skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I won't support Mozilla. I used Firefox for a long time, but then they decided to drop their extension capabilities for something very similar to Chrome's. Why wouldn't I just use chrome?

Second, the zoom functionality in Firefox is broken. On a 4k display, pages just get jacked up after doing Ctrl-+ a few too many times. Chrome's zoom is far superior. People have told me, "just change the default pixels per inch" nonsense. No, Firefox's zoom is just broken.

Lastly, after the SJW witch hunt and ousting of Brendan Eich, I don't care what happens to Mozilla.
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> I'm sorry but things like this always come up and I can't keep my head from shaking at these types of comments. So, you don't have other options to charge and simply go somewhere else where there is a charger that can do a car in "a few hours"?!

You can fill a car from a dead charge in a few hours with these type 3 DC chargers. If your car's battery is NOT empty, it'll go significantly faster. Or if your car has a smaller battery.

> So, I guess you say if you can do it, everybody else in that situation can, too? A short thought experiment, if everybody else did exactly that, how often would you say you will find your charger occupied? And since it is "a few hours" per car, you are in for a nice long shopping spree in whole foods while you wait for the guy in front of you to finally drive off. IF you are already next in line, that is. "Hi Honey, sorry, it'll be a couple of hours till I'm home. What? No, I'm not working late, I just want to gas up the EV and there is one person in front of me."

Yours is a great example of a terrible comment. The kind of comment where you showed up wanted to yell at people about something, not talk about something. This discussion is about short term solutions for people in an early electric car market, specifically because the infrastructure isn't there for everyone yet.

That's okay, most people in this discussion do not have the option to purchase a pure electric car, yet.

> And before you say "But there are two or three chargers there" I say:

See what I'm saying about "yelling at" rather than "talking to"?

> If not, you will find yourself cursing all the other EV drivers that constantly block your charging spot and you curse at anyone who still tries to drum up support for EV adoption.

Quite the contrary. EV drivers are pretty good about this and we share where we can. Driving an EV is a interesting experience, because other EV drivers on the road will interact with you.
Thank you, very interesting.

But what is the point of a space elevator then?
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I think I understand why the Silmarillion is so hard to read.

The first time through, it's as has been said, the stories aren't very detailed, they're more like old testament books. You definitely have to use your imagination. Also, more and more of the lore is revealed here as well. And then there are the names. Oh, the names! So many to keep track of!

I think I really started to get the Silmarillion on maybe the third read. After that it gets easier and easier the more you retain of the stories. It is certainly my favorite Tolkien book after probably five reads or so and I find the stories to be really rich and interesting now.

You're right, though, Sauron? But a servant of Morgoth! The stories regarding the Silmarils are my favorite of all of Tolkien's stories, which, of course, span many stories. And don't forget Ungoliant for pure unbridled evil!
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Please, someone build an open source solution similar to Lastpass backed by a Vault instance with browser plugins and a web front end to allow for key management. That would be amazing.

Lastpass is almost necessary for me to keep all my passwords moderately secure and still usable. But I really do not love trusting all of my info to a 3rd party.
I love that book, it made me realize that it's possible to build a capitalist society without government (which is technically completely against the intention of the author who wanted it to be a 1984 style commentary on Capitalism).
Is this the one that started to realise what was happening due to unpaid time on a machine amounting to 25c or similar?
Great, I'll never be able to un-see that.
You do when that group is half of the population give or take a few percent, and you want to pretend to be anything resembling objective. Stances on terminal illness and the KKK are easy to take and uncontroversial - especially when both of those groups are tiny.

(And let's not even get into how loaded of a comparison you just made...)
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The content is probably something to be exciting about. Just wanted to complain about the marketing choice containing something that is very very likely a lie. A true fan will buy it anyways, and after the LotR movie trilogy and some great computer games at least there should be enough fans to buy it independently of marketing.
> You're making a copy of /bin/ls into foo

By getting its contents as a character string formed by passing the binary through a UTF-8 decoder, and writing out that string via the UTF-8 encoder.
Anyone using Standard Notes? Might give it a shot if it comes recommended.
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>What is the Guardian's agenda here?

To make money by getting clicks/selling papers. This story deals with the coolest company led by the coolest CEO in the coolest sector and that same sector is known for having "problems" with women. Of course it's a story.
You seem to be expounding the idea of local realism a la Albert Einstein

> "God does not play dice with the universe."

So you're in good company. However, it's more complicated than it appears and most physicists do not agree.

