skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of people discussing technical shortcomings and problems with user experience, and I think these are all missing the point a bit. Constantly changing APIs, inconsistent GUI paradigms, these are all side effects of the key feature of the Linux desktop experience: freedom. Anyone who wants to can write a window manager / Wayland compositor / GUI toolkit / terminal emulator / command shell that does things completely differently. Maybe a lot of this stuff is terrible, but some of it is brilliant in a way that lines up beautifully with how I want to use my computer.

The market for freedom on the desktop isn't huge. Freedom is challenging and it's not worth the effort for most users. They have better things to do than to fight with bad network drivers. For them, the cost of buying new hardware every other year when planned obsolescence hits is worth not having to fight it. But for some of us, freedom is worth the effort. I bought a netbook in 2011 that I love and still use. If it weren't for Linux, I would have had to replace it in 2013 when Windows bogged down to the point of uselessness.

Why does Linux have to take over the world to succeed? It's a success if it's there for those of us who want it.
The problem with the iPhone X is its only selling point is the huge screen. It looks cool, perhaps. But it doesn't really bring anything new or useful to the design, and requires so many compromises: the (less secure and less convenient) Face ID instead of Touch ID, no home button, all the basic OS functionality having completely different gestures or button sequences than before, the notch at the top covering the screen, reduced status bar size…

It's the epitome of form over function.
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It really depends on the sampling characteristics and the observed population distribution. If iPhone buyers are very consistent and follow a normal distribution, it could be ok.
> We’ve been big fans of the Postgres HyperLogLog extension for many years and are excited to be taking on responsibility to maintain HyperLogLog going forward.

Conceptually hyperloglog should be really simple (count leading zeroes) so I wasn't sure what there was to "maintain".

Looking at the citus repo it seems like they made a lot of interesting improvements to the original algorithm: https://github.com/citusdata/postgresql-hll

Interesting how fitting a simple theory work to the real world takes 3.3k lines of code.
Unhappy = Dead might be an explanation for that.
California employers prohibited from relying on an applicant's salary history
The crowding on the Lexington Ave. lines is partly due to Metro-North commuters at 125th St. and Grand Central -- the 2nd Ave. subway does absolutely nothing to help with that, because the extension into East Harlem was not funded.
It seems so. This graph gives a nice overview of worldwide iPhone sales over the year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...

Sales are still great, but the growth has become stagnant.
Amazon is definitely pushing the boundaries of what amount of privacy people are willing to exchange for convenience. I was shocked that so many people I knew bought Echos... wiring your entire house for video doesn't seem that much crazier.
This is incorrect, they are heavily preserved.
I'll buy a $3000 MacBook Pro if you bring back USB ports, an SD slot, an HDMI port, a user replaceable battery. And the escape key.

But no, why don't you just leave this money on the table instead and I'll make do with the 2013 model.

You go on ahead, Apple, wondering how to ignite more revenue growth.
Link to google cache of document, as current .gov website down for maintenance.
Welcome to the state of modern civics education.
No. At the risk of speaking for someone else, he appears to believe that we live in a society where it is far too easy for individuals with malign motivations to blur the line between managing someone's money and stealing it.
Would be too strange a coincidence if not, and with the increasing level of device support on Echos will be interesting to see whether they stop supporting Smartthings hubs there as well.
>"Sure, and Euros are also backed by the EU economy. The point is 'national' currency's are actually backed up by enforced demand unlike say Ethereum"

I agree with this but that's also the main differentiator is that the "legal tender" of a country backed up by enforced demand while Bitcoin and backed up purely by supply and demand. I think I misunderstood your point with regards to the tax examples.

However I don't agree that inflation can not be controlled exclusively through taxes. That is but one component the much bigger lever being the monetary policy of the central bank.
Yeah, maybe the long term is all good either way, but look at it from the view of an individual, or institution, trying to decide an investment strategy. It's like any product or service. Let's finance is like restaurants, and look at the example of a local McDonald's: Food has been fine, and if the manager screws up, there'll be another to step in and fix things, eventually. But lets say the manager really screws up and a bunch of people get sick. That a new manager will fix things isn't much consolation. And after a few days in the toilet, and fines paid for poor sanitation standards, and news plastered around about the issue, it's going to be a while. Now imagine there wasn't even a local health & safety team certifying and inspecting these things to begin with, and a new place opens up: It's exciting, edgy cuisine, equal parts delicious and daring. But there's no health & safety inspection. Heck, that's part of the excitement, they don't have to play by any set rules! So you might get an awesome meal, but its a dice role on which day of the week all customers will spend their time crapping their pants.

