skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sleep and hibernate have never broken for me on various ThinkPads, what hardware and distro are you using?

Happened right around the switch to systemd with Debian Sid on my old T410, which by that point was probably 5 years old. IIRC, the system would resume from sleep or hibernate but the console would not recover properly, so you had to force a VT switch to get the video to reinitialize. Just a huge PITA.

I agree, it had been stable for some time up to that point, but when it broken again, that was the last straw for me, and as a consequence I've stuck with Windows 10 on my Carbon.

These days tlp gives power management on Linux a good set of defaults. Powertop tweaking should not be necessary as long as you use a distro that supports tlp.

Could be. But I'm happy with Windows 10 on my Carbon and have no intention of switching.

It used to be that Linux was on balance the better choice for my use case, being more stable (as in, fewer crashes) and more transparent, with a superior dev experience. Yes, it was always a platform for tweakers... things never seemed to consistently work quite right (hell, back around 2010, it was a miracle if sleep or hibernate worked at all). But since you could open up the hood and mess around, I was willing to live with that given the benefits. As a result, for 20 years Linux was the operating system I ran on every piece of hardware I owned. I even built a 3-tuner MythTV backend and two front-end systems for my home back when I still had cable... you can't imagine all the tweaking!

But over the years the gap has closed considerably.

Windows has become substantially faster and more stable, and tools like WSL have made it a much nicer dev platform. Linux is still far more transparent, obviously, but the stability of Windows 10 means that just doesn't matter that much.

Meanwhile, with Linux, in my experience the need to continuously tweak and deal with random breakages continues to be a fact of life, while distros have become far less transparent through the switch to systemd, making tweaking and fixing things substantially harder (trying to diagnose those issues I described earlier was basically impossible).

As a result, Linux simply doesn't offer enough value for me, at this point, to motivate the hassle.

Of course, as always, YMMV. Some people have a higher threshold for this stuff (certainly I used to be a lot more willing to put up with Linux's idiosyncrasies), and different hardware, distros, etc, perform differently. So I'm not going to claim my experiences are universal. But they are my experiences.
'Show HN' is a place for people to post their own work. Regular hacker news submissions are where to post when showing Hacker News someone else's work.
I forgot who it was, but someone once said: "Door locks are not a protection against burglars - they are there to keep decent people decent".
I actually do this, more or less, and consider it rational. For a large number of household goods, I really don't care about them past some baseline quality threshold. So if something worked last time and the price doesn't seem out of line, I'll use that. I generally don't remember brand names for most of these things, but generally can pick out what packaging looks like. And I'm sure advertising influences my first-choice and whatnot on the margin.

I'm sure paying attention would save some money, or, who knows, I might even be "delighted" by a "new" "product experience", but I'd rather just not think about it.
> You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you.

Of course, I get that. But it's always companies like Apple that make so much noise about social justice who don't stick to their guns when China's involved.
Because of the protocol your real IP is likely to be leaked.
Now I'm curious, what is the advantage of AC induction motors?
Police response is what, 6 minutes? Can you open the safe in 6 minutes after cutting the power? Probably not.
"I suppose it's really not much different than the laws in the US that compel companies to give the government access to my information if they request such access."

No, in US the directive comes from court and even then the companies can deny the information if it is encrypted (e.g. like Apple did in San Bernardino).

I also do not understand the nonsensical argument everyday that if US does small x then it allows other countries to do big X along with big Y. What kind of logic is this?
In general, it’s not a good idea. And in general, Newton’s method won’t converge.

Newton’s method boils down to replacing your function by a first-order approximation. For a differentiable function, in a small neighbourhood(!), that’s a good approximation (by definition), though, and the zero of the model function will be very close to the zero of the original function (if it lies in that neighbourhood).

PS: i did not expect the poster and author to be the same person, otherwise I would’ve phrased my criticism differently. A SHOW HN would have helped.

PPS: basically the whole reciprocal/inverse confusion only arises because you start the multidimensional case from your iteration formula. If you back to its derivation, and start again from there, you can avoid that.
You're advocating damaging someone's property without their permission. Don't do that.
I agree that it is a better compiler, but have heard mixed results on whether it produces faster code. Do you have a citation?
This is what happened to LucasFilm/Arts... when Lucas left, the CFO got control...
So not really, right? Code is just symbols on a screen.

