try out a touchscreen laptop for an extended period if you haven't already.
It's a double edged sword. I didn't attend a European university but I have many friends who have. Their complaints were the subjects were book heavy with very little practical overlap. Professors were unreachable, office hours did not exist.

This was for the normal universities. The technical schools are a different animal. Extrememly competitive to the point of mental breakdown. And if that happened? Tough luck, they don't care.
Not 100% what I'm saying. I'm saying that if Switzerland holds a lot of Germanys gold and has promised to give access whenever and don't hold up to that promise, Germany just moving some tanks over, then taking the gold, then moving the tanks back, is quite a possible scenario.

Yes that would harm the EU in short term (1-5 years). But so would it get hurt if a powerful member of that alliance is not able to enforce rightful demands. Anyways if we include the EU into the discussion, it's very likely that a lot of other steps would convince Switzerland before the first tank needs to get manned.
My understanding is that NSA considers classified data that has been encrypted using a suitable cipher/key to be unclassified and suitable for transmission on unsecure systems/networks.
That's going to be interesting. Some of the people at Google working on it are ex-QNX people.
I observed a similar pattern in my kids, who gave the impression that using laptops make someone look smarter or more capable (less limited) than someone who uses tablets or iPads. In other words, someone "graduates" from using tablets to using laptops.

I had thought that the convenient form factor of lighter, less frills tablets would make them continually more appealing to kids or less technical adults regardless of where the device is used. But that does not seem to be the preferred case in a school setting, especially as a student gets older. I think it reflects a desire to be taken more seriously, and the appearance of the tools being used matters a lot, even if the same type or quality of work could be done using a Chromebook or iPad.
No, it's not. Capitalism is private ownership of capital, which means there's a whole lot of economic activity generated by thinking about what to invest in, which is just a blind optimization process.

Society could harness it for good or bad. We have cheap applied science things (microprocessors with radios and amazing magically touch sensitive displays without ugly cords with endless content and ability to just call each other anywhere* on the planet), and we have of course things like the great firewall of china (and turkey and so on) which do deep packet inspection, enabled by very similar technology companies.

But it's immutable. You can't choose the second best thing. Because that just means your preferences and thus your utility function values underdogs above topdogs, hence you'll see those as the best. It's just tautological. And sure, we'll probably climb out of this hole eventually, but maybe with things like patreon and co: http://alternativeto.net/software/patreon/ (for example AdBlock + Flattr seems like a good solution to the advertising hell)

Furthermore, just to talk about the original point of "capitalism is killing quality news" ... are you sure? I mean there are still quality news outlets, and there will be, but the problem is that people don't read them. And bias. Even if you could sign up to be a journalist and magically get a fixed income if at least 10 000 people are reading your stuff, there would be a lot more crazy/spam out there. _Because_ people are people, they cheat, they like easy solutions, they are greedy. They prefer easy explanations, they prefer silver bullets, they prefer gods and guns for law and order even if we know that education and equality is the answer.
Thanks for the write up, I fully agree.

Ad 12: the current management has little clue and no technical knowledge, they are milking Windows and Office, until its too late. They fired their QA departments - their products are getting more and more buggy (e.g. a Top500 company canceled the WinPhone10 plan as the phone address book showed random profile photos from unrelated Exchange contacts - wtf). Beside enterprise and public sector, they already burned down their brands. They lost the younger generations because of pure ignorance and incompetence, Generations X and Y look elsewhere - ChromeBook/Mac, iOS/Android and GoogleDocs/Pages.
Yes, we don't want that to happen. That's one reason (but not the only reason) that we haven't paywalled any of the existing free features.
The ring of truth is that, since many consider Rowling a big neoliberal type, and exactly the kind of person who would argue against the boycott of Israel, and she is well known for using her characters after the books have been written to make political points in a "relatable" way, that it might well happen (and in some way, has happened). The absurdity of combining a children's character with a major political view (which leftists tend to disagree with anyways) to try and defend her viewpoint forms the comedy.
In other news... US ranked #43 for press freedom by Reporters Without Borders. https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Why the DB coudln't do the hashing itself? Storing is the actual dangerous from a security perspective, plain passwords themselves just hitting your db or your web apps is fine as long you don't keep a log anywhere in plain.
Kind of correct. Probably it's only because I still remember the old "non-monetized" internet, but I just don't get the line of thought that posting some stuff on the web means everybody owes you a living. Lest we forget, those who want to make money from the internet are the more recent arrivals, and (especially at the time when it happened and I was young & idealistic) I found them to be like the crass uninvited guests who show up late and ruin the party (while thinking they actually turned a lame party awesome). Before they arrived, "the party" was full of useful sites like this, run by people for the simple love of whatever-it-was. The amateur internet, I suppose you'd call it. The reason this is a breath of fresh air is because it simply is what it is (not in the trying-to-assuage-my-disappointment sense, but in the no-deceptive-obfuscation sense) and in that way hearkens back to that era and doesn't bear the stench of today's typical swindles, schemes, and dubious offers. Yet it takes advantage of some of today's design tools/ideas and is a better quality experience than a lot of sites "back in the day."

