skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The keyboard is important, but so is the rest of the laptop.

The i7 in the x230 is much, much less power efficient than this one. The 16 GB of RAM is 1600 MHz DDR3, not DDR4. The msata SSD is decent, but it's designed to be just a cache drive by default and isn't a proper NVMe PCIe drive. It (remarkably) has USB 3 and Displayport, but no USB C or Thunderbolt. The battery in a used $200 laptop will likely be in need of replacement. And the display is the worst part: a disgusting 1366x768 with terrible colors and a weak CFL backlight, instead of a decent FHD or WQHD IPS LED.

The price is great, the keyboard is awesome, the display and various internals can be upgraded to be modern enough for now, but there are a lot of drawbacks to be aware of...says the guy with a T430 :)
Thank you for that link. I appreciate that he chose to intersperse the history of commands (such as grep!) within his explanation.
That's actually a recent development:

http://fortune.com/2017/07/02/kaspersky-source-code-inspecti...
A fork that tracked Blink upstream would still leave Google with control over the direction of development. A fork that diverged from Blink would end up equivalent to an independently-developed engine.

Adopting Blink would, furthermore, impose a set of design and architectural constraints not necessarily in line with Firefox's priorities as a project. With Gecko they're investing in parallelism and pulling in more and more components from Rust/Servo, for example.

Firefox has been something of an underdog from its inception, releasing at a time when IE had already "won". Chrome taking that spot won't make Mozilla scrap everything and start over—this is familiar territory.

Of course, this is all ignoring the absolute upheaval and loss of momentum a total rewrite on top of Blink would wreak on Firefox as a project.
Nice laptop, but unless I'm mistaken, based on google image search, it has exactly none of the features people are interested in T25 for - the keyboard is the modern design, with no separation between function keys, and no Insert/Home/Delete/End quadrant.

I have a T450 which work gave me sitting in the closet - it's also perfect, but I can't get used to its keyboard, and am using my personal T420 and T420s instead. Personal preference :)
Duh, Senator. We knew this when Experian got hacked.

Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, and any other credit bureaus are going to fail to protect people's personal data. There is no such thing as "unhackable", they are the biggest honey pots, and the majority of the Information Technology hiring pool is incompetent. The majority of competent candidates are underpaid or underappreciated and so they don't care as much as we need them to.

Put all these things together and you have inevitable disaster after disaster after disaster.

Credit Bureaus are old-think. They are unsafe, unsecure, and they don't fit with Future-Era lifestyle.

Something better is required.
Funny how this Cybersecurity reporter publish his PGP key using unsecured protocol. http://www.ericjgeller.com/pgp_ejg.txt
>starting a formal, whole-society debate by beginning to introduce legislation is, I believe, the right way forward.

No it is not. Expecting everyone to know every way in which a person might get offended is just unrealistic. People, even the most well-intentioned ones, will make mistakes. So if someone does make a mistake just tell them what they did wrong and move on with your life.

Trust me I know people from "the left" and the amount people got into feminism in the last years is just crazy. Now, I'm all for women's rights and also agree with the points you listed, but for fuck's sake, give people a break. Dealing with racism and sexism is a process that takes patience and just forcing a thought-police on everyone will sure as hell not make anything better. Society can only move so fast as the slowest ones can keep up.

We're pretty off-topic by now, so this will be my last statement in this thread, but feel free to respond. Have a nice weekend!
That's a cool video, I'm subscribing. It's surprising that the embedded sphere has an unbounded radius. He didn't mention in the video that this problem is due to, and is a sort of dual or inverse to the fact that the volume of an N-dimensional sphere goes to zero as N goes to infinity. That hurt my head a little the first time I learned about it!
The UK has a program that does just that, especially in regards to networking/telecom hardware and software from China.
You just wrote that in response to a comment by one of the BOOM and BOOMv2 creators. And yes, there was more than just hints at low hanging fruit, so I'm hoping a v3 is in the works. But all those guys seem to be incredibly busy just giving birth to this (risc-v) thing.

