skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mac trackpads are indeed 3d. They can sense two dimensions of touch like normal, plus how hard you're pushing them. It's really great - it lets you set how firm you like your click in software, and gives you an additional type of click.
There just firing on the unarmed flotillas in self defense! They're Defending Europe, get it?
I'd like to have the keys back but keep TouchID
The right thing for a company like Apple to do with extra cash (other than dividends and buybacks) is to invest it. There's only so much innovation it can do as a single entity… but as a VC firm (à-la Google Ventures) or as an LP (into Sequoia, KPCB, etc.) or as diversified fund (à-la Berkshire Hathaway) it can drive more value for its shareholder and more innovation through investing capital. Note, this is pretty much what Apple is doing.
The Blind Watchmaker discusses the physical evolution of the eye. Here's a video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lstd5
There is no possibility of ever running out of lithium for battery production. It is an extremely common element, and the actual lithium makes up about 3% of a LiPo cell by mass.
Yes.

Luckily we live in bodies that are almost exactly the same as dogs.

The reason why you empathize with a dog more than an octopus is precisely because our bodies are similar.

Do you have another theory as to why we empathize with dogs more than, say, a forest, or a hive of ants?
That's a really good point, and I've seen that myopia cause problems as well. Like you say, it's about understanding the limits and applicability of data science, and how it interacts with experience and qualitative strategy.
You can find a happy medium, allowing all but the most egregious things. Human judgement isn't perfect, but it's good enough, because ban-worthy content is relatively rare. Freedom of speech is like personal liberty: Do what you want without harming others.

Want to talk politics from a moderate, conservative, liberal, socialist, or libertarian perspective? Sure. But advocating violent revolution is something different.

There's a lot of room between a totalitarian Ministry of Thought and enabling actively harmful extremism.
More & more, Uber's conduct reads like a case study in when the culture of "it's better to ask forgiveness" goes too far, and begins inculcating a culture of "it's not wrong if you don't get caught"
Take it to the rational conclusions.

A) Given the community supporting you as patrons, fully free/libre/open productions are the only ones that really deserve support. What justice is there for creators to retain All-Rights-Reserved monopoly when they are already getting paid up front? The works ought to all be free/libre/open.

B) Patreon itself ought to be fully free/libre/open and run democratically as a cooperative (too late now, VC business model etc)

Yes, every additional $ to FLO projects is a good thing. I don't think Patreon as a middle-man capturing $'s that would go to the projects anyway is good though. Hard to know what's the case often. The $'s are more a result of the project making a concerted effort to fundraise and would likely happen with the same concerted effort whether they use Patreon or another payment method.
I got this book on Audible. It was narrated by the author, who did the best job of narrating a non-fiction book of the books I've listened to.
Uh... My grandpa used to use Roundup in order to kill weeds in his cultivation land.
TIL being Chinese isn't an objective fact it's something you can stop being true if raised in the right society.

By this logic white people raised in certain parts of America are African Americans.
It may well be encrypted, but not hashed...
'That Fentanyl – That's Death': A Story of Recovery in Baltimore
I should have used more specific language; I'm not trying to argue that short selling is "bad". The benefits - such as dampening a crashing market - are large enough to accommodate some risk. I'm primarily addressing the claim that, "There's absolutely nothing wrong with short selling". Ignoring small, acceptable risks is normalizing deviance[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
Great. Whats your point?
Posting here so I can verify on Keybase.
I'm describing the CBC padding oracle attack.

I'm surprised this is the thing you want the link for, and not "1 biased bit destroys the security of a 256 bit nonce where the other 255 bits come from secure random".
That area to the left is also a touch target for ESC, so the ESC key actually got bigger (but obviously that doesn't help with tactile feedback)
Sorry to be that person, but nothing evolves "for" any one function. And one can't prestate the potential set of functions of any subsystem of an organism. It's the other way around: systems evolve, we ascribe functions to them after the fact.

