skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting idea, but I think the main issue is whether a startup could get funded in the UK (or to be honest, most of Europe) the same way they can in Silicon Valley.

For example, the amount of money you can raise is often a lot less after here, with rounds being on the low side compared to the millions possible in the US. That means companies needing a decent amount of funding probably shouldn't be looking for investment in the UK, and should probably reconsider anyone in Europe in general.

They're also most hesitant to fund 'consumer' focused businesses over here compared to the US too. I remember asking where you could get investment for something like Facebook or Uber in the UK (after seeing that most entrepreneurs applying and accepted were running b2b companies), and basically being told that Techstars was probably the only viable option there. Seems like US accelerators and VCs are more likely to fund consumer focused businesses dependent on numbers and ad revenue compared to those in the UK, who prefer more of the Atlassian/Moz type approach (selling services to small companies).

But yeah, it's nice the route has been announced, just feels like we need more viable ways to raise money as well.
Umm, what? Works fine for me.
No sarcasm. I'm genuinely curious about it.
You gotta admit that most customers would take the former over the latter though. Less than 1% of their user-base needs a laptop with 128+GB of RAM.
ZTE has few cards left to play to avoid “death penalty”
> The world is too complicated to be reduced to a function.

I can only interpret this as a mystical claim...
I have a hypothesis, and desire feedback:

Software (including websites) is designed around the limits of “normal” hardware. Right now, that means phones and tablets. That hardware is less powerful than ‘proper’ computers, so any software designed for the average user’s hardware runs so easily on proper computers that there is almost no demand for significant CPU improvement. (GPU is another matter, and will remain so until “photorealistic graphics” stops being an exaggeration).

Yes, there is still the point that the same specs on paper can be bought much more cheaply without the Apple logo. This used to be a regular thing which flipped the other way around for a couple of months whenever Apple released new hardware.

That said, my hypothesis leads to a testable prediction: conventional computers will not improve until tablets and phones are as powerful as them.
Oh, that is great news. I have an XPS 13 (9350) and the whine is incredibly frustrating.
I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.

But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.

Two things that keep me in the Mac land.

1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio.
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.

XPS13's display is too rectangle and I'm not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.

I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.
Not necessarily. I used to get the newest model every other year. Following the discontinuation of the 17" laptop, I held onto that until it died, only then buying the newest MBA. On the desktop side, my Mac Pro is eight years old now, and it has long been upgraded as far as it can go. Sometimes I miss things like AirDrop from my phone, but I don't miss them enough to spend money on what is effectively a downgrade in usability. I'd love to upgrade and have no issues spending the money in theory, but I can't justify the expense for the current hardware.
does that affect MariaDB as well? That would only leave people to PostgreSQL or NoSQL Databases like MongoDB AFAIK. I've never been a fan of MySQL, but MariaDB always seemed to me like the spark of hope that was left in there.
The reason "experts" have such a bad reputation is that anyone who is a qualified expert in something has a more specific title relevant to their expertise, where their reputation can be judged: Scientist, Professor, Author, Pilot, CEO
Well said. Sales is of critical importance. I try to outsource anything that costs less than my own hourly rate.
I used to get a lot of throat infections when I was a kid and had the discussion with my doctor to whether I should get my tonsils removed. My doctor was heavily opposed.

recently, I've been having allergies and more throat issues and wished I would have got them taken out. Pretty glad I didn't now.
There's a fine interop story, I've used Rustler before. The problem is when Rust nightly is sufficiently broken that even the auto-generated Rustler boilerplate won't compile. :)
As the provision above states: "as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory."

A country could state simply: If we can't audit your code, you can't import, distribute, sell, or use it in our country. See: United States vs. ZTE for a hardware example.
He said potential growth. People see Amazon as a growth business.
Can you log in? If not then you're most likely looking at a cache.
I think it depends on the purpose of the project. If it's something that you actually want to finish soon, I think this is great advice. Having said that, there is nothing wrong with using a side project as a way to find out what the "best" way to do something is. I personally have an ongoing side project that I will likely never actually complete because I rewrite large parts of it every couple months, but I have learned a LOT about various design patterns, how best to structure code, etc, precisely because I use it primarily as a place to experiment with code. If you don't see the finished product as the end in and of itself, then I don't see anything wrong with that.
Is it (or DRM) safe over an SSH connection?
The trucks Steve Jobs was referring to are not pickup trucks, but the big things you see hauling freight on the highway.
Strongly typed meaning that Elixir/Erlang don't allow:

1 + "some string" + [A,List,Of,Somethings]

Compared to javascript where:

1 + "2" == "12"

