skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about a little more innovation in keyboards? It is 30 years later. Split keyboards?

https://shop.keyboard.io

Tenting capable?

Add a Soli chip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0
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It's an interesting comment on crowdfunding that it's now being compared to Amazon. The original buzz around the idea was that it was a way to pay people to do something that might fail. Getting a product was almost beside the point -- you were patronising creative risk-taking. I'm interested in why this idea failed. Was it the scams? The naive people who promised to deliver the impossible?
The psychology aspect is a part that's the most impressive. You have incentives -- everybody likes money -- and proof-of-work -- consensus that solves the byzantine generals problem. But if you combine them all to produce a new trustless kind of money then this innovation itself serves like a socially scaleless memetic payload.

It's like what Nick Szabo talks about in his social scalability article. That the design of Bitcoin offers high social scalability, allowing anyone to participate in the system across cultures, languages, customs, and laws. It kind of ties everything together under a single model.

I also agree with you about the "Synecdoche" thing, too. It seems like we're arguing about the same thing. As you say, you can interpret "blockchain" as the chain of blocks that is outputted from the consensus system or as the whole system itself. But I guess in the context of this article it was confusing whether this poster was having a genuine misunderstanding or was just talking about a part of the system.
> when coupled with search history, that can now be used to build better user profiles than before

I won't be using Hire to host my resume that's for sure.
Why the quality is so poor? Looks like taken from a digital camera from 2000.
The original title is pretty clickbaity (which, I suppose, is fitting). The switches are great, but so long as your arms are forced together as they are by most keyboards, you are still doing untold damage to your upper body. I'll stick with my Kinesis Advantage.
TLDR - Google is sunsetting Site Search by the end of 2017 and replacing it with an ad-supported alternative...
Let's lower the standards for out top universities. I'm sure that will not backfire ..
I am with you. It's funny, right now I have two keyboards in front of me, a Razer Blackwidow mech for Windows/gaming and a K750 for work on the mac. For work I much prefer the K750.
ArchiveTeam and URLTeam do great work, but those projects and the OP have different goals. (I'm the OP.) This bot will NOT produce any kind of corpus of tweeted links or links shortened by Twitter's t.co shortener; in fact, it bypasses t.co entirely and I don't have any kind of record of those shortened links.

Instead, it backs up the contents of the pages that are linked to at the time of the tweets. Frankly my tool doesn't do anything interesting at all with the URLs — it just submits the "expanded URL" that was tweeted to the Wayback Machine and lets it sort out any and all 301s.
Oof, that's really bad. At the point you're publicly shaming people to do better, you need to fix your organization. Like fast.
I've owned a bright yellow Pickett slide rule since about 1964 or 1965; I bought it with money I had saved while delivering newspapers before school every day. It was my second "computer" -- my first was a Chinese abacus.

I was never practiced enough to be good at an abacus, but learning to use a slide rule is pretty easy. First, learn how logarithms can be used to do computation. Back then every engineer or even science student, as I was, learned to use tables of logarithms to perform multiplication, division, and exponentiation rapidly. Today this is a bit of a lost art, but if you understand it, the operation of a slide rule becomes obvious. The most basic scales are just marked off logarithmically. The scales are a compact version of the log table values. Appending logarithmic scales corresponds to multiplication and so forth. It's like learning vim, learn a few basics and then tinker around with it to get better.

The great multiplicity of scales on slide rules from that period also provided access to trig values, natural logs, hyperbolics, square roots (same log scales but scaled by half), etc.

For many problems, one could approach three significant digits of accuracy with a slide rule. The scales didn't have to be straight they could be circular. This led to a circular slide rule, less convenient to hang from ones belt in a holster, but with some larger (and some smaller) resolution scales. I have even seen cylindrical slide rules with helical scales wrapped around the surface of a cylinder. These could obtain an extra digit or more of accuracy.
Can someone please ELI5 why ASICBOOST would be considered an exploit?

Especially considering Satoshi clearly got caught off guard by the quick rise in GPU mining-- which led to the bootstrapping mechanism putting Bitcoin in fewer hands than it otherwise would have. But I never saw Satoshi call GPU mining an exploit.
Linux
Haskell (stack)

emacs (magit, intero)
Logarithmic or logistic?
Kite reached out to the maintainer of autocomplete-python in private and multiple employees were added to the repository with push rights, Kite integration soon followed. On the issue I've opened [1] only the original maintainer has replied.

