skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's really scientific or not but I was convinced (or maybe the right word is duped) by this BBC article:

>An effortless way to improve your memory

>A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall – and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer’s patients.

Link:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180208-an-effortless-way-t...

I found it so compelling that I consciously follow this effortless method.
This article is a surprisingly useful collection of tools.
I have this backpack:

https://www.amazon.com/North-Face-Laptop-Backpack-Colors/dp/...

I use it mostly when going on a weekend trip or a week trip for work. Is big enough, has a lot of compartments, space for a laptop/gadgets.

Sturdy enough, laptop is safe there, but don't expect it to keep your DSLR camera safe ;) As the biggest compartment is meant for clothes, not for electronics

I see they discontinued it, I couldn't find it on official website (they changed the design, can't tell you if it's still the same quality)
And you can take this approach to the next level with Phoenix LiveView that’s in its testing phase right now. Server rendering is so fast in Phoenix that it had a lot of people clamoring for a turbolinks-like solution to the problem.

It’s not perfect yet, but as a first version is remarkably capable already.
Maybe a good translation would be, "This is crap! And why are we talking about this crap, since most people haven't heard about it and it's crap?!"
> I'm wondering if there's not a deeper problem within the air data systems. ... Because the stick shakers, unreliable air speed, and everything else would still be happening regardless of MCAS.

This is a very good point. If the AoA sensor failed say climbing through cloud at 5000ft on auto-pilot, dropping control of the aircraft to a pilot who's busy thinking about what he's going to have for lunch, with half a dozen alerts going off, an AF447 type incident could easily happen MCAS or no MCAS.
> No node_modules folder competing with your music library for disk space.

Love it already
i bought a GR2 a few years ago and it's the best backpack i've ever owned. it's a pleasure to use. i promise i'm not a shill, it really is an exceptional product.

it looks attractive, bears weight far more comfortably than any other pack i've ever owned, it's easy to clean, it's waterproof, and the ability to open flat means that it's easy to pack very densely. i was able to live out of my 26L pack for nearly a week, and it goes with me wherever i travel.

the MOLLE straps are functional, and i strap my water bottle to them all the time. gotta be careful to avoid that overly tacticool look though!

i'm a total fanboy since my purchase -- the high price point was definitely worthwhile.
When Food Knows Your Name
Not the same model, but I gotta back Deuter on this one. My Deuter Giga Office has seen some heavy use over the last 12 years and it's still going strong.

The fabric below the notebook compartment ripped open a few years ago (probably because I used to carry two heavy notebooks, a private one and a work-issued Thinkpad), but my mother sewed a patch over it and the backpack is still going strong.

While we're at it, I strongly advise against Wenger. I got one of their backpacks from my employer. Although they're supposedly just as high-quality as Deuter, that particular backpack came apart at all seams within just a year. Total disappointment.
I have hosted a short course with 3,400 attendees and three presenters. I was in Michigan, most of the attendees where in AsiaPac. Worked flawlessly.
Is Redis the bottleneck?
Good point, and that's why there are two pilots. When stuff goes crazy, one flies the plane, the other one runs the checklists.
Huh? Someone below asked for a TLDW.
Any (former) Philmont Rangers here?

I'd be interested in hearing about the dumb things you've seen crews do.
I got the Tom Bihn Smart Alec after reading this:

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-bag-of-holding/

Would always recommend diving into Wirecutter articles to figure out what's best for your specific needs.
A lot of things improved but a lot of things stayed the same. Rails is like oysters - not for everone...
It is a real risk for your life to be "open gay" in Russia. Sometimes your father can kill you just to "wash out the shame" from the family. Sometimes government can take back adopted child if parents are gay. Russia is a wild country in a lot of aspects, and this one is the most wild.
Matthew Roszak discusses the early days of Bitcoin
Hell i’d read an article analyzing exactly what role they played in the biospheres ecosystem.

The article implies they’re bad, prima facie. If you want to be “scientific” then lets address exactly what they were contributing and hurting.

Was biosphere 2 designed to account for an insect food chain? Was it designed to account for all the types of waste cockroaches eat?

The more I think about it the less i feel like the cockroaches were the result of a “failure” and the more I think they're actually the data that should be considered a result of the experiment!
I took a tour of Biosphere 2 when I was young. I remember the guide talking about two specific problems they didn't anticipate that dramatically altered the outcome of the experiment:

The 'domes' are supported by a metal lattice framework. That structure actually blocked too much sun and created extra shade which affected the plant growth.

The concrete used in the construction was sucking up carbon dioxide and changing the environment unexpectedly. That also reduced plant growth.

