skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who just did a PC build along these lines, and has an 18-core iMac Pro arriving this week, I can also say that this simply isn’t true. It’s more expensive than a hand build, but the Apple Tax is the lowest it has ever been. $14k for a 4tb hardware raid0, hardware crypto pci flash, 128GB ECC ram, 18 core Xeon, 5k wide gamut display, and 64gb Vega is not bad when the equivalent hand build is well over $10k (and it comes in an ugly box, even if you get the nicest ugly box available on the market).

The Apple Tax used to be pushing 100%. Now it’s somewhere around 15-20%. It’s amazing. It’s the reason I got the iMac Pro, despite having a booting Hackintosh OS on very close to the same hardware. It’s just not that much of a premium anymore.

PS: anyone want to buy a PC? it’s in a really nice case and has lots of ram.
Totally anecdotal story, but from my own experience, I agree with you completely.

I was using one of the leading 'brain training' apps, and they started requiring a subscription so I switched to another app. Despite having a strong performance in the first app, I had quite a weak performance initially in the second app.

In other words, skills aren't even transferable between brain-training apps, let alone into real life applications.
Your comment describes my recent interaction with them perfectly. I suddenly got a big fat warning about something, yada yada long story short “oh yes but that’s just how our system works, and I can’t give you access to the diffs because that’s how our system works, you have to do X Y Z now.” No “we understand our design decisions are causing you a problem which shouldn’t be yours” or anything like it.

Let me know if you find anything worth switching to :)

( tangent: word of warning: it seems to silently ignore folders with the same path except for case on case sensitive disks. Fringe issue, but I only accidentally saw my two most important folders weren’t backed up.)
Agreed. I've only ever seen toilet stalls like this in the US, where the doors and walls are so low that everything from the navel up is totally on show...it's just fucking weird.

Do female toilets have these kind of stalls too?
I haven't actually checked network requests on all or even most of them, if this is what you're asking, but given how (positively) anal the Linux community is about tracking and how I've not actually heard about anything other than the technological feasibility of Canonical spying on users, I'm rather confident to say that none of the popular ones do.

So, to throw about a few names:
Debian, openSUSE, Trisquel, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware etc.

Or to put it differently, the distros of which I'm aware that they track users: Android and Red Star OS.
The solution is not to feel offended when you're being criticized. As long it doesn't get abusive.
The opening words of paragraph 2 are informative as to the bis of the source:

> As ever with the EU, the truth is much uglier.

The main thrust of the article may be correct, but broad-brushing every activity of an organisation like the EU in this way does not instil confidence.
I have it working pulling historical data based on symbol
All this time I thought they were using an amazing heuristic to infer password requirements from the page
"People with careers need to learn to shut the fuck up around people with jobs. Don't let your happiness make somebody sad. [...] When you got a career, there ain't enough time. When you got a job, there's too much time." -- Chris Rock

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnlNUZqFzgY
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> The Netherlands had been a quiet little village for centuries.

You must be thinking of another country. A lot can be said about the Netherlands and its predecessors, but it was not a 'quiet little village'. From dominating maritime trade, to waging (a lot of) wars with England, Spain, and France, and its many achievements in science; the past half millennium was quite eventful.
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The Netherlands had been a quiet little village for centuries.

The Dutch East India company would say otherwise! The Netherlands were one of the serious seagoing powers, along with England, France and Spain
The fact that it showed me a pop-up advert for an Ayn Rand book was also indicative.
On the contrary, there are many positions which are filled based on connections and belonging to a certain elite. That may not be prevalent in tech, but that's because tech is viewed as unglamorous, hard and boring work, and who would want to do that. But, in fields such as politics, diplomacy, professorships on major universities, directors of museums and countless others of major influence, the candidates very often get selected on the basis on family connections, or at least belonging to a certain clique. Of course, the candidate must meet some minimum requirements for perceived competency (a diploma from a top school, strong CV otherwise), but there's plenty of such people and, amongst them, connections will decide on who will get the position.
You think that's bad? Banc Sabadell, a bank in Spain, requires the users of online banking to have a 4 digit number as their password. Although, they also have 2 factor for doing things involving moving money.

But still...
Could be a kind of reverse psychology advertising. Many comments in this thread are making the opposing argument of why they should use prime.
Reminds me of this result: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/long-term-...

Kandel himself gives some wonderful lectures on this, easily found on YouTube.

It leads me to wonder how many other structures out there we have already described and unwittingly utilise, patterns re-discovered for purposes at another level of abstraction.
Mac ex-fanboix reporting in, had everything since the tiBook, an Apple II, and between.

