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If you're in the US Amazon generally lets you return anything for any reason. "I tried it and I didn't like it" would be fine with them. It makes the process a bit slower, with shipping and all, but you could purchase all your candidate keyboards together and then return the one(s) you don't like.
It's a feedback loop, and a very effective one. The stronger the brand is, the more credibile your article will seem. The more credibile articles, the stronger the brand becomes.
> Why aren't people protesting?

Because while traditional detector vans are technically feasible the reality is that they're bullshit - TVL has the largest civilian database in the UK and they just visit people who don't have a licence and haven't made a declaration that they don't watch live tv as it's broadcast.

So people don't protest this new thing, because it's unlikely TVL are actually sending any vans out.

A different question is why do we keep the pretence up? They pretend to have a fleet of detector vans, we don't call them on the bullshit.
these questions are off-topic.

the existence of a problem is not invalidated by the existence of several other problems.
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This is similar to an article about McDonald's restaurants in the US becoming de facto community centres.

Older people sitting there all day, free WiFi, clean washrooms, thousands of restaurants.
For a company to be worth $30B* it must either be making a lot of money or have extremely high probability of extremely high future earnings. Given that, if they need cash, why not just take a loan? Both lenders and investors suffer risk of default/company blows up, but only investors suffer a risk of "company is worth a lot, just not as much as we thought." Given that, investors should demand higher returns. So a company worth $30B should surely prefer to take loans rather than issuing equity, right?

Apparently not - what am I missing?

* I'm not convinced, but for the sake of argument...
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Replacing the great Apple trackpads with a trackpoint? No thank you.
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IIRC, Kinesis claims it has a two-month, no-bullshit return policy: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/customer-service/guarant... presumably because people want to try out their keyboards.
Mount Brighton is really tiny :-) As I recall, when my parents lived near there, You had snowmaking guns on towers at the base that could blow snow onto the "summit."

But really the Ann Arbor area isn't bad. I'm always a bit amused by discussions like this one in which so many voices seemingly argue that for reasons of weather, culture, and software engineering concentration, life really isn't worth living outside the Bay area even if you need to spend 4 hours a day commuting while sharing a 500 sq. ft. apartment with 2 roommates.

The idea that it's questionable for Google to establish a location in Michigan for automobile research rather than keeping it in the great Silicon Valley is beyond funny.
Personally I am waiting for the KeyMouse[0], a physically-split keyboard with integrated mouse as part of the keyboard parts, so no need to lift hand from keyboard to perform mousely duties.

Hopefully it is a great product, but I'm wondering if they couldn't have taken it a step further and made the keyboards at an angle to mimic natural arm positions.

[0]: http://www.keymouse.com/
The title of the article is incorrect. The oil companies do not get $4B a year of taxpayers' money. This isn't a transfer of money to the oil companies, this is about tax credits and tax deductions, specifically--percentage depletion, intangible drilling costs, and the manufacturing deduction.

Here's the actual article: http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Discussion...

A few more notes. The major oil companies cannot take full advantage of percentage depletion or intangible drilling costs, only smaller companies.

The manufacturing deduction is available to all US manufacturers. If we get rid of this deduction for oil companies, we should do the same for all manufacturers.

An alternative perspective is that these tax preferences are similar to the tax preferences all businesses receive (ie. being able to deduct certain expensive, etc.). We should reform the tax code, but do so for all businesses. More here: http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/the-obama-adm...
The HTC Sense weather app manages to do that, despite using Accuweather as the data source. There's just a little "Accuweather - more details online" bar at the bottom of the screen, but I've never felt the need to actually follow it.
The rocket-propelled over-the-top one isn't patented, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrrorPT8jsM&feature=youtu.be...
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Hiring is exhausting and expensive and eats a ridiculous amount of my team's time, not to mention onboarding and learning curve. It's not worth my while to hire someone who I think has a <50% chance of staying at least two years.

That doesn't mean every bullet on your resume needs to be 2 years long, but if you're at least a handful of years into your career, you should have at least one.

And yeah, if you're working for startups and they keep going under, that sucks. But maybe it suggests that you could stand to learn a bit more about the business end of things and improve your ability to evaluate an employer's prospects.
> I thought that you were arguing for using JSON data structures rather than custom data structures.

I very rarely go for custom data structures :) I won't destroy data by giving it an ad-hoc type, and unless I'm working in a statically typed language I won't have a "JSONValue" type to deal with in the first place; I'll get the same value from JSON.parse as if I wrote "const defaultCfg = {host: 80};".

But now I can do something like "const cfg = merge(defaultCfg, validateConfig(JSON.parse(cfgFile)));" where validateConfig takes a hash map and returns a hash map (or something behaving like a hash map).

