skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the "big 5" would score higher if they weren't qualified for the finals by default. That way their songs would get a lot more exposure and become more familiar to the voters. Usually, people like best what they know.
this is tangentially related but what are mozilla's plans for autoplay in Firefox?

Chrome just effectively broke net neutrality in Chrome by whitelisting a bunch of websites. They claim chrome will learn your preferences and auto-magically whitelist others sites you run videos on but that hardly seems fair. Why did the other sites not have to pass that hurdle? Worse, it only works if you're logged in where as whitelisted sites work always. Use a public computer or an incognito window and non-whitelisted sites stop autoplaying.

Consider youtubecompetitor.com trying to autoplay videos like youtube. Users have a bad experience because the videos don't autoplay so they are unlikely to ever do as well as youtube.

Isn't that exactly the kind of thing that net neutrality is trying to avoid, picking winners and losers. I want to make youtubecompetitor.com do I now have to pay off Chrome (and Firefox, and Safari, and Edge) to get them to whitelist my site for autoplay? Why does youtube get a pass? Similarly if Firefox doesn't use a whitelist then users will have a worse experience on may sites vs chrome so there's certainly an incentive for Firefox to use the same or similar whitelist to Google.

I don't know what the best solution would be. Off the top of my head I'd prefer browser disallow autoplay by default and let me manually give sites permission to autoplay via a butterbar or other prompt "Can this site autoplay? Yes/No". One click and youtube gets whitelisted. One click and youtubecompetitor gets whitelisted. That seems far more "neutral"

In any case I'm curious what Mozilla's response is to Chrome's whitelisting winners.
Eh, it may be a myth that that the financial effect of the reparations led to the war, but what about their effects on public opinion? It doesn't seem surprising that heavy reparations might make it easier for populist leaders to win elections.

I know this is a sort of twisted morality, like not punishing a bully because he might beat you up, but as many have discovered, the moral high ground is not a shield.
In OPs defence: if they work in one of the main tech hubs then pretty much all they will likely see people using is MacBooks. I guess a better way to have phrased the question is “do development on a laptop with a cloud based operating system rather than a traditional OS”
https://usesthis.com/interviews/junio.c.hamano/ works for this guy but I guess he uses the terminal :)
It's a challenge to understand what information is leaking to Google when using ChromeOS and its cloud-first, always-logged-in design. As developers, we have a responsibility to our clients to keep their secrets.

Many clients may not care -- imagine how much sensitive business data Slack has! But I'd want to make sure that my usage of ChromeOS was compatible with the client's policies, compared with a laptop running one of the more traditional self-contained operating systems.
Yes. Most of the time, all you need is a basic computer and internet to SSH into a more powerful VM in the cloud. I don't host my dev stack on my computer so local computing power is mute. It's strange but a celeron chromebook is all I need.

When I travel, I don't take my heavy Macbook Pro. I take my old Acer C720 because it has Bash, a Cloud IDE, and everything I need to code. Just in case I need to do more, I have KDE on chroot for when I need more tools.
Why thousands of AI researchers will boycott a science journal
I use a 12” MacBook and find it almost fully suitable for all development. Even with VMs and Docker containers, it’s great, but if anything misbehaves and gets it running too hot it can get sluggish. It’s unable to recover on its own because it has no fan.

MacBook Pros can keep going even with CPU-abusive software. I don’t want to carry the extra weight so I choose the trade-off.

But a Chromebook? I don’t understand the fascination with trying to develop on a more challenging dev platform that offers seemingly no advantage in terms of performance, mobility, price, or ergonomics.
> However, the perverse situation that can (and does!) occur is when people don’t know what they don’t know. In being naive, in not doing the above analysis, in making a quick decision, and in choosing to “use your gut” and make a decision, you limit your options. You loose the opportunity to address weaknesses in your knowledge.

As an interesting aside: "Not knowing what you don't know" is known as second order ignorance or the Dunning-Kruger affect [1]. The "orders of ignorance" beyond this one stage are quite interesting when analysing how we learn. Andy Hunt describes this in great detail in "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning".

