skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to imagine getting any actual work done on a machine with 16KB of main memory and no memory manager. A single page of text is 2k, and you can't go too fancy with mappers and memory paging schemes because the code would be too complicated to fit in memory...

One can see reasons for C's design tradeoffs if you're worried about machines like that.

But even after you abuse every trick in the book it's hard to see how that machine isn't hobbled by its lack of memory.
EFF to Supreme Court: No Real-Time Cell Phone Tracking Without a Warrant
How could one design a test for the last statement above (which resembles a hypothesis)? In practice it seems the statement "varies greatly depending on how the individual uses it" equates too easily with "varies greatly depending on the individual" (fundamental attribution error). Also, it may be that we believe we are very good at using something to our advantage when in fact we should not be using it at all (casinos exploit this problem). The reality is that it is impossible to split test oneself to discover whether in fact there was a benefit, although I wish this were possible. Maybe try something very difficult in two scenarios: play a game of skill which may benefit from looking something up (like chess openers) several times without a phone and several times with access to the phone to see whether there is a difference in performance against a continuously adaptive algorithmic opponent.
Insulating the commission means you won't allow a party to seize power and then cement it with gerrymandering, which is self-reinforcing. Cutting that loop means the commission can swing back and forth more easily and has the potential to even out. It can't possibly be worse than partisan gerrymandering.
The C64 would also speed up for similar reasons (the VIC (graphics) chip could control the bus, so number of cycles "stolen" depended on your graphics - e.g. every scanline with sprites present it would steal more cycles).
if __name__ == __main__ is just a conditional on the top level scope.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)

Obligatory
Ask HN: What is equivalent of “planned obsolescence” in internet world?
Cool stuff. What are the applications that you believe can be achieved using Trie?
I think you can have a try with i3-wm
Used that on college graduates. I was surprised how many couldn't answer or reason through it. Even the ones from top CS schools.

I also realized how different schools emphasized computer architecture differently for CS graduates. I remember having to design a simplified PDP-11 in Computer Architecture. We had to take assembly language and such. But that was one specific college and I shouldn't assume all of them do that.

Eventually I moved away from such questions and took a more collaborative approach such as "let's solve a problem together". So I'd stand beside them at a whiteboard and we think through problems. I think that puts candidates at ease and it reveals more of the skill and personality traits that were relevant for us.
I would like to recommend decades of social science research that shows that human performance is effected equally by environment as genetics.

Hence the entire nature vs nurture debate.

Consciouness is too complex to be summed up by any single test and any person remotely knowledgable about the subject will agree with me. But it's been interesting talking with you.
You wrap hot food in an oven in plastic?!
Not using a bat as a weapon seems to be some unwritten rule of baseball. And rightfully so IMO, a bat could end someone's career, and falls squarely into 'criminal assault' territory.

Consider it a MAD strategy if you will - if YOU use a bat, then that opens the doors to someone using it against you(r team) someday.
I wonder if this is a reaction to the belief that you need to keep on killing apps as soon as your phone is perceived to be running slowly? iOS will background kill apps under memory pressure but leaves an screenshot of the interface up in the task list. As people rarely need to manually kill apps and presumably rarely use the task switcher to jump back in the history more than a few places, having easy access to killing them is likely an antipattern.
The Dollop Podcast: Episode 271 – Uber
I'm saying there is no payment structure you can a) devise and b) implement, without inadvertently creating a whole secondary financial sector to exploit and debase it. The word "properly" cannot attach.
An application of the Veil of Ignorance!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
I've been a developer for years and worked for multiple companies: the most stressful professional situations I've ever have been in have been maybe a 4 out of 10 stress-wise, whereas interviews range from 7 to 9 out of 10.

Interviews aren't ordinary job situations: they are contrived situations where people are making life-changing decisions based on a very short interaction.
I wish we could get macros then we could make our own decorators... (macro support in typescript would be awesome)
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>And health care and education are matter of life and death for most people, so yeah, high prices

Food is also a matter of life and death.

The difference between food and healthcare/education is that the former is not as heavily subsidised as the latter.

>And health care and education are matter of life and death for most people, so yeah, high prices, unless there is a big factor that will put an end to that (which happens outside the U.S. through regulation and government price negotiation).

This is incorrect. The cost disease is a global phenomenon affecting most advanced economies.
Wow, I'm also very amazed at the description of the document:

> [T]his document consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter.

I love the concept of just asking your employees to tell you everything they did that they're not supposed to, and they just write up a bunch of reports and send them back.

