skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, no laptop I've ever owned had at trackpad that _didn't_ just work. Of course there were a handfull in the store at any given time that were mediocre, but that's why I try before I buy. The Mac trackpad is definitely great, don't get me wrong, but in my experience poor trackpads only appear on certain business models and cheap flimsy models. (Currently using a two or three year old Lenovo thinkpad yoga, the trackpad has always worked great)
I see your point, but I’m not sure how else to describe it.

Every time I visit HN I read something interesting. I can’t remember the last time I read something that interested me on Reddit, outside of /r/space.

I mean, I know it sounded arrogant to say I was the most knowledgeable, it simply happens to be true, but it only applies to Reddit. It’s extremely rare that I feel like that anywhere else, even Facebook is much better in that regard.

Maybe I’m just using Reddit wrong, but it hasn’t always been like this either.
Nissan Cancels $1B Sale of Battery Business to China's GSR Capital
I've been thinking about switching back to a basic MP3 player for my listening-to-stuff-while-on-the-go needs.

The device being connected to the Internet is convenient for not having to think about downloading podcasts and suchlike. Having to physically claw the device out of my pocket, push my sunglasses up, and squint in the bright sunlight in order to find the spot on the screen where I need to tap in order to rewind 15 seconds so I can catch whatever I missed because of that dump truck that just drove past, though, is getting annoying.

After many years, I was almost to the point where my muscle memory was good enough to do it without taking my phone out of my pocket. Then the latest iOS dropped, and they both moved the relevant touch targets and shrunk them down to something like 5mm square.
"There's this widespread legacy system. Why won't those stupid people just migrate to the newish and better one?" (Key words: legacy, migrate. I still see dozens of WinXP systems around, alive and kicking.)
How do you track it?
Sadly Stylus is not in the Safari's plugins store.

Any alternatives for Mac users?
Try watching children operate touchscreen and you'll see that they are quite intuitive.

The biggest difference is they don't have 60+ years of experience telling them what won't work (because it didn't used to) like your dad probably does.
I live in a climate that has cold winters, and have Raynaud's syndrome. If it's cold outside, I wear -30C rated mountaineering mitts, and I'm fine, as long as I don't expose my hands to the cold. Touchscreens (and tiny steering wheel buttons) in cars are literally unusable for me for a good portion of the year.
It's not unusual for me to get three or four book recommendations in a week.

I try to resist the urge to buy them all, but my ability to purchase books far exceeds my ability to read them.
MSFT partners with RADWIN to deliver broadband internet to rural communities
What I don't understand is that surely there must be a wide enough passage for them to have got in in the first place. It may be flooded but if one can walk into them vertically, surely they should be fairly accessible to a diver horizontally. Can't they just follow / be attached to a string or something like that?
Is this book available as a printed book? Would love to buy a copy. I have read disparate parts over the years, but this one is concise and covers a gamut of topics. It might even help in running a research group!
how about we recognize education for what it is in this country: indoctrination and grooming for your role in the economy. to make it more relatable: the mission statements (ethos) from schools are exactly like company culture statements from tech ("don't be evil"); they're meaningless as far as the real purpose of the organization. CMU doesn't care about passion - it cares about bottom line and its bottom line is a function of donations/tuition/research funding (in the form of institution overhead).

with the harvard asian personality thing, the nyc public schools shsat thing, and now this i wonder how is that people don't recognize all of this hand-wringing over affluence begetting affluence and "hacking" for what it is: band-aids on a broken system. we should decouple education (which is essential for being productive) from social selection. how? i don't know because all of this is so highly coupled that you'd need a phd in market design and non-linear optimization to even start unwinding the relationships.

edit: i'm getting downvoted. when microsoft/google/uber/etc. speak from their ethos does anyone believe them? when fb last year released chat for children and claimed to be interested in helping kids or whatever did anyone believe them? what's the difference here? CMU doesn't even operate under the guise of a public service - it is a private institution after all.
The advantage of using Ripple's platform versus Swift is it allows you to crowd source your Nostro and Vostro accounts, which frees up that capital to be invested elsewhere. Basically what Circle does except with a more native implementation.
"One of the ironies for me of people who slave away with the hope of scoring the jackpot,"

