skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Temperature is the aggregate of the energy of many individual particles, modulated by the tendency of those particles to transmit that energy. Thus a single molecule does have a temperature in a sense, you just need an incredibly sensitive detector to register it. Temperature is a fully reducible property.

Consider the possibility that consciousness isn't a distinctly human phenomenon, as there is no reason to believe that is the case. In fact, there is no logical reason why it would even be a distinctly biological phenomenon. It appears to me that consciousness isn't so much out of the purview of science as it is intractable to its methods, and thus unattractive as an area of study despite its fundamental character.
I hope it does. I have a 2015 Pixel LS (last gen) running vanilla Ubuntu without any major issues. The disk size was always a nuisance (64GB only), so this new one looks perfect in that regard. I just wish Intel stopped their bullshit malicious behavior and started supporting LPDDR4 at last and lift the 16 GB RAM cap that LPDDR3 has.
It helps if you're exhausted, otherwise it can quickly become frustrating. I find taking a long-ish walk (c. 30 mins) really helps burn off any residual anxiety and slows me down enough to fall asleep easily. Also, keeping your phone/tablet physically far away helps to cut out distractions.
But how good can a search engine be if it does not track its humans, and therefore cannot use browsing / search history as contextual clues for query ranking / semantics ?

It might be very good. But can such a system compete with one that does use search history as context?
Not true. It's a troll comment from unionism.
This is so overwhelmingly the root problem that I almost can't believe the authors would spend so much time on anything else.

In a more modern electoral system, most of their other points would fall into place naturally.
But you're the only one asking knowing perfectly well the answer.
With independence. There are some more that want the referendum, but frankly I think that's silly.

When a lot of corruption cases started to arise a few years ago, the local govern party had to ally with a far left separatist organization that demanded the referendum. So here we are.
I did a quick search comparing the mass of a mallard to a Canadian goose (default options returned for 'weight of duck' and 'weight of goose'). A large mallard on avg is about 3.5 lbs, and a small Canadian goose on average is about 7.1 lbs. In this case, yes! Two ducks == 1 goose.
I would be very interested in reading on how to best do the migration on various devices, for example Chrome on desktop, Chrome on Android etc.
Show HN: Myfinancelist, a directory of investment banking, PE, HE, and VC firms
HN comments have a tendency to obsess about almost irrelevant details. Exact, precise dictionary definitions of words clearly being used in context to mean something not exact matching the dictionary. Arguments over whether passing a pointer counts as pass by value or pass by reference. Taking metaphors and going off on numerical tangents that don't add anything to the meaning or discussion.

HN comments suffer from these and more.
I work for a tech company in Taiwan. The factory downstairs is making microSD cards. I write some driver software to talk to the machines, sending commands using SECS-II and getting the machines to log data to a SQL server.

The testing machines still run Windows 2000.

There is no SQL library for Visual C++ 5. I couldn't use the .NET framework, or any other libraries - everything running on the testing machine had to be bundled into a single .exe file.

Why not update? The testing machine was built by another company, and sold with a 20-year warranty. Updating Windows, or even installing software would void the warranty.

My program was designed to be easily deleted in case of an audit.

These machines were on their own LAN with no Internet access, thankfully. I've realised that for my software to endure, I should write it standalone, without needing libraries, and in a very common language that is likely to still be around for a while (C, JavaScript, Bash). The code is more verbose, but that puts the burden on the developer (me) instead of the user, who is more likely to make really dodgy workarounds than file a bug report.
Well, it's a starting point. When coming up with a salary range for themselves, candidates have more homework to do than to simply punch a few numbers into a calculator.

Any expectations of accuracy better than 10-15% are unrealistic.

In many markets 100K+ is quite nice for an MS-degree'd 20-something with a few years of experience.
I paid $1600 for a Chromebook Pixel LS because I knew it was great HW with Linux support. I have thousands set aside for a replacement laptop and I have problems with every single device, none of which are present on my two and a half years old Chromebook Pixel.

It runs a mainline kernel with full hardware support. It's the best for me.

Rumor has it, this new "Pixelbook" has a dev friendly keyboard (and checked the leaked shot... You can clearly tell it's not a standard Chromebook keyboard).

edit: I'd echo the comments about build quality. My average laptop life span is 12-18 months, yet I've been running this since it was released. This thing has put up with a lot, and looks like it could've come out of the box a week ago (save for a bright blemish in the screen from a foreign object in my bag, and the rubber strip being slightly ajar after adjusting the write protect screw).

Anyway, I'm not a fan of convertible laptops in general, but between the Linux support, great build quality, satisfaction with the 2015 model etc, I'll probably pick one up and see if I'm happy or want to just settle on the XPS 13.
Living in Baden-Württemberg is probably the reason. Green is the strongest party there (2016 30%). They are ahead of CDU (Merkels party) for two periods now.
> it's just a metaphor

But the author said, specifically "I’m actually making things better", which isn't true.
That seems reasonable if the goal is privacy, right?

