skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that hand-held was an intentional choice, as was 16mm, but even for what it is, it still seems sloppy in spots. There are a number of sloppy pans back and forth during conversations, and because they eschewed camera trucks / sleds / dollies / etc., there are walking backwards shots in which you can tell the cameraman is walking backwards by the camera bob.

That said, I'm not privy to the production details, so if even those things were intentional, then so be it, but it definitely feels dated and off, relative to The Wire.
Who suffered due to demonetization?. The small traders, daily wage laborers, farmers and middle class who comprise the majority of India and for what. Please read: http://www.dailyo.in/politics/demonetisation-noteban-six-mon...

Who will suffer due to improper implementation of GST?. Not the super rich or rich but everyone else. GST requires monthly three returns to be filed in each operating state and an annual report. How will small traders cope up with this sort of requirement with no government initiative?. Please read: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/policy-trends/...
Video streaming media server in network monitoring
I wasn't in NYC for this, but it reminds me of two events I was in NYC for: The earthquake of 2011 and the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.

During the earthquake many people fled their buildings, so we wound up at a kind of impromptu block party at the restaurant across the street with everyone excitedly telling their stories.

After Sandy, lower Manhattan was still dark. But people were out kind of giddily enjoying the bizarre experience of dark Manhattan and sharing stories, which gave the town an interesting sort of social buzz.

Anyway. The moral of the story: Despite NYC's grouchy reputation, New Yorkers seem to immediately come together during these events to talk, hang out, help, etc. It's a reminder that we live in a good town.
I am in dead seriousness not interested in playing just-the-tip with social engineering in central Asia; nor am I interested in wielding one segment of their population as a weapon against another in an attempt to "reform" their society, which is exactly what PR exercises like the story in question are aiming to support.

You owe me an explanation as far as why we should be messing around with their society in any respect, not the opposite.
I've seen Generation Kill multiple times, and regard it as exceptional, though I wasn't aware of Simon's involvement.
Monoculture monopoly leads to tyranny and gouging.
It's just part of the trend for every tool to come with a sales pitch
Ask HN: How much BTC could AWS mine if Amazon put all resources into mining?
Any company that is paying lip service to Diversity and Inclusion (DI in c-level speak) while at the same time requiring or even asking for historical pay is being extremely disingenuous.

By using historical salary, they are borrowing, leaning on and embracing someone else's bigotry. Offer the prospect a market wage, not what *ist system has decided they should get paid and you will suddenly see your workforce normalize in DI.
I agree, the grandparent comment is not contributing to the discussion by disagreeing with every point without providing any meaningful counterpoint.
Machine Learning with C#
Need for more processing power, more manufacturing units, more electricity.

However it's already a self-sufficient efficient eco system only if we could stop deliberately destroying.
What really helped me was 360 anonymous peer reviews. In our case, you picked a sample of folks across teams and functions that you've worked with and ask for a review. They put down strengths and areas of opportunity for growth. Seeing grouped text for my strengths and weaknesses was really enlightening. I could agree with points of needed growth in many cases and the positive section showed that folks who work with me appreciate me and value my knowledge. Humbling all around.

These were a very important step for overcoming a large part of my imposter syndrome. Critical. Later, mentoring junior devs, representing my team in meetings, conducting interviews, doing deeper research into my domains and spreading that knowledge have all helped to reduce my feeling of being an imposter. Knowing that it is ok to not know everything, to ask questions and for help, and to strive to close those gaps. But all this, for me, paled in comparison to the 360 reviews.
Also if you mouse, a vestigial numeric keypad makes you reach much farther right. Pointless unless you’re a data entry clerk.
Do you mean http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-its-alive/ the Retro ThinkPad? It's coming, I am waiting and if it sports the old seven row keyboard and Thunderbolt then I am buying and not asking the price. Do yo know why? Let's run some numbers! If I charge 130 USD / hr as a consultant (as consultants handle their own taxes as such, it's the equivalent of a 130K yearly which is not crazy high for a sr sw architect/developer) and this machine makes me 1 percent more effective than the second best then it's earning me 10 bucks a day. An 5000 dollar machine will earn itself back in two short years. And this is at 1% while I believe the difference to be much, much bigger. I am ready to invest but there's no product since the T420 family which would be worth investing in. It also gives us an idea of the lifespan of these machines: the T420 family is from 2011 and it's not like they are on their last legs six years later.

Also, read the https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=73419.0 Matias Ergo Pro review on some interesting design decision that went into that particular keyboard. (And yes, it's the one I use vertically and can only recommend doing the same.)

