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I don't know if this is still the case, but when I bought my first mechanical keyboard 10 years ago, Filco was a much better option for the price. I bought a Filco Majestouch (2?) with MX Blues and it is still going strong.

That being said, I'd do some research on the mechanical keyboard subreddit before I bought a pricey keyboard of any sort. I did buy a Rosewill keyboard Cherry MX Reds right before they switched over to the off-brand switches, and it's pretty solid. Not as nice as my Filco, but it's more solidly built than the Corsair mechanical keyboards I've used.

Side note on Corsair, the font is thee worst part about their keyboards by far. It has some hideous font with a mix of capital and lowercase letters.
Ugh! You're right!
Aren't they then just as dangerous in the cargo compartment in checked luggage?
It might be anecdotal which I doubt

Is it "a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature"?

Its an account of "in my experience" or "the people I know do this" -- its not hard facts obtained through the scientific method (ie controlling for other factors and for biases). That makes it, by definition, anecdotal.
People who just want funding don't work on things like the LHC. If you want to solve a problem while someone is throwing money at you, then you work in defense. You shouldn't be so quick to harshly judge people who are making the choice to explore the edges of what we can achieve rather than make a quick buck developing the best new way to kill someone.
Very interesting! Thanks for the clarification. Would you say that the ML/AI aspect is "easy" once the automation is built? Or does the automation offer limited value without fairly sophisticated algorithms?
I find this a fascinating line of thought, to apply machine learning to manipulate/augment/facilitate forms of art like drawing, painting, animation.

There was a project (I think at Google) that applied machine learning to various famous painters' works, so that it could generate new "paintings" in the style of the old masters.

I imagine something like that could be used for illustration, like, say - a digital drawing pad like Wacom, that would over time learn your "style" of brush/line strokes, color preferences, etc. To animate a series of drawings, it could produce interpolations between frames, as if you hand-drew them yourself. And it'd get better at it, the more you draw.. In a way it would become an extension of the artist.
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The government would actually love this. Most people are ignorant of tax laws and would just sign a piece of paper to get all of their taxes done. It would be an instant pay raise because most people would never even know if they could write something off. It would also allow them to easily remove the ability to write anything off, without too many people complaining.

What many people don't like to talk about is that yes, places like Sweden have much simpler tax code. But they also removed most ways to actually reduce your tax burden and grow your business (this applies to personal taxes too). You are also required to have a special black box on any credit card transactions, which sends everything straight to the government. This smacks of authoritarianism.

Simplicity might seem better, but it gives us less control over our own taxes.

It's also not really that difficult now. Everyone I know has been doing their own 1040-EZ form since they started to work. It's usually only one or two forms to fill out. If this is too complicated for our society, we truly have problems.
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Except it's actually a thing: https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photosensitive-epilepsy/com...
My wife and I joke that our two dogs taught us to howl when firetrucks go by with their sirens blaring. We catch ourselves howling in the car, by ourselves, when a firetruck passes.
this must have been so much work. SICP is an intricate masterpiece. So many projects like this fail mid-way. Even if all you do is change the CSS style, that's an accomplishment in itself.
(Even though I disagree with it) Many courts interpretations of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Lobbying is speech. You can't just censor people you disagree with. That's not the basis of our democratic society. The price of being able to speak what you think is good, is having to hear what you think is bad.
"The prime objective for a business is to make money."

A business is a way for people to organize and collaborate and it does not absolve those people of their moral and ethical obligations. Individuals are expected to prioritize family, community, country, religion, etc. We need to stop giving people a free pass just because they hide behind articles of incorporation.
I bought an ipad Mini 2 for testing (insert sweary rant about mobile safari here) and expected to not get on with it.

It's become a small but important part of my digital life, My ISP rolled out city wide WiFi so I can use it comfortably at the coffee stall in the market, it's great for research, reading, PDF's, screen is large enough to be useable and the battery life is great.

It's the only Apple product I've ever owned.
At my previous employer, we were evaluating solutions from IBM, TIBCO, and Oracle. The IBM solution was cheaper and met our needs. In the end, our VP nixed them with the statement of "I don't really want to support IBM software." The feeling was unanimous across the team.
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Yes, it's Cocoa/Swift.
My math was off. It is 550 hours.
That is much more reasonable.
Do you think it is still possible to be fluent in speaking?

