skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the exact same situation late last year, and I went with a X1 Carbon 6th Generation. It has been fantastic. Everything just works, and it has probably the best keyboard I have ever used on a laptop
I think it's 64 bits not a full 128, but still, you have a point. People have actually suggested that scrapping IPv6 and lightly extending IPv4 to 64 bits (creating a new "IPv5") in a very similar way to how Urbit works today would be the right thing to do. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that this is a realistic option by now. Switching to an entirely new, greenfield addressing layer like Urbit might be the best option!
As far as industry snake oil terms go, at least "agile" is a dictionary word. "Devops" is merely a portmanteau of two abbreviations.
If May wasn't in a coalition with the DUP then N Ireland could have remained in customs union with the EU as it is now and the mainland could have gone Canada+. Not really happening at the moment though.
I ask myself some similar questions.

I worked for a huge Brazilian ERP company. Three years ago the board decided that the company was not realizing its full potential (which I agree with) and decided to give Agile a try.

Since then, some really critical areas started to suffer a lot, the latest version is being heavily criticized by the users and the company's reputation is consistently going down.

The answer seems obvious: they are doing Agile wrong, they missed the point entirely, the "big company" mindset is hindering the efforts and so on. This is, in fact, how the whole company is behaving about the poor results so far, treating any suggestion towards a Agile's rollback as a cabal proof of the company's inability in delivering software the proper way.

But I dare to think that Agile might not be the only path. Most of the companies around are delivering fairly complex projects employing small and efficient and competent teams and this is really great.

But some companies are not that lucky. Somebody has to build that monstrous stuff over two-decade-old legacy code foundations, employing many dozens of teams.

You simply can't afford hiring the best people around, because they are not available nor willing to work for you and, anyway, there aren't enough of them.

You can't work with the best users, because you have no control at all over their teams and they aren't too excited about you bothering them with your project -- and this is bad because users in Agile projects are a critical part of the team.

You may somehow enforce them to work with you and this has already been made many times, but the resultant half-hearted participations are not worth the hassle.

There are so many practical issues regarding a real-world agile culture implementation, so many out-of-control environmental variables affecting you very negatively, and they all seem to end up being buried under a set of principles which have allegedly worked somewhere else. As if it were easy, or even desirable, to blame your context for not being "mature enough" to adopt Agile.

I've never seriously looked into it, but I believe that there are some rigorous academic case studies discussing cases where agile didn't work well. Although I believe they are scarce, both because Agile tend to fail in a smaller, yet important, set of projects, and also because they would hurt some strong beliefs which are currently being taken as common-sense.

I also believe their analysis may occasionally show some bias too, perhaps focusing more on the "mistakes" made by the teams instead of considering the hypothesis of Agile being inappropriate in the analyzed case.
Are you getting off on being deliberately obstinate?
I know people who hate the keyboard on their 2016 or 2017 MacBooks. The 2018 models seem better.
At some point their place search was powered by Yelp.

The flip side with Mapbox is that they probably weren't collecting any less data either.
This is actually mentioned in the study.
100 people can be enough. Single number like N is not going to tell much.

People should learn the basics of statistics before they start to have opinions.
Blogspam of https://www.theepochtimes.com/alien-life-may-exist-on-large-... ?

Anyway, they didn't find any proof of life there. They only found liquid water, that is a good sign, but the title is almost a linkbait.
By default, Squarespace and WordPress.

But if you need more features, my speed stack is jQuery + Bootstrap for front end and Parse Server + MongoDB for back end.
True. The situation is very shit. ECJ jurisdiction is - strictly speaking (and I know I am fudging a little here) - over. EFTA-style court is what would rule instead, and that would cover a much smaller set of legislation than we currently enjoy from the EU.

As for kippers, there were 17 million votes for leave and a surprisingly large number don't have immigration as their major concern.

