skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you all the way!

I hear people talk about optimizing one's day to be more productive and "get more done in your day" so often...but honestly, between work, family responsibilities, working out a little in the gym, getting involved in side projects (either "working on the car", or working on side dev project), maybe some civic community involvement, social visits (the occasional beer with a buddy), etc...it just feels like something has to give...and in my case, its the number of hours of sleep.

Perhaps i'm naive or too idealistic, but will the coming hordes of robots and associated automation help society by giving us all more time to ourselves - either for more/appropriate hours of sleep, or to spend on the activities i noted above? Or...maybe society - or should i say our capitalistic society - will "see" the unused bandwidth of our days made available by these robots, and insert more commitments to "fill our days"?

Sorry, i didn't get enough sleep last night, so am a little cranky. ;-)
Dunning-Kruger is another lazy meme.
I don't follow him too closely, actually, so I wouldn't have the articles handy. But as I recall the WP for him was pretty thick with references as to the details of his various gigs.
Easy to buy, if you live in a state that allows them, pay the $200 tax, and have a chief of police that likes you.

Even the UK, totalitarian shithole that it is, doesn't regulate them.
You're really asking why overpriced wireless devices with mediocre to atrocious battery life and substandard audio quality are not a sufficient replacement for devices you can literally buy in any convenience store around the world for tens of dollars? There is room for a headphone jack in these phones (video below). The only reason they removed them when they did is to push accessory sales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
I think you are looking at their revenue figures. Look on page 40. 87% of the EBT are from QTL. Despite being a small portion of its revenue the Licensing business is a large majority of their profits.
VCs invest in monopolies, not commoditization.
It took me about two seconds to create a new repository with Keybase and clone it to my computer, so I'm pretty impressed so far.

Thanks for the info about git-remote-dropbox and the potential failure modes of going without, even if they don't all apply to the way I've been doing things. It's still not ideal, so here's hoping Keybase makes it obsolete. If not, I'll keep git-remote-dropbox in mind.
For typical iOS development using Swift/Objective-C yes, you will need an Apple machine. Some people are using VMs instead but the experience is (usually) terrible. There are also cloud services where you can rent a macOS VPS, I never tried this approach.
Ugh. For me, that's when arcades were no longer fun. Every game was a fighting game, and there was no skill involved - only memorizing combinations of buttons to press. (How is that fun?) Furthermore, no levels to explore, no secrets to find. Just non-stop mindless punching and kicking.
I just go over to their houses or invite them over to mine. I've kept up with many of my Google friends, and we usually hang out over homemade pizza every 2 weeks. There are others where I go to their parties or other events or just invite them out for dinner every couple months.

Even in the most company-townish scenarios, I can't really see a company forbidding you from leaving the premises. If you wanna stay friends with a Googler, just invite them over.
I won't, but I also don't want this regression to catch on and propagate.
That might work for the OP or someone who is capable of earning enough to set up systems to make a passive income.

But that's not a global solution to the problem. We can't all be lazy rent seeking drains on society.
then use another type of connector for headphones. aux does not have to be the only connector forever. what makes this so special that it is the only connector that people refuse to upgrade? EVERY OTHER CONNECTOR has gone through improvements. new USB standards. new video. everything. why is this any different?
We have a bunch of work that requires large, process heavy, calculations, so yes, vendor lock-in is a concern for us as it can mean either huge cost increases, if the vendor changes pricing for the required instances upwards, or huge savings if a competitor can do the same computations for less. We solve this problem by making sure we can trash servers and spin them up elsewhere if needs be (mostly via terraform etc).

I don't think this should apply to anyone running some hosts for web applications though.
it's a convertible tablet. they all have huge bezels, because that's where you put your thumbs.
David Heinemeier Hansson and the Basecamp guys would disagree :)
The entire serie is worth reading.
I've never actually seen it spelled out before. I've heard people use the term, and I assumed you'd say that you were going to "mic" it out.
I'm willing to bet crouton runs on it out of the box so you can get a dev environment up fast.
For me it was the same. Using ESC is really ergonomically awkward for me. There are also people using Ctrl-C (which works by default) - but I prefer the 'jj' or similar method.