Also, fun is the warning about the PDF size, which feels a bit quaint:

> this file is 28MB, so please be patient while it downloads
When districts are competitive, both parties need to run candidates which appeal broadly to the electorate, because when ideologues/radicals win one of the party’s primaries, they end up losing in the general election.

When districts are not competitive (and especially when unlimited secret campaign donations are allowed), the primary campaigns end up driving candidates toward radical positions, because the primary is the only competitive stage of the process.

What we’ve seen with the GOP is a party that has moved sharply away from mainstream opinion, subjects all of its officeholders to strict purity tests, and is largely controlled by religious hard-liners and big donors (oil, defense, pharma, banks, telecoms, etc.), and has become increasingly anti-intellectual and overtly bigoted in the past few decades.
It's just not intuitive though is the point. You've already double clicked the app icon, now a window appears with the same icon that you have to double click again to launch it? I moved from Windows to Mac after a long time hearing about how great Apple usability was and I could never understand the logic behind the app install workflow.
I deleted reddit, instagram and quora and have deactivated facebook for over a year now!! I only have HN and the NYtimes and I get sparse notifications from the latter. I don't care much about my phone as I spend most of my day glued to my laptop.
They want it to sell it in a couple of centuries
This is a very nice exposition of the problem statement. However --

"Athena: You could solve the problem clumsily by requiring the mail server to ask for a password before I could use it. I prove who I am to the server by giving it my password.

Euripides: That's clumsy all right. In a system like that, every server has to know your password. If the network has one thousand users, each server has to know one thousand passwords. If you want to change your password, you have to contact all servers and notify them of the change. I take it your system isn't this stupid."

-- if this isn't a problem for you, as it isn't (or can't really be worked around) on a decentralized network like the internet, then Kerberos seems like an over-engineered marvel for a bygone era. For a closed intranet though, like universities or corporate networks, Kerberos is still around.
The open source world has created an alternative system which works extremely well, lacking mostly in usability factors, which could be resolved pretty quickly...but proprietary networks are entrenched quite deeply, so it will be a while before we can use digital cash - probably legislative action will be required, or a mass rebellion against the costs imposed by the payment networks. Sadly, retailers can't seem to think that far ahead.
IMO, it's not the literal time taken, but the mental bandwidth needed to do these things (and do them well) that can feel "full time"

to each their own of course
A landlord can own multiple homes.

If one person owns all of the property, ownership rates would be pretty much 0%.

Owner occupied rate would be a more interesting metric.

There will be flaws. Not all homes are equal. People share ownership. Etc.
You should add flag [PDF] into the title. I don't want to download something suddenly.
"[Mozart] heard Gregorio Allegri's Miserere twice in performance, in the Sistine Chapel, and wrote it out from memory, thus producing the first unauthorized copy of this closely guarded property of the Vatican"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)

How can anyone remember 10+ mins music piece for 9 voices is beyond me. Granted, Mozart had some music superpowers, but still...
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$51K is being spent per student per year? And $150K salary and $100K benefits per teacher? Even if there is a school district with that budget, it is hardly representative of most school districts.
Not to mention the Sudbury and Waterloo area which is super left-wing and unionist. I mean, anecdotal, but I feel like it's okay to counter an anecdote with an anecdote in this case? Further analysis would require access to the data being shown here and cross referencing it with the outcome of past elections.
I had to look up the details -- Germany actually uses a mixed proportional system. Each person votes for their preferred candidate in a local race and for their preferred party. Half the total seats are filled by the winner of the local races -- and the remaining half are allocated in proportion to the party votes in order of a pre-determined list of candidates produced by each party. For some parties -- the order of the candidates on the party list is voted on, for others the list order is decided by some central power broker. I guess this means the local races could still be gerrymandered -- however with more total parties I think gerrymandering might be harder to preserve in general ...
Probably, but in using it on my iPad it is my biggest annoyance. If they don’t keep the swipe up to close they should at least have a drag to rearrange. The reason I want to be able to remove it is because I usually have a few things going on when using my iPad now. Mail, slack, Twitter, notes, messages. Then I open some random app and want to get it out of my “working space” but the new system makes that quite slow.
They should at least make the close button touch target bigger, even if they don't change its visual size.
The oven is the secret to bacon too. Without a rack[0] or with one[1], it's super simple.

[0] http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-perfect-bacon-in-the-ov...

[1] http://www.theyummylife.com/how_to_bake_bacon
>"Assuming you don’t pass 100% of on site interviews or you don’t take the first offer immediately, triplebyte will save you some amount of time."

How exactly do they save me time? Can you elaborate?

