skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Gazelle. Or the similar sites, the names of which escape me now.
You might like the books from Jeff Heaton:

https://www.heatonresearch.com/book/

All chapters come with example code written in C#, Java and R.
There’s nothing particularly special about the Time Capsule. Time Machine works with almost any consumer NAS.
That's an interesting agreement by Apple, how much more business do they gain? I simply would never buy from Amazon, not just because of the risk of counterfeit, but because Apple's online ordering is already so good. And it's a bit easier to find my receipts/purchase history when trying to get a product fixed or replaced at the store.
But don't you find you learn things, get introduced to new concepts and so on?

I definitely think that HN has improved me as a software developer, if only to show me how much unknown stuff there is out there.

Reddit is a bit more questionable but I've definitely found useful things in some sub-reddits.

And sometimes all I want is something that will easily wile away a few minutes.
Privacy for Tigers
As long as you are fine with companies tracking every place you go (via GPS), everything you purchase, everything you view on line, and everybody you know. Then sure, the phone can replace cash.

Often I do not want any record that I have purchased something, I will stick with cash. Thanks.
I made something like that for myself before SASS etc. were a thing, and it's been working so great for me that I keep using it, even though it's kinda derpy. First, I have a bunch of vars, such as

hue9, top_bg_sat, top_bg1_lum, top_bg2_lum

Only those get changed when making new color schemes, and the colors are made up from them like so:

hsl top bg1: [hsl hue9 [float top_bg_sat] [float top_bg1_lum]]
hsl top bg2: [hsl hue9 [float top_bg_sat] [float top_bg2_lum]]

Those colors in I use in the CSS so they can get replaced by the final HSLA color:

background:	<:top bg1>;
background:	linear-gradient(to bottom, <:top bg1 l/1.125> 0%, <:top bg1> 10%, <:top bg2> 90%, <:top bg2 l*1.125> 100%);

allowing modifiers, such e.g. "use this color, but with luminance divided by 1.125".

I would look into options before rolling my own again, but even rolling my own made my life so much easier, so quickly, I would still recommend it just because it's fun.
Hmm, keep $200-600 of quickly depreciating assets whose creation is a sin against our children’s enviroment when I can have five crisp linen Benjamins at home?

And do the same for car.

And the hotel room when you are travelling.

Doesn’t seem too logical.
Interesting, hopefully they will come up with some strategies to reduce counterfeits/innacuratelistings in general
Who decides what is a legitimate transaction?

If a politically undesirable group wants to accept donations, is this legitimate?
> Still, I'm glad that Apple are still the sort of company that replace the whole machine in these situations

Huh, in Norway there are multiple cases of them refusing to follow the law when it comes to repairs. Norway has good consumer protection laws, better than the guarantee most companies provide, and Apple is known for not honoring this.
Which is a significantly bigger investment. An extra phone is a permanent loss of the money that went into buying it, it requires maintenance (of a sort) and needs to be replaced on a regular basis since the payment apps will presumably continue to require relatively recent operating systems. It also requires a dedicated SIM card with associated cost.

As a bonus, phones sometimes explode and set fire to things - when they're not busy getting hacked :)
> That's why you don't have to worry about salmonella in your chicken sandwich or a steel beam falling onto your head at work.

You have to worry about both of those things. Why? Because instead of forcing the placement of every steel beam and the sale of every chicken sandwich to pass through the hands of an intermediary who both profits from and regulates the action, we just decided to regularly inspect places where problems were likely to occur, and to investigate reports of possible violations.

The argument you're making would work just as well for recording all human speech at all times, and processing it for suspicious topics - which is totally currently technologically possible. Even if it weren't, why not require that all conversations be had over a telephone? That's pretty much the same as having rules about the amount of arsenic allowed in salt...
And the black market is a key safety valve for a fully-functioning capitalist economy (like it or not).

Hell, even the USSR had paper cash in circulation allowing some privacy and trade between individuals.

Having solely account-based money under complete regulatory control amounts to a huge increase in what is practical to put under political control. It could drastically increase the incentives to ban and regulate trade in anything of interest to special interests. E.g. the pharmaceutical industry could finally get rid of herbal medicine.
I’ve invested heavily in the Apple ecosystem so it pains me to see these issues.

Same here. I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with AppleCare, that I want to sell before the AppleCare runs out (with some margin) and definitely before the extended keyboard warranty deadline is in sight. I am worried that, since these generations are plagued by keyboard problems, the prices will drop quickly.

I used to buy a new MacBook every 1.5 to 2 years. However, I honestly do not know which model I would buy. I do not want a model with a touch bar (I don't like the touch bar and it is slightly expensive). The MacBook Pro escape wasn't refreshed, it still has the keyboard without the silicon membranes. And the new Air uses much less powerful CPUs. Even if I would go for the Pro with touch bar or Air, I would still be worried that the butterfly keyboard problems are not solved, just postponed.

