skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite line from the article:

"If you’ve already mastered NoSQL and are looking for a competitive edge this is a vanishingly small pool of competitors."

Sure, IF I've already got experience in it.

The reality appears to be such that, if you don't already have experience in a particular technology, then companies aren't interested in you, even if you've worked with a plethora of other tech.
I love AmigaOS, so I find disgusting that they're still holding the VCS repository of this 20yr+ code hostage, and selling pointless updates to it.

Also, I much prefer the old logo to that stupid boingball.
You also need drivers for those touch keys which makes installing any OS more difficult
Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code
The point is that your US Dollars, which are a trade medium, are increasing in purchasing power vs. electronics every year, yet people still buy electronics and computers.

So the claim that people won't spend a currency because they can hold onto it and buy more of that same good, is debunked by the success of electronics and particularly computers and smart phones.

The iPhone 7 is three times faster than the one 2 years ago. People have worked out that there's value in having the product even though a cheaper one will come in the future.
1/ Cancelling a dialogue box
2/ vi
3/ Force Quit
could be similar to the Xbox One's button?

Its a touch button, so not necessarily "soft", but even if the console is completely locked, holding your finger on it for about 5-10 seconds will reboot. I'm sure they can do something similar (the far right side, if held down, will always be power, etc... and it can work as a touch power button only when the machine is asleep/off)
I have the CAPS LOCK mapped to the escape key, which is great for Vim, etc. However, there's one weird edge case problem. In After Effects the CAPS LOCK is the one quick way to speed up rending of animations, by disabling the render to screen option. It's oddly hard coded to that key specifically and seems difficult to remap to anything else. I know I probably represent 1 of 10 people world-wide who have this problem, but I'm sure there are other odd things hard mapped to the sad ol' CAPS LOCK key.
That, that is very clever. Ctrl when pressing chords and esc when used alone.
Read this case, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
That was in gen 2. They reverted to normal keys in gen 3, 4. So I guess they learned their lesson.
> This is completely fine.

Completely fine? So if all videos from Side A are normal, and all videos from Side B are "age restricted"...

I don't think "separate but equal" really applies.
PDF-Viewer from the makers of PSPDFKIT
I can’t find the specific case of "master/slave", but you can find a similar case on "retard" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
2006 for me after 9 years of Java and a few of C, C++, and a smattering of PERL and Python. Rails, and then Ruby, were such a breath of fresh air after the verbose hell of Java, J2EE, and Spring.
If you zoom in on the image, you can see a beveled square on the right end of the strip where the TouchID sensor is. I'm hoping* that the sensor also acts as a power button.

*Well, actually I'm buying another ThinkPad.
Privacy coins is the new hot thing in altcoins. There's Monero, ZCoin, ZCash, Dash, ...
I picked up a wacom tablet + mischief[1] a couple years ago as a digital whiteboarding solution for classroom teaching. It supports arbitrary zooming and infinite panning - so you never have to delete anything, but can just keep moving around and 'finding' more fresh space to write in. I have a really hard time going back to normal whiteboards now given how limited they are. (And photos of the whiteboard after a meeting are really nowhere near as good as an editable source file you can pass around).

Since moving back to engineering work I've started using it for talks, brainstorming and architecture reviews. Eg, this is what a solo few days of project planning & brainstorming looked like recently - https://josephg.com/mischief.png . But in meetings it lacks multiplayer - only one person can hold the tablet at a time, and the interface is nowhere near as intuitive as a real whiteboard. The software is also kind of awful - it idles on 5% CPU usage for no apparent reason, and I've lost work on numerous occasions from it crashing without autosaving (!!). The mac version feels like a bad port of a windows program.

The tool itself frustrates me enough that I'll probably end up writing a collaborative online version on top of sharejs, even if I'm the only person who uses it. (It'd be much easier to do now that pointer events[2] are being supported in more browsers. Safari developers - hate the API all you like, but we really need an interface for tablets somehow!)

[1] https://www.madewithmischief.com/
[2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer
I wonder if the reason there is no corresponding Xcode for the iOS 10.1+macOS 10.12.1 release is that they want to hold the official reveal of the magic toolbar. Surely the latest Xcode macOS SDK will have some sort of APIs for configuring the display/graphics/icons on the magic toolbar.
Sucks if you're developing for iOS, because unless you want to side-load beta versions of Xcode, you will need to choose between being able to debug on the device or being safe from the remote code execution bug in the JPEG decoder on anything less than iOS 10.1...
It's worse when you alternate between Apple's larger USB keyboard with numeric keypad (which has wider Control, Option, and Command keys) and the laptop keyboard (which jams in a fn key before those three), and your pinky gets some form of PTSD from hitting the wrong button!
Absolutely love this! I'd love it if you left this as a comment so I can come back to it.
> ... Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos for bigoted comments which his followers posted.

