skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern education system is failing pretty hard if a 700-word article about an existential crisis in theoretical physics (or at least a physicist) is considered "too long" and taking "forever to get to the point".
The Ergo 4000 I used to love. But after using real keys, those super mushy huge ones on the Ergo 4000 just don't work for me. I used the Matias Ergo Pro (which has a slightly wonky layout for no reason, including dedicated C-Z,X,C,V hotkeys (not possible to change)). It didn't take much getting used to, but some of the odder placements still hit me from time to time (Ctrl next to N, in the split). But after a year it starting hurting my wrist. Not sure if it was the angle or the switch pressure. The tiny arrow keys were also super annoying (I know, I try to use hjkl but still).

I went back to MS, with the Sculpt. They have scissor switches and a mostly normal layout. Pain's gone down a fair amount in a month.
You make it sound like it's all about hardware in your alternative universe. After being a Windows user for many years and recently switching to a Mac Pro / Mac OS I could never return to Windows. Anything I need from Windows I can easily run using WINE.
again, it wasn't me who brought the current Ukrainian politics and conflict in the thread about crowns made of flowers - read the article and the original top comment in the thread. It is not my fault that the current Ukrainian politics and conflict is due to the current regime celebrating the perpetrators of those atrocities and trying to follow the same policies.

And Wikipedia isn't Russian propaganda, well at least i hope so.
So basically yet another example of Betteridge's law of headlines.
>more vibrant, modern home row accented in Kinesis Blue

I know this is a sorta superficial criticism, but they really need to overhaul the look. It looks right out from the early 90s, especially the logo. Without compromising function, they should really make it look like a modern product. Don't underestimate people's desire to look cool (see, for instance, the huge business of customizations for practically any software or device).
It's not really the same at all to your tax analog. The difference is that Congress has the ability to reduce spending and to cut taxes.

With the car problem, no one entity has the power to devise nor enforce a holistic solution. Of course, with the exception of a fascist overthrow of the state that tears down cities and rebuilds with central planning. The government can't just come and take people's cars away – you have a right to own a car (more or less). You don't, however, have a right to a parking spot, and it takes just a small city committee meeting to affect change.

That's not to say people won't get hurt by this, but it needs to happen for the good of everyone. Suburbia is bad for the earth and everyone on it. We need to start making some tough decisions... 30 years ago.
Oops! Can't correct it now but I am embarrassed I made that assumption and apologize.
> No, "yearly reviews" to get a five or even ten percent raises are not sufficient.

Sounds like you've had a shitty work career. None of what I'm talking about is anything like that.

> You are trying to turn economic transactions into "personality traits" and it's kind of really disgusting.... I create a lot of value--in much less than six months...

You talk about it as an economic transaction, but you fail to actually acknowledge the economic transaction that's actually taking place. You don't just magically spring into existence into my company when you drop your resume at the door. The cost to hire you is significant. You simply haven't recouped that cost of hiring you within 6 months, regardless of whether or not you're God's gift to programming.

> I don't need a bunch of ramp-up time, and I can get paid literally double per-hour to do it.

Sounds like you're living the dream, congrats. Most people aren't as talented as you are. Using your experiences to make hiring decisions for the other 99% of society would seem silly, don't you think?
>...prototype stores twice as much juice as the lithium-ion cells the Gigafactory will turn out, and which could eventually do better than that.
Morgan Freeman: A Vegan's Creed
I'm root, it's my system, I know what I'm doing, Apple!

Why can't you just disable SIP? Is that too much to ask? Seems easier than switching to Windows.
After reading the article I was ready to book a one way ticket to Barcelona! City looks amazing, the traffic diagrams are on point, and I just love the sound of the word "superblock" (so nintendo). But after reading all the HN comments, I think I'm good where I am...

Tokyo is amazing without a car. Most people live on the outskirts, which is still only 20 or 30 minutes away by train, and without a car, there is no search for parking. Trains come every 5 minutes. Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza, Akiharabara, Harajuku... Of course, the money and sacrifices made for infrastructure are insane.

LA is amazing with a car as long as you know the freeway exits and know where to park. Santa Monica, DTLA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Koreatown, San Gabriel.. Good food, good people, good weather, and wide straight streets (compared to Japan). It's a little spread out, and DTLA is still a bit too tiny and too dirty to brag about, but culturally, it has to be the melting pot capital of the universe. You can't tell if someone is rich or poor, black or white, high or drunk, a man or a woman... and no one could care less. Good freedom.

