skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had keyboards which where marketed as professional keyboards have very obvious problems with this. Specifically, I had a Logitech MX5500 and if you where holding down the 'D' key and then pressed the 'S' key, the keyboard would never send the 'S' key (though I might remember those keys backwards). This is a problem because many a video game has you use the 'WASD' keys as direction keys to control movement, so trying to move backwards and to the right would fail.

So it's not like nobody experiences this problem.
We would have found Fred Brooks' missing silver bullet?
I exclusively use recruiters. My most important filter of whether I should waste my time pursuing a job lead is salary. You hardly ever see salary posted with job posts. I can always find out salary when talking to a recruiter.
Dunno about the salary and location, but the hiring process sounds fixable. :-/
Could a clientside script redirect /news to /news?p=(random n in range(1..10)?
I'm just not smart enough on these things to know. I suspect the answer is yes, but can anyone confirm?
counterpoint: buses have greater reach and are potentially cheaper to add and operate than BART trains on the margin. If the primary transbay tube goes down in a quake we'll benefit from the diversification.
Yes, or a full-featured programming language. Even though I don't really know or like Ruby, I still like that Vagrant uses it for config since it is at least possible to do complex things if you need to.
"It all started because I had this feeling that some old computers feel much more responsive than modern machines."

s/modern/recent/

"For example, an iMac G4 running macOS 9 or an Apple 2 both feel quicker than my 4.2 GHz Kaby Lake system."

Kaby Lake system running OSX? I have one of the last G4 that came with OS9. Based on intuition it would make audio applications "feel" slower, when OSX came out I did not "upgrade", despite the marketing at the time. I guess I am not the only one.

"It turns out the machines that feel quick are actually quick, much quicker than my modern computer - computers from the 70s and 80s commonly have keypress-to-screen-update latencies in the 30ms to 50ms range out of the box, whereas modern computers are usually in the 100ms to 200ms range."

"... where we are today, where can buy a system with the CPU that gives you the fastest single-threaded performance money can buy and get 6x the latency of a machine from the 70s."

Methinks when someone spends that kind of money on a system, they will never accept findings like these. They are not likely to respond "inquisitively" to someone who describes achieving better speeds with a "less powerful" system that costs a fraction of what they paid. More likely, they will try to discredit them.
document.evaluate("/html/body/header/h1/a", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.style.marginTop = "50px"

there fixed that for you.
ghosting can also cause issues with holding multiple keys at once and is more likely what they are referring to. Details here: https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplai...
It's mostly JSON. We use this and Terraform and yes, I'd prefer go scripts and a literal library of go code.
Smoker in San Francisco here. I've thought about this quite a bit and here's my dilemma.

1. It is illegal to smoke indoors

2. San Francisco has made it illegal to have ash trays outdoors

3. Cigarettes set trash on fire so it's not acceptable to put them in the bin

4. Cigarettes have a tax on every pack earmarked to fund street clean-up

I'd prefer to not throw my cigarettes on the ground, but I've been left with no real alternative. Also, I've specifically paid a tax that should fund that clean-up.
:D

I don't know what that means, but I'm going to upvote you and go find out what interesting reading material I have missed!

Edit: As a rails dev, I know that there is no silver bullet, but I also know that some strategies are objectively better than others, and some strategies produce software that is easier to verify than others.

You can write heaping mounds of Javascript that you pile on top of each other, and pile more and more tests on top of each other and run them within a CI framework between each change (or don't), to build confidence that you don't break things that you previously guaranteed from one commit/release to the next...

Or you can write tiny functions with an obvious and wholly singular purpose, and build them into micro-services that deliver one small fraction of the whole service, and test at each layer, and build composable units of the final service that you intended to guarantee.

One strategy is easily verifiable if you keep it up without ceasing (and the other is not, but the two strategies are usually easy to tell apart.) Unfortunately it's probably true, for example, that neither strategy can ever be said to (obviate essential complexity! Fred Brooks) – to totally guarantee that the tail does not hit the ground on either takeoff or landing, which is a complex problem that probably can't actually be solved in units.
> Plus DO has really excellent documentation on how to do things like set up X.

Their content marketing is working then!
The Russian “cryptoruble” story: what’s actually happening here
A copy of what I commented on the blog:

Nice post, and I'm glad you're enjoying NixOS!

I'm a NixOS contributor/committer, and the principle author (and co-maintainer) of the Bundler-based packaging integration. If you or anyone reading this has any feedback and/or questions about NixOS and Ruby (or NixOS in general) feel free to shoot me a message. I idle on #nixos on Freenode (as cstrahan), and you can email me at charles {{at}} cstrahan.com.

