skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a silly statement

No, it's silly to assume that your experiences are the only experiences that exist.

Nearly every woman I know carries it in the back pocket of her jeans/pants

Most of the women I know only wear jeans on weekends. And some, not even then. I don't own a pair of jeans at all. My wife has one that she breaks out for Halloween or gardening.

Some will also carry it in their purse when her clothes don't have usable pockets.

Some women can't carry a purse with them all day to stick a phone in. For example, shopgirls in high-end boutiques, who can't hold a purse while doing their jobs, and also wear clothing that more often than not does not have pockets.

At one time Burberry made a cross-body purse that was just a strap and a tasteful phone case. It was very popular among the class of women for whom jeans aren't a fashion go-to.
Nothing wrong with USB-C and the big trackpad is fine too, and I would love to have touchID on my 2015MBP. But getting rid of mag power and the USB-A ports, HDMI port, and SD card slot was a big step back.

Maybe you don't ever need to present anything from your laptop, but if you talk to anyone who does, they will tell you how awful it is to not have an HDMI port. The USB-C to HDMI is the worst adapter I've ever seen.

And if you're a semi-pro photographer, the lack of an SD card slot is terrible. And of course almost all accessories are still USB-A.
Because it's the only pocket available on most of our pants. The front pockets are sewn shut or cut in half to maintain a feminine silhouette in jeans. They often remove the zipper for the same reason.

Even this back pocket is small and a bad way to carry a phone, as evidenced by the fact that you can see it sticking out. You can't sit and you can't run without the fear of dropping it.
I'm a Sikh, and that's very correct. Sikhism discourages living as a recluse or retreating from the world. You are supposed to actively participate in the society, while continuously learning how to become a better person. That's the literal meaning of the word 'Sikh' - a disciple or learner.
Would you please stop breaking the HN guidelines so we don't have to ban you again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're pompous and yet irrelevant.
Yeah, the designer who shat out the worst keyboards on the market, which cripple $4000 computers... and then doubled down on the grossly defective design by putting condoms under every key.

This is after deleting a dozen useful keys and replacing them with an asinine and embarrassing emoji bar... again on a "pro" computer without even offering the option to get rid of it... and yet that option exists on the non-"pro" Air.

The designer who declared that you don't want more battery capacity in your mobile device, so users are carrying power bricks and wads of wire around with them and begging bartenders to plug their iPhones in, or crawling under tables in public places to do so.

The designer who removed headphone jacks from MEDIA-CENTRIC phones, phones that are supposed to provide access to streaming-media services and the future of Apple.

The designer who turned out a computer with, in effect, no I/O ports.

The designer who championed peek-a-boo UI and the idiotic "flat" look, where using software is now an Easter-egg hunt with many controls disguised as plain text and the states of others indistinguishable.

And I don't even care if he ripped off earlier designers. The real problem is that he has waged a war on USEFULNESS that has driven the mobile-phone market and computer markets BACKWARD.
I didn't, but assume this is the case with everything. I mostly care about giving my data away for free (cut me in please), but none of my non-HN commenting roommates knew. Is their privacy less important than mine?
Why Indent Code?
Indentation obviously makes code easier to read and parse (by humans). It is obviously very important.

But it leads to many annoying issues, say with git tracking line changes (if I un-indent a code block it is all marked as changed even though the logic behind it hasn't, so a reviewer shouldn't waste time looking over the changes). Also having to configure your editor to indent correctly and the creation of many indentation rules. It makes reaching the "80 character limit" come much faster depending on how you indent code and pushes code off over your screen so you have to use line wrap or scroll sideways.

I was thinking, why not instead of indenting the code we could not indent the code and leave it to the editor to handle formatting it visually.

Now any editor will be able to parse this and display it how I would like. Say I prefer 2 space indentation it can do that instead of 8 which others prefer. Maybe I don't like indenting the code and instead would like the first "indentation" level to be underscored green, the second blue and the third red. Well it would be up to me.

Is this a horrible idea? I think it would solve a few problems and doesn't cause many problems.
I went 2011 to 2015 last year. Turns out it was really easy to find a 2015 refurb on Apple's store. But you should probably do it sooner than later, as they will get more rare the further out we get from 2015.
given their recent focus on being a services/media company, it wouldn't surprise me if they moved out of hardware entirely at some point in the future.
He talked about the importance of anonymizing off-ramps and on-ramps for regular users by design and limiting history to one transaction for privacy protection.
Necessity without a doubt. Without, My eyes burns and I start to get a headache.
woe, thy name is donglelyfe
Except in countries where copyright terms are longer than in the US: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html
Safe Browsing doesn't report plaintext urls to Google. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing and the more precisely the Update API it's using from https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/
Railgun projectiles are smaller than missiles, but the guns themselves aren't smaller, are they?
What does it provide that other email clients don't?
That they removed MagSafe boggles the mind. The usability was objectively better than the replacement.

