skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sounds like stonewalling to me. maybe they weren't counting on the optics of the headline's phrasing sounding as charged as it does, but this reminds me strongly of, for instance, the FBI intentionally being obtuse in their processing of FOIA requests for sensitive subjects. they're not figuring out the numbers because the headline "$x hundred million seized by NYPD from citizens in 2015" sounds even worse.
To be fair, even Google has terrible UI/UX these days. Just look at Google Maps or Gmail. Material design isn't that great for discoverability either.
This seems like 94% "why not to use nosql as your main data store", 4% "why to be wary of building your product on PaaS/DBaaS/IaaS services without analyzing the costs and limitations, and 2% "make sure to read the docs".

I'm not really seeing anything Firebase specific?

> you can't deal easily with data-migration like you can do with a simple SQL database [...] Relations are marvelous

Yeah, maybe you should have used a relational DB as the primary datastore for your relational data?
thought this was the codepen beta..
I'm still kinda curious why iTunes has blocked the UI thread so often for such a long time, perhaps a limitation of the overall architecture of the app combined with having webviews everywhere calling out to native code?
Wait, you can star-rating AND heart songs? Why? Why both?
But you don't need streaming for a bittorrent-over-webrtc PoC.

And those "long term details" are implemented by all bittorrent clients, so they're hardly something novel that needs figuring out.
This is why I still use Winamp, and now more and more, Plex.
From your experience in terms of money, entrepreneurship, lifestyle, and research... which is a safer option between Edinburgh and Melbourne?
Interesting that every single UI example in this article is from an old version of Windows.

Fuck Windows. You want iTunes to work well? You want to see Apple's real UI? Then use their real platform.
at the end of the day, things do exist, move around, interact whether I care to ponder them or not

How do you know? Maybe things out of your sight that you don't ponder about cease to exist for brief times.
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> but I would wonder why you are having to do these conversions and comparisons on the fly

I receive a weird mix of normalized and unnormalized input over the network from servers and software I don't control, and want to keep the unnormalized versions for display purposes.

I could normalize on construction - might save a tiny bit of performance? - but then I'd need to store and keep in sync two separate strings (one for display, one for comparison.) Not that I have any real mutation going on that would violate that invariant in practice.

> so much that you a full class dedicated to them and you don't have the the name normalized ahead of time.

The general pattern is: Parse the network message (containing mixed normalization), then immediately lookup (or create) the target channel/user - allowing no duplicates due to mixed normalization.

With this I can simply construct e.g. Dictionary<CIIrcName,...>s and not need to remember to normalize every time I want to query by a given key. Only about 5 members that reference this type but there's a good 20-30 key lookups/equality comparisons using those members, handling different network messages among other things. That list will probably expand.

I could've wrapped dictionary access instead, but this seemed simpler (as dictionaries aren't the only thing I'm using, and none of the existing code wrapped dictionary access.)
FWIW, I've thought this whole exchange was both useful and respectful, even though we obviously disagree. :)

IntelliJ is a good example, because you're right, you could extend Emacs to have a looks-and-works-exactly-like-IntelliJ mode. But now you've got two jobs, writing your Java and developing and polishing up your editor in elisp.

Or, for my current favorite editor, Visual Studio Code, immediately upon launching it you get intellisense via Omnisharp, really decent git integration, all the integration you'd need with dotnet core, and a ton of convenient stuff like search/replace across the whole project, refactoring that works well for C# project, etc.

Could this all be reproduced in elisp? Absolutely, I have no doubt. Has anyone put together a package to do so? Nope, though of course there are disparate packages to solve/simplify/address these things. Will anyone create one package? Nah. Will anyone bring it up to the level of polish that VSC provides out of the box? Definitely not.

Much as I like Emacs, and I really did, when I started trying out new modern editors I felt like I'd been living in a cave.

Actually, just writing this all out has made me realize that the biggest dealbreaker for me is the lack of polish. Seeing what a modern dev experience is like, I couldn't go back.
I think what terrifies me the most, that genuinely keeps me up at night, is not wars or pandemics, but powerlessness in the face of a steady inexplicable decline that nobody can really understand.

