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> Ben Kraznow found a way to implement a faster partial refresh which let you refresh the screen in about 0.3 seconds, which is more than enough for a text editing device.

Meanwhile, on the r/thinkpad subreddit they're complaining about ~15ms delays on keyboards(×): https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9j70v6/thinkpad_k...

Granted, keyboard delay is to screen delay what an apple is to an orange but I still don't think I could live with a 0.3s screen delay while typing.

×) I know it's not exactly a delay but since typing any faster will cause typos I'd say, effectively it is.
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I don't understand why you ever would. Your product is your product. It's defined by what it does, not how it does it. It's all about customer experience. Product market fit. That can and should be determined by market research, user experience design testing and prototyping. Developers are there to build with quality and to appropriate scale based on business strategy.

If you open a restaurant, is the menu written by a chef or by the guy who built the oven? Are movie scripts written by the camera operators? What industry asks it's technicians to decide what to create?

I actually just quit a job because developers were running the show way too much. Nothing was ever delivered to expectations or satisfied user needs. It was extremely frustrating for me to just be throwing code over the wall.
Some have mentioned Germany. I haven't noticed Canada. I know both university systems, though not for electrical engineering specifically.

Germany is a solid choice. Far better conditions than in some neighbouring countries (cough cough France). Depending on the state (Bundesland), the fees can be very low to none. Again state-dependant, but in many cases foreign students must lock a yearly amount into a bank account and can only withdraw 1/12 or so each month. Quite rightly so: unless you're a monk, you'll need a bit more than they force you to lock up. Bachelor level is almost exclusively in German (exceptions may exist) and I suggest learning German: there are specific avenues granting university access and it's an investment of 6 months to 1 year at least. Living expenses are fairly low from my perspective.

Canada is a good choice because even if most foreign students pay _much_ more than Canadians or provincial residents, it's still several times cheaper than the equivalent in the US. What I've seen in Québec is of very high quality. Language (French or English) depends on the university. Linguistic questions aside, and here I speak specifically of Québec (other provinces may vary), you may be obliged to complete a series of pre-university college classes to bring your maths to level. The university generally offers these. Living expenses are probably a bit higher than Germany but still comparable.

Other things to consider, especially since we're talking about engineering: recognition and professional orders. Recognition: diplomas from countries known as diploma mills are like a stone around the neck whereas diplomas from others are generally well regarded. Professional orders: if engineering jobs in your target work country require membership in a professional order and your diploma is foreign, well, good luck with that -- in the best case, it can take months to join, in the worst case, they make you take corrective classes.

Finally, medium term. When you need a job. Canada vs Germany is a harder question. I changed careers and moved between the two so my perspective is skewed. I know that an EE diploma in Germany will definitely get you a good first job that will teach you a lot. The thing is, unless you're German, you're unlikely to want to stay there (some odd cultural issues, high taxes, relatively low salaries for talented people -- those are the general complaints of, let's say, North American and European foreigners). Canada has a relatively good labour market with better social protection than the southern neighbour. If you work in Canada, flexible people tend to fit in quickly (unless problems with the linguistic divide), but the taxes are also very high in some places, starting salaries are sad, and the brain drain to the US is unfortunately real. The winter in most parts is highly subjective.
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Treat sales like learning a new programming language. Become familiar with the foundational knowledge (prospecting, selling, closing) and then dig into systems/frameworks (which are really just books about sales) that people use to sell.

I agree with everyone else here that says "Don't try to master everything". Instead, learn how to speak the language and do enough so you don't miss opportunities. A good partner will go a long way.
Kepler raises funds to develop next set of communications satellites
Calling apple support and raising hell until someone makes a mistake is more social engineering than email address security vulnerability.
Do you believe that lack of perfect pitch should be recognized as a disability? Do you believe that lack of perfect pitch should prevent someone from certain licensed professions? Do you believe that lack of perfect pitch is a safety concern in some circumstances?

Because the answer is "yes" for colorblindness. It's just a wildly overstated comparison. I mean, even tone-deaf people don't experience the kind of difficulties that people with colorblindness experience. You could just say that I could never entirely understand the benefits of having perfect pitch since I don't have it, and maybe that would be true, but I have literally never experienced a professional musical situation where I felt or thought, "Oh man, if only I had perfect pitch - I would have succeeded where I just failed." And this includes directing gigs, accompanying gigs, performance gigs, etc.

