skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regret getting rid of two Model M's several years ago because I didn't know about the bolt mod. It's not irrational to spend a lot of time maintaining a tool that helps you make money. I'll hold on to my current M forever, if it'll last.
How Google Brain’s AI machines can now keep secrets from you
State legislatures are to blame, too.

Tuition at UTD skyrocketed when the Texas state legislature uncapped tuition in 2003. Before that, tuition at public universities was capped by state law, but afterwards, each university was allowed to set their own tuition. UTD became one of the most expensive public universities in the country starting in 2004.
I have about 5 mechanical keyboards (WASD, Duckys, DAS, ...) and yet if I want to type fast, I use an apple keyboard. The short travel distance of those keys really work for me.

I've been waiting for switches that are somewhere in between, mechanical but thin travel. I've looked at some really esoteric and rare keyboards as well but I wouldn't fork $220 for a keyboard...

Anyways I totally understand his view though. I can't believe the latest keyboards on the macbooks. I couldn't stand them for 10 mins at the apple store trying to surf. My 2008 Mac book pro keyboard was the best thing on earth. I found it better than my older thinkpad (I know, hot topic).

And I bloody hope that they don't mess up the external keyboard in that fashion, or I will go out and buy 10 and stash them for the future. That's the only down side of the apple keyboard, they last a year at most, after which the switches get mushy.
> knew enough to write tests and package a Maven project.

thats enough for me to not call him "crappy" ...perhaps i would call him "ok"
Things you can learn by developing a web app from the mountains
An attacker could piggyback on user initiated sessions of video camera use. After the user closes the connection, it could immediately trigger an extra 0.1s session that would go unnoticed because of the proximity with the user intended session.
Well, Lightning (which is older) is already significantly thinner than USB-C, 1.5mm rather than 2.6mm, though it has fewer pins. Looking at this visual comparison, I'm a little concerned that USB-C will start being too thick if the phone thinness war ever starts up again:

http://josh-ua.co/blog/2015/3/15/usb-c-dimensions-size-compa...

Lightning also differs in not being hollow on the male side, which, aside from reducing thickness, apparently has both advantages and disadvantages for durability.
Whats your opinion? Anything you read or hear will be their opinion which was derived from their experience solving their problem. Whats my opinion? They're all awesome. Try them all. Then once you've done that you can do that thing thats very rare on the internet, the analyses, and be the internet champion to all the newer newbies in front-end development.
Exactly. Some WiFi is just too unstable, and I've decided that it's fine for a bit of evening web browsing. But in the office, I want the stability of ethernet.
fastmail - Been using their service for couple of years. Here is how I migrated from yahoo and gmail.

1. Bought fastmail service and a personal domain.
2. Import yahoo and gmail email (they warn you to use it as onetime service and not as backup).
3. Autoforward all my gmail and yahoo to my fastmail.
4. As you get emails, you can make decision of unsubscribing/changing email addresses of various services.
Oh man, I don't care (as much) about typewriters but yeah, what a happy story. It's like visiting a town for a day and learning by accident that the band you've loved for years but never seen live is playing there this very night.
If you cannot convince someone of something then it basically means you yourself don't understand the concept/idea well enough and concretely. Generally people won't get convince about something if you just keep speaking abstract, hand waving ideas which is prevalent in Software Engineering folklore. Show them "real stuff", show them how approaching something in a specific way will lead to something tangible and useful for them and the project as well. And yeah, it has nothing to do with any specific group of people, it applies to everyone.
Something PM Trudeu could do to reduce inequality in Canada is to introduce proportional representation, as he promised to. PR correlates with lower economic inequality, presumably because all votes have equal value under PR, coalition governments are harder for special interests to sway, and PR promotes majority rule (protecting against a minority group using the government to enrich itself or entrench its relative wealth).
The fact that GPL cases often settle does not mean the GPL is weak. In fact at least in some cases it's because the violators know they will lose and have no motivation to proceed to trial.

