skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily (as you wouldn't in a store); they'd just never to prove sufficient knowledge of the transaction (e.g. invoice number).

Note for example how you can track any package in the world when you know it's code. That seems to be working well without relying on user authentication, no?
Ok, now I know what I'd need to do to finally switch to hjkl (for arrows) when using Vim, I'd just need to buy a keyboard like yours ;)

Joking aside, a keyboard is a very personal thing and picking the right one depends on many factors, from the shape and size of your hands and fingers to your chair and desk setup, to your OS and programs you use. For most people, it probably doesn't matter that much, but for people who use keyboards for work, it's IMHO worth it to take your time and choose a keyboard that is precisely right.

As an example, I was perfectly happy with a standard desktop keyboard when I used Vim, even though Esc is rather far from home row (but it's easy to find by touch). Once I switched to Emacs, with its famous dependence on pressing and holding (as opposed to just hitting Esc in Vim) Ctrl and Alt, I almost immediately started getting RSI in my left hand. I quickly noticed that it happens only on the full-sized keyboard, not on (most) laptop keyboard. I considered switching away from Emacs, but, as with many cults, you can only leave in a body bag, so I had to find another way of dealing with it.

After a lot of research, I found that Logitech K340[1] is the keyboard for me. As you can see, the Ctrl key is where it should be (in the bottom left corner - sometimes there's a Fn key there), is bigger than usual and much closer to the home row than in full-sized keyboards. This eliminated pain in my hand almost entirely. Full-size Enter key and Backspace (their shrunk versions are evil), quite workable placement of function keys above the numpad, the Fn key placed where it doesn't bother me, and arrow keys which are easily found by touch are all essential features, which match my workflow very well. The only key which is not as accessible as I'd like is Insert (the top one), but I don't use it very often.

I'm sure there are tons of people who would find that keyboard unworkable for their workflows, though. I guess what I want to say is that if something works for you, then you should just use that. Still, you should make sure it actually works, because a wrist pain a year down the road is not a pleasant thing.

[1] https://purplezest.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/121.jpg
> Robert Scoble should have the [...] opportunity [...] to come forward

I can't speak for Robert, but he went to alcohol rehab a year back or so and when he did, confessed to doing a lot of bad things and not remembering most of them. I would be surprised if he didn’t own up to it.
Ask HN: Need opinion about IP things
I have some patents in software development field. This evening I will have meeting where I need to decide to give up exclusive rights to use my innovations in some specific areas or quit. I afraid, that if I will give up exclusive rights in any field to use my innovations, then later I might have problems to finish and distribute my own systems or the users of my future systems might have problems. I really do not know what to do. Can You advice something?
The person I annoyedly replied to also wrote this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514621

Context matters. Given the subject matter and the overwhelming male majority here, this is the sort of thing that creates a hostile atmosphere.

The history channel did not do the study. I don't see how the channel is all that relevant, frankly.

It stuck with me because it resonates with my experience and with what I have observed.

But, I don't think I care to discuss it further given what has already occurred here. I don't think it is at all appropriate for a group of men to so completely dismiss what a woman has to say about female sexuality. That is just ugly and it really is the sort of thing that is commonly described with the phrase rape culture.
The most tricky grey area is what someone consider "action". Physical contact is pretty obvious. And I think that's what you are talking about.

But how about verbal (once agin, just simple "hello", not cat-calling)? Or just a look? If that's an attractive person looking at you you may find it pleasant. If that's an ugly/rude/whatever-reason-to-dislike person you will find it creepy, aggressive, whatnot.

Another aspect I do not see mentioned in these discussions is "it's the guys who must be proactive" attitude which is common even among women. So some guys may feel like they must do something, alas, not always sure what and how to do it properly. And if we get to the point where saying "hello" to the person which does not like you (and you have no idea at that point) can be considered sexual harassment we are in the tough place.

The best way to go would probably be make sure that guys understand once and for all that "no" means "no" and women to be encouraged to show their displeasure at once without being afraid that they will be judged for that.
We already have that - variational inference based algorithms like BBVI use gradient descent for training
I’m glad someone else said it. The nav hierarchy here is bizarro.
> Question: How would you prevent cheating in an exam where internet access is allowed?

Ask questions that require demonstration of understanding on the student's part; not merely parrotting facts.
Plain emails not only save time but work better (2016)
This probably says more about me than the article, but the drawing at the top is of an ipod that says zune. A zune has a ‘squarcle’ rather than a circle.
So sad http://www.csszengarden.com/ is already forgotten :(
Gonna need a source on that. Bootstrap is the most widely used CSS framework by a country mile.

Bootstrap has more stars (117k) on GitHub than the next 6 CSS frameworks combined: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=css+framework&s=stars&typ...

