skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Beginning users and many intermediates relied almost exclusively on visible cues for finding commands. They relied on (and found intuitive) menu bars and tool bars, but did not use pop-up (or “context”) menus, even after training.

This is a lesson the Android team re-discovered decades later, resulting in Android dropping the "Menu" button. Apple still hasn't gotten the memo yet (3D Touch). The biggest usability negatives with context-menus are poor discoverability and inconsistency in different contexts.
Yah that's about right. Thanks for this data. I would expect some positivity from politicians compared to HN nerds.

BTW this really shows how awful Trump is.
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All the info I (and, I suspect, most people) put into LI is explicitly supposed to be public, so why wouldn't I give it to them too?
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Does this imply that there's a single place that log entries get ingested at? Doesn't that make it a single point of failure?
You know this is a special pet peeve of mine. I have stopped myself several times from complaining about this very

For a period of a few years, a few years ago, I started shopping very frequently for pants, shirts, etc. I once caught myself wondering why that was the case. The answer surprised me: I was not happy with the stuff I was buying. They would not fit comfortably after the initial wear.

Then I noticed what was really the problem:

1) Pants are getting shorter, mostly in the inseams - the distance from the belt loops to bottom of the zippers. (In other words, pants now "sit below the hip", there is no more those that "sit at the hip").

2) Shirts are getting shorter too. They don't go as far down under your belt as they used too.

So, just these two combinations leave a good part of my lower belly exposed quickly and easily, something I do "not" like.

3) It is quite hard to find pants with basic options, like pleats and cuffs. Everything is flat fronted, it seems.

So, it is easy to see why no one is shopping any more unless they really have to.

Just my 2 cents :-)
Snap seems to be pretty usa centered, which explains a lot.

On memes, I think for me and most of my friends something like 90% of facebook use is meme pages.

I think people that use facebook as a meme platform will move to different platforms when something offers pseudonymity with consistent user blocking (ie pseudonym that must be linked to a phone#) and solid group/forum posting + chat features. I think people are vaguely uncomfortable with putting their real name into "Red Commie Memes For Anti-State Teens" type groups and will want to move to pseudonymous or temporal (snap) platforms when they reach feature parity.

Right now facebook memes are growing fast because it is easy for "normie" facebook users to click a couple memes and get sucked into the vortex.
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Do you know of some example areas, other than games and nginx/OpenResty? (IIRC it is used in the latter.)
Great idea and perfect, to-the-point, snappy demo video!

Now if we can only get rid of the 'fill your resume via our outdated ill-designed online form' anti-pattern that's still common in many industries...
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In addition to other replies, you can easily "visualize" IR light from say a remote control. Just point your phone's camera to the bulb on the end of a remote that you point at the device it controls. You'll see a flash on the display because the IR flash from the remote saturates the CCD in your phone.
I think the distiction you may be missing is between fashion and style. Anyone can be fashionable by buying what's in season or mimicking a celeb. Being stylish is what's beautiful and admirable.

You don't even have to be a mod, rocker, or any of these subcultures. You can be an old bloke on a Segway rocking a Fubu shirt and cargo pants and completely transcend the streetscape.

My favourite stylish people integrate a sense of fun and playfulness to what they wear, but I think the most defining element of style is risk. Having the balls to say you're different.
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Bark collars also have the benefit of calming a dog down. By preventing a dog from getting into a barking frenzy.
I somewhat agree; I'm too much of a control freak to rely on "auto away" (if I leave the house, i just turn the damn thing down!), though i will say having it NOT turn the heat on at 5pm when we're getting home late for the day is nice.

I think many of the cost savings from auto-away would only be realized for the lazy/inattentive and particularly for those with air conditioning, which is far more expensive to run than heat.

Also, it's really nice to turn on the heat before arriving home when it's been off all weekend, or at the cabin for a weekend skiing. The difference between walking into a 38 degree house and a 50 degree house is pretty large.
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I think GP is saying that unit tests for such dynamically-dispatching code will want to be able to inject older CPUIDs, so the compatibility fallbacks have test coverage. If CPUID is a native instruction, it's harder to inject a fake value.

I'm not sure I find this compelling though. It's easy to make your own CPUID function that doesn't actually call "CPUID" in a test build.
Right this is my point. The "openness" kind of doesn't matter in practical terms, mostly because the platform is SO extensible and everyone has integrated with it.
and how much is your phone worth ?
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> I noticed during a very anxious time in my life that my thoughts (and speech to a certain extent) were most often overly tentative and full of qualifications.