It's better to say that similar environments, pressures and circumstances result in similarly evolved features.
Its rare for big companies, but not rare for still-unprofitable companies.
Linux kernel hardeners Grsecurity sue Bruce Perens for defamation
Yeah. Grew up in California. Large swathes of homes in California don't even have an AC. Whereas have family in Houston and their summers are brutally hot and humid. Couple that with the fact that Texas seems to have more energy intense chemical, and related, industries and to me it's not surprising that Texas uses more energy than California.
My understanding is that the danger of glyphosate is one step removed from direct action on "human" cells, so bringing up metabolic pathways is a straw-man argument. The suspected danger is from disruption to the symbiosis of the entire human system, including the ~10x bacterial cells for every human cell that can be killed by glyphosate.

https://www.nature.com/articles/npjbiofilms20163

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/
So we should not be critical of anti competitive market situations just cause? The fact is that Tesla is a company that is amazing at rent seeking.
exa is harder to type than ls, but this looks really cool.
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond offers an interesting and academically quite solid perspective.
I can echo almost all of these sentiments. (I also bought a MBP this last refresh, and am also a programmer.)

I was a little worried about not having a physical esc key, but it's been totally fine. I don't even notice it's gone, and I use the escape key a lot. That said, I don't love the Touch Bar, but for the most part it's fine. I still don't think to use it most of the time, but am slowly starting to remember it's there. (I use an older MBP at work, so I only use my TouchBar MPB on weekends.)

I also agree that the new keyboard is great. I don't love the oversized trackpad, but I think my main issue is going back and forth between the new one and the one on my 2014 MBP.
I haven't used it yet, but the colored screenshots look way more usable than standard ls. Personally I don't think it id conflicting and confusing at all.
I'm not sure I would go that far as I think she pushed beyond the bounds of pure free speech, but overall I agree with the sentence.

It seems to me if you can be talked into killing yourself, the person talking you into it can't be held entirely responsible. Obviously he was dealing with pre-existing problems, but in the end he made his own decision.
Well during fraud someone is being misled with false statements, so the victims don't know they will lose money until it's too late. In this case on the other hand, the guy knew he would die when he took his own life.
Consider the site where nothing is closed. Its not hard to imagine... https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396545663

Consider that without people who care about the quality (and that means trying to maintain a standard for content by removing material that doesn't meet that standard), you'll get Yahoo Answers.

Go ahead... try it... read some programming and design questions there, consider answering them. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170802102541A... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170726200637A... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170724205902A... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170723132853A...

Without moderation, you've got a steaming pile of crap that no one wants to look at or touch.
Oh yeah, that's absolute shit and there's been a precedent set that'll end with Coinbase owing a lot of money.

I'm just pointing out that they shouldn't have to support anything (so long as a proper warning is given if possible).
You already got downvoted, but your info is pretty wrong. Let me clarify one thing. Tesla delivered the model s in 2012. I know because I got one in December then. I don't know when the bolt was designed, but starting in 2012 sounds about right. The Tesla was available for getting in line in 2011 and a little before (cause I put my money down to get in line in early 2011), but delivered in 2012. Other manuf. were not taking it as seriously as Tesla way back then. They already had experience with the roadster being on the road before then.
If this effect is real, can you link to animal studies conclusively demonstrating it? Because obviously we've been feeding a lot of rats a lot of glyphosate.
> create a loud and incoherent pseudo-strawman opposition to distract from those who are actually asking legitimate questions.

See flat earth as an obvious example of this.
That muscle memory must have taken quite some time to develop. Here's to a future where the legions of programmers coming down the pike don't have to spend that investment to get the same or better result.
> Encryption algorithms are deterministic. If you implement a known good algorithm on your own, and it gets the same outputs given the same inputs, then you are highly unlikely to shoot yourself in the foot. This is not what people are talking about when they warn not to roll your own crypto.

