skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wow, the 2015 Pixel LS still go for >1000$ on ebay!

Might have to do with it being discontinued yet still a great piece of hardware.

> once the internal battery runs out, the device is bricked and has to be reflashed with ChromeOS.

Pixel 2015 does not have this problem (unlike the 1st gen one) - that was confirmed at some point on it's forum by one of the googlers involved in the project.
So you'd have us call out every metaphor, turn of phrase, expression, hyperbole, etc., because it's imprecise or ambiguous?
> Yielding to pedestrians, like you said, is an element of infrastructure, and it's cheap as hell to change attitudes about it.

I suppose it's an attitude that is cheap to maintain, if it is already common. But I don't know how to change into that system in a place that does not have it already. Teach it in driving schools and wait for old drivers to die?
Why would this be related to abortion? I don't see anything in the article mentioning human embryos, only newborns...
Apache bug leaks contents of server memory for all to see–Patch now
> If I ever"upgrade" my car audio, I'm going back to an old-school style unit, with an aux plugin.

Last week at lunch, we were lamenting the disappearance of headphone jacks from phones. We speculated that a Bluetooth-to-jack adapter would be a popular accessory, letting people keep their old headphones for use with their latest media players. I'd wager there's a whole class of products that might fit here, for example a set of old-fashioned analog knobs backed by Bluetooth or some other interface to the players, as an alternative for those who feel more comfortable - or safer - with the old gear.
Ah, I misread the article.
Not almost, there are whooping 48 or 49 naturalized Chinese citizens who got citizenship through means other than marriage since the naturalization law was introduced 1998
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> When authors in the philosophy of mind stops rehashing ideas that could and most likely have occurred to 17th century philosophers for the sake of attaching their names to a publication, then it will see some progress.

I doubt people involved in philosophy of the mind will ever be useful here. If one keeps up to date on neuroscience, they'll see a lot of progress being made, but none of it is coming from the "philosophy of the mind" people. Not only that, but the "philosophy of the mind" people don't even seem to be aware of much of what's happening in neuroscience.

There seems to be a certain "God of the gaps" aspect to how philosophy approaches science, where people pretend that philosophy is fundamental approach to a field which is working on a particularly large and difficult problem. So you see that philosophers often approach things like the human mind and quantum theory quite different from how they approach chemistry or non-mind physiology.
Related (still just getting started?): https://otter-browser.org/

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

source: NetRunner: a web browser catering to powerusers | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000253 (Aug 2017)

> urlwolf: Otter browser is pretty fantastic. Use the weekly for the best results.
> Those that value what the Chromebook offers over what a regular laptop with Linux does.

And what does Chromebook offers?

> For many also $1099 is spare change -- at least when considering what computer they can buy.

You mean it's an expensive gadget for rich hipsters to use as a vulgar display of wealth? that's what Chromebook offers over a regular laptop? then by all means...
I've recently given the Ketogenic diet a try. One of the things I was reading is that Keto-ers are generally pretty low on magnesium and may need to take supplements. I wonder if the lack of magnesium in the diet explains the so-called "keto flu."
The author said 3 different things in their comment. I was answering this:

"The point [..] isn't about disk savings as much as minimizing dependencies and surface area of attacks such as for glibc, bash, and OpenSSL in the past several years."

Technically they didn't say specifically how they would minimize surface area of attacks, so my assumption that they meant only by minimizing dependencies (seeing as their comment was followed by a list of dependencies) may have been faulty. Thanks for letting me know that in such a kind way.
My insurer covers about 1% of the country. It's a private non-profit. There are lots of others.

Of course they pay lots of compensation to people that work there, but the members are effectively disinterested shareholders.
I'd encourage anyone to examine their conscience, read about the viability of babies born prematurely, and consider that even post-birth a baby is not self-sufficient. We don't have good criteria for what makes something alive or conscious, yet many draw an arbitrary line at birth.

I'm not looking to continue this discussion, but I'm glad you're thinking about this.
This is good news for Bitcoin. They are holding the executives so they can apologize and issue them licenses.

/s
Maybe this is TMI, but anyone wanting to try magnesium needs to ramp up their dose, as a sudden intake of magnesium supplement is likely to cause you to evacuate your colon in glorious fashion...
A properly done and code-compliant residential rooftop solar install is non-trivial for many DIYers. I do lots of things around my house but a rooftop solar install is something I'd definitely hire an experienced and insured contractor for.
the lights start the moment there is attraction between 2 people..
I wrote a different reply to your post, but on replection you and I think vim is a different thing.

