skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author does say the article is about branding rather than hardware. That said, I'd fully expect the current Air devices (even if renamed) to remain in the lineup for quite some time yet.

Although the iPad Air and the 10" iPad Pro are now equivalent size and weight, the Pro gets the fancy new touchscreen that works with Apple's Pencil (how 53 is handling this product name, I don't know; but I digress) while Air just sits there all non-friendly to the Wonderful New Stylus, but at a lower price point.

As for the laptops, I don't personally know anyone who's actually bought the new Macbook. It's certainly attractive looking, but its specs aren't as attractive as a Macbook Air. I've preferred the Air over the Pro for years now, mainly because the Pro is so bulky and heavy. Air compiles apps Just Fine, Thanks.

If the thesis is "they're not going to make anything newly designed and call it 'Air'" then OK. That kind of pontification isn't my thing. If the thesis is "they're dropping the 'Air' brand and giving it a new name" then fine. However, if Apple would really consider dropping the Air product lines in the near future, it'll just add to the already-irritated masses (you know, those of us who've been detesting 'change for the sake of change' and regression in various software products ...)
I never said it was, it's routinely billed as the next generation of gaming (so much so that Steam won't shut up about it) and I think it's hooey. It's meh at it's best.
I think your half millisecond is an order of magnitude out. c = 3x10^8metres/sec. c=d/t. So t=1000×10^3metres / 3x10^8metres sec = (approx) 0.3x10^-2 sec = 3x10^-3 sec = 3 millisecs. Phew, tough editing work on a phone. 6 millisecs for a round trip.
An argument could be made, when considering the Air Force's costly desire for sexiness, that we will also be paying for the 2003 campaign of Shock and Awe for many years to come.
I am assuming that you don't care much for Silicon Valley, which was a creation of the Federal Government.

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Thank you :).
SCP and SSH Without Entering a Password
Temporarily published, unless someone made a copy ;)

Thanks a lot for your input. Actually already pretty short for an average Medium article. As for 2) its about recognising patters in HTTP, not so much about Apache. You can apply such rules with most other servers as well.

As for one of the fives, wasnt there something about sarcasm, bullet points and vandalism ....
Your language is weird, though. And keeps coming back to associating you wife's "never being happy about anything" and "sleeping all day" to being childish and/or acting from a sense of entitlement.
Of course I know it. The soudtrack is simply amazing. What I dodn't know until now is that there is quite a lot of doom covers on youtube!
> American software developers are paid enough that they can for the most part ignore the systemic economic issues that plague the US.

We could use a heaping reminder of this every time an argument about social issues comes up on HN.
Favoring dense, highly productive, urban areas shouldn't be a surprise considering the author is Singaporean...
Well, that's if Apple does the rounding. It'd be us, the plebeians, doing the rounding. No lawsuits over that.
The article mentions that the original spec for NT is in the Smithsonian, and indeed it is so:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah...

I'd pay good money for a digitized copy. I wonder if there are any legal or Microsoft barriers to that happening someday.
> My guess is that individual messages are only stopped when they enter a gmail account

That's been tested for and eliminated. My app logs that an email has created and is going to be sent. The send_email function is called to send the email. Then my app logs that the email has been sent.

The emails are sent to addresses hosted at both gmail and outlook. They are not received. They do not appear in spam bins.

GAE has a bounce api that will log if an email is bounced back. In my case, no reports are logged by my bounce handler.

The content of my emails has not changed for 2 years. For 2 years both gmail and outlook received my emails in their inboxes (not spam bins).

Given all this, I'm pretty sure there is an outgoing spam filter.
I think your view is completely reasonable because you said "as it is currently", but I think the hype can really be looked at from two angles.

1. There is a lot of hype around "where VR is going", and some people could lump AR into this as well. We can't foresee every new application the future will bring, but we can already see really interesting applications being developed. If you want examples let me know, but there are really cool applications for education, story telling, gaming (of course), and shopping already being demo'd.

2. There is probably too much hype around what we already have. Having an HMD with tracked controllers is incredibly immersive. The SteamVR trailer is probably the best way to show that without trying it, and it still falls short. I will say that without AT LEAST tracked controllers, VR feels like a gimmick.
I swear I thought the presenters at that last media event actually called it "iPad Pro mini." I don't see any references to that on Apple's site so I guess I'll have to rewatch to address my sanity.
Am I missing something? Why is this posted here and now?

