skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some investors described in the article moved from market cap weighted indexes to ones that were disproportionately weighted to disfavor tech stocks, they believe that they're overvalued and that they can get out earlier than everyone else.

That's trying to time the market.

The firms mentioned in the article will be happy to charge you much higher fees than Vanguard for questionable longer term returns. It's basically a PR piece for managed investment.
Android Parallel Tasks Incoming with Chrome OS 64
Along those lines the recent ChromeBooks are also worth consideration. You can even run full Linux using Crouton if you are willing to make a small compromise on the highest levels of security.

I have tried using tablets and BT keyboards, it works well, but I prefer the all in one form factor of a simple notebook. BTW the Lenovo tablets with the flip out stand are terrific on the desk and to hold. That rounded battery compartment makes it feel like a spiral bound book when using it with Kindle.
Bracket Pair Colorizer: allows matching brackets to be identified with colours
Cheaper Samsung phones shut off, thought Samsung has SO TERRIBLE BATTERIES it's not even shameful, they should be sued! Every battery puffs up after 6-12 months, and the warranty only covers first 6 months of usage. I know many people to whom it happened, to some multiple times, and they didn't drop the phones. This was with cheap phones obviously, but still, very bad behavior from phone manufacturers on all sides... :/
Fake Bitcoin wallet spammer hitting Twitter hard
https://twitter.com/b2x_segwit/with_replies

damn..800 posts a minute. twitter needs to ban this account
Integrating systemctl --user and your Graphical Session
> So I take the drop to $29 as a tangible apology, which I appreciate.

The physical battery costs Apple about $5 to make (https://technology.ihs.com/api/binary/595761), and probably no more than $5-$10 to ship and install. They're profiting off of their own screw-up and spinning it as a kindness.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994571
I was more thinking about why the product failed, assuming it did.
Instead of 'the market', think of government as a union representing the collective interests of citizens and empowered to intervene when those interests are threatened by forces of nature (which I would say very much includes 'the market')
Sadly you should wait at least 6 months before declaring unconditional love to an android phone as I learnt by myself..
It's dumb to ignore data and try to solve problems from one's hypicrital and confused view.
It's also an alternate spelling for libricous, which dictionary.com defines as:
adjective
1. (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
2. unstable; shifty; fleeting.

So "shifty" could be what they were going for, but my sense of the other two words in definition 2 suggests that it's not quite accurate to use that sense of shifty.
Modern life too much for you? Maybe a tiny box in the woods is the cure
Longterm (10 years) Linux User here who bought a MacBook to run Linux on it but switched to macOS. What’s bad about fullscreen modus? You can make the dock hide automatically if you mean that. I haven’t seen any comparable device with such a long battery lifetime. Sure you can buy something with better looking specs for cheaper but everything that’s not on the specs will be worse (keyboard, display quality, ...)
If you run any command it will run with the root privilege when you are root. It happened to me many times, where I ran a command and it asked for root then I investigated why the particular command needs root and figured that this is not what I want in the first place.

So, account with sudo capabilities is better than then one which is sudo by default.
President Trump 'sings' Christmas song in parody video – Someone made a bad lip
If it could be added to the soil rather than injected, that wouldn't be too bad. Maybe you could even mix it with fertilizer to try to offset the extra resources consumed.
"We've been hacked" has been a cover for exchanges stealing funds for years now.
So Dragtastic came out of my own difficulty finding a React drag and drop library that was both easy to setup and easily extensible. Dragula was one that I looked at during that process. I only briefly looked into Dragula, so I can't say that I have a full breadth of knowledge about the differences, but from what I can tell the overall paradigm is somewhat different. Where some DND libraries attempt to abstract most of the rendering away from you as the developer, dragtastic uses the "function-as-child" rendering method to allow the developer full control over the rendering of their components. It's similar in a way to how Kent Dodd's Downshift library operates https://github.com/paypal/downshift.

Essentially Dragtastic manages all the events and state required for cross-browser drag and drop interactions, but instead of rendering your components for you, you provide a function in which Dragtastic injects all the state and events you need to hookup your own components. Hopefully that answers your question.

Edit: I should mention as well that Dragula and other similar more-mature libraries have more complete APIs. I'm continually adding more features to Dragtastic, so for developers requiring a complete API may want to look elsewhere for now or consider contributing. ;)
what's SimHash? How does it work?
The right thing is to be honest with users about the state of their equipment. Many, many people shelled out to replace their "dying" phone when all they really needed was a new battery. I don't believe that Apple didn't intend that.
I’ve seen this in a McDonald’s near Akihabara station, too. The people I saw sleeping were often in suits. I imagine the people in suits were business people who went for the free wifi (rarer in Japan than the US, I think) and fell asleep.
Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown drama, will offer $29 battery replacements for a year

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827248/apple-iphone-ba...
I have a 4S from 2010 running on the original battery and it is fine. Of course I have not upgraded the os past 7.