Now, in the world of large-scale personal finance and institutional investment, not many are going to risk redecorating the insides of their pants every few days. They're sticking with McDonalds, which may still cause some level of bowel décollage now and again, but in much safer, more predictable ways. I'm not saying that makes crypto a "fail", only that the next few months will really determine if it's going to be a future behemoth or a niche asset class that risk-tolerant portfolios occasionally take a piece of.
I like the option of just changing the chair height and/or the desk height every few hours and stay seated. That alone mixes up my posture quite a bit.
Yes what I said is impractical.
It does both compute and graphics.
Sample size of 1: the iPhone X is a huge step up from the 6+. FaceID is very nice to use, and the lack of a physical home button improves the ergonomics considerably.
That seems strange. Having used clojurescript and clojure in production for years, it’s a very niche language that only makes sense for a small subset of use cases, similar to elm’s story. And all of those use cases benefit from the JVM specifically. The slimmer node environment is not a plus in situations when clojure or clojurescript would make sense.
I went from a 6 to a 7+ and hated every day with it, the HugePhone thing is simply not for me. I felt the 6/6s/7 was a really stagnant period and the X is a huge step up. But if you were looking at the 8, yeah, probably not much reason to upgrade.
Ah, yeah, Harvey is based on that release, it's just had significant changes made to the build system and the code itself. They're running continuous integration and code quality checkers. The code now builds with GCC and Clang and it builds pretty damn fast. It's a cool project and the people running it are really friendly.
Amazon also recently started in-home delivery [0]. It all adds up. They also have their drones, so in the near future they will completely dominate every aspcet of online shopping to delivery.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/b?&node=17285120011
This is a joke. I love my iPhone 8 and my brother has an X and he really like it too. I see many people buying the X and the 8
That sounds annoying. I have the opposite problem, but I still sympathize.

Sometimes you get someone making really bad technical decisions so the direction forward looks good to upper management in the short term.

It's a hard balance to meet the needs of the technical requirements and the business requirements, but that's why it's their damn job!
>it's important to point out that fixing/upgrading the system comes from the capital budget, and the promises you're describing are paid out of the operating budget

Who cares what budget it comes from? It's just money in the end.
Same chassis my class B motorhome is built on :-). I like the built in track slide for the chair. I've always thought it would be fun to convert a travel trailer into a mobile engineering lab and if I do, that will be how I rig the chairs.
From a security standpoint is that as secure as a closed circuit system?
lots of people here keep using the term "hedge"...none of the permabears market these as hedge funds...they do not internally hedge their own risk positions

these are what they appear to be - bear market funds
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As someone who bought one for ARkit stuff, I was ready to have all the complaints you mention, but honestly they haven't turned out to be true for me. FaceID is more reliable than touch ID, and only 2 gestures really change. The status bar size is silly, but, the notch itself barely registers after the first few days of use.
and SHADES which used to run on the UK's PRESTEL system
I've had one of those and it was okay, but I much prefer my home setup - a standing-height desk and a draft-height chair. Nothing needs to move to switch, and so I switch regularly throughout the day.
Sweden has about 9 million of inhabitants in the whole country...
It's against the ToS, considered Feedback Extortion. Most sellers don't want to risk their account, being totally banned is a much bigger deal than being less promoted for a while. Messages like that are monitored, and I assume transactions are too. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but most sellers will just suck it up and deal with the rare negative. Further as a seller you don't want to "just give out refunds/free stuff" every time someone throws a negative at you because you're just inviting in all the scammers.

Also sellers cannot leave negative feedback for buyers -at all- so that also contributes.

https://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-extortion.html
Dave Jones is a riot, his videos are equally hilarious and informative. If you're interested at all in modern electronics I highly recommend giving them a watch.
The answer is pick another coin to replace btc... It'll always be flawed. 1st gen stuff usually dies eventually.

Ardor I think is going to replace a lot of the current coins out there... it solves a lot of the technical issues, has child chains a much faster and more secure network, etc...
Don't forget affiliations and subscriptions.

At the height of their time, the likes of rapidshare/megavideo used to pay a lot.
>Like all of my keyboards are tilted the "wrong" way (away from me) with the front higher than the back. Much easier on my hands and wrists.