Also, if we take Switzerland as an example, free movement doesn't seem to have precisely the same implications for an EEA member outside the union, but there is a tradeoff as to the access you get if you try to restrict movement. This was something the Swiss experimented with a few years back. Not altogether happily, I seem to recall, but I am hazy.
I have had the Surface Book 1 since launch and the hinge still work like the day I bought it. Come to think of it I haven't heard any complaints about the hinge at all.
Financial Independence for Product Managers
options renew in the same way any insurance renews after the contract is up -- you pay additional premium for additional duration.
> and fix what is wrong - start by a EU Health Service, that oversight has always irked many with the EU ethos to free access to basics

I don't understand this argument - "give me hard Brexit OR EU NHS"?

> a second referendum should see all MP's remain neutral and they all focus on facts, over opinion. Also all avenues are equally explored from a worst to best case and presented to the public. The public love facts and a full picture, let them have that and vote without pontificating peer-pressure. Let it be fair.

Pure cloud cookoo land. If they were capable of this level of honesty we wouldn't be in this mess. The public aren't too keen on facts either.
"A Man Called Intrepid" points out that this was a big deal in World War II. If England had fallen to the Nazis, the loyalty would have remained with the king, not with whatever puppet the Nazis had put in place.
I'm of mixed opinion on it.

It took a while to get used to using it every day. Now I'm OK with it, except for the arrow keys.

My biggest problems are that there are no landmarks for your fingers. I swivel between two or three or four computers when I work, and coming back to the MBP, it's hard to re-center my hands without looking. On earlier MacBooks, I think my brain used the inverted T arrows, because my fingers seem to go there first.

I like the touch bar, but it needs more support, and more consistent support. Even from Apple, itself. Sometimes I can authenticate with a fingerprint. Sometimes not. Sometimes confirmations are on the touchbar. Sometimes not. It's an inconsistent experience.

All of these problems will become moot in a few weeks anyway, since I ordered a proper full-sized Apple Bluetooth keyboard, trackpad, and riser. I miss my F13-F19 keys more than I like the touchbar.
> but lets not pretend like a more objective version of this study would have ever happened

Precisely, because a more objective version would have found no effect whatsoever.
I've got my MBP on November 2016. Keyboard was ok until one day key "R" didn't click on pressing (it still registered). I've tried blowing air from different angles, shaking, fiddling under it with thin piece of paper to no avail.

One day I've pressed it, and it did click, and then it popped out. By then Apple had free servicing action in effect, so I've went to local store and they replaced my top body with new one (also replacing battery, touchpad and speakers).

Touchbar is completely useless for me. If anything, it freaks me out because there's absolutely zero feedback to finger when I accidentally touch it.
Some services could have dependencies. On Samsung devices you could kind of break the launcher/os in some parts by disabling apps and services that you think are unneeded.
I agree so much with your assessment here. I just rented a 2018 Nissan Maxima, and I was really surprised how small the rear and rear side windows are. I felt like I could barely see anything when it came to changing lanes. I also nearly scraped the side into a family member's car, because the backup camera didn't show the other car at all, and I couldn't see around me enough to tell that I was inches away from it.
I understand that. Nevertheless, I believe this is the likely outcome.
Because this may affect which primary you can vote in. For example, only registered Pastafarians may vote in the Pastafarian primary, to avoid spoiler votes from members of other parties.

Laws about this vary from state to state.
Ask HN: How do you perform online learning for Production ML systems?
My workflow for batch/offline training takes a day. I have a use case where I want to aggregate feedback from last hour and perform online learning.

How would you do it in Production ML system serving live traffic?
I mean, when you short you also pay borrowing fees, so you are still paying some premium. You can also buy OTM calls to limit your downside.
Shorting any stock always has the potential of unlimited downside. The only thing that makes this different is your personal evaluation of the riskiness (i.e. - "essentially gambling"). All stock positions are "essentially gambling" when taken to the extreme.
I find estimation and size limits to be good QA. It kind of forces you to flesh out unanswered details. So I use it as a tool for that.

