skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem, thanks for a decent response ;). I'm always cautious when it's a "we vs them" story. In case of Windows it could be vs Apple, Google, Linux... So :)
Worth noting that in some jurisdictions (e.g. Australia), consumer protection law extends beyond manufacturer warranties by establishing consumer guarantees, e.g. a guarantee that products will be of acceptable quality, and that they will be reasonably fit for any disclosed or represented purpose.[0]

This often extends beyond the period of the express manufacturer warranty.

On a semi-related note, Apple has recently been fined AU$9m for "making false or misleading representations to customers with faulty iPhones and iPads about their rights under the Australian Consumer Law", by representing to customers "that they were no longer eligible for a remedy if their device had been repaired by a third party".[1]

[0]: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees...

[1]: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/iphone-and-ipad-misrep...
> Talking on phone while walking

> Trips over

> Metal spike/pin into temple
Okay I didn't think that through.
I get the idea of wanting to provide voiced communications for those that it may be difficult for (or for translation), but I still cannot rationalise why it needs to sound 'just like a real person.'

Would the initiator feel silly if a service called for them and sounded robotic, rather than like a friend?

Why does it need to distinctly act human? I cannot see the specific requirement for this imitation, other than it's cool/creepy. Or it's just tech marching on to deliver sci-fi dreams.
Also, cases without bulky screen protectors can't adequately protect curved displays, which are increasingly common nowadays, from falls on non-level surfaces.
> Because people will hang up on it like they do all other robocalls

A business that is essentially closing a sale with customers? No way, the call might not be from a real human but the money that the reservation will bring in is no different than any other.
We already have polynomial-time algorithm for primality testing [1]; not sure if a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis will affect cryptography by that much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
"old-fashioned"? That's a misnomer, imo. A website should be judged based on form and function, and HN looks and works great for me. Does it not for you?
Couldn't agree more with you. I suspect that their reporters either have a very poor understanding of what a totalitarian state is, or they just couldn't be bothered to visit any place beyond Beijing and Shanghai (which represent < 5% of China) for field studies.
I had someone ask me the cycle detection question once, and I didn't care for how they phrased it. Specifically, should I find it immediately upon entering the first cycle (at a higher memory/time cost) or should I just eventually detect it (e.g. turtle/rabbit)? It was on me to clarify, but as a newb to the industry, I felt like I should just know which was expected.

And either way, if I were to ask this question, I would spend a lot of time helping the person along the way to make sure they were able to make the logical leaps that made sense to them, not to me.
MS already lets you see and delete what they collect on you at account.microsoft.com/privacy

We did a lot of work to comply and provide these tools and people still think MS is part of some grand conspiracy.
Because the algorithm seems to be wrong. It prefers to make several small "hops" over long direct flights. For example Phoenix - Albuquerque - Denver - Winnipeg(?) - Iqualuit - somewhere in Greenland - Reykjavik - Glasgow seems like a very popular route and the whole West US is using it to reach Rome.
"We ignored the console for 28 years because at first we thought everyone should use a mouse for everything. Then we wanted everyone to use PowerShell, despite being designed by morons and universally hated. And then we just sort of ignored the problem ( it's not like you were using Vista or Windows 8 anyways), hoping it would go away. Now we're doing the minimum we can to support the Linux subsystem because we want to be hip, but we're terrified of adding in security issues. Which would be very possible because of how wonky Windows security is and how badly the Console works... Typing 'dir' goes to the kernel level to check permissioms, but is written in 30 year old C code. We can barely get the thing to compile. But hey - ANSI colors! Huh?? Pretry great, right?"
Less IS more. Just love HN for that. If you want something more stimulating for your senses, go watch a movie.
They forgot the other reason, for creating tomorrow's T1000's!
The link from SyneRyder’s comment indicates that you can still buy AppleCare anytime in the first year. The only thing subject to the 60-day limit is AppleCare+ (which includes accidental damage).
Smash Parking Car Shooting Destruction Game
Now I and other non-mathematicians can look into Euler's totient function and RSA, and learn more. Thanks for answering.

So is there really never a proof in pure mathematics with more obvious or immediate near-term applications?

Are there any historical examples of that? A major breakthrough in mathematics that once understood, it was immediately obvious that it was going to make X work better, and then it did?
India foresees the country as an AI hub for the developing world
I am building a WhatsApp chat bot right now to receive WhatsApp messages on Telegram and tell people to use telegram instead of WhatsApp.
Recruiter and former CTO here. References are a box-ticking exercise that you pay someone like Experian to do, so that you can say it was done as part of a security review.
One validator, six testers, three developers. Not at all uncommon in certain industries.
Yes, this is how we do it here in sweden, perfect way of getting rid of the food that is getting close to the best before date without lowering the price. Also easier to sell vegetables that don't look so good.

