skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, my comment was intended to reflect your statement exactly. It's the fact someone so abhorrent with no respect for anything other than himself is in charge.
We found them in the 30s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
Trackpoint does work, there is an issue with the touchpad and not releasing it's click so I just disabled it and put the trackpoint in imps (since that's all I use).

I read the same reviews on the T470P screen even the 2560x1440, I was worried it wouldn't be bright enough but on a night it's too bright so I dial it down to 40% or so, during the day rarely need to go over 80% even with the sun in the window behind me, the anti-reflective coating is good.

The XPS15 had deeper richer colours but the T470P has a damn fine panel and for looking at text I preferred.

FWIW, I went for the 256GB SSD and I wish I'd gone for the 512GB but other than that it's a truly stellar little machine.

Even get good battery life (I went for the 72whr and 6 hours under use is about fair (though that will drop rapidly if you actually hammer the battery, 35W processors on a 72wh battery..).
This is why I think projects like caddy/traefik shouldn't get too comfortable thinking Let's Encrypt / HTTPS support by default alone is going to differentiate them too much. They're one PR away from having their major selling point becoming irrelevant in the face of the competition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433463
The article's main insight: "URLs based on hierarchical names are actually the URLs of search results rather than the URLs of the entities in those search results".
There is also market saturation. My brother took the GA bootcamp in 2013, I took it in 2014. The outcomes were drastically different because their hiring partners/relationships couldn't keep up with their output. When he took it, they had a speed-dating event at the end of the course where employers had already signed up to take on an intern, i.e. 100% job placement. One year later, my class had nothing more than a meet and greet. Less than half of my classmates were hired through that event. I can't imagine the outcomes are any better now.
LineageOS beats Google to the punch, fixes 'KRACK' WPA2 vulnerability in Android
It's difficult to compare Dropbox to Apple, Google and Microsoft in terms of what they offer and for how much. All three of those giants are able to subsidize their storage offerings. Apple has their hardware business, Google has their ad business, and Microsoft has their software business. The storage offerings from all three are used to entice you into using their other services. It doesn't matter if they're profitable (and I'm willing to bet that they aren't). What does Dropbox have? Nothing but its storage offering.
Oh I'm not defending him. Some of his points were interesting but he seemed determined to piss everybody off to the point of no return. However that stuff happened after he got himself fired from Google.

My point is that Google is not particularly tolerant of dissent, or at least a specific type of dissent. Even back then (it seems worse now).
this[0] has been on HN some time ago, discussing google's effort to digitize a ton of books.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
>given code completion in editors as old as emacs.

Good point. Even vi (before vim) had/has the abbr(eviation) command which can be used for things like expanding say bg into begin and so on. Plus, typing time is not the biggest part of programming time, not by a long chalk, though of course improving typing productivity can help some with overall programming productivity. Also, others have said in maybe this thread as well as other places, that Pascal's unambiguous syntax is one reason for the high compilation speed of Pascal compilers - which again aids overall productivity. [Used both Turbo Pascal and C a lot.]
Given that I did graphics programming with Turbo Pascal on MS-DOS, I wonder what was missing.

Anything more heavy required anyway Assembly, regardless of the high level language being used, C was no different here.
What I can't get is that my primary care doc makes me wait 6 weeks to get a checkup.

It seems like it doesn't take any more resources to take care of me next week then it does 6 weeks later.
> Sourcer

If I were the manager of that department, I'd up-title them all to "sourcerers". :)
A huge chunk of my career has been programming in Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal for Windows. I miss those days!
Why not, like, test refactoring skills? Mind blown!
I'm looking forward to Surface Book 2000
Existing customers who have access to shared link controls will keep this access. They’re “grandfathered” in.
I was surprised when I revisited the GCC code after 20 years to find that GCC switched from using flex/bison to using a hand-written recursive descent parser (even for C++ which is reputed to be "impossible" to parse).

Here's the C parser:
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser...

and the C++ parser:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/master/gcc/...
It is a shame how hard some information is to find. However the book that 1/4 of the wikipedia citations reference is digitized and available here[1], with relevant info starting around pp86, I think.

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=HzhCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=fron...
I'm extremely impressed with the implementation. I'm not sure what I would say if presented with a design like this slider for web. Wouldn't have imagined it would work this beautifully as well.

Amazing showcase.
> Are American courts ready for those sorts of questions?

In short, no, and they never will be. Courts aren't supposed to be in the business of solving social issues. Their fundamental function is to adjudicate disputes where there has been concrete, identifiable, and remediable harm to one individual by another individual.

