skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exact title/link has been posted a number of times (>5) in the past 1-2 months [1].

I'd be interested to know which cognitive bias is at work when the instance of the post today gets 480+ points -- but no instances of this post (same title, same url) in the past 1 month garnered more than 26 pts.

I am both new to HN, and legitimately curious. Perhaps the content of the site was improved dramatically?

edit: clarity.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cognitive%20bias%20cheat%20she...
I think everyone would agree that saying "I can't believe you work at Google/Facebook/Twitter instead of curing cancer" would be ridiculous.

Yet, every time finance work is mentioned, someone brings up "I can't believe you work in finance instead of curing cancer."

Guess what? I don't want to work on curing cancer. I used to. I went to school for biomedical engineering and wanted to work on big problems. I realized I would rather do as little work as possible (but still be challenged), and spend time with my family and friends. And I'll happily give money to people to cure this problems.

And those big problems that I wanted to work on before? Well, I'm sure there's somebody that really cares about that. The best way I can help is using my time in ways that I enjoy, and giving my money to those who will actually enjoy finding that cure.

A friend of mine almost died from some disease when she was in her teens. She survived, and is now a researcher for that specific field. She has a personal interest in that research, even if it means she might have to sacrifice other things. And she was also the one who convinced me to bail from the PhD program. She said "if you can imagine yourself doing anything else, do something else."

That's when I realized academic research is long, painful work, but you have to be excited for it. If I'm not excited, I should do something else, and then give money or help increase funding to make it less painful for those who still want to be there.
The principles seem to contradict themselves at least a couple times.

Don't guess what they want to do (Predictable) and leave it Open; yet you know what they should do and don't give them an option (Opinionated).

And

Don't surprise them (Predictable); yet surprise them (Delight)
Up and Coming Singer Songwriter Shane Burke Signs 3 Year BMG Licensing Agreement
I found this to be particularly interesting:

> If you give us your streaming preferences, we can weed out content that does not appear on your particular services.

IIRC, Netflix typically shuts down external show-aggregation services. I'm not sure about the others that the NYT is aggregating here. I wonder whether the NYT has enough brand recognition that the services will let this fly.

Looks like they're currently indexing Netflix, Amazon Prime and Video, Hulu, VUDU, iTunes, Google Play, and YouTube.
> It astounds me that they couldn't focus in on that and make revenue from that reliable core of people that, like me, turn to Twitter before anywhere else when something is happening.

Yes, Twitter's role in BLM and Arab spring were invaluable contributions to history, but how much did they really add to the bottom line?

Even if it was a significant chunk, how much can random external events like that be relied on to provide recurring revenue in the future?
You might consider the The Relativity of Wrong:

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Sure, maybe we know jack shit. But we know unfathomably more jack shit than in previous ages.
Experimental HTC Vive Support in Firefox Nightly
Maybe what we need is Siri that can replace IDE shortcuts
it is talked about a bit in The Vital Question [1] and a more in depth in Power, Sex, and Suicide [2]

His books are honestly life changing, i can recommend them or him enough.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Comp...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Power-Sex-Suicide-Mitochondria-Meanin...
It's stupid to pay so much money and then be so inconvenienced.
> If they had "offered a touch screen instead", the users would have to hold their hand horizontally which would get tiring in about 5 minutes and unbearable after 10.

This is complete nonsense. I used to think this when I used a MacBook full time. I still do but buying a touchscreen PC has worked wonderfully and I never hover my hand long enough to do anything tiring. It's great for doing quick touches or scrolling / zooming in with precision. You wouldn't want to use it for everything because that's not its use case (this isn't a dedicated tablet this is a computer with a touch screen).
These problems need to be fixed soon or government regulation will come. I think the government would be reluctant to regulate unless it seems like an emergency. If larger attacks happen then the public will call for regulation and politicians will fall over each other to do it. There will be intended and unintended consequences.