Not sure estimating tasks adds a lot of value though. But the act of listing them can refine the original estimation, so some value can be had by braking things into tasks before sprint planning I guess. Wouldn’t wast time on it for non-sprint candidates though.

But yeah, breaking a backlog down into meaningful, but minimal, issues takes some finesse.
I don't think you're an outlier. Most of the people I know who own them don't have a problem with the keyboards.

But then they are outnumbered in my circles by people who've either deferred new MB Pro purchases, desperately hoping Apple will relent on the Touch Bar, or (like myself) have moved to other platforms & given up on Apple.
if I see content prices go up to much, I'll just go on youtube. there's so much free content there (with advertisement) and it's just growing more and more and more.
Yeah, but so is about anything else. Google doesn't share that information, that's a huge principle of their company. Also, DDG is small, so it can be easily exploited.
Garbage!

Figure 2: The coffee-treated group is anomalously higher in the quantified metric BEFORE the treatment. This is entirely an artifact of stratifying the treatment vs. control group prior to wash-out. The only significant difference is between all groups and the PRE-treatment coffee group.
What would you have done?
I actually prefer it even. I don't like the mushy keys on the prior MacBooks.

EDIT: That said I find the touchbar to be a gimmick and not something I really like using. It's not much of a downgrade as compared to function keys, however.
As sowbug and tptacek mention, there are no common-factor attacks against Bitcoin keys. However, that doesn't mean that the PRNGs used in cryptocurrency implementations aren't a concern. The most famous incident was probably this

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018...

(you can find subsequent journalism about the effects of this if you're interested).

There have also been other cryptocurrency PRNG attacks that weren't as high-profile as this issue.
Or real time. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
You say that like top companies aren't doing either of those things anymore. They are very much doing those things.
Some luxury cars play engine noise through the speakers:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15117726/faking-it-en...
Tried it out, and while fun, there was just too much latency for me to enjoy the clickiness. It felt like I was mildly drunk while using it.
network effects. Buyers want to be where the most sellers are and sellers want to be where the most buyers are.

to win over an existing market you need to offer something dramatically better somehow or angle it dramatically differently, not just a 3% cost difference. Remember craigslist was basically free.
I owned or worked with many MacBooks from 2003-2015, and the keyboards were always fine. The new keyboards are utter crap. On multiple machines, brand new out of box, the keys stuck, didn't register, or repeated. My personal late-2016 MacBook Pro was the worst, to the point that the V/B/N keys (it's always the ones above the spacebar that are worst) stopped working at all, and I had to have Apple replace it (which they did for free despite it being about 16 months post-purchase). The new keyboard functions, but I expect it to have the same problems.

Aside from simply being defective at a high rate, it's also physically unpleasant, but that's more a matter of opinion.
Yes. Join us on the dark side.

https://github.com/bavariancake/XPS9570-macOS

I still have my 2012 MBPr, but I’m really liking the keyboard on the XPS 15.
Using Real-Time Messaging at Peloton
The next version of this app will prevent microscopic dust particles from blocking/repeating keystrokes
How to deal with any kind of loss
On point 1:

a) The vote (referendum) was advisory, and non-binding. Basically an opinion poll held by the government.

b) It has been proven that there were many manipulations, irregularities and outright illegal activities which have influenced the result.

Normally, these two would be enough for a government to ignore the vote result. But these are not normal times.
After the introduction of halogen headlights, I wrote to the queensland road safety authorities asking them to include glare as a risk factor alongside brightness for car headlight specs. I didn't get a very satisfactory response.

I think glare is probably now a higher risk than lack of light, for normal road driving with lights, especially given the emergence of the SUV with higher beams and higher physical lamp placement.

