skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teenage me would have been all over that box.

"Little johnny spent 3.5 hours on 'advanced algebra last night'".

Our family PC (this was back in the 90's) had RH on it for about a year before anyone noticed, I grew up around computers (family friend was a sysadmin for an aerospace company so we got lots of 'broken' stuff and cast offs), I had frankenbuilds with drives duct taped to the outside of them but my favourite was the monochrome VGA 386 laptop when the family PC was a 286, the internal ribbon had snapped from been opened and closed, it cost me about 50p to fix it and it was going in the skip (dumpster) anyway.

My plan with my step-son is to keep the bar low enough that he'll keep pushing beyond it, he's already shown a fair amount of interest in Linux, he figured out how Gnome works faster than my GF did, I caught him watching videos on Linux the other day and now he wants to try some of the other DE's.

I find it really hard though, I remember what I was like at 7 and I want to sit and explain it all to him but then he loses the part where he has to work it out for himself so I restrict myself to answering his questions when he gets stuck or nudging him in the right direction.

The family friend just dumped programming books on me and answered stuff when I got really stuck but his response to any question was "and what have you tried so far?", I still remember getting a mouse driver written in assembly to work (pretty much the last time I wrote any actually since I discovered Turbo C and Turbo Pascal pretty soon after).

I think our next project will be a tracked robot with one of the r-pi's I have in the drawer.
This perspective strikes me as far too optimistic, for mostly the reasons you describe. I don't think evolving a general purpose programming language (even if not Turing-complete) is likely to produce more comprehensible systems than evolving a matrix, and in fact I would expect the opposite. Reverse engineering benefits from knowing that the original author was a human that can only handle so much complexity at once. Reverse engineering this sort of code will be more like molecular biology, where everything still depends on everything but you don't know how anymore, as opposed to linear algebra where the relationships are at least regular.
College is so stupid expensive that universities are setting up food pantries
>>And if one more person starts to realize the harm in buying cheap goods from China, hopefully we will eventually change this trend.

Textiles and clothing are already starting to be made in India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam because Chinese factories are too expensive for simple manufacturing. Globalism ensures that "harm" will be exported from rich countries to the poor ones. The economic incentives are extremely powerful, and a handful of well-meaning people won't fix that.

What happened in China - and is currently happening - is that their industrial revolution occurred and they are now making increasingly better products with an increasingly more educated and skilled workforce, no different than what happened in the United States. As prices of labor and factories go up, the low-hanging fruit is exported elsewhere.

Check your - or your friend's, since you try not to buy clothing like this - Nike shirts and see where they are made. Anything new is likely not to be made in China.

The cycle continues.
Me too. Telegram is my main and preferred messaging service. I am worried this is going to ruin the service by changing focus. I guess there's still Wire.
Friend of my parents had this happen (& hey, we're in Canada)

Guy shovelled, went inside, had a shower, passed out in bed. Had to be rushed to hospital, bedridden for a couple days. Survived, but now his wife's a bit worrisome about him shovelling now
Diversification (+260%) VS. Bitcoin-Only Portfolio (+47%)
Only if you go to a public, state school.

Otherwise, in-state tuition probably can't be a factor.
Any activity involving my finances will require current security patches.

Because these are unavailable for >95% of Android phones, I have not and will not use these services.

I'm (currently) on LineageOS with the December security update - Android Pay doesn't work there, not that I ever wanted it anyway.
That's reasonable, certainly alcohol has real effects beyond the scope of the dangers of mindless games, or, marijuana even. I didn't intend to suggest games have the same types of effects as DUIs, a shortsighted comparison on my end.

I am more interested in how a position of moderation is in theory attractive, and may even show benefits in controlled situations, but in practice use of substances or mobile games can lead to excessive use (i.e., abuse) and have a net negative on a user physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, etc.
Many people said that if your processor support PCID, the performance will not be reduced a lot by the new patches. However, after installing new updates for windows and for my very new CPU 7600U everything becomes extremely slow. My laptop is now literally unusable. Even the simplest tasks are very slow. Before this update I was able to watch youtube videos in 4K, now I'm struggling even to watch 480p... I will never buy Intel processors again. In the last few months I only hear lies from Intel regarding Meltdown, Management Engine and other "holes" in their products. Now I can throw my super expensive laptop in garbage. Thank you Intel.
It would be interesting to see a lab focussed on reproducing these findings and then running all the various combinations to see how those incremental improvements stack. Seems like something we should get ahead of before people run into unknown consequences of trying their own combinations.
Watch Samsung’s CES press conference live right here
I doubt he got many invites.
its meant for merging and intersecting and it should be max 5% error
I would have done the same if it was about national survival. Nobody was coming to Finland's aid. They had run out of options. Nazi Germany was the last option.

