skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You haven't lived until you've used Apptivate[0] to map the function keys to your most commonly used apps (I think with them "inverted" so you don't need to hold "fn"). I have F1 -> Finder, F2 -> Postico, F3 -> Chrome, F4 -> Sublime, F5 -> iTerm2, and can touch type each of them. It feels great to easily flip between those apps as necessary. It's like Cmd+Tab but goes to exactly the correct application each time.

I'll still probably get one of these MacBook Pros eventually, but the lack of F1 buttons is a loss.

[0] http://www.apptivateapp.com/
Jesus, 50 hours? I knew that they needed a project, but I thought it would be more in the 8-10 ballpark. And for $45/hr? The way they presented it to me was "you set your own rate and you get that, guaranteed", which I'm not sure how it works, since obviously some clients want to pay less.
Many travelers -- me included -- find it interesting to try the local food.
The author doesn't mention who the founders are pitching to; I assume he is talking about pitching to investors or other people who might lead to investors. IMO this is the actual issue rather than the "generalised problem."

"Generalised problem" is a by-product of not talking to the right people. Talking with the target customers/users will lead to better understanding of the actual problem.
What should startups do if Trump wins? (funny)
Ironically, even as you protest the war on drugs, you seem to defend its expansion and hardening. There's always people we don't like, and brutality always seems more reasonable if it's against them. That's what got us into the current mess.
Just a guess, but I am guessing that would be considered on time. Best of luck :) :)
We edited a small bit of identifying info out of this comment. Not that you meant any harm by including it, but we want to strike a balance that protects individuals from mass internet effects while also protecting substantive discussion.
I am not underestimating anyone; even within theoretical cryptography, SNARKs are understood by a handful of people.
The Alternate History wiki and forum. http://www.alternatehistory.com/
There's not a smidgen of principle in the jump from harmonic ratios to tempered tuning and standard scales and chords.

True first-principles music theory must (A) focus primarily on psychology over physics (B) not tell people that complex ratios sound bad but simply help people notice that they are different from simple ratios (C) actually go through the full logic of how the tempered system is derived from chains of harmonic ratios adjusted to temper out commas. The easiest approach to the latter is to simply teach diatonic scales as harmonic ratios and not introduce temperament at all until much later.

Far far far from perfect but having the direction that this attempt is missing: http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html

Anyway, I'd write the ultimate thing if I ever found the time. There's at least some good elements to this attempt so far. It really needs to be licensed CC-BY-SA though so that people can adapt and contribute and improve to get it to where it's really good.
what do you mean by that?
like how many views # did we get?
I think so too. The confirmation email we received said "you can continue to edit your application until the application deadline (Oct 04, 8pm PT)"
Two of those three episodes you saw are actually the worst (or least-good?) of the new season. They're definitely not as good as previous seasons, but the three you're missing are a lot better.

I did consider "Shut Up and Dance" to have a pretty interesting progression though.
In general avoid obscure models, more popular hardware generally have much better community support and development. Having an unlockable bootloader is a bonus but not essential in all cases.
This guy almost lives in his own reality.
Why would anyone use Esc over CapsLock?
inb4 heart attack
Having spent 10 months working in Swift, this is probably the last thing on earth I want to see right now.

Pretty much every part of the entire toolchain has been a pain, from Xcode being Xcode, to compiler bugs and crashes, crappy package management and bad language design.

Having built servers in Java/C#/Scala/Haskell, I'd pick Haskell over those options and Swift every single time.
Looks like I can't edit, so I'll create another comment.

I ran into this article that puts quite nicely why the problem isn't the "else", but the "if" itself:

https://medium.com/@bartobri/applying-the-linus-tarvolds-goo...

This is what I meant in the other comment by preferring the non-branching.
Eh, I'm not so much a deletionista.

I think there's no real reason (to use an old example) of why every Pokemon needs its own page, while other more worthy topics get deleted.

But overall? I'm an inclusionist, if there's a consistency. Instead, the practical application is "included if it gels well with certain fads or obsessions, but more more critically considered if not".

