skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 2009 flashed to 2010 with 64GB RAM and modern GPU and SSD and to be honest I don't see a need to upgrade.
Awesome, thanks for the pointer! CPAN still has lots of tricks up its sleeve, eh :)
It's not the S3, but it might answer your question: we still have a Galaxy S2 Skyrocket that sees frequent use in our household. It's running an unofficial build of LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1), and has a new battery, but otherwise it works very well.
Based on this I think there’s no obligation:
“...a non-EU company with a website accessible to people in the EU is not, on its own, sufficient to require the company to oblige with the GDPR.”
From: http://emerging-europe.com/voices/preparing-for-gdpr/
Ask HN: Best practices for a Fee service
We are planning to overhaul our fee charging services as they are fairly simple and thus require lots of manual intervention, especially around a correction. We calculate fees daily on an accounts balance, total and post at the end of the month. We have fairly elaborate promotions and fee structures per group of clients.

I am sure however this is a well explored space with many companies (Telcos etc) that have elaborate fee calculation mechanisms. I am especially interested in how people handle modifications / corrections to fees that may have already been applied in the past - how are these re-calculated; how are results displayed back to the customer is a way that they can understand.

I of course have some ideas around this (defining a directed graph of FeedCalculator objects with customer-friendly descriptions; current fee stream vs amended fee stream...) but would love to get some insights from people who have built out such services.

Many thanks
God of the gaps is rejected by most well-educated theologians, especially in the Catholic Thomist tradition. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God is the foundation of existence, like a substrate underlying reality, but distinct from all other things. God maintains the existence of all things, including the laws of physics. Although God does not have to operate the universe in a consistent manner, he does so for at least two reasons. 1) a well ordered universe operating according to consistent laws has a beauty that reflects the nature of God, who is not arbitrary, but faithfully keeps his word. 2) It provides a predictable and stable place in which life can develop and thrive.

However, since God operates physics, he certainly could "violate" it, but we believe he has done so only in very rare cases to get peoples' attention.
> Instead, we got dragged into wars, instigated by rulers who manipulated followers of so-called 'holy books' into killing their brethren. We denied education to large parts of the population. We suppressed anything resembling science&progress because it might offend an imaginary being.

Actually, the biggest and dirtiest wars of at least our recent history were actually driven by men who were atheists (or at least non-theists). Hitler, Pol-pot, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Lenin... all atheists with body counts in the tens (hundreds?) of millions.

Furthermore, Some of the biggest advances in the sciences (take for example the scientific method as described by Sir Francis Bacon assumed that the universe itself was ordered by God and therefore science was actually possible) and the institutions of higher learning were started as ways to train people for purposes of theology (thinking here of places like Oxford and Princeton).

Religion has actually been a huge driver in our ability to teach and understand the world.
Get a cofounder in that field. It's hard to get 10 years of experience in something without spending 10 years in it. Whatever you learn will be shallow and subject you to Dunning Kruger effect.
"Poll: Do you trust Facebook?

...

THIS MORNING, IT emerged that nearly 45,000 Irish Facebook profiles may have been affected by the giant data breach involving as many as 87 million accounts harvested by UK data intelligence firm Cambridge Analytica.

Those 45,000 accounts could have been breached due to just 15 Irish people accessing a questionnaire app, thisisyourdigitallife, which included in its permissions the granting of access to all an individual's friends' profiles."

Source:

http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-do-you-trust-facebook-3941194-...
Yes... In general I think we're all too concerned about things WAY beyond our spheres of influence.

My wife, though she's gotten better, tends to get too emotionally invested in situations abroad. I try to explain to her that I'm not dispassionate but that I realize we live in an imperfect world where bad things are happening all the time and just because people on TV or wherever are bringing it to her attention doesn't mean it's any worse than a similar situation happening some place else that she's not hearing about.

The problem is when folks hear about all these negative events they tend to want government to tinker until we reach a utopia where nothing bad happens anymore.

