skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A naming that encodes its own pronunciation is genius.

'Linux' was non obvious to the point that Linus issued his own voice recording. 'gif' vs 'jif' for the image format, etc.
But the payoff is so much higher.

And I never believe someone who says something is unhackable... social engineering is a non-removable threat vector.
That's the whole point of this keyboard though, the only thing it's missing is the physical keys.
You want F-keys? Add it in as a modifier on the number-row.
You do a lot of spreadsheeting? Make a layer with a numpad and maybe some macros and wasd->arrowkeys on the left to make life easy.

Its purpose is to give everyone what they need, but without needing them to have a bajillion different physical interfaces on their desk/s.
You want F-keys, someone else wants a numpad, another wants Logitech's G-keys, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The UHK says enough. You can do it all on one set of buttons.
It may not be your style, but saying it's lacking F-keys is disingenuous.
Another perspective: Jazz pianist here. I looked at Mark Levine's book when I was in my early/mid 20s, by then I already knew everything in it - and I'd learnt almost all of it from the music, from the greats. I don't believe in (theory) books, or teachers, really. I don't wish I'd read that book before I knew any of it.

I played classical for years as a kid, then played any songs I could get my hands on - folk songs, pop, Beatles etc. So I learnt basic chords and how they work by playing that stuff a lot. Then when I got into jazz, you learn by listening and transcribing. Transcribing tunes, solos, chord voicings, anything. All different instruments. I've transcribed piano, trumpet, sax, guitar, bass, drums.. and Indian classical, funk, reggae etc. Anything you hear and like but don't know what it is, transcribe it, and learn to play it yourself. (If it's simple enough, you don't need to write it out) You learn a lot of things by doing that. There are books of transcribed solos, I think they're absolutely worthless. Do it yourself. Besides that, books of songs, solos etc always have mistakes, sometimes a few, sometimes thousands. I've written out orchestral scores to play on piano, studied those. I studied/played/sang Debussy's opera for over a year, that felt like a complete musical education, a lot of it is simple combinations of notes. In my 20s I learnt a lot about what pianos can do by playing a lot of piano pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov etc. Also playing other instruments is good - I've spent a fair bit of time playing drums, bass, guitar, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, etc. Also learning who the great musicians are is invaluable, so you can find who appeals to you most. Check out a lot of different stuff. Study, analyze, learn from the music you listen to and love. All that is so much easier since the internet! (I started in the 80s) It should all be a great joy. I enjoyed every minute of it.
•Discourse control
•Media restriction
•Subversive content attribution

China is willing to underwrite the R&D Google is putting into those systems.

They are all growth areas. Google needs to be in the game, and they need a foreign market to test the technology on before it can be deployed elsewhere.
Hi Daniel, I'm interested to know where you source your data from. Is it from freely available sources or do you but it from somewhere?
All you said was that chemical use theories are weak. Yet they are not weak. Chemical weapons are used in Syria almost since the beginning of the uprising. For example, OPCW determined Sarin was used several times in 2017. So chemical weapons are used in Syria. There are almost no reports of other parties than ISIS and Assad using chemical weapons. Quantity matters. It's like 1:100. I can think of one incident near Aleppo, that's always used in these conversations.

It's actually one of the ways Russian propaganda works. There's no proportionality involved. It's just Assad does this. Oh no, other people do it too, so... presumably it's ok? or it's messy, so presumably we should all give Putin free hand to do what he likes?

Yes, corrupt rebels are no better in principle than Assad, but amount of damage they did and can do is very limited, compared to actual damage done by the regime to people who protested against it. And it's not just rebel groups vs Assad, there's also much larger civil society, that just dislikes all corrupt leaders and wants to have a peaceful life for once. And these people have much better chance organizing against local warlords, if Assad would not constantly attack them.

> Which was strange since investigators were on their way. Also taking action before the investigation does not sound very credible.

Perhaps, but it turned out to be right, according to preliminary report.
people complaining that it will predictably lead to competition dying off and reliance on a product that will be abruptly killed?

and then that exact thing happens?

you're confused?
Words have definitions, but also words are like functions that run in the brain. `mentionSpagettiMonster() { feelSuperior(); if( opponent.unskilled ) winArgument(); }`

Religion hasn't been killing people in order to spread, or stay spread ( except in certain mid-east countries), for hundreds of years, it would only take a short time after stopping the killing for the religion to die, and why would anyone care enough to kill someone, if there wasn't something there?

