skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but if you have electric only and install a "peis" your rating is increased. There are better options regarding particular pollution like the pellet burning oven, but you do get higher rating from wood alone.

The CO2 part is not hand-wavy, unless you clear-cut the forest and do not let it grow back. Unfortunately that is what is happening in the rain forests of the Americas.
Does it let me open multiple windows on MacOS yet? For whatever reason, the latest update of the os, forces all MP4 files to "convert" in quicktime. So I had to switch up to VLC. One window at a time is horrible though.
We can discuss all sorts of reasons why one system is better than the other one but the worst situation is to have more than one system to measure the same thing. Measuring longer distances by foot instead of meters makes the error bigger. Many small feet adds small amounts of errors on each foot. One meter is an average step so less errors that adds up.

Choose one and stick to it :-) Customary xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
My boss was wearing a t-shirt to my interview. Some of the corporations (without customer facing roles) don't care for non customer facing roles. I'm in Germany, too.
Worm uploaded to computer and taught amazing tricks
Meltdown and Spectre Patches Don't Affect Gaming Performance
"I don't see memes as infecting our minds "
See also: Tide pods.
Every word is a story and civilisation seems to be mostly motivated, right now, by the constant creation of new words.

Meme's are a consequence of the nature of our collective consciousness, wrapping up a big story into a simple, easily recognisable symbol and thus eventually, a word.

So we can't fault memes for being, because to do so is to ignore the means we can come to know ourselves, socially. This generation has memes; the 60's had them too. They're a naturally occurring consequence of collective reality.
Are you fairly young? One day you'll suddenly have a revelation that 5 year old t-shirts look really, really, really bad. I certainly did.

The color fades, the prints fade, they look tatty.

Same with suits, knees and bums get a sheen, stitching gets ratty, etc. Obviously depends on how expensive the suit was when you bought it. To quote Sam Vimes:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
So there are some positive and negative comments here, I'd like to throw in my opinion as someone who backed it and currently owns one.

- Hardware is ok. Not super comfortable to hold.

- Pen works alright, however my goal was to use it to annotate PDFs and software issues got in the way.

- Software is absolutely awful. It's unstable, slow, and updates are slow to come.

- Crashes regularly when reading and annotating PDFs.

- Loading epubs is hit-and-miss. I have some that work alright, some that fail to load entirely. Changing pages is slow.

- Frequently fails to save your place in a document when it goes to sleep. If you're able to get it working for a few hours reading session, you might come back later to find that your progress is gone. Getting back to where you were is painfully slow.

- Support is not good. I submitted a ticket with my concerns in October, got response in January. Return period expired while I was waiting for a response.

- Battery life is merely passable.

edit: To conclude, I think that if I were to do this again I would either get an iPad or a Kindle Oasis (would have to try both to determine just how important e-ink is compared to a high dpi LCD). Either would be cheaper than the Remarkable, and you can buy a pretty sweet pen and a lifetime supply of paper with the remaining money. The iPad would probably be better for large-format PDFs, but since a lot of those have some pretty hefty margins I could probably preprocess PDFs with a script to trim them for better viewing on a Kindle.
I prefer to let my ebook reader just read the ebook to me, Samsung has a great TTS engine and google's isn't bad.
This way I can switch between listening and reading. I generally only listen when I'm driving or working out. I usually prefer to read.
"Web app" is pretty broad spectrum, from things you can do manually (or with very little learning) with an online form tool, to "we have 20 programmers working on this for a year."

The simpler the idea, or at least the simpler the first iteration, the faster you'll be able to learn the necessary skills. You can learn them, it's just a question of how important it is that you do, and how much you have to learn.

So maybe start with "what's the simplest thing I can build, and how can I prototype it". Something like airtables might allow you to prototype easily, though perhaps not go live.
What about you caused them to do that? Just skin color? Sorry if it's rude to ask, I'm white and definitely sheltered so I'm just curious.
It's not released yet - and the article in question links to our development server.

I've disabled all access to nightlies for win32/win64/mac for now since those binaries will not get update checks/will not be updated in a sane fashion. You should not be using them.

We're still working on a VLC 3.0 release, and will announce it when it's ready and our mirrors pick up all the binaries. Please have patience.
For some things, we do. But databases are not magical and setting up a good table/index system &c is also work and there is overhead.

Thus, if we are talking about having (for example) a webservice where queries have a form that is known apriori, then it's a good solution. If you have output data from your processing that you will be slicing and dicing in different ways which you cannot predict ahead of time, then, they are not appropriate.

(Loading Terabytes of data into a database takes a while too).
Goldman Sachs in Talks with Apple to Finance iPhone Sales
> former CFO Laurence Tosi, who had previously worked Blackstone Group as CFO, took Airbnb’s cash flow and created an internal hedge fund.