Cheers!

-Charles Strahan (cstrahan)
Admittedly I've never been to Frisco, but when I visited New York (back in 2003 I believe), I haven't encountered anything what I - being from Europe - would perceive as out of the ordinary in this aspect.

I have no such recollection at least.

Obviously I may not have gone to the right places; or other locally specific factors could be at play, such as some homeless-hostile regulations.

For this reason though I'd be sceptical of broad explanations such as "that's because the core values of your society are so and so".

Ironically, it's no other than San Francisco that is reputed to be (culturally) the most European city in the US...
Patch into the flex cable between the keyboard and motherboard. Maybe if Dan and bunnie cross paths...
Also the most polluted air in the states: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/nj_air_ranked_by_cl...
> These are not the same sets of laws.

> Those under the AI have no say in those laws or recourse to alter them.

Sorry, I did miss that part. I'll revise to say "the same laws, save for the means of changing them".

The only freedom that's really lost in my AI-dictated society is the freedom to determine the rules and on an individual level, I don't think that's meaningful. At an individual level, I already cannot realistically change the rules, so losing that technicality makes me no less free.

> A benevolent dictator is still a dictator. By definition that is not democratic, and I would say, less free.

> They could, but that would not mean their dictatorship is a democracy or free.

You keep bringing democracy in where I don't believe it belongs. I'm talking about freedom, not democracy.

> It is a profound hypocrisy for a dictator to say they value freedom.

I don't think so. A dictator who values freedom can ensure their subjects have it. A person living under the right dictator would have more freedom than one living under the wrong (but still valid) democracy, being freed from the burden of governance.

I think where we differ is you value the freedom to influence government, no matter how little above all whereas I value just about everything else more.
I would hate chicken after few weeks of such diet )
No, the 80s were not 8b. The 68000 was 32b. The 8088 used in the IBM PC was 16b and then quickly changed to 32b with the 80386 in the PC/AT. The Apple II started at 8b but changed to 16b with the IIgs.

I didn't see superscalar mentioned. But I saw some close synonyms; so I'm good.

However, I didn't see μop caches. The x86 tax is pretty small in 2017 and it was pretty expensive in the 80s leaving the door open for RISC. That's definitely missing.
I already had SEVERE fear / anxiety of flying before this video. I'm not sure I'll ever fly again. FML.
The concept of serverless, as I understand it, is that the application developer doesn't need to manage or think about the servers their applications run on. It's not that no one is managing the servers -- it's that the application developer doesn't need to. The developer is building on top of an interface that encapsulates those details.

With typical cloud hosting, I need to think about and manage a fleet of hosts from the kernel and operating system on up. I need to think about the hardware and choose a machine type, with a configuration of CPUs, RAM, and disk. I need to choose an OS, and the machine is my responsibility from the init system on upwards, including all of its daemons for SSH, NTP, etc. I need to think about how I'll distribute and install my software onto the machines, and how many machines I need. I need to think about how I'll handle machine failures and replacement.

With serverless, the interface to the developer is: specify what application to run, and it runs. I don't have to manage the execution environment that runs the application.
Alphabet's Project Wing Is Testing in Australia
I use "tired me". I think once or twice I've used "inebriated me".

In the beginning of my career I was much more diligent about this (but I also didn't write as readable code, so it was more necessary); the exercise was simple:

When I hit the stupid part of the day (the end of the day), I go back over code. When I don't understand something, I write down something about my confusion. In the morning, when I'm back to being smart, I convert all the confusion to comments and/or better code.
I think that you're just reversing the arrow of causality.
We can get around this easily enough with a Total Return Swap. This way we can move the economic interest around with out ever moving the shares.
If you hold C for crouching, you can't move on some diagonals and switch weapons at the same time. Many games/gamers use shift or ctrl now for crouch to work around that.
In this day and age money is speech and corporations are people. The question is no longer an apples to apples comparison.
Stoking Islamophobia and Secession in Texas – From an Office in Russia
Who is the judge of if the intent was to offend or express a different viewpoint?
They aren't eating them, they're picking them up and dropping them into a bucket.
> a new book that he describes somewhat cryptically as “a guide to the smells of the world,”

The practical application of this will be in pairing foods with one another. There are only five fundamental flavors for the tongue, but trillions of different smells. Pairings tend to share scents. Most pairings are only based on tradition, though - trial-and-error over thousands of years. Should be an interesting read.
I live in southeast Alaska, and climate change frightens me here as well.