Off road? specialist/military? Sure. I can see that this kind of light would be hugely beneficial. for milspec usage, it might even have a dual function (ie deliberate dazzle)

But for routine use, I need to see legislative control on bad effects of lights on cars, to match obligations to meet minimums in light levels

(the article does talk about how lasers could be directed away from drivers, so there is hope this is a minimize dazzle thing)
Isn't the point of "Prime and Prejudice" that primality tests that are perfectly adequate for RSA key generation are inadequate to verify the primality of adversarial inputs, in protocols like negotiated DHE or whatnot?
Apple's Services revenue hit 10 billion per quarter in the last earnings report, and it's growing steadily. Yeah, it doesn't compare to hardware sales, but I don't think it can be called a minor insignificant stream any more, can it?
Is there a CVE yet?
Thanks, I'll look into that.
Snap is the living dead now. No users left after boneheaded redesign, all their ads running are promoting their competitors, employees I know are basically pulling the copper wire out of the walls.

Abandon ship!

Also, will somebody please make a simple private picture app for grown-ups? I'd love to be able to share stuff with my sig other/parents/grandparents - and that's it. I can't recommend SnapChat in the state it's in now.
oh, some people are definitely doing it and realizing it!

Some managers definitely think agile processes are about making developers into interchangeable widgets and maximizing their efficiency.

I agree that this is close to the opposite of the original intent.
While true on the face of it: I haven't had the need to learn many other languages so I haven't had the need to learn the best practices of them.

Use what you need, learn what you need. Don't pay for what you don't use :)
A little parasitic! It is horrendously parasitic.

Here are some other great maths visualisations for understanding.

http://setosa.io/#/
Very True
> This is... super weird to read, knowing it was written by a nine-year-old. That said... I think he has a lot of room for improvement still.

I can imagine it was edited.
Your reply leans pretty heavily on the assumption that all government agencies consist of bureaucrats. I think you should re-examine that assumption. A small minority of government workers are involved in issuing regulations at places like the EPA. Most are military service members, Homeland Security workers, DOJ law enforcement, etc.
See the "Law of large numbers" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Saying you need more data is like saying you need to flip a quarter 500 million times to get a better percentage estimate of heads vs. tails compares to 1 million coin flips. After a certain point, having more data only helps with identifying outliers and changes in behavior over time (when dealing with human/natural data).
Boris wants the job, God help us.
Just 2 days ago, I spent 2 hours researching alternatives for my mid-2012 MBPr 15 and had settled on an X1 Carbon as well.

How's the trackpad?

How's sleep mode if you use it with Linux?

I'm still on the fence, but I ordered an iFixit battery replacement kit for the MBP. After almost 7 years (!), it still has everything I need except for the fact that it randomly shuts down when the battery is at 60%...
It's pretty easy to create weird loops in the contour by placing two dots with about ~0.5r of distance between the edges.
Of course, this is a nice way of saying that slavery doesn't make rational sense - that it's a case of pure "might makes right", exactly as common sense would suggest. Think about it - if your slaves are "loyal and hardworking", do you even need to enslave them by coercion? Of course not - they'll work for you voluntarily as long as you treat them in a way that they accept as fair! (And oftentimes - perhaps even most of the time - they turn out to be a lot brighter than you gave them credit for while treating them as mere slaves.) And if this is the best case, what about everyone else? No, what the slaveowner really dreams of is that he's going to control his slaves purely by their fear. And Moldbug is saying: "nah, that's not going to work. Deal with it."

Way to miss the actual argument he's making, dude. You were not even on the same wavelength.
We obviously haven't talked! I absolutely hate the new butterfly keyboards, it's bothering me as I type this! It makes me feel like I'm one of the attention seeking mechanical keyboard users...
Apple has been going downhill for quite a while now. Loud keyboards and giant phones...
As far as I understand it, the eligibility rules for the EU referendum were exactly the same as for Parliamentary elections: UK nationals in the EU were only eligible to vote if they'd been abroad for less than 15 years.