Interestingly enough, some gaming laptops are the ones that at least attempt to have a semi decent keyboard by using mechanical switches.
Reference to an episode of "Black Mirror"
You're arguing advertising and the way business is done worldwide is morally dubious.

Why is it morally dubious?

You have to become better at demonstrating value, yes.
Been using this app for quite some time. The best I've found.
This phenomena applies to a number of beach towns, especially Santa Cruz which does its best to take California informality well past eccentricity. It's awesome and definitely a defining aspect of Santa Cruz culture.
Stupid question, it would be negative ROI as electricity costs eclipse BTC value
Even for the 13-inch, the two models aren't remotely similar outside the outer case. The one without the touchbar is really more like a MacBook Air with a 15W CPU.
I can always put down my phone or stop using credit cards. It's a lot more difficult to take out a microchip. But as long as it's not de facto required I guess it's fine.

It my belief that you should be allowed to walk around within America (or your country) without any form of identification.
https://youtu.be/doEZMNXz1JY

Louis did a nice video on the older keyboard/trackpad vs the newer ones, which I agree with. Modern keyboards actually aren't bad, but the trackpads are terrible. The entire design of having left and right click as just one big flat button causes so many issues.
You probably couldn't do it in 20 minutes.
Depends on the type of stroke. There are occlusive strokes, which are due to blockage by plaques, and there are hemorrhagic strokes, which are due to vessel failure and bleeding.

Anecdata: My dad died of a hemorrhagic stroke. My mom of an occlusive stroke. No plaques in my dad. A very few in my mom. It's complicated.
Exactly. How much money did those people start out with? If you're from a wealthy family and will work for the family business it doesn't matter what your GPA is.
People must be responsible for their actions, even if an environment influenced their decisions. Yes, to fix the issue, there needs to be larger societal change. But individual perpetrators need punishment as well.

There are two reasons for this. First, punishment of the "bad apples" deters others in the future, and brings about the larger societal change. Second, as a basic principal of a free society, people must be held accountable for their actions.
They use luminosity for SNe Ia.
The Colossal Hoax of Organic Agriculture (2015)
Virtual Space – Get in Touch with People, Places and Things Around You
Yes, I think the term has been abused and overused, but it's equally wrong in the other direction to dismiss all tech talent simply for lacking a graduate degree.
You're right. My biggest issue with shipping is perfectionism.

I guess I should lower my standards a little and just allow myself to look a little foolish just to keep progressing. I'm not Mark Zuckerberg, there is nothing wrong with that.
This is rather good advice. To add to that I would recommend reading Feeling good by David burns. It has a lot of exercises, especially the Vertical Arrow technique that can really help OP.
I use Chrome on my phone. "Open in new tab" works just like on the desktop.

I wish these basic commands were first class:

- undo/previous/back

- read later/snooze/postpone/queue

- done/next/ignore/skip

- more/details

- agree/upvote/recommend/endorse

- disagree/downvote

- improve/contribute/comment/add

We could have focused interfaces like Tinder's (one item at a time) and easily navigate articles/comments/videos/reviews/products on any device.
Basically no barrier to entry and no margins.
For most (all?) mobile chips, the i7s are just the fastest ones. The i5s still have all the same features.
I know a CPU designer that avoids the term "software engineering" and instead calls the profession "software arts & crafts." :)
Chronicle: Public append-only ledger microservice built with Slim Framework
The Russian invasion was in a large part driven by the population of Afghanistan rebelling against the central government attempting to impose that sort of liberalism. This isn't particularly controversial, even the baseline Wikipedia article about the invasion mentions this in the first couple paragraphs.

Afghans in the West are a ridiculously unrepresentative sample; you might as well talk about the views of Americans in Mecca.
I believe Meyer was implying that while being a female founder is hard enough, her being a non-white minority makes it even more difficult due to racism.
Ooh, this is excellent! I hadn't even thought about physical shutters, that adds a whole new wrench.
That would have excluded Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs.
nothing banishes doubt faster than success. successfully shipping a product, successfully getting paid, successfully building a team. just like everything else, the only way to prove you can do something is to actually do it.
I believe that is only in passing. I honestly think the majority of laptop manufacturers are not visionaries when it comes to product specs. Only Apple and a couple of niche ones truly seem to know what they are doing. The rest will have a delay to see the change in trends (but they do eventually see it).

