skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, are there any affordable Windows/Linux laptops not made by Apple that carry touchpads that are even remotely compareable to a MBP2015 in terms of hardware?

When I go to the nearest computer store all I see is shitty 4cm-wide black plastic stuff with a depth of easily 2mm. The plastic will get "shiny" from fat fingers (dito for the keyboard), and the tiny-ness makes any kind of gestures ... weird if not impossible at all.
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One point of the article is that there's no need for a higher athmospheric pressure to explain pterosaurs flight. It would work fine under the conditions we have today.
I think Commodore BASIC had a more complex way of seeding the random timer: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/RND

POKE 56328,0 : REM real-time clock activate with 1/10s -> clock runs ($DC08)
PRINT RND(0) : REM Random number addicted by timer and real-time clock
> Couple that with that we now know how Russia (and ostensibly others) are using social media platforms for manipulation, and it just seems rather suspicious.

PR and propaganda is essentially the same thing. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that private actors are engaging in the same kind of social media manipulation as state actors. Every ad you see, every business social media account and every mention of the benefits of a product or a service in a blog should be considered first as a deliberate attempt at exploiting your concern and manipulate you into wasting money or time.

So no, don't take off your tinfoil hat, but make that it shields you from the EM radiation evenly :)
Mostly it's just UDP with some TCP like reliable transfer built on top of it.
14 languages? That's ridiculous. We need to develop one universal language that covers everyone's use cases.

https://xkcd.com/927/
This is just improper handling of an inertial scroll and zoom in applications, not something that OS deliver. On Mac the issue has been known for much longer and most applications adopted the proper API to detect that.
Well your instinct isn't wrong. The whole organization is a joke when it comes to security. There's a very good chance that they're a couple of clicks away from your online activity (who knows, it might even be realtime, imagine your ex, who works at google, reading all your online conversations.) I wouldn't trust those bastards with my enemy's life, cos I'm sure they're gonna use it show me 'personalized and relevant' ads.
How is Apple anti-competitive in terms of iOS? They onbly supply iOS to themselves and the App Store is only available to Apple products.

You could argue that they take advantage of the desire of app developers to access their market, but that's not "anticompetitive". It's unfair, but life wasn't meant to be fair.
I also wanted to dig into this. The null hypothesis and burden-of-proofs change between p tests and equivalence testing, right?

P tests: null hypothesis is that there is nothing different, burden of proof to suggest there is a difference.

Equivalence testing: null hypothesis is that there is something different, burden of proof to suggest there is no difference.

But maybe this is just a misapplied p-test? So while the "RESULTS" section of the paper is fine:

No differences between trials ( P > 0.05) were found in the overall plasma triglyceride, glucose, or insulin responses during the HFGTT.

The "CONCLUSION" section is where they invert the statistics of their own study and literally suggest a p-test-able difference despite their results section literally concluding a p-test-able non-difference:

These data indicate that physical inactivity (e.g., sitting ~13.5 hrs/day and <4,000 steps/day) creates a condition whereby people become "resistant" to the metabolic improvements that are typically derived from an acute bout of aerobic exercise (i.e., exercise resistance).
Coal plants emitted more than ever in 2018
Uber is buying its Middle East rival Careem for $3.1B
London made the mistake of excluding Taxis from their congestion toll scheme.

Now nearly all roads are jam packed with Taxis and Ubers, and no regular people drive at all anymore.
What3Words helped police to rescue mother and daughter
Worst part is, I've seen devs wrap their entire for-loop in an anonymous function JUST so they could use a return; to break out of the loop, instead of using break;
Excellent analysis!

For those interested, here's the study the article quotes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30763169
And usually they aren't on the tail!

'Registration' is more accurate and is understood globally.
What you can do as a manager is delegate. What you should do is distribute the task of interviewing candidates - especially technical interviews - to the rest of your team. They have to work with the candidate, after all. You can ask them to help with screening resumes as well. Ask your manager to take on a recruitment manager, so that you can refocus onto engineering instead of recruitment / hiring.
That sounds like you want to continue using APIs and OS from 1970s, while Fuchsia is deliberately trying to break those old conventions.

OpenGL was never a serious contender for modern games and there's a good reason why all new 3D APIs are moving to more low-level representations (Vulcan, DX12, Metal) with libraries on top. OpenGL is a horrible implicit stateful machine which is terrible to multithread and still holds a model of a hard-wired 3D accelerator as a base, which isn't how new graphics cards work. Everything else is bolted on top of that out-of-date idea which makes is hugely unwieldly for new software.
> To "increase the conversion rate" you have to either improve the value of the commercial offering or cripple / remove the open source offering.