It's also useful to use Bash in vim-mode and also remap the esc-key, e.g.

set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi

$if mode=vi
set keymap vi-insert
"jj": vi-movement-mode
$endif

Something like this - you can then search Bash history via '/', etc.
No one is being searched by border patrol who hasn't actually crossed a border. There's no need for anyone to get relief.

There is no reason to be alarmist.
If I go to Denny's and order a coffee, the waitress pours the coffee and stops by every so often to refill it. They get a $1 tip.

If I go to that same Denny's and order 4 Grand Slams, the waitress waits on the cooks, and then makes one trip to my table. They get a much higher tip for less work.
Seems like this would definitely have a place in a lot of people's lives: it makes photography natural, easy, and simple. It solves the problem of spending time processing and pruning photos, in an age when most people take photos by pressing the shutter button 20 times and praying. However, I think the target audience for this thing would pass at $250, especially when the single most important selling point on smartphones is the camera.

This is part of the manifestation of Google's big bet on hardware; the same way they used to put out tons of shitty software just to see what stuck, now they will do the same with hardware. Luckily, hardware breaks, so it will be less painful when your camera dies and is discontinued than when Google pulls the plug on their dead services with little ceremony or redress.
From the study:

> Here, we demonstrate that functional magnetic resonance imaging activity patterns in the amygdala and hippocampus induced by the inequity between the self and other rewards during an economic game can predict participants’ present and future (measured one year later) depression indices.

This seems to suggest that the headline is not terribly inaccurate with respect to the study itself, at least. Unselfishness (sensitivity to economic inequality) predicts markers for depression.
I use the apple Smart keyboard (I would only use the screen in a pinch).
That can happen, but typically you're not keeping state around for huge periods of time (though you can if you want), it's just a convenience while you rapidly iterate on the design of the code. Once you've got code that seems to hang together well, it's time to start thinking about what the right way to instantiate the objects, to consistently bring them to a correct state. Unit tests are useful for this, and with a brief (ab)use of a global variable, you can often make the tests run against your hand-made object, and verify that the test results are the same as when testing a properly instantiated object. After that you can dispense with your hand-made instance.

Somewhat related, you can use unit tests of as-yet unimplemented functionality as a jumping-off point for live-coding your way towards the right implementation, with the debugger acting as a combined code editor and REPL (since the formal parameter names in the code will have real, evaluatable values behind them - as supplied by the test case).

Were I a major Test Driven Development adherent, I might claim that this is the non-cargo-cult way of doing TDD.
I actually had a similar device called Narrative which went down some months ago. It was weird having a camera all day and when I did want to go back and check a specific moment the photo was almost always blurry. I did use it to create time lapses and that was pretty neat because of the small size of the device.

