skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. I had a similar problem when I rode my bicycle to work daily. I really didn't want to have to carry anything more than my phone.

I ended up hacking a bluetooth earpiece into a remote after seeing the idea online. It was 100% reliable over a period of over 2 years.

Having it mounted in the open like that seems like it could have a few drawbacks. I would still be concerned about water damage, even if you don't plan to ever be out in the rain. What about the fasteners you used? Are they rust-proof? Things mounted on my bicycle that have any metal parts seem to wear out over time, and plastics seem to take on some weathering, possibly from sun.
I have a Surface 3 and it's doable. Mind that the device is also a bit smaller than the usual laptop, so there's enough space (on my knees at least) to place the kickstand.
You know what's strange? I just can't remember my password to this account.

Real talk, if you play games they will find a way to fuck you up, and even if it is not strictly legal, even if you with some kind of relief later (not likely a nice settlement), you will still have to deal with getting fucked pretty bad at the time. Not a great outcome.
I can possibly imagine how you can get to 27MB of images if you have lots of them, all at very high resolution for some reason, and with no compression, but 3MB of CSS and JavaScript!?

That's unheard of.

I think the problem here is gross incompetence more than compressing tools.
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I think this session from I/O 2017 provides a better overview in some regards. Admittedly it's brief on details but the overview is helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_ytg6MUP0
> and, most importantly, can easily be handed down generations

Only if your ancestors win the battles and can stick around to defend it. Land was won and kept with blood, sweat, and tears (in that order).
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> Think you found a bug? Fork the repo, add a failing test

Ugh. No. 999 times out of 1000, the person maintaining the code actually knows what it does and how it works. And if I'm not that person, I don't. I found a problem. The problem affects me. It also probably affects other people.

I'm an intelligent, capable, curious, knowledgeable, and caring professional software developer. I write code for fun, but I write _my_ code for fun. And after that I don't have the energy or the inclination to learn how your shit works deep down where it matters. Because what will take you a minute, will take me a month unless I stop going to work every day.

I will do my best to describe what I was doing when the problem occurred, what I expected to happen, and what happened instead, but screw you if you think I need to understand your codebase or your testing infrastructure in order to report a problem.
Don't know much about England. Does Crown Estate mean the royal family?
You're saying the 4 music promos that precede the statement make you question his motivations?
It says in the article that the Jamboard is driven by an NVIDIA Jetson TX1.
> Bookstores are still at the mall, but only some malls. It's called "Barnes & Noble". Lots of malls have them. But you don't see the small ones like Waldenbooks any more; they're all gone.

I've noticed that Barnes & Noble is downsizing some of their mall stores. There used to be a nice 2-level one with tons of selection at an upscale mall near me. They closed it and replaced it with one with maybe 1/3 of the floor-space in a different location.
No, it doesn't just mean that. But it's rather a quick judgement to suggest that's their line of thinking. It may well be fine to do this if increasing the wavelength to over 900nm makes a beam far less damaging.

A more useful comment would be to ask what the wavelength-damage relationship is for different power levels.
I potentially disagree. I think the impact of social media's reward cycle is major, but not directly on the user's identity - rather, I believe it causes significant feedback into non-algorithmic filtering (and from there to the algorithmic component, as the organic part is presumably valued by predictors). World-view, then, is shaped by the algorithmic filters and detailed by the performances of others on social media, but the effect on identity is circumspect.

So I would say that the algorithms are more important, because they define the environment that parameterizes normalcy. Identity forms mostly asocially, and it is not interactive.
I'm still standing on the sidelines over electric cars.

I don't think Tesla has proven this to be a mass market product. Yes, its quite attractive to those who live in urban areas, but its not at the level of development (or practicality) to make it attractive to most of the car buying public.

I drive a whole lot, and most of the places I want/need to go, charging my car is not yet a practical option, I feel Electric Cars will not be practical for a majority of motorist until you can see s 350-450 mile range on them. So while its good to be an early adopter, often (most often) the late entrant is the one that owns the market, not the first to arrive.
Moom switches to hexagonal grid to avoid patent infringement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
Original discussion of Moom being taken down due to patent infringement claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333957
Yep. Quite simply, the 0.1% of the US population here on HN does not care about privacy nor protesting nor writing to their local or state government.

HN needs to stop living in a bubble. Only 1/3 of the US even bothered voting in the Trump v Clinton presidential election. I'll let you think about that for a moment. Now think about border searches. Has your phone been searched? Neither has mine. I'll go back to my company catered lunch now.
> Even in public state university tuition is quite high.

Compared to what, the price of a hamburger? In state tuition can be 1/2 or 1/3 the price of out of state tuition at the same school, and state schools have lower tuition than a lot of other unis already.
Also interesting: https://nyupress.org/books/9780814719206/

He laments the loss of the 1970s New York Times Square "temporary autonomous zone".

