skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to your complete lack of an argument ("FOOD BANKS EXIST!?!!") in turn. Seems like the best way to respond to people who interject completely useless comments into conversations.

If you want to have an actual discussion we can, but I doubt it will be productive, as it is already very clear that you either lack the critical reasoning skills to recognise the difference between wealth disparity and poverty, or you are deliberately obfuscating the difference and are arguing in bad faith. Either way, it's a problem.

But I'll give it a go anyway: wealth disparity has no impact on poverty levels. There is no causal relationship between the two things. Nobody is dying of hunger because Jeff Bezos is a billionaire instead of a millionaire. Nobody is struggling to take care of their kids because your neighbor has three cars when you only have one. In fact, in recent decades the relationship between wealth inequality and poverty reduction has been positively correlated. Wealth is not a zero sum game. Phrased another way: economic productivity is greater than the sum of its parts.
HN participants are absolutely part of the target market, but they're innovators/early adopters on the technology adoption curve (which are a small part of the whole market): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

devices are generally thin enough, so the tradeoff in my mind is between weight and battery life. i'd love true all-day battery life--not the 10-minutes-for-email-20-minutes-of-web-surfing type of "all-day" battery life--where i could have the device on for 8-12 hours doing real work. at the same time i'd love a laptop that weighs a pound and a phone that weighs 2 ounces, with lightning fast processors, huge, bright, high resolution screens, and honkin' graphics power. most folks would easily accept 30%, or even 50%, thicker devices for that.

obviously, that would require like 5X the battery and 3X the weight (made-up numbers). apple knows this already, but the technology just isn't there, so we're where we are with their best compromise. and they're trying to make this better for idevices by switching to wireless power, with the idea being that any time you put down your idevice, you'll be charging it.
I don’t think Apple will ever release a 2-in-1. Why? It’ll cannibalize their own product lines, the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro. Microsoft doesn’t really have that issue, and hence can make that product.

Honestly, there’s an opportunity here for some companies like Microsoft and Google to catch up in terms of innovation by designing products that Apple would never.
Sadly, too often GitLab is overlooked for a terrible GitHub+JIRA combo :-(
Well, you kinda did when you implied that profits aren't paid by the customer. Just because a company "sacrifices profits", doesn't mean those profits would be the same at the same price in a market where there is no credit card quasi-monopoly.
From the home page, in the A glimpse of Pharo section:

$ curl https://get.pharo.org | bash
$ ./pharo Pharo.image eval "42 factorial"
> eBook DRM crackers

Which specifically? Calibre's?
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While his isn't great, the other reviews absolutely look planted or suspiciously good.
Does not making money, and even spending money, but polluting for the luxury it affords, count?

E.g. people wanting plastic bags, even if they have to pay $0.20 for them, over the hassle of bringing their own hard bags to the supermarket?

Or people preferring more polluting ways to commute (e.g. car with one passenger over metro/bus) because of the convenience for them?
The airblade is definitely a victory of design over function. It simply doesn't work well.
Oh come on this is getting ridiculous. On that page he said,

"Taxes or delays at the customs, it is not important compared to the manufacturing costs. Car manufacturers complain all the time. But there is no problem without [a] solution."

So he reckons it's all going to be unicorns and roses despite all warnings to the contrary. And you still haven't provided evidence of the much stronger allegation of EU corruption.
Other ways to do this:
- Vactrols (a LED/LDR combination)
- Blackmer VCA Chips (e.g THAT2181 or SSM2164)
- Analog Multiplier ICs (these are actually four-quadrant multipliers), (e.g. AD 633)
- PWM switching
- ...
Could you explain this a bit for those of us who don't know in depth how this works? For starters, what's a payments acquirer? Also, due to inherent ambiguity in English, I'm not sure whether your point #1 means that my bank imposes an interchange fee on Visa/Mastercard or whether they impose a Visa/Mastercard fee on someone else (and who it would be).
Fee like in these threads the people taking the other side of this conversation haven't had to deal with a serious health problem either for themselves or someone else. The whole shipping around bit basically does not work. What are you going to do pester doctors about hypothetical health issues? Change doctors, hospitals in the middle of treatment just to see if you get better treatment. Yeah lets try that a dozen times and then pick the 'best' yeah right. How you make a 'free market' work in a system with so many natural information asymmetries and frictions is beyond me.
Fakespot needs to get into the Glassdoor game. They already analyze Yelp.

Some companies are just not subtle about their reviews, just like on Yelp. You will see a flurry of positive reviews posted within days from each other. Or some have straight marketing talk.

