skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shhhh..... they've done this dozens of times here.
Where is the data coming from? It tells me that things like apples, pears, etc. are at peak ripeness (true) - but then it says the closest places are 50 miles away. I know for a fact that there are numerous apple and pear farms that are open to the public within a few miles of my house (they are problem in the same zip code as my house).
> (largely, though exceptions very much exist)
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It was also ~20 years ago when we (sadly) didn’t treat things nearly as seriously.

On The Media has a nice piece on exactly this topic over the weekend.
> investments in nutrition have a tremendous RoI

For a US example, school free lunch programs were instituted in 1946 after the US army found that a substantial number of WWII rejected draftees were rejected because of malnutrition problems.
I was using a laptop for most stuff a few years ago and now I've been unconsolidating (what's the right word?).

I now have an e-reader, a laptop that docks, a gaming console, a phone, a fitness tracker, an iPad, an Amazon Echo, a Roku, and a watch. Even though the laptop could do almost all of those things, I'm happier with a few excellent discrete devices. I'm actually very happy with my tech life these days and don't feel many pain points anymore. If I had one wish, it would probably be for Amazon to drop DRM on Kindle titles.
Crazier shit has happened. In my case, pretty much everything on these devices runs as root so it may very well be possible.
inaccessible for whom? the public internet isn't the only (inter)network that exists.
They already have a few iPads and laptops.
That's pretty cuil.
I’ve heard rumors that Windows NT wasn’t so much a rehash of Cutler’s own VMS — increment each letter by one.

(just something I heard a couple decades ago, don't sue me)
You might find Linear Hybrid Cellular Automata (LHCA) interesting as well. They're similar to LFSRs, but with potentially better performance.

http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mserra/AttachedFiles/CA_Tutorial....
This is a problem elsewhere. For example in Colombia (where I live) is common for "investors" to ask for more than 50% of your company and become de facto owners.

Here, a lot of people can't even think in build a startup because lack of cash and troubles getting bank loans.

A small investment (for example US 10.000) could lift some of us from the ground! but the investors here are not savvy enough to spread the money among many and reap the profits :(
Not to say it is correct, but stereotypes alone could work against the Midwest pulling at tech from the coasts. I think Chicago would be a great fit for Amazon HQ2 but I'm confident that Amazon doesn't view it as liberal enough, and that's Chicago, the biggest city in the Midwest. Of course, there are other factors in HQ2, I'm not proclaiming it is the only or even primary. I do think it's a big enough one to disqualify it though.

If Amazon does choose Chicago, I think it could really cause a bigger shift in the industry.
Perl is essentially a pigdin or creole language composed of C, shell, awk, sed and POSIX concepts with bits of Lisp thrown in.

If you know Unix, you will already know about 80% of perl. If you know Perl well, you already know a lot of Unix concepts.

Perl is a pain to learn if you don't have a solid Unix background. However, IME, if you acknowledge the sources Perl draws from, look at how they're integrated, and spend some time learning the underlying technical culture, it actually simplifies the learning process.

Interestingly enough, it's also easier to learn a natural language if you spend some time learning the underlying culture.
Ask HN: Weekly news source?
Is there a good source, preferably online, that provides a weekly roundup of national (United States) and global news? Seems like any curated aggregate out there is a daily. Ideally this source would only update once a week and be as neutral as possible.

Please note: "Weekly World News" is not a viable choice for me.
Unfortunate for all the early investors of Confido. Ink announced on their blog that they will airdrop Ink tokens for all current Confido token holders (as of 11/20/17 1:30pm PST). https://medium.com/@PayWithInk/ink-airdrop-for-confido-token...
We have a project called Campfire, to build video support groups around pretty much any area, from anxiety to grief to even being a founder:

campfire.care

Sign up and indicate you want to join a founder group!

My co-founder and I are also still working on the right setup for optimizing efficiency/cost/culture, and this discussion is great.
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Yes, but you specifically called out Omaha, implying it is not the exception.
He is a very colorful guy, I was at Brown back in the days and had 2 years overlapped with him.

I took 2 databases courses organized by Stan and Andy, like his adviser, Andy was very good at explaining complicated things in layman terms.
That bezel-free desktop display in the first image, is that a real Samsung product?
systemd-nspawn certainly deserves more acclaim. It's great, and really easy to use right out of the box.
What about a tv? This could work with a tv...
I would love this. I’m sick of lugging a heavy aluminum notebook around. I want to drop my phone into a cradle or have it wirelessly connect to a KVM setup so I can launch into a desktop session for running tmux and a browser.

Wish this worked with iOS.
Cubensis are also highly effective.
Could someone explain what Management Engine is actually used for?