I think consumer masses moving away from the laptop market has a dire implications for this market (far less competition, expect premium prices). But on the plus side it should shift the market towards productivity, which is a big plus for some of us.
Keep in mind that these functions aren't being removed, just shifted to keyboard shortcuts. Do you really hit Print Screen more often, or more impatiently, than Ctrl+S? Besides, shortcuts are sometimes faster, by virtue of keeping your fingers near the home row.
Loren Janes, renowned Hollywood stunt performer, dies at 85
New apps shouldn't be needed for this kind of thing. Get an RSS reader and use https://news.ycombinator.com/rss. If you want to get your comment replies too, ask HN to start providing a feed for it, if they do, I couldn't find it. Start using the reader for everything you can. Most YouTube channels have a hidden feed, Reddit has feeds, most sites worth a damn have feeds. You will save countless hours of your life never having to sift through things you've already read or intentionally skipped. You can add your own filters for junk sites that are going to show you a pay wall, tell you to allow tracking or require you to sign up.
In theory, there could be an intelligent psychological model that analyzes a male VC's brain and provides thoughtful suggestions to them to dissuade them from this behavior right before it occurs. While that's a nice thought, it's incredibly unrealistic.

The far more practical approach is to catch the bad guys over and over again, make examples of them and mete out punishment. That's how criminal deterrence works in every other field. No reason to make an exception here.
Someone once said that the price of gold is a 6,000-year-old bubble. There is no doubt that the price of gold far exceeds it's utilitarian value. The same is true of cryptocurrencies.
> the FDA who have centuries of history fighting malnutrition

Founded in 1906.
Change your mindset?

If not you, then who? If there were someone better positioned for the role in which you feel an imposter, then you wouldn't be there. There probably are people who are smarter than you are who _could_ take the role. But they're doing something else. Why? Probably because they are actually better suited for some other challenge. And why bother with a role which isn't a challenge? It's better to vacate and allow someone who will actually learn something rather than tread the same tired ground. If we don't move, we die.

How do you know that you aren't well suited? If you feel you aren't suited for the role then your sense of value is probably out of whack. That's probably because you aren't seeing the game for how it really is. And that's fine because we all start out there.

Org charts don't tell you who the actual influencers are within the org. An org chart might tell you that Bob is the person to go to for making decisions. But people who work there know that Bill is the person you go to for really getting things done (maybe Bob is a lame duck, incompetent or just doesn't care).

Written rules create structures which have solid walls but also holes, leaks, cracks and open spaces. We tend to focus on the physical structure. But just as important is the unintended uses of that structure. The rules are important for what they say, but also important is what they _don't_ say.

Just the same, we're probably not understanding our value. We are looking at the wrong targets. By the time we do figure out the game, we'll likely move on and let some other imposter take our place.

That's good. Better to keep us on our toes. I would rather be on a plane flown by a tense inexperienced crew than a lethargic overconfident crew. While we're on the subject, there has been a history of plane crashes which could have been avoided if the inexperienced crew members were more vocal in pointing out problems to their superiors. They kept quiet because they suffered from imposter syndrome.

Just be helpful. You wouldn't be there if someone didn't think you could help. If there are smarter people working with you, then it's probably the people who hired you. Trust their decision to hire you.
Oz is terrible; so hammy and unrealistic. J.K. Simmons is about its only saving grace.
I was an expecting an article about waterproofing differences between windows that open to the left and those that open to the right. Forgot this was HN.
>> or they know and don't care

Thereby proving that the emperor has no clothes.
So are sales engineer/HVAC engineer/stationary engineer/chief engineer/critical facilities engineer/etc...seems like the word, and required training associated with it, is slowly getting cheapened by throwing the title "engineer" on everything.
“So, you decided to contribute to open source”
The rise of the McModern
In other words, getting ready to become more selfish from now on. Is Condoleezza Rice still working for Dropbox?
Ok we (belatedly) took "better-than-Rust" out of the title.
"The founder visa looks quite friendly and easy, but it's four years. What happens after that? And what if the startup fails, does the founder have to leave France?"

I think that ambiguity is by design, to attract certain type of demographics for people falling under the employees and founders groups. (i.e. young, unattached, adventurous)

For people falling into the investor group, I seriously doubt getting visa renewed after 4 year will be an issue as long as they are willing to bring in additional capital.
Amusingly, I just deleted my account for wholly unrelated reasons last week.
How Jonathan Dimock Auditioned to Be NASA White House Liaison
Not to be a pedant, but one of the best things about The Wire is the language..."Omar comin!" or "knockos" instead of "narcos" (narco cops) or "Hamsterdam," a mishearing of "Amsterdam."
[2016] Why Can’t Silicon Valley Solve Its Diversity Problem?
That's because trackpads are now used to control as you would on a phone/tablet : tap for single click, double tap for double-click, two-finger tap for right click, pinch to zoom, etc.

Ideally, there would still be buttons to allow both types of control though.
I agree that this education is "absolutely and vitally necessary", however I disagree with you that this education is "basic" or that it should be relegated to just subset of the population.

