skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brexit will only affect the ordinary working class and the poor. The rich who funds this debacle will always have options cope or profit from it.
I don't see the hypocrisy. Does the Singapore-EU trade agreement give EU citizens the right to vote on laws that will be binding upon Singaporeans? Or give EU citizens the right to reside and work in Singapore? If not, there is no hypocrisy in supporting Brexit while relocating to Singapore.

It is disingenuous to portray the EU as merely a trade organization. It may have started out that way, but today it is a supra-national government, capable of binding the citizens of member states to laws those citizens oppose (just as, e.g., the United States federal government can bind citizens of Alabama to laws those citizens oppose). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)
They don't care at all. They haven't done anything about SteamEmus or SteamWorks fixes ever.
Thanks for your positive input. HN can be brutal, but I have gotten some great feedback, even if it was hard to hear.
My girlfriend's Dyson is miserable to empty - all the girls in the house have long hair, and that makes emptying it a 'shove your hand in and pull the mass of hair and dust out' job, nothing like the way it looks in the advert.

I had a DC-01 back in the day, didn't like it at all as the main part of it that runs on the floor was too tall to get under any of the furniture - unlike the vorwerk that it replaced, and the £30 cheapo standard vacuum cleaner that replaced it (and lasted 3 times as long).
This is not an isolated incident when it comes to vocal supporters of Brexit. For example, Jacob Rees-Mogg's financial services company recently set up a fund in the Republic of Ireland to ensure continuing access to the European Market [1].

A simple look into Dyson's past (particularly with regards to the "Dyson Academy" in Bath) should tell you all you need to know about the man. His products are mostly garbage too - not a screw to be found.

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-jacob-...
I get the cheapest vacuum at Kmart and it works superbly. The “bagless” usp is long dead.
For what it's worth, I had no issue with your opinion and also didn't downvote either of your comments.

And I also didn't upvote the article, because it is indeed quite basic. Though apperantly enough people did find it interesting enough to make it to the frontpage ^^
The mass transit systems outside of NYC proper are designed to feed people in and out of the city core in two large waves, and [are] not designed to move people around the larger urbanized region (the "Tri-State area") outside of those two waves.

So for the large majority of residents, a car will still be a necessity. Even Manhattanites will eventually feel the need buy/rent a car so they can do things like go to a forest or a quiet beach for a day.
I'm not saying there weren't options. But you had to hear about them and learn how to use them, and then people would complain endlessly about your choices anyway.

Facebook democratized social networking.
But see, that's a misunderstanding of what a carbon tax is for. The federal government could burn that money and the carbon tax would still be effective. It's about pricing carbon into the market for goods and services, full stop. We are otherwise subsidizing our own self-destruction (or, more specifically, the heightened risk of destruction of our coastal cities, heightened risk of extreme weather, and forced migration of a billion+ brown poeple that live closer to the equator).

In other words, it absolutely is a money grab. That's the point!

Would it be better if that money went to useful programs? Absolutely! Same as the rest of our tax dollars.
That site gives me this modal pop-up:

Notification
Press 'Allow' to continue
DENY ALLOW

Yeah, no thanks.
I didn't read the entire study and didn't play too much with the app, but this entire article reads like an advertisement to the peak app. The only relation I found on peak's about page to Cambridge is Barbara Sahakian, FMedSci DSc, Scientific Advisor. http://www.peak.net/about/

I'm not calling this a fraud but didn't numerous studies showed that any of the so called brain trainig apps don't show translation of skill to the real world? e.g. you do get better that the games the apps have, but not helping in actual real life scenarios?

The test they used (Rapid Visual Information Processing test) is just another "game" in a way. You can train someone to be better at the test, but it doesn't make their ADHD go away magically. I wish it was that easy.

It looks like the app includes games that are way too similar to the actual test that was used to determine progress in the test subjects.

From the article:

About the game:

"To meet the objective, users have to identify different combinations of number strings in missions littered with distraction."

