skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a 2017 Thinkpad at work... The screen is worse than my MBP, the touchpad is crap, it crashes once a month or so. I could have used it as a replacement for my rMBP 15 2012, but I got a 2017 13" nTB MBP for home use and side projects. And I love it - except the keyboard which is a downgrade... The TouchBar is retarded.
I wouldn’t worry. The voiceovers to lead the audience through the plot are unfortunate, and the ending is much too literal, but as a kid who wore out his bootleg VHS copy I can confirm it’s just as enjoyable as an adult.

The hot dog scene by itself is a classic bit of screenwriting.
You don't understand your software engineers
Is this related at all to Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate), which also has a JS API?
On my first year of college at home (Saudi Arabia), we had what they call orientation year which consists of intensive English and math courses. I talked to our English instructor asking him if I could stop by his office everyday during his office hours for a casual chat to improve my conversational English, and he kindly agreed. I spent a semester doing that, and picked up his Scottish accent along the way :D

The following year I travelled to the US for school. My first year in the US had minor improvement in my English fluency because I was mostly hanging out with a group of Saudis. Later that year I learned about a local group started by an ESL teacher called English Conversation Club. They have multiple groups during the week of US Americans hosting meetings at their houses, inviting internationals for casual conversations, playing games, and making friends to improve the conversational English and learn about the different cultures. They also hold parties throughout the year for the different holidays (e.g. 4th of July, Christmas, etc.). At the time, they had 3 different group meeting during the week, and I went to all of them. I also took time to reflect on the conversations on my way back from the meetings (noting misspeeches, word-choice, etc.).

During that time, I learn that the on-campus speech clinic offers accent reduction services, and they offer 50% discount for students. I took those sessions for 9 months until the therapist decided that I have reached an acceptable level.

These were the major players in improving my fluency, in addition to reading, writing, and paying attention to conversations in movies and TV shows.
That's a non sequitur if I ever heard one.
On top of that, mine (Yoga 910) has an incredibly sensitive fan that not only gets loud easily, but also has a very high pitched frequency. My desktop computer gets loud easily, but it's white noise so it's fine. This is not.

EDIT: "On top of that" was bad wording, I do not encounter the double key issue.
> rather than a BMW for example if the prices were similar

They aren't.
The same argument would probably be made to combat the illegal drug trade. Not sure we want to go there
See my reply to mac01021.
I see various articles about "young wonderchilds" programming in their teens despite their age suggesting that they are perfectly capable to do that once they have chosen to spend their free time learning programming instead of playing soccer, but wondering "how it's possible" when the person is 25yo, when in some fields you can already be a senior developer at this age, is just a whole next level.
The impossible problem of digital scarcity is finally solved, but it will have no practical uses.
It looks good with editing, graphics stock footage and such but not really for HN demographic. Some of the AI commentaries are also very exaggerated in places.
Taking cheap-shots at southern states with disreputable histories is easy, but the vast majority of states (46 out of 50, as of 2008) in America have a Felony Murder rule.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/felony_murder_doctrine
You don't see the potential problem if the only media that is able to exist is that which is state sponsored?

You may be happy with the state sponsored options now, but will that always be the case? Would you feel the same if you living in the Soviet Union or Germany circa 1940?
AFAIK, there are similar laws in many other states as well. It's definitely not just Alabama.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transferred_intent
On California buildings my isn't display a sign of they contain dangerous chemicals...

All buildings display said warning, because that way they have zero liability.
Isn’t liquid smoke already much safer? The carcinogens aren’t water soluble.
Short high-traffic routes might be viable sooner. For instance, the Dublin-London route has 14,500 flights per year (highest in Europe), crossing about 400km. Mostly 737-sized planes, flying a tiny fraction of their full range. There are a number of similarly short/frequent routes in Asia. A specialized electric plane for this type of route would save a lot of CO2 emissions, and could come long before p, say, viable transatlantic electric planes.
Nothing you said is specific to Lenovo.
Facebook collects a lot of data about you that you don't give it. It tracks you across the web using "like" buttons, and cookies from comment sections even if you don't leave comments. It collects your contact info from your friends' phones.
You don't have to login to Netflix to update your card details. Since the link you follow is coming from inside your email account, effectively Netflix considers you to be already logged in. And we are arguing that they should not.
I use MacOS at home and happily use Hammerspoon to manage these interactions, in the past using Slate—I use Windows at work and I really wish it had something better than AutoHotKey: is this just something I'm unaware of or does the design of windows really hamper the creation of tools like these?
does/can Pi-Hole use encrypted DNS?