I mean, even if they were literally proxying to anonymized Google results, wouldn't that cover the privacy benefit?
Bitcoin started as a social experiment. When we invested in it at the "5000btc/pizza" time, we did it because we wanted to try something new. Shake things up.

Most of us weren't driven by gain. The last bank crisis burnt everyone. The hackers did what hackers do: trying to find a workaround to this stupid bug. Build a POC for another paradigm.

In that sense, Bitcoin is a tremendous success.

Yes, it didn't become the alternative currency we hoped for, turning into a speculative mess. But boy, shake things up it did.

Bitcoin changed everything. The tech scene. How we perceive money and exchanging values. It opened a new door that will never close, a new paradigm that is changing the way we are living.

It's so new that we see dozens of alternatives, with variation, trying to be the new big things. It's so important people can't stop talking about it to the point it triggers a bubble. It's so influential a gigantic country such as China had to take measures to coerce it. And yet, it's just a piece of code...

Bitcoin was spot on.

Thanks for everybody that took, with all the little guys like me, the time, risk and resources to believe in it when nobody did. When we were mocked for trying. When we were doubting but having so much fun. It was a beautiful thing.

I'm glad to have now the feeling those kind of people will always be around, and that we can always try to build something. Can't wait for our next failure :)
Often, the application is supported, however the procuring organization has meanwhile opted out of maintenance in order to cut costs, which takes the updated releases out of reach.

Another scenario is, that the organization pays maintenance, new release supporting new OS is available, but upgrading both involves costs (in updating, migrating, documenting, testing), that the organization is not willing to take and just carries on with the old releases.
> Non-technical people benefit from the application-level firewall just as well as technical users.

This can't be right, as you yourself originally stated `for the non-technical persons in our company its near to impossible to identify "good" from "bad" connections.`.
> But in other ways it's become very clear to me, usually when I am forced to get out and be around people and suddenly realize how much I needed that kind of interaction, that my online communities are lacking in fundamental ways.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's realized this. I may not particularly like getting out at the time I decide I should, but I never regret it. I've been attempting to do it a little more often.
> I also think there are a lot of systems that people don't like because they never took the time to figure out how to use them.

This is 2017. If I need to "take my time to figure out how to use it", it is completely and utterly broken.
Although a Socialist (using this in the sense of lower-stage Communist, rather than as Marx used it as synonymous with Communism) market economy can be practicable, China does not have it - most notably because there is wage labour and private property is protected by the State. The State is also not in democratic control of the workers. These rule out China from being either a Socialist country or having a Socialist (market or not) economy.
I am running a , what would you call, reform micro school for the first four graders. Our biggest challenge as educators is that we really have no idea how the world at large will look like in 20-30 years and yet we need to prepare our kids for that (our answer is they need to love learning, the rest will follow). But assuming anything a hundred years out... may I borrow your crystal ball for a few minutes please? I have a few things I need to check.
A new all-electric and autonomous cargo ship is planned for operation in 2018
Build it and they will come? Why Britain's 1960s cycling revolution flopped
I disagree. Compare macOS today with the initial OS X release and it is fundamentally the same system both UI wise and code wise. Windows and even Linux has seen far more dramatic UI shifts in the same period. Same goes with the code. Windows went from win32 C API to C++ API with MFC and ATL. Then they promoted COM and Visual Basic development. Only to change gears and make C# with a completely different API. Then winforms gets depricated. We get silverlight, WPF and then there has even been more stuff in later years and I lose track. Compare this to macOS which ever since OSX has used almost exclusively objective-c and cocoa. Even now with swift you can use cocoa, and pretty much all apple technologies you allready knew. C# made redundant all previous win32 and VB skills. The introduction of Java, python, ruby and Go have not let you use any previous skills or libraries. In this regard Swift is an amazing accomplishment as you can reuse so much existing skills and code.
Pretty customizable and animated progress-bar component for React Native
Stipulating for the moment that that chart is a chart, the phenomenon you sited as causing the tulip mania would have had to travel backward in time at least a year in order to do it. Perhaps we should agree that that is not reasonable.

(I agree with your more important point that tulip mania and bitcoin are quite different)
Two words: Isaiah Thomas - Google it. I could have picked any height below 7 foot.

Also, I'm 6 foot and a 6 foot 5 person appears giant in comparison. So 6 5 to 7 is an even larger jump.
It seems to me, though, that this would eventually come up in conversation. Much of human discourse is centered around the concept of individuals' inner experiences.