The Scottish independence referendum was the oddball one, largely at the request of the Scottish government from what I can tell. It required actual residence in Scotland but little else.
Google Shows Your Bills on “Pay Bills” SERP
The inefficiencies of correctly recording and distributing data will be, I think, greatly outweighed by the increased efficiencies of having standardized machine-readable data that's easy to access and use. I work at a think tank that uses various government data sets across agencies and jurisdictions, and the cleaning that goes into analysis is a nightmare. Some agencies have their own quirky conventions--I've seen "-1" used as a flag for "no data" before, which as you can imagine returned some strange results on analysis. A regulation that says "publish data and do it precisely this way" will be a welcome one for me.
> will somebody please make a simple private picture app for grown-ups?

WhatsApp? That's how my family uses it.
You're an outlier, everybody I know in real life who has one (myself included) think it's stupid and awful.
This is probably the most famous issue about that phenomenon:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht...

You could say that our understanding of PRNGs has improved a bit since then.

A recent thread about brute-forcing PRNG states in a game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880528
Although it is nicer, even the 3rd gen keyboards have reports of keys sticking and breaking. I've never had to worry about my laptop keyboard breaking before I got a butterfly keyboard macbook from work.
Is it futz intensive? How far away from "it just works" are you?
I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard. It's... ok, I don't hate it, but even after years of using it, I still sometimes get this odd feeling that something is slightly off. I've never had this feeling before, with any keyboard except possibly with some of the more aggressive ergonomic keyboards like the Kinesis (and that was more of a layout issue).

There are the maintenance issues, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I did have a sticky key (after about a year), and did get it fixed with Apple's free maintenance (edit: so I'm now on the 2018 keyboard), but this feeling I've had from the beginning and still do occasionally.

This contrasts in my mind very starkly with my experience with my very first MacBook keyboard circa 2009. I'd never had a Mac before or any kind of laptop, but when I first used the keyboard I never had to think twice about it. This stuck in my memory because of how much people raved about that keyboard at the time; but I guess it's a property of a good thing that you only notice it when it's gone.
Foreign biometric passport. Travelling on ESTA.

No Global Entry, Economy ticket, so getting off with the rest of the cattle.

But yes, I have never, ever in my life seen a immigration queue that long, and I’ve taken some 50-60 flights in my lifetime.
Actually it is technically viable, going by the judgment. Though I'd still class that as gaming the system. I'm not seeing anything in the judgement that would prevent such an approach.

https://twitter.com/EUCourtPress/status/1072039706123210752
My own experience ( North east US) has been somewhat different recently.

Yes routes from Apple maps, may appear longer or more convoluted at first glance. However after using it ( due to CarPlay) for a while on routes I had previously regularly done using google maps, I inferred a reasoning for that.

On the ~90 minute journey to my in-laws, the predicted journey time, is generally advertised as being quicker on google, but in practice the time difference is marginal.

What was different in my experience anyway, is that Apple maps seems to try to minimize left turns where appropriate.
The benefit being a noticeably less stressful journey.

Has anyone else noticed this?
There is a comedy skit about what it's like trying to mention the grounded practicalities behind current events in the presence of those who find it outrageous to dig deeper than the headlines:

"Stop Making Me Defend Donald Trump!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eq0X4qDlR0
I had my first MBP butterfly keyboard failing with a spec of dust or something. At my new job, new MBP, no such problem -- but I'm mixed on replacing my (personal) 2011 MBA with a 2018 MBA because of the keyboard and USB port and SD card reader regression.

Tried a 2018 MBA at the apple store -- I didn't realized they changed the keyboard, but it's definitely better.

I don't hate the keyboard on my 2018 MBP but its.. not great. I just rarely use it; I typically have my computer plugged into external keyboard/monitor.
The irony that you're replying to my original premise that "these people are deliberately ignored to make it seem like they don't exist" is not lost on me.

Do you really think that 52% of the UK is just alleged to exist?