skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who says the program was previously correct? Just because it compiled and didn't blow up so far, doesn't mean it's correct. It might or might not have been correct..
Oh dear. And I'm already seeing stock issues also. Pre-orders for the 2 XL in B&W just went "out of stock".
I could see Singapore building an air conditioned dome over the whole city. Besides the nonfree press, etc, the relentless heat and humidity is the biggest negative of the city.
Correct, but git doesn't recompute the hashes locally, so it wouldn't know they are wrong.
There has to be a global option in iOS to just crop the screen to rectangular?

If not, why?
> Is an elephant’s life more valuable than a randomly selected human? Probably not.

According to The Law of Scarcity isn't the life of an elephant more valuable than a human?
I never get these pieces...

I own a couple of different computing devices and they are just tools. Some fit a certain job better then others. Why limit yourself?
Good question. Tamperproof to me means they can't physically be spooked into doing things, as well as being secure from hacking. In theory, they just have to be as safe as human drivers, who manage to kill thousands of people each year. But as a practical matter, people will probably demand that they be much safer than humans. And it will take awhile to prove that out.
This configuration is commonly known as "lol jk".
FTA:

>It also doesn’t use any kind of network connection, so it’s not broadcasting the stuff it captures anywhere. You can connect to your phone to check what you’ve got.

I'd add:

and, once connected, undoubtedly upload everything captured automatically to google for ad services, datamining, and machine learning.
> What we really need is an iphone x emulator web browser mode.

The iOS simulator is basically this. It's included with XCode.
Alas, undefined behaviour in C++ and C is in general not that easily detected..
Is any of this "background work" done in a separate thread?
Yeah, Google is really throwing their weight behind "AI". It seems like it's the most likely candidate that could eventually replace search as their "main product".
I absolutely loved Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing. I want to get a Sega Saturn just for those two games (but can't actually justify the cost).
I see your comment is grey, so I guess people down-voted you and maybe you want to know why. It's because you are wrong. Compiler optimisations have always been relevant; even in the 90's they would omit entire blocks of code or reorder operations for example.

I assume now it's more aggressive, because undefined behavior should never be relied upon. That's the point.
Curious why you went to Hadoop/Hive from Redshift? I usually hear of people going the other way.

I would recommend staying away from Hadoop -- if you're a Java shop, it may make some sense if you're writing your own map/reduce jobs, but it seems particularly brittle and hard to debug although my info is a bit dated at this point.

And generally if you must have Hadoop or Hive, the most elegant thing I've seen is EMR backed on S3 by .json.gz. You can spin up a cluster for a short time to run some jobs, and then spin it down when you're done -- hundreds of small instances seem to work well at this; but most of your interactive stuff should probably be in another system.
Our computers are fundamentally insecure. That could lead to global catastrophe
Absolutely none.

Source: Ran a Nexus 5 for a few years and found out about Google Location History after I traded it in for an iPhone.
I used the 6P for a fair amount of time, but I think the Nexus 5 was still the high water mark for Nexus phones. Cheap, great hardware, durable, and perfectly sized.

That said, I would have kept my 6P if I had known how disappointing the Pixel 1 was going to be. Double the price without any useful changes just feels like a rip off. No chance I'm going to throw more money at Google for another mediocre product.
Metamask is just the bit that pops up to confirm your purchase. The UI is a JavaScript app done in VueJS.

Blog posts definitely coming up!
>I learned this fairly well working in games, where it's frequently faster to do a linear search or to use a linked list.

To be a bit of a quibbler, a dynamic array is almost always going to be faster than a linked list, especially when N is small, and unless you're writing C (or, for somewhat different reasons, a FP lang) the code will be simpler too.

But of course, with small Ns, outside of the tightest of inner loops or the most resource-constrained embedded targets, most any halfway-reasonable data structure is going to be (and has been for 20+ years) easily fast enough. So it is a bit of a tomato tomahto thing.
On a iPhone 7+. nope, AirPods are so amazing and convenient I cannot go back to a wired set.
> ~ Anticipated A's ~

> YES. IT'S LIKE THE MATRIX BUT INSTEAD OF ROBOTS IT'Z LIZARD PEOPLE.