Not exactly first or last time this has happened. Vietnam had been promised independence from the US after WWII, and tried to align with the US. When they US, renegaded on their promise and let France take Vietnam back, those fighting for Vietnamese independence ran out of options, and eventually allied with their last option, the Soviets.

Same with the founding of Israel. the UK and the US refused to take in jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. It left jews with the shitty option of declaring the state of Israel for their own survival.

People want to survive so they pick the options they have even if they aren't great. Then they get to listen to people from big countries moralize and criticize for the rest of their existence.

Okay, that last part was kind of exaggerated ;-)
I did use a different account, but Google is very good at tracing accounts back to the underlying person. Especially with AdSense, you've got to enter your SSN, which even if your email, address, phone, and whatever else are unblemished will cause the new account to get auto-flagged as well, which as far as I can tell then propagates to that email, phone, etc.

My YouTube account used to be somewhat separate, but during the whole Google Plus integration timeframe they forced you to tie it to your real identity. Which just goes to cement the original point of the dangers of using one master account for so many different services, things that used to be separate end up a mess. See also my various Skype, Zune, Xbox Live, MSDN, Office 365, and Windows accounts which cause me so much annoyance now that Microsoft has integrated a lot of the backend.

Anyway not trying to justify the questionable morals of a college freshman, but it's good to keep in mind the downstream effects of a seemingly minor infraction when multiplied by one corporation controlling so many different types of services.
Nope, I've got too much scrolling to do. These headlines aren't going to read themselves.
Useful Mental Models (2016)
Multiuser support is built into Android in recent versions.
> if you have loads of cash deposited with a local bank

That...isn’t cash. It’s a demand deposit at a local bank. Even riskier than Treasuries.
Indeed, I would personally prefer to live in the world where our leaders are idealists trying to make the world a better place rather than war-profiteers.
a buddy of mine has a good setup. His teens have phones, ipads, and the like but he has every charger. Inevitably they have to hand the device over for power and then he decides on when to hand it back.
In preview. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/azure-functions-su...
Kind to have to be a right wing organization he is not working along side of women. You do have to think of everyone on your team including the women.
> A programmer new to a body of code will tend to blame the code, in my experience.

The key thing I disagree with about this is essay is that when it comes to code, there isn't really any reason ever to have anything other than The Hungry Caterpillar or Puppy Peek-a-boo.

There will obviously be differences between projects, but within a single API or whatever, there's no reason why every endpoint shouldn't be coded in exactly the same way. E.g.:

1) Validate user permissions

2) Validate user input

3) Validate business logic

4) Persist results

5) Return data or an error

Within a given project all variables and functions should be named consistently, there should be a consistent style of error handling, etc. Once you've read the style guide and understand how one endpoint works, you should be able to understand how every endpoint works. IMHO saying "I don't understand this, rewrite it" is always the most valuable code review one can give or receive.

If you hired someone to advertise your product on TV and viewers weren't able to understand the ad, you'd probably fire your ad team immediately. I don't see why developers should be held to any lesser standard.
I would say the difference with those examples and Pay with Google (as well as Google's other rebrands) is that Live Mesh and FolderShare really weren't being used prior to rolling them into Live Drive/SkyDrive/OneDrive (whenever those got integrated, it's been years). The rebrand was intentional to try and get them to be used more by attaching them to a more successful brand, which happened to be the one for our online storage.

Google likes taking successful products and then rebranding them out of the blue for no real reason other than to seem "integrated". Things like splitting off messaging from Hangouts, which was already an amalgamation of features and other products like Google Talk and the old messaging app. Or like Google Pay, which is an amalgamation of a bunch of other successful products like Android Pay (which was itself an amalgamation of other products like Google Wallet and Google Checkout along with certain acquisitions). With Google, it just seems like they constantly have FOMO of being on the "hot new brand".
> There are structural barriers that prevent women...