The tough question though; how do we create/maintain an optimally informed electorate?
Still one of the best FPS ever made!
The first time I switched from good old regular "netquake" to the quakeworld client I was completely mindblown with the lack of latency and huge playability improvement.
Also, seeing glquake at 640x480 for the first time was surreal.
Thanks @JohnCarmack
Plenty of countries limit exchange of their local currency to other currencies.

What are you on about with AI, that seems unrelated.
I do not blame stressed people (single mother most of all!) from making decisions based on lack of time.

However, it really IS helpful to make a larger purchase. You can think of convenience-purchase-pricing of things you use regularly at home like loan-sharking at exorbitant rates. It hits those least capable of affording it.

The flip side is you get a huge benefit from scrounging for the money/time to get the bulk package. It's like an small investment that returns 200%.

My wife makes fun of me, but I often buy a large amount/quantity of a few items at the grocery store, i.e. ones that we already use regularly, that I know the usual price of, so I know when a "sale price" (or bulk price) is actually a good deal. This only really works well for things that are shelf-stable, of course.

Diapers are definitely one of the things you should try to buy in large packages when the prices are low. It genuinely is hard for a single mother to do this, but there's a significant payback in both money AND time.
Show HN: Logobot – your friendly logo builder
> unscrupulous individuals will abuse the system.

Welfare fraud isn't that prevalent, and adequate checks on gratuitous abuse are not exactly difficult to implement.

For the people who would rather see newborns have health issues than pay taxes, I frankly find their morals odious and their foresight lacking.
Charitable. "What mean you by these postings?" suggests someone other than the tam.
I don't see point of this either. I aware this would cost me lot of hardly obtained karma, but I feel I have to say this.

Strange how some people are obsessed with hype. I think what raised interest of this article was just word "Rust" in the title. Rust seems to be wet dream of many developers. They heard it's safe, so it will magically solve all their problems. But the usage of Rust in this case is meaningless. You could do the same with python, nodejs, java, just plain nginx or million other (and better) ways. Just first google query returned probably better solution if you like single static binary http://miniweb.sourceforge.net/. It would be two files instead of one miniweb binary and static site compressed as 7z.

How does this thing scale? What about SSL? Do I have to put reverse SSL terminating proxy in front of it? Yes, you say? Ok, why not just use that proxy for serving those static files too (nginx does that) and skip this thing completely. What about performance? Have you tried to httperf on it?

I would appreciate if this did more then just being a single binary. Like Facebook's HipHop compiler of PHP to static executable or something like that. Sorry but this is real bullshit.
Kind of tacky. The article is trying to address why the Jews as a persecuted group have survived throughout history. It's pretty impressive. I don't see "glorification" just history.

It's almost like you registered to talk trash about Jews. What are you adding to the conversation?

Jewishness is not just about race, religion, or ethnicity, it may encompass those things but it's more about shared identity and history, so getting into racism and then trying to bring up religious practices is just throwing darts at the wall.
How do you make a statically-linked, single-file web app with python?
Because we have a right to travel in most countries and cars are the mechanism that we use and we can be held responsible for our actions. This black box AI has none of those attributes.
Ask HN: Best way to improve my chances of a support job?
I have worked in a tech role for several years but my position was somewhat unusual, there was no real chance for progression so i have been applying for support positions. From the few interviews i have had i was told i was more suited to a second line role than a first line due to my technical knowledge.

