skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not thrilled to lose "real" Fn keys. Nobody gets air time these days if they criticize Touch interfaces, but in many ways they are unpleasant to use:

- Lack of tactile feedback makes them imprecise (is my finger over the button?)

- Imperfect sensitivity means even if you touch the correct area, 5% of the time the touch won't register. If it does, there's still the problem of response time (eg: it's easier to quickly type "AAAAA" on a mechanical keyboard).

- "Hover hand": resting your fingers on a touch screen is risky, so the ergonomics aren't great. If you relax with your hand on a touchscreen, you're liable to accidentally trigger a command.

I can live with it, if it's just the Fn keys, but I consider it a slightly unfavorable trade-off.

What really ruined this event for me is the rumor sites. Nothing Apple announces this month could possibly interest me as much as the rumored 2018 E-Ink keyboard. I've wanted such a keyboard since the Lebedev first announced their LED model, back in 2007 (earlier even?). I can't wait!
Women in Tech – The Real Story
JETSON, Bay Area, the future (H Minus) — Scientists, or self-taught philosophers who’ve heard of science anyway, predict a dazzling future for humanity — in which our computer-augmented future selves, in a world of endless plenty, keep being shits to each other.

An advanced computer-managed economy will do all the jobs, building our homes, 3D-printing our iPhones and nano-assembling our food. Wanting for nothing, people will at last be free to assert their essential humanity and complain bitterly about everything.

Genetic engineering will give us new bodies and an indefinite lifespan. Whole-brain emulation will let those who would have died go on as personalities living in computers. In the future, fuckwits will be with you forever.

We will live in fabulously diverse harmony and break the cycle of every new technology first being used to murder each other. This will include those thoroughly deserving of murder, particularly the endless identical instances of irritating hippie emulations blathering about cosmic oneness.

Cryogenically-preserved humans from the twenty-first century will have their frozen brains read by nanobots so their personalities can be run as programs. To avoid future shock, they will be put to work in a computer-simulated office job, and be reset each morning. For comfort and familiarity, each person-emulation will be given a helpful companion program, called “Clippy.”

A benevolent artificial superintelligence will run the world, for the good of all humanity. To maximise utilitarian value across the quantum wave function of the universe, “Roko’s femilisk” will regrettably have to punish emulations of those who complained that they found Tumblr social justice warriors’ intolerance of intolerance “triggering.” Please donate to help achieve this.

Given the opportunity for a world of unlimited creative freedom and enjoyment, we can be certain that humanity will not rest until it has turned this infinitely bountiful paradise into something even pissier than modern-day capitalism.

The Singularity will elevate the human condition to nasty, brutish and long. An emulation of Thomas Hobbes will, however, buy that for a bitcoin.
This. The saying that politics is like sausage, in that you don't want to see how it's made, has always been true. Also:

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” — Douglas Adams [1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash...
• Global warming is a hoax. The planet is actually freezing.

• Doctors and vaccinations cause autism.

References here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-comments-on...
why ruin the pedant party with all this higher level thinking?
Are high converting pages destroying your sales?
>But where does that end? You could use that against line of reasoning against literally any political topic.

So according to you all points of view and agenda should be tolerated just because the line is blurry?

In practice the line has to be drawn somewhere. No other politicians I can think of in a Western Democracy actively and explicitly encourages hatred, racism, sexism and violence in the same way Donald Trump does.

Let me be clear, I do believe in everyone's right to first amendment. They should be able to exercise free speech without fear of government prosecution (as long as it doesn't violate Federal laws governing Hate Speeches).

But I also believe in any private party's right to completely disassociate and distance themselves from Mr.Trump and his supporters, including their employers.
All Tesla vehicles being produced now have full self-driving hardware
In the past we usually did. White supremacists, POC, leftist, tightest, gays, Christians, etc could all happily cooperate because those issues were outside of a project or companies scope.
UMTS and HSPA were fine on battery life and they were CDMA technologies. The big difference is the extra work basebands have to do to handle new modulation technologies as well as the extra CPU time it takes to handle more data. More efficient CMOS processes, baseband designs as well as ARM core designs have been the main cause behind power efficiency in LTE-enabled devices.
Seems to be on the same line as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748759

It's a mistake to take everything everyone says as legalese.

I mean these terms in the vernacular sense.

It seems to me that you are trying to pick a very technical fight in a forum where it is not suited. Neither you nor I are lawyers and this is not a courtroom.

Do you understand what I mean by libelous?
I call that FauxG! ;)
This is one of the best CS papers I've read this year.
Tesla announces all production cars now have fully self-driving hardware
It's a report from the real world showing some quite salient real-world consequences of deeply grounded faults within email.