BTW, just to put it in writing I'm estimating the BOOMv2 clock at 2.5GHz on 28nm. Depending how much IPC they clawed back it might match the A15 on coremark.
Instagram is tolerable, and it makes me money. But the amount of bullshit bots needs to stop, immediately. All of the garbage "aggregator" accounts that do nothing but steal everyone's work need to stop.
Yes, there's the standard transaction fee, but on Ethereum that would be about a penny. My point is there'd be no fee to the third party, in the absence of a dispute. In that case the third party would do no work. They don't even have to know about the transactions where they're designated "just in case."

The fee when there is a dispute would have to be higher; I'd argue that this isn't terrible, since it gives the primaries a stronger incentive to work things out on their own.

Obviously it would help to have some kind of reputation system for arbitrators. That doesn't necessarily have to be on chain; anything that lets both primaries agree on an arbitrator is fine.

The contract is what forces the payment; the money in question is held by the contract, and if the arbitrator makes the decision, the contract automatically deducts the fee from the held funds and pays it.

You're right that sometimes people ignore why the current system works, but the flip side is dismissing blockchain solutions without first understanding how they work.
Show HN: A Reactive Database for Progressive Web Apps
I’ve played with the Linux implementation, I love it!

But I use a Mac so I can’t join the VPN I made :/
"JavaScript is not a joke" says the author, while he abuses all of the worst aspects of the language and its tooling.
This is absolutely 100% insane.

Imagine if CPU makers prevented you from running PassMark.

Hell, imagine if car's manufacturer warranty was voided if you took it to a dynamometer.

Why do we as a society allow these absurd rent seeking practices like these? What possible social good could come from preventing discussion about an enterprise software product?
Lenovo’s 25th Anniversary ThinkPad brings back the keyboard we love
Did Google and social media really fail in the early hours of the Vegas attack?
Several CSS-in-JS libs support all of CSS, and allow you to write actual CSS and not camelCase styles.

styled-components [1] is prob the most popular example.

Your complaint they are evaluating JS just to set styles is valid, tho some libs, like emotion [2] support static CSS extraction.

[1] https://www.styled-components.com/docs/api#supported-css
[2] https://github.com/emotion-js/emotion
Why do you have to use amounts of money that make you uncomfortable? A good position should end up becoming big vs. the lesser positions mostly on its own merits.

Yes the stomach and patience are hard. Basically because you will never be sure.
The hell was I even writing, sorry, was pretty tired.

I meant "I haven't used Facebook for years and I am NOT having contemporary info about them".
Native partitioning, as well as the advancements on the replication and scaling side of things look like good first steps for a distributed SQL system.

Can anyone speak to how much closer this brings Postgres to being able to work like Spanner/CockroachDB? Partitioning is great but having to define my own partitions ahead of time isn’t a great solution for us folks who want to be able to spin up new databases on the fly (without the overhead of assigning new ranges for the tables on these new instances.)

Obviously CockroachDB has a long way to go before it works as well as a single instance Postgres DB. But how far does Postgres have before it works as well as a multi-instance Cockroach DB?
my kingdom for anything better than 16:9 in a thinkpad

though it looks like other manufacturers besides lenovo and apple are starting to make good laptops now, so maybe i'll finally be able to ditch them in a few years
I've been thinking about writing a spy thriller based on that premise, ever since the Snowden leaks. At this point I'd assign 30% probability that it's already happened.
It's easier to find smartcard readers with keypads, and use a smartcard. For example see here: https://en.cryptoshop.com/products.html. There are also keyboards (e.g. from Cherry) with an integrated smartcard reader.
Note that I haven't tried any of them.

But really it's largely enough to have a confirmation system, and that is supported also by the YubiKey 4, for example.
I remember the early days of slashdot fondly, although I didn't actually make an account until a few years later. It was such an interesting mix of serious discussion, in-jokes, and amusing trolls (even the infamous goatsx troll that I fell for more than once.)