In my previous role i have worked with all sorts of technology, General IT support, im very capable with linux, windows and android, im a former level 3 mobile repair engineer, i have my CompTIA A+ and a lot of other various skills including CCTV, data recovery and destruction, the list could go on and on, you might say im a jack of all trades and master of a few

However i have now sent over 100 applications and had only 2 face to face interviews which i did not get so i have been wondering what may be the best path to improve my chances of getting a job (preferably with the possibility of training and development) but im not sure what is the best course of action, the possibilities i have come up with do far are these:

Have my CV Professionally rewritten in the hope of getting more callbacks

Complete CompTIA Network + and security +(i have already done the learning for them and can easily pass the practice exams i have access to but it seems that CompTIA certs are worth less than those from the likes of Microsoft or Cisco

Study and take exams for Microsoft MCSA, i should be able to pass these exams relatively easily but thee are around 6 exams in this path which is quite expensive

im not sure which path to take, id love to be able to do all of the above but i cant really afford it so i need to find the most effective way of getting noticed. if anyone has any other ideas id be very grateful
Cool, thanks.

For those of you who want to tinker, there's a much rougher, open source library based on Vuejs, postgres, and Flask with some momentum on GitHub right now, LabNotebook https://github.com/henripal/labnotebook

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)
> in a small shop that lives and dies on productivity

A computer that takes a bunch of fiddling to set up and might not work if updated doesn't seem like a productivity booster to me.
I keep saying this but the we in the US really screwed up in the transition to chips. We had a chance to change behavior but we went ahead and ignored pins.

I simply don't understand why, apart from too many retailers complaining.
Whatever word is appropriate, it was basically a complete disappearance or the rule of law. Basically, imagine all the police and military disappearing instantly, in a country that was already quite corrupt and infantilised by communism (not that I'm sure a more 'civilized' country would do any better under the circumstances).
If Apple say they want to look at workflows, and winkle out bugs, then I've got a good one - but incredibly specific to LibreOffice.

If they get the LibreOffice git repository, then run:

make sw.all

eventually it will get to the unit tests and one of our exports kills the display server. Only happens if you run it on a iMac Pro 4K screen running max resolution.

We know it's something we are doing around graphics, but for the life of us we can't work out what that is. But also: I would have thought killing the display server like this should be something that shouldn't be possible...
The description at the end of the article about how package management doesn't have to be done in a way that shares all the files sounds a lot like a description of https://nixos.org/nix/
A Formal Look at Pinning in Rust
But it had to be thin and light!

The new keyboard is usable for me but is absolutely worse than the old models.
Congratulations. You came up with a reason to do a whole bunch of work that you found fun. Work of a kind that is entirely unneeded in other languages. Do you want a cookie?

All developers are users of someone else's software and knowledge. I'm OK with that, and happy to not reinvent perfectly good wheels. You go ahead and enjoy wrapping libgit.

My preference is to understand how to use data to help businesses. For example a decade ago I gave a tutorial on A/B testing which resulted in multiple companies adding many millions to their own bottom line.

It is a big world. There is room for all kinds.
Why are offices so terrible?
Yes please! It's one thing to know what you should do because you've been told to do so, but quite another to fully understand why you're doing something.
I'd also love to see a translation demo and not English examples. I know there are tons of outdated programs out there like SDL Trados, but apps like Smartling or GTT are decently efficient.

It'd be cool to see quantitative data on how much time this could save.
Are you serious? Yes, a stadium full of people dying every year is "that bad" in an absolute sense.
Not quite -- the C standard does define SIGFPE, and sort of requires it. C99 says "C does require that SIGFPE be the signal corresponding to arithmetic exceptions, if there
is any signal raised for them." See clause 7.14 ("Signal handling") and H.3.1.2 ("Traps").
Apple has had a long history of "innovation" which only has longevity in the form of museum pieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4
Well, they already tried that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube
IIRC the NeXT boxes were actually magnesium.
Their entire career choice and their current sky-high yearly salaries plus the stock price are based on what fundamentally was a military need i.e. the internet (or the TCP/IP protocol to be exact).

The right course of action IMO would be to leave Google if you are unsatisfied with working for Pentagon.

But Google HAS to work for the Pentagon and especially on AI because the knowledge that comes out of this isn't only going to be military but to a much higher degree and relevant extent for civilized use.