The reading and writing part surprises me. Is that different from English? I don't remember what it was like to learn it in the first place so I don't remember if I initially had trouble writing something I had read.
> to help my dog understand what was happening

Fear of death can be worse than death itself. I actually think it's a blessing that my dogs didn't understand what was happening, so they didn't suffer as much.
Wasn't that last year? ;-)
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There are alot of great documentations on the web. My favorite is Surfly co-browsing API documentation. https://docs.surfly.com?utm_source=hackernews
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His work on wavelets is seminal and astonishing.

He has not stopped working, ever; with recent contributions to the detection of gravitational waves and the theory of quasicrystals.
At the risk of sounding like a jerk, this seems like another example of urban areas subsidizing rural areas' infrastructure because those areas aren't really economically viable.

It's a really bizarre situation: you have rural residents who hate 'government handouts' being extremely dependent on just that, and those handouts come from the very 'urban elites' that they despise!

> Two Stones Farm, a small goat farm here, has created an online store to offer more products, including artisanal cheese. “I look at it this way: It’s very much like electricity was at one time,” said Alan White, 54, who owns Two Stones Farm with his wife. “Electricity would have never come to our valley if it was based strictly on population. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity that we need to operate.”

Well yeah, that's the free market at work.

Like, I don't have a major problem with the subsidy itself, I just hate the massive ignorance and cognitive dissonance involved from people who worship the market except when it doesn't work out so hot for them, and then are suddenly cool with, even eager for subsidies from their political enemies.
It's funny that there's such furor about Russia influencing American policy, while statements like "Europe will follow the US/UK rules very soon" are just casual factual commentary.
And the U.S. violence rates are really skewed. If you remove about half a dozen large cities, the U.S. rate for homicides, etc., is much more in line with the rest of the first world.
There are more than one change per day in the tax code [1]. This implies that at least every day, a tax specialist would need to evaluate, describe requirements, a developer would need to translate that into code, including testing, regression test, etc. The code base also only increases, which makes it increasingly difficult to change if not designed carefully. It's technically feasible, but such endeavor would require a substantial effort. This non-profit would need a lot of donations to support that.

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/us-tax-code-has-cha...
Our national airlines don't use the Middle East as a hub.
IBM is a failed services company. Ive been a subcontractor for 2 projects run by IBM. Both fiascos of mismanagement. The project management at IBM had an incredible churn rate. On the first project, they were kicked off for completely failing to deliver. The second project had them completely marginalized. The sad thing is that it was another "big 4" consulting company that took over, who was only slightly less incompetent. I really have trouble understanding the big 4 consulting model. It mainly seems to consist of the following:

1) plant 2-300% of the consultants on site that are necessary
2) create an enormous amount of power point slides that look impressive but mainly say nothing
3) outsource the real work to India or cheap labor
4) deliver 25% of the requirements in 300% of the time
There is a certain amount of snark embedded in this post, but its not a bad idea at all - I'll be in much the same boat at that time - perhaps I can borrow the same idea...
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iPad Pro: Take the 9.7" iPad and add:

* Apple Pencil

* Faster CPU, more memory, more display

* UHD color gamut display (and automatic white balance adjustment)

* Better cameras

I think there are other differences, but those are the big ticket ones.
Both excel at finding ways to gouge customers too. Doing standardized deductions, but happen to sell one stock? Nope. Gotta upgrade to Premier for $30 more.
Indeed. But it seems to be what burglars often do: if they are frustrated by security, they do some vandalism.
> In the late 80s, you could even get a third party scanner in the shape ink cartridge called a Thunderscan for the Imagewriter.

That was indeed very cool. The much lower complexity of the technology involved is what made these kind of feats possible tho- there's no way you could pull off something like that in this age of hyper miniaturized, specialized hardware components- that's why something like Project Ara was doomed from the start.
Given that it's a representation of reality inside virtual reality, I'd go for Real Reality.
I don't think it discredits the author's coding skills to _not_ being using cloudflare (or similar) on what is otherwise a very low traffic blog. you don't get HN spiked every day.
Not as dangerous by itself as you can't just hold it up to a window or wall. But possibly more so, because you can also pack liquid explosives, flash paper, carbon-packed clothing, compressed gases, etc in checked luggage.
Thanks for the link, this is exactly was I was looking for!
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I'm not sure about this particular one, but a general idea is that the properties you are measuring in a particle depends on a lot of virtual particles.

It's difficult to find an easy example. After some searches in Google I found this unrelated example: http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~bigdraw/feynman/slide3.htm...

It has 9 Feynman diagrams. If you look at the top left diagram, there is an electron that enters from the bottom right corner, then it emits a photon that go out thought the top left corner, then the electron goes out through the top left corner.

