skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused about something. I keep hearing people say that they're replacing their "topcase" to fix this. What is the topcase? I thought the "topcase" was the screen.
> But companies don’t just “decide” how to use data on a whim

Their acquirers do, however.
That would be great. I've now had to order new keys two times for my 2016 macbook pro. Frequently used keycaps tend to become looser and just fall out. At 13$ per replacement key time 4-5 keys from replacementlaptopkeys + shipping is not cheap.
Thanks. And yes, this whole thing requires a bit of finagling, which I think unfortunate.

I advise couples w/ debt to rethink formal marriage because of how tax laws are structured. Same goes for those who are married; strategic divorce is a real and sometimes necessary option.
Based on a link posted not long ago, FPGA's seem to already be changing this way:

http://semiengineering.com/fpgas-becoming-more-soc-like/
Anecdotal of course, but i've owned almost every iphone that's launched(skipped the 7 and the 3gs) and i haven't ever scratched my screen, no protectors. Exact same treatment: always a case with a lip, since the 4

My X has a couple HUGE scratches and a ton of tiny ones. I've examined friends phones and it's the same deal. My roommate still has my old 6S, not a single scratch on it and it's almost a launch day device. So nearly 3 years of service now.

It's definitely a variation from the glass they've used in the past. Even my iphone 1 didn't have any scratches...
Laziness and cost reduction.
My first experience with the internet was through IRC. I had read about IRC in a book I had gotten at a computer show in 1991. I had no idea what I was looking at but figured out how to join a channel. I chatted with someone from Indonesia! How cool was that. None of my friends could relate.

I continue to use IRC regularly. The Python community is thriving on Freenode and Rust community on Mozilla
I didn’t say it was. What I am saying is that, assuming the evidence is as described (and I see no evidence to suggest otherwise short of theoretical exercises in “well it could always be faked”), the description of the VM is awfully convincing.

It strains credulity to think that the government planted an encrypted VM with an encrypted file with a password known only to the defendant, faked the entire usage logs, and faked an extensive file system logs to match a pattern of use that would be incredibly difficult to do correctly. It’s just not believable, nor is there any suggestion as to government motive that would risk such an incredible violation of the law if they were caught.

We can play theoretical exercises all day, but the fact is that the evidence as described is incredibly damning.
That one is commemorated on a t-shirt I've seen locally.
Support over IRC is historical in open source.

irc.perl.org -- perl language support and development

irc.mozilla.org -- mozila related support and development

irc.freenode.net has many support channels:

#mysql

#postgresql

#vim

#emacs

#nodejs

#css

#javascript

#python

#manjaro -- manjaro linux distro

#archlinux -- arch linux distro

#freebsd

#linux

#vuejs -- horrible support (frontend channel)

#angularjs -- horrible support (frontend channel)

#elasticsearch

#sqlite

#xen

#docker

#git

and the list goes on. many great people there :)
I met some of the most important people in my life through IRC. I would not have chosen my current career path without the guidance of the many friends I made over the years on various IRC networks and channels.

It was also a great place to vent anonymously when I was at the lowest points of my life, in a judgement free environment. I don’t think any social network will come close to capturing the effect of IRC. Decentralization and federation are what makes it a great protocol, IMO.
"22-48 fps" is for video decoding

"500 fps" is for page rendering
Does the US actually invent more of that stuff per capita? It's easy to produce more stuff than European countries when you have more people than the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Italy combined. (I'm not saying we don't — I honestly don't know. But I've seen a lot of cases like that, where it's easy to miss that one group isn't actually more productive, just larger.)
If you're crossing a road way outside the crosswalk, yes, it's completely reasonable to expect complete attentiveness comparable to the attentiveness of the driver.
I’d actually appreciate such a message because it’s ridden with humour and humility - “Yes sir we do automate our onboarding and you will receive the same exact treatment as any customer” is reassuring. Especially in these times where platforms tend to evict people on political basis, I get reassured when I’m just a number.
This is discussed in The Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah.

You better check the book, because it has been a long time since I read it, but he explained that most people counts 3 by 3, sometimes 2 by 2, and exceptionally 4 by 4. Only very exceptionally people can count 5 by 5. What most of us do when counting 5 elements, is to divide them in a chunk of 3 and one of 2.
Re: your third point - we should be very careful that proposed legislation doesn't hamstring US tech companies (even if the premise is sound). But we should also be much more aggressively going after the EU and Margrethe Vestager for their blatant anti-US tech protectionist actions. It is unconscionable that our government is concerned about steel production while turning a blind eye to our nation's real competitive advantage and largest national security threat, information technology.
Frankly, I totally understand the reasoning of not wanting a lame-duck president to nominate a Supreme Court Justice months before a presidential election. The people appointed to that position is a huge consideration in many people's vote. Ones less justice on the court for a handful of months is not a big deal. Let the people decide, or something (and inb4 Trump lost the popular vote).

