skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just chiming in with another recommendation for the T470, which I currently own. It has a pretty decent battery life.

I wrote about my experiences with installing Linux on it here: https://medium.com/@debugjois/installing-ubuntu-gnome-17-04-... (it’s a bit outdated. I run Arch on it now)
"No. US students attend IF they get in. This is why we are in a student loan crisis. There is no lack of money backed by USA guaranteed loans."

Can you help me understand this logic? I don't understand the connection being made from admissions statistics to the student loans crisis.
Why not a Chromebook in Developer Mode running Ubuntu?
>Before streaming when someone bought a CD they bought just that copy you weren't permitted to make a copy of that CD at any time.

I guess it depends on what you mean by permitted, was I legally allowed to copy the CD? Yes, was I also able to pick my favorite tracks and make a custom playlist CD? Also yes. You were also free to rip it to your computer and put it on your iPod. It's called Fair Use and since there was no DRM on a CD you were free to utilize your fair use rights.
xps13 is great IMO, like others here are saying.

But standby for snapdragon laptops coming early this year. They should be interesting and with any luck they will not be exclusively bound to booting Windows.
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There are really three different downsides to this.

First, the foreign students cross-subsidize the locals' education. There are large fixed costs to running a university and these students pay way above their marginal costs. So now the universities have fewer resources; hence cutting the newspaper funding etc.

Second, the foreign students increase the schools' reputations and can collaborate with the faculty. Research is a public good. We do not have a research system so that we can think of things for nerds to do; we have it to produce valuable knowledge. In my own PhD program, the productivity of the Americans was much lower than the foreigners. That productivity led to discoveries that benefit everyone.

Third, immigration: some of the foreign students would have wound up staying. We should want these people to stay here and have families. Educated people who work hard and are ambitious enough to go overseas and stay are good for the country.
Seems right to me, given the job prospects for someone whose talent is speaking two languages. Do you think the market for Italian / English specialists is super hot?
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan is the definitive work on this [0]. Modern nation states are living gods. For better or for worse, they are largely unconscious in their actions and relatively slow to move. When a state level actor achieves agency on timescales similar to individual humans, I think all we can do is hope that whatever process brought it into being has endowed it with a love of all living beings and a propensity to let the living expire at their natural time.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(book)
I would highly recommend to Indian students not to study in the US going forward. At least until the generally hostile attitude towards immigrants and meaningful reforms in GC attainment is done. If you plan to lay down your roots in America after school, it will simply not happen in the current climate. Go study in Canada, Australia, UK, and India and contribute to those societies
Thank you for this. All the smart-ass comments on the other site linked was really starting to ruin this for me. There's this wonderful beauty on display here and the response on the boredpanda site is low effort stupid jokes? Come on.
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Yes, it is a pita, but it is a price to pay for the dependency injection, where many components, services, configs from different projects/libs have to be searched (annotations can hide everywhere), started and then wired together in the order they define 'globally'. And once you change a config property, that tree can change as well.

I hope some work will be done there. One could scan the libs in parallel, caching results, building/shipping a search tree on packaging time and so on.

In pure servlet times you could directly define your starting points, define, which libs to exclude or include for the search and so on.

At least no one has to edit xml files anymore to wire components and impls together.
Why does the number of people using a UI make any difference to whether the UI does its job well or whether the underlying technologies are appropriate, though? Would any of the arguments for different ways of building UIs change materially if Facebook had a million active users instead of a billion?
even if they just get rid of Prop 13 on rentals and passing the benefit to children- at least a future generation may have a chance to affordability in CA... "Thanks to a state proposition that took effect in 1986, known as the "parent-child reassessment exclusion," a child can inherit a parent's principal residence, whether modest or worth millions, without triggering a reassessment for property taxes."
Photonic Neuromorphic Signal Processing and Computing (2014) [pdf]
This is also an issue at Stanford, UPenn and so on. But as you probably know, those schools will never in a million years go candid with a reporter about it (due to prestige and other issues).
That’s awesome
I like Google and Facebook. They provide a lot of value to a lot of people, invest in R&D, and contribute to the open source community.

