skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The MacBook is smaller, thinner, and lighter than the MBA, and has a higher quality screen.

I just find it hard to say that its a higher quality screen when you have a worse graphics card, and thus the stuff that will actually be on the screen will be worse (more dropped frames, worse effects, etc). What does it mean to want a higher quality screen? If it had 8x as many pixel but was black and white, is it higher quality? If you want a retina screen for awesome gaming, this isn't for you. If you want a retina screen for video editing, this isn't for you. If you want a retina screen for ... web browsing, as long as there are no CSS animations because they'll be horrible... then its for you?

> it occupies a similar space as the MacBook Air when it originally came out

Sure, I get that, but the difference is that when the Macbook Air came out the Macbook Air didn't already exist. Let's think about it another way, if next year they announce an EVEN thinner Macbook with even stranger performance tradeoffs, would we accept 3 computers in this space? Probably not. I suppose my fear is that the plan here is to replace Macbook Airs with this. What I wanted out of a Macbook Air was more RAM, that's about it. Instead this huge detour was taken on compromise features -- which again is fine, except if the plan is to turn this entire product category into a worse-than-iPad computer, which is definitely not where the Air sat before. The Air before seemed like good compromises, and perhaps the Macbook will get there too.
For Go fans, I had a lot of fun playing with Hugo: https://github.com/spf13/hugo
A Macbook Air goes up to 8GB of RAM per Apple. On the machine I'm currently sitting at my utilisation is 6.7 GB and that isn't running Parallels or two operating systems. The Air is has all of the same issues the $999 Mac Mini does.

> You don't have to buy Parallels unless you plan on running Windows concurrently for some reason.

Most developers cannot avoid Windows or Linux entirely. I am talking about development as a job, not my Ruby side projects. Business customers utilise Windows and Linux regularly. It cannot be ignored simply because it isn't as fashionable.

> To suggest that that cost is $2400 minimum is nonsense, though.

I said development machine, not minimum. You might be able to do it cheaper, but you'll either wind up with a HDD instead of an SSD, or an SSD so tiny (128 GB) that you'll soon regret it.

In 2015 I'm looking at 16 GB of RAM, i7, some kind of graphics acceleration, minimum 512 GB SSD (or a 256 GB SSD + internal HDD). That's what my desktop and Windows based laptop offer, to get it on Mac I am looking at $2K+ easy.

The top end 15" MBP meets all of my requirements but it costs $2,499 + tax.
These proceedings take longer than several months, so you're certainly welcome to hold that burden of proof as your own personal opinion in the meantime.
A "squatter", by definition, is "someone who settles on property without right or title". So who is the legal registered owner of a domain name property squatting from?

Domain names are like the username you used to post the question. Your 'first mover advantage' secured the name. The next person can't claim your 'squatting' on that user name, or all the other usernames that you 'own', because now they want it.
That's an argument to ban backyard campfires - not an argument to allow indoor e-cigarette use.

You don't get the right to harm other people's health (even in a "free society"), even if there are already other unhealthy things present.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be giving this more thought!
The problem with reinventing itself a la Google is that it is not visionary. Bing did this and where is it? Now they could do this and go head to head competitively on the best results but by then the world will have moved on. For instance AI Intelligent agents, personal assistants etc.. What they need to do is make something people don't even realize they want until they see it.
Fair enough! None that I'm interested in, however.
This is starting to feel like Apple and Microsoft are really starting to switch places like some bizarro world. Admittedly, this is Daring Fireball and not Apple itself, but wasn't Apple supposed to always talk about what their products do, why it's important, and not what the specs are?

Here, a huge portion of the write-up of the iPad Pro is the performance of the hardware. Was anybody really complaining that their iPad wasn't fast enough? Was that holding back developers? (honest question, maybe it was, I'm not sure).

Then there is this statment
"Anyone tying themselves in knots looking for a specific target audience for the iPad Pro is going about it the wrong way. There is no single target audience. Is the iPad Pro meant for office workers in the enterprise? Professional artists creating content? Casual users playing games, watching movies, and reading? The answer is simply “Yes”."

Isn't this often the kiss of death? Not recognizing a single target audience for your product? The original iPad had a target, all be it a hugely diverse one. It was for people who wanted to consume content on a larger screen device than their phone, but wanted something simpler than a laptop.
Is there a video of the lecture somewhere?
I love his endless and flawless ramblings about bleeding edge tech!
Because it already exists? Take a look at google wallet. Facebook has a money thing as well.
That doesn't solve the problem outlined in the article.
Another thing you could do is a logarithmic flat tax, where everyone pays the same amount of relative resources. The value of money as people get richer is roughly logarithmic. The simplest plan I've seen along these lines is:

Figure your year's revenue. Find out how many times the poverty level that is, for your family size. (Twice the poverty level, 10x the poverty level, etc.) Take the log base 10. Multiply that by some constant that is the same for every tax payer in the nation (both people and businesses). Currently, that "flat" constant would be about 9. The resultant number is your tax rate.

