skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little too high-horsed for my taste - I don't see why the idea of moderation seems to cycle around every few years as some grand epiphany, as if Aristotle didn't write the same thing 2000 years ago. It comes off as about mild now as it did then.

The last part just smacked of middle-class platitudes. It would certainly be a much nicer world if we all had the time to slow down and smell the flowers, but the fact is that many daily workers don't really have a choice in the matter. Russell (In Praise Of Idleness) thinks this the great crime of 20th century capitalism, since he thought it demonstrated that we could get by on a 4-hour day and give more leisure time to everyone - and I'm inclined to agree. That would be a better message than tut-tutting.
For me it's like a very long, very good movie :)

David Simon called it "a treatise on the end of the American empire, and who we are as a people, what we've come to, why we can no longer solve or even seriously address our own problems", and generally said and wrote a lot of insightful things since, very eloquently. I loved The Wire, but discovering that head and character behind it impressed me on top of even that.

Just take this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL6Jv2Jpnpg

If I had to put it in a nutshell I'd say The Wire "comes from a place of" paying attention, not from distraction or deriving entertainment from crime and other problems, and that (combined with genius and the right people getting together and having good chemistry, and a lot of things not going wrong that can easily kill a TV show) made it so good. Good art can be luck, but art this great is always the tip of an iceberg.
Is there a great restaurant that you could recommend that serves Tunisian food?
The article also says:

"Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent.
"The fleet of new coal plants would make it virtually impossible to meet the goals set in the Paris climate accord, which aims to keep the increase in global temperatures from preindustrial levels below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
if only to address the dependency issue, one can rewrite the magic wormhole in go, then do cross-platform compilation and distribute the standalone binaries
"Although the study found that neonicotinoids have an overall negative effect on bees, the results aren’t completely clear-cut: the pesticides seemed to harm bees at the UK and Hungarian sites, but apparently had a positive effect on honeybees in Germany. Pywell notes that the German effects were “short lived”, and the reason for them is unclear. They might be linked in part to the generally healthier state of hives in the German arm of the trial, he speculates"

Bollocks! Neonics harm bees because that is what they are designed to do - break insects. I'm not an expert but there have been rather a lot of articles in New Scientist describing "confused" bees relating to neonics over the last few years.
Keyboards and trackpads were a differentiator for the MacBook, during its rise. They might not stand out today, but ten years ago they were exceptional compared with almost all of their competitor's laptop keyboards. The layout may not have been optimal, but at least the keys didn't feel like they were going to fall off at every press.
Also, imagine how many ants you'd have to milk to get just one liter of this stuff!

cough
What does WiFi add to your microwave cooking experience? Genuinely curious.
Seems reminiscent of the hyper/hypo issue in medical jargon. Not something you want to screw up.
Every FOSS project is freemium when vendors offer support.

Furthermore, your assumption that populist obscurity is some how a negative is FUD and ignorant of Postgres' historical obscurity until recent years.

EDB is the largest commercial vendor with EDB Postgres Plus being a compatible, cheaper Oracle DBMS replacement.

Furthermore, they contribute upstream all the time.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/new-postgresql-tools-are-l...
Found the right-wing libertarian.
How about going one further and asking for some decent processors? Why is it so difficult to find <= 14 inch laptop with a quad core?
Nice, I made something really similar but found it had a bunch of issues. Some of which I don't see addressed here.

When setting an object or array, it will always trigger since the equal comparison will return false even if they have the same { key: value } pairs:

target[property] !== value

Speaking of which, sub-properties are not being listened to from the root (only if manually listened to on the sub-object):

obj.foo = { bar: 'baz' }; // triggers
obj.foo.bar = 'whatever'; // never triggers the base listener

The only realistic automatic way to listen to them is to add a trap for the get, which will proxify the return value if it's an object or array. This has it's own set of errors and turns into a nasty set of edge cases, which is the main reason I never got to release what I was doing. I see in Icaro you Proxify it manually and adding some props on the setter, which leads to this not working as expected:

const obj = icaro({ foo: { bar: 'baz' } });
obj.foo.bar = 'baz2'; // Nothing triggers
There are much faster SA construction algorithms than skew (check out divsufsort). The O(n) algorithms using induced sorting are also likely much faster than this work. The constants of recent O(n) algorithms are very low.

here a link for some state-of-the-art benchmarks of non-parallel SA construction algorithms: https://github.com/y-256/libdivsufsort/blob/wiki/SACA_Benchm...

there also now exist linear speedup parallel SA construction algorithms.
"As the M.D. Anderson fiasco illustrates, IBM fell into the trap of over-promising and under-delivering. “IBM claimed in 2013 that ‘a new era of computing has emerged’ and gave Forbes the impression that Watson ‘now tackles clinical trials’ and would be in use with patients in just a matter of months,” Freedman noted.

