skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What "cognitive overhead?"

Let's break down the cognitive overhead of mouse use. Setting aside the "reaching for the mouse" penalty, there's a lot of work involved in mouse-related tasks like copying a selection:

1. Move your eyes off of the text you're editing so you can find the mouse cursor.

2. Figure out where the mouse cursor is relative to the text you need to edit.

3. Effect that relative movement with your mouse.

4. Highlight the text for copying.

5. ^C or some other key combo to yank the selection.

6. Reorient the mousing hand to the keyboard (find the home row keys again).

Steps 4 and 5 take an equivalent amount of mental effort, but 1-3 and 6 don't exist in vim. That's the cognitive overhead I'm talking about.

> And how is memorizing a bunch of arcane key combinations for cursor movement and region selection not cognitive overhead?

Visual selection is the letter v in vim. There are four keys for basic cursor movement. Then y for yank, d for cut, p for paste. Vim only seems arcane because so many posts about vim are really about demonstrating how smart the author is. I get pretty exercised about this because it's chasing people away who could really benefit from learning vim. Vim is not arcane, vim has a dead simple core with a bunch of entirely optional features on top of it.
So, I've been building a knowledge base (writing my own software for it as well), and this brings up an interesting question for me.

How do you (anyone) all feel Diaries help in personal knowledge?

Eg, I like the idea of keeping an informational log of each day - but I'm unsure what use can be obtained from it. Is there something inherent to a Diary that is better than, say, just adding some birthday information to "Becky"'s information in some type of personal knowledge base?

The best I can figure is that writing helps memory - but part of my knowledge base is being written with spaced repetition quizzing, so writing it into a knowledge base, vs a diary, seems just as effective.

To be clear, I'm just seeking discussion in this scope - I appreciate all attempts to build tools for our daily brains. I'm very interested in this landscape! Thank you for your work :)
It's a valid additional security layer. If it's not displacing other things you should be doing, it probably adds value.

His example of moving ssh to a non-default port is compelling.
I guess tone is hard to read online sometimes :)
And it was such a perfect phone to use without case.
i believe this is referencing some of his ideas on global wireless power transfer.

> Early on he seemed to borrow from the ideas of Mahlon Loomis, proposing a system composed of balloons to suspend transmitting and receiving electrodes in the air above 30,000 feet (9,100 m) in altitude, where he thought the pressure would allow him to send high voltages (millions of volts) long distances. [...] Experiments he conducted [at Colorado Springs in 1899] with a large coil operating in the megavolts range, as well as observations he made of the electronic noise of lightning strikes, led him to conclude incorrectly that he could use the entire globe of the Earth to conduct electrical energy.

> His observations also led him to believe a high voltage used in a coil at an elevation of a few hundred feet would "break the air stratum down", eliminating the need for miles of cable hanging on balloons to create his atmospheric return circuit. Tesla would go on the next year to propose a "World Wireless System" that was to broadcast both information and power worldwide. In 1901, at Shoreham, New York he attempted to construct a large high-voltage wireless power station, now called Wardenclyffe Tower, but by 1904 investment dried up and the facility was never completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Tesla

i've heard a claim that the idea described in the latter quote would effectively involve "igniting the ionosphere" which would permanently change the color of the sky, but i can't speak to the accuracy of that.
The Apple Sage are the only ones I don't like, but I'm definitely in the minority. The Chipolte ones are an acquired taste, but amazing on a hotdog bun with some mozza while camping.
That it’s written by the same guy behind Sidekiq, a very successful Ruby framework for background jobs.
A bit off-topic, but food related: visited the US a month ago and noticed that almost _everything_ contains corn syrup. What's the deal with that? How come most things (even a plain pot of honey) gets it mixed with the rest of the ingredients? Is it because of cost saving for the manufacturers, or are there some health benefits from consuming corn syrup?

Please ignore if this comment is too offtopic for this thread.
I like the Motorola double twist for camera gesture, you can start the gesture just as you take it out of your pocket.
The little bridge nubins are adjustable though.
This is liberal what racism looks like.

I am not a conservative, but "I couldn't help but this the author's unfortunate skin tone affected their arguments" is racist as hell and we should never ever accept it. Ever.
Deploying Graphviz on AWS Lambda
The 50% crash rate on your apps is what made me feel like your experience is the exception not the rule.

On my iPhone 6 I see maybe a crash rate of 2-5% (one in 20-50). There are apps with higher crash rates from time to time that usually get fixed with updates. I don't try to run the latest demanding 3d games and such on the phone, since I don't expect them to be usable on a 3-year-old device.

Maybe you're pushing your devices harder than I do or something but I second the parent's sentiment that your experience is out of the ordinary. But that doesn't mean it's your fault at all, just unusual.