Also, "pro-GPL" suites play out a little differently than many people suppose. The plaintiffs are not necessarily looking for compliance but trying to collect license fees. To pick an obvious example, let's say you develop an app with Oracle MySQL using the MySQL client libraries. By linking to the MySQL libraries (for example the Connector/J JDBC driver) your application has become derivative. If you ship a binary you now either need to release all derivative code under GPL V2 or pay Oracle a commercial license fee.[1] However, if you just ship with the Oracle driver and don't release code your GPL license automatically terminates and you are now liable for the commercial license fees.

This kind of case is open-and-shut if the copyright owners get a copy of your binary with linked libraries. This is also the kind of case that should never come to trial unless the plaintiffs are really greedy or the defendants somehow don't understand their legal quandary fully. Start-ups often use GPL for this reason--it's a powerful inducement to license.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html

Edit: on the license fees, if you don't have a license you might owe payments going back years. The sum can run into the millions depending on the extent of violation, not to mention legal fees, disruption of having to do discovery, etc.
AdBlock problem solved! Just get everyone to use keyboards that have dedicated ad screens embedded inside.
So what happens when you stick this procedure in the training loop? Do you get networks which are robust against doubly-universal perturbations?
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Cool idea! I think a twin app would be great, with the focus of a campus or office...

Ex for work kitchen is a location, and meeting room N is a location. Would work well for colleges also, ex band room files
> super-resolution with neural networks benefits significantly from being domain specific. If you train on broader datasets, it does pretty well but has to make compromises.

To what extent could the need for this trade-off be overcome with a larger network?
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Google to Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory by 2017
Ironically, what Steve Jobs later decided for his products looked a lot like pure marketing (from the Macbook onward iirc) because I have never needed or wanted or bought a mac product since then.
At least some basic coloring would be nice. Let's say (For the sake of discussion) blue for USB-C (maybe a different shade for 5 ws 10GBits if you want), a black one for a Thunderbolt 3 connection, a white one that only has charging pins (hello Macbok Air cable). Still better than the mess we have now.
That's distinctly counter-factual. The USA never hung slave owners so that didn't cause the civil war. Logically, if they had it would have had to have been after the war. Causality mismatch.

I also don't think you're even considering the suffering caused by the century of racial oppression after that, still continuing with racial motivated police shootings and race riots. This is what would have been avoided if we'd made some attempt at justice.

You're not comparing alternatives if you ignore most of the facts.
Vue looks great; a good move away from jQuery's low-level imperative paradigm, and I would definitely recommend it to an intermediate student interesting in leveling up. However, having taught middle-school CS for two years, I disagree with the author's assertion that it would be easier for beginners to learn.

Beginners want to make something happen. Like making alert windows pop up or (oooh!) modifying the text on a page. For these kinds of things, you actually don't need to know any of the underlying mechanisms. You just need to know that you put an id attribute on the thing you want to mess with and match it in the script. Similarly, throw the script at the bottom of the body, tell them to keep it there, and dispense with $(document).ready(). I haven't done the research (yet), but my experience tells me it's best to start people off somewhere in the middle of the ladder of abstraction, high enough that you can do something interesting right away, but low enough that you have some sense of the mechanism.

For beginners, brevity contributes to simplification. I used to write explanatory comments in scripts I gave my students. But their eyes don't parse the comments effectively, and therefore they perceive the comments as extra complexity. For this reason also, I would stick with jQuery.

But I'd love to find out. Anyone teaching intro CS who has time to run a comparison?
What's notably absent from from Apples keynotes is the passion for the product. We have ops (Tim), marketing (Phil), design (Jony). Steve would bring the passion and frame the product and exactly how it's innovative and will change things. At these past keynotes product managers have given canned passionless presentations for Apple products. Like the Apple TV from a few days ago.
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Yasha Levine wrote for The Exile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/02/exile-201002

Levine was raising funds for his research for a future book
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7331688/surveillance-va...

