skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping to dig up some stats that showed nuclear is more popular than you might think, but...yeah, no. Based on this poll, it looks as though the Fukushima incident knocked ~10% off of public support for nuclear energy.

I wonder what the best way to shift the conversation on nuclear would be. In particular, I wish that environmentalists (and I consider myself one) would adopt a proper risk-based view of nuclear power.

[0] http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/05/14/energy-climate-appendi...
We use Viber group chat exactly for this purpose
How about properly supporting developers?

I feel like Apple once said "Let's make (force) people to developer for macOS and iOS using our tools.... awesome!" and in the progress they leveraged a strong UNIX core and command line.

Then developers from other facets (IT, Web Developers, Android) showed up and said "Hmm, command line? I can use that!" And we ended up with a pretty sweet development environment.

But now it's 2019. Where is the package manager? Where are the regular security patches to stuff like OpenSSL? Where is the "Xcode Lite" to compete with Atom/VSCode even?

If Apple gave a shit about developers as a whole (and maybe purchases Homebrew as the official package manager?) they would continue their dominance in schools and tech. But they don't seem to have much interest in that.... (Remember "New macbook pro without an escape key! Pro's don't need 32gb ram!" debacle?) it's exactly the right time for someone else to step up with a programmer focused platform.

(Perhaps https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c... ?)

(EDIT: Also relevant for my crazy theory: https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/studio)
Google Photos?
I didn’t meant that the problem was easy. What I tried to say is that for the French one, the question was too complex to be understood by most, so it ended simplified in their (our) heads.

So even if there had been a pre exit agreement to be vote for in the Brexit one, it might ended the same. Leave or stay. And I’m not sure UK people would have read it (but I may be completely wrong by projecting how we did in France)
Ada 202x Language Reference Manual [DRAFT 12] [pdf]
I used to think the same, that roasting burns off the caffeine so lighter roast = more caffeine.

But when I looked for a source on that one day it seems like that's a myth. There can be differences based on whether you measure by weight vs volume but that's about it. https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-da...

So now I just say I like light roasts because I like to taste the coffee and not the roast.
When the context API was released I began to rip out redux. After things went well with that, I no longer use redux, and I was a big fan of redux. A problems I had with using context was what seemed to me like a crufty way to access it - the whole wrapping things in a Provider. Now, I can just rip out more code and use the context hook. I'm a big fan of technologies that let you rip out tons of code. My experienc e then is that hooks are a great improvement. So far ....
I have about 10 family members on an Apple Photos shared album, whatever the latest name is. iCloud, probably. Not cross-platform though, obviously.
Even if you agree with the statement, it was a meaningless reply to the question asked.
When Apple replaces keyboards, they replace them with the 2018 keyboard (the one with the extra rubber barriers)?
The EU would take legal action against Ireland to make them collect necessary tariffs.
Reading through that it looks like sometimes the sound is directed inward at the cabin and other times the speaker is in the engine itself... that latter setup is just so considerate to us pedestrians who love to hear people tear their engines out on short downtown blocks - thanks VW! /s
And that'll still be less than half of what a cable bill costs today. Over 30 years we'd expect to see an 80% increase just from inflation.

Boiled frogs?
> Right now the PM (and the EU) gets to go back to the drawing board

Nope. The EU has said there will be no more negotiations.
Almost nobody "really likes D now". It is a failed language in the sense that it never managed to become mainstream or attract a large following.
C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced
Cassandra has monotonic reads so it is strongly consistent as long as you have a quorum of nodes. I haven't yet read the link you posted but it's coming from a vendor that is aiming to replace Cassandra so I'll take it a pinch of salt.
Good point. It’s almost as though the tendency of activists to punch up at The Man du jour results in their own priorities reconfiguring in opposition. Seems a little myopic to me. Maybe we should be celebrating these companies for finding a way to generate economic growth by increasing the efficiency of the economy, instead of putting more carbon in the atmosphere or enslaving people.
Even if the keys were perfect, the lack of ESC key is disqualifying. I use Caps Lock all the times, so no remapping possible...
The map no longer loads for me at all (Chrome on Linux). Maybe they're getting overloaded?
The second referendum featured a Leave campaign that effectively promised, among other things, continued access to European markets on pretty much as-member terms; indeed, immediately afterwards, David Davis, placed at the head of the negotiations, was promising a deal that secured "all the benefits of membership".

That deal was not available, and so the result of the second referendum cannot be implemented. If you want to claim a democratic mandate for the departure options that are available (May's deal, leaving you tied to the EU on disadvantageous terms, or no deal, and immediate, massive disruptions in cross-border commerce), you'll need another vote.
I was just looking at some of the 2015 refurbs on amazon. Not bad. I have a 2018 at work, and I hate the keyboard. I'm either gonna grab the highest spec 2015 when mine dies, or just use my work laptop until the next generation.