But my favorite city so far has to be Fukuoka. A miniature Tokyo, but with better food, lower cost of living, and is small enough to get around with a bicycle. Very attractive dialect, and very attractive people. It's also an hour to Tokyo by plane, and business men ride 747s like getting on a train.

I'm currently in LA.
The last big frontier
> Those who can't write/read their own mother tongue are the product of the aforementioned linguistic apartheid

You have two options:

a. Teach them a language they can use almost anywhere on the planet. A language that documents most of the planets knowledge.

b. Teach them a language they can use in their geographical district and almost nowhere else.

The powers that they'd be better served by (a). You might think (b) would have been a better choice, but implying that (a) is akin to apartheid is ridiculous.

If I'm forced to use the word "apartheid" to label one of those, I'd point to (b). To teach the poor of india a language that handicaps them compared to humans of the planet who take path (a) is to limit their opportunities and keep them "in their place" in their little geographic corner of the world.
Since at least Windows Server 2008 R2 in Server Core mode you can uninstall 32-bit compatibility:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...

Additionally Nano server does not have it.

Not sure if it is yet possible to remove from the desktop yet, but I'm doubtful.
It also assumes that outside observers have the same difficulty understanding the make-up and probable evolution of a system as we do. If they were able to observe that Earth would have some properties they were interested in, or would be a likely candidate for such, then they wouldn't need us to announce our presence to guess it.
Uber has never told me to wait an hour for a car that doesn't show up. If an Uber driver were to pad my bill by taking a bad route, I could complain and get a price adjustment. Uber always accepts credit card payments.
I'm thinking about this problem in the context of a data ingestion API where the requests are processed asynchronously.

The latency from the client to the backend is not really an issue so long as the request is processed at some point. In this situation, I'm looking at the throughput and cpu usage to see how far an instance can scale.

Am I missing something, or does latency not really play a large role in this particular scenario?
Your experience is a direct result of car-oriented city planning. It will be very hard to undo.
So, I'll grant you that the book may not be saying those things. But if that's how its being presented, and the author approved that representation, why would one bother to pick it up and give it a try?
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Rich-Eating-Well-in-Ve...

Rich are blocking food to the poor in attempt to scare them from supporting the Bolivarian Revolution. Youtube videos also show Venezuelan stores hiding food to cause shortage.
That's an interesting change of perspective and one I'll keep in mind. It fits in with the teachings of my course, as well, as we were told that we don't crave or have aversion to an object, we crave or have aversion to the sensations in the body caused by our perceptions of that object. The key, as you've pointed out, is to learn to recognize and objectively view those sensations in the body and react to them consciously rather than subconsciously.

I also wonder, based on the training, whether those sensations are signs of burnout or whether the reactions to those sensations are actually what's causing the problem. Perhaps by noticing those sensations and teaching the body to react with equanimity I'd find the same effect that happens with other sensations of aversion. I've experienced the power of that equanimous reaction with something as simple as physical pain, which became a shadow of itself. I'm curious whether burnout is similarly inflated in severity by the mind's reaction to it.
Thanks for letting me know. The example shown is incorrect as you can't reply to it. Because to reply you need to have a channel id in event object and slack doesn't send a channel id for file_shared event (https://api.slack.com/events/file_shared).

I will modify the example now. Thanks very much.
Anyone else thinking of the beginning of the utterly excellent "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton?
Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things
Indeed. I simply claim that directly taking the cars away from car-oriented cities without taking steps to undo their car-oriented nature is not a good idea.
I'm not on Win10 - are UWP apps still slow and clunky? Like they don't really act like normal windows? Still tablet-optimized or whatever? Last I checked on the W10 beta calc took several seconds to launch. (And had far less features, like no editable history.)

MS flubbed the launch and followup on Metro so hard (not to mention the shitware on the Store) it's really, really, turned me off from using or playing with it.
You know, I remember some old Tom & Jerry cartoon where an older mouse was explaining capitalism. How a factory that sells great volumes is able to reduce its margins and make even more total profit. Something like that.

So... what is wrong with a "low" price?

Must pricing nowadays be all game-theory where you want to extract the maximum amount without any regard for underlying value or actual costs?

It's almost a meme on HN: "you are asking too little!" "Raise your prices, double your consulting rate!" "Businesses don't even notice bills under $4999!"

I'm from Romania where my "business" cell phone (with 1GB internet and basically unlimited calls) is costing me $7/month. My build server on AWS used to cost me $25/month. Nowadays I use my own machines so I only pay for some leftover storage and I get a whooping $1.50/month bill on my card. I pay $39/month for accounting.

