skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even really care about butterfly vs scissor keys. It's the key travel distance that really matters to me: having some tactile feedback. The new MacBooks feel like typing against a solid board.
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They should map both Control and Escape to Caps Lock. Control when combined with other key or held for longer than 250 ms, and Escape when pressed and released within 250 ms.
Haha, yeah - 500/day definitely seemed low to me
I didn't say I think Doom needed a plot (and most shooters don't) but rather just explaining to the original poster who said (ManleyBread):

> For me it was just an another over-the-shoulder shooter with plenty of boring sections (especially near the end) and a story that didn't make much sense.

Dead Space may suck for its tedious game play but it is known for its plot.

Frankly I think Doom is overrated. Sure it was revolutionary and it was first but so was half a dozen social networks (ie friendster and myspace).

As I said much earlier I still think "Duke Nukem 3D" was way more fun and more sophisticated than Doom (there is an interesting story about the developer who wrote the Build Engine... Carmack respected him greatly).

Other than the chain saw Doom essentially had the same weapon and really it was mainly the shotgun.

And Doom's level and art are just not relatable to a 16 year old. I wanted to blow shit up in suburbia not battle in some surreal artistic hell pit that doesn't even look like a space station or hell but rather a slightly superior ROT [1]. Wolfenstein was better in this regard.

Compare this to Duke Nukem 3D with shrink rays, pipe bomb, laser trip mines, mini grenade gatling guns, etc... Even kicking was cool. With that level of cool weaponry multiplayer was hilarious and super fun.... Oh and Duke Nukem 3D had replay and mirrors as well. As well as various insta deaths besides tele frag. The interactivity with the environment was pretty cool as well (ie toilet flushing, earthquakes). In some ways Duke Nukem 3D was a precursor to GTA 3.

The maps in Duke Nukem were pretty darn awesome. I kept hearing in this thread that a realistic space station or space ship would not be a cool map but in Duke they did by creating a scene via a crashed space ship that included more than just the space ship.

I will say most of Dooms demons were very cool and the game play by frame rate is very smooth. Duke sort of had crappy monsters. They were funny but sort of crapp.

Yeah you might have game snobs who will say Quake, and Doom are better designed for competitive play but I take Duke Nukem 3D for fun factor any day.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Triad
Why do you keep bringing up guns in comparison to drugs? Millions of Americans say yes to legal gun ownership; similarly millions say yes to legal drug ownership and use. That is a consistent attitude towards personal responsibility.
I wonder how well (or badly) this is going to work when using an external keyboard. I don't mind using the inbuilt keyboard and screen of a laptop for limited time, but in my case, for proper coding and serious usage, nothing beats a mechanical keyboard and a real mouse.
That's why I said "If battery life is your main criteria" in hopes of avoiding this kind of predictable response.

People have different preferences/needs. Pro users get plenty of non-mac laptops with "high quality chips" (I didn't know Intel made them worse for everyone but Apple) and hardware.

Also the x2xx Thinkpads are probably far, far more durable than any macbook, but that's unrelated to battery life.
No it's not. It is precisely equivalent to the argument you're making. If you think there is some moral imperative to impose costs on war, then it is incumbent upon you to draw the line. Why body armor but no drones? Both of them are cost reduction mechanisms. Why is one ok and the other not?
If you have www-data access you can probably grab those from memory. This vulnerability is about escalating to root. But if all your juicy data is already available to / passing through your nginx, then this patch isn't doing much to improve your situation.
They didn't leak it on their website. They leaked it in the actual OS.

The OS, presumably, includes a "how do I do this new thing" helper, which shows you a picture of the hardware they're about to release (which is going to ship with this OS).
It's almost November 2016 man, you can't do that anymore. Just Redux your Flux and make sure you transpile and compile your TypeScript before you deploy that micro service with a Makefile
Neoliberalism, the resurrection of Victorian age globalism but under the banner of the USD, does not create lonliness. It creates forced integration, race-to-the-bottom labor wages due to that forced integration, and debt slavery for those who can no longer produce due to an endless parade of cheaper humans somewhere else. And if you can't find them cheaper? Drop bombs on a country until they become cheap again.

It creates fractured states who run to political measures in the hopes to restructure and weather the storm. But that fails as well.

And the mass media that reinforces this configuration has you caring about people you'll never meet and demonizing people within 500 feet of you.

