skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hip hop is different than rap. Rap as a genre tends to glorify the violence, etc. Hip hop tends to glorify a particular culture. Of the latter I am a fan. Of the former, not very much, mostly because it has become pretty boring and repetitive and has lost the creativity, clever wordplay and fun rhythm. Instead, it just substitutes sex, drugs and violence to make up for lack of substance, and sells out the African American community for the entertainment of white rich kids.

That being said, a few of the newer rappers do have some poetic things to say.
This exactly. I don't know if it's Ive or Cook, but I'm really wondering what I'm doing to do when my older Apple devices kick the bucket.

Apple, if you're listening, bring back real keyboards and the headphone jack!
Interesting that this comes at a time when Apple is redefining itself with Privacy, iPadOS and other major efforts. Could this have been a planned announcement? Just wondering the timing and if it means anything..
You're right! I didn't realize it didn't affect landscape mode. That's probably a bug.
A recruiter can help you break into the industry. You can contact them directly or apply to jobs that they represent and they will contact you if they're interested. I'm not sure what the market is like these days for junior people, my guess is you need at least a few years of experience as a working programmer before a recruiter would be interested.

There are only a few big systematic funds. I think it's just Two Sigma, Jane Street, Citadel, Point 72/Cubist and AQR. Maybe a few others. You can apply to those yourself, but they're picky. Then you can look on LinkedIn for hedge funds looking for programmers, although it may not be obvious which are discretionary versus systematic.

Hedge funds are only in a few cities. About half are in NYC and Connecticut, then some are in Chicago, Boston, Houston and the Bay area. And maybe a few small ones elsewhere on the West coast, I'm not familiar with that area.
I, even (especially?) as a long-time Apple fanboy, am looking forward to some fresh design blood in the Apple ecosystem.

AAPL is down about 1%. So I guess the market values Ive at around $9B? :P
In that case, how about a derivative that is a bit like a credit default swap, but it's a sort of legal compliance swap? If a company follows the law, the issuer pays you a modest coupon, but if the company breaks the law, you have to pay the issuer a large indemnity.

It would be a bit like a pandemic bond:

https://www.iii.org/insuranceindustryblog/pandemic-catastrop...

You might even find ready counterparties amongst firms that do business with the company in question, or law firms who take them on on a retainer basis.

I unironically quite like this idea. Now, who do i know at an investment bank?
I’m an extra class and I’ve heard this argument my entire life. I think it’s bunk. If Congress wants to take away anything they don’t need a reason.

You know what will make ham radio lose its spectrum? Have zero constituency, which will happen once we have run off anyone who wants to experiment on the edge of what is possible with ham radio.
If you cant directly measure the size, you can do it indirectly, put a character into a fixed size box with overflow scroll on and if scroll bars appear its less than the fixed size. Do you now want to remove the ability to set sizes on elements or to detect when scroll bars appear? I think this is a rabbit hole that only ends with removing javascript from the browser, which I certainly would be against.

I think a much more reasonable solution would be to enact and enforce laws that protect private information.
The concept is the same for any projectile weapon: I'm going to convert stored energy into kinetic energy.

Bow and arrow? Stored energy in the bow turned into kinetic energy in the arrow. Handgun/cannon/musket? Stored chemical energy in some compound, quickly converted into kinetic energy in the bullet via exploding.

A rail gun isn't much different- it's just a different means to store the energy (in electrical storage) and a different means to apply the energy to the projectile (magnets). The real problem is that these two changes require a lot of overhead in terms of gear to make it work. It's only worthwhile to do it if you intend to really, really add a lot of kinetic energy to something.

It's the same reason the electric car has taken 100 years to finally be worthwhile- chemical energy is much more dense and easy to convert into kinetic energy. Battery tech is only now catching up to the point that it's worth doing.
In the name of all the farmers who earn good money by dragging people out of snow and mud, misguided by google maps, i would like to thank google.

My father regularly drags people out of 2ms of snow in winter, when a given up road is proposed to people who want to take a shortcut.
China Hustle
I just want a thick MacBook Pro again. To my brain, thin = flimsy and cheap. Give me something with some weight to it, and a keyboard that doesn't suck. Heck, just refresh the 2011 design with modern tech and I'll be happy.

(And no more friggin' touchbar that messes up my Vim workflow. please!)
yes! I dont think many of these other "outraged" commentators have been sucker-punched or tripped hard at a Black Flag show !! its a complicated thing here, psychological mirror and projection (in the psycho-analytic sense), reinforcement in art, social peer pressures, set and setting, permission by default, enabling behaviors .. many factors.

