skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had my keyboard replaced by Apple a month ago, in one of the covered models. They charged full price for an entire bottom shell replacement of my laptop. The keys were better (obviously) for the first day, but after a month of use keys are already having issues (volume key is falling off). I keep my keyboard and laptop extremely clean, so it's not a matter of trapped food particles or dust or whatever.
look into discharging wife's student debt due to permanent disability. pursue divorce as legal strategy if it helps obtaining relief
Just curious, have you been to China?
Great news. I bought a MBP last February and already had the keyboard replaced. I was worried about it happening again now that it’s out of warranty.

Apart from this (apparently widespread) fault, it’s my favorite keyboard. I just wish I’d bought the non Touch Bar version.
> Personally I still think they should make a 32Gig Memory MacBook Pro

I agree with this sentiment. The last upgrade I got at work was very lackluster - I went from a 4-year-old MacBook Pro to a brand new one. I still have the same amount of RAM, and the work I do isn't usually processor constrained. It's functionally no different from what it replaced.

I do like the TouchBar and Touch ID though.
Is this the “you're holding it wrong” argument?
Fox News isn't journalism. It's opinion wrapped around selective "reporting".

EDIT: Yes, of course it's impossible to eliminate bias. To extrapolate from that to accepting overtly biased and selectively published content as journalism is unsupported, at best.

It's the selectivity of reporting that compromises the claim of journalism, not the bias. When you don't report on things that don't support your narrative, you're no longer reporting.
While true, it doesn't come naturally given how the average millennial manages his/her life :)
In the UK I believe domestic washer-dryers outnumber standalone washing machines with standalone tumble dryers. I assume this results from smaller property sizes than the US. If you live in a city in a newer property - there is no room for two appliances rather than one.
That’s great! You’re the kind of person the hobbyist programming language development community needs. I’d encourage anyone who’s interested in learning more about compilers to see how they can contribute to a new language—it’s a great learning experience, one less thing for the primary author to do (a programming language can be an enormous undertaking), and who knows, you may be helping to build the next big thing.
And it will at the same time vary the price of education based on financial post-graduation prospects. Have a shortage of teachers or social workers due to low salary? Well, the relevant degrees would only cost 10% of a STEM degree. I see this as a major win.
> image safe for work

Is there any reason to expect an image of some screws and a grain of rice not to be safe for work? Genuinely curious. Like, what else would possibly be in that image? I think in general we expect all images on HN to be safe for work. And if they are not then people warn about that. Were there any NSFW images that you came across when searching for this one?
"Yes, we sent rockets to the moon, but an average Ivan couldn't have proper plumbing in his apartment."

Older properties in London sometimes still had outhouses into the 1960s.
Why would you think voting for a single solitary politician would solve it all?
Apple acknowledges faulty MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards
And how exactly does that make it an IRC client?
I've been tempted to go back to Firefox, but it's kind of hard. I put up with Firefox for a very long time before moving to Chrome, and it's hard for me to go back. Part of it is that I suffered with really pretty crappy performance for so long, that when I changed, Chrome was so clearly better that I felt like my trust in Firefox had been broken. Part of it is that I feel like I have a lot of things in Chrome (saved passwords, extensions, configurations). I've been running one Firefox browser for running another session, just to get back to getting familiar with it and see how it does.

Firefox performance does seem dramatically better in the last year since I tried it seriously. Maybe 18 months. I think the multiple processes rollout really helped.

So, it's an option in my pocket. But I'm hoping to find a workflow that changes my habits, rather than just enabling my old ones. :-)
You could always have them bankrutable and have strong anti-fraud rules. But i think overall it is a bad idea. It is better to just have percentage income repayment rather than bankruptcy.

