skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A progress bar for what? Some things are trivial (copying a local file with a known size), some are impossible (streaming a file of an unknown size). It's not the problem is a progress bar, it's a problem of:

- How reliably can you provide the current stage mapped to the linear progress (do you know what step you're on? Do you know how many store exist / are enabled / are applicable?)

- How reliably can you map each stage to the time required? Does it depend on the environment / hardware / selected configuration?

For many cases the second one is basically unknown. You can still do a combination of lists and progress bars per step, or something similar to make it easier.
It's declining already.
Comments like this are what the internet is all about! AFAIK Yugoslavs call tea "čaj" (pronounced... chai!). I have no idea about other Slavs. And if by Commonwealth you mean the British one, I think the biggest member state is India, where "chai" is also the word.
Why Bitcoin's price will go to zero?
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Can you talk a little more about your experience studying in Germany? What is the application process like? If you went to school in the US how is the experience same/different? My wife is German and should we live there I would like to do some more college too
College degrees are largely positional goods. A good chunk of the value of a college degree is that you get hired preferentially over an otherwise equally qualified candidate without a degree, or with a less prestigious degree.

The US higher education system is an excellent example as to what happens when you subsidize positional goods. Daycare workers and firefighters are starting to be a college-degree-required position. They're not there yet, fortunately, but it's absolutely ridiculous.

The solution has three parts:

1. Expand the examination system used in places like actuarial work and civil service to encompass a broader range of skills.

2. Declare a student loan debt jubilee.

3. Add a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for college degrees, or otherwise shut down the ability for college degrees to matter in resumes. Banning colleges and other organizations from confirming whether or not a student actually got a degree is a good start.
What about taking up BJJ for a few hours a week? Low impact, gets you exercising if you’re not already and gives you a lot of social contact and the potential for new friendships. As a sport it seems disproportionally popular among nerds.
My guess as an outsider: The general consensus among techies (since, I think we can say, disproven) was that the tablet would replace the laptop. I would guess MS also bought into the hype and wanted to provide some continuity to its customers in the hope of retaining them in this new tablet world, and was willing to throw desktop use under the bus to make it happen. It doesn't matter if your UI sucks on a physical keyboard and mouse if users rejected those devices.

Instead tablets peaked, then bigger smartphones ate their share instead of tablets taking out the remaining use cases for traditional form factors.
> I am the client, I want frequent feature updates, I want fast security updates

Oh God no. I am the client, I DO NOT want frequent feature updates, or any update at all, except important (life-threatening) basic security patches. I want things to NOT CHANGE ever, esp. the UI and the way to do basic tasks.
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Well, the apps do. And Google has unfortunately forgotten to give you the tools to block those from doing that by not giving you ways to block internet access.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/physical...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Moisture_and_Ocean_Salini...
It's already against the typical bank's terms of service for a user to provide them.

Not to mention a silly thing to do. But the average user seems just blindly trusts these things - tools like 'You Need a Budget' ask for the same.
Intel AMT Security Issue Lets Attackers Bypass BiOS and BitLocker Passwords
Can someone who is more familiar with Meltdown speculate on this? Is this a quick fix and is it likely to be optimised over time and become less slow? Or is this the raw trade-off and current hardware will always suffer slow-downs to this degree. Can an OS be rearchitected in ways that would mitigate the performance loss?
I study at Universität Leipzig, in their international physics studies program. It's a fairly rigorous program and you are expected to learn a lot on your own outside of class, which is actually how I prefer it. I can definitely recommend it if you are the kind of person who can learn yourself. I see the classes as more of a guide of what to study and you expand on that yourself outside of class.

I'm getting another bachelors as I didn't feel that my finance degree taught me enough to jump into a physics masters (and I was right, there's a lot to be learned in undergrad math and physics). In undergrad you won't necessarily get into specialized stuff like quantum computing, but you will take the basic experimental and theoretical QM courses that can help prepare for something like that in a masters program. So I'm not sure I can recommend anything on that yet.

MIT has a few excellent courses on quantum physics. They have two versions of their 8.04 taught by two different professors and I highly recommend both. Then they have their advanced quantum physics 8.05 out there as well, which I also highly recommend. If you have the discipline to do the problem sets then you will learn quite a bit.
Leipzig
Cool tech. If anything, it shows that windows MR tools are mature enough to be used in most languages... on Windows.

I know one can work on projects that target Hololens using only Unity3D, but it doesn't help much since the SDK needed to build them are only available on Windows.

Given the "recent" interest for Linux at Microsoft and their mea culpa regarding Internet Explorer, I would have hoped they made their Hololens SDK crossplatform. Platform lock-in worked well for iOS, but then again, I wonder if Android would have had so much success if it hadn't the only crossplatform mobile SDK (I wonder if I'm not mistaken, here: did Blackberry have a crossplatform SDK?).

