skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was only to clarify that the keyboards have changed over the years and that historically, there was a more rational basis for the keybinding ergonomics than it might seem today. Part of the reason that Emacs is configurable is that there were lots of different keyboard layouts many years ago and the design view was that there is no one right way. One of the things I like about Emacs is that the philosophy of many right ways is consistent with mine and I don't think there is one right way of editing text and hence there is no one right text editor.

What I like about Emacs is that I can use it with just about any programming or semi-programming language I come across without having to learn a new IDE or editor. The other thing I like is that the capability ceiling of the tool is so high that I am constantly making significant progress in terms of efficiency. So the cost of learning it, was and is worth it for me. If I was writing Java or C# or Pharo most of the time, I'd probably uses different tools.
Every symmetric cipher cascade is bad.
"you should know that Ben Shapiro is a very well-respected author..."

Honestly Breitbart has destroyed their name to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if they took a well-respected author's article, rewrote the whole thing, and then published it under false pretense.
I agree. While I would prefer a market in which we let competition decide how it goes, as it prevents the government from getting involved, there is no market for the majority of Americans. I moved from MD to PA to now CA and every place I go I have had zero alternatives to Comcast. Zero. AT&T told me they would have to run lines to my house at some insane cost (I think it was like $20k or something? It's been many years).

If there is an alternative that's realistic to implement I would be very interested but I haven't heard one.
I think it would be good if more people questioned where newly created central bank money has flown. Who has benefited most of the new money. In the past there was a concept such as banks crashing and going bankrupt free banking. There is also an issue of banks assuming ownership of the clients money according to Peals bank act. Bitcoin and crypto currencies will bring back the free bank again.

How does newly printed money that flows to robots affect prices of goods?
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Is it wrong that I completely stopped reading after the first line:

"Humans have always noticed owls."

And internally I went "Really. 'Always'?!?"
When startups are de-regulated out of existence by barrier to entry costs, big companies can look forward to both real and perceived lower innovation costs. The bubble may burst but a few tech companies will be more profitable than ever
>Basically, don't hack computers but people around you.

Ding ding ding! I agree with most of your advice, but this is the heart of it. People are very basic machines. Your job as an employee is ONLY to a) make your boss feel good and b) make your boss look good.

Protesting this is simple naivety. The sooner you internalize and accept it, the better off you will be. I have met multiple men who've lost everything at retirement age because they were naive and allowed themselves to be lulled to a false calm by slick workplace politicians. These events are _not_ pretty.

In software, there is a natural merit barrier to performing even the minimal job functions that can allow us to confuse it for a meritocracy. This is why slick MBAs are reluctantly forced to accept people with basic hygiene problems inhabiting corners of their offices. But mistaking this for actual respect for merit is fatal faux pas.

This is a simple reality that most of the rest of the world was forced to accept during their first jobs out of high school. Software engineers are spoiled, and far too many of us allow it to go to our heads.

>There is no future in software development as a job.

You're getting some push back on this because it's not really universally true. It depends on the individual's goals and ambition. You absolutely can spend 30 years as an employed software developer if you're happy with where that leaves you (and a large number of people are, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that).

However, if you want to be more than an employee/pawn, if you want to make decisions, if you want to get more than a pittance of the proceeds -- you must accept and realize that your field of operation must be human psychology, and it must be correctly applied in its various forms (politics, marketing, etc.).

The sooner this is accepted, the better. Literally just in the last couple of weeks, I watched a multi-million dollar company with dozens of employees get wrested away from a competent (if complacent) engineer by useless, image-obsessed political hacks.

The kicker? That's not the first time it's happened to him.

Do not let the small successes that people are forced to give based on merit go to your head, or you'll end up like him.
That's what I mean. It absolutely can be argued, but an unfalsifiable[1] claim is worse than useless. My complaint here is not against those who claim that seemingly-altruistic moves are sometimes profit-driven, but rather those who are convinced that _every_ action taken by a corporation is solely and only profit-driven. People who believe this (or talk like they do) are far, far more common than you'd think. As I said, as far as I can tell, it's likely due to the fact that trying to intuit the culture of a company through its actions over time is very difficult and it's far easier for lazy or small minds to decide that there are no actions beyond profit-seeking ever taken.

[1] For those who don't know precisely what I mean by this, it essentially means that there's literally no possible action the accused could take to prove otherwise.
Wait, that's an amazing claim. 100 is the median IQ for the entire population. So the claim is that the median college graduate has the same IQ as the median person. How could that possibly be true?
Indeed, the Emacs pinky got me started on a life-long interest in [ergonomic] keyboards. The best solution I have found so far is the Kinesis Advantage where Control is moved from the weakest finger (pinky) to the strongest (Thumb). I also swapped delete and Alt (Meta) so the thumb is use for Meta as well. Fixed all my problems!