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
)
Correct. We'd have to comply.

US citizens, however, can choose to deny them and go through any hassle that CBP may want to put them through, but they cannot deny them entry.
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That's a good point, the amount of variation changes over time. I'd be extremely surprised if the current amount somehow fell all the way to zero though.

There's apparently some speculation (according to the Wikipedia article on the Flynn effect at least) that the Flynn effect is due to non-genetic factors, in which case the underlying genetic trends are being obscured. There's a claim that genotypic IQ could be decreasing but we're not seeing that reflected effect in phenotypes due to environment improvements (which probably won't continue forever).
would `command W w` fix this?
It's astounding to me that they can't make it work based on the convenience of the service. I understand the strategy of wanting to buy market share quickly, and to bet on self-driving cars. That they can't compete on the convenience of the service at a fair price and playing by the rules of the districts they operate in is just astonishingly bad management.
No doubt he has a huge axe to grind against Democrats but I'm finding it intriguing because I can't quite see how making such story up could help him this time. If he lies, this will piss off the US government, Democrats, Trump fans and Hilary fans at the same time, which basically means no love for him anywhere in the US. And he has the Megaupload case to fight.
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So were many the hundreds of thousands of sailors whom have died at sea. The ocean doesn't care about experience or arrogance when a storm comes up and drowns this guy, or the great deal of money and risk to rescuers this clown imposes should he manage to somehow not die.
Nah, the title's fine. They're two questions.
You're absolutely right! That's completely possible! Maybe made-to-measure can be done for a higher quality at the same price point by cutting out distribution, logistics, and branding to make up for the lack of economies of scale.

That said, there may also be some room to doubt this interpretation. I'm passingly familiar with the costs that go into producing quality jeans. The very short version is that while made-to-measure at high quality is absolutely possible, it cannot reliably be done at this price point. The labor and materials costs alone at low volumes will blow out the budget.

You're right! There are two ways of looking at such things. But as it happens, I'm someone who knows. When a market player diverges very significantly from every other player, it's very possible that they're simply outperforming everyone to a shocking degree... and it's also possible that they're dealing with the same tradeoffs as everyone else.
I'm curious if the Android app will run well on the touchscreen panels that I've got that area already running Android; or indeed on an Android dongle/box connected to and large (tv sized) touchscreen
Ideal markets cause pareto-efficient utilisation, not optimal utilisation. But those markets have very little to do with markets in the real world.
I really like Issues as a sanity check: if I'm getting an error or something isn't working, it's nice to know if it's a known issue (or an issue with a workaround). Even if there's no official fix.

If you see Issues as a place where anyone can demand new features or bug fixes for free, then I can see it being overwhelming. But I think most people see it as a community-based repository for thoughts, bugs and ideas.
I think Ford's case is substantially different than that of Google and Facebook though, because in the tech companies' cases if the shares are ever transferred from the original founders they automatically lose their super-voting rights. The theory is that the founders were smart enough to build the juggernauts in the first place, and as long as they're alive they're (hopefully) the best people to keep them going. With the Ford situation, the current super-voting members of the Ford household "earned" that right by wisely choosing the right parents. :)
Yes, THIS. THIS. Lying to a federal agent brings a world of hurt (obligatory disclaimer: I am a law professor but I am not YOUR lawyer...). Right now any customs agent with a brain can just ask "do you have that travel mode turned on? Ok, turn it off," and most courts will allow them to force compliance with that order. It would be really useful to be able to honestly say "I can't."

It's true, if they really want to make someone give up the info, they can arguably detain that person until the timer expires. But that move is much more costly to the government, as well as subject to all kinds of interesting potential legal challenges. So a timer makes the data strictly more secure, even if not perfectly secure.
I'm ashamed that the only one I missed was this regexp question, even after the anchors were added.
> will withstand a couple hundred thousand miles of driving without replacing major components

How many Teslas out there with > 100K miles and how many with > 200K miles?
there were actually 60 games and the final score was 60-0
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DJI threatens to brick drones unless owners agree to share their details
This is a good point in my opinion.

My thought on this whole situation is to simply not take my phone or laptop. I don't live nor work in the US, however, so I don't have the issues being faced by people in this thread.
For context:

https://www.comcastroturf.com/
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It's interesting that the perspective in this article is that the high price is unimportant. Isn't the problem with existing spinning mirror Lidar that it's expensive? It makes me think there is some other advantage that solid state Lidars have to generate so much investment.
I work in DC in politics and here's my take on Seth Rich: He was killed by someone out of revenge, likely tied to the racial and police violence that was occurring around that time. That part of DC it's possible that someone saw him and just said "eye for an eye" and shot him.
After pressing Ctrl-C a few times, the status bar says 'Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim' for me. Not sure what else people try to exit vim.
Exactly, you know the least amount about the problem when you first start.
Do you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

I guess one English equivalent is the "Council Tax".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax

And there are "business rates" for commercial properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rates_in_England
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There is an additional key/identifier that you don’t have to carry with you that would prevent them from logging in even if you had to give them your vault password.
I predict that this will result in smart-ass pull requests that just take the text that would have gone in an issue and puts it in a comment to the main code file of the project.
Wow that's a good deal!
One thing he said I absolutely agree with - when you're in a crunch situation, either in a startup or a new high-pressure project at BigCo, you don't pick a tool set with which you're not familiar. Even if it looks very nice. You're going to have enough frustration making deadlines without the additional hassle of discovering the warts (and they're always there) of a new language.

