skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And with mech keys.

I'm toying the idea of build a clone, but my initial finds show will be more hard/costly than expected:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79603.msg2053482
Show HN: Clinton and Trump's tweets as an IM
Twitter is being used as a platform for an ongoing back n forth between the candidates and it will only intensify as elections get near. However, there is no good way to compare / view side-by-side what each is saying without visiting each candidates twitter feed.

I wrote an app that presents the twitter feeds of the two candidates as an IM conversation so you can compare what each is saying in one place.

In addition to the two candidates, the app also shows
* a twitter feed from curated list of media handles that are talking about US Elections and Politics.
* a search feed of people talking about elections

Thus, the app gives you in one place all the voices of the elections - Candidates, Media, The People.

The app is iOS only and free.

iTunes Link: http://bit.ly/elections-itunes

Media Mentions:
Fortune: http://bit.ly/elections-fortune
BGR.com: http://bit.ly/elections-bgr

Thanks,
Aashish

twitter.com/@aashishpatil
As if the ergonomics of laptops weren't bad enough already. Makes my neck tense just looking at it.
On the plus side, it's a nice way to keep people from using your terminal. They sit down then get a scared look on their face and quickly give you back control of the machine ;)
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What do you mean it doesn't sync the files the way they do? Can you explain?

If I take a picture on my phone, it syncs to my laptop and desktop. If I put something on my computer in my OneDrive folder photo folder, it shows up in the photos on my phone.
Money is fungible so Tax credits are identical to directly handing money. Is this a good reason to directly hand them money Y/N is a separate question, but we do hand them money.
I'm impressed at how much more gracefully 7-11 handled it than McDonalds initially did in Queens, NY where I grew up [1]. It also helps that a government agency was observant and proactive enough to partner with a private company to build on existing customer behavior, vs trying to start separate initiatives.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/nyregion/elderly-patrons-e...
This is broken on my browser. Just a white screen with a blue box. Using BB10 latest.
It's not the gathering per se, it's what you do with it.

When I checked their platform policies (admittedly several years ago), they explicitly forbid other social networks from using FB-provided logins and data. This seems to have changed, and at the moment I can't find anything of the sort in their current platform policies; but there is a "no reimplementation" clause that is so broad, it could easily be used to ban apps that reimplement anything FB already offers (friending, image sharing etc etc).
Joi Assertions for API testing
295$ is not that much cheaper.
Desktop privacy & security of web browsers on Linux part 1: concepts and theory
But it is a true problem, haha.

I know real good programmers, who ride on the "don't reinvent the wheel" train to the max.

And while the code base don't get cluttered with "ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation[s] of half of Common Lisp" we implemented ourself, we now have hundrets of modules, which themself probably contain this "ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"
Twitter Bot (larynxBot) tweets back voice summary for the link we tweet to it
That's the non-DIY variant. That's of course more expensive.

I got more than enough cherry keyboards, so i had switches and some high quality keycaps (the black cherry ones), and the experience of building it. The PCBs only cost 35€.
It's actually the exact opposite. Mindfulness and not wanting things.
No need for a touchpoint. I've been waiting for years for a capacitive trackpad under the surface of the keyboard. Blackberry have done this on their Passport and it's great. I don't know why others haven't copied the idea.
Here are Joel's 5 Steps:

1. Remember to plan and prepare. What’s your action plan? What are your goals? What are you trying to do? Do that planning and preparation.

2. Clarify your story or message.

3. Create a message map to help you stay consistent with how you’re communicating. Having a message map will help you In conversations like this. It will help as you’re preparing presentations, sending e-mails, or writing blog copy. Clarifying your story and your message really is critical.

4. Assemble the right materials. Do you have a press kit in place? Do you have a nice professional bio? Do you have a fact sheet on your company, product or service? Have those materials ready. Then, when a reporter says, “Can you send me more information?” You can answer, “Here it is.”
Reach out to the media to book interviews and other opportunities. If you have prepared for opportunities, doors will open.