He best way to prevent regulation is to eliminate the perceived need. If another attack hits, especially larger and more costly the one last week, people will start getting outraged. Those businesses who lost money might even start lobbying.

I'm not hopeful at this point as I don't even get the feeling that most people have taken the time to understand what happened last week. I see almost mantras people repeat out there outlining mitigation that, white important generally, would not have helped mirigste the attack last Frieay. The solutions offered frequently involve big lag times even if somehow set into motion immediately.

It may be necessary to make some hard trade offs to show some real progress. When people don't freely make hard choices, the government will step in. That would be a preventable tragedy. I don't have much hope at this point.
> I play on prince and usually steamroll everything. When I try king the AI cheats so hard at the start it's just a massive turnoff for me...

A lot of games do that cop-out for level difficulty, though. Higher difficulty doesn't make the AI smarter or more cunning, it just lets them break the rules progressively more or gives them a score multiplier. More like a handicap system then "levels of difficulty". It's probably easier to program.
No they didn't. Most likely their employees have no clue what they could get elsewhere, or they better take that job here first than wait 2 months for another offer elsewhere, or they needed to be in city X before moving to a better company, or...

Random number: 50% of employees consider their employment as a stepping stone.
And it's even sillier when you consider that Microsoft's invested time/money in both Python [1] and R [2].

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS

2: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-de...
I use KDE. I have a more advanced version of wmctrl that does the trick. Tiling to the LHS/RHS is already built into KDE fortunately. I'm also working on improving AutoKey. Will release the source code once it's tidied up a bit.

For Windows, you may be able to get a decent way through the list using AutoHotKey, it's a fairly powerful language (despite being a pretty weird one).
>Immortality is largely incompatible with evolution and competition.

That's an incredibly good argument in favor of immortality. "Evolution" and "competition" are not gods. They do not have any moral authority over us. Our entire civilization has been built on the principle of not subjecting ourselves to Darwinian survival-selection.

That aside, you should probably go count ducks in a swamp or do some other ecological fieldwork before talking about the evolutionary fitness of organisms or ecosystems. You sound atrocious at biology.
The previous CFO said at some point that Fiber had good margins, but that probably referred to mature markets like Kansas City, where most of the neighborhoods had been wired and bureaucracy was minimal.
If you miss games like civ you need to start looking at indie games.
A $900 11" Macbook Air is really hard pressed to a better option than a $250 13" Chromebook for the types of low-end user that these appeal to.

Yes, there are those dedicated few who would prefer an 11" over a 13" model but, still do advanced computing on it but, those people aren't enough for a market.

Apple is letting the low end of the market get gobbled up by Google like they have everywhere else. Chromebooks now dominate in schools where Apple used to shine.

That isn't even to mention the effect of advanced mobile apps have had on our need for low end computing. Even the differences between 2012 and now is pretty stark. There is basically an app for everything that a casual user would do on their computer in a mobile device and that syncs up to the web. Google Docs, photo editing, light video editing and now what people mostly do is browse the web and consume various kinds of content online and games.

There simply isn't the market for a small laptop like there used to be.

Lastly, with a 20% reduction in volume with the 13" MBP, the distinction is more or less gone. The only thing is the price-point. There is nothing to fill that void.
In some cases it is already like that. The choice will be share or stay offline.
im not a biologist (anyone qualified to comment please do) but i dont think the new organs will stop the free-radical leakage. it occurs in every cell in your body, organs are only a small portion of those cells.
Yes. From the API docs:

"""There is no need, and no API, for your app to know whether or not there is a Touch Bar available. Whether your app is running on a machine that supports the Touch Bar or not, your app’s onscreen user interface (UI) appears and behaves the same way.