[1] https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...
Just like Slack wasn’t the first to offer chat in a business setting or Google offering internet search, you don’t have to be first.
If I recall correctly, it's a holdover from the video game bundles they offer. Initially you could just plug in $0.01 and get their bundles for a penny each. They naturally would have trouble because of card processing fees, but they allowed it until shortly after they started giving out steam keys for games. A "security" mechanism that steam has in place is they don't allow users who haven't purchased any games to participate in trading items/playing the steam marketplace. Scammers were using humble bundles as a super cheap way of getting tons of keys they could use on fresh accounts so they could be used to scam items from legitimate steam users.
the good music is on the internet (no not on spotify)

http://hypem.com
http://bandcamp.com
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its fake. these space agencies can never show live video of the whole earth spinning in real time.
these weightlessness shows are all made during parabolic dive flights, that's why it never last longer than 60seconds.
> The whole point behind a blockchain is that cryptoeconomic incentives serve as an additional security function which is better than relying on generosity alone to contribute hashing power.

This has nothing to do with blockchains. What you're describing is proof of work with a payout system, and you could implement that without a blockchain at all.

>So while it is true that a blockchain can exist without any kind of currency

It has always been true. This was, in fact, exclusively the case before the first cryptocurrencies - blockchains are data structures, not a concept exclusive to currency.

>Your other point is that a blockchain is simply a linked chain of documents. This is incorrect.

It is exactly correct. The use of blockchains in cryptocurrencies is irrelevant to what they are. If I build the next great money machine tomorrow using a doubly-linked list, it doesn't change what a doubly-linked list fundamentally is. The fact that many people have been introduced to the idea of a blockchain through cryptocurrencies doesn't alter the basic facts.

>The whole point behind a blockchain is that it serves as a way to get people to agree on an ordered list of events.

This is not what the blockchain does. The blockchain helps to ensure that Proof of Work is effective for maintaining consensus after blocks are made - it's the role of PoW to produce the agreement. A blockchain without PoW would allow members to produce new combinations of blocks at will to edit the history.
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This. Everybody I know uses LinkedIn as their de-facto resume. It is their most up to date and complete CV with all roles, dates, recommendations, education information, skills, links to projects etc.

LinkedIn definitely has very rich resume data.
How to pronounce computer terms?
I think its because of three reasons:

1. Yandex is annoucing a new ML library and that makes it news because Yandex is well established

2. Gradient boosting is quite effective and popular

3. Not everything has to be about deep learning
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Homo sapiens is the dumbest creature able to spawn a civilization that evolution could produce.

--Accelerando
Second note: They don't have a local phone number, nor do they include the names of the principals involved in the business. Their office is supposedly at the Alabama Center for Commerce. I would expect they would have a business name on this website if they are paying for such an upscale physical site, but no, all they have is a web site address. Is this for real? It smells fishy to me.
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I for one, will never use a Google product again. They level of creepiness and data they have on all their users is insane.

I personally have switched to DuckDuckGo, Fastmail, FireFox (the mobile browser is awesome btw), and will replace Android as soon as a viable alternative is presented. Smooth sailing.

The problem with Google, is they are building a repository for themselves, but also for government. Couple that with their willingness to kill products, and you'd have to be insane to trust their services.
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Same. I absolutely love the built in keyboard in my MSI PE60 6QD (kinda a gamer's laptop) and I never liked mechanical long throw noisy ones.
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Not sure about the movement-momentum question.

Thinking about it, the bicycle would only rotate about the center unless it had something to react against, as was pointed out by others.
Another service where "you" are the product.
Precision and speed, reaction wheels can go from start, rotate you one degree and then stop all motion. With fans your going to end up constantly correcting because you never hit zero rotation.
When I read your questions, I immediately though:
Enterprise users need processes. Processes goes by documentation. If you have to change your documentation once every 6 months because the blue button on the bottom left is now yellow on the top right...
1 petabyte compressed! Woot!
Model F buckling springs were still a cost-reduced inferior replacement for beam springs¹, which themselves were a decent but imperfect attempt to imitate the best key feel in the history of the universe, the Selectric.

¹ https://deskthority.net/wiki/Beam_spring

Edit: It's not entirely correct to blame cost-reduction alone for the end of the beam springs. ISO 9241 killed the existing beam spring switches, and making the replacements equally good (or better — they did suffer from wobble) would have been expensive.
This is reasonable in general, but the expected narrative for "project fails" is something like "we can't make this" or "we needed more money than expected" or even just "we got bored, screw you". It does feel a bit different when the answer is "we took this as seed funding to go enter a totally different market, suckers!" Or in Jolla's case, "thanks for the money, asshole!"

