skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand the argument that they don't profit. All of their people get their pay. Instead of sitting on giant piles of cash they use it all to invest in more stuff.

"Profit" is a technical term with a specific meaning; in this context it's the money left over after paying wages, rents, interest, and investing in the business. So there's not much of the argument to understand; they get a lot of money, then they spend it, so there's nothing left to return to the investors which means by definition there's no profit.

> I never understand it when I hear such and such company has billions of dollars of cash just sitting around. If they spent that money wouldn't that help themselves

History is littered with examples of successful companies who spent large sums of money and got nothing in return. If Apple had a clue how to spend $100 billion usefully they would, but they don't. Their existing business are mature; they're selling all the phones they're making. They could build a bunch of factories and triple production, but to what end? They could start a chain of pizzerias, but why would that be a good idea?
I can only speak for myself, but I will never join a union. It's a political thing for me. I know not everyone feels that way, but I also know that I'm not the only one strongly opposed to unionization.
Square rooting the color is a trick I have used for ages, but I have not frequently seen it elsewhere. It will do pretty much the opposite of multiplying the color by itself - i.e. decrease the contrast and produce a "softer" color space still in the 0-1 range.

In general, you can produce a variety of interesting color-space transformations with simple math on the current fragment, as opposed to more complex methods that rely on sampling output, like HDR processing.

Here is a page on more advanced color space manipulation:
http://filmicworlds.com/blog/linear-space-lighting-i-e-gamma...
I cringe when I see "More than 10 years experience in Ruby on Rails required" or "5 years experience in React required"
Very good point. I completely forgot about that.
> Displaying that it's charging is very different from actually charging. It could look like it's "charging" but may actually take all day to finish charging, in which case the technology is completely useless.

Absolutely not! Give me a thin mat that I can put next to me at my office desk, in the kitchen, on the night lamp stand, and on my car console between seats, and I can guarantee you you have billion-dollar in sales!

Don't forget the common nature of us human is laziness! If something can be done simpler (not reaching out for cable and plugging it into device 3 times a day) then you will find people to buy it! It doesn't have to charge my phone to full, enough to get me going for a while until next stopping/charging point.
I work with someone who does not close their mouth at all when they chew. It drove me so nuts that I make sure as much as possible to not eat lunch at the same time. Revolting.

I have not figured out a way to tell a grown adult to shut their mouth when they eat and not have it come across bad.
A maven plugin for appium, 0.1.0 released
Walmart's revenues are $500b a year. It's pocket change to them. And the list of old economy stalwarts overspending on tech startups is practically infinite. Few of these acquisitions ever lead to anything. Amazon must have been cracking up that they scared Walmart into doing this.
You must be new to Linux. You see, the poster needed a random excuse to inject systemd flamebait, so they grasped at the closest straw they could find, whether or not it was even remotely relevant.
I don't know. But all those guides to correct posture using a computer say it.

http://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/guide-to-correct-hand-p...
Ask HN: What do we know about FB candidates profiling?
Does Facebook have access to candidates full profiles and browsing history to run a quick background check? Some companies ask for your FB profile URL. What does Facebook itself do when someone applies for a job at their company?
The RStudio crashing bug should be fixed in daily builds. https://dailies.rstudio.com
> Sorry for the long post.

Don't be. This is the first post I've seen that actually answers more questions than it provokes. Thanks for helping me understand what happened.
On the upside, I can't wait to cite this case whenever someone says that piracy is theft.
why ultrasonic? Wouldn't millimeter radio wave beams work better?
Give Safari a shot. For me, it increases battery by at least 25% vs. Firefox or Chrome with many tabs open, probably more like 50%+ sometimes.

Cutting the Electron apps might also help a lot.

I can’t imagine having many terminals open takes any appreciable CPU, unless you’re using them to continuously run compilers or something.

You can also try reducing the display brightness, turning off bluetooth, and poking around in the Activity monitor to see what other processes are using lots of CPU time.
Ah I hadn't read that far down. Thanks!
A Forth to Scratch compiler
That would be wonderful. I guess for some reason I just assumed it would be a luxury. If groceries for one guy for 3 days cost $45 purchased in-store, I'd definitely be comfortable paying $5 more to have someone pick and bag it for me. But I wouldn't pay much more than $10 for doorstep delivery, even though grocery shopping is a stressful experience for me.

I live in the 'burbs and I drive every day anyway. To me, the pain isn't the driving (though for some urban areas I'm sure it is), it's just the hassle of parking and shopping in a crowded, inefficient store (wasting my time), and hauling all my stuff back to the car.

I think theres a deeper psychological issue at play here too: delivered to your door makes you passive, at the "mercy" or whim of the company/person making the delivery. There's a subconscious anxiety associated with waiting in anticipation. Whereas, going out and picking up makes you the active one. Sure the store could make you wait, but if they design their system properly, "ready for pickup" should mean just that. But "out for delivery" could me 5m or 3 hours from now.
Surprisingly the virtual escape key hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it would, even in vim.

