skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be good, scissors have to be sharp, even, and fit together juuust right. A tiny deviance creates a huge about of suck. Someone mentioned Fiskars above. The first time I used these I ran around looking for things to cut. I just couldn't believe scissors could be that good. They were.

This type of reductionism is seldom helpful. Painting is just smearing oil on a canvas? Programming is just "typing a bunch of stuff"? I don't think so. Craft matters.
Those measures may have been appropriate if the case had presented some tangential issue of the first amendment. A corporation invoking free speech to try and worm out of some malfeasance. But Citizens United involves a flagrant attack on core political speech. The speaker was a political advocacy organization, no different than the NRDC or ACLU, and the speech was not money or some abstraction, it was a movie about a candidate running for political office. Punting on that case would’ve been a total abdication if the Supreme Court’s duty to protect free speech rights.
This along with Thomas's dissent shows how important it is that we need a bill of rights for the digital age. Especially by Thomas's dissent, we otherwise cant have an expectation of privacy because or "papers" are always stored or transmitted across someone else's property.
According to Apteligent iOS 6 and 7 (the lowest versions they track) make up 0.18% of the iOS ecosystem.

Android is MUCH worse. A whole 0.3% of users.

This seems like a pointless article.
"Violet is not blue and it is also not red. I'm not asking for a bluish red but for a 100% blue color that it is also red."

If you're asking if there exists something that's 100% X at the same time as being 100% not-X, I'm not sure there's much to debate about it, as there clearly isn't (at least not in this world, where things can't seem to be themselves and not themselves at the same time).

"You are misusing the language, or rather I am in this case, to ask a paradoxical question. Where are all the cat dogs? This is a never ending game because we don't agree on the language. This is exactly the realm of metaphysics."

It's the realm of semantics (ie. definitions), but I'm not convinced that every metaphysical question could be reduced to a semantic one.

If you take the question of whether one has some sort of existence (like, say, as a "soul") before birth, I think that question would still exist even after we'd agreed on the constituent definitions. Also, I don't see anything paradoxical in that question. Even were it paradoxical, its paradoxical quality would in no way disqualify it for me. Perhaps I'd be even more interested in examining it, as examining paradoxes has been a very fruitful approach throughout human history.

"To me greatness could be quantified by how much progress has been made in answering the question. After a thousand years and possibly millions of lives wasted trying to answer "is there existence before this life?" we are not one single iota closer to an answer."

There have been answers, they just haven't satisfied everyone. The same could be said of pretty much every other great question, no matter whether the answers come from science, religion, philosophy, intuition, or elsewhere.
Ha, ironic they chose a picture with an avocado in it.

Seriously, the current age feels like the mid 80s. If that holds true, the millenials will be fine.
We run a service that manages deployments for Serverless Framework applications - https://seed.run and it is completely serverless. It’s been great not worrying about the infrastructure. Would definitely do it again.
Many semiconductor advances were made by Chinese for the last 60-70 years. They just weren’t residents of mainland china.
> It should include all of your life goals like possible homeownership or a family as well as a decent amount toward retirement.

Or you can just accept that none of that is going to happen and resign yourself to working a crappy job until you keel over dead (or the robots make you unnecessary).

Though I do enjoy the "freedom fallacy" of not showing up to work for a month or two and still having a job or telling them "I'm busy" when they want some special favor (with promises they never fulfill) from me with absolutely zero repercussions.

So, yeah, I might be dirt poor, one unfortunate incident away from being homeless and can't buy all (or any, really) of the toys I want but this is a path I can accept.
Don’t buy a new computer then...
Yes, you are absolutely right that I may not know of situations, and I definitely meant my experience to be anecdotal, not scientific.

I am not even trying to downplay the fact that it's happening a lot; It just seems so strange to read so many people on hacker news talking about extremely high rates of failure in their sample size, when neither myself nor anyone I've talked to has experienced it.
> doesn't support mobile device

There's a neat app for Android called Quasseldroid!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iskrembile...
"To be black is to walk through the world and watch people doing things that you cannot do."

Citation needed. It's 2018. We have had a black president. Don't use your skin color as an excuse for not achieving your goals.

Does racism still exist? Sure, but not for black people more so than any other race.
Now is a good time to get a new 2015 model, if you can live with the specs, considering it's still available but might not be much longer. It will buy you time until Apple get their act together again.
My 2011 MacBook Pro failed with a dead GPU in the store as they were returning it to me with a brand new logic board. The level of QA on that batch of GPUs was astoundingly bad.
If you're the head of public relations at a multi-billion dollar company, and you don't know to say "n-word" instead of the actual word, that seems like grounds for firing with cause.