I agree that the Mac Mini looks like the only reasonable machine, performance-wise and quality-wise. Of course, it's not that handy on the go ;).
Get a coffee job on the weekends or go volunteer , really fun way to make friends . The coffee job requires zero brain work so it’s not mentally exhausting when you sit down Monday’s to not move and just code all day. Might take some guts to get into social zone but after breaking through its way worth it . Easier to just think about impermanence of your life each 10 minutes, you will die in a couple decades and rot into the earth like every other human, then the small issues become meaningless when faced with death reminder .
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SIM card is key. In the US, last I checked, networks won’t give you an extra SIM for the same line.

So you’d have to get an extra service line :S
I use Arq [1]. Works with cloud storage and NASes.

https://www.arqbackup.com/
How does it solve the 'access allocation' problem better than a random lottery?
When I moved from the bay area to Germany, I suddenly had to actively manage the cash in my wallet and intentionally bring coins -- coins, people! -- with me around town. Felt like taking a step backwards in time, really annoying.

If you use the "wrong" bill denominations or don't have the right coins, cashiers can get irked at you too. It's so backwards compared to not having to think about it.
Okay, forget about Apple's sales and market position- the average consumer doesn't care about that. The question should be, will Apple innovate and improve as it has in the past in a way that benefits customers? And will it do so in a way that doesn't just serve the higher-end market?
Logical: perhaps. Ridiculous: definitely.
Yes. You can see the switch on the side render here: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/
I'm quite impressed by their company manifesto:

https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/

More companies should follow this example.
> On the MacBook Pro [2016] front I've had the sticking keys issue on the left command, C, B, G and 3 keys

I so want to buy the MacBook Air 2018 but am afraid the 3rd generation keys only delay the known problems until I’m out of warranty. I have to wait and see if there is a wave of defects in a year or two to judge its reliability. Why did Apple have to sacrifice reliability for thinness…
It's a lot like being naked, except that people don't get upset, and there's less breeze :) I initially just wore them for dancing, but hey.
- Neural turing machines: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

- Universal transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819

These are just 2 of most well known.
I agree with you that there should be more options available!

It does strike me that if society nudges men a little towards buying clothing “out of need” then I could see how the market expresses more conservative options.
Ah that's great!
> The market demands thinner laptops with amazing battery life. The market - in general - isn't demanding a more serviceable macbook.

It doesn't. This is false. Noone cares about thin laptops. People want light laptops but thin is completely artifical and doesn't improve your experience.

One might say it was Jobs' plan to destroy the laptop industry with it and it worked.
> Remembering to plug into USB doesn't seem very reliable.

If it's been ~14+ days since your last backup, the computer will start displaying daily notifications reminding you to plug in the backup drive.
Specifically anything that anyone can or has at one point considered sinful, I would buy with cash:

- Alcohol
- Cigarettes
- Drugs
- Condoms
- Feminist literature
- Anti-feminist literature
- Ammunition
- Guns
- Bible
- The Koran
- Marx’s The Capital
- Low cut dress
"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court." - 15 U.S. Code § 1
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabiols67J1rnkn4oo2_1280....
I remember watching this "documentary" program on TV. Could not believe my eyes. It was one of the most exciting, paradigm-shattering experiences of my late childhood.

Central TV back then was the #2 authority, right after "Pravda". Anything shown or discussed on TV was "official", there was no room for bullshit on Soviet TV. And then, suddenly, comes this program, where Kuryokhin proves Lenin was a mushroom.
Lenin's figure was so much mythologized (there were even few research institutes dedicated to Leninism) that nothing seemed impossible. A guy which looked like a scientist equipped with complex diagrams and talking about mushroomness of Lenin on central TV - at some point the "documentary" crossed certain level of craziness that it became believable.

No other modern art performance, before or since, left such a deep mark on my brain.
I am a busty woman and the darts on shirts cut for boobs are the best thing to ever have on shirts. Regular loose tops without any darts tent out on me and make my petite frame look like a lumpy wide square. Should I not be able to find blouses that don't gape at the buttons or sit properly just because I have larger than average chest?

Darts actually allow me to wear blouses and tops that follow my shape and curves properly. I don't see why they would be an issue for smaller busted women? The darts allow the fabric to follow your body rather than just drape straight. I see those types of shirts being modeled and worn on smaller busted women all the time and they seem to look good. If you look at expensive fitted blouses they all have darts since they make the shirt fit the body rather than just drape loosely and straight on everyone . Women follow all shapes and sizes and its important to have all styles avaliable so that everyone can find something that works well.
Apple has never served anything but the higher end market that’s where the money is.