Remember that in a gerrymandering case the fundamental question is whether a _specific_ plaintiff has been _specifically_ harmed by gerrymandering. The best statistical model in the world isn't going to answer that question; at best it gets you halfway there.

The executive and legislative branches are supposed to be the organs of government that grapple with these issues; the ones that enlist legions of bureaucrats to aggregate data and decide on the best aggregate policies. The real issue is that we're asking too much of our courts because the other two branches of our government--especially the legislative branch--has become ineffective and derelict. And, yes, that's party because of gerrymandering. It's quite a dilemma, but that still doesn't mean that the courts should jump into the fray.

I'm skeptical of conservative arguments that courts should stay completely out of gerrymandering disputes. It's obviously self-serving, not to mention hypocritical in light of the fact that all the conservative justices wanted to strike-down non-partisan redistricting commissions as unconstitutional. But as a clear legal rule that approach has significant benefits. Among other things, it would force communities to return to the ballot box rather than resort to the courthouse.
US tech giants may find their future shaped by Europe
If anybody on HN knew, they wouldn't be on HN.
I program in google anymore. which usually translates into stackoverflow.
For every story like this out of Google there seem to be5 of the same sort out of Amazon.
What's with all this talk about fancy imported mattresses from China? You can often just get a local foam wholesaler to cut you off a chunk of foam. Stick on a mattress protector if you really want to put on the Ritz.

I have a chunk of 2 pound, 4" polyurethane that I have been sleeping on for something like 20 years...
I've been coding for 20 years but some random fresh face out of university goes into HR and looks over my CV and decides whether I'm suitable for an employer or not. Neverlmind that they can barely tell the difference between Java and Javascript. I mean what the fuck, you've got a university diploma, which I don't even have, and THAT's your job? What a waste.

Your job is tedious and pointless, end of story.
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A bunch of news sites use similar URL parsing; they tend to not care about the "slug" either. I think this is, in the general case, the best way.
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No, I prefer to optionally do this with my command key.
Totally rumor-mill, I had heard that it was, after being acquired by Yahoo, rewritten entirely in PHP, because that's what Yahoo used, and as a result lost all momentum for new features. However, as I said, t his is total rumor mill, and I cannot claim to know if it's true.
As an ordinary developer, I'd love to hear your experience as well.
> Sometimes, companies hire people to do unpleasant jobs, and convince them to do these jobs by paying them.

What I got was that the requirement for overt enthusiasm over a mundane job became too much. I don't think Mike Row would see it the same way if a sewage technician was forced to pretend their job was "making a better world one bowel movement at a time" or face being ostracized.
I think you'll find that in the cases when it worked, the people involved were in the same city or otherwise able to work together physically at least part of the time. I feel it's the only way to build a relationship.
I think this is a great answer, and I agree. I'd also add it just seems like I use the web completely differently now than I did a decade ago. I don't feel the need to save sites or links or anything now. I'm not quite sure why that is. I assume I won't need them again? I assume they're just one of many and if I can't find them again I'll find another?

I just don't feel the need to curate the web now. I'm not sure all the crappy redesigns would matter at this point, I wouldn't be using it now anyways.

I still remember this big change, really drove me crazy at the time:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/avos-delicious-disaster-lessons...
The probability of you being killed by a terrorist or a Muslim in the US is tiny compared to your chances of being killed by a native born or white (assuming you're white). The percentages are so small, it makes such an outsized concern obviously racist because from a rational risk assessment point of view, it changes nothing.

>So what? They don't have some sort of magical automatic right to be here just because one of their relatives is.

We have generally held it is good policy to keep families together. And the times when it was not allowed (e.g. Chinese Exclusion Act) were specifically done for RACIST purposes, not rational ones. Tons of Chinese men were prevented from being reunited with their wives because of that, and still more single ones were prevented from marrying locals by anti-miscegenation laws.

These kinds of attitudes are basically the ones that allow you to be manipulated by political parties and have your attention diverted from real issues. Xenophobia works unfortunately, as studies and social experiments from the 60s and 70s show, blaming woes on "the other" is a tried and true tactic. You can take tiny issues related to foreigners or other tribes and blow them up so large they dominate the discussion.

Immigration and terrorism are not the largest issues facing this country, yet they completely dominated the election.
You're right (particularly on the ethics side).
I keep seeing Metaballs as Meatballs.
It could very well work without VM. Current Windows is binary compatible with old programs.

There are a few reasons that programs stop working and most of them are related to hardcoded directories that got perm. restrictions over the years.
Maybe because we are mixing up concepts and names ? You are comparing GPUs that were on tower computers and GPU that are now on mobile computers. Like you said, mobile require energy efficiency so having a fixed function chip makes sense right now, just like it made sense for tower computers back then.
Especially when it covers non-citizens and people who are illegally in the country.

