skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surrounded by fancy machines but the X220 just keeps on finding an excuse to be used. I would say I use it more than any other machine.

The thing has a soul. I love it.

I took > 20,000 photos today from a cessna using it's inbuilt ethernet port and four machine vision cameras. When you're paying for aircraft time and are bumping around a bit, having that thing on your lap makes you feel like you have a good wing man.
Me too! YT Kids sucks in blacklisting and I don’t understand why can’t the parents whitelist some channels.
One problem with the 13" XPS is that 16GB configuration without a 4K+touchscreen display is only available in some countries (Europe, Hong Kong, ...?) I've been looking to get one (new macbook pro keyoard keeps breaking), but the buying experience has been pretty bad where I am.

I'll be in Japan later this month, and I'll probably buy an HP Envy. The XPS doesn't come in the aforementioned configuration and the Carbon X is considerably more expensive (and I can't make heads or tail of their Japanese site).

(portability is pretty important to me).
I built PC for $1000 which is much more powerful than my 2012 MBP and enjoying it so far. I plan to upgrade it few years later and keep using it for years. For notebook I considered Dell Latitude 5x series and probably would buy it if I needed notebook, but for me desktop is superior option, I work from one place.
People assuming C is a big byte array is one of the most common source of difficult to debug bugs. People write code assuming they can manipulate bits and bytes here and there using pointer arithmetic because "they know" that this offset into an array will align with this member of that type. Then they come crying that the compiler is broken and change their optimizer setting to -O0 ....

I still like your analogy, as when things are down executing it is as you say just on big byte array, you should never try to map this array to the language manually though.
RSS is the core of my Reddit alternative. Still improving performance though http://handlr.sapico.me/Home/Newest

I currently use it for personal bookmarking and posting stories to HN.

It's based on tags, eg. http://handlr.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=artificial-intellige...

Ps. Performance is slow on the main page for sorting calculated columns ( eg. The Algorithm ), that's why I linked to the newest page
Check out the xioami notebook pro great specs and price with macbook like build quality. i hear you can even run hackintosh on it. I have the xiaomi notebook 12 running ubuntu and its great!
Eh, shouldn't be

"actually-doesn't-trap-you-upside-down-submerged-in-the-river"?
I seriously couldn't get past the first full page. Someone needed to give me an idea of what his treatment was. I love that he's old and still doing something. The comments here tell me it's somehow using heart attacks to treat strokes, but this thing had so much crap before giving me a detail I could process.

I hope he saves more people and lives to 120, but yeah, summary... or at least slightly better writing.
Show HN: Realtime Web Analytics?
I’m in the same situation here.
..and it's reassuring me of the safety of aviation.
Geez I miss my old 17" Macbook Pro! Ok, it was a bulky form factor, but it was ideal size for me to do both my programming work as well as audio recording work on it.

It still works, but it is maxed out at 8GB RAM, and struggled to run most modern software, including Logic Pro X with all my usual plugins. I wish Apple would bring out a 17" Macbook Pro again in the future.
This means everywhere uphill from this creek can't be assigned to a watershed, or we can't model watersheds as a tree. My guess is water modeling software can't handle this situation.

(Cases where an elegant model covers almost everything but not quite are frustratingly common.)
I went through this last year.

I looked at Macbook Pro, Dell XPS15 and Thinkpad T470P.

In the end I went for the T470P (i7-7700HQ (4 core/8 thread) w/ 2560x1440 screen, 16GB of RAM (upgraded myself to 32GB)) and the bigger battery (pretty much no optional with a 35W TDP processor).

I tried the XPS15 but the keyboard was bad and the fit and finish wasn't awesome.

I've had zero issues with linux support or the machine generally, build quality is excellent, I personally like the styling but many don't.

It's so fast that I held off building a new desktop (and packed the old one away) and battery life is very good if you aren't maxing out the CPU, I've had over 8 hours of actual work time, screen is good, sharp and decently bright.