Our area, a temperate rainforest with steep mountains rising almost straight up from the ocean, has always experienced landslides. You can see slide scars throughout the mountains, from a boat or from a plane. But in recent years we've had a few that cause people to be much more concerned about the possibility of being caught in a slide.

Two years ago there was a slide in town (Sitka) that killed three people. Before that there was a slide that took out a remote cabin, and the two people staying at the cabin barely outran the slide. Now every time it rains hard people talk to each other about the risk of slides. Meteorologists' predictions haven't helped much, because most slide forecasts are just general statements about an elevated risk of slides for the entire region. No one can predict a high likelihood of slides in particular locations, so everyone is left to evaluate the risk for themselves in deciding whether to stay at home during heavy rain.

We live in a rainforest, but most of our rain comes from light steady rain most of the year. We have some heavier rainfall events in the spring and fall. It seems the slides have happened during periods of intense heavy rain - 2+ inches over the course of several hours.

What scares me about climate change is what might happen if we end up with significantly heavier amounts of rainfall in short periods of time. What happens if we get 6+ inches in a day like we've seen more recently in other regions?

When I get a lull between my various projects I'm going to do some analysis of our long-term weather data, and try to correlate it with slide events. I'm curious to see if the rainfall patterns are changing over time, beyond just total amounts each year. I'm curious to see if I, as a local, can identify some weather patterns here that outside meteorologists haven't noticed yet.
Greek theatre's legendary acoustics are a myth
I thought one of the main things about Whatsapp was the huge audience and the demographics of that audience skewed young, and this app while not quite the install base size of Whatsapp/Instagram is ppoular with young folks. The demographics is the one they teach in Psych 101 as the most crucial point at which marketing can influence lifelong brand choices. The tweet snark seems to miss the point altogether.
This article is dated and I’ve never used Onavo myself but I think the pitch is it saves you money on your data plan:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.imore.com/onavo-app-claims-...

Teenagers are pretty cheap so I can see the appeal if that’s still true.
> or any other of the vastly cheaper alternatives

On how many of these vastly cheaper alternatives is it possible to simply spin up a fleet of a thousand machines?
Oh well. I guess I’ll be connecting my iPhone via Ethernet....

https://lifehacker.com/hack-together-a-way-to-connect-an-ipa...

Plug the USB-to-Ethernet adapter into the camera adapter

Plug an Ethernet cable into the USB-to-Ethernet adapter
Plug the Ethernet cable into your router

Plug the lightning cable into the camera adapter

Plug the lightning cable into the power adapter (or powered USB hub)

Plug the power adapter (or powered USB hub) into the wall

Connect the camera adapter (or the powered usb hub) to your iOS device
> Freedom and democracy are different things, if some people think democracy isn't that important, it does not mean they do not value freedom.

Democracy is a form of freedom (freedom from government in which one is not a participant), and clearly a form of freedom important in the historical American concept of freedom (though, to be fair, it's not just Millenials for whom that had weakened, with the colonial America’s signature protest against norepresentative dictates being co-opted ss a symbol for political forces that are opposed to taxation rather than it’s imposition by nonrepresentative means.)
Yes, but we observe more gold and other heavy elements than can be attributed to supernovae alone. Events like neutron star mergers might help explain where the rest comes from.
This app held the attention of the kids in the middle school and high school near me for about 7 days. Then they got bored of it and all stopped playing.
Remember: nobody knows anything. Especially, especially political pundits. The entire class is full of outrageously clueless people.
If there is a suspected tailstrike in an airliner, the tailskid might reduce the damage but it still requires an emergency return and engineering inspection for damage.

Most severe tailstrikes occur on landing, and the tailskid isn't going to help reduce damage.
Common for gamers, relatively unknown for everyone else. They typically go up to 144Hz.
Well, but the original owner loses the power. So if you want to convince an owner to throw away their voting power, you'd have to pay them a higher price.
Through most of my careers, ZK cause me so much grief.

So I welcome a competition in this space.
> I found this quote unbelievable

4.5 trillion does sound like a lot.

One source said there were 5.8 trillion cigarettes smoked globally in 2014. There's no way most of those get littered.... right?
As mentioned in my other comment, that is a symptom of ghosting, not of being limited to the standard 6-key rollover set by the usb spec.
It's a lot easier to take care of than zookeeper for one thing. Also Consul is getting pretty close to industry standard these days for newer businesses.
It’s time to weaponize the “whisper network”
I am trying to figure out why Facebook didn't just clone the features and add anonymous friend polls to their app/website (which I assume is definitely going to happen now in spite of the press release.)
https://envoyproxy.github.io/envoy/intro/arch_overview/servi... has some on that
> When we started doing research we found out there is a guy in the States that is teaching crows to collect coins. His name is Joshua Klein.