There are other reasons as well to work hard. Some people enjoy the prospect of potentially denting the universe a bit. But yes, if financial gratification and financial gratification alone is the goal it's a tad silly.
The UK also uses mpg, and confusingly enough, the Imperial gallon is significantly larger than the American one.
Hi, I have a doubt.
You mention in your FAQ that these numbers are calculated from the estimates provided by WHO, IMF, World Bank and few other organizations.

My question is, from where is the data for TVs and Phones sold?, are these metrics from the reports by the mentioned organizations.
You might like Stellar - pretty much the same offering as XRP, but with better smart contract support and it has an open test network that anyone can use. You basically just interact via an API so you can develop in pretty much any language you like.
I really hope this bug has a post mortem.
Self-driving cars are headed towards an AI roadblock
Biggest reason why i wouldn't get a Tesla. All i want is a Golf cart with doors and a plug for my phone really. Keep the 15" screen that sucks my battery dry.
Jonathan Blow: “C++ is a weird mess”
Kids will try anything, just to see what happens (i think i issued the format c: command within days of the first PC arriving in our home back in the day). They are possibly the worst indicator of "intuitive" out there.
The dystopian literature of the last century tended to view the TV as a device that enslaved the masses, turning them into obsessive, entertainment consuming automatons. I feel like we're living in that dystopia, only with the Internet taking over TV.
Thank you for the ideas, will look into what's possible.
Sir did u have tldr for this?
Show HN: Gaming in the Obscure – Book about lesser known retro game consoles
Would Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) suffer directly since it exists out of content generated by users (Article 13) ? And it links to other websites. (Article 11) ?

Who is behind the recent changes on the internet ?

Months ago Agit Pai(FCC) ended net neutrality.

Month ago, may 25th, GDPR initiated (except this benefits the individual).

Now there is a push for laws that defeat the basics of the internet, the hyperlink:

Article 11: requires online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content.

Article 13: requiring websites to enforce copyright, even on content uploaded by users.

There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ?
The first dive is the hardest. You can install a line during it, which you will use for subsequent dives that will secure you next attempts.
Calendly Growth – Behind the Scenes
The article is interesting so I don't mean to nitpick, but I find the title disingenuous/misleading to the layperson. Being in a country that has still not completely accepted the concept of natural selection, phrasing like this is counter-productive. The insects have evolved in such a way that their growth is determined by the glucose level of the host plant. This is much simpler to understand, IMO.
It was frustrating reading the captions to the photos because for each one it would mention that tax policy affected various features of the building. Except that, over and over, it mysteriously left out the why and how of tax policy affecting roofing or windows being bricked over. That is, why would tax policy cause windows to be bricked over? I just found it exhausting being teased over and over. I don't read to be teased. I read to be educated, yet I wasn't even sure that the read would have answered my questions. I gave up instead.
My understanding is that diversity isn't a goal as much as lack of diversity is a symptom that something is wrong. The idea is these immutable characteristics have no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the candidate, so what in the process is removing the underrepresented groups.
I haven't seen a router under $400 that can do fair queueing in hardware faster than ~200 megabits. If you have fiber it's cheaper to setup a beefy Linux box and run PFSense on it. Hardware offload is usually disabled when you turn on QoS so doing slow will often slow down gigabit LAN links as well
How does canvas fingerprinting work when Javascript is disabled in the browser?

What if the HTTP client used to fetch the page does not run third party Javascript?
Just read the r7800 had the best range for an all-in-one unit. Not sure if it's true, but it has been an amazing router. I picked one up for myself -- they are 130$ refurbished on Amazon every now and then.

