skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had a pair of Bluetooth headsets that haven't had connection issues with my Pixel. This is especially true of the cheap Sony pair I tried, but also true of the nicer Macaws and Here Ones. Even my car's head unit has a new bug with Oreo where it connects/"plays" but is muted until I reconnect.
I was referring to evidence that chronic sleep deprivation can increase the risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias by allowing the brain less time to flush out amyloid proteins that can aggregate.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/04/46062060...

...But everyone’s brain is different, and if you don’t feel your enjoyment of life is being affected, then it’s entirely possible your brain is getting all its maintenance needs met in the time you sleep.

I didn’t mean to sound moralizing or judgmental— these decisions are of course entirely ours to make for ourselves.
> I'm not sure why Google tries to make a really expensive version of their Chromebooks.

I'm guessing they're going after the "idiot boss" market who will eat this up if given the chance.
You can't charge your phone and listen to music through the dongle. This is the deal breaker for me.
If $600/mo for a single young person is cheap to you...
250$ for a 16 frame per sec hidden camera with some machine learning nonsense thrown in?
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I think in the "Kurzweil sense" a singularity means that after the tipping point is reached, no human involvement should be necessary to reach the "infinite strength point" (the true singularity).

Note that this holds for black holes at least.
I imagine s/unemployed/not employed by the target
I did not mention signing commits but signing push requests and that was a reference to:

> All data you push is signed by your device's private key, which never leaves your device.
Yes Sega was ridiculous with the Saturn's price and its surprise launch.
You can pick up a Saturn for pretty cheap(~$60) now if you are still interested and those games are dirt cheap.
If you do get a Saturn then also get yourself the scart RBG cables and a scart to HDMI converter if your screen doesn't support scart(if you're in the US then it doesn't). This would give you the best picture.
I really wish suppressors were easier to buy. They help protect hearing, and reduce noise pollution for people at or near the gun range.
What I really don't get is why we want to move the DAC into the headphone. It just makes sense to have a single DAC in the phone, that anything can plug into. Now every set of headphones needs its own DAC to convert that digital bluetooth/USB signal into something you can actually hear.
I have a private repo on GitHub which contains my dotfiles with SSH private keys, tokens, secrets and all kinds of secret stuff. I was uncomfortable storing it there, but my laziness/lack of time kept it there. Finally I will be able to encrypt the entire repo, yay!!
OK going to msg. you privately with some more details.
The thing this doesn't explain is what you need the performance for on a chomebook....
Um, I agree with your explanation, but why is the headline unbearable?
As a fan of my Chromebook Plus ... I'm kinda lost on what more you do at that price / performance other than being able to multitask a few more apps and tabs.

It's not like there is much in the way of high performance demanding applications on ChromeOS.
And you never really get to learn anything. I generally come away feeling like there's this knowledge locked in solutions I'll never get to see so there's no way to improve. Seems like a good idea but in practice it's just frustrating.
You've got a good FUD posting streak in here.
Are you suggesting a legal and lawful use for the Stingray that the mass population would agree to? Ha, get out, that's not what the Stingray is for! :)
Ah, so if I were to manually craft a commit in a text editor in the format:

tree sha1
parent sha1 of parent I want to attach it to
author some string
committer some string

The commit message

I could add this to the git object store manually under the same sha1 file and a client could just fetch it? Would the client try to fetch the faked objects when it already has the real objects in its copy of the object store?

That is, would it think it has the commit because the sha1 hasn't changed, but the tree sha1 has been updated and it would presumably refer to blobs that the client doesn't already have and try to fetch them. Or would it not proceed because it already has the commit?
Do you have instructions on where to buy and how to install? Thanks!
I own a Pixel but this DxO stuff is really dodgy.

In the portrait pic of the girl, the difference between the Pixel 2 [1] and the iPhone 8 [2] is night and day, with the Pixel 2 looking like shit. She so pale, and the fake bokeh looks like a 5 year old smearing all over, it's simply not pleasant to look at.

And the whole push on adding the fake bokeh """scores""" to justify changing the scores so every fucking newly released device gets the highest score is stupid. Thanks for scoring the bokeh, if I had really wanted bokeh, I would have pulled out my bulky mirrorless camera.

I bet when a new phone comes out and they pay the DxO guy enough, they will add a dog nose filter score to make the new camera score the highest.

1: A https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ref1_Boke...

B https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ref2_Lowl...

2: A https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ref1_Boke...

B https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ref2_Lowl...
Yes. It sucks.
My initial observations:

* bezel
This exactly. Android phones can't do a thing without connecting to some privacy-invading cloud service.

And yeah, I've tried Replikant. Nice proof of concept, but not usable.
HN has a lot of blindspots. This famous quote comes to mind.