It emphasises the impacts rather than the mechanisms, but for a mass-circulation general-interest publication, that's an appropriate pitch.

You might care to consider that The New York Times seems to be souring on email.
Are you sure you're actually truly understanding people in that case? I've only seen that kind of reaction from a very shallow application.
It's incredible that people put up with how buggy these adblocker extensions are. Seriously, blocking an arbitrary URL with "ads" in the path?

Can't they just stick to blocking domain regexes instead of actually breaking the web?
Eh, DO is cloud. The instances are virtual and can be resized dynamically.
Amtrak being late wasn't entirely their fault, The railroads that owned the tracks often delayed the passenger service giving preference to their freight service. They got dinged for that not too long ago.
> Twitter’s headquarters happens to be in a San Francisco neighborhood called the Tenderloin, where some 6,000 homeless reside—right on Market Street.

erm, no, Twitter's HQ is not in the Tenderloin...

and Greg Gopman's story is pretty well known, if that was really the reason for him being fired, then Twitter's HR should also be fired..

edit: the actual article with the "news" https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/18/in-its-vrar-push-twitter-t... apparently he was just a contractor
T-Mobile has committed to keeping their 2G network operational until 2020 for these M2M devices - and they support the same GSM bands as AT&T does. Unless these device manufacturers want to rush to put LTE radios in everything they'd be wise to just replace everything with T-Mobile SIM's and work on a better upgrade plan over the next 4 years.
Tesla Announces New Model S and Model X vehicles will have full autopilot
I just joined a new company and I feel a little reverse-ageism from my part. My team and most of the company employees are at a younger point in their life. After leaving a company where I could talk to people about kids the same age as mine and such, I find it all a little unnerving and uncomfortable. They've been fine and I imagine once I've been there awhile it will be ok, as I still have people outside of work to talk to, but it will take a little getting used to.

Also - When I search for 'c#' it seems to filter out the '#'.
What are your marketing/PR plans now that you've gotten a few major press hits?

All too often people aren't ready for the buzz when it comes, and see a sharp spike that then falls off a cliff once the buzz dies down.
> I personally think Banks should be incredibly boring utilities. But that ship sailed a long time ago.

We can drag them back to harbour any time we want. Let's keep fighting.
Have they deployed band 41 in the area yet? I see band 26 being saturated more then band 25, but they both are slow at times.
I agree with your last sentence but there usually is a reason a classic is a classic. Same applies to literature.

However if there is one thing I have learned is that everyone has different tastes. My wife cannot watch any film made before she was born while my golden age of film is about 1940 to 1970. I will take All About Eve, Double Indemnity, the Thin Man, and anything with Humphrey Bogart over anything released these days. That is not even getting into classic foreign films.

A key component of classic films is that they weren't able to distract special effects, or even colors for some, so plot was that much more important. I can't imagine that mumblecore will survive the test of time but I could be wrong.
They're two entirely different classes of programs. In my mind, a good to-do lists has the feature set of being able to manage both 'evergreen' (i.e., informational stores) or ephemeral (i.e., time-logging / task completion) with ease.

The first thing that stuck out at me was it was browser only. I want my information close at hand. I use a tiling window-manager, so I can just keep Chrome open 24/7 and within a day or two be a key-stroke away from Tdo, so that's not too much of an issue, I suppose, but being able to `tmux attach` from any console and hit `1 (my leader key is `) to get to my main emacs instance is far more convenient. (In fact, I've xmodmap'd my Windows key to swap to that screen with a permanent instance of my terminal with my pane containing nothing but org-mode, so I'm never more than a keystroke away from reading my notes/adding a task/jotting something down, but I digress)

Second, it claims to be 'keyboard driven' but none of the GNU Readline (standard bash/emacs bindings) or vim hkjl's work. The second I have to leave my homerow, my workflow is broken. The arrow keys along with F5 through F8 on my laptop are keys which immediate "no gos"* I can't muscle-memory-hit.

Thirdly, it's not nearly as feature rich as TaskWarrior (which, despite being a time-tracking tool in name, has enough functionality re: tags and search, that I consider it to be an information store).

Not that it's trying to be as far as I can tell. To use an analogy from a bygone era, its functionality is oriented more towards what you'd put onto Post-its rather than what you'd write on your legal pad.

* Pro-tip, map R_alt + hkjl to the arrow keys and you won't ever have to use the arrow keys again.
Perhaps a difference of definition but I don't consider a tight shop to have anything to do with morals or integrity. Tight shops I always considered efficient and optimized. Car dealerships are shady, but they can run a tight shop.
If you fired someone for supporting the Republican Party, you would go to jail.