To answer your question: I have no idea. Would be neat if a much cheaper model had the horsepower though.
I'm vacationing in Germany right now, and as a news aggregator junkie I'm amazed at how much content is just blocked, with nearly everything else having dark patterned UI that either inconveniences or punishes you if you don't accept their tracking. It was really sad to see NPR's options: Either consent to everything or view plain HTML that would render correctly on Mozilla 1.0, with no images.
Microsoft rolling out hands-free dictation to OneNote for Windows 10 users
I don't see how that demonstrates anything about the order of the assignment. It seems to show that node and blue_node are no longer the same object? (I'm not sure I understand how that came to be either, but perhaps it's due to the PEP...) I'm not saying your general point is wrong, just that the REPL listing doesn't demonstrate your general point.
I was gifted two of them recently, and it seems like maybe he might have chosen to sacrifice quality for quantity two or three hundred books ago.

I'm glad I decided to avoid him as an author when I was much younger. He'd have been better off just writing them as screenplays or teleplays to begin with.

Someone recently compared my Twitter posts to Stephen King, and I winced physically. I'm almost certain they meant it as a compliment, though. And maybe that's good if I wanted to write for the mass market instead of the sci-fi/fantasy nerds?
I was agreeing with you. You wrote yourself that modern usage is synonymous, so I thought it would be interesting to look at the etymology too.

For the record the full OED favours the latter root for bravery (bravo < Old Italian braido, brado (wild, savage)). Strange they don't say the same thing.
> which is true today but for different reasons that I am not trying to get into

This is exactly the reason. Right there. You just referenced it. And yet you're avoiding it. See why we have a problem right here?
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/2...

https://lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/all/0/1/1/1/11/0/

There is even a company that specialises in lobbying for their customers, making them invisible in lobbying process

http://www.burson-marsteller.eu/who-we-are/about-us/
some comments:

1) BBR is currently not something I'd recommend at home.

2) The hope has always been that the core two bufferbloat-fighting algorithms (BQL, and fq_codel) would end up in the cable, fiber or dsl modem hardware, so that no shaping would be required, as there would be sufficient backpressure from the link itself to regulate the link intelligently. The cpu costs on this are nearly 0! BQL is 6 lines of new code in the device driver. fq_codel has been shipping in linux for 6 years. It's just a matter of turning it on...

But: lacking that support from the ISP-supplied gear, we shape with htb + fq_codel, (as you say), to ~90% of the link rate... with another box - or even in the same box if the device driver can't be fixed and is overbuffered. We are painfully aware of how much cpu shaping costs but modern cpus usually have enough oomph to handle it.

btw: We've come up with a new deficit shaper (sch_cake) that lets us get to ~100% of the isp bandwidth (so long as you get the wire framing exactly right), while providing vastly better queue management in the sqm system.

4) fq_codel is fair to flows, not devices. This works well in the general case, but has edge cases where abusive apps that open a lot of flows gain priority. Adding per host fq (while retaining per flow fq), even through nat, was the number 1 request from the users for sch_cake, and one of the main reasons why cake exists.
> Like many other institutions, we are inundated with demonstrations of continued interest and additional recommendations, mostly from well-resourced or well-advised applicants. Though we don't request any at all, students write letters of continued interest, send us more recommendations, send projects, visit our campus to make their case in person and also have anyone with any perceived influence make phone calls to lobby and advocate for them.

The above indicates very high demand for Carnegie Mellon's educational services (along with other universities like CMU). Perhaps the obvious solution is to increase supply - if so many are so willing and apparently able to study at that level (the difference between the last admitted and first rejected is, AFAIK, almost undetectable), let's give them the opportunity!

Let's start with an open mind; I know many of the 'answers' already jumping to people's fingertips, but let's challenge those assumptions and the status quo. Nothing in the universe requires that there should be N spots available at CMU-level schools. Why not 2N or 10N or 100N? My impression is that the availability of quality college education boomed in the mid-20th century, especially in the U.S. Why not now, with such high demonstrated demand? At least public universities could be expanded.