For anyone who lives freedom (and survives it), it is all the more important to see clearly what is happening in the chains of cause-and-effect, dont you think? instead of romanticizing things, clinging to pure outrage or self-righteous statements, attacking a messenger, etc..
That really stupid naming was a function of fitting that table into one column ;-). Page limits.
But then when you go to enter a URL it jumps to the top. That was annoying as I was pasting in all the URLs from my other browser.
I find retaining information in digital books much more difficult. I think the lack of a tactile third dimension when reading eliminates a search index in my memory and it really effects how I parse the book. I tried reading the most recent GoT book in digital form and I just could not keep track of everyone (admittedly it had been several years since I read the previous installment in dead tree form, so I didn't have a current index of all the characters fresh in my memory). I gave up about 1/4 of the way through and just watched the tv show :)
A good question to ask is if it would still take 2 min if hooked up to a ship's nuclear reactor power grid, or if the 2 min is more of an artifact of it being an alpha test rig designed more for data and refining the design.

I'm positive that at the very least they've got plans for making the version fire faster than one shot ever 2 min in a production model, even if that means throwing 16 times the hardware / capacity at the charging and cooling components.
Nitpick: the velocity grows linearly, not exponentially.
Yes...does any sane person today think slave owners and nazis were on the correct side of morality?
Twitter will hide rule-breaking politicians' tweets
With the iPhone X Apple put serious R&D into a display that folds back on itself for the sole reason that a phone is more ascetically pleasing when the boarders are symmetrical. Even after a year and a half every phone except the iPhone has an asymmetrical chin. Will Apple still be able to make decisions like that without Ive in a leadership position? For Apple's sake I really hope so.
Do you have a link for where this is being worked on?
I think they use FOMO effectively in their marketing strategy.

I actually applied for a Superhuman account a few months ago (I am guessing before they went 'invite only'). Went through the questionnaire process then received an email from one of their staff saying I wasn't a good fit because I had more than one (I have 6) G-Suite email accounts, whereas their product only supports one email account for best results.

I was upset for a few seconds, but then that was replaced by grudging admiration that they had a clear focus of their ideal customer and onboarding expectations and were prepared to say 'no' to some people to filter them out.

But I really do wonder how many people have just the one email address these days? Startup founders especially would have a plethora. Would be good if they stated up front that they only cater for people with one email address - that would save them a lot of vetting time, and also make it clear up front for people spending time trying to get an invite that won't make it past the first gatekeeper.
"train roof thing": Pantograph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph_(transport)

Though for ground-leven / "third rail" conductors, a sliding shoe is more appropriate.
Still funny. >> https://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/

The freeway sign was great >> https://66.media.tumblr.com/2fa4ae4cfe93b3662ca9ac0b60769861...
Like I said: it’s not an argument, it’s an attack. Plus I’m sure that there’d be many people here able to counter your claim regardless of the compensation number you drop.
Perhaps, or maybe this was because he had already clocked out, taking less active role.

He has probably been planning this for a long time.
Then the problem instead becomes what is a valid comment, and a valid commenter (identity). Otherwise the vast majority of comments will be: WaNt A BiGgEr SoMeThInG? Go tO wWw.S0mEgR0$$sItE.cOm
What does FB do when an answer has been created?
I'm with you on this one. I don't think mozilla is as privacy oriented as HN would make you think.

* They pushed ad/extension for a TV show to everyone

* They silently served modified installers to a small subset of users downloading firefox which sent all browsing data to a 3rd party by default.

* Disabling experiments used for pushing the mr robot ad does not disable "normandy" - which is practically the same thing and they used to push new certificates once their old ones expired and broke addons recently. This feature is hidden in advanced settings.

And then as you say, using google analytics everywhere (giving google data), painting google indirectly as evil while having it as a default engine and collecting google money.
Qualify for the CTF, then win it. Giving a talk is also good.
I love Superhuman, and I do think the hype is deserved. It has a few innovative features (like split inboxes and an entirely keyboard focused UI), but the real appeal is polish. It really is fast, but it's consistent and that's the key. If it weren't consistent or if it had random latency spikes it wouldn't be great, but it is.
Sure, have a look here:

https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction

The second chart of the page shows the share of people who say they are either very happy or mostly happy, click on "Map" in the bottom right corner to see all the countries for which data is available.