I stull preffer to select mu goods by myself, it's well spent time away from the keyboard stress and I get to decide how much waste I want to produce by using my 10 year old cotton bags and let the fruit and veggies use their own packaging, that is anyway best for freshness.
Ok, but did you make a stop at Baffin Island like the map suggests? Also one airline couldn't possibly carry all traffic from the Western US to Europe. And Keflavik International Airport doesn't look like it can carry all this traffic either.
When, Exactly, Does a Firefox User Update, Anyway?
In my experience running Linux in two laptops is that it tends to underestimate the battery duration but the battery lasts longer than with the original OS.
Tools first, 100%. People learn concrete things, and then they learn the abstractions. The abstractions are nearly useless by themselves. It's the reason that people learn addition before algebra before group theory. The people that say learn the "concept" first are just flat wrong.
Reasonable speculation, based on increased lead times when they offered cheaper battery replacements on iPhones. Although, few people would wait long to get a broken key fixed!

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/27/battery-replacement-wai...
This is cool. Are there more papers as practically useful for a (web) developer as this one?
I hear you, and I've restarted the display server plenty of times on my computers instead of restarting them, especially on my main desktop where I have lots more stuff running independent of the display (daemons, etc). But, I feel like particularly on a laptop, if you're restarting the display server, it's not much different than just restarting the whole machine. Certainly that's the case for the large majority of users. Anyway, I think the point is that it's a hassle, which it is, not that you literally "need to reboot".
I have to disconnect and reconnect my thunderbolt display exactly 2x to get the webcam on it to work.
Windows is so fine. I will never switch away.
The thing impendia is referring to there is analytic continuation, which (as mentioned) is a way to extend the domain of a certain set of functions, like the zeta function. It is perfectly rigorous. His/her language was just a short-hand for "don't worry about the details here, but it does work".

Mathematicians aren't stupid, and more than any other profession, they value rigor. They know what they're doing.
> Probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, but please respond with comments and not with (too much) downvotes.

Probably due to the fact that you're using whataboutism[1] as a defence rather than tackling the fact that Windows does log user activity and report it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Why is every conservative leaning post ideological battle, but every couple days we have 20+ comments yelling about UBI, that somehow isn't ideological battle?
Its always amazing to see web pages take 2-4 seconds of back-end processing. On a modern CPU, that's about 10 billion instructions.

10 billion instructions to send a few kilobytes of data.

There's such a waste in back-end server design. If you're measuring response times are in seconds, and not in microseconds, you're doing something seriously wrong.
My resume is not plain text..?
It's quite remarkable really how tone deaf the product planning at Facebook has been. For centuries thousands of families have deemed it a wise decision to forbid politics as a discussion topic at the dinner table. Zuck jumps right in the middle of the table and "connects the world" by shoving Trump articles with unmoderated comment threads in all their faces. Because an A/B test showed that it "promoted engagement." Such idiocy lol.
And that's no different in Canada. I remember having to pay over $800 in surcharge and fees for redeeming a round trip flight via Aeroplan
But this isn't just summing up a few positive integers, in which case there's no ambiguity in what the answer is. Once you start summing up infinitely many things you have to bring in some theory and some techniques to justify what the answer is. These techniques generally have a limited scope, but there's a big theory of "divergent series" that shows that if you extend these techniques to more contexts you still get a definition that is compatible with most of what one would want from a limit. For example, taking running averages, or taking it as the coefficients of a series and taking a limit. So classically 1-1+1-1+1... doesn't converge, but if you "squint" and take the running averages of the partial sums (1,0,1,0,...) you would get 1/2. Or if you use the fact that 1+x+x^2+x^3+... = 1/(1-x) and take x=-1 you would get 1/2. Or a myriad other approaches that are perfectly valid with standard convergence, and just all happen to get you that 1-1+1-1+... is 1/2. And yes if you squint very hard you would get that 1+2+4+8+16+... = 1/(1-2)=-1
> has been engineered into place

You're conveying an image of handwringing illuminati in a room who are out to get us. Is that what you mean? If not, who has been engineering this and why?
Smart contracts will not replace complex traditional contracts. They will replace simple ones, especially at first. There will be issues at first, for sure. Over time people will iterate on them and there will be a library of well vetted, well understood, standardized contracts.

Also of note, smart contract does not necessarily mean no human intervention. A smart contract can appeal to an external and possibly human judge/arbitrator.
Since the battery is necessarily replaced when the keyboard is, I'm hoping my keyboard breaks after 3.5 years so I get a free battery replacement.
They couldn't even come up with the answer of keeping a hashtable of the pointers to check for duplicates?
Cool.

Episode of "Micro Live" with a brief demo of a Fairlight CMI Series III

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

Clip from Micro Live that visits Infocom during the development of text adventure "Spellbreaker". LISP mentioned in passing.