I'm not interested in shelling out for a new personal laptop with these keyboards. :(
While the research may be compromised by a conflict of interest, I still have a legit question.

Trader Joe's discontinued my favorite dark roast coffee (Fair Trade Organic Guatemalan) and nothing I've found has come close to the taste and cost.

http://www.traderjoesreviews.com/product/trader-joes-fair-tr...

Does anyone have a suggestion for me that's ~$10-$12 per pound?
Instagram rolled out a "close friends" option for sharing stories. That may meet your need.
ON the contrary, John Lennon was a useful relieve of peaceful expression that never had a single chance of actually bringing about any change in the world. He was a useful idiot, allowing the masses to feel that there was a real movement for peace and that their desire for peace was being reflected back at them, but he never even came close (or indeed even really tried to come close) to doing anything about the military-industrial complex.

He is fading because his late music wasn't very good and the generation that loved him is dying. The deep state, powers-that-be are the ones who will mourn him, because as an impotent fantasist, he was no threat to them at all while playing the perfect appearance of one.
I've just spent three days with my mother. She is in a care home. She has Alzheimer's, a cat and a laptop. She's pretty sharp still but sinking.

The laptop throws up some warning screen on bootup about the power adapter and recommends to go into BIOS to stop the warning. I wrote out the instructions: just ignore and click continue. She's locked on that screen obsessing.

Anyway she doesn't have the password, so the computer is useless.

She can't stop trying though. She's shamed by not being able to use it.

If she could get in then the frustrations would only increase.

The cat is great though.

Planning tech for Alzheimer's is like designing UI for people on acid. You have no idea how confusing things can get and how silly your interface and assumptions are.
> The premium market will pay to not deal with this nonsense.

And thus stand out for targeting purposes regardless.
If I recall correctly, at one point, the network interface was used as a source of entropy. Then someone demonstrated that sending the right sequence of network packets to a machine would let you control the key that got generated. So they removed it.

Then folks discovered -- in production -- that some cloud computing environments just don't get any other new entropy after boot, and so instances would hang on generating SSH host keys.

Some folks went to /dev/urandom. Other folks decided to seed instances with entropy from another computer (with fancy names like "cloud entropy service"). And then someone had to decide how that machine gets entropy (like plugging in an FM radio into the mic jack).
Assigning credit where it's due--it looks like the Union of Concerned Scientists and Nature Conservancy have recently changed their position on this:

https://www.apnews.com/1af69ea110484f8f9fe26b79559e4d88
I'd rather have the older dimmer headlights back, the projector lamps out now are absolutely blinding.
I'm okay with the travel changes (and even sometimes prefer it to the old generation).

I am unhappy about the increased sound, but can live with it.

But the regular problems with repeating keys is an insane regression in functionality. I have this problem with a different key almost every day (today it's my 'i' key), but most days one of the keys repeats itself every time I activate iti, such that—see, that "iti" was a perfect example (I corrected the others)—and the repeat happens usually after the following letter. Drives. me. crazy.
Koka: a function-oriented language with effect inference
In the first one, the only muscle car appeared briefly and then was promptly destroyed. The cars used in it were much newer.

I didn't watch the later ones.
> Half the reason to hash and salt is to prevent an attacker from obtaining the plaintext (often reused) password, which doesn't apply for API keys.

That's more than half of the reason. Do you really want to rely on an attacker only getting the password database from a breach and nothing else and then not spending the time to reverse the hashes?
Good point: I’ve been using it with polyfills which tends to hit the same point of not using an API which encourages accidental jank but it’s no substitute for native support.
It sure sounds like it's dead.

> Snap is currently finalizing its Q4 2018 results and says it expects to report revenue and adjusted EBITDA results “that are slightly favorable to the top end of our previously reported quarterly guidance ranges for each.”
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I upvoted you. Those were my exact thoughts when reading. It appears to paint a rosy view of capitalism. As if some pure and moral capitalist rules were in place and they were 'corrupted' by evil Google and Facebook. I also wish we took some responsibility in this whole thing. We've let those companies grow by using their products and services, many times even knowing the personal data they mine. I don't think it's entirely their fault.
Accepting the result normalizes the illegal campaigning and foreign influence.

If the leave decision was truly the will of the people, then holding another referendum shouldn't be a concern, if only to reaffirm the legitimacy.
I'm in the same boat. I prefer mechanical keyboards and have a small hobby collection of them. But I like my 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard and have never had a problem with it. Maybe people who don't have problems with the keyboards don't talk about them as much?
"Imagine there's no countries", said every armchair revolutionary ever, before going back to getting high and thinking of other things to say to appear deep and radical to impress girls
I have yet to meet someone in person that thought it was as terrible as claimed

I haven't met you in person, but I will tell you that it's even worse. I have a supply of cans of compressed air at home to clean out my MacBook Pro's keyboard on a regular basis lest the keys get stuck. I have never had to do this with any of my previous Mac laptops over the past 17 years.
Don't bailiffs need to have been allowed to cross the threshold of the premises (ie. you open the door to them and then they prevent you from closing the door)? It's illegal for them to kick your door in.