> THIS ISN'T A QUESTION BUT GOOD POINT. WE R BEGINNING THE MOVE UNDERGROUND.
Wait, then how is Apple able to use wireless charging for the new iPhone 8s and X?
Looks like a hardware lab prototype case to me.
I'm on Linux, but I actually chose VS Code over Sublime 2 because I switched to an HD display. Sublime 2 does not scale tabs (or at least it didn't when I switched) which drove me nuts. I didn't expect to like VS Code but I do. I like it a lot, especially for going to and from different display resolutions.
I read the book, and it was incredible. It went in depth into the data structures of bitcoin, while also providing high level overviews of various cryptocurrency ideas. It really helped me to understand exactly what cryptocurrency is and how it works.
Except for the wireless bit, these are pretty much dead on the same as the earbuds I had for my Google Glass back in the day. They were decent.

I like the choice to keep the buds tethered together, it's gonna prevent a LOT of lost earbuds.
Well, that particular scenario is false only when there is no air resistance (nowhere on this planet?). More importantly, it wasn't just a "study" that figured out the law of gravitation.
I'm a web developer in NC. I've mostly done theme/module/plugin creation in Drupal and WordPress this year, but am open to other types of work.

Examples of sites I've built or worked on:
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www.storyshare.net

www.richardsworldinsurance.com

Location: Asheville, NC

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate:no

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App developers are free to find customers elsewhere. Perhaps app developers could create their own distribution system that guarantees security, updates and ease of use and create a device upon which it can run.

App developers can also handle the multiple country's tax laws, create a payment system and do all of that on their own as well. Apple devs don't have to deal with collecting taxes in the countries in which they sell. They don't have to deal with fraudulent transactions, chargebacks or distributing updates to users.

The idea that the 30% is somehow unfair is ridiculous. Look at retail markup rates for products sold in conventional stores. That's what that 30% is -- a retail markup and it's completely fair. Whole Foods sells olive oil for $20 that they buy from a supplier for $8. How unfair does 30% seem now? The supplier prices their product at the price they need to collect. What the end-distributer charges really isn't a concern to the supplier. But unlike Whole Foods, Apple doesn't give preference to certain suppliers over others. Everyone on the App Store has an equal chance to sell their product.
> High Performance

> Chromebook

Pick one, not both.
Dr. Scheme, nowadays known as Raket.
Pass.

Not sure why this isn't discuss more, but Erik Vorhees was fined for not registering as a security back in 2014: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2014-111

Although it was just fines, not worth the exposure just for merely operating an above-board business. With SEC now having Cyber Unit, in theory their regulating now increases.
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“Beam me up Scotty.”

I’d say people were dreaming about portable communication devices for quite some time.

The Dick Tracy Watch goes back to the 1930’s. Probably wasn’t cool enough to use watches as phones in science fiction.
I’m chaffing at the naked push towards buying apple’s expensive wireless earbuds here. I buy apple because they are the best phone out there, but lately I have been very frustrated with headphone dongles and looking elsewhere. I don’t want to buy more apple hardware to solve a problem apple created, and my other Bluetooth headphones are a nightmare to keep paired and charged.
I'm running a Touch Bar MBP connected to the LG UltraFine 5K with no visible problems FullScreen or not on the LG panel.

Resolution is set for "Default for display" and I run Flux. Initially I had some issues with the monitor that went away when I got a new USB-C cable. Perhaps that would help...?
That's why your parent's graph went only to 2012. There's no point in arguing with adventured, they're obviously only interested in using skewed stats to bolster their world view.

The very first hit on Google for "Chinese" "Coal" "Consumption" is a January 2017 article from the World Resources Institute whose title reads, “China’s Decline in Coal Consumption Drives Global Slowdown in Emissions”

http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/01/china%E2%80%99s-decline-coal...
Agreed. I was lamenting that it is seen as an essential part of the employer/employee relationship when the employer-as-landlord proposition seems so foreign and troubling. I thought drawing the connection would make people rethink the normal feelings we have about the American healthcare system.
Startup. :)
Other articles did mention that this will be local.