I have a raspberry-pi on my home network running Pi-Hole and my router’s DHCP server gives all devices on my network the Pi-Hole as the DNS address
This sounds very similar to what you're looking for: https://thenoteboard.com/. Sadly it doesn't seem to be available right now, but it's a pocket whiteboard made up of 3x5 segments. It folds down rather than being a stack of cards, but it may work for what you're thinking of.
I don't think that's strictly true. If any problems arise where they need to cut people, they might cut the contractors first.
That’s a great idea. Makes it easier to turn far off dreams into immediate and actionable goals.
It looks like this just does window management, rather than the many things that Hammerspoon supports.
Sure! Where are the politicians who have “enact a GDPR-like law in the USA” on their platform? Hell, where are the politicians who even have multiple words to say about privacy?
I can totally see them in helicopter-like roles for heavy cargo. I have my doubts about the viability of public transport.

In the times of the Hindenburg the zeppelin was already becoming obsolete. If you wanted comfort ships could provide much more because weight was a major issue for zeppelin interiours, and if you wanted speed planes were already several times faster. The high number of crew combined with slow speeds (i.e. long travel times) meant that zepellin tickets weren't cheaper than either of the two alternatives.

With both ships and planes significanlty better than 80 years ago I don't see how economics should be more in favour of zepellins now. There's novelty value, but that didn't keep the Concorde flying either.
1. The projects that fail are often cancelled rather than bad releases, because they go so far off the rails that they are not even functioning, saleable products. When a film production goes wrong, you still have footage, you can still use post-production and editing work to make some sense of it and fit it into a 120 minute package - a Hollywood film typically doesn't get released with e.g. cuts shown in an unintended order, actors speaking out of sync, or visual effects accidentally shown upside down. A game that goes wrong is more like broken software, and does not function even on that kind of technical level.

2. There are plenty of games that fly under the radar, and the press will give them one review to lament their failure and then a follow-up when the studio closes and there's a massive layoff. Stories about failing games don't get traffic like stories about popular, beloved games. This has only become more true with the onset of digital storefronts.

So if you don't look, you only see a stream of hit products.
>This will seriously cut down on more than just ads, ie fake news and unverified sources.

Why do you think so? I don't see clickbait industry seriously affected. They churn out a ton of crappy content which costs almost nothing to produce (at least if compared with reputable journalistic work), monetize it with low quality ads for shitty CPM rates, but as long as part of their content goes viral, tons and tons of pageviews allow to balance everything.

GDPR changes nothing in this business.
This is longitudinal aberration; visible even in the center, so the test chart isn't actually in focus.
Yes, I read the article because I always try to be a skeptic, but smart contracts is where the author goes off the rails.

Then he ties in crypto currency volatility and Mt Gox as part of its “trust” failures. Being able to trust the results of a block chain does not mean that people will value any currency based at the same price from day to day, or that people who offer to trade and store that currency got you will be competent and honest.
If it weren’t for Zuckerberg’s status these allegations wouldn’t have bothered coming out.
Sorry but I disagree. Limit reading and limit learning grammar/spelling?
> Science is the best mechanism we’ve found for developing towards truth.

Mostly by destroying theories that don't hold up to scrutiny. Possibilities still need to come from somewhere.

> I’m not saying it should be dismissed for research purposes. It is a pseudoscience because its practitioners make unfounded, and in certain cases false, claims.

Good. We're mostly in agreement then.
The nuances of that position were hardly clear from your original short post though, so I sympathize with smallnamespace's remark.
What OS do you run on your Thinkpad?
Even 45 minutes is an enormous amount of commute time for a normal American city. Twice the median. Coastal megacities may be dense in space, but seem to be less dense in travel time than standard Midwestern sprawl.
If you haven’t named this technique yet, I’d suggest “The Atlanta Method”!
How much of a Tesla‘s battery is drained after a drag race? Electric seems to be quite good at delivering boost. See also the current generation of supercars from Porsche, Ferrari and McLaren.
The whole Blockchain debacle feels like MLM/pyramid-like to me. The interested parties are in too deep.
Sure, it's possible that he's stopped having a callous disregard for other people's privacy in those ten years, but all of his actions seem to demonstrate otherwise.
Hammerspoon uses Lua for the configuration language. Phoenix uses JavaScript, or anything that translates to it. Personally I think Phoenix’s API is much simpler and easier to understand, but I’m of course bias. :) Hammerspoon does have some additional features that go beyond window and app management. Phoenix doesn’t cover those.
I wish everything just used wayland and scaled correctly I am sick of having to launch chrome with an environment variable so it can run on one screen and having another instance for another. Also silly things like file dialogs not fitting. It's annoying when you look and the issues are all from years ago and still not fixed.
Wut? No. The first organizations I'm going to send gdpr letters are hospitals, which are in no way businesses here in the Netherlands.
>"I call these "micro-wins."