Put this

ino kj <Esc>

in your .vimrc and instead of escape, just hit the j and k keys quickly to leave insert mode. It's a life changer.
I hadn't considered that. Commuting by bike there's not a whole lot of unit testing going on for me
What you're describing isn't a union; it's a professional association like the ACM.
Look at Issue 4 on their GitHub repo, they want to port it also to Linux and macOS
What could I expect to change in my daily working life by joining your "new model union"?

Unions got buy-in from workers because they offered tangible benefits to workers. Shorter days, medical care, better pay, and so on. The items you list are public policy concerns that align well with a variety of advocacy groups. In virtually all cases, a specialist advocacy group seems better-suited to addressing the problem than a union.
It feels like they should have added that touch bar as a bar in addition to the function keys if anything. That is likely off the table because of space and aesthetics though.
There is a great "Tech Policy Podcast" that covers this issue and why Ajit Pai made this decision. Very much worth a listen, I think he is much more reasonable and inline with HN than you might think. [1]

More specifically, are his 5 reasons for dissent on this [2]

Basically this program has NO budget so costs have spiraled "From 2008 to 2012, Lifeline spending grew from $821 million to over $2.1 billion, an increase of over 160%."

It also subsidizes way too many households instead of helping those most in need. "Roughly 42 million households are currently eligible for the Lifeline program. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, that is 34% of all households in the United States. Notwithstanding the decline in economic fortunes since 2009, that is too many. The federal government should not be subsidizing broadband service for one-third of our nation’s households. If we are going to expand the program to include broadband, Lifeline should target our neediest citizens. Yet the Commission proposes nothing of the sort."

[1]http://podcast.techfreedom.org/e/153-trump-picks-ajit-pai-fo...
[2]https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-71A5.pd...
For a theory of sleep to convince me, it would need to explain how the benefit from sleep can possibly be worth the huge disadvantage of leaving yourself completely vulnerable for hours a day. Evolution-wise, that seems hard to justify. A variant of human that didn't have to sleep seems like it would overrun the sleep-needing humans, unless the non-sleeping human just isn't possible.
Google Earth is a native program, you linked to Google maps, their web based map app. While it's pretty good, it's still not as good as a native program, although I'd be very surprised if Google ever updates Earth again.
Ahh that is too bad. Would be a cool student project to convert these to canvas, WebGL, or P5JS.
Other people found it interesting. It's pointless to complain about content that doesn't strike your fancy. Just upvote stuff that does...
You might want to double check that those people still have a job: http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/walmart-layoffs-ecommerce/
"Why am I getting reprimanded?"
"Because you ran a unit test..."
"What is wrong with that?"
"It's Brian's job to press that key, not yours. You violated Union rules"
So I'm assuming you consider democracy to be useless? As in: the current system of government of, say, Denmark or Ireland is no better than that of Tadzhikistan or Cuba?

Because I don't see how a democracy could work without the media. Even a low-information voter like you profits (in my view) from a vibrant and free press by the decisions of more informed people in the voting booth.
>or move a pound of gelatinous substances via air pressure from one sinus cavity to another all effing day long.

Well, they chose oxygen instead of making you happy...
Using a CLI for App Development and Deployment
He said rural, though. As someone living in southern Maine, which isn't even exactly rural, I have to pay extra for 1 day from Amazon - and it's not available on every item. On the other hand, I drive right past a Walmart strip mall on the way home every day.

The bigger issue I have with Walmart is the quality. The only stuff I buy there is consumable.
Lacking Voting Rights, Snap IPO to Test Fund Governance Talk
Criticizing Trump = 'people are allowed to have political positions;' criticizing Israel = 'people should get banned for gimmick/troll accounts.'

I don't have some opinion about Israel in which it is one of the worst countries in the world; they have clearly done good for their own people and for others, and have a vibrant economy and technology. However, just as our ability to criticize our own government, or governments in Europe or Asia, increases well-being for citizens of the world, so too should we be allowed to criticize Israel. Nobody is perfect and equating any criticism with thought crimes needs to stop.
Advocate for those affected by automation? That's like the teamsters advocating for bicycle couriers who lost their jobs to UPS. I don't understand how that would work. Good luck though.
I mean, it's the Earth view on Google Maps. I'm aware of the separate product, but they're the ones with colliding namespaces. ;)
Low cost tactile sensing might solve robotic manipulation
What about actors ? They are unionized.
Indeed, but I also had a pause when I considered how heavily Microsoft depended on a system originally built by Linus Torvolds :)
I just re-read your comment again and the one above it. I was confusing MT and MP. Thanks.
The title was too long for the character limit on hn which makes it more scary then what it is, it is an examination of how men treat prostitutes through websites.
Alexa plus Plex just got this a day or two ago. I'd imagine that it'll happen with other services too.
Isn't that the future for most of us? We're tomorrow's factory workers.