The thought that someone who seems on the outside very similar to me could be completely missing the "inner experience of self" that I (think I) have certainly feels wrong-- it's deeply uncomfortable and rather frightening. Furthermore, espousing such an idea opens the door to those who would attempt to use it to discriminate (likely by applying existing bias with a flimsy illusion of accuracy).

This one doesn't have much use to me beyond tangential thought experiments. It can be cited to justify terrible things in the hands of bigots, and I suspect it's fairly easily invalidated for all practical purposes.
That would be getting causality backwards.
Even more reason to say "we can't deliver X because it'll cost Y and our budget won't allow for that" rather than "we'll pretend X actually costs Y/10 and defer the inevitable problem". Then politicians in the first year will consider that you have delivered X for a fraction of its actual cost, and thus setting the entire service up for failure in the future.
I paid ~800 for a Dell Chromebook 13 + SSD upgrade and am very happy with it though I might, in retrospect, get a XPS 13 developer edition instead. I am happy with it all the same.
Show HN: Customizable and animated progress-bar component for React Native
I am guessing it's because the clock ensures that the delay is always the same for all components but that also means a single clock cycle must takes as long as the slowest component. With an asynchronous design every component has a different delay but you still have to ensure that all input signals to a component arrive at roughly the same time.
> However, because of that pyrophoricity and that burning the result of using lots of DU shells on hardened armored targets is a lot of DU dust and vapor. Because Uranium is a toxic heavy metal this can have disastrous health effects.

Well, I imagine being hit by a tank round has so profoundly disastrous health effects anyway, the metal toxicity doesn't matter much!

(Yes, I know you probably meant adverse health effects for the people who wander into the area after the crew is killed, much like it happens with nukes, but still. The considerations are bizarre, like the article said)
From a user perspective, validated only by other engineer-friends, Snapchat is a pretty sketchy app.

The UX diverges from common design principles of both major mobile OS, making it feel awkward. The app slaughters batteries in Android phones, occasionally you can actually watch the % drop.

That's not to say it isn't popular, wildly so in younger users, Instagram just has more ad value because of its maturity (reportable metrics) and unbridled desire to be an ad platform.
Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?
I don't think it's the direct relationship of the news stories, but rather the general atmosphere of fear and dread. Where I remember being care free and adventurous as a teen, which translates into a less inhibited and more adventurous social life. I also didn't have hours of endless entertainment at my fingertips, just lame country town TV.
See? That's the problem. If you truly believe this lie "Catalonia had been a nation since before Spain" then you've decided to close your eyes to History, and there's nothing I can say to change your mind.
Actually governments walling the internet in, results in lots of smaller local alternatives due to protectionism.

Which might- if freedom is allowed to fluctuate- may result in competition. Look at chinas weechat
Small and midsized US cities desperately need a small (or large) urban planning revolution. Cars are considered the "default" too often, especially in cities under half a million in population. It's these cities in particular that need to have an increased focus on pedestrian and assisted walking infrastructure.
Using Google Timeline Data to Create Location Heatmaps
I would love to see Catalunya getting independence. Then as fresh country should make agreements with NATO and EU. So while without NATO umbrella Russia would attack and establish Novobarcelonia to protect it's oligarchs down there :D
Why gibberish? Slightly out of context, terribly worded, troll-account, no linked sources(laziness/sloppiness on my part), ad-hoc out of context pieces of seemingly unrelated not universally agreed-upon information stitched together - OK I see your point. Anyway, most importantly, you are right about the last part, to rewrite that post in a correct way would take hours with limited to no desired effect(the focus is moving fast on HN), sorry for this unfortunate compromise
Then explain me why the same arguments to separate Barcelona from Catalonia can't be applied to separate my house from Barcelona.
Google seems to be moving away from cheaper hardware, and moving it's products towards the "high end reference implementation" realm. The same thing happened with Android and the change from Nexus towards Pixel.

That doesn't have to be bad news for schools. Schools generally acquire their chromebooks from vendors like Dell and HP and Acer. These vendors will no doubt continue to build cheap systems with Chrome OS for the education market if there is demand.
You're describing how HSAs currently work. The discussion is healthcare reform, so limitations like that would go the way of the low maximum contributions if HSAs were redesigned to be used to pay for insurance.
QuteBrowser "is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI." https://qutebrowser.org/

You know you're onto something when the #1 documentation link is a key binding cheatsheet!
Compare to the rest of the operations your terminal do, it's crazy slow though.
The article isn't about creating a perfect rendering. It is about creating a reasonably convincing rendering in a limited amount of time. Here "reasonably convicing" should be interpreted relative to current computer game graphics, which is also rendered in a limited amount of time.
This happened to me, too.
Spanish police arrest Catalan officials over secession vote
..or working on dumb shit.
Serious question for HNers: Does anyone actually buy these for ChromeOS? Every time I hear these discussed it seems to center around what you can do with them that involves a new OS, either Windows or Linux. So is it really the product in demand or just the demand for hardware not bound down with a bundled OS License?
Hopefully $1099 will be spare change for me soon!
However, why can't someone get a cheaper laptop similar specs, perhaps worse design, just install linux on it?
Actually works well on Firefox 57 (soon to be released) as well :)