I've seen an uptick of negativity on HN lately, especially targeted at the big SV companies. Not intelligent criticism mind you, just basic trolling. For example your account appears to be 99% dedicated to shitting on SV companies.
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My favorite is that the more the FBI/NSA spends, the more government debt get printed. You may know that the government shutdown is because of a debt ceiling.
I'm inclined to think that it's just too soon to go into space. It will truly become practical when biotech allows us to evolve into completely different forms that are more durable.
You may wish to look at recent performance of different countries in academic competitions like International Math Olympiad and International Physics Olympiad for some objective metrics:

https://imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2017

http://www.ipho2017.id/home#official-results-of-ipho-2017

The US ranks decently but behind China, Russia, and Vietnam, in both subjects.
Thinkpad x260 is pretty good, I get at least six (with heavy use), but you can also get an extension for double I think
Also take a note of the last names of these US representatives (comprehensive lists for both subjects):

IMO 2017: Lin, Gu, Bhattacharya, Chroman, Peng, Huang

IPhO 2017: Song, Raman, Balaji, Qin, Shi

I would guess that, for many if not most of them, their ancestors just immigrated to the US 1-2 generations ago.
Integration tests are testing multiple modules and the way how they cooperate. These are mora a feature tests. Take a module as your unit, mock externals, give it an input and check the output/outcome.
> Jira is a painful to use, especially compared to trello

Have never been able to use trello effectively with any clients. It's simply too open-ended on its own. "Issue trackers" (like Jira) have some semblance of workflow predefined, and act as a decent guide for people who are not "project managers" to still bring some degree of order/structure, with the benefit that that structure was actually defined by someone else who thought about data/structure/flow/etc.
> The international students are typically those kids of parents who are perhaps middle to upper middle class in a foreign country (JP, KR, TW, IN, CN, UK, AU, etc) who want to send their kids to an American school and get an "American" degree and go back home for a job

Source? Most of the international students I went to school with are still here, working.
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This thread gives me anxiety as a founder. How many hundreds of companies do I have to compete with for experienced talent in this thread alone?
> Two and a half years at a small company, working on their legacy codebase. We did innumerable small cleanups, bodged in new features, and did one bigger architectural change. Even the big change was the sort of thing that would only take a week in a sane codebase.

Can't you take some pride in that? Any idiot can do green fields work, they'll likely be gone before any of their mistakes get a chance to become apparent, but taking an existing lump of spaghetti and moulding it without breaking anything is a whole different ball game.
Here is the executive order, signed by President Obama, governing the pay for all federal employees, including the GS and SES scales. It tops out at $207,000 per year.

I'm not saying that there is no civil servant anywhere who makes more than that. But such positions are extremely rare. The Vice President only makes $240,000.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

If you read the fine print, the executive order allows agency-level directors of the Department of Veterans' Affairs who are physicians to be paid market rates. That is probably who these people are.

This exemption doesn't appear to apply to any other agency or profession.
Is there any indication that the "lab-grown" tissue is really produced without animal products?

Most mammalian cell culture requires "serum," the non-cellular fraction of blood from a similar critter which contains a pretty complex mixture of growth factors, hormones etc. plus other proteiny things like collagen.

Serum-free cell culture is tricky in well characterized cell lines, and "meat" is tissue culture from cells which is tricky in itself, at production scale which is also tricky by itself. For context, pharma companies manufacturing biologics at scale do use animal serum in cultures despite animal products being a vector for contamination issues which have literally killed successful pharma companies.

Also, cell culture requires antibiotics much more than animal farming requires antibiotics, so don't expect "ethical" tissue culture groups to voluntarily minimize antibiotic usage any more than farmers do

tl;dr cells grown in labs like to eat animal products and other things that people consider unethical

Edit: If you can grow realistic muscle tissue at feeding-people scale you've accomplished something much bigger than "ethical meat." If you're just producing animal cells-- basically textureless slime-- it would be more ethical to process existing waste meat into a palatable form aka rebranding "pink slime" as "recycled meat" or something.
We need to implement paxos for these subs
Your first point is actually a boon for P2P. If it is cheap enough for users to rent bandwidth closer to each other, that will solve the same problem CDNs solve.