Where I work there are always projects that are a little bit under management radar - things that need to be done but don't need to be done in a big hurry. That's the right kind of project to scratch your chin and say "You know, I've never written anything in whitespace."
I think we're still at a the very early stage of the crypto-currencies. Something like at the point when just a few geeks were surfing the Internet in 1994 with a 486 PC running Windows 3.11 and a 14.4 bps modem. So there's still a lot of room for the market cap to grow IMHO.
I just hate programs that change patterns that are standard everywhere else. E.g. 99% of software uses control+c and control+v to do copy and pasting, so of course software that maps it to something totally different is going to be very frustrating. The same thing with vim using nonstandard way of quitting.

Discoverability is another problem. You can have weird keyboard commands, but make it possible to find them without searching stack overflow. I miss when applications had a big bar at the top of all the commands you could do and their keyboard shortcuts. I'm on chrome right now, and copy and paste is hidden away in a menu. And the keyboard shortcut for it isn't mentioned. How do you think people learned the keyboard shortcut in the first place? Or apple phones have a bunch of gestures that are useful, but no one knows about because you can't discover them.
Can someone be kind enough to tell me how I could get in touch with a possible VC / or company from china who might be interested in investing in an RTS I've spent about 4 years making?
That was not lost on me. They're wrong, and kinda mean TBH, but someday someone will make a pretty good language, with a really helpful compiler/interpreter and will have the viral-fu to get it in use
So can I assume that the perks, the projects, and the pay outweigh the annoyance of the floor plan?
> There's nothing specific to Uber in there

Even further, there's nothing specific to the Uber model in there. Every one of those things could be implemented exactly the same way by an ordinary cab company. In fact, many cab companies worldwide have already implemented both the first and the third one.

The only unique thing about the Uber model as opposed to regular cabs is that it's priced lower through a combination of semi-illegal dirty tricks and setting unsustainably low (or negative) margins in order to maintain growth and capture the market.
Why not just play the piano for programming?
I do work that can be termed as data science. Mostly R/Python etc. I also like tinkering with things like RPi. Also bash scripts to do mundane work.
It's beyond disturbing that we have reached the point where we are discussing this as a potential feature, and not a plot element of a dystopian scifi.
Plenty of good reasons for ^C not to quit, mostly having to do with the rest of the Vim interface. Off the top of my head, first ^C is for cancelling actions, second ^C is very close to ^V, which is used for block-select, and very close to ^X, which is used for auto-completion, and very close to ^D, which is page-down, and quitting by mistake would be super frustrating.

I think in this case vi's authors (and by extension vim's author) have picked the right choice of catering to the actual users, rather than being friendly to people who run the editor by mistake. At least they try to tell you "type :quit and press enter to exit".
Also that it is relatively fragile. It is one thing to have expensive precisions instruments, but in cars, they need to be able take the bumps, shakes and any other forces that the car takes. That can be tough on tiny bearings with low intended duty cycles. Of course, you can beef up all of that to make it last, but if you avoid mechanical components all together it is definitely better.
I met my wife because she was stuck in VI. I was a unix sysadmin in the early 90s, and she was a grad student. She came to me for help (like most of the 1st years did) because she couldn't get out of vi. However, to be fair, this was not her fault per-say. She actually knew how to use vi, but just couldn't find the ESC key.

Does anybody remember the DEC keyboards where there was no traditional ESC key, but it was F11? (http://www.cosam.org/images/vt220/keyboard.jpg). Yeah, we used DECstations in the grad labs, and whenever a new grad student asked me a question in the 1st week, I'd answer "F11", and 90% of the time I was right.
I think it is just the environment. We grew up with computers. Technology is advancing at a crazy rate compared to what it was 100 years ago. The idea of things constantly changing just didn't exist...because things generally didn't change.

In my lifetime people went from a single family landline phone to every family member carrying an internet connected smartphone over just 20 years. There just wasn't that rapid pace of change in any time period before now.
Nice, but... have they hired people who left apple to make this website?
I took a quiz at the Facebook booth at PyCon this past weekend. It was Python specific, but had a few annoying gotchas. There was one question in there twice, but with 2 different values for the input (which is what tipped me off that it was a trick).

