skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thoughts:

- Nothing unexpected really. When they did force touch on the Macbooks, we all knew it'd be coming to the phone and wireless trackpad, too.

- The lack of force touch on the magic mouse means developers are less inclined to create any essential force touch functionality into their software as a substantial number of their users this generation of hardware may just have the non-force touch mouse only. Not a really big deal (tons of old Macs without force touch around anyway), but if they'd been able to put force touch into every magic mouse too then you'd be able to create software that relies on force touch in a few years.

- Trackpad feels a tiiiiny bit too large now. Not a big deal, a little redundant area is somehow comfortable and its for a desktop environment anyway. But just look at the pinch gestures, the hand in the video is shown pinching to full stretch and there's still area left to stretch even further.

- Can still see a lot of people complain about the mouse's ergonomics. At what price, is it really? We've got plenty of great mice to choose from. The notion there are fewer moving parts is an interesting design choice, but it's not exactly important in the way it is for say an internal combustion vs electric engine where you see differences in wear and tear and such. In my experience the lifetime of all my mice has been ridiculously. It's certainly a nice looking design, but a higher elevation fits better in my hand and there are plenty of mice that offer that, offer wireless, offer swiping gestures and rechargeable batteries.

Anyway, the tl;dr overal takeaway is that these upgrades make a lot of sense and I'd be more than happy to upgrade as an existing MM/TP user, but I'm not enticed to switch if I wasn't a MM1 / TP1 user to begin with.

Question to you all btw, have you seen anyone putting force touch into their software on a mac? I've literally used it 0 times in the past 6 months mostly because I don't use safari, but I don't see any developers jump in to provide any functionality, either yet.
Akka has added something along those lines with Akka Persistence and the new cluster sharding features. Actors can passivate (gracefully stop) and the cluster manager will route messages that would've gone to that actor to another actor in the cluster. Because the actors are persistent, they can be spun back up at their previous state on any cluster member.
So, not only 4k pixels on the iMac 21", but also 25% improvement in colour gamut. This screen should look fantastic!
It seems almost as egregious that the items in the collection weren't digitized and made public.
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Video Reconstruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiLEyT9spI

At the 10.30 mark you can see the missile impact on the plane.
Isn't that APL?
I don't know much about lasers and the videos seemed convincing to me...

Now I'm sad that it's a fake, even if I wanted to wait till the first version came out.
I come across these types of "refactor kings" in most areas, not just on the dev front but in architecture, business process improvement, etc. "Better" seems to be like beauty (in the eye of the beholder).

I have tried to change the culture I work in to be more focused on quantifying "better". This is difficult for software people especially, who cannot (or will not) make the connection between their contribution and the overall business.
What are you talking about? It's smooth in the animation, just as it is in reality doing the same thing on a previous-gen magic mouse or MBP trackpad).

Are you confusing the snap at the end with "choppiness"?
They change their tune so often it's hard to keep track. Have a look:
http://listverse.com/2015/09/07/10-outrageous-ways-russian-m...
Awesome! Does anyone know if similar resources for the US are available?

Edit: possibly https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/LIDAR
Still looking for more
I did therapy for around a year. Six moths with a Ph.D and another six months with a MFCC. The PH.D was charging a lot, but I really thought she would help me. I had a horrid case of anxiety, and panic attacks that came on during a holiday, and would go away.

I believed in Therapy, and really wanted it to work. It didn't work in the slightest. It actually made things worse. I didn't learn any fancy tools. I didn't find any out anything about myself, that I didn't already know.

I will say this though, if I didn't go through therapy; I would always wonder if I could have changed my destiny. In my case, I needed medication.

I found no difference between the PhD, and the MFCC. I did talk to a psychiatrist about my unsuccess in therapy, he said I didn't do it long enough. I will never know if he was right?

Because I was feeling so bad, for so long, and those Therapy sessions were expensive, I was completely honest in therapy. I devulged my innermost secrets, thoughts, warts, everything. In my case, it just didn't help my condition.

Drugs, time, and exercise helped my condition. I'm still not the person I used to be before the breakdown though. (I was told not to use word breakdown, but my brain just decided to breakdown. If I said anything different, I would be lying.)

I don't want to discourage anyone from seeking the help of a Therapist, but if you are a well adjusted individual, happy, going to school, or working, and don't have any real complaints, but one day your brain decides to bust a gasket--I would try to see a Psychiatrist. But even then a lot of them want you to go through therapy before they medicate you.

And if you decide to go through the medication route, realize you might be on the drugs a long time? Especially the benzodiazepines. I'm not sure if what I know now about addiction, I would have ever used them, but then again they are better than self medicating with booze?