(Hint: this would be a massive tax cut for pretty much everyone short of billionaires.)
What if there's an upper limit in performance, where gains get smaller and smaller with each generation? What if Intel is already hitting that ceiling and ARM isn't? What if in the next few years this will help ARM catch-up with Intel, while still having its chips cost much less? That would be a problem for Intel, no?

Intel's competitor to Apple A9 is Atom. Core i7 is not a competitor. If the A9 is within 2x of the latest Core i7, then that's great for ARM/Apple, but the real point is the A9 is probably at least 50% faster than the latest Atom.

Intel's Atom has never really caught up with ARM chips despite its process advantage (even now, although much smaller than before, and Intel process generations are also growing further apart). It had a very brief moment in which Atom was more or less equal to the high-end chips in benchmarks - but only because Intel had a generation and a half process advantage at the time being on 22nm FinFET vs 28nm planar for the ARM chips.

Atom is so hopeless in mobile, that Intel has started licensing its design to Chinese chip makers - which will build it on 28nm planar for next year anyway, making it a very pointless exercise, indeed.

The only way it got some foothold in some mobile devices this year is because it baited and switched Asus with a heavily discounted high-end Atom that cost Asus as much as a mid-range Qualcomm chip (which I still think should be highly illegal and worthy of an anti-trust suit). I'm talking about the Zenfone 2 - and even then, the phone got popular mainly because it was the first with 4GB of RAM, and Intel Atom happened to be there for the ride.

If Intel didn't lie when it said it will stop subsidizing Atom in mobile, then that kind of tactic will end and Intel won't be able to trick any other OEM anymore. But I suspect it did lie, because at the same time it said that, it merged the mobile and PC chip groups together to hide the financials of the mobile group. It also started selling $150 Atom chips as "Pentiums", where they probably have a profit margin of 500%, and Intel will use that profit to once again subsidize its mobile chips to drive competition out of the mobile market (which again - should be very illegal).

The problem for Intel is that this will still be a very slow process, and by the time it gets a serious foothold in the mobile market, ARM chips will start to become a threat to it in the PC market.
And yet still Alibaba's share price fell nearly another 2% today. :(
I understand the lack of discretion, I've been an "insider" more times than I would have liked but also look at the link on 10b5-1 plans @jhulla posted. I don't know what Marc did or didn't do, but it could easily have been "sell stock when the net proceeds of the sale will be $100/share or more, up to half my class A holdings.

A perfectly legit 10b5-1 which would have resulted in exactly what we saw here. In February Barron's reported Andreesen's sales as being directed by a 10b5-1 plan: http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB51367578116875004693704580... so he's clearly familar with the process.
And it makes sense as there would be no incentive to invest in business if you are taxed the same on T Bills, Bonds Consols, Guits etc
> You don't get the right to harm other people's health, even if there are already other unhealthy things present.

What about the effects of pollution emitted when you drive a car?
McDonalds is very open about investing in real estate. They own all their own locations. The restaurant is basically just to pay the rent on the land they own.
It has already happened. College students don't pay each other back in cash. They do so in Venmo
> To my knowledge no one is campaigning against big campfire though.

You must not be from the bay area. Lookup "Spare the Air".
The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
Approximately 24.67 minutes for what it's worth. Marriott made > $12 billion last year and was fined $600k. I'm curious how much revenue the wifi fees bring in and whether that fine even makes a dent in income from that alone.
I do visit, but hadn't seen this thread. Sorting through it.
ARM's 64 bit is pretty much always [1] dragging just as much legacy baggage as Intel's 64 bit. However, that's fairly irrelevant once you get everything decoded into micro-ops and sent into the pipeline. There, branch prediction, pipeline depth, number of pipelines, etc all matter a lot more than the opcodes the CPU sees.

Also, you have to keep in mind that Gruber's been banging the single core benchmark drum pretty heavily, and rather loudly ignoring that Apple's ARM chips are very inefficient in multiple core benchmarks. In Geekbench's tests, Intel chips scale at nearly 1:1 with additional cores [2], while dual core performance of the ipad is only 70% better [3]. So, any sort of operations where you're wanting multiple intensive threads going on, the A9X falls on its face. So when you start looking at the hardware in the light of a heavier workload, Apple's not gaining that much ground on Intel, who has a lot more experience going broad than Apple does.

