skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if sanctions resume, and more Western companies leave Iran, it is possible that Iranian leaders will decide to resume nuclear fuel production.

and

> By the time the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, was finally permitted to visit the site in 2015, it was empty, though the agency’s report indicated that it looked as if equipment had been removed.

I don't understand the authors conclusion. He is saying that without a nuclear deal Iran will try to develop the bomb. Later he shows that even with a deal Iran tries to make a bomb and not report it. My intuition says that the solution is to create a new deal. One that makes it harder for Iran to hide nuclear bomb making facilities and doesn't involve sending them $1.7 billion dollars in cash [1]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-iran-payment-c...
Also, note how the shunting department was severely underequipped, "and it was only by virtue of the most cunning ingenuity, that they could just manage". Also sounds very realistic to me.

That, plus a manager inventing and enforcing specific requirements for dubious reasons, causing trouble in the company, and - as 'jancsika points out in their comment - quite likely introducing many new problems into the product.
United States forecast to become world’s largest producer of crude [pdf]
Their wrong actions? What wrong actions? The judge did their job: they considered the facts and the law, and applied their legal reasoning, and reached a conclusion.

The fact that you don't like the conclusion doesn't mean the judge acted wrongly. There's nothing to be held accountable for.

The reasoning or decision itself, on the other hand, will go through the processes of review that almost all judicial decisions go through.
Currently trying http://www.bear-writer.com/
I on the other hand wouldn't mind if they made the laptop a little bit thicker in exchange for better battery life.

When the discrete graphics chip is being used, plus a retina display, and or several dongles plugged in for ethernet, usb-a or whatever, battery life on my 2017 MBP while doing development work is maybe 3-4 hours.

It was quite a shock to go to that from the 8-9 hours I used to get from my older MacBook air. Whereas previously I would leave certain apps (notably image editing apps or VMs) open while developing, I now find myself opening them, doing a task and then closing them so as not to activate the discrete graphics chip and drain the battery.
Yep. We didn't have a style standard and all had different opinions. One day we just stopped splitting hairs and went with StandardJS.

Over a year later and haven't looked back. Codebase consistency is far more important than whatever particular style you use
The times wrote about a confidential document that was mistakenly released to the pulblic. The judge who sealed the document in the first ordered the times to redact their article which goes against decades of case law and arguably the first amendment.
Not only this but the Streisand effect seems to suggest that the court order will have the opposite than intended effect
I've used many different apps over the years, until ultimately settling on todo.txt. It's a standardized format similar to taskwarrior, but it's simply a text file that apps interact with and is open source.

You can get it in a terminal, mobile, web, vim plugin, etc.

http://todotxt.org/
By removing the Esc key, Apple declared its side on the emacs vs vi wars.
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is a fun time-travel novel. It’s the middle volume of a trilogy but works as a standalone novel.

The Ancillary series by Anne Leckie is also pretty great. It’s a bit of dystopia but isn’t narrated as one.
Yes, there were a few 'games' some time ago, but in the context of history it's nothing.

Ongoing international games as we understand them are a new phenom, dating back to the mid 19th century, and then only a few games.

The modern Olympics are not that old.

There were almost no such games for most of antiquity until late into the Enlightenment.
You can also use the fingerprint sensor as a replacement for the ubikey. Which works arguably as well - at least it satisfies the criteria that you separate the key and the computer when you yourself are separated from the computer.
I’d add that they are the asking for forgiveness; prior court rulings clearly established that they have “permission”, since the information was not illegally obtained, and is of public interest.

What if this crooked cop gets a job with even a modicum of authority in the future? Surely, insuring this incident shows up in background checks would help future potential employers.
Yep, I use OSM to plan runs and rides for anywhere I travel to, and then add any new trails I find.
Mattel sometimes made some really neat Barbie toys. I'm sure a toy typewriter would have been pretty cool, with or without its ability to encode messages!

I remember, as a kid, my sister got a "Talk With Me" Barbie, which was a doll that could be attached to a computer(serial port!) and configured to speak your name with its animatronic mouth. The CD-ROM came with some games that would also trigger the doll to speak. I was a boy, so I really wasn't into Barbie, but I was really wowed by that toy and wished my Star Trek toys could do the same! For its time, it was pretty innovative.
Yea, that's where I thought it was going too. I've been on a lot of project lately that try to pre-optimize instead of building a solution and then determining where the bottlenecks are.

A lot of times when we try to build for speed, the real bottlenecks are no where we think they'd logically be.
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What are the logistical disadvantages? Can't the buyer also take care of logistics?
This works great until there's a problem of any kind. Then the users of the special snowflake phones will scream about IT not helping them.

