skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the harshest criticisms of Apple have been coming from diehard fans in Apple's market niche

My first Mac was an LC475 upgraded with a real '040 to run MATLAB, back in oh, '94 I think. Also had a second-hand SE30 to run Word 5.1 (still the best version). Next up was a Power Mac 7600 when I needed more grunt to run FORTRAN code. Amazing machine, the price/performance was incredible. It was faster than a DEC Alpha 3000 at a fraction of the price! A few more both desktop and laptop between then and now. So I think I count as a long-term Mac user and loyal customer.

My current machines are a 2008 MBP and a 2014 Mac Mini. Apple simply haven't given me any compelling reason to upgrade, in fact have pushed me to offload my compute needs to Azure. Now that I have made that leap, I'm actually not particularly interested in a real Mac Pro anymore, I just don't need it. I can't be alone, and this will bite Apple in the ass at some point.

Who's buying the current MBP then? Not professional users, just people looking to flash the brand. Which is fine, but the fashion crowd is fickle. Apple has chosen to court them rather than 20+ year customers. And that's OK too, it's their business to run as they see fit. But a third thing that is fine is for people to post their opinions of it...
There is glory. So? Is it wrong to glorify something that is unique, astounding and clearly thought inducing as to the methods, reasoning, mathematics and observational strengths of ancient Indians?

Glorifying something does not automatically imply "asserting innate superiority". That is just a juvenile view.

So, using a modern device to point out meanings in olden texts implies just what you are saying - "asserting innate superiority of western science"

> "I suppose it is in our nature to beam in the artificial yet comforting light of the (false) understanding that we once were at the foremost of scientific thought, thus helping us in ignoring or god forbid, forgetting, the follies of our past or pathetic state of our current affairs."

Civilizations rise and fall, societies become good, go bad, times always change. Mentioning an advanced scientific achievement of our culture, in my view, sets out an ideal to which we have to collectively strive for, from the present state of affairs. This is true of anyone. There must be a lofty goal, to which the society must strive for. Pointing out an already achieved state is a better stepping stone as it does not give the voices of naysayers any strength.

NOTE : The achievement in this case is that ancient Indians recognized that light has a finite measurable speed and that it is a very high value. To me, this revelation is proof of the advancement of ancient Indian thought.
Now that interest rates are rising it might be more difficult to raise billions of dollars, especially after history of consistently underdelivering and over promising that Tesla has. That their losses have been growing and no signs of being profitable is also a problem.
Top speed doesn’t directly correspond with acceleration, as weight plays a factor as well. To pick a slightly extreme example, Caterham’s Seven 160 will accelerate from 0-60mph in 6.9s yet tops out at 100mph, due to a sub-500kg weight and an 80bhp engine: http://uk.caterhamcars.com/cars/seven-160
Interestingly, most of the article thesis isn't specific about India being destructed, it's about the World being destructed (over exploitation of natural resources + pollution).

But the element that I find strangely missing is the one about population growth. I'm pretty sure that GDP per capita can grow, if not indefinitely, for a very very long time - if the population isn't too big. India will soon be the most populous country in the World and still growing strongly enough; I would be curious to know if this is seen as a big problem in India, or not...
> How exactly are you sure that the email is encrypted and is read only by the intended receiver and not by anyone else?

Same way you make sure that the password reset links sent to your email are only received by you and not by anyone else?
Interesting approach. I'd like to also see a transparent system where campaign funds are kept in escrow until specific goals are achieved, those goals set by the donors
>don't inflate the prices everyone else has to pay to offset the cost of "external shrinkage"

In most cases (and almost always at stores with automated checkouts), the retailer is already charging the most they think they can to make the most profit. It's just supply and demand, the higher the price, the less people will buy it (and vice versa), so the retailer will almost always charge the price such that the number of people that will buy it times the price of the item is the highest. (This is ignoring loss leaders, etc).

If shoplifting were to suddenly stop overnight, do you think the stores would lower their prices?

(not saying that makes shoplifting okay)
jwz has an entertaining referrer check on that link...
I live in South America, where we have plenty of space. Bangladesh is half the size of my state, but has 14 times its population. And 18% of Bangladesh floods during the monsoon. China has more people than India, but because it is so much larger, its density is similar to a European country's (Italy is denser than China).

India and Bangladesh make me very afraid for the future.
That's gonna be hard anywhere. Writing a proposal and convincing stakeholders is a skill to develop. It is never going to be trivial.
Always nice to see mention of Kumarappa in an article. His viewpoint deserves more consideration than it gets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Kumarappa
I respectfully disagree with this. Doing something cool in your day-to-day work can still be depressing if your personal values are not alligned with the organisation's.

For example, I was once offered the opportunity to work on low-latency software that identifies users as they move between websites (fingerprinting in ad tech speak). There are tons of cool CS problem around this, but in the end I turned it down.