The Touch Bar dims automatically and wakes when the user touches it. Do not show alerts in the Touch Bar, and do not use the Touch Bar for widgets."""
Why does it need to be an all-win? I think a maintain-current-levels-of-arable-land-and-minimize-genocide solution is intrinsically good. Sure, some in the oil and defense industries won't like it, but there are always losers. We don't need to kill them, so in that sense they're doing quite a lot better than losers in previous cultural shifts.
This isn't how you use a touch screen on a laptop. I don't know why you're so insistent on this narrative but it's false. Adding a touch screen doesn't turn it into a tablet, it turns it into a laptop with a touch screen. That's a very important distinction.

You would do well to try one out for a few minutes with a typical workflow of...well, whatever you do on a computer. I thought it was stupid at first and now I miss it when I use my MacBook.
* F3 - Find(Rarely, generally only works in older applications.)

* F5 - Refresh(Works in many applications.)

* F6 - Cycle through input box focus in Firefox.

* F9 - Expose, All Windows

* F10 - Expose, Current Application

* F11 - Expose, Desktop

* F12 - Dashboard

Plus many other function keys that are application dependent. I started with function keys in MS-DOS and Word Perfect since it came with a keyboard overlay.

I think the touch bar design is fine, but I doubt I would get enough value out it to make it useful enough to me while not making me regret losing physical function keys. They kept a 13" model with function keys, which is the size I prefer, so it will be fine into the future for me.
I can see what you're saying. To paraphrase, I have this type of peripheral, I need to connect from that to that type of I/O port on my laptop. Over the years, I've seen a lot of different types of I/O. It might sound silly, and perhaps you'll fault me, but it's sometimes been the case that I don't remember what kind of port my current laptop uses for a particular interface type. (And is it my work machine or my personal one?)

For example:

Data: a couple different types of SCSI, FW400, FW800, USB, serial

Network: coaxial, RJ-45, RJ-11

Display: VGA, a couple types of DVI, HDMI.

Audio: 3.5mm out, mic in

This article from the Verge

And I know it's not including some of the variants of these.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/29/12054410/apple-tech-death-...

Now having a common input to the laptop simplifies this a lot. Yeah, if the type of input changes again and we want to continue to use existing peripherals, we'll have to get new adapters. And I fully expect to. Until we no longer need to physically connect devices together, ports are going to change. I do think it's going to be easier to keep track of going forward.

I agree it looks like Apple has more port turnover than other manufacturers, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually the case. I don't expect everyone to agree with me when I say it's not a deal killer for me.
I wonder how Visual Studio runs on it - I am a gamer but I'm very tempted to go NUC for development and stay with the Xbox One for gaming until I can afford a proper gaming rebuild.
>>[Death] has a nice way of making space for a newer generation of thinkers. Old prejudices die, new thinkers arrive.

On the other hand, humanity loses out on a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience with each death.

Imagine if Einstein were alive today, for instance. Or Richard Feynman. Or Carl Sagan.
My company started as an open source project. Most of our hires are open source contributors. We're distributed all around the world (many open source companies are like this).

There are usually 3 kinds of paid contributors we see:
1. Companies scratching their own itch while we maintain it

2. People I hire to work on the project

3. Phd students technically on a stipend doing their research with us (we do AI)

Another possibility is a 3rd party company paying
someone to add a pull request to an
open source project whether that be us or others.
> Such an instance is sometimes called, simply, a bar.

Kinda funny that a product that was only officially announced today already has a vernacular. :)
Funny... having a touch screen is terrible for Apple but a tiny touch bar is the edge of innovation...
This is what so few people seem to talk about. Why? I'm baffled.
...Prometheus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
Meditation for Kids
The critical issue with prototyping apps is that you're designing for a mythical mobile platform only semi-related to the main two. As such, you end up mastering code, tricks, and techniques for a fake platform when you could've been learning practical fundamentals of UI design directly in Xcode or Android Studio... or both!
Your post reads like a very bleak argument against the minimum wage. Increasing the median should mean that those above the median also see an increase through economics. If the price something is $X then the price of a premium something is still going to be greater than $X.
Post the actual details of the product on a website aimed at entrepreneurs and tech-savvy people (aka "hackers"). Someone might see a good business was opportunity, and you'll have yourself a new supplier.
Or cancer causing startup?
I feel at a constant state of almost war from the first time I meet any civilization in the game. I both fear and look forward to the war actually starting.
To be fair, if you need these ports, it is easy to get a hub that provides them:
https://www.amazon.com/HyperDrive-Through-Charging-MacBook-C...

