skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My recollection is the prejudices around AIDS had diminished dramatically by the time Philadelphia came out. But, the movie is (I think) depicting a past event when things would have been different. Also, movies often blow things a bit out of proportion. In the early-to-mid 80s, though, it would have been spot on.
>"the ‘null’ necessarily includes the equivalent of ‘no correlations/differences exist’"

"Null" stands for hypothesis to be nullified in this case, not zero.
They weren't design issues as much as manufacturing/parts issues, though. There's nothing to 'fix' with a missing SD card port, or missing USB-A ports. That doesn't mean they may never add them in a future release, but probably won't, as it would admit being 'wrong' (and may be less needed in a few years). I was honestly surprised at the USB-C-only approach (even though I know it's Apple's "way" to just remove stuff altogether). Having a mix of USB-A and USB-C would have made it a much more palatable transition - upgrade, use your old devices as needed, get new ones and use the new USB-C over time.
You are also confused about the meaning of "null":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15703503
I don't think it's about mirror of source code being there, I think it's more about a community of people and developers being able to report issues there. Eg. steam client is not opensource, but it has github repo where we report distro/Xorg/Wayland/libs related issues, and they often respond.
(And yes, RSUs as currently constructed were affected, but it seemed likely that there were simple ways to fix them.)
You (and probably others) have dramatically shifted the goalposts here. It went from "not wanting to voice political opinions in the work place" to "not caring about politics." Those two things are drastically different and cannot and should not be considered the same.
5.4 has major regressions and was a hellish nightmare for me for a while. I'm stuck on 5.3 now, too. I can't believe such a major tool is so poorly tested.
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I see. Web pages are easy. Programming is hard, but we can fix that simply by putting programs in web pages. Then we take that same syntax out of the web page and put it elsewhere, so that all programming is easy.

I don't think it works that way.
Since democracy also causes not-so-great things to happen, are you ok with it being overturned and replaced with a dictatorship?
Absent-mindedness as dominance behaviour
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Removing the watch locks the watch, and makes it unable to unlock other devices.
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Don't tell Mark you work for him but still can't spell his name.
It's not politics if there isn't horse trading. Single issue pressure groups that do not form alliances with other groups do not achieve anything meaningful.
Contrast the load times between those 1996 pages from the current site. Keep in mind there is probably no advertising spyware in the 96 site and it may account for most of the HTTP requests on the current site.
Why isn't Vitalik bailing these people out?
He was called a traitor after issuing a statement that was a veiled threat against Mugabe. You are spreading inaccurate information
That sentiment is why 99.9999 of programmers like us never made facebook. Normal humans don't want to maintain seperate feeds and RSS readers for every possible interest etc along with a seperate message client along with a place to post photos, etc. They want something simple and human, like fb.
I don't know of any mainstream language where 3 months is too short to do something fairly large.

I do agree with your point, but I'd say "1 day" instead of 3 months. After enough time elapses, JS quirks and lack of typing become a net time loss, compared to (for example) C#.
Spoofing POST/GET requests in a RESTful service
The image map on the very bottom doesn't appear to work, at least not on Chrome for Android.

CNN appears to never take anything down, here's CNN's coverage of the OJ Simpson trial from 1999 - http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/
"Over the past few years, I was one of the many people who wrote off house flipping. But apparently it grew by value and volume exponentially.

Was wondering if it's too late in the game to flip houses?"

"Over the past few years, I was one of the many people who wrote off dot-coms. But apparently it grew by value and volume exponentially.

Was wondering if it's too late in the game to trade dot-coms?"

"Over the past few years, I was one of the many people who wrote off trading in tulip futures. But apparently it grew by value and volume exponentially.

Was wondering if it's too late in the game to trade tulip futures?"

Etc.
Every laptop has aspects that aren't so great, including Macs.
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Aussie who left in 2001, now in China.

There seem to be two key predictions in here: (1) coming collapse of Australian housing market, and broader economy (2) coming collapse of China.

I am not a great believer in the latter, because based in China for most of my career I still feel China is the only place to go to get things made, which everyone wants to consume despite the requisite economic and political overheads. I selfishly hope the first comes true as maybe then I can actually afford a nice place on the harbour and a boat :)
But was the existing code base that was replaced running concurrently?
Thanks, list is much better now:

+ uBlock Origin
+ Cookies AutoDelete
+ Video DownloadHelper
- YesScript
- Save Session

Remaining addons are not that essential, especially in comparison to much faster Firefox.
Surprised Logitech doesn’t sell a $10 USB-C unifying receiver.
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>"You cannot prove the null hypothesis; you can only disprove it."

