skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at a small startup in a coworking space that was shared with other small startups. In one large room, there would be loud conversations, sales calls, people coming into the office for meetings, people eating lunch together at common tables, a beeping microwave at the kitchenette, and a lot of movement as teams would go to and from meetings.

I found that a cup of coffee, 25 minute pomodoros, large meeting-free blocks of time, noise-cancelling headphones, white noise, and lyric-less music was the best combination for getting work done.

I also found that I was particularly productive in the off hours. I was taking classes during the day and would sometimes stay until 7:30 or 8 to offset the time spent at class. When nearly everyone left around 6 or 6:30, this meant that there was a lull in the noise and activity around me as well as no Slack messages or meetings, which was also very helpful for concentrating.
There is nothing to hack to meaningfully affect an election outcome at the national level. Plus Election Commission of India takes no chances around it.
Here is a summary/review about it:
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/06/nobody-wants-to-re...

Here is a summary/review for his earlier book: War of Art.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-war-of-...

Finally, Draft No.4 was a really good read.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/03/book-review-draft-n...
How expensive do prescription drugs need to be to fund research?
You can always back up onto a compression enabled file system to further save space + dedupe with rustic.

Borg is a fantastic tool but the time it takes to start and parse the files req on a large system negates the benefits of compression for me unfortunately.
I've had good experiences with https://www.iredmail.org/

> With iRedMail, you can deploy an OPEN SOURCE, FULLY FLEDGED, FULL-FEATURED mail server in several minutes, for free.

> We did the heavy lifting of putting all the open source components together and applying best practices. Our product does all the major tasks for you. Furthermore we offer professional support to back you up in case you have some problems.
I think most of us are clear on the general idea of the "what", it's the "how" that's a bit fuzzy.
You can use Wireshark to intercept USB traffic and see the raw packets. That’s how many device drivers are developed for Linux.
On the other hand it's easier to spot irregularities, the auditing is simpler because there isn't any variance.
It's in my right click menu.
> Double tapping the lock button is awkward.

I agree with this. Maybe it's because I still have trauma from broken power buttons (back in the iPhone 4 era), but I'd like to not have to press buttons as much as possible.
I'm pretty sure Bank of America had it probably 5-8 years ago. But it was web-only (I think it required a Java applet?) and awkward to use.
I think the argument that a large percentage of people in the US need to lower their wages to 'compete' with developing countries is not true, and even making that argument is more likely to lead to trade barriers erected than wages being lowered.

The problem with the simple model of free trade where workers just lose (why pay $10 in the US instead of $2 in Mexico etc) is that they do not pay workers with dollars in Mexico, they pay pesos. The dollars actually stay in the US. What the total effect of free trade is depends on what happens to those dollars. Are they being used to buy US goods, investments, government debt (then what is the government doing) etc.
Hah! I'm an idiot. I watched the whole presentation front to back and forgot about the physical card.

You are correct and they really did think of all scenarios here. I dig it.
> Let's just hope this "gaming as a service" stays on mobile devices where it belongs.

I share your reservations about this becoming the new normal for the industry, but so long as games on the service are still available with perpetual licensing, I don’t see a problem.

Really, the much bigger issue with iOS-based games has been with us for awhile, and that is OS compatibility. There are now games from the past decade that are effectively lost to time, no longer compatible with modern versions of iOS and not even available from the App Store on vintage hardware. Archival is a very hard problem on a managed platform.
I am too lazy to RTFM and debug things, but does anyone know why libinput does not have the same behaviour as the old xorg synaptic driver ? I have a *30 thinkpad, and the synaptic driver is great, but libinput is terrible. It's too imprecise and jumpy. This is a fairly popular generation of thinkpads (the actual touchpad goes back even further). So I thought that it would eventually be fixed, but it looks like so far it hasn't. How does one make libinput act like synaptic ? I don't need gestures or anything fancy. I just want the pointer to work well, which the synaptic driver does an admirable job of handling. It's even better than windows.
iirc, they had RU at around 85% and AUS at 99%
>I don't see why you'd need to fork libinput. I'm fine with my cursor movements

You may be (and I agree on gestures), but I'm not. Apple's touch pad is literally the only thing that keeps me using a Mac.
"after all" is pretty misleading (edit: clickbaity?) for 2019. adult neurogenesis has been known since 2009.
> Apple doesn’t know what you bought, where you bought it, and how much you paid for it

But surely many intermediaries do know this information and store it forever?