Now I do ostensibly 'boring' CRUD work for a large eCommerce marketplace company. But it's an honest business model that benefits both sides of that market and I feel happier than I would have been in ad tech.
An economic case for protecting the planet
Mars will show us what keeping us from dying truly takes.

Right now we have no idea how to do that on Earth. Both practically and politically.
I like Hacker News' policy of "it's up to you to be in the know and generate your password securely".

(I mean HN doesn't impose any restrictions, as I remember it.)
"Free Will" as a concept just makes no sense.
I think it's obvious that any system can be conceptually described as a function of all-inputs-that-affect-it, plus randomness. No room for free will.

The only thing free will has going for it is the unmistakable, unshakeable feeling that I really have it.
I'm not buying it. A current Model S, which is super streamlined and thus super impractical (in terms of trunk space, it has just 25 cu ft of trunk space) as compared to the most popular gas/diesel cars in the US and Europe - large SUVs and large station wagons, respectively (having 50+ cu ft of trunk space) - is hauling around 1200 lbs of batteries.

If you imagine an all-electric Ford Explorer (an example popular SUV) with 400-600 miles of range, you're looking at ~3000 lbs of batteries. Add that to a 1500 lbs cargo capacity and 4000 lbs of curb weight without engine, the gross weight of the car is 8500 lbs. That's a Class 2b Heavy Duty vehicle, just for a medium size SUV.
> a world without sites making their own requirements available in a programmatically readable format

About that, is there a standardised way to do it?
In Perl5 there’s fc() which handles that.

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fc.html
Meetup: A community of people looking for a place to meetup.

WeWork: Nothing short of bachelor pads for people to meet up in.

This might be old news, but it's still interesting. It's a shame companies like Josephine are shutting down, WeWork and Meetup could be a vector for that kind of thing; or maybe even something like p2p classrooms. Everyone chips into a fund for a speaker, if it reaches the goal, they book an appropriate room within radius R of some agreed location. I don't know if people use Meetup for teaching sessions, though. They probably do? Yoga, etc.
...but it won't melt OK and it will leak at the point of entry.
In the context of sw devs of course the "getting up to speed with the codebase" is such a cost. So hiring them for a short gig (unless its Greenfield) is kinda expensive
You'd have to be insane to want to implement an os in Haskell.
> China has more people than India

So what?

Population density map of Asia: http://www.china-mike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/map-pop... (the date in the lower left corner says "2008", so while there are more people now the distribution should not have shifted significantly)

Source: http://www.china-mike.com/china-travel-tips/tourist-maps/chi...
I totally agree, I also noticed that this element was missing. A think, a crucial first step would be to stop population growth. This is very intrusive in people’s lives and hard to control as measure, but more than necessary. The footprint of a human being needs to be sustained by its local environment. Global effects are not helping, but in the end this problem requires a local solution.
Its pre unicorn. So value it like a unicorn dammit!
Thanks for letting me know. The site is hosted in Singapore to be closer to Japan, and it should load faster from there. But I'll see if I can optimize some stuff (the technology behind it is rather boring, just wordpress with woocommerce).
Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns may not be working
Making big sacrifices now to avert a disaster that is "only" forecast, but not yet tangible/certain in the mind of most people, is incredibly difficult everywhere, not just in India. To cite an example from Italy, everybody who had a basic understanding of economics knew that we had unsustainable rate of growth of public debt and pensions promises, but there always somebody promising that they had a magic bullet solution (or that there is no problem at all), and most voters in the end prefer to believe in those. This is true even now that the consequences of those policies have struck hard with years of economic stagnation and a worsening general situation.
Not being able to drink the water is bad enough, but not being able to breathe takes it up another level.

It's such a sad state of affairs that in many parts of the world we can't even breathe the air. I'm in Thailand up in Chiang Mai where the "burning season"[1] has just begun. The mountains in the distance, normally plainly visible, are gone, hidden behind a blanket of smoke/smog. And the locals tell me, "hah, this is nothing, wait until March [when the air quality goes from merely unhealthy, to hazardous]".

Berkeley Earth[2] reveals the state of the air in this side of the world. Am thinking of heading to northern India but it seems there's no safe haven short of climbing Mount Everest. Maybe at other times of year the air quality is much better; for the locals I hope so.

[1] In Asia apparently every spring the farmers burn the previous season's rice fields in order to enrich the soil for the next crop.

[2] http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/?z=4&x=10...
> imho we should get our priorities straight.. listening mr. Musk?

It's you who should be listening, to be frank. Because Musk seems to be one of the few rich people on the planet (and few people in general) who actually have their priorities straight. That is - fixing our planet by forcing a faster transition away from fossil fuels and into renewable sources. Ensuring long-term survival of humanity (and in process bootstrapping a space economy, which would be great for the planet) through the Mars program, which is also guaranteed to fast-forward all kinds of technologies, literally drowning us in planet-side benefits.