FWIW Bulma is third with 20.4k. And I’m legit going to check it out now that, you know, I’ve heard of it ;)

Of course, GitHub stars aren’t everything, and momentum is important, but to say no one cares is objectively wrong. This is a big deal for a large swath of the industry.
It's low considering that price tag. The reason we didn't get this as normal 10 years ago was because of collusion so it's right to expect in 2018(probably when the next batch ships) to have some good screens.
> It must be nice to work in an environment where nobody cares about results.

Not crashing when there's a bug is not "success", it's just "zero visible errors"!

If your workplace really cares about results, they'll understand how futile it is to keep executing even though there's a bug. You start second-guessing your own program, which makes the code quality worse as the assumptions it makes are no longer clear; you won't be alerted to problems, as the program won't be aware of any; there'll be no guarantee that your code isn't just working "by accident" at the moment.

I'd love it if the code I deal with just crashed instead of pretending everything's alright, because it makes errors far harder to diagnose.
> But you can't do pointer arithmetics in Nim.

Actually you can, by using casts.
I've never claimed they didn't have dyslexia. I said they weren't diagnosed. And that they all have good SAT scores, without the need to diagnose and treat such learning disabilities.
> But you will also loose "App Control".

For fuck's sake... Thanks for the "upgrade", Apple.
This is kind of it. Still on my bucket list.. https://www.we-roam.com/
I remember going to a frys launch day and they had to look around for it. Sad that they treated it like a cheap knockoff iPod. The screen was fantastic for the time.
I can relate to an extent. I use a USB stick music player. It's essentially like a usb drive with a headphone jack. I've had it years. I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need. When it breaks, I'll get another one.
> My humble impression is that each and every philosophical hypotesis we make is somewhat based on human paradygms, structures, and super-structures.

Exactly! Each time when I hear that scientists are looking for water because that's supposed to be a condition for life - I wonder how small imagination one needs to have to think that only "water-based" forms of life exist.
Ditto that. I listen to a variety of podcasts (politics, comedy, tech) and it is the same four or five adverts. Harry's probably most of all.

As for Blue Apron itself, I recently discovered the pleasures of cooking and for me it is almost a therapy (and I listen to podcasts while I cook, in fact :) but I have a bit more free time than many people. I could appreciate the convenience of the delivery and the recipes but as others have noted the amount of packaging waste is absurd. And once people start cooking they'll quickly realise how easy (and tasty) it can be.
You can brick laptops with rm -rf /

https://m.slashdot.org/story/306621
What do you think why, if a German comoany such as Infineon or Aixtron plans to sell parts of their business to the Chinese, the US President gets a veto?

Because you do apply the same logic — it has to be produced by us or our closest allies — to all these industries.
Some slides I saw this morning from Sandberg and two others at this Oxford institute:

“Dissolving the Fermi Paradox”
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/media/eps/jodrell-ba...
I too admire it. Denouncing someone hopefully willing to change to start that conversation is a good idea.

More importantly, it is necessary. Going on a creep witchhunt has too many risks of blowbacks.
That's an illustration of the first gen Zune, the second gen had the "squarcle."
the planet and life will be ok, don't worry. they both had already been through much worse cataclysms than puny humanity plague
> This subthread is about the future, not the past. 8 years ago, PG didn't have json support so your point is moot.

8 years ago PG did have replication though, so not sure why it not having feature X 8 years ago makes my point moot.

People keep bringing up that it was a buggy piece of crap because its the icing on the cake and pretty much something you never want your database to be, past or present. Not that software configured by default to eat your data and not persist it can be called a database mind you.
It's like the K* family, famous because they are famous. If not for that they'd be nobodies without any achievements at all.
WACHSTUM DER MOBILEN APP-AGENTUREN
>I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need

Shouldn't it be the inverse? Why the need for another device, if you're already carrying the smartphone?
Which one are you using? I'm currently on a dying first gen ipod shuffle.

I tried getting a cheap "mp3 stick" of aliexpress but it came without memory. I'd rather not waste electronics a second time.
I just would like to say thanks to the author for spending his time on this article. I found it very well written and I look forward to seeing part 2. I recommend this article to everyone who asks me about the blockchain technology.
To OP's credit, it's something that people forget semi-frequently.

I can think of quite a few products that look nice and the workflows are quite easy, but at the end of the day they're just not solving a problem I'd be willing to pay money for (and, often, they disappear later).

It's very hard to admit that you were wrong about the fundamentals of your product, and very easy to think that re-designing the homepage will fix everything.
In Denmark most high schools assume students bring their own laptop.
>Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone

It could be worst, they could be rocking the Dell Ditty.

