skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Reading that review, this part was jarring:

> But these stats were followed by a ridiculous claim on Valve's part: that Index's LCD panels had enough innovations and pixel density to "essentially eliminate the screen-door effect." Meaning, an Index user shouldn't perceive breaks between pixels or "stair-step" effects, which older VR headsets are notorious for.

Screen door effect refers to the impression of a visible lattice or grid overlaying the image, caused by visible gaps between pixels (so it literally looks like you're viewing the scene through flyscreen). It doesn't refer to individually distinguishable pixels, and a claim that they've eliminated screen-door effect is in no way a claim that the headset has a "retina display".
I find it fascinating and very condusive to my personality.

However, the amounts of income you need to be able generate to truely get there seems to be... ambitious.
It's been a while, but my understanding was that it was pretty generic success across significant goals. So that would range from financial success to curing measles.

High disagreeableness means being able to dismiss most people, because most people will tend to pull you in towards a regression to the mean.

Low neuroticism is about stress tolerance. Doing anything major/new/difficult is stressful.

High conscientiousness means you spend time preparing, finish important tasks right away, pay attention to detail, and work well on a schedule.

It's hard to imagine being highly successful at much if you can't handle stress, are disorganized, and are very sensitive to others trying to tell you to do what everyone else does.
Question for the pro-censorship crowd:

If the results of this study hold up, does this justify censoring media like "13 Reasons why"? Why / Why not?
> I've been pair programming quite a bit lately

Does it mean both party have to use the same editor? I wouldn't participate in a pair programmnig like that.

Pair programming is best when everyone can use one's favorite editor. When there is a pair switch there is also an editor switch if the other party prefers a different editor.
And before that?
It's just a question of building out the infrastructure. We'll get there.
He’s explaining the reality of the situation.

But he’s also disregarding the fact that things people have done, historically, things that have been persecuted, but may only be “wrong” according to shifting cultural temperaments (e.g., loving somebody outside your race).

It’s pretty tone-deaf, in that sense.
You don't have to feel sorry for them, while still disagree about the non-poaching agreements that these CEOs made.
But the internet forgets. I don't understand how could anybody cheer to him or the FB CEO. These guys are the menace of our age.
Unit Testing in ReactJS Using Jest and Enzyme
That doesn't make any sense.

How would giving up the "liberty to impose taxes" help to purchase weapons to defend the frontier?
They got some spaghetti code in it for sure. I don't know if React is the cause of it.

Anyway I hope they will not introduce some other spying/backdoors in the app (more than now)
That's like going to a shop to buy a shirt and the price depends on who is paying for it, you or your dad.
First and foremost he is serving the company shareholders. The other concerns are secondary.
Your phone can just use its camera(s) to figure out where it is inside a car.
Not Available In Your Country.

Hurrah.
Developer ergonomics are made of an accumulation of small things like this.
Almost 100% of the email aimed at most people does not use PGP, and thus temporary in this scheme. That means that it gets deleted every 30 days. However, doesn't that only mean that the librem One user loses their copy (unless they made a backup), but the other party gets to keep theirs?

What am I missing that causes this to make sense as a feature?
I wouldn't say they nailed it perfectly, as the UX was stupidly confusing to use.

Also I'm pretty sure you can create lists of your friends and share certain posts or images with "everybody but X, Y, and Z" or "X and Z only" where [XYZ] are either lists or specific friends.
See the Video this strange fish who has legs and he can walk
https://funlandtube.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/see-the-video-o...
Cute dog is dancing just try to control your laugh while seeing this video I am sure you can't
https://www.predatortalk.com/topic/34557-Cute-dog-dancing

Dog went for shopping and he did lots of other acts see his video
https://www.predatortalk.com/topic/34559-A-dog-doing-shoppin...
The Challenges of Legacy Software
I believe in this case it was messages from the accuser to a friend, so the accused would have been unaware
Yes, those quary workers should stop all that ranting. What have the Roman's not ever done for us.
You seem to have a bias in this case. Obviously the will accept higher scores before lower scores. It would make no sense to eliminate anyone who scored above 98% based on an assumed “they cheated or trained too much” assertion. Just to include the “addequately but not too good students” who are scoring around 95%, which must be objectively better because that’s where your daughter happened to land. In the alternate reality you would be on here complaining that your daughter didn’t get in even though she had a perfect score and instead a bunch of kids with only 95% got in...

I hate to break it too you, but there’s no conspiracy or broken system, a lot of other kids just scored better than your daughter.
Well I am just thankful Google didn't have a Larry Ellison or Rupert Murdoch controlling it. It's pure luck they weren't more evil than they actually were.
Just to clarify, the state didn't kill him.

They removed his life support, against the wishes of his parents and then prevented them from accepting help. He survived ~5 days without it.