Out of curiosity, though, I went back. Over a thousand edits to WP and of those, 12 on "Articles for Deletion". Of those I voted keep on 2, delete on 10.

Of those ten, five were Biographies of Living People, and three were Original Research - including "List of Problems Solved by MacGyver", "Suggested Reading Order for Discworld Novels", and "Star Trek Vessels by Size". The other two were "WP: Admins Willing To Make Difficult Blocks" and a sub-user page from a now disgraced admin that he used to collect "evidence" on users he disliked.

Using a stats tool I can see that on other edits my ratio of "Content Created to Content Removed" is 28.37:1. So I think I'm doing okay there, too.
What about machine learning is relevant to this textbook ?
Are they light and thin and durable and with high-quality chips and well-tested hardware and perfect integration between OS and hardware and calibrated displays and ... you get the idea. There's a reason pro users pay the Apple premium for laptops.

But I wonder if Apple is really making a smart choice. Alienating the tech / UNIX people, as few as we may be in the grand scheme of things, may hurt them in the long run.
Google Fiber laying off 9% of staff, will “pause” plans for 10 cities
But there is no commonly used Mac shortcut that uses the function keys.
you will be okay.
Might I suggest that it is possible for a write in candidate like "Someone Else" to win in this election.
Possibly by a landslide.
After Almost a Century, the 2nd Avenue Subway Is Close to Arriving
It's not quite like E-cig users and their naked 18650 cells.
Emacs is now the thing that i am most passionate about... even more than programming languages themselves. I don't imagine getting back to anything else. Especially when i have to run tests using IntellJ for Java, i can't wait until i get back to my lovely Emacs screen!
I used Mac because it gave me a great UX with access to all my favorite command line tools and a posix API I could build against. With Windows 10 finally shipping a real, supported posix target (Ubuntu for Windows - what an unfortunate name) vs the years of Interix (R) which was discontinued and replaced by "Linux subsystem for Windows" which was discontinued without a replacement until Nadella's "Ubuntu/Bash for Windows", I now no longer have need for OS X.

Plus, Apple doesn't care about macOS. HFS has bitrotted away, the OS itself has taken backseat to mobile, and Apple doesn't know if it cares enough about its enterprise and power users to even release "point releases" of their products - how much engineering tech does it take to replace a Haswell CPU with a Broadwell with no fanfare or ado? Just do it and make it available?
> Figure out what's causing the difference between those two groups...

Have you ever been surfing? I find it frustrating as hell. Rock climbers I can relate to, though.

I'm sure there's more to it then that. Maybe the surfers left to get away and the climbers left for the destination.
Keep up the work. If only a few people get their start into understanding the physics of music through this, it will be worth the effort. Plus I think this kind of education will be a lot more prevalent in the future. Congrats & thanks for the huge effort!)
Touch vs. Visual is only one spectrum of change here.

I remap function keys for global purposes like window tiling with Divvy. Seems like context-sensitivity will delete what I consider to be key functionality.
Called them out directly on medium for it. Doubt they'll bother to answer, but maybe a few people will see it.
I've been wanting to do something like this a while now, and I think you've done a great job! I really appreciate how you used the sine waves to demonstrate consonance, and the pentatonic section is a great intro into the world of 'just-intonation'. Cheers!
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That sounds like a recipe for a confused deputy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem).
"18F is a Financial Disaster" is not the title of the article and is explicit editorialising.

On a lighter note, seems like a fun place to work! And the kind of attitudes on display here seem to be the kind you'd expect from a group of people who have the VC-funded mindset, but the cost-pressures of the US's government budget.
Ok old school vi user here...I'm going to admit that I no idea about ctrl-[ until your comment.
I hate backbone. Lots of boilerplate and everyone I see a set("field",value) I die a little inside.

Also, everything of any size I've seen written in backbone turned into an unmaintainable mess.
Well done! It summarizes a lot of theory it took me months to puzzle out on my own.