Edit to clarify my confusion: is this new? What's the difference between this and two factor verification (which we've had for a while)?
Open Source Mortar Content Recommendation Engine. Old but Cool
PSA you can lose your Apple account this way. If a password reset is needed or the account get lock, you have to have your recovery key. No recovery key, no more account. Print it and keep it in a safe place.
> So instead of realizing you married an incompatible person, you changed your behaviour to an extreme

I found red pill 8 years into my married. I married and had 2 kids really young while going through school and being the sole-provider. I've been conditioned to do such due to my Mormon upbringing. It's recent that I've started to take control of my life instead of just doing what others tell me to do. I'm a far way off of being the Alpha that gets respect
Ask HN: Any projects similar to RONJA (optical point-to-point data link)
I've been fascinated by this project

http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php

And was wondering if anyone knows of similar/alternative projects.

This one seems to be limited to about 1.4km. I wonder if there are similar projects with higher range out there.

Thinking about building 2 of these to play with.
> they do learn from each others' experiments

Do they?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/kansass-...
As the employee experiencing the illegal/unethical behavior, you actually would be better off just changing jobs, if you don't have a union or government agency to back you up every moment of the remainder of your career with that company.

It isn't fair, but that's the way it is. If the 800-pound gorilla steals your peanut, you don't fight him for it. You just go find yourself another peanut and eat it more quickly.

Evasion favors the weaker party more than a toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow battle.

It's very difficult to be the minority, no matter where you are, unless you have a synthetic tribe to back you up. You don't have to run away, per se, but you do need to go to ground with your people whenever it becomes necessary. If you don't have enough friends, or the friends you have don't have enough power, you basically have to back down on everything, right or wrong. That's the way the real world works.

You can live in the world that is, and you can dream about the world that you want, but it is unwise to confuse the two.
> Red pill is misogyny? ... Red pilling is about embracing the sometimes painful reality

Shockingly it can be both.
It's beyond that. I read about the origin of the world "third world countries." It so happened that the original meaning wasn't "poor countries" but countries that did not align themselves to the two great powers at the time.

First world were the NATO group while the second world were the rusians and their alies... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

Africa is growing economically, and I think China sees Africa as an economic insurance. E.g there are people in the US who want US to block imports from China.

Additionally, I think they want to take over the role of US as the guardian so to say. It's a step towards making their own currency the dominant international currency instead of the US dollar.
I can't believe how little crowd reaction there is

I'm guessing he has a mic, the crowd doesn't.
"Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent."

This makes me scared for the facts in the rest of the article.

[Correction, as nkurtz points out, the above quote is not actually the authors opinion.]
If you wanted to see an OS that really was way ahead of the curve then NeXT Step was it.

By mid 1993 it was already on the 3rd version (running on a Motorola 68040 no less) and was already doing everything that NT could.

I really love watching the old NeXT presentations on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07Xjom_GQA
Erdogan isn't a minority in his country. And we don't care if he is offended or not. However, there are millions of Turks in Germany, and we should care if they feel offended.
>I don't personally know anyone who's actually bought the new Macbook

I'm not sure which of us is living in a bubble, but it's probably the most common computer i see in coffee shops and shared workspaces. Granted, i live in a fairly wealthy resort town, but they're definitely selling.
Not the parent, but I think it would be doable albeit awkward at times. But there a lot of not-so-great things about living in Israel compared to Western Europe and North America.
Same here. I 'my just waiting for the new Air. Slanted keyboard and battery life. Not interested at all in anything else. But I really want 16Gigs. Running Chrome and a few VM'S needs more RAM.
Would be interested to how efficient local governments are compared to the federal government.

I think you could argue that people are less involved in local governments, so it is easier to control them or corrupt them.

John Oliver's piece on special districts was really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saU5racsGE
There are several startups in that space, e.g., Domino Data Labs, that have been trying to make it easy to do collaborative/versioned notebooks. I have only seen the product videos so don't know how well they work etc.
You just jogged my memory about WoW (Windows on Windows) :)
Space isn't an empty vacuum, but that's tangential. The expansion in this context is metric explanation, which just means things are getting further and further apart between two points due to space "expanding" between non-gravitationally bound objects. The explanation for "why" is sort of "we don't know". AFAIK, the leading theory is a combination of momentum / inertia from the big bang and acceleration from dark energy. Which we also don't know a lot about.
Sick of hearing these stupid 'songs' anyway. good riddance.
I suppose you're right.

But then they should have notified me: "We suspect you're using the service in violation of our TOS, so you are suspended" or something like that.

I'm paying for a service, they continued to take my money while pretending to provide that service.
"Discovers some sort of methodology that is supposed to help them get women, such as pick up artist communities"

The red pill distinguishes itself from "pick up artist communities". A quick look over it sees that they advocate more for strengthening one's self-esteem to be independent from what women think of them.

