skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN is not for email signups. You have to have something people can try out now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Why does the right wing think net neutrality is a bad thing?

Don't they want to encourage business?
Good thing about bleve is that it's a library. Probably it's early but I'm looking forward to use it.
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I admire the persistence and vision of the Disqus team. They are exactly what the internet needs.

I like the concept behind Disqus's new homepage. I also like many parts of its new aesthetics (colors, freshness). My critique (and trust me I know how hard web dev is) is that the new homepage is pretty visually overwhelming and yet bland. Its too much like Asana / an airplane cockpit.

I know Disqus has tons of features. I'm just not sure showing a new user all 10,000 of them when they first visit the site is what you want to be doing.
Is the new battery life still not good enough for you?

Also please all saying this is only "design". This is design made from user problems. Apple is a master at solving actual user problems, and that's why they are so successful. As a side product, their hardware look handsome. But that's actually the less important side.

Real users don't care about 10% more processor or 20% more storage. They care that they can wear their laptop everywhere (and in their purse, many Apple customers are women), that they can type fast and not be bumed by the noise of the computer.

Call it design, I call this utility, and I'm glad Apple tackle those issues. They really care about the whole and are not just assembling off the shelf pieces together.
Obama launches new techhire initiative
No, but it's a great way to increase "don't stick your head where it shouldn't be" awareness!
> 1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop.

For this reason, it seems clear they won't run it at 2x by default. This is perfectly okay with a Retina screen, as you can't tell the difference. I believe the iPhone 6+ is run at non-integer scaling, and it looks great.

> try driving a monitor and doing some work. Don't be surprised if you get 3-4 hours. Then what do you do. Plug it off and wait for 1 hour to recharge? What if you need to do development, how do you plug your device. Yeah the usb dongle will be needed which kind of defeats the point of having a single port.

I imagine they will release a Cinema Display that provides power, display, and USB hub all over USB-C.
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Because Business Insider is definitely the place to go for hard physics news.

Here's the actual article, from last month: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150218-string-theory-only-g...

The actual headline: "In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory"

The actual pull quote, which accurately summarises the article: "Researchers are demonstrating that, in certain contexts, string theory is the only consistent theory of quantum gravity. Might this make it true? In certain universes with a fisheye geometry known as anti-de Sitter space, string theory has been shown to provide the only consistent way to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics."
I agree with you. But we're the 0.2%

I also think calling unwanted email "spam" is totally stupid and it shits me to tears. Spam is a product made with meat.

I also think the way Americans (and now sadly, the rest of the world is starting to pick it up) say "I reached out to <x>" is the dumbest thing ever. No, you didn't reach out, you tried to contact. Unless you were close and you reached out to touch them?

Those are 2 things that wear a little thin with me. How in touch with the generally accepted way of the world do I sound?
MacBook docking station
- Meetups.

- Bars.

- Coffee shops.

I've met a lot of people at a web meetup that I've started going to recently. It's really good not only for connections but self-esteem too.
Crafting iOS games in JavaScript
Apple should stage some sort of protest. Perhaps they should go on some sort of tax strike.
True, but Snowden's data haul is at least a year and a half old by now, and some of the files cited in this article date back longer than that.

But I edited my comment to include your point: no hard proof that this technique was used...yet.
They're ugly as hell, and insanely painful if you tread on them, but UK plugs are a bastion of good engineering.

Things like not being able to stick things into the line/neutral holes unless the ground pin (which is longer) is inserted make them very safe, and the plastic lower part of the line/neutral pins to stop you accidentally touching something that will have current running through it until the plug is safely inserted is inspired.
The complexity of the problem solver generally increases faster than the complexity of the problem generator.

For example, a general solver for "what is #{x} + #{y}?" is relatively easy. A general solver for "what is the derivative of #{random_equasion_with_diffuculty(3)}?" requires a full computer algebra system. Take one more step into advanced mathematics, and things get more dicy -- automated theorem provers, for example, require human guiding and hints.
Single-sided or double-sided hammering?
This RTS game does just that. http://www.achrongame.com/site/gameplay.php

The two sides have time travel where you can effectively go back and change your commands. It controls this by an energy bar where the amount of energy to perform an action increases the further back you go effectively putting a hard limit on how far you can go back.
Handmade NES Clone 'Super 8-Bit' Enhances the Nintendo Experience
What bothers me most is the fact that tabs aren't as useful as they should be - I want folders to always open in tabs, resulting in just ONE finder window unless I explicitly say otherwise. Instead whenever I trigger an action that shows something in finder I'm presented with a new window. In my typical use case I'll end up with several finder windows unless I manually merge them.