In the UK it came with a three year warranty as standard vs 1yr for the Dell.

It was also 300 quid cheaper than the Dell.

I ruled out the Macbook Pro on price and the fact I couldn't put 32GB of RAM into it.

At work I have a Ryzen 1700 with 32GB RAM and a SATA SSD, Intellij with a bunch of plugins loads faster on my thinkpad than that machine (NVMe SSD vs SATA SSD basically, the Ryzen should demolish any laptop processor with threaded code).

It's a solid little machine.

The new higher core count lower TDP intel processors look interesting, I suspect the T480P (if they do one) will have those, 35W TDP is a lot compared to 15W, I suspect that the 7700HQ will still beat them handily and extreme battery life wasn't an issue for me, anything over 5 hours is fine I'm never away from AC for longer than that.
It's not really misleading, the index never pretended to adjust your assets for the local cost of living.

It also matters in a real sense. Who do you think is better off in absolute terms? Someone who owns a paid-off 200m^2 apartment in London, or someone with the same size apartment in whatever dirt-poor country you could name?

The person with the apartment in London could sell it and move to a cheaper country (or even a small town in the UK) and be relatively wealthy, but the reverse isn't true.

You're not poor in any meaningful sense compared to the rest of humanity just because you're struggling to pay off your monthly rent on your penthouse in Times Square.
On macOS there's also textutil, a pre-installed utility for working with text in different formats. Manpage: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...
A Stroll Through the Minefields – Surviving the Startup “Ramp Up”
System76 is definitely on my watch list. After using a Dell XPS with, what they call an infinity edge display (means, very thin bezels, hence a 15 inch display in a <14 inch case) and 4K resolution, I'm afraid I couldn't go "back" though :o
I don't think China considers it as bad press. In fact, anything that shows that China as a strong country is what China want and doing the thing that foreigners approve is a second priority.
Go for Dell Latitude E74X0. I use an i5 E7470 with my mods and can highly recommend it. The price is fair.
I have had an XPS13 for the last three years, running Linux. Absolutely love it. At home, it is hooked up to a 27" 4k monitor. While travelling, it is very light and has reasonable battery life. The only limitation is the fixed 8GB RAM (note: the 2018 XPS13 has a 16GB model).

As the new 2018 XPS15 was announced 5 days ago [1], I'll probably trade up now to get the Nvidia GTX1050 GPU and RAM user-upgradable to 32GB.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/reviews/dell-xps-15-2018
That is a huge positive aspect. Whenever anyone I know laments an air crash somewhere in the world, I just say to them "Right now, there are over 1 million people airborne, and who will arrive at their destination safely. The same will happen in 10 minutes, in an hour, in 6 hours, and tomorrow".
Norway is in an ideal position; a surplus from oil money and excessive access to hydro power. I would hope they can use their current oil prosperity to prepare for a hydro (and other green energy) powered future, in all kinds of new places.

After I typed that I realized that the whole world could be said to be in oil prosperity still, so the same applies to us all: with less evenly distributed oil prosperity, and not every species of green energy available everywhere.
Even if we are to take that for granted, which I don't think we should with software patents because many companies and developers could invent the same feature in parallel independent of each other, and I don't think it's fair for just one to get a 20 year monopoly, I do still think that the longevity of the patent should be granted based on the difficulty to implement of the invention.

Something as easy to implement as a read-receipt shouldn't receive a 20 year monopoly, because there are like a million other features like it that could also receive a 20 year patent monopoly, and then we get into this situation where rent-seeking even from companies that didn't invent the thing in the first place, get to sue others for "copying them" (but again, could have been independently developed).

If there are a million patents on stuff like read-receipt it also doesn't help innovation, but hurts it. The big companies will acquire as many of those patents as possible and then crush the newcomers.

The first reason this doesn't happen as often as it should based on how many useless patents are out there, is because most companies aren't assholes and don't enforce their patents against others.