Like the horizontally staggered rows of keys, the traditional tilt is a skeuomorphism of a mechanical typewriter. There's no good reason for it to be preserved in electronic keyboards. Ergonomic keyboards are usually tilted the opposite way, with the front higher than the back. This better matches the natural tilt of your hands when you hold them in front of yourself.
Trying to convert these users is impossible and the studios should stop wasting their time on them.
Sellers can't leave negative feedback for buyers at all.
I could get behind that, even if I worked a 40 hour week still. Four 10 hour shift would not be bad.
Motion + signal-cli[0] has been working well for me.

[0] https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
Mark my words -- by the end of 2018, Ardor will be in the top 5 list if it doesn't unseat Ethereum.
I’d be curious which whole categories just disappear in Clojure/Script that JS has, in real world practical situations.
You don't have to get the touch bar, FYI. Most CS people I know opt to go without it and miss pretty much nothing.

I agree with the pain of USB-C, but one hub for home and one mobile adapter can solve all that. It's not as bad as people make it out to be.
This article comes as I worked sitting down for 16 hours yesterday to hit a code deadline. I think Im going to get a standing desk ASAP...
then everyone who lost some money in the East India Company invested in everything else rising as the British Empire expanded and made fortunes, that's what
That is true in the sense that I would rather you be here and use the site as intended.

That requires containing your uncivil impulses and not venting them into the commons, the same way you wouldn't set fires or drop litter in a city square. When people break this rule it triggers more of the same from others. We're all responsible for not letting that happen.
Solid argument.
As the very happy owner of an iPhone X, I couldn't disagree more.

The (nearly) full screen display is fantastic. The notch and rounded edges don't bother me at all; it gives the phone screen an organic shape, previously only seen in sci-fi movies.

FaceID is fantastic; it's super reliable and incrdibly seemless. Touch ID was far worse.

Swipe motions instead of the home bar works great.

I've never been happier with a phone. Truely a phenomenal device.
Right now crypto traders sometimes sell to fiat to wait out a period of market volatility.

Selling instead to the stable coin would mean they don't have any tax issues.
you could say the same or more for NYC or many other parts of the US
Because 100+ years ago someone saw the right path forward and they forced this into existence with political power. How can this be done today? Elon Musk comes to mind. Humanity seemingly has to be forced forward by a visionary backed by power.
It was a fun platform, especially in the early 90's! Over 20 years later, people are still trying to keep it going... Check out the "Vampire" and "Apollo Core" projects if you have a chance.
It's possible that Apple has analyzed the market and done some research and concluded that what you want would not generate enough profit vs. their current offerings. Your money that they left on the table is most likely dwarfed by the new found money they are getting. At least, if their research is correct.
I'm still powering through with a mid-2009 Core2Duo. I've wanted to upgrade for a while now, but just don't feel an unassailable 'oomph' to do it.

Lots of folks say the 2015 rMBP is the gold standard best laptop Apple has ever put out, and I can't disagree.

I'd drop some serious cash in a heartbeat for a brand new model that touches on those notes, but the new MBPs just are not even close to where they should be.
Adam Smith warned of the division of labor creating blind, ignorant humans, in a conviction driven, not reason driven, society.

Society is coasting on fumes of a generations long confirmation bias.
I place this (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90184047/) on my desk when I want a standing desk and remove it when I am ready to sit down :) . I like Ikea.
It's very unlikely that he/they are either dead or in prison. Satoshi went silent for over a year, and then only came out and sent a single message when Dorian Nakamoto was pegged as Satoshi.
You're comparing apples with oranges. A drug dealer is a peon, someone at the very bottom of an enormous multinational pyramid who sells a commodity product in a market where every disgruntled customer has the ability to put them behind bars, rather than just leave a bad review online.

This is actually the most prime example of an 'untrusted' relationship. If it weren't for the total imbalance of power you have to bring the full force of the government down on a drug dealer without any need for a reason, you wouldn't do business with them at all.

If, on the other hand, you had to do business with the head of one of these multinational drug syndicates, you would start to understand this power dynamic more completely, as the power balance would flip. All of a sudden, the person you are dealing with no longer fears law enforcement. They are no longer a peon - they have bought off people in the government, acquired arms, trained a small army of their own, and now have to power to kill you or your associates without fear of reprisal. Would you still describe doing business with these people as a 'trusted' transaction? Of course not. You would start showing up to all your business dealings with your own goons, weapons, and armored vehicles. There would be zero trust that each transaction wouldn't end in a firefight.