It basically relied on this fact...

x = 256
x is 256 # True

y = 257
y is 257 # False

Which for one, you shouldn't use `is` to compare integers in Python. I wish I could have just written that as my answer.

Secondly, you need to be aware the CPython uses an integer cache which causes the answers to be different. You'll actually get different answers based on whether you run it as a file, enter it line-by-line into the interpreter, or use a different implementation such as PyPy.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15171695/whats-with-the-...

There wasn't any point to the quiz, so it's okay that they put in silly questions like that. But it's clearly there just to try and trick you, and not quiz you on anything relevant. Most of the other questions were tricks of the sort, or or Python 3 specific gotcha's.
Unfortunately, as far as "tablet mode" is concerned, Windows 10 is still a step back from Windows 8. Obviously Windows 8 had its problems, but the tablet UI was fantastic. W10 has gradually been getting back the W8 tablet features it dropped though, so maybe it'll get there
They cover this in the article: "reset my password" emails are already the norm, so it's not any riskier than your existing online banking or social media accounts.
Nice, thank you for sharing! For comparison, here is a Prolog solution for one of the mentioned puzzles, namely "an unusually difficult puzzle of this type, which is to make 2,5,6,6 total to 17".

Let us start by defining suitable operators so that we can conveniently use the domain-specific language to reason about such tasks, using infix notation:

:- op(400, yfx, ×).
:- op(400, yfx, ÷).

Next, I describe the relation between a list of numbers and possible shapes of binary trees we can build from these numbers. We distinguish between leaves and inner nodes of the tree, and consequently use two functors that let us symbolically distinguish the different cases:

numbers_tree([N], leaf(N)).
numbers_tree(Vs0, binary(Left, Right)) :-
permutation(Vs0, Vs),
append([L|Ls], [R|Rs], Vs),
numbers_tree([L|Ls], Left),
numbers_tree([R|Rs], Right).

For example:

?- numbers_tree([1,2], T).
T = binary(leaf(1), leaf(2)) ;
T = binary(leaf(2), leaf(1)) ;
false.

This does not yet say anything about the arithmetic operators that we can use. Note that this definition may yield redundant solutions, as in:

?- numbers_tree([1,1], T).
T = binary(leaf(1), leaf(1)) ;
T = binary(leaf(1), leaf(1)) ;
false.

That's completely OK though, and we can think about making it more efficient if necessary.

Now we are almost done. It only remains to describe how different arithmetic operations affect the result of the evaluation. This can be expressed with the following relations:

tree_op_expr_value(leaf(N), _, N, N).
tree_op_expr_value(binary(Left0, Right0), Op, Expr, Value) :-
tree_op_expr_value(Left0, _, Left, VL),
tree_op_expr_value(Right0, _, Right, VR),
op_values_value(Op, VL, VR, Value),
Expr =.. [Op,Left,Right].

op_values_value(+, A, B, V) :- V is A + B.
op_values_value(-, A, B, V) :- V is A - B.
op_values_value(×, A, B, V) :- V is A * B.
op_values_value(÷, A, B, V) :- B =\= 0, V is A rdiv B.

Time to try it out, using for example the following query:

?- time((numbers_tree([2,5,6,6], T),
tree_op_expr_value(T, _, Expr, 17))).

This yields:

% 6,060 inferences, 0.004 CPU in 0.004 seconds (92% CPU, 1551459 Lips)
T = binary(binary(leaf(2), binary(leaf(5), leaf(6))), leaf(6)),
Expr = (2+5÷6)×6 .

It seems to work nicely. On backtracking, all solutions are generated. Note that this solution uses built-in rational numbers that are available in several Prolog systems.
Right, but I still don't understand what underutilization problem is solved by property tax that isn't already solved by the fact that you could sell your underutilized land and receive money — unless your goal is to increase utilization beyond what's efficient.
This is arrogant and misguided.

There are a minority of very capable people whom need to be able to report security issues and want to contribute valuable additions easily.

I for one just found a CVE-worthy DoS in a popular YAML library, and an working to resolve it and improve testing.

Shutting off the phone and answering machine because of telemarketers isn't "the" solution, because then no one can get ahold of you.

Instead, deal with the shit to get the sugar too. Otherwise, why use GitHub or why have a phone?
Scastie (online Scala) is out of beta and available to everybody
Totally agree. First thing I do when encountering an issue with a repo is check the Issues and see if anyone else is experiencing it as well. Many times the there is already an active discussion going on, and the thread can contain workarounds or an ETA for the fix.
At this point it's not too much harder than opening a bank account.
It works only for uniformly distributed data.
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At night that same pedestrian probably is a quite significant infrared emitter.

Matte black cars, not so much.
Not many, since it's a pretty new car, but more than zero. For example: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/tales-from-a-tesla-model-s...