skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in...

With great reluctance, Eisenhower agreed
to let American officers use their nuclear
weapons, in an emergency, if there were no
time or no means to contact the President.
Air Force pilots were allowed to fire their
nuclear anti-aircraft rockets to shoot down
Soviet bombers heading toward the United
States. And about half a dozen high-level
American commanders were allowed to use far
more powerful nuclear weapons, without
contacting the White House first, when
their forces were under attack and “the
urgency of time and circumstances clearly
does not permit a specific decision by the
President, or other person empowered to act
in his stead.”

Unbeknownst to both Kubrick and George, a
top official at the Department of Defense
had already sent a copy of “Red Alert” to
every member of the Pentagon’s Scientific
Advisory Committee for Ballistic Missiles.
At the Pentagon, the book was taken
seriously as a cautionary tale about what
might go wrong.

A decade after the release of “Strangelove,”
the Soviet Union began work on the
Perimeter system - a network of sensors and
computers that could allow junior military
officials to launch missiles without
oversight from the Soviet leadership.
Perhaps nobody at the Kremlin had seen the
film. Completed in 1985, the system was
known as the Dead Hand. Once it was
activated, Perimeter would order the launch
of long-range missiles at the United States
if it detected nuclear detonations on
Soviet soil and Soviet leaders couldn’t be
reached.

I believe that's check and mate, old chap?
Plus the changes are toward more battery life not more power. Except for integrated graphics (more pixels) and SSDd (bigger). Many macbook pro are left permanently plugged in.
Sorry, I can't find versions of 3ds Max, Inventor, Solidworks, or AutoCAD for the Mac.
Also, no Visual Studio.
And no Excel.

The Mac "equivalents" where they exist are far inferior.

How does the Mac have better available software these days?
Pair programming, in this context, means two people sharing a workstation. No "single developer" code allowed, at least when it's taken to extremes.

Agree with much of what you say and...

>>> how do the introverts get on in such an environment?

...in my experience, not great.

Out of curiosity, what kind of area do you work in?
Growth as a result of consumption is destructive. We need to find ways to 'grow' our economy without increasing consumption. For example, measure growth by how people are becoming more educated. If people could live healthily and intelligent and only work 10 hours a week until they were 100, wouldn't that be better than being able to buy a new car every year? Or a 5000sq house with the latest big screen tv?

I believe (or rather, I pray) that we have hit peak consumption which will lead to this problem forevermore. We need to find new ways to improve ourselves than shopping more.
Evidently, a $10M investment that compounds at 12% p.a. will return $31M after 10 years.

The article however shows that dilution of that initial "round A" investment by subsequent rounds of capitalization needs to be taken into account (as well as when such a "round B" occurred, but that isn't addressed). It is this dilution that reduces the returns, requiring one or more "unicorn exits" to make the hoped for returns from the initial investment
For rural areas they intend to use baloons. I'd say there are no major gaps in their plan.
On ISCE's “Most Influential” Papers (1995) [pdf]
That's what Type Variables are explicitly for. They present the necessary semantics for bounded parametric polymorphism. In fact that's really the only reason they exist at all. The rest of the sub-type system works without them, but parametric polymorphism wouldn't work without them.

I don't know if the Erlang/Dialyzer docs cover that specifically, but I know the originial paper on Dialyzer and Dialyzer type specs does.
> Macbook Air was purchased in 2012

this is a great machine! or in my case: it was a great machine, sadly there was an accident with a kid and some coke so I bought a late 2015 mac book, which is the worst computer I owned ever (see my review here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165132 )

hope your mac book air stays with you for a long, long time, I miss mine....
Free 2G/3G for access to Facebook's walled garden that doesn't allow https
Don't know if it is the most popular tool, but I can definitely recommend ProductBoard - https://www.productboard.com/

It is beautiful app with many integrations(Zendesk, Jira, Trelo, Slack, etc) and many features which helps you to conduct research, prioritize what to build next, communicate plans and progress.

Hubert, the CEO of PB, is also very active on Medium where he writes about product management - https://medium.com/@hpalan
WanHao DuPlicator i3 combo (3D printer, laser engraver and laser cutter)
We had one of the mechanical Quanergy sensors at my last job, and I worked on integrating it with ROS and doing some mapping with it. It was slow, not well constructed (it kind of vibrated when rotating), and didn't return intensity information (though it's possible a software update could change that).

At $8000 (later dropped to ~$5600), it was poor value. I've never used a velodyne, but I looked over the marketing materials for the VLP-16 puck and it seems like a much more well thought out product. This makes sense as Quanergy is only selling mechanical LIDARs as a bridge, but the fact remains that they aren't very good.
The article re-iterates the convenient lie promoted by Facebook that Free Basics was "designed for people who can’t afford expensive mobile-data charges."

