skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are still doing some non-violent ethnic cleansing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alien%27s_passport
to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]

1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology
Not sure i get the cloud play here, are they trying to cater to people building their own private clouds, or are they planning to start from scratch and build an AWS competitor ?

Either plan seems like a poor one for 67B.
That's what Twitter was nearly from the beginning. That's not been their focus in recent years though, their focus has been on being a media platform.
I still don't get the appeal of these types of videos. What's wrong with an article as a set of instructions?

I mean in the context of performance tuning, all you'll be looking at is a shell. I understand some people prefer a visual approach to learning but I don't see any added benefit in producing this type of information in an animated format.
The figure I've seen quoted for many Li batteries is 1000 recharges at good capacity. For devices needing a recharge every few weeks, the batteries should last a decade or more.
> Apple Magic Mouse 2 has a new internal structure with fewer moving parts.

It had like .. 1 moving part before - the switch when you depressed it.
When it supports other languages, please post a link to it on /r/languagelearning. It would be very helpful for alot of people!
Because there are two intervening paragraphs of corporate speak between the "giving it straight" and that which was supposedly given straight.
Definitely a generalization but I think that's how it's viewed by many from 30k ft. I should have made it clearer that I was making an observation about a perception not my own views.
Together J had always in sync Code and UML. It was a really neat IDE.
I hope they're not phasing out the numeric keypad versions! I love typing on those. Never understood why Apple didn't make a wireless version with a keypad either.
Unfortunately, I am having two mandatory courses that focus on it (it's a BSc CS programme).
There is Frink (http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/) which has interval arithmetic which seems so much more sane than floating point numbers..
What's the expected lifetime of a mouse, and what's the expected useable lifetime of a li-ion battery? Yes, it will degrade over time, but you'll continue to get use out of it. I'd peg both at about 4-5 years at this point.

It's not apple that's implementing planned obsolescence. It's the entire industry, and it's defacto obsolescence. Or would you still expect to be using your microsoft ball mouse from 1999 today?
That is very clear communication. A very specific number of people to be let go.

Corporate speak usually refers to deliberately obfuscatory language, and I see none of that in what he wrote.
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I personally find the force touch trackpad really spooky. It clicks in when I exert force, which is fine, and if I reduce the force without moving my finger, it clicks out, which is also fine.

When I click and drag across the trackpad, the click out force point changes; it clicks when my finger leaves my trackpad, not when my finger removes the force on the trackpad. That hysteresis makes my brain hurt.
The new trackpad certainly stands out in terms of pricing.

£109 vs £65 for the new mouse.
I like this.Google can sometimes do good than evil.
I think it depends on the case but my point is that if you hide to the developer the cost of that abstraction than you will get some surprises in performance later on.

There are lots of reasons why an abstraction was written, ease of use being one of them but this also means that they don't always cover all bases (like performance). Which is alright if you (the developer) know about it.

Thanks to GraphQL or Falcor I can most likely do something like "return me an object containing table1.colA, table2.colB, table3.colC, ...etc." very easily but it also means that I just asked for at least two joins.

This can get really expensive if every developer on that project has the ability to do costly queries like this.
In the section for the magic trackpad, there is a little animated gif showing how a two-finger swipe animates sliding webpages (presumably emulating "back" and "forward" buttons). The animation in the browser is choppy and there is a visible delay/mismatch between the swipe and the response. Apple's marketing can't even doctor a gif properly.
I'm not a huge fan of the form factors on Apple's external input devices to begin with, and now that I can't just swap out the batteries and have an instant full charge while on the go... no thanks.
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yay, finally rechargeable!

i'm actually excited about the new trackpad. i have some kind of a weird sensation whenever i use a silver trackpad, a sort of tingle in my fingers. this doesn't happen on the magic mouse's white surface... anybody know what i'm talking about? my friends think i'm crazy.
> The ROM is basically acting as an FPGA.

No, it doesn't; neither from a practical, nor from a theoretical point of view. Theoretically, ROMs are equivalent to the class of pure, total, mathematical functions (i.e., each input value maps to exactly one output value), while FPGAs are equivalent to the class of deterministic finite automata, because they contain internal state.

> After all, an FPGA is just a load of units of small ROM areas, with the inputs and outputs linked to each other.

You're forgetting the memory elements – they're crucial to the functionality of FPGAs.
No force touch on the magic mouse? That's surprising, it seems like an ideal candidate for the feature.
> The world needs a strong Twitter

Really? Does it? I think Twitter needs a strong Twitter, shareholders need a strong Twitter even Twitter employees need it. However the world is, at best, ambivalent about Twitter, if it disappeared tomorrow a replacement would spring up within a few weeks if the world really needed a way to shotgun their messages into the ether.
Why the French want biometrics on all EU travellers
I got a Magic Mouse with my last Mac, with the one-piece top shell that rocks left and right depending if you want to left or right click. The very first game I tried with it was Borderlands, but you need to hold down the right-click button to aim and while doing so left-click to shoot. No can do.