There are plenty of markets with risks to the investors that still have boundaries. If a mutual fund picks badly and loses money, that's an issue for the investors. If a mutual fund turns out to be using your money on personal bets (like the London Whale) or simply stealing the money outright, that's a legal issue.
javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

encodeURIComponent because there might be special characters
Yes, that's more or less it.

It's worth adding to that description that the hash must be secure in that it does not allow determining what random number to use to get a particular output (I'm sure you already recognized this detail - it just guarantees you have to keep trying actually random numbers to find a result).

Also worth adding is that the 'n' (Basically the difficulty) is generally going to need some way of scaling based on how quickly correct hashes were found in the past. This is important to prevent problems that would happen with people being able to generate correct results too quickly (Or even just significantly faster then previously).

In particular, Bitcoin's difficulty factor scales such that a new block is found aprox. every 10 minutes, so 'n' is adjusted every so many blocks depending on how fast the hashes were found. Because in the case of Bitcoin, a found block means more coins in the market, it is important that when more hashing power is added, it doesn't result in blocks now being found 1 minute apart. If that were to happen, then you'd have 10 times the number of coins entering the market.
It's Mozilla, they likely just don't have the infrastructure/code in place yet. They definitely get my trust for believing they actually will. They have been very good in the past about keeping things open. They make mistakes sometimes, but their goals are all about being open.
These ideas seem too be unique to North America and Western Europe.
Many companies have HR software that will even let you apply with your LinkedIn profile instead of a resume/filling out an app.
Same - I've always loathed clicky keyboards.
There is likely corruption throughout these governments too. They're getting loans at the expense of their citizens, often hurting the poorest the most. I'm not saying it's all the WB/IMF's fault, but helpful loans shouldn't carry conditions like these:

- Cutting expenditures, also known as austerity.

- Focusing economic output on direct export and resource extraction,

- Devaluation of currencies,

- Trade liberalisation, or lifting import and export restrictions,

- Increasing the stability of investment (by supplementing foreign direct investment with the opening of domestic stock markets),

- Balancing budgets and not overspending,

- Removing price controls and state subsidies,

- Privatization, or divestiture of all or part of state-owned enterprises,

- Enhancing the rights of foreign investors vis-a-vis national laws,

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#Co...
I totally agree. But hiring talent is hard. I assume companies will grab every opportunity to hire the best people. Even if that means using Google.
Most resume's in non-technical fields (think management, banking, consulting, law etc) will have line items of deals/projects/responsibilities with rich information of how many people they've managed, the size of the deal, type of work etc.

Most of the time people don't want to post this on LinkedIn as its too public of a space to go about bragging of your achievements at employer X. With this system, Google basically has a window into this more specific information.
Am anglo USian who has worked in university context and currently also attending place with high amount of foreign students...

From observation / interactions it is all about motivation -

You had a motivation to improve your English -

Some, (Big note: not all!!!) of these students really don't give a crap about living in really 'experiencing' their host country, they are there because it gives them a convenient checkbox to tick on their 'international' credentials, enough of $host_country_language to manage with basic business transactions, and a way to network with other rich people from their own country, so when they go back home after completing their degree, they have a network in-country for their careers, etc.. The foreign degree it's a status symbol, and that only. No one is going to know how many locals you knew, how many host-country cultural events you experienced, etc, only that you attended and graduated.

Some of these cultures are also internally elitist/narcissistic (e.g. our country is the best and other people are inferior), which while the same could be said of people not welcoming guest students, also can drive self-isolation; I am here only to look down my nose at you as some sort of specimen of curiosity while I obtain the credential which I will use at home in a nepotistic, insular way that you in your 'mere mortal', job-applying and needing-to-work-to-survive-way, will not. Being from the richest of the rich in countries with huge income inequality also facillitates this attitude.. Tell me that the kid in the article, some early 20's person, having the most expensive car in the entire city where his university is, doesn't create a hugely warped sense of self-importance.. why not 'capitalize' on that by being the coolest kid in your native circle than being the bizarre forigner that noone can relate to financially?

Socioeconomically, it is like the richest people from Harvard/Yale/Cambridge/Oxford, etc. deciding to move to a small town.. many wouldn't mingle with the locals other than as a curio, and this factor is made more complex by the cultural barriers, esp. in cultures which are more introverted - clashing with US culture and also being biased towards self-isolation
Nope. I've used Model M keyboards for a loooong time and I think they're highly overrated. Loud as hell and really fatigue your fingers. Cherry MX switches really are better.
You make interesting points. I do think sometimes there really is no trade-off. So why doesn't every company adopt that policy which has no trade-offs? Because they don't know or haven't heard of it, thought of it. Simply writing a sentence could make anyone reading that sentence slap their forehead and say "why didn't I think of that" and instantly adopt it with no resistance - a policy can spread like a meme to everyone who's ever heard of it, resisted by no one. Then if you read it about a potential employer you can say "great! they've already heard of it."