That I find scary, because it has actually happened, and I suspect a complex systems collapse (the technical term) is by far our greatest threat.
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I can say with first hand knowledge, yes, US businesses have lost out on international contracts immediately following the leaks. There are plenty of industries (legal ones), in which the realization of government monitoring caused them to change course and keep business local (or at least, significantly shift the amount of information they would trust to a US-hosted business). Doesn't matter if it's irrational or not, real money was lost to US businesses, and I'm sure Amazon would have been party to that (whether they could even distinguish it in their monsterous growth or not, who knows).
A lot of MLB players play 150+ games every year. Some play 160+ or all 162. That's typically 162 games in 180 days. They're athletes all right.
IIRC the location / icon for the song/album repeat toggle hasn't changed in iTunes since 11.0 in 2012 though. The menu entry for it hasn't changed in more than a decade. Music on iOS 10 was a big revamp so that's understandable but iTunes? It simply hasn't changed much or at all in 4 years. No clue how anyone could be confused about it.
uBlock blocks webRTC leaking. it's also way better and faster than the crummy adblock extension.
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Honest question here... does anyone believe this explanation from the NYPD? I don't, and I find it hard to believe that anyone else does.
This is a nice idea, but perhaps give stock grants as bonus incentive.
I think possibly NZ bacon is cured wetter than American bacon?

I guess it's an upbringing thing, but I really dislike crispy bacon, it just seems dry and overcooked to me.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfrWqGcsMg
They took away the zoom in/out floating buttons on the android maps app, managing to destroy discoverability and single handed operation.
On my desktop browser, the font shows ~100 characters per line, which is a bit more than what I've seen the recommended count be for ideal readability:

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
results (detected sarcasm) on twitter: @onlinesarcasm

https://twitter.com/onlinesarcasm
Setting wages, not so much.
<Mayor Ed Lee has pledged to spend $1 billion over his second term to house 8,000 homeless people.>

That's over $125K per person just to house each person.
I'm curious, how good is game maker for children? I'm looking to get my 9-year old something productive to do on the pc instead of spending all his screen time in terraria.
:( sounds terrible.

I went from eurphoria, to cynicism, to total foil hat in less than an hour.

This sounds incredibly like having multiple points of failure (what happens if one of the DTAs is unavailable?) and no public key cryptography (DTAs creating the secret key).
Are you saying on OS X I wouldn't have gotten the inscrutable dialog saying, "You are about to start playback. Do you want to clear the 2 songs previously added to Up Next?"

(I guess, all these years later, I kinda get it? But they should just have moved the song you selected to the top of the Up Next queue.)
I think he grasped the point. The trick here is reframing. Someone says "objects fall to the ground is an undeniable observation", and the other responds "No, your looking at it the wrong way; objects do something but you just think that's falling to the ground, in practice it's something else that has the appearance of falling to the ground". The responder isn't denying your observations, they are denying your interpretation of what you've seen.

The same applies to eliminitavists. They aren't denying that something happens that feels to you like experience, they are suggesting, however, that it may not be the thing that you think it is. They'll often point to people's own misunderstandings of their consciousness as examples that we can, in fact, actually be wrong about our own first person experiences. One example of this is the fact that we think we experience full field colour vision. In practice we have colour vision only in a narrow field in the center of our full visual field. You can perform experiments on yourself to demonstrate that this is in fact true. Another example is the sense of continuity to consciousness, which again, can be demonstrated to actually be false. If our "consciousness" is sufficiently different in reality from what we normally presume to be consciousness then, in some real sense, consciousness as we commonly think of it indeed doesn't exist. That doesn't mean there is nothing, just that calling it consciousness with all the associations that implies is perhaps sufficiently misleading as to be wrong.
I spent almost two days trying to resync my music after iTunes deleted it for no reason. It's the worst software on the planet.
> I would like to add that I do not consider myself gifted. I simply have a rather narrow set of interests which I have become good at.

Are you Bryan Mills by any chance?
CouchDB might be even closer. (Although it might be more accurate to say that Firebase is a non-self-hosted clone of Couch...)
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Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything was discoverable. Want to delete a file? There's a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don't know the name? Look it up in the Help menu's search box.

Now, though, they've done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, starting from the edge of the touchpad. If the piece of text hasn't been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can't tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore.

I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don't need to.

Because Apple's UI is just no longer good. I'd rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.

Sent from my MacBook Pro
Try "chinese not buying cisco equipment". On mobile, not enough time to search for articles myself.
The correct answer is arch either way
To be fair, that can happen already given current citizenship schemes. And if the key service provided by a "citizenship provider" is filing paperwork and running PR for groups of interests, there's no reason to assume a monopoly. If governments competed to make their citizens lives materially better, that might be better than what we've got.

