skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I'd gotten the impression the FT232 was "rock solid" and filed them away as "they're good, use them", but that was before the bricking incident, and now I'm not really sure anymore.

I guess on the surface the big thing I really like is device differentiation. Do CP2102Ns have unique serial numbers, or can that free utility burn in info I can use to differentiate?

Going a bit deeper, can I bitbang with it?
Blockchain doesn't successfully go with anything. How appropriate.
The rest of the points here are excellent, but don't use `unsafe` until you have completely internalised the borrow checker rules. If your safe attempt is unsafe (and therefore doesn't pass the borrow checker), your unsafe code will be unsafe too. The only difference is that the unsafe code won't be caught at compile-time.
It's just virtue signaling, something Jack is very big on.
What sort of ethical framework permits this?
or a run of the mill gag order that lasts for a decade

but okay....
Julian Assange's story about his encounter with Google leadership was fairly chilling. Even taking him with a (big) grain of salt...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Is this the same Scott Adams that claims to have been shadowbanned, without any proof?

Might his lower Twitter engagement have something to do with people getting sick of hearing from him about Trump?
Regardless of what happened in the past, I consider career politicians to be bad idea in general. And in either case, I disagree with the premise that one most be an experienced politician to serve in a meaningful way in the Senate. IIRC, both Rand Paul and Elizabeth Warren joined the Senate without having held elected office before. And there have certainly been others.

Anyway, if the most recent election proved anything, it's that the people are willing to vote for "outsiders", so Eisen may just have a shot. What would happen if he's elected is, of course, hard to predict.
I think browsers should simply pop up a dialog "WebRTC Request: This website wants to connect your computer to other computers. Allow?".

For now, I have disabled WebRTC in FireFox by setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false in about:config.
Google Cloud and AWS are pretty much equivalent in terms of feature parity: https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/docs/map-aws-google-clou.... There are few (10% os services maybe?) that are not available on other platform. Also, the way AWS counts service is by nuts and bolts (AWS believes in providing fundamental components, not higher level frameworks) vs Google Cloud counts things by Cars / Trains / Submarines levels. That why people tend to think that Google Cloud provides fewer services. (As an example, imagine how many number of AWS components are needed to perform the function of App Engine. May be 10?)
I hear ya. At 6mo old my son did his first belly laugh. He had laughed before that, but never so deeply. I was lucky I got pictures of it. I sure wish I had gotten it on video, though. It was the kind of laugh that was totally infectious. It went on for a couple of minutes. His aunt, who he had never seen before, had come over and was doing something with her face. Every time she did it he laughed for about 20 seconds. Just remembering this brings joy to me.
I wonder if Google employees will revolt, if the company does as you suggest and order them to not say or do anything that might anger Trump.
> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

Could you please elaborate?
You'd be willing to disbar engineers for not adhering to your ideology?
Maybe...VK and RenRen are definitively the Facebooks of Russia and China, respectively, but I doubt you'll see widespread adoption of a "Facebook of Senegal" or Kiribati or Ecuador anytime soon. I couldn't even imagine an analogue to Facebook within the West.

Personally, I think the distribution is a good thing. It's not as if Facebook is creating better people. It's more likely that social networks are exacerbating biases, and so a global social network only creates an easier subset of people to manipulate.

Global capitalism hasn't exactly been a boon to humanity. Cheaper stuff comes at human costs, whether it's sugar or cotton or diamonds or iPhones. If a global institution is to better humanity, I wouldn't bet on it taking the form of a for-profit corporation.
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On a domestic flight I sat next to a physician. During our chats we talked about the opioid epidemic and he pointed to a push by pharmaceuticals to make pain a distinct item that needs to be treated. And how this in part led to the runaway addictions. I had thought it was purely socio-economic reasons, but the big pharama angle was new to me. Curious if there are sources for this.
Twitter need to pull their finger out and get end-to-end encryption sorted on their DM's. I mean they onced acuihired Moxie and Whisper Systems yet they still don't have this in place? Many journalists and others are finding that Twitter is the place where initial contact with people/public/sources is being made first, because it's so easy to find and reach out to people. Yet they have no e-2-e on that. Even Facebook/WhatsApp, Google 'Allo, Telegram and of course, Signal are doing a better job then them.
"rational" = not hurting trump supporters feelings
Always seems rather silly. By all means, test everything on a slow computer. Make sure that it runs smooth, even on older computers. But there's no reason to make your developers wait through unnecessarily long compile times before testing.
I was under the impression that both "s'" and "s's" were correct in this context with the caveat that "s'" could also be used for plural possessives.
Don't rely on someone else to make your career (or your life) better. If you want something, it's on you to do it. The loser blames something else (other people, society, bad luck) for their problems. The winner takes control of their life, accepts personal responsibility, and creates their own future.
I don't disagree. My statement sounded far too overarching. Obviously, a lot of jobs are handouts in form of repayment. I don't think this should be encouraged but I don't think a law banning former federal employees is going to diminish the numerous concerns that lobbying brings up and potentially diminishes the quality of people advising current government.
The Classic Theme Restorer page says "CTR will stop working on Firefox 57 (release) when Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons, but it will still work on Firefox 52 ESR until Firefox 59 ESR replaces it in 2018 (~Q2)."
Wow. Sounds like an opportunity for startups, or for people who say they can't get jobs in the tech sector.
The following article should relief your cough: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2017/01/24/why-is-th...
> Face to face meetings sounds preposterous for someone who would risk prosecution under the espionage act for instance