Standards exist for a reason.
that needs a fair bit of polishing ...
I have often wondered this as well and never quite found a fully satisfactory answer. I imagine that it has to do with ease of implementation, although there's an obvious and efficient implementation of making coroutines one-to-one with stacks and allowing them to yield between each other. In constrained environments like JVM and CLR, maybe that can't be done, which might explain C#'s choice of async/await. Perhaps in Rust it has to do with the interaction with the borrow checker?
SF Mayor: 'There's More Feces  Than I've Ever Seen'
I recall a review in APC magazine in mid-2003 of Lindows, a live CD Linux distribution, mentioning that you could pair it with a “cheap-as-chips 128MB USB drive for $70” for persistent storage. The phrase stuck with me due to its absurdity—you can get a lot of chips for $70! Now, fifteen years later, you can almost get 2000× the storage for the same price. (I say “almost” as APC spoke of 70 AUD which is somewhat less than 70 USD.)
No. The stock crash was really not about Ballmer, you can't blame it on him - he basically just took over as the whole world was going under.

Also - Satya has not yet had any real such things to 'miss'.

AI and blockchain are not products, there are no household-name dollar companies coming around on that yet.

It will be some time before we can judge Satya.
I am not. I’m offended by eugenics, no matter how you phrase it. Having children is not eugenics.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
Apple Says Third-Generation Keyboards Exclusive to 2018 MacBook Pro
The people at the LA times that published the information haven’t been forced to choose between exile in an embassy, and facing a kangaroo court, and also well-documented persecution via probably illegal psy-ops, falsified slanderous/libelous communications “from” trusted colleagues, etc, etc.

Compared to wikileaks, they “got a pass”. It doesn’t make the mistreatment of the LA Times any better though.
If MS didn't then they would be lambasted just the same.

As it stands, at least MSFT has a presence which entails at least strategic advantage. Not trying would be worse than trying and failing.

But it doesn't matter - they're not a search company, it's such a different beast. Why on earth do people expect that MSFT should have been the king of that domain I have no idea.
Korean Air Cargo Connects Delhi to Its Network with a B777 Freighter – Air Cargo
Having 64GB of RAM and an ability to plug in a thumb drive would be more pleasant.
Nah, it'd be more realistic if they were stuck with this expensive mess, and had to reverse all their work, and still had to do one toilet per car, because no one figured out this solution.

And the one guy who would have thought of this, they passed on three months before because he wanted 10% more in salary.

/cynicism
I guess the author and I come from different cultural backgrounds. I have a few stickers on my laptop to mark big accomplishments, such as after passing a very difficult course. Whenever someone offers me a sticker I put it away and if requested to put it on my computer I politely say that it does not fit my style.
Aliens: Colonial Marines’ xenos get a lot smarter by fixing one code misspelling
Fun article! I've gotta give this a try myself.

On a related note (of using BASIC where it doesn't belong), I hacked together a method to convert BASIC code to WebAssembly using BaCon[0], a BASIC-to-C converter, and Emscripten to take the resulting C output and generate some wasm.[1] Much like the linked article, this is a fun diversion to entertain the idea of using BASIC where the language authors couldn't possibly have imagined it. Perhaps I'll get around to actually making a "real" project out of it sometime...

[0]: http://www.basic-converter.org/

[1]: https://github.com/matthewwiese/basic-to-c-wasm-example
US lifts ZTE supplier ban, sending shares soaring
Parabolic flight is about $5k and gets you a few minutes of zero-g in several 30-second chunks.
> Cyclists tend to be more patient than drivers

As someone who walks to work, I've had an order of magnitude more issues with cyclists than cars. My favorite, which happens frequently, is the cyclists who cross against the light then complain with one finger about pedestrians, with the light, in a cross walk.

I've been hit in intersections several times. Always by cyclists, always when I (pedestrian) clearly have right of way.
I've used this

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Works like a charm. Even when you have enough pressure, it helps reducing water consumption.
Spooky Neighbor Uncle Haunted House Survival
I cannot believe that Elon Musk has accused Vern Unsworth, one of the British rescue divers, of being a pedophile on Twitter, all because his idea of using a mini-submarine to rescue the boys was rejected[1].

It's absolutely disgusting behaviour on his part and completely uncalled for. It's one thing to professionally disagree with the best method for rescue (although Elon is not a cave rescue expert by any measure), but it's another to libel a man and accuse him of being a pedophile.