For me, vim is not my editor - It is a plugin that I install into all of my editors/ides (emacs, visual studio, etc.) so that the keybindings are familar and all of the normal tools (regex, macros, multiple clipboards) all work the same way.
Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?
I'm interested in the opinion of React Native from companies who chose to build their mobile apps with React Native and have been doing so for at least a year. RN passes the first-week smell test really well. How has it held up for you in production? How has it held up for dev teams of ~10 or more? Pros and cons?

I run a mobile team of ~30 folks. In 2015 we experimented with RN for 3 months before deciding that it was not a good fit for us. I'm interested in stories from the alternate reality where we took the react-native path instead.

I'm NOT particularly interested in stories about single devs making prototypes for a weekend. React Native has a delightful experience for this use-case, but it does not directly transfer to being a good experience for a larger team with serious product goals.

Thanks
If you'd like to go by searches rather than visits:

At DuckDuckGo we are averaging roughly 17 million searches a day right now (duckduckgo.com/traffic.html)

Google says they did 2 trillion searches last year[1], and while usually their search metrics include Youtube, Google Maps and Gmail queries let's assume it was all searches. That'd be roughly 5.5 billion searches a day.

So now we're talking ~1/322 or just shy of 40lbs. That's roughly the size of a Hamadryas baboon or about 22 Mallard ducks - not a bad little flock! :)

Disclaimer: DDG staff. Opinions are my own. No animals were harmed in the poor construction of this analogy.

[1]http://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trillio...
I'm not an anarchist, but I do think that the everyday person (especially in third-world countries) could use an escape hatch from the global economy, and it just so happens that Bitcoin fills that role perfectly.

Governments will always be able to tax people and they can tax them in whatever currency they want. This requires people to use their currency. So I don't think that Bitcoin poses any real threat to the powers that be except in harsh circumstances like Venezuela. In some situations, Bitcoin and other cryptos can actually help the government gain power, like in Palestine's situation.
> This belittles their and anyone else's bash scripts for git as 'toys'.

They often make great toys in the sense that toys are fun but it's harder to build robust things in bash scripts.

Robustness may not matter (e.g. I have tonnes of scripts I use for doing work) but if you're generating HTML for a website and are worried about escaping and security then I think there are more suitable tools.

> Big shell pipelines are actually blazingly fast, since each command in the pipeline runs in parallel.

It's also possible to do that in programming languages (maybe not as succiently.)

But where bash scripts fall down is the constant re-parsing of text, data has to be passed through the kernel, and extra processes (when you use xargs, which tends to happen for complicated tasks.) This adds up super quick.

I've replaced reasonable (i.e. weren't badly mishandling the data) shell scripts that procesed and formatted the output of git utilities (on large repos) and in one case shrunk a background job from 5 minutes to a few seconds. This is common.

> Casting bash as the insane bad language

I never said that. I said it was great for prototyping. It is bad for the task FTA, though.

> I would struggle to justify the work I'd need to do to write the equivalent in C

I didn't recommend C (I did link to some Go stuff, though.) Unless your company is all bash scripts (heaven forbid) you're probably already using some language. C# at my work. PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, whatever.
It does every time you send an email to someone with a gmail address ;-)

I also agree that Fastmail is great.
Some .io nameservers are returning wrong results again
At my company (getstream.io) we've been having issues when resolving our domains randomly. After some more investigation it seems some .io nameservers are returning bad results. Specifically ns-a2.io and ns-a4.io. A correct result for crates.io looks like this:

$ dig crates.io @ns-a1.io +norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> crates.io @ns-a1.io +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18874
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3,
ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;crates.io.	IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
crates.io.	86400	IN	NS	dns3.easydns.ca.
crates.io.	86400	IN	NS	dns1.easydns.com.
crates.io.	86400	IN	NS	dns2.easydns.net.

;; Query time: 83 msec
;; SERVER: 194.0.1.1#53(194.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 20 15:33:13 CEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127

A bad one looks like the following:

dig crates.io @ns-a4.io +norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> crates.io @ns-a4.io +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43223
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1,
ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;crates.io.	IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
io.	900	IN	SOA	a0.nic.io. noc.afilias-nst.info. 1497256201 10800 3600 2764800 900

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 74.116.179.1#53(74.116.179.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 20 15:34:59 CEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105

This has happened last year as well, so I wouldn't recommend running something important on a .io domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12813065
I think this is exactly what I am saying. There are companies using React that are much larger than anyone who is worried about this, and they don’t seem phased by it. That has to mean something.
That's strange. Here in Germany it works out quite well. Sure, we do have two large parties as well (SPD and CDU), but there are several smaller parties which do have significant results, and hence significant influence.