Snowden met face to face with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.

Things are improving. Lots of journalists have Signal now.
Care to cite a source? And what sort of transparency, exactly, do you want to see out of Twitter to disprove something that cannot be disproven?
They need to get out in front of Oracle, which is probably the Silcon Valley company least associated with the hippie liberal stereotype and thus most likely to get Trump's ear if they want to make life hard for their competitors.
She can pick all who she likes, but as the Tea Party has demonstrated, it's possible for small groups of people to dislodge well-funded, well-connected incumbents via the primaries.
Every time I page up or down the @#*$(&@#% search box steals focus. Tab closed!
Nobody expects you to know everything when you're starting out, even if you have that fancy degree that you spent years on. That degree just shows them you have the aptitude to learn how their business works and they're willing to take the time to train you if you're willing and able to learn.
This was on HN a while ago: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/pharmaceutical-executives... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164826)

EDIT: and maybe this? http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part3/
If that's the case I'm surprised Adams hasn't packed up and taken his business to a competitor like gab.ai
I've used the T450s keyboard and love it. There are reports of variation in quality. They have two providers, one sucks. But get it with a warranty then they'll replace it for you (send out a tech and everything).
>Your long sentence is not hate speech. "I hate muslims" is.

No, it's not.

Edit: Big surprise that this got a quick downvote with no comment. Really helpful feedback.

Either cite some law supporting the statement in question, preferably one that distinguishes the actual 'line' not to be crossed, or recognize that saying you hate $GROUP is not the same as hate speech, at least in any sane place.

What's next? If I proclaim that I hate dogs, is that hate speech AND animal cruelty?

FWIW I love dogs, and my original short comment was a comment about free speech and sane limits on it. If you think it was a dig at Muslims, or that they're even relevant to the point, your reading comprehension sucks. I don't care what religion you are, it's none of my business as long as it doesn't directly negatively affect anyone else. I also haven't bought into the 'Muslim bogey-man' narrative, if that affects your interpretation.
does as you suggest and order them to not say or do anything that might anger Trump.

Could you clue me in on where I said that? If you mean my doodle comment, then that's really not about Trump per se, its more about lack of attention to things his base cares about and might lead to problem.
> "We need to do X" and they say "Here is product Y that connects to product Z, but you need to write your own connector." And each product has it's own pricing structure (one by CPU usage, one with flat fees, one based on throughput) so working out total cost is a nightmare. Then you have to hire around those techs, project manage the build of the infrastructure, etc. At that point you start to ask "Why are we using them again?"

This is a feature(?) of AWS. Google Cloud provides fully built solutions for majority of use cases. AWS provides nuts and bolts and tell you to integrate them.
Doubt they're the only one. For all the talk of noble ideals in SV the only real principle is money.
The end of the truly global companies in the US or anywhere. Especially the companies relying on mass adoption and data collection will probably be forced to scale back and if feasible run separate Data centres in individual countries and be strictly regulated.
Emacs can already embed a webkit widget, but much more work would be needed to make interaction with the widget "emacsy". At the moment all you can do with it is send JavaScript snippets to it to make it change internal state. It would be great to intertwine this more with Emacs so that e.g. completing-read could be used on the DOM.
I've never had impostor syndrome, but I imagine it comes from not realizing that everyone is finite and has a finite amount of time to experience the universe. But the universe is infinite, so you can never know everything there is to know. Even if you limit it to a narrow field like programming, the infinitude is still there. The universe is literally infinite in every respect; you cannot escape it. No matter how small you limit your focus, there is an infinite amount of information to learn in that thing. I think studying fractals gave me this insight, but it's not hard to realize that the universe itself has the same property that no matter how carefully you examine some aspect of it, the complexity is never eliminated. In fact it only increases.
That case (basically the same as the iBook G4) was a beast. In the pre-Magsafe days, I had an iBook G4 survive three surprise drops to a hardwood floor without so much as a ding on the case.