[1] AArch32 is optional, but pretty much on every ARM chip for compatibility

[2] http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=6600u

[3] http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=iPad6%2C8...
Well, Norway has a massive sovereign trust fund derived from North Sea oil, so it's an outlier. The other Scandinavian nations began creating their social welfare systems since at least the 1930s, if not earlier.
How Rich Investors Use All That Buyback Cash
Well, not all problems. Market failures like monopolies, negative externalities, and free ridership that leads to underinvestment in public goods are all problems inherent to unchecked capitalism that lead to an inefficient allocation of resources. Even Adam Smith was an ardent opponent of monopolies.

It's pretty well established that capitalism works best with a regulatory state that can correct market failures and enforce private property laws.
What a strange loop indeed
9,100 homes proposed for Mountain View's tech hub off of Shoreline Boulevard
Kenya has been doing this for close to a decade: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/ec...
to be fair, you can't really say that something that has been called 'illegal tax avoidance' is not illegal, unless you are bringing a counter argument. The evidence is in the very same word.
It's a funny way of showing love to a sport when you subvert the rules that make it fair. No doubt if everyone cheated all the time, practically nobody would love the sport.

One may as well think that Hitler eating meat remains a vegetarian.
One of the key differences here (for me at least) between an apple only app (assuming that is the case) and something like square cash is that if the person I want to send money to doesn't have an iPhone, I wouldn't be able to send them money, whereas if they don't have square cash I can tell them to download it and then send them money and with the current promotion, even get $5 for referring them.
First, isn't there a better word for consciousness, as used in this book? Because I have the feeling that different people (even scientists) mean different things by it.

Second, I think the main problem is that most people consider consciousness as something which lies outside of the physical realm, and that there is, supposedly, a one-way communication link from the physical world to our consciousness. However, since we are in fact (physically) talking about the concept of consciousness, this seems highly unlikely. It is thus more likely that consciousness is a part of physics, and we should perhaps treat it as such.
That's a REALLY good question. I just dug through the site on Wayback Machine and FTP server without finding that. I found GPL license file but it's not clear if it was just for the GNU tools or whole project. Also looks like a template they didn't fully fill in. Neither site nor DTOS paper referencing it mention a license.

Now, I know that many projects have used OSKit in open-source software and I haven't heard of a problem. I just found a license for it:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/LICENSE

If you're doing a practice project, there's probably no harm in using Fluke work. You can always contact them if unsure. However, it seems like the work was intended to get out and be built on (definitely OSKit). Far as academia and industry types, this work has long been superceded by other tech and government contracts by those involved. I doubt they'd feel threatened.

Just my estimate on the situation. Never guarantees. Except for OSKit given its license.
This is the same exact argument you made above.

You are making really good arguments for banning/regulating other harmful things - You are not making good arguments for allowing a known harmful thing to continue unregulated.
> "Hustlers", I loathe that word,

I understand where that sentiment is coming from, but to be fair, I also heard the word growing up, but used to describe a certain kind of athlete - the kind who would dive into the bleachers to save a ball.

In that sense, it's like the word "hacker". A word with two diametrically opposed connotations. And it is interesting how two such potentially ambiguous words have assumed such a prominent place in SV culture.
Also, upgrading to NPM >= 3 is a big deal for storage space as it flattens node_modules by default, which means fewer duplicate copies of some of the shared libraries you use. (It also means fewer long path issues for us Windows users.)
No disrespect but you didn't answer OP's question. Instead you went on with a bit of an advertisement about how great Apple is. Venmo has cracked this potential market (per the article they have great market share)

I think Apple could build a tremendous P2P service based on your comments. But it's never going to be the platform lock in they desire because if we really do have meaningful broad adoption of P2P only cross platform offerings will work.
Typically the choice is to either have your own space entirely, or share everything but the bedrooms. There's approximately nothing available like what's described above, with a shared courtyard and separate adjoining houses. How can we meaningfully be said to have a choice when they don't exist?
Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum (2012)
Yes, if you trade in 28 countries then you should have to deal with the laws chosen by 28 different governments.

Trade harmonisation is one option a government can pursue, but the more you follow this path the further you give up the autonomy of the member state, in this case it's debatable whether the medicine is worse than the disease.

Should also point out that despite the harmonisation goals of the EU, tax avoidance still occurs within the EU by exploiting differences that exist, such as the infamous Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dutc...
Some people say that the AWI was a counter revolution by rich landowners
The US is so archaic in banking I'm not surprised that it takes Apple to do something about it, a shame. I'm still sending a paper check to the landlord every month, ha! What is this, the 70's?

The rest of the world already has direct, often immediate, free money transfers a few clicks away, and for a long time. We should focus there, rather than inserting more middle-men.

When I was in New Zealand, we even paid for cookies and such with it. Just paste in the account number, type in the amount, and hit the send key, done.
> I went vegan was to cut my impact on the environment

Maybe you can explain to me then how it is that this makes a significant difference in global warming. The carbon that is released by cows and humans after consumption of plant matter was derived from said plant matter. The carbon in those plants came from the air. Hence, this is a closed system where carbon is taken from the air by the plants, consumed by the animals, and then put back into the air by the animals. There cannot be a net gain of carbon from this. The only reasonable argument I have thought of so far is that of methane, although in theory that can be pulled from the air and used as fuel (whereafter it becomes available to plants again).