That is exactly what people mean by "don't roll your own crypto." If your belief is that you only need to match the same output per input, then your implementation might be an oracle that leaks information.

Crypto people don't say this for job security or to feel important. They say it, because they, themselves, have made mistakes, and they constantly see examples of programs that trivialize both security and cryptography while simultaneously introducing foreseeable bugs and obviously weak crypto.
Yeah, fully agree about the aggressive cooling. This has been studied: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/science/chilly-at-work-a-... (this article links to the actual study).
I guess I was a bit harsh, fair call.

I'll respond this way: basic BI infrastructure is the bedrock of an organization's data capabilities. The best way for an organization to build their initial BI/DS capability is to address some business problem, by building a warehouse. That's in contrast to building a warehouse and then looking for problems to solve with it.

So you're right, thanks for taking time to comment :)
I do not understand how this benefits anyone except the "must be thinner" fetishists. With Apple it was their usual form-over-function problem, which is at least what we expect from Apple, but why would Google follow suit?
The main divergence between California and the rest of the US is around the time of Rosenfeld's work... but also the same time as mass adoption of AC. Since half of California has a cooler coastal climate (such as the Bay Area) AC is not nearly as prevalent as almost any other state that experiences a typical hot summer.

Estimates of the impact of this climate seem to claim the majority of the 'energy efficiency' gains claimed by Rosenfeld.

He still did great work, just lets ensure we have the right features in our mental models.
my work macbook's ls is 16k. huh
Because forking isn't the hard part. Actually maintaining and creating a better block chain is.

Either way, that's anecdotal.
This phone better be waterproof...
I've found that a good motivation for writing learning-only "throwaway" crypto code is as models for writing attack code; you don't even have to throw the code away, just publish it with the exploit.

But then, I'm a believer that everyone should learn crypto by breaking it, and clearly not everyone agrees with me.
I feel your way too. Colours can add valuable information when done right.

Don't feel too let down by the comments on HN. Awesome work!
The organic food industry is just as, if not more guilty of astroturfing, but in any case it's impossible to have a nuanced conversation with those whose level of argument never goes beyond "baa baa monsanto evil GM poison" It's quite telling that most of them have never even heard about Sygenta.

>modifying a crop to be resistant to a carcinogenic poison farmers are going to dump all over it

This is purely speculation at this point. I recognise the ecological harms of massive monoculture enabled by GM but again, opponents seems fixated on unproven health effects and miss the bigger picture.
Thanks for that. I couldn't figure out how to get around the paywall.
We send .renametozip files.
Well, right, 180cm would be a customary way to show that (probably wouldn't be shot for saying 1.8m either). And 32GB for an SD card, or whatever.

But then you run into the case that the "32GB" SD image that you just dd'd won't copy to another card of the same nominal size, because it turns out that the destination card has reduced capacity due to 100KB of bad sectors, or something. Or your file went from 2100 bytes to 2081 bytes because your editor dropped all the \r characters. Or a network transfer ended a bit prematurely, chopping off the end of a file.

I'd consider these to be reasonable cases where the byte-exact filesize might be more useful than the readability-friendly version of the number.

On the other hand, yeah, there are a lot of cases where I just need a general idea of the filesize. "-h" display is wonderful for that.
I don't know about anyone else's attic but ours is a holding tank for incredibly hot air during the summer.
This is brilliant and actually very useful, great work guys! In addition to GMail & the Chrome extension, I'd like to suggest a Meetingbird Slackbot, so teams can schedule meetings right from Slack. This would also help remote teams who use Slack, alot.
> Many years ago Microsoft was trying to purchase Yahoo for $45 a share. Every company has their Yahoo moment, where they consider making an over the top purchase offer for a company, that in hind site looks like a terrible idea.

That bid was terrible for YHOO shareholders. You do realize YHOO owned a ton of alibaba stock and yahoo!japan stock right? The alibaba shares alone that yahoo owned is now worth more than the $45 billion offer by MSFT. That's after Mayer foolishly sold off a huge chunk of alibaba shares a few years ago to go on her buying spree.