The following two diagrams show the case were the electron emits a second (and third) photon and reabsorbs it, so the second (and third) photons are not visible for the experimenter, they are virtual photons. These additional photons are only important because the change slight the properties of the electron.

In the next three diagrams the photon is so strong that it can spontaneously split in another electron and a positron. It looks like a loop/circle, because positrons are like electrons traveling backward in time. They are virtual electrons, and again they are not visible in the lab, they are only important to make a tiny correction to the result of the experiment.

The other three diagrams have two virtual electrons, than makes even smaller corrections.

And in addition of the virtual electrons, there can be virtual muons and tauons. They are like electrons but with more mass. So the probability of having one of them is smaller, so the correction is smaller. In this case, I think that the correction is so small that it's impossible to measure it.

And you can have another virtual particles, like virtual quarks and virtual W, anything that has a charge. Moreover you can have virtual unknown particles (with charge) because nature doesn't care if we know the particle yet or not. But they are heavier, so the correction is negligible.

If you change the experiment, and for example make a electron collide with a positron, then the calculations are very similar, but there is more energy laying around, and the corrections from heavy particles are more important, so this variation is more useful to discover new particles.

Back to your question ...

The new particles are composed by three quarks, but actually they are composed by a lot of gluons and virtual quarks and antiquarks. To do any calculations you have to include a lot of diagrams like in the figure linked above, and a lot more, many many more.

IIRC the calculation is so complex that it's not possible to compare the experimental results with theoretical calculations. Perhaps they have some heuristic to compare the results with the results of similar particles.

This was probably part of a bigger experiment that produces a lot of particles, and they are trying to classify them in families. And perhaps in the classifications they can spot some strange pattern that may provide a hit that there is a new elementary particle.
Every time I've found myself needing to ask, or had teammates who needed to ask the question "Is my job safe beyond the next month?" the answer has been "no."
More countries on this list will follow, it's how these things always start. Target 'dangerous' countries first, ones that the public won't speak out much about, then keep adding to it.
Why's clickbait still allowed here?
Back in the 70s RAM was expensive, and 68 years is long enough that they figured they would have a solution in place long before it became an issue.

When your machine has a 16 bit processor and a few dozen kilobytes of RAM you look to save wherever you can. 64 bit number support was primitive and quite slow as well.
I've wondered this myself as well - in my mind, 'all' one need do is pierce a fully-charged iPad and then aim the resultant jet of flame at a plane window, and like a violin, a well-publicised fear-inducing terrorist event at worst, or a downed plane at best.
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Did you read the article though? They are offering 90 days to make the decision, and a month's severance (miserly, imo, but they're offering it). As mentioned in the piece this wouldn't be a very manageable or predictable way to reduce headcount. It's much more likely the motives are exactly what the company said the motives are: they feel like they will be more effective working together. I would likely be one of the employees who said goodbye rather than move, and I don't think this is ultimately a good decision, but neither do I think it's necessary to dig for hidden motives and agendas.
I am remote, and have been for the last 3.5 yrs. As a software developer I find that the times I am least productive are when I need to work in an office. It is loud and distractions are everywhere. People stop by your desk to chat and ask for things, you inevitably get roped into ping-pong or foosball games, you take way longer lunches because that is what everyone else seems to be doing. The list goes on.

I am always glad to get home from the office so I can focus and get work done in peace. It may not be the case for all roles, but for software development I think (motivated and diligent) remote workers are way more productive, and can provide a much better ROI for their employers.
I believe the current term of art is Mixed Reality.
This has been studied. The issue is that people view dogs as helpless and dependent. You get a similar reaction if someone with say, extreme downs syndrome is killed.

Normal people have agency. Most of the "innocent man is killed by the police" stories involve some very stupid behaviour by the "innocent man" leading up to his death.
Apparently lots of downvotes here but most companies will screw you over as soon as it's convenient for them to do so.
It wasn't intended to be sarcastic. I suspect there will be a lot of businesses (especially finance) interested in verifying that the "ancient" Linux system they setup to replace their mainframe 25 years "ago" is safe. I lived through the Year 2000, and watched the same thing happen there.