I love Macs and really appreciate the attention to detail Apple put into all their products. Except mice. I'd take the cheapest mouse off Amazon over any of the ones from Apple any day of the week.
The presumption of innocence comes from English common law, not the Constitution; it in fact appears nowhere in the Constitution, let alone in the 1st or 4th Amendment.
Yeah, PO is the reason why iOS 9 still supports iPhone 4s.
The new moust is very appealing to me exactly because I won't have to deal with batteries anymore.
You didn't like side-swiping or multi-touch tapping on a mouse with no buttons?
I doubt anyone ever claimed that Chernobyl was nuclear Done Right. It was probably the most unsafe reactor design ever put into production.

The best modern designs have a strong negative feedback: as the fuel gets hotter, the reaction rate slows down, just due to the physics of the fuel and coolant. Chernobyl did the opposite: as the fuel got hotter the nuclear reactions happened faster. It relied on human operation of control rods to keep it from blowing up. And on top of that it skipped the containment shell.
So... did the guy selling that to us get the implants? They don't say anything about it in the article.
I found that once you know your way around the basics (which the FTP mentioned here is a big part of), it becomes quite trivial to just "hack away". I am now 4 years aboard the Haskell train and use Haskell for scripting work I would have used bash or Python before. That said I have about 10 years of practical Java experience under my belt and Haskell was refreshingly different. But before this thread get's out of hand I'll keep my fanboy mouth shut ;)
Spring is still wholly owned by EMC (and thus, Dell) through Pivotal. Boot and Spring Cloud is seeing a renaissance in its adoption and evolution. It was hard for VMware to know what to do with it previously because the whole vFabric and Cloud Foundry thing was Paul Maritz' brainchild - not part of traditional VMware culture or mindset.

Tucci has a track record of making some very good acquisitions (VMware, XTremIO, Isilon, DSSD, etc) and incubating new ideas (Pivotal). He needs to retire though, and this the Federation needs a new head to keep this ship aloft. Will it work? Who knows! Elliott meant they had to do something.
A few automated trading algorithms would become marginally less effective. Some poorly written ones might crash or make a few million dollars worth of bad trades.

So, you know, there's that.
Bringing the laptop interface to the desktop? Not interested.

The desktop is the one place where I don't need wireless, I don't care how big, old, or ugly looking my hardware is, and what I bought 10 years ago still works perfectly fine today.

The Magic Keyboard seems designed for using it from the couch. Any other use case seems better served with a "normal" keyboard.
Carleton University? Christine?
That's nearly 10% of their work force.
Magic Trackpad 2 is a must buy for me, ever since I bought a new MBP with new touchpad that allows to click anywhere on a surface - I can't get used to old way of clicking only at the bottom of a trackpad, I want to click anywhere now and with consistent pressure
Wow, these aren't proofread by anyone?

> The team has been working around the clock to produce streamlined roadmap for Twitter,

"to produce streamlined roadmap" Really?
There are several observations to be made
from the number and variety of narratives
that the authors in this review have proffered.
The most obvious is that there is still significant
disagreement as to what the underlying
causes of the crisis were, and even less agreement
as to what to do about it. But what may
be more disconcerting for most economists
is the fact that we can’t even agree on all the
facts[...]Many of us like to think
of financial economics as a science, but complex
events like the financial crisis suggest
that this conceit may be more wishful thinking
than reality. Keynes had even greater
ambitions for economics when he wrote, “If
economists could manage to get themselves
thought of as humble, competent people on a
level with dentists, that would be splendid.”22
Instead, we’re now more likely to be thought
of as astrologers, making pronouncements
and predictions without any basis in fact or
empirical evidence.

I find it kind of sad that the author is more concerned with lamenting about what people think of him and his profession than he is preoccupied with synthesizing the most plausible set of causes and remedies for the financial crisis from the 21 different sources he has studied.
Mini-Review: Apple’s New Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Trackpad 2
Yesterday TWTR went down almost 7%.
Proposed new tag: IMG (1993)
I guess the message was a bit too long for a tweet.
Although I think that's an excellent example of a reason for the state to press charges, I think it's rather obvious that's a different matter. I would imagine one could argue that the victim in the case is potentially the state itself.