That's like being an accountant who can't add.
Business school and liberal arts kids will mostly go back to China, STEM is very different.
The "this will go on your permanent record" threat has been used by parents and schools for years. The fact that the author here also believes this leads me to believe that they have no idea what they are talking about.
Close. The bottom case is just a panel, not holding anything in, so removing it just gives access to the inside. Everything is attached to the top case, but some parts, like the display hinges and motherboard, are removable at the shop, while others, like the keyboard, plus the trackpad and battery for retina MBPs and newer, are part of the top case assembly part.

(The 12-inch MacBook is different: some parts are attached to the bottom case, like, iirc, the motherboard.)
it seems somewhat expected that someone might say a "sensitive word" in a meeting intended to discuss "sensitive words." Firing the guy for saying a word they were talking about seems strange - must that meeting be full of ambiguous euphemisms? How do you discuss a thing without being allowed to say it?
Happiness is for animals; Meaning is for humans
Had cash in there. Haven't received anything.
I found my favorite pair in an old house, some decades ago. They probably date from ~1900. Nothing fancy, just office supply grade. Gotta compress the rivet every few years. But they've never really needed sharpening.
If ignoring Rand won't make her go away then neither will the smears and misrepresentation of her views such as in this article. But that strategy has been failing for 40 years since before she died.

This article claims that "It should be easy to show what is wrong with her thinking..." without even trying to take a swing at her. Hint: I can assure you that if it was easy it would already have been done.

tldr: Will someone (anyone!) please prove her wrong so we can go back to ignoring her? (be careful, its a trap!).
I loved the audio book version read by Gibson. It's super hard to find, as it seems it was only released on casette, and then only for libraries. I got super lucky to score a copy, although I ended up digitizing it into speex. I need to find it again and do a better FLAC rip.

The quality is terrible as I wanted to make them as small as possible....

http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/low/neuromancer/neuro...
>"Sure, but at the same time, someone who is unwilling to give second chances to the pioneers who took risks before them -- that's more toxic"

Sorry but taking calculated entrepreneurial risks is not at all the same as being careless. The contempt stems from the latter type of risk not the former. Conflating the two is also toxic.
The idea of “White spaces” is still prevalent just not legal. I go to plenty of places where people look at my family like we don’t belong.

I was driving around my own neighborhood looking at a house they were building behind ours (no one owned it and they didn’t even have the drywall up) and someone was looking at me like I was scoping the unfinished house out and kept looking until I drove in my garage.

Another time I was outside dressed in slacks and a polo after coming home from work talking to the (White) yard guy who was covered in grass and one of the neighbors just walked up and started talking to him asking about how long as he lived in the neighborhood completely ignoring me.

This happened in the South in the 80s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0
> That's like being an accountant who can't add.

No, because he didn't use it in a press release. He used it in a meeting with (presumably) professional adults who should be able to understand intent.
A candidate who proclaims "I'm deceitful, vote for me!"
Turning Fortnite into PUBG with Deep Learning (CycleGAN)
We did. We are building our entire company: SQQUID on 100% serverless architecture. Scalability is awesome, in fact we had to do extra work to serialize some operations in order not to bring down other major corporation's server stack. Cost is a fraction of the traditional app scaling setup.

The best part is no devops needed. We use Serverless Framework. The biggest downside are cold starts for frontend response time. But this hasn't been a terrible issue as of yet. We have considered moving these 20 API endpoints to a nodeJS server which will resolve the issue but didn't have the time to do it yet.

We'll never go back. Serverless is the future.
> it seems somewhat expected that someone might say a "sensitive word" in a meeting intended to discuss "sensitive words."

No more than "we're discussing a murder" means you have to commit one.

> How do you discuss a thing without being allowed to say it?

"Let's not say the n-word." See how easy that was?
Are you sure?

> "The Chinese," bellowed a drunken Australian, "Chinese bloody invented nerve-splicing. Give me the
mainland for a nerve job any day. Fix you right, mate . . ."

> "Now that," Case said to his glass, all his bitterness suddenly rising in him like bile, "that is so much
bullshit."

> The Japanese had already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese had ever known. The black
clinics of Chiba were the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly, and still they
couldn’t repair the damage he’d suffered in that Memphis hotel.

https://archive.org/stream/NeuromancerWilliamGibson/Neuroman...
Yeah though some long flights woods take off and any flight over an hour might never arrive
Single-paycheck family here. We've got the first of 3 kids in college now, 2 and 3 are not far behind.

We hammer on scholarship preparation, hard. Our college boy works paid internships each summer. The kids are all in band, good for small scholarships at little effort.

We are fine so far. Good luck to others on this path. Avoid the debt, it can be one.
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> He is stupid to now know the social untold rules, such as never say the "n-word".