Statically typed means that variables and functions hold or return specific types which can be determined before execution.
But then you have to use a PC.
It's pretty solid. You may have to roll something yourself for really esoteric APIs, but pretty much everything you probably want to use is supported already
As far as non-apple laptops go, XPS13 seems a solid choice but I think this Huawei would be my first choice now (look at that screen!) https://consumer.huawei.com/us/tablets/matebook-x-pro/
Which linux laptops would you recommend for an under 1000 Euro price point?
Make sure to install the Dell power management tools. Could be Placebo but I've noticed the whine significantly less with them installed.
Hell, let's just put the children in pods with feeding tubes. Then they won't require any labor.
Preview a bot on your site in seconds (no signup)
They seem on the surface to be designed to attack “source code as a condition of import license” laws,
I'm pretty disappointed with the compromises I have to make to use a Mac these days. I'm planning on getting one of the new XPS 15s with an i-9 - so excited!
"No Ben & Jerry's back in those days!"

That's the real scandal in all of this! :-)

In seriousness, I'm sorry for your experience.
I was going to get the XPS 13 today and I ended up with an HP Spectre x360 13" (newer one--i7-8550U, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD that'll probably eventually be replaced with a 2TB when the price comes down). Installing Fedora on it right now. I'm in on a chunkier trackpad click, and the HP has that over the rather light Dell click that's common across every Dell I tried. Also, I preferred the keyboard on the Spectre x360 and the overall look-and-feel of it, plus the pen (for when I am using Windows) feels a little nicer. I wish I could've found the newer ceramic white Spectre, which I was in on, but it was a two-week wait and the black-and-copper looks very sharp too.

Ultrabooks seem to have basically converged. Everybody's running more or less the same hardware. This has been good for Linux; hopefully my install goes as well.
I didn't conclude that. On the other hand, based on my experience I did conclude that the American healthcare system is designed to favor those who can afford to value their time over their money. It's not much comfort that a doctor has the right knowledge if they're too apathetic, overworked or inexperienced to get results that are any better than essential oils. At least with essential oils I know they won't work instead of being let down by a well-credentialed veneer of expertise.
Am I the only one on earth who doesn't care if the head of the NYSE is a man or woman?
Neural scene representation and rendering
For its part, the US doesn't seem to have an interest in actual freedom, but rather, "freedom under the confines of what the US wants." If the US loses control of its currency, it loses control over things like, for instance, the 2008 market meltdown. I don't see the US willingly waving its hands during a scenario like that, saying "Welp, sorry, can't do anything about this, it's all crypto now."

> And we are way away from crypto replacing anything.

Unless there's a way for the US (or any respective region with a currency) to dig its population out of these catastrophes, it seems like we are infinity away from crypto replacing anything.
My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer
I think you counted China twice.
A good review of the hardware, but it seems like a lifelong Mac user would have something to say about switching to Windows 10, as well.
On the condition that you're a web developer or develop exclusively for unix servers.
All a class action will do is make one firm 80% or more of the judgment. And it appears the defendant is judgment proof as this is a low single digit percentage of the original award.
Both reddit.com & old.reddit.com are down for me (UK).
> How would a country claw source code from a vendor in another nation, if they did not sign this agreement?

By making it a condition of allowing imports of the product, which is why that's exactly what the provision prohibits.
The GreyKey exploit most likely involves resetting the iPhone's state in between passcode attempts, avoiding the exponential timeout that you would face. It's a flaw, to be sure, but not particularly "easy".

A bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16829478
> A better strategy would be to give employees a different kind of proposition from the get-go: not “work at our dynamic company and you’ll never have to worry about job security again,“ but rather “work at our dynamic company and whatever you do here will be something valuable you can take with you wherever you may go in your career.”

A million times that. As someone early in my career, the only currency that matters to me is what I learn at a job, that can be transferred elsewhere.

It's always insulting when CEOs tell you that up is down and other obviously false things, but the latter statement in that article would actually make me feel better about the company.
I'm the founder of Actual, a budget system that I want to be easy to pick up but also informative: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/actual

It's a completely local and free app. Sign up and I'll be sending the beta out in the next couple weeks.

It embraces the envelope-style of budgeting, and does it in a way that makes it easy. I think this style of budget makes it really easy to see what's going on with your money without much work.

In addition to that, reports are important and we'll provide the ability to write any custom reports to tailor the system to your lifestyle. Everybody's life is different so we all have different needs, so it's important to allow flexibility.

