skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still do that with 4:3. Think of the dimensions of a real open book.. it's quite alright :)
How would scrolling work? If both panes went up or down a little, I'd find it a little jarring. Maybe I would get used to it, I don't know.
But was it really Cameron pushing it, or Theresa May in her previous capacity as Home Secretary?

The position of Home Secretary has a way of dehumanizing everyone who does it for a significant length of time. That is perhaps understandable and unsurprising if you look at what the job involves: they reportedly spend many hours every day reviewing files about the worst of our society and requests by the police and other services for authority to do various things with those people that they aren't otherwise legally allowed to do. That's probably enough to turn almost anyone into an authoritarian, and sure enough, it is often current or former Home Secretaries who are the ones proposing draconian, one-sided measures that tip the power balance far towards the government at the expense of freedom and civil liberties.

We're in an unusual situation at the moment, because for the first time in as long as I can remember, our current Prime Minister is also a former Home Secretary. Given her weak position generally and the poisoned chalice of Brexit that she was handed when she took over, it's not a big surprise that she continues to support these kinds of authoritarian measures, and those who want to keep her in power fall in behind.

Whether that support will be as strong when May goes is an interesting question. Many of our political leaders, including a lot of MPs from both of the two biggest parties, have quite authoritarian attitudes anyway. But there are also some from those parties, and more in the smaller parties, who do seem to value civil liberties more highly. Some of the more authoritarian proposals of recent years have ultimately been defeated or even wound back after coming into effect (ID cards, various things about DNA records...) so we may yet see a more balanced approach after Brexit if May has gone at that point.
Does anyone know how the MAC randomisation in Windows 10 devices stacks up? I'd assume it's better than a fixed MAC, but a quick Google search doesn't give much info. about how easily it can be sidestepped.
Yes, it is standard, having access would also be illegal in the EU.
All of them. You just need usb keyboard and mouse and flat stable surface.
I get the feeling that many of those who comment didn’t read the article. It says

> Note: What I describe below applies to APFS sparse disk images only — ordinary APFS volumes (e.g. your SSD startup disk) are not affected by this problem. While the underlying problem here is very serious, this is not likely to be a widespread problem, and will be most applicable to a small subset of backups.
I wouldn't say this is a bait and switch, but it is a betrayal. It sounds like a lot of people joined the company because of the work environment. An environment that placed importance of the people in it, and making it somewhere that they wanted to be and where they felt comfortable being who they were. To now turn around and imply that those same values are bad is a betrayal.

The slide deck is not surprising or positive to me either. For me, it is an example of the corporate neofeudalism that currently dominates the US workplace. Not only are you are cog in the machine, but you have to be passionate and optimistic cog too! It is not ok to simply do your job, you have to be outside your comfort zone!

From my perspective, it is dehumanizing. People have value beyond their economic potential.
Elected yes - representative of the people no. By design - with both the electoral college for President and each state having two Senators, the desires of the less populous states are over represenrated in government. And those two parts of government are in control of deciding the third branch - the Supreme Court.

That's not even to mention how much regulatory power unelected officials in the beuracry has.
My arm has gone numb.
Is it a laptop with detachable screen? => Surface Book (after MacBook)

Is it a tablet with a thin attachable keyboard? => Surface Pro
The only thing that can replace e-mail is, e-mail. We need a means for communications that are not instant, and allow for long-form, off-line, complex interactions, based on decentralised infrastructure. That'll continue to exist in some form along with all the other means we have, and that's a nice thing.
Is there a common core method to teach arithmetic in different a different base, like 8 or 16?

The "old way" algorithm still works with different bases, you just change extend or truncate the rule for when to carry.

Easy to teach your kid hexadecimal arithmetic using old way, like how my parents taught me in like grade 4 or 5 - and now I program for a living, haha
All of them, but you'll rotate the laptop itself with it. Which can be quite a hassle. :p
Just open two buffers side by side and it's almost like you have two 4:3 monitors. Isn't that better?
I agree that the implementation is pretty hard to use by default.
https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer makes windows' virtual desktops usable though
1.

Indexes start at 1.

That's your opinion.

2, 3.

Using "it's easier for new users" is not a good argument for a good programming language.

x = x + 1 is not hard to grasp.

It's not, but it's more typing. I would argue that ++x and x += aren't that hard to grasp.

4. Javascript has bitwise operators even though it only has doubles. It simply casts it to an int32 before doing the operation

5.

Continue is very much necessary in loops like this, unless you want some deeply nested code:

for(...){
if(...) continue;
if(...) continue;
if(...) continue;
if(...) continue;
if(...) continue;

...
}

6. It's what the most popular languages out there use. It doesn't have to be !=, which is why it's towards the end of my list, but being different than everyone else is even worse for new users, which is the opposite of what you're arguing for.