You might think I'm being silly and that real values aren't like that - that I'm just not seeing the alternative viewpoint or trade-off.

But I actually think there are a huge class of values like this.

I guess that's just my opinion.
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We're either going for almost completely flat keyboards like the new Macbooks, or the clickiest most obtuse mechanical keyboards. Why can't we have a good compromise?
Like beds, people aren't usually willing to spend lots of money on a good keyboard. It's unfortunate, especially considering how much time you spend typing on one. But the moment you start talking mechanical switches, your keyboard is going to be above the hundred dollar mark (knock-offs notwithstanding). Split the keyboard, another two hundred dollars. Throw in something like Soli, and you're looking at a thousand dollar keyboard.

How many people would be willing to pay over a thousand dollars for a good keyboard?
Couple that with the fact that they do not offer anything that deserves the moniker "customer service".
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/
The #2 Operating System is iOS, and no Objective-C or Swift in the language listing?
it provides a tactile sensation that I personally enjoy.

I find it similar to loading a gun, or shifting a manual transmission, or attaching a lens on an SLR style camera, or opening a well-built safe, or opening the door to a heavy luxury sedan.

There is some sort of mechanical response and feedback that modern keyboards somehow lack. It's hard to describe. Good modern mechanical keyboards come close, though.

I have no delusions that model M style keyboards are superior; I just like the way they feel.
The chip is a security measure. My understand is that it is slow because the chip is doing a computation and it is not very fast.
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Still weighs a ton. And they've been in basically continuous manufacture ever since the old days. And they have full 100+ key layouts with a lot of alternative layouts. And they cost a third of the kickstarted model F. And they have replaceable parts. And they don't ping. And I own and love three of them and I might be biased.
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Active discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796381
Government in this country is completely off the rails insane. At least ten-fifteen, heck twenty years ago you could sort of understand why certain policy decisions were made... nowadays it is like completely impossible to figure out what people in power are trying to actually accomplish.
> It's not about ethnicity, it's about culture.

Ethnicity is culture. (That is, ethnicity is the state of belonging to a group with a shared cultural identity.)
This is brilliant! First, they are right 'don't teach english in the far east'. I did it for a three months in Hong Kong in the 80's. The school was a mess and I quickly became freelance. That only sucked slightly less, so I started my own school. My Chinese business partner later blew all of our money playing Mahjong and we closed the company. A year later I started the second Internet company in Hong Kong and have never had to even think about teaching english again. Ten years later I moved to Japan, started an animation studio. Since then I've lived and worked in Beijing, Shenzen, Thailand, Laos and for the last five years in Cambodia.

English teachers in the far east are about as low on the totem pole as you could imagine. For expats it's sort of like flipping burgers or being a Walmart greeter.

I loved Japan, but it is a difficult place for most foreigners. Everything in Japan is boxes within boxes within boxes. You will always be an outsider there, you will never be accepted. But then this is true even for Japanese people who move to other parts of Japan.

I liked the part about drinking -- it's a favorite pass time in Asia to see how much booze you can get a foreigner to consume before they fall down. It's a rite of passage. This guy didn't understand how this works. You are always under the microscope, especially when you are off work and drinking with co-workers. No matter how small you screw up, people will notice and they will never forget. Even today in Cambodia I get this all the time (but mostly in a good way :). You just learn to keep upright and keep from doing or saying anything stupid. All of the accusations that happened afterwards is how things go pair-shaped in Japan. You need a thick skin and work out the subtext of what is really going on. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. If you've built up enough relationships with people in and out of work you'll have people who can help you sort it out. But working as an english teacher places you so low in the social order that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I don't think this guy will do much better in China. It can be even more brutal in some respects. His expectations are so... American. I remember in Hong Kong, the domestic helpers from the Philipines would often say that they prefered Chinese bosses than American because the Chinese just wanted them to get the job done. But Americans demanded that they get things done the way /they/ did things back in America. And often the way things work in America don't work outside of America.

When you meet these guys out here... some are english teachers, others are working for NGOs and then the others that end up in a never ending Hunter Thompson story of drugs, sex, poverty and cluelessness, and don't get me started about the retired bozos who come out on holiday and end up with a young wife and that their money justifies treating people like shit.... I /almost/ feel sorry for them. But they don't deserve it.