On a somewhat unrelated tangent, there's that famous kennedy quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." It's often cited as being this profound political statement. But it's not. It's basically the definition of an abusive relationship. A lot of people believe citizenship should not (or cannot) be a fluid concept directed by competition and self interest. I generally disagree. But I'm not talking about libertarianism; I don't think government needs to be abolished. It's more like, they need tangible goals and metrics and accountability.
I totally agree!

If we're not ending H1-B, then at the very least, InfoSys and Tata should be banned from participating.

IMHO:

In addition to being socially destructive for American workers, H1-B has essentially become a trade route for Indian workers to come to the US.

I think most Americans know that we're not getting the best and the brightest from India. If we're bringing in 60k foreign workers per year, and ~80% of those are from India, then that's ~48k workers.

There's no way on Earth that all of those 48k represent the "best and the brightest" of India / China. For the large companies, it really just amounts to having a supply of indentured servants who are trapped in their jobs, and then using those workers to negotiate lower wages for American workers.
Most prisoners in the US are not in private prisons.
thanks for the clarification. I've donated a bit too to FSF specifically for libreboot.
During my 10 year stint living in Utah, I frequently read about homeless people being found frozen to death in parks during the winter.

A really sad reality for out-of-luck folks in freezing regions.
Personally I think grid coin is worth mentioning when bringing up bionic. Seems like mining that is actually useful
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I do feel like I understand it: what defines or distinguishes, say, my qualia of red, is how it primes my brain into thinking about red things, how it changes my mood, how it behaves relative to every other concept, which makes it about as complex as my entire brain would be.

Over here it seems like you're defining consciousness by its relation to other objects. In other words, you're reducing consciousness to its visible outputs, such as behaviour, mood, etc. If that's all consciousness is, I fully agree with you that we have sufficient knowledge of physics to explain it. But that's not what I'm referring to. When I talk about consciousness, I'm referring to something that is completely independent of its outputs. Is it not conceivable that a man who is missing both his arms and legs, mute, blind, and deaf, can still have a conscious ego? So what is that experience? This is the question which has no parallel in our knowledge of how atoms move.
At least on my OnePlus phone, you can double-tap the screen and drag up or down to zoom in or out, like a scroll wheel. It's better than buttons, in my humble opinion.
> I've never truly understood how the people who gave us Safari and OS X gave us iTunes - they couldn't be more different.

They're almost certainly from completely separate teams, I've always heard that Apple operates like a bunch of disconnected groups that rarely ever interact with each other, perhaps that has changed recently.

But regardless of the details the end result is very often as you describe, and it's odd to see happen over and over. There are certainly managers and executives working over each of those groups that should be guiding them in the right direction so that things feel like a "part of the whole".
Maybe on ebay?

I'd try to find and play the Amiga version, if at all possible. That was the state of the art gaming machine in its day, so I would be surprised if Lemmings made for any other platform was anywhere near as good.

I think there are some Amiga emulators around, if you don't have the hardware.
Agree.
I really love Apple, but I always find myself Googling for "Can I do that in iTunes?" (the answer is usually No) or "How to do this?".
And I can't say that I want something weird.
Some workflows look so simple and obvious to me (and I think most people have the same workflows), but they are literally impossible with iTunes and other Apple stuff.

For example, I have a 2TB AirPort Time Capsule, but it looks impossible to backup my iPod or MacBook directly to it (which is nonsense, why do I need 2TB then?).
So I have to create backups with iTunes, then go to `~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/` and copy everything manually to the capsule.

Searching for a song in iTunes is always confusing. Why don't they have global search field that searches in both Library and connected device?

Photos app is another nightmare (and photos management overall)! Again, I just want to connect my iPhone or my camera and transfer photos to AirPort Time Capsule. Impossible.

Or in macOS, you can't just make some apps fullscreen: they always have that 5px gap between app window and dock bar (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/141800/gap-at-the-b...).

Or the fact they don't have proper window management and themes. One have to use third-party apps full of hacks to have, say, dark window theme or some parody of tiling WM.
It's a catastrophe on Mac OS as well.
If iTunes is so awkward why would I want to switch to a whole OS + computer made by the same company?
Makes perfect sense to me. Consciousness is how the process of backpropagation feels to a sufficiently complex neural network.
Agreed.