The cost of internet access is really low in India. For less than $2 a month, you can easily get 500MB/month of 3G access [1]. Even cheaper for $2G access. The cost of a getting a phone is the bigger barrier. But in Facebook's world everyone already has a phone but cannot afford internet.

The example Mark Zuckerberg usually talks about is US where it costs around $2000 for a plan over two years. Which makes it makes a convenient case for Free Basics.

It was disappointing to see how major publications are just re-iterating FB/Zuckerberg words. The only journalism I saw was from Buzzfeed[2][3] and Backchannel[4].

[1] http://www.plansinfo.com/reliance-gsm-prepaid-mumbai-plans.h...

[2] https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/heres-how-free-bas...

[3] https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-facebooks-plan-t...

[4] https://backchannel.com/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-free-in...
How big is the % FPS decrease if you run the game inside container, compared to just running it regularly?
Whether it "works fine" (and my Pro works fine) is not the point. When you can now buy more powerful laptops with longer battery life for less money than current Macs, it becomes hard to justify the premium price for a Mac.

It seems like Apple is hoping the consumer won't notice and still buy the brand as though it's a designer item and not electronics. I suspect that this is not the primary motivation for their current lack of new tech. I think that the largest part for this regression from the cutting edge is a consequence of no longer having Steve Jobs pushing every part of the company for its utmost.

Apple, when you anthropomorphize the actions of the company as a whole, comes off as arrogant. They had earned this by actually delivering the best you could buy. The best laptops, the best phones, the best music players, the best tablets. With the exception of tablets, this is no longer true, in any category (not even phones). And that is the issue.

Not whether the device is still good enough. It ought to be the best, because that was what we came to expect from Apple. The premium ought to be a no-brainer because you get what you pay for. It isn't like that anymore and if you're a fan of Apple (and I have been since the Apple IIe) then you really wish it were.
Facebook can expect to receive the same treatment in China as Uber did.
Sounds stupid, but if you are talking big milestones and overall vision, Excel works just fine.
If, because of this walled garden people are restricted from learning about the rest of the internet, it's not much of a plus.
There are companies that only do pair programming and apparently never let a developer work alone. Pivotal Labs is probably the best-known example:

https://www.google.com/#q=pivotal+labs+pair+programming

There are some interesting comments in that search, both from Pivotal and from other people, some of whom love pair programming and some who can't stand it.
Concerning point one, could you please list the alternate software you had in mind? Especially the open source ones. Thanks!
In the IBM case users could choose what equipment they wanted so you may have a point.
RDL supports most of the serious research anyone is doing into types in Ruby. See the papers with Foster as an author under Types here http://rubybib.org. I hope the Ruby core team is watching their progress since some kind of typing is being debated by Matz.
This seems simliar to what I had developed:

http://nlq.lavadip.com/servlet/about

Although, kueri seems more polished, and the ability to auto-complete mid-sentence is pretty neat.
it's interesting that the report mentioned the start of 2001 as the low GDP growth for US and EU......but it's also around the same time that China joins WTO.

For 15 years, jobs, communities and quality of goods were sacrificed in US and europe for cheap, shoddy goods that were produced by laborers in China in abysmal conditions, the rewards reaped by Chinese communist party insiders.

For 15 years, US and european companies outsourced their money and time to China, only come to find out that by being short sighted to profit, they've lost their trade secrets, technologies, know-hows, skills, market shares to Chinese manufacturers and technology companies. They paid a big price to learn that with the Chinese government, Only China wins. There's no win-win for both. When dealing with Chinese government, you lose.

So we're at an interesting intersection in 2016. China's membership in WTO is at its end this year. China is exposed as having an authoritarian regime that is hiding trillions of debt and likely having a 0-2% gdp growth. It is exposed as having an anti-foreign environment where companies like Uber, Wynn, Yum, Apple are all suffering. What will happen?
This is fantastic. They even have type checking. Looking forward to the day this turns into something like tsc.
because free masons like them and distribute them.
why do dogs sniff buts?
smarter than free masons
India is a republic, but I'm.not really sure about the socialist part.
Looking at just Macbook Pro retina, which they skip a generation of Intel processor, my speculations:

* They have issue getting USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.1 right, power usage wise

* They are trying to incorporate TouchID, which requires custom chip like in iPhone, such chip takes time

* They want P3 extended sRGB for the retina screen but has issue with supplier.

* They are building a new trackpad that can support Apple Pencil, and it takes time.

* They have move majority of Mac hardware people to focus on ARM chip based Mac.

* They have a brand new overhaul design, but Johnny Ive is too busy with flagship building

* They are teaching customers that you only need to buy a new Mac every 5 years.

But there is no excuse for Apple not to make an interim upgrade with whatever new generation of Intel CPU.
There are quite a few studies that show that revenue drops proportional with performance, i. e. if people have to wait 4seconds instead of two, you're leaving half your revenue on the table.
Sorry, "not buying products" and otherwise being silent doesn't cut it. There are (were[1]) whole magazine categories that test and criticize consumer products.

