skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unless someone shouts into the ears of other person to induce hearing damage, it's clearly redefining the language to suit ones agenda and should be condemned.

I believe you are misunderstanding the parent's comment. The authors do not equate conversational violence with physical violence. Nor are they suggesting dictionaries amend their definition of violence. They are merely categorizing types of verbal communication, and providing names for them. It's no worse than calling someone's language as "soft" or "hard" - both are ridiculous if you go with the literal definitions. I could easily go and look up theorems/terminologies in science and engineering and make the same arguments about overloading common English terms. I'd rather not attribute negative intentions to the people who coined those terms for industry use.

>it's clearly redefining the language to suit ones agenda and should be condemned.

You are attributing intention to someone else, and this is a common way conversations go downhill. The books teach you how not to do that. They also suggest that using words like "should" in an unqualified manner is likely to derail the conversation.

>You can not be violent with words, you can use them for verbal abuse, incite violence, etc but the words themselves can't be violent.

I find it amusing you insist that you cannot be violent with words, but you are OK with using the word "abuse" for words.

(Apologies for not practicing NVC skills in this post).
Now that Digital Ocean has added custom image support, it's at least potentially possible. No idea if OpenBSD supports all the cloud components needed but it does at least support ext2 which may be close enough.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos#Yahoo!

Any move like this would start with the CEO. We have no idea if it’s a “hack” or a hush-hush back door provided by the feds. Let Bezos the pentagon lapdog give official statements instead.
Any fish that come from that area? Slightly sketched out about the fish I'm eating now.
> They want to increase the "feature" surface area as that increases sales.

That's GM in a nutshell, in my experience. I've rented 10 or so over the years (because for some reason that's what car rental places I've been to overwhelmingly have) and their cars tick lots of feature boxes but I would probably never buy one.
I thought that when I read, "He (a senior citizen) also thought he had to use the Gmail app to read his Gmail"

Like what do you want, an unskippable popup about the difference between email providers and email clients, and instructions on configuring IMAP and SMTP on a 3rd email app? That would only lead to more fear and confusion. The Gmail app is fine.
Smart phones are hard to use, not just iPhones. They are as bloated with features as an enterprise software that offers licenses by the seat.
Fundamentals of FinTech by Moody's Analytics in New York
Meh, the issue with Electron is performance. The actual dev environment is decent, like how trivial it is to bring your own abstractions like React. Being able to inspect element and use Chrome's debugger. Being able to use whatever text editor you want. Using a compile-to-JS language. etc.

I'm certainly not using Xcode + Cocoa + the MVC abstraction for iOS/macOS apps because it's the superior way to build software. It has its own warts, like the effort it takes to swap out MVC with some other pattern, or how it comes with no async abstractions -- you'll just be writing callback code like JS developers had to before the Promise.

It's tempting to unmask "ugh, JS developers" as a bunch of idiots, but I think you'd only be kidding yourself if you think your pet environment is some global optimum.
It is empirically the case that Keynesian beauty pageant assets can have stable prices: e.g. gold.
What's more plausible in this scenario: One or two journalists run a fake story, possibly for financial gain or simply notoriety, or that hundreds and even thousands of engineers and managers across multiple tech companies are all complicit in the most elaborate and coordinated corporate conspiracy in history, all just to hide the fact that they were breached...
iPhones don't come with comprehensive instruction manuals, do they? (I know my Android didn't)
My favorite Bezos advice is "Invest in the constants". He suggest that things like customers wanting quicker/cheaper shipping have been constant over duration of his business. In general, I suspect human nature is approximately constant relative to the velocity of technology.
1. Copying/pasting text on iOS is far from obvious.