Compare this to walking into your local bank branch, where with the correct documentation a typical local branch manager can give you a loan for over $1M without having ever done business with you before. That is the definition of a trusted transaction.

You've just become so desensitized to the marvel of it all that you might not be aware of what the alternative looks like.
> The TWU had nothing to do with it and continues to have nothing to do with it.

It sounds like you're treating the TWU and MTA as two separate entities. Legally, yes, that's true, but in practice, more often than not, the TWU and MTA act in tandem. If you just look at one and not the other, or the interplay between the two, you miss out on the broader picture.

(In this specific case, I don't see a particularly significance in the distinction between "blocking the project from happening" and "blocking them from realizing a major cost-saving benefit that motivates and funds the project".)
Looks like that Adafruit ruler is a branded version of the PCB rulers that are all over eBay. They all have the same design with the phrase "one PCB to RULER them all" on the back.
Anyone who's wanted to play with Plan 9 should consider giving Harvey a look. Getting started is a pretty easy process: you download the repo on your Linux box (I believe it works on MacOS too), run a script to get the environment set up, run a build command. Once everything's built (about 2 minutes on a decent machine), run another script which boots Harvey in a QEMU VM. The VM will get its root filesystem from the Linux box, so you can easily experiment, make changes, test.

Harvey comes with pretty much everything you'd find on Plan 9. It also supports Go, and there's a (work in progress, but functional) POSIX layer which you can use to cross-compile POSIX programs.
I thought they were getting into the web rendering engine game[0].

[0] https://www.chromium.org/blink
They can't make a spectrum of products that appeal to a variety of users? Ah, I forgot they are strapped for cash.
The generalization of that is when you see high customer acquisition costs relative to what you think a vendor might earn from you, ask yourself why.
I was worried about that coming from a plus, but it's really very close.

Or just wait until next year, when they'll (probably) have an X Plus. Which will feel like a frickin' iPad.
Criminals keep doing crime, we may as well stop all police efforts.

I mean, say what you will about the morality of running a website dedicated to torrenting films and pornography, but policing will always be a game of whack-a-mole.
The landing page doesn't really explain what is interesting about Harvey. What does it mean that it's distributed, exactly?
Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000
Yes, it would be extremely useful if some of the ardent voices for unregulated crypto took a bit of time to acquaint themselves with the history of various banking collapses from 1850 to 1930, and subsequent rise of modern financial structures.
I've referred to deepdotweb for market information lately: https://www.deepdotweb.com/dark-net-market-comparison-chart/ I don't see anything about Monero on this page, but I'm sure it's there if you dig around.
It's not obvious from the title, but it's lessons about giving mathematics lectures and about doing mathematics. Most of the lessons are applicable to any technical subject, though.

Worth reading.
I was expecting to be able to just click give me another resume at the end, but it just lets me input data to generate a resume from 3 templates.

The project itself is pretty cool. I really liked it, despite expecting something different from the name.

If you're interested in feedback: let people download the data as json and reimport it later.

Give interested people a link to a guide for creating new templates. yours are great, but I think a project like this would have way more potential with significantly more templates to chose from. Though there probably will be very few (if any) contributors... Maybe not worth the effort after all ;)
I hate the freaking Face ID... With my iPhone 7 unlocking was second nature. Almost never had to enter the pin.
With the iPhone X I found my self, entering the pin at least 50% of the times. Usually when I'm in bed and this thing can't get a good shot of my face (because my face is smooshed into my pillow) or when I'm at work and I have the phone flat on my desk.
They can try to defend Face ID as much as they want but it's a total UX nightmare.
It is easy to claim that these things were fraud, but courts have not agreed that they were fraud. The dispersion of responsibility in the system made it difficult for any one person to be solely responsible for the actions of the firm. the "fraud" you perceive was an emergent phenomenon resulting from poor oversight. Few people actually committed fraud. The difference in personal responsibility is very important, especially for the people involved.

I agree, however, that our legal system lacks an adequate punishment for companies that allow such poor governance practices. I don't feel it is necessary to throw people in jail for it, though.

In my opinion, we ought to be able to convict a company of "governance failure" which would carry the concomitant punishment of mandatorily ejecting all officers and directors without severance and without the ability to exercise options.
Stick the computer on an exercise bike, set it up so its powered by a dynamo and get the programming, marketing and sales teams to cycle while working. Okay, that's not a good idea, but it's one I can see a executive coming up with to 'promote a healthy lifestyle' at one of those newfangled offices Apple and Google and the likes have.