As for points two and three, decentralization does not mean 100% symmetry, just relatively more.

I have a symmetric connection, and can forward ports without any fuss, and rather enjoy those advantages. Even so, I download quite a lot more than upload. I don't expect that to change much, even with significantly more P2P traffic.

There are a few things where I am really frustrated with other's inability to forward ports, especially video games and VOIP.
I feel like this is a sentiment that should be fairly familiar to you if you have read Stross' previous works. There are points in Accelerando (2005) where semisentient AI corporations are a threat to the protagonist, along with things like automatic legal-system denial-of-service attacks on other corporations.

If you haven't read it, you should. It is here.: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
Yep.

It seems obvious that one party is actively making education more difficult to obtain to increase a demographic[1] advantage.

I'm not sure how to "prove" this. And anyway there's way too much plausible deniability to ever get anywhere.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Multiple vulnerabilities in the online services of location tracking devices
Not the GP, but I get 4-5 hours real world use with my XPS13. Sometimes that gets cut in half if there's a rogue process eating a core that I don't notice. Overall I love it, it's the first proper successor to my beloved 12" PowerBook. The small bevel keeps the form factor tight without sacrificing screen size.
Not a big fan of Dell but precision 5520 I think is good.
I'll give it a shot!

Why are we interested in conformal field theories (CFTs)? One reason is it appears that all quantum field theories (QFTs) can be viewed as points along a “path” between a high-energy CFT to a low-energy CFT (c.f. the roadmap analogy in the article). Therefore, studying CFTs lets us study the space of well-defined QFTs, which are the mathematical framework in which to construct models in particle physics.

At the same time, we can describe seemingly unrelated theories like the 3d Ising model as CFTs. The conformal bootstrap approach has enabled researchers to recently calculate the critical exponents for the 3d Ising model, which effectively “solves” the theory as the critical exponents are universal and characterize all the physical properties of a theory.

The whole business about the “unknown polyhedron” and mapping “the geometry of theory space” means figuring out where these theories (e.g. Ising and other thing) live on this (higher-dimensional) map in relation to each other and potentially how to get from one to the other.

The article briefly talks about the AdS/CFT or holographic principle and how we can use CFTs to study gravity (this is more what I'm interested in) but this is a whole other can of worms. Needless to say, it's also super exciting! Two examples of the types of 'big' questions being looked at are gravity as 'emerging' from a CFT and probing the black hole information paradox / beyond the horizon.

Hope this helps!
Regardless of what you get, make sure you run TLP (it's a daemon that out-of-the-box will enable lots of power-saving tunables when unplugged, and disable them when plugged in). It can have a significant impact on battery life.
I'm curious if you know if in the south there were tensions, or perhaps why there weren't as many, as say in the west coast like the 1886 Seattle Riot or the Rock Springs Massacre, beyond just the reaction from the exclusion act?
The media is simultaneously selling both angles of course:

"Bitcoin Started With All Men. Now Crypto Is Opening to Women"

"Four out of 30 of the largest initial coin offerings this year through October had female co-founders, double the number of women leading the 30 technology companies with the largest international public offerings worldwide. Two of the female-led ICOs were among the biggest so far."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/bitcoin-s...
Navistar CEO: We’ll have more electric trucks on the road than Tesla by 2025
I have a Dell Precision 5520 Developer Edition (basically an XPS 15) with UHD screen and the bigger battery. If you want even better battery life you can get the FHD screen instead, but the UHD screen looks amazing. I get about 6 hours on battery after 8 months of use.

I opted for integrated graphics only, Linux support for switching between integrated/dedicated is dismal. The 15" screen looks great with native resolution on FHD or 2x scaling on UHD. I used to have an XPS 13 and fractional scaling (e.g. 1.25x) does not work as well as integer scaling (e.g. 2x) on Linux.
This is a problem across all of government. As a mediocre senior software engineer with no reports, I was paid more last year than the goddamn President of the United States (and no, it's not because I got lucky with stock). This is completely stupid and unacceptable.

