skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question should be: Is China a threat to future world?
If they removed the requirement for usernames in the character limit they could fire a whole lot more at a time.
He said he would give it to you straight, not ELI5. They are focusing on fewer things that they believe are the most valuable, and stopping stuff that isn't core to their purpose. What about this is confusing to you?
Where I work, they called it a "workforce rebalancing," which I thought was a nice touch.
Is your desk made out of metal?
- the new 'force touch' trackpads do not move, clicks are the same all over

- you can do click and drag with 2 fingers, don't have to slide the clicking finger
They can't all pitch in and hire a lobbyist, like every other special interest group?
The first video about a new generation of apple mice is showcasing a simple right click as Joe User has known it for what.. 20 years? 40?

I acknowledge this masterpiece and say kudos to Apple for pulling that off. Sure, the mouse has other features. But the first one to show? The right click.

Can i left click? I don't know. It's not shown in the videos.

P.S.: I didn't mention multi touch on a mouse at all. Why do you assume i don't like it?
Can't they just have other independent labs run the sample too? If they don't have any sample left, well... tough for the prosecution.
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| But what about Google? News archives? Mugshots.com? “It’s impossible to expunge information in this cyber-age,”

I would think once you have the record officially expunged, any publication (print, video, web) that shows you as a criminal is now officially libeling against you, giving you the option to file a suit.
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Sure, you can set up what are effectively Twitter proxies, and sure, the censors won't be able to keep up playing whack-a-mole.

But then the users have to do the same thing, preemptively finding such proxies and jumping between them. I'd guess that that would be a good enough result from the government's perspective.

And that's just read-only stuff. Post by email? DPI could drop packets containing emails addressed to Twitter, even if they're being sent through a mail server in another country. And, sure, you can proxy stuff, but again, the point here is the masses. If 95% of people are blocked from access, that would probably prevent mass protests from happening; or at least keep them from happening quickly and unexpectedly.

But besides all that, when the government cuts off the country's Internet access entirely, creating a nationwide intranet, none of those blog proxies are going to help. The only thing that is going to truly work in such a situation is peer-to-peer stuff.
Canada also has almost no coal fired plants in most of its provinces. Hydro is king here with >75% of the country being served. There's no pressing need to invest heavily in nuclear reactors at the moment in Canada.
Actually, this is really well written.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8334433

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6726121

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I still use my Logitech MX518 from ~2005. Works fine. The reviews on Amazon tell of many other people who used this mouse for a long time.
The general feeling about UML is that it's overkill for most projects and actively harmful when used to generate code. On the other hand, most agree that parts of UML are useful as communication tools.

However, UML was designed as a standard, near-UML is not UML. Ergo, UML is useless.

I feel better already.
Eventually people in a certain environment just start talking like that. He might not even realize how silly that sounds.
My last two Logitech mice have had Li Ion batteries. This isn't new. Also, it fits with Apple's stance on the environment. A lot of people probably aren't using rechargeable batteries in their accessories and this will slow the rate of consumption.
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Ascetically, these look very good. As a developer who spends a lot of time typing, I prefer using a keyboard with mechanical switches so I use a Das Keyboard. That being said, for my Mac Mini build server that is connected to my TV, these would make an excellent addition.
Cut the snark, this still affects real people's lives.
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Nothing about UML specifies its use in relation to when or how you wrote the code. Like I said, it's a false dichotomy to suggest that we can have source code or UML but not both. Yes, UML diagrams or any other design docs rot quickly. But like you said, we can generate diagrams after the fact too (or in lieu of ever writing UML diagrams before coding).

> perfectly good way of representing the details of a system - it's called source code.
...

> simply use a tool to generate a class diagram from the code

Once you resolve to generate that class diagram you have a choice in how to represent it. UML is just one way, proposed as a standard way, to represent that visually.
But, cf, this one: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003315212300289
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Here's the full report. (It's in English)

http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en....
It is a communication that will have a material impact on the stock price.
there have even been a few instances shown on HN where these algorithms picked stuff up from the internet and have run with it, i.e. placed real trades. I remember at least 2 instances of this recently, once where the story was fake and once where an earnings forecast(i think) was released on a site but they had not published the URL so the assumption was no one would see it. The bot made a significant sum on the second example.
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The world also needs fewer* trading algorithms.
The new trackpads don't click at all, they "click" is an actuator underneath striking up at your finger when you press down.
Paper's about 0.1mm thick. Therefore 513km of paper contains approximately 5.13 billion sheets.