[edit] by destroy I mean you lose the ability to work on unknown data, which is a requirement to build robust distributed systems. When you marshall into a custom type and lose 3 fields, the endpoint is not going to be happy.

> What do you mean by 'generic data functions'?

Functions like map, filter, reduce, take, drop, zip, split, join, get, nth, head, tail, and hundreds more operating on scalars, sequences and mappings.

> Which is what's insane. I don't want a dictionary; I want an instance.

A dictionary is an instance. Your custom class with getters/setters is nothing more than an ad-hoc dictionary.

The only time I'll go for a struct is when I get performance constraints and need to pack/align data and have continuous memory to batch operations and not trash the cache.

I don't want a custom type where I have to write boilerplate around for every single operation when I have hundreds available ready to be composed.

> And we discovered decades ago that it's useful to talk about categories of data (types) and about data that carries along with it behaviour (classes).

Data by definition has no behaviour, its plain information. You're talking about state and there I agree, I want my state close to its behaviour because they're tightly related. But I don't want the _declarations_ of state and behaviour to be coupled either. Haskell and Clojure both solve this problem nicely with type classes and protocols respectively.

You can make your types behave like sequences and mappings, but that's just extra boilerplate when talking about data and not state.

> Programming is all about building intelligent abstractions which enable you to reason at a higher level.

I agree, but you only need a handful of abstractions, most of the time what you're doing by wrapping data in a type is an indirection not an abstraction.

S-exprs by themselves are just data, they're the very same as JSON (not versioned, not extensible). YAML supports tags making it easy to plug your custom types directly into its reader.
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And here with timeline etc: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7929/

All docs from the DANE working group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dane/documents/
> They've delievered shit just to say they delievered something.

You're right.

This never happened before the agile manifesto was published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon - Not SOO far fetched
Although the whole address can be faked anyways so it's not a huge loss.

That being said we are starting to create fairly good systems to prevent spoofed addresses.
Wall-E basically got that done
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BOSH is able to cancel operations. You press Ctrl+C and it asks if that's what you intend.
Would be a huge breakthrough if true. I didn't see any plans for experimental proof in the article. Seems to be in the modelling phase.

What mechanism would bind the photon to the electron?
i've used laptops in that form factor and they're awful.

the current 13" apple form factor is just fine.

look at cell phones from the early 00's -- smaller is NOT the answer.
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The gap is that you are expected to serve most of your traffic through their blob stores and CDNs, not through the compute instances.

The traffic prices for each of these are very different.
In the US Midwest its Caseys, a chain of folksy convenience stores. Every small town has one or two (one at each end of town). A couple tables inside allow for socializing. Every morning the old folks gather and talk over coffee. They're completely familiar to the behind-the-counter workers; clearly welcome to stay and drink coffee and chat. Reminds me of the old town diner or truck stop of my youth.
It's a little overengineered for my taste.

I would be very happy if microsoft on the Ergo 4000 instead of including a stupid, absolutely useless "zoom knob" thing just put a trackpoint there!

http://www.wolfmanzbytes.com/pc/mskeyb1/keyb4lg.jpg

what a bafflingly missed opportunity.
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I've taken part in Test Pilot, so I'm aware of how it works. Hence the wording of my comment that it was my initial reaction.

The idea that it's appropriate as a plugin is in anticipation that they'd decide to integrate it like hello and pocket.

It's a feeling, there are all sorts of different browser efforts, FF just feels like we're getting to a point where it is drifting closer to the other browsers and getting heavier. YMMV.
It would probably be a significant security flaw.

Imagine you press it but for whatever reason it doesn't register. Now your "incorrect" fingerprint is flying over the internet. With a bit of retouching or guessing your original fingerprint can now be recovered.

...not that your fingerprints aren't all over your phone anyways...
The potential benefits of combining the properties of the two (circuits that are more robust even when damaged, etc.) are intriguing, but there aren't any mentions of the potential negatives that will also undoubtedly arise. Will such circuits also be more prone to crosstalk? Will they be sensitive to different lighting conditions?
I'm not looking for blind trust of anyone. I'm looking for elevated discussion and debate.

As I said, the valuations are not above criticism.
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I would love to be able to do this on my own car to reprogram spare keys myself without having to visit the dealership.
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Great writeup. Too much of these web "platforms" and use the word loosely with air-quotes, don't support the level of compositional delegation that could/would enable what you are looking for w/o having to make your own platform.

The only thing I can suggestion w/o understanding your needs on more than a superficial level would be to create bots that have admin access, that attach "flair" that denotes rank that the bot uses to move stories around, etc. Network effects and availability still make sites such as reddit very attractive.

