skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whats to prevent the ticket creators / assignees from simply saying "no impact " by habit?

The danger for these kinds of controls is that you're trained to say "no impact " many times (because there is none most of the time)
They can still show ads, and they can still be relevant to whatever page the user is currently viewing.

Since they do such a terrible job of it anyway I can't imagine it being less profitable.

And then again, maybe actually paying for something like facebook is the right way to go.
The precision touch pads, for instance on the Surface tablets, work quite well. How is touchingpad support still lagging?
>[1] If your app had admin rights IIRC

only if it's a different user. you can read/write to your own processes without admin
What's your opinion on the trackpad? The thing I love most about MBPs is the trackpad—the size, responsiveness, gestures, and being clickable everywhere make it feel great to use. My girlfriend has a Lenovo T460, and I've been a little disappointed with the trackpad on that laptop.
View extremely close with only one eye open.
> it's like when you buy an appliance. You can buy the thing that meets the needs for $X, or you can buy something that's better for $2X. Of course, the better appliance would be better. Should we make a law that requires companies to only make the better one?

Maybe? Many such laws already exist: regulations on fire safety of buildings, fire safety of pillows and furniture, energy efficiency and safety of cars and home appliances, anything related to food processing, and so on.

I don't think there are any consumer products at all where governments haven't made laws about only selling "the better one".
The Japanese and Koreans didn't independently invent the idea of a phonetic writing system, though. They knew about Sanskrit, Mongolian script, etc.
I tend to keep a folder full of short text files and pictures for my notes. If the documents are each small, its pretty easy to scan through them using preview functionality in the file browser (Finder.app in my case). And the simple format means its easy to import/export/organize them via scripts or manually.
to play devil's advocate though, I think product development accelerated greatly thanks to analytics and usage tracking, and lots of mistakes were avoided. This in turn can reduce the price for consumers of those products or features.

Of course, at the expense of privacy, but I'm still wearing my devil's hat here for a moment. And I would go as far as saying people by and large don't care as much about privacy as they do about cost, or getting free stuff (e.g. Facebook).
This sort of leads into competency based advancement rather than time based advancement. Rather than having a 4 year program where you rank graduates by competency (gpa), have a higher bar of competency and have people graduate at different rates.
Yes, it's a little over the top. But as a Canadian, I can say that Canadian publications (especially left-of-center ones like the Star) tend to be a little nationalistic whenever a local does well. It's a natural response to the brain drain of many talented Canadians to our neighbor to the south.
Disagree this is about giving private citizens control over information about them, that is inaccurate or no longer relevant. Who wouldn't want that right?
The latest Gnome/Ubuntu does not support dual monitor where only 1 monitor is hidpi.
Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care?
I think I mostly agree with you on the philosophy. Maybe I just missed it in 2001, but for an unanswered question to be interesting, I need to have some evidence, some way of getting traction on it. If I don't have a way to move forward with a question, I put it in the same bucket as simulationism and move on to something productive. The star child thing seemed like weirdness without a method, and the main question it raised in my mind was how it connected to anything at all.

Maybe if I watched it again I would get more of it.
Would be cooler if it took it all the way back through Hieratic and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Shapes just come about when you are talking about objects with certain types of symmetries. One of the main "attacks" on polynomials is to realize that their roots are related to eachother, in terms of total, product, difference, etc.

The simplest of these methods is just Vieta's formulas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta%27s_formulas

I highly recommend Edward Frenkel's book, Love and Math. It was a great read about the mathematics itself, and also his troubles as a Jewish academic in Soviet Russia.

Love and Math: https://amzn.to/2qcqUb4
You also expel all that burnt fuel reducing weight was you fly. Some aircraft even redistribute fuel between tanks to control stability and performance. [0]

[0] https://www.amevoice.com/blog/1058/airbus-a340-fuel-system-d...
"The days with the biggest market losses, along with the days with the biggest market gains are associated with a higher # of HODL comments."

It's quite interesting that everyone is working together to maintain keeping the perception of the higher value.

It's clearly a tactic to make the crypto-assets seem less volatile, and therefore to make new people feel more comfortable putting funds in - and also maintaining the illusion for those that are "hodling."

It seems the strategy's been working for them, and I'm sure they're hopeful they can continue this until too much of society feels vested into the success of these incentivized crypto-assets to let them fail, leading to the late adopters' wealth being redistributed weighted towards the earliest adopters; wealth redistributed for doing no work, except for giving money to the person before them in the pyramid - in exchange for a digital asset.