I still think that the moderation and meta-moderation was one of the most interesting experiments in a self-governing commenting system, even though it was clear that it was mostly a failure in the long run. My conclusion is that a site needs hands-on human moderation to maintain quality.

Slashdot is also a perfect example of the general life-cycle of cool social site. Humble beginnings -> lots of interesting people -> own little subculture -> lots of interesting content with some impenetrable in-jokes -> existing userbase ages out as they get jobs or have kids -> less interesting content, more in-jokes -> owners sell -> dry husk of a site remains.
Engrave it on stone or etch it on metal or both :)
> That CPU startup that Linus was a part of. Most disappointing build-up ever. LOL

Yeah, Transmeta. That whole "stealth mode" startup mystery kept the buzz going.

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

Re Microsoft the evil empire: it was deserved at the time. But it's nice to see they have a better reputation these days.
Uhmm... that's a public key. So it doesn't matter. He could put it on a billboard in Times Square.
I've been looking a bit more at "top of the week" on alt websites, and a bit less at the HN homepage. I think you can get most of it like this; maybe you could try. (e.g. http://www.hntoplinks.com/week or https://news.ycombinator.com/best)
It seems like the benchmarks should be reasonably reproducible, right? (In the sense that if they're not, then that's a bigger complaint about their validity.)

Can you or I just run the benchmarks against 2.7.13 to see how it goes?
I was depressed when I thought I had friends, but they didn't treat me like one. I'm much happier in my current state.
Are you sure that states don't emerge automatically too?

We are hierarchical creatures, even in a small group of friends hierarchy appears on its own. If you have a hierarchy the rest is just organizational details.
Yep. I found Ars via a link to a system build guide off of Slashdot oh so very many years ago.
Once large amounts of real money are be involved there would be an amazing clash of conventional corruption attacking the heads, a computer security battle attacking the basic building blocks of the influence mechanisms, the demagogic tactics known from online discussion boards trying to sway opinions of the masses of low influence individuals, the gray "pay for likes" business that exists in the shadow of big social media sites, and all the gaming-the-system tricks with multi-accounts and the like that are rampant in open, long-running multiplayer games.

Oh, the drama! It might be compelling to join as a perfect substitute for an HBO subscription, who needs game of thrones. You might see a group forged in a decade of Eve online alliance warfare fighting mob hackers fighting two competing factions of hedge fund managers fighting a 4chan prank.

On the other hand, sufficiently boring organizations (e.g. stewardship of some greying enterprise software open source) with peeexisting informal trust networks should be perfectly safe. But would they need "colony"?
Anyone know if it's possible to swap a non-shitty screen into it?
Not seeing ads.

Secondarily, there is a lot of data on the internet stored only in HTML pages. For data with multiple sources, HTML is still usually a common format. HTML just has more punctuation and errata to filter out than JSON, XML, or CSV.
Which bass-ackwards definition of "most" are you using, friend?
They've already stolen a bunch of NSA's spying and mass hacking tools, so we're probably years away until stored data is stolen, too, if we'll even find out about it.
Seattle's Super Secret White Nationalist Convention
Thank you for the suggestion, I will look at SiliconMechanics. I need a tower, not rack mounted, but I see capable systems with 24-28 cores there. The site seems to be in a disarray, at least for high performance workstations (two rightmost options of the four, which I would assume to be the most capable are showing up as discontinued when I click on them, etc.).
That's an average including all the mining rewards, it's not actually paid by people issuing transactions. A simple transaction on Ethereum costs about a penny.

I agree the energy consumption of present-day blockchains is a problem; hopefully proof of stake will fix it.
rrreally simple in my world: an [analog] black book beats a cyber-crook. Ya gotta write em down folks.
It looks like chrome's javascript interface exposes options that the command line doesn't. Or else I'm overlooking something, because I couldn't find a way to to hide the header and footer (which shows the date, title, url, and page number) using the command line. But this project does hide the header and footer.

