skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use KUL Se-87. I forget which keys are in it, but I wish the springs were a little heavier. Maybe I just need to learn to type more gently. I use it on mac, windows, and linux all the time (via a kvm switch).

My finger joints are all messed up from decades of typing on computer keyboards.
I bought the Hi10 Pro + keyboard and it arrived Sunday. Last night it refused to turn on, got warm, then got uncomfortably hot. It's going back to Amazon today and I've ordered an iPad Pro (for my needs it's a better fit anyway (reading brooks.))

General observations - Windows was sluggish, no way you're going to be happy with IntelliJ performance on it. I installed VS Code but did not attempt any real work on it. Yes you can install any Windows app on it. The keyboard attachment is really heavy.

Get a 12" MacBook or similar laptop. They are more reliable, powerful and seemingly less likely to catch fire due to cheap electronics.
Pretty much all the evidence is that the "Servant Leader" who has some humility outperforms the "big ego" leader in every way.

Unfortunately the Narcissistic personality type is unreasonably effective in American culture and there are many tendencies which reinforce it.

If we ought to stop talking about anything it is the "Meritocracy". We have the ideal that talented people should rise to the top, but the converse of that is very dangerous: "Because I am powerful, I am competent."

Back in the bad old days the Narcissitic leader who could control the narriative to suit themselves was a male characteristic but now we are seeing some gender equality.

One example is Marissa Meyer who was successful as a Product Manager because Google was successful. However, Yahoo needed a turnaround specialist, not a cult of personality. I guess she'll run for Congress next.

Jurgen Habermas in his excellent book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_crisis

talks about how politics and other powerful people need to invest in legitimacy, otherwise people become ungovernable.

The Republican party is sick because it has pursued legitimacy through making candidates run the guantlet with a large list of "litmus test" questions to get access to funding. One reason Trump won was that he escaped that and put together his own bundle of issues that actually appealed to voters.

Certain prominent Democrats have leaned on the "I am powerful, this is a meritocracy, thus I am deserving" line entirely too much. This reaches the absurd extent that there was only one significant candidate in the Democratic primaries who was actually a Democrat and you find many Democrats who think Clinton lost because she had opposition in the primaries.

To the contrary. If a candidate wins a seriously contested primary it shows a lot about their ability to reach out to people, win elections, etc.
Yeah, another vote for the Aeron. I have a couple that I've owned for well over ten years. I definitely consider it more of a "durable good" than the store-brand chairs.

Only complaint is that, apart from replacing the wheels, they're difficult to repair yourself. The seat broke on one a couple of years ago. I bought a replacement seat only to discover that it's held on by a couple of strange custom bolts that you can easily destroy if you try to wrangle 'em out yourself. Thankfully there was a Herman Miller place in town, and they were able to install the seat for me.
Google's library destroys in benchmarks, but quality and filesize is lower which suggests to me it wasn't a fair test.

The quality settings should have been standardised to human-perceived image quality, given that's the purpose of an image.
I am not sure if ruby devs like to do much functional style, the parent mentioned Uncle Bob and his influence on Ruby community with Clean coders. I think they are more into OO.
Category Theory from the Ground Up
Solaris died a long time ago, regardless of what roadmaps say. It died the day Oracle acquired it. Even if Oracle invested heavily in Solaris, it's hard to imagine how they could match Linux long term.

Solaris had opportunity to compete with Linux, by becoming a real open source project. Not in the Android sense ("we let you see and modify it, but we don't let you participate in the development), but in the Linux sense. Do all your development in the open, kill the bureaucracy, make other companies trust that they aren't being taken advantage of if they contribute to it. Sun attempted to go in this direction, but Oracle killed it.
The built-in OS X firewall blocks incoming connections only.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201642
Government Sachs
Lenovo x220/x230.
I periodically delete my history (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465?co=GENIE.Pla...) but wonder how true of a delete that is.
Minecraft link to net's biggest botnet
There is insurance for that kind of stuff I think...
It's not that one thing or another makes it okay. There are more neutral ways to phrase it that don't needlessly exclude vast potential audiences.

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your partner’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your lover’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your sweetheart’s itch?

> Instead of scratching only your own itches, why not scratch your mate’s itch?

Depending on who you ask, at least a plurality of men are at least a little bi, but a double whammy of homophobia and biphobia keeps them closeted. Why make them twitch a little when a small change in wording solves the problem? Being a good for-public writer is all about maximizing your potential audience without diluting the message. "Girlfriend" rather than any of a slew of more neutral terms needlessly dilutes the message.

Personally, I would cut the question entirely since restricting the message to partnered people doesn't serve any purpose.
I dunno, what did German do to warrant the way he was treated?

Showing up in the middle of the night and forcing him to a mental health facility against his will? Harvard investigators taking his writings? People believing he could be spiking their coffee with poison?