>"Beyond the force multiplier for pre-onsite interviews, they also can predict which companies you will have a higher success rate with for your on site."

What is the "force multiplier" here?

Again this is a job where you will spend many hours of your life, should the only concern be the one whose interview I will have the highest success rate with?

>"... but I think the value proposition is pretty obvious to most people."

Again what is that? It's not obvious to me. I am asking sincerely.
I'm glad to see they are using gulp. I know webpack is the hot new technology, but in my limited experience with webpack, gulp is easier to use and is more intuitive. Webpack has a lot of loaders, but I feel like gulp gives more flexibility out of the box. When I want to do something with gulp that I don't know how to do, I feel like it is easier to implement with gulp, because gulp seems to be a bit lower level. I noticed that they updated the docs for webpack since I last visited, so maybe I will try again.
Yeah I find it extremely inefficient. When I want to switch between apps, I'd almost rather just have a short list of the apps that are open or even just the icons (like Command + Tab on OSX)
Not joking at all. Thank you for the link.

I recently proposed error correction codes for an entirely separate purpose: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/enzymaticsynthesis/WvDidIldm...

I would like to also add my support for some of the ideas expressed earlier in the thread regarding the questions around whether literacy negatively impacts human memory, especially in children or in studied aboriginal populations. There are even studies that show that the vividness of mental imagery is reduced in people who wear eyeglasses: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/imagery/Refractive%20e...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines democracy thus [1]:

> 1. A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

> 1.1 A state governed under a system of democracy

> 1.2 Control of an organization or group by the majority of its members

> 1.3 The practice or principles of social equality

You are mistakenly assuming that the only form or meaning of democracy is direct democracy (1.2 above). That is not the case.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/democracy
It would be nice if that were a dilemma that arose! Instead, at least around here, it's a question of preserving glades at the expense of shitty condos for rich people in the middle of working-class neighborhoods that've been established for decades and have no desire to be overshadowed - literally; the latest specimen is a collection of four-story buildings in a neighborhood of single-story houses - because some assholes with a taste for slumming decided to make a lifestyle out of it. And thank God for erosion! Because without it, there'd be "picturesque new luxury homes starting in the low 400s" right down to the banks of every river, stream, creek, and rivulet of drunken piss for five miles in every direction.

All animadversion aside, though, your suggestion of "a few hundred people [switching] from driving to walking commutes", merely upon the erection of a new highrise with good transit access, strikes me as idealistic unto sheer fantasy, at least in the context of current United States culture. I switched back to transit myself a year and a half ago, and remain very glad that I did - but it's not something that's happening on any kind of scale, nor does this situation seem likely to change soon. Getting to work via public transit and shanks' mare? That's something poor people do - poor people, a few goobers trying to make some kind of political point, and weirdos like me who grew up in nowheresville Mississippi and still sound like it after twenty years on the East Coast, and of whom it's therefore not surprising to see deviant, if harmless, behavior such as taking trains to work and following deer trails just to see where they go.

(Okay, maybe that wasn't quite all animadversion aside, and I fear I more hardly treat those whom I here sidewise describe than is quite properly their due - certainly they mean no harm, and had I not the experience that I do, I'm sure I would share the same sort of attitude I describe. But I'm having a hard time being evenhanded at the moment, because just last weekend I found one of my favorite verges had been torn up for shitty rich people condos to be defecated upon the place where it was, and this being baseball season, I'm getting a constant gutful of people slumming on my goddam trains. I suppose I should apologize for unburdening myself as I seem to have done, but what the hell? Perhaps it will elicit responses more worthwhile than the comment which inspired their origin.)
I need to kill apps quite often because the app has a bug and killing it, whether it actually kills it or not, ends up making the app redisplay or resync etc...
Toronto and Vancouver have been known to be particularly bad markets though - using them as examples for all of Canada is probably a mistake.
I love the TI-99/4A but what about the SuperPet 9000? It had a second 16-bit CPU you could use (the 6809) in _the same address space_ as the 8-bit 6502 CPU!

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=675
I would prefer to give representatives spending power based on their district's taxes paid. It would solve a lot of long-standing squabbles...Republicans could put none of their constituents' taxes towards Planned Parenthood, the NEA and other liberal pet agencies and the Democrats could refuse to chip in towards military boondoggles and other Republican favorites.