Given that there's 11TB of data, that means that each sheet contains about 2360 bytes. (Printing on one side.) That's an 80x30 grid. A4 is 210x297mm, so (holding the paper landscape for convenience and assuming a 2cm margin) that makes for 3.5x6.3mm letters. Different encodings give you slightly different sized letters, but it's all roughly the same.

So I'd guess around 10 to 11 point.

Has this helped?
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Hi,

I and co are currently at the start of our YC journey but have a couple of questions that will help us going forward.

How do you find new products? We are interested in the process you go through to discover new products.

What I mean by _new_ products is anything that has been released recently. It could be literally anything based on your needs, preferences, hobbies or lifestyle.

Thanks,
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All the Windows users who aren't capable of comprehending or understanding how the stuff they are using works.
apple released a usb to lightning converter, which was enough to make European Union happy iirc.

www.apple.com/shop/product/MD820AM/A/lightning-to-micro-usb-adapter
Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Vanguard, Jennison Associates, and Blackrock need a stronger Twitter. [1]

Also interesting to note that over the past year insiders have only bought 1.5m shares while offloading 12.5m.

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/ownership-summary
I assume you're referring to the Lightning to USB connection. Pics on the website show Lightning ports on the accessories, so the other end would be USB. This wouldn't connect an iPad and a Magic Mouse.
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Hi,

We've built a platform that we hope will solve a problem we have — there's so much awesome stuff to read on the web every day, so many insights and lessons big and small, but there's only so much time in a day.

Personally I've got something like a 1000 unread items in my Pocket which I'll probably never read since I'm constantly adding new stuff.

We're in private beta currently and would like to gauge interest for building out the platform further, so please let us know if this is something that could provide value by signing up for early access.

The app itself is live, and for now you can follow twitter feeds of abstracted stories from HN, TechCrunch and some other stuff.
That's actually pretty easy to understand and communicates what the plan is.
Gah, I really hate those "our firing you is your opportunity" lines.

It's more like "our incompetence has forced us to fire you but of course we, the incompetent ones, will stay; think of this as your opportunity to find a better company without incompetent management, good luck with that".
Not even the Mac's small user base. Out of the number of Mac users, take the very small fraction that play first person shooters, and then take the very very small fraction of those that do it with Apple's mice.

99% of that market is going to have something from Razer, Logitech, Corsair, etc. The other five people can bind zoom to their keyboard.
Unfortunately, I've seen various family members seek out therapy, only to realize 6 months or a year down the road that the process was useless for them.

They still believe therapy would help them, but the impression is that there are a "zillion" useless therapists out there, and it's needle-in-a-haystack to find a truly good one. And of course, it's going to cost you a significant financial and time investment to find out whether you've found a good one or not.
Venture north in Canada and you will find nature that is almost virgin. Very peaceful.
Here's the full report, for those who wish to read it.

http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en....
I see what you're saying -- but if the "generous exit packages" and "help finding a new job" are true, then it's still way better than some companies I've worked at, where the firings consisted of two weeks of pay and being escorted out of the building on the same day (of course, said companies weren't in SV).

Of course, given his buzzword-filled talk, those "generous exit packages" might just consist of two weeks pay as well.
The lightning port to charge all of your devices is interesting. I kind of like the idea that the phone charger you have laying around anyway[0] can be used to charge all of your battery powered devices. The new Siri Remote for Apple TV has the same thing, and it surprised me at first, but it actually makes sense to do that rather than a USB connection for most of their customers.

I agree they don't have it quite figured out though. The Apple TV developer kits came with two cables: You get a lightning cable to charge the remote and a USB type-C cable to connect to the Apple TV itself.