It just sounds bizarre and German seems to be the real victim.
> 4) We seem to run in different circles. Almost everyone I know dismisses relational databases without question. Mongo is the way to go. And I get called out as the resident old fart/luddite who insists on using postgres. Speaking of which, if the first things you think of with relational DBs are Teradata and Oracle, we are definitely operating in different contexts.

I suppose I run with more...sensible devs? I mean a lot of my co-workers are Millennial Hipster Rubyist types, and they'll pick a Postgres or MySQL database literally every time and never leave it with their cold dead hands. One team here even built their own queuing system on top of some Ruby and MySQL. (Please don't ask. They had...reasons but they basically reinvented Kafka.)

These same teams really try to avoid Redis, also.

Of course, these teams are writing REST APIs with very strict SLAs. Most the time I see MongoDB and other "NoSQL" DBs used is when you have front end JS devs writing the Node backend code. >.>
When I said "simultaneous" I mean to apply it to a government, not a particular program.

In any case though, any government program that gives equal resources to everyone and isn't means-tested to hell can do both. For example, an UBI both mitigates luck (by giving everyone a set amount of resources) and rewards hard work (because better workers will get far better returns with the income they've been given).
It's going to be very much cheaper for taxpayers to just give those people free alcohol rehab.
I often day-dream of making a faraday-cage bar, or restaurant. I'd put a ton of signs up making it clear that phones won't work inside, and people enter know that , etc. etc.

I think it would be nice to go out and actually talk to people, rather than just sit at a table of people playing with their phones.
I can't take this article seriously. I've never met a (good/great) salesman who was introverted. They are always super comfortable meeting new people and shooting the shit. Saying an introvert is better just because they research and listen doesn't exactly prove a point. All of the aforementioned great, and extroverted, salesmen I mentioned prior researched and listened - that's why they are great.
They still took their commission off the top of any payout.

For the promotion they were subsidizing the rates at which drivers earned, to mask the % reduction to riders
I gave Atom an honest chance for a couple of months and went back to Sublime. Don't understand how people have the energy to put up with an editor that randomly gets sluggish when typing, hogs RAM, crashes spontaneously (requiring a restart), and chokes on large files.
of course not!!!!!#12
Good. Fuck'em. This is the most eloquent response these sites deserve. They know this is annoying so there is no excuse for doing it while claiming it adds value or somesuch bullshit.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809055.
You never hear that word in the US, its very British. I wonder if it is even rare there today.
Build web, mobile Android and iOS application that uses Hashtag Messaging API
The SSD is key for the Latitude e6xxx. Some of my co-workers are stuck with those and spinning rust and they are hot garbage.
No, propaganda in the west is far more subtle and insidious that most people don't even realise they are bombarded with it on a daily basis.
Rice has role in new $250M robotics manufacturing institute
Thank you. That makes sense now.
It probably segments you into a more valuable advertising group if you click it. Your attempt to opt out is another signal that Google can use to target you.
And in an emergency you can walk to the locker, retrieve the phone, and make a call. It makes no sense to require landline use in an emergency when mobile phones provide a valuable backup.
I think expecting kids to remember one emergency contact phone number in case they're not able to use their mobile for whatever reason is entirely reasonable, and not remotely comparable to expecting them to be able to use morse code.
> As an aside, if I were in law enforcement I would be paying special attention to those searches done by people who have the ‘history’ feature disabled.

spreading fear to use something that possibly ads at least some additional privacy. Great
Thank you! It seems from all the feedback that I'm significantly against the odds, but I really want to give it a shot.
Bostonian here. Literally the only thing most cities need to do to get taxi service as good as Uber is to stop hard capping taxi numbers, or at least stop selling perpetual, tradable licenses and replace them with annual auctions. Uber might be greedy rent-seeking assholes, but they're far nicer than, say, Eddie Tuntunjian.
Me too! Now that you mention it, I've never even had to call 911 once in my life.

I guess we can just start putting cell phone jammers up everywhere and it'll be fine.
I have seen hanging behind-the-closet-door shoe organizers used for this purpose. You don't have to build anything. You can get 24 clear plastic pockets for $12.
Yeah, this is my favourite:
screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty
Oh you can just login as passwordless root to the VM, then you know, access the mounted fs which is your root fs. Insane.
At GitLab all team members develop without virtualization. Disk IO is just much faster that way. We recommend the approach in our development kit https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit

We would love to see better virtualization disk performance so it is easier for non-team members to contribute. We're happy that despite that people are still able to contribute https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?scope...
Couple covers songs in their bathtub and call it Tub Jams
Look at the download page — it's bolded:

> Runs on OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later, including macOS Sierra (10.12).
Not that I'm a fan of big brother, but I think there's a genuine difference between logging all requests and logging and attaching to your user profile all requests? I know that they could infer pretty reliably back to you with just the request information, but I'm not sure that "does nothing" is strictly true here.
You are correct, mostly. UberPOP (which directly competed with taxi's) has been outlawed. The more expensive UberX has not. There's also UberBLACK, but that's more for business people.

