skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we can avoid nation-state-thinking then yes. We can't; the basic architecture of any agreement right now must use the nation-state as signatory.

That is a sale that cannot be made. It looks like a transfer of (mythical) carbon credits from the US to other nations.
"curated list" is a major meme. I think the word curated makes people feel fancy.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=curated%20list&sort=byPopulari...
This is about Innovation and this is something Apple really never was good at even though people threw the phrase at Apple all the time.

"Instead, the company is tremendously iterative which is a fancy way of saying that they’re good at making steady, small improvements over time." http://time.com/3712678/apple-innovation/ from 3/2015
Try Driver San Francisco, The Crew or historical L.A. Noire, these are somewhat more realistic than the GTA series in real world street network mimicry.
Even Razer?

Razer are one of the best companies out there for well designed high end Windows laptops.
I was wondering that too. Either someone figured out how to game the HN algorithm, or the term "curated list" really does have some magic clickbait properties…
> Or to put it more generally, a stock growing at fixed rate grows linearly, but a flow that grows linearly implies a stock growing at a quadratic rate. O(N^2) will always outpace O(N).

I see what you're getting at, but surely you've got the rates wrong. A stock growing at a fixed rate grows exponentially, and O(exp N) will always outpace O(N^2).
if we're going down that line, then it's ultimately down to the nature of people who actively pay for hyperbole and sensationalism.
Should have saved your allowance and bought the QuickBASIC compiler! I did and when I discovered that the textfile-reading program I wrote to handle huge files (at the time) would buffer keystrokes, fill the buffer, and beep annoyingly if I held down the 'Down' arrow or 'Page Down' keys, I was led into learning x86 assembler. Well, enough that I could use BIOS routines for displaying text and scrolling the screen. Also got to learn what a 'linker' did and how QB did argument passing on the stack. I still wonder if I was the only person in the world linking my assembly code into a QB app I also wrote. But hey, it worked!
Genetic testing fumbles, revealing ‘dark side’ of precision medicine
I think this is a great idea (for a different app). It could also have location-based reminders and messages from others, all in a protected, safe environment, for companies and other teams that interact together. Also for personal stuff (like someone remembering things, remembering files and getting messages from friends on special locations). I would like to write that, but it would require a switched-on GPS, which would kill the phone battery in 2 hours.
So the alternative is to ship gimmicks? Honestly all I wanted was a mbp with 64gb ram. I would have settled for 32gb but now I'll just continue waiting. Can't justify that money for old limited tech.
Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth
"Industrial revolution" is a loose concept, it started at different time in different places and didn't really become runaway before mass petrol.

For us colder northern countries, population didn't change that much since the coming of petrol. Maybe 1,5x increase in all. Definitely not sevenfold.
I agree with your points on ergo design, we did a survey with the thousands on community members and only like 4% would buy an ergo design which was lower than expected. It's important for us to address from a design perspective but we want to do incremental keyboard revision, otherwise consumers won't be able to adapt to the massive transition in a dynamic and ergo design.
There are mods for the game that let you easily import height maps. I want to say it's done from Open Street Map, but it's been a while since I've tried it out.
Sure. But I bet you weren't doing pro video work from there. Reliable internet is already required in that work.
Sepang GP: Marquez crashes out again
The Ins and Outs of Human Augmentation
Is the API/protocol to program the key displays open and well-documented so there can be Linux and BSD drivers? (I'm thinking gimp, emacs, and xfig(!).)
Crop yields continue to climb.

http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/uploads/cereal_yields...
Not to invalidate your excuse, but if you need, you can probably upgrade your MBA's SSD. Installed an OWC Aura SSD in mine, it's is very straightforward.
They are going to get to a point where it will be laptop will be useful for chefs to cut onions or for developers living in rough areas to use them as a weapon.
My use case for this will be the switch from French Azerty to Chinese Qwerty (bilingual speaker). I would buy this in a heartbeat if it had an attached numpad.
That's basically how the whole javascript community works. There are tons of lists with random links (usually most-starred, yeah), which doesn't make a lot of sense, but they have tons of stars and attention.