As to whether Watson will ever be useful in clinical situations? “This is hard,” opined Stephen Kraus, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “It’s not happening today, and it might not be happening in five years. And it’s not going to replace doctors.”

And that's the crux of the problem with Watson. IBM routinely promises that 'cognitive computing' (CC) can solve literally any data-based or science problem in your business' enterprise. But once you look closer at their methods, you find nothing special; CC is the same old bag of data mining tricks everyone has been using for decades. IBM's real problem: Watson brings nothing new to the table.

At the Fortune 100 big pharma where I work we've gone through several rounds of evaluating IBM Watson's box of tricks for the value it might add to drug discovery in the chemical or clinical spaces. And each time we've taken a pass. IBM just hasn't shown that it has a track record of material successes in cutting edge AI, beyond what's available most anywhere.

In particular, the plate tectonics of AI shifted with the advent of deep learning, which came along after IBM Watson won Jeopardy, and which still seems absent from their AI repertoire. Until CC demonstrates "competitive competency" in cutting edge AI and not more marketing jabber, I expect IBM Watson will continue to underwhelm.
I don't think OP was supporting the actions one way or another, but objectively stating information that is relevant to OP's question. It's relevant because it's a case of cryptocurrency working it's way into the 'real world'. It was never implemented, so the only important thing here is that someone who a lot of people listen to actually proposed using cryptocurrency, politics don't factor into it.
I stopped watching Deadwood in the middle of season 2 because the acting was so bad it didn't felt real (but I liked it apart from that)

Oz is still one of my favorite tv show, it has so many good characters and the huit clos format (closed doors) is really perfect for focusing on them
I'm unconvinced by the paragraph beginning, "However, the above result leads to a striking contradiction with the covariance principle, which is a fundamental
prerequisite of the special theory of relativity."

It is pretty well accepted that light can have mass, in the sense that the authors are using the term. For example, light trapped as a standing wave between two mirrors in an etalon must have zero momentum. (By symmetry: if it has momentum, which way does the vector point?) But that light has energy, so it has mass in the sense that m must be non-zero to satisfy E² = p²c² + m²c⁴. More precisely, the momentum-energy vector of the light is timelike instead of lightlike.

This makes me suspect the whole paper, because it seems really plausible that a light wave in a medium is partly like a standing wave. In particular, there is a limit of a dense medium whose momentum is negligible. (Maybe the refractive index approaches 1 in a very dense medium, but I can't imagine why that would be so.) I'd have to spend a morning reading and thinking about it to be sure.

Also, the paper is suspiciously detailed; these questions should be resolvable at a much higher level of abstraction, and certainly without computer simulations.
I was under the impression that at that size it's starting to get into heat dissipation territory, but I couldn't say for sure.
Compile-Time Checking for Deadlocks and Channel Panics
Graduate, hold off on kids, and get a full time job.

Thus my sarcasm. Escape poverty by making money. It's a miracle!

By the way, your 98% figure is incorrect. The study says that 2% of all Americans who did these three things are in poverty. The vast majority of those people were never in poverty to begin with, so didn't escape it.
Battery life mostly
which part was? the article or...? :P
I don't know if there's a "standard" answer; this seems like a pretty unusual situation. I think you should start by asking yourselves how much of a difference it will make to your chances of success if you reach agreement vs. if he walks away. Don't underestimate the value of an early revenue stream -- if his product can be launched quickly and brings in some money, even if its ultimate potential is small, it could be of tremendous help in supporting you while you work on your more ambitious project.
I don't think the reason for his success is the morning routine. On the contrary, I'd say he started doing his morning routine because of his success: he probably has more time, a more flexible schedule, and given his position he probably has a lot of things going on in his life - hence a greater necessity for meditation.
Why only 2% of the coastline? once you start allowing it, everyone is going to want to privatize their beaches, and it won't stop at 2%.
Sure, if you're ok with having wildly fragmented documentation for all the different versions of the one component making it difficult to troubleshoot any problems you're having with your version, which becomes increasingly more out of date.
Lenovo makes the T4xxP series laptops with Quad cores, I'm running one right now. But I would rather not be stuck buying the same model every time I go laptop shopping =\
I'll stick to the first error: "That passenger trains and other public and commons expenditures are important in NYC does not extend to the rest of the country."

False.

You write too much. Focus your fire and thoughts.
I agree 100%. Laptop keyboards are terrible.
Maybe change the rest of the CSS while you're at it.

This is not good UX http://i.imgur.com/en3lBF5.jpg
But not too much protection:

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-great-a...
If you actually consider the financial implications of this, where is the money coming from? There was a write-up a while ago, an economist dug into the possibility, and did some simple income projections vs amount taken in tax each year.