This is an incredibly weird way of characterizing what happened.

Milo's account was permanently suspended after he made a series of racist, sexist comments targeting Leslie Jones (a black actress who had recently starred in Ghostbusters), and directed his followers to make similar comments. This was not a first offense, either; Milo's account had been suspended on multiple previous occasions for similar harassment campaigns.
What's on it? It doesn't render for me with NoScript enabled. :)
The Russian Expat Leading the Fight to Protect America
This stuff always brings me back to "there's nothing more simple than one giant button" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Wow, it's always great to meet a DL4J user! Hope you've tapped into our community on Gitter: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
Let us know if we can help.
Apple just had its first annual revenue decline since 2001
Wow, thank you thank you.
Obfuscating “Hello world” in Python [2014]
What's more amazing is that no Googler has done it on their 20% time.
Not to mention it seems they're withholding a release of the Network Link Conditioner[1] that works with Sierra along with Xcode. There's currently no reliable method for limiting the entire Mac's upload or download bandwidth under Sierra :(

[1] http://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/
Or a tiny inset reset button you need a paper clip for, like on some tablets/smartphones.
One leak feature from an article; not an official Apple press release. And you made that conclusion.

I'm not apple fan boy. But sure, Neat?
I'm not a fan of haptics when physical keys are an option. I believe that Apple can make a nice demo with vibrating indications of when the user's on a key, then detection of when they push down on it. What I don't believe is that it will be a better experience than feeling the edges of the keys and the actual descent and tap when depressing the key.

This seems like increased complication without any real gain. It's more sleek than usable, kind of like the touchpads with virtual buttons, rather than physical separate ones.
As I mentioned in other subthreads (sadly I can’t edit the original comment anymore, so I have to duplicate content), there is this very famous example of several repos getting banned, and another getting threatened to be banned, for using the word "retard": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
Great point. In retrospect, that should have been clear to me from your comment. Sorry for ruining the thread :/
There's Freicoin.
"Apple giveth"

Did Apple really invent the escape key?
I don't seem capable of self motivation do I'd probably just watch the office on Netflix.

(I've had free time to do amazing things several times and I e always blown it by lack of motivation.)
Sure, there already is one: It's Command-Shift- .... Escape. Oh.
Unless you trigger on control alone (e.g ctrl + ctrl).

This is super frustrating.
Man. As a emacs user who doesn't use meta key, this is sad!
Probably related to the 'sacrifice' of the basically-exiled users who had nowhere to get external help for moderating use.
Yes, but in this enlightened era, we run Unix and recognize the importance of the CLI. Maybe not the best, but it's sure as heck better than the original MacOS.
What the actual f%^&?

Either the study considers maturation or it doesn't.
nah ach, swift, amex, visa, mastercard, unionpay, ebay, paypal, venmo, facebook, wechat; wont ever catch on
Apple has created a revolutionary new UI paradigm for that: you can now beautifully reset your Macbook by letting its battery die instead of being forced to memorize some terrible keyboard trick. The power button is clearly an outdated technology, this new innovation is the future and we have to embrace it.
> So having it as a digital key won't be the end of the world.

That's quite an assumption. What makes you think that'll be an option?
No. And religion isn't a factor one way or the other.

What I've learned about the universe over time looks something like this:

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...but what I think I know about the universe over time looks something like this:

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...and it's those hills and valleys in my meager understanding of things that makes everything seem amazing and wonderful.

The more I learn, the better everything seems to be.
1. Yes, separate bank account. Stripe is really nice in that they push funds automatically on a regular basis. I have another business which uses PayPal, and I like Stripe better.

2. I'll be working on the chicken & egg problem for sometime. I don't expect a quick turnaround, but the good news for me is it's fun driving steady traffic with blog posts. I just made IndieHackers today, and I'm working on a piece for SitePoint which will be out on Thursday. Just stuff like that along with my Medium blog https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com

From the IndieHackers post in the OP, you can see my Google Analytics since I started the project (minus a few early days because I didn't have tracking). I get several thousand visits when I'm able to get blog posts promoted, and several hundred in the ensuing days. Mind you, these are people who surf HackerNews, so they're going to be stronger candidates than average although the numbers are nowhere near one of the big tech boards (i.e. Dice) and probably never will be. I'm OK with that. I'm catering to an HN-like audience, and want to go solo as long as possible.

You can't post jobs free on HN afaik, unless you're a YC company.