And over the next several years, it is likely that people will switch to USB-C peripherals.
When the OS hasn't initialized Touch Bar, what happens to the Touch Bar? Is there a default Touch Bar loaded in firmware in cases of Linux or Windows in Boot Camp?
Exactly.

MacBook laptops have headphone jacks and USB-c connections but no lightning input ports. If I wanted to use my EarPods with the lightning end on my Macbook I'm screwed. Nor can I use the headphone jack or the USB-C ports on the Macbook with my iPhone.

The lack of integration here between Apple's own products is alarming and indicates that a high level someone is asleep at the wheel.
Are there many more studios outside of Blizzard that are developing for OS X? I hadn't realized there were more devs working with it. Every other game I know of that has Mac support is usually running in some WINE equivalent which isn't great.

So we have Blizzard and Source engine, who am I missing?
So disappointed. I had my wallet ready to order but this is no different than my current MBP.

A half baked touch screen!!! Not worth the $3500 I was going to drop on a new MBP.

I can't imagine going back to windows because I enjoy the terminal and vim but seriously considering it specially that now I can run bash on windows
This got me thinking, does Apple screen apps as vigorously in the macOS Appstore?
They said fn-keys are a 45-year-old tech we don't need anymore.

Next up: removing the screen, that's 70-year-old tech we don't need anymore either. Let's be brave!
>most of our human ventures center around efficient ways of killing each other.

Excuse me? What planet are you living on? I thought I was already living on the dystopian-social-scifi planet.
> It was developers who led the way to Apple's dominance in the notebook space, and I suspect it will be developers who lead the migration in the opposite way.

I don't think any serious developer wants to use Windows, but … maybe this will actually be the impetus for more folks to start using — and more importantly, start demanding — Linux.

Honestly, it makes life easier. No more dealing with the bits where GNU & BSD are gratuitously different. No more straitjacket: a good Linux WM lets you customise your workspace exactly for the way you work. No more throwing money down a hole in licensing fees.

It's pretty awesome.
> Who's going to tell them, "Hey, your timing on the G-C chord switch sucked"

Why, 90 comments under their shitty YT video, 7 of them heavily upvoted.
Great points. I imagined the friend learning as a hobby, but didn't mention it in the post. If they were learning for a job or homework I would definitely be more eager to offer criticism and criticize more heavily.
For odd some reason, I find myself most annoyed by the headphone situation, aka, lack of Lightning jack.

Why not just make the iPhone 7 USB-C instead?
No they don't do that either. At least not as their first move.
Lots of actors supplement their income waiting tables. Artists paint portraits. Writers edit newspaper articles. Devs speak at conferences.
And you can run a VM on a Surface Book with as much RAM as the MBP.

That is what I am thinking about doing.
Yeah, it's obvious that there are trends in large picture stuff that drive this stupidity. I get that. It's still stupid. If you find yourself in a position where it's expensive to make sure text can display without JavaScript, then I'd agree that the situation is not your fault. Whoever finds themselves in that situation could rightly complain about how stupid other people are for letting it come to this.

Sure, have a long discussion about all the complex challenges and even
acknowledge (when it's true) that some stupid shit can get locked-in. Just
don't try to deny that it's stupid.

There's tons of examples of things in computers that are fundamentally
tragically stupid but got locked in and we have to just accept them. We're not
yet at that point with Javascript-lock-in, but maybe we're on that path. But
even if the situation is hopeless, it's still stupid. It only makes it harder
for people to make sense of things if you use excuses to try to deny the
stupidity of stupid situations.
I find it amazing that we haven't figured out how to solve the problem yet.
Though he also makes a very good point that even Steve Schiller mentioned in the keynote (from what I've read, I haven't watched it).