Are millions of black people across the country stupid not to know not to say it?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-deve...
Oh hell. I've had the GPU replacement a couple of years back on my MBP Late-2011. That machine might be the Ship of Theseus by now, but it still holds up.

Here's me not looking forward to another failure.
He's the head of a department responsible for dealing with these sorts of fuck-ups. A PR professional should easily know "I probably shouldn't ever say n----r".
I'm fine with people making different lifestyle choices than me. I just want them to:

1. Not outlaw my preferred lifestyle choices. The vast majority of the country makes it illegal to build walkable urban neighborhoods.

2. Don't make me pay for your lifestyle choices. Car use is heavily subsidized in the US via road and parking infrastructure, laws that require private citizens to build parking at their own expense to be able to build buildings and by car users being able to externalize the cost of their environmental damage.

You are free to live in your preferred type of neighborhood; just let me do the same.
Reed Hasting’s letter is coming from a point of view I find very strange.

>The first incident was several months ago in a PR meeting about sensitive words. Several people afterwards told him how inappropriate and hurtful his use of the N-word was, and Jonathan apologised to those that had been in the meeting. We hoped this was an awful anomaly never to be repeated.

Guy slipped up, apologized, and was warned. Makes sense to me.

> Three months later he spoke to a meeting of our Black Employees @ Netflix group and did not bring it up, which was understood by many in the meeting to mean he didn’t care and didn’t accept accountability for his words.

Why was he expected to bring up unintentional mistakes made months ago? At what point can someone be allowed to let bygones be bygones?

> For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script). There is not a way to neutralize the emotion and history behind the word in any context. The use of the phrase “N-word” was created as a euphemism, and the norm, with the intention of providing an acceptable replacement and moving people away from using the specific word. When a person violates this norm, it creates resentment, intense frustration, and great offense for many.

Perhaps I’m not coming from the same cultural background as Reed (or his PR advisers) I don’t really understand how the mere utterance of a word, without the intention to offend or even to use it as anything other than a descriptor for the word itself, can be this offensive. For my part, I’m trans, and I don’t feel “resentment, intense frustration, and great offense” when I hear people speaking slurs referentially, as long as they’re trying to refer to the words themselves as opposed to using them as labels for a person or group.

I would find it very helpful if someone can explain this to me.
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>For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script).

That kind of rings hollow while Netflix continues to offer movies in which non-Black people use this word-that-shall-not-be-named.
To be fair, Snow Crash has megacorps, oligarchs like L. Bob Rife and David, racism galore (New South Africa franchlettes anyone?) and the plot is literally all about using tech to seize power and splinter opposition. The whole system of FOQNE’s seems massively geared to cater to populist impulses, with the exception of Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong. It also neatly foresaw the role of self-sustaining media frenzy, increasingly stagnant economic prospects for most, and the resulting insularity and small-mindedness of much of society.

It also nailed the gig economy.
And the most valuable company in the world does exactly this —- the average selling price of an iPhone is three times hire than the ASP of an Android phone...
Could you explain how this is fair and effective? I would be interested in reading something other than bald assertions and cyclic argument ("it's bad because it's bad").
Knives are just a piece of steel too. And yet if you ever find yourself using a quality Chef's knife against a cheap dull Chinese knife, you'll appreciate the difference instantly.

So much so in fact, that your cutting technique will naturally change since using it the way you use dull knives is both more dangerous and less efficient.
No, he means Hotbot.
Don't encourage rent seeking behavior.
I wouldn't consider it universal. They farm out much of their production to China and the quality suffers.

Heritage (now owned by Klein tool) is a domestic US manufacturer of forged scissors in a variety of styles available at competitive prices. They eclipse the typical ground scissors that permeate the retail market.
It's not mobile friendly because it requires a persistent connection and eats a lot of battery. That could be fixed with the right bouncer/client combination, but I haven't found it yet.
as far as the n-word and c-word, why not consider the opinion of black people and women in this argument?
Recent studies indicate that becoming a club kid is an integral part of the healing process.
or my personal favorite are folks who recommend this crap:

curl https://<whatever> | bash
"Solipsism is basically the only defense against the conclusions from the evidence of the "real" world."

Far from it. There could very well be an external world, and one populated by plenty of other and fully real human beings even, but your own personal view or understanding of it could be distorted or false.

This could be simply because you're hallucinating, or insane, or your brain could be injured, or could be living in a virtual reality (which itself exists in some other "real" reality), or you could be the proverbial brain in a vat, or aliens (or god or a demon/devil) could be deceiving you, etc.
I have to respectfully disagree as someone who has lived in Houston for more than a few years. The density in Houston is bimodal because the traffic makes commuting so painful.