You could easily plug it in even if blindfolded. And no problem when the cord got unexpectedly pulled or tripped on.

Every time I plug in my new macbook I miss it.
Mobile Chrome is moving to address bar on top, buttons / tab switcher on the bottom.
He's going to agree to one after leaving? As a part of severance?
It's a digital version of Supreme.
The books will stop working
I wonder if charisma is actually an anti-pattern.

Paul Graham is an interesting example -- he's not a great speaker. He's not smooth. But he's obviously smart and interesting in a less polished way. In a way this makes me believe what he's saying more, because I don't think I'm being sold.

Have you ever heard Elon Musk speak? Or Mark Zuckerberg in the early days? They almost have the opposite of polished charisma. And yet they're extremely successful entrepreneurs.
Your browser could crash during step 3, moving focus to the next open window. This window could be a chat window. It's an unlikely situation, but it's not inconceivable.
Or maybe just maybe market decided that this was actually the best form factor for computer so far? Maybe also not unrelated to the fact that screens are rectangle...

You can’t blame Apple as it’s one of the few company that actually tried alternatives... that market rejected.

To name a few : the twentieth anniversary Mac, the "Luxo" iMac, and more recently the trashcan MacPro
No, in the you're wrong unequivocally, but the ideas that we can "know the will of the founders" and "the will of the founders somehow matters" is really interesting in 2019.
If I were going to do serious work with Termux, I would invest in Bluetooth keyboard.
Ronald Reagan was way ahead of you (and everyone else). Back in 1987, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also known as "Star Wars") featured this concept.

The press excoriated him (hence the derogatory name "Star Wars" being affixed to the program).

The part you mention was called "Brilliant Pebbles", and featured space-based weapons as a cornerstone of the initiative. [0][1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/25/science/what-s-next-for-s...
None of the links work. Any source and log on say github?
If I could upvote this comment twice, I would.
This succinctly summarises my views on the subject. We shouldn't have to justify _why_ we don't want our private information harvested by these companies.
I would still feel remarkably uneasy even _if_ Facebook and Google were demonstrably benevolent citizens of the online world, but we've seen time and time again how invasive and malicious they can be. The fact that both of these companies have political ambition makes the entire situation much scarier.
Count me out.
According to Youtube [0], a part of the Premium cost goes directly to creators based on how much time you spend watching their channel. Also, you're not only paying for pure hosting, but for the millions of engineering hour that went into creating the platform. I understand average users not realizing this, but HN should know more than most how much work goes into implementing these services.

And going back to the ad discussion, if you compare it to traditional media, you get to pay more than 10$ and still have to sit through 2-3m of advertisement, compared to the 5-10s long ads on Youtube.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276
Little's Law is not directly applicable here. LL tells us the average wait time given the arrival rate and average size of the queue. Only one of those three things are known, and the distribution is relevant for calculating a second (letting us use LL to find the third).

There's a really obvious counterexample to "the distribution doesn't matter": with a uniform distribution, the average wait time will be zero.
There are all sorts of ways they messed up with that test, the design of the system in general, etc.

A lot was learned, some of it costly stuff that we as a species really didn't need to pay for again, and some things that were new and valuable as a result of failure that ethnically could never be intentionally replicated.

One of the better lessons might be to avoid deviating from pre-planned test procedures, and for every major step to have an 'abort' path (or two) for safely entering either safety or normal operating procedures.
For all but the tiniest fraction of human history, nearly everyone alive was enslaved or forcefully controlled by the wicked and strong. If rail guns help maintain this tiny sliver of historic wonder, where people are freer every day, then yeah, they’re exciting.
X was my one of my dad's favorites growing up in LA, and I got to see them a couple years ago at The Fillmore with him and my brothers. Was a very good time, glad they're still out touring here and there.
Then if you object to advertising, don't view content backed by advertising.
Yes, but not both. You have ground to air, ground to ground, ship to ground, ship to ship. For the most part (with some standouts that do multi-role such as the Tomahawk) each munition is specialized for a single role. The railgun is being heralded as being capable of doing all 3 for limited use cases, which is fairly unique.
Tyranny of design. Interesting thought. What if he was let go after seeing the reaction to the new Mac compared to the trash can?
> I'm interested. I hate how slow Gmail feels these days – not sure whether it's gotten slower or my expectations have gotten higher, but either way, I only use it for lack of a good alternative.