I mean't more official in that TV licence people work for a government owned organisation. Though I hadn't realised they didn't even have bailiff powers.
From the link you gave:

substantive adjective
7. of considerable amount or quantity.
8. possessing substance; having practical importance, value, or effect

I bet that's what dang had in mind about your comment.
There will be 2 blockchains, like what happened with The DAO and Ethereum Classic
The bigger question to me is, does that immediately invalidate their results?

It warrants skepticism of the strongest variety unless the study can be reliably replicated under better circumstances. Don’t be shocked when it doesn’t happen though.

Like alcohol studies paid for by brewers, this is hard to accept at face value given the knowns. Even when money isn’t pulling the strings, nutrition studies are notoriously unreliable by dint of human variability and the nature of the studies themselves.
At which point the EU gets the blame.

Ireland would absolutely, under no circumstances, enforce a hard border. They would simply refused to do it.
Turn by turn notifications for walking directions. Surprisingly nice in combination with the watch. It just thumps my wrist when I'm supposed to turn.

That being said, I still search for places in google maps, and just plug the address into apple maps.
This is a defect. There's a service program for keyboards with problems. I took mine to be serviced and it was returned without repeating keys or stuck keys.

https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...
I’m pretty sure Apple still lets people consult iCloud photo albums through a website.
For sure, TIL! Thanks random hn gay person!
Curious what you mean by no landmarks. I'm typing on a 2017 keyboard and it has the raised marks on the 'F' and 'J' keys to orient for touch typing like every other keyboard I can remember.
> This will either result in a Remain vote and possibly a civil war (no, seriously)

The UK doesn't have enough guns to have a proper civil war. (It's amazing how far one has to reach for good news in this situation!)
I understand that they replace them with whatever is newest at the time, so since I did my replacement in fall 2018, yes.
If this happened then the EU would suffer the negative consequences of stationing troops there.

IE, they would become the target of terrorist attacks. I doubt they would want this to happen to them.
No, they do not. Unfortunately, they are replacing them with the keyboard that your machine came with. Not the 2018 ones that have sort-of fixed the biggest issues.
Bezos built AWS like Hadrian built a wall; both ordered that something be done, and it was left to tens of thousands of others to implement it. If you want to credit them with a lone vision, that’s fine if a bit unlikely given the reality of advisors and boards, but let’s not buy into the level of myth making required to say they built things.
> Every time you visit a doctor, they add the info regarding your visit to a log.

JohnFen already said most of what I'd say about these examples, but I want to add one big thing:

The tracking the medical world does is controlled by law. Laws people take very, very seriously. It therefore can't be mixed with other data through being resold or in any other fashion to help form a more accurate picture of me.

That data re-use is part of why I want strong norms against data collection.
Apparently not:

Apple Says Third-Generation Keyboards Exclusive to 2018 MacBook Pro https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/15/third-gen-keyboard-excl...
What it’s like to be a woman on the internet
I wish we had. No, our team failed to come up with anything that would mitigate the hazardous effects of brine. The scale of brine production is enormous. While there are inefficiencies in the supply chain (energy carrier for reverse osmosis, membrane quality and technologies), we closed the project with the insight we are actively deploying another technology that messes up our planet.
It's not the same, but you can access Photos from the iCloud.com website.
This is natural change.

People - including me - have been using the singular gender-neutral “they” for decades. I was never taught to use it. There’s no shadowy cabal trying to get people to use it. It’s just a natural change in the language that I and million of other speakers have picked up.

Language changes continuously. Just because someone doesn’t personally use a construct doesn’t mean that it’s an example of artificial change of language.
Yeah, but in this analogy your favorite renewable energy company just announced one of their products is now produced by Chevron. Which is not Exxon and therefore, ostensibly, a huge win for renewables.
Dammit. I just wanted a cool link to Prime and Prejudice!

You're right, of course.
scrumban can be nice too - working kanban against batched releases instead of rigid sprint cycles
I've been carrying around my SB2 15" in my backpack's laptop pocket for about half a year. Here's the summary.

- Zero problem with the fatness on my end. Looks kinda sexy tbh.

- The keyboard is really good about from the fn key which acts as a toggle (if you don't combo it with another key). Can never get quite used to that.

- The body paint can get scratched and worn down if you're reckless.