(And those on older versions can use VimFx until 57 is released.)
World literature is both a market reality and a global ideal
Cute bit of artwork at the beginning there. This is the picture they're making an homage to:

https://imgur.com/GHPkt3M
They also say they were able to generate $2k in 2 weeks with an avg of 2,000 users...
I view it more like the war on drugs. Cracking down on cocaine at it's source basically just increases the value thus price. If the mining slows, it will just mean there is more money in mining.
The misconceptions about DU in the media always irritate me. People hear "Uranium" and immediately start talking about radioactivity, but the D in DU should remind them that the whole point of DU is that it's significantly less radioactive than naturally occurring Uranium. I can find more radioactive rocks lying on the ground only a few hours drive from where I live.

DU, considered as a radioactive substance, has low radioactivity and low biological half-life. From that narrow point of view, it's really quite innocuous.

Uranium is, however, a reactive heavy metal, and breathing those as dust has never been good for you, whatever the metal (as those downwind of industrial plants with poor environmental oversight will be happy to tell you.)
I would prefer spherical elephants and mosquitos
By the time I'd realised my mistake I couldn't delete or edit the comment.
Do you consider the difference between a mosquito and a goose to be "almost irrelevant"?
Are there any technologies that are an alternative to GraphQL like Vue is to React?
This is a common misconception, VS2017 doesn't ship with the .Net Core SDK, you need to manually install it seperatly. This is also described in the Book:
https://nbarbettini.gitbooks.io/little-asp-net-core-book/con...
nearly 85 percent smartphone app time concentrated top five apps

https://marketingland.com/nearly-85-percent-smartphone-app-t...
Hydrogen fuel cells use about 3x the electric energy vs. battery powered cars, if you create hydrogen via hydrolysis. It is not only the energy used for creating the hydrogen, but also the compression and transport of the hydrogen is using a lot of energy.
not surprised... Spanish style
Same here, trying to avoid it as much as possible Google now mainly has my email and calendar. I feel like there should be a better option for calendar but I haven't been able to find it yet (probably because I use DDG :P), but sadly, the only thing with a better interface than Gmail is Google Inbox, so...
I replaced my water heater last spring and when the inspector came out to check the work, it was pretty much just inconvenient. I didn't have any murderous impulses.
Obligatory quibble: Java and Lisp take care of memory safety issues, but not thread safety issues.
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> If Google has discontinued the cheap Chromebooks

There were three Google Chromebooks: Cr48, Pixel (2013), Pixel (2015). The first had no retail price, the others weren't cheap.

The cheap Chromebooks for edu etc are built and maintained with significant effort by Google (see commit authors across the Chromium OS project), but they're not "Google devices" but devices from Samsung/HP/Acer/Asus/Lenovo/...
>>Additionally, people can opt not to participate with an insurance company (or at least they used to be able to), so they have some motivation to be efficient and provide a basically decent level of service.

You have the same backwards concept of Healthcare as everyone else who is rich; it's only for me. Healthcare is for everyone, it is a right. It is not a privilege that you only get if you can afford it. Health insurance is THE PROBLEM.

If you don't have car insurance, you might be financially strained. If you don't have flood/fire insurance, you could loose your stuff. If you don't have health insurance (in this country) you could die. If you think these things are the same, there is no hope.
...and undermining journalism.
I think we can take it to mean that more competition would lead to even less individual accountability for results.

But perhaps if there was a parliamentary system where one party wins leadership, then they would have to take the blame for bad results.
Most Catalans seem to be unaware of the financial consequences that independence would entail:

Since all banks today work with fractional reserve banking, banks in Catalonia depend on the European Central Bank to keep their ATMs running. If Catalonia became an independent country and the ECB decided to cut Catalonia out the Eurozone, the corralito scenes in Catalonia will resemble those we have seen before in Cyprus and Greece.
HTC will announce something big tomorrow
yes

the second one is doomed
https://youtu.be/E3LtFrMAvQ4?t=169 looks good, but it looks nothing like real-life footage. If you were to walk through a real house that looked like that and film with your phone, you'd wind up with a shockingly different video.

That's the problem talking about stuff like this. These renderings are all amazing -- they're the best of the best. But we're talking about realism indistinguishable from a camcorder, which is simply impossible given our current technology. (After all, we haven't figured out any techniques to do it.) So it's not enough that it looks pretty good: if you set up side-by-side footage with a real-life scene, viewers would immediately identify the real footage.