I have always suspected it's possible to reduce your propensity for 2nd order ignorance through more varied learning. For financial decision making I can imagine this as a key meta skill where you must identify unknowns quickly and accurately and be able to intuit their potential impact... as each decision can appear to have very little in common to previously encountered ones such that knowledge accumulation alone does not result in significant accumulation of skill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The problem with trotting out the Banqiao Dam as proof of the dangers of hydroelectric is that it was a dual-purpose dam built to prevent downstream flooding as well as providing power, and it failed due to mismanagement of the flood control aspect. So even if nuclear power had existed at the time, and even if the idea of building a nuclear power plant with the same quality of engineering used in the dam wasn't a utterly terrifying idea that would make Chernobyl look safe, not using hydroelectic power wouldn't have solved the problem. The dam would still have been built and those hundred thousand people would still have died due to dam failure, all that would changed is that nuclear proponents couldn't point to their deaths as proof nuclear is the safer option.
Fantastic talk, the best explanation of Quantum Computers I've seen to date.
The effects of partisanship are hugely outweighed by the fact that each country gives points to 10 others, not just one. An extreme case of both the 10 and 12 points going to non-deserving neighbours still leaves 36 points to go elsewhere.
I would strongly disagree with "coherence should not make no difference to the argument". This is exactly what we mean when we say "a coherence length of X um" - you take all the spectral components and correlate them with their future selves and then look at something akin to average correlation.

Therefore the "coherence answer" is exactly and precisely the correct one. What you are doing is simply explaining it with different words. "The lack of coherence" of the wave as a whole is THE argument.

What your explanation is doing is applying a narrow wavelength filter and evaluating the conditions for each \Delta\lambda, which is absolutely a valid approach, but it is the same thing. Overall I like your explanation very much, but please be careful about statements like "not really the answer, at least not directly" as they only point at a misunderstanding of the coherence explanation.
> we recruited a head of growth quickly, but couldn’t close a designer or another engineer.

A company with two employees recruiting a head of growth while there is noone to do any of the work that needs to be done.
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I don’t really think it’s true.
Haskell was released one year before Python.
My Python IDE handles all the "rename a function" burden for me.
Yes! Added advantages that it skips ads, and has keyboard control for all sorts of things that are sometimes useful depending on what you're watching or listening to: playback speed, A-B loop repeat, adjust brightness / hue, pause, frame advance, take screenshot etc.
Are you talking about the threat of Google getting hacked? Because otherwise ChromeOS seems considerably more secure than OS X or Windows
If you don't want to buy a MacBook (nor, I presume, a laptop with Windows preinstalled), do yourself a favor and get an Ubuntu machine from Dell or System76.
You should not pass out, and the mail/email can be easily unsubscribed from.
You're making salient points, but it's being undermined by grammatical errors.
A few Christians like John Brown were abolitionists. Others, considerably more, were supporters of slavery on the grounds that the Bible seemed to have no problem with it. The whole split between Northern and Southern Baptists was a result.
They're posited as a fudge factor -because- the quantum mechanics is not understood.
Except that for countries with lots of neighbours, they're likely to consistently receive 10 or 12 points.

Sure, other countries will also receive points, but far fewer, and therefore they are at a disadvantage.
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Reminds me of this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16618385
Fasting in mice doubles metabolism
Try Mercury Reader, which can see through this and several other paywalls (and does a great job of cleaning up cluttered sites).
For the effect the phase difference is the thing which matters. However, the wave reflected from the back and the wave reflected from the front run through different path length (twice the thickness). For the effect to work the waves need to be in phase along that distance which is a few µm for sunlight (look up coherence length).

The different wavalengths make only up for color. Some wavelength will have destructive interference and go missing. As the eye is quite sensitive to that you will see a colored surface, whichs color changes with view angle (as different wavelengths will cancel for different angles).
@cesidio that greatly depends what 'development' means for you. I mean, if it means developing iOS apps then you probably still have all the trouble which you have when you are trying to develop anything for the Apple ecosystem without being part of it. For the Microsoft ecosystem it looks the same.

But if development means to do web development you are just fine, as Linux is the best platform for that anyway. Other things, like resource intensive stuff (e.g. C compiling) might still be too much to do it comfortably on a Chromebook.
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I think a lot of people's brains throw an exception on the title, as you can see in replies. There is no point where he calls for reparations!

People just won't click through, give it a skim, and see he's only giving an extensive history and suggesting a study to identify and (if needed) correct lingering effects of slavery and ongoing effects of racism. I learned so much about the past and present of racism back when it was published.
I do 'serious' development on a Chromebook, and a very low-spec one at that (Acer Chromebook 11, with an 11" screen and 2GB of ram). What's more, I do development in user mode rather than developer mode, without using Crostini. The thing is, very little of what I'm doing actually runs on the Chromebook itself. I use Codepen.io (which is awesome) for a lot of front-end dev work, which does SASS, Babel, etc on a remote server for me. I use Codenvy to do more complex things, again on a remote server. I do some Node and Python on the machine itself (using Termux), but that's very light-weight in terms of resources. It's still proper development though. The things I make end up on servers being used by thousands of people.

I'd do frontend things on the machine itself if Chrome let me access localhost, but it doesn't. (Weirdly, Firefox for Android does, but that doesn't have any dev tools).