I do find it interesting that some of the worst companies I have worked for have been averages than some of the good ones, but I guess that is the point of the article. These bad companies need to boost their ratings since they are bad.
Vault: tool for secrets management, encryption as a service
don't know why but most port are really suffering from more than just the effort that's put behind them; even native and up to date port used to work better using wine, and that's even for games that don't touch the graphic card. for example dwarf fortress on linux runs so much faster in wine.
> How do I run a "hello world" program from the command line?

You can load and run a smalltalk source file, at the OS command-line, something like —

./pharo Pharo.image st helloworld.st

You can pre-load smalltalk source files, save a memory image, and use default startup behavior to run the saved bytecode —

./pharo helloworld.image

> deploy that to another machine

It's just moving files (VM + bytecode image) so — rsync, ssh
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Thanks for clarifying. What is a typical example of a process virtual machine then? I'd always thought that applications that abstract away the kernel for the purposes of running software from a different OS were classic process VMs.
In the worst case, you only need to overcome one. And you ~double your attack surface.
Oh man, I know what you mean - it's kind of crazy. When I'm at a company for more then 2 years, recruiters start joking that I'm an old timer and must be dying for a change! I'm all for moving when the time is right, but I like my job and looking for a new one is stressful!
Pretty much this; often the concept is a design exercise for the stylists to show what styling elements they have in mind for future production...put in place on a vehicle that doesn't need to meet the needs of real customers, so as to gauge interest. Those elements get watered down once someone starts asking about how they would translate into a real car, sold for real money, built with real existing components in a real factory.

Certain cars (Vipers & Prowlers, specifically) were low-volume enough such that the concept could be productized; often at a loss, so as to serve as marketing for the rest of the brand's vehicles. In the case of the Viper, the goal was also to see if AMC-style small integrated engineering and manufacturing teams could be used at Chrysler. The car was a nice side effect, almost. The Prowler was a similar project, not only for the stylists but also as a way of experimenting with new aluminum components on a limited-run vehicle.

Some makes are more adventurous than others. GM often produces gorgeous concepts...that will never even get close to production in any form. Mazda and Volvo often drop significant hints about the styling for near-future models in their concept cars.

Citroen and Renault (in the 80s-90s) seemed to very willing to try and productize these concepts:

Renault Avantime
https://goo.gl/images/o5YW7G

Citroen XM
https://goo.gl/images/pvn7Gh

Citroen CX interior
https://goo.gl/images/xLdVw9
German supermarket chain Aldi was, until not too many years ago, one of the last places in Denmark which didn't take Visa or Mastercard, only the above mentioned Dankort (which I personally abhor, like everything else coming out of its controlling company, Nets).
Starting point would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues, but there's a variety of other things like automatically filling passwords making you vulnerable to XSS based password stealing, the general disrepair of the extension, it being owned by logmein, the "two factor auth" being entirely clientside (the extension will actually fully start up and autofill whatever page you're on before prompting you for a code) and the fact that they're still trying to charge me for a premium subscription I cancelled ages ago.

Personally I use 1password, but there are loads of other ones that don't have a list of security breaches on their wikipedia page.
Sadly I can't remember where I heard it, it may have been in the documentary "Objectified", but there's a designer that raises an interesting point. It's something along the lines of: "Why are there still uncomfortable chairs? It's a solved problem, we know how to design chairs."
> They are at best overrated.

Maybe now they are, but at the time Dyson started getting popular, most vacuum cleaners (Hoovers included) were bag based. The Dyson performance felt revolutionary in comparison. I wouldn't be surprised if the Hoover design was based somewhat off Dyson's. I do know that Shark and Dyson had a IP fight a few years back
That was a random example of a technical question, since it seemed like people didn't understand what kind of info I was searching for. I don't recall offhand any of the questions that I couldn't find non-video results for.
I believe the WD utility sends a command to the drive so it does a self test. That would eliminate any upper layers issues.
not sure, to be honest.

thats how it was in my circles until ~05-06.
everyone kept switching emails and used a different address on each service/forum. until gmail came along.
suddenly everyone used their gmail address for everything. and even that got phased out when facebook came along.
The above assumes that the same C compiler is used everywhere. Say you suspect your gcc to be infected. If a second compiler, say clang, can compile the gcc sources and this gcc then recompiles itself bit-identical to the original, then gcc and clang would both have to be (mutually compatible) infected.