I'm not even sure if that would have much influence: the line between paying and non-paying might be just the divide between companies where it's hard to get paid licencing approved and companies where it's hard to get unpaid licensing approved. The key to a high commercial open source conversion rate might be targeting industries where lingering distrust of open source is still common.
What stops Google from open sourcing Datastore, or AWS from open sourcing dynamoDB? These cloud providers with proprietary services are the new Oracle. They are actually worse than Oracle b/c they can cut off your access to your database in seconds.

Google open sourced k8 so that they can get a pie from AWS and then lock you in with other proprietary services.
Had similar experience. Several years ago app with 6+ digit installs in the first six months. Got some generic excuse and our app was down. We could contest but then they threatened to take even more away.

I don't like these platforms...
It's very different actually - the pelican, as every other bird, uses its hind legs to push off, while the pterosaurs (and some bats) push off with their forelegs - and the latter ones are very powerful and can be re-used for flight, unlike the powerful hindlegs of large birds which are just dead weight when they're airborne.
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My 2017 Hp Omen notebook has linux mint and nvidia drivers installed. Touchpad feels and works exactly like MacBook pro's. Very satisfied with it.
and you know they were bots how?
> I agree with you, but I do not believe in Google. Google provided worst commercial platform I ever had experience developing for. I had a lot of different platforms in my past - pretty much all consoles, desktop and fringe, like smart TVs or various smartphones released since 99'.

I really find it hard to believe that Android is worse than proprietary, undocumented, Windows-only toolchains of Symbians, Tizens and bunch of other embedded crap, not to mention the horrors of what was PS3 toolchain at the begging.

I think you might be overdramatizing this a bit.
You could go full socialist and divide the parking/road space exactly equally amongst everyone.
There is F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) especially. Horribly broken UI, but still a great app to get other (free!) apps.
I personally want the law to say that but:

The FBI took a different view in a recent court case referencing the All Writs act of 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... but dropped it when they unlocked the device by other means., and the issue hasn't really made it through the court system, so it's unclear what the law requires.

Until a federal case gets to the appeals court level it basically won't establish any binding precedent in other cases under stare decisis.
I no longer find interesting things in the top results like 10 years ago. Some search terms only return about 100 results when there should be many more.

Academic websites seem to have nearly vanished from the results.

Perhaps the results get better if you pay Google by allowing them cookies, but I think that wasn't necessary 10 years ago either.

So the difference is that in a non-biased library you find many more and interesting sources.
> Will it rely on google DNS?
You bet!
The amount of functionality does not compare to other table/grid frameworks. This library is not "just a JS plugin for tables", it can do a lot of things. If you try to rewrite it yourself you'll need a lot of man-days to do that.

On the other note:

What if you fork that repo and change something small, can you use it for commercial purposes? Or is it stated that any modification MUST use the same license, and you must pay the original creators?
Amazing company, right up there with Borland and I don't know how many others.
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Americans have never had to experience these sorts of policies

But Americans did have to experience their embassy invaded and its personnel taken hostage -- an extremely rare event (the only similar case I can recall was the MRTA takeover of the Japanese embassy in Lima).
We are living in America,
Coca cola, wonderbra...

Your xenophobia is leaking, in this case a healthy dose of CIA history might be able to adjust your moral compass and prevent you from spreading hate and fear online.
the left bias of twitter is well documented and more or less admitted to by the execs.

There is zero evidence they would be right biased
Only if you tattoo source code on your.....

I personally prefer to keep my code private by other means. But no judgement, hehe :)
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Good, they should push this to all old account retroactively as well.
How to choose a open source project that generate forms from a JSON schema
We were in a private office and it was still loud whenever the people in the next office played music, someone walked down the corridor, people were having a discussion in the kitchen, people in the large unroofed office downstairs were loud, or when the mysterious noise in the roof kicked off.

Now we're not in a WeWork and it is blissfully quiet.
There's another post explaining why Meson is trying to do what it is trying to do. My takeaway was that having a single universal build system is easier to deal with than multiple splintered ones, full of duplicated effort:

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-possible-futures-o...
Nice strawman you made there

You know full well that is not the type of reporting that I was talking about.

There are outrage mobs mass reporting people over jokes, things they find "offensive", and hurt feeling.
I'm not sure that comparing trackpads on mouseaccuracy.com may be a good idea...
I am using a Dell E7270, and I'm able to get a [244 score](https://vgy.me/UJ7LW4.png) on it (and I never complained about my touchpad).
Of course, I would love it to improve even further, but I don't feel it to be so bad after all, but I see people complaining when what we (or, at least I) have is pretty good...
Suppose Iran passed a law invalidating all patents of drugs it cannot buy on the market at market prices.