Technology is always a double-edged sword and we have to learn to deal with the powers it gives us. But to not be on the forefront of technology when you can is a losers game and Google would lose much of its value if it isn't at the forefront.
Well, the notion of fixing people by telling them whats wrong with them is bullshit. Lucky for us, most of psychology has moved beyond this antiquidated fruedian thinking.
“usw” is a common German abbreviation that means “etc.”
I don't understand the argument that generic diapers "don't last as long." Every diaper lasts until it's soiled; it's not like the generic brands absorb one poop but you keep the "better quality" diapers around for three poops, as though they were paper towels. The only reason I can think of that they wouldn't "last as long" is if you have defective diapers that you have to toss before using (only happened to me once or twice in 2+ years of using Target/Walmart brand diapers, hardly significant).
There are other reasons to buy more expensive brands (fewer blowouts, less diaper rash, odor containment, sensitivity to materials, who knows depending on the baby) but I don't see why usage volume is one of them.
She wasn't braking. She was parked. The car was stopped, there were no brake lights. She had no hazard lights on.
> Normally webservers serve files with the sendfile system call for zero copy IO

Not if they are doing their own tls encryption which hopefully one day is the new normal.
The required hardware is too expensive to make it commercially feasible.
Open Directories Are the Only Interesting Places Left on the Internet
Charities can and do steer activities in a commercially beneficial manner to suit certain stakeholders. I suppose, non-profits are similar.
You might get external GPU support if you're trying to do ML.
IT does the fiddling. Creators gain performance and productivity.
Having the ability to build a whole thread of tweets now would go a long way towards providing the nuance that has so far been missing, but almost nobody even knows it's there, never mind uses it.
I meant it as an adjective, not as a noun (I'd have added 'a' in front). Is it incorrect?
Nah, just doesn't come out all sticky. Definitely a hairy ass.
> If you don't have a Facebook account, they don't have your data.

Not quite true, all the like buttons and other FB integration code for websites and apps still collect your data
We might be able to start using this as a way to specify planets, rather than the arbitrary number-by-discovery. Try StarName(with catalog info)#log(approximate radius of orbit)

Earth would we Sol#0
Kepler-90#-1.3, Kepler-90#-1.1, out to Kepler-90#0 for the outermost one on his graph.

That way, finding a new planet doesn't require either renumbering to specify where the planet is relative to the star. (BTW, I'm not real happy about using AU as the base measurement. It might be better to use Megameters since you're less likely to end up with negative log)
The purpose of plotting it on a logarithmic scale is to demonstrate a power law, not necessarily to obscure a deviation from the linear-in-log power law.
And everytime, someone mentions how ecc memory is important. But it's just not. There is a performance penalty, and the real use case for ecc memory is vanishingly small for a workstation.

What could you possibly be doing on a workstation that requires ecc?

For every 8 gb of memory, you are potentially looking at a single bit flip every 9 years. With ecc, only once every 45 years. And in exchange, you are looking at a 10% performance penalty.

What could you possibly be doing on a Mac pro that would need that kind of accuracy?
If Apple switches to some other CPU architecture, the Mac Pro will be the very last thing to change, assuming it does at all.

The processors they've developed for iPhones and iPads are getting into laptop territory, but it's a big step from there to 2x 6-core Xeons.
They haven't had security 'breaches' because nobody ever called it that, but FB has been leaking data out the back door for years.

The amount of info that you used to be able to pull from Facebook's API was incredible, and most people didn't realize it. Even information as bland as friends and friends-of-friends is enough to build a useful social graph around a person. (Years ago I did just this, and it was amazing how the graph clustered all my different social groups)
The CIO then accepts full liability.
You actually think it would be difficult to find factual sources on this kind of historical topic? Don't try to be cute.
Researchers find a galaxy without dark matter
Oh, I agree it's a terrible name for a product whose audience is the general public! I was just explaining the name.
Decentralization Dilemma
Are you sure it's "most cases", or just the ones you hear about in the news? How many do you know personally? Beware of the availability bias.