I enjoy Levine's non TOR writing
http://exiledonline.com/taxi-driver-gypsy-cab-confessions-in...

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/of-chechens-and-immigrants...
A lot of people here are missing one of the core tenants of the GPL, in that any linked application must also be GPL.

Wix developers created an MIT licensed wrapper to bypass this restriction. In the terms of the GPL that isn't allowed. This is why you see BSD or MIT code being ported to the Linux kernel but it doesn't go back the other way.

Calling it stolen code is a little strong, in reality they are in violation of the GPL. If the Wordpress plugin has been LGPL or MIT then it wouldn't be an issue.
I haven't had any complaints from my fellow coworkers in the past six years I've been working at The Company (I brought in a True-Blue IBM Modem M keyboard to work (six years ago, still using the same one)---I have about half a dozen in storage just in case). Sturdy construction and they keep on working.

More important---no Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Having experience in both worlds, I can assure you medicine isn't what you seem to think it is. Social status, and income aren't so grand these days, and working conditions are bad for a lot of practitioners. And "debugging meat machines" is anything but well-understood in the majority of serious cases.

I know working with Javascript can be an annoying proposition. I'm maintaining a web app I wrote a couple of years ago in vanilla JS and gotten to be kind of a hairy beast. Probably would be better to rewrite it, but it works and for all the warts at least I know where they are. Maybe I'm just too lazy to take the time and effort to recreate from scratch. I figure by the time I got it working, I'd always be lagging the newer, "better" stuff anyway.

Interestingly, your comments about education have a parallel in CME (continuing medical education). There are real paradigm switches that appear from time to time, but not as much as you'd think. Most changes have to do with small refinements like new medicines that are variations on the current ones, theoretical or research findings, administrative or procedural issues.

So yeah, the really important information approximates the 5% figure you cite, and a significant amount of "updated" info is only marginally different or new, more or less equivalent to the "newer, hotter stack" idea you mention. Sure seems all that greener grass still needs to be mowed about the same way.
I don't know how the NSFW/Pando stuff started. I don't know how it stopped. I wasn't paying attention. 'Paul Carr' is just someone I see mentioned in Twitter sometimes to me. What happened there?
Yeah, that is why this exists: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
Indeed I agree competition is necessary.

With the right system though competition between individuals is sufficient. Humans will try and get ahead to woo their spouse by whatever means are available. Having individuals compete for prestige and salary is enough to engage humans to strive for excellence.

Group competition doesn't relate to this aspect though. In a one group system individuals incentivized by individual reward won't be lazy or they lose out so group competition is not necessary.

For example, take a series of tribes in one area competing for resources. If all but one tribe die out due to disease, the individuals of that tribe won't suddenly become lazy. Why? Because they still need their personal acclaim to attract a mate and be successful.

In a multi group system (capitalism) there is no incentive for groups to compete (as in increase consumer value at the expense of profit) without competition, so yes in this system group competition is necessary. However, this attribute is not true of all systems.
Yes, this tuition spike happened everywhere in the US due to the availability of student loans for everyone who had a pulse at effectively any asking price. All of the universities had absolutely no incentive to cap tuition increases because everyone could always pay.
Why not use Medium instead of twitter?

"Marcin Wichary, the lead typographer and designer at Medium, is obsessed with all things typeface, including typewriters. So when he chanced upon Museu de la Tècnica in a small Spanish town, nothing could have prepared him for what he found."
https://twitter.com/i/moments/792044988842598400
Ok I just saw that they responded
It's all about Engineer vs Mechanic. There are many many tasks of low stakes that require a mechanic and there are very few high stakes tasks that require an Engineer. A mechanic is very good with the tools where as Engineer is very good at the underlying concepts. Unfortunately in IT we call them both Software Engineer :(
Check out Unicomp keyboards: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD
And apparently my 2015 Retina MBP is worth $50 according to their page...
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Apparently, the fact that they work until 4am?
9 out of 10 points for effort. (I have a side hobby playing around with portable makefile constructs myself. ;)

However, none of the native make implementations on OpenBSD, NetBSD, or FreeBSD support $(OS). I just tested OpenBSD 6.0, NetBSD 7.0, and FreeBSD 10.1. AFAICT the only platform with "BSD Make" seems to be Linux. After some head scratching I apt-get installed bmake on Ubuntu and finally found the one implementation that expanded $(OS).