All that being said, I'm overall less happy with iOS 11 than 10 on my phone. But love it on the iPad.
lxml is nice. i would as suggested parse and scrape in different threads so you can speed up a bit, but it's not required per se. if you can't get the data you see on the website using lxml there might be ajax or other stuff implemented. to capture these streams / datas use a headless browser like phantomJS or so.
Article looks good to me for 'simple' scrapings and is a good base to start playing with the concepts.

The nice thing about making a scraper from scratch like this is that you get to decide it's behaviour and fingerprint ,and you wont get blocked as some known scraperr. that being said, most people would appreiciate if you parse their robots.txt , but depending on your geographical locatin this might be an 'extra' step which isnt needed... (i'd advise to do it anyway if you are a friendly ;) and maybe put in user agent for requests something like 'i don't bite' to let ppl know you are benign...) if you get blocked while trying to scrape you can try to fake site into thinking you are browser just by setting user agent and other headrs appropriately. if you dont know which these are, open nc -nlvp 80 on your local machine and wget or firefox into it to see headers...

Deciding on good xpath or 'markers' to scrape can be automated, but it's often ,. if you need good accurate data from a singlular source, a good idea to manually go through the html and seek some good markers...

an alternate method of scraping is automating wget --recursive + links -dump to render html pages to txt output and grep or w/e these for what data you need... tons of methods can be devised... depending on your needs some will be more practical and stable than others.

saving files is only usefull if you need assurance on data quality and if you want to be able to tweak the results without having to re-request the data from the server. (just point to local data directory instead...). this way you can setup a harvester and parsers fr this datas.

if you want to scrape or harvest LARGE data sets consider a proxy network or something like a tor connection jugling docker instance or so to ensure rate limiting is not killing your hrvesters...

good luck have fun and don't kill peopels servers with your traffic spam, that's a dick move.... (throttle/humanise your scrapings...)
"In response, an angry mob of 50 students disrupted his biology class, surrounded him, called him a racist and insisted that he resign."

Students have been doing that for thousands of years. This isn't about racism or post-modernism. This is about longstanding mob dynamics. Communists in pre-revolution Russia and asia. Religious zealots in Scotland. Romans in their ancient senate. This is simply a group of young people storming an office to shout down an established member of an older generation. Once discovered, this power feeds upon itself. It may be how revolutions start but more often than not the young people get older/bored or things burn out as the movement grows and internal power structures destroy themselves. You cannot stop the movement by arguing its politics because those politics are beside the point. You stop them by redirecting their energy towards something new, something more cool than yesterday's politics.
This is a fine opinion piece but for learning anything substantive on this subject it’s absolutely devoid of any facts or sourcing for any of its claims. Also seems woefully, out of touch given recent profiles on Milo Yiannopoulos and the arrest of three white supremacists on attempted murder charges for firing guns on student protesters following a campus speech.

It’s possible the situation is slightly more nuanced then “college students hate facts/white people”.
Game 1 in Los Angeles will be the hottest World Series face-off of all time
I'm Canadian and drink Soylent regularly, maybe like 2-4 times per month. Soylent is again doing a poor job on PR in that FAQ. The most important questions are which requirements are the failing and why. That's all, but again they're obscure and far from the public.

Same was when lots of their consumers wanted a non-edulcorated version (it was very sweet some versions ago) and then there was no communication on their side.

I still buy it, because it's convenient, but they could improve their communication.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple would be extraordinarily profitable even if they were paying 26% corporate income tax rates. Your entire premise collapses right there.

Facebook will generate near $20 billion in earnings before tax for fiscal 2017. You're positing that if they pay $6 billion in taxes, instead of $4 billion, then their monopoly will unwind or somehow their competitors will finally be able to catch up (yeah, it's just not fair, the tax rate that Snap is paying).

Now apply the exact same thing to the other tech giants (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel, Cisco, etc). It's just as far-fetched with them as it is Facebook.
This is simply disingenuous. That's perfectly legible. Especially compared to the common practice of not posting it at all. I don't see how anyone can be upset at this.
> In other news, every major retailer uses secret shoppers to do essentially the same thing.

They send their employees with fake names, trying to lure customers from their competitors? At least that's what the article claims.
> How to fix it though?

Don't think we can. We're more likely to fix one of our other big, fundamental problems—the two party system + gerrymandering, for which proportional representation or any of several other schemes would be a good fix—than we are that, and I'd say the odds of our fixing that this century are maybe 50/50. We have no stomach (or mind...) for questioning such foundational premises of our system in the face of something as abstract and high-falutin' as a kind of political root-cause analysis, and aside from that we have too many states-can't-possibly-do-anything-right-ever-evidence-be-damned-no-really-I-proved-it-from-first-principles-it's-just-like-math folks running around.
Facebook apologizes after wrong translation sees Palestinian man arrested
At the same time, self driving cars could use the roads more efficiently (once they make up most traffic).