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

2011 documentary on Steve Jobs: "Billion Dollar Hippy":

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
Use light sensor in addition to accelerometer.
The same people who inject ads on scrolling, duh ;)
the key on my mcbook ir no longer works, which is rel pin in the ss.
3 graphs.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=ki91

There is a vast quantity of new money being created, and it isn't appearing in household incomes. Something should be done.
It has been the opposite for me since about Windows 7.

Work MacBook - have to restart it to get USB ports to work, screen flickers when you plug in an external monitor like X windows on an Unix terminal from '99 with a bad conf file... Comeon.
Hypothesis: As the complexity of proofs approaches the limits of human ability to understand, saying it is a proof becomes more important than proving it is a proof.

Evidence: The Wikipedia page for the Lindelöf hypothesis already unambiguously states that it has been formally proved.
In mathematics, the way to the answer is essential. If you are doing /anything/ wrong on your way, your result is void.

It may not be wrong, but nothing is gained.
> This is also likely to impact web-services internationally in cases where you need a license to be viewed from China even if you are hosted internationally.

I'm afraid you are being optimistic. They do things way worse than that. The Great Firewall can block your website for no reason [1]. By 'block' I mean completely blocked, even if you use OpenVPN, GFW can detect its packet and still block it. Back in 2016 there was a time that even GitHub was blocked. And bandwidth throttling has been in place as early as 2014 for websites that are not completely blocked by GFW. Now the so-called "social credit system" is basically the Skynet or Matrix. If the US and other western democracies don't stand up to this kind of lunacy and bullying, then nothing would be able to stop China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...
You can buy a huge computer screen instead of a monitor, like for instance: http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-43UD79-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor

(Not affiliated, just looking for a smart TV alternative as well)
This is an optimization for readability, not execution speed.
Another workaround. i have a bookmarklet that does this for my current tab:

javascript:(function() {window.location='https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=' + window.location.toString() + '%3Faction%3Dclick&h=ATMNXkm4NSmFwOsi-Haa_NbgSEZnRVHr0vNHn0MvV2qg4opxZrHpocUPwdIbENnkrOQTGl2R2Plu0P0127qT_jjdApVkgJUiofc48hvHRlNKuw';})()

Basically redirects through Facebook, and WSJ doesn't paywall you then.
What do you mean? I don't see any scroll wheel hijacking.
For me OSX is a nightmare for usability. Just the window management alone can drive you insane.

I am not a person who has one just application open at a time.
Ubuntu has worked perfectly on my last two thinkpads, an X220 and X1 Carbon (4th gen). That's almost 7 years now. I think only the only real caveat is that the fingerprint reader isn't supported. I can't speak for other laptop brands, but just get a thinkpad (or a dell xps).
Good catch. Pasting here for others:

> As for the Mac, customers who have had their Macs for longer than 60 days but less than a year are not eligible for AppleCare+ but are still able to purchase a standard AppleCare Protection Plan, MacRumors has learned. Apple is only offering AppleCare+ for Mac on its website, so customers will need to call in to Apple Support to make the standard AppleCare purchase. Standard Mac AppleCare is priced at $149 to $349, depending on the machine.
Five Officers, Zero Body Cam Footage, One Dead Body
Hopefully Systemd won’t mount your firmware on a rw partition and brick the laptop in an unfortunate update?

(Sarcasm aside... I’d flip in a heartbeat but despite macOS’s lapses, every single time I had to deal with a Linux desktop I regretted it.)
Since the graph is by median (not the mean), this should really disturb the graph. I think they are spot on: a person on the center of the income distribution has seen housing and education cost double when compared to his/her income. And probably healthcare as well.

I’ll admit, income inequality has increased as well, but that by itself could be fine if the relative living cost for the average person had not increased that much
Interesting tidbit:

> The developers making Microsoft Windows use Git
Enrollment rates are up too (long term). So it's not only taking a bigger bight but it's taking it out of more people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/higher-education/num...

> three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor’s degrees in 2011. In 1947, just 5 percent of Americans 25 and older held degrees from four-year colleges. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of the adult population held college degrees.
Dang, this made `git log` inside the repo I use at work (which is enormous with a stupid number of commits) nearly instantaneous. Great work.

`git status` still takes over a second for me though, oh well...
Once bitten, twice shy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security#Eavesdropping_b...
The problem with this first approach is that you can get arbitrary results just be reordering the series. Also, the formula you give for the geometric series only works for |x|<1.
Different users different requirements.

I bought Lenovo Thinkpad P50 instead of Dell XPS because the Thinkpad has a full keyboard.
DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, etc all existed BEFORE Lambda, and noone called them "serverless" until Lambda and now everything is called that.

Meanwhile Kinesis requires you to specify the number of shards you have to use, so there is management even if they're not called "servers".

