skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> escalation will not end well

This seems like a good moment to differentiate what we want to do from what we can do. One reading of this is "just ignore the bully and they won't make things worse", which I agree is silly. But the other reading is "holy shit guys, don't set a norm of publicizing state hacking efforts, we will not look good."

Granting the claim that Russia did this, it's worth following up with the possibility that the Equation Group auction was done to embarrass the TAO and the US more broadly. A few people I've seen (including the grugq, who is hardly a partisan) have suggested that it was revealed to threaten escalation if the US keeps pushing to embarrass Russia over hacking.

In which case, the compliance argument may be totally reasonable. It wouldn't be giving in, it'd just be counseling politicians that maybe they don't want to take the moral high ground here.
It combines all the disadvantages of a keyboard with all the disadvantages of a touch device.
I sure as hell do not want my boss asking me out. Ever. I do not want that kind of situation at work and I am totally fine with people being fired for "inappropriate relationships" as happened in my department per the company policy.
Get used to using "mac pro'd" as a verb.

"They finally mac pro'd the macbook pros."
Ironically, I feel like this touch bar just underscores the fact that the screen is still just a big slab of dead, light-emitting glass. I am constantly amazed at how long Apple has managed to avoid the logical step of including a touch screen with its laptops. I'm sick of having separate devices for all my different use-cases.
I live in terminal about a third of my day. I seldom use the function keys for anything other than adjusting the volume and brightness. I can't remember the last time I needed to use a pure Function key in any app.

I am a keyboard junky. I have long used LaunchBar (since OS X Beta), Keyboard Maestro and other utilities to do almost everything on my computer and while keeping my hands on the home keys. And I mapped the CAPS LOCK to ESC many years ago.

For me the current Function Keys are mostly wasted space. I am not sure how useful the Touch Bar will be for me, but I feel it will be more useful than the current setup.

(corrected: keeping hands "on" home)
Thanks, I wrote the DTrace book with Jim Mauro, and there will be a BPF tracing book as well.

BTW, I wouldn't say "maybe" regarding BPF, as it's integrated in the Linux kernel (unlike most of the other tracers, which are add-ons). Sooner or later everyone who runs Linux is getting it.
Oh wow, you were 5 minutes ahead of my comment with the exact same sentiment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807528
Not wanting to divert attention from the screen during engaged work has nothing to do with fear of change.
> move files in the finder with 'cut'

You can actually do this. Cmd + C to copy the file, then Cmd + Option + V to paste it and delete the original.
If you think powershell is slow, try powershell ISE; it's even slower.

Speaking of remote, the whole mechanism of PS remoting has never made sense to me either. It should work like SSH: encrypted interactive session across a well-defined port.
Yeah, the Balmer way of evaluation has completely disappeared. SWEs are no longer trying to remain outside the bottom 20% just to stay employed. Everything about evaluation is now centered around getting things done, helping others, and learning from others.
Just look at the "Science Must Fall" movement in South Africa.

The problem with this is simply, that if some people don't understand the science, other that ALSO don't understand it can tell them they DO understand it. Who should tell the differens, besides the people wo really understand it?
No Displayport 1.3/1.4 means no 5k displays. :( Why spend thousands on a new device when you can't even use modern displays from a standard out since 2014?
You don't. That is impossible.
> Or do what I do, have capslock be ctrl when combined with a non modifier key

Re-read your comment, how do you do this at OS level? I can imagine doing this in Vim or Tmux, but OS level for any application?
It seems like they built the touch bar first and then asked people to build use cases around it. A touch screen with a software enabled touch bar would have been much better
Sorry if I'm missing the point of this quote, but it seems wrong to me that you "can't point to something to prove the money wasn't wasted".[1]

You can always do some variant of "we tried this, it didn't work; in the future, you no longer have to spend money to see if this will work." Right?

[1] Removing the triple negative: it should always be possible to prove the money accomplished something.
I wouldn't be totally surprised if this was a hit with many consumers. But for many devs including myself this is a nonstarter. I'm sure Apple knew this and decided the loss was worth it.

What I don't get is why no one, not Apple, not MS, not Lenovo, not anyone, makes "developer editions." These would only need a few tweaks, in this case retain the physical function keys, for PCs remove junkware and go out of your way to make Linux/dual booting easy, preconfigure the OS for "maximum manual operation", etc.

It wouldn't be profitable and might even generate a small loss, but as Apple seems to be forgetting, having the favor of a huge swath of developers pays big dividends if you've got a platform to push.
This is actually one of the roots of PTSD. A switch is turned on that can't be turned off, and it puts you in the strange situation of wishing you were back in the stressful situations of combat.
>This changed the team dynamics in a fundamental, toxic way. It engendered bitterness from them not only toward the company but to me as well, which ultimately led to all of us leaving the company for greener pastures but with lots of bad feelings all around.