[1] In Germany at least some of those magazines were quite good. Haven't read any recently though.
Can I ask why you joined the peace corps? I have pondered about doing so myself, thanks !
I use CMake/CPacl
If companies and service providers know that an individual canpay $50 more. What insentive do they have to keep costs low? As it stands the price of living is absurd. Free money would only provide excuses for higher charges. GDP can be increased by making people buy more but is that really the solution?

As it stands we have a ton of communities that are not sustainable and end up a net loss. Where Mcdollars have value. The issue with these communities is that they cannot produce their own food, materials for housing or clothes and once factories leave they export nothing. If you want higher gdp, making sustainable communitiesis far better than printing free money. One makes more areas attractive to live tge other makes the average citizen have umbilical cord connected to the central bank
I think the donation button would only work if it was integrated into game (for example a reminder on main menu). Otherwise it would be very difficult to convert the user who is already playing the game for free.
Love the PR machine here ... though i'm not saying this didn't happen or isn't real, but it's a way better story line then Telsa's AutoPilot kills driver, as happened in Florida.
No one wants to wait 60 seconds for Safari to launch. Apple sells high-end computers. People expect high-end performance. They should never have sold computers with 5400 rpm drives, for example.

Oculus won't support any Macs because the hardware isn't that good:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11159700/oculus-rift-mac-su...
What if he had died en route? Would the car have come to a safe stop?
Hey, I'm on my 17 inch right now! I've just about given up on Apple releasing another laptop in this size. I'll probably upgrade in the next release cycle -- I love this machine but it just can't run the number of Docker instances I need for work.
Advice for CS Freshmen
I often see articles like these result in a broad call for a universal basic income. The reasons are simple: it doesn't dictate what you should or should not spend your money on; it provides a standard-of-living floor; it balances out the inequalities of a globalized and increasingly automated world.

I have a different proposal: instead of guaranteeing basic income, guarantee broad access to basic services.

Off the top of my head, I see five basic services anybody in an industrialized society ought to have provided for them: food/water, shelter, transportation, health care, electricity/information. If these needs can be met cheaply enough, then we won't need a guaranteed income. The basics are cheap enough and if you want a higher standard of living, you can work towards it, but in a market society there are winners and there are losers, and at least under the guaranteed service mechanism, the losers aren't mired in poverty.

In the short term, food/water and electricity/information are nearly cheap enough to be universal. We just don't choose to provide it in a low-tax society.

Medium term, health care costs can be reduced through automated diagnosis and operations. Some automated surgeons exist today and there was a recent report that IBM's Watson was able to correctly diagnose patients.

Long term issue will be shelter and transportation. Even with self-driving automobiles, providing shelter for everybody will require a delicate balance between dense urban housing (which is currently in high demand and very expensive) and suburban sprawl (which is harmful to the environment and requires vast and expensive infrastructure like roads and water).

By investing heavily in an ultra-low-cost society, governments can ensure all people have access to the services they need, while refraining from redistribution-via-taxation, which, while good in intentions, dents the very growth and ROI necessary to make these big investments.
Right. I think that's the bigger point. The author says you used to pay a lot for Apple because you knew you were getting "the best computer". Now it's not so simple.
I'm running steam in a systemd container, the main issues were sound and notifications: I don't understand how pulseaudio works, so I had to give share some system directories with the guest system to get the sound working. Notifications were solved by sharing dbus. GPU was shared by sharing a single directory in /dev with correct persmissions
A Lightweight Virtual DOM Framework
SPORT PICKED WINNERS
When I was in UAE, I remember a telecom company called du provide facebook for free on a website called 0.facebook.com.

Basically, it was the normal mobile facebook, but without any images (and for some reason, they decided to make it all black and white as well).

The funny thing is, I and a lot of my friends switched to du from a much better company just for this service - because for us it was either no internet on our phones, or free facebook - and we chose free facebook.

Over time we felt limited and decided to opt for a social package (facebook, twitter, BBM, etc.) but had it not been for the initial free facebook hook - we'd never have bothered with mobile data for a much longer time.
It's good that India has strict Net neutrality rules which ban zero rating. That's what Facebook was bitten by. In US various ISPs still get away with it.
hadn't come across that implementation before, i'll try putting up benchmarks as soon as i can.
Okay, you've refuted my point, now bring it home and illustrate your point: why doesn't it cut it?