It's the abstractions that count.
I wonder what Orwell would have thought of modern China.
I don't think there is a right and wrong way to customize emacs, whatever works is good. What I do is have a .emacs and my custom elisp files in a Dropbox folder. Then I have a simple ~/.emacs file that loads the Dropbox one. If I didn't use Dropbox for various other purposes I think I'd use git as well.
From you own link:

"The United Nations Population Division projects world population to peak at over 10 billion at the end of the 21st century, but Sanjeev Sanyal has argued that global fertility will fall below the replacement rate in the 2020s and that world population will peak below 9 billion by 2050, followed by a long decline. A 2014 study in Science concludes that the global population will reach 11 billion by 2100, with a 70% chance of continued growth into the 22nd century."

So clearly there is disagreement between those two. Using the 2014 study, there would be an increase in the current population(~7 billion) by greater than 50% and continued growth for another centruy.
Using VueJS unit tests as a learning tool: v-show
Could you spend all of Jeff Bezos' money on Amazon in one go?
> if jews are not responsible for their over-representation in academia, then who is?

Jews are responsible for their overrepresentation in academia! There's a lot of cultural factors that drive Jews to academia. Scholarship and hard work has always been valued in Jewish culture, traditionally focussed on studying the Torah, but also spread out to any other enterprise. Jewish folklore has many scholarly role models, traditionally in the form of a rabbi and more modernly as scientists.

> Should all the black NBA players (which is most of them) should resign too and make room for white people?

Maybe they should! And try to become profs instead! The same racist factors that drive black people out of academia drives them into sports instead. The culturally accepted avenue of success for them is sports, not scholarship.
Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure

Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated levels of murder and rape.

:^)
AFAIK Perl6 was originally designed to run on Parrot, and then switched to MoarVM instead. Not sure what prompted the switch.
Alice in Wonderland – Create a customized shortened URL for any custom domain
Eta v0.1 Developer Preview is out
> Life, on the other hand, works towards a very ill-defined objective function (survive, collectively) over millions of years; all of the emergent behavior we're astonished by is maybe just side effects of working on that objective

Agreed. Plus think about all the data and processing power that went into evolution. And some folks think because a system beat a human at Go that we're nearer solving life's age old question, that is, the essence of intelligence.
What can a dictator do that Xi Jinping can't?
what problem does this solve?
For the last two or three contract jobs I have got, including my current one, just the fact I had a working github repos was enough to impress the hiring guys.

In all three cases, I eventually trained everyone how to use git, so there is that as well.
> So is everyone only hiring programmers who write code which can be sloppy and full of technical debt and impossible maintain, as long as the product works okay for now?

The result is the only thing the customer and upper management sees.
Doesn't matter if it will explode in a few months at best, right then and there it generates revenue and visibility.
Why is it always assumed that the "company" was based in Bulgaria? Which "company" is it? As a Bulgarian myself I've seen that mentioned several times in the past, even on reputable sites, but never seen any actual evidence.

P.S. An investigation from 2 days ago also fails to find any Bulgarian connection to BTC-e: https://bivol.bg/en/no-bulgarian-connection-found-so-far-in-...
Ask HN: Is Google Sheets Down?
Have been trying to use Google sheets for about half an hour now.

I get to the main screen, but it hangs, displaying the little multicolored ball. Like this: http://imgur.com/a/zvOmj

Is this just me, or is there some widespread outage?
>I suppose it's really not much different than the laws in the US that compel companies to give the government access to my information if they request such access.

It is very different. Censorship with the main objective of keeping an unelected regime in power by suppressing free speech is not the same as any problematic side-effects of fighting crime and terrorism. Granted, there are some grey areas such as oppression of sexual minorities, but the distinction between political oppression and crime fighting should not be lost completely.

The least Apple could do is allow sideloading of apps.
I thought I did.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/16/entertainment/la-et-...

Or you could check the daily south china sea propaganda. The mass propaganda concerning Liu Xiaobo's death. The anti-chinese pro-tibet propaganda.

"China's Threat to the U.S. - The Atlantic"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-...

"China next US threat? Beijing beefs up military to protect trade"

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/15/china-next-us-threat...

Our anti-chinese pivot to asia

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

And of course there is a negative anti-chinese/chinese american stereotypes/racism/cultural dislike/etc in the US.

China has consistently been viewed as one of our greatest enemy.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/189503/four-nations-top-greatest-...