What's really sorely needed is Uber outside of the Randstand region though. Taxi's are even more of a monopoly there so for consumers it's either pay up or get fucked, which results in horrible customer experiences.
I was surprised by the SQL thing too; your explanation makes perfect sense!
Ask HN: How to compare costs of compute providers?
I've got some services which are mostly compute bound (image processing etc). They are packaged as Docker images, don't require much else (blob storage and a message queue), so it can run on almost any cloud provider. AWS, GCE, Azure, etc..
Naturally I'd like to use the cheapest.
However it is really hard to compare different providers. The provided workers are all different performance (CPU/RAM/disk/network).
There are steps and limits in the worker pricing. With autoscaling the timebase (per hour/minute/second) becomes significant..

Are there good cross-cloud comparison tools for pricing? How do you compare?
I know and I don't care. If they want public approval they can run demonstration, and probably 392584 other marketing techniques to generate social interest. Crappy solutions suck; period.
Here's my short list:

1. Listen to your people and look after them.
2. Delegate work because your people can do it better than you.
3. Make sure your team is working on the right things
The SmartOS / Illumos community is pretty vibrant and active! Also the OpenZFS community is also very much alive. Yeah Solaris could have been bigger if they hadnt killed Opensolaris but I think things turned out pretty well actually!
> Anyone with moderate intelligence and who is willing to make a commitment to building wealth can say, make 5 or 10 million in life.

This definitely isn't true for "anyone born in the world", and doesn't ring true to me for "anyone born in the US" either. Maybe it's true for "anyone born into the middle class in the US". (But that middle class is rapidly shrinking.)

Unfortunately, starting conditions still matter a lot.
Virtual reality is still waiting for its Lumière Moment
Nevertheless quite possibly true. You hear people discuss VPN users in the same way
http://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php

It works with the windows firewall. Only the registered version allows notifications for blocked outbound connections ($10 "Donation" required)
From what I have heard, it sounds like it will spend most of it's time in the South Sea. As it breaks apart smaller chunks can move farther north.
So the link is that someone claimed he got attacked and claimed as well that someone bragged about that attack? No proof or anything? I kind of miss what the article is trying to say honestly.
Cool. I'm assuming you do a lot of matrix operations, so I'm wondering if you've come across the Matrix<> type in Math.Net?; It has plug-in 'providers' for concrete implementations, and there are providers that are backed by Intel MKL, OpenBLAS, ATLAS, CUDA, etc.

If you don't register a provider you just get plain .NET code running serially (though it may user Vector<T> in future versions).

See:

https://github.com/mathnet/mathnet-numerics/tree/master/src/...
The majority of corporate "settlements" in the U.S. are infuriating and they almost make the whole exercise in charging these companies pointless. If you're going to accuse a company of doing something illegal, make it count. Don't do it just so your lawyers/agency can score another "win".
Ok, so it's good we can finally refer to other node types. But I worry about putting all that in a single namespace. The IPLD node types constitute different hashing strategies as I describe above, but stuff like media codecs are orthogonal to hashing strategies---media of various sorts given a hashing strategy will be treated as black-box binary data for the foreseeable future.

The big takeaway here is a really like the idea of IPFS, and want to be a full fan, but everywhere I look I see dubious interfaces. I see what already looks like legacy cruft, and they haven't even hit 1.0!
What are the best resources for someone who wants to move from .NET desktop development to .NET web development? All the popular sites like Udacity and FreeCodeBootcamp rarely (if ever) touch the MS stack.

I know this isn't exactly the right place to ask, but I've had no luck anywhere else...
The computer generated voice makes the audio unlistenable for me.
'Just because' is reason enough, especially here.
Yes, absolutely. Always use whatever is fastest for you.
Funny that, I've used that exact expression before, with Matrox framegrabbers ;-)
Ask HN: Accessibility Testing for JavaScript apps
There are a number of tools out there that help with accessibility but most of the focus seems to be on web PAGES and web SITES not web APPS. My employer takes a11y seriously and we have a dedicated testing group for this however their tools which work well on classic server-response page loads, fail horribly on more dynamic, ajaxy js apps. I'd really like to be able to point this testing group to some better tools, rather than just telling them their tools are terrible for testing my apps.
Yeah, my OP was saying what's happened to CID. I guess it's been implemented without finishing off the spec :/.

