skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USB-C and MacBook Pro
I wonder if I'm the only that's going a little crazy with the new MacBook Pro USB-C connections. I've experienced issues with my keyboard disconnecting, HDMI disconnecting, power disconnecting and display lag caused by the hub. Many hubs don't fully work, protocols are different etc.

So this is how I got my external screen running at 60hz while using USB-C on my 15 inch MacBook Pro:

Step 1:
I bought this screen (not an affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YD3DBOC/

Step 2:
This cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074V5MMCH/

Step 3: I opened the menu on the monitor and changed the display port connection from Display port 1.1 to 1.2

Step 4: I connected my 2 USB-C connection on opposing sides of the MacBook (no clue why this matters, but it seems to make a difference). You'll also want to make sure you plug the charging USB-C cable directly into the MacBook. Some hubs slow down charging.

Step 5: I clicked to display preferences and clicked "scaled" while holding down the option key (adding this in case you're new to macs). My personal preference is 3200x1800

I was very happy when I finally go it to work smoothly. It's a little crazy how complicated this is though.
Have been using it through R using the excellent https://github.com/walkerke/tigris for some geospatial data visualization. No complaints.
Good luck, I expect by 12:05am the website will show delivery dates in February.
I meant mailbox.org is based in Germany :)
FYI There is a USB-C to headphone jack cable provided in the box.
That link of yours shows that the iPhone 4 had substantially less saturated reds and blues than sRGB. http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_4_ShootOut_files/image009....

Earlier iPhones were an even smaller gamut. http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_3GS_ShootOut_files/image00...

More than just desaturating images that aren’t gamut mapped, however, these iPhones substantially distort color relationships.

They were historically great displays for mobile devices, but they would have been a lot better with some color management involved.
I also can’t interact with it on my iPad. No keyboard comes up or a button like backup.
FWIW, a few years back, I was averaging <5ms for a benchmark of live traffic (many thousands of queries per second) on Pinterest queries against their full dataset on a single EC2 box with a weeks worth of customization on top of Lucene.

The existing stuff isn't slow.
For anyone who was thinking, like me, "If that formula is correct, couldn't you precompute hashes and then subtract Hash(chain) to get the desired nonce", it's more like

Hash(nonce + 2^256 * Hash(chain[including with new transactions])) < value

Still an oversimplification, of course.
Why would the US give a Top Secret clearance to an immigrant?

edit - You can't immigrate to a country then expect to receive a Top Secret clearance regardless if it is the US or any other country. I don't suspect Russia will give me a clearance if I were to immigrate and find employment at a tech company. There would be a major national security incident waiting to happen.
The same world where a floppy disk doesn’t come with computers any more.
Good memories. I built the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Second Life [0] in 2007. I met Philip Rosedale in August 2007, he saw it and said it was the most beautiful building ever made in SL.

Then, I found my job at AWS through Second Life. [1]

Years later, the project became secondary to me. Unfortunately, there was no way to backup my creation, and I didn't want to give 300$/month to Linden Labs. (unfair artificial constraint, to be honest). I shut it down. They might still have a backup somewhere, who knows?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPVJww9H5c

[1]: http://brunozzi.com/2008/05/22/how-i-got-hired-by-amazon.com...
I thought of the word(s) I was trying to think of: "presque vu" ;)
They claim (tho I haven't confirmed myself) to do encryption at the device - automatically between Protonmail accounts (right now though, they do not support sending pgp encrypted email to a protonmail account with a keypair not generated by them... Which seems a _very_ odd design decision):

In simple terms, end-to-end encryption means that messages are encrypted on the sender’s device (before it even leaves their computer or mobile phone), and can only be decrypted by the recipient on their device. This means that no third party which transmits or intercepts the email between the sender and recipient (i.e. internet service providers, the NSA, or even ProtonMail as the mail server operator) can decrypt and view the message.