Link for the curious:
http://getnarrative.com
Google hardware efforts make me cringe. How can they be so tone-deaf?
Why creating something that pretends to help you creatively while actually flattening all the differences, nuances and creative glitches or imperfections down to a uniformed stylistic template?
Seriously, I don't get it.
The title is too clickbaity to resist
I dont know why anyone would buy this unless the pen drawing experience is a lot better than on the Surface Pro and Ipad Pro and you're primarily an artist.
The Surface Pro has a real OS with Windows on it, I'm sure somebody will hack the Pixelbook to allow Linux but it will probably have a bunch of stuff removed and unsupported then.
It makes zero sense to buy this locked down device for 1k as far as I'm concerned.
Snapdragon 835 instead of 821, 64GB base instead of 32GB, OLED w/ always-on display instead of IPS
“Machine Learning with Go” Released
That's why I said "coal and nuclear industries" rather than electric utilities. Even if the generators aren't making money from increased output someone still needs to mine the minerals that power those plants. While I agree that those technologies are not viable in the long term, in the short term their interests (staying in business a few more years) align with the long term interests of the environmentalists (who want to decouple transportation from fossil fuels which is impossible with ICEs).
I really wish Microsoft had used a different platform to build VS code on, like C#/Mono, Java, anything except Javascript/Electron basically. I just started using VS code for C++ development, trying to switch from Vim, an I basically like everything about the concept, but the execution and quality/polish of the software is mediocre at best. At least three times a day random stuff breaks: code completion stops working, switching between header/source (using a plugin) stops working, all keyboard input except shortcuts stops working, Vim plugin acting up, the app randomly starts to use 40% cpu until I kill it etc. On top of that performance is just so-so for most things (editing, autocomplete), and quite slow for others (e.g. gotoSymbol for the whole project). This was very disappointing for me to find out considering all the praise VS code gets for being ‘probably the best Electron app’.

I don’t mean this as a flame, but the software just feels like all the other applications I tried that are based on web technology. If it works everything is fine, but if you stress the application enough, inevitably things start to fail in ways that suggest it was simply too difficult to properly QA and test the thing to the point it doesn’t hit some weird platform edge case. I sincerely think the product itself is awesome, apparently that’s enough for people to put up with the shoddy stability and general sense of quality?

Maybe there are other reasons and the platform is not actually the problem, but I find it remarkable that something as advanced as VS code fails in similar ways my own web-based projects usually fail.

And now I read they are going to implement their own console rendering using HTML canvas, because the obvious ways to implement it when you are stuck with a Electron have major shortcomings... Somehow I just feel Microsoft with all their talent and resources could have made an even more impressive product if they had made the exact same thing based on some other platform...
and Apple agreed to pay Qualcomm's FRAND rates, didn't it? Like Apple's 30% cut known to the public, Qualcomm's FRAND licensing rates are published time to time and Apple agreed to abide by it.

Apple pays according to the article about $10 per device, or 1.33% of the retail price. This is far below what Qualcomm is charging, 3% to 5%, and what most handset makers pay. Further the royalty Apple pays (indirectly) is based on Apple's manufacturer's build cost, not retail cost.
I'm glad GVim works well for you in windows.

Personally I like the simplicity of characters-in-characters-out that comes with working with vim in a terminal. I also like to be able to exit to bash and do redirection trickery on my recently saved files. For these reasons, I avoid GVim.

MSYS2 (which uses MinTTY for its terminal) is what I use, and as far as I've noticed it supports all the bells and whistles that the windows terminal lacks.
I don't think the title represents the content very well. "Gun control" is a rather broad topic and her research is clearly narrowly focused on item-specific sales restrictions.

Personally I'm a proponent of mandatory gun insurance and owner liability. This would align incentives to reduce gun violence: safe storage, less lethal rounds & weapons, mental health checks, trainings, age-tied pricing, etc.

It won't stop all gun violence, but nothing short of a constitutional amendment can even get us close to stopping all gun violence.
The risk is not limited to online. And the use is most definitely not limited to online.
Another idea: legalize fraud in the narrow case of selling fake endangered animal parts. Let a big corporation manufacture fake ivory at scale, and mail it to whomever wants to try to pass it off as the real thing.
The source here isn't their core?

https://github.com/sifive/freedom
I wish Google would do a mid range Pixel, or call it something else if they want, just something like a follow up to the 5x.
There's a huge market for Gopro and Contour. Makes sense that Google will attempt to capture some of it.
It's a direct vs indirect measure, and can be directly compared between sites (regardless of capacity factor). It also more directly represents costs.

The general problem is common in metrics and assessments.
This landing page is incredibly laggy on my mid 2015 Retina MBPRO, scrolling is super annoying.
Nexus 5X owner. I won't buy one of these due to lack of aux output, and I'm not in "the industry".
> The audio quality drop is noticeable to me.

