skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they are charging an extra $300 for it.

The MacBook comes with a base configuration of 256GB SSD and 8GiB of RAM. The MacBook Air comes with a 128GB SSD and 4GiB of RAM (Edit: came with. Apparently this year they finally upped them to 8GiB RAM, so the price difference may have widened.). For the MacBook Air 13" and MacBook Pro 13" upgraded to 256GB SSD and 8GiB of RAM, the price is closer IIRC.

(I'd check, but Apple's website is amusingly broken right now.)
My money is on the retina MacBook Pro getting smaller, and maybe cheaper, such that it will fill the needs currently filled by the Air.
I go through an experience about once a year:

1) Log in to Facebook to look at picture of friend's new baby. This is nice.

2) Start browsing around, seeing what other friends have been up to. Oh neato.
... an hour later

3) Looking up people I knew in high school but haven't kept up with.
... another hour later

4) Holy crap, where'd the morning go? I can't do this. Shut it down.

5) Wait ~12 months for next event that draws me to the site. Repeat.
I wish Apple would transition all computers to USB C to allow for easier charging. Being able to buy an Anker battery for cents on the dollar vs the three batteries on the market that support magsafe would be a godsend. I love magnets, saved my ass quite a few times, but I want to be able to charge my laptop on the go cheaply.
I've never heard that mentioned as a factor in the events leading up to WW2 and this graph suggests that the UK didn't even start importing coal in any quantities until the 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_King...
> We can then offer mining rights

Who is "we" in this case?
Good to know, thanks. If there was full hardware support, this would be a really awesome Linux laptop.
"If you're so clever, you tell us what color it should be."

-- Douglas Adams on the early marketing efforts for the Wheel
LinkedIn is a free online business card. Facebook is unnecessary and probably a time-suck and privacy liability.
Minecraft? I'm sure there's plenty of people who play it at school, but I'm not sure that's in the mind of whatever school employee is in charge of purchasing.
This is the perfect home computer for me. I wouldn't do much work on it – I don't think it supports 2 4K monitors – but it would be great for casual use while not at the office where I don't need a lot of power.
Revealed: Sony's plan for PlayStation 4K – codename Neo
I see Apple completely ignored customers' demands to add another port. Hardly surprising but rather disappointing.
Finally, auto industry starts to admit: electric vehicles are better
> I guess we can wait a little longer for the retina MacBook Air :)

I expect the next major thing to happen to the MBA to be its discontinuation.
Facebook is beholden to its shareholders first and foremost, then it's customers (advertisers, not you). Lastly, they want to make the inventory happy (that's you), so they can dish up ads.

Now, if Facebook manages to release a successful augmented reality platform, they will have no qualms with you going out in the real world. If you're camping in the woods, that's just a nice opportunity for a singalong app to place an ad for you and your buddies. If you're going to the movies, that's an opportunity for Coke to subtly remind you that you can get Coke points on your way.

It would be that Facebook has an incentive to get you out into the real world if they can influence where you go and spend your money. There are many ways you can do that without augmented reality.
I once drove from Sydney to Cooktown (according to Google, 30hrs over 2720.4km, which sounds about right) and horribly managed to kill 2 birds, 1 wombat and 1 wallaby. I'd hate to think what the truck transport industry kills with every single trip compared to this apparent risk from wind-farms.
I find it really weird that when I click on a browser link from the facebook site to an external site, it ends up going back to opening facebook in firefox which asks me to login from the browser so I can see this external website.

It's like it wants me to view the internet from facebook wtf
Thanks for the info, I learned something. The trick usually in reinforcing is that you need to find two materials that have relatively equal heat expansion coefficient, while the fiber needs to be lot stiffer than the matrix. Luckily concrete is quite "springy" compared to most metals and ceramics. In composite structures the ultimate strength of the fiber is often not the limiting factor. The limit is how large share of the load is carried by the reinforcement, which is proportionate to the ratio of Young's moduli of the matrix and the fiber (+ fiber length, average direction and volumetric proportion).

