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I remember experiencing some issues around that, but it's been years and I was not used to the device it happened on. It might not have been a MacBook, but the alternative then would have been a dedicated area or physical button in the corner of the touchpad, so then it was preferable. I don't remember why, but I think the issue with palm rejection being necessary on some of the laptops I used (not owned) was the lack of sufficient space to rest the hands on that would neither result in them being on the edge of the case nor on the edge of the touchpad. This Thinkpad (T540p) does not have that issue, as the size seems to allow the keyboard to be far enough away from the front edge of the base.

To be fair, the noise of clicking the touchpad is annoying some times, but mostly due to the mushy bottoming of the keyboard, which results in low noise despite a clear actuation point.

My aversion to a MacBook is mostly coming from the repair-unfriendlyness, combined with the high prices on the secondary market compared to T/X series Thinkpads. As long as I can hold it for at least one hour on one hand, while walking, in a position that I can keep an eye on the screen and use the other hand for hitting keys if needed, I don't consider it to heavy. And screen size is only really restricted by needing to fit inside commonly available backpacks, and not hindering maneuverability which happens if it is too wide in the middle dimension (approximating as a cuboid) to fit within the width of the chest. Being able to fit with it on my lap in a row on e.g. public transit/long distance trains/ (airplanes) also sets a limit to the width in the maximum dimension of the cuboid approximation. As this limit is lower than that imposed by fitting within the flat space on my back, that restriction dosn't really apply for the laptop.
What's a courtyard office?
Wasn't the first Google scraper written in Java? I saw an old Usenet post by Page from about 1997 asking about user agents in Java.

Perhaps that was the second scraper.
Another call for boringcc[0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10772841
I'm not sure if you are talking about the general leeway most new employees get, or if you are saying you get a period of time as a brand new employee to point out everything you think is wrong in a matter of fact way. If the latter, I disagree.
Will the non-touchbar MBPs continue to ship with the prior version of the keyboard?

I can see why Apple wouldn't go around trumpeting that the old models are getting upgraded, since it could dampen sales for the high-end models. At the same time, it would be pretty lousy to ship new units with keyboards that they've basically admitted are borderline defective (by offering a 4-year replacement program).
A lot of us are (MacOS)
Open offices would probably work a hell of a lot better if people paid any attention whatsoever to acoustics. Put up thick carpeting over the floor, noise reducing curtains over the windows, and tile the walls + ceiling with acoustical panels. Basically you want the reflected noise of conversations to be minimal - that way, people don't increase their speaking volume to be heard over ambient noise, and the room ends up a hell of a lot quieter.
Update: NPM is revoking _all_ tokens between 2018-07-11 00:00 UTC and 2018-07-12 12:30 UTC.

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I remember reading "Go Dog Go" to my son, many years ago. I was getting ready to turn the page, and he started reading it before I turned it. Yes he had memorized the book.

As it turns out, this was normal for kids to do, but it also ment I needed to get some new books.

What I should have done was point to each word as he said it to emphasis the the coorlation.
Indeed. I should have just said this

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In 1984, 37 percent of computer science majors were women, but by 2014 that number had dropped to 18 percent.

As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority with the White population being 76.9% of the country.

Statistically, an applicant with a computer science degree is likely to be a white male so logically a company that employees mostly CS types would be heavy on white males and white on women and other races.

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> the company will eventually have to move to USB-C

Not necessarily. A minority of machines are Macs, and I wouldn't be surprised if not wanting to deal with the whole USB-C thing right now is yet another incentive for IT to be interested in ditching Apple.
We've asked you several times to stop using Hacker News for ideological purposes and you haven't, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post according to the guidelines.

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Do you need a different detector? Can't you just do multiple exposures at different energies like dexa?
This sounds like a huge opportunity.

Chaos is what brings changes. Change is the only way something can be improved.

Chaos = Improvement opportunity

The company will move on no matter what happens (unless the mass departure is because the company is closing) and whoever stays has the chance to define how the company will move forward and profit from it.

Everybody I worked with always dreaded changes and chaos.

I long for that.
> “If we got tight for space, it would absolutely make sense to give away my space to someone who would use it more and have me just grab an open chair for those times I have meetings or other reasons to be in the office.”

Why would this make more sense than moving to a bigger office or building more space for the new employee to have a desk without taking yours? Cost is absolutely not an answer.
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Presuming your pipeline is accurate (dubious, but I'll presume), what "do something about it" is there to be done by the top two steps? It's a disservice to everyone if you hire workers who are unqualified over qualified ones. It a disservice to students to admit them if they are not ready to compete. Being successful either as a person or a corporation is hard, and there's no real way to handicap it and expect the handicapped demographic to succeed.