[0] I think its safe to assume that the average person buying an Apple keyboard also has an iPhone in their pocket.
Actually, it relied on two complimentary safeguard circuits to restrict the rod movements within its calculated performance envelope. They could not be overriden from the front panel, so electricians were dispatched to cut them off, in order to conduct an "experiment" in the wake of International Labour Day. How safe are the other reactor designs when malicious human intervention is considered is still a very open question.

I would also remark there was a deserved stream of criticism from the West both for the reactor design and the containment effort that followed. The overwhelming opinion throughout the 1990s-2000s was that the Western designs are safe and catastrophic scenarios like Chernobyl are implausible. Then Fukushima happens, the three reactors blow up and the only saving grace for Japan was the wind blowing oceanside. And the containment is done by low wage workers in sneakers, while Asimo and its advanced robot colleagues play robosoccer in Tokyo.

The narrative is now changed to other designs being "inherently safe", although it's not very plausible how any concentrated, massive release of energy can be made inherently safe. Yes you can reduce probabilities and exclude some catastrophic scenarios, but this is a thing with crises: they always come unexpected. I'm sure when the plug in a molten salt reactor fails for some reason (say tectonic shift from a quake), there will no doubt be another design touted as safe.

Now consider that fission power atm is what, 10-15% of compound world power generation? As of now it's focused in a handful of nations, most of whom are known for safety culture. As it proliferates worldwide, the average quality of maintenance will decline and the number of stations would naturally multiply, so perhaps we'll see a major nuclear accident every couple years instead of decades. And we haven't even started with waste disposal and non-proliferation considerations here.

I'd really really rather wait for fusion.
There's no laser there. If there was a laser there it would be a significant hazard to everybody in the room, so it's good it's completely fake. With the sort of power you would need to be cutting hairs in any capacity simply looking at diffuse reflections (think a laser dot at a wall) would have the ability to permanently damage your vision. The video is someone fooling around with a piece of aluminum and a hot wire[0]. It's a testament to human stupidity that something this blatant managed to get $4M.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-wire_foam_cutter
I've always found humor helps me get through the rough times in life...
>It is hard to fathom the grotesque nature of people. It used to be one could count on a certain amount of civility and comportment.

When? Every generation has assholes. Name me a time when people were more civil than now.
You'd be amazed how far human sounds travel.

I grew up a 45 minute drive (~20 miles) from the nearest stoplight. The town that had the stoplight also had a train. I could hear it whenever the wind was out of the north and wasn't too strong (and almost always hear its whistle).

We were also about 6-7 miles from the interstate "as-the-crow-flies" (about 10mi driving distance). I could hear constant interstate traffic most of the time.

Note that both of those were faint, but they were definitely there.
Until he runs for office and then it'll be in his negatives column.
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If you are doing it as a CV showcase type thing looking for a job I would do it in C# , why are you doing it?
It happens in academia too:

http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
In order to see genuinely new developments, you need to be in an environment where something genuinely new is happening. Most modern languages are some combination of decades old, or semantically essentially identical to languages decades old. If it seems like we're mostly shuffling the same basic ideas around and recombining them in those environments, well, yes, we absolutely are.

This is not as bad as it seems. There is something to be said with engineering with time-tested and well-established components. Even imperfect components with well-understood imperfections may be preferable to things that aren't well-understood, but some guy somewhere says may be theoretically perfect. But the flip side of the landscape being well-explored is that there is little new stuff to discover.

Two major places where you can see legitimately new stuff come to mind. First, Haskell. By being seriously, no foolin' concerned about purity and immutability, there's been a lot of work done in Haskell that in any other language, even those that sort of came close, was done by simply doing something impure and calling it a day.

Second, Rust. At the moment my perception of the community is that it is very young, the language is still changing significantly, and the concern right now is more about making new things work at all in the new paradigm than about the best way to do them. There's a big influx right now of the very new programmers who will later be doing new experiments, but they're still learning. Such exploration is absolutely necessary. But in the next year or two I bet we start to see a transition to more genuinely new things as the capabilities start to sink in, and the feedback loop between the real programs people are writing and what features the language grows develops.

