skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can live with the thought of not buying "new", I would suggest you take a look at Thinkpads, specifically those which were leased to a business, but where the lease was broken before term was over. These can be had at about a year of age, and the come in good shape. You can get an i7 Haswell with 65W TDP (and if you clean it once a year, the CPU will not be throttled before you start to undress) and an Nvidia Chip with 1440p 15.5" screen for under 1000$ if you look hard. As you say you are form Europe, you might be able to order from Luxnote (not affiliated, just trying to keep the market for servicable laptops from collapsing), which are based in Germany.

Expect to supply your own SSD, and make sure the Wifi modem has Bluetooth if you need that, as well as support for the standards you need. If you want to use the internal antenna(s) for cellular modem, make sure to try and get that with the laptop when you buy, as the BIOS is a little restrictive in which PCIe devices it will accept. In some cases that can apparently be fixed by hacking it, but caveat emptor.

Some models have two batteries, one fixed and one swappable, others only one swappable. The former allows trivial swapping while running, the latter would require you to use some sort of 20V-ish supply capable of providing at least 45W via the charging port, if you want to change the battery without loosing whatever is in ram.

If you care for safety and do not like fuzzing around with things breaking/being unreliable, beware of unofficial batteries. They might well refuse to charge, though the Laptop generally runs on anything that leads it's battery controller to deem further discharge to be safe for laptop and battery.

If your performance demands would not be that high, you could get a somewhat older, but rather solid Thinkpad, you'd be surprised by the price/performance ratio for even some as old as e.g. an X60s, which is one of the few which allow the ME to be fully disabled. Those are available for a very good price on Ebay, but the issue is that they only feel fast if the software is fast, and judging from your described subjective feel of speed, your software is not fast.

I hope you get a good one. And try to not freak out about the mentioned Numpad on the newer T5xx ones, as they just put the available width to use. If you can get the hang of the trackpoint, they still have the best, as far as I know. At least my Thinkpad makes me use it sometimes, while I don't even bother trying with the HP Elitebook.
Reading this doubly reinforces how good it is in Sweden where I live now. While trains and buses are notoriously delayed (somewhat frequently), I can look on a phone app and tell when the next one will arrive +- 1 minute.

It’s no Switzerland or Japan, but it’s what a reasonably well run system looks like.
odrive.com does this very well IMO.
Jaish al-Islam terrorists resume attacking Damascus, 8 martyred, 37 injured
> you should have one level of your game that is indistinguishable from a completed professional product

This artifact becomes the goal and the plan. It unambiguously communicates what is acceptable addition to the game. Fully internalized, it now should be possible to farm out development have every single level hit the look, feel and gameplay of the original level. All issues end-to-end have been hit and addressed, there are no unknown-unkowns at this point.

This is way Rango [0] is so damn good. All the techniques used in the movie were honed in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It wasn't just a tech trailer, they could focus on the story while using cutting edge production workflows.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYFGzAntx4
The lead? Canon sensors are consistently rated as subpar to Nikon/Sony ones on every single meaningful aspect. That was big stubborn mistake.

Now camera experience and result is much more than just raw sensor power (similar to say CPU speed to overall PC performance), and overall in pro sphere Canon has a clear edge in market penetration. But even there, they both fail usual consumer these days and I am worried it will be their eventual demise. And consumer sales is what keeps the company afloat.

What I mean - I shoot Nikon D750 on every weekend, and end up with tons of beautiful pics, usually from mountains and traveling. But to get from set of RAWs into LR adjusted, panorama-stitched, cleaned pics I waste 2-4 hours almost every week. I expect much more from camera these days - flawless phone/tablet integration, so I can do 99% of the work in the field, quickly, and just move on. But those cameras are still done like for 90' era, Lightroom is horribly implemented tool (ridiculously slow, buggy, thinking about moving to competition).

The camera that brings at least this quality and lets me cover whole workflow till the point of uploading where I need, or at least help with some other tool, will get a lot of my money. For now I can invest into traveling, nothing on horizon.
I doubt it's most software in percentage of code, but I suspect it's by far the biggest value of software to the economy.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
P(your data compromised) = 1 - P(storage provider never hacked)^(number of storage providers)

All else equal, using more storage providers increases your risk of exposure, not decreases it. And for most classes of sensitive data, the loss of any of that data can still cause problems, e.g. imagine health records... if only 1/5th of your patient data was hacked, that would still be a very bad situation (and before anyone asks, yes people use Dropbox for this[1]).

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/getting_st...
Using cryptocurrency does not forfeit the ability to have a third-party take custody of your funds for you.

But because you are useless at looking after things, everybody else should forfeit their right to be custodian of their own funds?

The choice should be there for anyone to make. Do I look after my own funds, knowing the risks, or do I let someone else look after them, knowing those risks?

