skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> typing is faster in zhuyin—the longest syllable takes 3 keystrokes instead of 5 [as in pinyin]

The longest syllable in pinyin is 6 keystrokes: zhuang, chuang, etc

Two bad shuangpin isn't used more extensively to type Chinese as it maps easily to pinyin but only requires 2 keystrokes per character. The unused initial keystrokes map to the two-character initial pinyin sounds (i=ch, u=sh, v=zh), but the mapping from keystroke to medial/final sound is more complicated. If there was a way to change from pinyin input to shuangpin (or similar method) input incrementally so it was easier to learn, I think more people would convert.
So it seems there is a lot of confusion here in the comments. [Blood] Plasma donation is not the same as blood donation.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/01/22/paid-plasma-not-blood/
The renewables vs. fossil vs. nuclear issues have been debated extensively over the decades.

There are two game changers today: fracking and lower-cost solar.

Fracking has totally changed the equation. Natural gas has blown away oil and coal in power generation, and solar (when combined with the federal tax incentive) is finally becoming competitive with traditional utilities.

Nuclear is appealing for various reasons, mainly the avoidance of combustion and carbon release, and also the technology has advanced greatly since its heyday in the '70s. Pebble reactors, micro reactors, better waste processing are compelling reasons to consider a renewed push into nuclear.

But as more residences and commercial buildings adopt solar, and fracked gas (plus vast new gas field discoveries in the Mediterranean and elsewhere) continues to be extremely available and competitive, nuclear looks increasingly like an also-ran.

Still, nuclear has a great future in orbital and interplanetary spacecraft, where miniaturization and reliability are paramount, and safety and affordability are secondary (just locate the nuclear plant at the tail end of the ship behind a few feet of shielding).
Insurance companies are for-profit institutions, and there's no law compelling them to offer co-payments for preventative care. Do you believe that insurance companies are giving out charity?

> Everything I have said is standard, textbook economic theory. There's nothing obscure or even controversial about it about economists.

Claiming that "health insurance isn't really insurance, except in name - we talk about it as insurance, but in reality, it's a wealth redistribution program tacked onto a risk smoothing product" is definitely non-mainstream. An insurance company takes in payments to insure you against high-risk events, and that's exactly what a health insurance company does: you pay them a monthly fee regardless of whether you need medical care (or your employer pays them for you as part of your compensation package), and when you do need expensive medical care, they pay for it. In fact, many plans explicitly only pay for expensive medical care: anything under your deductible, aka inexpensive medical care, you're required to pay for. You might be able to make some sort of weaker claim about wealth redistribution post-ACA, but — co-payments existed pre-ACA.
And that's great for you.

When I get to the end of a stressful ten hour workday, personally, I'd rather not stare down the barrel of another 3-4 hours of house chores that have piled up due to the aforementioned ten hour work days.

And that's just normal life. Anyone living as a caregiver, for example, would probably love to do away with your idyllic vision of pegging clothes on the line in lieu of, say, taking a breath and going for a walk...
Well, we experienced a black swan event and maybe even the first shoe to drop. Some of us are just capitalists and capitalists are able to do this:

- Adapt. Even though it seems like we're all in a boat thats capsized and the stove is above your head along with the sing while the cups are floating in the water and in the dark, there's now new opportunity across the board.

- Make an observation on a "product" and then take that "product" off the table of a competitor and do it better. These are the rules. In 2020 the "product" could be this new incoming administration.
Προβλέψεις στοίχημα με σύμμαχο τα γκολ
You can easily create domain specific languages in Scala using operator overloading and implicits.
> You got to be delusional to think

Please stop that, too. It's not an argument.
As long as they give that indentured labor at least 10% of the company...
The difference is Trump reach out to the middle class and the lower class, while the other rich politicians don't give a shit.

Down-vote me all you want, but this is why Trump won. The sooner people accept that, the sooner we can move forward as a nation and rebuild this whole nation for every Americans.
You meant to say "...come to their senses and put my political beliefs before beliefs I don't like."