I think you're generally right though. I know if I had a self driving car, I'd move further out of the city. If it adds to my commute time, I won't care if I can do other things while I commute (work, read, write, sleep, etc...).
> It uses Facebook's high-performance RocksDB embedded datastore internally to persist all job data, queues, error state, etc

This breaks the devops story for me. The difference in featureset between Rocksdb and redis is not that big.. However redis is hugely supported on the cloud and in high-availability fully-managed mode.

Its so convenient to use sidekiq on heroku or aws. I really hope you build this on redis rather than a new persistence server.
I'd buy one if I didn't know they are violating my privacy. And one dropping on the floor can (and will) destroy all the glory.
When you peel back a layer or two from the background job onion you land smack dab in the land of message queues. I’ll be curious to see what trade offs this library makes around classic message queue problems such as delivery semantics, visibility windows, sharding or replication for multi node, etc.

There’s definitely a lot of message queues out there these days and things like Kafka which turn into message queues. That said, a lot of them are a pain to operate so there’s room for one that is easy to deploy and operate.
A good book on the subject is "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science" by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

Summary: With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left."
It's the FBI, man :) Your TOR exit point is probably blacklisted ;)
Cost savings. Corn subsidies have dropped the real cost of corn so much that it’s cheaper to use it for almost anything. HFCS (and corn syrup in general) is more harmful health wise than normal sugars and one of the leading causes of obesity in the US.

One of thousands of sources on the health impacts:

http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/4/537.full
If you're the kind of person who dismisses anything coming from Breibart or fox news as unreliable, it's absurd to turn around and use the likes of rational wiki as a source for any kind of serious argument. It's a pure propaganda website with no editorial standard.
Also: https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
Yes, the few solution that exists provide complicated experiences. Like I explained with Interac for example. I really think there is something to be done here
My point was that localities differ greatly across the US (and Europe for that matter), and should be taken care of at a local level rather than from the centralized location of DC. I don't want to live in a police state, so I choose to live in a small town that doesn't have the issues that our big cities have.
I think the NLP was what much of the hype was about though?
I have a 6S. I suggest doing a DFU and set up as new.
> Just think about how much, especially in the early days, came out of academia alone.

Academic institutions are hugely monopolistic...

> Where there's lots of competition, the need to innovate is the necessity for survival.

That's the theory. In practice, competition drives bean-counting efficiency. See, e.g., Thinkpads before and after the Lenovo acquisition. Pretty much the only place you see innovation in that space is among companies that can carve out a niche based on brand or differentiating factors (Apple), or among companies that have a monopoly on a key piece of the supply chain (Intel, Microsoft).
The US produces a lot of corn, so it is cheap. And corn syrup is a sugar-substitute, so including it in everything makes things taste more addictive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
Everytime i read something about Nikola Tesla, i go back reading: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
> Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy

Oh brother. Here we go again with another rant that cherry-picks a few instances and pads them out with Orwell quotes and shrill claims like this. I'm a current college student, and compared to my experience and the experiences of my peers, the author is describing another reality. Very "kids these days, get off my lawn".
Isn’t every security layer a valid “additional” security later?
Running C++ static analysis tools on OpenMAMA middleware
and I suspect that fully autonomous electric cars might just orbit the city if parking/charging spaces are not avaible.

When I worked for an Arab Company in London one of the messenger "boys" jobs was to when a traffic warden was spotted to drive the senior directors cars (seriously stepped on mercs and bmw's with the after market armour packages ) around the block few times and park it back outside the office :-)
Sorry for the late response!

I've just checked and I could not find it for most models. I could find it for the OptiPlex 7450 All-in-One, but not for the Precision line.

At [1], you can find a screenshot of the setting that reflects this option. A colleague of mine ordered such a system and it came with a leaflet explaining that this meant that Intel ME was turned off and could no longer be turned on for this machine (trap door mechanism). It also explained that SKUs with Intel ME enabled could enter this state through the UEFI menu. He opened his system up and inspected the system board, and it was also labeled with a seal stating that Intel ME had been disabled on this system and could not be turned on. I'm trying to get hold of the leaflet so I can give you the exact wording Dell used for this.

The fact that this state can be entered through a UEFI program makes me believe that other systems running Dell's newest UEFI platform will have the same capability, but I have not been able to confirm this.

My screenshot is from the Belgian Dell enterprise portal. The wording translates to "System management: vPro Management Engine (ME) not executable, customer order".