No doubt about it if student loans were bankruptable then it would be ripe with fraud.
Thanks for sharing your anecdote! A couple questions: how did you pay for college without incurring debt, and what jobs did you get for those salaries in a low cost-of-living (presumably small-town?) area?
Send an undercover agent to immerse himself in the community, learn the lingo, etc, and use opsec to protect him from detection by external authorities (the same authorities that failed to bus everyone else in the community already). Then when you want to disappear someone, create some links between the real person and the online persona created by the undercover agent.
> it's not normal for a self-described businessman to give out money for free

If that’s not normal then I don’t want to ever be normal.
"My enemies managed to spike" anyone have a clue who his enemies are? I know he's quite the character but I've never read anything about him having the type of enemies that would try to kill people.
> Anecdotally, the most reliable Macs I've owned have been the new ones.

That's because they're not old enough yet to develop problems. Reliability can only be determined after some time has passed.
I'm not an expert in any degree, but it seems that there are plenty of problems out there, just that the only ones being solved cater to investors and wealthy tech-workers. There's no money in improving infrastructure, returning good food to food deserts, teaching school children - or otherwise the things that most would probably agree suggest the success of the society at large.

Very likely this is what stakeholder-profits-at-all-costs leads to.
1) soak shirt in white vinegar / water (1 part to 4) for 1-4 hours (or overnight)

2) apply liberally a paste of baking soda & hydrogen peroxide to yellowed areas

3) let rest for 1-2 hours

4) wash normally

Bonus: use Bluette every few washes.
But it also doesn’t hang around for that long. Maybe better in the long term to release it than burn it?
Wow, thanks for this detailed post - I had no idea the process was so involved and complicated!
Text on your computer with (Android) Messages for web
> You can’t make statements about quality without having statistics. Otherwise it’s just meaningless anecdotes.

But you can:

> But I wouldn’t consider the MacBooks poor quality.
Seriously, “You’re holding it wrong” all over again? The problem didn’t exist in the previous generation macs. Keyboardgate yet again.
Apple also hasn't updated this line in quite some time. Dave2D recently did a new laptop review where he couldn't recommend any MacBooks because they're still using far older architecture than their PC equivalents like the Dell XPS 15.
A program that learns to “imagine” the world shows how AI can think more like us
When you feel like you need to eat a muffin, instead hold ctrl and press w a bunch of times.

Two birds with one stone.
You might be able to do a preparation like orange flower water, a little bit of which is really good added to that pancake batter (and lots of baked goods - often in lieu of vanilla). I'd imagine black locust flower water might be used in a similar fashion. I'm guessing flower water is the aqueous fraction of a non-alcoholic distillation.

Also, black locust flower syrup is apparently a thing if you don't happen to have a still handy:

http://www.natureontheshelf.com/food-and-drinks/black-locust...

That seems like it would be pretty good.
Without reliable available statistics the only thing left for consumers are anecdotes.
I stand corrected. I'm glad they finally decided to acknowledge the issue. We know the way they work. It probably took them months to do the CBA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312885
:sigh: I hate function call syntax without parens. It makes code much more difficult to read and, if it supports first class functions, passing around no arg functions is harder than it should be.
Google employees didn’t want to be complicit with certain things the government was going use their work for. They stood up for what they believed in.

If you are asked to say, make poison gas to exterminate the “enemies of the state”, you can always say: “Take it up with the executive branch.” I guess. When faced with the same situation, others may choose to a different response.
I really feel really bad you are getting down voted.
There is lack of understanding of how shale revolution reshaped America and its energy independence here in this forum.
WikiLeaks has a long and ongoing history, and Assange founded it long before the Russia stuff. When and how did it change?
There are comments in this thread that say, well people should get a STEM job if they don't want to be poor. Ignoring that outside engineering and software most STEM jobs pay poorly. That only allows for 3-5% of workers to be 'not poor'
I've had 2 in the past 2 years. (2016 and 2017 models) First one had to have the display replaced. Both had weird display artifacts when I pushed a lot of pixels over display port-to-USB C (2 external monitors)

My previous machine, a late 2013 model, lasted 3 years or so without any real issues.