I miss that in the new Macs -- my 2013 MBP has picked up a couple of battle scars. But incidentally, I just bought a ThinkPad, and it took a bit of a tumble the other day, and there is zero evidence of this on the case. Once I get past the couple of interface and power-management deficiencies, I could get used to this.
You can use Windows Runtime Library (WRL) instead of C++/Cx.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh438466.aspx
I just write a simple custom program to deal with my CSV's :-)
My knowledge of neurobiology is weak.

Having received a full callosotomy, how are the hemispheres able to communicate even at 1 bit / s?

Secondly, how is that estimate generated?
Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.
This is definitely true. However, as a sort of tangent, I think there are some types of problems in our industry that are systemic (like sexism) that can perpetually inhibit someone's success. I don't want to derail this conversation into a political one, but I also don't want to unfairly tell someone "the reason you aren't successful is because you blame others for your problems" when it may in fact be the case that the person has the odds unfairly stacked against them.
That's an interesting scenario, we didn't consider it but we can include it as well.
>> you could always detect metered ISPs and do something different for those

I didn't downvote, but this isn't possible for nearly all users. Whether or not you are metered isn't per-ISP, it depends on your monthly plan with the ISP. Most ISPs serve the majority of their users on metered, with some users paying for the high-end unmetered plans. There is no way to know whether a particular user is metered or unmetered.
Probably still fine. MacOS updates tend to get faster if anything.
This reminds me a bit of the orangutan who went to the University of Tennessee as a language-training project.

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365285827/
Chill, its only on April Fool's day, as I said.
Apple's pro laptop design peak was the first Unibody. Just imagine what can get done with the volume: RAM, CPU and GPU wise.

I'm a professional developer, I'm comfortable with my web routines but damn I'd love to have a handy tool to work on the edge of that zone.
Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp
As someone with irreparable nerve damage (and has to ration pain meds as a result) this is incredible news!
As recently as 2-3 years ago there were Macs out there that cost less than any comparable PC. Ultra light laptops with retina screens were cheaper from Apple than Asus or Dell. Any machine with a 27" retina screen was $1000 cheaper from Apple. For five years before that, any 27" screen at all was much cheaper from Apple.

For many years, a $2000 MacBook Air was cheaper than its competition because there was no competition.

But today the PC vendors charge less than Apple once again. The universe is back in order and Apple's tech lead is confined to mobile phones.

Oddly, it's a self-inflicted wound. The totally useless expense of wedging a long, narrow Apple Watch into every keyboard is driving Apple's prices way, way up.
Presumably, if it's a union disbarring people for doing something, then it's something the majority of its members feel strongly about. Like how, say, civil engineers feel about buildings being built to code.

Given that the union I was talking about above is specifically one that would be formed by ISVs to protect its member employees from being coerced into bad working conditions by their managers or the clients their demands come on the part of, I assume that "not having to maintain software in perpetuity with increasing labor-load" is probably one such ideological point they'd be likely to stand behind, among others. (Or it might not be; either way, I still think "union that can disbar programmers" is an interesting solution to the problems that programmers do care most about, whatever they may be.)

Remember, the point isn't to punish the disbarred engineer--they likely were coerced into the practice. The point is to signal to the companies who would attempt such coercion, that it will result in their engineers being removed from them, so they shouldn't bother. (Yes, the company's name might also be blackballed in the industry, but that might not matter to the company if they're still able to make money. On the other hand, having no engineers who would ever want to work for you, for fear of what it would do to their careers, would matter.)
It would be rather fun to download a webpage in "BrowserEmacs" and have a REPL available with the page turned into a S Expression for you to manipulate at your or your plug-ins leisure. Throw in the tools to make plug-ins have there own UI and you have a developer's browser.
It's January. Mark this as "least surprising story of 2017" and it will still be true at the end of the year.

Political parties sell themselves to voters as "be on our team". The other team wants to rape women or murder babies, don't vote for them.

Corporations vote with money instead of with votes. When you vote with votes and the other guy wins, you lose. When you vote with money and you pay both sides, you always win.

Google doesn't pay Republicans because they hate women or want to Build A Wall, they pay Republicans because Republicans are now in a position to destroy network neutrality, they don't want that to happen, and politicians don't listen to corporations who don't pay them.

Parties constrained by a system do what you would expect them to. If you don't like it you have to change the system.
Some previous attempts at this kind of second-screen/low-power interface that never really caught on:

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

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/intel-second-screen
Try these screen casts: http://intorust.com/
Hi! Your website is completely broken in Tor browser. https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html returns 403 and https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store returns 429.
Thanks for pointing that out. I watched the video as embedded in the post.
I've been using a 15" tMBP and the TouchBar has been a huge step back in usabilitiy for me. Mostly due to:

1.) It's utterly buggy. There are times when it doesn't boot after laptop comes back from sleep. Sometimes buttons don't redraw (e.g. missing ESC until you tap on that empty space). Sometimes it even hangs leaving you without brightness and volume controls. It's incredible how Apple managed to release something this buggy and how it passed QA.