I love the size of the 4S. Please, please, please someone make a phone as small as the 4S. Phones and pants pockets love each other :)
It's surprising to hear this within the context of Chicago experiencing such high levels of homicide. Do they give any context as to why NYC is out performing other large cities?
I think the way we are handling pollution of all kinds will be seen as totally nuts by people in the future. We are performing large scale experiments on our population and even if there is strong indication of toxicity we do nothing as long as it makes money for someone.
In place of traditional fundraising sources, Bitcoin fills a gap for hate groups
Random question while I/we have your attention: I noticed you changed your homepage pretty dramatically to a "less designed" version (but more direct). It looks great. Is that showing you better results or are you still in the midst of experimenting?

PS - hi! :)
I think part of what's missed here is the fact that Apple's products aren't just the physical things we hold in our hand.

A lot of folks would buy  stuff because they TRUST Apple to provide a stable and reliable product.

It seems like with each release, quality and stability decrease, and customers' trust is further eroded.

I wonder if Apple management even considers issues from that perspective?
On Android: Settings > Apps > [App Name] > Notifications
You have been lucky.
Then you would be arguing with facts.
Exactly, only 3.3 years ago. :)

I still use a beat-up 6 with a wonderful patina and have no interest in upgrading. For me the 6 seemed to be the point where everything was "good enough". Until there's a big advance in what phones are and can do (a bit more than the iPhone X ha), I'd rather just repair what's there.
nitpick: "ignorance" puts the blame on the consumer -- in this case it's not their fault.

> should have an appropriate remedy

I think a lawsuit is appropriate.
Sure, so where is this 3-4x coming from?
We would all love to have something comparable to MBP for 1/4 the price, but.. where is it?
Thanks, kind stranger. You taught even me some I didn't know!
Wechat vs Whatsapp
What a fantastic story. Brings back memories of participating in stuff like this, it was always a lot of fun.
As a programmer, I find going from OS X to Linux to be smoother due to both being *nix derived. I know Windows now has Linux facilities, but from a programming perspective the library situation is still a bit sloppy. Linux ecosystem (I prefer Debian based, e.g. Ubuntu) is far more mature.

Of course if you are looking at playing games and being able to plug in just about any piece of USB hardware, then Windows is always going to be better supported.
> Like "const", it's so the compiler can produce better feedback for the programmer, not better executables. constexpr will raise an error if a function _can't_ be evaluated at compile-time, just as const functions will raise an error if they do any non-const stuff.

But how does it lead to better feedback? constexpr is purely suggesting an optimization that the compiler was already allowed to do anyway, and which it can still refuse to perform even with the keyword.

If the programmer's goal is to ensure compile-time evaluation is guaranteed, constexpr won't cut it, since the compiler can (and compilers currently do) silently fall back to run-time evaluation.

Alternatively, if the programmer's goal is to ensure compile-time evaluation is possible, constexpr still doesn't provide any value, since that's already obvious from the compiler analyzing the body of the function and noticing, say, that fopen() is getting called (and the compiler already has to do this anyway).

The situation is very critically different from const, too. Adding 'const' to a method that was previously non-const, even when it is legal and compiles perfectly fine, can entirely change the semantics of the code, and hence you want that decision to be explicit, not implicit. This isn't the case with constexpr.
Fair. "Balancing the scales" is a laudable goal. I merely wish to point out that suggested mechanism of balancing carries a significant downside and we might want to consider alternative means of achieving the goal.

Innovation would be my preference. The more corrupt a monopoly becomes, the more motivated the best engineers are to join a startup with a "Don't be evil" mission to take them down. ;)
The drug war strikes again.
You probably just don't run on an extremely low battery very often.

I have only experienced it when my device was displaying less than a 15% charge. It also helps if you practice good battery management, not leaving your phone plugged in all night/day.

I also have a theory that people are damaging their batteries more if they are a heavy user, while the phone is plugged in. If your phone is charging and you are playing a game my phone seems to get much hotter than at any other time.
Don't send fake apologies like "We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down."
I think I have found it.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring04/cos598B...
I wonder if other societies would play Minecraft differently. Would people coming from a more egalitarian background do things like this?
Could the fact that males have higher blood lead levels be due to the fact that men work in construction (i.e., taking apart old structures that have been painted with lead-based paint) at a higher rate than women?
I could say if this tax cut doesn't help we'll just do another and then paradise for all starts. But that would be too sarcastic.
I was expecting a little more in the actual optics creation portion of this article, but it is sadly predicated on us finding a really value priced FLIR camera sensor, which is not a small order. I've looked at these in the past and the price always pushed me away.
I will likely take advantage of Apple's battery replacement policy and give my old unlocked phone a few more years. It's perfect for travel.
Did you wipe off Windows and install Arch from scratch? I have been considering that, but haven't yet found any encouraging reviews on how well that goes. Especially: can you use the pen?
That's actually a really brilliant idea.