I don't have the URL available but the summary was - you'd pay people for 3 months out of the year - and the country would be bankrupt.
TL;DR: helps, not usually a deal-breaker.

Self-taught programmer here for a long time (later got a CS & Engineering degree at a UC).

I worked at Trimble, Stanford (with IITians) and many other Fortune 500 shops as a consultant without a degree. No problem.

The only thing a degree really solves it tells HR "candidate completed some hazing ritual, with a smattering of learning how to learn."

Some people look at degree as a pedigree, but it's mostly BS (and expensive).

The goal of certifications and degrees should be based on whether it's required by a specific industry (ie professional engineer) or job role (ie doctor).
Yes, but one difference is that if the price of a company goes low enough, someone will buy it and sell off it's assets. Depending on what sort of assets the company has, this is even something that banks will finance.
When i was doing a derivation of LZ compression using suffix arrays i used induced sorting. Here is a good overview: http://zork.net/~st/jottings/sais.html.

Also i think Doug's C implementation of MM suffix array is worth mentioning : http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sarray/
Most distortions in representation due to gerrymandering favor Republicans. So: The GOP is the more guilty party. http://election.princeton.edu/2012/12/30/gerrymanders-part-1...
I think they're still better than anything on the market. It could be at the software level, but I've never once seen or used a Windows laptop with decent two finger scrolling.
Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter
SIMD is the classic example of how you don't need concurrency to have parallelism.
SHOW HN: No time to get software gigs on your own?
Have you tried Stumpwm? It's meant to be the successor to Ratpoison. Written entirely in Common Lisp, and allows for configuration while it's running. I've been using it full time for almost a year and I doubt I'll switch anytime soon.
I thought more cores running slower was supposed to be more power efficient?
OLED displays might also be nice. I think Dell/Alienware is the only company offering them in a somewhat mainstream configuration: https://hothardware.com/reviews/alienware-13-with-oled-revie...
I disagree. It might take some more experimentation, but once you figure it out for a particular product for your body weight and metabolism, it's pretty consistent.
Technically, most modern GPUs are SIMT meaning that they aggregate lockstep threads into vector instructions, so yes.
> keyboard ... for most people it is the main way they interact with their machines

The answer is right there: no, most people barely touch the keyboard. Most people are not using laptops as tools to create anything. Most people do nothing but look at Reddit/Facebook endless stream of entertainment and scroll, scroll, scroll. Apple understood this early on and they made the perfect laptop for scrolling, which is now available in Air, Pro and Regular flavors. These aren't for typing.

As long as majority of laptop buyers are content consumers, this is not going to change. However...

It will change. The content consumption has been shifting to mobile: the phones and tablets are taking over. Once a laptop once again becomes primarily a _tool_, decent keyboards (and maybe even tall screens!) will come back, just look at the desktops. As traditional desktops have been 100% abandoned by consumers, the mechanical keyboards and high quality IPS monitors made a smashing comeback, the power users (remaining audience) is willing to pay for nice tools.
Nope. At the university, a "master" is something you get after studying for 5 years, roughly. After 3 years, you get a "licence", which is equivalent to a BA/BS. Engineering schools use a slightly different system, but it's roughly equivalent.
Yeah, other than the fact that the raptor population bounced back after DDT use was curtailed.

The issue has been pretty extensively studied and while you can cherry-pick individual studies the broad consensus is that DDT was one of the contributing factors.
Stumpwm really is great for multiple monitors, I have an 8 screen setup and it works flawlessly.
I'm an ex-engineer, now pediatrian who would really like to be a founder in healthcare technology after residency (2 more years left). Can you show me how to get started? I'm in Seattle. My limitations are that I hope to stay sane, avoid sacrificing all of my time away from a family of 4 children, and be able to start in the light of a significant amount of educational debt (>100k). I know it's quite a specific request, but you said ask anything!
It was called USVideotel, and it was moderately successful. I worked for them in the late 80s. It was very popular amongst its users, but eventually lost to Prodigy and AOL.
Funny, I was just going to mention my good friend Jon Entine as someone to watch out for. Thanks for providing the hook.

Jon Entine is a media-savvy corporate propagandist and pseudo-journalist who fronts the opinions and positions of chemical corporations by pretending to be an independent journalist. He has ties to biotech companies Monsanto and Syngenta while playing a key role in another industry front group known as the American Council on Science and Health, a thinly-veiled corporate front group that Sourcewatch describes as holding “a generally apologetic stance regarding virtually every other health and environmental hazard produced by modern industry, accepting corporate funding from Coca-Cola, Kellogg, General Mills, Pepsico, and the American Beverage Association, among others.”

http://www.propagandists.org/propagandists/jon-entine/﻿

That Slate are engaged with a special partnership with Entine's propaganda mill speaks exceedingly poorly of Slate.