One nit: At the top of each section there is a section title, at the bottom of each section, there is a "Next section" title, a description, and a next section button, and on the side there is a list of sections. Some of the titles are inconsistent from list to top of current and from bottom of current to top of next. It's a little confusing right now, and there are only a few sections; when there are more, it will be far more confusing. I don't have a suggestion as to how fix it, just pointing out the confusing inconsistency.
In practice? I don't know. i7 means IOMMU. That I care about. But it may be useless to most - like ECC.

We have niche interests, and a few things that matter (IOMMU, ECC)

Most people care about TDP or prices.
But isn't the outrage what keeps the Internet from collapsing in upon itself like a balloon full of hot air? ;-)
HN points are particularly useless as far as internet points go. You're the one who benefits, assuming you value the exposure.
Why now all of a sudden?
Why the best leaders want their superstar employees to leave
It's OK. It tracks as well as my rMBP's did/does, but does not recognize multiple simultaneous touches (hard to explain, but best example is holding down the keypad (yes, the whole thing clicks like the real MBP trackpads before this force touch garbage used to) with one finger than dragging with another to click-and-drag - this would work on an MBP but does not on the ZBook Studio).

It's an alps trackpad, which is unfortunate because their drivers suck. I have basically two or three configurations possible for the gestures. Synaptic would be way better, but I can't find any glass synaptic trackpads (the Dell Precision 5510 - a beefed up XPS 15 - had an even crappier Elantech).
Yep. Agreed on all points. I sure hope software development doesn't get boring, but this'll be an interesting place if it does.
T-Mobile seen as top target following AT&T-Time Warner deal
I really wish reddit had a "show me previous ads" feature. A lot of they ads are stuff I'm interested in, but I don't notice them until I'm moving away from the page.
http://dayssincelastjavascriptframework.com/
I hear ya (pun not intended), but I think the current approach would work, more or less, for people who went through physics school or something. Perhaps I'm biased by my background (physics, and reasonably familiar with music theory at amateur level).

I do agree that making it more intuitive would make it more useful for, e.g., kids in middle school.
Ah yes. The difference between actual requirement and perceived requirement. Worthy statement.
Sure, SGX, bigger L3, some virtualization features thrown in. But ECC is the only one that matters (the 6920HQ doesn't have virtualization support which I live and die by, but other i7 chips do). There are servers running i3 chipsets because for some bizarre reason, Intel has allowed using ECC RAM on i3 machines but not on i5 or i7.
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You can use something like this: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65625

Works pretty well... I managed to use it to write a couple of stupid demo-type effects a couple of years ago, even though I have no Amiga, and no real idea how to use one for day-to-day stuff anyway. I wrote the copper effects as a sequence of macro-driven dc.w lines ;)

68000 wasn't as much fun as I remembered, though it was an enjoyable nostalgia trip I suppose. The separate address and data registers (and actually you have 8 of each - though 1 address register is the stack pointer, and on the Amiga you often lose a6, because that holds the address of the module jump table) are annoying, all the instructions are really... damn... slow, and the addressing mode selection is a bit crap.

It was also funny to think how far technology has come on. My PC can write to disk - USB disk, I mean - 5400rpm, NTFS - using fwrite - more quickly than the Amiga's video scanout hardware can read pixel data :-|
I've heard it all now. You can pre-select the things YOU YOURSELF SAID that are especially profound/awesome/tweet-worthy? This is like, NOT EVEN an echo chamber, because the sound never even makes it out of your own head. You're your own editor, reviewer and audience. Tweet THIS! grabs crotch
> Although privacy was a motivating factor for Bitcoin’s flock of early adopters

Not quite. I mean surely there were people interested in that, but frankly this is exaggerated. We knew very early that anonymity was far from obvious, even on a purely theoretical point (that is, even if you could anonymise your IP for instance).