Lonliness is the first step to seeing the absurdity of it all, and that type of criticism is verboten, which is why articles like this try to treat lonliness like a curable disease.
From the linked CVE page:

Notes:

Issue introduced with the Debian specific fix for CVE-2013-0337 / #701112

So Nginx users on non-Debian-based systems don't need to worry.
A similar project: https://www.teoria.com/en/tutorials/

Focused more on practitioners. Includes exercises with MIDI/USB piano keyboards in the browser: https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/

These resources also can be useful:

1. https://www.musictheory.net/lessons (exercises included)

2. http://www.earbeater.com/online-ear-training (ear training exercises)

3. https://www.iwasdoingallright.com/tools/ear_training/online/ (ear training)

4. https://trainer.thetamusic.com/

5. http://music.stackexchange.com/

N. Wikipedia is a good reference. E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_musical_terminolog...

If someone wants to try music, start with playing an instrument and then pick the theory. If in physics theory says how the world works, music theory is mostly about labeling things that sound good vs noise. And it's hard to get the words without playing first.
I love this argument. If you take the drug the proper way, everyone gets high and has a good time, and it'll be a memory, you'll be convinced it's safe, and you'll treasure for a lifetime.

And see, so drugs are good, right? Only such experiences lead to more such experiences, and on and on.

Addiction doesn't stem from initial bad experiences, but exceptionally good ones. You should fear the latter many times more than the former.
New in Sierra, they allow for native remapping of caps lock to esc. I had been using a 3rd party solution to do this before the update. Won't make everyone happy but the number of Vim users using the Esc key as opposed to Ctrl+[ (or caps lock) has to be decreasing ..
No one is not acknowledging the screw ups. The point is that on balance America is a force for good in the world. At least, compared to every other country in the world.
> Cmd+esc takes you to the previous up from cmd+tab

I've always used cmd+~ for that
Thank you! I think a lot of us try building something and hope to get people to use it, but not many succeed. Good job to you!
Confirmation Bias: Your Facts or Mine?
This is just lovely. Thanks!
Basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I stopped. I kept going back to it because I love hacking on things and I love mac os and hate apple's markup on hardware, but I've learned my lesson at this point and will not attempt another hackintosh build.
Maybe not by default but function keys are an obvious choice for custom key mappings because they are mostly left free by these programs.
Just for myself. Computers are my trade. I want the best tools I can get. For me, price isn't really the deciding factor at all.
Nice. I've been thinking a lot about writing a interactive blog series of something similar (music fundamentals for CS people). It'll probably be a while before I start writing that though.

I think the biggest thing that's missing at the moment is a section on rhythm/time. I'm sure you have plans for that. Looking forward to seeing finished course.
Yeah, I already knew what Wikipedia said. My point was that a lot of languages look similar.

Scala might have influenced Swift. Zip you go to the author's blog, he says lists those languages and says many more that he doesn't name:

http://nondot.org/sabre/
Sheesh. First OSSL and now this. What is with this week?
Which is the goal of the drug war.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/23/poli...
I have never seen this.
Those expressions are covered by my caveat:

> People usually are willing to acknowledge that knowledge doesn't necessarily lead to happiness
Show HN: One animated story link per email
I am a cofounder of a company in this space and three people in my company are in a position to understand it very well. For example Sergio who also blogs here: https://bitslog.wordpress.com
The title of this piece makes no sense. How are the talk pages on Wikipedia supposedly going to fix the vicious comment sections on the internet?
I think the low travel keys will fit much better with the touch function key bar. Hitting flat glass will probably feel less jarring than with the current Macbook keyboards.
Without a benchmark I remain unconvinced. PHP7 performance was shown to have doubled since 5.6 in most cases, including with frameworks like Laravel. Prior to PHP7 it wasn't noticeably slower than Python.
Quantifying urban revitalization
I've always wondered what guys like you did for a backup strategy. Is the "master" for Renegade Master or I'm Alive only on some shitty DD floppy somewhere?

What about Liam Howlett? Aphex Twin?
Here's the HN discussion on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085844
How are those different? They have equivalent meaning.
Otto made a self-driving beer run
Do you by any chance know more details? I'd love to read about it.
While a mapping of conceptual and procedural masteries to occupations could be used for syllabus creation (by teachers or autodidacts), it could also be used for performance evaluations and for improving learning systems.

If I had known that a general mapping of masteries required for web development with Ruby on Rails looked like [0], then I probably would have approached the subject with a more focused mindset.

0: http://i.imgur.com/3gA9yU7.jpg
Sarcastic, but yes, this is hard to discern. "CueCat" is the tell.
There's a general attitude to some of the comments here.

"Another altcoin."
"I wouldn't weigh the odds that this specific system really lasting
more than 4 years out especially high."

ZCash isn't just another fly-by-night cryptocurrency scam. It's a serious engineering effort that was carefully undertaken by some very well-known cryptography and security experts.

