skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS.

I was affected and had a repair done. Looks like they're reimbursing customers for past repairs for this issue. Woop!
I used to think Servo would just make the web a little faster, and never understood the true impact it might have until this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011215 and pcwalton's response in that thread.

Servo is going to completely expose the worst parts of our current web. I'm hopeful it will start influencing standards to expose sane APIs that make it easier for current engines to parallelize.
That's like saying the majority of HNers are Gruber's drones for praising his business model, or Google/Mozilla/Node having a brigade of posters to praise their languages.
I had a similar problem with a Macbook from around 2009. The graphics became defective right after the 3 year Apple Care expired. This was a known motherboard issue with extended coverage, but I didn't know, so I went out and bought a new Macbook.

What I would like to know is, why doesn't Apple inform the owners of affected hardware? It's not like they don't know, since they have everything they'd need for that in their customer database (Apple ID and contact info, Macbook serial numbers).

I suspect they happily leave the onus on the consumer to discover that their out of warranty hardware has a serial defect who's repair is covered. I've seen this behavior with other manufacturers (Onkyo). I think that we need better laws to force the manufacturers to contact their customers, similar to safety recalls in the automobile space.
What was the CA thinking when they said, "Sure we'll give you a wildcard cert for any domain!"

I've un-trusted their cert... http://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2015/02/20/untrust-cloudflare...
Hostels are also pretty great in Japan.
Anecdote: I once left an iPad on top of a table at a McDonalds in the 3rd busiest train station in Japan during rush hour. Realized my mistake and came back 30 minutes later. Neither iPad nor table taken.

Sentiment among Japanese folks is that it isn't as good as the old days but objectively speaking if a major US city reported Tokyo's victimization rates they'd be laughed out of the room. "At least lie competently!"
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It's the difference between understanding in some abstract way and internalizing.

Once you've internalized a concept something that is so far out of whack would immediately look wrong. For example:

23894739 x 23894739 = 2

I would expect anyone who has internalized the rules of multiplication to immediately and intuitively reject that. Not that they could tell you what the correct answer is, but know that can't be it at a glance.

The claim is that the concept that the arithmetic mean is going to be somewhere between the extreme values in a list is simple and fundamental enough that it should have been similarly internalized by university students.
Isn't this story just about a single anecdote? To me that makes it nearly meaningless.
More likely you need more complex structures overall to support a larger size which take time to evolve. Consider air breathing whales are significantly larger than any fish in part because they can use Air for oxygen, but also because their bones are stronger. But, also such animals have more body mass and take longer to grow so they need significantly better defenses vs cancer.
This article was fascinating to me. They found unified characteristics amongst power users, but because of how Japan works, it may be far more difficult to find potential hosts like the ones they have using anything other than word of mouth or traditional advertising.

What a cool problem to solve.

Does anyone know if retirees are major Airbnb hosts elsewhere in the world, particularly retired widows?
Industry brain drain is a known phenomenon in other circumstances, such as the natural resources trap. It's plausible that it could occur here.
What if the innards would be upgradable? Or owners could exchange the edition models for a newer model in store paying only a "modest" upgrade fee?

I'd think Apple is aware that the edition models don't follow the one to two year upgrade cycles of a smartphone. So, some kind of investment protection would be necessary.
A friend of mine told of his experience visiting a small town in Japan. Upon arriving at the train station he asked if there were lockers where he could leave his luggage for the day. "Just set the bag in the floor over there," said the train official, laughing at the ridiculous question. Sure enough, when my friend returned 10 hours later, no one had touched his luggage.
Yeah, if you have the resources. But so many native apps are a Web view with a couple controls slapped on and extra ads that I am wary of installing anything at this point.
I had similar arguments with my university. They couldn't figure out how to weigh my grades. All grades are weighted by the amount of credit a course is worth, but they added it up wrongly. A Fucking university!
There is one massive different with usual watches.

Expensive watches are often sold under the idea you will never have to buy another watch, and neither will your children, or your children's children. I will reasonably surprised if any new Apple Watch hasn't been made forcibly obsolete by Apple within 5 years or so, and shocked if it is still functional in 10.

Furthermore (and more worrying perhaps for people paying that much money), once a model of Apple Watch comes out with a better CPU, then your watch is no longer the latest-and-greatest, whereas older watches don't have the same degree of last year's begin inferior (of course, they can still go out of fashion).
For a decade until 2008-09, large majority of the economists weren't able to predict how this is going to bite. The southern states were having a ball as they carelessly kept increasing the labour charges and enjoyed a comparatively higher valuation at the cost of nations that have a more professional workforce. I get eerie whenever a country's mood and economy is suddenly booming for no seeming important reason other than the play on financial instruments.