If steve ballmer had managed to buy YHOO, it would have been one of the greatest deals in history.

YHOO owned 25% of alibaba ( which is worth about $400 billion today ). YHOO also owned Yahoo!Japan which was worth $10 billion.

If MSFT bought YHOO back then, we would be calling Steve Ballmer and MSFT a genius today.
In the past few years total new car sales have been higher than ever before, in both units and dollars. So I don't see any hard evidence for your prediction.
So stupid. What a blatant attempt at grabbing money.

Headphone ports are one of the last truly ubiquitous pieces of technology still in use today. 1/8" headphone jacks work in EVERYTHING. And we want to throw that all away, because technology.
Thanks for the kudos! It's absolutely mindboggling how many times I've decided to deviate from one of ls's default settings -- certain that the old way was inferior and outdated, and that the new way will be obvious and immensely popular -- only to find people have no idea why I'm doing things this way! I need the colours to help me scan the output; if I don't see human-readable units, I curse myself for forgetting the flag. But thousands of people don't like this, and it's usually a different set of features with each person, too. I would never have guessed I was so 'out there'!

ls is one of the most entrenched pieces of software there is; this is freeing, in a way, because it provides a stable base for people to rely on, leaving exa free to experiment. Everyone who values stability and simplicity most of all won't be switching from ls any time soon, which means I can push exa more in the direction I want it to go.

(Fun facts: very early releases of exa didn't have a grid mode at all, just the long mode, because that was the only one I used. So there have been some concessions to popularity :)
The benefit of removing an analog audio output is that you can control what sort of device may play some audio. I am not looking forward to the new world of music DRM.
The "'hardcore' ban" should last as long as it needs to.

YOU are the adult - HE is the child.

Suck it up. Be a parent.
sure, if I would write code like that it wouldn't bother me too.

const add = x => y => x +y;
...
[1,2,3,4].map(add(1));

now we are talking ;)
> Female authors must be better than most to have any shot at getting published. So, women authors who do get published tend to be better authors than most male authors.

That's one hypothesis. Another equally valid hypothesis is that those that were published were just lucky enough to send their manuscripts to agents and publishers that don't have a bias.

A corollary to your hypothesis is that there are publishers and agents out there with the same "correct injustice" mindset that are publishing women just because they are women. How do I know this isn't the case?

Unless you have some objective measure of quality to measure books, you're just spouting bullshit conclusions that conform to your beliefs. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Might I suggest that you try the null hypothesis?

https://byrslf.co/the-null-hypothesis-loves-you-and-wants-yo...

FWIW, the essay I linked to was written by a woman. By your logic, you're morally obligated to read it.
> such as showing directory size, which would be a killer feature.

'ls' (and 'exa') is nice because it's pretty fast. If I'm going to use 'du', I'm wading in with the assumption that it'll take a while. It'd be a cool option to add, but I don't think it should do it by default.
> If you break it down, the Yahoo Alibaba + Yahoo Japan stake + Yahoo's final selling price equals Microsoft's $45/share offer

Actually, if mayer didn't sell a huge chunk of alibaba stake, the BABA stake by itself would be worth 120% of microsoft's bid.

YHOO owned 25% of alibaba. Alibaba is worth $400 B today. Microsoft's offer was $45 billion for YHOO.
> ω, which I’m prettying sure is the Greek abbreviation of “whatever” (zero or more times).

Or it is the classical notation for the ordinal associated with the set of integers ℕ, aka any number of times.
Well there's https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/01/glyphosate-harmful-rats-l... but I suppose fatty liver disease is not as serious as cancer...Wash your vegetables before eating.

EDIT: I think it's prudent to wash vegetables to clean off any herbicides and other chemicals even if they are "known" to be harmless.
Active sort is still based on quality -- it's not strictly most recent, but some combination of recency and votes... maybe like Reddit's hot sort.