While it's a sad story I agree, it's not the point. Giving the state the power to decide who lives and dies without a trial and conviction for a crime is something many of us had hoped was settled long ago.
Many times buybacks is not in the best interest of company but they are forced upon by "activist investors". This is how Icahn netted $2 billion in just 32 months from Apple:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carl-icahns-2-billion-appl...
Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you have taken?
Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
Well yeah, the article says the location is used in mirror's edge.
Most other countries extend that level of service and coverage to the entire population. Not just the military. The whole attitude that receiving good healthcare is somehow a privilege that needs to be earned is really alien to most of the world. Also, I think you are romanticizing a bit how good that system actually is even for the military. E.g. I seem to run into lots of homeless veterans when I go to the US; most of them with obvious health and mental issues; possibly directly connected to their activities for the military.

In any case, you get born, you die. Two absolute certainties in people's live. Dying typically involves medical bills and delaying that also involves medical bills throughout your life. That's why medical insurance is not optional in most countries. The notion that children can be uninsured or that people die because of entirely preventable and curable conditions just because they lack insurance is not a popular one outside of the US. It's not communism/socialism, just common decency and pragmatism.
Looking at https://golden.com/wiki/Heyzap it seems like the summary has information that is not in the article.

If you start reading from the introduction, you won't know that Heyzap is a mobile advertising company.
> We left because of those bad TTFB times and an unresponsive support from

Had strictly the same issue with zeit.

Performance is horrible.

I also remember seing a somewhat similar issue about latency opened on GitHub[0].

They randomly closed it without giving any explanations or further details.

That's great support for sure !

[0] https://github.com/zeit/now-cli/issues/592
Interesting summary about valuation caps for companies coming out of YC: usually $6-12M, but with some hot companies (the top third-ish) getting caps well above that.
I can imagine two reasons for branding.

The first is that librem may need to make changes that cannot be accepted by upstream. It can be features they need to have now to keep users happy. But another example could be that they want their Riot to default to their homeserver and not to matrix.org. You don't want to wait until you get a trademark conflict with the main project.

The second reason could be that Librem has to market their brand. If they keep Riot for example, people type it in google and end up on the official riot site, then it may be hard for Librem to attract new users.
Automating AWS Lambda Deployments Using Bitbucket Pipelines and Bitbucket Pipes
How to Get the Most Out of PyCon – Real Python
I for one am utterly amazed that a social media platform does not actually foster creativity and originality. What.A.Surprise
This needs more explanation. The stereotypical "Mr. Nice guy" isn't very successful.
It can still be competitive with things like tar-sand extraction, which takes more energy than you get out of the oil. It's only economically viable because energy in gasoline/oil form is more valuable than the energy content itself, due to it's ease of transfer. Air sequestration might be a viable fuel source in regions where import costs of fuel are high, but energy is cheap.
It's cleaner.

I'm referencing discussions about lung issues in specific, if that helps you make sense of things.
I had to pay ~1000 in Shanghai just to have a doctor prescription for loperamide...

They claimed you can get high on it if you drink a bucketload of it.

I wish I knew Chinese better
Is avoiding using "their services" sufficient or even possible/plausible? I may be being overly cynical here, but I think it's relevant.

"The homepages of popular sites placed cookies for 275 third-party hosts. In just visiting the homepage of popular sites, we found 32 websites placed 100 or more cookies, 7 websites placed 200 or more cookies, and 6 websites placed 300 or more cookies. We found that Google tracking infrastructure is on 92 of the top 100 most popular websites and on 923 of the top 1,000 websites. This means that Google's ability to track users on popular websites is unparalleled, and it approaches the level of surveillance that only an Internet Service Provider can achieve."

https://techscience.org/a/2015121502/
This is great. Is this all CC0 or do some of the images have conditions?

My wishlist would include also including videos and music/audio and an API to access it. I'm sure that's a big ask though.
Another option is that 74% would be positive compared to what quite a few people believed might come out. "It's 74%, that's great news, we thought it's closer to 25%".

Of course, it's hard to trust this news, it might still be 25% or 2.5%.
I liked it, as someone who has just started learning vim. Thanks.
Certainly YMMV applies, however, it's important to distinguish the nature of the two cases.

Broken BT support in a Windows context generally means poor drivers for a given device - at least the Windows 10, which is almost 4 years old, has a stable BT stack. Therefore, BT problems are of particular (per-device) nature.

In Ubuntu, the problem is systemic, due to (even ignoring how terrible the BT protocol is) both Bluez's (alleged) terrible engineering practices, and Ubuntu's utter carelessness of the area. In this terms, BT problems are of universal nature.

For example, the 18.04 Pulseaudio/BT configuration is broken by default - see https://askubuntu.com/a/1050172.