It's a shame we still know so little about mental illness, or even how the brain works. I really thought we would have made huge strides in treating the mentally ill by now, but they haven't.
>We launched the first of these experiences last week with Moments, a great beginning, and a bold peek into the future of how people will see what's going on in the world.

I am terrified about the future of Twitter.
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Format of the data is listed as Arc/Info ASCII Grid (AAIGrid) which is an ASCII Esri grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri_grid.
Yup, came here to say the same thing. Most people who haven't lived abroad for a significant amount of time don't realize the difficulty of trying to vote. In addition to that, the effectiveness of getting your voice heard by your "representatives" (the reps from your last permanent residence in the US) is much more difficult. I used to be able to pick up my phone and get myself heard on issues that I cared about. Living abroad, the best you can hope for is to contact your rep online and hope they care enough to give you a copy-pasted response.
The three-tier system was created after the end of prohibition to provide a single point for the control and taxation of alcoholic beverages by the states, the wholesalers (distributors). It also protected the smaller suppliers (breweries) from the bigger ones by requiring that wholesalers be independent from the suppliers, who are independent from the retailers.

However, when you're as big as InBevAB, you essentially own any wholesaler you deal with, since your sales will account for such an overwhelming share of their overall sales.

Many craft breweries can get around this three-tier system by operating their own brewpubs, where they produce and sell their product on the same premises.

I feel like the three-tier system has probably outlived its use and is likely more harmful than beneficial.
Wow, I remember studying UML in BSc CS nearly 10 years ago. I'd imagine it's much less relevant now than it was even then.
Not at all. I lost my account. I've used my offline local copy of the database to reproduce most of it though.
That's a very considerable expense in itself - digitizing, creating and maintaining an archival site. Not to mention that there are copyright questions to be sorted out, which implies legal costs.
Are you sure you are not actually using dataflow diagrams by another name?

http://www.visual-paradigm.com/tutorials/data-flow-diagram-e...
I'll admit that I have no basis for this number, but I would expect them to layoff 20 - 25%.

10% is a high number, but not for a company that has never made a profit and is currently hemorrhaging money.
hackaday.com had a good writeup that was skeptical of this.

http://hackaday.com/2015/10/01/ask-hackaday-i-love-the-smell...

They have generally been good at writing up some of the more sketchy kickstarts.
It almost killed me when mine broke earlier this year and I found out they don't make them anymore. Best mouse I've ever used, and its corpse still has a place of honor at the top of the pile of old hardware in my closet.
Some of the most employable people in the current job market. Nobody likes getting fired but it's not like they don't have great prospects.
It seems tax authorities can be surprisingly flexible as long as they don't get a whiff of attempted tax evasion anywhere.

E.g. at some point around 2000 or so, I'd just moved to the UK, and my personal finances were total chaos around the move. I'd sold quite a lot of shares in Norway, and traded quite a bit on NASDAQ via a US brokerage account (in 2000... yes, it got ugly; thankfully not that much money), and had income from both UK and Norway split between employment and contracting in the same tax year. And transfers back and forth between my UK, US and Norwegian accounts... To make it more annoying, UK and Norway have different tax years (Norway follow calendar year, UK does not). And to be honest my record-keeping at the time was shoddy to the extreme.

So I wrote a letter to UK and Norwegian tax authorities where I set out the details of my income, assets and losses as best I could. I told them I had no clue how to accurately figure out exactly what was due (for the US it was easy because it was all losses that year; the US brokerage account was just relevant because it provided deductions for losses on my Norwegian taxes). Gave them a number each that I thought was close to correct. Filled in my tax returns with estimates (and explained in my letters that the numbers were estimates). Both just accepted my estimate with no arguments, and no requests for further documentation. No fines, or angry letters, or conflicting estimated tax calculations or anything, which was what I feared when I sent it all off.
Cool! How come my house (and much of central london) is missing?
Twitter to Cut More Than 300 Jobs
Could do some neat things with drone piloting with this.
I stayed at the Radisson Blu on the ZRH airport last year. Incredibly convenient for stupid-early flights and a 2 minute walk to the check-in area but I can't imagine staying there longer than one night.

It was a nice hotel, sure, but why?
Hi, I've built this over the last few months and have seen a few people sign up and be quite happy with it (which is nice!).

I'd love to hear any feedback the HN community has and I'd really appreciate any tips people have about marketing this site since I've not done much of that and don't know where to start.
Weakened? It meant it would only generate a couple of thousand keys, that's not weakened, that means security was killed completely. And it was in there for a couple of years. All in all a total fiasco and legendary for very good reasons.