Obviously mine is a meaningless anecdote as well, but fitting a common pattern.
The turnout in Democratic primaries (where one would assume a reaction to the Presidency would have the most effect) has been pretty disappointing so far. For example Texas has traditionally had a low turnout no matter what - young people could not be bothered to vote.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/18/analysis-millennial-...

The primary in Alabama between a pedophile and a normal person for US Senate was ridiculously close, and it was only super high turnout by African Americans that turned the tide, not young people.
The problem is that subtle amounts of dust are enough to stick the key mechanism.

So unless you work in a medical clean room it largely doesn’t matter how clean you keep your laptop. Two top cases later for me and I now use a keyboard cover. No problems since.
I think you would be interested in the topic of subitizing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing

> The accuracy, speed, and confidence with which observers make judgments of the number of items are critically dependent on the number of elements to be enumerated. Judgments made for displays composed of around one to four items are rapid,[2] accurate[3] and confident.[4] However, as the number of items to be enumerated increases beyond this amount, judgments are made with decreasing accuracy and confidence.[1] In addition, response times rise in a dramatic fashion, with an extra 250–350 ms added for each additional item within the display beyond about four.[5]

I can't spot the references I thought I'd see here but I recall there being work around training this and seeing people improve up to around 7-8.
His long term plan as his post mentions, is to grow and push IRC so that we can support large communities on IRC instead of them migrating to closed platforms. It's not normal for a businessman to spend so much money on this type of plan, I perfectly agree. But I've seen it happen, along with other IRC and open source projects that have nothing to do with LTM. See here for all the open source projects that a VPN supports without anything coming from it. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/companies-we-spo...

As for running a large IRC network, it's not just about the cost. It's the management, the running of the network, dealing with its users, etc. Protecting yourself from DDOS that still unfortunately happens amongst other attacks. It's not as simple as throwing it on "AWS/GCP for hobby scale money". (I say say that even though I don't run freenode).
Opened Messages and this popped up.

Unfortunately, scanning the QR code just seems to result in a spinner -- I'm curious to know if anyone else has more success?

Edit: third time worked, seems fairly straightforward. Not sure I'll ever use it.
It's illuminating how predictable Apple is in these matters. The subhead of a month-old article on one of the class-action lawsuits filed over this issue:

"Apple faulty product flowchart: Deny --> Get sued --> Admit --> Initiate repair program" [0]

The next step is for the class-action suits to wither on the vine because Apple can say it's providing relief.

[0]: https://www.techspot.com/news/74772-apple-facing-second-clas...
I think you are correct as well, its a matter of timing. Eventually there will be the equivalent of an FPGA that instead of having "LUT"s or "CLB"s they will have a bunch of useful bits of tech and an internal wiring bus that will be programmed by setting switches or blowing fuses. Then the variation will be how many pins on the package which will determine how many of these things you can bring out to pins.

I did a thought experiement of what it would take to make a 'universal' TTL chip, which was basically a 14 pin, 16 pin, and 18 pin device where all 74xx chips were actually inside of them and through a programming step you bonded one of them to pins on the lead frame. It required a 90nm or better feature size. The trick was you only have (number of pins) number of input stages and output stages (all the "TTL" part of TTL (these are fairly large by their nature). The logic was all internal 1.8v with a simple step down regulator to go from 5V down to 1.8V.

You could cover both the SSI and MSI catalogs. Of course there isn't anyone designing new stuff with TTL any more so it remains a thought experiment only.
This is great! It gives off the feeling of a bizarre kind of intelligence.

Can you please input things like 感覚的 and 意識 and 私は部屋 and 自殺 and 何私 to freak some people out?
That’s my bet as well. It’s an engineering flaw related to the incredibly delicate mechanism, short travel, and tiny tolerances. A very small particle can jam it.

I have the new MacBook Pro and I prefer its keyboard over old style, but I swear the first time I used the down arrow about a week after purchasing it was slightly jammed with something. Still functions and doesn’t repeat characters, but infuriating.