> According to Bloomberg, Tosi “quietly built a hedge fund within the company’s finance department. He used a portion of capital from the balance sheet to buy stocks, currencies, and fixed-income securities, mimicking the treasury fund he ran at Blackstone. The side project represented 30 percent of the company’s cash flow last year and made about $5 million a month for Airbnb, the people said.”

For what its worth, its easy to make money in a low volatile, bull market. I'd be really interested to know how that fund does in the upcoming weeks.
"Joe Public" is a strawman people who make crap software prop up as the reason their software has to be crap.
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When foreign companies open a factory in a third world company the companies economy benefits significantly less then if a factory owned by citizens of the same country open up. The profits leave the country instead of stay inside, where the money can exchange hands many more times. First world companies can outbid foreign companies on labor, land, resources and bribes. This makes it harder for domestic manufacturing to start.

The jury is really out on if foreign manufacturers help third world economies or hurt them. One major benefit that is hard to quantity is that foreign manufacturing is a sign of a stable government and can increase the stability of the government.
I've been using mpv on linux and windows for the past year, mostly because I can launch it with an url and it will use youtube-dl behind the scenes to open it.

I'll take a look, see what this new version of vlc is capable of.
> Also, have you tried Numba?

Numba does not support dictionaries and has limited support for pandas dataframes (only underlying arrays, when convertible to NumPy buffers, if I understand correctly). This limits usefulness for many non-array situations, as well as some existing code-bases (the dictionary is fundamental in Python and typically used everywhere -- often for performance).
Because you can't "formalize" humbleness. In fact, a lot of the tech culture, today, is anti-humble.
Thanks, this is the first answer to this question that sort of makes sense from a Windows user point of view. I mean I still prefer the "Windows way", but this is at least viable reasoning for the "Mac way".
(VLC dev here)

VLC 3.0 is not released, no. The core code is tagged, but the release will not happen before a couple of days.
So you propose that we pay people to wrestle other people into cars against their will without subjecting them to scrutiny?
Just curious but which ereader do you have? The current higher-end Kindles (I have an Oasis and a Voyage) turn pages so fast as to be unnoticeable with a noticeable full screen flash every 10 or so pages.
VLC supports Youtube URL since a long time.
I wish Audible had acceptable download speeds all over the world - especially when owned by Amazon.

On 500MB/s line and getting like 300-700k down from them
Astounded that this doesn’t say ‘immediately call the legal team, and do not say anything’. Does Twilio’s employee handbook also include ‘a developer’s guide to Defusing bombs’ and ‘a developer’s guide to performing open heart surgery’?
The title should include an 'upcoming' or so to make it less confusing. The changelog is impressive though.
Can B2B sales even be automated?
I second Workflowy for reference, but I'd suggest using something else for todos. Having commitments and reference separated was a game changer for me coming from a GTD workflow without a dedicated reference tool. Personally I use OmniFocus for commitments, but that's neither particularly cheap or simple.

If you're doing client work or have other external stakeholders involved I'd recommend trello to keep things simple and transparent.
I use Fleksy, which does not access anything the user types, it's the most PRIVATE and SECURE mobile keyboard out there. www.fleksy.com
> list-comprehensions are faster than loops

Are they really though? In my experience you'll gain a couple of percent because you're getting rid of that call to append, but that's hardly the orders of magnitude OP was looking for.
My issue with this, is not so much the number, but if I can get sick from 7L, I can get sick from a single sip as well, it's just not very probable.
How about those in the arts as a profession? I don't think they'd have a successful career if they didn't love their job. I think they'd produce pretty abysmal art.
In Ithaca, Canada Goose is all the rage.
I recall reading or hearing yesterday that space-x no longer plans to man-rate any falcon-9s instead reserving that for the BFR.
chat.stackexchange.com

programming.stackexchange.com

IRC Freenode for whatever language/technology you use

Or just use Stackoverflow and be very specific about your problem.
"Is it really though? I've lived three places in London and made sourdoughs with tap water in all with no trouble."

That's interesting. I haven't made real sourdough for a long time, but I do bake bagels, bread, and pizza dough pretty regularly. While London tap water does work, I've noticed on many occasions that the dough rises a lot faster and requires much less yeast when using filtered or bottled water (I usually use the cheap Tesco Ashbeck water that you buy in big 5L bottles) compared to using straight tap water.

But whether this is due to chlorination or other factors (London water is notoriously "hard", too) I'm not sure.
Generally speaking, you _can't_ prevent a page from being able to tell what browser you're using. Even with JavaScript completely disabled, there's probably still some quirks with the way different browsers handle CSS or image loading that would give away that information. Even curl can be "fingerprinted" this way, because curl is one of the only "browsers" that doesn't process CSS or images at all.