I'm not going to get into an audiophile/golden ear flamewar, but I am always skeptical of this claim. Yes, SBC is not the world's best, but it supports bitrates upto 500 kbit/s. I'm not going to claim it is completely transparent, but 9 times out of 10 it is being used with shitty bluetooth headphones (where the alternative is shitty wired headphones)... at that point the quality of the headphones (wired or not) has far more to do with the audio quality than anything.

And yes, I doubt most people will notice an audio quality drop in a pair of high quality Sennheisers going from wired to SBC (there isn't convincing evidence that aptX is much better than SBC). I wouldn't be too surprised about a conflicting experimental result, but skeptical for now. Anyway, most people are not hooking up high quality headphones to their phone, or they are purposefully using phones tuned for a particular lo-fi response (Beats)... who cares about whatever SBC does at 350 kbit/s at that point.

Edit: And walking down the street is hardly a hi-fi listening environment.
There is a clear difference between using iCloud (which is opt-in) with geotagged photos (which you can disable from on-phone settings), and your phone sending your location to Google at regular intervals.
As a Chromebook user for almost a year now (since December 2016, using a pixel 2 LS) I can't be more excited about a computer like this. My only regret on my current computer has been not been able to use containers properly (i used rkt and not docker) because of kernel restrictions but now this should be solved with ChromeOS kvm support.

Imagine the performance of being able to run Android apps thought for much less powerful processors(Mediatek ARMs) in an i7 chip. While on the Mac you are using chromified version of the webapps (electron) which eat all the RAM.

Also a lot of android apps are very innovative versions of desktop computer ones ( for example adobe ideas, now Illustrator) That you are not able to run on a Mac.

The filesystem perfectly integrated with the cloud is another advantage.

In addition, Chrome OS is as simplified as a phone, which removes much of the legacy complexity in current OS.

And in case you are missing anything, the project crouton allows you to run a fully functional linux system. (Now probably even better thanks to the KVM+ wayland integration support https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...)

I total win for me
Also media attention. Places like toms hardware seem to drool over 'flagship' phones such as the Fire Phone, Essential Phone, etc.

Google Home and Nest devices are also over expensive and over designed. I mean, Johnson Controls has been making smart thermostats for 30 years!

The trouble with that strategy is there is just one company that seems to profit from expensive and overdesigned hardware and we know who that is.
YouTube Has a YouTube Problem (The Jimquisition) [strong language]
I am pretty sure if we wouldn't have this instinct to survive, reflexes etc., lot of people would op out. Btw the ultimate ignorance is not death, but the act of killing yourself
Python 3.6.3
But assigning yourself to be the arbiter of who is or isn't "important" enough to "deserve" an extended lifespan isn't ego-driven?

I realize I'm not important. My opinion that ultimately no individual is especially important is not based out of ego but a recognition that there's been like 10 billion of us and there will be more. But if you want it, have at it; maybe just consider why you want it.

If you're going to let your own mood be dictated by the never-ending stream of terrible things in the world, I'd be surprised if you could make it through even a a normal lifetime. There's a lot of wonderful things in the world too. Why ignore those?

That's what keeps me going.
Apple ‘acqui-hired’ the team from messaging assistant Init.ai to work on Siri
Something is seriously wrong with your setup. I know many vscode users, and none of them are having your problems.

I'm not saying you aren't having real problems, but they aren't common and they can appear in any editor -- I used to fill vim with plugins and it would hang frequently.
Maybe this is about China or young elephants.

Every one of us continues to be cruel and complicit, multiple times a day in the the torture and killing of several living beings.

There are a few degrees of seperation from the actual act but each of us, personally, are the direct reason it happens to a specific other living being.

Look inside you and at your life before you judge others. For cruelty isn't just what is in sight.
I don't think the consumer cares about such duplication (indirectly, they will, if it makes the headphones cost more, though I think that cost will go down over time).