Anyway, it's cool to see them going forward. Best of luck.
Talk about moving the goalposts. Regardless, simple hosts-based adblocking works well on Android.
Talking about India could be The Economist's attempt to warn about the dangers of a continued merciless pummeling of the western middle class without having to come out and say, "gee, maybe Trump has a point..."
Don't move the goalposts from "ads" to bundled apps. Furthermore, the "data collection" would be the same whether I accessed those services from my GNU/Linux desktop or Android device so I don't understand where you're going with that claim.
You've made an odd comparison about a market demographic for American producers, that you could aptly apply to China too, which is quite a good comparison - and somehow related this to colonialism with logic that doesn't hold for people who are familiar with India.

However in China the market most adept to American type clothes & idiosyncrasies have no similarity at all to reasons you describe as to India's American cultural preferences: which by the way you could apply to most countries today.
> Problem with the Dell XPS is it still only supports 16GB of RAM, which is getting to be aggravating for me.

XPS 15 does have 32GB RAM? Though it only comes with the 4K UHD model.
For some reason every single pixel access must be authorized through CORS. I am not sure if this is in the standard or just shoddy implementation in all browsers. Try it yourself, read pixels in one non-CORSed image, and then in CORSed and wonder what went wrong on the drawing board. Some people bypass it via WebGL.
You should have seen it when I first created the campaign. I wasn't going for a parody look but I am trying to go for a more "less-serious and goofy" approach. I do realize that I'm using too much bold emphasis. I'm not fully sure why.

On a more serious note, your advice is definitely useful to me. I am going to try to brush up on the delivery and make it look less like a parody.

This is also the first time I'm hearing of Juicero. Definitely rough happenings.
On the Security of Unix (1979) [pdf]
Yes, but the correct search result will be usually be second or third in the list. Using the polyc string a few times will rank it top of the list.

Windows search will often just refuse to give the correct answer until you type an exact match.
$hells Angels t shirt – lol
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/business/worl...

Take your pick of the data.
"Be happy" as phrased is putting the cart before the horse.

Your emotions define what you do. You'll have a different reaction to a situation if you are happy vs angry when it happens. It's not something that can be helped. The best attempt you can make at "Be happy" is to do things that make you happy, whether or not it actually works. If your emotions define what you do, the hard part is to get off your butt and try to do those things. It requires an emotional transition, which isn't something that can be forced, but when it happens you need to take advantage.
I understand some hacky, underused and not well designed ways to do some of the ideas exists :)

>Regarding piping between app: this is the role the clipboard serves today

This is more a "scratch" area than truly piping. If you can't do:

map(PhotoShop.listImages, zipToFile) |> map(sendEmail)

naturally then is not the idea.

> this is already commonly done on linux.

In fact this one is almost too close. But think for example in all the trash/caches/temps is stored on the HOME.

The problem is that the whole thing rely on ad-hoc, let's imagine developers and users will respect the filesystem layout...

You can totally store your photos on /bin. You can't trust ONLY your personal data is on HOME.

> Windows UAC already allows a user to jump into being an admin when needed. I'm unsure why you would need a separate user account for other roles.

Not, is the opposite, is not to create more accounts, but to switch roles per context.

I'm jhon/admin when managing computer
I'm jhon/user when browsing
I'm jhon/developer when compiling
Sure, and it's really slow.
The fun thing is that there was never such consensus outside of, seemingly, Redmond and wharever place Unity was developed at. Everybody else did not even expect general-purpose Tablet to be a thing and were frustrated OSes tuned for hardware that wasn't even available.

And pushing that agenda tooth and nail.
> Option's should not be part of the function signature unless it is important to the logic of that function.

Yes! Absolutely. Very important observation. In fact in Haskell Maybe should not be part of the signature if you want to return Nothing whenever one of the arguments is Nothing.

> And an uglier, but fun, point-free version

Yikes, please don't! People might get the wrong idea about how good Haskell is written.
I agree.

There's a vouch link for bad comments. Is there something similar for stories? Can a number of people "unflag" this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7q2ok2/twothy_...
If there is, I don't see it :(
It's a "hackjob" by Asus Republic of Gamers.

Not a home-built thing, but not what you'd call a laptop (portable, battery life) either..
Are you sure you can't? Besides the paper statements, I can download my transaction data in a variety of formats including CSV from every bank I've use in the Netherlands.
Boundaries between all 6 neighbors are equal. With S2, four are on the sides and top are equal and the corner neighbors have only a single point as their boundary.