The classic example was the smaller party FDP some decades ago. Although SPD and CDU each had many more seats than FDP, both needed the FDP to have more than 50% of the seats. So whoever the FDP joined with, that party became part of the government, while the other became opposition. Some people even subjected that this was too much power/influence for such a small party. (Then, more smaller parties received a significant amount of votes, and things became even more complicated, but also more interesting!)
How is it that git still doesn't have machine readable output built in?
Your needs a few years ago, or your needs now? As benbenhu says, it has gotten a lot better. Lately I've found that when DDG doesn't have the thing I want and I stick the !g in, Google doesn't necessarily do any better, which implies that it's just a hard search.
You can not distinguish ideas from material reality. That is sensory perception, and your ideas that result are basically the accumulation of material structures, or simply knowledge. So ideas are not anything more than the knowledge that you have which interprets, and reinterprets the sensory perception.
I think it adds a lot. Comparing an elephant and a mosquito makes it seem like the mosquito is almost non-existent. A goose compared to an elephant is much more significant. A goose can stand up to an elephant. [1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CURzgw60bFY
Ahhh, back when XKCD was funny...
I'm aware but it's complete crap at the moment.
A user can actually reach out and grab the graph and scale/position it to their preferences. You can actually walk/fly through your visualizations and get intimate with each data point.

Re: second question, I'm unsure, but I'll ask the team for some stress tests.
Not OP, but maybe can help:

1. I can definitely see its future in drivers, filesystems, codecs (areas where both performance and correctness is required).

2.

+ Rust has fantastic error handling. No null pointers. Mandatory error checking, but with very light syntax.

+ Dependencies and modularization in Rust are soooo much easier than in C.

+ You never have to write `free()` again.

+ Thread-safety can be guaranteed at compile time.

- Significant learning curve. You need to "get" Rust's ownership approach before you even manage to compile a non-trivial program.

- It's still "new", so it may be hard to convince people to use it. C is 45 years old, so it seems like a safe bet (it has flaws, but the flaws are well-known).

3. What Rust calls "unsafe" is what all of C is, so it's never worse than C. The idea is that you carefully implement these structures using raw ("unsafe") pointers, and wrap them in a safe Rust API. This way you need get it right once, and rest of the code doesn't have to worry about breaking things.
I've noticed this trend as well, and it's accelerating fast. It's an unsolicited popup asking premission to send more popups. Thus I decided to completely turn off the notifications feature in my Chrome.
To people tempted by the Pixelbook, why not by a Macbook for that price? instead of getting a machine which OS basically amounts to a browser forcing you into google cloud services? You're basically paying a premium to get data-mined... And MacOS runs Chrome so I don't see the big deal here.
The garage science behind tasers
I think its pretty clear that there is no "moral right" (as if such a think even exists) about that, but we need to continue advocating others about how artificial such restrictions are. I know people who genuinely think its just not technically possible to play 4K Netflix video on Firefox while the reality is that its just an artificial restriction. And if people don't oppose that, its going to get more universal. It sucks that instead of software empowering users, we're really just moving backwards.
> merit-based immigration

Isn't this what the green card system already is?
That ignores that those ramps are used by more than just people in wheelchairs. Folks with children in strollers, elderly with walkers, people with suitcases, ...

My wife broke her ankle this summer and we spent 2 months with her rolling around with a knee scooter, it was interesting to see the number of sidewalks without ramps is larger issue then I expected.

It doesn't seem like it should be a huge expense to add one in the grand scheme of things and seems way more flexible than adapting everyone with varying needs with some sort of device. Also, given this isn't a new problem it seems like it might be possible that building wheelchairs that can go up stairs and be practical might not be as simple of a project as many here seem to believe.
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Magnesium isn't good just for stress reduction, it is also great for sleep and relaxation. It also stimulates sex drive. Another wonder mineral is Calcium which can relieve back pains. When I take a combo of Ca+Mg I feel like I am 10 years younger.
Not as fond of the build quality on this new Pixel.

The original Chromebook Pixel and Pixel LS is probably my favorite design of any laptop--the aluminum body was gorgeous, and the rectangular "slab" look that did not taper off was distinctly unique and not Macbook-derivative.

The new one looks like it has a glass back (?) similar to the Pixel phone.
You should still be rather careful with this, as they have access to the same kernel as the host, and could potentially jailbreak through kernel vulnerabilities.
I used to use ddg, then startpage, but I've been using a self-hosted searx for a while now. It's a meta-search engine that scrapes other sites. Results are always great, and it's nice being able to enable specific engines for different sites. Check it out: https://searx.me
Wow. It is a hustler company.
Quantum mechanics is a very well established theory, and quantum computing is squarely within its orthodox predictions.

If quantum computing turns out to be impossible, and not just because engineering is hard, that would need a great and exciting new theory. Perhaps more exciting than quantum computing would have been.
>A technical white paper that doesn't bs with buzzwords

You mean like this? http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

I hope this shows you that I am very serious about the "idea".