Bitcoin was approximately anonymous not by design, but by convenience. Who wants to have to bother checking the identity of users? In fact, I'd argue that bitcoin was no more anonymous than any other FOSS project. You usually don't ask for an ID before allowing someone to download your software.
As someone just getting into music theory the interactivity is extremely nice. The visualizations and sound just click for me.
Insurgency, maybe, but a full out civil war would be very very implausible at this point. State militias are severely underpowered to launch a full on war.
HP charges an arm and a leg for customizations; I bought it with a 120 GB M.2 SSD and 16GB of ECC then swapped those out for a Samsung PCIe NVMe M.2 950 Pro and 2x16GB ECC RAM. It has 2x SODIMM slots and each can take up to 32GB, so you could do 64GB if you wanted to.

That upgrade would have cost me around $1000 preconfigured from HP, but since these are real machines that let me actually do what I want to them, I was able to swap them out for myself for $350 - and that's before recuperating the costs by selling the parts it came with.

btw, I think the 3940XM is only faster on paper. The E3-1545m has 8GT/s vs the 3940XM's 5GT/s, ~33% more memory bandwidth, and an L4 memory cache.
? There is no escape key?
I'm responding to your claim that both MRAs and feminists have "awful" reputations, which is false. MRAs do indeed have a checkered reputation. Feminism, on the other hand, is one of the more important social movements of the last 150 years. That fact is why MRAs are usually careful to refer to "third wave feminists".
Been living with the MacBook keyboard for over a year. Still hate hate hate it. Unfortunately it's the only fabless Mac laptop. Sigh
I am quite sure they use them at least for the camera, facebook, instagram and the odd game. Why would they not want to get decent performance?
Timbr has been acquired by DigitalGlobe
Most of the compile time issues comes from type inference (exponential algo!), a really simple file based incremental compilation logic system and generic / struct specialization. If you could make a version of swift that turns off those two features and improves incremental compilation then it would probably be pretty good.

Compile speeds go into the seconds when you try simple things like append 10 array variables with a + operator because of type inference!!

Swift if a nice language otherwise. Most iOS devs & tooling are small teams creating projects that are around 30-50 kloc of code total. It works ok then, but when you get to 100kloc sizes, all of that fancy stuff is a relative waste in comparison to compile speed and xcode's indexer crashing and dying all the time.

Backend server projects usually have codebases that are far larger than clients after a while, so I worry about using it in the backend like that.
I'm not sure 18F was supposed to make money. It's govenment funded and produces things like https://analytics.usa.gov/ and https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Intel launches 14nm Atom E3900 and spins an automotive version
I'd expect the brightness is tied to keyboard brightness. Not that that answers the question about blue light. To that end, I'd wager first version won't be sporting anything like Night Shift / flux.
> but pushing over developers

I'll wait until Thursday to check they still ship with the Terminal app...
Python can beat Perl performance in many cases. I'm not sure if Django is the right choice for machine efficiency. It is a good choice for low total cost of ownership.
I think this is fantastic.
Awesome work.
Looking forward to seeing the missing chapters!
Move over, solar: The next big renewable energy source could be at our feet
It's been done. I recall a company made a screen that could vary the amount of friction a finger experienced.
limnu.com is a beautiful web-based solution. Highly recommend.
Otto, Anheuser-Busch Claim First Automated Truck Shipment
Don't forget: There is no ultimate best way to teach.
People absorb knowledge very differently. I learnt that the hard way.
Some people need to see examples first and play with it; other people (that's me) need to see the structure and principles first.

The "must" in your claims seems a bit too absolute / dogmatic to me.
Your every release should be crazy so you can get attention.
I hope there is a software-only option, or a dongle option for those who already have an investment in interactive panels/projectors
I think one of the interesting consequences of the echo chamber that social networks create is that everybody thinks they are in the majority. For example, if you view the comments on political pages, you'll often see conflicting claims that "the majority of people think X". I think each person making these claims genuinely feel that they are in the majority because their echo chamber distorts the proportion of supporting voices, and then you see comments like "who are all these people who voted for Y?"