Anyway, back to the point. Spain, Italy have a lot of fine craftsmen - remember Zara, Ferrari and Lamborghini! But the Northerners are pretty professional at their work - BMW, Volvo, Nokia! It will take long for the mindset in the southern states to change from casual to the one of performance.

As the pressure mounts, a lot of young people will start to gravitate towards greener pastures in other countries - it's easy for people from member states to move to a new country, thus depriving these countries of young workers. It'll turn out to be a pretty painful situation them, a brain/workforce drain, which is the last thing they want right now.

The EU and Euro currency brings both good and bad. The good that I see is the easy exchange of money, travel and work options. The bad is that European people aren't a single stock, they don't like to be compared to each other, or to be put on similar benchmarks. It was smart move by Switzerland and UK to stay out of the Euro currency. The common currency puts a pressure on everyone to be equal. And that, is not going to happen. This will be a challenge EU will face for a very long time to come, and maybe there's no good answer.
>Not necessarily

necessarily! Applying a mechanical procedure is the very definition of not understanding.

Especially if they can't even apply it right
I am not a "web developer" at the moment but rather into signal processing and I can only agree. Why is it so hard to just draw a pixel on the screen? Or why are there so many ways of doing it?
Note that the stat I pulled out is from a school board in Montreal.
same, unfortunately I wasn't aware of the recall until after it ended. I am stuck with the defected board. I also use gfxcardstatus to keep my sanity.
Or the watches will have significant trade-in value because they can ditch the electronics and melt down the gold.
Does everything have to be a conspiracy? So either Microsoft is building some good and interesting stuff, or there's some conspiracy to target HN that would get them...what, exactly? +Karma here?
If folks in Quebec can speak French, it should be pretty easy.
Science has multiple capitalization rules as well. mRNA is not a name, the same as genus and species are seldom capitalized. If you have a mRNA named Bob, then the name is capitalized.
Imo, these results are not surprising (but sad regardless). There's similar studies in all fields. Economics is a prime example (with a couple of well publicized studies).

A little "closer to home"...I've listened to quite a few software developers who regularly A/B test and always implemented B if it had more whatever_unit than A. Significance be damned.

Statistics is pretty scary/best ignored on all levels I guess.
"Just as important, if you're an engineer, developer, or mathematician who works for the NSA or a similar agency, you need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is really what you wanted to do when you grew up."

No, don't look in the mirror, waste of time. Walk away from your job.
I was working in a nightclub during my college years and I've met many, many people who loved learning yet hated school and dropped. There is an immense pool of potential being wasted out there.

I'm one of the lucky few who did drop out of school yet found a job as a software engineer on AAA games; the job I wanted since I was a kid with my first NES. I don't think having a degree would've made much of a difference other than wasting more years of my life and putting me even more in debt.

What made me get the job as well as keep it and rise faster in the company than those with actual degrees is finding the discipline to learn on my own every day and trying to understand how things work and why. In school I always felt slowed down by the rest of the class or by bad teachers.
This is really great, but the real question is will users actually see this on a default Lenovo OS build? Can anyone confirm that Defender doesn't get disabled in favor or say... McAfee or Symantec?
> Where atom can be a value or a another cons cell. In this visualization it's useful to think of CAR as referring to the "atom on the left" and CDR referring to the "atom on the right."

Then names like "left" and "right" rather than mnemonics for "contents of address part of register" and "contents of decrement part of register" would make sense.
For those of us out of the loop: What is McGill?
I think major problem is connectivity. Make your site work offline and with slow connection and you are there.

500KB of javascript and CSS code is another problem
Because its average score was high enough.
Can someone help me understand how the drug-resistant microorganisms can compete against their non-drug resistant counterparts?

Doesn't the drug resistance take extra energy and focus that makes the organism less competitive?
In my country was a politician who was outraged by the fact that 50% of people earn below the national average.
> Don't think it is purely happenstance.

I agree that it's not purely happenstance -- I think Microsoft the company is making a genuine bid to be relevant again.

It's a desperate bid, and I don't think it's in their DNA to succeed, but it'd be great if it happens. Personally I avoid using MS whenever possible; I still have to use Word and Excel to communicate with others, and some conferences still require a PPT file.

Even back when Microsoft was a big player I never found the Windows programming model technically appealing, but even if I had I would have stayed away because their anticompetitive approach was too risky and hostile for me to be willing to depend on. They became addicted to that instead of technical excellence, which is why I think this effort will fail, no matter how sincere the commitment is at the top.