Trying to paper over it and pretending it was no big deal is the best way to ensure that similar things will happen again.
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Well, I lost my job and it's been really tough on the wife and kids, but at least Twitter will do its best to serve all the people that use Twitter!
not sure how related it is, but a few days ago twitter demanded to change my password, after I changed it - they locked my account demanding that I would provide a phone number to tie to the account, yet none of the numbers I provided do work.

May I supposed they'll be even more focused on collection of various marketing data from their users given how little leverage they have over user's personal lives?
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>The input device, dubbed the Magic Mouse 2, would look to users exactly like the previous model....

>But one thing was totally unacceptable.

>The mouse didn’t sound right.

Yes, everyone loves the Magic Mouse so much, nothing else could be improved in version 2, except for the sound, that has to be perfect, in a mouse.
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I would recommend Python/Flask or NodeJS on the backend, and Angular on the front end. Easy backend development and maintenance, cutting edge features on the front end.

I use Flask all the time with Angular, and it flows very nicely.
As an example of the latter, the default first suggestion in my Japanese IME for "ha-to" is "" rather than "ハート".

EDIT: The symbol appears to have been stripped, but it was the unicode heart.
The marketing material is exactly that - it's their job to sell the product, and clearly a large part of the non-tech industry still have some weird notion about Macs not supporting secondary click.

My comment was about people on an explicitly technical news site having the same misconceptions.

> I didn't mention multi touch on a mouse at all. Why do you assume i don't like it?

Your general tone seemed to take the oh-so-common notion that Apple's products are never innovative and often "behind the times". My point was that Apple has been very innovative in terms of things like mice/trackpads.
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It's mildly amusing if you have experienced the intensity with which Apple and their fans have defended the single-click only design over the years.
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I think I've posted this before, but contributing to the thread...

Doing my US taxes takes about 3 hours, as it's basically updating the previous year's forms to reflect whatever changes have been made and adjusting for salary and exchange rate. As I live in a country with higher taxes than the US, I don't pay anything. US-ians living abroad will become familiar with form 1116 and 2555...

Yeah, FATCA introduces additional paperwork (or web-work at the moment). But, I have to fill out similar paperwork for my current country to account for my US-resident accounts. So I guess both countries wish the other would just go away?
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I remember visiting the brother of my friend quite a few years ago, he had a big iMac in his living room and asked me to put on some music. So I hopped over and was dumbfounded on how to right click. So I asked my friend and he basically said 'there is no right click' (note, both of them were mac users, I wasn't), and then I said surely there must be a right click!? Then he asked his brother and he was like 'don't really know, there's a key combination or something you can press I think'.

Anyway I put on the music and thought for years macs had no right click and never bothered to investigate further. I never had Apple money as a teenager and never used Macs, and given both of them had for years I thought they must've known. I'd been in the back of my mind ever since, hesistant to even consider switching to OS X. Until my early 20s when I needed a mac for work, looked into it and right clicked on my mac ever since.

I wouldn't dare put a number on the amount of users they missed out on, but I'd likely have switched a few years earlier. That, the price positioning and the minor hassle around office as a student were the three biggest things preventing it. The first ended up being totally false, the other two became less important as I stopped being a student and started a career.
Weapons of Mass Disco? Weapons of Mass Droppin beats?

In all seriousness, since we have used loud music against our enemies, and many consider it torture, and it was banned by the UN, there may be probable cause for the anti war clause.
A number of places use Kimball's methodology to design their databases around fact and dimension tables. In those cases, you throw out the rules of normalization.
I agree, but in HPC, the primary consumer of GPGPU so far, there is a lot of knowledge locked into C/C++/Fortran codebases and porting to a new language is a huge commitment with an uncertain reward. I think this is a big problem with language design for heterogeneous computing.

I've been following the development of OpenACC, which is has been gaining momentum and lets you write GPU code directly with C with pragmas (like OpenMP). It's a bit more performance portable between platforms than CUDA or OpenCL with a low initial investment. I'm a little concerned about the lack of diversity of compilers supporting it, but it seems like the most feasible route to move those big codebases to heterogeneous platforms.

[1] http://www.openacc.org/
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how would you have phrased it?
> It's a testament to human stupidity that something this blatant managed to get $4M.