We could at least have a little compromise by making health care more tiered so that citizens, payers and people with insurance receive better health care than others. Make a list of services that will only be provided to payers and automatically push non-payers to the back of the queue.
Once we resolve the issue of people being automated out of their careers then of course automation will be a net positive on society. You don't have to tell me - I work in machine learning and data. These are basically growing pains that require a societal paradigm shift.
I was an avid user of del.icio.us in its heyday but I remember these things pushed me away:

* major redesigns (the current Hulu redesign is about as bad)

* competitors, there were a lot of good bookmarking services. I think I went with Evernote

The wikipedia page has a lot of what went wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)
What is considered 'professional' today might not be tomorrow. I for one would welcome more genuine personality in the corporate world and can think of many things I'd like to see become considered acceptable.
Would make a great loader icon.
This really resonates with what I've found as well, and it's a concerning dilemma.

The internet stores incomprehensible amounts of information, but there's a lot being left behind. Most of these books have been created as a result of years of dedication for which an author should be rewarded, thus the lack of free access on the internet (information seems to become free when commonly known and studied by many). Are there better ways we can better reward academics for their work while improving ease of access?

Also, on digitization, early Google had a mission to create the world's largest online library [1], and their main roadblock was the legal issues. If I remember correctly, the authors who sued later regretted their decision and had done so on the basis of a misunderstanding.

On the language side of digitization, a next-gen translator like DeepL [2] could prove incredibly useful. They debuted a couple months ago, and their more ML-heavy translations blew people, myself included, away.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14172791
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122764
Huh, that's a rather interesting limitation. I guess internally mod_md must be changing the configuration of the server with every renewal? Otherwise I'm not sure why a restart would be needed; the server should just start using the new cert for new connections.
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If you find yourself unhappy at every company you work for after 6 months the problem might not be with the companies you work for.

Your coworkers probably aren't jealous of your inability to stay at a job for more than 6 months.
Perhaps not rote memorization, but figuring things out by tinkering without a mental model or conceptual understanding as you say.
Because it got bought by Yahoo. They didn't take care of it properly. Then it got bought by Avos systems, who didn't take care of it properly. Then it got bought again by people who didn't take care of it properly.

Now it is finally owned by Pinboard. But most of the users who abandoned del.icio.us had already switched to Pinboard. Now all is well.
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A Person With Boring Job Is Bored At Work.
Which is extra screwed up even from the respective employers' perspective. They're loaning me more than 10 times more money than I've ever borrowed. Several times my salary. My ability to take care of the house and honor the terms of my homeowners' insurance is the only thing protecting their investment. Don't they WANT me to take it really seriously and know what I'm committing to?
Natural Stupidity is more dangerous than Artificial Intelligence
Just another report highlighting the need for change to our current healthcare system.

Although anecdotal, multiple family members who are health care providers in the ER (Nurse, PA, Doctor) it's more often than not far from an emergency ailment. This creates a scary supply and demand scenario.
It'd be kind of weird if they were state backed given that they run websites with their own name and use cheap Anonymous slogans:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37374053/what-we-know-...

Russian - would make a lot of sense. Run by the government? Seems more like the sort of approach I'd expect from a bunch of kids who got bored of spamming/malware and got political. Phishing isn't really an advanced technique by intelligence agency standards.
I like being able to choose, so no, I wouldn't want it.

You should check if someone has made a browser extension for this, it seems simple and useful enough I wouldn't be surprised if there is one around.

EDIT: found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907673
> Smart sync is great news, happy to pay the extra for that.

I'm not, it doesn't cost them hardly anything extra and yet I have to pay twice as much a month just so I reclaim some HD space?
But deporting Muslims? He definitely didn't campaign on that. And that he targeted LGBT people is a real stretch. Even Obama was more anti-LGBT in 2008.
Yes, we have to walk a fine line here. The fact that do notation desugars to function calls in a complete deterministic way is nevertheless not easy to explain to learners. It's a judgement call but overall its benefits outweigh the drawbacks--IMO.
Unusually secure? Wasn't Gmail among the first in pushing super insecure SMS password resets, which are still resulting in high profile account hijackings every single day?
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You're on Hacker News and your name is "digitalengineer." You're probably not their target customer :)

I have a bunch of friends in the creative space who use dropbox exclusively to share their work. It's a portfolio for them that's easier to update and control what the prospective client sees. Some of them also have a website portfolio (typically a squarespace setup) but they take so much time to build and maintain with fresh work that they end up sending both a link to the website and dropbox for the latest work.