He's lost any goodwill he gained from offering to help. In my mind, he's lost all good will. You can't just go around accusing people of being pedophiles because they live in Thailand. He's as bad as Donald Trump accusing Joe Scarborough of murdering his constituent-services director.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/15/elon-musk-tweets-hell-bet-...
That seems to be a poor analogy to relate in this case. I’m not going to claim that the parent article is factual or even useful but at first glance it seems interesting.

In general the difference between a tinkerer and an engineer or scientist is that the latter uses appropriate mathematical models to garner deeper insight into problems than available to general tinkerers and "smart thinkers". If the linked article succeeds in linking any of the concepts of thermodynamics — which is one of the core building blocks of modern physics and relevant to almost every field of practical engineering — to DL models then that’d be huge boon. There are a lot of well honed techniques and tools available in the thermodynamics and statistical physics toolboxes which could vastly improve the ability of DL to be tuned for useful tasks in a scientific manner. Most application of DL appears to be "dark arts" or alchemy phase where only intuition is used to direct what problems can and should be tackeled using DL. It seems every other paper published in DL is just happenstance.

Joel Spolsky‘s comment really fits more with smart "tinkerers" but not serious attempts at modeling of the energy minimization aspects of restricted Boltzmann machines (ahem DL) which really do borrow a lot from thermodynamics [0]. I’m glad "smart thinkers" like Geoffrey Hintonmidday know when to stop [1], and kept generalizing and tweaking Boltzmann machines. Heck even the idea of applying energy minimization techniques from the phase changes of spin glasses is one of those applications of abstract high level models that really don’t mean anything. Except when evenetually they provide entirely new insights and, well fields of study. Of course there’s a difference between serious attempts and hard work of establishing mathematical and conceptual correspondents between fields and just quackery or pseudo-sophistication. Given the amount of formula development in the linked paper I’ll take it as a good faith attempt to seriously link fields.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine#History —- especially the first paper on spin glasses
1: https://medium.com/@andreykurenkov/a-brief-history-of-neural...
Portable console via USB-A KVM switch. I often do find myself balancing a laptop next to a rack of servers.
Really? Do you have any solid basis for this hypothesis? Are you really calling me a supporter of totalitarian absolutism because I'm sympathetic with the expressed outrage against Musk?

To start, what does Marxism have to do with any of this?

Aren't there any number of closer equivalences you could have used, without the specter of government-run mass murder? What about RINO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only , or the other way, an appeal to the 'big tent'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent ?

(The latter links to 'Multi-tendency', described as 'Multi-tendency political organisations, especially left-wing groups, accommodate members who are affiliated or identify with different political ideologies, agendas, interests or perspectives.' Odd, isn't it, that it highlights how left-wing groups are more accomodationist?)

Isn't it a pretty normal behavior to expect a higher standard from those one thinks are friends or allies?

Might it be that Musk's claims of being a socialist actually are based in a poor understanding of socialism, and that he makes a show of being left-leaning while his actions stay firmly in the middle of the Overton window?

It seems that any of those are a more likely interpretation than what you propose.
I was thinking the same. On Gomera the "fog forest" is providing a major part of water for the island. Planting trees is probably much cheaper than setting up the nets.
The argument that "basic" or "pure" science is better or more enlightened than "applied" science exists in every field and is as old as science itself.
There is a lot of crossover here and the Right to be Forgotten. The EFF opposed EU right to be forgotten laws because they could often be used in censorship (like in this very matter).

In the US, there are fewer people who expunge criminal records because there are companies that will produced expunged records in background checks so long as they were public at any time. Banning this gets into 1st amendment grounds.

And that's the flip side: labeling theory. In places like Australia, certain crimes do get removed from your record so long as you've stayed out of the system for five years. Even their sex offender registry has limited use (certain jobs, housing restrictions etc.); it's not public like ours. Then again, they don't have freedom of speech (except in Victoria; sorta).

Could we have laws that restrict companies from considering criminal records past x number of years in the US? I'm not sure if that'd be possible in our currently legal system.

In America, you can't really restrict information, once it's published, except in certain limited cases (like when a case involves a minor).
I think the keyboard hate is severely exaggerated.

I actually like the new MacBook keyboard, except for the noise. I type, umm, vigorously, and sometimes I'm actually asked to be quieter when taking notes in meetings. So, 8% quieter is great.

Regarding the crumb problem: compressed air fixes this for me. I always have had to blow out my keyboards when the keys get shit in them. It's true the new one needs the air treatment more often. I'm ok with that.

The touchbar I could do without, but I have trained myself to use the virtual escape key. I think Apple should get rid of it, but I expect inertia means the touchbar is here to stay. If I were a vi user maybe this would be a deal breaker.

The biggest issue with the 13" MacBook has been the anemic CPU and I'm looking forward to trying out one of the new models with a quad core i7.