As an anecdote, I live near a left-wing anarchist group called the Center of Libertarian Culture, and I can assure you they're all pacific people.

It's odd: anarchists openly justify violence in defense from 'fascism', whereas fascism is correctly defined as obtaining and maintaining power through violence, without seeing the irony.

There's no irony; anarchists don't want to obtain and maintain power, just to prevent others from doing so.
I think that there's a few semantics we could quibble about, "wouldn't anything God did be natural by definition," and so on.

But I wholeheartedly agree with your first statement, and I find it profoundly frustrating that atheist tracts immediately assume that you do believe in a God of the gaps.
Please do not downvote this comment. It may not make technical sense for you but there is nothing wrong with the comment otherwise. The author has some vision and shared it with us.
Bananas vs. Sports Drinks? Bananas Win in Study
> This is what makes me want to see something like Electron developed over Firefox internals.

Tried, but abandoned presumably based on prioritization: https://github.com/mozilla/positron. I was hoping Servo would help here, but from the outside looking in, the pieces are being moved into FF proper and the Servo browser's priorities have been reshifted to being a part of the VR team. Sure they're still making a general use browser (and that's quite a feat), but the embeddability game may suffer (I believe conforming to the CEF iface that was there original goal has become stale).
Apple is going to EOL Mac Pros to 2011 via the next OS and have done for many of the older Mac Pros [1]. It is a shame because many can still run it just fine. I have a 2012 I got in 2013 which is our last Mac Pro and I am not going to be happy the day they do it.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
Wouldn't the same be try of a pen and paper, though? We would be subconsciously favoring words that are easy to write?

I have horrible handwriting and am a VERY slow writer (and my hand gets cramped after writing a few words). I know whenever I have to write something by hand, I tend to choose small words and short sentences. On the other hand, I am a very fast typist and can type faster than I can think in most cases, so I tend to be much more verbose.

Yes, the medium we use matters.
I switched to Apple product in 2002, because at the time they were absolutely better than Windows 2000 for my needs (mostly Protools, and eventually Logic 7). Windows at the time was a mess and poorly supported most pro hardware and vendors (specifically Avid) were slow to support releases.

It really felt like the best platform. I had a nice G4 tower, and eventually used a G5 and then Mac Pro tower. Things generally just worked, and you could expand things as needed.

Roll around to today, and it's a mess. Apple canceled a lot of their pro products. Aperture? Dead. Final Cut got nerfed pretty hard. Logic is still reasonably well maintained, but Ableton Live took over a lot for me.

The hardware options aren't that great right now for my needs. Last week, I sold my 2011 Macbook Pro to a friend and switched all my audio stuff to my old Windows gaming system. Picked up a Firewire PCI-E card for $20 and I was in business. It's fast, has a ton of ram and is easily expandable. Windows 10 drives me nuts, but eh...

I've still got three Macbook Pros for software development, and they are pretty great for that (minus the new keyboard, and that Tensorflow GPU has dropped OS X support). I don't think I'll be switching laptops anytime soon. But ugh, audio work on them just feels like an overpriced joke at this point.

I really never thought I'd be saying it, but for photography and audio stuff, Windows seems to be the place right now!
- Escape button is on the touchbar

- Touchbar at all

- Battery reduced from 99 whr to 76 whr

- Lost magnetic charging port

- Lost every other useful port

- Keyboard generally considered worse

I currently have a 15" mid-2015 MBP, and I use the DisplayPort, HDMI, and USB-A ports on a daily basis. Losing the ports doesn't bother me too much, but similarly priced or cheaper laptops don't ask me compromise there. On the other hand the battery life, touchpad, and keyboard will be absolutely stellar or I'm not buying it, especially in this price range. Again, others ask me to compromise less. While Apple still has the best touchpads in the industry, others are catching up. Meanwhile, Apple has regressed in several ways
Not all of them. The models with the Touch Bar have four.