Do they help people? Yeah, some of them definitely. Are they awesome and must have to get familiar with? Barely.

From my short experience working with other communities is very different, they are much more pragmatic and sceptical (worked with Go and Elixir a little bit).
It pays well for a meme.
>Instead of seeking to be saved by faster hardware

We're moving into the era of data led computing and software. More ram and cuda support is a necessity for any ambitious dev
Source on this? A quick google search didn't turn up anything
> People (well, climate science researchers) have been saying that the changes are decades ahead of us, even now, but that we need to take action now and in the past to prevent these changes.

Climate researchers have _not_ been implying that the bad effects are way out in the 21st century: they've made hundreds of testable predictions that catastrophe was at hand in the 80s, 90s, and aughts.

We were going to see the end of arctic ice, have a perpetual ozone hole necessitating sun screen when venturing outside and decimating wildlife from cataracts, see New York and other major cities drowned, etc. (Not to mention famine killing billions of people, etc.)

It is possible to think that climate research is useful and interesting even while acknowledging that they are often alarmist and full of nonsense in their predictions.
Both real-world examples and simulations say it's possible, by combining different renewable energy sources, spreading them out geographically, and using large distribution networks, among others: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2016/dispelling-the-nuclear-basel...
Government – Frederic Bastiat (1848)
Microsoft is an underdog in mobile devices. Google is an underdog in tablets/desktop devices. Apple is an underdog when it comes to services. It's like rock/paper/scissors :)
Oh, right. We agree then.

Apple doesn't want to serve these markets. There will always be some people who can find a use for more power, but they aren't Apple's market. For one thing they usually care about price/performance, and Apple refuses to play that game.
Those who are interested in Philosophy should also look at Indian Philosophy. India has a rich and unbroken philosophical tradition pre-dating Greeks. This Podcast by LMU in Munich and at King's College London covers Indian Philosoply in great details.

[1] http://historyofphilosophy.net/india
Google's entire talent pool for self-driving cars has left. They had basically the original CMU group from the DARPA challenges, but they've since gone.
I'm not a fan of subscription-based models for software, but PHPStorm is good enough for me to ignore that. Plus it gets cheaper yearly for the first 3 years.
US Military Warns Chinese Computer Gear Poses Cyber Spy Threat
Can you expand on that? Who are the good ones, and the bad ones?
That's the most frustrating thing about the situation is they have no actual competitors. We know they can ship a better mbp but they have zero incentive
Fairly hassle-free. I have both the 2015 X1 Carbon (with Debian Jessie) and 2016 X1 Yoga (with Debian Stretch). I needed to install an extra xserver-xorg-input-* package for the touchscreen on the latter to work nicely and Firefox Aurora to get gesture support, but everything else just works.

The keyboard on the X1 Yoga is sort of meh, though.
The options I am considering as substitutes for the new mbp 13" are:

- The new razer blade stealth: Great built quality, kaby lake, usb-c/thunderbolt 3, great screen, reasonable price, although im not sure Ubuntu would work out of the box.

- Xiaomi Air 13: This is not really a competitor but im really tempted to try it. It is cheap (less than 1k) it looks like having a nice built quality, fast ram, good i5 processor, dedicated nvidia GPU ( so may be some acceleration for training small deep learning models). USB-C, USB3, HDMI, Ubuntu works out of the box. CONS: you have to import it.
Hillary Clinton worried about Facebook open sourcing Torch deep learning modules
People don't make iPhone apps because they have Macs; they buy Macs so they can develop iPhone apps.
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/e...
Well if it's financial freedom, OP probably has better chances of being rich by working for other people/companies. Let other people take the risk and collect the pay.
There's plenty of good material on the top page of results on your favorite search engine.

It's more important to choose an allocation strategy and stick to it than it is to select the perfect allocation strategy.