Steel has almost same expansion coefficient as concrete. Basalt is significantly lower. So it would probably best suit reinforcing in stable climates or used as relatively short fibers. You would not want hundreds of meters long basalt fiber rope to be pretensioned inside concrete bridge, as the rope might crumble the surrounding concrete at hot weather.
Western metros are filled with propaganda too - we just call them advertisements and they are commercial, not national in nature. Not that different when you take a real outside view. Everybody is blind to the idiosyncraties of their own culture.
You're rhetorically associating systemic injustice against black people with critiquing fat people.

You understand that right? The phrase is from the book Blaming the Victim, about the legacy of slavery.

I'd avoid using that tactic out in the world.
If google glass had this, adoption would have taken off.
These are awesome, IMHO: https://usa.denon.com/us/product/portableaudio/noisecancelin...

Too bad they're expensive. Interestingly they're $275 here in .se, but listed as $399 on the US page.
Better get to work contacting every university in America.
> Does Apple even make any of their own?

Kinda? Apple owns Beats so http://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/browse-headphones/wirel...
That's the difference between creating and publishing. To publish is to contribute your ideas to the public domain, where they may be picked up and used by others. You're under no obligation to publish your creation. But if you do, you have to understand that your creation becomes part of the same ecosystem of ideas that educated and inspired you in the first place. As a culture, we consider this a valuable process, so we incentivize it with limited and temporary immunity from the perils of free market competition in distribution so that you have the opportunity to recoup your investment and build a name for yourself.
Which is a real pity as we traded the flu for cancer when we discarded nuclear in favour of carbon. What will those that will have to live through the fallout of the coal era have to remember ?
And now I'm tempted to set up a VM and visit them, but I'm too lazy, it's probably a false positive anyway ;)
8GiB RAM sounds like luxury to me with my 4GiB RAM MacBook Air. Which Apple still sells.
I get two ads (edit: on duckduckgo) before any search results, one for googlechromeonline.com and one for downloadsem.com, both are spammy.
ever since i enabled 2 factor i'm too lazy to log in so that did the trick. When I do log in once in a while, it just looks like a tumblr feed of people posting funny videos with occasional personal photo, I can get that on reddit already. so i'm just keeping my account alive in case i have anything to announce in the future..
Even that seems a bit like it gets in the way. Also, if you didn't like the article does that mean you shouldn't offer a correction?

Perhaps what I'm after is a meta-thread content-thread separation in some way.
Maybe there is no signal 110m underground?
That really depends on who you're sharing with and what the expectations are.
Look at it with a critical eye. If they've already solved those issues, why would they have any reason to restrict who they demo to? I'd suggest they still have technical issues to overcome, and the Wired piece is at least partly hyperbole.
I am "on Facebook", but it's for four specific reasons:

1) So I don't get questions about why I'm not on Facebook.

2) To let friends tag me in pictures (and see what pictures are being posted of me).

3) To let friends invite me to parties through Facebook.

4) See pictures of friends' babies.

I think it's good to have a Facebook account. It lets people push stuff to you, and more often I'm seeing invitations coming exclusively through FB. But I personally don't think you're missing anything by not actively using it.

Likewise, LinkedIn can be nice to keep tabs on past colleagues, not those you were close to obviously, but those on your periphery. You don't need to participate in the community to get the biggest benefit, IMO.
Because "tech people" aren't always the best at judging consumer tastes. I thought the iPad was going to be a failure, because I considered (and consider) the tablet form factor to offer a worse usability/portability tradeoff than laptops.
There's some progress on the keyboard and trackpad, but it's still a WIP:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/82025

At least a patch to recognize the WildcatPoint PCH is in 4.6:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
Thanks - I've been trying to click on the "Buy" button for the last 45 minutes for the MacBook and 13" MacBook Air to get some pricing details. No Luck.