The randomness in QM is different and deeper than that which appears classically. For example, a coin flip isn't really random: if we can measure the coin's weight and the imparted momentum precisely enough we can predict the result. In QM this is fundamentally impossible, a measurement of a superposition state produces a random outcome. It's not merely and expression of our lack of knowledge of the underlying facts. Experimental violations of Bell's inequality demonstrate that there are no underlying facts in QM (called 'hidden variables'). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

Unless you accept one of:

A) There is no free will: we are all enacting a clockwork fate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

B) Non-locality (faster than light interactions between distant systems)

It sound like you may already accept A, in which case fair enough!
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as is Intel, I don't think there has been a true x86 CPU in a while
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> With IE, Microsoft was influencing what the web was viewed with

Microsoft was trying (and succeeding) for the web not to be a preferable API to Win32, so as to keep that way a high barrier to entry into the OS business. Which is why IE was squarely against standards.
I hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs, but you can use a profiler to do that rather than changing your code with what are basically print statements.

I don't use Python any more and have never profiled it, but there seems to be good options:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html

There are reasons to do what you're doing, e.g. Stack Exchange have a mini-profiler to watch production, but to identify problems in a development environment, profilers are usually quicker/easier once you've learnt to use them. It also helps you identify problems you didn't even know about.
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I doubt many people would pay someone $50/hour to optimize their next $9.99 kindle purchase.

The one-on-one approach does not scale. We already have the many-to-many form of this (goodreads, for example).
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I am fairly skeptical, but given it's been pretty consistently accurate, I'm becoming more confident.

I look at net Promotor Score on any type of entity. It's predicted the rise of Bicoin, and various other currencies, but it's not always perfect. For example, it didn't predict a brexit.

It could just be I don't have enough data. It's a work in progress.
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LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
> don't know how good these programs are at doing what they claim to do

They're good for checking old backups to see if you were hacked in the 90s, not so useful for today.
I'll be reading Illuminatus! since you've related it to Pendulum. I came to Pendulum after seeing it related to Labyrinths (https://www.amazon.com/Labyrinths-Directions-Paperbook-Jorge...) if by any chance you haven't read that you should check it out.
The Why and How of Using Webpack for React Development
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I agree. Nobody at any time promised anything. If you invested early, it was a high risk that the whole cryptocurrency could just have imploded and actually for many it did (BTC and Mt.Gox or lost wallets). Now a few years later it pays out for those who cared early about it. Congratulations for those.
Ah yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, wake up in the morning and then shortly thereafter go back to sleep.
I subscribe to chargepoint and pay my PG&E bill.
>Also not checking all the boxes during the RFP process sends a signal about your ability to do so once the work is awarded.

A false signal that people would be wise to ignore. There are a multitude of examples showing that companies that learn how to check all the right RFP boxes pay no mind to checking any of the 'do a good job and product a good product' boxes. It shows they are good at checking only the boxes that make them money, and the current process is that doing a good job is not a box one's pay depends upon.

Is there any similar evidence that people who fail to check all the RFP boxes also fail to check the "do a good job and deliver a good product" boxes?
If the cost goes down enough, new previously impractical products become practical, driving new demand.
Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
Except sports channels are not over the air and thus won't work with this...
Have you ever actually worked anywhere? Any place I've seen, from 3 man job to 100,000+ multinational megacorps, many people take some things personally, be it regular workers or managers. It's actually more rare to see cold hard logical-only approach, even in IT.

The other part of your comment - again, nice on paper, but never seen this in real life, at least not in big companies.
Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks
There is no emulation in the traditional sense involved in running 32 bit x86 code on x86-64, the code is run directly on the CPU, only thing that needs to be "emulated" is the OS's ABI for system calls.
I think this may just be another instance of the coconut affect.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
Interesting approach, but the article is missing two magic numbers:

- the cost of the device and of course

- the energy needed to extract a certain amount of CO2 from the atmosphere. If more CO2 is released by producing the energy the device needs for CO2 capture, nothing is gained.

The feasibility hinges on those two numbers. Especially, is it more efficient to capture CO2 or spend the money instead on not producing it? If the needed electricity is produced by e.g. solar, is it more efficient to use the energy to capture CO2, or rather replace some coal power plants?
My dad grew up in Roxborough, and always referred to it as a stoop.
Polling data wasn't even wrong. It was almost spot on in measuring popular vote totals. The mistakes were solely with some state level polls (and really not even mistakes, just high uncertainties) and poll aggregators.

Really, I think most of the incorrect predictions came from one error: assuming a higher level of independence between state results than is actually the case. Nate Silver/538 talk about this some, and they gave Trump the highest (~30%) chance of winning on election day.