They kept the headphone jack because a huge amount of time is spent with the computer at a desktop plugged in to stereo speakers. Do you work at your desk using your laptop keyboard?

So, if the majority of time is spent using an external keyboard, did apple create an external keyboard with the touch functionality? Will developers built their apps to take advantage of this functionality if it is only available to the subset of users who have purchased this new device AND are currently not at their desk??
Sorry, I'd rather have this integrated into the 3000$ dollar device. Maybe they can make it 2mm thicker without increasing weight - oh and then also, maybe we get the key travel back.
Speak for yourself ;)

I haven't gotten over Apple crippling their devices (no standard audio output from an "audio" device, inability to charge while listening to music (on headphones), replacing bulletproof technology with much more complex, battery-operated tech, something I can only explain with the intention to monetize on what used to be a patent-free audio standard.

I'm not over it and I'm no longer excited about supporting their vision with my money.

Yes, I will likely move away from the iPhone which would be much easier if I could transfer the licenses for the apps I purchased.

Same for the MacBooks. All I can say is that they look cheaper to produce, are impossible to service and upgrade and are actively eliminating useful features.

Maybe I am no longer their demographic, I imagine these are the result of marketing research and so will sell better than I expect them to.

Just not to me.
According to the article, the pass price had risen to $1.01m by 1994.
> Every exploit shop considers Spidermonkey to be a security clusterfuck yet it's still in use.

Can you elaborate why SpiderMonkey is worse than Chakra, JavaScriptCore, and V8?

SpiderMonkey has approximately the same security track record as all of them. I think you're conflating the lack of sandboxing and some mistaken security-related decisions in the Firefox chrome with some sort of intrinsic security problem in the JavaScript engine.

> Multiple processes do absolutely nothing for security unless combined with sandboxing ala-Chrome.

And sandboxing is being actively worked on right now. In fact, it's an utmost priority.

Nobody is talking about doing Quantum instead of sandboxing. Rather, Quantum is being done alongside sandboxing.

> Continuing to use C++ rather than fully embracing Rust (or something even better than Rust) also does nothing for security.

I don't agree. Replacing C++ code with Rust code reduces the attack surface. The more of the browser you write in a memory safety language, the fewer opportunities for memory safety holes that attackers have.

Do I want to shrink the trusted computing base as close to zero as possible? Absolutely! But that's a long-term journey, and I would love to see Servo components get some real-world production use along the way.

> At some point people need to realize that one has to scrap the pile of mud and start again, on solid foundations. Alas I feel that these lessons escape the Mozilla folks and thus their browser will remain low hanging fruit for adversaries.

There's only one browser vendor that is actively working on "scrapping the pile of mud and starting again", and it's the browser vendor you're complaining about. You claim that the lessons of security "escape" me, but I have been working day-in and day-out for years on a browser engine written from the ground up in a memory-safe language.
Busting your ass WHILE expecting a reward, is a sucker.

The reward usually never materializes. You shouldn't do overwork in the first place.
fabrice: casually cites ffmpeg, qemu and tcc

most people: THIS NEW AWESOME JS ROUTING FRAMEWORK BY ME (last commit: 3 hours ago)
Just checked it out. Pretty cool speaking to someone from NZ quite randomly.
A Renewed Look at Boyajian’s Star
I want all my devices to use USB.
Its weird having HN submission where only a subset of HNers can make comments though. I am happy for them to have a paywall but question whether it should be kept on HN if there is no information for most people to comment on.

It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.
Also projecting from a sphere to a plane at the same time as they're dealing with the rough resolution. If I had to guess NZ was dropped to make the Pacific ocean feel more appropriately vast.
Open Source Devs speak at conferences to make ends meet.
Why don't you keep using your current mbp if it has everything you need and runs OS X?
Civ doesn't really have people, so I'm not sure why it needs slaves anyway.