Matthew Green
Daira Hopwood
Taylor Hornby
Ian Meiers
Zooko Wilcox-O'hearn

Every one of the names in the preceding list is or was involved in the ZCash project to some capacity. Every one of those names stands alone on their own merits.

Ask your cryptography expert friends what they think about ZCash. Yes, the one who are always yakking about side-channel cryptanalysis and which character device to use for generating random numbers. If you don't have any such friends, go to ##crypto on Freenode and say "Hi". It's all uphill form there.

Saying the equivalent of "Monero is better" is little better than trolling. Let Monero stand on its own merits; being negative and hostile accomplishes nothing.

Saying the equivalent of "Sigh! Another doomed altcoin" is needlessly pessimistic. ZCash represents what every other altcoin should have been doing all along:

- It uses a real proof-of-work function.
- It offers actual anonymity (an improvement over BitCoin).
- It uses an entropy source that won't fail open (like so many BitCoin apps did).
- It was designed and implemented by a team of academic cryptographers
and industry experts on secure cryptography implementations.
- The team took their time bringing a solid implementation to market.
- Every design decision was documented and discussed openly.

If you have technical concerns about the protocol design or implementation, please don't feel discouraged in sharing them. It's the dismissive attitude that's bothering me.
What+is+Computer+Motherboards
-> ssh + bash

Being able to fully control a remote computer as if i were in front of it is a most.

-> git

The distributed nature of git still amazes me.

-> multiple cursors & fuzzy search

Sublime Text pioneered multiple cursors and fuzzy search over all the options of the text editor, now most modern editors have included it. I use Visual Studio Code btw.

-> docker

Web development, deployment and configuration have been vastly simplified with this open source project.

-> NoSQL databases, in particular MONGO DB

My view of data fits way better with non relational databases, and not having to deal with migrations is a gift.
Great with some new ideas on what's in a basic laptop.

I wonder: this would need some kind of software support so that the focused application would write what to display on the keyboard? Meaning it would work only with a small set of applications in the beginning.

Also I wonder if this feature will make it into apple's external keyboards?
Rent Is Falling in SF and San Jose
Sure, you can do that - but there are other experiences you are choosing not to have that way, which are also valuable.
When I first got my MacBook, I agreed with you. However, when it stopped working and I switched back to my 11" air, I found the depth of the key press actually annoyingly too much
Apple’s soft iPhone sales sends its stock down sharply
> Company has [only] sold 45.5m iPhones in current quarter, down 5% from last year

Perpetual unlimited growth is not possible. How surprising?
Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (2010)
Ruby Debugging Magic Cheat Sheet
Lol, where is the faucet for these "Internet points"? I need some!
> "At a time when federal departments were cutting budgets, it was funded under a model that envisioned it would earn back more money than it cost to run"

I would have interpreted this as meaning "would make net savings by being cheaper than projects outsourced by federal departments", not "would make a net financial gain". The latter seems highly unrealistic. I assume they're producing value for the government for the $32 million "loss" quoted.
Being Human in the Age of AI, Robotics and Big Data
That's a stereotype. Just as often the smartest guy in the room is also the one talking.
I don't think your shoulders are going to like it too much.
Comrades! This seems like a good use of taxpayer dollars :-/

FTA:

The report said 18F spent about 20 hours or $4,148 on two customized "bots" for Slack, an online messaging application. One of the automated programs would monitor users' messages for the words "guys," "guyz" and "dudes," which could have been perceived as being not inclusive for women. It prompted users to consider replacing those words with 21 options that included buds, compatriots, fellow humans, posse, team, mateys, persons of any kind, organic carbon-based life-forms living on the third planet from the sun, comrades and cats.
I'll jump in to emphasize the notion. I've recently decided to try and pick up 3D modeling using FreeCAD, and I thought I'd try my hand at watching some tutorials on YouTube. Well I lucked into a great beginners series:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9HwDkwxllq5lFGkYBIH9g

...and it was like a ritual, where every night I followed along with a 30-60 minute tutorial. I got a lot further and faster than if I had just been fumbling around by myself semi-aimlessly trying to learn the program (and 3D modeling at the same time). And I think a lot of it had to do with the structure of doing a small dose of rote learning on a regular basis. No planning, or thinking about what to learn, just doing the lesson at a nice slow pace. I now find myself wanting to see the rest of his tutorials translated into English:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ajADhkNhcffhuQ9sZp9bg
Writing Java is painful, especially if you know Clojure ;), I would say that by now Clojure really is a mature tech, but yes, the ecosystem is lacking and very small compared to Java, Python or JS.
I could have sworn when we submitted our application that the date was Oct 28th...Weird...