5. Leverage your results. Use media placements to fuel your marketing efforts.
Sorry, I've already had to give up enough vertical screen space on laptops. I'm not giving another inch.

And once you add menus, toolbars, startbars, and the hideous white space that is currently fashionable you have a less useable workspace than an early 00s era laptop.

I do like the new Surfaces.
The PCB is only 35€. And i had most other parts already.
@dalke, you are asking good questions. Regarding France, Louis X had already abolished slavery much much earlier in the 14th century, motivated by the Bible. Yes, later there was another independent push, but it failed, and it was uncharacteristic of the whole. You can't build an argument on counter-examples. You also need to show that your examples are characteristic of the movement - they are not. I will emphasize that the Bible played a key role, especially in transferring the initiative from thinkers to enforcers. There were other players, but they were a sideshow and they were weak in impact.

hey, this discussion is like way off-topic. I indulged because I can see that we are having a decent enough dialog, but it is also burdensome in this format. You have good questions, they deserve responses. I would like to suggest to switch to another channel of communication, like skypechat or discord or even email. My article was flagged, I will stop checking this page soon. You can initiate contact here with your media of choice: https://truthonly.com/user/profile/1/dima-kotik.html What do you say?
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Thanks so much! I am looking for entry level, however the assignments given to me seem to be a bit advanced. Code cgi server that hooks up to lisp.
Can't wait for more privacy intrusion, ads and removed options to disable it.
Apple would get more love if they brought back some larger machines. A 17" portable would be a nice start.

It's not 2010 anymore, at this point making these devices smaller just hobbles them, and increases the chance the case will snap in two.
I didn't know this. And my birthday is august 5th. From now on I'll tip a glass for my roving robotic friend.
If t is nil, the function is still called with a nil value for t.
> That's how you get better stuff though, with cycles.

This is an assumption that is not necessarily true. In the short term, there are plenty of examples of places where it is not true. As for this being true "asymptotically", that is a hard to verify assumption.

What is true is that cycles result in something new. New does not necessarily mean better.

The examples you give below are examples where the cycles have worked; there are examples where it has not.
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I love dense walkable cities, though I'd love to hear more about traffic capacity on the outer streets (for example, by getting rid of parking there), then of course the numbers on the briefly mentioned parking plan, and whether subway capacity will be increased (yay), etc.

I ask because I dearly hope that it works, pedestrian-dominated city areas are wonderful. I especially love the idea of getting parked cars off most streets. I've always hoped self driving cars will <edit> reduce the need for parking </edit>, but I'm just a dreamer and these guys have to make a real city work so I'd love to hear the math on it.

EDIT: it looks like bike sharing ("Bicing") and a new "Orthogonal Bus System" are key aspects of the transportation plan:

http://smartcity.bcn.cat/en/superblocks.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicing
> Great idea! The only puzzling point is the 10 km/h limit. In my experience it's almost impossible to go that slow.

Are you in europe? Keep in mind most EU drivers drive stick, and most cars in barcelona would be "city" cars, C-segment or below (compact and smaller in US segmentation). Depends on the exact car of course, but in my experience 1st and slow 2nd should be well into that range, and trivial to achieve on flat road (either gas up in 1st, or if the car has enough torque shift to second and idle along).
The article does note that the plan also includes a lot of new bike lanes.

The idea here is for the superblocks to be pedestrian friendly, i.e. they're effectively big sidewalks with a limited amount of slow moving local vehicular traffic. Unless you have segregated lanes, bike traffic under those circumstances can't just zip along as if it's on a road.