Political discrimination has been proven illegal by the courts, and you would be absolutely wrong in the situation that you gave.
I've run into that as well. I'm amazed that popular ad blockers still do that, since it's obviously trivial to work around for actual ads, and will result in so many false positives.
This is part of the big drive to deploy "5G" network technologies in 2020. Better spectrum efficiency means you can support more customers doing data-intensive tasks with fewer cells, that was a big drive behind LTE as well.

With the bandwidth available to LTE connections already I think for the time being we're pretty much topped out on the bandwidth an individual terminal needs, just need to service more of them with less hardware.
Currently published posts are linked in the sidebar of the announcement post. For convenience, here are said links:

* http://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2016/10/henkaku-exploit-teardown-...

* http://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2016/10/henkaku-exploit-teardown-...

* http://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2016/10/henkaku-exploit-teardown-...

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For anyone interested in PS Vita homebrew, they may find the non-handheld variant of the PlayStation Vita game console known as PlayStation TV [1] to be of interest since these have been reported as late as about a month ago [2] to still ship with firmware not patched against the vulnerability exploited by HENkaku. /r/vitahacks [3] is a good place to start if you want to learn more about HENkaku and PS Vita homebrew in general.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_TV

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/50j7wb/read_this...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks
"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects certain applicants and employees 40 years of age and older from discrimination on the basis of age in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation, or terms, conditions or privileges of employment." [0]

OldGeekJobs.com works since it's the reverse of this... essentially discriminating against younger candidates. It's not legal to discriminate against 40+ in the US.

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination/agedisc
Absolutely not. You are not allowed to fire someone based on their political beliefs, especially in California. You are forced to accept people in society regardless of your personal beliefs.

Also, plenty of people is a vague term, they are less than 50% of the democratic party to put Clinton and Sanders as their representatives. The soldier who also ran was what was left of the old "liberal" party. He echoed the sentiments of 1990's Bill Clinton and he was left behind with nary a backer.
probably this:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/homeless-hater-greg-gopman-sued-...
Yeah, you are right. It's easy to forget what happens before someone writes a $100M check, funny as that may sound.

Distribution is/was it's own mafia. Back around the turn of the century (how cool does that sound?) I was CTO of a startup in Holly-weird that, among other things, back then, aimed to be a combination of what today might be Youtube and Netflix mashed together in a strange way. The CEO had been CEO of one of the major film studios for over a decade before coming on-board the startup.

Side note: I was in awe of how easily he could raise money with what amounted to total bullshit.

We had many, many conversations over coffee about the industry and how it worked. I remember thinking that distribution was a particularly disgusting, dirty, mafia-like sounding affair. I don't know how it is now, back then this "mafia" had a lot to do with the difficulty in opening theaters up for digital distribution.

To this day I remember the surreal board meetings where I'd explain on the whiteboard that the financials for what they wanted to build simply did not make any sense (connectivity and streaming were outrageously expensive back then) and the need to pivot. Nobody listened. Total echo chamber effect due to the other high-flyers who were involved. They believed their own bullshit. Damn the numbers. Ultimately they burned through an obscene amount of money before they realized I was right.
For students who aren't going to learn calculus, I wonder if a better introduction to prob and stats (and perhaps math in general) would be through simulation and visualization rather than learning formulas by rote.

I had the opposite problem, which was that I learned stats as a bunch of proofs with practically no applications. I only use fairly basic stats today, but I often test my conclusions by running some sort of monte carlo analysis. I graph everything.

It sounds like a lot of what you're recommending could be described as teaching general quantitative scientific methodology.
I don't think you can write a DLL/dylib in D to work with Python, since D has a GC (actually, it looks like maybe use of the GC can be worked around with some careful programming in D. Still, the D runtime itself may conflict.) From the article:

> In that case, your requirements to the language are pretty harsh: it must not have an invasive runtime, must not have a GC, and must support the C ABI. Right now, the only languages I think that fit this are C, C++, and Rust.
You are wrong about the law.

"But I also believe in any private party's right to completely disassociate and distance themselves from Mr.Trump and his supporters, including their employers."

This is illegal. Highly illegal.
I'd switch it around: why Cython and not Rust, given their CLI is written in Rust?

This strikes me as a perfect use case for Rust, too: it has great compile time memory and other safety guarantees with a speed that is likely close to (or perhaps even better than "safe") C or C++.
Run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2
Honestly, I was surprised that 25% of the US public/registered voters are willing to pardon Snowden, I would've thought that that percentage would be far lower.