I don't wanna play no more. Because of the atrocious nature of things vis a vis MBP2017, and onwards, I'm leaving for something else.

I say this, typing uncomfortably on a MBP2017 with a touchbar I never use, making constant typos, and feeling just plain ripped off.
Why China and the US will continue to squander money on spying
>If shoplifting were to suddenly stop overnight, do you think the stores would lower their prices?

Supermarkets might be a special case here. The margins are super thin and people tend to be very sensitive to the cost of food for some reason. So, yes, the stores would probably lower their prices.
I don't have strong opinions either for or against poaching animals, but:

> It's not property rights, because I see nothing to show that those tortoises were rightfully gained rather than grabbed off of public or even other's private lands.

People are innocent until proven guilty.

I might see nothing to show that your shirt was rightfully gained rather than grabbed off a member of the public or even another's private land, but you've got no obligation to show me that. If I want to interfere, the obligation is upon me to show that it is stolen.
It is odd to ask this question without any consideration of culture.

Perhaps our culture defines "success" in a way that can only be achieved by working 70 hours a week.

Also, where is the law that says devoting time to idle leisure is superior to working?
> Start with a letter.

That is a requirement in a ton of places. Try creating an Oracle database user, and have the password start with a number. To be fair it's documented that it won't work, but Oracle won't stop you from doing it, so you end up with an unusable account.
"No one died regretting time no spent at work"

Citation needed.

Here's one example of a situation where I could very easily see someone regretting not spending more time at work.

As a professional creative, I'm betting there are a fair number of authors, film directors, screenwriters and so on who died regretting they didn't finish their latest work, or didn't spend more time on the thing they really wanted to make. That's work.
We have a local thing similar to wework here, it's OK but I find the aesthetic forced (fake brick wallpaper, fake wood tables, replica pre-distressed sofa's) and the absolute glut of offices around here makes it ridiculously expensive compared to the local market.

It's one redeeming feature is it hosts developer meetups free as a marketing move and has a decent room for that.
It's an opinion piece by someone who is "Research Executive at Get Britain Out".

So, propaganda.
You mean you don’t have a personal understanding of “knotted” muscles? That seems hard to believe, as everyone has them.

I’ve never seen a scientific description, but I have always assumed that the muscles were “stuck” in some kind of contracted state. It is so obvious, my guess would be that there would be a physical state that could be ascertained by biopsy or autopsy. Apparently, this is not a popular topic for research.
Physical manipulation can have an effect on muscle contraction state, as can heat, other forms of touch, relaxation techniques.

The release of these contractions is experienced as a very good feeling by most people.

FWIW, I have had forms of bodywork done on me that focused more intense, deep pressure into the muscles. I notice much more of a longer lasting effect than from simple massage. The effect wears off within a day or so.

I do think there is a health benefit to such manipulation. In my case, releasing such tension helps me hold body positions that minimize the impact of repetition strain injury that I have developed from poor ergonomic habits working at a computer.
This is a razor-thin editorial drawing a tenuous connection between arguments against the EU's global agricultural trade policies to pro-Brexit parochialism. The author is "a Research Executive at Get Britain Out." The host publication receives hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding from the Koch Brothers.[1] The first thing that loads before the article is a full-screen modal advertising an Ayn Rand newsletter.

From the HN guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. [2]

How do stories like this keep making it to the front page?

[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Economi...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These are the response times for Discourse, a complex open-source Rails app. Even the slowest endpoint has an average response time of 46ms.

Percentile: repsonse time (ms)
categories_admin:
50: 17
75: 18
90: 22
99: 29
home_admin:
50: 21
75: 21
90: 27
99: 40
topic_admin:
50: 17
75: 18
90: 22
99: 32
categories:
50: 35
75: 41
90: 43
99: 77
home:
50: 39
75: 46
90: 49
99: 95
topic:
50: 46
75: 52
90: 56
99: 101
The correct pattern for this has been known for a very long time:

http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/10/the-tripartite-identity...
Is there any kind of learning that improves performance on other tasks? (What about language? What about if the 'other tasks' include learning?)
I assume RGS1811 was worried about someone using your finger for TouchID or face for FaceID, involuntarily. I also worry about that, especially if you get knocked out or black out or something, but I think the solution is to not have important login info in the keychain at all, such as access to money (bank apps), email, or other uses that can be used to verify your identity or steal from you.
Right. Human-memorable passwords have low entropy density, likely less than 2 bits per character. 32 bits of entropy doesn't sound very appealing.
Hope it has open API, for something like when request URL it will immediatly return PDF for download

http://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/#http://example.com

Now I use PrintFriendly[0] for such things, but it was fully redesigned last years and API was changed, also now it not usable for webpages with code blocks and images.