Oh well, can't wait!
> It allows them to spend less thought on the topics that are not concerned them in their day lives and spend more on their... day lives!

This works as long as the cocoon is perfectly insulated. But it isn't, as elections show. The political process basically cuts through the cocoon like a predatory wasp-- assuming there is at least one candidate or law that is incompatible with insulated beliefs. And then all that saved energy is wasted on moral warfare against the invaders.

Cocoons are always bad in a non-homogeneous society.
Algorithmic Tax Credits: An idea to stop destructive behavior in society
That first item has a causal link in Virginia; the "People's Republic of Northern Virginia" is made possible by DC people fleeing Maryland, then staying liberal, once again voting for the policies that made them flee. The locals are still what they always were -- for what that's worth.
Doesn't Karabiner-elements work with Sierra now?

I already move the escape key from the upper left.

- CapsLock behaves like Control_R (except that it exists!)
- Control_L behaves like Esc

It's also pretty common to make Capslock into Escape. While it sounds like a hack, it's pretty straightforward for most users that want an escape key.
> why hasn't the war on drugs taken on the opioid and benzo manufacturers?

Probably because it has little to do with what would actually be good for society, and more to do with filling the pockets of people who maliciously abuse moral rhetoric to their own advantage.
It would be nice if they added the Taptic feedback on the touch bar as well.
> American civil war feels quite possible at the moment.

I think that's unrealistic. What group has both the motivation and ability to rally both state governments and a large chunk of the military into open warfare on American soil? Both parties love polarizing rhetoric to keep their base riled up, but they have nothing to gain and everything to lose in an open civil war. Various militias, "patriots," and racial and religious warriors can occupy some government buildings, kill some cops, and provoke disastrous police standoffs, but have no ability whatsoever to prosecute an actual war.
A small percentage of immigrants fuel innovation. What many people have been talking about is making it easier for these immigrants to go through the legal process to get their citizenship.

I really don't think we should welcome anyone that chooses to break our laws, overstay their visa, and then cry afoul when they don't get all of the same benefits enjoyed as a citizen.

"What is most maddening about this situation is also what is most hopeful: Granting legal status to undocumented immigrants would unleash massive potential, add an estimated 150,000 new jobs annually, and add $1 trillion to America’s GDP"

What they fail to mention here is that many immigrants can't read or write English, let alone speak it. How will they possibly get jobs that will add anything to our GDP? Many will immediately go on welfare and start to pull money from the system that will never be replaced.

"When we start dividing ­people into the ones we ac­cept and the ones we reject—the ones we embrace and the ones we demonize—we jeopardize the social compact at the very heart of the American experiment."

You mean like accepting or rejecting Donald Trump supporters? All developed countries have citizenship laws. This really is nothing new. It's not 'Xenophobic' to want our citizens to follow the current laws that are already in place.

"Immigrants have not only made our society wealthier and more productive but also more decent. "

If you mean when the US was founded, yes. But I don't see any proof to back this statement up to the current situation. Immigrants are not better or worse than the current citizens and do nothing to increase 'ethics'.

"How a society treats immigrants is a great test of its decency, and we are failing. Immigrants, with their hopes and energies, should be seen not as threats but as blessings."

The US treats immigrants better than almost any other country in the world. It's pretty disingenuous to cast such a broad brush over the citizens in the US when you aren't getting your way. A better term would be childish.
I have an X1 Carbon from work. Overall an OK windows laptop, but man does the eink(?) touch strip thing suck. While I think that the Macbook version will be far superior, I hope they manage to solve its glaring shortcomings. Some observations:

1. Questionable utility. Sure, there's an icon for 'copy' and 'paste', but I cannot imagine it being easier for anyone to hunt along a non tactile touch surface located in an awkward position to hit that icon rather than just using Ctrl + C (or the mouse, which you've just made your selection with). That's a shortcut almost everyone knows.

2. Poor/Non-existent third party software support. Basically works for IE and Windows Explorer and that's it.

3. Software that drives the screen is poorly made and crashes occasionally.

4. The strip is a 2 bit/pixel B&W screen that is hard to read and is not backlit.
Do you have any simple resources (similar to the OP link) to help learn a bit more of the math behind musical ratios?
I'm told serious vim users tend to not use esc anyways:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
Observable Cheat Sheet Infographic
Yep. Also I can confirm that for at least some accounting, MS treats the free credits as revenue. They will give discounts and consideration based on your spend even when the spend is just credit another dept gave out. Clients have told me of very happy calls from MS reps when their projected spend for the year exceeded 50K even though it was nearly 100% credits.