Of course our choices are going to be Hillary vs Trump if we pay the top leader in the country less than a mediocre software engineer. Of course Hillary will give secret speeches to Wall St firms - how else is she going to pay her bills? Of course the government is going to be incompetent and corrupt - we can't hire good people at the salaries we're paying unless they use their influence to obtain side gigs in the private sector (often after their service, but that means they won't do anything to annoy their future bosses).

Why does Sundar Pichai make 500x more than the President? Do we, as a society, value running Google well 500x more than running our government well?

Government salaries need to be raised significantly (2-500x) across the board, or the government will continue being the mess it is now.
Agreed, I've long since stopped blaming either of them.

It sucks that they did divorce however my brothers and I turned out just fine by her raising us.

I see a psychiatrist and have talked plenty with her about my childhood and growing up.

From my posts it may come off that my mother is a terrible person and that's so far from the truth. I love my mother and would do anything for her.

She had to play the role of mother and father (something any parent would struggle with). Sacrifices she made to raise us still amaze me to this day.

Mom involved us in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to be around male mentors (and it helped a lot). We had the support of Big Brother & Big Sisters for one-on-one interaction with male figures.

We never went without under the care of my mother, however we were in poverty and she constantly was trying to make ends meet every month. While we weren't homeless like in your situation, it was still very much a struggle.

I learned very early on the difference between wants and needs.
> In my own PhD program, the productivity of the Americans was much lower than the foreigners.

I think the bias has swung way too far the other way. Racism against Americans is still racism.

Also, this applies mainly to undergrads (full paying students), not PhD students who are generally fully funded.
Found them. The comments from the security team suggest the (admittedly out of date) proxy appliance can’t handle the combination of modern TLS ciphers, H/2 and multiple hosts on a SAN cert, and in this scenario, results in a connection failure that from the end user perspective looks like a site issue. In the case of the new cloud service, the problem is specifically related to the new TLS versions and long lived connections, but which I haven’t been able to recreate from the corporate Akamai setup with the same site behind it. Small sample size though...
Exploiting the Structure of Modern Web Applications [pdf]
PHP isn't a compiled language. Exceptions are thrown when the code is loaded into the interpreter and said interpreter notices the error.
It feels like they’re just writing whatever they want, as per usual. Perfect filler content for them I guess?
I don't have stats but given that in order to stay after an F-1 you need to have job lined up and getting a job as an F-1 is not easy and in addition seeing the vast majority of F-1 students I was acquainted with in UNI went back home after graduation, I would have to suggest the great majority do go back home, generally speaking.
And on the other hand: spam filtering, web search, reducing power consumption in data centres, reading MRI images, etc.

Good things.
How I managed to read ~200 books last year
I'm just saying that even with that model before, we never had tech with the reach or capability as we do now, which makes that interesting.

If it was a good model for building UIs in 1970 and it proved itself then, we should be taking advantage of that on the frontend as well, instead of ignoring it.
> I said this in the parent post and sure enough someone who is a fan of javascript had to reply with exactly what I said was going to happen.

Breakpoints are off the table? Seriously? I didn't realizing using a debugger made me a JS fanboy.

Wrapping all of your basic arithmetic in try/catch blocks is completely unreasonable. If you need to check for NaN, check for NaN. Making arithmetic substantially slower in the general case to catch the uncommon cases is exactly the problem NaN was introduced to solve.
> I don't want to just see the final state of ours/theirs, but the changes that us/them did in order to get to those final states.

I'm curious, would something like this help you better understand a complex merge?

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=Microsoft/vscod...

If you click on the files in the pull request, you can see the diff and the changes on the source and target branches at once. You can also search for diffs on both branches at once, to quickly see how they were introduced.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator behind GitSense
My Thinkpad X1C5 gets 10-12 hours. That’s with light workloads (browsing & editing) and average screen brightness.
Being tied up in a lawsuit does not grind a company to a halt. Most of the Fortune 500 is probably getting sued right now for some reason or another. Also, when a company loses a lawsuit, the court doesn’t automatically debit the damages from the company. Winning a case and collecting damages are 2 very different things.
Come to Washington State. The University of Washington's preference to international students over in-state has become so lopsided that the state legislature has been threatening to cut off funding and force the school to change its name. Most of my in-state friends were denied admission into their majors during undergrad.