About the test (used to prove the game does improve cognitive abilities):

"Those tested were asked to detect digit sequences (such as 2-4 or 6-8), and then hit a button once detected as quickly as they could — and multiple sequences could appear at the same time"

Am I missing something or this sounds like almost the same thing?

One can train and learn all the answers to an IQ test, this doesn't make one a genius.

This feels like a real great promoted article in the cover of scientific writing, but maybe I'm just and old cynic.

Once a study shows actual translation, after years of observation, that ADHD subjects get improvements in other aspects of life (school, social, grades, self esteem etc) then I'll be the first to support it. Until then, it just looks like greed and bottom line. I guess it's better than playing candy crush at least.
While Dieter Rams' work was certainly influenced by the Bauhaus he wasn't a member neither of the school nor the movement. Rams was born in 1932 a year before the Bauhaus was pressured to close its doors by the Nazis. He belonged to different generation of artists.

Rams is considered a protégé of the Ulm School of Design This school is probably best known for the invention of the iconic Olympic pictograms by one of it's founders and the corporate identity for the German airline Lufthansa.
It would be interesting to show ratios on the maps.
Great research. But now I'll have my usual rant based on a quote from the article:

>> Findings from this study, in conjunction with future work on SVV-antibody interaction sites, can provide a promising stage for the development of SVV mutants with improved clinical applications.

In this case "improved clinical applications" means man-made variations that can be patented. I mean, why wait? Sure go ahead and try to improve on it, but in the mean time isn't it recommended for trials (in addition to other treatments) against certain cancers? Or is it and I'm just not aware?
It's probably a matter of getting used to the new keyboard. You can't expect to switch to another keyboard and instantly type error free. After using a butterfly keyboard for a while, I struggle a lot with the macbook 2015 one. The keys feel super high and I feel like I have to press the keys super hard to register.
It's great to be able to do this but you need to have back ups first. So find a new job whilst "jokingly" suggesting to your boss you need a raise. Then you actually ask for a meeting and a raise and when he/she laughs you off as you knew they would you resign on the spot and go to your new job you had lined up.

With the hope that he/she will see their mistake and not treat the remaining employees that way.

The problem with this strategy is you can never go back.
Is it though? Top talent from schools will be more likely to leave after undergrad to work in the Industry. Instead of student loans are terrible hours they'll make loads of money and be able learn from these experts in the industry instead of staying in Academia to get a PhD or Masters.
Difference between static_cast, reinterpret_cast, const_cast and dynamic_cast
I hear you. I skipped Sierra and High Sierra. But when Mojave came out, I bit the bullet.

Since upgrading in early Jan. I haven't had an issue.
Quantizing up to 10% collapses 43,000 values into 120. It's not perfect but it removes a huge amount of information.
Until Texas is overwhelmed by migrants from CA and Mexico that is, that joint-force is changing TX from red to purple, and to blue soon. At the moment, Austin is more liberal than most CA cities already.

When TX is taken the US will officially turn into a social/welfare state, the US is doomed already, similar to what happened to Rome in the past.

People from CA or Mexico are running from there for a reason, however when they arrive TX, their first to-do is to make TX look like where they used to live. They are virus.
You can definitely do GUI programming as the IDE itself is in Smalltalk, but I wouldn't call it super straightforward like using a GUI designer in Visual Studio. I've tried before and got lost in Bloc & Specc?
> Not in a system. In a repo. Standard debian tools ( not hacked, not outside the tree, not outside the debian main tree ) do not support this.

That's the semantic gap I've mentioned.

Your statement is patently wrong, as deb packages do enable distributions such as Debian and other Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu to provide multiple major, minor, and even point releases through their official repos to be installed and run side-by-side .

Take, for example, GCC. Debian provides official deb packages for multiple major and minor release versions of GCC, and they are quite able to coexist in the very same system.

