skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember when I made my dad to open the tower case of our 486 and reconfigure jumpers located beyond the 7-segment display which showed the CPU frequency. After 10 minutes we were done and I was so proud that, when turbo is pressed, display showed 42 MHz. Oh, the memories...
There's also people like me, who has in the past used tree style tabs and other ways to manage their crazy number of tabs while browsing, but since then realised that it's not for them.

I used tabs like they were bookmarks, so I started using bookmarks more. I used tabs to keep track of history, so I started using the history more. I used tabs to do things the web browser shouldn't do, such as check email or play media, so I started doing those things in the right application (email client and media player, respectively).

My tab use dropped immediately.

I now have a plugin that prevents me from opening more than n tabs (in my case, I have set n=7 right now), which forces me to linearize my naturally sprawly browsing. I need to either finish one task before going on to the next -- or make a proper core dump of it, which includes mental notes as well as links to browsing session. This has actually helped me pick it up faster later on!

It has also prevented me from stressing about unimportant things because they are open in the web browser, telling me that they are left unfinished. Now I can prioritise the important stuff easier.
The engines nowadays are the problem of the engine developers. There are about 5 to 10 serious ones.

The actual game logic is written by the game developers in these "scripting languages". Sometimes the language is C++, but with Unity Engine it's C#.
Really a whole generation? Anecdotal but I and so many of my friends in our early twenties adore Mel Brooks
North or South Holland? I never get them in Overijssel and Gelderland. But whenever I visit Germany I always end up with a wallet filled with those crappy tiny coins (exacerbated by the fact that many places are cash only there, compared to the Netherlands).
Is not going to college for a developer viable in the current year?
I'm getting near college age, and I'm faced with a common question: "Should I go to college?" With my grades, I could get some good (possibly free ride) scholarships for decent technical colleges, but I don't feel that they'd be worthwhile, considering all my current programming knowledge has been obtained via the internet at zero cost and without structured classes. A four-year college would mean four years of my life where I could be learning in the real world, for much, much less, and without all the overhead of other, irrelevant classes. And this doesn't even factor in the financial aspect, which doesn't seems very good, given the mounting costs of universities in the US.

What do you think, and what was your experience with college or the lack thereof?
You are thinking about alphabet-based languages where the creation of a new word does not involve the creation of a new character. We are frequently creating new words which require "workarounds" (sometimes just using a romanisation) until it's properly encoded.
Yup, iMessage works fine.
I see it as dismissive but not negative. Somebody charges you a fee to help you decide on a super car. Good for them and good for you! Yet I will decide by myself if I care or not. For sure if things do not work out the worst it can happen is that you end up with a random super car. I just can't make myself to care enough about it.
That comment was posted by spammers who stole a legit user's account. Rather idiotic and HN users didn't fall for it.
> As far as I can tell, Vue doesn't introduce anything new over other front end technologies.

That's what is great about Vue. It consolidates all the idiosyncrasies of the countless private frameworks that we've home-grown, and presents their features in a standard fashion that we can use across jobs. We can look at other people's code and understand it. It's exactly what experienced front-end developers do when they do it their way.
New iPad Pro said to drop 3.5mm jack
That is basically the premise of that Richard Pryor movie Superman III
A fun-to-read-about (but not illegal) sweepstakes hack was done by a bunch of Caltech students in the 70s. Coincidentally, McDonald's was the target there, too. http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
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20th Century Fox uses AI to predict who will watch a movie from its trailer
> I fail to see the relevance of Iran's example

If a country wont look at its history why do expect others to look at that country's history?
It was a scam. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642418
When is the best time to hire a salesperson?
The same author posted a follow-up post explaining why:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/12/did-a-melatonin-patent-...

In summary:
"Commenters, including a patent lawyer, have filled in the rest of the story. Because melatonin is a natural hormone and not an invention, patents can only cover specific uses of it. The MIT patent covered the proper way to use it for sleep; a broader patent might not have been granted. The patent probably guided supplement companies, but expired about five years ago. It’s now legal to produce melatonin 0.3 mg pills, but people are so used to higher doses that few people do."
Email still works without carrier/BB support for push email?
I would think that the best option is a RAID 1 with hard-drives and a filesystem that checksums all files and their metadata, like btrfs or zfs. I believe these filesystems support recovery via RAID 1 setups. It's just a matter of periodically (automatically) asking the filesystem to verify all files with their checksums and fix whatever corruption it sees with the hard-drive that has the good copy of whatever was corrupted.

I would set it up so that it reports whenever it finds errors. Every time a drive starts to fail frequently (because everything needs to fail at some point) I would buy a new hard-drive to replace the failing one and clone the drive that has the good copy.