Let me know if you're interested, or have any questions!
Sculpt OS available as live system
The article mentioned various problems with 4K display. In addition to those it is just too reflective. I ended up with getting a filter for it. It helped, but still even in the office I have to avoid certain angles not to see overhead lamp reflections. The fact that the display opening angle is rather limited has not helped either.
ah bummer. yeah i had noticable dryness after mine, which went away only after a few months.

contacts are really dangerous, and i feel like this is not emphasized nearly enough. i didn't even realize that as a contacts-wearer until i started to research lasik (i learned that wearing contacts was more likely to end up causing me vision problems than lasik, which is what convinced me to get it).
It's easy for me to get Firefox to 200-300 tabs territory, and not that hard to get it to 2000-3000. I really wish my 8GB RAM wasn't soldered in :(

Thankfully, Firefox somewhat manages to work despite that. Chromium dies very quickly.
You're really comparing the availability of a fleet minimally skilled servers and a moderately skilled line cooks, to a single medical doctor's appointment?
One reason I would never again join a smaller startup: Most of them refuse to offer equity refreshers. Even after a significant funding raise, I've been at startups who simply do not offer any more equity beyond the initial grant.

Compare that to any competitive Big Co or startup, such as Facebook, Google, and Airbnb. All of them offer annual equity refreshers, and that equity is significant.
Collagen breakdown is a kinetic process(that is, a function of temperature * time). So you can decrease the time if you increase the temperature, that gets you part of the way there. But then there is also the fact that in a BBQ smoker, you are getting almost 100% of your heat on meat from air convection, whereas in a pressure cooker your food is either submerged in liquid, or in a high pressure steam, meaning that the heat transfer is much, much higher in a pressure cooker(this is the same concept why exposing skin to 40 degree air is much more pleasant than dunking that same skin in 40 degree water).

I haven't cooked pulled pork in a while, but I have been making some pulled chicken in my pressure cooker every now and then the past few months. After 15 minutes on high pressure(~15 psi, 250 degrees), the chicken is fully cooked and literally falling apart as I pick it up under its own weight, which is something I never get even when I smoke chicken in my digitally controlled electric BBQ.

On a side note, I can get boneless skinless chicken thighs for $1.50/lbs, and cook up a big pile of delicious meat in 30 mins that lasts a week. Highly recommended for the cheap, lazy, or people who just like pulled chicken.
If you want to pay for 2hrs of a doctor's time instead of 15minutes, you can certainly get it.
Oooh so thats why my terminals would get hungup on linux machines when I logged out with a bg job.. and why I haven't seen it since switching to MacOS or OpenBSD for most logins to other systems :)

thanks :D
It's worth nothing... especially if you know that payment information is worth A LOT of money.

There is no way at all to verify they are not selling your data. Also, there is no law that forbids them to do so.
What's really wrong with WikiLeaks -T. Dalrymple (2010)
Democratic governments seem to using border security as a loophole in civil rights. It happens in the U.S. and U.K. - and also Canada? - where immigration cases are not heard in judicial courts, where rights are protected and the burden of proof is on the government (i.e., innocent until proven guilty) but in 'administrative courts', which are not courts at all but an agency of the same immigration department (or at least the same executive branch) that is prosecuting the defendant, and where the burden of proof is often on the defendant to 'prove' they are not guilty of immigration crimes by proving their citizenship.

The abuse goes further. Both the U.K. (where it's explicit) and U.S. actively try to terrorize immigrants and create "hostile" environments for them. Terror cannot be a tool used by law enforcement for any reason (for one thing, it is "cruel", as in "cruel and unusual"), and it's also punishment without conviction.

Finally, these agencies' power is expanding. The DHS surveillance of all citizens was in HN recently, and I read another article where they claimed jurisdiction over all 'movement of goods' in the U.S. Note also that the expansion of DHS power coincides with the denigration the FBI, an agency rooted in the judicial process and rule of law (for example, they are part of and overseen by the Department of Justice).

The use of these agencies fits both the nationalism (hatred of immigrants) and authoritarianism of the right-wing parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
> Interoperability: I think Nim is easy to mix with C, but not with C++ and Objective-C.

What gave you that idea? Nim is easier to interoperate with C++ and Objective-C than any language that I know of (including D!).

In addition I personally also consider Nim to be production ready (and know many others who do too). But I can appreciate that the pre-1.0 state makes people nervous.
The Dell XPS Developer edition kicks the shit out of any apple trackpad and any macbook in general.
I have no idea on the implementation, but it seems that they resolved it with 'CPU loading' optimizations: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDet...
How to Communicate Anonymously Online
If you get a tiny print information sheet it has that information somewhere. More conveniently, drugs.com has that information in the professional section of the side effects page.