2. Quitting apps completely (not having them run in a background thread)
The tech empower benchmarks for Ruby are a bit foobar, I tried to fix it but ran out of time. I wouldn't trust it completely. I'm not saying it's wrong, I just don't think it's the complete picture.
You're talking 6 months. Would you want to be paid in BTC for your full time job, or start a business that pays its employees that way?
Statement from Nate Mitchell (head of Rift at Oculus): https://twitter.com/natemitchell/status/1054460295697944578
> I don't think there's one issue tracker to rule them all

Oh, definitely. GitHub and GitLab issues are both pretty nice. However, they're not meant to be super featureful, and I think there's a niche between those types of issue trackers and Jira, where most people are actually probably better served by something simpler than Jira.

Some very large projects are managed with GitHub/GitLab issues, so there's definitely an advantage there, but they don't work when you want to track other things with them (e.g. hardware design/release process, customer support tickets, etc).

I just need to figure out what people dislike about Jira, then match the most common use cases making Jira's weaknesses my advantages. However, I'm not fully invested in it yet, but we'll see how much I get fed up with Jira/Gitlab issues (I work on projects that use both).
You’re quite welcome. Best of luck with the startup.
Do people really apply for jobs on mobile? If I came across it on mobile, I'd just go, oh okay, and read it later on my laptop or desktop.

I'm an admitted anti-mobile person though. I am exceptionally skeptical that the mobile revolution will adequately replace the keyboard/mouse combination for high productivity tasks, and don't wish to see design move entirely in that direction.
So the article concludes that Bitcoin can gain stability by being anchored to the price of gold. However isn't gold a "Keynesian Beauty Contest"? That is, gold is valuable because other people believe other people believe it is a store of value.
Rosalind is a good platform to learn a new language.
Not the best to discover the most advanced features, but enough to ensure you know your structures and algorithms.

http://rosalind.info/
With Linux, the latest kernel will allow for bluetooth connectivity. If you search for `Linux Magic Trackpad 2` you'll see some of the discussions.

It takes a bit of messing around, but once you get it, it'll stay working nicely.

One issue I had with Linux, which is probably an easy fix, is that Powertop wanted to sleep the trackpad after 10s of non-use.

With Windows, I tried to get the bluetooth working on a non-bootcamp install and couldn't get it going. I don't doubt that they'll sort it out. A few versions of W10 ago some were using the bootcamp drivers with moderate success.
Perfect explanation. Thanks.
This is a good idea. You can easily have too much, especially with the stronger consumption methods we have today.

Also, think up some things you'd like to try while under the influence... Do you have a favorite album or movie? Many things may be found to be invigorating and enjoyable in a way you couldn't have described before.
I mean, you can. The reason things are hard is because of external libraries (dependencies) that you might dynamically download and start using. If you don't have that restriction, things get vastly simpler.
I do enterprise software, I have a small farm AND I just completed a masters in robotics.
Probably wasn't intentional on your part but I feel like you just left a Baby Ruth in my pool.

Farming isn't horrible.
Programming Enterprise Software isn't that hard.
Safely doing robots in the real-world is.
This doesn't answer your questions, but I firmly believe this is the major reason node took off in popularity.

Npm let you install packages minutes after being installed, and they went right into a folder right there, and they didn't conflict with any other packages on your system.

I was like you and played with python for years but never anything larger than small scripts, and every time I went to do "real" python I'd hit a wall where you were.

npm was just so easy, so simple, so fast that it won me over. And it was years before I ever setup a virtualenv, and even then I'm still at this point not entirely sure how it works and what it's doing despite having published a pip package.
The DOM isn't particularly "buggy", relative to, say, Win32 or Cocoa. It may or may not be a bad API, but implementations are pretty solid.

(I have to confess I've never understood the objections to the DOM. I have literally never had an instance in which I had to use the raw Win32 API that didn't turn into a miserable experience.)
I guess that was my (badly made) point. It's not that the comment about Netflix isn't _true_, but that in the context of this discussion it's not particularly useful.
Most of this article just lists semi-advanced features that people don't know about. I think that’s Apple’s intention...