> No need to worry about deciding how much CPU power, RAM, or storage you'll need for it.

You realize you specify the RAM for lambda functions, which correlates to CPU.

And with Dynamo you specify RCUs and WCUs and you enable autoscaling which adds more...

I'm not trying to be pedantic about "The cloud being just someone else's servers". I mean that "serverless" to mean is a very explicit thing about Lambda and writing stateless code. And every existing hosted multi-tenant service shouldn't just be dubbed that.
Synergy should allow clipboard sharing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_(software)
There are full stack engineers, lots of them. This article is extremely narrow minded. It's like saying that there are no nuclear scientists because you've never met one personally.

I remember the last big company I worked for, they asked me "What are you: Front end or Back end?" and when I said that I could do either equally well, they said something like "Lots of people claim to be both but you can be honest with us, which one are you really?“.

I ended up doing only front end at that company for a while then got bored and quit. My next company I did full stack and they actually got to see the benefits of letting engineers use ALL of their skills.
> Do you expect me to carry the wrapper back to my home

That's what I do.

BTW its not that the govt does not put bins, they keep getting stolen. One could argue that the govt could guard them better. I doubt that it would be cost effective.

Someone who is stealing garbage bins probably has a pretty desperate incentive, or these thefts are a part of systemic corruption. Its actually both. Making incentives weaker would go a long way towards a longer term solution.

Its likely that it suits the government fine that the bins get stolen, the contract was given to the private company owned by minister's brother in law. Now they are both happy that they have more bins to order. BTW that brother in law is the one who arranged for those to get stolen in the first place.

Please elaborate why privatization will fix the problem. Not disbelieving, want to understand the solution you propose.
What's really strange are Westerners who unilaterally deem China totalitarian, a sentiment not shared by most Chinese themselves. You wonder if people will ever outgrow the need to invent a boogeyman to legitimize their own dire circumstances. Imagine, victims of one of the most profoundly inequal systems in the world railing against Communism/Socialism/China/that-other-system.
I would love for it to be able to use arbitrary fonts :) At present, it only works with fonts it was compiled with.
Every SD card I’ve bought in the last few years has just been a microSD card with full size adapter.
... Which begs the question: what good is an ORM if it does not prevent by design such issues? Here, we are essentially saying users of ORM must also have in their mind the SQL version. Or call an expert after the mess is done :/...
How to remove AMP without hurting SEO rating and web performance
The issue with Apple's unix environment is that it comes with BSD tools. A lot of functionality that you'd expect to work doesn't end up working, which can be frustrating. You have to go through some pretty annoying steps [1], which are more involved than the steps required to get a Linux environment on Windows [2].

1: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69223/how-to-repla...
2: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Modern frontends take even longer to completely load.
This sounds like the kind of applicant who would complain that fizzbuzz has no real world application. Despite the attitude in that article, there are real applications of cycle detection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Applications
If it's encrypted, no one can read it, and thus it cannot be transcribed without a key file.

If a person can read the words, it can be transcribed and reduced to an unformatted string, including an amount of white-space padding.

If the information on your resume cannot survive a reduction to plain text, and still remain relevant, something is wrong, because that's the premise of a resume: to standardize job applicants.
Please, improve Powershell. The interface is lacking mainly because:

- it's not scrolling fast enough

- it's easily possible to send processes to the background (and job management)

I'd really like to use Powershell on windows but git bash works better.
it's also very dependent on what you want to use your computer for. as a frontend dev I want a mix of Adobe CS and a bunch of primarily posix compatible tools, and then Windows is seriously suboptimal.

but even beyond that the sheer number of popups and shit I need to close when starting from a clean install on Windows makes me want to punch the computer, and naturally that is a very subjective experience. and stuff like apps stealing focus in general. if a mac app makes itself the key window in a non-standard way I immediately consider uninstalling it, on win that just seems to be what all apps do when opening new windows.
The Apple Watch is tacky, it’s not a statement of wealth or style by any means. It’s a big ugly square that looks like it belongs on someone’s ankle while on house arrest. It’s made by the millions by a bunch of robots and underpaid Asians; There’s no story to it, no history, no movement, nothing to talk about other than “yep it’s my Apple Watch”.

Don’t get me wrong, I have an Apple Watch and I wear it as needed. But it’s not a “watch”, it’s a wrist computer, and everybody has a computer, it’s a common good.
Too much CPU and too much available memory will get you there. When in time of abundance, we humans are not good at optimizing.
I really wish taxation was more p2p. In India this process will stop at tax collection. The collected tax will not end up where it was meant to.
The issue for me is that hibernate saves user state (desktop, apps, edit state), reboot doesn't. I expect a desktop session to live months.

IOW: Your solution may not suite all.
Amazing Tips to Help Your Laptop Last Longer
sound like you've got one of the super common duds, apple will probably replace it if you ask them.