So - pricing may not be that far off then, but, of course, it means that if you want a $999 Mac laptop, you'll need to go with an outdated processor.
"An e-commerce company wouldn’t seem like an obvious leader in [augmented reality]."

Amazing that even today articles are still calling Amazon an e-commerce company. I wonder if this is an image Amazon actively cultivates or if it's just consistently lazy reporting?
> I believe there is a goldilocks regime between the two extremes that we should strive for

Is that where life becomes so unpleasant for the people who live there that the rents crash? I think you run into a traditional work migration problem here, because the young people who are moving to SF from suburbs and small towns across the nation generally have no intention of staying in SF and raising a family, so will be tolerant of far worse conditions than people who intend to actually make a life there.
I am a native New Yorker and have taken the subway since the late eighties for middle school, high school, college, work, fun, etc. It has tremendous value, for sure, but it's no source of happiness or joy to go down into that hole.
Apple owns Beats, so technically, yes, Apple makes the Beats Solo2 Wireless, the Beats Studio Wireless, and the PowerBeats Wireless. I have a pair of Sony BT headphones and they are fine. Audiophiles will complain because of the compression, but they are great for everyday use for the regular folks.
I wonder how Google got that much power?
Indeed, I use Safari because it seems neither Firefox nor Chrome are optimized at all for battery usage. Chrome is a huge power hog.

I wonder if it's the same on the Windows side; has Microsoft optimized IE (or the new browser, whatever it's called) for power usage?
It should. Though if search engines were actually held liable for every malware link they place above real results, Google would no longer be a profitable business. Just the fake banks Google puts in search ads alone...
What to you are steps towards the mass adoption of universal turnkey state-level OPSEC for everyday use?
___

So, my point that the E2E should be open source is that that code should never be the basis for a business model, so to me, it being open source makes sense. As larger system, that's why I'm saying there needs to be an audit.

Also, you mentioned ATP and I agree, which is why to me it is troubling Signal instead of guarding metadata, actively collects it.

Please let me know I have missed anything you'd like me to address. And I really would be interested in your thought on the question above in as much detail as you're able to share. Thanks!
We said the same of the MacBook Air when it first came out of its gimmicky manila envelope on stage. Or, for that matter, when the iMac came out with no floppy drive, and only USB ports!
If you're looking for a similar size and spec laptop for Linux, I've thoroughly been enjoying Ubuntu on the Dell XPS 13 developer edition. It comes with core i5/i7 so it's snappier but also has a fan. And you can charge via USB-C or the included power adapter. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/...
Yeap. Google Cloud Project customer here, we have a team of devs unable to login to our infrastructure. I sure hope we don't have a dumpster fire in production :)
I believe Bosch is working on this - thermal cameras for autonomous cars. I heard they even built their own sensors and chips for this.
Bluebird in the wild: Advanced promise-based workflows
Anyone know if Google has a status page anywhere for this issue?
I've heard of indigenous maps scaled by time of travel rather than physical distances. Maybe that's why these Inuit maps look distorted.