Having every feature and option up in your face can reduce usability and make simple tasks harder for the average user. Apple wants a product that's easy for anyone to use and that often means keeping non-essential features out of the way.

I’d be more interesting in seeing feedback for Apple on how to improve the situation without compromising on ease of use.

(Regarding the WiFi thing...I agree this is a very annoying default setting, but I think a worse outcome is when a user shows up in their friend’s house and has no idea how to connect to the WiFi. Making the user go to Settings -> WiFi to disable this prompt means they’ve demonstrated they’ll be able to go back to that page to manually connect to a network in the future. If you turn this setting off on a friend's phone, be sure they still know how to connect manually.

(Though I do think iOS could be smarter and not prompt you to connect to intermittent networks while you’re driving around a city...))
That last read was truly grim.

However, to reject the Rule of St Benedict because some Benedictines lived in egregious violation of it is like rejecting the United States Bill of Rights because the United States has often acted in direct violation of it.

The Rule is, on the whole, a wonderful document, and there are today and have been through history a great many good people who live it day in and day out fairly faithfully. I'm privileged to call some such people my friends.
A couple ideas that went nowhere
Average income hasn't even kept pace with inflation since the 70's, go take a look at a graph of income inequality over time if you're curious where all those productivity gains went, you prove my point regarding no measurable drop in food prices (incidentally a loaf of bread is closer to $2.00 here), and would anyone care to take a crack at the larger criticism, namely total economic collapse of vast swaths of rural America or is "well, actually" over the price of a fucking loaf of bread the best HN can do?
I know that makes sense, but it feels unsettling and wrong. Where are the good old times of proper XHTML.
Our company and others are seeing plenty of interest and adoption in the enterprise / training space. We haven't seen it really catch on yet as a gaming platform in part because of price and in part because we have yet to see a platform selling game equivalent to a Mario / Halo type of exclusive. Where there are real use cases in enterprise price isn't such a barrier however.
The issue isn't exactly that it's not ready for prime time, but that it's not ergonomic at the moment. The biggest issue that you have to get used to is that pretty much everything has to be owned data, and no references passed around when constructing Future types. This can feel like it comes into conflict with the poll(&mut self) interface (in 0.1).

Also, I found truly understanding the fact that returning data from functions either must be sized or boxed, no references. Again, the &mut self can come into conflict here. But there are simple tricks for dealing with it, like using inner enums for iterating through a state machine of the future, and using Option where you can take() the value when ready.

You'll see these patterns if you look at the Future library and Tokio impls of many of the core types. So I encourage you to generate docs with `cargo doc` and then click the `src` link on any types you want to understand better. The thing I wish I had internalized more earlier (and have been cleaning up a lot lately), is that "Futures should do no work unless polled". This is easy to mess up and regret later as you might accidentally start a Timer or initiate a connection before polling the Future.

Anyway, hopefully people help out when you ask, though everyone's often busy :)
It's gotten worse. Screens keep getting bigger, but more and more functionality keeps getting hidden behind undiscoverable swipes and taps. I've been an iPhone user since the 3G, I used to program computers for a living, and I don't have a reliable mental model of what the available gestures even are these days. I'm reduced to randomly tapping and pressing and swiping like some sort of idiot.
Sure, where "fixed on NYMags end" means "NYMags has implemented a workaround because FB broke things".
What do you think the genius bar experts do?
> Would you consider USD also subject to a Keynesian Beauty Contest?

No. The Fed puts its thumb on the scales. We've known since about the 19th century that growing economies and fixed-supply currencies don't play well together.
It's even anti-ergonomic in general to overload features. It's probably an easy frequency based relationship.
On devices with 3D Touch you can also press harder to activate text selection, which is something I use daily.
Where will this succeed where countless others failed? Just timing of the market? Were the others too early?

This is Koding.com with a new interface.