The problem with asking whether Chromebooks are ready for 'serious' development is that development is a huge topic that covers everything from editing a config file in VIM to building a UI in XCode. You can't answer a yes or no to a question like that.

tl;dr It's great but I wouldn't want to run Android Studio on it? My iMac struggles with that...
In my experience, most people only watch the final, so I'm not sure that would make a major difference. And of course, considering how poorly the Big Five perform, it's likely they won't even make it into the final!

It would be interesting to see the results of such an experiment, though.
Non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/ojbuw
SIMD Processors (ETH Zürich, Spring 2018)
http://archive.is/ojbuw
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How Posture Makes Us Human
Alternatively, we were already hard on drug addicts and it was reflection of the time. Fast-forward to present day, we've been steadily shifting towards a more reasonable approach towards drugs, slowly but surely.

The only time there is a more "reasonable" approach is when it is happening in the burbs with prescription pills and "rural" areas. They are still more than willing to lock up "inner city thugs".
That's what I'm wondering - the books were great but the show felt low budget and rushed, and the VFX were nowhere near as convincing as GOT. I know others loved the show but I'm shocked to hear it was so expensive
Statistically, you would expect them to score higher if that was the case, because it would no longer allow them to be worse than the worst song to qualify.
You can use Termux on a Chromebook to run Linux already and develop. See termux.com and https://medium.com/digitalcrafts/exiting-vim-on-a-touch-scre...

This is without going into dev too. You just need to enable android on your chromebook.
The focus would not be on the damages suffered by those who are dead, but the residual effect on those who are alive. You don’t need to pick an arbitrary time scale, you can just look to the magnitude of the residual effect (which will attenuate over time). Right now, about two generations after the end of legal segregation, blacks make 1/3 less per capita income on average than the national average. So it seems like the residual damage is still very strong.
NASA plans to send mini-helicopter to Mars
Is publishing Kafka's books GDPR compliant?
There's a morbid joke that "International Figure Skating is a team sport, played by judges."

Perhaps it isn't popular in spite of the collusion, but because of it.
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I'm not sure what the EU has to do with anything or why EU countries should be different from any of the other competing countries.

I suppose the "partisanship" can be interesting to observe, but considering all the hard work each of the acts have to do I feel it's a shame that they are judged mainly on geographical and political factors rather than on their musical ability and performance.
Chrome != The Net. Huge difference here. People have a choice when it comes to browser, social network, news, search engine, ecommerce... As long as what's coming down the pipe is equal. Net neutrality is about the pipe, which is a layer above Chrome.
The scientific case for including two spaces after a period
I'm doing all my development on a HP Chromebook 13 G1. While the CPU is low-powered, and I since ditched the ChromeOS for a custom Linux, it's a fairly capable machine, and very cheap for what it offers.

My recent 1-year review is on https://llogiq.github.io/2018/03/02/chromebook.html
I doubt it. I don't get why people keep thinking again and again that even the most basic things humans do are entirely new never-before-seen innovations. There are animals with built-in birth control (sex, but no pregnancy unless the female "enables" it), and I doubt condoms are half as effective as that. Nature has experimented a LOT with every form of procreation you could possibly come up with. It seems to me very unlikely that something as stupid as condoms are going to catch it off guard. You wouldn't see the second part of the S-curve unless there was at least statistical birth control (ie. that individuals in those species controlled at least the odds of offspring).
There's a few options already, I've written about this exact question:

https://headmelted.com/coding-on-a-chromebook-84335cce96c8

This doesn't take in Crostini, which I'll be following up on - and I intend to rework the VS Code builds and scripts for ARM to use Crostini instead of Crouton, but everything discussed is still pretty much the state of play.

I still think it's worth the extra couple of steps by far, but that's because I just don't have time in my life anymore for all the hassle Chrome OS saves me from.
I'm so conflicted about my favorite development machine. I use Windows/HP laptop at work, but I own a Mac at home. I love them both equally it feels like. Windows seems to have universally more tooling available for download, while the Mac just feels smoother and has nice tooling built-in (such as access to a decent terminal from the start).
Would you say the same thing about actual elections? Should billionairres be allowed to buy millions of votes because they care more? Should nations buy votes as a from of propaganda?
To make it cost-effective, you need a height advantage and a "natural" container. The ideal sites are mountaintop lakes. It's a fairly rare topography.
Looks like paywalls become more blatant
It was never well established the black community asked for harsh punishment. That was only dreamed up by right wing media to justify continued racist criminal justice policies. If someone asks for a glass of water you don’t strap them into a chair, waterboard them, and then say “it’s what you asked for.”

The black community asked for basic policing to be done. What they got was mandatory minimum, 3-strikes laws, escalated drug charges, and stop and frisk.