Incidentally I _also_ switched to Dvorak too, but only for that keyboard. Works great because muscle memory "feels" the keyboard is different and uses the correct layout without cognitive overhead.

EDIT: typo
If your 'let' doesn't propagate so that immutable collections are used, it's not very valuable. Just like 'final' in Java doesn't prevent anyone from mutating your ArrayList. Using 'val' instead of something more suggestive like final/const/'not mut' seems a lot nicer to me. (Edit: and indeed Kotlin having "mutableListOf" and "listOf" separation is a good step in readability. The val/var before either of those is less important.)
Goddamn. In our area it's 10€ for 100 and 20€ for 1Gb.
What do you mean, “must”? They seem to be doing fine without it. Google will still have enterprise customers, no matter how bad their support is when it is really needed.
I think the comparison of hours of reading and hours of training which is made in the article is not a proper one. When you compete or work on your body appearance what matters is the end goal, if you can achieve same result with the less effort it all the better. The amount of work is only reflective of estimating how much work goes into being a professional sportsman or having exceptional physic. With reading it is different, what is the end goal of each of the fierce readers? Is it to be a good investor a successful academic? But then what's the correlation between number of books read and success? I belive that for people who read 20k book by and large the correlation is negative - if their goal is professional sucess they just do not invest their limited time in most optimal way.
I think you just made me a proponent of ending net neutrality! /s
Well, at least at currently, the "US Internet" includes IANA, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Verisign and a majority of the root DNS servers...

Changes made to the "US Internet" are going to absolutely affect the wider world right now.
For better or worse --- I think, often, it's for the worse ---- Schneier has an audience that wants his reaction on all the crypto news of the day. This is his reaction to the Intercept story. In this case, by the way, I think he's dead on.

We all need to resist the urge to judge pages linked from HN in the context of "worthy of the front page of Hacker News". Sometimes authors are writing explicitly to that kind of audience, but often, as in this case, they're not. In the context of the service Schneier is trying to provide, this is a solid and useful post.
In random cloud provider you may not get FS with compression on your machine..
In order to be useful trains need to form large network. Few mile subway route is not so interesting.

A tunnel for cars is different. Even a single and relatively short tunnel is useful and people would probably pay something for access. This means you would start making money on the investment quite quickly.

I agree that trains are the right thing to do, but that is much larger project and likely too big to be an option for private company.
This is the truth if you are locked into only working at fortune 500 companies (ie. large enterprise shops). Once you branch out from those to small/mid-sized companies you find a lot more variation and not so much stupidity. I find mid-sized companies tend to be the sweet spot between minimizing stupid politic and receiving decent pay.
>there's not that much to worry about for us as ordinary internet users.

>"extort" money from Google, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix

That's going to degrade my experience or raise my bills at those sites, and make it impossible to make informed decisions when picking an ISP, as I won't know the true costs involved.
For whatever it's worth, there's a group of people trying to raise money to sue the FCC over the sudden policy changes like this they've imposed recently. http://www.irregulators.org
I consider it long gone because a permanent solution was put in place. Any problem disappearing for over a year is considered long gone in any country. Not about setting a low bar. In fact, I have heard politicians claiming to have fixed problems less than 100 days after they were put into power.
Turing Patterns
My TV alone uses 25Mbps (when playing 4k).
Haven't read anything else by him, but JPod wasn't bad. It wasn't great but it was at least pretty funny and not that political. Maybe stay away from Gen X and give JPod a try.
The Consumer Price Index for Rent of Primary Residence, compiled by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and corrected for inflation, went up only 8 percent in 1997 to 2005, so unmet demand for housing services can’t explain the huge increase in real home prices.

In a free market, this would be true. But rent controls make prices sticky, diminishing their utility as an indicator of the balance between supply and demand. In the worst case, you can see rents staying completely flat -- and a large unmet demand for housing because those flat rents take away any incentive to add supply.
Ah, yes. Morals.

"Took a class, big fun
Modern Ethics 101
First day learned why
Ethics really don't apply"
- Steve Taylor
Not OP but I live in NYC and have 200mb down and 20mb up for $70/month. 200mb down isn't so important. Even with a family of 5 streaming, 100mb would be plenty of bandwidth.

For me, the more important part of the connection is the upstream. the larger that number is, the more I can move towards 100% real-time offsite backup.

That's important in case of fire, theft or other catastrophic issue happening.
The only place that book will go is the dumpster or local used book store.
Yes, it is a private company on private infrastructure, but at least it would be competition for existing infrastructure where it exists. That's better than nothing.
ISPs in the U.S. are already way out in front of this on both legislative and legal fronts.

They help write and push state legislation to make this difficult/impossible and sue anyone who tries into oblivion while finding ways to deny access to the supposedly shared lines tax dollars paid to build.