Like India?
This is neat.

>Potential fields for usage include font design and machine learning.

Am I correct that this scheme doesn't capture stroke info? I think that would be needed for fonts / handwriting recognition. Fonts have serifs / varying brush widths depending on stroke order and direction. Hand-drawn characters can also look quite different from the printed form (angles of strokes, two consecutive strokes being drawn without lifting the pen even though the printed form has two separate lines, etc).

Edit: As an example, 人 is defined as 257 which is certainly how it appears in print. However it is usually hand-written as something closer to 357, with 37 being the first stroke and 5 being the second. https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/stroke_order_det...
I had similar issue, but, I was able to re-upload the app. App contained logo of my company, which was flagged as copyrighted material (with copyrights belonging to my company, but when Google cared).
And he didnt even start to talk about the people showing up because it became lucrative.
Facebook is a dying platform, but I would love to understand why you believe it was an effective policy.

It is not really enforced either, I know several people that have multiple accounts under fake names on Facebook
The benefit of the server browsers is that there were tons of positive gaming communities that competed around making the best and friendliest server possible in the early 2000's. I fondly remember playing Call of Duty as a tween with other community members that were adults and learned how to have fun, manage disagreements, and deal with problematic people without screaming profanities and raging about other peoples' mother.

The death of self-hosted servers means the death of admin powers which means the death of building a gaming community one wants to see come to fruition. Those admin powers are key to protecting vulnerable people from general assholes. And the "modern" online "report a person" is woefully laughable in comparison.
I worked for a company where a lot of ICs were also assigned reportes but they weren't doing full time management. They were just interacting with their coach/mentor, doing weekly meetings and stuff. I believe transition from developer to Lead to Manager is smooth than becoming manager and getting away from coding and doing mgmt just overnight.
I loved this graphic novel treatment that Art of Manliness did for a short excerpt of his autobiography:

"You have seen how a man was made a slave. You shall see how a slave was made a man."

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/an-original-aom-comi...
Is there anyone here who still writes code in BASIC? If so which interpreter/compiler do you use?
Anybody who thinks that Kubernetes can be compared to AWS has absolutely no idea what these things are.
I always fine is amusing when Authoritarians that support censorship all of a sudden love liberty when they can use it to support censorship

The fact that I do not have a "right" to use twitter has no bearing on if Twitter engages in mass censorship of their platform, I did not claim that I have a right to use twitter, or that twitter did not have a right to censor it

Twitter can come out tomorrow and say only left identitarians are welcome on twitter, and everyone else would be banned. That would be be mass censorship AND with in their rights as a private company
Its relevant, its concrete, I agree with everything he said. But mostly I just got caught up in his writing-style which is incredibly enticing. Well done man!
One thing that might help is to have pricing front and centre.
You could create images from graphviz for quite long time.
http://www.webgraphviz.com/
Google is de-facto monopolist if you want to make money off your apps/games. Company was publishing same game on basically all android stores, and returns were less than one hundredth comparing to the Play Store; even if it was featured in other stores.
"Games" part considered advertising because you are advertising your own games. You should rename it to like "Our Other Games", "Check Other Games" or just add "ADS" label to pictures and update your new APK.
I (35 years old, grew up playing PC and GameBoy games since the late 80s) had no trouble accepting that the games I can play are either the once per year birthday presents or whatever pirated floppy my friends at school gave me that worked on a PC XT clone with a monochrome monitor (and lot of those that worked played way too slow on my computer).
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This is a pretty good read on Google's strategy for dealing with AWS - https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-ch...
The niche store focusing on open-source software is https://f-droid.org/ . The only apps I get from Google are various proprietary messaging apps where network effects prevent me from deleting them.

There are also OEM-specific stores (Amazon, Chinese manufacturers) and some focusing on countries where Google Play is unavailable like https://cafebazaar.ir/?l=en for Iran or, again, various Chinese stores.

Edit: the situation is a lot like that of browsers, actually. There are many alternatives, but most people are only aware of the one they're using.
In firefox you should tweak the settings of mousewheel.withcontrol.action in about:config. The default behavior is pretty terrible.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1018310
I assume they were being sarcastic...
> What stops Google from open sourcing Datastore, or AWS from open sourcing dynamoDB?

They have invested millions into creating cloud software. If they open source it, what is stopping other firms from taking that software and creating their own cloud offering?

Would you work for free? Would you open source all the work you have done?
AWS no other choice? I am not sure if you are following what AWS does (like for example the MongoDB story).