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
>To my knowledge, sleep dep hasn't actually killed people directly like this, they simply start sleeping.

Actually, there is at least one example, surely there are more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/man-dies-11-days-no...
>Perl (<=5) is almost always interpreted but there are tools to turn Perl code into an executable.

IIRC those tools (of which similar ones exist for Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Lua and so on) just package together the sources (precompiled to bytecode) and an instance of the Perl[5] interpreter.
I don't think they're always called "arcades", but there seem to be quite a few places to play VR games popping up. I've seen multiple in a few different cities now.

Here's an example of one in Redmond WA, I think there are at least a couple more in Seattle: http://odyssey-vr.com/
> iPhone location history stays on the phone.

Not if you take photos and use iCloud.
They need hardware to give to google interns.
Another approach is using 'jj'.

> The artificial delay I have to introduce between typing "j" and "k" to actually type "jk" is unacceptable.

I tried the CAPS approach and tried using it via my left pinky, but find it too awkward to use - but this is probably a very individual thing and it's good that Vim supports it via its remapping capabilities.

But I hear you, sometimes if I have to type the string "jj" I get really confused, but this happens not very often.
NPR Planet Money did an episode about how zoos acquire animals. I recommend listening to it:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/09/493295430/episo...

To put it in a nutshell, they are not allowed to buy and sell animals. Aquariums can trade animals with other aquariums but no money should change hands. Zoos depend solely on goodwill, as even trade is banned. So when an animal is born in a zoo, if they don't need it or cannot keep it, they donate it to another zoo who needs it. And if a zoo needs an animals, they put the word out that they require one and some other zoo donates them one of theirs.
That's great! Does anyone know if the code editor itself uses canvas rendering? If not then why?
It's like operating systems. In the end, you will have a limited number of options, aws, gcp, and azure, like windows, mac and linux.
Ask HN: Do you use your laptop while you cook?
I was making pumpkin pie this weekend, and I was thinking about how a smarter kitchen can make cooking and preparing great meals better and a greater experience.

Does anyone have things that frustrate them with cooking? Anything frustrating on having your laptop out while you cook? Would love to hear your thoughts?
Not saying Qualcomm is on or off any hook but perhaps Apple's valuations are a bit off and Qualcomm's closer to reality.
Tried to create an account and no matter what I tried to name my devices all I got was "keybase has reserved this name."

Welp.
Not sure what other systems ran, but, AFAIK, the one in São Paulo, called Videotexto, was served out of a DPS-8M mainframe running MULTICS.
> China has 100 cities with a population greater than 1 million.

Correction: China has 102 (specifically) urban areas over 1 million people. The same report lists 42 for the US (I didn't bother to count Europe, but I think it's larger).

"City" is an arbitrary and unreliable unit of measure. For example, there are over 6 million people in South Florida, but no city over 500,000 people and only two over 200,000.
Database lockin. Guess that was not clear enough.
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in what ways did Qualcomm violate FRAND terms? Nokia, Ericsson and pretty much everyone else uses the entire device as a royalty basis. This is a fairly standard industry practice -- and has been so for decades.

While Qualcomm is the largest contributor of wireless standards, it is far from a monopology.

Also note that Apple accuses of every wireless patents holders of some sort of unfair pricing and violation of FRAND terms whenever Apple is up for license renewal. This is coming from a company that audaciously asked about $30 per device for a handful of frivolous design and utility patents from Samsung.
From my experience, I'm better rested now than I was before I went bi-phasic.

I personally believe sleep is simply a cleaning cycle for the brain, waiting 16 hours between cleaning cycles may be deleterious.
Flagged-dead really quickly?
This seemed like a fair article, and had 26 votes quite quickly before being censored:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15402460

Cmon folks.
> I can't even keep track of how many times I've tried to read code and comments I wrote from more than 6 months ago, and thought to myself "this doesn't make sense" or "how can this possibly work?"

I guess I'm an outlier-- while I have read misleading/wrong comments in C code, I can't think of a single time where I've had my time significantly wasted by a misleading comment in C code.