I can't use an externally hosted service like this because some of my URLs are non-public. So when the user requests a PDF, I render the HTML to a temp file on the server, invoke chrome via command line, and serve up the converted PDF.
What is the largest production instance of CockroachDB ?
> Five years is YOUNG. A generation ago, early childhood educators in the U.S. didn't even typically introduce reading until age six.

We used to start reading in 1st grade when I was a kid. That was 7 years old back then in my country. We learned letters and stuff in kindergarten, but reading was the main task of 1st grade.

My parents decided I was pretty smart so they tried to encourage me to learn how to read sooner than 7.

I vehemently opposed this idea and said that I'm not old enough yet to read and that they should leave me alone and that I will read when it's time to read. I was upset, I think, that people were pushing me to do things beyond my age and it seemed somehow like that was not what I want.

Somehow I was a fluent reader on the first day of 1st grade. I suspect I actually knew how to read before but refused to do it until I was the right age.

I'm not sure what my point was in sharing this story, but here we are.
> According to my observations, the standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in the tech industry or is going to school to work in the tech industry. “You’re also a coder? Do you mind if I send you something I’ve been working on?” I heard that more than once.

Are we into a new McCarthy like era, but replace Russian sympathizers, with White Nationals?
The benefit is that it can be used to illuminate objects other than the keys, such as a paper you're copying information from. A thinklight with higher color quality, and maybe adjustable brightness would solve the problems you had with it; white LEDs have come a long way in the past decade.
What are they? I've certainly never heard of them or used them. Are they used in production or are they toys?

DHCP: isc-dhcp or dnsmasq

DNS recursor: dnsmasq, unbound, bind, djb's dnscache, maradns

None of these are written in memory safe languages, but they're the only ones I would trust because they have YEARS of testing and getting the RFCs right.
It's of their own doing:

https://www.salon.com/2013/06/11/500000_contractors_can_acce...

Also, I believe I read a recent article about them allowing even more private companies access to this stuff, but I can't find a link right now.
Most likely for upcoming Windows 10's continuity feature
This is a neat idea but unless I can operate my own private version then it's not really useful.

I've got a private wiki that provides essentially the same function. It's not as convenient to add new notes, but that convenience comes at the cost of organizational sanity.

I tried using Evernote for this purpose and what I discovered was unless you can control it yourself then it sucks. Eventually they're going to have money problems or they'll get DDoSed or whatever and suddenly this vital resource you've learned to rely on is not available when you need it.

You might as well use notepad & nextcloud.

There are only 2 things an app like this can offer to make it 'special' compared to the thousands of other available methods. Searchable tags, and a convenient UI.
Cython is a way of writing compiled code that links against Python in a way that's easier than than using the Python.h API directly.

There are two things you can do with this. The first is you can write your performance-sensitive code directly in Cython, in which case, yes, that's a direct competitor to PyPy. (So is writing your performance-sensitive code directly in C and using Python.h to expose it to Python as a native-code module.)

The second is that you can write bindings to existing C (or C-ABI-compatible, really) code in Cython, instead of using C and Python.h to write those bindings. In that case, it's not quite that you care about the performance of your C code, but that it already exists, and you just need to call into it somehow. Having PyPy be able to use these existing codebases is valuable.
I think this looks like a great tutorial but why is all the text in a small column oriented to the left?
If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
And the iPad Pro isn't a laptop. It's a tablet running a locked-down, irreplaceable mobile device OS.
He probably did, like the rest of us who read /. and e-zines:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/07/26/1217248/inside-echel...

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/05/25/1312239/the-eu-repor...

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/04/10/1626236/aclu-takes-o...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/02/12/051200/australia-sp...

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/99/07/16/1025259/britain-tapp...
I'd be thrilled if someone put the 13" 4:3 (or should we call it 16:12 for marketing?) screen from the iPad Pro in a laptop.
I worked in many teams and projects. Each time we had a "rockstar" in the team, he was worth more than 3 regular guys.

In the last project most echnical decisions where made/influenced by the rockstar and we saved so much time with playing arround or programming things that brake in the future.