I'm not sure I see the value of Apple not knowing this information, when credit cards are inherently one of the most trackable and most-tracked purchasing mechanisms ever.
Making crochet animation in Krita and Kdenlive
Two things to note from the article:

1) It seems to mostly be focused on neurogenesis in the hippocampus, not necessarily elsewhere in the brain.

2) It seems the key item these researchers hit on to invalidate the previous study was the method of preservation for brain tissue in deceased individuals, not study of tissue in living humans. I think new studies in that latter area in the future will put the matter to rest.
The same way as you pay the bill to any other credit card company: scheduled transfers that pull money from a bank account. (No, this doesn't require any verification on the bank side of things. Yes, this only requires the same routing and account number info printed on every check you write.)
Don't forget Playstation Now.
35% seems pretty high, but I think you'd find that, far from being insane, the bottom portion of that range is right in line with what's typical for unsecured debt.

You can't really compare it to mortgages or car loans, because those are both secured by a collateral. You can't really compare it to student loans because it's impossible to get out from under a student loan. Either way, the debt is less risky for the lender, so they're willing to offer it for a lower rate.
https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707

NetBSD runs on the Pinebook. Firefox wasn't too stable the last I tried a few months ago but they're making constant improvements.
Meet the latest Pioneers
1) Earplugs underneath Bose QC-35s playing foreign-language or instrumental music (Currently: The Free Raisins [1])

2) A target shooting cap with side-blinders to block visual noise. [2]

3) 9 hours of sleep a night.

4) 15 minutes run, 20 squats, 15 pull-ups, 50 push-ups in the morning.

5) A big dot-ruled notepad (like a bullet journal, but larger) to take notes/diagrams on. This is like swap space to augment Working Memory.

6) The app Bear to take notes in, also to augment my Working Memory.

7) 12 minutes of breath meditation when I get frazzled, to de-allocate working memory.

8) A silly 3-second physical ritual when I start or finish a subtask where I slowly bring my hands together or apart and hum very quietly and picture myself allocating or de-allocating memory.

9) Two external monitors side-by-side, so I can see interrelated code all at once.

10) A convention for where on my monitors I tend to put things (roughly: db-ish code to the left, browser-ish code to the right.) so I don’t have to store that in working memory.

11) The app Anki to store flashcards to use Spaced Repetition more quickly cement php knowledge into my long-term memory so that it is more effectively “chunked” when I need to manipulate it in working memory.

12) The app SelfControl to block distracting websites from my laptop, which I might otherwise reflecively visit to escape from the discomfort of dealing with a frustrating task.

13) The self-narrative, “this is frustrating. This is uncomfortable. This is worth it and I’m stronger than I think” to say to myself when I run into an inscrutable php error.

14) An attitude of insisting on a clear why for any task so that I know that it actually matters to the people I work with.

15) Pushing meetings and interviews to beginning and end of day. My team does its “standup” by posting {yesterday, today, blockers} to slack by 10:30am.

16) A team that is used to a clean, modular, and well-tested ruby codebase and so is committed to incrementally chipping away at the mess of this externally-acquired one.

17) Humor from team members in dealing with the um...interesting Developer Experience design choices of this php web framework.

18) Occasional pair programming

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Out-Box-Free-Raisins/dp/B00MHX16PQ

[2] https://www.intershoot.co.uk/acatalog/ahg-Anschutz-Hat-325C-...
Go to the web console (Ctrl+shift+t) and write :screenshot, ":screenshot --help" can give you a list of options to use.
Which card gives you 4-5% cash back?
FTA: "A growing body of research suggested they could, but then a Nature paper[1] last year raised doubts."

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 "Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults"
I was unclear about this - yes, if you're prone to worrying about everything trying to kill you, `Stink!` will not make that any better. Quite worse in fact, as (assuming you're like me) I now skim all the ingredient lists on deodorants and shampoos and what-not for this "fragrance" offender.

Regarding the broccoli, I'm right there with ya. `Stink!` won't help, but it's not super negative and will simply make you more aware.
Reposts are ok after a year or so. This in in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

The reason for providing links like that is simply that people find previous discussions interesting.
Perhaps they should have used a better example than rotten tomatoes.

RT is owned by NBCUniversal and is terribly unreliable as a movie ratings aggregator. At one point it was a very useful site, but now it is useless. Might as well ask disney, nbc or studio execs on which movies to watch. We know that RT has lied and fudged ratings for financial or other purposes. It has the same problem as NewsGuard. It is controlled by industry insiders to benefit themselves and the industry. Would anyone trust an oil company ratings company controlled by oil companies?