I'm thinking more along the lines that there is a clear cut victim of the alleged crime that refuses to file charges and the state does it in their stead. It would seem that the lack of charges from the alleged victim is the first defense of the accused, even the victim disagrees with the state.
And the battery compartment. And the power switch (which I expect it does still have).
I believe the second link should be to stoicism2.pdf
I took a look at this after it was mentioned on Hacker News two weeks ago and ended up building this map of all the DSM 1m data:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map

I've been quite fascinated to discover how many mysterious lumps and bumps are to be found all over the country, often with no apparent explanation in aerial photo maps, and to my great surprise I find myself cultivating an interest in armchair archaeology. I've stumbled across a few features which on further research have turned out to be sites of note, a couple of which were only discovered in recent years, which is quite exciting. Next mission is to discover something completely unknown. In fact I could do with some help interpreting some features if anyone here has any experience in this area.

Here's a couple of well known sites:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU1224642189 (Stonehenge)

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU1025569962 (Avebury)

A few of my 'discoveries':

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=ST5895844810 (Medieval and Iron Age/Roman field systems near Croscombe, Somerset)

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=NY7217242430 (Potential henge near Alston, Cumbria)

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SX1025261066 (Roman Fort near Restormel Castle, Cornwall)

A couple of things I'm not sure about:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=ST4580543091

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=TL2327777126
I didn't realize this till you put it up.But does this have any effect on your workflow?
XStream: A Java 8 Stream extension to process data pipelines the uniX way
Specific numbers like that makes for a nice change. So far touch wood I've never been in a company where layoffs have happened, but people I know who have been often just get notice that "some" layoffs will happen and it rarely seems like most of management has a clue how many they're intending to cut, with there being some target $$ value in salary reduction or similar in mind.

Often the process then more broadly resembles a farce, with managers trying to protect their mini-empires by sabotaging others. Giving an explicit number seems to indicate that Twitter has a clear idea of exactly what they're trying to do here.
The Magic mouse surface doesn't "rock left and right". The whole piece clicks, regardless of where you press. What differs is that it is a multi-touch surface and identifies where your finger is at the time you click (or even tap, if you have that enabled).

There is a built-in option in OSX to enable "Secondary click" (aka Right Click, but it can also be swapped to be triggered by a left-side click for Left-Handed users) on a Magic Mouse.

If a piece of third-party software somehow doesn't work with the standard OS pointer system, it sounds like you should be asking them why their software is so terrible.
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Solution Without a Problem? A Tax on High-Frequency Trading
The batteries could sort of jiggle?
I think I have a trackball upstairs in a box from circa 2000 that I suspect still works fine, with an ADB-USB converter.

The design goals of these two devices are different. Of course, it's perfectly fine for different devices to have different design goals. In fact, they should!
There is no protection against non-termination. For example, an user could give you this function:

f = (function (x){ return x(x); })

Now, if you call `f(function(f){return function(x){ return f(f(x)) }})`, it'll not halt. But there are good principled ways to work around that, such as adding a type system like System F. That would discard 100% of the programs that halt, at the cost of also losing some programs that do halt.
Lol, thank you for reminding us of this golden nugget!
"The best solution is for the U.S. to join the rest of the world in taxing based on residency rather than citizenship."

As a former expat, this would have made my life significantly easier. The current U.S. tax code is appalling in its overreach.
Whatever. It's the equivalent of a parent thinking their baby is the most beautiful baby in the world, when it may not be the case to a more neutral observer.

I think he strikes a good tone in both emphasizing the importance of the work they are doing at Twitter, and how they need to do better. I think less than perfect objectivity can be forgiven.
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I don't know why the parent post is being downvoted: trading using Twitter sentiment analysis is apparently a thing [1][2].

[1] http://www.deltixlab.com/research/an-automated-trading-strat...

[2] http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2011/TrusheimChakoumakosYendlu...

Edit: typo
Agree but so is Reuters, still it's their news that a lot of newspapers uses for their papers.

Twitter is a news source not a newspaper.
Great, now my credit score will be affected by my posture as well
That's a pretty weird example, because that is the _only_ stock that trades at $200,000/share. Such a high price forces away liquidity intentionally, because the capital requirements of even 1 share are larger than most futures contracts. For most individuals it is more like buying a house than a stock! As a result, there is a NYSE employee (I forget the title, maybe DMM?) on the floor which _manually_ matches buyers against sellers. Other exchanges I believe still match electronically.

Aside from that, how does your statement relate to inventory risk? Market makers and grocery stores take on inventory risk. An absence of market makers in BRK.A* would only show that nobody wants to take on that risk. It does not change the role of the exchange. Exchanges facilitate matches, they are not a counterparty.