Or you know, we now have these things called multisig wallets, which mean that you can have third-parties secure your funds without actually giving them custody of the funds. You can have the best of both worlds by removing the risk of losing everything if you lose your keys, and also eliminate the possibility of a bank/government from stealing your money.
"...it can be argued that caloric restriction ... has the potential to accelerate the healing process..."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25881054

"...fasting ... has the potential to differentially protect normal and cancer cells against chemotherapy..."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815756/

"...Autophagy is sometimes referred to as cellular “cleansing”, and our observations provide an attractive neuronal parallel to the organismal benefits that, historically, are perceived to derive from fasting."

"...short-term food restriction induces a dramatic upregulation of autophagy in cortical and Purkinje neurons. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that food restriction leads to in vivo neuronal autophagy."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/
I don’t even trust myself with my data. It’s too easy to do something stupid. How could I possibly trust anyone more than that?
Cool stuff: Box made of magnesium, included Illustrator and FrameMaker, familiar UI from using WindowMaker, email from Steve Jobs in the mbox file when you start up, first version of the WorldWideWeb browser by Tim Berners Lee, first ever website displayed in said browser.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3261592
The main (good) reason to go to community college is that it's a cheap way to get college credits.
I remember seeing a notebook form of this:

https://wipebook.com
You maybe need to step back and look at the bigger picture you seem to need to run many vm/ docker instances - and need a lot or RAM a CPU cores.

would not a decent whitebox system using ryzen or threadripper be better suited?

Do you really need to work on a laptop?

it sounds like you'd be better off with a bigger desktop and a dual monitor set up - don't get caught up in the glamor of the apple brand.
We could use the common porpoise microbiome for this.

Dolphins have grand parents, so 12 porpoises alive could translate maybe in 6 males, two old females past their fertile period and 3-4 females still in reproductive age. Each one could deliver one baby porpoise each two years. The species exclusive from USA and Mexico has a really bad luck. Too many actors currently throwing gasoline to burn all bridges instead promoting the necessary cooperation between the two countries. Mexico at least tried and failed. The species will probably not survive to see the next president.
> The "Right to Erasure" for one - any user can force you to delete some of your data at any time

Sorry, don't see how this is really a burden. Any small business is going to get such requests so rarely that they can be handled manually. In any case, it's also unlikely that implementing a feature to allow users to do this themselves would have any real cost.

As a consumer I absolutely want this right. As a business owner, I absolutely want to do right by end users. I just don't see any issue with this.
It's a testament to the absurdity of the American political process that multiple committees have been formed to study the invented nonissue of the integrity of voters, but relatively few have been formed to study the legitimately serious issue is the integrity of voting.

Putin would love nothing more than to see Americans lose faith in the democratic process, and he wins every time we mention "voter fraud" when we should instead be talking about election integrity.
Different people can mean different things when they speak of trust. What kind of trust are you looking for and what's most important to you? You want your data to remain highly private? available at all time? versioned forever? You want the provider to have decent support when you need it?

If you'll define what your requirements and priorities are you it will be easier to find the service that is best for you.
I care greatly and would never buy a Lenovo because of it.
Ditto. It's brilliant and one of the things stopping me switching to linux at this point.
Retarded title, if the russians can, so can any American. Hillary can hire anyone she wants. So could Trump. Typical nytimes trash news. GTFO with this propaganda BS.
During the MMO rush due to WoW successes there were lots like Tabula Rasa, Star Wars Galaxies [1]. Curt Schilling was even part of one that entangled Rhode Island state funds at 38 studios for Copernicus. [2] Cheyenne Mountain, where I worked for a while on Unity games, unfortunately never released Stargate Worlds MMO and burned through 10s of millions, I think 60-70 million by the end. The main problem was warring design teams, new tech not ready for primetime and builds not happening early and often and really Unreal wasn't the best for large MMOs back then (UE3). A recent article "Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter" highlights not using continuous builds as being a big problem in failed games [3]

> Make Builds and Test Them: Imagine a game has a 2-year development deadline. Imagine the first playtest happening 1 year and 9 months into development. This happens. Make regular builds of your game and playtest them, even starting from week one. If you are a serious game development company, you probably should have an automated build pipeline of some sort. Pro-tip: Automation is cheaper and more effective than human labor.

Large games like this are generally smarter today taking it to market with smaller teams and getting funding and alpha/beta feedback all along the way. Fortnite for instance has been in development with available builds for Epic using Unreal Engine 4 almost since inception and became a better game for prototyping/early and often releases.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/the-biggest-mmo-failures-in-history/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios

[3] https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
I know it's very tempting to blame everything to our "1st world bad living", but please do not spread misinformation like this about autoimmune diseases. I am 27, always ate healthy and was very active, yet I started developing ankylosing spondylytis 3 years ago, a very painful AI disease which attacks your articulations.

