skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't need a 'very powerful magnet'. In fact I'm surprised how easy it is to make the magnetic strip unreadable. The way I (unintentionally) do it is simply to keep the cards together in the wallet. Their individual magnetic stripes destroy each other. All the cards are unreadable now, except for the newest card. And no, there aren't any other magnetic or electro-whatever device nearby.
> I have a 13 without the touch bar ... Hooray for keyboards that aren't quite as bad as the "new" pre-2018

Then it's a 2017 as the FN one was untouched by the 2018 refresh.
Isn't a bad keyboard part of the design, Apple has aways been removing I/O options and locking down the software. A bad keyboard is just the natural evolution of the concept.

Why should they give the average person the ability to type? Their buisness model is focused on passive consumption.
The Guardian has moved to a voluntary-subscription model for revenue - a gentle nagware if you like. No adblocker-blocking and (relatively) few actual adverts on the pages.

I don't always agree with their opinions or editorials, but I do respect the quality of the journalism and the fact that they are a non-profit [0]

I can't see more commercially-oriented paper/website open-sourcing any of their code, even if it's a (good imho) recruitment ploy.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust/2015/jul/26/the-...
With 150 000 reads so far, I hope most do.
Vim/Emacs are local maximas in terms of productive UX, they'll still be here in 20 years. What's different might be the amount of compute those environments control. A keychord or three can easily trigger a big rebuild on a computer somewhere in the network.
Always nice to see Scala being used for something like this
Yeah, bankrolled by PayTM which has been proven to spread propoganda for the ruling BJP government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvj8hRD1GY4
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It would seem so (though it shouldn't be). IIRC the Sony hack was attributed to NK because they found some NK IP addresses in comments in the code.
IANAL, but this seems to collide with their EULA with Commercial Type [1], since third party hosting of the font files is "strictly prohibited" and the font files are in fact all available in the repo, which certainly doesn't sound like "reasonable effort to prevent access/use by unlicensed parties".

[1] https://github.com/guardian/frontend/blob/88cfa609c73545085c...
> Is this a joke?

The post, yes it's a joke but reality is just as sad, Reddit, Medium, Facebook, Linkedin etc all do this kind of crap.
Absolutely, until they wont because people realize the shortcomings. I am a Mac user in the last ~10 years and most of this time MBPs beat competitors in many regards, making other vendors copy their solutions. As of today I have to make a decision to purchase a new laptop for somebody and MBP is not an option anymore because of the freakin' keyboard. Regardless how good the rest of it this already disqualifies it. I am certainly not the only one having issues with the newer models and soon you are going to see a decline in those numbers if Apple does not address these issues. You can't run on brand value forever.
Right, let's put all our museums on the blockchain. /s

Seriously, what would be better? We already struggle to get people interested in these large places, which are so interesting, and now we should try to get people interested in hundreds, some of which would only include niches?
I studied Chinese medicine, did an internship on a local clinic with very low cost. We got mostly old people coming. Some points below:

1. Generalising acupuncture treatments is the same as saying ALL programmers are equal - there is a huge spectrum on the quality. Some people do protocols - same treatment for same disease, other people are much more inclined to do a personal treatment. There are also lots of different ways to do an acupuncture treatment. As for research, please check " Atlas Of Acupuncture" from Claudia Focks, it's full of references of studies about Chinese Medicine, with both good and bad results as well as criticism of study design.

2. On the clinic, it worked very well for chronic pain (eg: back pain) and for diseases that have some degree of unknown (due to psychosomatic disorder or alike). We had some patients that got "fixed" in a couple of sessions, others would just need a consultation every two weeks or so to maintain their health, and so on.

3. Acupuncture also works very well in tandem with Western medicine (eg: reduce side effects of some medicine/treatment), but where it really shines is for some diseases where Western medicine can't work that well - although this is easier if you're an accomplished practitioner - we had great results with fibromyalgia for example.

As an example, I started to develop back pain due to carrying my kid all day, I went to a Chinese herbal doctor who recommended me some herbs - I took them once and it went away for weeks. Eventually it came back because I still carry the kid though.

My teacher also have done countless diagnostics in which he correctly diagnosed some issues with his patients who were later confirmed with a Western medicine (under a different disease name).
So we should believe it wasn't useless because of an anecdote you have?
Had the server version of this system as my private server in my basement at home; the electricity bill was peppery.

I must have torn it apart and put it back together about ten times, studying the hardware, and must have installed IRIX 6.5.30 on it just as many.
Exactly. A bit too large but still by far the best trackpad out there.
The pricing model is the only thing that seems to be serverless as far as I can tell.
There is a surprising amount of government supporters on HN.
Wow - your comment tripped a memory in me. I learned on a TI and made heavy use of CALL CHAR to redefine the bit pattern for characters to draw on screen. I had a hard time switching to Commodore Basic because it wasn't clear to me how to accomplish similar things there.