They also tend to generalize about women in ways that are not very popular, but generalizing what is perceived as negative behavior makes it much easier to deal with, understand, and move on from that behavior. In the end is just a community that supports men, and sometimes at the expense of their idea of women.

I'm not really sure if its a good or bad thing. But does anybody have a duty to think about people a certain way? Surely we need to treat everybody fairly, but once that is achieved what duty does an individual have to think about a people in a certain light at all times? If that person can develop a system that works for them and makes them happy and does not infringe on the rights of others then do we encourage people to do find what works for them? Or do we train them to think about others in a way that agrees with the majority of people.
Only if climate change doesn't render Malthus redundant by turning the planet unlivable well before the end of the century as it looks bound to happen. You at least won't be be able to put the blame for that on africans...
Also current refugee crisis in Europe is caused to a large extent by people fleeing political crisis in the middle east, a significantly wealthier region than Africa. The trickle of african migrants that was reaching Europe illegally via the mediterranean has always been overly exaggerated numbers-wise. It's a sad reality for those who see no option but to risk their lives that way, but I doubt Europe will ever have anything to fear from boat immigrants from Africa like you seem to suggest.
Again, neither of these articles, nor anything in here (http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1282246/err162.pdf), supports the preposterous claim that organic farming is leads to the use of more herbicides and insecticides, which are more toxic (which ones?) than the use of glyphosate et. al. In fact, in the USDA report I just cited, in the first abstract there is even the claim:

> However, overreliance on glyphosate and a reduction in the diversity of weed management practices have contributed to the evolution of glyphosate resistance in some weed species.

It is indeed true that traditional, non-organic means of farming likely requires the use of more (non-organic-certified) herbicides and pesticides, of which some may be more toxic than glyphosate.

Nuance! The allusion that farming with GMO+glyphosate is "far less dangerous" than standard organic farming practices is not supported by research.
It's OK for there to be solutions that don't push a religious aspect, and it's OK for there to be solutions that do.

I worked for a mobile phone company (as a programmer) that built a custom service profile for Orthodox Jews in Israel that specifically restricted incoming and outgoing calls on the Sabbath (sundown to sundown, depending on their location). I am not Jewish, neither do I have any problem using my phone any time that I want, but for these people it was an important part of their lifestyle, and they sought us out as a means to address it. They weren't worried about it being associated with their religion. Quite to the contrary, that's precisely what they wanted!

So what's wrong with a christian wanting a version of Ubuntu that supports common tenets of christian beliefs? Nobody is forcing it on anyone else... it's entirely voluntary!

All that I'm trying to say is to stop being so judgmental. What if these people have a good motive? Is that wrong, just because it does not line up with your biases?

As for me, I would probably not use it personally, simply because I like to do things myself, and if I were needing to set up such a system for my child I would probably roll my own, just for fun. If I were asked to set up such a system for someone else, though, I might consider using it if it is in line with their desires, simply because it would reduce maintenance work for me.
For one, the Constitution already has a legal framework for decentralization, and that is the states. Also, states already have governments etc, so from a pragmatic standpoint transferring power to them can potentially be done without setting up new centers of power that overlap existing structures. Unfortunately the Constitution prohibits breaking up states without their consent, so short of a Constitutional amendment it seems unlikely that these advantages could be obtained with entities smaller than the existing states.

I agree with your premise (I think); personally I prefer the ninth amendment to the tenth. Certainly however, I would favor d?evolving power to the states instead of pushing power up the totem pole through regionalism.
I wonder what reason the professor gave for splitting up Alaska into 2 states. The new state Seward would probably have something like 50,000 people or less in it.
Unfortunately, the Nepalese soldiers didn't do shit (so to speak) in terms of the relief efforts after the quake. Source: Doctor I know who was doing relief work there at that time.

It was also in the Clinton emails that were released (Chelsea Clinton was there and writing to her parents)
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_W...

"Speaking of censuses, the UN also needs a census of itself and its materials
in country - including of the peacekeeper bases outside Port Au Prince.
For example, we drove by 2 bases on the way to Cange and there were
collectively, I would estimate, more than a hundred trucks and buses just
sitting between the two, as well as at least 800 Napali soldiers (according to
locals) laying effectively fallow - and I don't think anyone expects an
outbreak of violence on the Central Plateau in the near future so even if they
and their colleagues are deployed under UN Charter Chapter 6, surely
preserving the peace could be interpreted to work with the settlements? At
the least, their hardware could be used more effectively in Port Au Prince."
Appears you're saying that non-commercial use is the same as commercial; disagree, story is about the commercial use of VR by mainstream users. More to the point, cost per unit including the backend costs in way beyond what a consumer would pay.

Appears you're saying that augmented (sythentic) and virtual reality are equivalents, but also state the US military has decided they're not.