I have always wanted a multidimensional discussion, so that joke posts and memes automatically diverge from the current hyperplane of the discussion.
Well if the original patent was defined in terms of an abstract force, like it should have been, then the rocket-propelled one is patented too. All advice I've heard so far about filing patents is to keep things as abstract as possible.
The easiest path off Heroku to self-hosted is probably Cloud Foundry: one of the inspirations was Heroku and several of the Cloud Foundry buildpacks are soft forks of Heroku's buildpacks.

Generally we find that any buildpack written for Heroku will work with Cloud Foundry without modification. With a little extra engineering you can create a buildpack that will run in a fully disconnected environment.

Disclosure: I work on the Cloud Foundry Buildpacks team on behalf of Pivotal.
We'll definitely be writing about this in the next few days or so. The two biggest hurdles were getting our heads around service workers – which prompted me to write https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/fd6c3c73e6e707e312d7c5d7... – and audio.

Audio on mobile is just a disaster, because you can't trigger media playback without a user gesture unless you use an AudioBufferSourceNode, which we found can easily crash a phone (because the entire clip has to be decoded and held in memory, and we can have several clips that are several minutes long in playback or standby at any given moment). We created a library called Phonograph to work around these limitations by decoding small snippets of audio on the fly (using the fetch API to stream, where possible): https://gitlab.com/Rich-Harris/phonograph
The first steps are often the hardest to make :)
my first two airbnb experiences were disasters, for different reasons. last-minute cancellation on a trip across the ocean, and a fucking weirdo host. never used it again.

i use hotels, and commercial vacation rental services (who happen to list on airbnb, vrbo, other sites), but the point is, i will always use a company when i travel, especially overseas, because i simply do not want to deal with the whims of an individual homeowner when i'm putting my wellbeing on the line away from home. quite frankly, fuck that.
AWS has Elastic Beanstalk. Azure is still finding their own PaaS pathway.

Cloud Foundry gives you the "just push" experience for both of these (as well as vSphere, OpenStack, GCP and more to come). It's open source, with the IP owned by an independent foundation.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering on Cloud Foundry.
I think I've been on the border of burnout for a few months now myself.

Out of curiosity I wonder if personalities are more prone to burnout. I know some of folks aren't big fans of the pseudoscience of personality types but I'm still interested if there's some correlation.

I like the Myers-Briggs type personality indicator/test at http://www.16personalities.com (I'm not affiliated in any way) as they add another dimension called identity which resolves to either assertive or turbulent.

My results when I last took this a few weeks ago were INTP-T.

Perhaps there's a correlation to strategy?... mine is constant improvement.
Note that Rust protects you from data races, but you can still run into problems like deadlocks.
It does seem insane to invest at a notional valuation of double Expedia's market cap (or nearly four times Sabre's) to try to build a business that can compete with them though...
I'm mostly glad to hear that you have product managers. A lot of what comes from Google just seems to be engineering wandering randomly in and out of the latest shiny thing.
"Parts of Michigan" is disingenuous because we are specifically talking about Novi, MI which is in SE Michigan rather than places like (e.g.) Houghton, MI.
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What's the USP?

How does it compare to Qt, Xamarin an Electron?
Settling previous discrimination issues along which modifications for the platform going forward are going to be very expensive.
Your first paragraph is not really responding to what I actually said.

Let me repeat for you: these valuations are not above criticism. I just want to see better reasoning involved than literally balking at big numbers. It comes across as the same hysteria that drives the valuations up in the first place, just in the opposite direction.

It's really not a lot to ask to simply elevate the caliber of discussion. For example, I could respond to your second paragraph by stating that it is very difficult to claim what an objectively good valuation is without a understanding of what Airbnb's future plans are. Expedia's market cap is on the order of 17B. We have incomplete insight into Airbnb's plans for future markets.

See? That isn't so difficult. I'm not blindly attacking or defending the valuation, I'm reasoning about it instead of saying, "These numbers are big so I can't see how they possibly need them!"
Why is that thing so bloody expensive? The cost of parts for a keyboard are measure in pennies, for the most part. The manufacturing is ridiculously cheap.

So, with all of that, what justifies a $350 price tag on any keyboard these days?
Nobody has written epics about anyone digging someone else's toilets as far as I know. This is not unique to the Mahabharatha or other Indian epics.

As for the caste system, yes, it has had a lot of evils. But then almost all populations around the world have some notion of "class" that is loosely defined, with its own set of evils. I fail to see how this is unique to India, see for instance the topic of ghettos in medieval history.
In modern times, the "class" is usually based on financial wealth.