2.) It gives no touch feedback at all, making pressing anything blindly on it feel terrible and inaccurate. Since each supporting app defines their own button position, it means that the buttons keep moving around making muscle memory pretty much impossible.

3.) Most of the time it's empty - pretty much none of the non-Apple software supports it. Volume control and brightness controls are now hidden behind a slider that's hard to hit blindly (as opposed to previous function keys).

4.) For most cases when it DOES work, it's still easier and quicker to press a keyboard shortcut because you can reliably press it without looking down at your fingers.

5.) It's pretty bright and sometimes distracting in the evening. This is a minor issue, but it's not synchronized with the keyboard brightness control and you can't darken it manually when working in dark environments or watching movies.

6.) TouchID is the only part I really like - it's made the OS experience way better.

If I could rip it out and replace it with proper ESC/Fx keys, I'd do it in a heartbeat. The part that most marketing materials don't show is this: the touchbar will only show shortcuts of the currently focused app (besides a few pre-set ones like volume, siri, show desktop). If the focused app doesn't support it, it'll sit there empty.

It would be significantly better if it would at least show shortcuts to dock applications, let you fully customize it with macros and shortcuts or let you control a certain app in the background while using another app. But you can't (yet I'm aware BTT exists, but even that hides macros behind another tap and slow animation).

All in all I can't fanthom how anyone at Apple thought this would be a productivity win for their most expensive 4000EUR laptops. I'd expect it to be useful for less techy people who don't use or know shortcuts... but for their high-end pro machines it's just a huge step back in usability.
Fast google search provides us with an answer:

> After the operation the brain has much more difficulty sending messages between the hemispheres. Although the corpus callosum is the largest white matter tract connecting the hemispheres, some limited interhemispheric communication is still possible via the anterior commissure and posterior commissure.
Do you want a fork? Do you want to drive more people to Pale Moon? Do you want to become even less relevant relative to Chrome? Do you want to make the web even less user-centric?

A change like this is how you do that. Good job, Mozilla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosotomy

"Although the corpus callosum is the largest white matter tract connecting the hemispheres, some limited interhemispheric communication is still possible via the anterior commissure and posterior commissure."
Ridiculous to sell them or ridiculous to buy them?
I wasn't going to buy a case, because I wasn't going to drop the phone. A friend of mine talked me into buying a case because I would drop the phone. I bought a case, put it on, and dropped the phone the next day (no damage). Yay friends!
As a lawyer and law professor Elizabeth Warren had some idea how the legal process worked and has been reasonably effective at crafting law and regulatory policy. As an ophthalmologist who happened to have a relatively famous political father Rand Paul had no idea how to craft effective law and it shows. TBH you would have been better going with Al Franken as an 'outsider' with no effective experience who seems to be getting some things done.
Can't expect companies based in SF to be anywhere near politically neutral.
I'm going to very amused as Google's "don't be evil" facade comes crumbling down, having lost their revolving door with the US government and protection from antitrust enforcement.

Google has a very small business, search & ads, that basically prints money. They then spend almost all of that money on unprofitable operations that crush competition by 1) setting the price-point for many services at free, 2) intercepting customers (e.g. Google Flight and Hotel bookings at the top of search results), and 3) poaching all of the best talent and wasting it away on these terrible side businesses.
I wonder if others share my interest in what legitimate businesses are doing.

For example, Hootsuite Amplify is a platform designed to dominate social media by making it easy for your company's employee base to share and promote curated content.

This has a similar effect to botnets, except it's not violating t&c.

We're entering a world where authentic conversation is harder and harder to find. Historically personal content such as emails and tweets are now carefully constructed and managed, but still presented as personal content.

https://hootsuite.com/products/amplify
I got your meaning (and think the down voting on your original comment is a bit harsh), but the pendulum is probably due to swing the other way, hard. I really don't know what a good balance point is. I have heard a 5 or 7 year ban bandied about, and maybe something time-based is the answer. I think until it goes to a total ban we won't find the true balance point.
i didnt realize that ^W did words (and i didnt know what "ETB" was either). But thats a useful one to know!
I have an IBM ThinkPad from 2004 and Lenovo ThinkPads from (more or less) 2010 and 2015, they all work fine. The 2004 one is slow with current software and the battery lasts like 1 minute, but otherwise it does what it should according to its (now weak) specs.

If you think Lenovos don't last, it's probably because you have seen low-end Lenovos (which indeed often break after 3-5 years). But a MBP is a high-end laptop, it should be compared to high-end laptops from other brands.
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