This powerful protection is possible because ProtonMail has PGP email encryption built-in. End-to-end encryption is done automatically without user interaction whenever messages are exchanged between ProtonMail users. For an enterprise using ProtonMail for their email hosting, this means all communications between employees are automatically protected with end-to-end encryption. ProtonMail can also support sending/receiving end-to-end encrypted messages with recipients who are not using ProtonMail. The use of end-to-end encryption makes ProtonMail a better choice for security conscious individuals and organizations.
Older tech stays around quite a while! No sequencing technology is perfect, so even Sanger sequencing is still used quite a bit for various tasks from clinical sequencing to validation studies to anywhere you just want to phase something that's longer than 300bp, etc.

And yes, the chemistry that biology takes advantage of means embracing uncertainty in the world. It's all thermodynamic chances, with lots of non-linearity added on top of it all.
I was hoping that the author would go into how to do tone mapping correctly.

> ask WHY games are the way they are, though.

To add to your point, the main reason for "bad HDR" in FPS games is for simulating eye adaptation. Screens don't have 1,000,000:1 constrast ratio and can't shine as bright as the sun (we wouldn't want them to). This means that games are forced to approximate this effect - inevitably resulting in shortcomings.

Furthermore, game development is a race against time. You have milliseconds to render the scene and apply tone mapping. It may very well be mathematically possible to create automated tone mapping that would make a cinematographer proud, but can you make an algorithm that completes in less than 1 millisecond? I doubt it.

To my point, there are mods on PC that replace the tone mapper (I think ReShade does this) and they absolutely destroy your framerate - however the results are absolutely gorgeous if you know what you're doing.
If you want stringent key control at the consumer level, I've found a good one in Abloy's Protec2 system, with a Ruby Abloy dealer. Under that system, an exclusive key blank is manufactured and made only available to a specific dealer. No other Abloy dealer is able to get that blank. [1] Put a Drumm Geminy Shield in front of a Protec2 cylinder to put a long delay on typical hand-held destructive attacks against the cylinder, or force an attacker to bring in heavy equipment to break the lock, and most attackers will opt for either softer targets or a brick through the window.

That key system also lets you do the usual key control designing, like a master key that opens everything, and a loaner key that only opens the front door, for example. Like any security system, you will want defense in depth, and have other layers protecting other aspects.

[1] http://lockwiki.com/index.php/Abloy_Protec
Answer

> these moments are simply part of the way we communicate, and they’re more or less universal

Hard-hitting science right there. This is literally as far as the article goes.
Check out mid-range stuff. There's an absolute treasure trove. I've been using a Moto G5 Plus (the 4GB RAM model) for some time now and it's an absolute treat.
https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10977.htm#2

2. Do you have to be a U.S. citizen to receive a security clearance from the State Department?

As outlined in Executive Order 12968, Access to Classified Information, eligibility for access to classified information may only be granted to employees who are United States citizens. However, an exception is allowed in specific situations wherein there are compelling reasons for limited access to be granted to an immigrant alien or foreign national employee who possess a special expertise that is needed for specific programs, projects, contracts, licenses, certificates, or grants.
If want wireless headphones that are reliable and don't need to be charged every few hours, take a look at the Bose SoundLink OEs.
Direct link to thesis: http://schema.lib.cam.ac.uk/PR-PHD-05437_CUDL2017-reduced.pd...
Argh!

I know CHM have put alot of stuff up on YouTube, and I hope they do for this as well. There are already two other events in this time-slot that I want to go to!
Complete gacha
Have you considered that the problem (static, etc.) might not be on part of the bluetooth earphones, but rather on your phone's bluetooth hardware? I use an iPhone with bluetooth earphones all day and it's a great experience.
Does that matter without knowing the size of the team? If the team's 10x bigger than you'd have guessed, is it still worse if they're working on Windows & Linux platforms too?

FWIW, I do use macOS, I just thought it was an odd 'feature', not least because it makes it unportable and contributes to lock-in.
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Thanks, PM, for trying to tackle a hard problem. I've been a happy customer.