The second reason is because most companies don't waste time looking at all the other companies' code and patents to see if they can sue them for infringement. Only a certain class of companies do that.

The third reason is that among the big established players that somehow avoided getting crushed in the early days because enforcement of patent infringement couldn't be perfect, there is a certain "mutual destruction agreement", so even if they infringe on ton of each other's patents, they can't practically sue each other, because it would be pointless, most of the time. However, this mutual destruction agreement was never supposed to be part of the patent system, it's just the natural outcome of a broken system that grants patents for everything.

I think it was Bloomberg that had an article once saying that there are like 250,000 patents for building a smartphone. If everyone wanted even 1 cent for each of those patents, and the enforcement would be 100% perfect, the smartphone would never even be invented (as an aggregation of all of those patents).
I delayed moving away for literally years for this reason, but in 2016 I finally made the jump to fastmail and it was much smoother than I thought it would be. I don’t get any more spam than I did with gmail. I still forward my gmail to my fastmail but typically when I get a forwarded mail I either cancel whatever subscription it is or update it’s email settings, so I get rather little forwarded now.
I switched from MBP after 10 years to a Dell Developer edetion. Ended up replacing Ubuntu with Mint but after a little over a year I can tell you I’m never going back.

There is an acclimation period, but it will pass.
Is there a playlist of channels? Or a playlist of playlists? my kid love the idea that she is deciding which video she sees and apparently she prefers the creepy channels.

If there is a way to create that whitelisting I would happily pay. If there was a Foss alternative I would happily join.
The exclusivity of BBM was one of the big selling points for blackberries. That and their integration with corporate IT infrastructures. For a while that worked really well, and BBM was the reason to buy a blackberry after the keyboards and the security features.

I recall at the time there was huge demand from executives to have IT support their iphones. Once the path had been found for that to happen, others followed.

The other major thing that reduced the advantage that BBM gave RIM was that SMS costs reduced drastically in price, with many even lower-end contracts moving to unlimited SMS as mobile data and MMS became the new means of extorting customers. As such, the cost of BBM being exclusive to blackberry was no longer offset by the benefits it gave.

It's worth noting that one of the other things that the blackberry gave us was probably the first example of widespread mobile zero rating. I recall if you bought a blackberry on some contracts, your BBM data usage was unmetered.

Both of the features in the patent claim are obvious or there is prior art.

Density maps have been used for a long time. Weather maps are a great example of this where they are often used to show rain probability or cloud density.

It just seems we have just moved from x on a computer patents to x on a mobile device patents.
I wonder how navigable it is - you are paddling up a mountain; I imagine there’s a few spots you’ll need to carry the boat around rapids/falls.
Yeah, I have it. Linux works great, except the function key layer and stereo sound on the built-in speakers due to the unusual audio chipset.

Performance is fantastic, the keyboard is passable, the screen looks beautiful, and build quality seems on par with my 2010 MacBook pro, and definitely better than my Lenovo Thinkpad.
Appeal to legality. Get an argument or get out.
Ask HN: How to download, archive and search your favorites in your own library
I want to remember as much as possible as quickly as possible. One of the ways I remember stuff is to save amazing articles I read as favorites. The idea is, if I need to refresh that knowledge I go to that article.

There are two issues:
1. I don't have a local copy.
2. There are too many good educational resources / articles that I read.

Solving 1 is doable. But how do I solve 2? I have so many things on security, math and other stuff that I read or saw throughout the years that I don't even remember what I have.

My idea to counter this is to create a personal search engine. A mindmap might work as well. I'm not fully sure what the best approach is, but to create a personal search engine would be handy anyway.

So I was wondering, does anyone know about an app that is able to save your favorites in such a way that it also downloads it to a computer and adds it to a local search engine that you also have running on your computer?

And my second more broad question is: how would you solve this problem in general?
How about the touch pad? Is there any non Apple laptop where the touch pad works as well in Linux as the mbpro's in OS X?