I like this term :)

It's also believe its a win when computer privacy and security begin to edge into main stream lexicon. Somewhat anecdotal but I recently saw that NordVPN is advertising on CNN.
Is it a company with much more integrity? I think not.
Is “being immersed in the product” a real user need? That sounds like a company goal to me, not something I would want as a user.
Would these bacteria show up in a stool test? It would have my preference to first test myself, with the benefits of not taking any therapies I don't need, AND also for getting an objective measure of the effectiveness of the therapy.

By the way, I've read that phage therapy is big in Georgia: https://www.nature.com/news/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1...
True - 100%
There's plenty of content that advertisers are not willing to spend any amount of money to be associated with. To use a trivial example, imagine if the KKK had a YouTube channel. And as a more nuanced example, this woman's channel. There is some minimum cost per view, and if the ads aren't even worth that much then there won't be any revenue, rather than a small amount.

There's been a rash of negative blowback over the past couple years for being associated with certain types of content, to the point where being monetizable at all is increasingly not the default state. Advertisers would rather not risk it.
NeXTstation Turbo Color Computer from 1992 Running Nextstep 3.3 (2016) [video]
Yeah, FI is a huge one. But it’s tricky - at the end of the day it’s just a means to more life goals. If you won the lottery today, that’d mean you’d have to come up with a new life goal for tomorrow.
I came to this conclusion in 2014 when I was trying to buy a smallish laptop for travelling and couldn't find anything below $1000 worth buying. I ended up going with a Surface Pro 3 because despite being more than I wanted to spend, it was by far the cheapest device that didn't have dealbreaker compromises.
Traveling.

It is one thing to study English in a country that does not speak it, and a completely different thing when you need it to survive. Being surrounded by people speaking English(French, German,Chinese) and feeling totally stupid as you can not even communicate the basic means you have to learn or have to learn.

I recommend "fluent forever" book and Gabriel Wyner stuff in general to learn as fast as possible. ALWAYS START BY PRONUNTIATION,like kids do, or else you will have to unlearn what you learned badly.

In order to polish it, I joined Toastmasters.
My recommendations:

Cafes: Caffe Trieste (North Beach)

Restaurants: The Ramp (Dogpatch), Sunday morning brunch at Thai Temple (Berkeley), Fish (Sausalito)

Sights: Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, Berkeley hills (Grizzly peak)

Weird shit: The Saloon (North Beach), Ruby Room (Oakland), parties at 20 Mission (Mission), Li Po Cocktail Lounge (Chinatown)
I mean, there's still HSC.

http://www.halted.com/

It's not even that far from Weird Stuff, and unless you work at Yahoo probably a bit easier to get to (being right along central expressway). Growing up in the valley, HSC was my hacker shop and where my love of analog electronics flourished.

If anything, the loss of Weird Stuff (which I am sad about) implies that garage days aren't about soldering resistors to a breadboard anymore. Hardware hackers are few and far between these days.
Mostly learnt English online. Bulletin boards. IRC. Reading sci-fi & fantasy. Watching movies. Talking to oodles of internet friends on ICQ and the phone. By the time I was old enough for the compulsory English classes at school -- 14? -- I was fluent.

English was my third language, currently working on my fifth (Japanese), so I guess I've got some experience when it comes to this. Best advice I can give you is this: read a lot & listen a lot. So basically books and movies. The English version of a book/movie you like is a good starting point. Lord of the Rings is my weapon of choice. I've read it in four languages. I know the story. I know Tolkien's style. So reading it in a different language is great for brushing up on that language.
> I was really impressed by the contra-rotating prop opportunity that becomes possible because of how small electric engines are (for their power).

Did that really have to do with the electric motors? They even gave an example of a combustion engine plane that did the same.
Didn't Sandberg recently suggest something to the effect that opting out of privacy violating "targeted ads" is something you'd need to pay facebook for? That wasn't in the script. Even if rationally true, stating something like that so bluntly is bad PR.

Sandberg may be a "professional grown up adult", but that doesn't preclude her from being a liability to the company.
I'm a bit concerned about using it yet because it was written from scratch just about three months ago and probably hasn't gone through enough testing.
Electric engines are about 98% efficient.

What's hard to beat is the energy density of kerosene.
I generally agree with most of the article, but sorry, this big quote here (that the author apparently thinks of being a good punchline) is just plain wrong:

> There is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve, discovered that an available blockchain solution was the best way to solve it, and therefore became a blockchain enthusiast.

Anyone who was trying to buy drugs/penis-pills/whatever-other-illegal-substance online and wanted to pay in an anonymous form would disagree. Anyone who had a bit of money in a country with restrictive international money transfer laws and who wanted to get that money out of said country would disagree.