The cap for H1-Bs is unlimited for non-profits. I'd like to see more written about this as well. I live in Seattle and I know of at least 5 PHD holders who either can't find work here, or can only find what amounts to menial jobs in their chosen field.

Yet we have Microsoft executives going in front of Congress talking about how there simply aren't enough STEM graduates... they should try hiring the ones who are already here!
News outlets syndicate content under certain terms and conditions. Even if it's the reporter's fault for offering the code assets, it still required Al-Jazeera time and effort to rewire it for their own site, at which point someone should have noticed the copyright notice.
Honestly, I don't know, about that particular detail. I haven't seen that, though. Which version of iTunes was this?

Anyway, the question itself isn't that offensive, right? They want to know whether you intend to play your selected song and THEN the things in queue, or clear out the queue instead. I admit that a modal dialog is...sub-optimal here, but I'm not sure how else to do this.
This quantum biology stuff is just a way for dualists to hang on to their religious or mystic beliefs.
It's one of those explanations so ridiculous it's either blatantly false or it just has to be true.
And then I can explain to my boss why I'm working on stuff I'm not supposed to when I could have just wrapped it up once in a library and fixed it once on all those projects.

So now not only have I created a bug, duplicated it N times, but my boss thinks I'm an idiot and wasting time for not applying DRY and good engineering hygiene.
iTunes was an Apple acquisition. It has always been... different.

But bafflingly so. It would take less than year to write a better music player/app manager/etc from the ground up.

Given Apple's almost infinite resources, I don't understand why this hasn't happened.

I can only assume there are good commercial reasons for leaving iTunes the software equivalent of week-old underpants.
Perhaps because of said company's well-deserved reputation for overall OS and UI quality?

Everyone admits iTunes is not the greatest thing ever to spring from the mind of Steve. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Immigration, almost trivially, increases the size of the economy: more mouths to feed, more people to house, more demand for creature comforts. So, immigration increases jobs. Whether it creates more jobs than it consumes is a bit trickier. My money is on, "yes," but I suppose it will always depend on the details. I would also like to see a study; I'm sure someone must have done one.
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Obviously they do not, but did Al-Jazeera even know that the original came from there? They bought the story from the author. It is possible (even probable in my eyes) that they thought that all of the assets were included in the sale. It is possible (even probably in my eyes) that the author told them this outright (because he was mistaken). And if I'm running a company in a non-US country, a DMCA request is going straight into the round file. I'm sorry that people assume they can inflict their laws on people outside of their country, but it is not the case.

If you are in the business that storytelling.io is in, you have to assume that some fraction of people are going to make mistakes. You also have to assume that most of those people will not be in the US. Al-Jazeera is in Qatar. Qatar only joined the Berne convention in the year 2000. Their attitude toward a DMCA request is pretty predictable.

Honestly, I found the article insulting, myopic and reactionary. The imprecise (and legally incorrect) usage of the word "stealing" is simply used to justify their outrage. Even though they appear to have edited their page 2 or 3 times to improve the content based on suggestions in this thread, it still has no details on how the original transaction was handled (what did the original author sell?). There is no indication that storytelling.io made any attempt to rectify the situation other than sending an incorrect legal request and then complaining on social media.

To be totally blunt, if I were thinking of using a service like theirs, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole because they really appear to have absolutely no idea what they are doing on the legal front -- something which seems to be crucial to their business survival.

I hope they can figure it out. I'd start with realising that even when you are in the right, you can do the absolute wrong thing to try to correct it. This is going to happen again, so back up, take stock and ask yourself how you are going to improve your reaction next time.
Religion without belief
Some would argue they should get a lot more: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2924...
"Made it look like English" probably isn't an improvement.

"Made it so a future modification is made in one place instead of four (possibly missing some)" probably is.
A straight journey to an endless need
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Oh Well, if Apple cannot do a half-decent App on windows maybe they shouldn't develop software targeting windows users until they can?

Microsoft, for example, are developing their Office suite of applications for OSX and they are not off the hook for any UI/UX issues for Mac Users. They must make the Apps work for that platform's users as they expect.

If they are marketing their platform and its services & Apps for other platforms, then at least they should give respect to those customer's choices.
I'm confused. Why would you make a switch if you have been satisfied? Also, this doesn't seem like it's in the same category as Brackets; this seems more in the educational space.
It doesn't have to be worth squat. Your "settlement" just has to rub someone with too much time on their hands the wrong way.