Another way is to bootstrap up to a C compiler from machine-language upwards. So that every "level upgrade" in the bootstrap chain can be verified independently.

http://bootstrappable.org/

Here is one bootstrapping effort:

https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
I have no idea about this specific case, but this kind of claim can be very misleading, while remaining true. Maybe they used the tooling once for an offline script of some sort, and that is all.
Read the thread and it should be relatively obvious: Don't sell out and let companies alter, remove, bury, hide or disguise negative reviews (or do so on the companies behalf).

If you really want to beat the incumbents scrape their sites and rehost the deleted content. (If they DMCA you then publish the DMCA notice and note which company the content was related to and when it was published/removed/DMCA'd so as to preserve a record of removed reviews related to that company)
Our application does only show reviews from your personal network. Well, close. The app has a Q&A format (think Instagram meets Stack Overflow), and you see both questions and answers from your network. You can also see the user that asked a question that someone in your network has answered, and see users who answered the question someone in your network asked. In this way, you can be exposed to some new content. But reviews can't really spread virally as things stand now.

Re: product identification...actually people tend to shop from the same places (think of the product coverage of the top 5000 retailers). We don't have those top 5000 yet, but we're working on it. We get most of our product data from affiliate networks, who offer up that data to drive sales back to their site. For whatever we can't import and internalize, we have a "search anything" feature which allows the user to use a web view to navigate to a product page and import the product.

You're right, resolving duplicates and variants is a very tricky problem that can become incredibly complicated. Right now we use some very basic heuristics like normalized name and brand, ASIN, GTIN, EAN, UPC, etc. But actually, we don't need things to be perfect. So long as a user can get to a product that is more or less what they want to recommend, they're happy. Also, when you are searching for a product to recommend (this is not "browsing," it's when you are trying to answer a recommendation with a specific product) we boost products that have already been recommended. This way we can get users who are looking for a particular product to recommend the same instance of that product. We also focus our efforts on cleaning up the data for products that have already been recommended, which is a much smaller subset than our total catalog.

Our data is stored in Neo4j, we find its structure to be well suited to a product catalog and taxonomy, and it allows us to derive relationships between products. The process of improving our catalog is an ongoing task, and one that will likely never end.
>Before Facebook, if I lost someone's contact information, and drifted outside of their social circle for a long enough time, chances were I would never ever see or speak to that person again.

And chances are you are never going to speak to that person again even if you are friends on facebook.

The only thing that facebook invented is how to increase user engagement by finding loopholes in our psychology and get us addicted to their products.

Facebook did not invent anything other than making this world more chaotic.
I'm guessing the things like "25 c" might be dates (century maybe, but century 25 hasn't happened yet). I don't understand it.
> but in the largest context a "gamer" is not an enthusiast

In the context of Valve customers potentially willing to install Linux however, it's pretty clear what is meant.
As a user of Zoho who switched from GSuite. I've been very happy with your service so far. Support got back to me quickly when I needed help and the documentation answered most of my questions. I find some of the plans a bit confusing, but I can do everything I need to do. I didn't even realize prices went down, but whatever I paid was a good deal for what I've gotten. Thanks!

I am not affiliated with Zoho in any way.
WaMAP and similar open source offerings are finally starting to eat into this market, and they work significantly better than Pearson's MyLab & ilk.
I think the invention of "like" and "thumbs up" has ruined the internet. Instead of doing things for fun it's too easy to get sucked into chasing approval.
SROs have also largely gone away. Not that many of them were very nice, but better than the street for a single person with limited means.
And they're already set up for this with their MacBook Air SKU. That product should be optimizing for thinness at all costs, while the MacBook Pro should be about functionality, usability, and power.

Instead the MacBook Pro is essentially "the laptop with a larger screen".
> I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service.

You don't even need to pay Glassdoor. At $PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER I managed to get a negative review by an employee who we'd let go removed just by asking them.

Don't be too horrified yet because it gets worse: I stand by asking them to remove it. The review was extremely negative and posted by somebody who, in the less than 3 months they worked for us, had been nothing but trouble: lazy, arrogant, obnoxious, demanding, complaining, entitled. Nothing was ever good enough for this person, and they absolutely slagged us off in the review as a result.

No company is perfect but the criticism was entirely unfair, so I asked Glassdoor to remove it, explaining why in reasonable detail. They could have refused and there would have been nothing I could do, but within a few days it was gone. Funny thing was that I wasn't even in love with $PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER myself at the time[1], but the review was so out of order that it simply pissed me off.

Your situation sounds quite different, with objective grounds for grievance, so I can certainly understand the frustration.

[1] This is something of an understatement: I was by this point hugely disillusioned, but the review still offended my sense of fair play.
While I think you're right that Apple's devotion to thinness even when it becomes problematic isn't a "cargo cult" kind of problem, I think you're underestimating the pull specific executives can have.