It might be good to get drives from different (good!) vendors to minimize the chance that they'll both fail at around the same time, because if that happens you'd have to figure out from which drive to copy which blocks. Maybe it's a good idea to make a RAID 1 with more than 2 drives? Idk, that might be going overboard. Still tons better than DVDs, lol.

EDIT: If you want to go further, it might also be good to sync your backups with an online service like rsync.net or something. It's more expensive than local backups because you have to pay rent for the storage, but that way you won't lose anything if your house catches fire or was robbed or whatever. You might think that if you did that, then there's no point in having your backups locally, but I would hope people stop trusting businesses so much (especially the free ones) with something as important as having the only backups of family photos and videos, etc. Backups is the kind of thing that never matters until it's critical.
As an open source alternative to poket, you can use wallabag.
Or you can store url through shaarli too...
Analysis System for Movie Releases Based on Movie Trailer [pdf]
I don’t know if it’s me just getting older but it seems like everywhere I go during summer time - it’s incredibly hot and unbearable, i remember playing during soccer and basketball in the afternoon when I was at high school and didn’t really feel that unbearable heat like I do feel now
Exactly; besides far more public visibility (well with notable exceptions like Theranos lately), how is it different than vc backed startups?

Bubble already popped and will rise and pop again, yes there are scams like there are everywhere; that is no news, nothing to see here.
I am not arguing with you that it's wrong, I am saying the solution isn't as easy as you describe. This isn't a tumor you can cut out, it's a veiny cancer that is hard to see and widespread. I'd bet there were a number of individuals that knew about it, felt it was wrong, and maybe some did do something about it. Firing them would probably make the system worse, not better.

It's quite easy for a bunch of non-racist individuals to create a well-intentioned system that has a racist effect. It happens in many institutional systems, this year's Pulitzer prize went to a guy who showed that D.C.'s well intentioned and black-run criminal justice system discriminated against black people in their own city.

When you have systemic problems like this, you can't just swap out some individuals, you need to fix the system. My original point is that increasing Harvard's class size will be a necessary component. It may also require a change of leadership (e.g., president or dean of admissions), but this is not a personnel problem, it 's a structural one.
POC vs. MVP vs. Prototype: Which Method Is Perfect for Your Product Launch
I don't know, maybe because that is what Oracle is doing with Project Panama?

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/
I agree. All of the VR gaming experiences I've had have been very unimpressive, and really just a gimmick (although a cool one I will admit)
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That's a neat soundbite, but it's committees, planning, arguing, and meetings that got us the protocols underpinning an open internet that are holding up decades later. Not to discount his work, but wouldn't it be great if he sat down with some people who argued for the best format to store and deliver it?
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It won't happen. Imagine there are 3800 Asians, with perfect SAT, validictorians, excellence, etc. You can make 95% people boycott, the other Asian applicants will apply even if they sign to the pledge.

It is better for professors of Asian descent to leave, and not join, Harvard. That will send a better message.
What makes it unscientific? Because it makes it difficult to access information?

There's a lot of information access to which is, by law, forbidden, or restricted.
I share this sentiment wholeheartedly. The power of single minded dedication is humbling. This type of act adds wealth to the human experience far beyond what the "corporate" model can deliver.

I hate to pull politics into stuff like this but I always thought one of the massive unforeseen benefits of a basic minimum income would be an explosion of these types of "labors of love".
I don't understand how the study of Roman History as opposed to any other Empire's History would make America feel more exceptional.
Not trying to dispute the information stated in the article. Just want to add that as an exception, here in Mumbai, the weather is pleasant and enjoyable, it's cloudy with intermittent showers every few hours.
But when they do finish, it will stand the test of time!
YouTube alternative that copies the YT 2007 design
You may be right. I just don’t know why the old style pc games died. I just attempted one possible explanation —- For sure there is more to it.

it just seems to me that LucasArts (adventure games like Monkey Island), MicroProse, Sierra, Westwood, Firaxis, Brøderbund etc just died in a span of 10 years and PC games just never got back to their older style.
Kind of, Mono never was up to speed with what .NET Runtime is capable of, plus before Xamarin got acquired by Microsoft, Unity didn't want to renew their licenses so C# on Unity was stuck into .NET 3.5 world.

They also started their own native code compiler for C#, called IL2CPP, because it compiles MSIL via C++ compiler.

Recently they migrated to .NET 4.6, although the latest version is .NET 4.7.2, due to some Roslyn integration issues.

Additionally they started another project to compile a C# subset (HPC#), with a new compiler named Burst, as a means to start porting some of their C++ modules into C#.
Here's another thorough article: http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/staff/supporting_files/esauer/irani...
And even more in Java and C++ than those two summed up together.
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> The simple feature of reducing settlements from days into seconds is by itself a great use-case.