Knowing how to communicate with people who are different from you, knowing how to disagree with another without insulting them, knowing how to check sexual desires in inappropriate settings, knowing when you are operating from a position of power rather than influence ... these are often not at all obvious, they are learned.

Everyone can benefit from this type of education.
Thanks for the feedback, the boilerplate template was wrong. We've updated product description pages so they're clearer now (Clearly states DRM free)
This so hard. Smart is good. Work product is better.

HN is a great place to daydream about the future. But most ideas here are months away from production in any meaningful sense, if they ever really see the light of day. Enjoy HN for what it is.

Take what you know, build the smallest possible functional thing you can and then improve on it quickly. Teach someone else. Then have them teach someone. Get away from being "the guy" as fast as you can. Being "the guy" is a good way to get stuck in a rut. Continuing to deliver on stuff in general is where you want to be.

Each project will be better than the one before. You will always remember everything that is wrong with all of them, and that's OK. Keep looking at new things and fold them into your projects when they make sense. Don't be afraid to goof around and not finish things in your free time. That's the equivalent of working out for your brain.

There are plenty of smart people who can critique all day or play around with clever ideas or tell you how to do what you're doing in some cooler or more pure way. Everything we love could have been done better, but we remember the folks who did them.
Banks make money by borrowing from one person and lending to another at a higher interest rate. They can do this in Bitcoin just as well as in US dollars.
> What I am against is the (to me) crazy amount of overconfidence many people (on the left especially) have in the ability of their data to "prove" their political positions and arguments.

Part of this statement seems to reflect a high degree of confidence in the idea that this is phenomenon "especially" afflicts the left, but there doesn't seem to have been a presentation of evidence which provides unambiguous support for the thesis.
Correct answer, but bad tone. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Comments

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

Somewhat related: If someone steals your Amazon credentials, he can use them to mine bitcoins. Using the CPU to mine bitcoin is not efficient and the value of the mined bitcoins will be much smaller that the cost of electricity and Amazon services, but it doesn't mater because he is not paying the bill. For example read: http://www.securityweek.com/how-hackers-target-cloud-service...

PS: It may be a interesting to know this as a theoretical question. But as a practical question, the idea is not profitable at all.
On the contrary, I think it's really difficult to distinguish TeX and InDesign on a resume. Using Computer Modern is a giveaway, though.
Well, this package is more useful than I thought then!
Anyone remember "sary"? It was doing suffix arrays 17 years ago. Last update was in 2005.

http://sary.sourceforge.net/
Hint: Many people use laptops when traveling or when not at home or the office. Infact that's the only thing I use mine for. I have a significantly more powerful desktop in my home office.
This is cute:

switch (o=symbol()) {
....
/* short constant */
case 21:
case21:
*cp++ = block(1,21,ctyp,0,cval);
goto tand;

.... elsewhere in the switch ....

cval = -cval;
goto case21;
So here's an interesting thought:

A lot of people on HN grew up in wealthier families, and perhaps never had to work a manual labor job. If the average worker lifts 100 boxes per day, you just have to lift 100 boxes and you know you are doing the work correctly. You deserve to be there.

In manual labor, you never have imposter syndrome if you are doing the work right. Why? It's extremely easy to mentally calculate your benefit to the company and compare it to your fellow workers.

After a day of doing manual work, you always feel refreshed and come home satisfied.

Software on the other hand is much more conceptual, and it is much harder to determine if your input is up to par.

To fix this, you need to figure out goals and milestones with your manager that you can work to reach and exceed - ask your manager what you can do to be in the top 25% of employees, and get a concrete list of features/bugs/etc. on a timeline from your manager for you to complete.
Does the Rex Neo have posits?
Failed how?
They would have clicked on the 'Startup Founder' link instead.

Or later, they could click on the 'Investor' link
Highly recommend Ender's Game and the many sequels, where the alien insect species is known as the Formics.
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Those foods are pollinated by livestock bees, not wild bees. In a livestock setting, bee colony pressures are manageable, and are an economic concern, not an existential environmental concern.
Good luck to them. Been an excellent service from day 1.
I have absolutely _zero_ problems with that, never "accidentally" clicked anything in my life, it's perfectly balanced for just the right amount of pressure.

Dragging requires more effort since you have to both move the finger horizontally while maintaining downward pressure, which increases the friction significantly. If the button was separate, you can hold it with one finger while just touching the touchpad and controlling movement with the other.
Rather than imagine, you should probably do some market testing. Here's a single data point to get you started: last time I talked to a late-teenage member of my family about email, they called it "old", and weren't even sure what their address was.
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