Speak for yourself. What I do takes a lot more creativity, flexibility, and variety of types of skill than most factory jobs. I intend to continue to develop skills that can't be commoditized.
As somebody who came from an electrical engineering background into software, literally from the bottom of the bottom on a physical layer level....

Software VC would really benefit from a couple emag classes before trying to disrupt physics. These extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence. I don't want to be anywhere near any kind of field that's strong enough to power my laptop. Acoustic or otherwise. No thank you please.
How about if it already knows you're Jim? I think understanding context is holding it back. Azure Cognitive Services has a speaker recognition service. I'm hopeful that Amazon will get there.
My only caveat is that the improvements to cpu/gpu typically result in lower power consumption requirements. The screen is also lower resolution (compared to 4k) and with brightness user-configurable, not sure how much it is to blame.

I think the bulk of the issue is the almost 25% smaller battery (as noted in the article). So the real trade off is thinness and weight for battery life, not performance for battery life which is more typical of competing laptops.

I don't think the new MBPs are bad machines, but I probably won't be upgrading my current one to one of the new ones.

But sales figures seem to indicate the thinness trade off appealed to a broader range of buyers...so ultimately it was probably the right business decision for Apple.
And that's great and fine. It just doesn't match up with the OPs claim.
Absolutely. It's probably not going to be a replacement for cables but rather a whole new way of using a phone charger. Right now my phone's sitting on my desk. I didn't bother to check the battery level and decide if I should plug it in. Wouldn't it be great if it was automatically charging without me having to make any decisions. Even if only a little bit, that's going to extend the battery life between deliberate charges, or even indefinitely.
Safari dev tools don't seem to be up to par with Chrome. Especially on the react.js front.

I just can't bring myself to use one browser for work and another for personal.
Not like that in most of the world I bet. It's not like that where I live.
Just unfollow everyone, you won't have a feed. There's nothing to do on there without a feed and you won't miss anything. It takes some time to do it but it's worth it. I still login pretty much daily but leave quickly.
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Could you explain what you mean by "processed" food?

Grinding up wheat is processing it, but it does nothing to remove minerals.

It seems like "processed" is a catch all and now means "bad".
Scab!
GNOME and Fedora are definitely further ahead, since the lead developer for Flatpak is a long-time GNOME contributor as well as a Red Hat employee. There are Flatpak contributors focusing on other things: at least two developers are working on KDE integration, and a Debian developer at Collabora maintains the Flatpak package that is currently in Debian testing for release in Debian 9.0.
It’s hardly fair to blame Apple when third-party browsers and other applications are battery hogs though.
> "Why does X happen?" is not a useful question

"Why" is the cornerstone of evolutionary biology, in the sense of why was this feature adaptive (at least in our evolutionary past, if not any more). It can give you a deeper understanding of something
There's https://github.com/NicolaeNMV/BehindTheOverlay which can also remove other kinds of overlay popup
I despise the bullyish behavior of most unions, in fact, the central organization that coordinates them in my country has often been called our "shadow government" due to how they blackmail the state on every issue to take advantage and force them to be wasteful with tax dollars, causing far more damage than what they undo.

I am just a single person, but I wouldn't be caught dead in an union just from what I've seen them do.
Two big reasons.

#1 Abundant labor, meaning buyers market, so developers don't have leverage. This has a pretty good primer on the topic:

Democracy At Work

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/...

#2 I'm as pinko commie liberal socialist as they come, and I can't imagine how even the most well intentioned (least alt-factual neo-reactionary libertarian) group of developers can coordinate collectively. Said another way, I can't imagine preventing the free-rider, defector problem.

This book covers the sociology of collective action:

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

Maybe, just maybe, there's a unifying issue or policy, like protecting privacy rights, that could motivate most developers to pull in the same direction... Just to throw out an idea as an example.
"I support the increase in wages but you also need to consider what ROI you are bringing to the company if you are commanding a 200k + salary in a place like NC."

At the same time, the company also needs to consider what the companies next door are paying. If I'm currently over next door at the bank getting paid over $200k, I honestly do not care that your company doesn't think paying over $200k is not worth the ROI. Neither is anyone else who's looking for work in the area.
When unions are organized, they are interested in improving the workers' positions. Over time, though, they just become one more entity in the workplace, and advocate for their own power and money over all else. It is a corrosive influence that starts out ok, but degrades to a very low common denominator, and puts a company on the ropes. There is no better example of this than detroit.
MacBook Safari?

SafariBook Pro?
Because things are good now. Developers are making decent salaries. In most cases far better than their friends who chose other career paths.