(Yeah, someone in 2015 thought this could be answer to the iPod: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dj-ditty-512mb/review/ )
Actually, the UK did warn Boeing that it could lose UK defence contracts over the dispute - Bombardier is a huge employer in NI which is politically vital to the stability of the current UK government:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2017/sep/27/theres...
you definitely can do it because the only thing that is in the docsets is a uri starting with https?:// or file:/// .

It seems there are some docsets already doing that[1]. Creating your own docsets is dead easy. just a simple sqlite3 file with a single table.

You can find an example I hacked myself here[2] (very hackish).

It's basically creating a table:

create table searchIndex(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, type TEXT, path TEXT);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX anchr ON searchIndex (name, type, path);

And filling it with data:

insert into searchIndex(name,type,path) VALUES ('foo','function','https://example.com')

[1]. https://github.com/areina/helm-dash/issues/65 .

[2]. https://github.com/kidd/AllegroLisp.docset
The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'
We should hold people accountable for their actions. If they do evil things while drunk, they should not get drunk. Being drunk is no excuse.
> Nim seems like a language that is never truly finished

True for every language.

"1.0" will freeze the spec and it's not like the current versions are unstable or unusable.
> I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need.

But if you want a music player, why carry and charge a second device if you already have a phone?
In Go, sure. In Haskell, for some app use-cases (and I believe static-site-gen is one such) it takes endless patience and tweaking to reach on-par performance with let's say "systems languages". There's scenarios where Haskell's lazy-evaluation may save a running program a lot of unnecessary work theoretically, but in practice I found there's not too many, compared to any eagerly-evaluated program written by a not-a-total-newbie-programmer. Certainly not such batch text-file processing. Then you'd easily parallelize your Go program wherever it makes sense, which in Haskell I didn't do but relied on whatever magic the compiler sprinkles in (if any) via compiler-options =)

Also I'm having a rather excessive template system there!

As long as it doesn't take 20s for 20p.. or I have to manage 10-100k-page sites..
I always wanted a Zune but I don’t believe it was ever avaliable in NZ :(

Now I just use he iPhone to play music
I never had a Zune and if I need something for "just music" (like in the car with the broken radio) I now take my old Android phone with the semi-working display.

If all my(2-4?) 6-10 year old cheap mp3 players had a decent UI like the Zune and didn't break... I don't see a reason why I wouldn't still use them.
I found programming in C on a very small device with primitive memory management made that distinction abundantly clear. Heap variables are the ones that leak memory!
>Nowadays, it seems that consumers converge more and more on a single brand for any service/product, which is probably due to the internet/social media.

This only seems true (at least over medium to longer times) for certain classes of product/service, namely those where network effects actually provide real value to consumers. Many products have tried to artificially integrate features that would initiate network affects (for example niche social networks for fitness trackers) but they end up making the product less usable because they're not part of the core value proposition consumers are looking for with that product.
I hope we move past this attitude that there is something strange about continuing to use something that fulfils its function perfectly well, purely because it's not the latest sexy product. This idea is not good for the pocket or the planet.
I am not laughing at you. I can't see how what some women experience at the point of orgasm has anything at all to do with what happens during a sexual assault or our social expectations of behaviour.

> I strongly suspect this element is a significant factor in many social norms that establish different expectations for male and female sexual behavior.

Please explain. Just saying "I am female" doesn't help here. I want to understand your position.

From another comment you made:

> My conclusion is that women generally value "love" and a serious relationship over casual encounters because a somewhat high degree of trust is a prerequisite for female orgasm to occur.

> So, when a woman is trying to arrange a relationship, she is really just trying to get off. It just isn't as readily apparent as the male process because the timeframe is longer and the process is more convoluted.

These sentences don't seem to follow in my mind.

Maybe one person is mocking you with the LOL. They're an idiot. Ignore them. Perhaps the rest of us just don't seem able to follow your argument. I'm afraid I can't. You're not being dismissed. I just find what you are saying hard to understand.
They are definitely not prepped. I would have kept my subscription if they were.
> Even minor things like picking a product name had impact.

They get zero points for this.

It pretty much reads as "Retard"DB in Portuguese, Spanish, and IIRC German.
> Well if you start factoring in things such as drinks (which you don't get with BA either)

Right, but at home I can enjoy a drink of my choice for cheap. At a restaurant I can pay several dollars for a drink, or I can drink water. (Unless it's a BYOB. But that's for alcohol, and I don't drink that often)

> you should also be factoring in the time and electric/gas (Stove/Oven, Dishwasher)

The time isn't free but it can be fun to cook with somebody. YMMV obviously. Sometimes time we enjoyed it, sometimes it was more work than we felt like.

Gas/electric resources to cook and wash? Pennies.
You're welcome!