The inconvenient aspect is that the number of listed side effects seem to inevitably be proportional to how long the drug has been around and how much it has been used and researched, so you also need to have a general idea of all of that if you are trying to figure out which of two drugs is likely to be safer. Also, if two (or more) drugs are commonly used together, the side effects of the combination can be listed on both drugs, even if one of the drugs is most likely primarily responsible.
slaps forehead

Of course! It would totally demolish "the stall". I have a pellet grill, and I'd love it if it had a high pressure mode that would kick in, sealing off the vents, once the internal temp's rate of change slowed to a certain point.
Tablets are perfectly capable of doing work - tablet operating systems on the other hand....

If Apple would just add support for pointing devices and if they would allow access to arbitrary files stored on USB devices via the Files app, the iPad could serve the needs of most people.
I think you're right insofar as wanting to get out of the way of companies, but I think when it comes to something as fundamental as _the currency which operates at a national level_, it would decidedly be more cautious, especially in giving away the power to inflate or offer 0% interest overnight loans.
Is Chronic Pain Killing Your Sex Life? Tips to Get Back in the Game
Hi Nick,

Quiver will compile the GraphQL query code to runtime code. Is a similar approach of what v8 does when executing JS (it compiles it to assembly code), or what modern template engines do to speed up their rendering.

So basically, it will transform the GraphQL query into a pure function that can be executed without the overhead of having the GraphQL engine doing the calculations at runtime.
I agree you need to include TV revenue--that's why I threw in Verizon's $110 ARPU (which includes TV), and suggested that Boulder's more expensive system would have to hit an even higher number like $140 (including TV).
Why cant i scroll properly on iPad on that site. Never thought I’d notice!
Agreed but to be fair if there is a judgment awarded that you cannot reasonably pay, the entire thing will get kicked out. It's better to hit them with a crippling amount that they can pay than to try to get what is actually owed but they end up paying nothing.
"The actual effect of WikiLeaks is likely to be profound and precisely the opposite of what it supposedly sets out to achieve. Far from making for a more open world, it could make for a much more closed one. Secrecy, or rather the possibility of secrecy, is not the enemy but the precondition of frankness. WikiLeaks will sow distrust and fear, indeed paranoia; people will be increasingly unwilling to express themselves openly in case what they say is taken down by their interlocutor and used in evidence against them, not necessarily by the interlocutor himself. This could happen not in the official sphere alone, but also in the private sphere, which it works to destroy. An Iron Curtain could descend, not just on Eastern Europe, but over the whole world. A reign of assumed virtue would be imposed, in which people would say only what they do not think and think only what they do not say."
The original intent was inspired (I think) by countries like China demanding the source code to Windows as a condition of it use in their country. GPL is just collateral damage due to (a) politicians being almost completely ignorant about everything technological, and (b) the whole thing being negotiated in secret with no input.

When you put (a) and (b) together, it seems like a miracle if the whole thing is not a disaster.
So basically if they turned it into a laptop
I wonder what speeds would be achievable over the ancient copper wire in my building.
What did the U.S. have to do with it?
Bloop: Audible Error Logs
Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects
I'm always a bit confused when people call neural networks "universal function approximators" as if that makes them trivial or weak.

Suppose we have a really strong universal function approximator---stronger than current neural networks, whose generalization properties are not really that great in the grand scheme of things as of 2018. Tell it to approximate the action policy that maximizes some overly-simplistic geopolitical objective function, like GDP or territory controlled at time t+1. It doesn't seem at all obvious that this thing could not take over the world or at least cause significant havoc if given sufficient resources.
No startup is going to offer meaningful salary increases in lieu of stock options. You might eek out 10% more, you're still going to come out far below an established company offering liquid stock compensation.
I don't see how this has anything to do with license enforcement at all. It only means participating countries can't block the import of closed-source software.
truth. someone needs to step up if not apple. plenty of us still build things with actual computers even if we arent an easy cash cow
You don't use the trackpad on a lenovo. You don't have to!

Srsly while i do own now a macbook pro at work and really like the touchpad, i'm a touch quicker with the red knob in combination with AwesomeWM as a window manager.

Main advantage: my hands rests on the device and don't have to move below.
I run Ubuntu (actually Elementary now) on my XPS 13. Works pretty well. Track pad is not as good as my MacBook was. It also has the graphics card click which is super annoying.
perhaps for a single non-violent offenses.

But for theft by deception practiced at scale? Absolutely should be jailed for a significant amount of time.

I'd argue for significant amount of jail time simply for the waste and violations of law involved in needlessly ringing so many phones and violating Do Not Call laws.

these people create a real cost for society, and the penalty needs to be bigger than "oh, just give back some of your criminal gains". If you think that caging someone is inappropriate or doesn't work, you can go for lashing, or something else. What would you actually suggest as a deterrent?
This happened to me and I was rather disappointed. I had backups but Apple didn’t even offer to try and recover data at any cost, or allow me to keep the parts with my data still on them.