- The hinge itself works fine ~~~97% of the time. Occasionally gets stuck (can't detach) for unknown reason requiring a reboot or two, or some dirt gets in the way of the connectors and it thinks it got detached when you move it around.

- Battery life feels somewhat disappointing, but I haven't done rigorous tests. If you're planning to use the gpu, you better bring that charger.

- The gpu gets thermally throttled pretty easily.

- Performance at the 4k-ish resolution can be disappointing depending on the app (even the browser). This gets worse if you add an external monitor or if you don't run it above the "recommended" performance level. Unfortunately most devs (including MS) seem to optimize for 1920x1080.

- My SB seems to have problems with WMR even with the official adapter (display goes black occasionally).

- There's a driver (?) bug with the screen brightness sometimes being too low. I've filed a report on the feedback thing, but I'm not seeing or expecting any response. Love the screen (and the width\height ratio) otherwise.

Overall, it's a decent and interesting machine, but the edges can be rough.
Well looks like I wont be using DDG for directions then, their directions are going to be trash.
Six months ago I joined an "agile" team. The team is completely disconnected from any reasonable interpretation of agile.

No sprints.

No stand-ups.

No prioritized backlog.

No sprint planning.

No sprint reviews.

There is a product owner, who is a BA, but I never speak to her. She's on a different floor.

If I want to work on something, I literally have to ask the other developers if anyone has anything they need done.

When I joined the team, we had a project manager who would create tasks in jira and assign them to individuals. When the task was finished, we assigned them back to the PM so he could assign them to a tester. The tasks were already broken down from user stories so I would often get "implement REST service for X" and someone else would get "implement web page for X".

We have a new project manager who doesn't like agile. He is currently "resetting" the project by forcing the business to write a complete set of detailed requirements. They have until June 30 to finish that. In the meantime, the team will continue in a kind of limbo of "agile" but the PM has already committed the team to completing the project by Dec 31st even though the requirements won't be finished until Jun 30th. The budget is also fixed.

I've asked the team why we don't do any of the agile things. Normally you'd at least get cargo cult stand-ups. They said they don't see the value in it. They've all been working on the project for 2+ years so they know what needs to be done. I pointed out that it makes it impossible for me to participate in the project in any meaningful way since I'm reduced to begging for work. They don't see a problem with that. "Just ask".

Because it's "agile" there is no up-to-date technical documentation. So to get anything done (once I have work to do) involves finding out who in the team knows what I need to know and interrupting them. The guy who knows the most is a terrible communicator. "Just ask".

I have an interview at another place on Friday. I think people will be genuinely surprised when I tell them I'm leaving.
>Any sufficiently complicated program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp

I call BS on that one. I have worked on very large scale C++ software (games etc.) and have never seen or needed anything like Common Lisp to get the job done. And I actually know how to program in Common Lisp (and Scheme) and have implemented my own Lisp variations for fun.
> Is there a way to rig a browser so a user can't buy anything online?

Lack of a credit card helps greatly. That may or may not work for your father (I know in some countries it is hard to survive without one these days). The other potential way of doing it is to block the payment processors' DNS. Things like stripe, or the 3D secure site from Visa. Possibly someone has figure it out already.
My point is that right now, DDG too small to do any real harm to anyone. Their questionable word choice in announcements and blog posts signal to me that they're willing to take shortcuts to achieve their bottom line. If they grow big enough, these shortcuts will start actually hurting people.
The Unionists most relevant here are the Northern Irish ones, not the Scots or English. For most Brits, the idea of Northern Ireland having a special status is essentially baked into the idea of the integrity of UK anyway, and the government would have probably seen some quirky customs exceptions over there in a transition deal as an acceptable price to pay for having a Brexit agreement if they didn't depend on DUP votes to stay in power. But Irish unionists passionately hate the idea of an Irish Sea customs border for the same basic reason Irish republicans hate the idea of a customs border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: it's a symbolic split from a nation they consider themselves to be part of and whose identity a lot of blood has been shed over in living memory.

Sure, customs checks at ferry and airports to the UK mainland would entail considerably fewer practical delays, smuggling opportunities and security issues than customs checks between a village and its nearest supermarket on the Irish border, but unionists can legitimately argue an Irish Sea border violates their understanding of the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement. Though it'd also be perfectly fair to ask their politicians who all backed Brexit what did you expect to happen?
52% of the population voted for some ill specified leave two years ago. Only a very tiny fraction of that will riot if they now don't get it.

I agree that far too much of the UK is marginalized, but Brexit is not going to un-marginalize them!
We looked very briefly into energy storage and resource production (mining).

The scale is the problem. At the end, you still end up with lots and lots of inorganic material, which is toxic for the environment.
Correct, but the main point of their talk and research was focused on Batch GCD processing of hundreds of millions of keys, with ROCA analysis done in addition.