Finder tabs should behave like browser tabs, where opening in a new tab is the default action unless the user really wants a new window. Total Finder, a third party app, did this better.
Usually, I'd navigate to a folder and then have the content in list view (which was really useful, like windows' "detailed" view, only better) and then drill down to the subfolders via the collapsible tree.

So, yeah I miss the spatial finder too, but after 10+ years, I have gotten over it. People blow this out of proportion.
if i am going to spend several hundred $ minimum on a watch watch, why not spend it on a decent looking digital watch where i can apply different clock faces.

because of the 18 hour battery life?

Given this constraint it may be a cool gadget at this time, but with a battery life of less than a day I don't see it as a replacement of a real watch.
I can think of a couple of reasons to keep the Airs. Firstly some people may feel the need for usb sockets etc. And secondly they may well keep them as a low cost option the way they usually keep the previous years iPhone on sale. The Air 11 is $899 now. Guess that'll drop to $799 or so when the new one's out. It'd help get the budget conscious to go Mac rather than Windows.
AirPlay Mirroring-Tips to Get the Most Out of AirPlay Mirroring
How to use AriPlay Mirroring? Here a few useful tips to use AirPlay screen mirroring to AirPlay mirror iPad iPhone are provided. More details please refer to:

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Wanted to get an example on one of my projects. Sadly it requires write access to my public repositaries. Sorry - no.
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That would be very bad for projects that not only use dual licenses but especially if one of them is a commercial license. If you just checked there and found the apache and think "Great, I can put that into my closed source tool" you might be in for a surprise when the author contacts you and tells you that the apache is only for non commercial use and there is a second, paid license for commercial use available that you should have taken.
> Things like not being able to stick things into the line/neutral holes unless the ground pin (which is longer) is inserted make them very safe, and the plastic lower part of the line/neutral pins to stop you accidentally touching something that will have current running through it until the plug is safely inserted is inspired.

Same in Australia, of course you can still go off an buy and Apple Laptop charger with no ground.
Reading it I was thinking I should hack stuff together with the basics in preference to learning too much fancy frameworks.
You've already made up your mind about who and what I am based on 3 paragraphs of text (which I wrote in a somewhat sarcastic and aggressive tone, I know, to make it a bit more funny to read, and to invoke some response).

But I'm going to level with you: if my expert can't handle a simple problem with training wheels, like FizzBuzz, it is a very strong indicator that attempting to give him a bigger problem to solve (but not code) is a waste of time.
The Administration will launch a $100 million H-1B grant competition by
the Department of Labor to support innovative approaches to training and
successfully employing low-skill individuals with barriers to training
and employment including those with child care responsibilities, people
with disabilities, disconnected youth, and limited English proficient
workers, among others.

The bit about H1-B I think means funded by H1-B fees, not that it has anything to do with the H1B program. I have a sinking feeling that Obama thinks an "IT job" is the guy answering helpdesk calls who tells you to check if everything is plugged in.

An 'interesting' bullet at the very end;

Information Technology Industry-Credentialing partnerships. The President’s
FY2016 budget proposes $300 million to fund IT jobs partnerships between
regional employers to develop and adopt assessments and credentials that will
give more people the chance to qualify for a better, higher-paying tech job
regardless of their pedigree.

Shit, I think Starfighter just got its A round! ;-) But of course Starfighter is the absolute last thing that would ever emerge from a program like this.

What's missing from this press release? Two things in particular stand out to me; 1) Not a peep about getting more software development / hacking / coding / scripting / building more firmly into K-12, and 2) Nothing about encouraging and helping support startup hiring, the actual engine of job creation. How about a program which helps fund community Maker Studios across the nation?

Basically this whole things reads like $400 million of pilot studies which will go nowhere and do nothing. We'd probably be much better off running a highly publicized national / crowdsourced business competition to award 5,000 people $10k - $50k grants over the next 5 years. I'm not saying it would all be money well spent, but probably better than the distinct flushing noise I'm hearing with this one. That, or please just mail $1 back to every citizen.
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Surely doing that would require them to rewrite the Apache license (thus making it no longer the apache license) otherwise there's no legal way of enforcing the non-commercial use?
I'm currently seating on some research on twitter bots (that I found… while writing a twitter bot). I have a very basic bot detector, that I'm looking to improve… but I didn't think of using graph analysis. Very interesting.
You say "abandoned" when it seems like they've really expanded the scope of their mission. Spamming sucks, but it's the reality of signing up for almost any e-mail lists - if you're no longer interested, it becomes spam and you should remove yourself from the list.