The best, most portable strategy I've found for automatically expanding shell variables is to create a shim Makefile that invokes a sub-Makefile. I don't like this any more than the next person, especially because I like to try write non-recursive makefiles. But it works well.

.POSIX:

all:
+make -f Makefile.sub OS="$$(uname -s)" all

.DEFAULT:
+make -f Makefile.sub OS="$$(uname -s)" $<

If I'm being perfectly honest, I usually just write my rules in GNUmakefile, and in the above substitute "gmake" for "make" and "GNUmakefile" for "Makefile.sub", so that the GNU Make build is automatically invoked on other platforms. I really hate it, but at the end of the day many package maintainers prefer to hack their own makefiles anyhow (much to my chagrin, because half the time they have clear and obvious flaws). The effort might be wasted unless it's a really straight-forward makefile that people won't turn up their noses at. And what matters most is that my actual application code is clean and portable. I would like to move away from my GNU Make habit, though. It's definitely on my bucket list.
Of course! When studies compare 2 distributions and see a significant difference in a summary statistic, that says nothing of the distributions or their overlap. The distributions themselves are rarely Gaussian and usually have significant long-tailed behavior. For example, a study may find group A is better at math than group B. A lay-person, usually a journalist, will take it to mean ALL group A's are better at math than ALL group B's, when that's clearly wrong. Because of the usual long-tailed behavior of these kinds of metrics, discriminating against group B because of the study will be inefficient.
It does cross into irrational territory though when you can make money with an equivalent tool.
I doubt the big players like Avid and Adobe will allow them to do that. Either that, or they'll no longer develop for MacOS.
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If I buy stock in Company X, it doesn't go to Company X, it goes to some other dude who sold me that stock. How is that "providing capital for growth"? It's a casino.
Do you disagree with the main thesis of the post you replied to?

If your point is that it is still possible to be serendipitous despite broad societal trends, some words explaining ways you've found to do so, or perhaps how it was received by others, would be far more useful than a low-signal, defensive comment such as "speak for yourself".

I do agree that writing useful comments is time consuming. I sometimes wonder whether there is a worthwhile result. However, I think higher quality comments are more appreciated on HN compared to many other discussion boards.
What's fascinating is how much 'attractiveness' is within your total control! And I won't even lump in being 'fit' into that. A lot of being 'attractive' is just being confident, and walking up to a person to let them know your intent ("Hi, I noticed you and thought you were cute.. my name is ...") is quite confident.
I was speaking in general that the NFL tends to lean more right wing, not these particular issues. I probably should have made that more clear.
> Add in cross browser compatibility and it's all just one big headache.

Cross browser compatibility is one of the reasons why these tools exist.
As always, "Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe".
Employers at burgers Inc hire enough people to make and serve the quantity of burgers they expect to sell. If more people can afford to buy burgers they hire more people not less.

The idea that quantity of labor demanded decreases with increased labor costs is oversimplified and ignores reality.
Ratings received, obviously!

Don't know about other platforms, but UpWork shows you this on the project's sidebar:

http://i.imgur.com/661gveO.jpg

Every line is important: if (s)he's verified, how many stars there are, what's the hire rate.

Usually you should aim for at least one 4 (or more) rating, at least one job posted with 100% hire rate.
This article is an interesting and excellent piece of social and economic observation, analysis, and critique.

However.