* which is not actually true, see http://batstrading.com/bzx/book/BRK.A/ during market hours and you'll find active quotes at a 2% spread.
Slightly OT, but honestly I think the world really doesn't need Twitter. If you view the evolution of the internet as a phenomenon fundamentally linked to the emergence of a global cultural consensus, or even consciousness, then to reduce a sizable fraction of its bandwidth to 140 chars, vicious echochambers and a communication mechanism custom designed to bump people's thoughts out-of-context for the purposes of ridicule then Twitter should be viewed as harmful. I hope some of these coming changes directly address the harm current Twitter does to the quality of human communication on the net.
Very good catch. Any suggestion how I could improve the usage of null for determining the end of a call list?
I'll argue that the battery lid isn't a moving part since it doesn't move in regular use. But I'll agree that the power switch could be one. The new mouse is probably smarter about entering sleep mode and doesn't have a switch (guessing here). So that's 2 moving parts gone.
Yeah but not enough IMO.
Apple Granted a Patent for Biometric Sensing (Touch ID) for a Future MacBook
Is this a privately held company or one of those public utilities that is community based? Sorry, I don't recall the correct term. I can see in those instances it would public knowledge because if I recall correctly, every customer is a shareholder of a sort, or something like that.
Is a cable for your keyboard really that bad. Its mean a perfect connection and no recharging.
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Sequence diagrams are quite useful, static diagrams, not so much. I only find myself drawing them if I'm trying to do a necropsy to figure out hosed up object relationships.

The other useful diagram tfa doesn't cover is the finite state machine diagram. Handy, plus, they look cool.

As an aside, I find it's much, much easier to do with pen & paper than in any tool i've ever used (looking at you omnigraffle & visio!)
Living near the embassy doesn't make things any easier. I live about a 5 minute walk from the US embassy in Oslo, and you have to have an appointment to do anything. The embassy is supposed to accept ballots, but for all intents and purposes only does this for presidential elections, so I still end up going to the post office.

It's incredibly frustrating how even when living overseas you have to have some sort of residential address for many things. I use my father's address for this purpose, which is useful since he lives in a state with no local income tax, reducing some of my paperwork.
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What about Twitter's none-core products? GNIP and Fabric (crashlytics and Answers)
> In the US, 31 out of 33 visited states had audible human noises in their most remote spots

I know the article says this, but it could't possibly be true. Most states have massive forests, including the State of New York. Even the most densely populated state, New Jersey, has them. Unless they literally sat at that spot for a day waiting for a plane to fly over them, I can't understand how it could be true.
As I asked the other comment, is this a public utility or private company? Did they provide details of the customer beyond usage and address?
Apple: 21.5" iMac with 4k Retina
I can't find where I read the notion on paid content originally, but it makes sense to me. With 3 network channels and the goal of maximizing ad revenue, you need a lot of stuff that a lot of people will watch, which mean generally adequate, inoffensive, middlebrow programming. Places like HBO and Netflix, though, live and die based on whether people a) sign up to pay, and b) keep paying. That gives a strong incentive to create very compelling, high-quality shows that a narrower audience will definitely watch. (I think the invention of reality TV has also helped, in that it has drained off the fraction of the audience that is happy with low-end, cheap-to-produce programming.)

Regarding me using an ad-blocker: your use of physical theft as an analogy for viewing content is just embarrassing on Hacker News. You should know better.

The difference is that if I steal headphones, the store is deprived of the headphones. Whereas if I read an article without also paying to download and display their ads, they still have the article. If they would like to only show content and ads at the same time, there are technological fixes they could apply. If they do, I won't be working around them.

They presumably haven't because there is value to them in people reading and sharing their content whether or not ads are viewed. And also because the marginal cost of a view is so small that it's best expressed in scientific notation. Personally, I don't bother trying not to read their stuff because a) I am looking for opportunities to pay people who are willing (e.g., I pay the NYT), b) I hope it'll contribute to the signal to them that their ad-driven model is not sustainable, and c) I'm not the level of obsessive that is going to carefully decide which sites to visit because I might be costing large media companies epsilon cents until they get their acts together.
>This solid but lighter build, along with an optimized foot design, results in a smooth, superior glide with less resistance.

That's exactly my issue with the mouse. It glides to easily. The touch is pretty much useless because I end up moving the mouse instead. I'm probably holding it wrong.

While I love the current trackpad, I'm not sure that I really believe that much in force touch, it seems like a very undiscoverable interface design. Some people are still struggling with single vs. double click, I don't feel that it helps them that they now also have to think about how hard they press.
And the answer is going to be, "Because it's a port from Windows, and the Mac's small user base doesn't justify the effort needed to redo the control scheme." Regardless of whether you find that answer to be acceptable, that's what it will be, and the alternative is not to have it available on the Mac at all.
You'll probably never see this, because it's a day late, but I can tell you that it's not simulated paper. The author frequently scans his comics and doesn't bother cleaning up the artifacts because he likes the way they look. See: cbcomic.com, "The Bins" - a series on the Rumpus, and "illustrated journals" - also on modern farmer.