Reviewers are a totally different animal and orthogonal to my point; I'm not arguing that reviews should cease. You're talking to a guy who respects film reviewers individually and recognizes patterns and traits of certain reviewers (like Ebert or Travers or Tom Long, who I dearly miss in retirement -- if I were on the fence for any film in the last decade I read Tom), so I definitely value review as an industry. Hell, Broadway might argue review is an essential part of the industry, I reckon, since there are many people who wait for the Times to review a play before buying tickets.
Likely. The car occasionally asks the driver to place their hands on the steering wheel, based on conditions and the car's evaluation of its own ability to handle them. If you don't obey after some warnings, then the car will put on the hazard lights and brake to a stop. Not very safe on a busy road, but safer than an incapacitated driver heading off into the woods.
The math doesn't look reasonable in this post.

The "okay" startups only return 25% growth over ten years. Even hundred year-old blue chips grow faster than that. Of course a 50M exit isn't good enough if it takes ten years and you only own a quarter of the company after putting in 10M.
A lot of it seems insufficient demand after asset bubbles. Houses or whatever keep going up for a while, people mortgage themselves to the hilt to buy and when the bubble pops cut back spending to pay off the debts over the following decade or three. That leads to less spending jobs tax revenue and so on.

The solution I think should be something like governments borrowing money at the near zero rates we have at the moment and doing stuff like investing in infrastructure and things that will boost spending. When you get back to too much money chasing too few goods and inflation they can back off but we're way off that point in most economies at the moment.
Would love to hear the reverse perspective (mother to son)
Note that very long run GDP per capita growth is driven more or less by technological change, and there's no reason to expect that technological change is constant.

Major technological innovations are often discrete, their impact can take decades to be fully realized in the economy, and the timing of the next major innovation is unpredictable.
If they refresh, how many ports would the new MB Pro have? I was seriously taken by the looks and weight of the latest MB, but the idea of a single port -- and needing a bulky adapter dongle to connect an HDMI cable or any of a dozen legacy USB devices I routinely use -- killed it. A laptop that requires a hub dangling off it is just not acceptable.
There are a lot of calls in these comments for basic income, or schemes like it. But that is just redistributing existing wealth, not creating new growth, which is exactly the problem we have. You have to produce things before they can be consumed, and this is also the case with economics.
Reminds me of TempleOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS).
It would be great if it wasn't the same machine they released 3 years ago. I've wanted to upgrade my desktop Mac to a machine that can support 4K output at 60Hz, but my options are currently to downgrade from quad to dual core and get a Mac Mini, spend a lot of money on an outdated Mac Pro, or repurpose on of their laptops into a desktop, which I'm not terribly interested in doing (and also only dual core).
I've got a 2008 13" alu Macbook that's still going strong, dual booting Snow Leopard and Ubuntu.

Heat is an issue, but with upgraded RAM and a SSD, it's gets the job done.
I proposed the same idea for GOG and their Linux games a few years ago. At that time they didn't get the point.
> Exit nodes can trivially screw around with plain HTTP (both snoop on and rewrite), and it also puts them in a MitM position for new HTTPS bugs.

This is no different from your ISP or the guy next to you on the coffee shop wireless.

If you don't want people to snoop and rewrite your HTTP connection, don't use HTTP. And the solution to broken HTTPS is to fix HTTPS. Tor doesn't decrease your security in either of these cases.

> That's a risk you take when using Tor, and it's not a tradeoff you can reasonably convey to existing Firefox users who are used to Private mode meaning a certain thing.

1. It's not a tradeoff. Tor does not decrease your security in either case. There are cases where Tor doesn't provide privacy protections, but there's not a case I know of where using Tor provides fewer protections than not using Tor.

2. It's impossible to convey to non-technical users that private browsing doesn't provide privacy from their ISP, governments, etc. I don't understand how you can claim that providing fewer privacy protections is less confusing to the non-technical user.

> Also, the Tor network probably doesn't have enough exit node capacity to handle the volume it would get.

This is a solvable problem.
I probably should - but it's a shame because I know it's very possible to put 64 GB in a laptop, and I'd be willing to pay more than the market rate for the RAM.
From your review: "I do a lot of presentation so basically the adapter is part of the machine".

If you knew that you need extra sub port all the time - why did you purchase this model? You could have easily get the mba or the retina 13" if you need more ports and longer battery life. I have the retina MacBook and I bought it only to be used as a web dev machine during my travel since I don't need sub ports and I can get 6 hours of work in sublime text + Apache running with no problem.

I think a lot of people who have issues with MacBooks are just not using a correct tool for the work, if you need a work machine with sub ports - don't buy the MacBook in the first place, it's not meant for that.
jganetsk had already answered your question, you simply have to read what they wrote. Anticipating a question like "What insentive do they have to keep costs low?" they answered before you wrote, when they wrote: "And if you manage to hand people free money and yet the economy STILL doesn't grow, and inflation STILL doesn't rear it's head -- guess what? That's a GOOD thing."

Put differently, the government should print money until inflation appears. This is what Keynesian economists have been recommending since 2008, yet most Western governments went in the opposite direction and engaged in long bouts of austerity.