The obsessive way Rao (I am actually a huge fan of his) interjects his pet phrase "The American Cloud" is so incredibly blatant that it makes me wonder if a trademark has been registered, or if a book by that title is forthcoming.

And that's entirely aside from the way this misuse of the term "Cloud" grates on my techie nerves.
Anthropogenic. And also, idiot.
Your brother gave you some terrible pickup advice! It's a lot better to let your intent be known, rather than lurk around waiting for your bae to catch your stance. Standing behind someone and smiling may have worked, but I'd bet hard cash that he would be just as, if not more, successful if he approached her and introduced himself.
Why don't you just provide some.
Why? Do you think we live in 17th century puritan Pennsylvania?
Cheers, hadn't seen the 'Veil of ignorance' concept before. Quite thought provoking.
I've used them and I recommend them, but the 1 GB included with their offering is not enough, and additional space is ridiculously expensive.
Yeah, but the fact that the new Macbook Pros use the same terrible keyboard as the Macbook, means that this guy is not going to buy one for his next computer.

> Keyboard enthusiasts should be singing Apple's praises right now.

Are you serious? These keyboards are TERRIBLE. What exactly have they put on the agenda? How to replace pretty good laptop keyboards with crappy ones?

Huge misfire by Apple. Jony Ive will run that company into the ground in a nice, thin, aluminium coffin.
I agree, that's the most important point in this article. It's typical lawyers tactic to let the case sleep for a few years for the momentum to fade, then retry to enforce it again. In such a situation, better kill the beast once and for all.
Google Apps is too expensive for a single user, and Gmail collects my personal data.
You can ignore that poll, since it doesn't account for likely viewers that turned away from watching.
Unfortunately not. That occurred back under different management when talking about internal infrastructure changes was discouraged.
My understanding is that there is government mandated pricing for crop insurance in the USA, which includes a legislated discount for GMO crops (after lobbying from the seed production firms).

So, it ends up being a subsidy from the government to the farmer. Farmer choice as an indicator of increased production is not required, only that total cost (or risk) to the farmer is lowered.

[1] Farm insurance as subsidy: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-700

[2] Lower price for GMO: http://www.rma.usda.gov/help/faq/bye.html
And instruments are designed in iterations. An instrument to fix problems of a 1B large democracy will inevitably take some time to perfect.
From Wikipedia:

>The ARM 1 processor was clocked at 8 MHz, and was fitted with 2 MB or 4 MB of RAM.

This is absolutely fascinating. So much RAM in 1985!
> It's similar to the guy that decided to connect to the turbofan with his laptop on a populated passenger airplane in flight.

Link?
What's the problem? If I see a woman I want to compliment, I have the freedom to compliment her. She has the freedom to accept, reject, laugh it off, or get offended, if she so chooses. But her possible reactions won't impede mine. Approaching a woman to let her know my 'intent' isn't 'unwanted sexual attention', and what is an example of that anyways?
He's not. The author is comparing the new MBP keyboard to the old one. The fact that he finds these keyboards so terrible meant that he realised how much he'd love a mechanical keyboard.

It also means that he won't be buying a new Macbook Pro.
"Pawnmail currently has enough funds to support 221 more days of hosting." It seems to be a free project (getting money from donations) run by a single person. No, thanks :)
How so? Given the status quo bias, writing meaningless tests is worse than writing none at all. It gives the illusion that something is well-tested and may even lead people to write code in order to accomodate the test. That causes real damage on a team. Being able to cargo-cult to provide the illusion of competency should get no credit.
It's a matter of ergonomics, as well as aesthetic taste. Some keyboards allow some keyboardists to make more money than other keyboards. If you can type faster and enjoy typing more, you can make more money, and you're more likely to stick with the profession. If your keyboard makes you hate every moment of your day because of the way it feels or because it injures your hands or wrists, then you will likely make less money.

Plus, our profession requires enough creativity to be compared (loosely) to art. An artist's tools need to feel a certain way to evoke the right state of mind for creative work.