This means you can better simulate dynamic systems where there is flow between cells.
This is especially interesting for workloads that already ran on >70%

Some stuff won't run in the free tiers anymore and people will have to switch to bigger machines :/
NRO records related to the creation of the NROL-76 logo
Move to Europe or some other place. Likely nobody will care at all about your past. Change your name.
No point in leaving the goal posts where they are when they don't reflect the goal: Not having ads in your face all the time.

Hosts-file-based blocking requires Root, which Google has also practically cut off from end-users. Yes, the manufacturers can give you root, so clearly it's their fault, but Google doesn't implement user access control, making Root extremely insecure on Android.
Guess humanity lost 30% of its computing power
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The minimum payout matches the average payout at $500.

Highly doubt 100k is included in there.
I'm a small fish, but all of the customers who purchased a Windows Vista computer from me found Vista a joy to use. Their drivers worked, their programs worked and the machines were fast. I think a much stronger reason for the bad rep would be that so many big-name labels sold Vista machines that were woefully under-powered and then loaded them with bloatware. I recall visiting a few customers who had new Vista computers from big brands and paid me to upgrade them within the first week of owning them!
>The system has itself became self-sustaining in a big way after 'independence', and thus continuing the large-scale inequity, often entirely along linguistic lines (English vs rest).

Pretty much the same for Pakistan to say if we are to start conversation about that.

While Urdu is a state language, the amount of people eloquent in it is even less than ones who can speak passable English (8%), and is popularly associated with local hollow intellectuals and creative class. The also the same vicious circle of meritless cadre policies where mediocre people who were granted a post solely for the knowledge of the language perpetuates the practice.

Pakistani middle class, or better to say the virtual middle caste, were the Punjabi old money clans for generations without much change.

I don't say that Pakistan has no middle class. It has it: there are capable, educated, talented people ready to compete in globalized industry, just there are very few of them. Talented youth has to work twice as hard to enjoy that middle-classer living in Bahria Towns, compared to a person who just got to be born in a clan with assumed middle-class status and English speaking family.
Do you know of any GUI OS that actually works like that?

I'd rather have frequent small changes than Big Bang changes...
What will happen to pen plotters and other cool geekery once all pencils are gone ?!
Apple could start their own cloud servers their CPUs are fast enough. Apple are competitive if you weight in power/performance.

Geekbench scores
Apple A11 CPU multi score 10176
Intel Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4, 2 cpu score 82225

Geekbench scores of Intel
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/5249111
Geekbench scores of Apple
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/51
They stopped trading again because order books are not displayed properly. [1]

Great to see them back online.

[1] https://status.kraken.com/incidents/nswthr1lyx72
I think we are going full circle from IE5 times. Those days activeX was bad as it can get.. today's browsers are full of features like that.. and now it's not safe anymore to use them.. did we learn anything from flash ?
Or Search just doesn't return local results at all. Or the Start Menu often won't open to even get to Search :-(

Even on fresh, completely updated systems I've found the Start menu is so intermittent that I'm glad I didn't sell them. The quality of Microsoft's work is called into question when the feature you're meant to "Start" with doesn't work.
I think a lot of it is helped by the way MacOS works. You’ve got an Applications directory in which each app is listed as a monolithic package (or in a sub directory for built-in things like the terminal).

Windows has various locations where apps are typically installed or dumped (Program files, Program files x86
, program data, app data...) where the particular executable in buried somewhere amongst everything else. Shortcuts to these and various other applications are scattered all over the place.

If you build such a simple approach to dropping applications into a single directory with big obvious icons, not only does it look clean to a user but it prevents naming duplication and allows your search tool to match to this directory first so you can esasily use Spotlight as a launcher.
I come across various Windows 10 machines and see Candy Crush adverts, Office 365 adverts, OneDrive adverts, Lock Screen adverts. I believe some have even documented adverts showing on File Explorer (!)
Waarschuwing: levensgevaarlijke drugs in omloop
Returning to God and the realisation that I never left. :)
The US State Department found itself the focus of social media jibes
It tells what type of commit it is (a bug fix, a test related change, etc). Its not automated.
I'm very happy with 8.1 (support until 2023)+Classic Shell+Classic Explorer (no breadcrumbs)+MacType (sane font rasterizer).
The toy example referenced in section 6.4 is actually closer to Spectre. It's missing the crucial distinction that the speculatively loaded address should belong to a page inaccessible from the current ring level.

To see why that toy example is insufficient, consider that you could simply execute the load directly without putting an exception in front of it and you would be able to read the value.
I saw the title to this piece on the HN front page, and thought, "Wow, I'd like to see what a random tech company does with entry level engineers." Too bad this isn't a piece of writing that really discusses that in detail. There is no real actionable content here; it reads more like an HR post or marketing for Clover. A shame.
"Back then?" We haven't quite come full circle with the Meltdown registry compatibility key being set, because of anti-virus vendors hacking their way around, but it's close. All it needs is one of them to throw a sueball and the circle will have been completed!
I'm not "having ads in your face all the time" in apps shipped with android distributions. 3rd party apps, anything goes but that's true for all platforms.
While he has s point it's pure talking point. His policies are dumping on the middle class even harder.