I've also been a happy customer of your VPN product, but I'd be happy to retire the OpenVPN app on my iPhone. Any word on an iOS app soon?
No notification LED and No fingerprint reader on the back is why I decided to delay going to the x4. I do like that it has a working FM radio and headphone jack though. :(
The deeper answer was on the tip of their tongue, but they just couldn't come up with it for the article.
<marquee> still works!?!?!?
an iPhone 6s, most likely. i am in a similar camp of wanting to have certain ‘legacy’ tech wrt my laptop. my 2011 17” mpb will be my daily driver until it is pried from my cold dead hands (well hopefully its cold dead shell is pried from my living hands). i, however, didn’t feel the need to cry about it when the computers didn’t perfectly align with my desires though. maybe people just like complaining?
Hello. I honestly haven't experienced any problems with USB c and my macbook pro. I do have some different adapters than you do though. Here is what I'm using. Did not require any custom display settings. Just plug and play.

2 HDMI to usb c adapters - https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-MOKiN-Macbook-Chromebook-Gold...

2 of these monitors - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0148NNKTC/ref=oh_aui_deta...
There are also false positives than never make it into your spam folder - that just get dropped silently. (I have a friend who's company's GSuite email _regularly_ does this...)
Former Walmart General Counsel Discusses Drone Delivery Services and AERO Token
on last generation hardware too, though the screenshot in question might be taken one of the ports to more modern systems
I spent a few weeks working out of a coworking space about a year ago.

As I was sitting there typing away, it dawned on me that the place reminded of a college library, but better with coffee/snack being allowed.

I can't think of a better place to learn how to code than a coworking place. With so much energy of people working away, you will be energized to work/learn and not waste time youtubing. And you have other coders you can ask for help. Wasn't that the promise of bootcamp anyways? Keeping out the distractions?

Hopefully WeWork won't try to keep the old Flat Iron School way of charging $1500/month training. Instead they should grant anyone who uses WeWork facility the added bonus of (free or with a minor fee) attending Flat Iron School coding classes.

Maybe ask a locally based dev to offer service as a tutor to Flat Iron School attendees in return for reduced/free private office space. Students can come into the enclosed office hour during set hours. I can see even some devs volunteering for this as a way to network with future hires.

Asking someone to pay the $1500/mon for coding training while still having to find a place to study (starbucks sucks for this purpose) is not feasible. But asking someone to pay $450 a month for a dedicated desk (with 24/7 access) and grant the option of attending a bootcamp with a little bit extra fee? I think that's a very good option. Try the service for 1-2 months, and if not working you can quit. Without being burdened with big debt. And you have experienced devs and other students in the office locally that you can network with.
I noticed in South East Asia it was common to keep a water feature in the yard with one or more fish in it.

Mosquitos land on the water to lay eggs and are immediately eaten by the fish.

The water feature could be quite small. Sometimes just a large vase in a shady location with no aeration pump or filter (the water needs to be stagnant) and a few goldfish.

Or... you know... lasers. :D
I can definitely sympathize with your viscereal frustration with getting a trivia expression entered, especially for an already proficient coder. This tradeoff is actually part of the subject of the most recent blog post [1]. Any kind of tool that presents a non-text-based experience (be that VIM, Photoshop, or whatever) does unfortunately require a little time studying the commands and building some muscle memory.

You might also check out the post on general editing [2].

Thanks for the feedback!

[1] https://medium.com/p/the-economics-of-semantic-coding-7e8fd1...
[2] https://medium.com/p/an-experiment-in-structured-code-editin...
I spent a good amount of money on decent headphones and if I can't use them with my phone without a dongle that's a no-no. I get that "the future is portless" but the future hasn't arrived yet and until then I'm not gonna hand out 800EUR for something I can't use with my headphones with.
Yeah, the one thing that made me click away from the site was the particle effects when typing. It really broke that 'suspension of disbelief' moment for me. I know it is not a real terminal, but if you are going to go to the effort of making people feel they are interacting with a terminal, then don't break that illusion with fancy chrome.
It's sad. But it's also for the greater good. Capitalism automatically makes the most efficient use of land through the use of property taxes. It's also the only reason we have cities at all- all development necessarily displaced people living in lower density structures.