The reasons for why settlements take days, and not seconds, is procedural, not technical. If the financial world wanted instant settlements, we would have had them decades ago.

The financial world optimizes for intent and compliance, not speed. This is why settlements take days, and why cryptocoins aren't very interesting to it.

Transferring money from one account to another account is as simple as updating two rows in a database. That the database is not a distributed proof-of-work ledger has nothing to do with it taking days.
North Holland. I don't get a lot, but they do trickle in when I pay with cash and am given change. I wait until I have an opportunity to use them, and pay with them, and retailers never say anything about it, gladly accept the coins.
Dairy products would not have made up a substantial portion of a regions diet until lactose tolerance had emerged. Lactose intolerance extends to all dairy products, not just milk. And again, you need lactating animals to produce consistent dairy products. Animals do not naturally lactate unless they're feeding their young. And animals also do not naturally produce the freakish amount of milk that we're able to extract now a days from millennia of artificial selection and, in the US at least, using a lifelong cocktail of all sorts of different drugs.

To be clear, I do agree with you that in certain uncommon scenarios lactose tolerance could provide a tangible, though not enormous, advantage. And that's the problem. A different shaped beak for a bird entails a never-ending constant, and enormous, advantage. Lactose tolerance is something that's pretty irrelevant by comparison, yet it would become ubiquitous.
> Harvard makes all sorts of claims that they pick the best and the brightest based on merit.

they didn't lie - they do pick the best and brightest. But they don't claim that's the _only_ people they pick.
I always think the European border would have extended all the way to Iran (and thus more fairly represented in western cultures) if it hadn't fallen to the Arabian conquest.
This is such a shallow piece on Indian summer. I gave up reading after the part about doctor's dilemma. Summer strokes have been common in India for a long time. And the article doesn't even talk about the summer wind also known as Loo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loo_(wind)

The dry summer wind is considered fatal by many and normally people have raw mango juice or Aam panna to ward it off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aam_panna

I grew up in North India where my parents made me drink it after lunch every day during summers.

Nowadays I find that many people are not aware of this traditional recipe and they instead opt for stuff like drips etc as mentioned in the article.
They could be given sarcastic Unicode names like MEANINGLESS KANJI-STYLE TATTOO #1 to #12.
The usual way is to release a white paper about your hypothetical product and then create a token and launch an ICO.
And animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change
It's a metric you can actively improve on by studying. Ala, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
But it's not summer in Mumbai now, it's monsoon season.
Iirc, the creator of VLC maintains much of it on his own, and going by his comments on Reddit, has turned down several eight figure offers.
New Delhi is probably one of the worse hit places. The general sentiment is true in a lot of other places in India too. Pune, where I reside, used to be a place where the British had a lot of properties because the climate was closer to what they were used to (cold). It's changed quite a lot in the last couple of years. We reached 43 deg C last year.
Nearly 40 degrees C two days in a row last week in the Netherlands, breaking all records in history -- and the Dutch are quite unprepared for such heat, there are nearly zero air conditioners anywhere. It's a new manifestation of "unbearable" for me.
Correct, however Hotspot isn't the only JIT compiler around in the Java world.

At least J9, Azul and now Graal, and then there is the plethora of embedded ones, but those ones wouldn't be able to use that much memory anyway.
Is that because the graph is denominated in US$? The volatility might be exchange rate movements.
Yes, intermediaries add value but in many cases they get paid disproportionately, define rules and regulations that range from one sided at best and truly evil at worst. And this has been going on for a long time and people are understandably irritated and looking for alternatives.

If the system wasn't so unfair, we probably wouldn't need to look for alternatives. Fixing the current systems is impossible at this point as the intermediaries have grown too big and too strong, so people are looking for alternatives.
Yes that’s actually what these flex zone hobs use as well. They just spread loads of smaller inductors over a larger surface so it does not matter where you put the pots. The main difference is being able to control the power per pot rather than per predefined zone.
Does most of it come down to memorization? I haven't ran into these styles of interviews so far.
American Companies and universities will rarely admit they are using quotas. Rather, diversity initiatives boost the probability of hire for certain demographics. This may help correct existing prejudice and discrimination, but it is also unfair to the other demographics. Hopefully companies will consider other avenues to increase their diversity rather than having differing hiring standards.
> Obviously the majority of California did not donate.

Donating and voting are the same, in that both are actions of people harboring views that are (supposedly) at odds with effective and fair leadership. Of course, donations make the inability known, whereas by only voting, the inability is real but unknown. I can't say for sure which people voted for Prop 8, but can say that most people are ideologically unqualified.

> I do think a lot of people are in fact unqualified to lead

Naturally only a small percentage of the population are qualified across the board to be CEO of Mozilla.