Sure, but thats why the null hypothesis should be predicted by your theory. Then you are checking your theory. Most people could care less about whether there is a miniscule difference between groups or not.

>"The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true."

No, as pointed out by jostylr this is wrong.
Thanks for the link! It seems GDP is a nice machine especially given 8GB of RAM so one can use it for non-trivial development on the go. And compared with MacBook or Dell XPS, the display opens almost flat, which should help with using it in various situations.
Maybe if s/he hadn't just accused other people of being uneducated (without repercussions despite the obvious lack of respect), the typo wouldn't have stood out as hypocritical. You too need to use context.
I'm curious what you consider to be Obama's moral failings, to say that he would not have passed in the 80s.
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Facebook is not supposed to be public. That the random media got to fill up the pages there was a bad thing.

Nobody is entitled to the visibility or exclusive treatment on the Facebook. There are much more posts than anybody can read, those using Facebook agreed to let Facebook apply its algorithms and designs.
Which, lets not forget, includes several times every time you load a website.
A piece of evidence to add to the puzzle: new study just came out in JAMA looking at urine levels of glyphosate in older adults in California. It's increased a lot over the last few decades. Humans are definitely getting a lot of it. https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/study-finds-increase...
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>> the original iMac abruptly dropped support for SCSI, ADB, and serial in favor of USB

Except, the next few updates of that iMac brought 2 FireWire ports, a 56k modem port, ethernet, and a Mezzanine slot
I'll see your pet theory and raise you mine: most people are sensitive to the additives added to fortified wheat sold in the States, especially Vitamin B[0] and Iron[1].

[0]: https://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrichment-promotes-everyt...

[1]: https://freetheanimal.com/2015/06/enrichment-theory-everythi...
The way I see it going is that many, many large companies will have a bunch of teams on GitHub (with good reason), with both public and private repos. They will also have a bunch of teams on GitLab instances that have been wildcatted into existence, possibly before GitHub had decent inroads, but more probably so the code doesn't leave the firewall.

At some point, a Boss who may or may not have Pointy Hair will look at the bill for GitHub, and the bill for the GitLab infrastructure, and say "Why am I paying for both?" At that point, the teams with code that can't leave the firewall have the trump card, and private repos on GitHub have to move off.

It's not the money itself that makes the argument, it's paying twice for the same thing.
That's a bad blanket statement to make. Why does Buddhism suck, for example?
No, it's not only you who can't think when being prodded. I have similar issues.

Actually, my issues are kind of entertaining when they don't get in the way of my livelihood. My brain appears to prioritize processing interaction with people, especially strangers, over some other kinds of activity, including the kind that's needed to solve logic problems. Ask me to take some open-ended time alone to write a solution to a problem, and I'll give you one when I'm done. Ask me to do the same thing with people watching or, worse, interacting with me as I do it, and you will get random results that may or may not bear any relation to the problem.

It affects things other than coding. When she was a teenager, my daughter sometimes engaged me in conversation when I was driving somewhere, just to see where we would end up. I remember a particular instance of winding up in the parking lot of a Safeway in Capitola, California, wondering why I was there, while my daughter laughed her head off.

I've been at this programming thing for a long time now. I have a reasonable idea of how good I am at it. Given the right circumstances and the right kinds of problems, I can be (and have been) extremely productive. I've been described by someone paying me as one of those "10X" programmers, and the dvcs logs bore him out (but I know what he didn't: if the tools and goals and problem space had been different, or if the work circumstances had been different, then I wouldn't have been nearly as productive).

But technical interviews aren't going to reveal any of that, certainly not about me, specifically. I'm always going to look like something between an idiot and a mediocrity in the typical technical interview.

Various critics are complaining that the OP's methods aren't going to work, but all the data we have says that current fashions in hiring already don't work. The correlation between interview performance and job performance is laughable. Companies all like to say they hire "the best"; what they really mean is that they hire the best that currently-known methods can distinguish, which is to say, a random selection of people. About the most you can say about current methods is that they select for people who want a job, which I suppose is better for hiring than pure sortition.

We don't know how to hire good people in technology. Popular hiring strategies are voodoo. The only method that has been shown to produce much better results than chance is blind, standardized skills-testing, which is not currently popular.

Technical interviews are nonsense. The proper role of interviewing is to find out whether the candidate seems to be a glaring asshole. If you want to select for skills, administer standardized tests. If you don't want to do that, then it doesn't matter much what you do. It all seems to be about equally useless.