I'm spoiled and use my mbpro without a mouse ... because I can. I'd like to switch away from Apple when I need a new laptop because of the emoji keyboard. But I'd also like to keep using the laptop without a mouse. Is that possible these days?
Let’s note p(h) the productivity a person gets in a day when she works h hours. And let’s assume she works the same amount of hours every day.

p(0) is 0, and p(24) is almost 0 because except the initial productive hours, she won’t be able to produce anything since she can’t sleep, eat, etc and won’t be physically able to work.
Also p(1) is positive.

When plotting the function p, it starts at 0h, increases then decreases until it reaches 0 again at 24h.

This means that there is an optimal value H where p(H) is at its peak.

With the plot of p(h) in mind, let’s note h0 the amount of hours you currently work. Also let’s assume h0 > H, which is the case described in the article.

This means two things. First p(h0) < p(H). Second, there is h1 < H where p(h1) = p(h0) (try drawing an horizontal line that passes through p(h0) and you will see that is traverses the plot in another point).

So yes, if you work more than the optimal amount of hours per day, you can be more productive if you work less hours, unless you reduce the amount of hours to less than h1.

The ideal is to try to track your productivity and find the sweet spot for you.

Also, unless you are superhuman, don’t work 20 hours a day.

Finally, please note that this is a simplified model and things are more complicated in real life (work-life balance, kids, commuting, deadlines, ...)
Of course not, there are several examples of democratically elected governments overthrown and replaced with brutal dictators, Tuskegee, MKUltra, COINTELPRO, Iran Contra, Dark Alliance. But most of these fuckups were illegal - or at least not officially sanctioned. That changed with 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Until then the US never publicly sanctioned torture and kidnapping of individuals.
For what it's worth, if we define Rsql as the following script:

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
library(sqldf, quietly=TRUE)
statement <- commandArgs(TRUE)
a <- read.table(file("stdin"), header=TRUE)
print(sqldf(statement))

then we can call

ps -Ao user | Rsql 'select USER, count(*) as nprocesses from a group by USER limit 5'

to get the output

USER nprocesses
1 avahi 2
2 colord 1
3 daemon 1
4 marcle 136
5 messagebus 1
Thanks! About fitting into memory; the way the library currently works should technically work even on very big files, as the XML is iteratively converted into a SQL database. You can choose whether you want that database to be in a file or in memory. The only thing that could break right now is synchronizing back to XML after having made changes with UPDATE or INSERT statements, because I'm not paging results.
Zuckerberg called trusting users dumb f*cks
I have last year's Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Excellent Linux support (great battery life, everything works out of the box except for the fingerprint reader) and a fantastic machine. Screen is good, it's quite a bit lighter than a MacBook Pro 13" and has a good selection of ports (2 x TB-3/USB-C, 2 x USB-A, full-size HDMI). But I can't judge if it meets OP's performance requirements (it is somewhat thermally limited due to the small form factor and thinness), maybe check out the T480 / T480s instead if you need more power.

One of my colleagues has a two-year old XPS13 and is very happy with it, too. I think they're both great choices.
Given the right technology, maybe we will!
Py2sms for sending sms in India using python3
Good on them for finding something people want.

However, you're not supposed to be able to protect that knowledge with a patent. If I start making cheeseburgers where the buns are replaced by croissants, and it turns out to be so compelling that a billion people are hooked on it, should that be something that can be protected?

No, of course not. We want many entrepreneurs to be able to make these burgers so that everyone can have them at a sensible price, in whatever varieties are popular, and where and whenever they are in demand. Allowing one entity to have control over this "discovery" (cheeseburger + croissant = heaven) will mean that consumers cannot have any of those things until the discoverer has built up the business empire required.
Does anyone know of good options with 32gb of ram? I have been happy with my 2 different dell xps machines and ubuntu, but everything still maxes out at 16gb ram.
It would be interesting to see a survey what wheels the HN audience rides.
Leave a star on the repo if you liked it :)
Why can't the parents decide if the curation is good enough? Why is a complete hard lockout with no choice "understandable"?
That is what I always say! Teslas, for example, are not becoming so popular because their owners are all environmentalists. They got so popular because they are extremely fun to drive and save on fuel a lot while not restricting their owner in range. I for example, recently reserved a Model 3, but I would not stop flying. But I would choose the airline that first provides me with a calmer and less smelly airplane any time. Ä
Code review as a service
IIRC TFA says some pilots are seeking whistleblower protection now.