And if we want to use the past 30 years as an experiment for this, the most academically assisted demographic in America has been black through affirmative action, and they've shown little progress towards matching median US income, whereas Asians have been the most prejudiced against, and they're now far above. Plans like yours, to smooth outcomes based on racial divides, rather than industry or academic standards, are nice things to talk about in politics to make you sound good, but they appear to be destructive to the very people you purport to want to help.
Oh, and the trackpad is too big, so I was always hitting it accidentally. (Or maybe my paws are too big.)
“But, Doctor, I am Pagliacci!”
How's instagram on the switch?
Epic gives Unreal Engine creators a larger cut of product sales
See also: https://gist.github.com/localjo/59bb12b7a4789e01e3782cf8a103...

Good to make sure you team members who might have installed within that time period nuke out all their node_modules.
> Well, when he is dealing with arguments as silly as "but we will confuse = with ==)...

You clearly never had exposure to a PHP codebase. If people can trip up, people will trip up.
In the example they have default-src set to ‘self’ ‘unsafe-inline’

That essentially means frame-src is set to that same thing since it’s not specified. So the bypass in the example would still work since it’s iframing the same (trusted) domain even if they explicitly specify frame-src.
It looks like a measurement issue.

The problem we want to eliminate is sexism and racism. Counting the number of times people are actually affected by a negative -ism is difficult. We don't know what people are thinking unless they tell us. Bigots have an incentive to lie about their reasons and non-bigots can be subject to unconscious biases.

On the other hand categorizing people by race/gender is easy. There is always some wiggle room, but there is a lot less ambiguity when answering "is this employee a black woman" compared to "was this employee hired because she is black".

Once you have a set of (mostly) reliable statistics then you can start looking at trends over time, patterns by industry, etc. These numbers can't tell you anything about racism/sexism on their own, but they can help show the general direction the population studied is going and if there are any outliers who might deserve more attention.
To clarify my point, I don't believe it is spam, off-topic, or flaggable. I just disagree with the frequency across the spectrum. Not specific to HN so, granted, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned HN in my comment.
Well, diversity efforts at Microsoft China were trying to move away from the 100% Chinese office. Of course, that being China meant a few foreigners here and there. Some effort really pays off in a very homogeneous environment.
> I wish edit-and-continue, rewinding time, etc... would be better supported across IDEs. Programming should be a "conversation with the machine", and ultimately with other programmers. When I'm stepping through my own code, I try to assume the role of an "outsider" and judge my code from the "outside".

This is because of a good reason: implementing debugging is hard ... very hard, and therefore expensive to implement.

This is of course the main reason in practice.
Yeah vacation isn't work time
This seems to be consumer oriented but I can see some definite business use cases.

Giving employees card numbers for instance and limiting what they can use it for. I know plenty of CEOs of small business that have their credit card copied down by at least a half dozen employees. Then if there is an unexpected charge there is no way to see who it was.

I can also see using this to automatically fill out my expense reports for me. Or make sure I don't forget to fill it out.
The fundamentals of Robert's Rules are lost upon many people today. The creation of clubs and secret societies was an art of the late 1800s.

Today, people over-leverage technology and under-leverage the fundamentals of club-building. Roberts Rules are about creating a protocol where people each take turns to talk, under a set of rules that gives everyone a chance to voice their opinions... but still allows progress and ultimately a decision to be made.

That's the important part: how to achieve consensus among a group of people. The ideas of democracy, discussion, minority votes, and rules of how to conduct the discussion are all important.

Some groups still use Robert's rules, but many people don't even understand what a deliberative body is meant to do. (IE: most people don't understand Congress's role in society anymore). Its basically been replaced by meme culture and Reddit moderators creating serfdoms and/or dictatorships.
It will probably be time to figure out right doodads to break all this surveillance, permanently. As a customer, to protest the practice.
The endpoint security stuff on my work machine rejected this software. I would be wary if I were you.
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> You don't really have an opinion what consitutes a good working space but open offices seem to be trendy ("It's what the big boys are doing") and a consultant made you an offer to redesign your office space, so, why not.

I'm pretty sure the lemming see, lemming do explanation is one of the top actual reasons.
> "Thanks to both the Marketplace's growth and the success of Fortnite, Epic now conducts a huge volume of digital commerce," Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said in a statement. "The resulting economies of scale enable us to pass the savings along to the Unreal Engine Marketplace community, while also making a healthy profit for Epic."

Capitalism done right.
>I don't think your example applies in the context of a tech company, so I'm going to comment ignoring it.