All it takes for someone to build deb packages for multiple versions of a software package is to get to know deb, build their packages so that they can coexist, and set their package and version names accordingly.
I agree about the thinness, but I'm very much looking forward to a future with USB-C for everything. The failure there isn't in the new standard, but that the new standard doesn't enforce only one or two cable types and clearly labeled power ratings.
I'm subscribed to change my consumption habits and it has worked for the most part. I usually don't buy enough fruit and vegetables when I shop for myself and avoid certain vegetables completely. Imperfect fixes this for me. Fruit and vegetables just appear every week and once they're in my home I"m too cheap to let them go to waste so I end up eating them.

I'd subscribe to normal produce delivery instead if that were an option. I don't really care about the "imperfect" part and the premium over my local supermarket is pretty negligible
I was going to say this but figured it would be downvoted, post-haste.
Also the hand dryers: You better have precision wrist control or your gonna touch the surface and catch the previous toileteer’s bugs.
To be fair, no employee ever checks Facebook or posts on HN during work hours (ahem)? It cuts both ways.
Their maps use percentage (rather than absolute numbers) of people in the area commuting with a given transportation mode. So it is a good usage of these maps imo.
Unfortunately that's unreliable, because negative reviews are removed, so numbers are fake.

Right, but there is no one signal that is definitive (IMO). So looking at this is just one part of evaluating a prospective employer.

That said, I have seen negative reviews on Glasdoor, so we know they don't all get removed.
I've often thought about setting up a scraper for sites like this and republishing the deleted content.
Reasons to be optimistic in 2019
It's possible to lose or make money on any channel, but here's a chart of where you can target different types of audiences: https://www.kevinlordbarry.com/uploads/3/6/5/4/3654649/marke...

FB is the only online player with any significant scale in that bottom right quadrant. And that's pretty much the ballgame for putting products in front of specific audiences.
Where exactly is the hypocrisy? Singapore has been touted as a model on how to organize trade after Brexit.

Of course you want a trade deal with the EU after Brexit. One major problem with being in the EU is that it forces the UK to uphold tariffs and tariff-like restrictions on imports from non-EU countries. Singapore itself has little to no tariffs.

With a hard Brexit, those deals simply won't exist yet, so it's wise to move to place where they do exist.
Clearly DHH wasn't around when AOL dumped it's user base onto a community that was previously gated by having to actually learn something about computing in order to get connected. P.S. - Get off my lawn;)
How many winter-years of flat roofs would be convincing that they are effective?
A few millimeter (therefore a minimum of 2) is quite a lot.

I don't see the thinnes as a problem, i'm more curious on how this was not detected in there endurance tests. Can't imagine at all that there are not 100 macbook pros open and closing all day long somewhere.
>If someone invents a tool and sells it for a profit - who was exploited?

Nobody, and Marx doesn't say that anyone is in such a case.

>Is it not possible for everyone to be richer than they started and also create wealth??

In some way, it is possible - after all, the worker is richer than he was before (he has more money thanks to his wage) as is the capitalist (who has made money from the sale). Now what wealth is created? Arguably, social wealth in the case of new technology being developed, for example. But Marx doesn't deal with this concept of "wealth" or even immediately money, he deals with the concept of value, which works at a different level of abstraction to money. The value-form only becomes the price-form, they're not identical.

I'd suggest looking up theories of exploitation as they have been figured in Marxisms that don't rely on a labour theory of value. It's too much[0] to summarize in one HN comment, but you don't need to read Capital either (though it would be helpful).

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/exploitation/
I don't see how the effectiveness for something like public transit could be measured so quickly, especially over a phone call. It's barely been 2 years.

After it's built it'll take a couple decades for housing developers and businesses to properly exploit the ease of transportation to them.
Why is it that concepts cars looked so desirable, yet never were made into production cars? Instead most cars are rather bland when compared to the concepts of the time. Is it because the concept can't be easily manufactured the way it is designed? Or are they really impractical cars in practice?