If you just want to prevent yourself from being identified as an individual, that's a different problem. Tor browser does a pretty good job of solving that.
Vanquish Forever These Bugs That Blasted Your Kingdom (using D)
I think how easy it is for Google to fix to make detecting googlebot this way harder depends on why Googlebot is doing it in the first place, which we don't really know. If it's done for performance reasons, or for predictability reasons (rendering the same page twice guaranteed or at least more likely to produce the same result), it might be difficult to change without cost.

But I believe Googlebot always faithfully sends it's user-agent. Is there a reason Google would care about 'fixing' this to make Googlebot harder to detect via random() predictability, when you can always just detect it via user-agent anyway? I'm not sure, curious if others have thoughts!
> Maximize on Mac was NOT designed for the window to fill the whole screen, but rather to resize the window to optimally display its contents.

The problem with this approach is I definitely do not need someone else making the decision of what is "optimal" for me.
I've been using macOS for about as long as I used to use Windows now, and at this point, macOS seems to have largely abandoned the concept, which is great. Applications get either a full screen in their own isolated context, or option-click for a full-screen in a regular windowed context. The options now are a very windows-95/98 like: "either go completely full screen, or resize to whatever you like," which gives me full control of what I find optimal for any given application.
It's an arms race... there is so much to fingerprint ... usually people that deploy fingerprinting have more of an issue deciding which tasty morsel of bits to go for first ...
Andrei Alexandrescu has a fun talk about implementing scope_exit using a new C++17 function: std::uncaught_exceptions (which is a tweak to std::uncaught_exception). Fundamentally, it doesn't really solve the destructor throwing exceptions issue though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTrfoiB0MQ
Take a while and watch toads eat if you ever get the chance. They're absolutely voracious. When I lived in the south, they used to hang out on my front porch, eating all kinds of bugs attracted by the light. I once saw a toad try to eat a slightly smaller toad. If it's smaller than them and it moves, they'll try to eat it.
Just curious: why Windows 2000 and not Windows 7?

Win7 was still internally consistent (as opposed to the newer tablet / mobile / pc / washing machine UIs of later versions)
and provided few additional UI enhancements over 2k.
Why Sci-Fi Novels Are the New Comic Books for Streaming TV (2017)
CPython is obviously the way it is on purpose, by design, and quite successful. Yet I still find it ironic that this "slow" interpreter is written in C, the go to, general purpose, "low level and a half" fast language, and that "C" is right there in the name. Not knowing anything else, I might expect a project with "C" at the front of the name would be at least fast-ish, and that the naming was intended to signal that.

Not a complaint, just an observation.
Intel Launches Xeon D-2100 Processors
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and mostly because it usually just works. I use a mac, but there is always an ssh shell open to Ubuntu where "the real work" gets done.
Looks like you have lots of options. And you could use the SqlClient library directly.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/11/09/net-core-...

Also, regular .NET Framework will be supported for a long time.
What do you find horrible? I prefer it by a wide margin over Windows Explorer.
You can be a perfectly good artist as a 9-5 worker; producing good art is much more about, well, doing work, than anything else. The problem is that you're unlikely to be paid well, because you'll have to compete with all the people who are doing art for the fun of it.
Is the normal landing a 1-engine landing?
If so, is the advantage of a 3-engine landing that it requires less fuel due to having a much shorter 'suicide burn'?
Mon.: Intel defector touts Arm server chip. Wed.: Intel shows off new chips
Its available everywhere and is smoother to use than org agenda. Org + fold comes close and I did use it for some time, but WF got me into the zone more easily than org.
I’m guessing you didn’t even read the article before commenting? The reason I ask is because that topic is mentioned in the article itself.
SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
I almost never say shit like this, but you are clearly speaking from a position of significant privilege. Obviously the cops aren't planting drugs on yuppies and tech workers, nor do you live in one of the many terribad parts of that city.
The Era of Easy Money Is Ending, and the World Is Bracing for Shocks
Every car that has an lane assistant or a parking assistant with automatic steering, and there are number that do support either of those, is having some sort of steer by wire. Even the lane assistant is normally designed to give you a force in the steering wheel to keep the lane. That you can reuse for automatic driving of some sort.
The Kobo Aura One is a bit on the expensive side, but the display is excellent (300dpi), so in the end I think it's worth it, especially if you also care about the waterproofing. I also happen to like the "natural light" very much, as I'm often reading in the dark, although it's a bit uneven at the edges. I'm not very happy with the default software ("Nickel"), but fortunately the device is very hack-friendly (no jailbreaking needed), so you can easily install Dropbear (=ssh server) and KoReader, which IMHO is the real killer app for any E-Reader. I would never buy any e-ink device which does not run KoReader.
i think people who argue "Snapchat will never be as big as Facebook" are just wasting their time. Who cares? Social experience feels more engaging. FB is better for "acquaintanceships", but Snapchat is better for friendships.
Falcon Heavy Delays as a Burndown Chart
This is the excuse that's always used, but I rarely see it play out in practice. Many people don't notice advanced features that are present, that's true. But they don't notice them so it does matter. For the people who do, they can easily discover advanced features through exploring the interface.