You need to realise that even in the Huff's online polls e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/edward-snowden-poll... Snowden was viewed unfavourably, and if online and the Huff is not pandering to a favourable demographic even tho on paper the poll might match the US demographics then I don't know what is.
It seems you are intent on using the term "libel" which carries a very specific and technical meaning. As best as I can parse, you mean to say they chose a deliberately unflattering picture. I suppose I understand what you are going for, but you are not doing yourself any favors by using a term that has a very specific meaning in a non-standard manner and expecting people to understand that you are using that word in a non-standard manner.
Do you have any facts about Stalin doing "ethnic cleansing"? I thought he put people into Gulags no matter what ethnicity they were.
That is probably not the announcement that will increase the share price. It will probably be perceived as further increasing TSLA's potential liability (in case of accidents).
I hope I am wrong.
I'm pretty sure it's satire with an interesting intro to chromebooks world.
I can't comment on Facebook but at Google I see plenty of people in their mid 30s and beyond. I joined in my early 40s. Yeah, we hire a lot of new grads / younger folks (I interview a lot of new grads) but I haven't noticed any overt ageism in the groups I've been in. Plus, the people making the hire decision don't see the candidate anyways. You should/would most likely get called out by the hiring groups if you added in color/vague "cultural fit" references.

This is just my experience, though.
Clinton did not order nor promote sodomizing a "world leader" (a brutal dictator, you made it sound like he's an elected leader from a democracy or something).

The killing of the U.S. national without trial was done due to such individual's action. There was no condemnation of violence toward a large group of people due to racism or sexism.

The world is obviously not perfect, but you can't use that as the basis of argument for "everything and everyone is just as bad as each other and things cannot possibly be worse".
I test-drove a Google X self-driving car and ended up in jail
2 day shipping means the shipping takes 2 days, not so ridiculous.
Most tech journalists (the Verge, Gizmodo, that sort of thing) live in either San Francisco or New York, as do the kinds of techies who would raise a big stink over exactly this issue, so carriers have a strong incentive to keep performance there, and only there, high.
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
Fantastic job and a great service!

One thing: The linked article states that you started on October 15th, but the screenshots indicate you started September 15th.
Market making you provide a buy and a sell price and keep the spread for your "service".

Prop trading: you buy or sell based on a guess which way things will go and hold that position then exit at (you hope) a profit.

Normally the big book of banking says market makers "provide liquidity" which in my experience is enough to make most people in banking stop right there as providing liquidity is to them akin to passing bread to orphans.
Yes, Southwest asking Google not to include their fares in results seems likely to me.

(This thread started with me arguing that "it costs money to be there" was not the reason Southwest flight prices aren't in Google.)
>> I don't feel safe expressing my opinions publicly for this very reason.

I'll admit, I'm having a hard time not bringing up the concept of SJW "safe zones" in regards to this statement.

#Apophasis
I like to work with designers who, like me, have worked on interfaces for nuclear power plants, air traffic control systems, and stock trading systems. Others, IMHO, need not apply.
Here's the deal: Employers will exploit your age no matter how old you are. There is no "perfect age" for a developer. When you're young, they exploit you because you are inexperienced (especially at negotiation). When you are "old" they exploit by trying to play the age card. "Not a cultural fit"--LOL--fix your stupid culture and stop exploiting people, you smug fools!

So what is there? A ten year "ripe" age range where you're good enough to code but don't have a wife and kids? Blatant exploitation of human capital.

As far as "moving up to management" that's a load of crap. There aren't enough management positions to soak up all the age 35+ developers out there. It's an extremely narrow funnel. For the winners of that race, the prize is a lifetime of quiet suffering: You'll be lucky if you retire without major depression, anxiety, heart problems, or all three. I wonder what the mortality statistics are for people who work as IT managers?

There is also this role called "architect." Do not be enticed. It is, at best, a torturous role, and at worst, it's a redundant role that people who were only so-so at coding get promoted to so they can no longer annoy the rest of the team. The effectiveness of any given architect has an exponential decay from the instant they stop coding and start attending meetings all day.

Basically, you either keep coding and stay relevant or you go do something else completely. The rest is bs. But don't for a second imagine that companies aren't exploiting you by making you uneasy about your age or whatever else can be thrown in front of you to try and confuse, diminish, and lowball you.
The web is broken by all the intrusive ads. I don't mind breaking 1% of the pages I visit if that means blocking ads in 99% of the internet.
Please show me verified proof where she publicly threatened violence or jail time or like you claimed, drone strike against her political opponents (they definitely oppose her viewpoints).
All except playing on the roof. That's just silly.
He'll likely get something in the ballpark of 5-10% as bonus. That's the typical rate at a desk where he's primarily making money from flow.
Actually they hedged there by lying and selling their crap on instead of holding the baby.
Why, because people complain about it? Aren't you just questioning the value of usability studies by employing vague usability anecdotes, which when collected would form a study?