[0] http://printfriendly.com
Btw, the definition above is missing an important point: that all language is, in a sense, gibberish.

What I mean by that is that all the language structures we choose to convey a certain meaning are arbitrary and, by themselves, completely meaningless. We assign meaning to them by convention (and the fact that this convention keeps changing is why we have different languages and why even the "same" language sounds very different a few years down the line). It is when this convention is breached that our ability to understand the intended meaning is compromised.

I'd liken this to adding noise to a signal. The more a passage of text deviates from the conventional structures for the intended meaning, the less the information that can be safely extracted from it. The more the noise, the less likely that 100% of people hearing or reading the utterance will understand 100% of its indended meaning.

So in other words- it's still gibberirsh even if you can understand it. Because maybe you personally can understand it, but any number of other people will not- people with different language abilities, that is.

To draw an analogy- maybe you personally don't need a vaccine for chicken pox because you are immune to it. That doesn't make the vaccine unnecessary. Others don't have your immunity. etc.
Yeah, I started skimming and at the end got the impression it was a thought piece and the author hadn't even coded anything yet. I also kept wondering why the new terminology instead of "scene graph". There's probably a difference, but I didn't find it compelling enough to read in depth.
So you want to write a package manager (2016)
That's a great point. Hip, cool, modern entrepreneur types can easily work as agents of gentrification which as you pointed out can lead to massive increase in wealth for nearby properties owners (at the expense of previous occupants/patrons, some will argue).
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That something is not predictable does not mean that it is not pre-ordained, even if one cannot tell the difference. Classical mechanics is a model that is fully deterministic yet ultimately unpredictable, and similarly, syyrim's model of the universe as Turing-complete seems to assume it is pre-ordained (a model that goldenkey challenges), and yet ultimately unpredictable.

On re-reading the thread, I am not sure what point syyrim was making. The ultimate unpredictability of the universe doesn't seem to settle any issue with regard to free will. Free will is not a claim that we cannot predict what we will do; it is a claim that we can make a choice (within some constraints) about what we will do.
I think there is more nuance to meaning and happiness. The process of attaining meaning, in my view, is torturous. Think of any field - sports, theater. I don't think any athlete or sportsperson would call the process of attaining meaning a happy process. It's no fun to wake up at 5 in bone chilling cold for a workout. There's definitely some element of happiness driving this process. From what I can postulate, it's the end result or the chain of end results that brings about meaning and happiness. Somehow I can't disintegrate the two.

It's perfectly ok to not find that meaning and happiness at work, but find it somewhere else. Otherwise, like Warren Buffett says you'll just sleep walk through life.
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Yep. The author is an alt-right shill complete with rare pepes and all that garbage.
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In C++ for the LivreOffice project I recently found an operator function I wanted swapped out to a GetColor() function.

I used =delete on the class function, really helped!
One important way that all tests are removed from reality is that the direct motivation for solving the test problem is to score well on the test rather than to understand the problem better. In real life we are sometimes motivated by factors such as curiosity or survival which marshalls our internal resources more helpfully.

(And maybe evolution gave us curiosity to save on battery power with the new knowledge it produced!)
After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301714 it seams that the article was following a wrong path and all the discoveries using symmetry were only in the imagination. Am I missing something?
Very interesting, reminds me of the chrome extension, send to my Kindle, which sends a pdf version of the web page to my Kindle.
How to stop wasting time chit chatting at work
This is a real prolem. Laterly I have realised that I commute for 2 houts, meetings for 3 hours, lunch and then banter for 3 more hours, mostly about stock market, crypto currencies and random topics with coleague. And back home make up for the work else I wouln't have anything for standup next day (Scrum makes sure you are humilated ). Any tips to get out of this?
> cures 90% of patients with Alzheimer

Wait what?!
Any code more than 50 years old should be trivial to crack by modern cryptoanalysis right? Otherwise we wouldn't be told to only use the very best algos we have on hand. It must have just been a matter of taking the time to crack this particular code.

On a side note, (as long as they mention Rosetta Stone) does writing in another language count as a form of cryptography? If so, it should likewise be trivial to crack any remaining unknown ancient scripts.

But I'm probably being ignorant somewhere here.
What will this argument achieve? It's not like the other side is asking people to be more responsible either. If you have Ram mandir on one side, then the other side were the guys in charge who led all the selloff and debt holidays for corporations in the first place. And don't get me started on the third side with their BS free electricity promises.