Mind you, this poll is only about who are TOP enemy is. If we did a poll on whether we viewed china as an enemy, a significant majority would list china as an enemy.
It's especially difficult when the game you want to play is probably out there, but impossible to find because it's buried by tons of other crap. So do you build the game only to find that the one you're looking for was there all along, then have everyone call you a copycat?
But with Windows/Linux its still possible to install apps on you own, unlike the locked down app store.
Do not spend bitcoin you bought in the clearnet when purchasing non legal materials from the darknet
If you build in the ability to censor, you can't disclaim responsibility when a state makes you do it. We'll see the same sort of thing in Russia, the UK, and so on. Apple can still act, if they wish, by not locking down their users. I know that'd be a big step for them.
I've found web-mode to be superior for JSX and ES6 stuff, though I tried to use Yegge's for a while. Though I don't do much JS development anymore, this is my current config for web-mode, though I had Flycheck and Flow types working at one point, as well.

https://gist.github.com/asummers/b8304b8ea78fc331b8177ff35d0...
I'd guess you also got a good smirk out of this part of TFA:

> GitHub has a rich ecosystem of free tools for building, packaging, testing and much more. All these tools are mandatory for professional software development.
Is this similar to bitmessage?
https://www.bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Going Meta: How I Used Vue.js to Build a Small Quiz About Vue.js
I've made that product. I've had 10 customers ask me for that product with a straight face. The spam filter isn't a concern if it's an intranet product -- at worst, it's a support call which leads to some instructions on the page. It still saves them from buying some amount of printer toner and using fax lines. Everything else there is true to some degree, which captures the spirit of writing resumes. (IMO the biggest concern is security but frameworks handle a lot of that out of the box)

And that's still not the point -- the point is that a Github profile may becoming a checkbox for the hiring filter that few scrutinizes. They are using weak hiring signals and I will absolutely punish them by bypassing it with as little effort as possible for not doing their homework while making me jump through interviewing hoops.
Article 19 protects free expression.
I'm taking my cues from Jeremy Howard, who believes we probably won't be a world full of data scientists, since data science requires less effort every year as the software and hardware improves. Rather, we'll still have domain experts, and everyone will just know how to apply data science to their field.

The tools get easier to use every year. While I have difficulty imagining my data science job disappearing, I tend to agree with Jeremy that more and more non-CS people are getting comfortable using computers. Programming, as a field of study, will stabilize at some point, and its usefulness will continue flowing into other fields.
> It's so easy to claim the West shouldn't do what the leadership of China wants in China, but in reality the only alternative is to abandon China to those who will do what they are ordered to.

That line of "reasoning" makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy, then.

(It additionally feels ethically unsound to me; the "if I don't do it, someone else will, therefore it's okay" — no, it's still not okay. And that's what people are upset about.)
and pacmacs [0]

[0] https://github.com/codingteam/pacmacs.el
Hey, are there already some tutorials / books for Phoenix 1.3? I found this [1], but it will be released in late december 2017. Any ideas / recommendations for the Phoenix 1.3? Folder structure and models (schemas) got changed quite a bit.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Phoenix-1-3-Productive-Re...
The type of cursive taught in American schools is a pretty awful writing system and does require a lot of skill to produce legible script. However, there is another type of cursive that's significantly faster than printing, but it's also very easy to produce legible writing because it's essentially just connected printing. It's cursive Italic.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/post-93151-0...
> Yaris which has everything on center console

Last time that I drove a Yaris, and that was a few years back, there was a Head Up Display which put a few things against the windscreen, directly in front of the driver.
How to Make a Movie Out of Anything – Even a Mindless Phone Game
I'd dispute that AI research is stuck or that his proposed answer along the lines of "An international A.I. mission focused on teaching machines to read" is a good one.

Research seems to be cracking along with AlphaGo, self driving cars and the like. Recently DeepMind have been doing interesting stuff with dreams[1], imagination[2] and body movement[3], the last one being a little reminiscent of his daughter inventing a way to exit her chair mentioned in the article.

Re government intervention it's not something like CERN where you need billions in capital and it's not an area where a big government project is likely to be the best use of capital.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/google-de...
[2] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-deepmind-creates-an-a...
[3] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/10/15946542/deepmind-pa...
Of course you can leave China/choose not to enter China/be blocked from entering China and still be very successful, check what Google did 7-8 years ago. The same can be said for a long list of highly successfully American high tech and not that high tech companies, e.g. Facebook, SpaceX, Berkshire Hathaway etc.

The mentioned 52% or 51% ownership is nothing but protectionism. It is nothing different from Trump asking certain US products to be made in the US.
The Digital Economy Bill in the UK is a first step towards a national firewall. There are also plenty of sites (torrent sites mostly) which ISP's are forced to prevent access to in the UK.
Hoeveel afvallen per week is mogelijk en ook gezond?
> Which is, as long as it doesn't cut important functionality away, for me very preferable to an interior style littered with screens and buttons and knobs.