I have a feeling they are using federated machine learning for this to have a lot of the processing done locally and not need to activate the radios for as much of the processing as possible. They have been making big strides in that area lately and this might be the start of some of the major applications of it (I think they are using it in their keyboard prediction as well from a bit ago)
“the third YouTube result for ”las vegas shooting“ is a false flag video”
Interesting that there is no reference to targeting developers/coding at all for this device. Seems targeted at creatives with the Pen and Lightroom/etc on it. Other than that, none of the example apps it can support seem to me to really require "high performance" at all.

Which is too bad, because it's a pretty device. Just seems like it's in a weird uncanny valley where it's probably way too much horsepower for most of those apps (documents, instagram, etc) and way too inflexible for true high performance stuff (coding, 3d modeling, video/photoshop stuff, etc) because you can't install anything.
In 6 months it could be obsolete, like any other Nexus phones.
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I lost my iOS headphones and the little white adapter so I can use the "old" plug. For the past two days I have been running in the gym without listening to absolutely nothing even though I have like 20 headphones in my closet. What a stupid idea.
Will it run crouton? That's all I need :) (oh, and proper "xorg", because "xiwi" is not as fast).
Ok, fine.

The oldest pair of headphones that I own that work is older than my usage of the Internet. The oldest pair of headphones I own that I still use regularly I bought for college - and that was a long time ago.

Assuming that everyone treats their equipment as though it's disposable is frustrating to me. Some of us use our gear for a very long time, and in the case of something as mundane as a 3.5" jack, expect to be able to.
> Why are those warnings not automatically included in "-Wall -Wextra"?

Not all of them are actually errors, maybe depending on your style. For example, shadowing a variable is a well-defined feature of the C language, and so some code patterns take advantage of that fact. Other people avoid shadowing like the plague.
>Pixelbook

They now have the same branding as Apple's Macbook.
Oh, you mean just like the iPhone does too?

http://www.iclarified.com/36198/how-to-view-the-location-his...

FWIW, you can disable location tracking on Android phones too.
Right, its good to present a model of what their habits were, if that was your area of interest. To use them as a prescriptive guide to base your habits on, requires further explanation and reasoning.
To expand:

Windows for concurrent operations are bounded by clock uncertainty. If you say you did something at 2:00 and I say I did something at 3:00, you probably did your thing before me. But if it's 1:57 vs 1:59, there's strong possibility my clock is fast or yours is slow. If I know both our clocks are within 5 seconds of the correct time, then I can say your action happened before mine. So accurate clocks allow you to provide ordering to more events.

Additionally, If you do identify operations as concurrent, you can explicitly deal with them. Dealing with them is doable, but expensive. If your clocks are in sync with a small margin of error, the rate at which you will have to do expensive things to resolve concurrent operation is low.

Google's Spanner database uses atomic clocks to have a max clock skew of 7ms. That eliminates most concurrent conflicts, and dealing with conflicts is fast because we can recognize conflict quickly. Basically, it waits 7ms on all writes to see if any other nodes have a conflicting write.

CockroachDB can operate in "spanner mode", but without atomic clocks it uses a max clock skew of 250ms. This is a much bigger window and identifying conflicts on write takes a lot longer.

CockroachDB recommends that you don't run in "spanner mode" because of the performance hit. Instead, the default mode does lazy conflict detection, where instead of waiting after all writes, it will sometimes wait to read data until the clock skew window has passed.

Here's a great read on the topic:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...
close, but no cigar

http://hackernewsbooks.com/
Battery life.

I cannot even use bluetooth headphones for a full workday before they die.
Npm introduces two-factor auth
We have very small companies (in the low tens of millions) that make decent SoC. Nobody is going to make 4G anything for less than the tens of billions). The entire market cap of ARM is half that of Qualcomm (and around a third before they lost a quarter of their valuation).