Yes that's definitely a thing. Which is probably why the findings in the article are so surprising (that online among their peers, depressed and anxious people talk much more strongly).

It really puts you at a disadvantage in life too, which is a nasty cycle.
Here is an accessibility one:

http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
CPUID on x86 is a user-level instruction. When you're doing processor-assisted emulation, CPUID is an instruction that does cause an exit to the hypervisor, which does allow you to do CPUID emulation. You clearly don't need such instructions to be privileged to do emulation games with CPUID.
> it didn't look quite as good after being dry-cleaned/washed

This is another reason to spend more money on clothes: quality materials look good as they age. I bought a Old Navy pullover which only lasted 2-3 washes before pilling like crazy.
That's "data portability" section of the GDPR, coming late May.

The idea behind it is that platforms should provide you with an option to export your data so that you could easily import it to a competing service if you have a desire to do so.

With that said, I signed into my LinkedIn account for the first time in about a year and saw the option to download my data already in my account settings: https://i.imgur.com/bOLqwoJ.png
Wow. Thanks for this link. The description of the genes in flies is amazing, it seems they have done some experiments to see how flies develop with each part of these genes modified.
> It's not like nobody "realized" we needed to expose vendor intrinsics before then, but it just hadn't been worked on.

It had been... in 2015. :)
It's humbling to thing that today, doing the same thing (if for some reason we'd like to use punched cards) we'd do the same thing with a $10 camera, a $35 Raspberry Pi and some trivial OCR-like software. Heck, even an ESP8266 could process images that simple.
What alternative are you proposing besides capitalism with robust anti-trust laws?

Today, many people are proposing socialism/communism, which ironically is just a system where the state has a monopoly on almost everything and there is no anti-trust organization to break up that monopoly.
EU even have a standard format for structured resume exchange called Europass.
interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/data-model/
See also the provided online editor: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

It's a shame that LinkedIn/Viadeo don't have builtin import/export to this format.
"Styles may change, but style doesn't."
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Even though humans are limited in our senses, we've built machines to see and monitor every frequency of light. And we're also really good at finding patterns. If there was an active intelligence that had colonized most of the galaxy, we'd know it. (Unless the intelligence was actively trying to hide from us?)
It's not ahead of time - that regulation has existed for a long time. See the work of Max Schrems against FB, and his site on how you can get your own data: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...

The new regulation updates that existing right to specify that the data should be provided in a "structured, commonly used and machine-readable format".
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Errm, d'oh, sorry! :-( I had vendor intrinsics stuck in my head, but now that I say that, I of course now remember the platform intrinsic stuff.
Just pick up a pencil and start drawing. scan it up, add the text, start with what you have. this won't hurt a bit.
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Gil Kalai can have his contrarian opinion on quantum computers. But we can have a much simpler argument against quantum computers. That they will remain infeasible for a long enough time for traditional computers to catch up to it.

What I mean by traditional computers catching up with it is that we will see innovations in traditional algorithms that either make quantum computers extremely pricey for a very long time in respect to traditional computers or that we find innovations that will bypass the things that they are good at without violating any of the current theories we have.

Currently, we have an enormous effort invested in our silicon architecture. We seem to be hitting limitations to silicon and they seem to be making a large bet on Quantum computers to eventually allow them to proceed. But, if quantum algorithms take a long time to have useful implementations then we have a local maxima where quantum computers aren't close enough to implement without investing a massive amount of money and that silicon just becomes cheaper and cheaper. When Intel finally reaches the limit of traditional computing that doesn't mean that it won't stop being cheaper.

Intel, IBM, Microsoft, DWave, Google and other companies have small bets on quantum computer engineering strategies that may or may not pay off. Also there seems to be a bunch of researchers publishing more and more papers on the theory of quantum algorithms. There are cross collaborations with academia on quantum computation (and they are basically what the research institutions work with the quantum engineering departments in those companies).

If we find that quantum computers can only speed up computations in the limited set of algorithms then they will probably end up as accelerator cards attached to traditional computers. I expect a order of magnitude of inefficiency to translate problems or do work on quantum computers. Either due to interconnecting or the way that we will figure out to operate them. So we will see these systems relegated to supercomputer workloads.

On the algorithms side, funding the research of quantum algorithms will probably dry up in the way that string theory research has.