Here's the hard part: determine your household's tolerance for risk. Are you willing to sit tight and not panic-sell if one or two of your funds decline by 40% in value? 20%? It's hard to know for sure how you will react until it happens. But, a decline like that means you should buy, not sell.

I mention "your household" because your spouse or other relatives might influence your risk tolerance. It doesn't matter if your anatomy is solid brass if your spouse insists on panic-selling. Part of the deal with risk tolerance is having conversations with family stakeholders about risk, to prepare for the inevitable downturn.

As the time grows nearer when you need to use the funds in your portfolio (retirement? college tuition?): reduce your stated risk tolerance once a year or so, and rebalance accordingly. This will help you lock in your gains even if something bad happens.

In the old, pre-junk-bond, days, "bonds" were considered lowest risk, "growth-and-income stocks" medium risk, and "growth stocks" highest risk. You can probably find index funds like those. Certainly you can find funds that invest in an index basket of low-risk bonds, or an index basket of dividend-paying (growth and income stocks).

"Unmanaged" is the key word to identify index funds. Vanguard, DFA, and others are the companies offering them.

One last thing: If you don't understand a fund's strategy, DO NOT INVEST IN THAT FUND. If the promises seem too good to be true, well....
Would you like to explain?
I don't think they were quoting Matz as justification for why Python is wrong, they were quoting Matz to justify why what they don't like about Python isn't the wrong way.

The whole point is that every language has something that someone doesn't like about it and every language is "good enough" for some subset of people. Instead of attacking what points everyone does or does not like about X, it's instead better to learn from each other and take the best parts.
I think it's just people who use the upvote button as a "save for later" functionality. Also, if it's on the front page it might get the boost to make it really useful.
The acquisition values Level 3 at $66.50 a share, the companies said in a statement Monday. That’s about 42 percent above where the Broomfield, Colorado-based company was trading last week, before reports surfaced of a potential acquisition by CenturyLink...

What explains this? I could understand a small jump in value, but what can be the basis for a $14B gain in a company's value when the only facts that have changed are that a buyer exists? Does the market "believe" that the company's future 42% brighter under the prospect of a buyout, and that belief is captured in the price now?
I've been using an HP Spectre X360 15" with a 4K touchscreen which is truly amazing. The only downside is that the one USB 3 port is not a thunderbolt port, making it not all that useful unless you get a dongle that allows you to plug in a regular USB cable.

Other than that, I've been enjoying it immensely and it made me stick to Windows at a time at which I really wanted to switch to Linux or MacOS.
Not to mention this article is based on a product targeted at a niche minority of users. Nothing with a 28" screen is the future of how non-artists use a computer. Microsoft is selling one just mainstream computer (the Surface Book), and despite being a fifth gen Surface device it launched with major firmware bugs that took months to resolve. Apple, unsurprisingly, is selling Macs about five times faster than Microsoft is selling Surface devices. It's selling iPads about 10-15 times faster. Not to mention Microsoft seems to have completely exited the phone market.

Maybe Microsoft needs less innovation and more bread and butter products for ordinary users.
Ask HN: What do you regret in life?
I was reading this Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1879530) from about 6 years ago and wondered what HNers regret. Not necessarily your views on the concept of regret but actual examples from your life. I mainly regret not taking university seriously half a lifetime ago, but as a result I became a lifelong self-learner.

Suggested related reading on the topic:

"In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives"

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/17/missing-out-adam-phillips/

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In the Ask HN link above, a guy says he opened an unread email two years late and saw it was from Facebook in 2009 wanting to hire him.