(Personally, if you're really interested in new things, I'd stay here rather than go to the really academic languages. It is my perception that the academic languages often have serious problems because they've cut themselves off from the practical world and severed themselves from an incredibly valuable feedback loop, the one that Haskell has used to propel itself to what success it has by actually letting real programmers into the sandbox to try to do real work. Academia is, in its own way, stuck in a rut right now at the limit, IMHO, where it all sort of looks very same-y to me.)
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Or you could upgrade to a full-on trackball. I've been using Logitech Trackman Marbles for the past 8 years or so but a few months ago I upgraded to a Kensington Slimblade which is amazing.
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Best Logitech mouse is a the G700s. Wireless/wired hybrid with a NiMH low-self-discharge AA battery included.

When it runs low, you either plug the mouse in to charge from USB (also switches data over to the slightly more reliable wired connection), or you swap in a fresh battery and toss the dead one in a separate charger.

If your AA battery has too much permanent wear, get a new one. No warranty voiding necessary.
I was simply counter-pointing the contention that patents don't affect prices. You are making a completely separate argument.
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If so xargs or just a loop one file at a time should fix it.
could be anywhere, mine also has a mandatory course on it, including a lecturer that believes in the magic of auto-generated code from the UML tools.
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The small keyboards without the numberpad have always been pretty on par with a MacBook keyboard. Which is why I love them so much.

Before I went all Mac, I had trouble going from a regular keyboard to a laptop keyboard. Always missing where keys are and that. Once I went Mac with the keyboards almost exactly the same, I don't even notice it anymore.
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Unfortunately the name clashes with the general Stream library from ThoughtWorks (http://x-stream.github.io)

That said, it looks like a really excellent idea - the stream library in Java8 is powerful but far too complex for simple jobs.
I agree. The photos in the OP are too big (I think that you can put a medium size photo in the BlogSpot page, and when you click it, it goes to to the full resolution image.)

Also it needs some minimal captions, to explain what is happening. The post at http://reddyraveesh.blogspot.com is much better, but I think it need even more text.
i recognize this.

i've been using only the apple trackpad for about 3 years now, and the "sensation" you describe was persistent for the first several weeks / months. the interaction by using the tip of your fingers is a bit wierd at first, but now i could never go back.

trackpad is very superior to a mouse, at least for non-gaming stuff, like coding & browsing the webs
> I don't know why the parent post is being downloaded

You may be browsing from localhost but the rest of us has to download this HTML...
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It was all known thanks to Bellingcat since at least 1 year.
> The world needs the internet; the specific software running at the endpoints isn't particularly important. Twitter was used because... it was already used by the people involved.

Hmm, the world needs networked communication; the specific protocol running at the endpoints isn't particularly important. TCP/IP was used because... it was already used by the people involved.

Further, the world needs easy communication; the specific mechanism to communicate isn't particularly important. Networking was used because... it was already used by the people involved.
Sadly, this isn't the case. Google proudly and prominently features results from ripoffreport.com, which is nothing more than a cesspool of millions of pages of unfounded libel. Not only can Google not be sued over this, RipoffReport.com itself has won every lawsuit ever filed against it.
I would read the criteria in DSM-III, -IV, and -5 to answer that, but I don't have access.

More inattentive diagnoses occur now, certainly -- I'm one of them. Diagnosed finally as an adult because I wasn't a disruption in my classes. At question is more whether an understanding of initial indicators, and efficacy in flagging both presentations, is equal in parents and teachers.

Obnoxious/hyperactive kids wear on us more than space-cadet/inattentive kids. The hyperactive ones are the squeaky wheel in this case.

(And, interesting choices in your signposting, there.)
Perhaps it's just me, but "GRID" rather than "Grid" has unfortunate connotations.
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It looks that way. No more Apple keyboards for me, I need those for Blender's view shortcuts.
What you said is as near the definition of "giving it straight" as one might expect to follow his preface. What he actually said is as near the definition of corporate speak as possible. There is no confusion on my part. Perhaps Jack is the one confused about what people mean by "corporate speak".
... And I never understood why they didnt make a wired version without the numeric mess :)
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