Atari with their player-missile graphics made immediate sense to me though.
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I recently upgraded to the new 2018 model with Core i9 and 32GB of RAM. For my kind of development the RAM was a huge bottleneck and since I upgraded it’s been definitively better, I did had a rMBP 2016 which I was angry at just like the others, but I decided to give Apple one last chance and so far I’m fairly happy with my rMBP 2018 (i9/32GB RAM) so I’d recommend it
Yes, Brazil's economy is bad right now, but it's nowhere near Venezuela's.

Interestingly, Brazil has had experience with hyperinflation between 1980-1994 when the currency was the cruzeiro. The story of how Brazil got out of inflation by introducing a "fake currency" called the URV (Unidade Valor de Real) is the stuff of economic legend [1], but it worked and today there's is the Brazilian "real".

Venezuela's situation is much different -- dictatorship, oil dependency and handouts.

Brazil, bad as it is, has a democracy (broken and corrupt notwithstanding), more industries than just oil (Petrobras not withstanding), and has had investments in higher education and technology (Embraer). Sao Paulo as a city is economically far more advanced than Caracas (and indeed, Rio de Janeiro). Brazil is also a lot bigger than Venezuela, with many big multinational companies like Vale, Embraer, etc. The Brazilian 3G Capital also owns Burger King and Kraft Heinz.

There is hope in Brazil. Much more than in Venezuela.

[1] How Fake Money saved Brazil
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...
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"maybe we should just tell the people that benefit from the sexism that the sexism is bad, surely they will stop"
At the office I have a real keyboard (das keyboard; edit: I mention the name meant as a reference to my style preference, but definitely would recommend it as well), but I can’t use that at home while in bed, etc. (which is where a laptop shines).
For those interested, see:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
Actually, the prudent thing is to actively damage the NFC antenna.

There is not much point in damaging the magnetic stripe but leaving wireless functionality... they are exactly the same thing only wireless works from a greater distance.
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Seriously, the whole description became needlessly opaque by using the internet, of all things, as the example.
I’ve set up automated monthly buys exactly like that in the past using Schwab. It was very easy. Though as int_0 points out, some funds have minimum purchase amounts.

The robo-advisors will let you do monthly automated investments but generally won’t let you choose what you invest in, only a “risk profile” (which ends up being a selection of investments not unlike a Vanguard target fund afaict).

I also once had a 401k that would let you choose a fund allocation in advance (from a depressingly limited selection) and would auto-purchase with each payroll deposit.
> 99% of us work for companies with free products subsidized by overt tracking and complete disregard of user privacy.

Indeed, also security but that's for another rant.
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That's only because we are trying to avoid total war, hence the release of nuclear weapons. If nukes didn't exist, I think technology along these lines would be far more terrifying than it is now.
Mostly news sites did that from my experience, I just found it ironic with how Americans stereotypically shout freedom of speech at every opportunity and then news outlets turn around with "Oh you're European, can't read our news".

Reddit's mobile website truly hates itself tho.
Seems like the data shows the cash crackdown was a great success, but there are some powerful people with a financial interest in presenting it as a failure so that other countries don't get any bright ideas.
The docs include a recipe for Breton crêpes. :)

[1] https://github.com/guardian/frontend/blob/master/docs/99-arc...
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For you, yes. If you look up at the ancestor posts you'll see the discussion was about free hosting at GitHub/gitlab.
> I would say that it's too early to tell

Except it's really not. It's been two years and 100+ lives have been lost. Not to mention the countless man hours and productivity wasted. The decision was condemned from the get go - even discouraged by the then Indian central bank chief.
> I can't see more commercially-oriented paper/website open-sourcing any of their code, even if it's a (good imho) recruitment ploy.

https://github.com/nytimes
https://github.com/BostonGlobe
https://github.com/npr & https://github.com/nprapps
https://github.com/theatlantic
https://github.com/wsj
...

I really wish people wouldn't always assume the worst of the media. Especially when it takes about two seconds to verify (disprove) one's prejudice. I know one such post isn't going to have much of an effect. But considering every tangential mention of "mainstream media" brings out a thousand cynics, being an underpaid journalist trying to keep our society's discourse somewhat together must be endlessly frustrating.

Plus, of course, it's just impossible to make informed decisions in a democracy when all trust in the media has been eroded by this hysteria.
The 20th century is so rich in good lit. Even Faulkner (you in your latter comment) is in this time period. And getting closer to today you still have solid authors: Gene Wolfe, Jim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne, Robinson, Susanna Clarke, China Mieville, Dan Simmons, Ursula K. Le Guin. These aren't chumps.