We have people sometimes produce the software equivalent of a Picasso, but it so rarely comes to light, and even more rarely codified to guidelines/standard-practice.

Would be very good to have "greatest-hits" of a company's codebase, that could serve as internal knowledge-sharing.
> “oh, how can we change our ads so people will accept them?”

If a single website -- say, your local or regional news site -- overhauled its ad experience to become more user-friendly, how would you even notice, if their ad server was added to your ad blocker's blacklist?
That's the second time I've seen that timeframe mentioned in this thread. What was your experience? I don't like upgrading so I tend to keep my Android phones for years and just keep the OS updated. I was getting a good day from my S4 after years of ownership.
Thanks Apple PR.
Yup, definitely agree. I've got one of the Seek Thermal units, and while the absolute temperature measurements aren't always that accurate, the relative temperature measurements are fantastic for finding hot/cold spots.
Apple’s response to battery controversy: have a new one for $29
(EDIT to my last comment since I can't actually edit it -- I'm not sure if I misinterpreted your comment earlier or if you updated yours, but this is my updated reply.)

> It is expected that some corners of the language will never be available at compile time, for example I/O. So you need a keyword to declare a function to be callable a compile time, otherwise its constexpressness would depend on its implementation details and wouldn't be possible to check it in isolation.

Don't compilers already require the implementation of a function to be there in order to evaluate the code at compile-time? And don't they already have to verify that it can indeed be called at compile-time? I don't really get what the constexpr flag helps the compiler. It could just assume everything is constexpr implicitly unless proven otherwise.
I wonder if the parent sites are even aware of this.

If you can get (well, you can) the autofilled email+password, might as well automatically log the user in.

Edit: it's also interesting to see so many EU sites, where in theory you should show a disclaimer for cookies, but apparently it's ok to extract email addresses.
I failed to get a remote job on one of those famous remote first oriented kind of startups/companies and realized how much difficult that market is. It's sexy and It would certainly advance me in terms of knowledge and on my carreer path.

Though, that failure led me to my current venture where I validated that I am able to stand as a senior developer in a small dev team(3-4 ppl) that builds a robust and maintainable SaaS product and sometimes lead it.

I'm not giving up the idea of the famous remote company but left it aside for now.

I've also been reminded how much difficult for me is to decide to leave my hometown(for various reasons). I have to get on that too at some point.
One alternative/something that can be used in conjunction is sealing/building in “lava tubes”. We have already confirmed that there are some that are quite large: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/gigantic-lava-tube-coul...

I think something around this approach is the way to go.
While U.S. Workers Fear Automation, Swedish Employees Welcome It
Stepping up and doing the right thing?

Bullshit. They were compelled.
Smart not to upgrade
Startup trusts large company that wants to invest and then decides to acquire them instead.
Startup isn't allowed to pursue other funding for the next few months while deal closes. Then large company decides they don't want to acquire.
On the contrary, I've gone back to plain C for most projects and it's been a real relief after using C++11/14 extensively. So much accidental complexity just disappears.

The compile times are much better, too. Can't wait to get a Threadripper CPU which should push the build even closer to feeling instant.
The BS of this argument is to believe the governments would grant monopolies to random people for no reason. The reason there are monopolies is that capitalists have paid for this privilege, therefore they arise as a result of capital trying to starve competition, as it normally does by several means. The government in this case is simply another tool used by capitalists to keep their privileged position in the markets, not the "source of all evil" as ancaps want naive people to believe. Capitalism and monopolies are just facets of the same thing.
Record-breaking hybrid drone stays aloft for over four hours
Maybe not use 3rd party banner systems infected with cancer and malware code. Adblock systems are not an AI, they just operate on a database of known, obnoxious and annoying shit.
I mean, at a stadium sure. Something that is also very USA; the price of water at a gas station VS, say, New Zealand :)

Still, in either country we run mostly safe, drinkable water through our toilets and not soda =D
Do we actually know the numbers (e.g. battery life and expected number of shutdowns) required to make any of these points more than moot? Because there are definitely values that would win hands-down for either side.
The battery issue is unrelated to your slowdowns if you were experiencing them constantly. Lost in all the media reports is that the throttling only happens at peak system power demand. My 6s Plus also was constantly slow until last week, when I backed it up, wiped it, and restored. Now it's as fast as ever, on the latest iOS.