And you know what ? We know that many Pharaohs of ancient Egypt had it too, including Ramses II : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12548434

So long for the 1st-world, industrialized society as the root of all evils...

Moreover, sounds like your friend was on biologics. Sure, losing 75pds will help lowering the inflammation and pressure on articulations anyway. But there's NO evidence it's not just a pause in flares, sorry for your friend. I met many people with AI diseases and to date have met no one who can prove he "healed" with a change in diet. Happy to discuss about it in PM if some read that comment !
How about an actively-maintained 3-year-old project? [0]

[0] https://github.com/alterstep/dnscrypt-osxclient
Facebook suspends another data analytics firm like Cambridge Analytica
I get the fuel cell concept: fuel (H2) and oxygen combine to make water, which is thrown overboard. But, I don't see how this pertains to flow batteries. Generally, the flow battery material (e.g. vanadium oxide) is highly toxic and/or reactive. Do you propose sending that type of material overboard?
CLEP credit is not often accepted at "top tier" universities.
I think you may be wrong, on a technicality. While such “shadow scores” may exist, that’s a part of security clearance. It would only be on applying for a clearance that your score is evaluated. So while you may be denied for a govt. or a specific service, it would only be because you did not pass the clearance you applied for; not because the establishment systematically measures your worth throughout your life.

Disclaimer: I live in Australia, where the situation may or may not be the same as the US/Europe.
I improved my Listening watching American movies and tv shows with English subtitles first, then no subtitles later (subtitles in your native language will do more harm than good).

My communication skills in English improved A LOT by being very active at Hacker News. It is written communication skills specifically, but they translate well to oral communication I think.
> In fact, you often hear that "Italian dubbers (e.g. voice over actors) are the best in the world".

Hah, I've heard that from my Italian relatives, but didn't know that it was a widespread thing to say. When I heard it, I couldn't help but think "What a weird thing to brag about." It'd be like bragging that you're really good at tracing over art. It's a sad brag, because it's conceding entirely the ability to become good at making original things.

Another weird thing I've heard from my Italian relatives is that all the Asian corner/grocery stores in Italy are run by the Chinese mafia. When asked why they thought that, their answer is usually a variation on "There's no other way they'd be able to put together the money to own a store." So, in other words, simple racism. You ever heard this claim?
It's lamictal that stabilizes the mood swings. And modafinil adjusts the set point.
Seems like somewhat of a false equivalence to me. People (largely) know the risks of drugs, and are knowingly taking the drugs. Data is often gathered unknowingly, or used for unknown purposes, and people don't know the risks/potential uses of that data. It also doesn't remove the ability to agree to the use of data (it just must be actual consent to the purposes of use), so it's more akin to a War on Drugs that targets the supply of impure substances, but allows the supply where the user knows exactly what they are getting.
Maybe these things shouldn’t be collected as a matter of course. Should web servers log client IP addresses by default? Why? Does my mail server need to log email addresses of incoming mail by default? “Logging all the things” as default behavior really needs to be a thing of the past.

If anyone wants to get their feet wet in open source, there are thousands of high profile projects out there that could use a patch to scrub PII from their logging, and these are probably simple diffs.
Not really sure that's even a euphemism anymore.
Get high and watch tv err I mean play video games.
The fundamental reason for worsening subway service in recent years may be more mundane than we assumed: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slowe...

It was slowly driving me insane at my last job. Now, I just have to dial in to the morning meeting, then I can work from home for about an hour before heading in to the office, and we've been asked to stay home even for fairly light snowstorms this winter. I wouldn't be surprised if other tech companies in the city are adding more flexibility to their work hours.
The SL2 is almost exactly that (a little out of your suggested price range with a kit lens, but it's a better camera than most people need for Instagram and the like), if a DSLR is even the right choice for that demographic. Every manufacturer has something in that ~$500-$700 range that is similarly competent; I only mention the Canon SL2 because it is the most effective when it comes to being "smart" (the new autofocus system in Canon cameras is by far the best in the market; it's frighteningly good, and much faster than a human operator could be). But, 1080p (or 4k) video, good automatic settings, etc. are all pretty standard across the board from every manufacturer. It's hard to find a camera from a good manufacturer that doesn't work great.

But, there are also cameras in your suggested price range that aren't DSLRs that fit the bill, probably better than a DSLR for the casual camera user. A lot of the smart tech in DSLR cameras has trickled down into point and shoot cameras, including good autofocus, white balance, etc. Lens technology has moved more slowly, but the digital part of cameras has been advancing extremely rapidly.
I've given up the idea of ever considering learning German. It's simply not necessary. They all speak English. Unless you're going to live there long term, you don't need it.
Yeah you can - I think xming is still the best F/oss version. But for better or worse, you get ms windows window management.