But that's not what's interesting. What's interesting is that most Californians have political views outside of the realm of acceptability for CEO circa 2014.
This is a good time to remind everyone to donate to the Archive: https://archive.org/donate/
Democracy is a function of many variables. "An average high intelligence of population" and "high tolerance for seemingly outrageous ideas" are important ones. Humans have rigid belief-systems (comfort zone) and show very little capacity to step out of it.

In the current form of democracy, freedom of expression exists only when it is convenient for masses or when the elites need to push an agenda.
Your personal experience is consistent with information in the article, see the map describing decrease of living standards due to the climate change (Mumbai is in the safe area)
Robotex Has Just Expanded to Anguilla, Armenia, Japan, Mali and Monaco
Z80 still being manufactured in the form of the eZ80
So, what's with the retirement of proven older aircraft in spite of the F35?
Not being ironic, I really like his website. Brutalism amateurs should take a look http://fultonhistory.com/
That is the perfect example (on desktop), no regard for the design, still perfectly functional (including back button etc..).

Edit: just noticed the use of jAlbum for the gallery. Just adding +1 to nostalgia :)
Here's a video of the "sketchy" shader. Couldn't find the others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrr3dt01jNc
I'm originally from Morocco and living in the Netherlands, in my birth city it gets close to 50°C. I have been really enjoying the "extreme heat wave" in the Netherlands lately but also seeing how my friends and colleagues just couldn't handle it.
You have the context of what you're responding to right above you. The discussion is about mutations. How a single mutation would propagate in cases where mutations were entirely random as opposed to those where mutations were, in some way, less than random.
Which components/stack/supplychain is used by most crypto-miners?
Better, but still too many typos or wrong syntax to be useful enough.
This accords with a recent a high profile rape case in the UK involving rugby players where the defence barrister was questioning the alleged victim's account because she kept using 'you' rather than 'I' when describing her behaviour during the alleged rape. (The players were found not guilty in court but not on media and social media and were fired.)
You hate python so you made a library to make it look worse, but at least less pythonic?
I believe someone will find it useful and it frightens me
For the sake of simplicity, let's assume all legacy admissions are white males, and that the diversity they claim to promote is racial and gender diversity.

> Legacy admissions promote exactly the opposite of diversity

That's only true if the number of white males that would be admitted in a fully diverse class is not large enough to accommodate all the legacy admissions. I suspect that this is not the case, and so legacy admissions are essentially orthogonal to diversity considerations.

Dropping the assumptions stated in the first paragraph, the above argument remains correct as long as each category considered for diversity analysis has more admissions than the number of legacy admissions in that category.
Jacobson sent a $1m winning ticket to a hospital, where the donations clerk immediately turned it in. Imagine what would have happened if she'd decided to keep it for herself? I wonder whether and how Jacobson would have taken steps to expose her, without exposing himself.
Somewhat related: I've found Departures (Japanese) to be a great movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238/
That's a cool project. Do you plan on having custom applications for a bunch of different websites? I can certainly see that becoming logistically complex. Speaking to my experience, since 2015 YouTube (er, sorry, YouTube™) went through one major style revision requiring a re-working of my app, and they have just gone through a minor one, which will require some tweaking.
It's not you. Anyone going on in years will notice this. It's a real phenomenon. My solution has been: go to higher altitudes.
Fallen and stayed*. Andalusia too was part of the muslim caliphate and yet....
Oh wow, thank you for pointing that out! You can barely see it because the internet is too fast these days, but after you click a link it says "A wise decision!"

EDIT: His donation page is here: http://fultonhistory.com/Donation%20paypal.html
...citing performance or budgetary concerns...

In the UK, where I ran a business and employed people, you need a small mountain of paperwork, collected over a fair period of time, to show that you tried in good faith to remedy the situation with the employee (in case of performance). Budgetary concerns also carry a heavy burden of proof. It really is a difficult and time-consuming path. Most medium and large companies choose to bypass the whole thing and offer a "compromise agreement", essentially "we give you x months pay right now if you sign this agreement where we mutually agree not to sue, or talk bad against eachother, and you GTFO right now".

There is a significant risk of something called "constructive dismissal" meaning you made it unreasonably hard for someone to be effective in their workplace, that is decided by an employment tribunal. As an employer, the system is undoubtedly a burden, but as a human, I always found I could live with it. I had one instance where it was open-and-shut grounds for instant dismissal, and I still had to spend 4 months going through the process to ensure I was fully covered and not liable to some tribunal action. That sucked, but in the end there are many large firms that will fuck over employees without a second thought (USA style), and employees need protection from that.
No proposal with AAI to develop airports under PPP scheme