As a recruiter I would never hire rockstars-only. But I would definitely make sure that I have a good ratio of them.
> Russia never sleeps (Like NSA does when Russians and others screw up.)

Do you have a number of reliable sources for this, or is it just unsubstantiated us-vs-them jingoism?
Does anyone have advice on rendering wide tables (with lots of text) with this library? We have a constant cat ant mouse game with this library.
More like:

1. Group #1 joins who care about site

2. Group #1 improves site. Sense of "community" keeps things in check.

3. Site grows in popularity and group #2 joins

4. Site loses sense of community and ability to moderate itself effectively.

5. Group #1 leaves
Golang Todo API+UI example
Facing off with behemoths, Farmstead (YC S16) pursues online grocery market
See syntax highlighting section here: https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx/blob/master/readme.md
Why do you need a new phone anyway ?

Even as an Android dev giving a very rough time to my phones, they can easily last 2 years nowadays.

If you don't care too much about fluidity or photography, 3 or 4 years don't seem too long either, as long as you replace the battery.
Ironic that a site that claims to be the frontpage of the Internet would have such a useless front page. I agree that individual communities are useful, but none of them are in the list of defaults that show up when you hit the front page when not logged in.
This is an oddly one-sided comment on a complex issue. A computer is an incredibly complex, incredibly large attack surface, and when you have millions of computers exposed to the internet and exchanging data, the chances of a state actor gaining a foothold in a government system is almost 100%. This goes for both sides: Russia has likely hacked the US a thousand times over, and the US has likely hacked Russia a thousand times over.
My link isn't dead ;)
They are beautiful pieces of equipment if you look at the site, i'd like one without even having the wealth to need one.
Barbarian Virtues
Ask HN: What apps/software do you love?
I was having an interesting discussion on growth yesterday with a friend and he said something that really resonated with me:

"Growth hacks are catalysts, not determinants. If your product sucks, they won't help. Users will just churn out, or worse, never even come back. If you build a product users love however, they will work like a charm."

Then the discussion turned to what defines loving a product. And we agreed a good proxy was when a user wants to pay for it.

So I ask the HN community - what apps/software do you love so much that you're currently paying for them? Or would pay for them if they existed?
SSMS is not fantastic, IMO.

JetBrains' DataGrip is significantly better, and works with all the extant SQL implementations.

We can definitely debate the SQL implementations themselves, but DataGrip makes tooling a non-issue.
The Explosive Origins of the Nobel Prizes
Luckily we have a lot of data.

If punishment is rehabilitating, in average, the harder the prisons the nicer the people that come from them. We could check for instance, I don't know, Russia vs. Sweden or something like that.
A RasPI as a cheap temporary airgapped system sounds like a good idea.
Surface Book has 3:2 which is really nice, quite expensive machine though (I love mine, and have been lucky not to have any of the issues that seemed to plague them in their early days)
Remote Hacktoberfest Hackathon
My bet is Microsoft excel. Many users need slightly more power than an integrated gfx card offers.
>Seriously, this shit doesn't happen. There are too many people doing too many things in the world for a government across the world to do much of anything to anyone

You don't think governments hack their enemies?
You're welcome, now go look up what whatabout'ism is, because you don't seem to know.
Email Threading for Professionals
"there is no reason argue against it."

Except that evidence based reasoning vs motivated reasoning suggests we do just that.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and Its Implications for Artificial Intelligence
No idea! It’s still in its infancy as a DB. Functional, but probably not worth the switch, unless you really really don’t want to deal with scaling a DB manually (which is where I’m at.)
The huge bezel under the screen looks ridiculous. It should be filled with more screen. I like the keyboard, but this doesn't bring back most of what I love about oldschool thinkpads.
Now you're getting off topic. Private citizens making factual information available is literally the opposite of propaganda.

It's no surprise that Russia tried to influence US politics. We need to do a better job of educating our citizens on critical thinking, including recognizing propaganda and fake news.