There is also a long history of "men are doctors, women are nurses".
Not quite the timescale you asked for, but The World in 2050 by Laurence C. Smith was an interesting read. At the time of writing he was predicting things about 40 years ahead.
I've tried. Sure I can create new accounts but Google is very good at tracing accounts back to the underlying person. Especially with AdSense, you've got to enter your SSN, which even if your email, address, phone, and whatever else are unblemished will cause the new account to get auto-flagged as well, which as far as I can tell then propagates to that email, phone, etc.
If you're going to be handling http requests it's almost a given you'll be using AppEngine rather than Cloud Functions. Still "serverless" but more tools and languages to choose from.
So basically I have a medical reason not to shovel snow. I'm OK with this.
There is. Watching memes all day is way less productive than reading about some obscure processor bug, or doing a tutorial in the newest functional js dialect.
Sounds like one theory of the actual mechanism is the Valsalva maneuver? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver

Could that be mitigated by just learning to not do it? People training in martial arts often practice this by combining breathing with specific moves, such as exhaling while punching. I imagine you could also learn to exhale as you lift the shovel.
Of course?
here is author's repo: https://github.com/Glench/Flowsheets-v2
this is very cool and intuitive interface. Hope that Glen will continue to develop!
What is "cheaply made item?"

The items I have made in China are superior in quality and the customer service I get is better than American factories by a huge amount. All Chinese factories due is pick up the margin that American companies try to live off of (and yes, this includes costs of labor); this does not mean or guarantee that there is poor return on investment.

Your theories are not very well-founded, and frankly, pretty racist. The idea that a bunch of engineers in China can't make equivalent - or better - products than those in the United States is ridiculous and shown to be false by everyday life in the devices we use.

>>The pollution cost to mine all the rare earth materials that go into these light bulbs are not reflected in their final cost, and in my opinion, they should be.

This is a separate issue from the second sentence you posted. Maybe you are right. But almost no politician is interested in discussing these issues. Ironically enough, the most vocal supporter you have on this issue is Donald Trump.
Would gcc's "__builtin_expect" construct help in these cases?
Happened to my android google tv from Sony, completely made it unusable , even YouTube app is not working. When Logitech did something similar everybody gone crazy about it. Google seems to be getting away with this kind of behavior every time
we are all arguing about a 10 word quotes because that is what the media have chosen to focus on.

If you read the full memo, you understand what he aims at and I don't think it is poorly written.
> if you don‘t want your kids to read your emails, you need to buy them their own iPad.

You're right. But I still think I would buy my kid their own iPad even if my iPhone/iPad had a kid mode. My kid has their own iPad and I still find times when it would be ideal to give them access to the basic features on my phone/ipad. Frankly, if iOS just added the ability to password protect any app then that would be good enough, and it would be useful for more than kids... hand you phone to a coworker or relative to look at photos they can't accidentally/intentionally hop over to your email.
> All three of them are solidly classical liberal, which is probably right of center today

Pretty much all of the mainstream “right” and “left” in America are takes on classical liberalism, with different ideas about concrete context applies. The far-right and far-left (including the alt-right as part of the far-right, for this purpose) aren't.
Good writing is not necessarily readable writing. Shakespearean works are good writing, but they are most certainly not easily readable. There is code that is great code because for many other reasons than readability.(Like performance, correctness, robustness)

Easy to read writing is simple and concrete. Code that is easy to understand is also simple and concrete.

Complexity and abstraction push away understanding like two positive magnets. But sometimes readability is worth sacrificing to achieve a separate goal with the code.
> What is a supercomputer in your pocket, with access to a significant portion of the sum total of human knowledge, good for, for most people? Playing fucking candy crush.

"People" have always been driven to play, gamble, game and such. What matters is that the human-knowledge-computer is there and accessible, not that 7 billion people immediately proceed to become Hawking/Feynman/Schopenhauer/etc-whoever clones on a daily fulltime basis. We're playful creatures, as are all well-fed carnivores =)
I didn't say everyone was outraged.

You don't there are women at Google who say this memo as yet another attack on the idea that they are just as capable as their male counterparts?
You could argue that the Supreme Court has the ability to strike laws down but not create them, though in a very limited way.
When I walk down the streets of NYC, I keep seeing private helicopters flying to and fro, along with police helicopters.

I don't think it was the case in 1968 yet.

Also, small personal radio-controlled helicopters with cameras, often seen in SF from 1960-70s, are a thing for many years now, known as "drones".
Visiting Germany earlier this year, many (perhaps most) stores I shopped at had contactless terminals. Maybe it's unevenly rolled out?
Agreed but I love it however I usually have IRC open on a different workspace in one of the channels I've hung out in for years so if I want to shoot the breeze with someone I can talk to them - I work for a manufacturing firm and I'm the only programmer so I can't really talk about my job in any depth with non-programmers anyway.
Exactly. You have to think of everyone including the women and be difficult to have him on a team after he wrote the memo and shared his feelings.
I think it has to do with how easy it is to enable. Having a second PIN that automatically goes into kid/guest mode would be fantastic. They could even have a little more freedom then too -- they could create their own wallpapers, customize the location of apps, and change other innocuous system settings which only benefits Apple by helping kids learn more than the parental controls currently gives them access to.
Prop 13 was a pretty good temporary measure. But after passing a permanent solution should have been put in place.