Building modems is way harder than building SoCs (all the SoC challenges plus all the modem ones too). It's taken a decade of work on 5G to just begin preliminary sampling (How many SoC generations would that be?).

You also have to keep in mind that it's not just the modem in the phone. You have huge software stacks, protocol design and testing, and an entire cell tower worth of electronics to design and build.

There's no free lunch. You have to strike a balance between forcing the cost onto the service provider (higher cell bills and/or slower adoption) and forcing the cost onto the phone.

Considering that Qualcomm's net sales to R&D ratio is basically unmatched (most companies spend half what Qualcomm does by that metric), it's not easy to make the case for gouging in my view.
I am still waiting for Web to offer the same feature level to take 100% advantage of my hardware, specially the GPU.

Canvas and WebGL 2.0 still feel like the early days of shading based rendering.
No one is going to move to usb c or lightning, it offers absolutely no intrinsic advantages over the 3.5 jack and isn’t going away from laptops, desktops, speakers and other electronics. You’ll just buy dongles or Bluetooth.
Good information. I wish more people understood that suppressors are still on the fine line of hearing damage for most cases.
I'm not sure why Google tries to make a really expensive version of their Chromebooks . If this came out before the new iPad Pro's and Surface laptops it might be compelling to buy. But, if I want a walled garden experience I would choose an iPad Pro. And if I want a real keyboard with a stylus there is the Surface Book and many others. It is even competing with the lower end Chromebooks due to the price.

It would be a great laptop for someone that likes Linux but then you are probably going to overwrite ChromeOS with whatever you want.

EDIT: Meant to say Surface laptop not surface book.
Thank you and the rest of the Keybase team for your hard work!

Is it possible to use this on the Keybase mobile app for like note-taking?
I was also diagnosed with it last week. I'll be buying a CPAP as the night I tested it improved my sleep quality. I've also removed my pillow and that has helped.
With absolutely no replacement parts available (even officially). So good luck trying to run it longer than a year before it starts falling apart.
Not quite. The Pixelbook doesn't run Pixel OS. If anything, the original "Chromebook" name was more like Apple's Macbook.
What's the actual chip used - HQ, U, or Y series? Odd they call it "high performance" but don't publish even the clock speed.
I had so much shit that just sucked in my life the first 21 years of it. I always had sinus infections, I would constantly have what my friends and I call "poo-brain," where you just have slug thoughts and can't get your shit in order and your speech might even slur. Depression. Etc.

Then I started taking fexofenadine (allegra) and fluticasone (nasonex) every day. After 2 weeks, nearly every problem I had vanished. No more sinus infections, I could breathe and smell, I slept incredibly, no more poo brain, no more 2pm "head of concrete." It was like I started a new life.

Anyway if you have any of the above try that drug routine maybe? You gotta keep it up non stop for 2 weeks straight to see results, and the potential downside is that now if I get off my antihistamines for like a day even, I'm likely to instantly get a sinus infection.
"This video is unavailable"

How fitting.
> I feel like the world is one big battery technological advance from a fairly monumental and far-reaching change. Batteries I think are the real missing link in renewable energy (IMHO).

I agree. We are nearing a maturity level in renewable energy, by say 2050, where we will be able to produce vast amounts of extremely cheap electricity with minimal environmental impact – but only in certain locations at certain times. The problem is storing and transmitting that energy.

If I could go back a couple decades and redo my college days, I would be very tempted to focus on battery technology. It does seem to be missing piece to get us the last step in our journey over the last ~200 years of transitioning (worldwide) from an energy-scarce civilization to an energy-abundant civilization.

Having effectively free, effectively infinite energy seems to be on the horizon – not necessarily by 2050 but very possibly by 2100. (I mean for the average person, not industrial/commercial/scientific use.) That will undoubtedly result in monumental, far-reaching changes. But I don't see how we get there without a breakthrough in energy storage.

But who knows, maybe somebody will invent an inexpensive magic cold-fusion energy box that fits in the back of a pickup truck and requires zero maintenance. I'm not holding my breath. :)
What kind of person goes into Chemistry? The really serious sciencey people I knew would go into physics, math or maybe something like AI.