The dynamics weren't changed, you were all just able to finally see the reality of your situation: you were being taken advantage of and no one told you.
Exactly, I want to look at the screen continuously with my fingers feeling the keyboard. Too much eye movement and distraction from the main task. Personally, this will just slow me down.
Except this would be un-adaptable. Looking away from a screen that has no physical feedback to alert the user where the fingers are will cause issues.

I don't know a single person who can actually type on a smart phone without looking and nearly zero mistakes.
If Jack looks at Twitter as fulfilling some sort of social purpose, Periscope falls much more into that scope than Vine.
I agree. For the first time in many years I'm going to be going back to Microsoft for my computers. The surface book seemed to expensive but then I realized that 1 surface book takes the role of a macbook pro + ipad pro.
I'm not worried about that, I meant in the sense of putting out something innovative under their banner. The consumer is indifferent to whether something was developed in-house or acquired, but is not indifferent to whether a firm is regularly putting out new things or just being the same old same old. And Twitter has just been the same old for a really long time now. The only interesting thing on Twitter in the last year has been Donald Trump's warped personality :-/
Exactly--open salaries might cause some companies to crash and burn, but these are companies that /should/ crash and burn.
I'd be happier if I could update my laptop and wife's laptop to be encrypted. It's 2016, that should be in every OS be default.
I suspect that looking at it won't take too much attention. It's at the top of the keyboard, it's just a slight glance down, and after some time with a particular app, you'll develop a good muscle memory for whatever features it offers that you want.
I used to follow that, exempting advances from flirty or relatable coworkers, but working in startups there are so many exceptions where you stay for a year or two maybe.

First, its not long enough to really get to the awkward part. This isn't an absolute clearly, but you should be able to play along during the various phases of attraction and relationships, as employees come and go, you being one of them.

Second, there are many quirky work environments. Like when you sublet from a larger startup. Then you get the pool within your startup as well as all the other people in the other company that are totally fair game, where both people are immune to the other company's HR gimmicks.

A more useful policy would be to understand the consequences, like adults.
They'll need to optimize the OS for touch first. And the way they're upgrading the Macbooks and MacOS, I don't think touch screen is anywhere on the horizon.
Yes, that's a very good point. I could see it being more useful if it where a much larger area. So that not so many interactions require coordinating the keyboard, the touch bar and the trackpad simultaneously.
American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem
Add MemSQL to the list.
Professionally it's far better to be great at one thing (or a clump of related things). The market doesn't if your skills are kind of close to a professionally marketable level in many areas. On the other hand, it generously rewards those who are the best at any task people care to pay for. Find your strongest comparative advantage and milk it for everything you can. If you're good at and bad at writing, then be a musician, allow your writing to remain horrible and work with horrible musicians who can write.

In the personal domain, the situation is the opposite. It's just not possible to outsource being healthy, financially sensible, romantic or a good friend to someone else. If you're really struggling with one of those areas of life, it's worth it to work on fixing up your weaknesses rather than just further developing your strengths.
> If the core goal was simply to link to content then the incentive goes away, and so does the problem.

No, it doesn't, because the core goal of even a perfectly non-profit search engine is to sort content by relevance. That's ultimately a general-AI-complete problem that would require your computer to read your mind in order to solve it perfectly. So necessarily, a search engine is using some heuristics to approximate relevance, and those heuristics are open to gaming. Thus the cat-and-mouse game between search engines and SEO people.

There's way too much content to just link to all of it.
Cut out the middle-men. This is the perfect use-case for a cryptocurrency based micro-payment model.
Now might be a good time to rebind Caps-Lock to Esc.
That's not even on the menu, maybe read the actual comment chain before inserting your political crap.
Why do the Apple presenters keep bringing up the whole "use both hands" point when demoing touch bar. I mean isn't that how keyboards are used? Without looking I might add. I was ready to drop 3K on a new MacBook pro, but now I'm not sure.
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"When I am at a desk, the lid is closed so both TouchID and touch-anything effectively don’t matter, including any display information."

"And hopefully the ENTIRE Touch Bar display is also available as a global window ON the screen so that it is still able to display/activate things when you are lid-closed connected to an external display."

You make a good point. I can imagine adding a Touch Bar to keyboards. That doesn't address the TouchID button, but I believe that might addressed with tech like the Apple Watch or iPhone.
My suspicion is that cognitive biases have a lot of what it means to be human. In particular I think the "language instinct" is a derangement of the ability to reason about uncertainty in a consistent way that makes language learning possible.
Periscope may stick around for a while only because of the current obsession with live video. As soon as Facebook gives up on live (or at least stops focusing so much on it), Twitter will follow suit and fold up Periscope. If I were an engineer on that team, I'd do some proactive job hunting.
$39 to be precise (are you kidding me?!?) but $25 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MK0X2AM-USB-C-Lightning-Cable/d...