Sorry that the online gaming course wasn't good - hopefully they've improved. I don't know any students, but I know one of their first interns who spoke highly of the company, back when it was in a garage. I've met the founders at hackathons and they seem to be very nice and onto something big with a strong pro-social element.

Bummer to hear about your experience, but scammers sounds unnecessarily harsh, especially with a startup so young that is still figuring itself out.
Central banks is central planning the cost of new money creation by private banks via the interest rate. With this system we have privatized the gains and socialized cost of the risk taking to the rest of the population. Capital wins at least for now.
Did you get laid off at your last job? How did you perform? I can ask you, will you give me an unbiased answer? I can call you reference, that person you hand-picked to be the least likely person to give you a bad review. Is that guaranteed to be an unbiased answer? No.

The only unbiased answer is you, showing me, right here, right now what you can and cannot do.
One could give these out to activists around the world, they seem to be always at risk of getting their electronic devices confiscated by law enforcement.
Did you understand it? Then it doesn't need to be replaced.
This is an excellent example of the difference between "interesting" and "useful". This should be every bit as successful in its niche as ssh over DNS (which is a thing you can actually do as well).

Seriously, this is a ridiculous stretch to find some use case - any use case! - for Bitcoin.

At least there won't be a spam problem, as you need to pay to get your transactions processed at all: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions I wonder if one message would actually cost more than an SMS yet. SMS tends not to wait serious fractions of an hour, though.
Exactly what we needed for our Kerbal Space Program softwares!
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OSX is a joke. Between a minor upgrade they destroyed compat with thousands of apps. How is that even possible.
It's important to some people. But others don't really care, and would prefer a cheaper and better way to do what they want to do (in this case, become a founder or developer).

I think this is more aimed at the college-dropout techie / entrepreneur type than your typical CS student.
Why should one go to all this trouble just so he can use a Mac? There are many decent competitors out there that don't require these types of hacks (and for the record, I carry two USB batteries in my bag since there are occasions when I'm in the field for extended periods of time (24 hours+), but I certainly wouldn't be charitable to the idea of draining that backup power because Apple thought I needed to save 2mm of vertical space more than I needed the ability to transfer battery power from my laptop to my phone). That's the gist of the thing here. Apple people take using Apple products seriously and will go to lengths to make it work. Other people take their work seriously and will use the tool that best suits their needs. It's hard for me to imagine a MacBook ever best suiting the needs of a user that's more advanced than the casual Facebook browser just because so many sacrifices are made for aesthetics, and honestly even that market is a dubious target for the MacBook since the emergence of the tablet (for lighter casual users) and the ultrabook (for heavier casual users).

Do we care more about having the sexiest laptop in the airport or getting more productive time in? That's the dilemma one goes through when choosing PC v. Mac.
I used rowhammer_test.cc, which I think is single-sided.
>> But even more to the point; telling a coworker you are attracted to them, guess what, it's not sexual harassment, and it's certainly not illegal.

>Yes it is, it's an unwelcome sexual advance.

You're wrong here, because if we ban people from revealing their attractions, then no one will enter relationships, and humankind will be extinct.
Maybe that need is why change (log) currency is so important. With headligns we say yes or no rules, there is forced error between terms.

Where really terming needs worthy space (safe) to audit psychotechnological/narrative trails, we fight judging betters as-if technology today has limited memory.

A. https://archive.today/memdu (see History, judge yourself)
It's only a no-brainer as a last resort. Your number is preposterously low, and desal's environmental costs are pretty high. Where possible, conservation is a better plan.

Here in California, desalination runs about $2000-$3000 per acre-foot, so your number is more like $1.60-$2.40/1000 litres. (For comparison, I pay around $5/HCF for rainwater from my city, which is $1.70/1000 litres.)

And even that price doesn't include externalities. Desalination takes a huge amount of energy, and the salt doesn't just disappear. It gets pumped back into the ocean along with chemicals: http://www.paua.de/Impacts.htm
>the few who want to learn in a nontraditional way and don't intend to get a corporate or hardcore engineering job would probably be smart enough choose to use books, a startup internship or some freelance gigs, and, say, the Internet (???) over something like Make School

I'm not convinced of this. The value of having mentors and teachers is tremendous, even if you know you can learn to code on your own. Having someone to ask "What's the best way to structure this program?" or "Does this idea make sense to you?" is very valuable - someone to answer questions that text books, google, and stackoverflow can't.
The problem is that a stick that you bought is something unknown.
The title is a bit misleading. The sports watch edition starts at 350. What I would consider "high end" are the ones going from 800 to 1000, I think.