Specific to the Slate article, Entine claims that bee populations aren't dying. The supporting link is to an article that states ... bee populations are dying, and where they aren't dying and leaving corpses behind, they are simply vanishing without a trace. Sadly for Mr. Entine's argument, neither death nor disappearance makes for a health bee colony. He's attempting to mislead, misdirect, and language-lawyer his way around a point. He fails.

I've encountered him previously. Ironically, if his propagandistic techniques weren't so over-the-top self-parodying, he might have snuck past my bullshit filter.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/1LmnHGHi...
So "nicotinoids" means "chemically similar to nicotine", and... "neo-" means new. Some of the literature refers to nicotinoids and some to neonicotinoids.

What I haven't been able to figure out is if there was essentially a "second wave" of nicotinoids that someone -- a scientist or marketer -- figured was deserving of the "neo-" prefix.
Yes. It loads instantly on my phone without crashing Chrome and is truly responsive. A rare webpage indeed.
I'd prefer a format that distinguishes between sequences and associative arrays a bit more clearly. You can do that with S-exprs with some additional structure imposed on top, but then that gets more verbose than it has to be.

JSON is actually pretty decent, if only it had comments, richer data types, and some relaxed rules around syntax (e.g. allow trailing commas and unquoted keys).
The invisible mountains
It's surprising how no laptop manufacturer has managed to come up with a trackpad that comes close to being a decent competitor to Apple's.

I'd love for a non-Apple laptop to have the (older) MacBook trackpad and keyboards — not the huge trackpads or butterfly switches that come with the current generation ones.
What is it with same-sex attracted people that they cry "homophobia" when someone in some way disagrees with their lifestyle choice?
Actually it is. The European, or Western, Honey Bee, Apis mellifera

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee
Between T520 and T550, there was T530, which had basically the chiclet version of the T520 keyboard, and it was just as good if not better than the T520 keyboard. Indeed, Lenovo really screwed up with the T540 and beyond - the useless numeric pad shifts the rest of the keyboard way off center. Fortunately, there's the T4XX series, that has a very good keyboard still.
Hm. That would be useful. I might have to do that.
ASIC resistance considered harmful
I would love redundancy and resiliency on a household if not neighborhood level, but I am afraid that such resiliency would be expensive.

We're all terribly vulnerable should anything happen on a regional level.
How would you define "optimality"?

Consider: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_principle
> The part that's kinda taken on faith, though, is whether the value created will stay in the area. Unless there are huge incentives to stay local, I see the companies, exited founders, and investors all taking their funds and resources back into developed nations rather than staying local and perpetuating prosperity where they first laid their roots.

Are you talking about the foreign investors or locals who've succeeded? I can see locals using their new wealth to escape, but if it's working that well for the foreign investors, I don't see why they'd leave (at least in the short term - over decades the brain drain effect would be real).
Unfortunately I think this model bundles dedicated graphics, which I have no need for. I have yet to find a Linux-friendly PC laptop with quad-core and integrated graphics only.
The data say what they do, and the article seems to reflect this.

Threshold and compound effects are not unknown in science.

Though given a comment on funding sources (Bayer and Sygenta -- formerly Zeneca), some skepticism may be warranted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14684161
Same problem, really: now I have to find a window manager that natively supports key logging, rather than just running a small shell script in the background that listens for keyboard events.
the circa 2012 to 2015 keyboards and trackpads on MacBooks were PERFECT. the new keyboards feel like typing on a hard table top
The author mentioned YUV4MPEG. It's a wonderfully simple video format, here's a tiny C program to stream a video of Game of Life (With colours!):

#define F for(i=0;i<l*3;i++)
main(n){int i,j,w=640,h=480,l
=w*h,o[]={~w,-w,-w+1,-1,1,w-1
,w,w+1},b[l*5];F b[i]=rand();
for(puts("YUV4MPEG2 W640 H48"
"0 F30 C444");puts("FRAME");)
{F{for(n=j=8;j;n-=b[i+o[--j]]
&1);b[i+l]=(n^5&&!b[i]|n^6)-1
;}F putchar(b[i]=b[i+l]);}}

(You can pipe the output to mpv or a similar media player.)
I'd argue that the Surface Book is of the similar quality and the keyboard is certainly light-years ahead. I've got a mac pro at work that's nothing but a pile of squishy keys.
I prefer this approach over building custom crawlers with scrappy, because: it is easier to debug, and easier to manipulate the data.
I had a high school German teacher who said politics and religion were two taboos for polite American conversation, but Europeans can have more civilized discussion about these topics.

Is this not true?
Are you seriously so cynical that you can't even imagine that someone else could enjoy something? That's sad.