I switched to FastMail for this exact reason and have not been happier. And its not a company backed by VC.
All I want from email is for any sent to me to bounce unless the sender pays me the current price of a USPS forever stamp.
Ok thanks that is a useful mental model
Many text editors and IDEs can reveal the type of an expression in real time. I'm surprised the author doesn't mention this.
>The most shocking angle of all, is how willing people are to build this technology - like, the cool factor overrides any moral or ethical issues

People tell themselves all sorts of things to justify this kind of cognitive dissonance. The predominant arguments I've seen are:

A) Technology isn't good/bad, it's how you use it. And fortunately for the engineers, the tech will be used far away by people they'll never meet and the details of which will remain classified. Out of sight, out of mind.

B) If we don't build it, someone else will. And we don't want this tech to fall into our enemy's hands first, do we? Best defense is a good offense.
Russia is one of the best black boxes to obfuscate movement from the US.

Very possible he left Russia a long time ago. Nobody is closely tracking cargo ships traveling through the arctic.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our many requests to stop.

If we allow users to harass and attack people who have genuine expertise for posting here, does that make HN better or worse? Obviously worse. Mob behaviors like this are incompatible with curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use Markdown New Tab so my default tab is whatever I want it to be.

Currently it has links to my most common visited sites, a TODO list and some bookmarks for a subject I'm heavily absorbed in.

No ads whatsoever, and it shows whatever I need/want it to show. And of course, markdown is pretty slobberproof.
The general principle of removing DRM is forbidden, at least in the US, which is presumably why DRM removal tools are distributed through the same shady web sources as pirated content.

"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
Fair point, though I don't know what would go into properly packaging Brave.

They certainly don't package Brave in any fashion, but if you were curious about NixOS, you might look at Guix System.
I don't even know what the right answer is in a lot of cases. There's a bit of the traffic light casing at the edge of a square, does that count as a traffic light, or only the lamp itself?
Seems like good news to me for both Apple and Ive. I don't think any of the Apple design complaints posted elsewhere in the thread will be addressed, but I hope a new design voice will emerge for the next generation of Apple products.

And Ive seems to have been anxious to expand his work surface for quite some time, especially as seen via Apple Watch. It will be interesting to see what he does for other products in other spaces. I hope green field suits him well.
Jony Ive, Designer Who Made Apple Look Like Apple, Is Leaving the Company
The idea is that a physical book has a lifetime before it has to be discarded due to wear, so they want the e-book to be the same. I think that's dumb, and don't feel we need to be tied to the durability of paper books, but that's their justification.
Much of this discourse would make more sense if we use the term ebook, instead of book. When we say book, it conjures the notion of atoms. When we use the term ebook, we understand there's a technical dependency. Surely nobody expects any technical service to run forever funded by a once off payment.

The much bigger problem with DRM content is that I cannot give them to my children. My kids can browse my many bookcases, and might be curious to read one of hundreds of book they may not choose to buy. That cannot happen with DRM ebooks.
malware block on that page…
Building a theory of businest around wrapping an old idea in a weird attempt at a pun an founder cult of personality worship; is that really where Silicon Valley is today? This is Conjoined Triangles of Success level of ridiculous.
Well they aren’t losing 100% of him since they are still able to retain his services. If this price movement was due to his departure it would indicate he has an even higher valuation.
What you are describing is a coilgun, a railgun uses a slightly different principle.
I thought I did in the paragraph starting with “Tools can help a lot with this.” Or do you mean something else?

I also make the point that often I’m reading code on GitHub or outside an IDE, which does not have such features.
> "SpaceX vehicles are a firmware update away from being high precision ICBMs"

While strictly speaking true, as an ICBM booster the Falcon 9 would be going on 6 decades obsolete. Cryogenic propellants for ICBMs have been obsolete since the early 60s.
To a large degree Apple is moving away from using wires altogether, and in the presentation space they appear to be doubling down on AirPlay 2.

Neither advocating nor deprecating. Only observing.
You don't need charisma for "success", but charisma can bring success to the charismatic.

History is loaded with highly charismatic people and those who, for want of a more positive term, "fall under their spell". Steve Jobs is an obvious one. Google "reality distortion field".
I'm super, super grateful to our public libraries and the amazing resources they offer— coming from an immigrant farm-laboring family in a tiny (<1000 population) town, our equally tiny library introduced me to computers in the 8th grade (which later got me in trouble for, um, "exploring" our police and school district's networks) thanks in part to a grant they received by the Gates Foundation. I wouldn't have the career I do now, or honestly even been aware of it, if it were not in part due to it.

My local library now is much, much more well endowed with resources from different media types and they're even getting a makerspace soon! I thankfully can afford my own books and toys to play with, but as a father of 2 young boys, I make sure we utilize the library often and even volunteer our time teaching the occasional workshop on new media/tech/design.