As long as you keep taking sides, you eventually become a part of the problem because every side is fucked up to the core.
I will like to check it out, but which cryptography algos are you using to defend users ??
Oh, no... It require[0] pay for more than few pages...

> Premium access key If you pay for premium access, enter your key here. A valid key will enable more pages in each PDF (provided the given feed contains more content), more full-text fetches, and the ability to change the subheading. > Subscribe — 24 € a year

[0] http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/
That outlook on life is horrible in so many ways ...
Ripcord employee fired: 'objectification, marginalization, and harassment'
Worse yet, when banks don't even try to correct when contacted.

I don't have a common name, just lucky enough to get a preferred gmail account.

Someone, I don't know, signed up to American Express with my email. I'm getting all their AMEX emails.

When AMEX was contacted, they wanted my SSN and "sell me" their identity protection services (as i remember) and didn't care (?) that their member's statements was going to the wrong person.
wait. Other people seem to be reacting like you're serious. Are you serious?
> send to my Kindle, which sends a pdf version of the web page to my Kindle.

Too many Kindle in single comment
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Thanks! We also have an extension and app to convert web articles into Kindle ebooks: http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/
No population control is no longer a necessity. Hans Rosling explains it really well in this video: https://vimeo.com/79878808
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This shouldn't be an issue. You should always be storing a hash of the password, making the content of the password irrelevant. The hash might start with a number, but then you can just make a versioning scheme for the hash which is identified by the first character being a letter. I don't understand how this is still a common issue.
I have spaces in my AppleID password. Four of them in fact.
You’re replying to the CEO of Apple.
>> Some people pay more money for a Benz, and other people say Hey that's a ripoff, I can buy a Toyota

Except that a Mac is exactly the same as any other PC
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That shouldn't apply to this. This is intended for single articles. PDF Newspaper was originally intended for converting RSS feeds to PDF. For large feeds we had to limit how much we processed to avoid overwhelming the servers.
Ads aren't necessarily a bad thing, they can be incredibly informative or entertaining in their own right. I mean, have you watched a movie, TV show or game trailer at all? That's an advertisement, yet no one would say all of those are manipulative.

Something like this is almost entirely informative for someone looking for information about the product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw47_q9wbBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kcdRBHM7kM

And the same goes for quite a few trailers and ads. Oh sure, they obviously want you to buy the product, and will pick the best footage to make it look good, but they also act as a nice quick summary of the story and what you'll actually be getting from it.

It's why even the BBC are fine with advertising their own shows in the same way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNnTDiLOd4

And let's not forget how oftentimes these things being posted can be seen as a big event in itself. Something like E3 or a Nintendo Direct is literally just advertising for the company or companies involved. Yet millions of people treat the advertising event in the same way as a hotly anticipated TV show or sporting event, because it provides them a way to see what's been worked on and find out more about something they're interested in. Same sort of thing with the Superbowl ads being a draw in themselves. Or how Disney releasing a trailer for the next new Star Wars film would cause a huge reaction online.

So ads in of themselves aren't necessarily a bad thing. They certainly can be if they're exploitative (like, payday loan advertising or sugary foods being advertised in kids shows), lie through the teeth about the product (like No Man's Sky and Aliens Colonial Marines) or harm the consumer or their property (like malware ads and tracking online), but they can also be an art in themselves and a perfectly valid way of learning more about a new product.

If online ads were relevant to the content, didn't track the user or try and run scripts on their machine and worked about the same way they do in a real life newspaper or magazine (or the trailers before movies) then that would be acceptable and rightly classed as 'better'.
I agree. I am vastly oversimplifying for a large audience.

Anything you do that doesn't bring immediate gratification is work, whether you're going somewhere to punch a clock or just cleaning up the yard after a storm. Some people manage to do a lot of work without finding any happiness. Some people are able to find happiness in most any kind of work. Perhaps they are more internally-focused?

When I see people that society regards as having a lot of purpose and meaning in life, athletes, religious folks, and so on? Frankly it looks like a struggle. As you say, it's no fun to wake up at 5 in bone chilling cold for a workout. There's no external stimulation here, yet there are people at 5am that have a pleasant feeling that they are on the way to do some good in the world, no matter the external circumstances.

The interplay between meaning and happiness is quite complex and nuanced. I not don't think you can separate them out cleanly but at the same time there are two completely different things at work and they deserve separate consideration. When we conflate the two, it makes the reader dumber than they were before they started. Much better to start from a position of "These are two different things" and then talk about the interplay between the two than treat them all as one thing and lower the level of the discussion.
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Monopolies are hardly a recipe for quality service.
Great email management software
We'll have an API at some point for this. But our priority right now is making it easy to run yourself on a VPS instance.