Hopefully we will see a large breakthrough that will make quantum computers feasible. From my reading of the research it seems like Topological Quantum Computers have the best chance.
I also used to love the fact that the equivalent of kernel extensions (totally forgotten the name) could be disabled by moving them to a different folder. The file system IS the computer.
I did not say nytimes, I said fidelity ;)
Some counters to the comfortable / looking good tradeoff - it's not that simple:

- higher quality, tailored suits are much more comfortable than simple ones, (or even jeans really) and look slightly better

- good kilts look great and are more comfortable to wear than any trousers

- humid climates are usually sunny - it's sometimes easier to wear a really light long sleeve / trousers to keep the sun away from skin

- very humid climates, like Singapore are so warm people just try to stay inside and almost every place has AC set to ~19°C, so either you're well dressed, or you're cold

- look at some pictures of people in Melbourne - casual style there can look way better than suits
> OpenVPN is easier to setup than what exactly?

Definitely it was easier than strongswan for me. Documentation is clear, a lot of guides, AFAIK there's a single implementation, so no interoperation quirks, logging is actually useful. Client setup is a single .ovpn file which contains everything and installed using double-click or similar method. I guess that setting up a custom CA is the hardest part of setup and I just happen to work a lot with certificates, so it wasn't hard for me, everything else is as easy as any server software.

> I found OpenVPN to just feel VERY VERY clunky. The clients look ugly and unpolished.

I used paid software (Viscosity) for macOS, it was quite good IMO. I used official software for iOS, it worked without any problems. I'm not really sure what's ugly about VPN client, it's systems software, it should display icon in tray and allow to connect/disconnect, that's all. I remember that my friend had issues with OpenVPN official client on Windows laptop with hibernate, but I think he just had to restart connection, not that big of an issue.

> For the record, I wasn't claiming that WireGuard was this easy to setup. But I think the mentality of WireGuard is simplicity. I think it's only a matter of time before someone DOES implement a single click client/server with it.
Right now I use Algo, which is just an excellent set of scripts used to setup VPN servers. This way I don't have to use OpenVPN, and I can actually use IPSec with built-in OS clients.

While I won't use any "single click" solutions unless I made them personally, I saw scripts which claim to install OpenVPN or IPsec automatically with absolutely minimal interaction. They had a lot of stars, so I guess they works. But if there's something that Wireguard could do better, that's good. It's still too hard for non-technical user to buy cheap VPS and setup his personal VPN with adequate security.
Sorry, can't help with that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I agree!
Have you tried paratext from wiseio? I have had good experiences with it.
How so? They ban certain subreddits, but afaik they leave individual subreddit moderation to the moderators.
well you can either use a single database for log entries, or cassandra or a mysql cluster or a pg cluster. that doesn't matter..
basially instead of having a table where you update/delete entries you basically append only to a table. so insert only.
you can still have another table that will be aggregated from your log table.

where you store (i.e. which database system, cluster whatever) your stuff doesn't matter.
The only distributed database I'm familiar with is CouchDB. Can anyone give me a birds eye view on how Cockroach is different?
Agreed - if computer tech is your thing it's a really good place to visit.

I was roped in to one of the Babbage Engine demos a few years back...I turned up about 10 mins early and started to talk to the presenters, who were really nice guys. When I volunteered that I'd also seen the other replica Engine in the Science Museum in London, the chaps were proud to point out that 'theirs' could be operated and was not behind glass. I was then asked if they could refer to me at a suitable point to mention those facts and give my impressions on the presentation, which I was happy to do!
Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official
You mean waging a culture/media war on all men, breeding hypervigilance of being perceived as sexist and threatening them with the spectre of harassment accusations leading to a complete destruction of their career, social status and life, all because of a few bad men made them a little wary of being put in that situation?

Ohh America, never change. Always waging an outright WAR on something or the other.
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A note for the savvy: A quantum computer is not a magic bit-string that mysteriously flips to the correct answer. A n-qubit quantum computer is not like 2^n phantom computers running at the same time in some quantum superposition phantom-zone. That's the popular misconception, but it's effectively ignorant techno-woo.

Here's what really happens. If you have a string of n-qubits, when you measure them, they might end up randomly in of of the 2^n possible configurations. However, if you apply some operations to your string of n-qubits using quantum gates, you can usefully bias their wave equations, such that the probabilities of certain configurations are much more likely to appear. (You can't have too many of these operations, however, as that runs the risk of decoherence.) Hopefully, you can do this in such a way, that the biased configurations are the answer to a problem you want to solve.

So then, if you have a quantum computer in such a setup, you can run it a bunch of times, and if everything goes well after enough iterations, you will be able to notice a bias towards certain configurations of the string of bits. If you can do this often enough to get statistical significance, then you can be pretty confident you've found your answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbJYsep45E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c

EDIT: I rather like Issac Arthur, but unfortunately, his Quantum Computing episode is an example of exactly this kind of popular misconception. I've called him out on it in comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgCuKTN8sX0

EDIT: I can't find my comment anymore, and I've also discovered that I'm now banned from the public Facebook group! Hmmm.