Furthermore, in the sense of classification based on profession (the idealistic interpretation of caste), this certainly exists across the world (merchant guilds, high concentrations of a single occupation like Harley St, London, etc).

Finally, as for viewing the past through rose-coloured lenses, every historian has his/her own set of biases in terms of coverage and emphasis. There are some who are honest about the reality of this, such as Howard Zinn who mentions it in his preface to "A People's History of the United States", but many delude themselves into thinking that they somehow are magically "unbiased".

With respect to works of fiction, the same applies. In the case of Tolkien, the treatment of the orcs is an example, we never see an orc perspective or pov. In the case of the Song of Ice and Fire, there is arguably little treatment of the common population. Military engagements are reduced to the standard historical style focusing on the leaders and "important" entities involved. As for the Mahabharatha, similar issues arise. Nevertheless, it has a surprising amount of depth and complexity in many respects (e.g morally grey characters and a bittersweet ending).
Great idea! The only puzzling point is the 10 km/h limit. In my experience it's almost impossible to go that slow. Better to set the limit at 20 km/h and cope with the conditions of the road. It will be slow for bicycles too. It forces bikers to go on the roads for cars or be very patient. Maybe it's the intended effect but I don't approve it.
Interestingly the law strikes a decent balance here. For example, the FTC can sue a company for 'unfair and deceptive business practices'. Exposing cars to insta-theft because you didn't secure your backend database could fall in that category.

Companies do have a duty of care if they are holding the keys to the castle, be it the keys to your car, or keys to your email or financials; they have to take reasonable precautions to protect the data, commensurate with the quantity and sensitivity of the data, and the cost and availability of technology to protect that data.
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As much as you say that, I miss TrackPoint from my days sporting a ThinkPad. I know there are other people that agree. Once you get used to it, it's pretty nifty. You don't even need to take your hands too far away from your keyboard position to use it.
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The public cloud space is going to be ginormagantuan. It's just too big to ignore. GCP is Google's Xbox: I expect they'll throw money at it for a decade, if they have to, because it's too fantastic a market to ignore.

AWS is there through first-to-market leadership.

Microsoft is there because they've got a strong sense of what every SME and Enterprise customer in the world wants.

Google are there because they have deep expertise in building these kinds of systems and it would be utterly bonkers not to try and diversify into this field.
It's in the description, "Long-time Advantage users will rejoice to learn that we’ve replaced the mushy, rubber function keys with high-performance Cherry ML switches that offer the same low-force and tactile properties of the MX Brown.". Great change but I guess I will not drop 350$ just for that ;)
Original title was "IRS Increases 'Marriage Penalty,' Unmarried Cohabitants To Get Twice The Mortgage Interest Deduction" but the HN title char limit is 80 so truncated/reworded a bit.
Is it really a progressive web app if it doesn't work on a desktop browser?
i think self driving cars will be a reality, but probably in no less than 50 years.

it's 2016 and we can't even keep websites up without armies of people tending to them 24/7. i don't know what reality everyone who is enthusiastic about this technology is living in.
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The (mobile) New Yorker didn't appear cluttered to me, but I use Evernotes web clipper for this purpose.
Waffle Houses are somewhat analogous in the US South. They're everywhere (there are 4 within a 15 minute drive of my house), but many people have a favorite one. We'll occasionally pop into one of the nearby ones after church on Sunday. Usually the same regulars in there and the staff know them by name and order. My daughter loves it because she loves watching them cook.

Fun fact, FEMA has a "Waffle House index" [0] to determine how damaging a weather event such as a hurricane or tornado outbreak has been based on how many Waffle Houses are still open and what they're serving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
This reminded me of a couple of very bad times in my life where I was caught in that awful loop of being unable to meet all the demands on my life and feeling that it would be impossible to not continue to try to go on anyway.

It's strange in retrospect how liberating divorce, unemployment, bankruptcy, and foreclosure can be. Don't get me wrong: going through all that absolutely sucked, and I wouldn't want to do it again. There were a few times when I genuinely went hungry and had no place to stay.

But having survived it, I no longer feel any need to keep up appearances or have the latest gadget or have a lot of stuff at all. A lot of the pressure I used to feel is simply gone because I don't give a shit what other people think about my life any more. (Well, I care about what my wife (same one, we are back together) and daughter think, but that's it.)

I especially liked the references to ancient descriptions of the condition. It's nothing new.
Ellen White, a very progressive health advocate and founder of the sda church actually recommended moving away from cities and working out in nature in tasks like farming. This prophetic insight has actually helped a lot of people. The church still runs a number of health resorts that do this and the results are off the charts.