For instance, on this question I posted a nicely upvoted thorough answer to a popular old question whose other answers were dated. By active sort it becomes #2 (#1 is always the accepted answer), but by votes sort it's #4.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/695151/data-protocol-url...

The part about an old answer that was highly upvoted but is no longer right definitely exists — I'm not sure if they've thought about solving that one.
Hotel rooms searched before con by the FBI, seized some tech and left me alone. Pretended to arrest a "friend" who was with me.

On my way back, switching planes at JFK there were a bunch of FBI agents waiting in the tube whom served me a subpoena and suggested that I'd be arrested if I tried to continue my trip.

Ended up being dropped off at the courtyard Marriott in Newark by the FBI (after very little arguing they paid for it, rather strange). Stayed there overnight, got interviewed in the morning about things I knew little about.

After the interview I got driven to JFK (maybe EWR, not sure) in a FBI car, with the agent at the wheel demonstrating some impressive skills in the heavy traffic, mostly going around it by driving on the shoulder.

Never going to the US again I guess, not voluntarily nor involuntarily.
That's terrible. I wouldn't buy a phone without a way to plug in. I would lose headphones that are not attached with a wire.
I end up using all types of systems in the course of a year and having some basic consistency is a good thing.

What I'd really love though is they could fix things like making file dialogs work consistently and ensure dialogs conform to basic long standing UI paradigms e.g. when text is highlighted and you start typing it should affect the highlight text (not a search input)!!
Among Emacs users, it's more common to have Caps Lock mapped to Control.
just to play devil's advocate..

you don't see how it benefits people that use wireless headphones and are glad the phone has more space inside for say.. memory/battery/dissipating heat for a faster chip, etc?

we technologists have a very weird love/hate with progress. deep need to revolutionize and move forward and make progress and not do what our parents did and then.. they touch the wrong port and OH MY GOD

:)
If they were just going to churn out Model S and X, they wouldn't need to do much R&D. They could have a handful of people sit around and draw new headlight designs like the other car companies.
What the fuck do you know?

You, honestly come here on every such thread and act like one of those ghostwriters mentioned in the documents.

You have no authority to make any claims on the authenticity of the link between glyphosate and cancer. Your arrogance knows no bounds.

And it's weird that you posted and the minute you posted, your comment made it to the top and remained there. How's that work?
Isn't that what everyone said about RCA jacks and reel-to-reel tape machines?
I read Our Kind over a decade ago, and thought it was a very good book at the time, but its central thesis, that culture dominates biology, is overstated. I haven't read Why the West Rules for Now, but just looking at its wiki page, it looks to be a complete rehash of Guns, Germs and Steel? The title made me think of The West and the Rest, excellent book: https://www.amazon.ca/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/...
Good luck. Ford was charged with murder in 1979 with relation to their Pinot, which they new was dangerous and did actually kill people. They got off.
This popular teen app is quickly turning into Chatroulette 2.0
I hope they tried '3ertyui'.
I believe the sources for the data breaches were mentioned in the article, so if someone wanted to get those sources anyway, it wouldn't be a big deal.
When I release a new version of exa, I upload the code and binaries to GitHub, and then someone else whom I have never met but very much appreciate takes it and publishes it to Homebrew, then a few days later I download and start using it.

It's the slowest file copy mechanism I've ever used!
Google can have courage too!
While glyphosate is only questionable, Round Up itself, which includes a variety of surfactants, seems to have a more pronounced effect - both cytotoxic and mutagenic.

Many of the later documents in this dump center around formulated Round-Up's unexplained toxicity when compared to the survey of glyphosate studies in the literature, and a variety of understudied surfactants in the formulation.

Ex (ignoring sensationalized document titles):

http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/37-Monsanto...

http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/38-Email-Sh...

http://baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/42-Internal...