And all of that on the cheap.

See, it doesn't take that much money to make a difference. But it takes some wealth and a strong focus on a single goal. So instead of moaning about a few billions spent on one of such goals because it's not in the top 3 most important, we should encourage more people and institutions capable of having such strong focus to work on the important problems.
Communication is necessary. Slack is one way of communicating .. by all means get rid of it, but if you do .. make sure the replacement medium serves you better.

I'd rather receive a DM than a phone call in most cases.
Is there a way (for a non-MacOS user) to have a look at this database? I seem to remember that there was a website that collected password requirements, but i can't find it.
I have never seen ”ß” meaning ”sz” (or anything other than ”ss”), can you point me to a source?
But since you cannot differentiate between predictable and preordained, what is the difference?
This! It's like everyone has already implemented email based login (password resets) but chooses more complexity by adding a password.

I wish every site did this. Especially for non technical users, passwords are such a mental barrier.
In most ancient Indian texts, the meaning of Sanskrit verses refer to light, rather than the sun.

> it looks like the result of a measurement or a calculation rather than a "magic" number

That is because in Sanskrit, numbers are represented in form of "value" "qualifier" "qualifier", "value" "qualifier".. and so on.

For example

"sahasra" means 1000 (can be thousand anything),
"sata" means 100,
"dasa" means 10, &
"varsha" means year (this year, that year, a year, next year, etc)

To quote the famous Ramayana, to represent 11,000 years, it was written in the book as

"dasa varsha shahasrani, dasa varsha sata nicha"

meaning 10 x 1000 years + 10 x 100 years = 11000 years.

One number placed after the other, without any conjunction implied addition.

Elsewhere in the same epic, Rama goes to live in the jungle for

"nava pancha cha varshani"

meaning 9 + 5 years = 14 years, "nava" is 9 and "pancha" is 5

Note : "cha", "nicha" etc are similar to filler words in english
The original document by G. Bergenroth mentioned in the link provided by jeioncs is supposed to have a description of the original procedure. I don't know how/if you can get a document from the National Archives of the United Kingdom, though.

Edit: Link to the actual Archives entry: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12056
"Flash the brand?" Really?

I bought an MBP last year, because I needed a new computer and I still think the Macs are the best for my needs, in both software and hardware. And I am most definitely a professional user.

Do I wish it had a few more ports and a quieter keyboard? Yes!

Did that ever seriously threaten my purchase? No!

I don't think anybody who wants to just show off the logo is going to buy an MBP over a straight MB, which is lighter and (IMO) better looking.

But is that even "a thing" with computers in 2018?
It depends heavily on code quality.

In general, I think that high quality code attracts high quality pull requests.
That's because high quality code is easy to understand and easy to change because the core structure of the code is fundamentally sound and well suited to the problem that it is solving.
I'm not sure there will be cheaper boards, to be honest. Just more fully functional ones with more peripheral types and added features I'm sure. This is a workstation-class CPU they are developing, not a RasPi competitor.
We don’t do that in Postgres any more. We use table partitioning.
What would be the best payload for the Falcon Heavy Rocket? A 2nd-hand car?
If it is not just a publicity stunt, I find it a pity that SpaceX sends a car on its maiden flight..

There are not _that_ many rides to space still, and I would expect there are more useful payloads than sending a car flying around the sun :)

For instance having a competition of Makers Labs around the world to provide micro sattelites (I know, its a bit late for that now, but imho it could have led to much more positive publicity and stimulate many people to get involved with space tech).

Or are the risks of the whole thing exploding too high to have _anything_ of real value on board?
Not disagreeing with you. Somebody posted the usecases below (https:/www.peachpie.io/usecases). The most common usecase is basically a legacy site in PHP that wants to/has to migrate to .NET. Reasons can include connecting PHP to .NET modules, performance enhancements, security issues that .NET doesn't have to worry about. There are other possible usecases though, like producing/consuming NuGets from PHP codes, distributing PHP apps sourcelessly, being able to run PHP apps on any platform or OS, extending massive PHP frameworks with C# modules, for instance. And then some funky exotic ones like crating games/apps/IoT software in PHP.

For most people (not saying it's your case) it's just a matter of not being that close minded and understanding that different companies or devs might have different language preferences. Or just to look outside their current box of thinking and see that any of the above might be useful for someone.
"REPL for a compiled language", or "Binary REPL", I like that.