Everyone likes to pretend that their politics are just common sense, while other people's politics are "ugh, politics." People are forever saying "politics have no place in [business/the office/the dinner table/this forum]" whenever someone disagrees with them, while continuing to happily spout off on their own politics.
First, the current gender ratio for MIT course 6 is about 40% women and 60% men; if you're getting significantly more men than that, you're getting less qualified men from somewhere. (If you want to set your target ratio to be the MIT or CMU enrollment ratio instead of 50/50, I'd also support that, but those ratios are much closer to 50/50 than most companies are.)

Second, I went to MIT for computer science. I TA'd a bunch of classes. There were quite a few students who were barely scraping by, and they were mostly men. This might be politically incorrect to say, but it's true. The fact that you see 60/40 enrollment ratios at MIT doesn't mean that MIT has 1.5 times as many qualified men as women in course 6.
Or the massive price subsidies/market dumping allow them to outcompete local competitors in a era of longer hours and decreasing wages.
Why is this a question, i.e., why wouldn't you be sharing all the details with everyone as soon as you have it?
Here's a photo I took of the ascent from about 50 miles east.

http://imgur.com/a/RlJUR

(Nikon D7000, 300mm, handheld. Cropped and adjusted for contrast.)
That is ridiculous. It's trivial for a someone on H1B to switch employers.
> transitioning to babl and GEGL

The Gimp has been 'transitioning to GEGL' for how many years now? Something like six or seven years. And getting the data structures in place is only part of the challenge. How fast is this going to be for users? If the speed is to slow for users to efficiently get there work done at an intuitive pace then you have still failed.

From the initial GEGL integration attempts I saw the whole thing was hacked together with no clear thought to performance. And the performance was indeed quite abysmal.
Did President Obama Pad the K-12 Computer Science for All Bill by $3.6B?
Droneship landings are particularly convenient for west coast launches, as they can unload them ~20 miles from the factory (which is where they are refurbished, for now at least).
The other 1/3 seem to be malpractice lawyers and sugar products... unless you included the sugar in the drugs category. This is why I watch sports on pirate feeds, the repetitive, inane ads replaced by a static image and bad(not worse) muzak.
With all that funding they might as well afford a proper PostgreSQL license.
Are they improving their lives? They don't think so, and I don't think so either. $40 twice a week is not a substitute for self respect or a job that you can admit to your children.

> "Do their actions make the world a better place?"

Do they? Is a "better" world a one in which people are forced to sell their plasma to survive? In your dimly utilitarian view, you've neglected to consider whether such a state of affairs is truly a good one (much less a maximally good one, as most utilitarians would actually demand).

> The people who claim to care about these poor people, have done nothing to help them. Their revealed preferences show they don't actually care at all.

Sure, if you think voting and advocacy count for nothing. Charity and philanthropy are good, but they're general obligations not directed at any individual or group of individuals. Whether or not people choose to give to your pet injustice (there are many of them, after all) is not indication that they passively abide by it.
If the client gets compromised, you're screwed anyway.

e2e encryption's goal is that the communication between A and B is secure even if the server gets compromised.

Here, by design choice, the server could be compromised such that messages that (A thinks) B hasn't received yet can be triggered (by the server) to be re-keyed and re-sent from A.
highly-regarded Chinese outfit

It wasn't so much a matter of being "highly regarded" as it was being overly hyped. I am not sure if it was the media’s fault or Xiaomi’s own PR efforts, but the nonstop “Steve Jobs of China” headlines and fawning articles about the hardware and Miui were over the top. When Xiaomi was listed #2 in Technology Review’s “50 Smartest Companies” of 2015 (behind Tesla, 1) I was flabbergasted — yes, they are nice phones (we own a Hongmi and a another larger-screen phone whose name I can’t remember) but there are lots of problems with Xiaomi’s Android implementation, and the low-cost strategy is clearly not sustainable.