But they do employ many smart people and surely it is good if we have more sources of good technology (where good is a combination of technical excellence & good policy). So why not encourage them in the hope they get their shit together?
Dispute it all you want. It's true. This plagues the lower echelons of society which you may be too distanced from to be aware of. Ask anyone from a school with a large population of students from poor families. When a kid's parents are illiterate and innumerate they tend to not rise above their station.
Of course this phenomenon has been happening since language first became a thing, but the rate at which it's happening has not. The most cynical part of me fears that places like courts, government institutions, academia, and other sorts of walled gardens will soon be the only bastions well-written and cogent language (and that this will happen before the end of the century). I don't know...maybe it won't. But still.
Does my statement somehow make everything a conspiracy? Boy, we on HN are supremely good at knocking down those strawmen.

"or there's some conspiracy to target HN that would get them...what, exactly? +Karma here?"

Is this supposed to be intentionally naive? Microsoft is a technology company that heavily relies upon buy in and advocacy. Is this really difficult to understand?

Every single comment to my post has either been an absurd strawman, simply a lie (daeken's nonsense), or just someone thinking they earn peer points. Sad.
There's also the possibility--very distant, I know--that Microsoft has been put into the odd position of being an underdog in many areas, which gives it the flexibility and necessity to act morally to make inroads against competitors among consumers.

Of all the BigCos, MS seems the best to me right now, and I say that as a guy who's made a habit of buying a Lenovo laptop every year or so and immediately installing Linux on it.
I often see native, iOS app being sluggish and I don't blame it on Objective-C or Swift. I blame it on the application. I don't understand how it's different when it comes to web apps.
An intellectual should always be wary of semantic equivalents to, "You're either for us, or against us." In greatest part, because this is one of the major symptoms that one's consciousness is partly clouded by group psychology.
SkyWalk is a tourist trap, expensive as hell. You are not even allowed cameras on the actual skywalk, so you have to buy their photos. The skywalk itself is an inslut to nature. I hope I knew a way of getting to the Canyon from Las Vegas without having to pay this robbers.
I am a target... they were even intercepting my communications yesterday on a phone number I had deactivated. Please stop them before it is too late. The security of the entire world is at stake right now.
> I want smart teachers to take control of education so this s* doesn't happen nearly as often as it does.

This is the job of parents, not teachers. What does take control even mean? Public school teachers have no control.
Op sounds like a shill. Seen that before in other related threads...
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Slow front-end templating is definitely a major problem for many WordPress installs. Varnish can work some magic, as can a little Cloudflare, but agreed: WP performance must be engineered.
For nearly any reoccurring subject on HN, someone on HN likely believes any non-negative comments about it are the result of shills.
no you cant - not in lenovo's case. The reason for this is that the keys for lenovo correspond to a very special Windows release that Microsoft specially bakes for Lenovo. You cannot use the keys on any other ISO.
This is also a big problem - you cant download these ISOs (unless some *rrentbay) and Lenovo does not give you CDs readily.
Yes, exactly, this seems so obvious that I don't understand why Gruber is ignoring it.

The iWatch will be obsolete in 24 months at most (less if you are the type who values status and want a "$20,000" watch as the next model will probably come out 12-18 months later)

Maybe there are enough uber-rich people that are ok buying $20,000 watches every year, but that seems like a really, really small market.

Then again, maybe the bands will remain the same, so if the primary investment is in the band, then that could last a bit longer. Even then I'd expect that every 2-3 years they will have a form factor switch that will make all previous bands obsolete.

We'll see.
SuperFish AdWare found inside X-Notifier browser extension code
Specific security company of interest --> Endgame Systems
Not to say there aren't bad tools out there, but it would be much better and healthier to discuss why you don't like a specific tool, or why the tool is flawed, and to help each other learn and understand vs just calling people morons.
Have you examined your proposal for drawbacks?
EDIT: (this was 2 years ago)
This must be geared toward non-developers because any WP dev worth their salt always thinks of the kittens and never hacks core.
Quite difficult. Generally, in Finland, firing a teacher requires an incidence of gross misconduct, such as violence towards pupils.

This is quite rare, though actual statistics are hard to come by. I know of one case in Helsinki area two years ago; this made headlines after a teacher physically removed a disruptive pupil from school cafeteria (generally, touching pupils is a no-no) and someone posted the scuffle in Youtube. The teacher was dismissed by headteacher, but it turned out that at least a partial reason was an earlier schism (perhaps political) between this teacher and the headteacher, and eventually the teacher was reinstated by the local school board.

Generally, firing a teacher is not very different compared to individual dismissals in other jobs in Finland; generally, processes for downsizing companies are not that complex while usually an individual dismissal is tricky.