I'm occasionally wistful I don't have synesthesia just because that sounds actually expansive, but I don't pine for perfect pitch at all.
I was referring to the case where all expenses go up 20% and claiming that most people's budgets couldn't handle it (cf. stories about not handling a $500 unexpected bill). This is the relevant case to compare to if you take tptacek's advice seriously and operate your life on it -- you can't just say "Hey, it's 80 cents, obviously people don't turn away from that". You have to ask, "what if I responded to all requests for a tip at electronic PoS this way?"

Goods do fluctuate in price day-to-day, but in an uncorrelated fashion; that kind of fluctuation doesn't have the same effect since some are up and others down.
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It's usually referred to as a fabric because in general relativity, spacetime is dynamic, as if it were on a fabric that could stretch and contract in response to the density of matter occupying it. This is where the rubber-sheet analogy comes from.

As for what it is made of, that is one of the great open questions in theoretical physics right now, but also possibly where the analogy breaks down. Because of Lorentz Invariance (light travels at the same speed in all reference frames), it is hard to suppose that there is such a thing as "atoms of spacetime" from which it is made. However, because our world is cosmological and the big bang does actually pick out a preferred reference frame, Lorentz Invarience has to be approximate in some way.

Because of cosmology and the breakdown of reductionism at plank scales, it seems that the notion of spacetime itself is approximate and needs to be replaced with something else. Some people are trying to derive spacetime from purely quantum mechanical notions, while other people are trying to find dual systems where spacetime and quantum mechanics emerge hand-in-hand. The two approaches I'm familiar involve either holography or purely geometric and combinatorial ideas where the principles of general relativity and quantum mechanics are outputs rather than assumptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECVq2YBduY&t=0s&index=9&lis...
>the November effects of the whole mess will be R voters voting R, and D voters voting D. That is, R control of Congress will probably continue.

There are more D voters. If both groups turned out in droves, D control would win the day handedly. Republicans are losing the demographic war. Young people want progressive policy, and the majority vote Democrat. That's why Republicans are resorting to tactics like gerrymandering, Voter ID and purging people off the voter rolls to keep control[1].

They're betting that they can make enough semi-permanent changes to institutions by installing judges and setting precedent to postpone the shift as long as possible[2].

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/books/review-one-person-n...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/06/trump...
The higher-level point was just that more detail will invite more scrutiny. I can certainly, though, cite examples of large cities with multibillion-dollar pensions that are close to being insolvent. Dallas is one of them.
It's different.

Google Takeout was/is a nice user feature. Google is not required to pass all of user's data.

GDPR compliance is different, companies are required to pass basically a database dump by law.
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So you have perfect pitch and does that equate to having a good quality singing voice (others enjoy listening to you)?

It is a weird phenomenon and I think songwriting is too .. like why do Melodies and lyrics (usually somewhat jumbled) I never heard before pop in my head? Where does that come from?
I'd agree with that. Whenever people cite Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as college dropout successes, they tend to overlook the substantial cultural and social capital these leaders had already accrued as students at Lakeside, Homestead, and Phillips Exeter.
Given the timeline he mentioned, the TCP/IP one may have been "Inside TCP/IP". It was an extremely valuable reference at one time, but it's a bit dated now. I'm just about to finally give away my copy.
They would have to get a lot of patent deals in place and pay a lot of royalties, so the price point would likely be significantly higher.
"Poverty and love don't live under the same roof."
> I see no reason to think it has significant impact on emotional enjoyment though as you're suggesting - these studies impact learning primarily which wouldn't seem to be deeply involved there.

Please, sleep is essential for emotional stability. I know you rely a lot on self-study, many of us on HN do, but schedule half an hour to talk with your doctor or with a psychologist, psychiatrist or sleep-specialist, and let them convince you rather than letting me do it.

Sleep is absurdly important in all aspects of life, memory integration, resting, repairing the body, emotional regulation.

Not to mention, you are way, way less prone to diseases like cancer, alzheimers, fatigue, depression...

And there are other aspects of sleeping that are interesting and enjoyable too, time slept is not time lost, you dream while sleeping, you know? If you really want to optimize time lived, then you should go for 8 hours of sleep and learn about lucid dreaming, for instance.

> In fact, studies exist showing positive impacts for depression patients.

Not sleeping does indeed have a positive impact patients with depression (and anxiety). I can tell you this because I am one of those people. Out of personal experience, yes absolutely, poor sleep for one day makes you feel better. Why? Because you're so incredibly fucking tired that you literally can't even bother to be anxious.

It is horrifying.