While I'm not opposed to treating git that way, do note that git hashes are specifically constructed by prefixing the serialization of blobs, trees, and commits separately so that collisions are not likely.
So let's say you're logged into google's services using Firefox. You visit a page and it downloads a bunch of google owned JavaScript and a few fonts and image assets. How do they connect it back to your account? Does that JavaScript have access to the google cookie, or does that get blocked by cross-origin restrictions? If it's blocked, then what are some other mechanisms to connect you back to your google account?
It definitely takes some time, effort, and research to get past this initial phase. In the future, I hope they explore more automation / semi-automation around system processes.
It may be inefficient in terms of memory and CPU resources, but it was very efficient in terms of dev time and allows for easy modification by third parties. I'm not sure Atom would be where it is now if they went the native route.

When I'm doing development, I spend most of my time interacting with Atom. If I had to buy another pair of 16 GB DIMMs just for the sake of running it, I would. This is what I do professionally and I'm happy to throw a little RAM at something that makes my job more enjoyable and myself more productive.
Hi. What would you say is the thing that holds you back to being as productive in vim as in sublime? Maybe we can give you a hand. Is it the plugins? Or getting used to how vim works? There are some pain points in vim, but there are also some pretty neat things about it. I'm far from being an expert, but I have been using it for a few years, so maybe I can give you a couple of tips.
I suspect the writer was using the phrase "hundreds of millions" figuratively. When I worked there years ago there were already 14 billion API requests a day, iirc. (That number was public at the time, for the record.)
I love Discord and use it on a daily basis, one of our main concern with my gaming group is the voice latency compared to TS, Mumble or Ventrilo but this is mainly due to the inability to host your own server.

One of the big missing feature we would like to have in Discord is the ability to assign special permission to our groups leader so they can communicate over voice chat to other other group leaders in other channels (global voice chat).

When we play PVP MMO's and have 40+ users all in the same channel calling shots its impossible to coordinate properly.

What we normally do is split the group in 4 so 10 players in 4 different channels and each group leaders are calling shots independently BUT can also communicate via voice chat to other group leaders. Basically there's a global voice chat for group leaders that no one else can hear but them.

Other than that Discord is amazing!
And Tor users, and people who Google proxy. Sure, as soon as we managed to spread enough fear that only criminals would ever do that "they" reached what they wanted.

This whole shit is based on the mysterious "lists", which as far as we know are just filters which are used with other filters to identify possible criminals. Even if there are lists its not relevant as long as there are enough people on it.

I see your point, but i think saying things like this is dangerious.
That's why I said technologically speaking.

The Intercept and Quartz each only publish a few articles per day. Each runs entirely on a single instance of Wordpress. Each covers only a few topics. Each has only a few templates, and simple ad inventory, if any.

A paper like the New York Times publishes many hundreds of stories every day, on almost every topic you can think of. They publish to wide variety of platforms, including print. They have a high volume of widely varying ad inventory. They have legacy content going back decades, in all sorts of legacy formats, perhaps even sitting in old CMS instances on separate servers.

TECHNOLOGICALLY SPEAKING, they are much more complex. Therefore transitioning to HTTPS is more difficult.

None of this is a commentary on the quality or social/cultural value of their content.
A real brogrammer can write COBOL in any language.
Back in the 90s Solaris ruled the world and you could be fired for bringing a Linux system into the building, everyone assumed open source was insecure in the 90s. It was immature so it was scary for the suits back then. Things have changed a lot lol.
Ugh, that's terrible. Since the highest fixed costs (fuel, car payment) are part of the driver's "earnings", it's clearly a more than 20% cut for the driver. Trying to act like both reductions are 20%, as if they should be the same is disingenuous.
Ivy League colleges largely inaccessible to low- and middle-income students
I was horrified as to what Electron apps do to my laptop's batteries.

Just writing a bit of code in Atom shouldn't rinse a fairly new MacBook Pro in under three hours.

Sublime, on the other hand, lasts all day.
> frankly the introvert extrovert juxtaposition is trite at this point

Why? There's a huge amount of published research in the I/E scale in forms like the FFM. We have Ph.D.s on HN who are deeply involved in psychometrics and work with these models every day.

> But why can't extroverts be good at research and listening?

This is a much better point. They can.

The weird thing about this article is that the author uses a dichotomy like E/I, then seems to suggest that all customers dislike E salespeople. Or that, maybe, all E salespeople are the same type of person. That's simply not true.

> What if you're driven and enjoy a good balance of quiet time and social time?

This is also crucial, the question of personality type vs. personality type _development_.
and yet another article that makes things black and white... I'm sure again the sweet spot is somewhere in between.
This is a great idea. I'd recommend looking at a refurbished surface pro 3, those shouldn't be that expensive by now.
re: dot-files

I have a svn repo that I keep all my dot-files in. Whenever I get a new install I just check it out. I have a script that copies them into place, with some variables where machines need to be different. It works pretty well
New MacBook Pro 13" sans Touch Bar is the best for what you need.