Sample:
US: 90 percent say they are happy
China: 85 %
Ethiopia: 63 %
Why would this not be planned at a trillion dollar company with a key historic person that spent 30 years there?
What they had to fix was not "keeping the money", it was a bad UI that implied creators had accounts.
weren't they VC founded from the start? If I remember the story correctly, they didn't release a product for (1-2?) years while having multiple developers in the bay area.
I do, and I can make an informed choice. Unless your website has a very eclectic audience, I’m not the only one using your services.
I'd love one, if you would be so kind. Email in my profile.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298653.
It was a noble concept, but everybody fell off the track pretty fast (this concept was started by the last Sikh Guru in 1699, a little over 300 years ago). Nowadays Singh and Kaur is mostly used as a middle name, and everybody has a last name. The last names tell you which "caste" the person is.
Couldn’t figure out what you’re referring to with the notch. Can you show some illustration of this or something to read?
The amount they're charging me for my mediocre anglo internet LTE connection is definitely securities fraud.
I travel frequently for work. I like having a pro machine that is light and thin. I am okay with compromises, but understand that the target audience feels differently. I believe my Macbook Pro goes more places than before due to the compactness. That includes using python, photo, design, and general office work.
A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
> Went through the questionnaire process then received an email from one of their staff saying I wasn't a good fit because I had more than one (I have 6) G-Suite email accounts, whereas their product only supports one email account for best results.

I believe this has changed now. You can certainly add more accounts to Superhuman and it has keyboard shortcuts to swap between them. I use it daily like this. If you're really interested, you could reach back out and I'm sure they'd let you jump on board now.
Can someone related to Google answer me - why doesn't Google have an option to "Avoid unpaved roads"?
That's plain naked rentseeking. I'd get them charging a nominal sum to prevent abuse (like "why I'd buy any books if I can just check out everything for free in the library" - virtually nobody ever says that but maybe they're afraid of it) but $55 is way over the cost of an average book, let alone ebook, and expiring them makes zero sense since popular book stops bringing substantial income quite soon so they literally lose nothing allowing the library to keep it.
MeshTalk can make calls and send texts with no carrier or Internet connection
An attacker can use a botnet to try to login your site from a list of username/passwords from the latest big data breach.

They will get likely access of a small percentage of those accounts and you have to do damage control.
And off the invite went. Enjoy!
Sure! But one product doesn't adjust it very far. So next time I hear something is a "cryptocurrency product", instead of 95% scam alert I'll be at 93-94% scam alert.
Ok, but if it wasn't for private interests pushing those laws, I really doubt a government would pass them. So saying that it's the government fault is true, but not the whole picture. You should feel disdain for both the government and the lobbies, if you have a problem with absurd copyright laws.
? OP is saying that the laser will identify the target, the weapon will 'take out' the target.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, this is an interesting idea. I'd love to see Jony Ive's design language make it into other products like shoes or car interiors.
It wasn't even shells hitting magazines. It was shells hitting gun turrets, with the explosions reaching the magazines.

In the Battle of Jutland (The largest naval battle of WWI), the Royal Navy lost three capital ships (Two battlecruisers and a heavy cruiser) to single shells that struck their gun turrets, detonating their ammo magazines.

The gun turrets were, in theory, supposed to be sealed off, by blast doors, from their magazines - but in order to increase fire rates, it was standard practice to leave those doors open in combat.

The Germans, not being suicidal lunatics, kept equivalent blast doors closed, which is why none of their capital ships went up in flames, despite taking a lot more damage.
Funnily enough, top comments say it works only for people with one account :)
^ THIS.

Please listen Mozilla. Firefox is the only browser that works as intended for me, on mobile. Cookie AutoDelete + uBlock Origin and Dark Reader. What a blessing.
There is no minimum viable product here. The MVP was the first usable mobile Firefox. A version of Firefox without extension support is just broken.
In addition to familiarity as others have mentioned: when you scroll a site, it feels natural to "scroll away" the UI on the top. If you have UI on the bottom, and you want to hide it when scrolling, that doesn't feel as natural.
What I was pointing out is that distraction is the problem. Walking on a street and operating a vehicle are both potentially dangerous tasks, and people need to be vigilant looking out for others and themselves. If you're going to cross the road -jaywalking or not-, you should look both ways. You can't assume that a driver is going to see you, just as a driver can't assume that you aren't going to hop out in front of them, right or wrong as you feel that may be.
The old designs used to use copper behind the projectile. The current would make it vaporize and be a conducting gas/plasma thing to push the projectile along with the lorentz force.
This is entirely dependent on where you live, and where iPhone sales are concentrated. Look at the charts in [1] below. iPhone sales in China + Japan + the world > US + Europe. Women in Asia more frequently wear skirts to work, and tend to carry purses/shoulderbags more than, say, a casually-dressed American woman might. So it's not silly for >50% of iPhone sales (and also >50% of our species, see [2] below) to be heavily impacted by the market in countries where women "dressing down" is less tolerated or prevalent.

Note: I'm a dude who also prefers smaller phones. I have a used iPhone 5S but my primary phones are a slightly larger Android phone and a very large rugged Chinese phone (giant battery, dual SIM, good RAM, this is my travel phone).

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-region-ch...
[2]https://brilliantmaps.com/population-circle/
It's Electron, and that does bring memory concerns, but it is really fast. It's the first electron app I've used that has convinced me that a well-built electron app can exist, if you put the work into it.