Edit: here come the downvotes!
The USB of Big Data – Industry-Era
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What is thunderbolt?
Did anyone sign up for hacker book?
The Dell XPS 13 Developer (Ubuntu) has treated me well.
Scotland to join the space launch market?
You go raise three children. I can barely handle two.
It's 2018 and people still credulously report whatever pr optimised nonsense tech-time tuple Musk has said. _Of course_ you will not be flying New York-London on a rocket for $500 in 2028.
> the least lucky passenger would have to walk six car lengths

I just want to elaborate on this to show which assumptions you are making. There are two ways to make a paired unit:
--+ and -+-.

In your scenario I think you assume the first. The end of the train is thus ...+----+, since you mention the second last car's orientation being reversed. The +'s represent toilets. Then, what you are saying is to consider a passenger located at the ^ symbol: ...+--^--+. In this configuration, your observation makes sense.

I do think that a more practical solution is to work only with (-+,-) pairs. The symmetry that Dijkstra talks of is then that (-+,-) and (-,+-) are equivalent for the purposes of the problem. Then an end of a train would be: ...-+-+-. This is then the "extra few feet" that he talks of.
Edit- NM. Have at it.
Using it, I mostly like. The new kernel supports my newer laptop hardware better. It "feels" like it runs smoother, fwiw.

Upgrading was bad. For my local machine, when it first came out trying to run the upgrade script would lock my system, and force me to hard reboot. I tried several fixes, but ended up just doing an install from CD over the old system.

For my web server, not copying 1 file to a new location before running the upgrade script caused me to destroy the whole system. I restored from backup. After researching about that file, I was able to do the upgrade with only a few broken packages needing my attention.
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The greater point I took away was that sometimes someone who's not involved in solving a problem can see a solution while those who are do not.

In that respect programming is often as much an art as it is a practice.
Not me :(

I want a new one so bad, but I will not buy a TouchBar ever.

Also, the reason for thumbprint readers on phones is that passcodes are difficult to quickly type on phones. On a notebook keyboard it’s easy. I don’t want a thumbprint reader on my notebook.
Being slower than a chess match sounds impossible, yet it is an accurate description.
FireWire. Arguably, the thunderbolt connector (only Apple ecosystem ever bought into it, although they were big enough to matter at that point.)
That is not what the article says, nor what the science on this topic says either [0]. Read the section on Heritability and socioeconomic status.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
Thanks, the UI of this Stackshare website is not that great.
Well, I did warn you this was a fan scene :-).
I'd be curious to see if this is still true with large page sizes and to see on current processors where the cross over point is.
You said you were offended by both positive and negative eugenics? Mind explaining how?
This is amazing work, can't wait for this to be finished and deployed on the internet. Together with encrypted DNS (DoT and DoH) we finally get fully confidential connections to a server without leaking anything other than Remote IP.
> like Marissa Mayer did to Yahoo

Sorry to nitpick, but for some reason this comment irks me. Your comment seems to imply that yahoo was healthy, they hired Mayer, and then Yahoo died as a result.

Yahoo was a sinking ship, and it would have been a tough turn around for anyone.

Not that I think Mayer was the world’s best CEO or anything, but the idea that she “killed” yahoo seems absurd. It’s like accusing a surgeon of killing someone that died in ER surgery; the reason the person was in the ER in the first place was because they were dying.

Microsoft dying under Ballmer would have been night and day different as Microsoft was basically the world’s most valuable company, not a clusterfuck like 2012 yahoo.
So breaking the law and endangering pedestrians is ok if it means you don't have to work as hard? As a pedestrian, I HATE cyclists. At least drivers seem to understand what a red light means. I've never been hit by a car, but I've been hit by plenty of bicycles who should have stopped at that pesky red light.
The concepts of objects and ACLs are in the NT kernel itself. So things have worked like this on all windows versions built on the NT kernel: from WinNT 3.1, to Win2k, ... to this day. Windows TCPIP stack has improved since then, but I'd be _very_ surprised if ReadFile didn't work on sockets on XP (or anything NT-based, actually).

In any case, he's very rash to call out Windows when Linux has its share of special-purpose syscalls that do the "same" thing (e.g.: send, sendv, sendmsg, sendfile, sendmmsg, …) with myriads of options to alter their behavior.
The RESTless struggle for RESTful
I see you didn’t appreciate Evernote. Ever tried Jupyter Notebook?
While unseemly, Elon is as much a part of the tapestry of the story, as the side show is a part of the circus.
Yeah, it's easy to forget. CHANGELOG is the historical equivalent, but that seems to be dead.