This is not an exception; the Pulseaudio/BT configuration has been broken in a way or another since... forever. Very evidently, the Ubuntu devs prefer to ship a broken-but-up-to-date BT stack, than a working-but-old one.

For a more historical perspective of the Ubuntu/Bluez trainwreck, see http://www.bennybottema.com/2010/08/08/how-ubuntus-broken-bl.... Summary: "Bluez is a bunch of cowboy coders is why".
On interpreting feedback from investors:

"Believe the 'No', but don't believe the 'Why'...for the majority of investors, it doesn't benefit them to give the reasons, and they're a little bit afraid that if they give real feedback, the founder's going to think they're an asshole"
What's wrong with every social and content network
What's wrong with every social and content network: they're built by people who have never had to hustle

Instagram announced at its F8 dev conference that it’ll start hiding users’ public like counts on videos and photos.

“Focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes they get.” This is what you write when you have never known the need to hustle. Those that work in the companies developing social and content networks are always in conflict with the users who do the work to get something for their time for this reason. They think their time is worth money, but their users should be time-wasters. Make any attempt to promote something and you are deemed a spammer.
How to Hide IP Address with a VPN
I feel composing commands is where the real power of Vi(m) comes from. This can be really helpful to someone just starting out with Vim.

I got a boost in my Vim productivity after reading a similar StackOverflow answer a couple of years ago. It's a nice read for people familiar with Vim, and another good resource for new users.

"Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi." https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118
Analysis of the ‘Db’ Windows Registry Data Structure
Remember it’s simply Bitfinex saying they have 74% reserves, just like they used to say they had 100% reserves. There has still never been an audit. Nobody has seen their books. They don’t recognize the jurisdiction of the NY AG.

Bitfinex is the only one who can give a number, and a company in that position usually places themselves in the most generous light, and they still only claimed 74%.
Perhaps the most important factor is that these big FAANG companies have incredible cash flow and warchests which means they can acquire any upcoming contender easily.

It's very hard for any founder to turn that down when multibillion prices are thrown around so often.
Carbon Engineering, in Canada, is already doing this on a pilot plant scale.[1] Converting CO2 to a fuel is chemically uphill, so you have to put energy in. This can work if you have cheap hydropower, which parts of Canada do. It's only feasible financially if there's a big subsidy for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/carbon-engineeri...
> marginal utility of investing additional money in r&d goes down as r&d spend goes up

This would be true if there are no new products with huge potential to explore. I strongly believe any company's future depends on diversification. Your old products will eventually start becomming commodity with margin race to the bottom. Companies like Apple needs to come up with new product line every two years. To get one new product out, you need to invest in R&D for may be 10 internally because other 9 won't pan out. For each new product you eventually got out, most likely half might not show promise longer term to become big. So you are probably left with 1 big product coming out every 4 years and at the same time your previous big product that is ~12 years old starting to become low margin commodity. Apple is certainly doing great by putting out series of new products at predictable schedule but I think this could easily be twice of current rate given the untapped potential in so many areas.
The design needs a bit more of the typical Facebook blue. People won't recognize it otherwise.
Did you honestly believe they were 100% backed? If not, why would you assume Tether users believed it?

What matters is that when someone cashes out their Tether, as people do from time to time, that there is enough money there to do so. The risk is that there is a run on Tether and they exhaust their available funds.

So the degree to which a trader is willing to trust tether is based on their judgement as to whether such a run will happen and that they will end up at the tail end of it and be one of the ones that loses out. But traders make those sorts of calculations and take those sorts of risks all the time. Of course every now and then some of them lose.
I don't understand why you are doubling down on your misunderstandings here. The actual increase that you yourself quoted falls entirely within the error bounds of the IPCC estimates. It doesn't matter that it is towards the bottom of those error bounds - the whole point of an error bound is that it is a range that captures the uncertainty. To argue about where in the range it falls is to fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of an error bound in the first place.

And the 'conservative estimate' is again a quote from the same person who made the dubious unverifiable 1-7F claim, so is also not relevant compared to the IPCC data. The IPCC range is their best estimate, so it is not a conservative range according to the IPCC report, which is what matters here.

It is sad that you are focusing on the words of one person who was not even directly involved in the study, while ignoring or misunderstanding the published work of hundreds of climate scientists who contributed to the actual numbers which have proved 30 years later to be accurate predictions.
Detecting SQL Injections in Python Code Using AST – Artem Golubin
Of course that's the reason. And I have no problem with it.

You may want to live in a world where a publisher sells a twenty Euro book exactly once, but that's not sustainable.

If you want more concurrent users, pay for it. The library has decided which level of concurrent users to buy.
Agree on stock buybacks and dividends are a waste, and big bet like Steve era. Disagree on buying companies. At least not Netflix and Disney, both are content companies and does not fit into Apple's business model. Not to mention a gigantic company like the two requires lots of human resources to integrate as the 2nd reply mentions.