It sucks to know that after 4 years this repair program will end and I’m stuck unjamming it myself by following this article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht205662
If the fastest growing sector of our economy was cobra wrestling, I would be telling everybody that the solution to their economic woes would be to get involved in cobra wrestling. It's not callous, it's pretty simple logic.

Complaining that you don't like how everything is changing into Cobra wrestling won't change the fact that it's happening.

Even if you're physically not suited to cobra wrestling, there would many many tertiary jobs and functions needed to support that growing sector you could enter. Cobra wrestling promoter. Cobra wrestling trainer. Cobra wrestling gym manager. Cobra wrestling photographer. Cobra wrestling filmographer. Cobra wrestling transport.

What would be your better solution for people? Try to get government to artificially support the no-longer needed computer workers so they can still pretend they make money from working on computers?
>> I don't believe royalties are paid at the pad but rather further down the line

That's not true in any regime I'm aware of. Ownership and royalties are accounted for at the zone, which is well before the wellhead, let-alone downstream. Any loss between where the gas is produced and the final sale is known as "shrinkage" which can be allocated to different buckets, most commonly fuel and flaring. I'm not sure where leakage would be accounted for, probably "Transmission" or "Distribution".

What's criminal is that unaccounted for gas (known as UAF) is widely measured on the end-user distribution network, so I'd be very surprised if Oil Co. didn't have all the information they need to figure out loss from the wellhead. They either can't be bothered to amalgamate the data or just don't want to know the answer (or do and keep it secret).
There is a lot true in this - though I personally think it has more to do with parents being put in a bind, than with adolescents being lied to - but there is one obvious thing you're missing: tuition and fees are much much higher now, across the board.
Yep I usually mention that as well as justinpombrio's comment, I just hate sounding like a shill. I'm simply an extremely satisfied customer from way back at launch.

One more thing: They are very friendly towards oddball devices. I had a Nokia 900 that they happily sent me a SIM card to fit, and helped me with APN settings (the defaults almost worked but needed to be tweaked a bit). They also more recently helped me get an iPad mini set up on the Sprint side. It took some finagling by the support person since they don't officially support that device, but they got me up and going. Their support staff is alway super friendly, I've never met a grumpy one even back when I was beta testing GSM on Windows Phone devices for them and had to call in several times a week.
If you want to have a voice in your government, you have to have some kind of division in your area/nation.

Without borders or nations, you're suggesting there will be a universal law. Who's law do you want? Do you want to be forced to wear head coverings, do you want internet censorship? Do you want to have kickbacks from the cartel? Having different nations allows you to understand where there are tradeoffs.
Until you realise that those who care the most often hold extreme views and are the most outspoken even when representing a relative minority. Deeply conservative fundamentalist Christians, anti-vaxxers, and climate change deniers are some examples that come to mind.
Why isn’t everyone running away from Java as fast as possible? Oracle is the last company I would want to depend on for a critical piece of functionality....
Ginni Rometty and Wes Bush: 'Skills gap' requires updated education system
You get the sweats easily, I usually undress completely while unscrewing MacBook keyboards. It's a dirty business.
> Also, if this require a special rig to process today, how is magic leap gonna fit that into a pair of glasses?

The same way the PC which rendered the first Jurassic park found its way into your pocket.

And also the glasses of today aren't targeting that level of detail / realism.
yes I did, thank you
I’m not making a argument. I hate the design more than anyone.

The problem has been acknowledged by Apple as being particles of dust, food behind the key mechanism. So the obvious solution is to cover the keys. I’ve had a cover for a while and now have had zero issues.
That doesn't talk about this, but about a larger set of enhancements (new system calls) for avoiding a bunch of threading/scheduler pathologies.
eh, you should still be skeptical. This is a CIA contractor/employee we're talking about here. Child pornography is an interesting situation because no one outside of the justice department and a few key people can even legally examine the evidence.