I really don't believe the entire thing was useless. It wasn't successful, but it failed in many interesting ways ;P
Agreed, though I use Django. Two Scoops in a great book for going from someone who knows how to use Django, to knowing how to use Djnago well.
2nd mistake was packing too much stuff. Fixed a week into my trip in a Post office in San Sebastian by stuffing 2/3 of my backpack into a cardboard parcel and posting it home.
So, to summarize, on par with iOS design’s decision from day one, right?
> PC Mag is mainstream media, now? How many readers do you think it has compared to a national newspaper?

You're comparing apples to oranges. What's it's ranking among tech/PC websites?

How about the Guardian?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/facebook-bans-...

How about BBC?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46746601

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43398417

How about Wired?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-britain-first-far-r...

Is that mainstream enough for you?

> They want to manipulate the narrative to ensure the right outcomes, in their view.

Prove it.
When an aircraft pitches up, it increases the angle of attack, right? (If not MCAS would not be a fix for the pitching up problem.) And the pitching up can happen during normal flights, correct?
Sounds a lot like the gods in "Origin of Consciousness". Occurs as well, that for those that have seen the MBTI and Jungian stuff, that the introvert/extrovert duality they posit could be described as a tortoise/talker-affinity.
One must always marvel at the mental gymnastics neurotypical people go to to explain why their hallucinations are actually a good thing.
Yes but honestly, if I were to redesign a warehouse for robotics I wouldn’t do it for humanoid robots but for more efficient form factors. Like what amazon and alibaba are doing.
This is true for all MVC frameworks as well. You shouldn't need a framework to introduce the boundary between views and models.
For backpacking/climbing trips I use a Black Diamond Element 60L (https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-element-60-backpac...)

For everyday use I have a SwissGear bag that I got at Target outside Siggraph a few years ago. Decent bag at ~$60 that's held up well for 3 years of abuse.
I suspect its one of these cases where having the money is a necessary but far from sufficient criterion for getting you kids in.
Show HN: Why we moved our servers to Iceland
Just a reminder example on why air pollution matters -- "Air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence" --https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-poll...

Here's a google-scholar search if you really want to dive deep- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=air...

Read some of THOSE articles and you'll encounter interesting tidbits like "The evidence was also sufficient for the association between pre- or postnatal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and autism spectrum disorder, and limited evidence was encountered between nitrogen oxides and autism spectrum disorder."
Read and listen, practice, fix mistakes, repeat.
Have they though? The filesystem of almost any user-facing system ends up full of detritus lacking clear ownership. Everyone just uses search now, because hierarchical structure requires a lot of effort to maintain and doesn't align that well with how most people think (should it be July/Invoices or Invoices/July?).

And that's not even getting into the security issues with a shared filesystem, where a single evil process can access all your data.
I've found that I usually don't even memorize class names and method names even when I use them somewhat frequently; what I memorize is shortcuts/keywords that help me navigate to the actual code.
"... nationalist" sounds to me like somebody who wants to impose the power of their nation on other nations. I suppose that's why you got downvoted (I didn't).
I was just teasing, Laravel looks solid. It's also comforting to know that if you move from Laravel world to Rails, a lot is familiar out of the box. It's good for us developers and good for the industry. Which I can't say about js stack/elixir/Golang/Spring etc etc.
Taxi pressure tactics suspended after driver self-harms on live TV
Also, The Simpsons Movie. ;-)
Blocking access to information via DNS blocks is an entirely different concept than private entities not wishing to host extremist content on their private platforms.
To this point, a large portion of the SO rep I have is from one or two single answers I posted.
Android is becoming more and more useless every year, we could have a powerful computer in our pocket to do everything we want and instead we have a dumb device with a clunky system which is just good for running chat apps and small games.
This acquisition is a prime example of what the future of food is going to look like. It’s interesting how food has been one of the last major consumer categories to be eaten by software. But it’s finally happening!

Three simultaneous changes are happening related to the availability, personalization, and niche focus of food. I’ve done a deep dive on this (1) if you want to read more.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19521655
The east of Ukraine voted for independence by 83%. So much for historically part of Russia! Many of the people voting for Russia in Crime were, er, Russian citizens working there. That's not an excuse for annexation. I happen to have some sympathy for Russia claims on Crimea for historical reasons, but annexation is many steps to far and what they've done to the Donbas and sealing off the Sea of Azov coast is utterly inexcusable.

I just don't accept that the US fomented anything in Ukraine. The people on the streets were Ukrianian citizens. Legitimate native protesters are routinely painted as foreign agents, but that doesn't make it the case.

There is no real reason for Ukrain and Russia to be at odds like this. Ukrainians have done nothing whatever to deserve the shoddy, dishonest knives in the back Russia has been dishing out to them. Ordinary Russians should be ashamed and humiliated by the way their government is ruthlessly betraying Ukrain and bullying ordinary Ukrainians at every turn. All they wanted was to function as an independent state and have friendly relations with the rest of Europe, but this was too much for Putin to stomach. What kind of example would that set for Russians?