18% of CS majors are women. 76.9% of the U.S. is white. Statistically someone in the work force with a CS degree is a white male.

That absolutely applies in the context of a tech company, unless you want them to hire unqualified applicants and spend months or years training them before they return profit.

The problem isn't with who a company is hiring, the problem is women aren't seeking out the training and non-Whites are a literal minority of the population.

Until more women pursue degrees/training in the field, and everyone starts partnering off with someone of a different race to make melting-pot babies, then it's just going to be this way purely due to statistics.
Your assumption appears to be incorrect. If you set up 2FA in "auth-and-writes" mode, it does require a 2FA challenge to publish.

Docs: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/using-two-factor-auth...
My understanding with Kodak is that they invented digital tech far earlier than expected (pre 80s) and hushed it to avoid cannibalizing their existing film business.

I suspect Blockbuster behaved similarly. It's hard to kill the golden goose.

Still examples of the sunk cost fallacy, for sure, but it feels like "lack of realization" is perhaps the wrong attribution.
That's the anti-college talking point that republicans like to preach to the uneducated masses. It's absolutely designed to devalue what is actually being taught in higher education, allow for the easy dismissal of soft sciences. And once you can dismiss soft sciences, you can certainly dismiss the hard sciences with guilt by association.

I earned my CS degree from a liberal arts college and took my share of liberal arts classes. But the name doesn't directly infer a political slant - there isn't an indoctrination that the right would like to say happens. Certainly some departments will have slants to them (women's studies, african american studies, etc.) but that doesn't mean that the scientific method gets forgotten at the door. Research still gets done and still gets reviewed. Certainly moreso than what happens on Fox News.
This would be the that body - it would be the final arbiter of what gets approved. The Tribune of the Plebs would not be able to approve anything at all, but would be able to unilaterally refuse to allow changes to be made.

The UN Security Council is somewhat similar in that respect, though comprised of more members. New matters are approved by majority vote, but the five permanent members can veto anything that gets approved.

My proposal is somewhat tongue in cheek, hence the names from the Roman Republic - but I do think the idea is sound.

An alternate, simpler implementation would be to simply require that all changes be unanimous. I like the idea of a Tribune of the Plebs though because it gives a second means of a voice should a sizable minority of members of the sub-communities strongly disagree with the direction of their representatives.
Yes, that's basically democracy in a nutshell.
Looks like the Python project is gonna migrate to be democratic, so the decisions can’t be blamed on one guy. That’s interresting how this happens in more and more projects !
This is very interesting! I can't wait to learn more about it. There are, however, some questions to consider:

- For a given procedure, will the radiation dose be higher than its corresponding 'black and white' X-Ray?

- If the radiation dose is higher, does the color add additional information or does it increase the diagnostic capabilities? Traditional X-rays (CT) already distinguish between soft-tissue, bone, fat, cartilage... so will the color distinguish structures within soft-tissue?
Photon counting sensors have been available for quite a while. This is unfortunately not new. It’s not ’color’ it’s multi channel imaging. X-ray tubes produce wide spectrum of x-rays, these type of sensors are able to put different bands to different buckets.

Coloring is arbitrary and conveniently chosen in the example to look like visible wavelength response as if the patient was dissected. It does not work for more complicated anatomy and even in this case needs very likely post processing.

I wish we could have a peek inside the patient as if we had opened it up but this is not yet that.
Linter?

You mean compiler right? The compiler should be warning for things like this, not relying on 3rd party tools.

So, yes, if you're using a custom compiler, you kinda are to blame for shooting yourself in the foot. Just use the official binaries!
Leveraging Audio Signals for Recognition of Inattentive Driving with Smartphones
It makes sense to me that the sidebar is incompatible with spatial browsing. It changes the size/shape of the window, and the items there are a list of aliases that don't exist in that space.
Hey - I'm from the US. We have a long tradition of stealing organizational ideas from the Romans.
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I've done that. It makes it worse. You get confused people jiggling the handle, knocking, and looking inside, as they try to enter the conference room they didn't book, after which you need to unlock the door, and explain to them that you locked the door to avoid interruptions, can they please go away and research the social signal a locked door is meant to convey.

The trick is you need to look unremarkable, yet also uninterruptible. I think the best strategy (short of finding an employer that values productivity) is to team up with someone else who values getting work done, and book a conference room with them. That way it looks like you're "having a meeting" and no-one will ask vapid questions.

Better still, dial your cell phone with the room's conference phone, so it looks like it's "on" to anyone peering through the door's window, and sit with your back to the door. People are less likely to try to take over the conference room if it looks like it's complicated to get you to vacate.
https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2016-10-20/st...