It is all about value. Apple has always been extremely good at value creation. That is what innovation is all about. Except the values Apple has to offer has been in decline, in iPhone and Mac Segment, and in their use of cash.

Looking back in the past 10-12 years of Smartphone revolution, we are obviously in the late cycle where even the entry $200 to $400 Model are good enough for many. We are already seeing Huawei and Samsung A Series doing extremely well. I had always thought those Cheaper Chinese SmartPhones such as Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, would have cost a lot more in EU and US when they had to pay more patents and other operation expenses. Turns out that is not true. They are selling it at only a slight premium to China's pricing, vast majority of them below $500. While the current cheapest iPhone starts at $449 for a "small screen " and $569 for what is now considered a normal screen in many market, with lower quality camera. And it is obvious these Phone aren't competing very well.

What could those $400B+ have done that went into Stock buyback over the years? I would have thought instead of going to Intel's route 5 years ago, having their own modem team would be one. Had they invested in it 5 years ago they would already have their own Modem shipping in 2018's iPhone. Not to mention having a major BOM cost advantage which both currently Huawei and Samsung enjoys.

Opening More Apple Stores, Apple had ~430 in 2014 and ~460 Stores by end of 2015. Today Apple had ~510 Store Worldwide.they now have 1.4B devices. During those 600M+ devices usage increases between ~2015 - 2019, Apple had less than 60 Stores opening world-wide. In 2015 I expected Apple Store to reach at least 1000 by 2020, but right now they are only half way there.

Quickly admitting mistakes like TouchBar and Keyboard. You may not even need to do recall, but actually work on alternative or better solution instead of waiting to recoup whatever your initial investment into the technology ( Also Force Touch ). This is very Tim Cook Style of handling. You could imagine Steve using the Keyboard himself, having space bar double spacing and the eee key stuck. And what he will do inside Apple Park.

Going into Market that may not always have your target Gross Margin and Net Profits. Like TV, I still don't understand why Apple is not entering the TV set Market. And why they abandon the Router market. Just because the Net Profits margin could not fit within the 20% required of Apple. Both would have been a much better experience, instead they went with a Profit Margin based product like HomePod.
Everyone talking about how tether should have profited from either investing the cash, or buying and selling tethers at slightly different rates is missing the point.

The original value propitiation of tether was... "A one to one, 100% reserved USD backed cryptocurrency that you can buy/sell any time directly from them"

They originally promised a website where you could buy/sell tethers directly for 1 USD. This is different from all the other stable type coins that achieve their pegs using various chain and exchange strategies. Tethers proposition was to maintain it's peg to USD by literally holding the cash and being the primary point of purchase/sale. Not investing it. Not operating fractional reserve. And not buying/selling with a spread. Every profit making strategy goes against their original proposition.

The reason this was the proposition was to supposedly make it easier for crypto traders. At the time everyone was having problems cashing out their cryoto. Tether was basically promising that they could fix the USD exchange problem by holding all the cash and not being an exchange.

Now they never actually delivered any of that. The website never reliably appeared and now tethers are traded on an exchange like any other crypto coin. And I suspect they did actually make a stack of profit by printing tether and selling them on exchanges. But that makes it a scam because they weren't following their own rules that they laid down at the start.
> the weight of batteries is a problem for larger vehicles that need long range, like a bus, truck, or plane. For those hydrogen might be better.

China is already leading the world in electric busses. They work great. Busses are such good vehicles for batteries, that for some routes it may even make sense to run them with super-capacitors, with chargers embedded in the road at stops.

Trucks are always going to be a problem. This is probably the area where H2 might have the best shot. The big problem, however, is that they are a relatively small portion of vehicles. If they're the only ones running H2, it's probably not going to work.

Airplanes, for the most part, aren't going to be electric (although I've heard rumblings of short-range commuter electric aircraft being planned). I doubt they'll be hydrogen powered either. While they aren't as encumbered by the rocket equation as... rockets, they do feel pressure from additional weight. Additionally, the added volume of H2 compared to something like avgas (on a MJ normalized basis) would negatively affect the aerodynamic efficiency of airplanes. Probably going to stay with petroleum for the foreseeable future.
Its super simple to use for languages such as python or C++.
I have a dynamic IP from my ISP at home, so that wouldn't work?
NULLs in the Windows Registry
That sounds great to me. We
need more mentally healthy people.
Right but I think the obvious point is that if you Google Tether you get

"Every tether is always 100% backed by our reserves, which include traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets ..."

The entire selling point is that they aren't a fractional reserve bank.
The rapist isn't guaranteed not to be prosecuted if the victim doesn't hand over data. But you're right that a rapist careful not to leave behind too much other evidence is likely protected.