Besides that, it's times like these when I realise how useful IDEs are. Instead of needing to use grep (or something similar), I can simply right click on a variable and choose 'Find all references' (this is in VS, but I'm sure many of the leading IDEs will have this feature). When I use the command line it's to save myself time.
I hope that one day, government corruption will be a solved problem. []-[]-[]-[]
It’s one month, not three, but the policy is totally reasonable since they charge one flat rate to back up your whole computer (not everything your computer has ever seen). If they didn’t delete disconnected drives, they’d be offering unlimited storage for $50/year which is obviously unsystainable. The plan is already as impressive as it is considering how much data you can easily connect to one computer.

I also have plenty of complaints about the service (posted above), but there’s nothing weird about this policy as written.

What’s weird is when permanently connected drives get classified as disconnected (see my other post).
What does that have to do with this?
I enjoy it when n-gate make fun of us on HN, but it seems a bit mean-spirited to post this on a FOSDEM thread.
The counter to the reflex argument "it's worked thus far" is the parable of the turkey. Or the guy who jumped out a 100th floor window (and passing the 2nd floor said "so far so good").

https://blog.commonwealth.com/independent-market-observer/th...

Looking at the past only works if the future is like the past. It's a lazy argument, but sure, statistically you are right most of the time.

This in turn is a case of survivorship bias and a result of how you count: Everybody who is wrong is weeded out immediately. If you sample many times you are more likely to find that it all works just fine because those who survive are counted many times, failures only count one time. The more often you count the more your argument will look favorably for the side of the "anti-alarmists".
Here in Thailand, there isn’t much of a taboo about wasting food, and nothing compared to Europe. Pop-science theory is that it’s because Thailand has very rarely had any food shortages in its past.
That is what Sieve [1] is for. Use it to move all mailing-list traffic into its own mailbox/folder/whatnot and you'll be able to use mailing lists like it still was 1995. Either use a MUA which supports editing sieve filters or just edit the filter definition by hand. It looks like this, more or less:

# rule:[spam]
if allof (header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES")
{
fileinto "Shared/SPAM-it";
}
# rule:[list]
elsif anyof (exists "X-List",
exists "List-Id",
exists "X-MailingList",
exists "X-List-Name",
exists "X-ML-Name",
exists "X-Mailing-List",
exists "MailingList",
exists "Mailing-List")
{
fileinto "INBOX/Lists";
}
...
...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)
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Peronally I lost faith in browser makers ability to determine trust along time ago. Validate on first use and peer verified checksums of certs is a much better idea imho. Works for ssh.
Where security matters, bank, logins, etc one click to validate an md5 sum against a hash on the webpage itself would be better than Google tring to police who has had their web server hacked.
nice share
We started our company at WeWork and moved to our offices when we were around 7 people. It was a very convenient solution for a young company that just want to concentrate on what is important (the product). We never participated in any social activities and hardly knew out neighbors (if at all). I'd do it the same way again.
very good info
It then goes on to say

> What is your state or city doing to address this safety issue and prevent severe injuries and fatalities?

So the negligent party is implied not to be the individual driver who is not giving due care and attention, but the road designer or maintainer for not making the road safer.

I agree that crashes often occur due to the direct negligence of a road user, but when it comes to the state, there are a lot of tradeoffs and calculations to make. They are not responsible for each individual accident, but for the overall outcome of road use in general. It's erroneous to say the state is negligent for (e.g) funding emergency services to improve outcomes after a range of incidents both on and off the road, vs. Road safety measures. If £X of extra ambulance and fire funding prevents Y road-related deaths and Z other deaths, whilst that same sum on road safety measures only prevents those Y road deaths, then cure may be better than prevention.
Data portability
"Flash the brand?" Really?

I don't know where you are but in the UK there is a TV ad suggesting a MBP is the ideal machine for parent to buy a first-year undergrad.

The prioritization of thinness above everything else - when there is already the Macbook Air for that market segment - is a further example. I'll buy a brand new MBP as soon as there is a compelling reason to replace my 10 year old one. That just hasn't happened yet.
Video chat doesn't even work in their installed app
The problem with swatting is not that you can find people’s home address. It’s that with an anonymous phone call you can send hyped up untrained dangerous fake army men to someones house with no repercussions for you or the team.

Hiding your home address is just a workaround.
It's more about generic code structuring and scheduling than some breakthrough in shader or path tracing technology. It's worth a read
thanks

http://www.yutips.com/2016/03/makanan-yang-baik-untuk-pender...
Seems like Italy is a basket case. I sometimes look at Who's Hiring in the EU, yet I've never once seen a startup in Italy.

Wages seem to be awful there compared to the US and northern Europe, but it also appears that home prices are still really high.

Finally, from the few Italians I've spoken with - I've only been there once long ago - nobody is getting married and people live with their parents until their mid 30s, at least.

A lot of the educated Italians hit the road for jobs in Germany and elsewhere, meanwhile you're importing a lot of low skilled migrants from Africa.

Why are things so bad there?
Republics of Makers: From the Digital Commons to a Flat Marginal Cost Society