Design can only take you so far in the Android universe, as the HTC example demonstrates (2). Undercutting competitors on price is also not a long-term strategy.

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies/2015/

2. http://www.recode.net/2016/4/12/11586042/htc-10-looks-to-mak...
One of the issues that is never talked about when dealing with substitutes of well-stablished interfaces is if the new standard covers all the other use cases.

In particular, I doubt of the usefulness of the Touch Bar in a low level environment, e.g. if you are dropped to bootloader.
Less than 2% of the total staff probably realize that all their https traffic is being intercepted. I find it odd that we try to teach everyone the difference between http and https, and then we do this.
Thanks for this reply. Did not know SuperHot had a VR version. I definitely will check that out at least.
What bothers me more is the restriction on investing in IPOs.
Keybase.io is very useful for Web of Trust
So I have been enjoying this service. I have an OpenPGP key with a few subkeys (depending on the number of devices I have). What this is great for is the Web of Trust (don't like using that term but most people understand the meaning). It allows me to easily verfiy people I am working on GitHub that I don't know by person but by their GitHub account. This allows me to validate a users credentials before I sign of. This helps prevent others trying to mimic as someone else!
Log-so-handy; a convenient log for git
If companies are really in it because there is a shortage they should pay H1Bs the same wage. If not, limit H1Bs. I'm pretty sure Thiel will prevent this from happening
> They just use illustrator to draw the shape and then export it.

You're lucky. Last designer I asked to provide a SVG image had obviously exported from a vector drawing tool to a bitmap, AND THEN converted to SVG. So you kinda had a whole SVG object for each pixel.

It never occurred to him that a 40 MB SVG file might indicate a problem (when the point of having a vector format was partly to save memory).
As an educator, your lack of empathy for your (potential) students would greatly concern me regarding your ability to teach people from where they are, instead of what's easy for you. But that's fine, I'd be happy to teach folks who simply want to learn, regardless of what their hardware situation is.
Thanks for your reply. You present some interesting points.

* Project management.

* Goal/benchmark definition.

* Human resource allocation.

I can't decide if what you say is truly so. One thing that I know, though, is that the old GIMP has been very useful to me for editing images (nothing fancy). I'm not an artist/painter but if I were, I'd start that with Krita instead of GIMP. In my mind, GIMP is more of a toolbox for doing the boring stuff like cropping/converting/annotating/correcting some random images and saving them in various formats. Gaining proper color management would be a good thing in my opinion, even if everything else stayed the same.
I think the old Crichton novel, Congo, mentioned using a very low bitrate codec over a digital satellite link. So maybe something already exists off the shelf that one could try over amateur radio.
I was once able to establish a 26,400kbps connection via acoustic coupler on a cell phone. It can be done. The connection was shit though.
When the top comment is a claim that we at Red Hat post incorrect information and that we at Red Hat are expected to delete said supposedly incorrect information without any technical explanation on why said information is incorrect, I do wonder who is the bully in your opinion.

I posted this entry and I work at Red Hat.
Technical advantage of Google backed XRP over BTC(Bitcoin)
I... don't really think this is a good read, for a few reasons. Let's look at (what I think is) the thesis:

> Unfettered capitalism doesn’t give you time back or freedom or relaxation. It drills every orifice you have until a few more pennies drop out so the Q4 numbers look good for shareholders.

The article then moves on to (albeit articulately) name "gig economy" companies as the vehicle for this exploitation.

But are they? Without even thinking too hard, I think can of monstrous entities which are enemies of any notion of free market and which are far more easily understood as the machina of this phenomenon:

* We have 2 million people in prison in the United States. Many of them have done nothing wrong, at least in any common sense set of definitions. It's not a stretch to say that many of them, while in prison, are victims of torture and intentional emotional and mental destruction. Even those that aren't are marked with a scarlet letter essentially for life. And thus they are left unable to be anything but victims of this corpratocratic predation upon their release.