My own suspicion -- buttressed with some off-the-record comments with Apple folks -- is that it's actually Jony Ive who prioritizes thinness over all else. Steve Jobs may not have been an engineer or a designer, but he was often an excellent "editor," of the sort who'd look at a design and say "Why do you need this" or "If you add this it'll be a thousand times more useful" or even "You're focusing on the wrong thing, start over." Post-Jobs, the executive who could do that with Ive was Scott Forstall. Post-Forstall, there doesn't seem to be anyone who does that with Ive anymore.

I'm hopeful that the string of highly visible problems with this most recent iteration of MacBooks will, if nothing else, give someone else in the company power to start pushing back. I don't hate my 2017-era MacBook Pro and I haven't had any real problems with it, but the fact that I'm worried about having problems with it in a way that I've rarely been with other Apple hardware is a problem in and of itself.
Eeeehhh I don't think that's as guaranteed as you make it out to be. Surviving technologies had a honeymoon phase, a disillusionment, and then they even out into a plateau. Not all technologies are guaranteed to survive forever and end up like this though, there are many examples of things that just plain weren't worth it once the true costs were revealed.

It's fine to lose touch with people. Some people are meant to drift away as you move forward in life, you can't have everything all the time. Those people still drift away even with facebook, you just have this illusion that they're still in your life. Often you have to watch their bizarre posts as they get old and go nuts. Or some arbitrary algo hides them from you anyway, and you forget they are even in your friends list. This is just me, but I think I'd rather have the fuzzy memories of some high school friend and the closure; the certainty of knowing that chapter of life is done. If both of us can't be bothered to put forth the minimum required effort to keep in touch, so be it. Is it really of any value to have a purely symbolic attachment to this person forever? Look through your full friends list and contemplate this for a while.

It's not certain yet, but the social cost of facebook could potentially be enormous and damaging. In the end will it really prove worthwhile? Should we put up with the "real marriage" after the honeymoon? If it's a sufficiently rocky marriage--if it's a one-sided and abusive relationship--the rational thing to do is not to hold tight, ignore it and ride it out. The right thing to do is plan for divorce. I think this is yet to be determined, but I'm starting to lean towards the opinion that near-exclusively digital socialization was a mistake.
Why do people with car drive alone to work? There is a big chance that someone from your neighborhood is going at least in your direction. We practice co-driving in Europe all the time.
Because the type of people that tends to stick at middle management positions is the one that's good at kissing ass to their bosses. Now if you're stuck kissing ass all day, for your own self-esteem's sake you need to show power over someone less "important" by making them suffer. There's no logic here, no mathematical calculations done, just petty emotions and selection bias.
Some companies are just not subtle about their reviews

Here, let me help seed that ML algorithm:

"Advice to management: keep doing what you're doing!"

Not hotdog. I'm shocked at how many times I see that. It's like the HR people all went to the same convention at some point.
This seems to be a typical combination in a lot of countries nowadays. A donor class that advocate for populist policies with well funded advertisement campaigns that speak to the grievances of poor or less educated voters, ("hundreds of millions for the NHS!"), who then promptly pack their bag and leave as reality sets in, because as we all know capital is very flexible.

The misled voters however are not and cannot suddenly pick up a new career in Singapore or in the PR department of a big company, so they will have to foot the bill.
Im two years in and I hate the keyboard. I actually didn’t hate it to start with because the bigger keys felt nice and I figured my accuracy would return after I got used to it, but it’s been literally years and I still make constant typos on this thing. I recently started using an external old-Mac-style keyboard and suddenly I can type without mistakes again, it’s honestly bizarre. Muscle memory wouldn’t last this long, there’s something about the newer design that just doesn’t work for me
The state school school is the interesting issue. California has the CSU system that offers education for about 280 a unit or about 3000 before financial aid with over a dozens campuses throughout most of the state in both rural and urban areas. The Cal States have become the primary options for any California residence below upper income. Most states don't have a system similar to this set up with at most 1 or 2 major state schools per state. The cheaper state schools often are key to bringing the price down.
I mean, all you're identifying with is that you have a company email address. That's all that is known. For really big orgs, this is not an issue.
Thanks, I didn't know about that. Gary Hustwit is the same person that directed Helvetica, which is a classic design film IMO.
I was going to say why are you including jobs from 20 years ago on your resume, but you probably live in a place where they want CVs, right?
that's like you saying most Americans should return to Europe because what they have done here was so evil, unfortunately you can not roll back history