I can think of several times where I've been slapped by a wrongly named function. Oops, turns out "check_width" doesn't merely return an int but instead mutates something deep in the bowels of the program.
I wirelessly fast-charge my Samsung S7; I'm not sure where you got the idea that it doesn't work.
First step to "The Circle". :-)
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They can make the phone thinner, but they are only doing that by putting more hardware (a DAC) into the headphone. It's massively duplicating one component for such a negligible advantage.
I am not an audio engineer but I own a pair of bluetooth headphones and 2 devices that I use them with and it's a nightmare as both devices fight over it. It seems to be the USB problem all over but an order of magnitude worse. I can't just flip the cable over, I need to disable bluetooth temporarily on the device that I don't want to pair.
I didnt read those comments, but large capital projects one would think is harder, since they collect less overall revenue. For example its hard to imagine singapore sending a person to mars, over say China or US

other things, especially people related, are much easier. its very close together, very homogeneous, etc.
The dirty little secret: tools are much more fun to build that actually solving the problem. Tools that can be used to build tools are even more fun. Done right, toolmaking can supplant having to do the grotty work of problem solution.
I think anyone who owns a gun wishes they were easier to buy. I mean they are easy to buy, it's just the delay after purchase makes them frustrating.
Never thought I'd see the day when Google would make a Gopro competitor.
> Arguably IG is atleast as competent as EC

That's why the Commission rarely acts in such a direct manner - they know they are talking to very powerful interests. But again, in most cases, when such procedures are invoked, national governments are eventually found in violation. Nobody enjoys victimizing a member state, they only do it when infractions are so egregious that they cannot be ignored.

> violating non-retroactivity traditions/laws.

If you don't pay taxes in 2012 and the state sues you in 2014, as long as the statute of limitations allows it, there is no retroactivity. The Commission only started to actively investigate these arrangements recently, but the relevant laws have been on the books (or rather in the treaties) for a very long time. Just because a policeman doesn't arrest you for beating your neighbour doesn't mean you're not breaking the law.
> with friends to socialize

Or, sometimes, rival tribes to fight with and kill -- not everything is (necessarily) hunky-dory in every tribal society.
Many of the habits of hunter-gatherers would likely be absolutely unacceptable in today's culture. They were likely violently clannish/racist, completely male-dominated, hierarchical based on physical strength and appearance, and believed in gods/supernatural phenomenon.
This seems like a successor to the Google Pixel [1] whose name was eclipsed by the Google Pixel smartphone.

[1] See here: https://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromebook-Laptop-Screen-Proce...
So why is apple suing in 2017? why didn't they sued in 2007 at time of launch of iphone? Issue is way more complex in this fight.
1. Qc has more than 130k patents,licensee gets blanket protection for all.(one can argue about bundling though)
2. Qc,ericcson,nokia and other patent holders have cross licensing agreements with each other.This is to avoid negotiating individual contracts with every patent holder in a standard.
>they don't charge IPR on the modem function, but over the whole device.

Is this why there's no option for an LTE modem in a MacBook Pro?
This article doesn't try to, but this comment section would be a fine place for those smarter than me to drop knowledge bombs on us :D

....

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:D
I put galliumos (ubuntu with some tweaks for the hardware) on the last google chromebook pixel i5 and I've been using it since release. It's solid hardware, just like this one.

However, I don't think I would get another since the keyboard not having proper function keys gets pretty annoying.
I graduated from a Telecommunications technical school in Budapest in 1992. We took the exam from relay-based switching centres (also 7A2 and ARF102) and had to repair an old style rotary dial phone to pass and get a diploma. Our teacher told us about Minitel in France but emphasised that the real thing will be ISDN (64kbps). In a couple of years in college I had high speed Internet access, Silicon Graphics workstations with those beautiful, huge blue monitors. It is hard to imagine nowadays what a change that was, though switching from my Motorola flip phone to iPhone 4 was also quite something.
The spurious directionality is introduced by the unfortunate insertion of the phrasal verb "wind up".

Likelihood as such doesn't have directionality; it expresses the frequency of co-occurence of two phenomena.

That is to say, "Unselfish People More Likely to be Depressed" doesn't assert causality as much, and "Depression Correlates with Unselfish Traits" even less.
They sure look symmetric in the pictures, though?
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My number was taken from another source (I lost it). You can get higher or lower numbers by comparing to other things. For an apples to apples comparison (latest Qualcomm data I found was 2015) gives 3.4%.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-...
Thanks but no thanks. I love my Nexus 6P a lot (still)!
Not a single study or piece of research referenced by the article. "Some professor with a book says..." is not very convincing.

This is not a news article, and is not journalism. This is an advertisement for a book.
Either these apps are already predicted to arrive or google will make sure they do. I can't see why Google would want people to do computing on their own machines though.

This looks a lot like an attempt to grab some would be MacBook buyers that are unhappy with the latest models.
The ad copy for this says "100% private. No Internet needed to capture." But the last time Google sold a camera-oriented device, Google Glass, it would upload all the pictures it took to Google's servers without any way to stop it from doing so. And Google gave out instructions to stop it from uploading pictures, but the instructions didn't work. Can an engineer from Google, who has looked at the code or at the network traffic, say confidently that this isn't uploading all your pictures to Google's servers?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20644764/prevent-google-...
Skip it, friends. This is a badly-written, and unimportant article. also, phys.org using clickbait? I thought they were good.
> It costs me at work, I'm sure of it, but it hasn't gotten me fired or even significantly prevented me from doing my job, so why would I change it?