And it was a gamble, as most of the Republican leadership in congress fully expected Trump to lose, in which case Hillary might have nominated someone considered even more liberal than Merrick Garland.

If that had happened, and that person confirmed, would they be sitting on a stolen seat too?
As someone who /is/ the fog horn, its something I need to be deeply aware of, and try to modulate my volume.
No utopia exists. But IRC is a hell of a lot more pleasant than you make it sound.

What I'm afraid of are the centralized proprietary chat networks and the perverse incentives that creates for censorship. Censorship is the worst in people. Anonymity just means people aren't constantly playing identity and power social games.
I’m pretty sure all the MacBook feet are exactly the same, certainly the MBP line are. They could store 10000 rubber feet in a pretty reasonably sized box....

I was amazed when two of the feet on my 2014 MBP came off on the same week.
I arrive at the opposite conclusion from reading that. Someone smart enough to work in black hat security should know how fucking illegal CP is, how aggressively its investigated, and know not to flagrantly talk about it on an irc channel and host it to randos online. At the very least they would use tor and figure it out for themselves.
@matthewwiese I'm native of Madagascar. In fact a lot of french "expats" and madagascan living abroad are setting up small trading/exportation operations for the french/european market, only a few hundreds kilograms per year is enough to sustain an equivalent of a US upper class revenue. Wikipedia offers a good overview of the thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla
> People need to do more research when they think about taking on these gig economy jobs full time.

I also think "they do" - but on the other hand, do not forget the human nature. No amount of researching, reading it or hearing it equals to living it yourself.

Last year I accepted a semi-gig job - not in the current "gig economy" sense such as Uber - but I created a combination of working for a startup for preset amount of hours (less than 1/2 month, red flag 1), working for a post-paid client on-demand (this is cool, accept or reject any project as you wish), and working for a pre-paid client on-nonrejectable-demand (red flag 2). At first, it looked great, [the hour rate] x 160 hours = excellent monthly salary!

But then you find out it isn't 160 hours, there's more. After putting in X billable hours of work, you have to issue invoices, study ever-changing laws, file taxes, yada-yada adding non-billable hours. And sometimes there aren't even those 160 hours, all three clients want their hours/projects/work packages in the same week and don't have any of the work for the rest of the month...

And then, it also isn't a salary, it is a gross revenue. So subtract all the insurances, taxes (even those that employer pays in a standard employment), your own hardware, travel costs...

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BUT!
Even with all the downsides, sleepless nights and opportunity costs, I would still choose to go through that again. It is like having a HDD crash or dating a borderline girlfriend.

You can do all the research in the world and still think you are the special snowflake who don't need to back up your data or that you are the captain-save-a-girl who will magically erase all the psychological issues and self-harm behavior by the sheer power of your love (true story), only to find out that:

- your HDD is suddenly not showing up in the system and you will spend 3 days of manually recovering and viewing each and every file through various obscure recovery tools; and you will ever since back up your data vigorously at geographically separated locations

- the mirroring behavior and idealization/devaluation cycle is real and while one day you are the best mate in the world, the next day, while you are riding your oxytocin high, you are called the worst incompatible personality in the world, "never see me again", spend your night crying in the corner, only to be greeted with "sometimes I say things I don't mean, get back to me immediately, or I will kill myself" on the third day; and you will ever since bail out at any of the slightest sign of cluster B personality disorder.

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I don't see accepting the "gig-economy" with low payout as not doing your research, but rather as a school fee for getting a valuable lesson in your life... You can tell that to people 100 times, but when they live it once, their eyes will open.
If you really think the guy who leaked highly classified CIA documents that reveals their means of mass surveillance happened to also be a pedophile then you are one naive person. Do yourself a favor and never watch 24-hour news programs.
> I wish they had gone further. In the modern age the concept of data hosted or stored with a “third party” is no longer useful in its entirety.

ISTM that that's much more a task for the legislative branch than SCOTUS. Now congress is also defunct to a significant degree, but there's some limits to what you can infer from the constitution...

> The way the bits are accessed is certainly relevant but the location of the network attached hard-drive should have absolutely zero bearing.

Hm, but that's not really the question, is it? Email contents, and likely online storage contents, already has a warrant requirement.
> In 1841, one young innovator figured out an unlikely solution. Edmond Albius was a 12-year-old slave on the French-controlled island of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. Using a stick and his thumb, Albius pushed together the male anthers and female stigma of the vanilla flower, pollinating it efficiently.

Did nobody think of this until years after vanilla was discovered? Really?