Apple have a tradition of being really bad at this. Many of the (slightly more) advanced features are completely hidden behind undiscoverable key combinations or very hidden features. The slide-to-reveal pattern on iOS (now mostly fixed with augmentations) is a good example. Middle clicking the titlebar in Finder to reveal the directory parents is another.
Yes, because the V in RISC-V is the Roman numeral five. See the Introduction chapter of https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-s... (the very first sentence of that chapter, in fact, mentions the pronounciation: "RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) [...]").
Same experience. Also fabric softeners will extend clothes life IME.
A GitHub account of a Go library is deleted, someone re-registered with a fork
Wow, this is a toxic website.
Reading the Internet too much? :)

(I kid...sort of, but more poking fun at myself here)
Beijing uses very heavy handed policies, that would be harder to implement in London. For example: cars with numberplates starting with A-M are banned on certain days of the week and the rest are banned on other days of the week. They also confiscated wood burning (or was it kerosene?) stoves and although it lessens the pollution, lots of poor people are living in freezing homes because of that.
Whats the business model behind that kind of activity?
Thanks for finding this. Saved.

I still have a soft spot for vanilla HTML. When I can hit view source and read the whole article (minus images) without much difficulty, I'm glad.
OP didn't want to remove the functionality, just provide a way to disable it for users that often perform drag & drop operation randomly.

Especially older people have problems with their motor skills so instead clicking on a file they often perform drag & drop instead (they can't hold the mouse steady enough, so the system recognizes movement and at the same time their "click" is too slow, so OS recognizes it as holding the button down)
The problem with WF is external stake holders. While subtrees can be shared for read-only or edit, that makes me sorely miss change tracking. Basically I don't want to lose a history, period. So mostly I use it in solo mode.

But I do have a system that lets me use WF as reference as well as for task tracking and PM.
Donald Lynden-Bell has died
Consider Elixir best chose nowadays. Invest time in it because of next pros:

- Functional programming (always interesting to learn new paradigm: pattern matching, purity, immutability, laziness, etc FP stuff)

- Fault-tolerance

- Hot code reload

- Message-passing concurrency (actor model), thanks to Erlang

- Using at large companies for high-load and real-time

- Cool syntax
I just wanted to underline the phrase "effect on retention".

In North America, lots of talent (i.e. new grads) would straight up not pick companies with dress codes. Pay also tended to be not different, and "prestige" of working for X is not really a thing.

So everything changed. Also, even in the dressed up companies, they had "dress down days". People liked them. So they had more.
Make that a epub file rather than kindle. There's more than one e-reader in the world.
I feel like part of the reason though is that all the players are attempting maximum lock in. Even if the files didn't have DRM they often don't use anything like a standard for encoding metadata.
“After the beetles were swallowed, a small explosion could be heard inside each toad, indicating that the insects were firing their defenses.”

To write that line in the NYT and not accompany it with a waveform in 2018 on the web is a little disappointing. Perhaps the prose is more poignant than the practice.
Amazon wants to extends its dominance.

Period.

Not sure we need any qualifiers.
The Science of Interstellar
I don't remember specific titles, but when I was a kid (probably between 9-12 years old) I had a period of fascination with a lot of pseudo-scientific crap - UFO's, paranormal phenomena, Erik von Daniken stuff, Bermuda Triangle, etc. As all of that stuff is bunk that promotes superstition, magical thinking and is counter to logic, reason and science, I look back at it as at least a waste of time if not exactly "damaging" per-se.
I just keep a text file near the project and jot down notes / other things accordingly in free form.

This even includes recaps for freelance work. Like I would have an entry of:

2/7/2018: 3 hours

- Did such and such

- Implemented this and that

- Fixed foobar to return foo

I keep to that exact date / hours worked format so when I invoice clients I just grep the file and cut / sum the total hours (if I'm not doing project based pricing).

It works really well for the solo developer / freelancer. No time is wasted on BS and there's a log of work rendered + notes + TODOs + etc..

I like it because I can do all of this from within my code editor which is where I'm doing the work. The efficiency level is very high.