For both of these groups, available blockchains provided a good solution to a real problem. And especially in the first group, which is generally underestimated in size I think, a lot of people genuinely got enthusiastic about blockchains and jumped on the cryptocurrency train relatively early - first to buy some weed or whatever, and later also to make more money out of less money. But the problem-seeking-a-solution situation was first!
Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?
1. Apple iCloud Documents

2. Dropbox Personal

3. Dropbox Business

4. Google Drive

I have bits and pieces on each service. I’m interested in decluttering. Which should I choose?
According to art. 27 GDPR, affected data processors outside the EU have to establish a data privacy representative in the EU.

In addition, authorities could for example seize local servers in the case of non-compliance. In many EU countries including Germany, data privacy violations can also be prosecuted as criminal offenses.
Yes! Though I’ve seen people extending the support in Phoenix cleverly by using the Task API. Basically you can run any external processes or scripts.
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger, by Peter Bevelin - was just plain bad. I remember thinking that it doesnt relly deserve to be called a book.
Well, that's easy; "enough" rhymes with trough, through, cough, although, and through. ;)
Some people, though very few, can become native English speakers on their own. The people that can divide into two distinct camps, musicians and heavy movie watchers (English movies of course).

Musicians by training are talented listeners and heavy movie watchers, whether talented listeners are not, get exposed to so much real sounding English that they can't help but to learn it subconsciously if in no other way.

Typical adult listeners no longer here sounds as they are but map sounds of foreign languages into the sounds their brain already knows. This lack of accuracy in listening is the primary impediment to become fluent in a language.
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$2.7 billion is just the cost of doing business to Google. They had $32 billion in revenue last quarter.
Why? Having insight into website traffic is hugely valuable to webmasters.
Sometime it just doesn't fit, but what you're describing is what often happens if the organization is not listening. Sure, some people charge in and exclaim everything sucks in their first week, but if the org isn't accepting objective improvement sometimes it's better to just run instead of fighting windmills.
There are Tor exit nodes which monitor traffic see:

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-...
Writing a recursive ascent parser by hand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> Corporate culture changes a lot in 10 years ...

Not at Facebook, apparently.
What if a site simply made available direct access to download all raw data related to a session / user account that had been stored? And of course attempt to describe / explain each data point. Would this be sufficient to meet the GDPR guidelines? I have only limited exposure to this legislation so far, but want to learn more. I have no reservations to share all data stored to a visitor, and would probably opt to do this if it covers you instead of painstakingly going through each data point to evaluate what needs to be done.

Give the user complete access to the raw data and give them the opportunity to delete all records of that data if they choose to.
Where are the sources that prove Zuckerberg illegally accessed someone’s email? Did I skim over them in the article?
DNS Lookup has its own protocol that doesn't work with https. If you send an https request to a DNS server, even if you include all the other parameters required for a DNS lookup, you won't get back a usable response (unless the server has been setup to proxy DNS requests over https, but this comes at a speed cost and increases your server overhead, so it is very uncommon - I've never heard of this happening. edit: apparently 1.1.1.1 supports this)

+1 for asking, though. Nothing wrong with trying to learn more about something you know very little about. Not sure why others are downvoting you.
OP wouldn't even need to buy a cheap laptop until the 2012 MacBook dies.

If you need to work in 2+ locations, a mini PC that goes in your backpack might also do the trick. Slightly cheaper than a laptop, more ports, more likely to have great Linux support. I used to carry a Mac Mini around for client work, wasn't bad at all.
How about Hungary 2020? Poland 2022?

Strong emphasis that I'm not equating those to your examples. Rather, pointing out that even a subtle version of undesirable or extreme politics can lead to a similar concern.

Given the wild political swing going on in about half of Europe, it's a legitimate concern today, no need to look back 80 years. Not to mention persistently growing censorship and criminalization of speech in more liberal countries such as France.
This article focuses very one-sidedly on the consent aspect but this is not the whole story. The basic principle behind GDPR is not "getting consent" it is "if you want to collect or process data you need a justification" [1]. The justification should and will be in most cases some other law or regulation. Only if you can't find that justification elsewhere you will need to get consent.

A good example for this is the Cookie under GDPR. The original plan was for both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Regulation [2] (not to be confused with the ePrivacy Direcive) to come into effect on 25 May 2018. The ePrivacy Regulation would have had given the justification for using analytics Cookies without consent. Now that ePrivacy Regulation is delayed some argue that national laws can provide that justification until we have a EU-Regulation.

[1]

>In order for processing to be lawful, personal data should be processed on the basis of the consent of the data subject concerned or some other legitimate basis, laid down by law, either in this Regulation or in other Union or Member State law [..]

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=146243980...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_(European_...
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