We take the underlying computer for granted, but apparently the iPhone can benefit from a clean install to clean out always-running rogue processes.
I don't know, but I still like the idea behind the "netbook": small, portable form factor with real keyboard, cheap machine, decent battery life, GNU/Linux. To me, it's too bad that the netbook was pretty much been pushed off the market by the advent of the tablet PC, but as this fact suggest, I'm obviously part of a minority here.
Scientists Observe Strange Double Whirlpool Effect in Ocean for First Time
JOB: Web Developer, MoveOn.org (Work from Anywhere in the US)
I completely agree, I just want criticism to rest on the facts. There’s far too much useless noise because of this misunderstanding.
Amazon Aurora Serverless
I still use a 6, and have a replacement OEM battery on the shelf in front of me. I'll get apple to do it instead, just as long as they don't upgrade my phone to ios 11 at the same time... I don't want a slower OS just to gain the ability of it telling me one reason why it might be slow.

Also - good to see confirmation id this comment I made recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832402
Gentrification is a very successful crime fighting tool.
since Cling is just Clang in a REPL, it seems like it would be good idea
As someone who does consulting, I find it interesting to read how others do it. There is a lot of advice, but I like how this article is upfront: find what works for you.

The initial leap is understanding how money and expectations balance each other out. This comes with tripping up hard at first, but it gets easier as time goes on.

For me, it comes down to giving that first hour to the client to really drill into the issue and having them see that you aren't trying to screw them over. Unfortunately, many clients have been taken hard by prior programmers, and your goal should be making the buck stop with you. They rebut you, but that's just them figuring out your honesty, and you don't convince them by saying "yes" to everything.

Even on your best, you can't satisfy everyone, but those that you do satisfy are, more often than not, willing to refer you or give more work down the line.
That sounds a lot like a mechanical emulation of a light field camera.
I live here, and am not surprised that design took precedence over functionality. Not planning to visit the store anytime soon, but people say it’s neat.
New Technology We're Actually Excited About for 2018
I'm not going to visit that webpage to justify their authoritarian bullshit with ad or page views. This is just run of the mill propaganda. Of course bitcoin fills the gap for hate groups. Just like it does for independent journalists when the US state dept. puts pressure on Visa/Mastercard/etc to prevent donations (remember wikileaks).

Cash isn't evil because criminals use it. And they use it because cash is useful. Bitcoin isn't evil because people with opinions you dislike use it. They use it because it's useful. Just like all the other people using bitcoin that make up the majority.
I don't think I follow you, could you please explain what you mean a bit further?
It's definitely a gamble. When the Apple Newton came up I thought pen computing would be the future, threw everything into it and was at the forefront for a few years. But by 2000 or earlier it was pretty clear that I had bet on the wrong horse. I guess my lesson is to jump ship sooner but then you also often hear that perseverance is the key. Tough equation. Now my belief is that you have to be persistent but also need a lot of luck to be at the right place at the right time.
An Unsolved Problem of Software Deployments
Ads appearing when you don't block them isn't really an issue.

When you are blocking ads, do you click on them? I wouldn't: I'd instead be annoyed that I'm seeing ads when I have an adblocker running.
"My USB port is melted and unusable but I don't want to replace it" is a real corner case in hardware design, don't you think?
LinkedIn: Machine learning jobs are on the rise – SD Times
I've seen plenty of bosses who will try to improve someone even if they know they are leaving in a couple years, telling people to make sure to get on LinkedIn so they can rate them up, etc.. There's much less loyalty to companies nowadays, but people do have loyalty to their superior if the superior is setting them up for success no matter what. So I think a good boss does have some traction on a person's career, not just their advancement in a single organization. Companies and management that push to make their employees better overall and not just for themselves often brag about it too.
The 5S was released in Sept 2013 and still runs the latest version of iOS. If they were still selling it in 2016 it will likely be supported with software updates until 2019. For comparison the Galaxy S4 was released in April 2013 and received its last update to Android 5.0.1 in April 2015.
LinkedIn’s 2017 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report
This isn't about costs, it's about incentives.

You may have money to get a ride home, but prefer to drive drunk. An incentive will change the minds of some percentage of those people, resulting in less drunk drivers.
And then what? The robber who went through the trouble of breaking in and demanding your money will apologize and see himself out?
One can find many examples of corporations successfully making money on things that aren’t good (such as harm to people and the environment). Web sites are merely the latest.

Just because terrible companies exist and are “successful” doesn’t mean that they’re not crappy and it sure doesn’t mean we should give up and not work for something better.
Solutions architect is just one of the AWS certifications (and a new catch phrase/job title for someone who architects solutions - specifically cloud based).

Acloudguru has courses that instruct for both the exams: AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Solutions Architect Professional certification.
I don’t think we have any numbers, but the sudden shutdown problem was pretty frequent, enough that Apple issued a recall for one model and a lot of people saw it happen.
I am not sure I understand your comment regarding this article.

Aren't chromebooks (except for the pixelbook which is very nice but not cheap) the direct successors of netbooks ?
Now for the MacBook
Why so many scientific studies are flawed and poorly understood
Sounds like very poor design and more dishonesty from Apple.