Hint increase the debt and you increase taxes. So, you need to look at how the tax burden shits not nessisarily the specific rates. Aka if you get 50$ off your taxes this year but your share of the national debt increases by 5,000$ then you are far worse off.
Part of the issue is that many people don't really understand what introvert/extrovert really means. It's not about being happy alone or in groups, at all. It's about the "energy" you have, the opposite side is being tired as if you were riding roller coasters for hours. Extroverts "recharge" while socializing while introverts lose energy with (most kinds of) company, no matter how much they're enjoying it.

Knowing this, I think it's pretty obvious introverts can learn and appear as extroverts, but eventually they hit a point where they have to say "bye" and be alone doing nothing productive for a while.
> As an adult introvertish nerd, what makes you happy?

LTC Fire Emblem and Javascript code golf.
I always found it interesting that Defender has always been touted as being well-behaved when installed next to other anti-virus. I have preferred to disable it (IME, Defender's detection rate is poor, and the off-set in possible stability problems is not worth it) but haven't actually come across Defender misbehaving, other than false positives. This suggests it's probably using the operating system correctly, in exception to its peers.
I'm confused. I thought Mozilla has a really shitty market share. Everyone just cares about Chrome?

And I assume this plugin wouldn't work in Chrome (does it)?

How does a web player plugin come close to destroy a company that builds a graphic engine? I thought they make their money with licenses for game developers?

So far I understand your usability complaints, but this seems to go a bit far. At least without sources, couldn't find something myself. Mozilla all but destroying Unity because of their plugin/addon policy seems .. unlikely?
It's really impressive that AMD CPUs are as fast as they are given that this is the case.
The fact is that the well off in India come from traditionally "upper" castes. Linguistically speaking too (like English speakers), the caste correlation is quite strong. Even among the non-English speaking rich (like wealthy farmers in the rural areas), the same caste correlation pops up. In a country where upwards of 90% of marriages are within the same caste[1], wealth accrued to certain castes stays within them (a self-sustaining system). So it shouldn't be surprising to see caste used an explanation for inequality.

1. http://www.thehindu.com/data/just-5-per-cent-of-indian-marri...!
RDA Technical Guidelines (FRBR and Functional Requirements for Authority Data)
Some Amiga people still believe that "virtual memory" is a passing fad, and when the Amiga comes again in glory we'll all realize how futile and self-defeating it was to prevent people from accessing the raw hardware and OS.
There's nothing DIY about a ready made Linux distribution such as the Fedora Desktop.

As long as you don't fiddle around too much under the hood, and don't insert random commands in places because someone on the Internet told you to, things will Just Work like nothing else. There's something to be said to having the developers actually caring about making a useful computer without allowing the marketing department to take charge.

Don't try to run it on some unsupported hardware (including outside "third party drivers"), anything bog standard Intel based will do, and you'll be absolutely fine.
They say it's a smaller share, which doesn't necessarily mean fewer women, depending on what is counted as "work".

It could be (I'm just guessing here), that the type of work that men do has been "legalized" (and hence counted) to a much greater extent than the type of work that women predominantly do.
It's a hardware issue, IMHO it'll be reversed after we get structurally re-engineered (i.e. a new generation, which takes a lot of time to get through all the pipeline from design to actual manufacturing) of CPUs, everything Intel manufactures in 2018 and possibly even 2019 will likely still have those issues.
Favorite quotes:

I asked XXXXX,the NRO PSO, if fairing logos require White House approval. XXXXX said after the octopus logo (NROL-39), the White House threatened to require presidential approval if the NRO approved any more menacing logos.

This Latin approach has worked before and allowed one of my previous organizations to have the slogan "Doing God's work with other people's money" fly right through the approval process. [1]
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/youre-m...
ModeShape: hierarchical, transactional, and consistent data store (JCR)
Actual field testing of Spectre on various Power Macs
It's always been a massive pain to get email + metadata into or out of Microsoft products. It's so frustrating as it cannot be difficult to implement half-decent import/export but my heart drops every time I know I have to do it for a customer...

OOI, what parts of the UI did you find non-intuitive? I found the new Start Menu odd, but it wasn't long before I was more used to pressing Windows, then typing, to launch a program, rather than find it manually. I can't believe I used to spend so much time manually organising my Start Menu! (And I'm usually the type that doesn't like this sort of change)
Npm's proposal for supporting ES modules in node
FRBR Ontology