Edit: To add, they all know that if the price starts to drop or plummet, to HODL - to not sell - until the price stabilizes and starts going up again. There have been times when people would dump a lot of Bitcoin or Ethereum, and the price would drop because not enough money was flowing in. I imagine now, the bigger asset holders of these incentivized crypto-assets, now keep a reserve -- probably platforms like Coinbase are incentivized to do this as well -- to counteract large dumps like this, or they simply shutdown trading, like it has looked like they've done in the past when there was a strong downtrend; I imagine they line up bigger investors interested in buying large amounts of Bitcoin et al, with people/friends looking to offload large amounts -- so they only sell once a buyer is already aligned, preventing/limiting these volatile drops. Coinbase further trying to prop up the ecosystem by creating/supporting tools and functionality that ties into getting people to adopt/pay into these Pyramid-Ponzi schemes like with attempting to purchase Earn.com.

Everyone's getting good at rallying the marketers and people incentivized for these Pyramid-Ponzi schemes to succeed.
For the time limits you could take a look at Circle, which allows you reasonable control (at an individual level) of when and how long your children are using Netflix etc. And offers some control of what (by classified type) or domain whitelist/blacklist. Don’t think I can block specific urls so can’t achieve whitelist only YouTube.
This is untrue. I use a fountain pen in my right hand for both English (LTR) and Hebrew (RTL) writing. Even with slow-drying ink, smudging or dirtying my hand is not an issue in either language. My two oldest daughters also use a fountain pen (one left handed, one right handed) with no issue.
Why Silicon Valley needs quotas to solve its diversity crisis
Handy NPM Package
I was thinking more of a sort of robotrout with leaping abilities..
> Finland has managed to achieve this, why can't the rest of the western world follow?

Consider the homeless person for a moment. Given the same population with the choice to (A) stay indoors (in whatever solutions are provided by the government) or (B) be homeless, how would you expect the probability distribution of people choosing B instead of A to look like in Finland and Southern California?
Children bellow 10 should not have access to internet without supervision IMO.
Library acquires unknown Susan B. Anthony letters found in old barn
You may be interested in the Norwegian TV series "Occcupied":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkupert

The premise is that Norway develops thorium reactor technology and ceases all fossil-fuel production. And then is clandestinely and later openly invaded by Russia, with the blessing of other countries, to seize oil and gas production facilities and forcibly re-open them.
Pfffft. Sorry, but yes. My opinion remains unchanged despite your weak arguments. Windows 10 is the best desktop OS - the rest are trash whose users wish their OS had the same market share, hardware variety and solidity of Windows.
I'm now questioning my memory because I'm convinced I have hit a mine on the first click before ...
China's 'social credit' system bans millions from travelling
Why we removed our “dislike” button, and probably you should too
Population, education, "homogeneity". Why don't we just leave it at "Have you spent a winter in Finland and Southern California?"
> supports seeds and peer discovery, message passing, maybe firewall / UPNP support, etc.

Our audacious 'IPv8' work is now deployed live. Might fit you needs. Includes above features in a low-complexity approach.
https://github.com/Tribler/py-ipv8
Our fresh IETF Internet Standard draft of this work:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-00
What version of Linux would people recommend for this machine ? 2018 Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th gen)
With frequent bad reports regarding windows hardware, what’s the hardware to run wsl? I really did not like my experience with the XPS13
yes. Kicad and two video series made by Chris Gammell...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/getting-to-blinky/

I'd recommend doing them quick, as Kicad is on the verge of a new major release(5.0) and these series might become outdated.
I worry about a GPRS-like law preventing innovation, for example because wouldn't it make IPFS-like storage, which relies on duplication and can't remove files, illegal:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Writing relative to typing helps me slow down my thoughts but of course its slower than typing. But for me this is good. About the finality, well, you can use a pencil or you can just cross out a line. When I write I try not to get caught up in making sure what I write is right. If its wrong just cross it out.
What version of Linux ? Thanks...
Philadelphia had a similar high-tech junkyard back in the 1980's. I still have the 4K wire-wrapped magnetic core memory board I bought there for a few bucks. When backlit, the board is really quite beautiful.
It entered the alphabet from runes and then exited the alphabet with the invention of printing, because there weren't typefaces for it. So it appeared and disappeared between the last two stages in the graphic.
It’s astounding to me how bad the menu systems are for most cameras. It’s a common negative quality I see in reviews for Nikon, Sony. Samsung, Olympus, and Panasonic. I haven’t read any Canon reviews so I’ll have to take your word for it that they’re an outlier.
You can.