They also gave away a lot of free resources, then tried to monetize, failed. What will this company do different?
Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge: World's longest sea bridge in pictures
Medicare is not a decision making body. What are you talking about?
>There's no good reasoning that an naturally evolved human brain would operate under one simple, sound, fundamental computing principle. It's far more likely to be a mishmash of unsound models, like all evolved physical characteristics of animals.

Quite the opposite, actually. Anything essential to survival and reproduction is optimized for its design constraints quite heavily, resulting in many attributes of observed organisms being physiologically optimal.

You should look into the "rational analysis" paradigm in cognitive science.
Yeah for me the big change I dont think so much is actual condom usage but the up front attitudes. 10 years ago on hookup apps if you said 'bareback only' it would have been taboo to most. But now it seems like that's acceptable and a surprisingly large percent refuse condoms period which is crazy to me. Like for this percent of users sex with a condom is worse than no sex which is what's crazy to me..
I have had the same experience with iPhones - being unable to figure out how to do things should have been easy. Ended up having to use my Android to look up how to do things.

It's not that things aren't possible (sometimes), it's that they're not discoverable.
In principle, if the provider does support full-virtualization and has a debug console, one could install any operating system of their choice, manually.

It may be possible even without one, if you can somehow figure out how the boot process works. The most crazy successful attempt I made was performing deletion of the entire Linux root filesystem with a busybox shell running in RAM over SSH, and replacing it with to another unsupported distribution, then rewrite the grub.cfg, configure the network settings and trigger a clean filesystem sync and reboot via proc. Finally pray you'll see the server coming online again soon. It worked.

But providing a template is all it needs for the provider to support OpenBSD, unfortunately it is still unavailable. Is it that hard to provide a template?
How we halved our memory consumption in Rails with jemalloc
I recently wrote a blog post on how we halved our memory consumption, and drastically increased speed, in our Ruby on Rails app just by switching to jemalloc: https://medium.com/rubyinside/how-we-halved-our-memory-consumption-in-rails-with-jemalloc-86afa4e54aa3
If anyone has any thoughts, or other tips for performance optimisation, please do leave a comment!
My top 5 annoyances:

- Too many features I'll never use, that mostly can't be removed. Less is more.

i.e. I'll never use Siri or facial recognition. Never owned a bluetooth device. "Screen Mirroring" What? in the Control Center. Yet those and more always in the way, sometimes draining battery.

- When radios are off to save energy, constantly nags about connection with modal dialogs that prevent use of the home button.

- Can't use it as a flash drive (w/o grudging workarounds)

- Insists on using white backgrounds at night. Night mode saved my life but would prefer a dark theme at night. Clock is the opposite, hard to read in the day time. All hardcoded.

- Can't disable the always accidental swipe from top stuff I'm never interested in.

Btw, thanks to the author for linking to how to disable apps in iMessage, just more clutter I didn't want. Totally unintuitve, BTW.

Bonus: There's App and Microphone icons in the iMessages entry field that take up 1/3 of the space. Don't use Apps there and might use the microphone button once a year. Hit it mistakenly often.
I can’t help resist the thought: this was planted for political purposes.

1. If people buy the narrative, it works as anti-China talking points and we continue to villanize China and look for US to step up manufacturing of tech.

2. If it blows up and backfires, we get to villanize journalism as a profession and push for government takeover of media to ensure honest and integrity above profit (eg fakenews).

By planted story, I mean insiders or impostors feeding lies to journalists- tho I would hope Bloomberg would know how to vet a source?
> When watching on my computer, they insert un-skippable ad breaks during stoppages, even when watching a replay.

That is completely absurd. They literally broke fast forward. I would definitely not sign up next year. I bet the commercials are louder than the game too.
> yes even the Atheist worships something

Actually, no. It's the absence of it. It's like saying not smoking is a habit. It makes no sense.
From SemiAccurate's [0] article:

>Update October 22, 2018@3:30pm: Intel has denied ending 10nm on Twitter. The full tweet is, “Media reports published today that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process are untrue. We are making good progress on 10nm. Yields are improving consistent with the timeline we shared during our last earnings report.” SemiAccurate stands by its reporting.