Am I missing something?
State governments are, if anything else, even more dysfunctional than the federal government. D.C. telling Chicago what to do is pretty inane, but Springfield doing so is even more inane. I like the idea of decentralization, but the states are the wrong vehicle for doing that. We should get rid of the states, and decentralize the federal government, with autonomy pushed down into the various major economic centers (New York, LA, Houston, etc).
Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement
If that were true, the avenue of the saints wouldn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_of_the_Saints

It's exactly that kind of cross-state cooperation you're talking about.
Wow. The federal government was able to connect some dots.

I'm super impressed. What a great example of the power of centralized planning.
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?[video]
The fact that I can easily move my MBA around with one hand is the most life changing part of it for me.

I can easily put it on my nightstand, corner table, etc...
Hey,

I've been working on the CLJ(S) build system at Ladder. We use Buck to AOT compile clojure & clojurescript. The approach varies a little for the two.

For clojure, we set up the proper classpath based on the deps & run clojure's compile primitive. This part isn't too hard. We use a genrule macro to get the classpath of a java_* rule ($(classpath //:foo)), and then we symlink the sources into $TMP/srcs in the right layout. For better performance we actually AOT the third party dependencies as separate rules. That way when we AOT our code, we only get .class files only for our code.

For CLJS the story is a bit more complicated. The CLJS compiler doesn't natively support partial compilation. We ended up hacking the clojurescript compiler to dump the intermediate state as part of the build output. This isn't novel though - the compiler already dumps .cache.edn files with the same information. Once we have that, to compile dependent rules, we inject that state into the compiler before compilation.

Other than the hack, CLJS compilation is like CLJ compilation. We compile third party deps as separate rules and use their namespace caches to compile dependent rules. The hard part is getting this to be fast - the cljs compiler isn't fast to boot. To help with start time, we developed a little clojure class that lets us inject a ClassLoader into a running clojure process. It properly manages both loading and unloading of clojure namespaces. We then use that as part of a worker_tool rule (https://buckbuild.com/rule/worker_tool.html) to keep a warm compiler for the entire build (in a similar spirit to Boot's "pods"). We're hoping to open-source what we're calling PersistentClj separately.

As with all things novel, this is a bit experimental right now. We only recently started using buck for development. Moving production over is the next big step. There's still a long way to replacing figwheel usage, but we're going to try to do it. The biggest roadblock there is time - our priority is always on our product.

We are definitely planning on opening this up once we've proven it out, so stay tuned. Or even better, come help us build it :)

Mike
I felt an instant of panic when I saw the restart countdown.
The site is called Hacker News, not Inequality News.
Or they saw what Google just went through with Oracle and decided it's not worth it
Which state borders would you re-draw?
If the African or Latin American country has a good diplomatic standing, I'd consider such a request even more likely, because the tensions don't run as high. But it is difficult to imagine such a monumentally case of stupidity from any friendly state. Turkey included, before this whole mess.
It is a fair point which is why I allow them to use it for research or learning without many limits.

But honestly even if they started programming and doing that type of activity I'd still pull the plug on them daily at some point. I did to my son until he hit around 16-17.

Everything in moderation is generally ok or neutral. Anything to excess almost always comes at a price not worth paying.

Just my opinion of course but a computer can't teach you to deal with adversity or people. Sure you can read about it but doing is always a better teacher.
What Happened When Scientists Confronted Their Congressional Tormentors
If you use Atom, I would highly recommend looking at https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen It uses Jupyter under the hood to do some serious inline magic.
Powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits southern Japan
You are correct, but with leverage comes risk.

Here is my nightmare scenario: I live in the Bay area and if I wanted to buy a single-family house, I'd be looking at $900K at a minimum (if you avoid the really run-down/dangerous areas of the city).

Let's say I have the down payment of 20%. That's $180K. I buy the house and I can swing the $6000 per month in PMI, utilities, maintenance, etc.

Then the market takes a dip of 20%. If you own a $200K home, the hit would be $40K. That would suck, but with a good paying job, you could handle it.

In SF, a 20% drop (still within the realm of possibility) means you just lost $200K (if you include the other costs of closing on the home). $200K would be 5+ years of savings down the tubes.
The range is limited by eye safety; commercial equivalents have similar range.
There are many projects that need to be done, but they won't hire 10% of the workforce and product massive GDP.

The gold mine main deposit is gone and you have to drill in other directions.
Yes, if possible, please links to examples that are not just replacements of current user experiences; meaning that without the tech the experience would be completely missing.

Also, while I realize some will disagree, augmented and virtual reality are not the same thing; meaning my comments and the article were on VR, not AR.