I very much agree with you here with one exception. I wish there was the option of no center screen at all. I don't want maps and whatever multimedia features it offers. As for the stuff that you have to have that you now access only through the center console, they could still put it in the center, just in place of the screen rather than on the screen.
Regarding 2)

Can't you install your own (self-compiled) apps on your own iDevice these days with a free apple developer account?

That could work with an open source iOS client that people compile themselves.
I'm basing this assessment mostly on my own experience and testing. In terms of performance difference, it can be hard to compare since Clang-compiled programs often run on Linux, and MSVC programs run on Windows, so it's difficult to factor out the perf differences due to the OS. However I have measured one of our programs running significantly faster in a Linux VM, compiled in Clang, running with Windows as a host OS, than the program compiled with MSVC running directly on Windows.

In addition, the analyses and optimisations performed by Clang are generally more sophisticated than by MSVC. See for example http://www.forwardscattering.org/post/51.

The only optimisation I know of that MSVC performs that Clang doesn't (in some cases at least) is autovectorisation of some maths functions: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23645

(Actually MSVC has a pretty effective link-time code gen option, that is often turned off by projects using Clang)
This is the truth. Those guys are there to scam tourists.
He's a fanboy and trying to make fun of your stated use-case as if you were the one showing off.
There seems to be something very different between language (and language-mediated behavior), and almost all of the behavior found in other animals. While the former and at least some of the latter can reasonably be described as categories of intelligence, one can not necessarily argue for claims about the former from facts about the latter.
Introducing Monogram, the Anti-ODM for Node.js and MongoDB
Tech is indeed is an industry.

Look at it this way: Big law firms are called that because they hire a lot of lawyers (and lawyer-types); big 4 accounting firms hire a lot of accountants and big 5 tech firms hire a lot of software engineers (or CS majors if you will).

They are called that not because they don't hire HR, IT, finance or other professionals, they are called "big X" because specific professions (lawyers, accountants, software engineers) dominate their hiring.

The quality and quantity of their hires from those professions in turn determine the amount of profit they are able to extract from whichever industry they choose to focus on/dominate.
> Universal income [...] came out of libertarian-leaning ideology - it's a really, really good method of removing the Government's role

I don't think it's meaningful to credit the idea to a single ideology. It's an idea that has popped up many times, in many forms, over time. I first came across it as a tool to ensure basic human dignity for all, which is more important to me than silly discussions about "big" or "small" government.

> Socialists support a universal income only so far as it doesn't massively affect various support functions the Government currently performs

That, too, is an overly broad statement. The Socialists I know who oppose universal income all do it (a) because they think that labor is a value in itself, and that everybody should work, or (b) because they somehow think that a basic income profits Big Capital. I haven't heard any say that they think five government support programs are better than one government support program.

Making everything about government size seems to be a US thing. These are not discussions we usually have in Europe. (Except, sometimes, about the EU itself.)
You can load your own software on to an iOS device provided you have access to the code. AFAIK iOS dev tools that enable you to load apps onto the device no longer require the $99 annual fee so if you download them you can side-load software.
> Every new thing you learn incrementally speeds you up.

Like forgetting the original keybindings and switching to evil.
It's pretty impressive performance if you manage to only waste half of your advertising spend on digital.
Try this one:
https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe
Exactly. Also, decriminalizing sends a message to the population that addicts are not criminals but people
that by a series of mistakes and bad decisions are currently in a bad situation and in need of help.
I definitely make this mistake. I have a handfull of maintained projects, but nearing 100 repos, most without readmes, many are just random ideas

The last time I interviewed the technical interviewer actually had me go over my openEtG project, & dive into the guts of the AI's eval. They also stumbled upon https://github.com/serprex/brainwebfuckassembly which ended up having a profanity filled interview

They started to explain the code challenge that would follow if I was invited to a 2nd tech interview before realizing I'd already done it: https://github.com/serprex/backend-coding-challenge

I fixed their github pages page (previously wouldn't load stats & projects) https://github.com/coveo/coveo.github.io/pull/3 but that didn't come up

I didn't get past the first tech interview. Admittedly I'm terrible in interviews: bring up feeling I have a weakness with mathematics, don't have a prepared answer for "what is clean code", when asked about "code patterns" I start rambling about how data structures are essentially a pattern
For you the fact that something is law might tramp morality. Law vs morality is an ancient struggle[1].

[1] http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/classics/anti...
You don't need their closed app store. Free workaround:

• apply for a free Apple developer account,

• compile your own copy of https://github.com/mtigas/OnionBrowser or https://github.com/yuyao110120/ShadowVPN-iOS and

• install it on your own iDevice