Rather than a "rotten tomatoes" for news, I'd rather have a "meta" news or wiki site which has a running list of all the fake news that news companies have pushed out. Make it part curated and part user driven. Let users provide, comment and even contribute to it.

Make it listable by news companies and journalists. So we can see which news companies and which journalists have pushed the most fake news to the american public.
The regulation of the expression of a group of genes, can be expressed using Recurrent Neural Network formalism. Genes regulate the expression of each other with positive and negative feedback loops that are often additive or non-linear and similar to higher order RNN.

RNN nodes represent genes and connections between them are regulatory feedback loops in gene expression.
With a few adjustments, things like Street Fighter CE work decently.

It's not as satisfying as physical but it isn't horrible.
More charitably, perhaps he is relaying advice he learned the hard way.
Looks like a bit of HN was too much for my web host to handle (investigating). In the meantime, here's the note that I wrote the update in and copy/pasted to the blog: https://public.amplenote.com/4wdQRLmYVU6wAHo1V9yKgaJK
Yep, it also drove them to take payments primarily via an e-check service, which promptly got owned and a huge number of FL users had to deal with fraudulent charges.
> It should work anywhere that touchless mastercard is accepted, though I do think that vendors can turn off apple pay specifically to avoid the fee.

I don't think merchants have to pay anything extra to accept Apple Pay. It's the banks that have to pay a "marketing fee" to Apple to let their cards work with Apple Pay.
I also have a X1 Extreme, it's a bit smaller than the MacBook touchpad, but I concur that it is very responsive and works reasonably well with ubuntu 18.04.2.
Regarding apple trackpads - For raw data, you get enough to do ellipsoid tracking, paired with 'state' information to help with palm rejection. This is my experience from working with the multitouch private framework on macos - it's generally been enough to good enough work with and arguably prefer it rather than attempting to do any raw pixel-level tracking (which would tax the CPU)

See:

https://github.com/jnordberg/FingerMgmt

https://web.archive.org/web/20120323025118/http://www.steike...

I haven't had time but should try to open-source whatever bits I've had over the years when I was bootstrapping thimblemac.com

previous hn discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817 (where I also commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551984 )

I haven't kept up with the windows ecosystem to look into the 'precision touchpad' data, assume it's something similar just delivered ~8 years later.
In particular considering how consumer centric Goldman Sachs operates...
Marketing also increases market size, and creates more customer base size variance between competitors (bigger risks, bigger rewards).
Dammit, I misunderstood the icon, and was clicking that button every time I farted.
| and it seems unlikely that the earth was the exact center of the Big Bang.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that everything was at the exact center of the Big Bang? Assuming it started from a singularity (which can't really be known), everything was in the center.
>How about 3D micro-structures? It’s hard enough to make a one off 3D structure reproducible

Well, there are 3D printers :)
Yes, and (in the US) money orders too, at USPS.

Then, USPS realised what was happening, and blocked them for purchase on credit cards.

The “manufactured spend” community (who cycle money through cards to get cashback/points without really spending money) then started buying prepaid debit cards & gift cards on credit, then buying money orders on gift cards, then depositing the money back in their bank.

That came to an end a couple of years ago when prepaid cards were also blocked: https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/7ac5t9/doc_link_n...
>I've never tried Linux on a MacBook, but those must be some really bad drivers.

Or a really bad trackpad. It's not just the drivers.

>I used my trackpoint on the same size/difficulty settings and scored 160.

Still nowhere close to 250.
Some sort of financial benefit.

Usually a percentage of each transaction and/or flat fee per cardholder or signup and/or a percentage of fees and interest paid. The exact details on these agreements are rarely published.

See here:

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to...
This doesn't mean you can't prototype or experiment on the ham bands.

Provided you stay within the limits of your license you are welcome to experiment all you like.

Additionally, if you want to exceed the normal limits of your license then you can apply for an experimental license.
Sure, but most people who do take on mortgages do just fine. There will be exceptions but on the average, taking on mortgage to purchase a home in the US is generally a safe bet.
aka, food. do you eat it?
I can only speak for Xen, since I don't have any experience with KVM at the moment. That aside, I've never tried to debug nested VMs, as my research never required doing so, but in theory xendbg should be able to do it at any level as long as your inner Xen VMs can run a separate process for the debug stub. Let's say you have a setup like so.