With suitable groundwork, there will be a willing and wealthy market looking for people to assuage their fears - a service I see myself as happy to provide. Much as it was in the "Millennium bug" area, a lot of the effort in getting the business is PR spadework, but I've got 15-20 years of prep time to position myself suitably. I also hope to provide a slightly more useful service than many Millennium consultancies did at the time.
I think most of this thread is explained by people not realizing you were making a banal first amendment argument.
Why wouldn't they? You are giving them everything they want to and don't ask anything in return, why would not dog love such owner?
You are operating under the assumption the extra 4 bytes was an insignificant cost. This was not true for much of early UNIX history.
> Is there a reason why they decided to store time as seconds from 1970?

Pretty sure it was related to space being an issue. In every place where you needed to save time you likely didn't want to use more space than you had to. This was also a driving factor as to why years were stored with only the last two digits.

In 2017 we have no problem store-wise making it a 64-bit integer. But in the 90s and earlier? I think it would have been a hard sell to make a change that would future proof them beyond 2038 especially when so many play the short term money game.
I had no idea that mathematicians were studying the Dirk Gentley problem! Ordinarily I have take doors off their hinges and remove the legs of the sofa to squeeze it through.
If you have a 2015 rMBP, we have the same model. There is no additional glass on top of the LCD, which every unibody model always had. One can argue LCD itself is made of glass substrate, but that's about it and that's not what Apple meant by glass screen on unibody macs.

Poke your screen lightly and poke screen of any other macbook. You'll see by distortion on the screen that you directly poked the LCD.
Not really out of choice, mind you.
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Or alternatively the threat of international terrorism has been grossly overestimated.
Still have an iPad 2, which works fine except for Safari on a heavy site, runs out of memory I think. Very happy from that angle.

But, I've moved to a Nexus 10 for movie watching, for the screen and because it is so much easier to copy a freaking file to it! I need to copy movies ripped from DVD often, or the occasional download. Apple goes out of their way to prevent that, and why I can't really recommend purchasing another. A shame really, talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Agreed! It's totally strange when you consider that some of the most revered figures in cs are also great teachers/communicators.
The C version of Unix was written for a 16-bit processor (pdp-11). The C compiler simulated 32-bit operations but nothing bigger. 64-bit operations only got wide spread way later when 16-bit systems were no longer relevant and 32-bit systems got 'long long'. Note that POSIX allows time_t to be 64-bit. And as far as I know, that's what OpenBSD does.
Actually, NVLink isn't fast enough in some cases either, and that only really helps with GPU to GPU communication. The best way is to not parallelize at all, since parallelizing SGD requires all sorts of trickery such as ring all reduce that can quickly go unstable.

On the matter of shoveling data from the CPU to the deep learning processor (in this case it's a GPU, but in other cases could be a deep learning processor), there are yet other ways, (much) better ways to do that.
It's not like you couldn't still go to Intuit or H&R Block if you didn't trust the IRS. There's literally no downside to the government providing this service.
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Similarly, if the police have a reasonable suspicion that there are illegal materials in your home, they should never be allowed to enter and search it against your will. Either they have enough evidence to charge you or they don't, right? So why bother searching? It doesn't matter if you have a nuclear weapon in your basement, if you say no they aren't allowed to come in and check/collect evidence that makes them certain no matter what the Geiger counter outside says.

Your reasoning invalidates all searches, all warrants, and it's everywhere in this thread, it's insane.

I'm all for security, privacy, encryption, Tor, but if the police have a strong enough reason to think I'm committing a horrible crime, and have convinced a judge to sign off on it, then yeah absolutely they should be allowed to search my computer. I don't get to say "Joke's on you g-man, we both know I'm a criminal and the evidence is right here and I can get into it, but I won't let you in until you've cracked my secret code!" The alternative is for them to just always assume encryption/Tor == criminal. The point is they can search /when they have a very good, explicit reason given to a judge/, not go on fishing expeditions or passively collect everything. You probably will lose your privacy for a little while if you're a reasonable target in a serious police investigation, that's always been the case, and it always will be.
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Back in 1970, no language had a 64-bit integer type. And it started with Unix, which was a skunkworks hobby project, so a thinking of "we'll solve it within the next 68 years" is perfectly reasonable.

They could have made it unsigned instead of signed, which would have made it work until 2100 or so, but I think a 68-year horizon is more than most systems being built today have.
If it's on iOS 10, it's not an iPad 2.

Also, the iPad 2 I got rid of like 4 years ago was horribly slow and pretty much useless at that point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086

In the late 1970s, the cutting-edge microprocessor was 16-bit. The first 32-bit Intel chip was the 386, which debuted in 1985.

The TRS-80, a common small computer in the late 70s, offered 4kb-48kb of RAM.

When using hardware with that capacity, overflowing time_t in 2038 is hardly a concern.