It raises many questions: What do students and parents perceive is better about CMU than the next school down their list? Is their perception accurate? Can other schools be changed to match CMU in some or all regards?

I imagine (but don't want to assume) that the faculty at CMU are better than the next best school, but is that really so? Is there a material difference, other than prestige? And how important is that - all faculty (and most PhD students) at any school know infinitely more than almost any freshman, and few undergraduates take advantage of the faculty resources until later in college. Perhaps the solution is that admission to CMU-level schools and access to their faculty shouldn't happen until a student demonstrates the ability and interest in their first year or two.
Thanks for putting your effort on this! It seems pretty great.

Being an `asciinema + svg-term-cli` user myself, what are the arguments for moving to `termtosvg`?

Thanks!
To be clear its not just hiding your IP you are proxying all your potentially sensitive data via their servers. Also bandwidth may be cheap but its not free. It mentions a paid option for a bout 5 euros a month that is 10x faster with unlimited bandwidth.

I interpret this to mean that the free option has a finite supply of bandwidth and is slow which is logical because otherwise people that want to watch 4k netflix over it would put them out of business.

I also see that they offer a browser plugin but don't seem to provide say an openvpn connection which seems inferior as that protects all forms of data rather than just browsing data.
They are different budgets (different buckets of money). I worked at one company that had no money for new computers, but had plenty of money to fix a broken computer... so... my computer happen to break one day so bad all the internals needed to be replaced. The case was old, but all the internals were brand new. Companies are often short sighted and don't look at the whole picture.
There's money in this space. I've spent maybe $30 just looking for the right app, only to come up empty.
HoloLens 2 is supposed to release sometime this year, and they’re saying it’ll be way cheaper than the current version.
Oh, wow - thank you for the info. I had no idea.
Is it really any different to people walking around with the first Windows CE ipaq and htc phones, and huge nokia communicator querty flip ones literally more than 20 years ago?

I applaud Microsoft, Google, and anyone who tries to invent part of our future, even if they fail. Microsoft's tablet windows were amazing, they were bulky and ux was pretty bad, but at least they tried. And Google did the same with Glass.

Constructive criticism is always welcome and results in discussions that might help people who are or will be driving similar technologies.

There is really no reason to call it "birth control for your face".
Science, even at the level of secondary school classes, has used metric in the US for a very long time. I don't know where people get this weird idea that Americans don't use SI. Imagine Americans making fun of Europeans for not speaking English, because they thought multilingual = not speaking English. That's how silly this meme is. Every car I've ever owned had km on the speedometer.
An optn is t jst lv ot al vwls excpt at th bgnnng of wrds. Its qt esy t rd hwvr it mght nt be wrth it fr jst thrty prcnt incrs in wrd dnsty.
“Preacher Moss” Allah Made Me Funny
> I'm reading this as a diversity play, not a rich/poor play

Is there a factual basis for this reading?
I've already posted this in another reply, but the "Fire in a Crowded Theater" bit no where near as clear cut as you've claimed.[0]

[0] - https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Your wrong stop spreading this misinformation please.
The open office meme needs to die.
Obama doesn't just show up to honor people around the world. It was suggested by prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt [0]. Yes, that is the same prime minister who was traveling to the Bilderberg meeting in Wallenberg's private jet [1], whose government caved in the weapons deal [2], wife ended up working for their health care company [3] and son has been working at Svenskt Näringslivs think-tank Timbro [4].

Apparently the person who was pushing for the arms deal to be reinstated was foreign minster, party colleague and former prime minister Carl Bildt. Another frequent visitor to the Bilderberg meetings and infamously chairman of the board at Lundin Petroleum. The Lundin brothers are cousins of Marcus Wallenberg [5]. Carl Bildt is also senior advisor to Wallenberg Foundations [6].

Wallenbergs dominance in Sweden isn't really a secret [9]. So between "it a coincidence" and "they all know each other", I am going with the second one. Sweden has a number of other people to honor whose family's jet the prime minster hasn't borrowed like Folk Bernadotte [7] (who was related to the king) or Birgitta Karlström Dorph [8].