>> The last thing Amazon wants is to be easy replaceable with a different provider. I guess this is same with the underdogs as well(i.e Google/Microsoft) and that's why they do all they can to lock you in with proprietary services(i.e Appengine, Datastore etc).

Datastore has S3 API and it is trivial to replace it with other products.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability
> Nothing in the MIT license says that you can [...] restrict licensing terms

The MIT license explicitly grants the right to sublicense.
I snickered at first but couldn't stop imagining ways to implement this. Thanks for giving me something to kickstart my brain today.
The SE has a slightly higher resolution camera than the XR.
Because people don’t want to spend hours uninstalling malware their devices.
For me, the most challenging part was doing performance evaluations among different engineers where some was doing really amazing stuff but they weren't good at selling while others weren't doing anything impressive but selling it very smartly. Being manager, doing code reviews, going through ticket managers and other tools you can see this who is what and how much but you can barely influence 360 reviews.

On another occasion, it really got out of hands, when I was working on totally independent team and my people working on so many different teams. Being the guys, you gotta know ins/outs of all these projects going on while not loosing track of yours
Because it's a waste of time?

In my the same way I spent years of my life thinking about 'the desktop' when the desktop was about to get killed by mobile, arguing about MicroVMs vs containers is useless: they're just somewhere to run functions.
The same is true with photography. Take tonnes of photos, and some will be great. You begin to take on board what makes some photos better than others. It seems to raise the quality of all the photos. We're basically talking about focused practice, but applied to aesthetics.
"A good developer can't a good manager, similarly a good manager can't be a good developer" combination of both is a rare case
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It makes sense to have their subscription services available to as many people as possible. One of the reasons to push everything video related into the TV app is to be compatible with all the new smart TVs and boxes I suppose.

News and Music could have web versions quite easily, there are third party clients for Music already.
Maybe you also want to try Edotor:

https://edotor.net

Disclaimer: I'm the author.
And society fixed it by voting for the vendors that baby proofed the devices.
Google banned me for deceptive ads. I converted the app. to Objective-C and made it into iTunes with no issues.
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The issue I have with WeWork, aside from the fact that they're somehow a tech company, is that they have competitors that does the exact same thing... but who are profitable.

You have a company like Regus, that's not a tech company, they have a MUCH low evaluation, but makes a profit and having more offices.
FWIW, there are far more businesses on social media than that. There’s an entire culture of chefs, makeup artists, and the like that advertises solely on twitter/instagram/etc. Social media is actually a really effective tool to reach your target audience in these cases.
Like the article says, they jump, then flap, which is also what birds and bats do.
Exactly! This looks like an apples vs. oranges comparison.
Mmm

Having been on a high profile (presented at the IEEE) early RDA/DSDM/Agile project at British Telecom in the mid 90's.

1 You produce code faster - not necessarily better 1 month vs 2 years :-)
2 We had a dedicated section of the office just for the team - not the classic open plan office.
In a software company you can make the argument that everyone contributes to the process of making software. I would say that managing resources towards the development of a product IS indirectly creating software.
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I feel like often people want to have their cake and eat it. As in they want both freedom to switch services easily and easy-of-use. What I am saying is that ease-of-use sometimes comes at a cost and that cost is lock-in.

No one is forcing you to use AWS. You could build your own private cloud datacenter, implement OpenStack, configure k8 and deploy your docker containers. If a server fails, replace it. Install your updates etc. To me that sounds like a lot of work (assuming I don't have a large organisation behind me) and I would rather have some of that setup for me. It's a trade-off...
Cloud feudalism... https://hbr.org/2013/06/you-have-no-control-over-s
source on the gamer reference? nearly every tournament i see either razer or logitech. haven't seen any ms mouses in the past 3 years and i see all the major tourneys(cs,overwatch,dota etc)

googling returns no results apart from a forum link from 2013 about quake
To people complaining about Apple getting too big and whether they should be allowed to roll out such services. Look at MasterCard and Visa. Lol
Not in the UK you cant.
I don't think they intend to be as out-of-date as they are. They are supposed to be around a version behind. So they should really be releasing 1.13 soon rather than 1.12.

They have had a few big tech changes in the 1.9/1.10/1.11 timeline so hopefully they will be able to catchup a little.
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My thoughts exactly. Insofar as Kubernetes provides one abstraction (for container orchestration) it reduces lock-in and provides standardisation for just a small part of the IT landscape, and even then there are alternatives that may be more appropriate depending on the use-case (Heroku, Docker swarm mode, ECS, Fargate, serverless).
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