(Habits in this respect do seem to vary by country. I was just in Japan and found I needed to be very aware on sidewalks because there were a lot of bikes. I needed to be very conscious not to make changes of direction without first checking that there wasn't an approaching bike behind me.)
Might be acceptable if you could pivot the screen 90 degrees for a nice long portrait mode.
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I have wanted what this post is describing for a long time. I have used one of those small VAIOs, too. I mainly use the keyboard, anyway, so for me the trackpad on a laptop wastes a lot of space.
Remarkably little time. I've ne Ed screed carpal tunnel but my ha S's feel noticeably more relaxed on the kinesis. They are a bit expensive but well worth it
That's the fun part, I think - finding out! I suspect that it is still the case that what we don't know about physics is more than what we do know.
As a ergodox user I can answer that.

While yes the matrix layout is _way_ better, the downside is that if you ever type on a standard keyboard you are immediately frustrated. I imagine it would depend on your working environment, but for me the combination of using a laptop, working with co-workers, and then using my desk with my awesome ergodox means that I am often fighting my own muscle memory to continue typing at a high rate of speed.

There is something to be said to conforming to what most people have. Splitting the keyboard gives me a good compromise, I can still have my hands in relaxed positions, and while I am not going to be as fast as when I am on just the ergodox ,I gain by being much faster working in the other environments I often find myself in.
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The groupthink at HN can be very severe at times. SE Michigan (especially Ann Arbor) is a lovely place! Lots of similarities to SV - smart people, culture, great schools. Plus, insanely cheap. The area is going to be a hotbed for tech companies with all the automotive talent around. It's ridiculously cheaper to open up offices in SE Michigan instead of constantly moving engineers elsewhere.
I am, at least a couple others are, so there is a 'we' using it.
Show HN: Great calendar tool to follow ALL events of Rio 2016 Olympics
Interview with Charles Koch
Maybe add 'in clojure' to the title?
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"Please rotate your screen" (on an ultrabook)

I have no idea what I'm looking at (since that is all I get). Whatever the intent, why does my screen orientation matter? There certainly is plenty of space.

At the very least the headline is incomplete - having just that headline as information I can make no sense of the result.
What percentage of your salary does your computer cost? This is the primary interface to that, something you will use 8 hours a day. Your wrists don't care if your CPU runs 2.3Ghz or 2.7Ghz, but they will care if your keyboard/mouse/screen/chair setup is not good.
It's, err... a running app. Most people don't go running with their desktop!
I absolutely agree with this statement.

As an old-timer, I remember using the trackpoint. It was very fiddly, wasn't precise and a lot of times I remember going for a mouse.

Compare that with a trackpad on a Macbook where I can do many gestures without even thinking about it. So much so, I haven't bought a mouse to use.
Have you checked StartSSL? They've worked fine for me.
Ah, it's supposed to detect that you're on desktop and redirect you to https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/06/rio-running-ap.... Obviously getting a false positive – thanks, we'll look into it!
I would really like to see a real world useful application done in react native. Nothing too arty, but more functional, business like even. Something that goes beyond an app for an event or an art project.
Originally bought because of wrist pain, I've had the kinesis advantage for 16 years, I'm on my third one and I've worn out keys on each one from so much use. Luckily they shipped me new switches for free and allowed me to switch the myself (at my request due to timing). Fantastic service and product. I really do wear them out.

With that said, all three exhibited the sticky modifier problem. I'm used to it but it always made me wonder if the internals were going bad.

In March I preordered https://shop.keyboard.io

I'll be very interested to compare, and if it isn't as good or better, I won't hesitate to order the updated kinesis advantage.
How exactly self-driving cars would help for pedestrian-dominated urban areas?
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I really loved TrackPoints back in the day and despised many of the touchpads of the time. Some of them I found an exercise in frustration to use at all. But I like modern trackpads and wouldn't really want to give them up.