What this title suggests are "High End" at 10.000, I would consider "Luxury End". The 10 grand ones come in 18k Gold casings. I would really rather call that "Luxury" instead of "High End"...
Listen to a Microsoft Support Scam as It Happened
It isn't a term, it's a platitude. Mentioning it upon sight of a question mark has become a local tic—little more than a specialized "first!". Predictable comments add no new information and so dilute the threads.

But what's worse is the attempt to stop discussion. Yes, baity titles often ask baity questions, but HN has other means to deal with those. Meanwhile, other questions are legitimate and deserve sincere consideration.

Betteridge was interesting when pg first brought it up [1]. It was fun to toss about for a while. Three years and hundreds of invocations later, it is long past cliché.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880
Fake Xiaomi smartphones on sale with malware pre-installed
If you and your wife have 'gone through' 8 phones in six years ... you may want to review the subtext of the article.
IBM's trackpoint is killer.
Sure. Did 'TeMPOraL say anything contrary to that?
At an absolute minimum you should be collecting lots of statistics and using them to train a bayesian candidate filter to estimate hiring probability (the same architecture as a bayesian spam filter would work).

If you find yourself wanting something more advanced than that, random forests would be a good match here, as would clustering the candidates using DBNs or simply k-means and then using base rates.

Also, if you haven't looked at https://www.kaggle.com/competitions you really should -- they're similar to what you're doing, only for machine learning.
If this is computer science I will eat my hat. checks site No it's just computer programming. so surprised

As one who is often in charge of interviews I could tell you
that if I saw a CV with this school and no other redeeming qualities it would go straight to the bin.

I will now go and salute D. Knuth and get drunk.
> (and separately, a truck full of disks probably would have been the other best way).

A truck ? I think two 3.5" 5TB hard drives would be enough, no ?
What does "low capacity with not much relevance advantage" mean? My understanding is that DDJ (at least) has great content that "one single programmer" couldn't hope to match.
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From what I can see apple laptops have a longer working life than other higher end laptops, there must be a reason 2010 macbook airs are still selling on ebay for $400+.
It's an interesting but interlocutory piece. Nobody is wrong but nobody is right either, and it all turns out for the best... except it really doesn't. The author seriously downplays the huge political effort that was required to change living standard and grow wages; among other things, modern representative democracy was "invented" and violently forced upon the ruling classes, but it doesn't really get a mention (whereas slavery and socialism do -- probably because they feel like they've been dealt with for good).

It feels like the author is trying to sweep hard truths under the carpet of the last few paragraphs: "the problems [...] will naturally involve the issue of wealth distribution" and "such a world is likely to demand more than [...] incremental reform". Coupled with "Best to be prepared", it sounds like a call to batter up for an upcoming political storm, but it doesn't really suggest which "not-incremental reform" should be attempted, nor does it say anything about who should ask for such reforms and how.
It's refreshing to see a page about development & code which has some soul to it. So often now everything is presented either on Github's clean, dry interface or on an external page doing its very best to lack any personality.
You may wish to try both single- and double-sided hammering. If you hit the right row size it is significantly more effective:

https://github.com/google/rowhammer-test/blob/master/double_...
[meta] Looks like you replied to wrong item.
But is it people's fault you are misusing document markup and scripting languages to build GUIs?
LIGHTBOXES AAAAAAAA

I'm not seeing so many lightboxes these days. This is a blessed thing indeed.
Solve something people want blah blah
Physics researchers map where to run and hide during a zombie apocalypse
"...though none of the developers were equity holders..."

Why?
How does Linux run on the SP3? I'm considering moving from Apple one my rMBP bites the dust - is the SP3 fully Linux-compatible, do you know by chance?
Three Gigahertz Forever
It is certainly in the interests of the government and its spying agencies for the big monopolies to be successful. It must be a comforting thought to them to know that if they bug just Apple and Microsoft, at a stroke they have over 90% of the population under effective surveillance.
A lot of the problem is also editors. Most Wikipedias don't allow Tor editing, because every examination shows Tor edits to be a completely worthless sewer with literally no good edits. [1] This is unfortunate, but is also how things are.

Conversations with Tor advocates on the matter tend to go something like this:

Tor advocate: "WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?"

Wikipedians: "Please stop coming into our lounge room and pissing on the carpet."

Tor advocate: "YOU JUST HATE FREEDOM!"

[1] e.g. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-Septem...
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Thanks to the taxes that at the same time keep people from investing the very same money in a much more distributed way to the investment / consumption / research they'd prefer while avoiding the bureaucratic overhead.

Please don't thank the government unless you think they know better how to distribute this money than the people they claim to spend it for.