What's really interesting is how comparative advantage takes shape. There's several everyday products that originate in just one or a few places. Additional question: why isn't Mexico the main producer?
The IRC logs in the papers linked in this thread make the suspect out to be an imbecile -- discussing highly illegal activity in plain text using the most obvious keywords ...?
States, even relatively benevolent ones, take any steps necessary to secure national secrets, even extra legal ones.

Take the likelihood that a leaky contractor coincidently is a pedophile. One who works in security yet encrypts stuff with the same cellphone password everywhere.

Balance that with the possibility that a motivated state actor could plant such files on a pc or alter logs on a server they are monitoring.

Coincidentally also, it is very much sufficient for a jury to convict yet the accusation is ambiguous/obvious enough to deter other would be leakers.

I have no idea whether this is a good way to do things but it's a pretty widespread set of coincidences that would also happen to have a particular effect.
For what it's worth, i bought a bottom panel on ebay for about $28 and swapped it myself. Small components like this are never a good deal from the OEM, regardless of brand. Same deal with cars, pick it up from the junkyard.
The surprising reason people change their mind
the keyboard, palmrest/keyboard surround, and batteries are all one unit. they replace the whole thing if you need a new battery too. It's been like this since 2012~
I used to be in vending.

For bills and coins, I count by object, not denomination. Then multiply total by denomination.

For counting large numbers of bills, I like creating stacks of 20. Then I count the number of stacks. After that I make stacks of 100 bills, and wrap them. In this way, I am never 75 bills deep, lose count and have to restart.

I know I have to count each stack of twenty twice, and ideally not three times, so I count 21 bills out, then if its 21 the second time, I take one off.

For piles of coins(and socks, et al), remove the most common/visible/largest type. For example, I would remove $1 coins into their own pile/bag, not bothering to count yet. Then as they become less obvious, I switch to $2 coins, then $0.25, then $0.05(since they are larger than $0.10 coins).

I had an electronic coin counter, but away from the office, that's how I sorted coins. If I wanted to count on site, it was a lot easier to count homogeneous bags. I could also weigh for a rough estimate.
Cleaning things up:

NSString one = “Hello”;

NSString two = “World”;

NSString three = one.appendString(“ “).appendString(two);

I agree with him, except for the super verbose method name, the symbols are a problem.
"Imaginary" doesn't mean useless or meaningless. Let's take a look at this at a smaller scale: property lines. Assuming one has a front yard within their property lines, that line too is "imaginary" in that it may not be explicitly demarcated or labeled. Would you be fine with anyone and everyone chillin in your front yard? If you want to make the argument that border lines are imaginary, can you even call your front yard "yours"?

We can abolish borders, but that doesn't seem like a future rooted in reality. Who governs who? Sounds like you want everyone to live under one "nation"...like are you really advocating for world peace?

What laws are you subject to? What protections do you have? These are all dependent on which side of the border you land, therefore you have to set where one side ends and where another begins.
This looks very similar to Nix, with improvements such as real typing and lack of semicolons. That's a very good thing.

Any plans for a purely-functional variant (i.e. a single expression per evaluation)?
> having chores when young was the biggest factor in how successful people became

A couple related articles from NPR:

- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...

- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/6217527...

The first article was discussed on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280710
American journalism is pathetic. I hope you're just using Fox News as an example and not singling them out as the only exemplar.
This is the only I've read. It was good enough to convince me.
Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century
Slow your roll, Judge. I think you're probably right, but don't you want to at least hear what the defense has to say?
Sure, but with the gig economy being a race to the bottom there is a good chance that you will actually lose money on each gig you work. Better run the numbers to ensure that you really are making money.
Under what metric exactly?

They now have a lifetime emperor who is enacting surveillance and citizen "ratings" that make dystopian novels look tame, along with crippling polution, poor living and safety standards, intense competition without any consumer or IP protection, lack of political freedom, and slowing economic growth that needs to absorb the momentum of a billion people lifted out of poverty and expecting the good times to continue without a revolt.
Idris and dependent types via Type-Driven Development. It's an excellent book, very clearly written and approachable. May be a bit more challenging if you haven't used Haskell/SML/OCaml or similar languages before.
For most of the ways methane breaks down, it gets converted to CO2 anyway[1]. So it's better to break it down to CO2 immediately to avoid the stronger greenhouse effect of methane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane#Natural_si...
>Given that planning and zoning boards making it illegal to build anything other than low density suburbs are elected officials, their actions are pretty good evidence of preferences...

... of the voting population, whose demographics unfortunately don’t match up with the population at large.

There’s also a vested self-interest for property owners to vote in such a way that preserves their property values. And what better way to do so than to restrict supply?

Big caveat: My opinion comes from large amounts of anecdata. But at the same time, it has often been noted (especially on HN, given its demographics) that San Francisco, where there is a huge demand for dense housing, is fraught with many barriers to actually build dense housing.