Cities change. It's inevitable. If you can't make use of the resources your city or town provides and someone else can then you are forced out. That's a good thing for society overall and it benefits you too.
I forgot to add "per day" in my comment. (I was aware of it, I just forget to write it.) So option b) is almost correct.
That is from the State Department. There are an array of different clearances.

http://www.dss.mil/psmo-i/ps_faqs.html#5

5. Are non-U.S. citizens eligible for a personnel security clearance?
No. However, under rare circumstances, a non-U.S. citizen may be issued a Limited Access Authorization for access to classified information. Specific criteria and limitations are provided in the NISPOM. You may also contact your IS Rep for additional information.
Yes! Like Dreamweaver is still alive!?!?!?
You would have to name off a long list of languages before you hit one I didn't think was better than Javascript.

Python does seem to hit the sweet spot of "user friendly" and "maintainable" that Javascript shoots for but never hits.

I actually consider Dart the "perfect" Javascript. I wish it had wider adoption, and ways to integrate a GUI that aren't "AngularDart in a web browser."

Kotlin is my latest fetish. I haven't played around with its JS transpiler yet, or it's native builds, but I'm cautiously hopeful.
Thanks. I gather that at least some volatiles bake out of subducting crust during the first 100-200 km. That's what drives subduction zone volcanism. But maybe that increases the melting range for what's left. I have no clue.
The supply issues Apple has with the X are due to the scale of their global sales machine. If they were dealing with a few million of phones like Google is with the Pixel, instead of tens of millions of phones like they are with the X, there wouldn't be any supply chain issues.
I got my first 10 customers by going to all the Hackers/Founders and 106 Miles meetups and just demoing Browserling to every single person that I met on my tiny 11" macbook air.
Indian parents in america are in mad rush to get their kids into top schools. They start "college prep" at 5 yr old ( eg: http://northsouth.org/public/main/home.aspx/), spelling bees, kumon ect .They know simply acing tests is not enough anymore. They know what other parents are also doing. Hard to get a leg up by simply studying more.

I won't be surprised if we see more of the indian child prodigies in coming years when bulk of indian immigrants kids hit that age.

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/156361-teenage-girl-c...
Been on the Insomnia REST client bandwagon since they were in beta https://insomnia.rest/ ... went to checkout this page and saw no reason why I'd want to change.
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The problem is, the alternative to dropped techs were better to some extent:

- CD-ROM -> Bigger hard drives, faster internet connections.

- Floppy -> CD-ROMs And BIOS upgrade

- Flash -> Better browser security, and faster javascript

Now for headphone jack, we have bluetooth. Slow, unreliable, requires to charge an extra device, when you run out of earphone battery, you are done listening. If you use the USB/Lightning to AUX, you can't charge your phone at the same time.

If lose the earpiece, you pay premium to replace it.

Also: I can't watch a video with a half-second audio delay. Half a second is being generous.
I built one of these ~7 years ago (I feel old :( ) based on this over here [1], inspired by the XKCD CLI [2].

This is certainly prettier!

[1]: https://github.com/tekacs/RCLI

[2]: https://uni.xkcd.com/
Indeed, humans may just be the bootloader.
From my favourite ever Usenix paper:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account

Solution:

* Magical amulets?

* Fake your own death, move into a submarine?

* YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON
> You just need to buy a decent product!

And there's the issue, the 3.5mm works with something I can buy for a couple of dollars in the supermarket and it just works. A good bluetooth headset costs an order of magnitude or two more and I can't find out if it's good until I take it home and open the packaging.

Even streaming from my phone to my PC is something I've found to be incredibly laggy.
Nice! I made a site where information was primarily exposed via keyboard input (my personal site as well[0]) but I had to make sure mobile worked okay so I made a static version for mobile users.