I have an Asus Flip Chromebook (10") and for me that's just about perfect while traveling. I don't really use the flip feature much but it's a nice size and weight. I actually think if you cut off the trackpad I'd find the typing position more awkward.
>It sounds like a mix of 1930-40ies (mass murders in northern Europe) and late 1960-90ies (skinheads).

it is the same continuing fight of Western Ukraine nationalists for the expansion of their territory. In 2014 it were volunteer battalions from Western Ukraine that rushed across the country to "pacify" the Eastern Ukraine Russians. Only this time it weren't helpless Poles, and the Russian tank battalions tore those "pacifiers" a new one near Illovaysk.
It doesn't have mechanical switches.
I'm not sure I agree with that in the general case. If the government lowers the top tax rate, is it "handing you money?" I can see that concept being true for targeted tax breaks to specific companies.
That, and 7-11's in Japan are actually really nice.
> It would be more portable than the Macbook

Really? So that what, it fits in a purse? I personally (nothing against men who do) don't carry a purse, but I do have a backpack. And I choose to carry a full 15" MacBook Pro, because it's powerful and is an ok trade off in terms of screen size. It's perfect for me.

I know some people hate the weight, and they go for the Air, but for me the screen size is too small. This argues to make the screen size even smaller! No thank you!

Get a keyboard for the iPad Mini.
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There is a sense in which a tax credit is "identical" to handing over cash directly. But in a very similar sense, that tax credit is identical to a tax cut, and a tax cut is identical to the absence of a tax raise. Would it be accurate to say that your income tax not being sharply increased next year is "identical" to being handed a large pile of cash? Is every dollar that you are not taxed actually a gift from the government?

Or to flip it around: If we decide collectively that the correct tax rate for some activity is 20%, then that's the correct rate. Just because you might feel a better rate would be 30% (or 10%) doesn't mean that we're actually gifting the entity 10% of the revenue (or stealing 10% of their revenue). Similarly, there's no objectively correct answer to how large pieces of industrial plant should be depreciated beyond the accounting rules that Congress, the IRS, FASB, etc., have enacted. Those rules not matching what you or I would have chosen doesn't mean they're either a gift nor theft.
I don't understand the difference between this data structure [0] and buffered B-trees, as described in "Lower Bounds for External Memory Dictionaries", by Gerth Stølting Brodal and Rolf Fagerberg [1], or in "On External Memory Graph Traversal" by Adam L. Buchsbaum, Michael Goldwasser, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Jeffery R. Westbrook [2]. Granted, this adds in path-copying, but I'm not sure what new innovation this has that merits the description "Hitchhiker trees are a newly invented (by @dgrnbrg) datastructure".

0: https://github.com/datacrypt-project/hitchhiker-tree/blob/ma...

1: http://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/papers/alcomft-tr-03-75.pdf

2: http://euler.slu.edu/~goldwasser/publications/SODA2000.pdf
US assigned over 1,000 spies to Rio Olympics
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12229906
You went from stating the article is wrong, to saying that only smaller companies can take advantage of tax credits, threw in a red herring about all manufacturing companies, and then wrapped up with reforming the tax code.

The mental gymnastics here are stunning, and to claim tax credits and deductions aren't a direct transfer of money is like saying a credit card payment isn't, since it involves an intermediary clearing step.

At the end of the day, this IS a direct transfer of money to an industry that not only doesn't need it, but needs to be TAXED out the a-- to prevent further destruction of people's well-being.
Actually the author has cut essentially 100% of the battery from the MacBook Air.
hint: Google hired from CMU's DARPA team
How does that work, you run your fingers across the keys lightly or something?
I see your point. But I think that with this kind of generalization you feed the fire of hate, imo
I am always surprised how people care about the language of implementation so much. The data structure is interesting by itself. Why should we care what this is built with?
How are the wrists bent with the small size? Ideally, the keyboard should be split in half so your wrists are farther apart.

There's a lot to consider when shopping for an ergonomic keyboard:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...
I have the Freestyle 2 (which I reviewed here [0]) and it's great. My wrists are so much more relaxed. Every time I have to use a traditional keyboard now I cringe. It's also helped me improve touch-typing.