Mind you, I don't begrudge anyone what they're doing, even if it's commercial, but the time you spent creating "content" may be worth something to someone, or maybe not. When you demand compensation, the bar is higher.
English is my second language, so I apologize for that?
You explicitly talked of "neighboring countries" of Germany - here I provided evidence that the situation is different.

> being ha handicap having to learn French or German for a temporary job

Here I rather see the problem: The people only want a temporary job in Germany - so they see Germany just as a stepping stone for their career. If I were a staff manager at a company, I would be very cautious to hire such a person, since in Germany it is seen as a desirable trait that a person does not switch jobs every few years. There are "legal period of notice" which hold for both sides: An employer can after some probation period not simply fire an employee without a period of notice, but the other implication does also hold: After the probation period an employee cannot simply quit the job without a period of notice, too.
I have had my 950 for almost a year, I always read "bugs that have never been fixed" I haven't seen anything as such.

I'll agree it has gaps and the settings is all over the place, wallpapers in personalise and not under display. I get it, its just not like any other mobiles os, even screen time out isn't in display its in lock screen.

It also has annoying links to faq at the bottom of every single page.
I don't get too many of them, they are annoying though.
The author sorta takes us through Postman's arguments, but then turns on him in the end. I guess that's inevitable (given Postman's own arguments about trivializing things), but why not let them stand on their own?
> 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.

The difference, of course, is that the laws of physics are, so far as we know, immutable. "Human nature", informed by the culture of the moment, is not. When we accept the strategy of "tailor your behavior to human nature" en masse, we create a feedback loop, without a clear picture of where it leads.
It makes a huge difference when you're trying to sell blue and gold lobsters to people.
Raw almonds are my favorite snack, just ahead of olives (which funny enough, for a long time I couldn't stand the taste of). Indeed, my problem is not eating too many!

I make my smoothies in a Vitamix. It has no trouble with the raw almonds or anything else I put in it. Aside: for a long time I didn't want to buy a Vitamix because of its cost and size. We started with a Magic Bullet which I found nothing but frustrating. It was constantly leaking. Eventually I gave it away and bought the Vitamix S30. It is a superior product, and it's a joy to use something which is both well designed and well built.
I guess we can call the mobile market "Revenge of the Consumers" - "No, Microsoft, F--k you."

While most people just accept the OS that comes on a PC if they buy one, I don't think they were too anxious to repeat the experience when they clearly had other choices.
Colleges and universities generally don't require that you have a GED at all. If you can score well on their entrance exam (SAT or ACT), they you qualify for enrollment.
I agree with the first part about credentials, but I see a bit of danger in how you view Github.

I wish I had time to put more stuff in my Github account, but I don't.. All the work I do is for clients, or for my employer, and I can't post or share it.

Sometimes I can extract a small piece and share it, but otherwise, I can't. I also don't have a ton of time in my life to code on personal projects anymore.

So while I consider myself an experienced and accomplished developer (been at it for 20 years now), if Github is my "social proof via work product", then I don't look like much..

I'm not saying this is your fault or that people will only ever look at Github, but I hear this more and more ("show us your Github work") in the context of hiring and evaluating developers, and I hope it doesn't become just another thing that - following OP's point - people or systems hold against you for not having.
Russia's Far East is basically colonies that never decolonized. Most of Russia is situated in its Europe, and its hinterlands have notable density only along roughly the region of the Trans-Siberian Railroad once you get past around the Irtysh River (western tributary of the Ob). Even past Lake Baikal, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Yakutsk are virtually the only cities.

Vladivostok was developed heavily, as Russia's only ice-free ocean port, but most of the rest of that region is far too sparsely populated. It's telling that, in modern times, Russia is quite paranoid that China is planning an invasion and takeover of that area.
Use vim key bindings for view PDF files in Chrome
The headline sounds incredibly ominous and spooky, the reality is Chrome sync isn't disabled domain wide by default so the paranoids are flipping out. Its likely disabling chrome sync is going to lead to a lot of annoying headaches, "how come my bookmarks don't sync anymore"
That could be said for any phone system, the photo gallery and editing on windows phone is extremely good.

Your friend could have easily gone from iPhone to android for the same reason.
Laptops fall under the same basic umbrella of usage patterns as Desktops, but are also mobile.