[0] https://semiaccurate.com/2018/10/22/intel-kills-off-the-10nm...
Heh, I did not know about either of these. How did you discover them?

It’s kinda like the “tap the clock to scroll to the top” feature, I think I discovered it by accident one day.
Agreed. It's also a tough problem. Before starting Repl.it, I worked on a JavaScript packager at Facebook (which became the Metro Packager).

With Repl.it we're working on what we're calling a "universal package manager", a common abstraction on top of the various language package managers. It also has a visual interface which generates a requirements.txt/package.json/etc for you.

https://repl.it/site/blog/packager
I'd also like to know this. It may have been due to the ensuing flame-war in the discussion.
The machine I'm typing this on is an X230 Tablet. I bought it used, dropped in a second 4Gb DIMM and a SSD. It took literally minutes longer than to do the same tasks on a desktop, mostly because you had to remove the old HDD from the caddy.
There is a belief that Bitcoin is following specific pattern [0] and will stabilize in 2030 at ~$1M per coin. So far the model was pretty accurate.

[0] https://1nodld1ltmqu3jimmy2xsgcu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

P.S. Dear downvoters, this is not a financial advice!
The IPC overhead is very much manageable, microkernels tend to be a lot more responsive than monoliths and with paging for message passing the overhead is reduced even further.
This 'confirmation' sure doesn't sound like a five-sigma detection of a new particle at CERN.
Gold also has intrinsic utility to industry. The same cannot be said for Bitcoin.
> Apple won't fare as well if they were to be evaluated by an audience unfamiliar with their brand and devices all together.

Haven't they spent the last decade expanding into new markets successfully though? And from what I gather their new customer retention and satisfaction is among the best in the industry.

People like to explain away Apple's success as merely the product of "fanboys" they've had for decades, as though the same 10 million guys who bought the first iphone are somehow responsible for the 50+ million phones apple sells each quarter. The truth is simpler: (1) yes they do have many loyal customers and (2) those customers keep buying Apple products because they have good experiences with them. It's also true that their design priorities are not universal and some are especially ornery for power users. But the idea that their UI design is inherently bad seems off and the fact that people keep copying them [1] seems like the best evidence.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17988564/chinese-phone-s... , money quote: "judging by the accuracy and specificity of the rip-offs, the camera app from iOS 7 has a serious claim to being one of the most influential software designs of the past decade."
I promise you that my dad works at microsoft and he has a chip I add to my ps4 to make it play Xbox games, you can't see it because it's too small becaise he also secretly works for the new. He taught me how to program the chips and I can do anything with them.
It would be between 25kg (54 pounds) and 60kg (130 pounds), depending on the size of the donation. Just in case anybody else was wondering too.
Google News app bug is using up GBs of background data witho users knowledge
>The media portrayal seems to imply that you download a model, press a button, and out pops this perfectly printed part hot off the bed

I happily do exactly this all day with my several year old Makerbot. I print in 3D just about as reliably as I print something with ink on paper.
I’m suggesting that your meritocracy doesn’t exist - if your organisation is structured to exclude people who may (and likely do) have contributions of merit, it is not a meritocracy. Then, the question is simple - who do you exclude? People who abuse others, or the people they abuse?

Note that this is a community issue, not a code issue. If somebody wants to sit on their own, publish patches to their own website, and somebody else wants to import those patches into a community project, fine - there’s no non-technical interaction needed there, and little actual reason to exclude their code. It’s excluding them from the community that we’re talking about here.
Microplastics found in 100% of human samples
Microkernels are much easier to optimize for multi-core CPUs than monoliths. The ´kernel modules´ from a monolith run as user processes in a microkernel environment so they automatically benefit from more cores.