* The "health care" industry, empowered (in fact sustained almost entirely) by state-enshrined gatekeeper complexes and IP holdings, restrains these same people who "need a side hustle" from becoming healthy and independent of pharma, insurance, and hospitals.

* The US government debt is about to hit $20 trillion, leaving these folks holding a bag they never agreed to pick up.

* People are afraid to protest, much less disrupt, the above treatment. Police brutality, endemic and senseless state surveillance, the (accurate) sense that action in the streets is typically fruitless - these and other causes have people feeling lonely at home instead of realizing how common their dreams are.

I just don't think that the gig economy is any harbinger of horror, not does it exist today in an environment of "unfettered capitalism" - not that I advocate such a thing.

Nevertheless, with the elements I've named (and a dozen more like them) removed, these people looking for a "side hustle" might also be able to enjoy the fruits of the labor pool of which they're a part.

I'm actually quite optimistic that that insurgent companies and methodologies are a sign that we will overcome these hardships. We have an utterly impotent incoming president, faith in government nearly nonexistent, and at the same time, incredible innovation and radical thinking. This doesn't seem like a formula for continued exploitation to me.
> Humanity holds the record for the fastest awe to yawn delta.

Among what species?
Obama’s edict to help immigrants start companies in the U.S. takes effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
Anyone who needs a title as dramatic as that is trying to sell you something.
Iridium sats are in polar orbits. Launches for those inclinations are done from the west coast due to geographical constraints. Also, I believe it makes them travel "backwards" to other (most?) sats.
This kind of rule (Canada was floating a similar one) is usually added in an attempt to keep visa-sellers out of the market, i.e. outfits who will agree to fake "invest" money in your fake "startup" in return for an under-the-table fee. By limiting the people who can count as investors to those who have a track record of actually investing in startups, the hope is that this kind of fraud will be at least less frequent, and easier to police.
> Government 'protects' the average investor by only letting qualified rich people invest in hedge funds

Having dealt with this situation recently, I'm a little more sympathetic to the government's position.

Most investors are dumb. Really dumb. No, dumber than that.

It's really easy for a con man to set up shop. It takes forever to get him shut down, and the scammed will fight you.

Scammed investors will defend the scammer even when you present them with incontrovertible proof. You can stand in court and have a judge hand down rulings of the level of "worst case I have seen" and they will STILL defend him.

Preventing these kinds of "investors" from even getting into the game is really the only way to keep it under control.

Trump being elected was hardly a surprise to me given my recent experiences with dumb investors.
Show HN: DiamondDB, a Node.js database written in 24 hours
I'm a bit surprised that EJB is still something folks would consider (and I've been using Java for 20 years), but the answer is simple: no. Smaller, more modern frameworks are the way to go.
Why would an xkcd issue be a must read?
When I started using Unix in the early '90s, zsh was more popular than bash by a long way. And tcsh was more popular still. You had to be a GPL purist or something to want to use bash. Its success is really down to its status as the Linux default. If you try zsh again, you'll find the mailing list and IRC are full of helpful people if some things aren't as you expect.
As many argue (e.g. tptacek), and I find myself increasingly convinced by this:

- source code can be looked at, even verified, but it's hard. (Remember many bugs in OpenSSL, for example.)

- but binaries, too, can be disassembled, even verified. It might be harder, but it's a shades of grey, not binary (ha).

- even if you have the source code, you have to ensure that the binaries actually distributed to your phone correspond to the source code. That muddles the issue further.
FULL PAGE asking for email address, didn't even read the article...
Facebook should not give out fake news anymore.
It's really misleading people.
The target orbit is a polar one. For those you actually have to cancel that "free energy".
Birth of the iPhone – By Tony Fadell
I think you are missing the point. 100s of people are applying. When they get into the school 10% have a pc not a Mac. It's not worth that 10%. I'm going to teach the other 90% that have Macs already. That's plenty of students. Why would it be wasting time with me? I'm a great teacher and coder.
Wanted to log on here to just say that I've been beta testing this for the last 3 weeks and it's actually pretty darn useful in a few contexts.