I've never seen such maps (only heard of them), so if anyone has a link to such a map I'd be interested.
How Social Media Advocacy Can Supercharge Your Enterprise Sales Team
Holy crap that is annoying. Is there a way to pause all animated gifs in chrome? Congratulations, Bloomberg, you captured the essence of a Geocities site. This has to be a not so subtle graphic design joke.
Ah - that makes sense. Perhaps update the example shown to use an internal link instead of Google docs, and add that second sentence to the homepage somewhere?
Filed an FOIA request for the Game of Thrones screeners only Obama gets
Viber is an Israeli company, don't be so judgmental of their poor startup spelling skills.
Certainly not on os x, which can't keep a Bluetooth audio stream going to a device less than a foot away. Apple's wireless implementations, especially Bluetooth, on os x is such shit it might as well not exist. Even keyboards and track pads don't work properly, including the track pad they make which skips. This has been my experience with every single Apple laptop and I can recreate it now with ease. But anything to make my laptop one nano meter thinner, am I right?
Not to immediately jump into your assertion as correct in this instance, I do recall such an element being used as an initial defense by GoldiBlox after they sued the Beastie Boys. It was a real horror show. Still wish it had gone to court for some legal clarity, oh well.
Design Agency That Raises Money for Charity
Where would they put it? They could replace the headphone jack, but that would require inventing USB-C earphones or pushing customers to go wireless.
You can control what you see from individual people and what things they share. It's very granular and it works well. You can also follow really interesting people, pages and groups. It's all about using the tool properly.
If I was being cynical, I'd say that's exactly why they're funding it.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7026889/magic-leap-google...
Interesting that they pay only $1000/m for Keen.IO. The statistics that are posted seem to indicate they would go far over the 15mln events per month that Keen charges $1000/m for.
We started noticing errors at 13:17 UTC, and we continue to see errors as of 13:49 UTC.
Funny, I read Culture and Empire before I got to use ZeroMQ at work. Small world. For what it's worth - all but nothing, I guess - I am sorry you are ill.

I loved the book. Thank you for your contributions to the world by writing it, and your contributions to open source. I'm sorry I never got the chance to meet you.
Are there comparable speech-to-text or conversational agent APIs in the Azure or Google Cloud ecosystems?
yep, our application is also experiencing issues; still down here (EU-NL) as of 15:53 CET
You've highlighted one of the many advantages to browsing with javascript off by default. I think at this point it should really only be used for must-have cases.
Maybe it's time to release it in other territories now
Apple finally offers 8GB RAM as standrard with 13 inch Macbook Airs[1] from this year.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/04/19Apple-Updates-MacB...
Wage Slaves
As an American I find schoolchildren reciting the pledge of allegiance in the morning very disturbing. Especially ones who are much to young to actually understand what they are saying.

And it always happened in every primary school I went to.
It's down again. Bad time for Google... and us.
I'm on Facebook for one reason --- GoFundMe insisted I needed a Facebook account to "validate" my campaign.

I have never logged in to Facebook since. They send me email about 3x day about everything I'm "missing" LOL.
> "Generally, the engineers and product managers at Lab126 quelled their own dissent before it reached Bezos, instead concentrating on giving the boss what they thought he wanted. “We spent so much time trying to anticipate what Jeff would do or say, and read into little words he would say in meetings,” said one former employee. “It would lead to so much additional work.”

This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Very worrying. How have they managed to be so successful with such broken communications?
I wonder how this performs under XCode.

Currently I lug around a 15" MPBr and I would like something lighter to do development on the train but I wonder about performance.

Has anyone tried to do C++ builds on XCode using one of these machines?
Stopped reading here:

A child born in 1900—little more than a century ago—was likely, on average, to die by the age of thirty.

This is so misleading, suggesting that people typically died before they were 30.

The misleading average here is caused by infant mortality. That's the #1 way that life expectancy has risen in the last 116 years.

To illustrate how big we've reduced infant mortality, look at this:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm

From 1915 through 1997, the infant mortality rate declined greater than 90% to 7.2 per 1000
Thank goodness for that.
I know some startups are working on this. For example:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebeall/hemavision-smart...
But, none of us did buy that MacBook Air - it was too expensive at the time. It was later generations that hit the sweet spot.
No, you misunderstand: I am truly and earnestly impressed by their good spelling, not criticizing any bad grammar. If they'd named it "Vybr," it would have come off like Steve Buscemie holding a skateboard over his shoulder wearing a MUSIC BAND t-shirt, desperately trying to appeal to the youth demographic.
Google reporting “Service disruption”. Related to OAuth outage?
> Much more credible than a whale in front of kids with no apparent hardware.