The only "far-out" examples that I can think of that went from concept to production are ones like the Dodge Viper, and the PT Cruiser. Of course, I probably just answered my own question -- the Viper was really expensive, and the PT Cruiser was cheap so it became common enough that it turned into a somewhat bland less desirable car.
I guess you haven't been to Prague or Berlin or Toronto or NYC or Chicago where it works perfectly. Sure, It doesn't work everywhere but chances are it will work in a given city and if it doesn't, you can fall back on some domestic app. Would Navier work in Toronto?
I saw that Apple was selling some leftover iPhone SEs the other day and I nearly grabbed one, but it still has the 6s guts. If they brought the newer chips into the SE shell, I would absolutely replace my X with that.
How is that meaningfully different to italics in that regard?
Ah, but the success of Facebook inspired and led to Twitter. So, while Twitter has perhaps done more harm, Facebook is responsible.
Is it not real value for companies to be able to connect with tribes of people that then may become the biggest proponents of your product?

Take fashion, a very tribal concept where each subculture has their own take on it. If you're a fashion brand wouldn't you want to find a way to reach the subculture you're a part of?

As much as you might want to deny it, marketing matters and more of it is coming online because more people are going online more often. It's just shifting to where the people are.

It's easy to dismiss ideas or the way people express them. But if you're going to do it, contribute a complete thought that has value and moves the conversation forward instead of just dropping a "Listen to yourself holy shit". This isn't Reddit.
> By the way, Singapore has an EU free trade agreement

this would seem to be irrelevant to today's decision as Dyson ceased EU manufacturing in 2003

today they're moving the legal HQ, with two jobs being relocated
I've got a Glassdoor story from a previous employer. The company went through a MAJOR restructuring and a series of smaller reorgs over the course of ~18 months. The work environment wasn't great, morale was really bad, and the exodus of employees was tough to handle.

The company rating really started to trend downwards on Glassdoor. Then probably 6 months into it, suddenly there were a lot of solid or glowing 4-5 star reviews from an office overseas. These basically overpowered the negative reviews in US/Europe and the company rating was basically back to where it was before.

I don't think they paid for good reviews. I suspect what they did was simply pressure new employees in that country to write reviews before they really knew what was going on in the company. It just looked very strange that all of a sudden everybody in that country wanted to write reviews, whereas before all the reviews were dominated by US/Europe. The distribution of values is also telling if you look at the differences in means between that country versus everywhere else.
We have a Henry, which is far cheaper than a Miele and almost as indestructible.

Dyson is overpriced brightly coloured plastic pretending to be "design." The one we bought had a stupid moulded plug that would fall out of the power socket with the gentlest tug.

It also regularly overheated and shut down for random periods. And it was a nightmare of mess to empty, sending dust everywhere.

A strange company, suggestive of the worst of British opportunism. Apparently there's an old British fighter jet hanging above the canteen in the HQ, but it seems that's just for show when there's more profit to be made by moving to a different country.
Loved~~ his tear down of Juicero!
The `find ... | echo` and `find ... | rm` counter-examples are not right; neither `echo` nor `rm` read their arguments from stdin.
How would they help here?
As ever, our problem going forward is sustainability. Compat layers are forever playing catch-up, and it's hard to take a platform seriously when it does things worse.

I'm rather disappointed in the industry's reluctance to engage with Vulkan. DX12 certainly hasn't been a runaway success either, with many devs sticking on DX11, but it seems more inevitable.

Maybe Sony can shift the balance, following Nintendo's lead by finally picking an open API (no they didn't support OpenGL on the PS3, it was a proprietary subset)... But I'd never put money on it happening.
Wait are we talking about urinals or hand dryers? I have yet to encounter a Dyson urinal, but my sense of humor really wants one to exist.
Reasons to move away from the city [webcomic]
Or worse, one just needs to be within 3 metres of the machine. [1]

[1] "Dyson Airblades 'spread germs 1,300 times more than paper towels'" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/13/dyson-airblades-...
Conversations.im uses an interesting trick for rendering Markdown [0] - it leaves the syntax as is, so in the worst case you've got text with weird bold/italics, but the characters are 1:1 identical to what was sent.