EDIT: It seems that Issac did correct his video, kind of. He still seems to advocate the 2^n parallelism, but then explains why that can't work around 18 minutes in.
How about slip him a Playboy?

Play a little good cop / bad cop: you know mom is sensitive to stuff like that, but guys can have a little fun. And it's better when you don't have to see the naked dude.

Maybe in a week reinforce healthy arousal: this one's my favorite, look at this curve.

Talk about how you'll "know what to do" when the time comes, but it's important to work on just noticing details, women like that, and to be in control of your emotions and the situation.
One of the suggestions for a first date in SF is The House Of Air Trampoline Warehouse.

I took a girl there once on a first date, we were having a great time until she took a knee to the mouth and we spent 4 hours at the hospital waiting for some stitches. We ended up dating for awhile and for a few weeks I couldn't kiss her on the mouth because of the stitches.

I hope this project adds more love and joy to the world, good luck!
Article IX of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies reads in part (emphasis added):

"State Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose."
The machine in the article does 13 cards per second. A cobbled together OCR machine probably isn't going to match that.
How long does it really take you to fall asleep?
The original post was about having easy access to nature. Yes, you can do push-ups in a prison cell. Enjoy.
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he is the single reason i paint today.
god bless that man and his magic fro.
What part of it do you not understand?
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No it isn't. The text refers to "the Moon and other celestial bodies." See for yourself: http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_21_2222E.pdf
Thats the idea yes! you can run dotmesh on your own servers and install locally on each users machine to then push and pull just like git remotes. It's using copy-on-write so you are only pushing the difference. Another main use case is for CI to consume volumes, run tests then snapshot the results.

We have a hosted service if you don't want to run your own nodes (https://dothub.com) but the server and client are both open source. disclaimer: I work on the project
OK, I'm in. If pay is low, I may have to line up a side gig at somewhere nearby - know any local business that do computer-oriented stuff!?
I'm also inexplicably giving money to LinkedIn. I signed up for their premium plan so long ago, back when it was 200 something a year. They recently shot the price straight through the roof nearly doubling it while removing some features and restricting them to even higher paying tiers.

I however, have been grandfathered in to the original price and keep all the original feature set. However, if I quit or cancel my subscription or there is a lapse in payment I lose this benefit forever.

It's scummy as fuck. Designed purposely so I never let go.
I am floored when I tell some vendor they can't do something because it isn't secure, and they look at me like nobody's ever told them that before. My general impression is "I can't seriously be the first person who's ever said this, can I?"

The thing people need to remember is that the CIA Director's AOL email account got hacked. In 2015. We are so far as a society from where we should be.
In 1985, my high school inherited an old PDP mini computer and we had to use optical cards to write BASIC programs in my Data Processing class. It was kind of a trip, since most of the computer nerds had Apples, Commodores or whatnot at home.

The code and debug cycle was to mark your cards with a Sharpie, run them in the card reader, and then look at the printed output for bugs. If you were unlucky enough to have bugs AND drop your cards on the floor (I remember it happening to a couple of people in my class), you had to waste a bunch of time re-sorting your cards before you made the trip back to the card reader. Good times.
it looks like they're targeting the hobbyist market -- the couple hundred people worldwide who want to roll their own self-driving car.
> they want something like CDNs, something fast and reliable, something that just works.

There are other DB systems with such properties "they" can use, e.g. Cassandra. But CockroachDB also gives ACID transactions, which may be important for others.
On OS X, open/save panels run in a different process via ViewBridge, at least they did last time I checked.
This may be good advice. But what if one of them is "big advertising tech company" and you have meta-reasons for wanting to work for them (future signalling for example) but they ain't too accommodating on the interview side of thigns.
Your answer doesn’t actually explain what we can do on a quantum computer that we can’t on a traditional computer.

The answer: we don’t know. We don’t even know if BQP is actually any bigger than P.

However, we’ve figured out how to do some things quickly on quantum computers that we haven’t ever figured out how to do quickly on classical computers, like certain mathematically useful operations on abelian groups.

One specific example is that you can do Fourier transforms in O(log(n)log(log(n))) rather than O(n log(n)), which is pretty cool. If your vector space is too big to even represent in classical memory, you might still be able to work with it on a quantum computer.
Don’t forget, there’s also https://sciter.com