The viewer (camera) is wearing the hardware. The kids and whale are placed in that scene by the ML hardware.
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
Yeah, that's why I submitted the NY Times coverage and write-up[0]. Ars is a slant-heavy 2nd or 3rd tier journalism outfit. Thanks for taking the time to point out the coverage contrast as well.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/technology/google-books-ca...
Facebook:

Not really. If you feel no peer pressure to sign up, great!

For me, I was missing out on events when classmates and even teachers started communicating via Facebook. These days it has died down again in favor of Telegram so I could technically deactivate the account, but I'm keeping it for convenience. Recently saw someone's wedding being announced there, not something I want to be missing out on. I'd have caught on eventually, but this is easier.

It depends how often I check it. If I have lots of stuff I want to do, I might not check it for a month. If I'm bored a lot (i.e. when school begins again after the holidays), I'll probably be on it before Monday morning is out, and be checking it every other day from thereon.

Linkedin:

Depends on your situation and business I'd guess, but as someone with not too much experience with Linkedin, I don't know. I've got it and I actively make connections, but I don't really use it other than that. More of a backup thing.
In case anyone wants to see a C++ framework that evolved over time and then was inextricably tangled up in the one application that really used it, check out OpenOffice/LibreOffice's Visual Component Library (VCL).

A demo program can be found here:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/workb...

A more complex, feature complete demo can be found here:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/workb...
I grew up in Georgia and we said the pledge every morning from first grade all the way through high school. There was also a public prayer before football games. This was in the seventies and eighties in a relatively rural community about an hour from Atlanta.

I'm pretty sure they still do the pledge but may have done away with the prayer.
I love this. Nice, simple implementation. Will definitely come in handy.
Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet... of course that depends on your use of the internet.

I have a profile but it's been closed for years.

For me the internet are forums that provide some technical insight that helps me fix a problem, open source software and a way to buy something without getting out of my chair.

On the plus side, facebook took away from email a lot of non requested emails and that made more straightforward the service, another plus is that suddenly I can get telephone numbers for most stores in case I need to do a call (sometimes small business doesn't have a webpage)
I'm fairly sure the reason we don't have a second USB C jack is because it would necessitate a second thunderbolt chipset (as I imagine they would want one on either side of the machine) and that is a problem on several fronts?
Glass 2.0 is going to rocketship.

Especially if they make the hardware far more subtle somehow.

Though popup spam might give you a heart-attack.

Could become an ancient ancestor to "ghost in the shell" type of living with external memory.

Also solves the "problem" of 3D hologram TV, who would need it anymore.
ZFS, kdb, mdb, FireEngine, isaexec, Crossbow, vmadm, imgadm, SMF, and FMA make it a fact, not an opinion.
I agree with you, however I did enjoy opening up the developer console in Firefox and deleting all of the obnoxious background.
... which is why I use Whatsapp and Instagram, which are totally not Facebook.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/ is pretty strict. It's one of the heaviest moderated forums I've seen. At the same time the question you're asking wouldn't be allowed because it's off-topic. Can't have both.
It's possible the author of the article knows that Amazon is now a tech company as well, but is assuming that their audience does not yet realize this. My impression is that people who don't work in tech don't know this; I have explained many times to people outside of our world how Amazon is one of the most important tech companies in the world, and that discussion always starts with a puzzled look from them.
And then the teenager grows up and becomes an "old person", at which point we'll see them on Facebook.
Every time I'm asked why I'm not on facebook I just say I don't need it. They usually never ask again and I have no problem keeping in touch with friends by text message even if they are heavy facebook users.
Wait, I got lost for a minute - are we still talking about Google Books, or are we talking about Google Search? Because the use case is identical.

You create a work, and Google indexes it to make it easy for me to find.
Recent related regarding Google's relationship to privacy:
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-already-mapped-tens-of...
I find following interesting people on twitter to be a better signal to noise ratio. That way I get exactly what they put out and nothing more, instead of some complicated algorithm designed to keep me "engaged".
Shouldn't the yield be inside the while loop?
In fact, the water in space is so clean, it will kill you.