It’s still not really clear to me why it needs to exist at all.

Serious question.
> Well, that's how capitalism works, right?

It is how monopolies, fueled and protected by copyright and patent laws, who themselves are breaking the laws (anti competitive), work. You see, being a monopoly isn't against the law but abusing your overly dominant market position is.

> Lidl and Aldi did the same in Europe.

(There's no such thing as Aldi. There's Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud [0])

Hi, I'm from Europe. Aldi has 431 stores in The Netherlands, Albert Heijn 947. And that's probably nothing compared to what Superunie owns. [1] UK is a similar story. Lidl and Aldi are nowhere near the market share of Co-op or Tesco. [2] So... what did Lidl and Aldi do in Europe? Lidl or Aldi are nothing even close to a monopolist. Wall Mart is huge, but has healthy competition as well. [3]

Microsoft had virtually no competition in the desktop OS market from mid to late 90s until recent due to tablets and ChromeOS finally becoming a competitor. That actively stiffened the innovation on desktop in other related areas such as the browser market where everyone had to run dirty hacks in HTML and CSS to adhere to the defacto standard called MSIE. It was a horrible cesspit where the only browser you could reliably use only ran on one OS (Windows) and was also terribly insecure. And hey, it used to run on different OSes but Microsoft decided to quit those ports. The port they maintained the longest was for that 1% market share company "we're not a monopoly excuse cause Apple".

We didn't mention Intel yet. They're an entire different subject, another parasite who run in symbiosis with the monster of the 90s and 00s called Microsoft (or Mammon ;)
[4]). Microsoft lies dormant now, as the market it had previously in complete control is marginalized by iOS and Android. Thank you, Apple and Google. And we shouldn't forget the wonderful work by KHTML/Konqueror team (which spawned Safari and Chrome), or Mozilla (and formerly Netscape) who initially was the dominant competitor of Microsoft in the browser space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi#Geographic_distribution

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
One of the reasons is the unethical attacks they did later on.
I dream about an AI service that can curate me a newsletter given some sources (RSS, Twitter feeds, youtube feeds, whatnot) and send it to me regularly on a given interval. It would avoid duplicates and essentially identical stuff [1], weigh and choose the most interesting ones, and present them to me in a nice, readable format. Ironically I would not use such service if it existed because it would be very anti-privacy.

[1] Twitter is weird. I only follow ~15 accounts for events and (want to) use twitter only for that, but the way people usually post updates about events is to repeatedly post what is essentially the same tweet, and even with that many accounts followed it becomes a mess. I end up never checking it because it's basically a puzzle.
When internet connections were pay per minute, I'd think about what I wanted to look up before I connected. Then I'd go online and used Opera to follow many links to different tabs. I'd have a flurry, then disconnect and read. This worked surprisingly well.

I find I can't really read/comprehend from an LED screen well at all these days. I got into the habit of sending items of interest to my e-reader. Any long form article goes there.

Sadly I sat on my e-reader, and my system went to pot. I've just stacked up my reading list. I have no idea what is there. Going back to scrappy reading, feels like a real time and brain drain.
I love to program and I go to lots of meetups here in Chicago, but I also have a lot of friends who are not techies and I have conversations with people all the time that don't revolve around apps or frameworks.
Your point? Are you suggesting the solution is we stop providing income for all artists in China so that things will get better for the subset that are abused? Or that I should pick my sites carefully?

> Southern China is the world's leading center for mass-produced works of art.

I mentioned China for this very reason.
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It would be more compelling to me if they could also dock it into a laptop shell with USB and Ethernet ports. If I'm going someplace for more than a day I'm going to bring my laptop, I don't want to lug around a monitor. It doesn't really replace my laptop, it only replaces my docking station.
> That person probably also can't afford a $100 dock (let alone a $300 one) for their phone.

well the atrix costed $400 usd and even with a monthly plan was way cheaper than the samsung galaxy s8

and even on a monthly plan it was cheaper than the current galaxys. still all people bought the galaxys
As a Minnesotan, I'm not that worried. The festival held at the sand quarry in question was able to renew it's lease for the venue for at least the next couple years. I also don't doubt their ability to find another suitable venue in the neighborhood if and when the time comes.
Except most people don't think of themselves as "someone who spends $700 on a phone", they pay $x9.95/month for $y00 minutes talktime plus $zGB of data and they get a "free" phone every two years... I doubt any of those people would think it's a good idea to spend an extra ~$15/month for a thing that lets them plug a screen/keyboard/mouse into their "free" phone.
The authors are already generously compensated. I am super curious how much they actually make, or is this the same as the paper paywall? Inflation adjusted this book is way more expensive than it used to be in its first version.