But is there even a mechanism here?

---------------------------------

My issue with ICO's is that there is neither a mechanism (in fact it's explicitly barred by law) or even an expectation for a company that executes and becomes profitable, to "repay" the people who bought into the ICO, by repurchasing at a multiple.

In other words, if you raise $1 million on coins, the expectation is that if you use it to become a profitable company, you will not rebuy any of those coins.

In financial terms here is what is going on when you raise money for a white paper using an ICO.

You're in two markets: you're in the market of selling collectible, limited-edition playing cards with cool branding. Theoretically you don't really care about the market for them, because selling playing cards isn't the business you're "really" in. The cards don't represent shares in your company. They just happened to be called Virtual Shares Collectible Playing Cards. And you sell them because you're trying to raise money. The "cooler" your white paper, the cooler the cards. The "real" business is just branding for the collectible cards. But what happens later to the cards has no relation to your white paper / real business. They're separate entities.

Separately, you use whatever funds raised, to fund whatever you wrote about in your white paper. There is no promised or expected flow back from the second to the first thing.

It is literally illegal to do an ICO and say that if you become a profitable business, you will repurchase the coins at a 4x multiple to their ICO price. That is illegal.

So while selling collectible playing cards by branding them with a really cool white paper might be a great way to raise money -- and who knows, the market for them might stay strong for a long time -- it really has nothing to do with the financials of the business you use those funds for.

someone correct me if I'm wrong. where is the flow back from a successful business to the coins? They don't represent ownership. The business isn't rebuying them.

What does the success of the business have to do with the coins they're branding? Nothing, right?
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Magnesium Phosphate enemas: the gold standard in "explosive" laxatives.
Just installed it on my Android now, after seeing your comment. It seems to have no tab support, i.e. you can only have one web page open at a time, is that right, or am I missing something? Tried menu at bottom left (hardware) and top right (browser menu).
and yet such 'great thinkers' are quick to 'not build upon the work' of religious thinkers throughout the ages, despite the fact that at this level, these topics lie solely in the realm of philosophy..
>this is a ratio of 2000:1.

In which case he would actually have been generous to DuckDuckGo while not being wrong by orders of magnitude.

Conclusion: OP meant linear size, not mass. He could have stated it explicitly though, because one would naturally think that he was referring to mass.
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Consider this ES6 program: (function(){let x=0; let f=()=>{x=1}; f(); console.log(x);})()

Is x a "global mutable state" variable? If the above is the entirety of the program, then essentially yes. If you say "no, x is not global mutable state", then "global mutable state" is pretty meaningless in JS, since any script can be wrapped like above.
I think the keto flu is more due to being in a state of low blood sugar and inability for your body to deal with the change in fuel supply rather than mineral/vitamin deficiency. You could quickly shock your body by not eating for a day and working out hard to speed right by a prolonged keto flu
But I didn't express loathing. I criticized the article, for an audience of peers who understand the criticism. I'm not trying to "shape public perception".

There's a time and venue for shaping public perception. But not every thought we express has to be directed as if addressing the readership of The Guardian. We need to preserve free and frank discussion among experts.

"Losing and cannot cope"... jesus, lighten up. I'm not trying to win one for our side. Just having a discussion among peers.
I agree somewhat here. My car has volume controls and station changer on the backside of the wheel, along with knobs for the volume. I have knobs and or an up/down arrow for temperature adjustment.(Depending on the car I'm driving.) Ironically Navigation is completely touch screen, which is dangerous. I tend to use my phone if I need directions, because the car system is cumbersom.
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Not sure which county you are in, but here in Georgia in the metro area where I live side walks are mandatory in new subdivisions and they all are accessible from street level and if not there then from each driveway they pass through. we also get sidewalks in with a certain range of all schools and that is done if the road is repaved or changed.

there are still a lot of opportunities for more but even the silver comet trail is mostly accessible from where I have used it (that is a very long and convoluted trail system built upon old rail lines).

the state even has a great guidebook for pedestrian planning, see http://www.dot.ga.gov/DriveSmart/Travel/Documents/ga_ped_gui...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy

It wasn't named with political correctness in mind; but the naming makes sense from a technical point of view.
> The fact that your brain's executive network are unaware of the workings of "autonomous" activities does not indicate that those activities lack consciousness.

I'm lost. To me it means those activities lack consciousness. It's also the opinion stated in Jaynes' book, which was mentioned by user breckinloggins.

It's not the same as me being unaware of your consciousness. Your consciousness is foreign to me. It's always impossible for me to perceive it. My own consciousness is internal and I can perceive it. You may argue there are some activities of my own consciousness that I cannot perceive -- it's debatable, but we can discuss it -- but arguing about your consciousness from my perspective does not apply.
You can use a polyfill.