You just have to do it "the old fashioned way", aka, spending the time with your kids.
I had a similar problem with an HP ProBook 650 that I bought a few years ago. The laptop was reasonable in most ways, but the matte screen is so dim that it's barely usable.
Pixelbook in dev mode with crouton for $1K. It’s great for running Linux, except you can’t easily use Docker.
I don't believe Envy vs XPS is apples to apples, HP's Spectre laptops probably compare more favorably in terms of build quality. Have you looked into that line at all?
I read a review about running OpenBSD on them last night. It’s probably wide open to anything.
Yes and no. Maybe yes for OLAP features but not in general, because Redshift isn’t fit for everything, and they have plain RDS Postgres offerings. Also, my original post questioned whether they would bring in improvements from Postgres core into their fork (Redshift)... in case you read the opposite.

I know the RDS team has contributed some fixes and the like to Postgres, but I’m unsure of their overall significance.
Because mirrorless tech is not mature enough yet.
Interesting. I've purchased two batches of Mobile Precisions in the past: one about 8 years ago, and another about 4 years ago. (Sorry, I can't remember the particular models.)

Both of them had really good Ubuntu compatibility.
Right, but the dodecahedron is a modular curve, and I'm guessing this is how Hermite came up with the solution to the quintic using modular functions in 1858. If there are any real number theorists here they might be able to clarify this some more. Modular functions, modular forms, automorphic forms, these are all key ingredients of the Langlands program.
I know in the UK at least, big first are taking this very seriously. The potential fines are huge. But it's true that enforcement will be spotty, as the ICO and its equivalents are under-resourced. But you can bet that they will be looking for some big targets pour encourager les autres.
GDPR focuses too much on "the right to be forgotten" but is a threat to something more important: "the right to not be deleted".
> I consider myself a 0.5 generation immigrant.

I believe this is usually referred to as 1.5 generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations#1.5_gene...
> I'm not a lawyer, but it my impression that the main thing that is different with the GDPR is the threat that it will actually get enforced

I think you are dead right. GDPR is an incremental modernisation of the 1995 EU regulation. There have been a number of cases recently that have shown that Facebook, for instance, have been breaking the current EU law, but the national governments (Germany, Belgium recently) have had a hard time enforcing it in any meaningful way. GDPR will allow national governments to enforce their existing laws. If you are a US company who was breaking, for instance, the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 then I have very little sympathy if GDPR now breaks your business model. Breaking the law, but exploiting jurisdiction is not the kind of competitive advantage I will stand up for.

BTW you can't opt out of the law in a EULA.
Securing Your SSH Keys with the Ledger Nano S
If you want something practical and productive right out of the box then just go with Ubuntu for any hardware.

Thinkpads are popular in the Arch community (and vice versa), so there's discussion and documentation available if that's your cup of tea.
Yeah, that's a good point. If the whole advertising landscape forcibly moves away from direct targeting, presumably the same players retain the same position in the marketplace they have now (with the possible exception of ad dollars moving to other media if web is seen as less effective in general without direct targeting).
Ask HN: Podcast Recommendations?
I have a couple friends who have recently been getting into podcasts. They've been asking me for suggestions. So I wanted to put together a list of podcasts (programming or any genre) that I can send to anyone.

I started a google sheet (link below). Do you guys have any recommendations?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kLWzTcsBMlwRjP71qWPYYa5NDwjFqbChdwG37PyQEKA/edit#gid=0
2018 X1 Carbon user here. I fully agree with your review. Emphasize on the keyboard thing. I'm about to start a book catalyzed by the mechanical pleasure of pressing.
Do you mean something like this? (so you can always work out something logically ie no guessing)
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine...
Just eliminate the various liability shields that have been enacted for third-party content. In certain areas (e.g. the personals website crackdown) we are moving in this direction already.

If you make a search engine vulnerable to a libel lawsuit because, for example, their search results make it look like Joe So-and-So was arrested for DUI (when it was actually Joe So-and-Sew or some such thing), they'll just stop indexing that stuff entirely.

Best to avoid creating new laws where old legal concepts will work fine.
The Lenovo X1 Carbon is great and the Costco deal mentioned below made me really think about it, but 1080p screen is just not great these days and really constrains working screen real estate.

Have you considered Google Pixelbook? 16GB RAM, 512GB drive, 7th gen i7 and a beautiful design for ~$1700.

I’ve used crouton on an older Pixel and loved it.
A programming language based on NAND completeness
You can't opt out of the law in a EULA (under UK and AFAIK European law)

Much of what is in GDPR was already illegal under the 1995 regulation, just hard to enforce on US companies
Or bioinformatics ~2009?
>"That's exactly what I am saying. I think we would be better off if we treated Software development like a trade that had a two year up to date curriculum that actually prepared people to be hit the ground running at a company."