You can see City Observatory’s (an urbanist publication, so YMMV) take: http://cityobservatory.org/homevoters-v-the-growth-machine/
I see your point, but I'm pretty sure he's at least pretty good, given that he has been promoted into a supervisory role by other surgeons who are familiar with how he does surgery.
If we had invested the Iraq war money into solar infrastructure including batteries in the grid, we would be ahead of the game and peak oil would be moot.
Imandra: Reasoning as a Service
Did anyone catch the horrid pie chart "Figure 10"?

https://imgur.com/xmUrTbg

Think about it, someone's job was to produce this report and they took clip art of a pie chart and wrote text over it.

Good enough for government work I guess.
Thanks for the warning.
I have no evidence to prove it, but i think you're probably right. I went through like three motherboards during nvidia GPUgate, and i know people who went through more than one screen during the early rMBP bad screen coating thing
It's being extingushed right now because nobody is extending or embracing it.
So are a lot of other startup opportunities, but that just means you don't mention it during the presentations for your funding rounds
No, the screen is the screen. The lower part of the laptop (where everything but the screen lives) has a case made of two pieces of aluminum. The topcase, which is the top half of the aluminum body, and has the keyboard mounted very deep into it as well as the logic board and other parts. There is a smaller piece of aluminum that screws to the topcase to hold everything inside.
I have multiple offline friends who don't post on tech messageboards, but have had this issue. A few of them have just been putting up with it to avoid the cost. This is much more widespread than even sites like hn and reddit make it seem
Yes but maybe I’m lacking enough knowledge to be afraid of that. What can they do with that information?
Of course not.

They're among the worst offenders, they're far from alone in playing that game.
Your comment history seems to show a made-up version of events where you also claim the US did nothing in WW2. I'm not sure what narrative you're trying to push but your personal history seems suspect on this basis, and the anonymous username doesn't help.

You're also conflating foreign policy with military strength. They are not the same and I'm talking about the latter. How that power is used and whether it's always the best idea can definitely be argued, but the fact that the power is necessary and that having it keeps the peace is most definitely not debatable.

When it comes down to it, there is no other military power willing and able to defend its own and others to such an extent, and that alone set it apart. Trying to weaken that stature will only result in greater harm for both US and foreign citizens.
One nasty trick is web pages that show a benign code snippet that expands to something evil upon being cut-and-pasted.
trying to figure out the downvotes here. was it the Cleveland thing? do people not think Cleveland is a great city?
Life is fundamentally unfair, especially for most human beings, who are born in poorer nations and communities.

I'm not discounting the difficulties and very real hardships faced by these people. But I do want to point out that the United States offers a lot of opportunities for economic growth and well being, much more than you can find in most other countries. To not make use of that just sounds too stupid to me.

You really can't just keep waiting in your small town and expect things to magically improve. Either find a way to make things work or move on. Or vote for constructive policies. Don't fucking put a sex offender in the Oval Office.
News flash: people who are skilled in one area often are not skilled in others, and people who show good judgement in their professional life do not always show it their personal life.

It should also be noted that he did take precautions, many of them, and the VM was only found after they seized his computer for a separate matter. Without that there is no indication they would have ever found it.
Many years ago, I traveled to another city to see a Joe Satriani concert. I was really hyped to finally see him in concert, and hoped that I'd run into him and get a CD autographed.

So when I did run into him in the local community space, I had a thought: I could be another fawning fanboy, interrupting his shopping and day in general, or I could just think to myself "Hey, that's Satch!" and not bother him at all.

So I didn't bother him. I've long wondered if I made a good choice or not, now I think I made the right one.
All scientists that I know (including the physicists) disagree with Lubos. This includes former skeptic, Richard Muller. As Aaronson suggests, the physicists that you know should publish their papers.
I’ve had the opposite experience. If you have a specialized, valuable skill and are a decent communicator with the client, it’s much more painful to replace you as a freelancer than to keep you happy.

Of course there are tons of nuances depending on client, profession, location, project, etc.

If client has paid you your 50% deposit on the project, you’re halfway through, and there’s a critical deadline, there’s no way in hell they’d want to jeopardize replacing you the freelancer!

I’m not a developer, but I’d imagine it’s even more true for great developers on important projects.
Please stop and try to talk to some active military personnel before you just pass judgement like this. War is messy. This isn't a video game. The US military goes to extreme lengths in order to avoid collateral damage, including the blood of our own soldiers to protect as many innocents as possible. It's unfortunate that civilians will die but saying the military doesn't care is so beyond the pale that it just sounds like pure hysteria.
I’m on a Mac. I have tried this but nothing happens, and I still want a moofin
Cincinnati public library

https://cdn.citybeat.com/files/base/scomm/cb/image/2016/06/6...
...but is 84x more potent as a greenhouse gas as if we burn it.