The helicopter pilot community is so small they were afraid of getting blacklisted.

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The company is gonna get sued out of existence. The NYT report made them look super shady.
For that matter, there are plenty of people in the US that feel news like this about the US is fine because we're "obviously superior", etc. I'm guessing most countries have a large population of their residents that simply accept whatever their country does as their right, somehow.
Likewise, Chromium on Linux. Search box appears when I try to scroll with the down-arrow key.
unoconv too, for the office formats.
This is the death rattle of a dying company.
>"In TLS up to 1.2 straight RSA is an option"

Indeed, although straight RSA encryption fell out of favor some time ago. I see your original point now. Cheers.
No. For office formats there's unoconv

https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv
These meeting notes are somewhere in the middle of microfilms mentioned in this PDF:
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/decade...

I hope, this will help you to find them. As far as I remember, You should nail for meetings at beginning of 1918, so search area will be small.
It's indeed somewhat interesting. The casual talk of the employees were like it came from a Tarantino movie.

I still don't get why it clicks with this audience other than there's some social justice to be served and it's about a luxury car brand.

Or maybe it's because it's a cool "lifehack" to use surveillance to your benefit finally.
"Non-algorithmic"? It seems like the word algorithm is being bleached to the point of meaningless. I even saw a social media type service (I forget what) advertise it's self as having "no algorithms".

Feels a bit like people being scared of "chemicals in their food".

I hope we don't get to the point where "algorithm" has only a narrow popular denotation and only negative connotation.
Pentagon and Darpa Seek Predictive A.I. To Uncover Enemy Thoughts
Just like TV and movie studios are behaving toward Netflix.
Very satisfied with my work Dell XPS 15, model 9560. My colleagues mostly use MBPs, and I always feel sorry for them if I have to use the latest model's keyboard. The XPS's build is rigid and it's possible to work full day with the integrated keyboard. Only downside is my model does not have the touch screen, which could be helpful if you need to run Android emulator on the laptop (as opposed to deploying to a real phone).

I am an Android developer myself and have to use Windows for corporate reasons, but with WSL the developer experience is very similar to Linux. I can see that Dell XPS 15, model 9560 with 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD retails for 2100 EUR in my country. You can later expand it to 32 GB of RAM, as there is a free expansion RAM slot (nothing is enough for Gradle ...)
Using email for 30 years and TIL that dot's don't matter.
I would recommend the Razor blade stealth(late 2017 edition). Price is good and build quality is awesome. Touchscreen is a plus.
If you use Ubuntu then try to install Ubuntu 16 or later.
Drivers: https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer
Another thing to consider is the battery life. This is the weak point of this laptop.
Review by Linus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TyUSf7og&t=210s
> Every player has every activity information using blockchain. It helps Nekoyume decentralized.

It helps how exactly? Why nothing else, like distributed hash table or
gossip protocol, would work?
Wow, that was fascinating. For anyone else wanting to read the article, I would recommend looking at this non-labelled image first, and choosing which shape you would call Bouba and which you would call Kiki:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Booba-Ki...

If you read the Wikipedia article first, you'll bias your own result on the test / experiment.

Also an interesting footnote at the end of that article:

"Individuals who have autism do not show as strong a preference. Individuals without autism agree with the standard result 88% of the time, while individuals with autism agree only 56% of the time."
Andrew Chen's learnings from 10 years of blogging http://andrewchen.co/professional-blogging/
I agree Zen was pretty over rated and oversold to me.