The hardcover version of the first edition is $2.50 in Alibris. New this book shouldn't cost more than $90.
I listen to books and articles via text to speech application for over 3 years. Currently i am able to listen comfortably at 3.6x speed. I don't know how to test comprehension through. My friend says i might be able to think faster than other people, because of superhuman listening powers i now posess. Don't know how to test that either.
Helpful thread from Matthew Garrett at Google:

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/932730696614813696
At the low end of the spectrum, thanks to this mass produced "art", it's almost impossible to find anything painted by local artists in places like Paris, unless you go for the galleries, and even though I'm not sure it's all legit.

People will literally pretend to paint in public places, but then you walk a few more blocks and the same half-done painting is being "painted" and the same "portfolio" is being offered. Even in places that are being billed as being for local artists only.

I really hope that we can someday return to quality and authenticity from just quantity.
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Article says that this is the first cloud provider certified for these workloads, but I believe both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS began negotiating these contracts around the same time.

Microsoft announced their version a few weeks ago[1]. I wonder if Google will follow shortly?

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-azure-...
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Well there is nothing preventing Dex from coming with a monthly plan. Note that all plans are very low interest rate loans, there is nothing special about a phone plan.

Also, majority of people just use email and word suite. An S9 is easily capable of doing these tasks and it saves the individual or company cost of a cpu box (400 USD at the low end).
I doubt the naming has anything to do with it. It is a nice initiative and independent of any attempts to tie it to any history and good to see initiative to see happening in other areas of India.

Sikhs from the Punjab province of India have a free community kitchen for anyone from any background to break bread together, each day.

It is a vegetarian meal designed to express and practice equality among all of humanity and was in part meant to abolish the caste system.

Anyone can go into any Sikh place and have a free meal anywhere in the world. I don't have the link handy but it works out to a few million meals a day around a the world for free, paid for solely by donations.
This was an amazing talk. Wow!
Actually, that's not how our eyes work at all. In fact, the "reverse blinking" you describe is much closer to the truth. The retina has a very small region of high acuity that darts around your visual field, essentially taking snapshots that your brain stitches together. A lot of what we perceive as movement is actually our brains predicting trajectories.
I figured out how to install it using Windows PE. First, get a Windows installer image or WADK and mount it. Microsoft provides these, but hides the download link well. Then get the ME firmware update installer and the AMT/ME software installer from Lenovo and execute the unpackers with wine. From ~/.wine/drive_c/DRIVERS/WIN/AMT, do "cabextract SetupME.exe". You can discard everything but the "HECI_REL" directory from this, including SetupME.exe.

Now you need wimlib to create the WinPE image: "mkwinpeimg --windows-dir=/mnt winpe.img --overlay=$HOME/.wine/drive_c/DRIVERS"

The resulting winpe.img can be dd'ed to a USB thumb drive. Boot into it, and execute "cd /WIN/AMT/HECI_REL/win10", "drvload HECI.inf" (to load the MEI driver) and then "cd /WIN/ME/", "MEUpdate.cmd" to update the ME firmware.
Hmmm, this is an interesting thought experiment. Should high tech companies choose the most liberal places to expand to make potential employees comfortable, but with the consequence of further polarizing the nation? Or go the other route and invest in less liberal places to reap their other benefits and maybe nudge them to a little more liberal environment.
Speaking as someone from FL who has worked in CA, Florida should not be lumped together with CA. The COL to tech pay ratio is the key metric here, which I suspect is much better in CA than FL if you are talking Tampa/Miami type areas.
That seems completely different type of work. There are still artists today that paint mural and commissioned art, but that work is usually more or less unique and is not cheap. It also includes artistic expression.

Not so sure there is room for artistic expression when you are mass producing copies and are paid for the copying process and not creativity.
Looks like the LC27F591FDNXZA to me, but that the compositing of the desktop image has cheated a bit to make it seem like there's just a bit less dead space than there truly is.
this sounds terrible.

"hire someone to find you a place that you can afford because there are no affordable places"

"if you luckily have the specific skill some random startup wants, you can make a "homerun salary deal", which you will need because living expenses are terrible, otherwise you are shit out of luck"
And then there's Mac's XCode. A many gigabyte artifact that you have to install for many non-IDE related activities -_-
I would love to know as well, seems like some post processing in general though as the UI appears to be extremely smooth, almost unbelievably so.
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Most notably you're dumping it into the battery, which is already heating up itself just fine having to supply the extra current for your full CPU power burst. And sustained high temperatures are a surefire way to rapidly diminish the capacity of LiIon batteries. So I guess it's a good thing they have external power and a fan, even though it's dubious how much that does given the battery isn't seeing any of that airflow and is in the usual protective sleeve that doesn't exactly help thermal conductivity.