The 21st century is just beginning. It will shake out over time. I suspect a part of it is a minor fetishization with language that differs from what we're used to. Like a British accent can sound delightful to me even if it's not any more literate than me. The same could hold with past writing styles. So what is "blandly" written now, might not sound bland to people 50 years from now. Just a thought.
+1 for the soldering iron. There was nothing quite so stressful as the first time you plugged in the prototype relay controller you'd built on Veroboard out of salvaged parts and a couple of 74-series logic chips. The whole thing was connected directly to the CPU via the edge connector, and if you didn't have flyback diodes and enough decoupling then every time the relay switched, the computer would crash with a psychedelic random bitmap on the screen and you'd wonder if it would ever work again... Ah, the nostalgia!
The blind bhakti and zero empathy in your comment is astonishing.
If you load javascript from there - yes, but if you iframe to there - no. You can design a solution that uses cross-origin browser protection to protect your users from getting owned in case a partner is compromised.
One more reason to support them. Even if you don't always agree with their opinions, it's nice to move away from commercial journalism and keep things as open and transparent as possible.
> If you're developing iOS or macOS software, you need a Mac.

I agree, that's probably the only valid reason for a developer to prefer a Macbook over a Thinkpad: if he needs to develop software for Apple hardware. But in the age of React Native and Electron, I never had to develop specifically for iOS / MacOS.

> Lenovo support for Linux distro's is a mixed bag of "fuck you" and "Enterprise Edition", so "full control" is likely to mean "Full Responsibility", too.

In practice, most Linux desktop distributions are developed and tested by people working on Thinkpads. In a non-Apple world, it's the OS developers who decide what hardware they support, not the hardware company.

> If you prefer to be endlessly tweaking kernel parameters or driver settings because you updated some software and now your trackpad works in reverse, well then good luck to you sir.

I don't remember having to tweak a single thing on my default Linux desktop installation since 2013. Everything just works out of the box, if you pick Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu, and your hardware wasn't released 5 days ago.

> Personally, I prefer to spend my working hours actually making money.

Yet, I see here people spending their working hours complaining about the hardware they bought from Apple, and the software Apple shipped to them with that hardware, as if they had no other choice in life.
You can have the full experience today using the Colour Maximite board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA8lowEKOo. The MMBasic environment it uses is surprisingly powerful and convenient - it even includes a full-screen text editor.
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Have you tried having a conversation with your employer? If they view it as a negative maybe you could forego your next salary increase and ask for maybe two work-at-home days per week or something similar.

PS: Where did you first learn of the expression "code smell"? I'm curious because I recently heard of it and would like to know if it was from the same source
I didn't say that you should trust banks. I'm saying it's not good for society if people don't. You're painting the lack of trust as a win. It's not. It's a net loss for society.
RIP the Village Voice
"What problem is this product solving which is legal to try and solve, and cannot be solved more cheaply in other ways?"

Ponder for five minutes, sigh, walk away.
TP Link has the N300 available too, powered by USB Micro:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Portable-Travel-Rout...

Only downside is they're $29.
Honestly a swarm of drones with laser based communication sounds just like the thing that may make widescale jamming useless in the future. Also, makes jamming pretty risky since something will head your way... and explode.
Usually each worker have management, I mean those guys to whole everybody is reported. In IT I am talking about TLs, PMs and so on. Maybe it's easier just to ask them or even better to have a a personal meeting. Nobody experienced believes in performance reviews, it's a fiction.
How does it compare to yoleo, for example?
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Who’s being rude? I’m asking a valid question. Being a founder doesn’t preclude someone from liking to hike and this seems exclusive for exclusives’ sake.
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And yet, this smaller tech comes directly from SGI: lots of former SGI hardware engineers ended up at NVIDIA.
Oh, I was excited when I read this...but there's no screenshot or demo. In any case, kudos for building something open source!
Ok, so you're approaching it from the technology point of view. You are interested to understand if the product/protocol is solving a real problem.

In case it is, then how do you approach evaluating the price?
I am a great fan of Raghuram Rajan, and used to be one of Manmohan Singh as well. But Manmohan Singh's reign as PM can only be counted as an unmitigated disaster, his economic credentials notwithstanding.

The huge NPA crisis that you see now happened under his watch. The Air India deal, the 2G scam etc etc. It is conveniently forgotten for example, that under Manmohan Singh in 2010 the congress government declared that more bank licenses will be given out, flatly contradicting the RBI whose job it is to issue these licenses.

By the standards we are holding this government to, almost any government prior to this would be called a dictatorship.
Bummer. It’s honestly a bit disappointing because when it comes to Lego large structures, the support structure tends to be the most impressive part (if done in all Lego).
Though I'll not make any judgement towards "prevent access", the main license file[0] does state:

> All fonts are the property of Schwartzco, Inc., t/a Commercial Type (https://commercialtype.com/), and may not be reproduced without permission.