It's as snappy as a native app to me, and I have said that about no other electron apps.
NASA approves development of flying drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan
Limiting a literature review to 7 studies based on frequency of citation is pretty understandable, especially for a relatively young research topic. Of the 2 studies which showed a significant backfire effect, the findings of the first were considered "overstated and oversold" by its own authors and the second only found evidence of the effect in one of four situations. The second was also partially replicated in a later study which found no evidence of the backfire effect.

That being said, the author of the review probably would not want you to be convinced by a single pop-sci piece covering her work. This "major breakthrough," as you describe it, does not in fact share space with any tweets or mentions of Instagram, but can be found here: https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/backfire_report_fullfact....
http://archive.is/OXMxJ
I also kinda wonder if this is "signaling value." Trying really hard to hype up that "this is for successful executives who don't mind blowing 30 a month" as a way for people to try to remind themselves/friends "Hey I'm a powerful person, I spend 30 a month on my email like executives!"
Per Barbara Bermes, senior product manager in firefox mobile, addons are not part of the minimum viable product. They're in the "backlog"
I wouldn't rank it among the best ever written, but fascinating enough in its own right. I've read it several times, and loaned/given it to friends too. Now I'm wondering about the annotated edition!
Worthy of the DRM Graveyard (a subreddit I created just for this, thanks!)
I’m not a rich business executive and I love Superhuman. I’m happy to pay $30/m for it. If it saves me 10 minutes a month (and it does) it’s a no-brainer.
Here's a good explanation: https://www.redmondpie.com/why-most-2018-smartphones-have-ch...
Fees in ATMs around Europe are rarely as extortionate as they are in the US

Sepa is not instant but it's miles ahead of ACH
Nor has anyone else claimed that... it would kind of defeat the purpose of forming a separate company, wouldn't it.

The alternative is that this is actually a PR spin on Ive leaving Apple, and he'll have no influence over Apple products any more. I prefer to think it's not that though, and I'll get an Ive designed iPhone and an Ive design Dell.
This looks really great, bought Pro already and looking forward to seeing it evolve. Could I please put in a request for krypt.co key support?
Information hiding is key. I get bombarded by so many trash emails every day that I could spend weeks unsubscribing to stuff. When Gmail came out with their tabbed interface and hid all the marketing messages behind a tab, I started using email again for the first time in about 7 years. Before that it was actually less useful than postal mail because I couldn't find anything for the flood of crap.

That's something Outlook and Thunderbird don't do, is give you convenient features to hide information. Sure, you can organize things into folders or labels, colorize things for follow-up, sort emails, etc., but you're fundamentally limited by their model of "emails should be in a list, like a database. And they should be in chronological order. And you deal with them in chronological order, or you colorize them."
> the tracker blocking also blocks many ads

It doesn't block ads. It blocks trackers that sometimes happen to be ads too. But when it comes to ad blocking, it's no better than Chrome.
Given his penchant for thinness over function, I hope this means we can have a thicker pro laptop again, with all the ports back and a more robust keyboard.
I found that for certain types of books, digital works fine, while for others it is a disaster. For novels, poems, and other non-textbook books without tons of graphics, ebooks are great. For textbooks or other materials where you are expected to flip back and forth through pages trying to digest the material, as well as for books with tons of graphs and diagrams, ebooks are indeed suboptimal.

My personal rule is that I read most of the books in digital, and then buy a hard copy if I end up liking the book a lot. This way I don't have shelves filled with a ton of dead tree books that occupy precious space in my dwelling, I have all the books I care and love in a physical format that will never go away or get DRMd, and the authors (of the books I ended up liking) get rewarded more than if I just bought a single digital or a physical copy.

P.S. Same for me with music. Listening to a ton of stuff in digital, buying vinyls and concert tickets for artists I end up liking a lot.
Yeah, it was a near-total waste of my time reading that article. Almost 100% hype with no actual content. Fortunately, the Superhuman website the author linked to tells you all about it. Many features looked good, too.

https://superhuman.com/
I'm a huge fan of Matt Levine, but i'm an even bigger fan of Geoffrey K. Pullum! Here's his proof of the undecidability of the halting problem, in verse:

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html
Is it even possible to delete something from the middle of a tape (assuming tape backups are used)? The only thing that can be done is to read the tape in, transfer all "good" data to another tape, then erase the original tape.
I wouldn't put cables on him, but he did have a big hand in the 2013 Mac Pro, which was possibly the worst thought-out Apple product of the last decade.

He did push boundaries, but sometimes boundaries pushed back.
Some (few) stores offer DRM-free PDF versions, usually with a personalized watermark.

I feel like that's a good compromise, I get a DRM-free PDF and I can only share it with people I trust not to put it online. And the watermark is a non-issue because it doesn't bother/impact me.