Ukraine now has an active, boisterous and unruly democracy just as it should. That's a sign of health, compared to the sham opposition groups that always vote with the government and suspiciously overwhelming approval ratings you commonly get under oppressive regimes.
Juries only rule guilty or not guilty - innocence comes up in appealing existing guilty convictions.
"patriot" and "nationalist" are very different terms in russian language.
Beyond the hype, who’s getting VR physiotherapy?
$995? Nope.
Android BYOD: Staying connected without losing phone control
I've recently gone through the course and it is as good if not better than I was told it would be. The better you can cement the strategies taught in the course the farther and faster you will go.
Definitely a +1 for this book.

It's a proper page-turner. Just when you think Low has pulled off another ridiculous theft of 9 figure $ sums of cash, he does it again. And again...
Any simple links / explanations on these proposals to square the circle? I appreciated Al-Khwarizmi's simple explanation of the backstop.
I have Osprey Quasar for over a year. (https://www.backpacks.com/osprey-quasar-backpack)
I use it everyday, has dedicated laptop sleeve, and it can expand to quit large size if needed.
It is a good choice for good money, the only thing I dearly dislike is a plastic keys clip. I have actually found my keys self-unclipped a few times.
Ugh, the both sides are bad trope combined with a ton of “my feels” argument.

There’s just a tremendous amount to unpack here.

The United States is a vast, nonhomogenous, capitalistic culture with it’s fair share of issues.

The war in Iraq was a travesty and reconstruction efforts were unmitigated money grabs by a certain subset of well connected contractors.

The war in Afghanistan has gone on for almost two decades and appears unlikely to ever be “won” in any traditional sense of the word.

Despite that, our continuing presence there is actually a rather mature decision to not let millions of Afghani peoples fall back under the oppressive and horrid Taliban rule they were under before.

We have issues with undue corporate influence, and the issue of voting weight disproportionality among our citizens when the Senate, gerrymandering, and Electoral College are taken into account are indeed insane.

However. There is a very clear difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans, excluding this horror story of a Presidency, have something like 38 times the number of indictments as compared to Democrats when taken on an equal number of years in power.

Republicans consistently expand the deficit while cutting social programs.

They investigate Benghazi for six years then moan about a two year investigation.

Enough about that distinction, but it goes on. The Republicans are a drastically different party than the Democrats. And no, the Democrats aren’t perfect.

But you know who had plans for fixing infrastructure and the opiod crisis? Democrats. And they still do. Go look at their policy positions. Staggeringly enough there actually well thought out and decent, progressive policy initiatives laid on Sanders’, Warren’s, and Clinton’s websites.

Finally. The young people of America are fantastic. Gay rights have moved forward dramatically in the last two decades. The MeToo movement is helping to stamp out a culture of sexualization and rape throughout our industries.

We produce culture, and planes, and tremendous advancements in science, and research.

And our framework has held up pretty damn well against a clearly authoratative demagogue.

The post WWII period which has been centrally defined by the rise of American Hegemony features plenty of mistakes, but it’s also been the singular most peaceful era of global history and seen the greatest decrease in world poverty.

So please don’t reduce us to “drugged to muh gills” and “endless war”.
I do not think that India has recognized that annexation.
And there are no major countries that have recognized it.
They still can, but app1 must use the Intents system to pass an access token to app2 to read its file(s).
If "help vampires" and "noobs" (what terrible terms to use to describe people new to our industry) are a problem, then the blame falls on SO for not presenting its knowledge in a more useful way. No one prefers spending time signing up for an account and writing a question if the answer is readily available. But of course the real problem is that every question can be an edge case that isn't fully addressed by reference answers that people keep sending you to.

Beginners aren't a problem in my experience, the meta moderation and fanatical adherence to an arbitrary and bureaucratic policy that discourages interesting and useful questions is, however.

Plus the fact that SO is kinda unwelcoming as explained by SO executive Jay Hanlon [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...
Prevention of autopilot during practicing is a key aim of practice. When you autopilot, you allow muscle memory/habit to take over, when the entire point of practice is to improve upon your capabilities, not just repeat them over and over with no further thought.
Mindless practice will get you substantially further than not doing anything. Even when you have only the vaguest idea what you’re doing doing something beats doing nothing almost universally. Deliberate practice is great but with a tight feedback loop just doing things works wonders.

If you spend 1000 hours doing mindless practice you won’t get as far as someone who spends 500 hours practicing deliberately but you are unlikely to do worse than the person who did 100 hours.
Understanding the Mind of the Coder and How It Shapes the World Around Us
Applying what you are learning to a project you are working on, you get free "spaced repetition" that way every time you use that bit and/or come back to re-read/edit it.
Right.

So is there now no user access to the device's file system?

At all, I mean.