For anyone else who hasn't come across it: Newpipe allows you to (a) watch the video directly in fullscreen (b) download it as video or audio (c) play the audio in the background (d) play it in a small (adjustable) pop-up window that can remain on screen while you browse other apps.

It's still very much in development though. There are random errors that pop up when navigating (not too frequent, but you'll probably see one if you use it for a week or so), and it just recently got the ability to display playlists (you have to manually select the next video after one finishes playing, doesn't have auto-advance feature yet).
I'm not saying it's impossible to do any other way, but for me it was perfect.

I could download some recipes online, then go buy the stuff. But then I end up with a whole jar of hoisin sauce that I'll never use again because I didn't really like it, or 2x the ground chicken that I don't know what to do with now.

With the "recipe in a box" style things, they give you what you need, AND how to make it. I used it like a trial. Of the food I got over the like 6 total times I got it, I liked about 10 of the recipes (they give you 3 meals with each box), and we continue to make about 4 of them on a regular basis.

The "regular" ones we now go to the grocery store for, because now we know how much to get, what we can use it for, how long it will store, and where to get it.

I'm sad it sounds like this might not be a sustainable business model, as it was a really nice thing for us, and we do want to do it again at some point.

I guess the closest "traditional" thing to it would be like going to a cooking class. But this was cheaper, at home, and had much more variety.
Or they did the same job but worked for a company (or independently) that is properly regulated.
Question of perspective. Why the need to use the smartphone (and look into and accept the compromises coming with that) when you already own a device made perfectly for the task of playing music? seems like an equally good question to me. (I don't own a dedicated MP3 player anymore, but have several times considered getting one again because of the downsides of using the phone)
Could you provide sources for this? I have never heard of such a Dell machine... My understanding was that there are currently no real options to run an Intel CPU laptop without ME.
You do realize that the Snowden papers show that Boeing did exactly the same corporate espionage, aided by the NSA steaking data from Airbus and directly giving it to Boeing?

The US is just as problematic as China in these things, and has the same levels of subsidies for industries deemed important to national security.
You make Zenaudio ALK! That is a really interesting sequencer and looper. Congrats on a great concept.
Because the market would have supported a higher price.
That link appears to point to a deleted comment.
Thanks. I'll do so
Yes, I get that.

If you re-read my comment you'll see that I didn't suggest you don't think there's a genuine problem.

My point was that people in general seem to frame situations in a way that causes them the least cognitive dissonance. That's natural human behaviour.

In this case (and this is semi-educated guesswork on part) I suspect men in tech will much prefer to frame this as a problem with men in general than a problem with men in tech specifically. A problem with men in general is less uncomfortable than a problem with men in tech.

This will manifest as a gut feeling that's then rationalised, rather than a conscious thought process so please don't take it as an accusation of low intelligence, morals, or character. It's absolutely not.

I brought this up because you were being vocally skeptical but not bringing evidence to the table. Maybe you have evidence to base your opinion on and this isn't an instance of the thing I described, in which case apologies.

Actually, apologies either way, it's tough to have your motives examined like that regardless of whether your behaviour fits this description.
The article states some of the reasons one might have for still owning a zune:

> The thing is, with your phone, if you download an app like Spotify, they're asking for access to data on your phone, it's connected to the internet, and they track your location, which they sell to third-party vendors. But the Zune isn't connected to the internet at all, and what I like about the Zune is the privacy element.
Charging isn't an issue, it lasts days and days. I don't actually remember the last time it ever ran out. Not mention I use it as a handy sub storage for other files. It's ultra light, and as someone who does a bit of running I'd feel ridiculous having one of those arm patches to hold a £xxx phone.
And the underwriters, and the early shareholders who grabbed a little chunk of that 30% on the way up.
* DNS66 for adblocking is pretty cool too
Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.
Do you think removing the option of working for Uber would make things better for the steamrolled?

If so, then why are they choosing to work for Uber instead of doing whatever they'd be doing if Uber wasn't around? Are you saying that they're stupid or being tricked?

If not, then isn't the world a better place for those people with Uber as an option?
Sure, and I'd like to learn it I guess, but I'm too busy looking at interesting stuff in frontend like working with audio and getting webgl things happening. Frontend has diverse meaning these days.
I have no problem with evangelism of tech products like Scoble or Guy Kawasaki or Paul Thurrott.

Hate when people diss ones educational or working background to make a point.

Scoble did a horrific thing at the Foo Camp and who knows at other times and that should be the focus.
It's some sort of Sony Walkman. Dunno which model as all of the printing on the device has worn away with use!
Sorry, I haven't used Red Reader. It's better looking than redditisfun and IMO has better UX and customizability than Boost (those two are the other reddit clients I've used).
Becoming Foolish
Actually, due to the way commenting works, HN breaks the back button.