Thank you!
One of the screenshots shows function-like buttons. I'm assuming you'll be able to map spaces of the OLED strip's screen to arbitrary keys. Also I'm sure that, given some time, you'll be able to have ESC show up only when macvim/term is in the foreground :)
I'm really in need of a new Macbook and don't use Esc that much... but Karabiner/Seil don't support Sierra yet so I can't do Caps Lock -> Esc + Ctrl (please someone correct me if I'm wrong). That said, I have my own mechanical keyboard I use anyway so it's not that bad. I'll be the guinea pig for this new kind of model.

Here in HN we can all say "I use X for Esc!" but this is going to be a problem to the myriads of developers and regular people that don't know about these tricks.
There is a reason Google came out with YouTube heroes just a little bit ago. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124236?hl=en
They changed their monetization terms so youtubers are easier to censor https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/97527?hl=en
I see many more leftist ads on YouTube than right. Even though Google should know I'm not leftist by now, they keep advertising it to me. I watched many trolling videos and an ad about Evan Bayh come up 30/40 videos - the other 10 being Toyota ads. If Google is going to censor conservative videos, they should at least let me opt out of the leftist ads. Or any political ads.
The hardware was reasonably okay, but Lenovo's problem was getting software to actually use it.

Which none did, because what Windows software developer cares about special hardware only found in a single high-end laptop almost nobody buys?

Apple won't face this particular problem, due to their tighter control on the Macbook software landscape.
> 3.) Dont let cheap idiots bring on carry on baggage

My ideal carry on baggage rules are:

- Anyone boarding with no carry on baggage has priority seat selection and boarding.

- All passengers are allowed one carry on baggage item.

- Additional carry on baggage has a $50 fee per item.

- All passengers are allowed 2 free checked bags.

- Additional checked bags have fuel offset fees.

Any airline that put this into place would immediately have all of my business the routes they operate, relevant to my travel needs.

(edit: formatting)
Well, no. At this point you're no longer just insulting them, you're also insulting me.

I'm cherrypicking? Whiteknighting? Policing? Come on now. I'm replying to your comments in a level-headed fashion, and that's what you have to say to me? Talk about "method."

You even restated that you think "jockish" was warranted after editing that comment.

(This is my last reply.)
I often hear this sentiment that new languages and frameworks du jour pop up every week, and that past an age a fellow just wants to learn a single reliable stack and collect a weekly paycheck.

Am I the only one who just hasn't experienced this feeling? There used to be Rails/Django and jQuery. Now there's Node and React. Both revolve around extremely simple ideas. Spend an afternoon reading the React docs, and you'll know everything you need. Take another afternoon after that and learn Redux. If you have another few afternoons, learn Clojure, and see what the Lisp folks have gotten going with reagent/re-frame. There isn't that much to keep up with.

It's the same with complaints about JS having too many transpiled dialects. These dialects make life easier. There are good ideas in them. For example, Livescript is wonderfully concise and elegant, at no cost of readability once you grok Livescript. It makes your code more readable and faster to write. How is this a bad deal?

I sometimes wonder if people are just annoyed that they need to learn new paradigms at all. It's not like ours shift at an especially fast rate.
>50x a day, probably. I practically live in Vim.
Finally Python bindings! I wanted to use this because Tensorflow is impossible on Windows, but the lack of programming language bindings made it a non-starter. Glad this is finally here.
Kids have school to go to most of the time. Hope you got laid off in the summer or when they're less than 4!

Scratch that, traveling with kids under 4 is not a vacation, it's a trip.
If its an Atari Falcon then it could have been made by C-Lab. The Falcon had the same 56001 DSP that the NeXT hardware had but with MIDI ports.
What's the point behind Gulden, though? Why do I need a cryptocurrency for anything they're doing? Do they allow anonymous gulden -> IBAN transfers? If yes, that'd be a unique feature but also one that has obvious potential for misuse and might not go down well with financial institutions and regulators.
"We have no escape", said one of my Mac-wielding colleagues.

So true now.

(Full disclosure: I've been writing at taoofmac.com for over 14 years now, and even though I get why Apple is doing this, still find it dumb because I live inside a UNIX terminal most of my time. I'm now considering switching to Linux as soon as I can find a decent mail client, because, like Jamie Zawinsky, I refuse to read my email in a browser, like an animal.)
This is already in wide use by Trezor users. A user can have an arbitrary number of decoy wallets unlocked by the same root private key, but different passphrases.
Apple, why are you breaking something that works well. First the headphone jack, now this.
The technical side of the project is awesome, but the rationale of "digital piggy-banks" seem somewhat questionable to me.