That's a bit harsh. Most people don't understand technology on a functional level. Ask a "regular" person how programming, the internet or their mobile phone works and they won't be able to give you a technical explanation. In fact, most modern technology tries to hide the internal workings.. "it just works".
I didn't think of the legal costs, they'd have to wait 70 years past the authors death to release it freely?
Okay, so I've conflated the direct inspiration for the framing of the Constitution with what it actually says, and tossed in a couple Amendments that are relevant practically speaking, and yet you still understood the jist of what I was saying. Potatoe.
I'm not sure I follow, what are the connotations for you?

The capital letters were just chosen because it's an acronym.
> The Skarp razor is powered by a small laser which cuts through hair for an incredibly close shave without irritating or damaging the skin.

I would read that as them seeing that the laser is cutting the skin but that could be easily be intentionally misleading marketing speak
This is what happens when you have companies profiting off the misery of others.

The biggest reason for companies wanting to protect their source code in this case is that they already know their software is broken, like pretty much every other software, and they don't want to fix it. The arguments against losing money and such are total bullshit as courts have plenty of procedures for disclosing materials only to the relevant parties present, not to the public as a whole. These companies simply don't want to spend the money auditing and making sure their code runs correctly because the only consequence of that is wrongfully convicting someone they don't give a fuck about.

I'd say, let them see the code and let the highest paid expert witness win. That is, after all, the American way.
> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight.

I tried rewriting his email to live up to this promise:

- - -

Team,

We're cutting our workforce to strengthen Twitter as a company.

The team has been deciding how to best streamline Twitter, Vine, and Periscope to put their focus on the projects which will have the greatest impact. Moments, which we launched last week, is a great beginning. It's a peek into the future of how people will see what's going on in the world.

We plan to cut up to 336 people. This was a tough decision, and we'll offer each person a generous exit package and help finding a new job. Product and Engineering are going to make the most changes. Engineering will be smaller but remain the biggest percentage of the organization, and other departments will be cut in parallel.

This isn't easy. We'll honor those who we're losing with our service to all the people who use Twitter. We'll do it with a more purpose-built team. Thank you all for your trust and understanding here. As always, please reach out to me directly with any ideas or questions.

Jack
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Stateless services have some huge advantages, analogous to pure functional programming, especially when you truly commit to purity. The surface area for verfication and optimization is far more manageable, without having to worry about an internal state space. There's a dead-simple horizontal scalability story and reliability isn't much of a concern due to the fungibility of individual instances.

Any real service must, of course, have state somewhere. I've had a lot of success being very intentional about factoring state into the smallest possible interfaces, ideally contained in well understood products like databases.

Much like pure functional programming, it's not necessarily easy to go truly stateless. I've plenty of "RESTful" architectures get bogged down in the complications seemingly harmless stateful optimizations like caching layers, often to cover up poor performance of runtimes like Ruby and Python. It's very tempting to take a couple shortcuts and end up with the worst of both worlds.

Of course, stateless isn't always the best way to go, especially once you start getting to the exotic territory inhabited by the examples in the article. I think for 99% of us, those are problems we'll never experience.

I'd be interested in seeing a case where statefulness really let someone down, who wasn't at Facebook/Twitter/Google scale.
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The number, 336, is roughly 10% of their employees - which is pretty much exactly the number that Jack Welch recommended turning over each year to improve the work force.

I often wonder whether these "layoffs" aren't actually layoffs, but simply performance based assessments. It's not like Twitter is shutting down an entire office, or abandoning some technology, and letting everyone associated with that office/technology go - presumably they are being selective on other factors as to who they let go - and I'm guessing that performance is likely a key factor.

If, over the next year, twitter doesn't hire back that 10%, or hires employees in different technologies/positions (I.E. Web developers instead of thick client developers, sales people instead of developers, etc...) - then this is a layoff. But, if headcount returns to the same number, in roughly the same job areas, then this is just a performance based annual rank/yank process.
Read as Man Bags 885 years for child Pornography

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You know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.
I went to the same medical school as her and she gave an amazing speech to us a little before she died. Not to belittle her accomplishments, but she did a biopsy on herself (not really surgery) and gave herself chemotherapy.
Even in very remote parts of many national forests, at least in the lower 48, there are a myriad of old logging and forest service roads that are no longer used. As such you could truly be far away from any traffic yet near an old road which would skew some of their results.
If it's a single beam, yes. But what I find incredible is that it didn't work worth a damn. They were struggling to cut one hair at a time. Definitely not the razor I want.

I wonder how much scamming goes on with kickstarter, etc. I've been involved in a couple of projects (as payer, not seller) and am batting about 1/3.
The guy invented Intense Pulsed Light, i.e. the laser technology used in hair removal, so it sounded plausible he might have found a way to cut hair with a lower-intensity laser. Even if it cut it slowly, it might be better than razors for a lot of people.