So you see no reason for schools to produce people with well-rounded educations? You don't feel its important for society to have adults who have a wide-ranging perspective on things like literature, philosophy, history, art and non-computer science?

Also the OPs comment and this entire discussion is of general secondary education and not software development.
That's part of what I'm getting at when I talk about it being an available track.

You can still have everybody lined up to finish ~17 or 18, just allow more variation in what they have finished. If someone doesn't plan to go on to college, maybe they don't need to take college prep math classes and can take classes that will serve them better.
Yes. I use Xming with it.
It's also worth noting that the range of an airliner depends heavily on the fact that it becomes lighter en route through burning fuel. At takeoff, nearly half the mass of the aircraft can be fuel.

Batteries don't provide that kind of mass reduction as they discharge, which means long-range flight using only batteries as a power source is rather unlikely.
For a few examples,

-The "Right to Erasure" for one - any user can force you to delete some of your data at any time.

-Being forced to appoint a "Data Protection Officer" can definitely be burdensome to small businesses or startups that are already on the margin. More reasons the US startup scene will probably remain stronger.

-Heightened standard for "consent" to use of user data
started out working in assembly language on constrained systems

Right, I started out with a 2Mhz 6502 with 32k RAM and it still boggles my mind!
I believe you're talking about the free algebras on groups of modular forms of a certain 'weight.' That's not exactly the modular forms themselves.

Here's some more information: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/quantum-mech...
HP Probook 470 G5 has great specs and great compatibility with Linux. My previous computer was a Macbook Pro, and this is superior is specs and Linux compatibility. So I'd say it's superior in every way that matters to me. And it seems you have similar preferences. Also, it cost about $1100. And it has a 17 inch screen!
Isn't that what they are doing in high school?

And it's not just about software development, most college curriculumns could be more focused into a two year degree.
Having a masters will definitely unlock more opportunities for you (both academia and industry) but there are other ways of achieving it.
You can take courses online and see how you like the courses (don't have to go full throttle just check if you find it interesting enough). If you find it right fit you can go for full-fledged masters program. You can also earn certificates and try for a position in a startup which is willing to bet on you solving hard problems for them.

I have a masters degree and while I enjoyed my masters work I learnt a lot more in same period (~1.5 yrs) in industry. YMMV as I have always learnt more outside classroom by self-learning/hands-on. Btw I have seen a lot of higher degree holders also work on CRUD apps at BigCos. Those jobs will always outnumber niche jobs.
That just turns into helicopter parenting, which causes a lot of problems. You can do both; Spend time with your kids, and let them do their own thing within set constraints.
https://github.com/Perl/perl5

Apparently it’s not the only thing that is as good as dead with activity on GitHub.

Meteor might not literally be dead, but it may as well be. Don’t use it. Even MDG seems mostly focused on GraphQL these days (and that sucks, too. But that’s a whole different topic.)
NPM module to generate flat colors for UI
> "The notion that software engineers are not responsible for things that go wrong will be put to rest for good, and we will have to work out how to develop and maintain code that will go on working dependably for decades in environments that change and evolve."

That sounds like a really hard problem to solve. Not only would you need to have an audit trail for the history of changes to the code, you'd also have to figure out a way for third parties to audit the code and make sure they're looking at the same data that is being released by the project.

Additionally, reacting to arbitrary changes in the environment probably requires more resources than even a multinational corporation can provide. So you'd need a way for third parties to be able to make their own changes to the software, somehow add them to the codebase without creating too much administrative overhead for the core team, and audit those changes in an automated fashion so that they don't create thousands of new exploits.

And how would you even manage the sum total of all these Frankenstein versions of the original software with the changed versions? How would all these geographically disparate groups of programmers even communicate?

We obviously need funding for a lot more CS professors to come up with solutions to these issues.
All of the discussion I've seen has been around the right to erasure. The disclosure provisions could have a large effect on employer-employee (or potential employee) relations, or none.

I'm not sure what, if any, of interview notes, performance reviews, or discussions about who to let go in a redundancy are "personal data" of the employee. I'm also not convinced anyone else does either.
For tldr, skip straight to the example. It illustrates the idea very well.

It could be neat to make something like this compile to a Minecraft world with a redstone circuit.
I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 here. It's running circles around my (relatively recent) MacBook Pro, even considering the 1TB SSD on the MacBookPro and no SSD on the Dell (yet).

Running Ubuntu 17.10 - it's working decent.
keyboard takes a bit of getting used to though, having home/end/pgup/pgdn only through function+key is a bit of a curve. I prefer full keyboards.