And what about SD cards? And use of Dropbox or whatever? Or AWS and Google storage?
Note that many warehouses have already done that. Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) runs Amazon warehouses. A large portion of the warehouse is off-limits to humans, marked by tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVCGEmkJs0&t=78
Sure, it would be nice. But fortunately you can use yubikeys to store keypairs that can be used with ssh. And https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-pam can probably be used with SSH.
Sure, but the story is not inherently about the EU. It's about the free movement between neighbouring countries, which is something Leave campaigners are determined to stop as part of our withdrawal. Leaving could've been over relatively quickly if all we did was leave the EU but keep our place in the single market.
It certainly helps in that you learn what doesn't work. Whether you choose to admit that it's not working and try a different tack is up to you.
Back in my university years I was stunned when we moved from mechanical engineering theory to practice and it became clear that you need little to none theoretical knowledge to design machinery. There were step-by-step guides on every topic, there were machine parts for literally everything and they all were standardized and heavily documented, so putting up an automatic production line was practically a no-brainer. This is what goes on with programming as well - there are frameworks and libraries for everything, all you have to do is to compose a solution to the problem, in most cases it does not require any science.
I think that's wishful thinking, actually. We like to believe there's a singular being in charge that we can label 'self', but I don't buy it. It seems to me that our minds operate more like a society or, at a higher abstraction, a committee, and it only seems like there's a singular entity in charge because the rationalization portion of our brain does its thing after decisions are made, making it seem as though there were a singular will determining our behavior.
My favorite failure mode was that the trees started to fall over under their own weight when they got too tall, because there was no wind inside the dome. As they learned, wind is essential for trees because they must grow stronger trunks in reaction to the wind, and the wind helps blow off parts of the tree that aren't strong enough.
From the corporation itself - there seemed little reward to the investment by their reckoning.
There are some. Not many, mostly CERN physicists, international organizations employees, software engineers in finance (that was my case), or just rich people who were attracted by flat tax packages.
There was a third path which India did follow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
I don't think it's the loss rate of 737 Max vs other models that is what's relevant either. I said safety of driving to an airport vs flying in a 737 Max. We have to get total number of passenger hours/miles for both methods of transportation and compare those with deaths. I'm not sure if those numbers specifically for the 737 Max are available.
I track things I am learning now & want to learn in a Trello board (https://trello.com/b/cu32qF3q).

And I try to learn things by building projects I care about ideally. (https://trello.com/b/alB1ryRP).
For many years I had a Chrome Bravo but all the Velcro stopped working and it was pretty beat up so I looked for a new bag.

With some recommendations from friends, I ended up with the Timbuk2 Especial Tres. I love it because:

- it carries a ton of stuff (rolltop bags are great for this. I use it to carry a week’s worth of groceries home with me on my bike)

- waterproof (for biking in the rain/winter)

- sits much more comfortably on my back than the Chrome bag

- buckles for securing the top instead of Velcro that will wear out or breakable zippers

- good laptop compartment and organization pockets

Here’s a link (no affiliation): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E1O36AC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_...
Claims that the airframe is fundamentally unsound have been exaggerated. I would fly on one of these airplanes, even as they are now, as I am confident that the crew will be very well aware of the issue and capable of dealing with it.

Boeing's decision not to require simulator training may backfire on it, however, if enough passengers say that's not good enough, and vote their concerns by avoiding flights on this model, or if other regulators (or even the FAA) insist on simulator training. Boeing is doubling-down on the issue.
Access to the general file system, outside the app-specific folders (Android/data/your.application.id/ if I remember correctly).
Particulate inhalation is currently one of the leading causes of death of women in third world countries (due to smoke from cooking).

Also, there was this thing called black lung disease the UK had a problem with during the industrial revolution...

There has been scientific consensus on this for centuries, if not millenia.
Eh, it's become acceptable, sure. It's the age old prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate. That same Merriam Webster link you posted also includes, e.g., a definition of "literally" as "figuratively" and our friend "in actuality".

Basically, things are "wrong" for a while, then they pick up steam, and they become right. I suppose "factoid" might have overcome the hurdle and become accepted, but the old stodgy rules are still worth knowing about if you have to write, e.g., an article in the NYTimes or something.
> If you're taking an exam, learn it by taking practice exams and looking up what you get wrong.

Nothing exposes the fact that you don’t know a damned thing like attempting past or specimen exam papers, or answering the questions in a textbook.
Brexit and .eu domain name holder update
I think WebAssembly frameworks are the next step in the evolution of web ui. I don't think React / Vue / Angular are likely to be unseated by another JavaScript framework, as everyone is mostly satisfied with at least one of the 3. A new framework needs to offer significant advantages to justify the switch, and WebAssembly can do this with better performance and better languages. It's exciting to watch the first experimental releases of these new frameworks!