An advantage I didn't mention in my original comment is: getting rid of cables. Personally, I hate headphone cables. They seem to always be getting tangled up when the headphones aren't in use (meaning I have to mess around untangling them before using them), and always caught on things while I'm wearing them.
What's the experience like for Linux-on-Chromebook these days? Can I expect hardware support that's equal of what I get with a Lenovo T470s?
>>> It seems that the EU is less interested in law-abiding and more interested in that sweet, sweet U$D.

I don't see how it's fair to take advantage of free access to the EU market and not follow EU law.

It wasn't law abiding and the EU doesn't see a cent of that money, the tax payers do.
Love the integrated terminal in VS Code! Great work by the team on this and appreciate the writeup.

Curious what keyboard shortcut people use to move focus from editors to the Terminal and create new terminals? Anyone use tmux inside terminal?
What hardware are you using with Snips?
Twitter made $574 million revenue last quarter. Clearly their is some demand for their monetization strategies. The problem is that their costs are so high; they lost $174m. Perhaps the real issue with twitter is inflated staff, overengineering, and excessive compute costs.
Well for starters we are still at a point where the majority of owned headphones use a 3.5mm. Bluetooth is becoming more popular, sure, but 3.5 is still the norm. Now I have to carry around an adapter to use any of the nice pairs of headphones I own? Alternatively I have to buy a pair of $200 airpods that sound like garbage to get the full experience? The market isn't ready.
What evidence is there to suggest that this is the case? It seems, instead, that those behaviors arose at a later point -- you need a certain level of captivity to have institutions like the patriarchy, bands can't enforce coercive structures....
I'm not from America so this might come off as naive (do pardon my ignorance)– but why don't people analyze what % of these horrible deaths come from guns sold legally? i.e. what % of these killers are getting their guns legitimately vs. off a black market?
Ah, very nice. Too bad a nice piece of open hardware is going proprietary.
That is pretty concerning if they have to drop down to what is essentially a slightly improved framebuffer to get acceptable performance for a terminal emulator. The Electron waters are shallow and when you jump in head first you might hit a performance wall sooner than your feet hit the water.

I predict that by 2020 they'll have migrated the editor and terminal emulator to an OpenGL surface.
Desktops and laptops have different constraints than phones. Bluetooth uses less power (from the device), makes waterproofing easier, and frees up space for battery. I personally would prefer having a headphone jack on the phone (even though I've never used mine), but I understand why they did what they did.
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Python API for Django APP

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My side project can best be described as localbitcoins.com for multiple cryptocurrencies. By day I am a C dev and managed to build out a basic marketplace. But I need help architecting and writing the transaction and escrow engine.

My MVP currently calls a Flask REST server which is querying RPC endpoints for my data. I’d like a more stable, scalable solution integrated into my app. I can write and maintain code, I’m just having trouble connecting all the web components together elegantly.
I’m thinking an experienced dev can implement a decent solution in about 10-15 days’ worth of time. I’m flexible on delivery and don’t mind you working on this part time. My budget is $8-10k.

Even if you have no direct experience with cryptocurrencies if you have any experience with building RPC based services this should be simple. I have a bunch more info to share if you are interested!

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Yes for sure. Defaults matter and I agree that Google and Apple do things differently here. However, the phrase "iPhone location history stays on the phone" is false for nearly every iPhone user (100% of iPhone users I know).
There is hydropower boom in the Amazon, and Brazil is the world's second largest producer of hydropower behind China. The environmental impacts of dams are mentioned about 2/3 of the way into [1].

[1] http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-a-dam-building-boom-is-tra...
I tried pentadectyl for firefox and couldn't get it to work after 1 hour of messing around (some version issues). I'll try vimfx because I'm not too happy with cvim either mainly because it won't run on chrome:// pages which makes it necessary to use the mouse afterall.