Edit to add: I think the problem is not only that people don't see views other than their own, but that they become unaware that other views even exist.
Confidential != anonymous. Anonymous invites bad behavior more than confidential does.
Independent verification of MedSec's St Jude pacemaker vulnerabilities [pdf]
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Looks good, I think there is a great foundation. The Pentatonic Scale feels out of place; but that's probably because I feel that pentatonic is just a mutation of other modes. Chords are really just stacked intervals, it might make sense to move them immediately after the 'harmony' section? The interface is really nice, but I don't think it clearly communicates or reinforces the idea of 'tonic', which is fundamental to understanding music theory. Please keep working on this, there needs to be a good interactive explanation of music theory!

EDIT: You might benefit from filling out the intervals section. Clearly articulate each interval, which are classified as consonant vs dissonant, etc. That would get the user/student thinking about 5ths vs 7ths, etc.
> I bet I could get the boarding time down to about 40% of what it is right now with my suggested changes.

My guess is that this is of no real benefit. Refueling, restocking, loading baggage, running maintenance checks, and other tasks need to happen before the airline can get the plane back into the air. Only extremely infrequently have I been on a plane that was able to roll back from the gate shortly after the last passenger boarded.

If the limiting factor here was passenger boarding times, airlines would have every incentive to improve the situation from where it is now. They have no incentive to speed up boarding to be any faster than the slowest of the rest of the preflight processes.
The restaurant could give each table a different "address" to pay, and then see which ones have received payments (which can already be done with Bitcoin, despite the lack of some of the other anonymity properties).
For the .Net inclined, there is already IdentityServer--very good and great documentation:
https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer3
Well done! Exactly the way I would want to and could actually learn this.
Filtering Dissent
so the rumors look mostly true. WIN. #takemymoney
So true! Source: lived on the water in Newport Beach.
Jeff Bezos Interview with Walter Isaacson [video]
I don't know. I have to say, most startup origin stories I've heard seem to begin with personal pain. Kalanick and Camp started Uber because they had problems getting a cab in Paris. Zuckerberg created Facebook/mash to have a central Harvard student directory. Stripe because Patrick C had so much trouble setting up payments for other projects.

At the very least, another person's pain causes you pain via empathy or some sort of chain reaction. I had a successful website business that was born solely out of a friend's constant requests for updates. I hacked a CMS together and a business was born. His pain was getting his website updated–my pain was him bugging me.
Immigrants Fuel Innovation. Let’s Not Waste Their Potential
Am I the only one who has emacs functions bound to every function key?
Yes - the forthcoming UBIQ is a fork of eth without premine along with some code improvements. You can read more here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631210.0
1. Animations have their place on news sites.

2. I'm not just talking about animations: things like parallel layout are also useful for static sites.
pretty difficult to know, i have no views from San Francisco yet
You can suggest it, but you'd be wrong for a number of reasons, including the rules for write-in candidates in Presidential elections in most states. Johnson may get enough to get the Libertarians federal funding next cycle (with no EVs), and McMullin might win Utah's EVs, but write-ins aren't going anywhere.
What you said was standard practice for savvy buyers of Windows for around a decade. We always told people, "Just wait till at least SP1 to buy it. You won't regret being a late adopter." We never did regret it.
Ask HN: YC W2017 Applications. Who got invited/accepted?
List your startup below! Let us know if you got the invite/acceptance!
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> Your personal needs are vastly different from the actual market; otherwise what you desire would be more aligned with what manufacturers are making.

An economist sees a $100 bill on the ground, but refuses to pick it up because if it were real, someone else would have already taken it.
Was going to check it out, then realized it's too late. Maybe better off not knowing at this point.
Same (chromium50) totally crashed (black screen, ctrl-alt-del fails, offline copy same) specifically, happens when i scroll up towards the ani-gifs.
Being a government agency, it may in fact be prohibited from making money.

"Not supposed to make money" isn't the same thing as "spend $140,000 on making your logos look hipper".
http://www.shiftjs.com/
9 times out of 10 it's the "BU rep" that's responsible for rushing things out the door yesterday.