Unfortunately, I have not found a good solution for a mice. The Magic Trackpad, even turned around in negative slope, is just not good enough when there's a bit too much drag&drop.

[0] http://blog.pythonaro.com/2015/01/kinesis-freestyle2-multich...
Yeah UWP has a lot of good features but I always find when I go to it that it just lacks so many basics. It's like they kept building good stuff on top of Silverlight which stripped out a lot of useful stuff. Having said that I've not used it extensively (I had a good stab at Metro, but man that sucked) and ever since haven't gone back.

It's not x-plat either ;)

Obviously with Avalonia we have a long way to go (hence the Alpha) so we're getting the basics down first.

Layout on the UI thread is definitely a limitation too. I'd be interested to hear ideas as to how it could be done in a threaded manner.
Haiku:

People work too much.

Why. Underdeveloped self.

Know oneself or burn.
Maybe they're moving from an r&d focus to a production focus?
Very interesting idea. However, losing two through-streets out of every three will triple the traffic on the remaining through-street.

The people living on the interior of the superblocks will enjoy a more peaceful car-free environment, but the people overlooking the through-streets will experience more noise, pollution and congestion.

I wonder how Barcelona plans to compensate the residents of through-streets for the newly introduced inconvenience (and predictably lowered real-estate value with respect to their neighbours).
A superwide aspect ratio is impractical for too many things. The audience for this device would be extremely limited.

I still long for the days of the 4:3 aspect ratio.
I tried one at CES. Great concept but wasn't sold after trying it.
Tying together a few comments I'm seeing here (farms, meditation, electronic device & information overload), I'll bring out the importance of nature. Some ideas:

if you like running, try trail running

do find a friend with a farm or garden and spend some time working there

weekend camping is often possible, whether in desert or forest, and sometimes it's easy to make it a 3-4 day trip.

if you really need something hard that's not programming, push your physical boundaries a little on the hike. Nothing to clear and focus the mind like "it's 5 pm, the sun sets in an hour, bad weather is coming in, we have 4 kilometers of canoeing until we get to the campsite and then we need to set up the tent!" Maybe I shouldn't really "recommend" this as any good wilderness type will have tried to avoid this situation.

I just took a long trip to the countryside and the lack of nature even in my tree-filled neighborhood was a shock when returning. And you can learn a lot from observing nature: trees just grow, animals do what they do; in their environment they don't fight their own nature and try to do something else.
You could send the car back home after it drops you off, or release it to pick up someone else. That is, if it is fully autonomous. I suspect that long before then, the "self driving" term is going to get abused by marketing until it means nothing more than "autonomously maintains RPM relative to pedal angle".
If you want to solder in cherry blues yourself you might be able to buy the keyboard without the switches. Kinesis is good about things like that.
On some superblocks it seems to me they could connect the corner blocks instead of the center block as the one way lanes. This would leave the old middle roads free of cars altogether giving pedestrians more space and maybe let the cars go a little faster (10 km/h is rather unbearably slow slow).
It's based on the XAML family of frameworks so lookless controls are probably the biggest differentiator between the frameworks you mentioned. Qt is C++, I've not tried any .Net bindings for it so I can't really compare. Xamarin uses native controls, which just a different approach really. Electron is great but you're embedding chromium in an OS window which doesn't work for everyone.
Very cool! I can see that this app is doing using react, and would like to learn how to do an app like this. Is there something you'd recommend that takes about rendering an app correctly on all these phones?

Does not necessarily have to use react or the podcast.. any git repos would be helpful :)
Thank you for the link; it and its references were interesting reads.
What about a touchpad on the spacebar. Which such a wide aspect ratio, it might actually work. Or, go back to the double-row enter key and that would be enough space.
I also find that it is a shame to restrain article sources to arxiv. It would be awesome if your tool would allow saving articles from Sci-Hub into one's library.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sci-hub-offline-elsevier-gets-yet-a...
I think scientific research should benefit all of humanity.