--

Garry Newman blogged a bit about this too. His game used Lua extensively, but he changed his opinion about it: https://garry.tv/2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/.

Now, I don't like JavaScript, but at the moment, it's the best scripting language for embedding out there. I have embedded both lua and v8, and I consider v8 simpler in terms of getting it to work with your code.
Chez scheme is extremely fast.
I think the most important part is this:

> * Assuming you could stand Wave’s interface, it’d still be useless unless the people you wanted to communicate and collaborate with were also using it. Wave was intended to completely replace existing systems like email and chat, so it had no provisions for interoperating with those systems. To succeed, Wave required a revolution, a critical mass of people switching to the new way and dragging the rest of the world with them—and those haven’t worked out very often.

> * Making the revolution even more unlikely, initially Google offered Wave accounts by invitation only, so the people you wanted to talk with probably couldn’t even get an account.

I was excited about Google Wave at the time but first had to wait what felt like ages for an invite and then barely anyone I knew was on it and I quickly ran out of invites myself (because not everyone you send an invite will be as excited to use it as you are).

To replace e-mail it would have had to at least provide some kind of gateway between wave and e-mail to ease the transition -- or it would have had to integrate more closely with other tools and applications to "trick" people into adopting it (like how Google Talk integrated with GMail).

The "openness" was neat but didn't help them gain any traction because there was no incentive to actually build and run your own server because there were no users.
It does exist-- from hobbyist entrepreneurs. 51nb has been selling motherboard upgrades for the old 4:3 ThinkPad models for a few years now, and others have begun to specialize in whole-system integration, additional mods, and complete systems based on this work (I'm one of those people, though I also do it as a hobby).

My three ThinkPads X60s machines are all Broadwells, with nice 12.1" 4:3 high res screens using modern backlights I fabricate myself. They work so well I intend to build more.
This is a really good essay on what's wrong with how we teach mathematics to children: A Mathematicians Lament https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

It's rather long, at 25 pages, but it's a very good and entertaining read. It was written in 2002 but it still holds water today.
A few thoughts (EU/NL):

-It's hard to find out why you were denied a loan and full transparency is not required. You could ask for how the company has processed your personal details and try to find out but hard to know and hence hard to complain. Even GDPR doesn't change that a black box model for the modeller is incomprehensible to a customer.

-Companies can to a certain degree operate as they want to. (I think that's fine too. Business should benefit both parties.) Discrimination is not always very clearcut and often on proper grounds (think risk-based).

-In the Netherlands companies cannot automate denial of service / business. There has to be a human element to that.

-Actuaries have long learned not to use for example names in modeling. That would be a good example of adding better risk insights through illegal discrimination (names give a good delineation of ethnical background, at least a for few generations).
and not being afraid to look like a total freak ;)
Facebook uses low-priority bugfixes as training tasks for junior developers. It's entirely possible this was somebody 6 weeks out of university who sent the notification to the first phone record they came across. Not many people have different 2fac and SMS numbers set up, so this could easily get through testing.

As for the SMS reply posting back to Facebook, that's been a live feature for about a decade. It was long defunct when 2fac was introduced, so I'm not surprised there are odd interactions there.
There's only so much you can get with good tiling. I used to not care about the aspect ratio debate until I started increasing font sizes in my applications. My eyesight is still good, but being able to work farther from the screen feels better, and I can keep brightness low.

I work on a 16:9 27" display where this is moot (still, I feel like I use the center 50% of the display 90% of the time) but I feel this pain in laptops.

At 16:9, for page-based content (all text editors and code tools, productivity tools, web browsers; terminals less so), you're forced to display two pages side by side. Still, they're shorter vertically than your eye can handle. Horizontally, your eye will either gravitate towards the center of the display, or have to switch between the two sides (ultimately rendering the extra area of the display temporarily useless)

At 4:3 in full screen (especially important for smaller displays) you can have a sidebar or ancillary tool occupying 1/3 or 1/4 of the screen, and the paged content occupying the rest.

I've made my peace with 16:10.
Would you share you excel sheets? I'm curious.

But currently I'm rather searching for a path towards part-time work. Sadly that's challenging as a project manager, maybe slightly less as a product manager (I always filled both roles in smaller startups, so I'm flexible here).
I'm really conflicted by this article.

On the one hand, it's always a shame to read of cases where a company with a great culture which people clearly enjoyed and valued is changed for 'bad' reasons - takeover, or profit, or similar.

...but...