Even in the heyday of the Apple //e back in the early 80s, thier computers cost more than thier competitors.

As can be seen in the Android market and the PC market, it’s hard to “innovate” while competing on price.
The article says circulating cash is 1% of GDP and falling. In the US, it is 8% and rising (with a high of 12% in 1946 and a low of 4% in the early 1980s)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=lZye

Edit: See also this table

https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1803/images/tab6-A.jpg

(from https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1803g.htm )
> you're making a domain error when you conflate the forces of physical chemistry during first mitosis with higher level cognitive phenomenon of self-perception and identity. i hope you recognize that.

No, I'm using a figure of speech, and you're responding to nothing, certainly not the strongest possible interpretation.

> and you're entirely wrong about society being a fiction and therefore it not being real enough to matter.

You simply don't understand a word of what I say, as I say it.

The very first words of my first comment in this thread were

> Yes, we look for confirmation, just like we give it

Which makes it clear I don't "denounce others" or say "the outside is an illusion", or any of those plump distortions of my words, laced with big words, you offer. Apart from "I agree with your politics" which is like saying "I think it's fine you're beating your dog". I'm not beating my dog, I wasn't proposing politics, I disagreed with something. Initially by asking a question, to let the other person maybe elaborate on something I got wrong, etc. Well so much for that, I guess that boat sailed. Yet you are not OP and cannot answer my questions to them. As it turns out, you can't even give your own answers, because you distort what I say or ask before you even interact with it.

Simply because I disagree with one extreme, you put words about another extreme into my mouth. As far as I'm concerned, you haven't actually addressed any of what I said, and I'm done wasting my time.
"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" = "I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say"
Building a cross-platform python installer using Conda Constructor
Oh come on, we already know that logical systems cannot even self reconcile it's own promises, as Gödel proved, now someone claim software should be perfect?!

Edit: the original title does not mention perfect.
> "what would be the rationale or incentive for a private payment processor (in a competitive payments market) to reject a legitimate transaction?"

Paypal cite the following reasons that they may freeze or suspend an account (at their sole discretion):

- You’ve received an abnormally large amount of money in your account that is way above your average
- Someone has filed a complaint to Paypal about your business
- A series of chargebacks have been placed against your account
- Your website has questionable content
- You are in violation of Paypal’s use policy. For example if you sell drugs or anything illegal, you may get banned
- Your account information is not up to date or your account is not fully verified
- Someone has logged into your Paypal account from a strange location.
- Your credit score is low or something with your background history makes you a higher risk customer
- They have detected fraudulent activity on your account.

Some of these are reasonable. Some of them are highly questionable. Some of them are outrageously open to abuse.
For the last few months I have been super excited about the Librem 5. I check way too often for their updates.

Maybe I’m alone but I wish I had more visibility into their progress. Might not be helpful for them though.
I love Go, used it a lot for over 3 years. I love the simplicity, directness, the inline structs, but I still cannot get out of the package management mess. I can even tolerate `if err != nil, return err` and do not care enoguh of generics, but I hope Go modules and Go 2 would fix, over the time, it has really become a love-hate relationship for me. My daily driver at work is Java and some Python, I really miss the tooling (of course, not runtime classnotfound errors) and maturity. Not ignoring the success of projects with Go, such a big one as Kubernetes, I think it is a whole different aspect, but Go started to tear me out through the years, and it is hard to defend it.
Can you point me to any resources where I can learn more?
Apprenticeship is where it’s at; where the student realizes immediately that this teacher is the God Damned man, stakes are high and the student will get kicked to the curb if they don’t give a damn.

I went to a Jesuit school, whooped rear, took names and then... wait, that’s what I do! Please excuse me while engage in more of the same.
Yes, the 2018 MBPs with "fixed" keyboards still fail. Slightly less than pre-"fix", but still exponentially more than pre-2016 MBPs. If you get one, you really want to have an external keyboard around because it will fail at the worst possible moment.
I just sent mine in for (hopefully) warranty replacement, I've never had a phone I loved more.