[0]: Actually not Markdown but a subset but it's not important.
Yes in store reward systems are completely different than credit card and debit card companies. I work in that industry and look at the raw data. You are definitely incorrect about how the various levels of a transaction works and how the various companies collect pieces of relevant information. Information is definitely collected but please don't spread misinformation. Your above sumnary is completely misguided to how it actually works.
For those that don't handle cash, they could get some sort of insurance to make up for lost business (and any brand damage) if the machines go down.
Exactly.

About the game:

"To meet the objective, users have to identify different combinations of number strings in missions littered with distraction."

About the test (used to prove the game does improve cognitive abilities):

"Those tested were asked to detect digit sequences (such as 2-4 or 6-8), and then hit a button once detected as quickly as they could — and multiple sequences could appear at the same time"

This feels like a paid article to promote the Peak app. No science here unfortunately. I don't understand how public funds pay for studies like this.
That seems the wrong question. The better question is: why did he stay in britain while it was in the EU, and why is he leaving now that the UK is leaving the EU? Especially as he advocated that leaving would improve trade and industry.

The answer might be as simple as: "Signapore was the right place and we were planning this move before Brexit was on the horizon"

But it certainly gives the appearance that Brexit is bad for business and he doesn't want to operate with the consequences of the policy he advocated.
When I lived in Manhattan, I used ZipCar regularly. It was provided free as a "benefit" by my employer. If I had to pay for it or monthly parking or anything like that, I would have just stayed in town.
Wait, he'd rather support another country's economy with his faster growing business than the economy of his own country and earn more money there/elsewhere, while supporting the opposite? Err? No, his statement doesn't make any sense which basically means it's a lie. His decision comes conveniently right after the house vote and May's failure to convince the MPs to take the EU deal. I suppose he is not such a Brexiteer after all.
Well I moved on with them locking my last account last year. Agreed it's not as easy to discover different platforms for different ad projects but I do definitly get a lot more for my money now.

I would argue Facebook is the easiest but I doubt its the most efficient in any way.

Edit:// before anyone thinks locked means I did something unethical. No they locked it because I travelled to different countries and I wasn't able to open it again. After I spend thousands of dollars on ads they didn't help.
Angels pulling out last minute because they are worried about their stock portfolio. Investors withdrawing from a levered strategy because of the same concern.
Still, if that site is unfairly pejorative, isn't that the site that should receive the takedown restriction? Google supposedly+ just reflects the nature of what others are saying.

+ yes I know there's a lot of wiggle in the "supposedly" but the principle seems clear.
But it's entirely missing the point in that you don't use a Smalltalk environment so that you can run some hello world example from the command line.
It's been over a year, can you please ask someone at backblaze to add a single line of code into the snapshots so you can leave a comment? Right now if you make a snapshot, the only info is the date and time. Not the data, what's in the snapshot, literally anything about it. Please!
But if they did, we'd be able to patch it at home :D
There are many copycats out there. Bagless vacuum cleaners were anemic when the Dyson was new. Thin business quality laptops simply didn't exist (Apple adapted aluminum welding technology from airplane ribs to build the unibody mac book)
I really do wish they'd go touchscreen. Several times per week, I try to touch my work MBP's screen because I'm so used to my surface that I use at home.
I'm impressed by the fact that people on a site like HN, supposed to be held at a higher caliber than Reddit, prefer to downvote rather than engage with the substance of comments.
Upgrade is usually as simple as an apt update && apt upgrade for me. Every once in a while they change tables in a non backwards compatible way and you have to force allow it or something. It's all very easy though.