> “I really don’t think they would have been able to attract the talent they did without it because the product wasn’t there. They didn’t innovate. Meetup is not attractive except for their culture, except for their values”

If the product sucks, then a) you've got to ask why, and b) that probably needs to change, for the sake of the company (which actually offers a valuable product, IMO) and its employees.

And here's what seems to have been judged to be the issue: if your priority is to hire a diverse workforce that enables a gentle, happy, collaborative culture, then your priority isn't to hire the best possible workforce, to create the best possible product.

I don't want to come over as James Damore here (and I'm sure there are plenty of cases of a diverse workforce creating a great product) but this isn't fundamentally unreasonable. If your priority is cultural excellence, you're going to get cultural excellence, possibly to the exclusion of other factors: if your priority isn't product excellence, you're not going to get product excellence.
Japan is unrivaled in building long-lasting wooden structures using only joinery (no nails, screws). This allows the wood to expand and contract harmoniously without cracking. Multi-story buildings (temples are a great example) have “floating” stories than may shift several feet during an earthquake, all kept together with a freestanding “spine” mounted only to the ground.
> Latex is a beast, but there are no serious alternatives to typeset formulae.

People keep repeating this like it's true, but MS Word has had an excellent formula editor for a decade now (the one they shipped before Word 2007 was terribly shitty though).

It's wysiwyg (which is fantastic if you're editing a big formula), it supports all math notation I've ever needed, and it has surprisingly decent UX. It even supports LaTeX-like input, eg if you type e^2 it gets autocorrected to e².

This makes entering formulas as fast, if not faster, than LaTeX and editing formulas an order of magnitude easier because you don't need to re-parse that backslash-curly-mess that you entered a week ago. Just point and click and edit.
Apple was one of the last holdouts. They were shipping matte and 4:3 laptops until relatively recently.

Reflective screens are the biggest shame. They’re worse but they sell better. For a while 4:3 looked “old fashioned.”

Turns out that a tall form factor works for phones, but thankfully most manufactutors relize that tablets should be 4:3 or close to it.
For most forms of computer work, he has a point. 16:9 at 27" isn't the same thing as 16:9 at 15.6".

Browsers, word processors, CLIs, etc. run top-to-bottom, and can make
you feel claustrophobic on the tiny 16:9 screens most laptops have.
I'm pretty sure there is no lineage from Wave to Kix (which, yes, was the code name for the modern incarnation of Docs). Kix is more of a descendant of the architecture of Google Sheets.

Source: I am one of the original authors of Writely, did not work on Kix but I was still at Google when it was being written, had a minor role in reviewing the design.
You assume there is actual competition taking place in computer display panels. Not sure how you can get that impression.
GitHub Game of Life – Play Conway's Game of Life with Your Contributions Graph
Read it out loud to yourself. Don't try to puzzle out the meaning. Just enjoy the play of language.

I read the whole thing like that over 2 to 3 months and there were quite a few occasions where the beauty of the language sent shivers down my spine (and also quite a few laughs, because there are some quite amusing wordplays). I haven't read it again since then but I have returned to my favourite parts.
Seriously? I use a long list of US products on daily basis, most of them are really good. That being said, American coffee is the only big no go I can think of.

People need to wake up from their day dream and realise something simple and plain - many travel to the US with instant coffee packed in their luggage because American coffee (made or grown in the US) is just !@#$%^.
As someone not from the U.S. I wonder, what does "outdated" mean? Can you give a simple example - e.g. comparison - what would be "math back then" and "math nowadays".
Because to me math was always just math especially if it comes to numbers.
Not if you're only working on one document at a time. Being distracted by some other stuff on the side is not always a benefit and many editors are surprisingly hard to set up to center documents on the screen while blending out anything on the sides.
You're right that it is often the most important thing - but not always. For example, people (myself included) often have a YouTube video playing in the background, which also consumes a lot of resources. Having both may start to cause problems.

Regardless it is a good thing to avoid over-computing. It helps those with lower powered computers or people on battery-powered machines.
Is the issue that parents don’t understand because it’s different from how they were taught or the teaching method does not work?
this is so stupid.
this guy doesnt want a laptop but a tablet or netbook, and should be asking why chromebooks dont come in 4:3

this guy's real problem is probably that 768 pixels isnt enough, not the wasted pixels to make the width 1366; so the solution is probably not being as cheap, and getting a higher resolution screen on a small latptop
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I am certain that those are legit users /s

(and not crawlers of all those SEO tools that need to crawl with different IPs because they hit rate limits very fast)
Where does the author imply that a majority of programmers prefer 4:3? The expressions he uses are "many of my colleagues", and "only a part of [academics and IT professionals, but] still a large group". I think they are accurate.