Teacher salaries in Finland are not particularly good, but the profession is popular because pay in other university-trained professions is low (compared to US, or Germany, for instance) and therefore there are lots of applicants to teacher training. And the students can be assured that there are jobs, which is not the case for many other professions.
IME most school teachers with advanced degrees obtain them from pay-for-grade schools. Those degrees are essential for them to either move up the ranks in their programs or bump up their salary (here in GA a master's degree can be a $10k or more pay raise). It creates a strong financial motivation to get the degree, but they don't actually have time or desire to earn it. Same thing in military service (officer's in most branches were required to have graduate degrees by a certain rank, though at times this requirement has been dropped). Also federal civil service, many of my colleagues in a federal government job got their degrees from schools with lame graduate programs (observing their course work it was no harder than 3rd or 4th year undergraduate work at a second tier US university).

Advanced degrees are like bachelor's degrees used to be. Essential for jobs, so everyone's getting one. In 30 years all our children may be doctors just so they can flip burgers.
I hope 2015 is the year JS devs really start pushing for real async/threaded support in the browser. I was working on the reapp HN reader app[0] for the last few days attempting to find out why Safari would choke for up to 20 seconds on displaying ~500 DOM nodes, and this article just sparked an idea which turned out to be true: flex-box was causing it.

Switching to display: 'block' and it's under 100ms. I think now I'll look at using css-layout to just spit out absolute positions.

I also appreciate the shout out in the article to reapp. I've spend the last few days working with WebWorkers, which have some interesting potential, but without access to the UI are going to be tricky to implement. Again, the React guys have gotten something working, and we had an interesting conversation about using Flux to communicate between Workers/main thread, which I'll be exploring.

Long and short of it is this: We've gotten pretty damn close with the web these days. For anything that doesn't use exceeding long lists of media-heavy content, you can actually get 60fps with react. But you have to be careful.

I'd love to see UI workers, async DOM ops, and even Canvas support for better accessibility. Web developers should all be writing and voting up articles like this.

[0] http://hn.reapp.io
a lot of young people will start to gravitate towards greener pastures

This is already happening. The coffee shops, kiosks and warehouses in Denmark where I'm from are packed with economical refugees from Southern Europe.

The sad part is that the ones that leave are probably the most driven ones, and thus the ones the southern countries need in the future.
T430s user here - you should be proud. Did you know Coreboot started supporting T430s a week back [1] ?

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Coreboot-...
The funniest part of the story is the article got the formula for average wrong.

The article listed all this "add them all up and divide by how many" but thats totally wrong.

The real way averages are calculated is you write a script for an actor wearing a lab coat to sell more toothpaste, and some liberal arts grad picks a number that rolls off the tongue and sounds good. Sometimes politicians use "average" as a verbal filler. like "like" or "um", it doesn't mean anything numerical it just sounds good and fills space.

So the kids that wrote 18 or 120 are the only kids who got it right. You put your nose in the air and sniff what someone wants to hear about a conclusion they've already drawn, and if higher or lower is better, well, thats what the answer is.

The answer to "whats the average of one 100 and nine 20s" is NOT, repeat, NOT 28. Thats never going to sell toothpaste in TV commercials, sounds terrible.

If you have a system of commerce built entirely on lies and deceit and asymmetric unfair marketplaces, some weird rant about mathematical truth is like asking how many angels dance on the head of a pin.
That's a great explanation. Thank you. Doesn't it cause problems not being able to pause the execution of the programme?
There is no such direct causality. The value of a currency (in the sense of exchange rates and prices of goods) is determined by supply and demand, and nothing else.

People with the mindset of "USD government printing money => value of USD goes down" have been predicting QE-based inflation for years, and they were wrong. When you drop this incorrect mindset and adopt the correct one (supply and demand!) it's easy to see why: QE did not make people richer, so it did not lead to the kind of significant increase of demand that would be required to trigger a rise in inflation.
Agreed. I still wait to learn that AWS is compromised on a huge scale too. No words yet - mark this post and let's see and wait.
The U.S. is also larger than the Schengen area. Plus, air travel from Europe is considerably cheaper than air travel from the United States, while gasoline is much cheaper in the United States.

Besides, we were comparing to the UK, which is not part of the Schengen area but is right next to it. Of course Britons are going to have passports.
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It could happen, but that would be very aggressive and experimental. The perfect watch, the Rolex GMT, has a base price of about 8k in steel, and goes for about 26k in 18k gold, for a 3.5x multiple[1]. (Ignore diamonds, etc. Not relevant to this discussion.)

So a 10x multiple on plain 18k gold over steel would be quite aggressive. And I don't know of any other watch where the exact same base watch is available at 25x less from plain 18k gold. You can get high-quality swiss movement homages to the GMT at around 1k, but they are clearly different watches and movements.

Apple has of course done their homework on it and I have no understanding of the asian market, but if the pricing is that aggressive I would be surprised, particularly with the android competition.

[1] http://www.jomashop.com/rogmii.html
I thought a comment went dead and stopped getting votes after it hit -5.