It's commonly agreed that this never worked successfully in the wild.

> In that correction the NY Times states that the experiments never succeeded in teaching the crows to drop the coins into the slot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Klein#Crows

> Klein did get a professor at Binghamton to help him try it out twice in Ithaca, with assistance from a Binghamton graduate student, and it was not a success. Corvid experts who have since been interviewed have said that Klein’s machine is unlikely to work as intended.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12letters-t-CORRE...
I had a heart attack a couple years ago. The initial bill was $225k. Thankfully, I have good insurance (thanks $job!) so my portion ended up being only ~$2000. The numbers get insane very, very quickly. In my case, I was only in the hospital 3 nights so those numbers could easily have been even bigger.
Crows are really smart. If anyone is interested, here's a PBS Nature doc about crows.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJKPwIFzDI

They even transfer knowledge between each other and through generations.
I stand corrected. Are there any fundamental differences?
This is a normal part of pilot training. I think it's less common in large aircraft but for small planes it's not uncommon.
I just don't think we can in good conscience domesticate any more animals. We are a thriving empowered species on our own, we are starting to make our own creatures (both robotically and genetically) and we shouldn't have to subjugate more of nature for our overconsumption and shortsighted behaviors.
Program icons - a man-made problem, and which only appears on graphic-focused desktops… (Disclaimer: I open all my editors by entering the program name or a shortcut thereof/thereto, so am not required to choose it by an icon.)
I don’t think the point GP is making is cynical. I think what GP is talking about is cynical.
Suppose you're generating positions mod 1, so f(i)=fmod(phi * i,1.0) is the position for index i. The distance between f(i) and f(j) is basically fmod(phi * (i-j),1.0), with the complication that mod wraps around... Anyway, if you do the correct wrap-around distance, the worst-case distance ends up being about approximating phi with i-j in the denominator, and the distance (i-j) * phi is away from being an integer is apparently just about 1/((i-j) * sqrt(5)) for phi (phi is what makes Hurwitz's theorem's bound tight-ish). In particular, with n points on a circle, the values will all be at least about 360/(n * sqrt(5)) degrees from each other. Of course, 360/n would be ideal, but it is not so bad being about 0.44x the best case.

(Don't do anything safety critical with this analysis. I just spent a little time looking into it and probably got something wrong.)
Because they're talking about USB keyboards they're probably talking about the chicklet Apple "Pro" USB keyboard, not the new MBP's built in keyboard. Which, I agree-- I've only typed on the actual laptop itself a handful of times, but man, those key movements are SHORT and I'm not sure I really like it. Time will tell, though -- I originally felt the same way about the chicklet keyboards i love now.
There's going to be little fallout for the users of this ID card. It's too expensive to break for all but the juiciest of targets - the people that need to worry are folks in enterprise and government.
Ask HN: Are beer labels useful for designers?
Hello, moving to the UK, I noticed how strong is the craft beer scene, a wide range of breweries, beers, suppliers and everything related to it.
Beer labels need to be as good as the beers or even better due to the competition to be attracted at supermarket shelves. Therefore, I decided to create http://www.inbrewers.com/labels, which is a random selection of British beer labels. Could it somehow be useful for designers? Beer lovers?

Cheers.
even the difference between 30 and 60 is pretty clear to most, I find watching movies at 60fps reeeally weird, it feels too real... I never actively look for the video framerate before, i just notice it, it's that obvious.
The failings of the broken windows policies hinge on their faulty premise: that the sight of minor crimes going unenforced leads to people brashly escalating to higher crimes.

I don't believe this premise, yet I wonder sometimes if keeping the peace in regards to smaller offenses would lead to fewer incidences of anger turning to road rage or violent crime. If people do not feel safe or that they have civil outlets for resolution of grievances, perhaps they're more violent? I'm curious what the more social science oriented on this site might know about this.

In any case, there's still yet another reason to enforce laws against small crimes: littering is a terrible thing in itself!
Presumably, the same as would be the case for any other intent-based regulation by the same regulator.

Prohibitions where intent is an essential component, and judging intent is essential to applying the prohibition are not new in campus regulation, or in civil and criminal law, for that matter.

But, in any case, that's in implementation issue that is not germane to what support has actually been voiced for.
Personally can not agree with this article but I am curious for what others think.

My experience with 2 of my boys at University is the interest with them and their friends is Google and Facebook or a startup but they do not seem interested in Microsoft when I suggest considering.

Is this different than what others are experiencing?