Similarly, perhaps, one of my regrets was having received an early 2014 email that I didn't open, from someone I didn't much feel the need to keep in contact with. In late 2014, I finally read it. It was an offer to be the personal guide to the US team at the World Cup in Brazil...
I use one (2015 model), it's ok. The 2560x1440 screen works well (using 1.5 scaling) with unity, a bit less so with cinnamon, as it Cinnamon only supports integer scaling. Chrome has a scaling flag that is independent, that's a bit extra work. I regularly connect an external 4k screen over DP, works fine and runs at 60Hz.
The touchpad is ok, but wish it was larger and dealt with palms better. Over time I adapted and now am careful to not touch it while typing (or maybe some update fixed it).
I use an older Ubuntu version and there are a two bugs - it doesn't always lock when closing the lid and the touchpad is sometimes disabled on wakeup. Switching to a terminal (ctrl-alt-1) and back reenables it.

Overall, I'm happy - great keyboard, decent HiDPI screen and all in a very light machine. 16GB RAM and longer battery life would be nice, but I'm happy with the weight tradeoff.
This argument attempts to compare the two firms on the givens, and not the difference.

The fact is that these were criticisms before last week, and nothing about those has changed - the issue is that one firm released a product which was significantly better than the offerings made by the other firm.

Providing this kind of argument is moving the goal posts
> What is the optimal sea level for the governments to set?

I don't think anyone is suggesting or has suggested such a policy. Rather, the recommendation is "avoid changing things, especially when the outcomes are probably negative and their magnitude highly unknown".

> who are dependent on government funding

Plenty of scientists who are funded by non-government grants agree that climate change is real.

Plenty of non-climate scientists have looked at the data and agree that climate change is real.

Plenty of non-scientists with training in a scientific discipline -- who have never received and will never receive a penny of grant money in their lives -- have looked at the data and agree that climate change is real.

This particular ad hom is tired and unfounded.

> Why do scientist, who are dependent on government funding, use words like 'suggest', 'surprised', or 'consensus'?

Suggest: because this is one study/measurement, and others should repeat the measurement and/or come to the same conclusions by other methods.

Surprised: Because they're surprised.

Consensus: When 90+% of trained experts agree on something, that's pretty much as close to a consensus as you can get in a large population.

> Where did the water for the ice come from?... How do you calculate an energy output without knowing it's environment?... The truth is that none of us know what the actual dimensions of our solar system were 5,000 years ago nor do we know the measurements in the next 1,000. An object is never the same when nature is applied over time.

We engineer systems and make scientific measurements and predictions with high accuracy every day without knowing the exact origin and trajectory of everything in the universe.
That seems like it could be gamed:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-01-14
Or is it? I use LittleSnitch too, and my Mac does A LOT of shady requests.

Every time I use Spotlight! Everytime I log in.. heck, even the keyboard service has to make internet requests!
Personally I think if you're doing heavy-duty work you should get a desktop machine; laptops are fine (and I use one for my day-to-day work), and they should be strong enough for most applications (so far they are). But for heavy-duty work - which in my case was iOS development, since the Swift compiler could make the thing sweat, and for others is stuff like rendering - you'd be better off with a fixed machine where size and energy usage isn't a constraint.

Which is why I'm a bit disappointed that Apple yet again didn't announce an update to the Mac Pro. They could do a lot more with that. Volumes are probably way too low for it to be viable though.

I've asked my boss if I could get a Mac Pro or iMac instead, but, no dice. I'd like the 17 inch Macbook to make a return too, but also not likely to happen. Alas.
I had the XPS 15 for a few months. I found it very fast, gorgeous 4k screen, great keyboard - but heavy and with abysmal battery life. The touchpad was also meh under Linux.
I take it with a grain of salt because of the title including: "suggests"

And what's the projection, will it rise 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 100, 200 or 300 meters in the next 100 years?
I have seen so many numbers, I don't know what the current estimation is.
Anyway I tried to make sense of the article:
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This number has hovered around 0.6 inches per decade since 1900...[]...Global sea level, the paper concluded, rose no less than 5.5 inches over the last century, and likely saw an increase of 6.7 inches."