You might try doing a Tarot card reading for the candidate.
The source ‘Choniates’ was writing 400 years before that story is supposed to have happened.
See Oct JAMA article; while food may contain only trace amounts we're ingesting and excreting more than ever.
Upgrade-ability forced me to selle mine last year. I had on of the low-end models with 8GB/256GB and needed more space and memory.
11 Sep 2017 · Google today appealed the record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion USD) antitrust fine levied against it by the EU
Yes, and that's the point why a new machine, revolution-wise, is just a drip in the lake, unless it has some exceptional aspect.
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I meant that basic C++ seems rather straightforward and at first doesn't appear to introduce too many new footguns over the C subset. Actually thanks to vectors and RAII it can remove whole classes of classic C mistakes.

It's only when you start to have all these elements work (or not work) together that you realize that it's not as simple as it first seemed and the various side effects, overloadings and implied constraints sprinkled throughout the code turned it into a virtual minefield.

Case in point, this video I've watched the past week: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutte...

It's a very interesting talk (and probably worth a watch if you're a C++ developer) but the amusing thing to me is that he begins by showing two short pieces of rather simple C++ code and asks the audience if they are UB or not. Seems like nobody can (or want to) answer that question.

Spoiler: the conclusion of the talk is that one of these pieces of code is only legal if the copy constructor of the custom type adheres to certain implied constraints that are not enforced by the compiler and, it seems, few people are aware of.
And there are also no annoying autoplay videos. That has to help load times too.

I wish companies would understand that if I'm reading something on the web, I want to read it, not be distracted by a video that contains the same or less information and takes longer to watch than the article does to read.

I like the 1996 version better.
Donna Brazile wrote a whole book about it. Money meant for down-ballot races was being funneled to the HRC campaign, and both HRC and Obama had left the DNC in heavy debt. From the stories, it sounds like the Party didn't like Obama much more back in 2008 than they liked Bernie in 2016, and as a result, they basically rejected Obama's attempts to reconcile and merge his electioneering efforts back into the Party. This basically fucked them over completely on down-ballot races.

The Democratic Party sounds like a terrific lesson in the Iron Law of Institutions, and right now, much of the American Left (that is, actual left, social-democratic and leftward) is behaving the same way, too.
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BitKeeper
The combination of removing the wealth tax and the introduction of a 30% rebate on all interest costs for individuals have really combined to clusterfuck the Swedish housing market.

Now, the interest rebate seems politically impossible to touch, even long term and through minor transitioning. Home ownership is so important to the economy and affects so many voters, that the property owning class always must be looked after.

People have been talking about the bubble bursting for years now, but it's only in the past year or so that the decline truly has been expected. Only a few weeks ago, there was an article in a major paper about a couple who quinnied about not being able to sell their house with the expected 1000% profit (over 30+ years). How ever would they manage, once they'd sold the house, bought an apartment, and didn't have the cool million SEK to splurge on whatever people in their 70s enjoy?
It needs to start somehow. It needs to start some time.

Why not right here and now?
Hah right, a fixed loan rate which is fixed for the life of the loan. I mean that the fixed rate at which they lend changes every year :)
Entrepreneurs ≠ VCs

That said, I appreciate Kurzeil has attempted to build products somewhat inline with his visions. E.g. https://www.kurzweiledu.com/products/kurzweil-1000-v14-windo...

But these are mere tinker toys compared to the grand predictions, and mostly failed products too.
My partner is again and again disappointed that all her "friends" don't "respond" to what she posted on her page, even if I explained her many times that Facebook algorihtmically selects what to show to each of them, and that nobody sees everything posted by those who are "friends" or "liked."

Nobody is entitled to the visibility or exclusive treatment on the Facebook. There are much more posts than anybody can read

It seems the media are "disappointed" the same way. And when they don't get the reach on the Facebook that they wrongly expect to "deserve" they wrongly call that "an attack to democracy."
Have you seen the latest Tesla 3 Elon Musk designed and produced? He also makes reusable space rockets, he's like a god to many people.
This post made me switch from Safari to Firefox. (I abandoned Chrome several years ago. Don't like Google's philosophy.) Hadn't really been using FF in ages. It has made tremendous improvements. Super fast startup and navigation.

Also installed a plugin named Vim Vixen. Now I am able to navigate and use the browser almost without touching the mouse.