The burning of fossil fuels, on the other hand, puts more net carbon into the air since those fossil fuels are being pulled from deep reservoirs that otherwise would be keeping their carbon to themselves. The fossil fuels are being burned far faster than they are being deposited back into the earth, which lacks the balance that the grass-cow-human-air-grass loop has.

I completely agree that transportation should use electricity and related energy sources wherever possible. However, I don't believe this will come any sooner than economics demands it. All the countries in the world cannot be controlled. Just look at all the unsuccessful wars where one country tries to control another's internal affairs. Without the majority agreeing to bite the bullet and use green energy, the first-world nations would become even less competitive than they currently are, making first-world jobs harder to find. Even many of the jobs related to building green technologies would most definitely be outsourced to lower-cost nations who don't follow the guidelines. Outside of fully socialised (zero-profit, public-benefit) production of green technologies, the cost is too prohibitive.

One of the reasons why this topic is rarely discussed here is because people often get very emotional. I hope people can understand that I'm simply trying to point out the problems with non-socialised green. Please don't shoot the messenger, as I care about the environment more than the average person; but that doesn't give me or you magical powers to make people stop using fossil fuel.
It's definitely anecdotal, and as a sibling poster said, it depends on your circles. Mine anecdotally happens to be all square cash and no venmo given the ease of setup for square cash.
I think you're misinterpreting this, UE supported VS 2013, this is simply to announce support for the newer version of VS[1].

VS 2015 was only released a few months ago, it usually takes a few months before everyone even starts to moves over.

[1] https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?77332-UE4-and...
Nobody ever sees explosive growth coming; that's what makes it explosive. That's why the U.S. generally manages its economy to permit and encourage innovation, rather than to meet centralized predictions.

There are some early hints. The confluence of software, solar, batteries, and cars is looking like something big could happen there.
I tried Pelican just to see how they work and what's so special about static site generators. The downside for me was having to go through the process of re-generating the site and committing just so you can fix something as simple as a grammar error or a comma. It gets old fast IMO. The other annoyance was with images included in the post. You have to copy then write the image path because you don't have something like a pop-up box which just selects the image.

So I switched to ghost and I'm fairly happy for now. The downside of this is that I have to pay ~$4 a month for a shared hosting, which is fine by me.
Yep, Venmo is the go-to on my campus. I actually prefer Square Cash as a product but Venmo has the adoption necessary.
F.lux beta for iOS (Xcode 7 sideload)
In the USA, we have:

7000 taxi medallions.

8 Major Film Studio Companies. (‘The Majors’)

15 Large Banks.

3 Major Radio Stations.

3 Major Labels.

2 Major Ticketing companies.

2 Major broadband providers.

2 Major telcos.

~150 MVNOs. (Mobile Virtual Network Operators)

10 Major Movie Theater Chains.

4 Big Accounting Companies. (“The Big 4.”)

10 Major Grocery Companies

7 Major Financial Analytics Companies – Terminal

5 Credit Card Companies(Visa, MC, Mastercard, Amex, Discover)
Having a large market share of what, the smartphone market? It's the users of the peer-to-peer payment service/application that they need, and they have 0 of those right now.

I think having a large smartphone platform to which you can roll out new features is really useful! There are what – maybe 4-5 million active Apple Pay users? That's a decent chunk of in-built market for the service, assuming it's seamlessly available to them all.

Obviously P2P Apple Pay doesn't offer you much benefit if you've already got a working solution to the problem.
That's because it's really a tactic to avoid EU privacy laws, not to restrict the NSA. See contractual solutions here:

http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/PRISM/Respons...

If Microsoft would just keep the data there, that would be a good thing. But I suspect it will transfer the data from Deutsche Telekom back to US servers, where the US government will be able to request it anyway. I'm hoping Microsoft won't do that, though.
The problem is texting was around way before the iPhone. So it wasn't an opportunity for Apple to create greater stickiness for iOS vs other operating systems. Apple could create a P2P offering that worked easily with non iOS phones. But that would appear to defeat the stated purpose of building such a service. Or at least significantly reduce it.
Not really due to the fundamental difference between Lisp and JavaScript syntax.

You could borrow the idea of indentation inferring function scope structure and make a plugin that would modify JavaScript syntax accordingly, but I'm not sure that would even be desirable when writing JavaScript.

Parinfer is made possible by Lisp's unique syntax.
Yes that struck me as odd as well uk banks are shedding staff and closing branches.

You would have expected the same to play out in the USA.