That's a joke. Wow.
Looking under my clothes is unacceptable. I don't care if it's fast or automated.
>With search engines, [...] If the core goal was simply to link to content then the incentive goes away, and so does the problem.

Why would the incentives go away for bad actors to game the ranking algorithms so that their bad content rises to the top of results?

Your chain of logic doesn't make sense. E.g. Since the core goal of SMTP is exchanging electronic mail -- it means the incentive for for advertising (SPAM) goes away and the problem solves itself?!?

Why would spammers and bad actors let the idealized goal of technology stop them from abusing it?
> Never assume that all your employees are straight, all your employees only date one person at a time, all of your employees define dating the same way you do, or that you’ll know if your employees are dating. I think a flat prohibition of romantic relationships in your company is going to be very hard to enforce; most likely, your employees are not going to disclose their relationships.

Red Flag. Key advice: don't shit where you eat.

The problem with these sorts of things is that people have feelings and often react poorly when things implode. If you have people with their varying views of what's ok and what isn't doing their thing, you're going to have a big problem on your hands.

The corner cases are really painful to deal with. My wife had one where an ambitious female working for her was sleeping with 4-5 directors, created awkward situations, then started a lawsuit/eeoc complaint. The three months of depositions were lots of fun.

I witnessed one where two high-level director level people were engaged, which was great, until the male was discovered to be also "dating" a subordinate. He had to transfer, but there was nowhere to go due to his level, so he got canned. It was a bad situation on every dimension.
Nice. Unfortunately, that configuration option doesn't exist in Pale Moon.
Apple is forcing everyone to use the auto-complete suggestions on the touch bar with the latest OS update so that's what all these people are mad about. /s
"Why do the Apple presenters keep bringing up the whole "use both hands" point when demoing touch bar."

I think it's to reinforce that it's multi-touch capable.
Does anyone know of a music theory class that works with GNU Lilypond format files, as discussed on lilypondblog.org ?
Thanks in advance !
Mandatory TL;DR comment needed in every HN post

Thanks !
Is it possible for a human(for example a meditator) to learn to sleep with one eye open ?
You know you're getting old when, every time you see that quote, you realize that you've done one more of those items...
Yes, they're always like that. Grantland and Vice and Vanity Fair are the same.

It's a very specific kind of journalism that's contorting straight-news reporting into human interest column space by focusing on individuals and appearances. I often don't like it, but the alternative for Esquire was running an essay on mixology or something, not a cleaner version of this piece.
I touch type, I hardly ever look down at my keyboard ... except for stuff like switching the volume off, brightness, or the rare key combo that uses a function key.

So there is gradient even in non-casual users. I would have cried with you if my OS was Windows.
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The work is large because parser generators are designed for systems programmers and not for application programmers. They haven't advanced much in terms of usability, thus parsing seems like a much harder problem than it really is.
I can't think of any argument except the missing tactile feedback, considering it is strictly equal or better in any other regard (as you can apparently customize it to revert back to just static keys).

And I'm pretty sure 90%+ of people here touch type when within the 0-9a-Z range. I just doubt that many people press, without looking, F5 to `continue` in the chrome developer tools. Because (a) you don't remember shortcuts for any app you use less than an hour a day and (b) f5 is a bt too far out of reach (at least for me) to get their using the usual landmarks.
Never learning to touch type has finally paid off!
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This is not for when you are in "get stuff down quickly" mode. They might have predictive text, but I don't think anyone will use it. For me it's when I'm editing images in Lightroom I wish I could do more stuff full screen so that I don't have the visual clutter in the way.
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Exactly! I don't understand how Apple, known for being a pioneer in accessibility, does something like this. They might kill their keyboard altogether already.
I'm no longer the target audience of Apple. I still own an iPhone, but their notebook line doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm still using my aluminum macbook from '08 and my next one will probably be a chromebook running Fedora.
I don't think increased R&D funding should be qualified as an "unrealistic fantasy".
I don't need to forgive Microsoft. I moved to GNU/Linux (Debian, thank you very much) and never looked back.

All the drama regarding forced updates, stealing user bandwidth, etc. does not affect me personally. But it does prove that once an abuser, always an abuser.

Once the dust settles on .NET, I may take a serious look at it. That doesn't need me to forgive or trust Microsoft, since I can study the source code and do whatever I want with it.

Once I learn how to set up my own reliable email server, I plan to dump GMail, as well.