Please for gods sake have some respect for yourself and for your body.
The planets detected by Kepler will tend to be unusually close to their star due to its detection method. I believe that’s why Sol looks like an outlier in that regard — it’s really that the other systems are the outliers.
It was an unreleased progressive training program, with sections of immediate feedback, and sections with only feedback after a certain amount of questions.

The secret sauce is kinda a glissando between sections to try and throw off your pitch memory.

there are people working on recreating this in a web page. There are also people who argue this is not Perfect pitch, but just well trained relative pitch. It did fade after no training for 3 months IIRC.

There was a a different study that showed Depakote possibly aiding learning perfect pitch as an adult. Don't go find some Depakote and cram music theory, Depakote could kill you.
The most recent work I read didn't show a need for 8.5 hours, but it was solely measuring cognitive performance.

Is there really research that shows people need more than 8 on average, or is that a conclusion you've come to about your individual situation?
>I guess I see the point. But why not just tip? The coffee shop tip is like, a buck.

For the reason I already gave: you can't seriously expect everyone to accede to every demand for paying 20% more. That's not an actual, practical decision theory.

"I can afford 80 cents" isn't responsive.
The wealthy pay the vast majority of all the income tax already.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...
"What law are they breaking?" is the important question to ask here, and I don't have a good answer. I'm not familiar with Australian law, and none of the articles about this seem to have done their due diligence in that respect. I assume that's why they all led with "homes raided" and "funds frozen", since otherwise there'd be no story yet. For example:

"Team of 5 sued in court over creating and selling a video game cheating tool to thousands of players"

Is this interesting? Absolutely. Does it have the same emotional 'clickbait' hook as this?

"Team of 5 have funds frozen before they get a chance to respond to allegations"

Or the actual headline here?

"GTA 'cheats' home raided"

Not even slightly. Don't let a newspaper headline frame the issue for you. The issue here is simple:

"Is it legal, under Australian law, to sell software that violates the terms of service of an online service only when executed by the buyer?"
Suppose each founder owns 10% at $1b and only count the unicorns. Graduating from YC would represent $1b * 10 % * 1% = $1m of value.

Suppose that applying to YC gives you a 1% chance of graduating, this would mean that just applying represents $10k of value!

Of course it doesn't work like this, you need to apply bayesian statistics. Of the great applications almost all get accepted and of the bad applications almost none do.
When you have a repo link to share, make sure you'll do a "Show HN" :)
I thought it was pretty clear spaces are better?
I still believe there's room for another premium US smartphone besides Pixel, Apple. China has Xiaomi and Europe has totally lost the smartphone race. Open source software, hardware initiatives have also failed to attract attention (Ubuntu, Firefoxos, ..)

Essential or anyone needs some innovative new features or 'feel' to it.
The site is also completely unsuable without JS enabled.

Apps market? Piwik (tracking)? Why would I allow these?

https://i.imgur.com/OFWYnWy.png
> My county library system has 2,038 books of and about feminism and ~300 books of and about LGBT issues, but it has scarcely anything about conservative / right wing political philosophy or Abrahamic theology.

Since it seems you counted every book in every library in your county and classified them according to left/right political ideology, and were able to come up with a precise number for books "of and about feminism," why aren't you also providing the same for " conservative / right wing political philosophy or Abrahamic theology?" Or for that matter, the books which fall into neither category?

That's just bad statistics.

>It doesn't have a single book by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Evola, or Carl Schmitt.

Bullshit. I refuse to believe you counted ~2,338 items of "feminist" literature in a library system that doesn't contain at least one copy of The Prince.

>The library doesn't seem like a service that's open to everyone, it seems like a subsidiary for a specific viewpoint and agenda.

It does seem that's what you want us to think, sir or madam green account created specifically for this thread.
Symmetry breaking is an explanation, but we don't know if it's the right explanation. It's just the best we have at present.
There's something about the way most people talk about climate change that strikes me as really off. They talk about consumption and growth being the root cause of the problem. They also have a way of talking about wealth that makes it sounds like it means nothing.

There's something wrong with that world view. I'm unconvinced that the solutions to climate change are going to revolve around lack of growth and curtailing consumption. It seems more likely that they will come from applying wealth to the problem. Growth and wealth are tightly linked. Saying that we'll solve this problem by curtailing growth seems to me that we'll solve it without wealth - I don't think that will happen.
>On the other hand some US companies asked me if my "race"* is "Latino" whatever the hell that means.