No matter how great a startup believes their thing is, a business has to cover a lot of expenses and 100 super-duper-products to purchase do add up. At some point it might even make sense to say: yes, I'll have an employee waste 1 hour each month on this problem instead of adding another vendor/product/contract to the list.
>no one entity has the power to devise nor enforce a holistic solution

Yes there is - the city government that controls the parking spaces, also controls the transit system.
I was around during the transition but I'd always been on the Tarantella side (I was an architect of the product) and so didn't work on the Unix side directly. Heck our division customers were overwhelmingly running Solaris with Linux picking up in the 2000's.

The Unix side of the business was rapidly shrinking. 1999 was a banner year because everyone had to go out and upgrade their operating systems so they could claim y2k compliance. 2000 was the end of a tech bubble, and also saw a tech downturn. This lead to drastically reduced sales. Throw in Linux getting increased adoption (remember that IBM promised to spend $1 billion on it which gave a lot of credibility), and that SCO's UNIX products no longer had particularly relevant sweet spots in the market.

I don't know of anyone who moved to Utah. The people in California became part of Caldera but I don't know exactly how that was legally structured. Also SCO had folks all over the US and world. At the peak it was ~1,100 employees and $250m annual revenue.

SCO was a good company and many people liked working at the company because they liked many of their colleagues. Employee turnover was quite low because of that. It also had bad points, but what doesn't?

SCO Unix (OpenServer specifically) was great but not from a technological viewpoint. However the vast majority of users were not techies - they were dentists, receptionists, pet cemetery workers etc. OpenServer came by default with a gui that let those regular folk get things done in a friendly way. See my sibling comment about why Caldera wanted OpenServer.

And SCO did have some firsts. It was also very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It was the first company to offer Internet in a Box. You installed the system, and now were on the Internet (as a server). We were the first to ship a browser (licensed Mosaic). We shipped by far the most copies of Netscape. At one point Pizza Hut started allowing orders over the Internet. It was more of a proof of concept rather than massively used and widespread. But SCO was behind that too.
Prove that it can survive in the wild without becoming a firebomb, and we'll talk.
Did we not read the same article?

Lithium Air batteries could offer up to 4x the energy density, this one is 2x.

Part of the reason this hasn't been done before is that previously the oxygen introduced to the battery was from the air and other components of air damaged and degraded the battery rapidly.

This battery is sealed with all the Oxygen it needs as a LiO mixture stored in a cobalt matrix to stabilize it. Thus is doesn't degrade.
And yet we make the actual prison experience worse than how it is perceived by a typical person.
I agree that there are places where this isn't a problem.

Taking the cars away from places like Hyde Park won't magically make it one of them.
Sure. Now go ahead and try to regulate those, like many have been trying for literally decades. We've gotten better, but it's still not enough and our cities/suburbs still suffer from the non-environmental side effects of designing cities around cars. Such as, you know, having to purchase a car to be mobile.

I would really like a large scale holistic solution, but again, we've been having this debate for decades and we haven't moved fast enough. If we continue to build our cities for cars, then we will continue to need cars.

Reducing parking in cities is one decision that could have large scale effects and that doesn't require a dictatorship or nationwide collective epiphany to institute.

And yes, higher prices hurt consumers, as in they damage the one facet of an entire human being that's responsible for purchasing things. But there are many other facets of a human being that would be much better off with fewer cars around them, and I dare say that many of those facets are more important to preserve than ease of consumption. The human race survived for many thousands of years with nothing even resembling an automobile, and now after 100 years you're positing that we simply cannot go on without them?
It's interesting to put this in historical context.

Until about two centuries ago, it was not all that common to imprison people as a punishment. It was mainly used to confine those awaiting trial, and to induce compliance (contempt of court, debtor prisons etc). Being convicted of an actual crime generally warranted some form or combination of fines, public shaming, corporal punishment, banishment, or execution.

Then, during the 17th century, the society had started to increasingly reject torture in general, and death penalty for relatively minor crimes (theft etc). Conveniently, that's also when European countries acquired sparsely populated lands that they wanted to settle ASAP, and so penal colonies were born, and replaced a significant chunk of previous death penalty convictions. That system eventually inspired the creation of proper prisons as we know them today.

Ironically, if you read about the prominent people behind the movement that made it happen, most of them subscribed to "prison as repentance" theory, rather than punishment. It's why it was seen as so progressive and radical for its day.

We all know how well that worked out.
Lithium-air potentially has great energy density.
The theoretical limit is near that of gasoline. So there's been a lot of work in this area, going back decades. There are lots of problems. This is a possible solution to one of about six major problems with this chemistry. It's a step forward, though.