Lots of power, easy to handle, and I don't think about battery life ever. If they don't replace it, I'm just going to buy another. I was very sad to see they increased the screen size and resolution on the new models.
Is lack of ad-hoc polymorphism a real issue for such projects? Everyone who used JS before are accustomed to using overridden methods, or just duck typing, which are form of ad hoc polymorphism too, but Reason/Ocaml lacks it. How does this feel? Or it's easy to code avoiding ad-hoc polymorphism after forming habit for it? Do you use things like function dictionaries to simulate ad-hoc polymorphism?
Hi Harvey! My name is Kiren and I'm a student (and also a software engineer) at Holberton School. Just to be clear, we are NOT a bootcamp - we are a 2-year software engineering school. As downrightmike has said, any career is a marathon. There are a lot of students who come in with no prior experience and do get internships/jobs after the first year, but having had some self-taught experience creating low-fidelity iOS prototypes of an app I was working on before attending Holberton, I know that this won't be the case as we expand into other locations and markets. However, the people with no experience who have gotten jobs after the first year have consistently worked hard for that entire first year building on their basics. In addition, most people who do get jobs after the first year spend months interviewing and focusing on interview prep (algorithms, data structures, system design, etc.). Our application process has been awesome so far at accepting people who are undoubtedly smart and have a lot of grit. Even if we do have students of all ages who come in and get jobs after their first year, we firmly believe that it will take 2 years for students coming out of high school to become full-fledged software engineers. People shouldn't underestimate the work it takes to become a software engineer, and we certainly don't at Holberton.

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me
@srinitude on every social media platform (including Github: https://github.com/srinitude). However, I'm most active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/srinitude).
Valve Planning VR Headset Bundled with ‘Knuckles’ Controllers and Half-Life VR
I really hope Reason is going to become the №1 mainstream language for React apps.
Agreed. OP, if you are still able to edit your post, place a link to the one GitHub project of yours that you most want feedback on.
No other manufacturers disclose unit sales numbers. Apple is still selling tons of iPhones because they dominate the top of the market and don’t compete in the bottom, but the market is mostly saturated and now they’re mostly selling replacements to maintain their stock rather than expanding via new markets etc. Most reporting I’ve seen on this suggests Apple expects revenue to shift more toward services and “other products” over time, and they don’t want analysts hammering on unit sales going forward.

They’re surely sensitive to this because Apple has always traded at a low P:E relative to their peers and even the market as a whole. IE. everyone has always tends to bet against Apple and expect them to fall apart “any day now.”

Considering a substantial portion of their compensation to employees is paid in RSUs it makes sense for Apple to try and get out ahead of the narrative and protect their stock price as best they can.
I anal but in my not so humble opinion it can at best establish motive not that I did it.

I've been hearing recently about how the forensic "science" we allow in the court room isn't all that scientific either. I think our law enforcement and our prosecutors are just too lazy. I'd not mind so much if they let criminals free but it seems they will try to frame someone who is plausible and let "science", "evidence", and "experts" do the talking which is not good.

I think we should provide proper incentives for our prosecutors. We clearly can't lean on their moral compass.
I am almost certain that battery only applies to the dev board for testing and development. There is no way a 18650 is going to fit in the final Librem 5 product.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/wikileaks-blames-us-lawm... - "WikiLeaks Blames U.S. Lawmakers for Visa/MasterCard Blockade"

> WikiLeaks' founder accused two members of Congress of pressuring MasterCard (MA) and Visa (V) to block payments to his group after it published thousands of confidential messages about U.S. diplomacy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

> Julian Assange charged Tuesday that Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Rep. Peter King from New York influenced the moves by both companies in December 2010 to halt the payments.

> Assange, speaking to reporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he claimed asylum in June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face charges of sexual assault, said the blockade had eliminated 95% of WikiLeaks' revenue and cost the group roughly $50 million in donations.

Of course, it could be argued that we don't have a competitive payments market. But then your proposition wouldn't reflect the real world.
People value portability, and thin and light are both elements of that.
I'm a Norwegian who went to a Swedish music festival last summer.

I couldn't pay for a lot of things there, since the booths only accepted Swish (the only relevant Swedish mobile payment solution, it's a de facto monopoly). I couldn't sign up and use Swish on my phone, since it only accepts Swedish bank accounts. I couldn't borrow money from my Swedish friends either, since they didn't have cash (and it mostly wasn't accepted at the festival anyway).

When I could get someone to pay for me directly, transferring the money back to them was hard (since the festival didn't have any ATMs), so I had to go through the whole burdensome SWIFT procedure with getting their bank account number, their full name and address, their bank info, IBAN number of their bank etc, so I could send the money back when I got home to Norway.

Utopia my ass.
>How would we go about quantifying the preferring locality-ness of a query distribution?

For each level of the tree, treat the incoming stream of queries as a markov process where each state is a query that involves a certain node. So, if I have 7 nodes on level 2, I can build up a table of transition probabilities between vertices like "query involved node 3 on level 2" and "query involved node 7 on level 2." When the transitions between these vertices and themselves have high probability, the queries prefer locality. You can see which scale the locality is preferred on by doing this at each level of the tree.
I'm waiting for the EU to finally pass regulations that require a certain level of repairability for electronics. Modern iPhones are almost impossible to take apart and I don't understand how that's okay from any point of view other than profitability. It's such a massive waste of resources on one-use devices.