It shouldn't be beyond the realm of believeability to this bad actors created these charges in retaliation.
Because it factors in the idea that people need to be incentivized to work. If people can free ride on something then they will.

I am definitely in that group. If i can have a decent living on social welfare programs then i definitely would not work. Working sucks. I just hate the idea of working or satisfying customer's needs because it represents a master/slave type relationship.
Just going to note that, presumably, the idea is to divorce but stay together, not divorce then dump her.
Just had to reboot my computer for the first time in weeks due to running Chrome's Lighthouse audit on one of those awful themes. I was guessing '7%' performance rating but did not expect to have to reboot!

If you run the same audit tools on any Wix website you can expect the same sort of nonsense, maybe a megabyte of scripts at the top, CSS where it runs to 10000 lines of which 97% unused, images flagged for being bloated.

The newer thinking that I find most making sense is to not use any framework at all and to also ignore people using Opera Mini/Internet Explorer. Clearly Google and organisations like the BBC cannot dismiss those people and have to make their websites work on the legacy browsers too. But, if making money matters more than pandering for people that shouldn't be online then the no-framework option makes a lot of sense.

No-framework is also getting a name as 'intrinsic web design' and the idea is to use built in things such as CSS Grid, Progressive Web App, HTML5 form validation and vanilla javascript to hold it all together.

With this way of working you can make the document pure content with semantic tags, e.g. 'Article', 'Section', 'Main/Aside/Header/Footer/Nav' and dispense with the many, many, many nested divs and spans with everything having a gazillion class tags. Going for the 'perfect outline' can be done too with a few hundred CSS lines instead of the tens of thousands you get if using some lame framework.

Building this way and using native browser features instead of the old cruft ways results in sites that load 10x quicker as you don't have the megabyte of scripts/stylesheets that the likes of Wix bloat sites with.

The thing is that to do frontend this way requires throwing out all knowledge of 'floats', 'margin/padding hacks' and even that tedious design process where someone that can't code designs something in a desktop publishing type of program for it to be handed off to frontend developers that tinker with the bloated theme their CMS comes with to make it look like whatever the designer got signed off with the client (without speaking to them first). Even 'Responsive Web Design' is old hat, with CSS grid there is no need to think in those ways, you can make everything content driven with fluid typography plus a few CSS grid rules making it work whatever the screen size.

In summary - forget about frameworks and enjoy the web as it should be.
Interestingly when dealing with the logic board issue. They were replacing them with old stock until the warranty for the recall wore out.I suspect they will do the same. Replace it with the same keybaord that they have on the shelf after a year or so most people will upgrade to the new one with a brand new redesigned keyboard that's "revolutionary". After a while the recall will be over and most will be stuck with a shitty albeit brand new keyboard.
For us, parent PLUS loans from 2003-2007: ~7.5%.
AT&T’s Interest in Ad Tech Gets Thumbs Up on Madison Avenue
Ive had it happen to 3 of my 3 machines, so i guess 'small' by some measure.
THis is the education aspect that would convince me to buy your products.You would need to convince me that what I'm currently washing my clothes with is damaging them and then convince me that your product wont. I'm a guy that does his own laundry and I don't care in the least about smelling of Timber or having fluffy cotton in my sleeves. Make my clothes - my investment - last longer.
They also are clustered in coastal cities and votes there are worth less than votes elsewhere for reasons.

I wonder how much of turnout downturn is just rational: If half my city didn’t vote it wouldn’t have made a lick of difference for the last national election. Probably wouldn’t have mattered if the whole city didn’t vote, because I live in coastal California.
What city is this in? There are other tech jobs, right? You had no 401k or anything?

I hope things turn up for you soon.
> medical costs driven to astronomical levels by retirees is what will do the most financial damage to millennials

Until millennials start voting. At that point, we'll probably see Social Security and Medicare funds re-purposed for a universal basic income.