Thank you Mozilla. Keep up the good work!
Vandalism on a scale of a country.
This reminds me of the old Digg articles where everything was a numbered list. "Top 5 life hacks everyone should know", etc

This kind of submission is just spam, in my opinion.
I'm pretty happy with it so far. I can't really name any downsides that are specifically bothering me (of course, cheaper would always have been better, but I don't think that's specific to this laptop). People have been complaining about the webcam being located below the screen since the bezel is so small on the other sides, but I don't video chat that often so people looking at me from below is not that much of a problem. Another thing is coil whine, which I guess has been present in mine as well, but I'm usually listening to music or am not in a silent environment, so that hasn't bothered me either.
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The military is behind Chiwenga (friend of number 2), they only spoke harshly of, 'the criminal elements within ZanuPF. By 'criminal elements' they are referring to the G40 (anti- number 2 camp who got number 2 fired). The military has detained a lot of these 'criminal elements' and apparently Mugabe is also under 'house arrest'
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I don't have a facebook account. Never had one (apart from some experiments and trials which were never under my own name or known aliases). Don't need it. Don't care for it.

I also don't have a Linkedin account. (Well, maybe i do now, because i have a hotmail account). Don't need it. Don't care for it.

According to others it is a bloody miracle i survive in IT :)
I bought this up on HN in the past[1], but it gets instantly downvoted( by gitlab employees?) , my comment was a response to CEO claiming how their marketing is honest[2].

They also declared Gitlab CI as number one CI by excluding Jenkins because of their made up defintion of "modern" .

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15590240
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589654
This sounds like one of those "be careful what you ask for" things. I do tend to think the world would be a better place if engineers were held (at least slightly) morally accountable for their employer's actions, but I suspect it would be an unpleasant experience for many.
This is stupid. Facebook was bashed for influencing politics. It now tries to avoid political discussion entirely by downplaying news from Pages, but it is now bashed for it as well.

Where's your integrity, journalists?
Find another job that pays 10% more, quit and tell her she now has the data :)
There are, it seems to me, to be two essentially disparate audiences.

1] Likes watching game A.

2] Likes watching streamer K

The first group choose the game, and then the streamer who is online and most enjoyable to watch playing it. The second choose the streamer and will watch whatever they're doing.

Arguably the advantage that the variety streamers have is that pro games don't eat into their viewers. I'll watch arteezy play dota whilst cookin or something, but only if there's no proper matches on with teams I like. I suspect that SingSing will always have a few thousand viewers because his followers are passionate about watching him.
I encourage all Linux users to buy Dell as often as possible. We need more companies that actively support open source software. Next step will be open hardware.
I remember reading awhile back that email was better suited than GitHub for large projects (eg. Linux). Wouldn't that still be the case with GitLab?
This works fine in games that are free to play like League of Legends, I actually think it's a fantastic business model. But unsurprisingly, the attention maximizing dopamine slow-release algorithm causes cognitive dissonance when you can bypass it by paying but you've already paid.
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I seldomly read something more interesting. This is really well done, I had no idea Microsoft was looking into that field.
It used to be marketed as "Project Sputnik" and was harder to find (I sort of remember you had to start the configuration from a specific page and what a pain it was to hunt around to find it).

I just bought another Precision 5xxx in September and the option was right where you'd expect it to be in their configurator though.
Uh, what? I thought they dumped Mir for Wayland when they switched back to Gnome.
How many people pay for your service? Anything above $100 a month, and I can buy the database from MaxMind.
There's 7.6 billion people in the world. That's a substantially larger "US" if you are going to reframe the OPs comments as implying "US vs Them."

Also given the recent velocity and volume of bad PR for Facebook, it's possible that public sentiment is irreparably turning against them.

Lastly, technology has no shortage of once popular products that have been relegated to the dustbin of history - see AOL, Nokia, Friendster, etc. Today's dominance is far from a guarantee.
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On the subject on distributed systems, I like this quote by Lamport:

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Leslie Lamport
The point also isn't that you don't need any javascript. It seems like people really aren't getting that webasm enables new things to be possible. Using javascript to bridge to certain APIs really hasn't been a problem. WebGL already works well, even with pure javascript. Between JIT compiling and bulk transfer functions, there aren't actually that many calls happening per frame.

> The promise was that you can use your favorite language for web development

I can see where you are confused. The promise was never about using your favorite language for web development. It was about being able to compile languages to a synthetic ISA that will run at near native speeds.

> WASM is now more about the integration with JS.

It was never about getting away from javascript, it was always about being able to run software at near native CPU speeds in the browser.
It's a fine laptop, and Ubuntu runs well. The biggest downside for me is the position of the camera. It's underneath the screen.