I do strongly prefer 4:3. As an academic, a large portion of my time is spent reading papers in PDF, and opening papers side by side is mostly useless - you want to read, not compare or copy from one to the other. When coding, it depends on how your mind works. I understand that many people may want to have several files on screen at the same time, but my mind works mostly by focusing on a single file at a time, and rapidly switching context to another. Having several windows visible at the same time distracts me.

All the author (and other people wanting 4:3, like myself) are saying is that we want to have 4:3 as an alternative. We do not want to force 4:3 on anyone, just to be able to buy laptops with 4:3 screen, even if they are a minority of the product range. Is that that much to ask? Would it be that bad for people who prefer 16:9 to have 90% of laptop screens designed for them, instead of 100%? Because as long as you are OK with that and you don't need 100% of the screens to cater to your preference, I don't see why posts like this should create any controversy at all.
> I do not count a clause buried in a terms of service as informed consent.

Neither do EU courts. I guess this "feature" is only available in the US?
2560x2048 would be awesome (they exist but they cost about 5-10 times what a 2560x1440 does.. http://www.ieiworld.co.uk/products/MMD_5201M-1323-459.html).

Two of those side by side would be perfect.

I have dual 2560x1440's at work (24") and that's nice but the extra 608 height would be great for things like Chrome devtools etc.
That's a widespread class of bug (deserving of a short, memorable handle like off-by-one, semantic collision perhaps?), but could it apply here? I'd sure hope that the world's most prominent authentication provider would keep their 2FA more isolated than that from their ad pipes.
Just like title loans, reality tv, and vape shops.
Agree 110%

I have an external monitor flipped to portrait. Only other option is to get some kind of beastly tablet set-up.
Why not? In my friend circle only one guy has a facebook account, he created it to talk to a girl he met and i don't think he uses it anymore or even deleted it.

Not sure why that's so unbelievable.
When calculating in my head or on paper, I value quick estimations moving to greater refinement. Common Core math seems somewhat similar to this.

I never subtract, only add up from low to high. If the two numbers have the same number of differing digits, I move from most significant digit to least: 73-57=10+6. If they cross a round number threshold greater than 10s, I get to a convenient base first: 2018-1995=5+18; 173-57=43+73=110+6.

For multiplication, I do something similar: 6x57=300+42; 42x23=(42x20=800+40)+(42x3=120+6).

For division in my head, I use a kind of binary search to get a quick estimate and then refine it. 846/42=42x10? 42x20+6. 20r6. 6/42=1/7. 0.15x7>1, 0.14x7<1. 20.14.

From my understanding, the Common Core approach to math is much closer to this approach I developed intuitively than the traditional methods. I'm sure many others developed similar approaches. If I want an answer accurate to more than two decimal places, or if the math gets too complicated to keep in my head, I just use a calculator.
Trucking as a State of Mind
Wide screens are a terrible idea indeed. Another side effect is that they frequently add another vertical row of keys on the right edge of the keyboard, just next to Enter/Shift/Backspace. That's just asking for trouble, as if laptop keyboards weren't bad enough already... The C64 had its function keys there, but with a huge gap in between for a reason.
Being distracted is never a benefit, but being able to see two or three files together and compare them is. At any rate, it's just extra space that you can leave blank if you wish. I see no upsides of 4:3.
>Back then there wasn't a swimming class requirement

What I meant was you had to either pass the swimming test or take it once or twice for PE whether or not you ever got to the point you could pass the test.

I actually never did either but that was because I had a SCUBA certification at the time which did have a swimming test requirement. So I got a waiver.

I regretted a bit that I didn't take better advantage of the PE options. At the time, I really liked playing ice hockey although I wasn't great at it so I mostly just took hockey as an option.
I'm on KDE Neon. Built by KDE developers on top of Ubuntu.
I had the same thought, but actually the super long timeline could also be evidence that they're taking it seriously. Roppongi Hills, another Tokyo development, took about 18 years from the start of planning to the end of construction.
He already does that with his desktop monitor, he's talking about laptops.

> This is why my desktop LCD monitor is mounted vertically the whole time, and this is also why I would like my notebook monitor to be positioned likewise.
"unstable" (ignore the name, assume it refers to the version numbers...) serves this purpose for many.
The difference is here the posts are structured into threads to make it easier to convey a story than writing a blogpost.
For when not on the move:

21:9 curved 34" at 3440x1440 is perfect for Visual Studio. I have bought two of those for myself now; home and work (U3415W, X34). 21:9 is as if made for VS.

There's even a bigger 38" 3840x1600 (the U3818DW) that I'd love to see.

You're talking serious real estate you caon use with no silly scaling, ie 1:1 or 100%.
China’s great leap forward in science
Will consider this feedback. Thanks a lot :)