And the softer sciencey people would more likely tend towards engineering or biology.

Maybe chemists are just not open to taking big risks. And hence they reject papers which violate "known" laws.
>about:	Google fanatic

from your HN profile
I understand the thrust of your comment and generally agree with your broad sentiment. But, most scientific studies present a model that fits data. While you are right that they can show a truth, that is not their aim, and often they are contradicted with newer data and models.

Studies are only valuable when they form a scientific consensus over repeated experiments or provide some predictive power that can be confirmed through other experiments.

To use a studies as a prescriptive guide to base your life on, or change of habits is an error IMHO, and ironically, quite unscientific.

I guess you could say its a pet peeve of mine. 9 times out of 10 when I investigate a "studies have shown" comment, it turns out to be half-true or based on weak science, or too new to be replicated by other scientists, or sometimes the context is completely different from its use in an argument.
Who is the target audience for a $1k Pixelbook? How much friction will there be to try and use it as a dev laptop?

I'm in the market but at the moment I'm more attracted to something like the SurfaceBook for something I can dev on, have a pen, and watch stuff in tablet mode.
When they removed floppy drives it was because there was a better alternative. I don’t agree that Bluetooth is a better alternative than a cord that is 100% reliable to pair, perfect audio quality, and never needs to be charged
It is not easy to teach when the students don't want to learn and think they know better.
Does someone have some scientific source on that topic? I couldn't find something linked in the article.
e.g. I'm using Acer 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD (actually 22-23GB useable) running CLion, bazel, clang, etc. It's great, but it just needs a bit notch up. For personal needs just switch to normal ChromeOS for netflix, etc.

Having android apps on it is also good feature (like I'm able to play Heroes Of Might and Magic III on it).
I use the 'jk' and 'kj' mapping for escape as well, though I've never actually needed to type those characters out myself or at least it's so rare I don't remember. However, everyone is different.

What I'd suggest if you want to give it a try is to also set the `timeoutlen` to a lower value. By default it's usually 1000ms, but that can be dropped quite a bit I believe without much interference.

autocmd InsertEnter * set timeoutlen=100
autocmd InsertLeave * set timeoutlen=1000
That's like asking if there's cold beer in Hell.

(spoiler: there isn't any)
I do believe they were joking.
https://github.com/kbsecret/kbsecret is Secrets management back by Keybase :)
Android phones send your location history to Google. iPhone location history stays on the phone. That's the key difference.
My initial observations:

* 12.4" 2400x1600 (235 ppi) is great

* Battery life looks good at "up to 10 hours"

* 4 Mics for noise cancelling is interesting

* $99 for the pressure sensitive Pixelbook Pen seems steep

* Core i5 options ship in 3-4 weeks

* Core i7/16GB/512 SSD option puts you on a waitlist

* Fully spec'd out: i7, Pen, and Preferred Care is $1997

* Why only two USB-C ports?!
The fundamental of capitalism is that, if there is market for a product, you can build it, sell it, and someone is guaranteed to buy it.

As far as I'm concerned, this is merely the logical conclusion.

Agreed on the 'how TF did I end up reading this article' reaction, marginally relevant in the tech world, and amusing to read.
This. So much this. I had the Nexus 5 as well.

The 6P offers me:

- Aluminum case.

- 1080p screen

- 4K video recording

- Slow-motion video recording @ 1080p 240fps

- 12.3MP single shot

- A good enough CPU for lag free web browsing, spotify, snapchat, instagram, etc.

Why the fuck would I pay $700+ for a new phone for marginal improvements???
Is that a broken link in a major Google product release blog post? Gasp!
Screenshot for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/r7TpRQY.png
Or a $40 headunit with a USB plug on the front.
I had a long layover in Shanghai recently and was a bit surprised that so many of the web sites I use regularly were blocked.

It seems all google products were blocked including gmail and google voice which are my primary means of communication.

Are there many Android users in China?
Sorry, but obsolete how?
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