Being able to look at a line item list of how your rep spent your Federal taxes might bring some much needed fiscal responsibility to government spending.
Whoa, wait a second, now it's better if Canada has more people per capita with >$30M in wealth? That would suggest less income equality, not more?
I think people are making the incorrect assumption that the ios 11 beta’s UI is the final UI. If anyone else did the iOS 7 beta when Ive made huge changes, it looked/operated alot like is right now, devoid of proper functions… But hints at what they wanted to finish with.
As someone who've used iPhone since the first version of it, usablitlity has been on decline since iOS 9. They removed very simple two step gestures like swipe-delete in music player.
In the iOS10 search bar, if you search an app and start that app, the 'search button' remains active on the top left, press on which leads you back to search. (Why would I want to go back to search after I've found my app?"
In iOS9, they removed the feature to create a new playlist by adding songs from another playlist. But this got fixed in iOS10.
As someone who listens to music wherever I go, I liked the music control access on lock screen. But in iOS 10, they put AirDrop and Airplay controls on the first tab of control centre and music control is on second tab, requiring a second swipe(I'm walking on road and I'd like least amount of distraction).
Few more iOS iterations, and I think I'll switch to Android.
I know several software engineers who always smile and nod when politics come up, they have been here forever but the last few years has pushed them over some tipping point where they became vocal.
My first computer was the 4A. I still have the ti-basic programming manual.

When I was 11 I used it to create fully-leveled NPC characters for dungeons and dragons.
California, especially Silicon Valley, wants to have its cake and eat it too. People want to "preserve the agricultural heritage" of this region, but not allow even the minimal amount of development needed to meet the basic needs of the people who embody that heritage -- because then they would have to give up the luxury of having (the illusion of) an untouched natural coastline nearby. Similarly, they want all the jobs that sustain unlimited business growth in the valley, but without the burden of having to build sufficient housing (too dense) and infrastructure (NIMBY, higher taxes) to support those workers. It just isn't sustainable.
> You could replace every icon with a blank oval and I could navigate my phone just from the locations of the buttons.

This may well turn out to be the new "touch typing". "Who looks at their phones to drive them? It's all in finger memory." (It's only old people like me who need to watch where their fingers are going...)
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When the hell would you ever need to know that? Do you ask carpenters how many times their screwdrivers spin per minute? It just seems like useless trivia.
> How about something sensible -- take a census of which party each person supports and then you get proportionate representatives from each party above .15% of the population. Elections then just determine who gets the seats allocated to each party.

That doesn't solve the issue that there's different directions within a party, and that the choice within a party has significant influence. In the US there's a lot of daylight between e.g. Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and Tom Cotton, all republicans, and they're not along a one dimensional axis. Whether you have 52 Collinses or 52 Cottons, will yield drastically different policies.

> That's roughly how it works in Germany. Poof -- suddenly there is no such thing as gerrymandering.

(context for non-germans)
In Germany, the issue I raise is partially addressed by also by having one party vote and one direct vote for an individual. And the difference between directly elected members, and the popular vote is then made up by creating new seats, allocating seats from a ordered list provided by each party. EDIT: To clarify, normally 50% is directly elected, 50% by share. If and only if there's a party share difference between directly elected and indirectly elected seats, then new seats are created to make up for the difference.

But the problem with such a system is that the Party has a lot of directional power, by establishing the order on that list...
Countries with socialized healthcare are facing the same issue, ballooning healthcare costs, just less acutely.
Better than open top-two primaries: ranked-choice voting.

Better than districting by committee: multi-member districts.

Election Day holiday: good, but throw in automatic voter registration.

https://represent.us/
http://fairvote.org
they might be an accelerator, but they are also most people's primary means of accessing the tools. i've never seen anyone go to the settings menu to access the torch. people probably discover many of those settings from the control centre because they're just right there
Ask HN: Competitive analysis/vision for startup
Just wanted to get the HN community's thoughts on how much time should be spent doing competitive analysis and building a strategy/vision?
> The commentary applies equally-well to pre-fab apartments, shotgun shacks, suburban housing developments, etc. It's poorly-targeted.

That's a false equivalence. Shotgun shacks and suburban housing developments aren't trying to be something they're not. And that is why you don't find ironic commentary like this directed at them.

When you put on airs, you get cut down. Is that mean? Probably. Sometimes it's also appropriate.
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Why not just use a simple LiDAR sensor? In the near future small solid state sensors could become far more affordable.
How do iTunes gift cards get laundered?
Everyone has read about the numerous scams, where someone pretending to be IRS demands immediate payment - in iTunes gift cards.

What happens to all those gift cards? Are they resold, or do the scammers have a reliable way to turn them into legitimate cashflow?
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I shudder to think how many hours I spent on that game. But even that paled in comparison to Tunnels of Doom.

http://ridingthecrest.com/edburns/classic-gaming/tunnels/