You can thank the federal government for that question.
One book that came up recently on another thread ( and probably quite a few others as it is written by a YC founder) is "The mom test". I just read it recently, and it is really good! it has an emphasis towards tech people but the advice is applicable to everyone. It essentially guides you to be very clear about what what you want to get out of your interactions with people, avoid people giving you misleading information ( like "wow, great product" when they aren't really interested but don't want to discourage you ), recognizing real commitment from people vs niceties, and having a conversation strategy that leads to good info.
OTOH...

"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." -- Richard Feynman
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Despite being an open language, Swift (and Playgrounds) is an effort to usher children into the Apple tent.

BASIC (essentially any 3GL) never wore such a veil. To suggest discrete logic and IC-level assembly compares to issuing commands via the LEGO Mindstorms protocol perfectly illustrates the chasm between learning and understanding.
Like no rate limiting of the FindMyiPhone API, lol
Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US. It's not unreasonable to want them to be lowered and used more efficiently, or to even simply prefer having less services.
fastmail already is available for $10 per month, so I guess problem solved?
"Industrywide, about a third of hotel guests leave tips for housekeepers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/business/hotel-housekeepe...
Because your tests didn't have 100% coverage.
I started out in Math, realized I liked to build things, switched to EE, and took all the CS courses I could for fun. When I was done I had enough credits to get all three degrees.
Next Thing used to sell a "PICO-8 Console Kit" using their "Chip" single-board computer: http://blog.nextthing.co/pico-8-now-free-for-all-c-h-i-p-s/

Sadly they went out of business.

It would be easy to build something similar with a Raspberry Pi though.
I think it's just the human condition.
> Although I think weed should be legal, in the mean time I am not interested in my taxes paying for the confinement or deportation of Canadians. Ergo, one can support weed legalization and also believe that weed consumption can be used from a practical perspective to deny entrance to foreigners.

This makes no sense. How does having consumed weed in the past entail that one will consume weed in the United States? This is like saying that a person who has driven on the left in the past will drive on the left in the United States, and should therefore be denied entry. It's ridiculous.
I disagree.

Life is cyclic by nature and humans are currently in the late stages of a boom phase. Wether we intervene "intelligently" to defer or soften the bust is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. There will eventually be a bust, the populations will collapse, and life will go on to repeat the cycle again.

I don't see this as apathetic at all. It's comforting, it can give significant hope to people who are so obsessed with preventing the inevitable bust as if it's the end of the world it paralyzes them in depression when faced with the overwhelming reality of the situation.

Let go, treat others kindly, adopt austerity measures if it makes you feel better about your impact on the planet, but know that regardless life will continue.

We've had a long period of steady, exponential growth, everything must balance out in the end - so I see no reason to expect there to not be a correspondingly far fall from this precarious tall cliff we've perched ourselves upon.
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The thing I hate about this statement is it gives people an excuse to ignore things they don't understand at first glace by claiming the presenter doesn't fully understand it so it's probably not true.

Its a good standard to hold yourself to when explaining things to others. But not one to hold others to when explaining to you.
Yeah I misread your post, sorry about that.
Someone else already recommended "Why We Sleep" by the premier sleep researcher in the field, and I highly suggest you get it. Here is a passage from it that should make you rethink the entire rationale you are using to shortchange yourself of sleep:

"Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer. Insufficient sleep is a key lifestyle factor determining whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease. Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. Short sleeping increases the likelihood of your coronary arteries becoming blocked and brittle, setting you on a path toward cardiovascular disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Fitting Charlotte Brontë’s prophetic wisdom that “a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow,” sleep disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality."
I agree. I was a music major long ago and at least as far as musical applications go, relative pitch is much more valuable. Hearing intervals and harmony is much more important for the performance of music.
If the bug is a regression, you write the test after finding it, and execute it with git-bisect. If the test starts to pass, you have the commit where it will fail.
It is quite opposite way from the Korean's point of view - Korean tourists learn about the tipping culture when being asked for the tip by an American waiter for the first time in their life.
Incorrect. The private loans are no longer guaranteed by the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Aid_and_Fiscal_Respons...
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>Last, but not least, to prevent tampering, Titan M is built with insider attack resistance. The firmware on Titan M will never be updated unless you have entered your passcode, meaning bad actors cannot bypass your lock screen to update the firmware to a malicious version.

very explicit threat-modeling with the FBI in mind
I missed the c64 etc. but.. Any smartphone or laptop can do this and more, even within a browser. What might be the real question is what do we need to limit for new users to reach that state of boredom needed to explore and create, instead of getting stuck in The feed.

Perhaps disable the network or pointing device?

(Dedicated hardware per task, even for myself, is slowly winning me over)