The no-brainer use case for me is actually buying something cheap - e.g., toilet paper. I often find myself spending 20 minutes combing through Amazon to find the cheapest package that doesn't suck when I don't really care about toilet paper at all and don't worry too much about trying to save $3...but it's human nature to want the best value.

So it's a lot easier to just have someone tell me exactly what to buy and I can spend 30 seconds and know that I didn't leave a few bucks on the table and that I got a good product.

Of course, I know the founder so I trust them to actually suggest the right thing (in the same way that I know basically trust Wirecutter blindly), which makes the service useful, and I think the question is whether their reports are good enough that they can convince strangers/random users to trust them in the same way.
Off topic: I don't think Asus had much of a choice in that particular case...
I don't think I really agree with this. Making good visual design, or let's say in this case "clean" visual design, work is up to the designer.

Taking for example the Opera 12 example I mentioned in comments above[0]: while I don't think Opera's overall UI design in 2011 was particularly visually pleasing, and certainly not as clean as Chrome's today, if you consider the UI pattern in isolation there's nothing preventing it from being done cleanly. Facebook uses the same UI pattern for the active state of its status input today.

That's just one obvious example - I'm not suggesting it's the only one. Google's Material Design guidelines advocate a lot of context-crossing - the canonical example being the "Floating action button" attaching to sheets[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400645

[1] https://material.io/guidelines/components/buttons-floating-a...
That seems like a lot of plasma your body has to replenish. Sure the platelets are put back, but sounds extreme... IANAMD.

I am referring to my experience in the '90s and it may have been allowed more than 2xs a month, but that is all I was comfortable with. When the payout was reduced >50% I desisted.
Extensions still run in Private Tabs, unlike with Chrome, so they are free to phone home about your private browsing as much as they'd like. This is the real privacy hole that still needs to be fixed.
Dream on...
Not to rain on your worldview or anything but I must point out that one of the requirements for being in upper management that's public facing is the ability to say just about anything with a straight face. ("Courage" anyone?) The fact that Tim Cook came up with a good (from a PR perspective) response doesn't say anything about the actual motivation.
> Insurance companies are for-profit institutions

Actually, some of the largest insurance companies and the vast majority of risk-bearing providers (hospitals that act as insurers) are non-profits. Though I never said that their pricing was based on charity; I said it was based on the fact that the product they offer is not really insurance (and that it exists in a marketplace in which prices are incredibly distorted by the existence of other factors, which would have been too long to explain in that simple example).

> Claiming that "health insurance isn't really insurance, except in name"... is definitely non-mainstream

On the contrary, that's the overwhelming consensus among economists. Which isn't surprising, because the economics of insurance are generally covered even at the undergraduate level, and the ways in which health insurance differs from a true insurance program are pretty glaring.
Perceived temperature is most closely related to movement, so get up and move around.
How about we put a distinctive icon in the trusted zones, which the renderer won't allow under any circumstances in the untrusted area.

Also with a buffer so nothing too similar is allowed, or perhaps a warning comes up if something is close.

I vote for something like the chrome dinosaur.
> I'd go further and say Moxie is complicit by way of negligence

Your "further" stance is not supported by the evidence. You might disagree with the design choices, but they're not negligence or "complicity". Moxie answered, in the other thread, that

a fact of life is that the majority of users will probably not verify keys. That is our reality. Given that reality, the most important thing is to design your product so that the server has no knowledge of who has verified keys or who has enabled a setting to see key change notifications. That way the server has no knowledge of who it can MITM without getting caught. I've been impressed with the level of care that WhatsApp has given to that requirement.
I think we should all remain open to ideas about how we can improve this UX within the limits a mass market product has to operate within, but that's very different from labeling this a "backdoor."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900
The Deceptions of Luck: Nature makes chance, humans make luck