Housing prices in California increased a crapload in the years before prop 13 was enacted. Real people with good jobs in new, modest houses they recently bought - not just granny in her 50 year old home - were in danger of being driven from their homes due to increases in property taxes.
That's maybe why we should stop focusing on a 10 word quote and maybe read and understand the full memo (which provides context) ?
Can anyone confirm that the way to identify if a linux system has pcid support is to check /proc/cpuinfo? Or is that merely to identify if the hw supports it, independent of the kernel support?

I checked two ubuntu servers, one 14.04, the other 16.04, both have it. Which seems odd given the claim that it's only been added recently to the kernel.

Also I see nothing showing up in dmesg, no config option and no proc interface on any system.
Would you mind posting civilly and substantively or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even worse, I'm old enough to remember how the Time cover story on "cyber porn" [1] indirectly led to the introduction of bad legislation [2].

Reporting like this can have serious consequences.

[1] https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19950703,00.htm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
Yeah this is what I wrote to receive the images: https://github.com/andrewpbrett/admin.andybrett.com
At least tic-tac-toe isn't designed to suck all your attention
Gee, for a group that seems to complain about suppression of alternative thoughts you sure you do love to accuse everyone who disagrees with you of not having read the memo.
That’s oft-repeated but makes no sense. If you develop and patent a treatment, then that necessarily means that the cure—if it exists—is out there and unpatanted, for some other company to develop and sell. There is an economic incentive for them to do so, because a cure is obviously more valuable than a treatment. It would be very weird if you could somehow make a treatment more valuable than a cure by changing how you charge for it. By that logic, companies would never sell cars, only lease them.
Yes, this, exactly. And I suspect that this is partially behind its persistence in the face of evidence it doesn't work.
I was going to refute your (uncited) comment, but it appears that San Francisco's vacancy rate has increased from 4.9% to 8.3% over ten years, affirming your position.

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....
Not only is it a viable energy storage method, it's already used commercially (predominantly in power conditioning systems).

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...
> but i've had discussions with people who have explicitly told me they don't really care how good/bad things are, as long as they are better than others.

No question that mentality exists, I'll argue that it's a very small minority of eg millionaires in any society that hold such a view.

There are around 11 to 13 million (not including primary residence) millionaires in the US; or around 4.5% to 5% of the adult population. The typical millionaire in the US is worth about $3 to $4 million. While it's a very large group of people spread across the country, they do have a few things in common.

The majority acquired that status from working extremely hard for a very long time, usually either operating and or selling relatively small businesses with no more than between a few dozen up to a hundred employees, or slogging away for decades piling up invested wealth slowly over their lifetime.

The millionaire class in the US is numerically overwhelmingly dominated by those types of outcomes and has been since the industrial revolution.

Extreme wealth on the other hand obviously is concentrated in a few thousand persons with unusual outlier situations, usually around very large business concerns. My suspicion is that group is dramatically more likely to have a master of the universe mentality.
I bought a burner phone for my startup. Barely use it and it runs me $3/mo. When I do use it, it's phone calls only (and text but I don't use that). I use wifi when I'm at home or at work. (old SGS V)

It's really lead me to wonder why I have my two normal phones that run me ~$80/mo just to have access without wifi. (SGS VII and iPhone 8)
Snow shoveling for me has always caused insane lower back pain. I have a bad back and have been laid up in bed for days because of it, even doing silly things like bending over to pick something small up.

I used that as an excuse to buy a snowblower. Now, removing snow is as easy as using a self-propelled lawnmower. It's one of those things I didn't realize I was missing out on and wish I had bought years ago.
Rent control is only available in units built before 1980. So renters who were not lucky enough to find a rent controlled housing has an incentive to vote against rent control. Though, any politician who leans one way or the other will piss off the other group and could be a political suicide.
I've lost about half my bodyweight, so I feel like my experience qualifies to me to offer my opinion that Keto's supposed anti-hunger effects are broscience crap.

Ephedrine or amphetamines, those work.
> In-game purchases require the more secure PIN

Wait, what? I'd rather say: No in-game purchases for minors at all.
Let's teach our daughters not to wear short skirts, because that increases the chances they'll be raped. Sounds like a similar argument.

With less hyperbole, you can use this argument regarding externalities involved in capitalism from the exploitation of workers to pollution of rivers. The way you change incentives is you add regulation.

Regardless, this thread is floating away from my point. No one is addressing the actual article here, which is really discouraging and fits with the trend of discourse on HN for the last year or so.