Base OS with Xen
\-> Outer VM with Xen
\-> Inner VM, e.g. a unikernel

Xendbg only requires that you run the debug stub in ring 0 on the machine that is running Xen, whose VMs you want to debug. If the base substrate is a general-purpose OS, you can of course run xendbg on it, in which case you'd be able to inspect the first-level VM as it runs, which would allow you to debug Xen itself as it runs on that VM. Alternately, you can put the debug stub directly on the outer VM and then expose the debug bridge to the top-level OS, and thereby debug the inner VM from the base OS.

Xendbg doesn't use libvmi. In fact, if libvmi had been sufficient for my original uniknernel debugging use case, I probably wouldn't have ended up writing xendbg. The main issue is that libvmi makes the assumption that the guest is either Linux or Windows, and doesn't fully support PV guests --- e.g. its Xen driver creates breakpoints using HVM-specific monitoring APIs. The unikernels I was looking at (Rumprun, IncludeOS, Mirage) at are all PV-only.

Speaking of pyvmidbg, I have recently been talking with the author of pyvmidbg (Matthieu Tarral) about collaborating on a new libvmi alternative. We're just in the early stages of thinking about it, though, so I don't want to make any promises about features or release timelines…
> Llorens-Martin said she began carefully collecting and preserving brain samples in 2010, when she realized that many brains stored in brain banks were not adequately preserved for this kind of research.

I was always curious about it, and this piece shed some light over it: as death is a process where all cells undergo chemical transformation, all you add to stop the process and preserve some state also induces changes. So, depending on how you preserve something, you will also lose information and won't be able to further study something.

Interesting how we have a long road regarding preservation of bodies and how much we still can improve about it.
It's no magic bullet. I think it can help in particular instances but see a lot of people chasing their own tails.
It's in the right-click menu, and also in the the "..." menu on the right side of the address bar.
Labor and wage regulations economically function akin to a "carbon tax" on labor. In addition to encouraging outsourcing, they are encouraging the early adoption of technological alternatives (robots/AI) that face no such restrictions.
Beyond that, it required interference of the free market by the federal government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
Amazon recommends is definitely not highly trustworthy. Hard to quantify, but too often those products have bad FakeSpot ratings. I'm also surprised at how many Amazon Basics product seem to have signs of review manipulation.
Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So
My solution is to use macbook pro as a terminal and editor, and do most of developments on remotely accessed linux machines. I really tried to transition to Linux but UX is so inferior, and there's very little hope that it improves.
What about fees?

Not sure about US, but I think in NZ all credit cards with cashback have fees. And I remember there was a research or something concluding that you had to spend at least ~$3000 (don't remember exactly) per month using cashback credit card to break even.

Also, credit cards are not accepted everywhere. And often there is a minimum transaction amount as well.
Does anyone think Apple News is more popular than social media apps like Facebook or Twitter? Because well more than half of all Americans get news from social media.

I think Apple is being a bit cute here about how they define what constitutes a "news app." If then mean a mobile app that aggregates news stories and does nothing else, then sure, I believe their claim. I don't see why that matters, though.
The M27 / HK 417 is an AR15 with a gas piston retrofit. There is an advantage to piston operating systems for really short barrels, where DI systems do not excel.

In fact, many such piston AR retrofits exist in the US civilian AR market, but they’re generally thought to be of “unproven” longevity, at least.

The advantages of the retrofit piston being slim and light is that the recoil increase is small. The disadvantage is that durability is questionable, as those pistons experience a lot of violent force and most guns designed from scratch to be piston operated have significantly heavier duty pistons, for good reason.

You can read online of Marine armorers lamenting how their M27s are breaking down at a rate much faster than their M4s. This is of course anecdotal, but it is also
not entirely worthless data.
I can't confirm if this is still the case, but a couple years ago you had a web installer for KDE on Windows and I could just deselect everything except Okular and a couple other stuff I wanted and that came out to a couple hundred MB disk space overall.
i thought organic by definition meant that it didn't use pesticides.
They could have a single bank in any EU country. For instance, Revolut used to provide cards issued by a British bank to all customers across the EU. It's the beauty of the Single Market.
IIRC, there has never been a case of mercury toxicity from normal consumption of commercial seafood recorded in any American medical journal. These larger species you mention could exist outside of that sphere.
Pentagon Says Google’s Drone Work Is Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
Sage is definitely not the easiest thing to use, but it's a great way to 1) actually get your math right and 2) record and share your work. I used it to work out the cubic formula and share it alongside a blog post: https://alexcbecker.net/mathematics.html#the-quadratic-equat...
What else could it be? Some new tree-resin-based fashion line?
I also don't see why you are being downvoted. America used to be talked about the same way China is talked about now.

What other reasons can we find?