First of all, there is still a long way (and a good number of discussions) to go until we have a 100% cashless society. So is it really necessary today that children deal with bank accounts and e-commerce before they even completely grasped the concept of money? Moreso, this seems to tie "dealing with money" inextricably to the smartphone. A bad idea if you want to teach children to get away from computers now and then.

Second, the children seem to have a lot less agency than with an actual piggy-bank: With a normal piggy-bank, the children are given money and can decide for themselves if they want to save it or spend it on the next ice-cream stand. (Even if they have to disobey their parents to do this, it's still a choice). With digital cash, the parents/relatives/etc aren't giving the money to the kid anymore, they're sending it directly to the piggy-bank. There is nothing the kids themselves can/have to do anymore.

Both the OP project and the one Asturaz posted seem to have recognized this as a shortcoming and tried to fix it by adding some longime planning options ("you can choose what you want to save for") or some actions without consequences so there is at least something that the kid can do. But I think those provide a very differenct concept of "choice" than a normal piggy-bank does.

Again, the concrete projects are pretty cool and this is more a general rant and not supposed to be criticism of the blog author.
You ignore the cost of the War itself. Billions of dollars. Massive corruption. Drug gangs. Abusive Policing. Crowded courts and prisons.

Legalize them. Regulate them. Treat their abuse as a health issue, not a criminal one.

When my brother overdosed on heroin, the police laughed about just another dead junkie. Yeah, I feel so much safer.
they actually built systems for this but it has never been implemented. Basically you make the cargo hold completely removable from the plane. There is a box that slides in and out of the bottom of the plane. Someone just drives up with a fork lift style vehicle pops off the container and takes it inside the terminal where it can be dumped out onto the conveyor belt. I am surprised they have not automated the entire baggage system. It seems like it would be feasible to automate just about everything. You know where the plane is going to park every single time just fix that position and have something under it which can directly attach to the plane and pull the bags off and conveyor them under the ground and into the terminal and it can auto sort the bags to the right destination. It would not be easy to build but it is doable and would remove the need of large percentage of workers in the airport
I just gave up on Apple ever shipping you are MacBooks and received my custom order HP two days before they announced the October 27th event. My (magnesium unibody) ZBook is as slim as my retina MBP, has a higher-PPI display, also comes with a glass trackpad, has user-replaceable battery, 2x M.2 PCIe SSDs, and upgradeable ram. I was able to pay a bit extra and get it with a mobile Xeon CPU (E3-1545m with Intel's top-of-the-line Iris Pro integrated GPU) which is the equivalent of the i7 6920HQ only with more cache and better graphics, meaning I was able to buy 32 GB of ECC RAM for only $200. It has a 4GB nVidia Quadro and still manages to weigh less than my rMBP.

The only thing that sucks is the noise. It's quite even with the fan running at its highest RPM, but the frequency of the resulting noise is very distinguishable and it has a tendency to rev up and down quite suddenly (and often). It doesn't help that there are two fans, one on each side, which turn on and off independently - meaning you can suddenly feel like you've lost hearing in one of your ears until you realize the noise level is imbalanced. I don't know if Apple will introduce Xeon workstations, but even if they did, I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my three USB 3.1 (non-C), three thunderbolt 3 (/USB-C), power, gigabit Ethernet, and 3.5mm ports in exchange for a more-pleasant audio profile.

Did I mention I've been a faithful Mac user for over a decade?
This business about the caps lock key being "useless" has been very puzzling to me. As someone who learned how to property type, I utilize the key quite a bit -- especially when programming.
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> are you following me?

Checking in occasionally - you've been steadily posting things worth replying to :)
For Excel users, a shortcut that I think few people are aware of. When editing a formula, select part of the formula, and press CAPS LOCK+F9, it will evaluate the value of the selection.

...the CAPS LOCK is not that useless!
You can setup a hardware wallet with plausible deniability[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/2e8a9i/can_someone_...
And no business travelers and they rapidly go bankrupt.
Even worse, look at GitHub banning repos for using offensive words: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
99.99%

This will be touted as the #1 reason to spend a few dollars to "upgrade" your apps.
My god, can you at least pretend you're trying to reach a helpful common solution with those who are trying to engage in useful conversation with you..?
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Same here. We've been wrong about the idea of trade-off all this time.
They didn't have it on the original Apple keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#/media/File:App...
I like having Escape in the upper left because I can just blindly whack at that corner of the keyboard. Hitting '[' with my pinky is much less reliable.
Thanks, always happy to answer questions!

Note to self, really need to update our documentation and FAQ stuff
I used (and refurbished) a bunch of those. But I switched to the Mac full time because of UNIX, not when it ran cooperative multitasking hacks atop a 680x0 CPU.
Is that pressing just control, or pressing the real control with the caps lock key mapped to control?
This is empirically correct.