There are huge numbers of zero lot line 2-4 story townhouses being built within say 5 miles of downtown. 4-6 houses on 1/4 acre so not a lot of room to waste.

And then once you get past say 5-10 miles from downtown the sprawl is undeniable.

But to paint Houston as all sprawl just isn't honest.
Also, we should not have some racial criterion for whether somebody gets to utter a word.
Honest question: as the keyboards suck anyway, why not just spend $100 and get a quality mechanical keyboard?
I still don't get why they couldn't just come out and say that. Was incompetence and unprofessionalism really a better look then a understandable engineering challenge? Or was this another case of "being honest and doing the right thing would have created legal liability so we opted not to do it"?
> We have had a black president.

Said black president had even the facts of his own birth challenged, including by the man who succeeded him in the backlash.
This may come as a shock, but neither group is really cohesive and homogenous, and therefore each present a multitude of opinions on the topic ranging from permissive to prohibitive.
Grew up NE US also, never heard of them
Thanks for your assumption that I am an American, I am not.

Since you read about it, just imagine all those atrocities if it happened to you, your family, your community for hundreds of years maybe that might help you make that connection emotionally.
Scissors are tools, just like our IDE's.

There's a lot to be said about the craftsman.

At the end of the day we're all of the same breed, but we find code, cloth, or metal to be our medium.
Buzz Aldrin returns to Twitter, sues his son and former manager
A large appeal of a laptop is the portability.
The money isn't the most significant factor for these at all, and our taxes might as well go to something that benefits easier movement - for all classes - of multiple generations. Especially because if we see it from the point of view of them being created instead of blocked, the companies that excel in constructing these projects would start to understand the complexities and navigate around the problems that increase cost and cause the projects to take longer, that happen with those projects. It's a longer term investment that pays off in my opinion, as these complexities aren't solved in the short term, but we need to see past our own shadows.

I don't think the second point stands up either if these metro projects were actually allowed to go through, the more metros, the less the increased cost of housing located close to terminals by it being abundant enough. Also, it could be a constructive effect for worse areas, if we can imagine the benefits that can happen in reverse of increasing the status of people already located around those areas, just build in areas that will benefit at a greater level, from those after effects.
The problem is that like “Black people” the phrase “White people” is meaningless. Plenty of people who Americans would lump together as “blacks” were never enslaved ( or had ancestors enslaved). Plenty of people Americans would lump together has “whites” had nothing to do with the slave trade. I’m of Russian descent for example, and no one in my admittedly very white family tree enslaved anyone of African descent.

The whole world doesn’t have to answer to the crimes of Americans, Western Europe, and West Africa. That’s (presumably) your baggage, not mine. By contrast my ancestors have a lot to answer for where Tatars are concerned, and yet you fellow “white” person, had nothing to do with it.
If we're comparing how much they have been criticized and challenged, I'm sorry, I think Trump has Obama beat.
If you use scissors professionally or just like nice things I'd recommend Kai. Fiskars are what your aunt buys from the fabric store.
They probably don't make new versions all that often.
Want results? The CEO of Uber should get charged with manslaughter.
Most FLOSS developers do/have run away from Java as fast as possible, from what I can gather. The language itself isn't terrible (arguably). How many companies that use Java use it because of legacy code or because of crusty old senior developers who insist on using it since they learned it back in the good ol' days when it was under Sun?
Let me respectfully submit that you’re missing the point. The N word continues to have power in the US because black Americans continue to be second class citizens in their own country. They live shorter lives, are more likely to be unemployed, make a third less income, are much more likely to be imprisoned, etc. Across the country they continue to live in the same neighborhoods their parents or grandparents were segregated into. Compare slurs addressed to Italian and Irish Americans which, though impolite, probably won’t get you black listed, because Irish and Italians reached economic and social parity with the rest of the country.

Using the N-word is bad if you’re not black not because the word has any power, but because it is a litmus test for whether you acknowledge the reality of racial disparity in the US or instead choose to deny it. It can be hard for foreigners to understand, sure, but that doesn’t make it illegitimate. There’s lots of testy subjects in societies all over the world.
I can sympathize a bit why someone would want to put down potential random acts of management that have no basis in fact.

If you have people busting their ass doing real work to determine something and someone just thows out their ignorant thoughts into the machinery...I would be upset too.
Since I have mostly avoided doing side projects outside of work to learn something new [1], I understand spending extra time at work to scratch an itch and doing a low priority project as long as it doesn’t interfere with revenue generating - or cost reducing - initiatives.

[1] I would much rather work on a work related project using a new to me technology and if it requires longer hours to complete it, I’m find with putting in the extra time. It seems like more of a win, I get to learn a new technology, get to see it actually be used by others, and it will be helpful during either review time or worse case a resume builder.