lets see, 6.7 is likely. 6.7 / 10 = 0.67 inches per decade. and no less than 0.55 (lower than measured).
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20965/does-apples-...
You might be painting too rosy a picture of the past. Gyrating wildly? The UK no longer gets bombed by the IRA, there's no cold war, there's no crippling union strikes everywhere. As for more serious but less sexy problems, it'll take a lot of climate change to compete with disasters we've already had/are having:

Global deaths from famine from 1900-2000: 80,000,000 [1]

Global deaths from malaria from 2000-2015: 9,000,000 [3]

Global deaths from WWII: 60,000,000

Global traffic deaths in 2013: 1,000,000 [2]

We've got most of those problems on the run now, and the future looks even more promising with medical and safety tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines

[2] http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_...

[3] http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
How to starve a cancer without starving the patient
I hear you. I used not to mind spending hours looking into issues in my Linux when something broke. Not anymore. I just want to actually spend my computer time doing stuff that I want to do (i.e. programming) and not messing with the system. I still love my Linux dearly but I'm just not willing to put infinite amount of time into it. My new laptop runs Win7 Professional out of the box and I'm not even sure if I'll actually replace this with Linux since generally speaking everything just works and setting up the Linux and getting all hibernation/suspends, keyboard lights etc. to work is just painful.
I think Node.js and Javascript have democratised development like any other tool to date. Along with web technologies. Node.js is not usable for systems architecture, Javascript is not a systems language, not a scientific/maths tool, etc. But it is excellent for highly available architectures or for application development.
Is Microsoft more innovative, or is Microsoft simply more publicly innovative? Apple (and tons of other companies, for that matter) simply don't make hay out of their R&D efforts until they have something sellable to announce.
How can a company that is valued at $16.6 billion with $19 billion in debt buy a company that is valued at $19.4 billion with $11 billion in debt for $34 billion? From where is the money for such acquisitions coming?
I don't know where Chromebooks fit in that list, but they're very popular.
I regret I have wasted my childhood years.
>I've seen the opposite in recent respectable economics textbooks.

I bet it wasn't Greg "the rich can do no wrong" Mankiw's textbook ;)

>In any case, a thought experiment: the 99% should get a $99/hour minimum, don't you think?

What's the thought experiment designed to achieve?

Hiking to $99 / hour immediately would likely trigger a bout of extremely high inflation - likely to a level which would hamper growth (as people would be more scrambling to protect their wealth rather than spending their money on useful products and services).

Personally, I'd hike to $20 and then put the wage up by $1 / hr every three months until inflation hit ~10% (~12-15% is the point at which inflation starts hampering growth) and from then on target that level of inflation via the minimum wage and welfare payments.

That would drive a huge amount of economic growth (spending would jump) and bring down inequality to more manageable levels.
I'd also be interested in that product name as I also think the market potential for VR Travel is substantial.

Anyone on HN working in that space with some recommendations or to bounce some ideas?
I've often wondered this as well. Would love an eli5...
How about a pluggable PAM module?
What made you switch to the macbook? What kind of work do you use it for? Do you have another machine? I'm curious as to who uses these apart from people with very basic computing needs. They seem to be very limited machines (though admittedly I've never used one).
And that seems to me like the main incentive they would have to force developers into that user model. On the one hand it makes sense to charge $2500 for a laptop but then if the quality is so great now that the machine can be expected to work well for almost every user for nearly 10 years then that price point is actually almost a Pyrrhic victory. It would be better to sell smaller cheaper machines that justify upgrades more frequently and then charge power users for time in the cloud. I think that's pretty much the inevitable endgame here in an industry that is all but fully commoditized.
I am a writer, and I am having this argument with you in writing on a MacBook Pro.
I have spent twice the money you stated for a new MacBook Pro 13".
I'd say, the primary point is "it just works".
I know, once it's been delivered, I'll install a couple of tools, transfer some files and it will work. It won't get slower, it won't crash, the hardware won't break. And I don't have to waste time keeping that thing alive.

Maybe I was just lucky with my previous Macs but that's the experience I've had in the last years.