I totally see why Dropbox is doing this, I just wonder if there are enough creatives who use it this way to make them any substantial gains or if the cool kids convinced them this was the most important thing to do.
I get all of my news and advice from /biz/ - always remember the golden rule: buy high, sell low!
Depends on whether you get paid even if you come in last place. If its only the top few that get money then I disagree. The article doesn't make it clear.
This guy uses Atom.io
that's exactly right! I tell my younger mentees that you can work for companies that are doing cutting edge stuff, but watch what you are actually doing and contributing to that. Are you growing and being challenged as a productive individual. At best one would have to be content playing an indirect role that aides the development of cutting edge research or whatever. I guess the fallacy for the author was assuming a few degrees of indirection in a supporting role was going to be life changing and doing things that mattered. I like seeing his honesty in reporting that things from him vantage point from all the action was in the end not all that meaningful for him.
As someone who has worked at a large corp. for a bunch of years I can say the job you have may feel awful but you're at a company where you can network with people who do anything you are curious about.

The same could be said to the person writing this article. You work at Google.. your recruiting job might be awful but get your earbuds out during lunch and see if you might work at another team internally that is more in line with what you wanted to do.

Take some ownership of what you'd like to do.
Well the size and purpose is different in the remake.
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Google is all about emotions. Their PR&ads feel like they're trying to humanise the AI behemoth the company is.
Seems healthy leaving it to the user.
It tried to compete with Pinboard.
At best, their behavior is idiotic. But short of consuming our entire vocabulary with ever-further steps of euphemism, there are few if any accurate alternative descriptions of the set of people who trust Facebook.

"Naïve", perhaps, but that excludes the vast swath of people who trust Facebook for more than a rather short duration of time.
But it isn't a mobile device. A mobile device (Android or iOS) is just a one slice user experience. Also the pen isn't for gui interface, but it is for doing creative art.
If you're a consumer, it's easy to compare, though. Consumers don't care about the vendor's costs, just the price and some perception of stability (of which, if I had to bet, Dropbox and Apple are the most likely to not surprise-discontinue on us in the future).

That said I'm pretty happy with Dropbox and not going to switch. I'd love Smart Sync, though, but not at 2x the price I'm paying for Plus right now. $99 a year is great, $199 not so much.
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I did not get the sense that the author was ostracized. Rather, they were put off by other people's enthusiasm. "Am I the only one here who can see this job is crap?" I can totally understand that feeling being crazy-making, but it's different than being ostracized.
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The reason you have to wait 6 weeks is that the doctor's office does not have infinite capacity, and increasing that capacity would require adding nurses, doctors, and rooms.

Instead, the 6 weeks is a result of 1) the number of people who wish to get appointments, 2) the time that each person spends, and 3) the number of people who can be treated at a time:

MeanResponseTime = MeanNumberInSystem / MeanThroughput

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law#Finding_respons...
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/07/depraved-indifference-or-m...
They've been installing 5g cell towers in my city for the past 3 three yrs, its about time they start making 5g for cellular devices.
I totally agree. Regardless of how you personally feel, your employees likely include people on all sides of the political spectrum.

If I were an employee, I would assume the grief is primarily about increased costs to the employer.
Like the new look quite a bit. I wish they would add a way to jump to dates though. I've been using Google calendar for several years now, and sometimes i want to look back a few years. Right now I have to click 20-30-40 times on the month arrow.

ETA: Looks like google labs is totally gone from the new setup?
You must be 50... and you're still on HN! Are you still an engineer? If so, what stack are you using now?
> If it ends up replacing all money then the value of a single bitcoin will be around $200B, but I'd happily characterize that claim as speculation :)

Assuming "the total amount of money in the world is $84 trillion" http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-compared-to-all-of-th...

BTC currently has a market cap of ~$94b

$84t / $94b = ~894

894 * $5625 (current BTC price) = ~$5m/BTC

Am I missing something? I may be. But from my calcs seems like your $200b estimate is off by a factor of 40,000x.
Nice, this reflects the choice I've made with a recent API design. This is especially important for entity names you don't control.

For example, we ingest gamertags and IDs from players of Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, Origin, Battle.net, etc. - each have their own requirements in terms of what is allowed in a username, and even whether or not they're unique. Often you can't ensure a user is unique by their gamertag alone. You can't even ensure uniqueness based on gamertag and platform name. Reality is that search is almost always required in these cases, and that's why we've implemented search in the way described in this article, with each result pointing to a GUID representing a gamer persona.
Sure it does! I could attempt to fly every time I see an open window. It’s wonderful to fear failure.