You "worship" - "attributing great value"/"worth-ship" to a spagetti monster, because you see the value in winning the argument, and you think it helps you win. However, the value is only transferred from the person you're arguing with. My value comes from God, and you maybe are arguing because you want some value, but in a competive way, not a creative way. Through God, a person can infinitely feel value, and that feels good, and that spills into their life, and they're able to treat people better around them, and everyone wins. In your scenario, you have to be like a vampire, and you only feel value based on your proximity to someone you feel is dumber than you ( based on your knowledge of their beliefs, which is a straw man at best ).

Read the new testament, at least then you can win a steelman argument, rather than one without a heart.

(and if you want to reply again with more rage, first ask yourself, "am I taking this position, because it would be a lot of work to read the New Testament, and I'm lazy, but if I'm outraged, that can be my excuse?" -- because I warn you, it is more work than you can currently imagine, all the implications that will come up, and the work of real change [ transformation hurts like death on a cross, but every butterfly does it ] )
How is “faking” it better than just not allowing it all? iOS Developers have had to handle being denied permissions gracefully since 2008.
Agreed. Having to support both the iPhone SE and the iPhone X aspect ratio is really difficult since they are on opposite extremes. I'm quite pleased with the removal of this size configuration - hopefully in about 2 years we won't need to keep supporting it.
I think ideally, people would realize that there's human beings who disagree with them, that aren't terrible people. Maybe that's too much to ask in today's climate?
Most good stuff is closed source now. It is what it is.

It boils down to trust. Do you trust Google? Do you trust Apple?

I trust Google to care very much about security. I also trust that they are gathering as much information as they can about me. Even as a paid customer. It’s baked into their business model.

I trust Apple to care very much about security. I also trust that they fundamentally believe in privacy and are not gathering large swaths of data about me, and are doing what they can to keep others from doing so if I play in their garden. It’s baked into their business model.
When North Koreans agents killed with nerve agent they had two persons each spraying a single component separately. That makes much more sense than having a single bottle where anyone touching the bottle would likely get killed.
A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs
But in HK it is socially normal to wear your iPad sized phone on a lanyard around your neck, and indeed to have loud conversations with it in the MTR.
When I see things like these, I always think. Oh look, another thing that will eventually get bought out.

I mean, I woulnd't want to depend on one of these things unless the people behind them has shown a enough defiance against the buying power of money.
The claim isn't that matter can't travel FTL.

Actually that is exactly what physics says. Anything with whatever mass, as its relative velocity is accelerated, approaches a mass of infinity as its velocity draws nearer to c. Information, on the other hand, has no mass ...

In the 1890s, Lord Kelvin stated that physics was essentially complete. m'Lord was oh, so wrong.

Care to try again?
I'm loving the feature on hn clients like MiniHack that auto-enable readability mode for the browser when you click through to the article. It's like wearing polarized shades.
That’s the problem with monopolies. They’re the company offering iOS devices. So if they suddenly make only big phones then there won’t be any demand for small iOS devices because none are for sale (new old stock doesn’t count). It automatically makes the big phone choice a winner simply by incumbency. As a result, Apple cannot know the size of the small iOS device market.
I've been trying to find good reviews and feedback too, but all I can seem to find are people saying it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, or that it's a piece of crap that doesn't even work.

I generally don't trust any review that goes to the extremes like that, as I find it incredibly hard to believe that a device can have such extreme difference of views unless there's bias or intent behind it.

Super keen to hear from anyone who can give me a proper breakdown of pros/cons though. I'm very close to buying one, but I don't have the expendable income to take too big a risk on stuff like this (I know it's always a risk, but still).
I haven't used it, but hopefully it works. I work a ton on my car and many times, I used to run to a specialty sears hardware store which had four long isles full of screws, nuts and bolts. I have spent literally hours browing for screws and nut/bolts. Unfortunately the store closed last year and I have nowhere else to go.
Not true. See beam divergence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_beam
When will JS engines ship with timezone data to not let a third party maintain it?
SVG Interactive: The Intersection of Code and Design
In context this means they plan to replicate this to a government data warehouse.

Quite a bit different than our system of warrants and subpoenas
> Remember that a machine with a meg or less memory had to run hundreds of terminals

(Puts Monty Python voice on)....Piffle!...when I were a lad we looked after a bunch of Data General Nova 4's and Eclipse S/130's with 32k of memory and with 32-64 dasher terminals hanging off them running DG's Interactive Cobol (on top of RDOS)....and running a full-on accounting system. 1MB of memory would have been absolute luxury.

:)
Longer than 0 ft. ;)
I don't think Confederacy ever cared to control all of U.S.

So this analogy might work better if Confederacy was the one who won, and Union retreated to Cuba.

Today, Cuba happens to be a highly desirable location (strategically, or for resources, or etc.). So Confederates, who now control continental U.S., want to maintain their claim on it.