[1] https://i.imgur.com/lpidbH3.png
If I try it several times in a row it's quick, since presumably everything is cached in memory. If I've been doing other stuff and pick my phone up hours later (exactly when I want that split-second shot of my kid or the license plate of the car that almost ran over me), that's when the phone and camera take ages to get ready.
If I was a wheat farmer, I'd sign up for sure to try this.
Framework for Protecting a Trillion Devices
Define "getting yelled at".

Nobody is defending management which abuses employees for failing to meet quality standards. But yelling at employees is not the only way to indicate disapproval of work which does not meet quality standards, and the fact that Apple has not been maintaining quality standards is a black stain on current management that Steve Jobs never would have allowed in his company.

Apple shouldn't model Jobs's management style and go back to yelling at workers, but its entire corporate ethos depends on keeping Jobs's quality standards. If those standards are gone then Apple's brand will surely die.
That's interesting! I hadn't noticed the change. As you say, it's probably not relevant until Apple can actually release a single-app update through that channel, but it might be a glimpse at a future where that's an option.
The EU has a set of laws called State Aid, which disallows member states from subsidizing business to the detriment of their competitors (either other businesses or other states). Government can improve infrastructure, but cannot literally hand out cash to build a factory, or anything like that.

This exists even though EU nation states have far more individual power than US states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_aid_(European_Union)
This so needs a ditaa[0] integration.

[0]: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
Because when someone makes the argument that "ok now discrimination has gotten out of hand" it usually is implied "... Now that I'm the target!" Which would imply the author isn't used to being the target of discrimination, which would imply middle aged white male.

The point I was trying to jokingly bring up is a valid one, I think. How much of what we do leaks identity-related metadata? How much are of the responses we get are responses to that inferred metadata?
I’ve used Sidekiq for years. Great project. Looking forward to giving this a swing.

I really respect what Mike’s done being able to monetize his work on cool open source projects.
Instant iPhone X mockup
I don't see this as a dark pattern or a malicious decision. Most of the stuff we buy don't explicitly say "It's not organic", "It's not allergen-free". I know they are minimizing this and putting the focus on the other column, but it looks more transparent than other companies in my opinion.
The Entire Global Financial System Depends on GPS/GNSS but It's Very Vulnerable
I miss my Sony Ericsson that had an actual shutter button you could hold down to activate the camera from sleep.
An average quality headphones are in the price range of bluetooth headphones. So I don't understand your point.

I couldn't find anything below 10€ with decent sound quality, and it was hard to find something at that price that was good. Moreover, they lasted around 3-6 months for me, while a 25€ Bluetooth headset I bought 3 years ago is still working and the sound is better.
So I think the magic piece of information missing from the article is that workers can have multiple open per-client sockets "on the go"; so if one worker gets all the client sockets, then you're not getting parallelism.
> When I used Samsung, they had a mini app for everything. Even their clock / alarm / stopwatch / timer app was extremely easy and convenient to use. It's hard to quantify, it's a feeling that adds up over time.

But you pay for that in the form of a bad core system. Samsung's kernel tuning is bad. Their low level services are bad. Their system UI is bad. I'd much rather have a healthy core system since I can't replace that than a few fancy apps that are trivially replaced via play store. It's a night & day difference between a Samsung & a Google device when you systrace them and look at how the core device is actually responding. Benchmarks don't capture this, which is why most OEMs don't bother getting it right.

If you still need microSD for some reason great, but honestly with 128gb phones I can't say I have any use for it. The phone's internal storage is more than plenty, especially with large things like photos being offloaded to cloud storage (with many providers to choose from if you don't like Google Photos for some reason). microSD was necessary when devices still had a base of 16GB, but that's not the world we live in anymore. Pixel 2's base storage is 64GB.
I meant "additional" more like "optional". Things you would do after doing the bare minimum. It shouldn't displace things that are of higher importance. Running a currently patched sshd, disabling password auth, etc, would be higher priority than running on a non-standard port.
Right, but what GP meant to say was that obscurity is not sufficient as the ONLY layer of security. There might be some techniques that are perfectly sufficient (for example, encrypting all the user data with a password and storing a hash+salt version of the password coule be argued to be sufficient), but obscurity is not.
I shouldn't have implied adoption is necessarily low in tech circles. What I meant is that I've seen a surprising adoption by non-tech people, making the proportion of the adoption out of the ordinary and harder to jduge using past experience with tech devices.
Lol. “I heard some progressives support preemptive self defense so I should be allowed to fire into any crowd of people I think may be progressives”. I hope that is their defense.
I think she didn't like those; the glasses she ended up with are the kind where the bridge is part of the plastic frame.
Part 2: https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Nikola%20Tesla%20Part%200...