In their recent announcement, kali Linux showed off running xrdp, allowing log in via rdp to a local Linux desktop.
Uber/Lyft? Cab?
I am a non-native speaker so I tried combing through a few of your comments to see how a native speaker might be able to pick you out as a non-native.

> listen a little more attentive

attentively

> will sharpen you in daily English

"sharpen" should be applied to the skill, not the person? ("sharpen your daily English")

> Becoming fluent becomes after becoming familiar.

"becomes after" sounds weird. Maybe "follows" or "comes".

> very clearly speaking guy

clear speaking

But I think the most glaring issue is the way you use commas (lots of unnecessary commas, comma splices, and parallel structure violations).

All of this is beyond grammar nazi-ing since some of these are just word choices that I would've made differently rather than grammatical errors. Again, I am also non-native.
If you can’t fault the US for it’s gun laws based on its founding (which was violent revolution), then you surely can’t fault China’s human right abuses, because they are similarly a product of its founding.
Please don't break the HN guidelines by introducing flamewar topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the traffic is https, in theory they can't link any of that traffic to individuals.
Well yes, noise.
I made a browser plugin that uses color gradients to help with this precise problem: http://www.beelinereader.com/individual. I had no idea how widespread this problem was until I posted a Show HN and my website grinded to a halt.

It turns out line tracking is an issue for readers with dyslexia, various visual problems, and ADHD.
There was a report showing that in NY the metro cost several times that of metros in other cities. So it's not just a matter of willing to spend the money, somehow the costs are much more than what they should be.
Oh my, that Steve Jobs email with the audio clip. The moment I read those words, I said, "aaaaaand". Thankfully, somebody has it in all its glory here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DI3l1tYFc
I've just tried it out with one external monitor (laptop + external) and chunkwm works as expected. Don't know how that scales past 1 external monitor though.
"I couldn't really wait for 47 years and tell my grandchild it was your father's mistake," the woman was quoted as saying.
As a matter of fact, I do know what you're talking about (AS). And I can't downvote, but I would ! ;) Promising mountains with "diets" is as bad or worse than doctors not really considering what's it like to live with autoimmune diseases / having trouble establishing diagnosis. Please link to peer-reviewed, serious papers showing results in double-blind studies if you wish to convince fellow hackers.
I work in IT and I don't know anyone(myself included) who uses ad blockers to block tracking. It's just about the annoying ads for me.
> a bank robbery hostage situation for the state to take their kids/spouse/family hostage for leverage

The CPC already does that, seriously. They threaten family of oversea critics.
Someone hijacked Bitcoin's Twitter account?
Same, I have two personal domains with them and the free Whois guard sold it for me.

We use namecheap at work. Recently they have been messing up dns (I think it was a one time thing). Not a huge amount only like 3-6 domains out of 400ish, but it's silent. We caught most with monitoring, but have found several that slipped through the cracks since.
My immediate response was this is straight up machine porn.

But digging into the design of that machine really shows Jobs & company's design philosophy. It was unparalleled.

It looks like that machine came from a publishing or design shop— I'll probably share the video around the office— some of the people I work with saw that desktop publishing revolution when it was new.

And a weird part of me loves the size of the manuals
Show HN: 1 day itineraries
MVP for an itinerary sharing site.

Only works for Tokyo right now (cause I'm going there next month :) )

If you've ever planned a trip with friends, it's usually a big spread sheet with a bunch of links & talking over messenger. The idea is people can just plan on the site, send their plan link to the group .

Sample plan: https://letsdosomethingplanner.com/plans/ybqJGhsHVBiJumntg5D...
Please don't turn bait into outright flamewars. It's off topic.
https://urbit.org/docs/

The idea with urbit (amongst others, it's a big system) is for everyone to have a personal server that's easier to administrate than a linux server. It's been posted a bunch of times https://hn.algolia.com/?query=urbit&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

I've also heard about https://zeronet.io/ and https://beakerbrowser.com/
Yes, actually you can do it on a computer easily. You can even use like ListenOnRepeat.com and control the playlist. The problem is when she opens her retail location she wants to do it from the app on the tv, or app on her phone and do a Chromecast.

I'd rather not install a computer there just to show some videos...and I don't know why YouTube forces the suggested videos to paying customers without giving an option to turn it off.
Just another normal day in the shitty telco industry.
Please don't, just because someone mentioned something like that. It only leads to predictable places.
I thought that dnscurve was the method to actually prevent domain snooping. Regardless, I think running your own authoritative dns which updates from root servers is the real way to go.
The complete guide to brushing your teeth at work
Duke Nukem Forever