"In 1984, 37 percent of computer science majors were women, but by 2014 that number had dropped to 18 percent"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...

"The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 61.3% of the nation's total, with the total White population (including White Hispanics and Latinos) being 76.9%"
> The colours represent different energy levels of the X-ray photons as recorded by the detector

http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/firs...

There are a bunch of ways to convert that to an RGB display, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple rendering options you can flip between until you find the one that gives you the visual discrimination you're looking for.
> Imagine a soccer team where everyone trains independently and only heads in to the office for video sessions.

Riiight, because soccer and office work are so similar!

/s
It's not the outrage, it's the entitlement. People have always been outraged, the major difference I've seen is the rampant sense of entitlement. I'm not sure if it's a result of bad parenting or something else, but it's slowly becoming a major issue for the entirety of the human race.
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What do you mean? The nature of needing to customize your space is fundamentally incompatible with sitting in a large open plan space. How could you “set [your] stuff up” in an open plan area?

For example, suppose there is harsh overhead fluorescent lighting above your desk. But you require soft lighting from a desk lamp for eye comfort. In a private office, you can bring in a lamp. If you bring in a lamp to your open-plan desk, it’s futile, because the harsh communal lighting is enforced on you, not customizable.
I blame the Linux Foundation that has allowed Node.js to ship with npm CLI which is a client for a _VC backed_ _for profit_ company. This posinstall stuff is clearly a bad design that many have pointed to it before but npm just ignored it. Nobody can fix it other than npm. I have nothing personal against people who work at npm inc but this structure is not right. npm is having way too much control over this ecosystem. They always complain about not having not enough resources. How about running npm like an open source project instead? I have many questions:

Why the registry code is not open source?
Why the CLI is not maintained well? (Yarn exists because npm CLI sucks)
What if VC money forces npm to milk free users for money?
U.S. and Europe clash over global supersonic jet noise standards
OP wants code to legislate trust problems within a small, closed group, however no amount of code can ever solve trust problems within a small, closed group.

No amount of code thrown at people mismanaging their relationship with other people will ever help people more effectively manage their relationship with those people -- it just creates artificial obstacles that further exacerbate or obscure the problem.

There is simply no combination or refinement of the logic OP proposed that would ever be perfectly sufficient to avert the need for human judgement in their scenario.

What if 51% of the project simultaneously reveal themselves to be alt-right fanatics who want to take the work in a new, fundamentally evil direction, ideologically aberrant to OP? Oh that's easy - OP can just step in with his admin privileges and disable their access. And that just underscores the point -- the original voting logic was a facade, and the original trust problem remained. The presence of that logic failed to solve any problem, the reality was always a true power structure that differed from the imaginary codified structure.

Perhaps one alternative would be for OP to give up admin rights entirely - but only a fool would believe a bunch of codified rules spread across a couple of software functions could ever perfectly mediate the complexities of a community of people in every possible scenario.
It is the supply pipeline. It takes 20+ years for the easy path to grow a competent software developer. If the supply stalls in primary school, you don’t recover from that. Looking at the end of the pipe isn’t that useful.

Even the hard path (someone going into it starting at college) takes 4+ years.

All FAANG is doing right now is concentrating a limited supply, making diversity worse in the rest of the industry. They aren’t magically creating new supply via aggressive hiring practices.
It is amongst the cheapest edible things you can find here in Colombia, and assume across all South America, but then again, price of agricultural goods here is more or less close to zero if compared to price of them same goods when imported in North America / Europe / Australia.
Yep. Folks know (or you have bigger problems). Leadership doesn't want FUD nor misleading positivity, they want constructive & predictable leadership... even if late.

The conversation they want is, "As the leader, the risk X has now hit, and to avoid underlying Y happening again and achieving predictability goals Z, I'm leaning to A or B on this timeline with those key delivery+derisking milestones. To get there, can you help with resource/negotiation/decision C, and what are your thoughts on alternatives?"
Just having 32GB is enough to make me consider upgrading. But man, why can't they ship an LTE modem?
Because editing yaml or json sucks.
This isn't a fair comparison in the US, where the majority of cities' downtowns are skyscrapers standing alone in a vast sea of parking lots and freeways. Compare Dallas to something like Paris, especially on population density.
> People are more rational when the cost to them of being irrational is larger.

This isn't strictly true, and I'd love to see you provide extensive data on such a exceptional claim.

There is a lot of evidence showing that harsher punitive measures often have little to no impact on crime and wrongdoing.
I've heard too many nightmare stories, even from people who went to the most reputable providers. Not gonna screw with my vision, thanks.
> Perhaps that was the second scraper.

I believe that is the case yes. However correct me if m wrong.