Not saying it could never work, but that's a hell of an uphill battle to take on.

I'm convinced the disruptive change to this mess will be some kind of WiFi mesh-based network that pushes ISPs out of the loop. I'm just not sure how you'd go about porting that mesh network back into the regular Internet since local ISPs would control all the gateways.
That's how I feel as a dev at startups. Most people in the company are my age but only a few are making my salary. The rest are in sales or support.
Yes, we don't reply on Twitter since it became difficult to operate across multiple channels as we scaled.

I've just updated our Twitter bio to make it clear where to go for support:

http://twitter.com/firebase
Agreed, with an exception of magic non-standard out-of-context characters (#$=%>^<) with non-intuitive language-specific meanings; see bash, perl, angular... I prefer short textual keywords 99% of the time
Buhhhhhhh. Lucky.
> various tech-oriented randos he happens to know

or whom he has investments or partnerships with...
IMO the hardest part is not finding the product, it is finding a person to handle the marketing/sales for you.
It is nice to see that author of this article is remarkably qualified to be speaking on this topic, having coined the term "irrational exuberance" during the dot-com bubble, and the Case-Shiller price index.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Shiller
I didn't think I had an answer for this thread, but this is it. After many years, I finally found my way into a software company. It's weird here... I don't feel like everyone is mad at me all the time.
Sure.

Rotor and stator materials: copper or aluminum for windings and laminated steel for cores.

For Tesla, but for doubly fed generators in wind turbines? Are you sure? I don't think so. For the Prius, 25ibs of rare earth metals, wind turbines have specified laminated steel for their generators?

Tungsten inaturally occurs at 1.5 parts per million in the earths crust, and otherwise has to be manufactored.

A concept I want to differentiate now is the 17 rare earth metals from a classical chemistry point of view, and the concept of rare earth metals in regards to the economy perceived as rare, with volatile pricing which makes investment and investment in products relying on it risky

1. The cost of mining the supposedly relatively abundant element out of the earth and the by porudcts produced by mining it

2. the locations in which it is legally allowed to be mined due to environmental or other resitrctions

3. the degree to which the country producing it is willing to export, and the exponential pricing subject to that to control its rarity relative to demand.

The fewer the countries that produce an element, and process the element, the more control they have over the pricing and its rarity relative to market distribution and therefore pricing...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/04/02/a-rar...

For example, here's something about lithium being effectively rare earth in the eoconomy despite being the 25th most abundant elements in relation to Elon Musks ventures since I also found this as a response to someone else commenting on this saying lithium is not a rare earth issue...think again
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/mar/20/lithium-how-a-miner...

Solar

As solar roofing moves from panels to actual roofing as Solar City and many other groups are following this trend, the units of solar being integrated are becoming smaller, and lithography is effectively a technique which uses manipulation of lasers and optics on lasers to reduce the nm level size of designs ingrained on a wafer which are then after a process of four months subject to a series of chemical depositions and polishes in vacuum vapors to create transisors.

As solar integration becomes increasingly modular with decreasing size, and the integration of the circuits within them, the transfer of lithography technology from nm level transistors into backend solar panel integration is now what the industry is moving into.

Tungsten in relation to inverters...

http://www.thefabricator.com/article/consumables/selecting-t...

Tungsten is one of the original sources that inverter technology utilized and is utilized in audio amps too.

This is also why google gave away $1 million to the little box challenge, in a crowdsourced acknowledgment of the lack of innovation around inverter technology pacing with the sustainable application that connect into the grid utilizing inverter technology, but mostly due to the inefficiency of the circuit, and the size, and less in this particular application about the pricing of the elements involved:

https://littleboxchallenge.com/
Passwords that are restricted to a very short length and/or with a limited character set.
Any idea how much of the Consumer Price Index for Rent of Primary Residence consists of rent-controlled housing?
Teachers can utilize Jupyter notebooks today.
There's not much rent control outside a few major cities like NYC and SF. I doubt it does too much to the national stat.
> iPhones can be lost too.

emphasis on yet another. One more thing to keep track of. Not everyone likes to have their (door) keys hanging off their notebooks all day.

> Yubikey can do U2F and OTP out of the package with no setup required.

Yes, but we're talking about git/ssh here.

> While it can be easier (I wrote a nice shell script for myself), I don't consider setting up a Yubikey for SSH hard for the type of person who uses SSH,

That's not my experience, but it suppose it might depend on who you know/work with, or in what area you work.

> So is the Yubikey software.

I was talking about the free beer kind of free, but it's not accurate to say YubiKey is all free (libre) either, it depends on the product. There was quite a controversy a while back[1]. Personally, I'm fine with closed-source security products. Ideological reasons aside, I don't think making decisions based on whether the code is open source makes sense.