As a side tangent, it constantly surprises me how deep the creative industries manage to sink their claws into IP and licensing. I don't understand how artistic commissions manage to hold onto ownership. If I told my a prospective client that the websites they'd be paying me to build would forever more be —essentially— mine, they'd fire me pretty quickly. Same goes for most work product with employers.

The Guardian commissioned these faces. Why would they accept such a crappy license?

[0]: https://github.com/guardian/frontend/blob/master/LICENSE
Actually, the documentation was amazing in retrospect. The Sinclair Spectrum user manual, which started with how to connect the computer to the TV, then proceeded to teach BASIC, had, in the appendix at the back, the most fascinating table. IIRC, it was a combined ASCII and Z80 opcode table, from which I pretty much taught myself assembler (and committed to memory the most common opcode hex encodings - and I still remember some of them to this day!).
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run unmodified Linux binaries in a Windows terminal.

You can install Ubuntu from the Windows App Store and it’s the real thing, not an emulation layer like Cygwin. You don’t need separate install instructions — just follow the ones for Ubuntu.

It’s really an underappreciated amazing feature of modern Windows: you can run an entire Linux userland on the same kernel.
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> That presumes he wasn't sufficiently punished earlier.

Again, you're stuck in your own mindset of what constitutes justice. Clearly mob justice is not your justice. Gunn's view on Barr's firing is not the only example of his support for mob justice, just the most high profile. The mob makes its own rules for what constitutes a transgression, that's why it's so dangerous.

> Also, in what manner is ABC a mob? ABC took no time at all firing Barr.

ABC is not the mob here, they wouldn't have done anything if there were no furor surrounding Barr's comment.
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I disagree, for me the local maximas in terms of productive UX is the vision of XEROX PARC workstations, partially implemented on OS X/iOS, Android and Windows development workflows.

Even AT&T later moved into it with Plan 9 and Inferno, with ACME.
Yes since most of these objects are unique, there's no easy way to preserve them. Proper funding for the museum would be a good start and then digitising as much as possible for backup. The high quality photos that the Portrait Gallery did of their collection is a great example [0]. For other objects, 3D scans would be a good way to preserve as much information as possible in case of a disaster.

[0] https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw115...
> When you outsource you throw a spec over a wall and wait for them to throw the finished product back at you at some point, hopefully before the deadline.

I have worked for an outsourcer and that's not what happened. I know dozens of people who continue to work for outsourcers, that is not what happens. They have daily standups with the team in Toronto, London, Berlin, etc. They fly back & forth at least monthly. They have video calls nearly daily. They have shared Slack instances, shared Confluence instances, shared JIRA instances.

And that's not just in software; when Tesla outsources a part, they don't just throw a spec over the wall. When Apple outsources manufacturing, they also don't have this caricatured approach. When Nike outsources manufacturing, they have Nike employees in the factories. And so on.

Since your caricature doesn't reflect the reality that I have years of experience with, I'm not sure it adds much to the argument.
> I am certainly not the only one having issues with the newer models

Many more people aren't having issues. Nor did I when I had an MBP (which I swapped for an iMac + 12" MB, and I'm thinking of getting the 2018 ones.) This isn't to downplay your concerns, but calling it "suicide" is hyperbole.
Yes, I was coding in hand-coded hex machine language for a couple of years before I had access to an assembler. These days, when and IDE drops into assembly and all my 20-something colleagues duck for cover, I rub my hands together in glee...
Surely there's some value in acknowledging the power dynamics inherent in any list of classics?

I happen to think that teaching the classics in most high schools is probably a mistake. An average teacher isn't going to do a very good job and you just end up with a bunch of kids that like reading a little bit less than they used to.
Functions don't have to be optimization barries. If you mark them as stable or immutable I believe postgres will inline them whenever they are used such that they can be optimized.
Yes it is. Your post is reflection of your opinion of the system, formed by whatever means, but it hasn't shown any sign of trying to understand the problem that the system was solving. In this case, how to make sure an unified, standardized product is being produced.

After 1989, many foods that were produced by these recipes (ČSN means Czechoslovak State Norms) went downhill quality-wise, by trying to make it cheaper to produce (by changing the ingredient mix in favour of the cheaper ingredients, using cheaper substitutes, etc).

How do I know? I was born, raised and lived in that system. I've seen it firsthand.
> but why not just launch a developer line? Make it thicker, heavier, give it more battery, a keyboard with a proper amount of travel, larger keys, more keys, whatever. Ditch the retarded touch bar. More ram. More config options. More ports.

Creating a new line probably costs Apple hundreds of millions in R&D costs, to say nothing of the opportunity costs from putting some of their best hardware engineers on this project. I would imagine that Tim Cook looks at the dev market, compares to the cost, and says “no fucking way”.

Of course add to that the fact that “heavy and thick” is not a plus to most software devs either. The real market is probably much smaller than you’d like to believe.