[0]: http://me.thatcoolidea.com
Yes I was looking for something more insightful, since this seems to inflict me quite often. I'd like to know what the underlying issue surrounding it might be. I was disappointed to find out this article, like a lot of upvoted NYT articles linked here lately, was just a bunch of fluff.
In the circles I hang in SL, its a social experience, many of the users are older, some may be housebound for one reason or other, unfortunately for some its a was to socialize in their twilight years.

In other groups I see a bot of creative folk, however janky it may be the primitive and scripting is easy to approach and gets people doing virtaul 3D visualizations pretty readily.

SL doesn't require anyone to dodge virtual bullets, they can just wander, socialize, create. Thats what draws me there.

New SL advances have introduced mesh objects into SL and allow the prim count (now Land Impact) to go down to near non existence so you can have more stuff in whatever virtual land you have. Frame rates vary but I think stability has been improving (not as many catastrophic sim-crossings, etc.)
One interesting aspect to this is that most companies focused on AI are chasing the same research talent, which is indeed rare. But sometimes AI research is not the most important skillset, especially when applying something like deep learning to the problems that a business faces. There are many software engineers capable of understanding the math behind deep learning, and piecing together the parts for ETL, training and inference.

Full disclosure: I was quoted in this article.
It would have been more helpful to post mirror site addresses rather than exacerbate the problem.

Anybody know of mirror sites? A basic web search doesn't show any, and archive.org doesn't show it.
Reminds me of http://alinelerner.com/
What size company and what’s your budget? Do you have requirements of working with an accounting system such as quickbooks?
> We've lost so much good tech over the years to reduce costs

I don't know what the reason is, but I doubt it's a matter of cost.
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Soylent can no longer ship to Canada
You are mistaken. Security clearances go with the person and not the job. Indeed, there’s an entire industry available to people with the correct clearance. Yeah, there's paperwork to do when you move to a new job.

https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10977.htm#9

https://www.clearancejobs.com/

For example, Edward Snowden had a clearance and worked for a private company, Booz Allen after first working for the NSA as a security guard then the CIA.
Unfortunately, it's a cheap DAC/amp dongle as, unlike some other phones, the Pixel 2 doesn't output analog audio via USB-C using the phone's built-in DAC/amp. And the Pixel 2 XL has its gain set really low for said dongle, meaning you're going to have difficulty driving lots of headphones.
Your last paragraph hits the problem: it’s possible that a car exists with a release-quality Bluetooth stack but I’ve yet to use one. The same is true of most of the non-current or expensive devises, which turns quality into something you need to carefully seek out rather than a given.

In contrast, $2 throwaway headphones work 100% of the time. Sure, the audio quality isn’t great but it’ll be better than any phone speaker and you can drop only a little more for a big improvement.

This annoys me because I like the Bluetooth concept – and have since I bought my first BT-equipped phone around 2004 – but the tragedy of the commons has hit really hard. It’s 2017 and turning Bluetooth off and back on is still a useful way to fix problems FFS!

If Apple and followers want to make this switch, they need to start blacklisting or warning for buggy devices (“x is unable to play back reliably; contact VENDOR support” or “sound quality will be low due to …”) — after fixing anything hokey they’re still shipping, of course. Trying to paper over the skimping just tarnishes the entire industry.
To be honest I think everyone else is crazy and/or doing a calculation without thinking about what it means.

All we know is that the range is N to 1000000N, but we do not know in and of itself that N is the smallest delta perceivable or possible.
WeWork is already paying for real estate. Add coding training as a bonus and they will attract a lot more office space users.

For potential coding bootcamp, it makes so much more sense.

Pay $1500/month for some classes but still have to find distraction free space to practice (for a lot of people, not easy to find).

Or pay $450/month and get 24/7 access to an office space and the may be pay extra $100/month for a specific coding class? Totally doable.

Just having 24/7 access to a real office will be big boost to anyone learning to code.