Meanwhile, nowadays a majority of the people in USA (a government which controls only Cuba) consider themselves Cubans, and almost no one in USA cares about regaining control of continental U.S.

But Confederates feel that, if USA renounces control of continental U.S., it would be a step towards USA independence, which would further weaken Confederate claim over Cuba. So they pressure USA to keep referring to themselves as "USA" instead of "Cuba". Additionally, they think that the "one America" stance depends to some extent on USA retaining continental U.S. in its official borders. (But in reality, no USA citizens, aka Cubans, care about these borders continuing to include continental U.S.)
I think most 7day employers like retailers having rotating staff rosters, so that the employees will be doing 4-5 day weeks only.

In fact perhaps having a mandatory closed holiday may mean that many people wouldn't have the jobs they have now.
Although I understand people want to do some crazy stuff with template metaprogramming, I’m more concerned with how it will affect build times (you’re basically running a tree-walk interpreter in a compiler that was not supposed to run a turing complete language... it’s going to be very slow.)

For more practical reasons, what about just using runtime interned strings? Each unique string is hashed and allocated in heap memory only once, and to compare the strings you just compare the hashed values (which is just uint_64 comparison). Then you can easily use switch statements to compare your strings... As for performance, interning has an initial runtime cost for each string, but it will probably be miniscule compared to the massive compile time cost induced by crazy constexpr stuff.

Example of a string interning library:

https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/libs/blob/master/docs/s...
over the air updates, like most things in marketing is a sign of incompetence, even they are marketed as a positive.

In reality it means that they the company is OK to ship broken/half baked stuff (owning to some kind of market pressure), because they can always fix it over the air.
I wonder how many seconds it takes to load your site on mobile when you think 300KB is irrelevant in your product.

From users point of view, it's irrelevant what you use inside but how snappy things are.
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus.
Their site says it runs Android 6.0, and the UBPorts site says Fairphone 2 has random reboots and other issues running Ubuntu Touch?

Have you had successful experience running Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 2? I'm ok with occasional bugs, but it needs to be still be reliable as a daily phone.
It's an analog computer, just not a general purpose one. It solves one problem well.
no it's not, it's iphones you dummy
Typo: debt without a debtor.
The current voting systems basically increment a number in a crappy unsecured database.

These systems cost tens of thousands each, are the standard, and probably still too complicated for anybody in your local elections office to actually inspect.

If you think switching this to a cryptographic proof of vote is somehow easy, or easier then moving to slices of dead trees and a pen, then it's time to put down the keyboard and go outside.
Specifically with regard to smoking, I imagine if you can go one day without smoking, you're probably not chain-smoking the other six days. You have to adjust your habit so that it's not onerous to go without for a 24-hour period. That's going to put the brakes on a bit.

Disclaimer: Not a smoker, dated smokers.
Wow, I've seen Markov chains writing better articles than this. Pretty amazing what humans can do!
It didn't occur to me that 'fun fact' would sound snarky. It really is a curious fact. But I'll edit that bit out above.

You didn't seem to notice that I posted moderation replies to two accounts in this thread: yours and one with the opposing view. Those were the two that obviously broke the guidelines. That's all we're really looking for when we do this; we're not much interested in the opinions.
In my opinion, the industry wavers back and forth on CS degree or just
'git-er-done'. I remember the early computer 'craze' (1970's) when all you had to
do was open a company called "Compu-NNNN" and money would flow. Later, people
wanted to see diplomas, degrees, certifications so then lots of folks when to school: undergrad, or grad-school if you already had undergrad degree.
Now, things are a bit different: information as well as the opportunity to acquire
skills is global, no one place is 'ahead' of the other

My advice: choose a path you are comfortable with in terms of time, money.
The rise of open source memes on /pol/ reflecting EU's Article 13
This was my exact thought when I saw he was donating his money. How about encouraging unions and providing healthcare and better pay?
OGoogle supposedly removes your personal information when you delete it from their myactivity website.
https://www.businessinsider.com/even-if-you-cleared-your-his...