[0] In Swedish; https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/hemliga-brevet-fran-reinfel...
[1] In Swedish; https://www.svd.se/hit-fick-reinfeldt-lift-av-wallenberg
[2] https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...
[3] In Swedish; https://www.aleris.se/om/om-aleris/nyheter/filippa-reinfeldt...
[4] https://www.thelocal.se/20120901/42954
[5] In Swedish; https://www.di.se/di/artiklar/2014/11/14/pa-djupet-med-lukas...
[6] In Swedish; http://www.wfab.se/stiftelsernas-investeringskommitte/stifte...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_Karlstr%C3%B6m_Dorph
[9] https://www.economist.com/business/2016/03/10/a-nordic-pyram...
[9] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/10/12/swedens-...
[9] https://www.economist.com/business/2009/01/22/the-ties-that-...
[9] https://www.ft.com/content/4f407796-0a35-11e5-a6a8-00144feab...
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/15/obituaries/marcus-wallenb...

(A small correction to my previous comment. It was Jacob, not Marcus, Wallenberg who brought Reinfeldt to the meeting).
ORM: Rethinking Data as Objects
"Despite a dramatic drop in the value of cryptocurrencies this year, Ripple still owns $30 billion worth of XRP,"

But ripple can just make more.. it's not like bitcoin or even wants to be.

http://hivergent.com/you-shouldnt-invest-in-ripple-and-not-b...
It's not really about being settlement layer as much as a way to crowd source vostro/nostro accounts. At least that's how I interpret what xRapid's page[0].

https://ripple.com/solutions/source-liquidity/
The metric system is widely used in the U.S. school system? That is news to me.
They are being flooded, fresh water goes in.. most likely along the walls too.
Show HN: Animated SVG displaying the current weather
Because when forming teams of people, their total merit is usually not the sum of individuals merits. I do not work in the field, but I can easily find papers (like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221256711... which says it has a positive impact or http://ftp.iza.org/dp6973.pdf which says it has a negative one) saying diversity by itself directly impacts productivity in companies, and I don't think it's too stretched to think it also impacts the growth of students.

So, I can see why a university, depending on which studies it's basing its decisions upon, would want to directly work on the diversity of its students, in order to improve the quality of the global education its giving (I don't think one need studies to be convinced that your education depend both on professors and fellow students, among other things).

Whether it's a good decision or not to increase diversity, I wouldn't judge rationally (even though my gut would say it's good, based on something like "mono genes crops die but wild crops live" things...), but it's certainly an impactful one !
all examples work for safari 11.0.3
Well we know this right, but we're still subjecting ourselves to these bizarre environments that make us less productive and less happy. On top of that, this is just one area that we're sure is obviously stupid and it's measurable. There's about 100 other things at work that are also obviously stupid but might not be as measurable or popular to critique.
Cryptocurrency is a lot like Klondike. The first prospectors made money on gold, but now the profit lies with the brothels, hardware shops and the big kingpins.

If you ran an exchange you’d be extremely rich.
If the amount of goods and services you can purchase with the currency increases over time, the currency is deflationary. Disinflation is a slow down in the decrease of the currency value, but if the value of the currency is increasing it’s deflating.
It's worth being said that "rich/poor" (or, socioeconomic diversity) is usually a diversity metric HE is also tracked on, so it'd be rare to see an organisation take a stance that would also negatively affect that.

Contextual recruitment (which they say they're moving to), is the current industry best practice in this regard of looking at the issue across most of these factors, so not sure it's favouring one characteristic over another.
This is a great list! But I guess I figured this list would be categories within tech (e.g. UI, AI, AR/VR, Networking, Security, et al), rather than tech being one of a large collection of categories that generally don't resonate with the HN crowd.
Paris Beckons as a Fare War Turns Europe into a Bargain
after doing research i'm certain ripple can just make more at anytime to keep the value low.