That's exactly it, it's a lose-lose. Honestly, I think it's the number one thing I look for when weighing a job offer: if I spend 5 hours a day writing high quality code, will anyone care if I take off after? I'd rather have time to go home, go to the gym, relax, and get 9 hours of sleep. I hate the feeling of just being at the office because I feel like I should. It makes me happier and honestly, over the long-term, my work output is better than when I was working 10 hour days.
Unbeatable.
America, your denial is deep.
I really agree with the "uncanny valley" judgement. I would absolutely love to ditch my Windows 10 laptop for a smooth, efficient, and secure ChromeOS device. However, it simply doesn't have the software support, unfortunately.

What I see a lot of "power users" doing is simply using their Chromebook to remote into their desktop for their application work. However, what then is the point of putting such powerful hardware in the Chromebook? Either you make a "thin" portable client that is used to remote into your "real" PC, or you make a powerful portable device that is self sufficient.

An overwhelmingly powerful device that can only be used to remote into another system to do the "real" work is simply a waste.
Do they actually make interns use chromebooks?
But what if bottled water is what people actually want even though they're asking for Brawndo?
Personally I'd love to have a dev Chromebook.

The software stack running on it is second to none.

Even the BIOS is light-years ahead any Windows/Linux box.
As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process.
Like Amazon stuck with their phone?
I think they can probably improve, but just due to being built on chromium means a level of overhead that's likely higher than sublime. If fix means acceptably close, they might get there. I'm now using VSCode daily and have no real complaints.
> Go look at sci-fi from the 60s and you'll see flat screens hanging on the wall. This of course happened but flat screens were one of the critical developments for laptops and, more importantly, modern smartphones.

Star Trek: The Original Series; 1966; Electronic Clipboard / Personal Access Display Device
At least for the iphone, this is not true. I'm not going to argue that the dongle is elegant, but you can do it.
The author calls herself a statistician but has no advanced OR undergraduate degree in statistics. I would not put much faith into this "research". Making conclusions and recommendations at the global and national population level is something I would only trust a proper scientist to do.
You're bringing in quality of life issues, which it's true are very different between the developing and developed countries today, and not accounted for in PPP.

But that being said, it's a huge exaggeration to say 1 billion are living in extreme poverty in India, much as it would be inaccurate to say that the 30% of the Indian population categorized as the middle class has the same quality of life standards as their analogues in the developed world.

During the time of the greatest industrial development in the US, working class people had to cope with very extreme environmental hazards that diminished their quality of life, i.e. in Gary, Indiana:

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/638.html
https://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Inequalities-Industrial...
It's just business.

Let the people buy what they want.

We know that you could build something similar with a $6 Aliexpress camera, $1 motion sensor and a $5 rpi zero from Microcenter but we're not the market.
it's shocking that this division exists. liberty requires freedom from ANY institution, whether state, church, or corporation, from having too much power over your life.
> Is anyone on this forum so important that they deserve to live for 10,000 years

Nobody is important and nobody deserves anything. There's no outside force making decisions about who is allowed to have what. You get what you figure out how to get and you keep it as long as you figure out how to keep it.

> It's purely an ego driven thing based on us as individuals.

But assigning yourself to be the arbiter of who is or isn't "important" enough to "deserve" an extended lifespan isn't ego-driven?

> If you can live for 150 years and not get worn down by the things people do to each other, more power to you.

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?
Try LineageOS without GApps. More usable, but contains driver blobs.
>Apple is against.

In this case. Apple has a history of demanding extortionate patent licensing fees for incredibly obvious ideas.

You seem to be missing the bigger picture. The attack on Qualcomm is against the company, not the patents. Qualcomm snapdragons are the only competitive ARM chips against Apple's A series.

Apple is trying to destroy Qualcomm and monopolize the market. That's not going to help the little guys you claim to care so much about.
tl;dr past and present firearms legislation mostly focuses on banning firearms/features which is both too broad and not properly targeted nor does it reflect the nature of the problem.
No, it's not an edge case. They are people. And nowhere did I suggest sacrificing security. I said you need to be able to use the system without computers.
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If you are relying on accidentally f'ing things up then u and ctrl-r are essential too.

u is my favourite!
> huge amounts of net carbon as the plant life now under water is no longer sucking it up, and as it decays it emits other nasty stuff.

Is it a huge amount when amortized over the life of the dam?
Does Dropbox offer visa sponsorship or applicants must be residents of USA?
Reproducibility crisis: some notes about p-values that may be of interest
I really wish they would reintroduce the Nexus series. The money felt worth it for the phone. Not sure if I can say the same for the Pixel series.