I'm guessing a very small percentage of people do so but it's pretty helpful if you care about your privacy.
because charity is an ideal for stroking his ego while writing off taxes.
Amazon is a publicly traded company. As CEO, even though he has a lot of sway, Bezos has a responsibility to maximize shareholder value. Half of that is maximizing profits. Half is controlling costs.
Excellent write up. I’ll add to your remarks that at times the official policy of the United States has been a one China policy.
The big tech companies seem to be doing a good job of proving Richard Stallman right about many things over the last few years. I've always been sympathetic to the ideals of the free software movement but for many years I thought they were being a bit paranoid and extremist. Increasingly I'm coming round to the idea that they were right all along.
Would you rather he just donate nothing and keep everything else the same, rather than donate? The scrambling to condemn this act of charity doesn't make any sense.
What if we collected data to benefit the individual and not corporations?
FoxBase+/Mac
The point was that we can't assume that because there are no civilizations using EM for comms, there are no civilizations.
That old myth:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-warren-shareho...
If that sentiment is the main obstacle standing in the way of economic justice, then perhaps it should be done away with?
VCs take money from Limited Partners (LPs). For the LPs, they spread less than 5% of their investable assets across a venture strategy. If it doesn't pan out, no big deal.

So from their perspective, fundraising is spectacle and excitement, and losing investments are part of the loss model.

--

Side note, a return model heuristic for LPs: 1 in 10 yields 10x, 1 in 100 yields 1000x
Feels more like a toy (no win condition) than a game. But this is not a criticism, because it's a great little toy!
To me this seems like a bug, or at best an incomplete implementation. Let's fix it in the next version of JavaScript, okay? I suppose someone's code will break, but was it worth preserving?
He does not have that responsibility at all. Fiduciary duty in the sense you describe it is a myth and a very dangerous and damaging myth that absolves CEOs of all kinds of bad behavior. I would agree that he risks decrease in his stock value if it is perceived that isn't a single-minded ruthless capitalist but that still doesn't absolve CEOs of moral responsibility in these matters.

Having said all that I still agree with his approach. I'm not a big fan of artificially distorting the market (vs providing better social/community services which I am a fan of)
My Excite
I am paying Google for storage. Last year my credit card went bust and Google told me via e-mail I had 7 days to provide an alternate card, when payment failed. Before that time was up, Google cancelled my subscription unilaterally. They told me it's no problem, I just have to renew the subscription, except by then the cost of the subscription had gone up 8%.

It was impossible for them to restore my previous subscription cost. As a paying consumer I expected a certain level of service, but I had not control over what was happening when something went wrong.

When paying Google, you're not better off.
Wow this is ridiculous. The fund is aimed at homeless and educating early. This is not relevant to anyone he employs. Some people are so ready to get their pitch forks. Damn.
He has an ethical responsibility not to. This is a big problem I have with capitalism and publicly traded companies. It's a problem without an answer, since I don't intend on trying other forms of government. Ultimately, his responsibility is to the shareholders. If mistreating employees is legal, and is in the best interest of shareholders, he has a responsibility to mistreat them. Doing anything else is unethical. We can haggle about whether it actually helps shareholders, especially in the long run. We can even encourage more corporate responsibility. At the end of the day, this is a tough issue to get around. This is why we need regulations with teeth.
Have you considered joining Propeller Aero?
When Roman emperors were horrible enough, their own Praetorian guard took them out.

The rich and powerful get their wealth from the masses and significantly impact the lives of the masses. World leaders need the people more than the people need them. An individual with a hard scrabble subsistence existence is similarly well off whether they have a hut and must hunt for food or live in a trailer and have some shit job. But wealth at the top has increased tremendously as world population has increased.

Bezos is not exempt from people getting tired of his crap and he would be wise to listen up and do something more effective.
Conservative Christian church in my hometown bought an old hotel to house homeless people. And they help them out with counseling, community, etc. The narrative you describe is partisan hyperbole that is not accurate in the least.
Because it's expensive and has low PR value.
Thanks.

I appreciate you sharing your solution too - its very clever!
That's incredibly abusive.
Not the best article - if it’s a myth why does Senator Warren need to introduce new legislation?
Happy hacking keyboard has been my main for 10 years. The pushes feel very comfortable, Ctrl is in the middle row, small enough to carry around and no need to reach out on any far keys as keys are in your reach. Your friends amaze at you with the version without any characters printed on the keys even.

I just figured Bjarne Stroustrup is using it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4dsv9i...

(Even a photo of RMS using it in the thread.)

There's also a black version.

https://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/direct/hhkb/images/detail_hhkb-p...

(HHKB lite is a complete different thing which I will never buy.)
I so wish this article went full wonk and went instead into the structural incentives and policies that cause corporations to behave in this way.

Instead we got a piece about how CEOs use philanthropy to boost their image. It leans more on a moral argument against the practice while ignoring the practical, political barriers put in place that prevent CEOs from actually doing anything about addressing wealth disparity. It almost gets there with the lobbying against tax, but not quite.

Corporations are structurally sociopathic. They are legally bound to maximize shareholder value above all other concerns.
He has a legal responsibility not to.^1

Legal does not equal ethical does not equal legal.

^1 Arguably, although even that's a topic of debate.