This research project used iridium, which is a problem. Total world production of iridium is only about 10 metric tons a year, and it sells for about $14,000/kg. A production technology is going to need something cheaper.
Yet another book recommendation: Marrow by Robert Reed. Some similarities to your story :)
Twice as much on a per-volume basis? Or per-weight?
IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia
Not really. Saying All Lives Matter is like going to a Breast Cancer charity event and protesting, "ALL CANCERS MATTER!" You're missing the point of the movement/event. Because of course, on paper, all lives matter, but in the real world we're pretty far from that. ALM is a just a dismissive response and action against a movement that's trying to bring attention on where we want to be from where we currently are.
There are more dangerous combinations of chemicals than lithium superoxide mixed intimately with lithium, but there aren't many.
So? PC firmware bugs have been a serious problem at least as far back as the introduction of ACPI. (U)EFI vs BIOS doesn't seem to have made much difference.
How to Learn to Love to Practice: Is there a secret to staying in the zone?
Americans overall seem to have a hard "punishment" stance towards "criminals". Just look at all the rape jokes regarding prisons. While some might just be for laughs, a lot of it, I think, underlies the idea that prison should be super hard and punishing. People are fine saying "hey you broke the law, I don't care if it's not hard to make phone calls!"
But there are things like UEFI variable bugs bricking systems.
Are you aware of the fact that we (US) are _already_ a society that sends more people into prison, both per capita and in absolute numbers, than any other country on earth?
I can totally understand you. I lived in a country where things are far worse. False charges don't end up dismissed, people are sentenced to long prison terms, their health fatally undermined, families ruined, etc., etc.

At first I was shocked than situation described in this topic is possible in US. I mean not just the raid against activist, but the level of corruption revealed by ExposeDAT.

But let's face the sad truth: the cost to society of having professional, efficient and corruption-resistant police is unbearable too. At least for large country like US. It's comparable to cost of having professional, efficient and treason-resistant army, counted per one officer/soldier. But you need much more police officers than soldiers. You have to apply very strict selection and certification to ensure only most honest, incorruptible and motivated people are at service. You just won't find enough people, especially in economically depressed regions.

This all doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't improve the situation, of course.
That's typically the case, but if you take a business loan from an old school bank, the bank will usually ask the founders to sign with personal liability on top, regardless the company status. It's a different kind of deal because with a loan the bank doesn't get to own a share of the company, so their profits depend exclusively on the company not going out of business until the loan + interest are paid out.
Another small technical detail. Windows has a mechanism to sign executables. The certificate in this mechanism is defined with the following structure [0]:

typedef struct _WIN_CERTIFICATE {
DWORD dwLength;
WORD wRevision;
WORD wCertificateType;
BYTE bCertificate[ANYSIZE_ARRAY];
} WIN_CERTIFICATE, *PWIN_CERTIFICATE;

UEFI has a shockingly simmilar structure [1, page 1812]:

typedef struct _WIN_CERTIFICATE {
UINT32 dwLength;
UINT16 wRevision;
UINT16 wCertificateType;
//UINT8 bCertificate[ANYSIZE_ARRAY];
} WIN_CERTIFICATE;

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn5...

[1] http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spe...
It Stinks: The corpse flower’s indifferent, cosmic energy
How about JBot? You could call him/her Jay for short.
Is it better than vimdiff?
Hand-picked out of the rest of the Bureau, who were corruptible? Okay, so you can hand-pick an excellent team out of the bureau. But how is the bureau as a whole?

Your reasoning is not very solid here.
Earlier than that, even. 100% PC compatibility used to be measured on if the PC itself could run Flight Simulator, because Flight Simulator made a lot of bios calls, etc, and a lot of early bioses were rather buggy. Those were also the fun days where updating your bios meant removing the chip and replacing it with a new one
Does anyone aside from HN type folks listen to these recommendations?

I just had a major banking institution send me a plaintext pw instead of reset token, with a 15 char limit, and a rotation requirement.
And it controls infinite amounts of money? As I've said in other comments, I'm all for investing heavily in transit infrastructure. If you want a solution that totally ignores the fiscal reality of the world, then yes, I agree, dumping massive amounts of money into public transit would be part of it.
> But otherwise, the notion that Hask is not a category is nothing new.

I'm not entirely sure. Read the official Haskell page on the subject: https://wiki.haskell.org/Hask

> In order to make Hask a category, we define two functions f and g as the same morphism if f x = g x for all x. Thus undef1 and undef2 are different values, but the same morphism in Hask.

If I understand the passage correctly, they are defining the morphism in a way that makes Hask a category. I think the author of the original post interpreted it the same way.