Those long active activists have got it exactly right. Only conservative media and politicians have created a new narrative of unintended consequences because of how obviously racist their racist policies were being seen.
That's exactly the point of Eurovision. Eurovision is harmless entertainment where people can participate and play the game any way they want. You can make political or cultural points by voting, or create fads and feuds, show solidarity etc.

A Finnish horror rock band wearing masks won because people found it funny to rebel against typical second rate pop from second rate stars.

Bearded man in drag won because people realized that they could trigger homophobes.

Ukraine won 2004, the same year as there was the Orange revolution in Ukraine.

Ukraine won again 2016. Maybe it had something to do with the War in Donbass.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2018/05/on-behalf-of...

"Is it ever okay to sell the rights to your work?

Milton Glaser was paid about $2,000 in expenses to create the I Love NY logo, one of the iconic marketing images of its decade. He later said, "I was very happy to do it. I was very happy about the consequences.”

Carolyn Davidson originally made $35 for designing the swoosh that Nike made famous."
Ask HN: Can you share your OPML file with me (anonymously)?
Hi HN! I'm working on an app that heavily relies on RSS/Atom feeds and since there's so much variation in feed formats, a bigger sample of URLs would really help me cover more use cases.

I'd really appreciate your help with this. If you're willing to share your OPML file with me, you can upload it here anonymously: https://www.dropbox.com/request/ZVFCqbJQH93dNvnXiEdR

(Dropbox will ask you for name & email - feel free to put fake info there)

Thanks a lot!

BTW: Which apps do you use to read RSS feeds? Do you still use RSS at all?
The original rationale for whether something belongs on HN was "anything that provokes the submitter's intellectual curiosity." That skews towards tech, but all sorts of other things fit inside that "big tent" of ideas.
yes since the only real culture is the Anglo sphere culture
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That is a funny question, I've been writing code for 10 years and have used a variety of hardware. At no point has the host OS limited my productivity. I even used an old ThinkPad with a broken trackpad for a while during a particularly poor period of my life. Once you learn to use the terminal and stop being a GUIwarrior, you will have an easier life.
When you say that I miss the point, that usually means the true disagreement is over what we're talking about. Like I said, you're talking about the power of compound interest, economies of scale that encourage pooled investing, and other systemic effects. And you're not wrong.

What the OP was pointing out was that, there are people who understand money and people who don't, and that plays just as big a role as having wealth (see lottery ticket example cited in sister comment). I think I've demonstrated I understand your point; do you think you really understand that one?

Also,
> the most reliable and predictable way to become richer is through hard work

Do you know a more reliable and predictable way to become richer? It may not be fast and it may not be fair, but in a capitalist society, I believe it to be true.
ChromeOS encourages you to store files using Google Drive. There is the threat of Google being compromised, yes, even though they take security much more seriously than the average company. More likely, your own account can be hacked, since it's out there on the web and not all developers are security-minded, sadly. But there's also the concern that you can have your Google account shut down and it may be difficult to get it restored.

I would also like to better understand what profiling data Google collects during ordinary usage of ChromeOS. I'm not an expert on that subject and don't want to spread FUD, but when you're logged into the Chrome browser, Google finds out an awful lot about you through your web habits.
While I understand the reason for the name of the Black Lives Matter movement, I can also understand why this phrase would annoy some people. When you say something as obviously true as "black lives matter", it invites people to ask the question of who must be disagreeing with this statement that we have to keep repeating it. Clearly this statement was intended for American law enforcement and I think it is very unfair to assume that any law enforcement officer would disagree with this statement unless there is no other explanation for their behavior. Do some law enforcement officers feel more threatened by black men than white men: this seems very likely given the number of innocent and unarmed black men who have been shot by police in recent years. While this means some police officers have a racial bias, it does not mean they think black lives don't matter. These officers who have shot unarmed black men think they are in a threatening situation and use way more force than is warranted, for which I agree they should still be prosecuted. While there are seemingly two issues here (racial bias and overuse of force), neither of these issues have to have anything to do with anyone believing black lives don't matter.

Edit: of course I realize that another way to interpret the statement "black lives matter" is to see it as more of a slogan and a constant reminder to address the issue as opposed to an accusation that someone or some group of people thinks otherwise. The fact that this statement is open to alternative interpretations is a problem for this movement, though.
It's been perfectly possible to do real work on a Chromebook using web IDEs, Crouton or tools like Termux for some time now. Similarly, Linux on laptops has been perfectly viable for many many years. I ditched my MacOS experiment around a decade ago after getting fed up of the terrible package management story. Fink and macports were trying their best fair play. Better with brew these days but still not in the same realm as the native Linux package tools and repositories. Similarly if you're using containers the native story is just smoother.