Edit: typo
Also, in general I can't stand keys without tactile feedback. I would hate losing the real function keys.
Poll: Do you touch type? (by mcobrien 1723 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3566079

▲	The Right Way
318 points

▲	Sloppily, without using home keys
210 points

▲	No
45 points
When you start with "I" you can say anything, but with an objective look I'd say everything is fine as long as it does not affect the business itself, i.e., if they continue to do properly as before their own jobs. A per-case approach is way better thus.
When Schiller showed how MS Office worked with the touch bar, I thought it was pretty hilarious.

All of the toolbar buttons and more were already on the main screen. If they had offered a touch screen instead, the user wouldn't have to take his/her eyes off the screen to perform the same functions. And that feature is already available on Windows machines with touch screens.
What utter scumbags the two commissioners are who voted against this.

Republican officials at the FCC opposed the new privacy
rules, saying the different expectations for Internet
providers and websites will create confusion among
consumers.

When I talk to my doctor on the phone, I'm not confused about whether or not the phone company ought to listen in.
"What's wrong with Apple's multi-monitor support?"

One thing immediately comes to mind: configure a multiple (3 or 4) monitor setup (again, not exactly exotic) and then full screen a video in one of the monitors ... now change focus to a different window in a different physical screen. Fun ensues. Different fun, depending on OSX release.

USB or bluetooth tethering is great - I'd prefer to use that always - but some use-cases demand a physical thing stuck into the laptop and the plain old USB A-type is flexibility I don't like to see deprecated. I'll gladly take 1mm additional laptop thickness in order to retain those and I think the 11" macbook air, with one type-A on each side, is a pretty powerful swiss army knife.
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Yes. My son used to sleep with one eye open. After serving in Vietnam, my father habitually napped with both eyes open.
HN title contains a misspelling: insucure should be insecure

Unless insucure is a Python package I do not know about.
Seems they catering to the emoji, Siri users. I want a Mac I can write on with a longer battery life. Surface Book is looking good right now.
Was it Lenovo that demoed something like that just recently, or was it some other asian company?

Edit: Ah found it, the Lenovo Yoga Book.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/lenovo/yoga-book/
Ironically, I feel that the touch bar just makes it more glaringly obvious that the screen itself is not a touch screen. It invites you to expect that you can interact with your computer via touch. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who go right from tapping some icon on the touch bar to mistakenly tapping a close button on the actual display. Seems like a UX failure.
I think they broke Karabiner support in the new macOS
I wonder if someone is going to sell a power brick that doubles as a docking station/hub?
Except you cannot detach the screen for the main computer. So not exactly like the iPad pro. (not trying to defend Apple).
Why should the guy that is the best negotiator get the highest salary? Does that actually have any correlation to performance?
Its still a meanginless rat race even if you make a special effort, like I do, to keep expenses low. I just had a 30% property tax raise and other little surprises this year. You can't just say "live economically." Shit happens and the people who get into financial trouble aren't often reckless. They just had a bad run of luck or a health issue or whatever.

Even then I still need to work 40+ hours a day, handle a commute, handle work stress, handle work politics, etc.
I'm not going back to microsoft - I'm just going to buy a spare 11" macbook air and move sideways to that when this one wears out.

Previous all-aluminum macbook airs have lasted me 6 years, so I have a long ways to go before needing to switch ...
Could have sworn i have seen this come and bomb at least once already...
You said:

>system that supports oppression of minorities which means you're acting against your self interest and that of others

To which I said that I don't think we're in a system that does that. I don't think we're "oppressed by the system". I work with trans people and gay people. I'm LGBT myself. Everyone is paid the same. No one cares that some of us are "minorities".
They're probably working on some sort of next-gen haptic feedback interface.
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Upvotes to both of you from a former "hater".

Just promise me to make telemetry more transparent and make opt-out possible somehow.

And don't spam paying customers, that is tasteless.

I love the new lockscreen though as long as it isn't ads (even if I recognize it is a running bing ad ; ).
Related, has anybody figured out how to get GPU support on the sub system? I want to run neutral networks with GPU optimization, but there's not really a good solution for that in windows.
The email is pretty clear that the app is against the content guidelines because it contains "Pokemon Go".

> Maybe Google discriminate against new Android developer? Or maybe they discriminate me because I have a Chinese name? Or maybe someone is trying to cut off competition?

Sorry, I believe you're just making up excuses here.
> You learn to live with it and things like meditation and positive thinking don't really help, especially if your tradition empathizes the 'goodness' in others.

When you say these things don't really 'help,' it depends on what your goals are in the first place. If your goal is to defeat them in a local competition for resources, you are correct. However, that's not the only possible goal-type. (Only really commenting on meditation though, 'positive thinking' is in direct conflict with the values of meditation, so lumping them together presents difficulties.)
You know what's better for 'move a file' than 'normal shortcut for copying something + brand new unique shortcut for paste-and-delete-original'? Cut and Paste. Using the same shortcuts as every other piece of software. Why, on earth, can't we just have that?