> I would consider that a fatal flaw. Once the private key is on the device, it should not be easy to recover it from the device.

I wouldn't say it's a fatal flaw. You rely on your phone's security to manage access to signing operations anyway, so if an attacker has access to the app, you're pretty much screwed either way. Again, there are trade-offs, but it's a step-up from keeping keys on-device.

[1]: https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-sourc...
(as well as being a Nobel prize winner in economics)
Daryl did the science perfectly at a standard beyond what most studies do. Well beyond the accepted rigor and burden of proof, he demonstrated that ESP is real. Therefore, the accepted burden of proof is broken.

While you accuse the title of clickbaiting, you seem to agree entirely with it.
I don't agree with most of what you wrote, but the "it's called HTML tags" is the most wrong. You must not have tried this any time in the past 5 years or so. The embedded tags come out of CMSs and - when they're not stripped completely - look like <div class="title-main-sub-1"> and <span class="sub-article-v5-bld">. HTML isn't used alone, it's always used with CSS nowadays, and no matter if semantic tags are best practice, the fact is it's optional and regularly not used. If they're going to create a new standard format, they need to address this.
There's a really big gap there. Look at chromeOS - you can click a lot more email links on that OS without getting ransomware'd.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14370057.
I agree. I think this is a money grab, from which we'll see no added benefit. Content providers, and ourselves, will be hurt, while ISPs play god with who gets access to what.
> picking an ISP

If you're even lucky enough to have a choice.
Expanded state hacking powers make a stealthy return to German agenda
Google and Facebook's silence on net neutrality is deafening. It makes no sense. Are they thinking they'll be able to pay for access to the customers that their competitors won't be able to afford?
When I worked in the DoD contracting space there were rules handed down that outlines what browser(s) and version(s) you MUST use due to security concerns. It was always Firefox.

This may be an insanely stupid idea, but, as sort of a thought experiment: what would the fallout be if, say, Mozilla changed their license on Firefox to disallow the usage of their browser by government representatives and associated contractors unless they have a viable, open internet policy in their country? Maybe even restrict future updates to existing Firefox builds to require the same license change?

Might cause some significant headaches as they can't update to the latest IE on likely most of their systems and Chrome has too much Google functionality built into it that, I believe, they'd have to use Chromium.

Like I said, probably a dumb idea but I wanted to throw it out there as a thought exercise because I'm curious if something like this could be effective, much like the original internet blackout was.
scala-mode2 (which isn't close to an IDE) also highlights vars in red so it's extra hard to get mixed up :)
Try working in any restaurant for a couple years.
I was being sarcastic ; )

I'll edit the post.
Is there anything OS/2 can do but other OS cannot do? Hope to be enlightened ... :-)
Where I'm at in the US, we have a Public Utility District that's "owned" by the city (top position is an elected position too). They've run fiber everywhere and leased it to local ISPs.

I can get gigabit for under $90/mo. Lowest tier is 100x10 for under $50.

One of our local ISPs even built a real nice wireless mesh network with a fiber "backbone". You can get low-latency 35x2 service way up in the hills of nowhere.

It's amazing what happens when Internet is treated like a utility.
Open Source: the itch, the hustle and the merge
I only needed a month trial.
On Android versions since Lollipop password managers don't need to use the clipboard. I think on iOS they still need to.
Suggestion - %s/Ajit Pai/Robert Taylor/ . Or some other DARPA person.
Where is Apple, Google, and Microsoft on this? What is the point of an app store if I can't use 90% of the apps on it? What the hell do I need a search engine for if there's only a few websites to search? Why would I use a computer at all if it just serves me the same garbage as a TV?

Come on, throw your fucking weight around, jesus...
No idea. But my impression is that it tends to be more common in the cities which have seen the largest increases in property values.
Yes I think the motivation is clear.

It is the same reason Dropbox doesn't include anything in the web interface to find large files.

--

Edit: tossing in some options to accomplish this; not really related to the current discussion:

Space usage analyser for Dropbox? | https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/47440/space-usag...

Unclouded - Cloud Manager | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.u...
Volvo’s New Autonomous Refuse Truck
I've never used 1password, but Keepass2android registers as keyboard and types username/password.
Mine's on silent 24/7, no vibration, but never off. Also, being a millennial woman with small pockets that don't fit my phone, I almost always have it in my hand so I can see anything I've missed every 15-20 minutes at least. I have all of my notifications for social media turned off.
bad idea ....
Introducing audio on Medium
Exactly my point. I'm speaking from experience and you're going on about what you'd "bet". If you're so sure you have it all figured out, why don't you go do your survey and stop talking about it.
The dynamic IPs were the beginning of the end. Even the IPv6 connection of my ISP does not allow incoming connections. Sad :(