I think they're woefully underutilized and I'd be worried that they'd start to go away.
The way I read his comment, the music "invokes" the violence via live shows. If you've ever been to a punk show, there's a lot of violence going on in the audience/pit. I don't think it's a crazy leap to say that people who enjoy beating the crap out of each other in a sweaty pit might be disproportionately inclined towards beating people up outside that pit.
I found this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/superhuman-ema...

But you're right, the linked story reads like ad copy.
It's a commercial, hosted on the seller's website.
Making a satellite capable of surviving the launch will be the second part of the problem.
Love to use a SE as an second (third sim) to my max. Sad to see that form factor to go. Did get a new iPod of that form factor.
But the stock dropped 1% in the seconds after the announcement. This isn’t a 1% drop over the entire day; it’s a 1% drop in 30 seconds after the market has closed. I think it’s safe to say the market values Ive’s contribution to Apple at $9b
I find this invention will solve our problems. Just point at China, fire the gun, and all problems solved.

Just kidding, seriously what do we point it at? And what problem will it solve after it's been fired?

Also why are we not competing on high speed rail technology? Why do we always have to beat a country with military technology given how completely useless most of it is.
The targeting laser tells you, "yes, this is your target," and you just continue painting them with it until they die.
You subtly try to blame the guy for using his phone, but you're the one making the turn. Everywhere I've lived, unless there was an applicable controlling signal, he would have had the right of way.
> because she unfortunately kept behind a pillar

Your wording seems to blame a slower vehicle being passed for not being passed before the passing vehicle crossed the slower vehicle's lane.
So, I still have to whitelist Google in uMatrix and allow cookies for this to work. Even after doing so, I get a 0.1. I reloaded the page to check for variation as some other users mentioned but get the same score each time. I guess Google is saying I shouldn't be allowed to use the internet.
I enjoyed reading what you said as a different perspective on the backend of ad technology vs privacy up until this comment thread.

I didn't build a profitable social consumer business in Europe after compliance, but I was part of a team that implemented compliance for a long existing company within the US due to them having clients and client's clients in Europe. They're profitable. Do you want my term sheet? Or are you weakly attempting to flex while complaining that people's basic right to privacy is preventing you from earning obscene amounts of money?
Is that so?
What about the webmaster who simply wants to combat bots using his page, is the extent of data gathering on Google's behalf just part of the deal? What if selling user data is against the webmaster's ethics?
"Don't use it I guess"
Sure, except that no one in the exchange was told the extent to which this data is used, or what for. Users of Google's Captcha aren't told about this exchange.
I disagree entirely that it's a matter of voluntarily opting in and out of Google's domain. Their business model depends on becoming inescapable, and they're not being honest about how their services collect our data.
Thin is fine, but Apple has shipped nearly 5 years worth of fundamentally defective laptops.

This is the reckoning. I’m glad they had the courage to hold the leader responsible.
140 documented victims of the clearly demarked killing zones of the Berlin Wall suggests they probably wouldn't go unused. Also can't imagine such technology being successful at actually stopping migrant flows somewhere like the US border unless the government moved to line the coast with them...
The reviewer is not wrong, though it certainly clouded his judgment of the book. The book needed more editing.

Between the two journals, I really recommend The Making of Kareteka instead. It's more concise, and it shows Mechner at more of a formative age. Many of the things he did are easily related to, like not knowing what path to choose in life, cutting classes, taking transit because he didn't have a driver's license, or moving out for the first time. And even though it's a diary, it ends like a good story.

Making of PoP is a hundred pages longer. Though interesting, Mechner's attempt to enter the movie industry, international travel, and the development of PoP 2 made the book unfocused. At the end it peters out and abruptly stops.

I wonder if, of the two, it gets more attention because Prince of Persia is familiar to more people?
Yes (at least, on desktop there is). Right click on the map where you want to fix something and select "Report a data problem". The UI will walk you through the rest.
What’s worth $30/mo to a journalist is a way higher bar than being worth $30/mo to a VC or exec. Superhuman seems to be unapologetically targeting a luxury crowd.
> I feel stupid doing this

You shouldn't. You're doing the bare minimum to operate a modern vehicle safely.
If you have an email-centric workflow you'll love it. It's a tool more for managers than makers.
Yes, looks like the industry cannot solve that problem alone, just like the electricity and chemical industries somehow didn't achieve clean air and water out of the goodness of their hearts. Another market gap. Or, wait, a case for government regulation.
Summary:

> Between 9:21 AM and 2:36 PM PDT we experienced increased query failures and latency in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

> The issue with the Data Catalog APIs started with a software update in the US-EAST-1 Region that completed at 9:21 AM PDT. The software update was immediately rolled back[...]
It seems highly unlikely that Google cares enough about suggestion data that they'd pay more for suggestion traffic than for just the searches.

It is much more likely that users expect search suggestions to work out of the box and some will bounce if they try a new browser that doesn't do that.