There is a reason Tesla watercool every individual metal 18650 cell.
A large enterprise or educational institute workforce of people in non-technical roles who all have Galaxy S8 devices?

So that's a market size of one then? You could sell this solution to Samsung, and pretty much nobody else.
As an IT consultant who travels a lot and works for different customers I'd love a smartphone that could double as a powerful development machine when plugged into a larger screen. No need to carry around and worry about a laptop anymore.

For such a setup to work and really make sense though it'd have to be available as near-ubiquitous infrastructure one could expect in every hotel and every office.

I suppose, however, the travelling tradesman / digital nomad target audience just isn't large and profitable enough (as of now at least) to warrant such a large-scale infrastructure undertaking.
Zara. A lot of it's growth can be attributed to fast flow of information from retail stores back to design team and the operational excellence due to a tech savvy management.
Are you familiar with the dense plasma focus approach to fusion (which is what the device I linked to is using)? It's built around brief bursts of plasma. Maintenance of a stable plasma is not required.
By "use VR..." do you mean that use a VNC client in VR mode? How is the resolution?
I agree with you to a degree, but I think you might be missing a major benefit mindfulness meditation. In particular, mindfulness meditation helps you to reprogram the way you relate to experiences and thoughts in a way that, in my experience, does eliminate stress.

In other words, my relationship with experiences and thoughts can tend to be either more objective or more subjective (perhaps reactive is a better word). The more objectively I view things, the less those things elicit a stress response. Again, this is in my experience and might not be universally true.

Sure there are stimuli that, for most people, will always elicit a stressful response. I would guess (emphasis on the word guess) this comprises at most ~10% of a person’s thoughts and experiences which is likely much less than most people think.

Anyways, just my two cents.
A similar complaint was registered towards the bankers and (real estate) developers who came to the Bay following the completion of the TcR.

To roughly paraphrase another section of the essay, robbery was less highway and more high-interest.
Yep. Their curved monitors are essentially bezelless. They are also incredibly high quality. Samsung makes some neat screens: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/curved/32--ch7...
Ironic, coming from the company that had superfish and its self-signed CA installed on its laptops from factory.
I'm wondering too. I have seen tv ads of this device months ago on Brazilian tv.
The demand is right there. If the supply increaseses, it will be snatched. How deep that rabbit hole goes is unknown, but I'm more than willing to wager its in the millions. Just by doubling density in san francisco you would get that. Not to mention that the small housing issue extends to the whole bay area.
4% is well below the effective rate that the wealthy in this country currently pay and are likely to ever pay (legally). Would you have stayed if your effective tax rate were 5% lower than whatever you were paying when you decided to move?
What I really want is a macbook air form factor laptop with nothing but a battery, a keyboard and a screen that has a slot where the touchpad would be for a phone. Use the phone for storage, cpu and touchpad with the extra screen area and battery life of a laptop.
Probably they implemented it just as a hidden (virtual?) project for each team and then attached issues to it.

I mean, most of github now is rendered markdown…
> "...they dominate email."
quick anecdote:
I recently went to a small art show where one of the artists had an email signup. 16 out of the 17 addresses were gmail addresses.
If you have to ask that question then you must have all the disposable time and money but absolutely no passion or experience.

The real answer is build something you know obsessively well, are extremely passionate about, and something that is vaguely original. If you can't do that don't do a start up.

If you just have that much time and money to throw away fund a popular (existing) open source software project into a commercial enterprise.
The Earth radius in MySQL lifted from a lazy-copy-job into PostGIS 20 years ago
> I wonder if this will at all dissuade either Intel or AMD into continuing to make these super privileged processors whose functions are completely hidden

Our brightest hope for reform involves (a) a breach involving ME and (b) European regulators laying fines on Intel.
Sure, every place is a target for development. The mission was one example of very low density. It only relevant example because right now they want to build at 16th and Mission.
I've decided that this avenue to integration isn't really what I want. I'm not super interested in a big screen connected to a phone that can barely drive it and a solid game.

But I do really really want to simplify my life in terms of identity and storage. I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data.

But I don't just mean using dropbox everywhere. That's really clunky to me. I want it to be better, but no one's really put it all together right yet.

I feel like plan9 was on to a lot of this stuff a long time ago but it fizzled out, an idea ahead of its time, with bits and pieces of its ideas taken out of context and rendered largely useless (please don't tell me linux does filesystem namespaces now, it's really not the same).