But I don't think it will always be this way. With the rise of bootcamps and the influx of new developers we're going to see over the next 15 years, thanks to all of today's kids learning to code, I think developers are at serious risk of becoming commoditized. I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me.
I want to use Safari, but its lack of developer tools (e.g. the React debugger console) make it a no-go except for light browsing.
They are not ad-blockers, they are HTML firewalls.
VirtualBox

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-...

Then you can setup a great Linux VM and not have to worry about anything! (Sorta joking.)

# yum -y install epel-release xterm firefox

# yum -y install cinnamon*

# echo "exec /usr/bin/cinnamon-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

# startx

Oh yeah you mentioned code editors I recommend VIM, GEDIT, or
Sublime Text 3 on Windows.
I have a mid-2014 MBP and have been seriously considering purchasing a lightly used one and putting it in a closet until my current one dies.

At this point I'm not worried about specs-dollars value but the development efficiency-dollars value of purchasing an inferior product (new MBP) or switching platforms (XPS with Ubuntu).

Apple sure is trying _really hard_ to get me to switch.
My thoughts exactly, especially arrow keys and trackpad.

I used to rely a lot on tiptap gesture to switch terminal, browser, ide tabs but now it too sensitive as my palms always touch corners of trackpad.

Someone needs to write an app to setup ignore areas of the trackpad. I would pay for that.
I have been using gfxCardStatus https://gfx.io/ for years. It offers a finer level of visibility and control over what's going on with my GPUs.
And if it's operating at <10% efficiency that will be a disaster for the environment too.

In any case, it sounds like you want one of the inductive charging mats that are already available. My guess is that in real life the performance will be similar.
Seems relevant.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
I think a key component to unions is a marked class dichotomy. Blue collar on one side, white on the other. This leads to strong "us vs them" tribal instincts to prevail. I don't think that dichotomy is as strong in tech industries, if it exists at all.
Would you join a police officer's union?
Mindshare is not a zero-sum game like market share, so scope of function is irrelevant; and is not a short-term phenomenon, so ten weeks is nothing.
You continue to forget the point that it really does not matter what your company thinks about ROI if the company next door is offering more money. The qualified people are going to go over there first, and you will get the leftovers. Why would the qualified people do any different?
Thanks for the feedback. I feel we're making the same point in different ways - I suppose I opted for a stylistic flourish at the expense of clarity. I don't men that men (most soldiers being men) are sexually aroused by imminent fear and autonomically assault the nearest convenient victim, but rather than that sense of present and ongoing trauma promotes violent opportunism against vulnerable persons.

I mention the evolutionary basis because it seems obvious to me that if your future survival is in constant jeopardy and your priority was to pass on your genome at all costs then you'd try to have sex any time the opportunity arose just in case it was the last time. But yeah I'm making some sweeping assumptions and stating them a bit arrogantly too.
I do not blame them for this.

I blame them for building an inferior web browser with substandard feature support just because they want to wall people into the App Store ecosystem.

It does seem like they're changing and incorporating more JS features into the browser. Let's hope they keep up.
To answer your first question, I'm from Fort Worth and yes; not exactly that stereotype though. The difference runs really, really deep. I interviewed with them once as well.

Some people at wal mart know their way around a database (database being euphemism for a broader "tech culture"), they are not well represented in management and wal mart is trying to change that (with jet acquisition). but too little too late.
Yeah it's a good read, eye-opening.
I'm not a Mac user, but bravo to the author for doing a really good analysis. I run a skylake-based Asus running Ubuntu with Gnome and it performs well, but the battery life does vary more than my Lenovo/haswell did. I'm able to get minimum 5h of dev, max 10h, depending on a variety of factors, without using powertop tuning. This post reminded me that my suspicions about Gmaps are worth investigating. Try to always close maps... But now I will be more careful!
"At what point do you deem social behavior unacceptable? It's a fine line to draw and one that might be difficult for many communities to do correctly."

This is key. A large part of contemporary American (and, as I understand it, European) politics involves struggles over the size of the Overton window. This means that even people with little interest in the project will have a strong incentive to use the project's code of conduct as a tool for defining the boundaries of acceptable discourse in the communities that overlap with the project.
Touchbar needs more customisability. The fact that now I have to make multiple presses and look into it to change the volume is making it a time waste.
There is an argument that the spelling out of cases in which it would be illegal implies that they're okay with it in other cases. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...
Because it's by Ken Perlin, probably.
Cool. I think we're generally in agreement then. For many (most?), leadership is an unnatural act you have to learn, so it takes time not to shoot from the hip on this stuff. And for anyone, no matter how golden their heart, it's easy to get caught up in a moment if you don't do the step back you suggest.

The larger point is to encourage the step back and a broader discussion, and to share some of the data showing that people actually don't want piles of feedback on every little thing every day.