skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does an external keyboard give you that you can't get from a laptop keyboard? I like the macbook pro keyboard. I plug in two monitors and I'm good to go. Vim users should remap somewhere closer. I use cap locks. Will that not be possible anymore?
I suspect that those machines lack a sufficiently advanced printer without a hardware upgrade.
> the Escape key was where the Caps Lock key is today

Apparently it was where the Tab key was[1] as metafunctor pointed out.

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
I find really amusing that after the Macbook reveal last year half of the response comments (in sites like ArsTechnica) were of the gist "just give me an updated Macbook Air, with the same form factor and a better screen".

Well, the base Macbook Pro model does exactly that. There is also an option (cheaper!) to keep the function keys.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/10/no-new-macbook-airs-as-...

I might be getting old and grumpy, but more than anything else
it boggles my mind when apparently everyone believes they should be the target user Apple (or Microsoft, or Google,or...) design their product for, and they consider a personal insult when that is not the case.

I don't think there was ever a time where the laptop market had so many options, at all price levels, many of those of such a high quality.

You don't like that a particular manufacturer is offering ? Vote with your wallet and choose another option, don't whine.
Here we go again... why are you people so blind in following a brand. Apple, Google, Tesla, etc. It's ridiculous. Whatever those companies do, it's always good. I use a mbp everyday, but I have no problems with saying how stupid this is and I don't even use vim.

Are you seriously saying, that removing the ESC and Functions keys is not issue and does not affect you, as developer?! If you use your mbp for Facebook or if you program in Visual Basic, then I might understand.
Don't forget:

"Soylent™ was developed from a need for a simpler food source."

"No need to shop for individual ingredients or plan ahead" (I think this one was Mealsquares)

"You’ve got more important things to do than worry about food."

"Enjoy a 26 hour day"

I wrote a parody post based on the marketing on the web page and my own personal outrage with the claims:

https://medium.com/@__1/on-food-and-not-cooking-4c9fba0d2d20

I still believe my note is true:

Note: Neither Soylent nor Mealsquares make any public claims that I could find,
beneficial or otherwise, about using their product for the complete nutrition
of women, especially those expecting or nursing, children, teenagers, the
elderly, or people with medical conditions, including malnutrition. I think
it’s probably optimized for healthy males, aged 20–40-ish, or in the words
of Soylent: “All Adults”, but I don’t have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
like Rob, so I probably shouldn’t comment.

Please proceed at your own risk just in case.
I know lots of people who do (including myself). Just look at the support requests on Karabiner, etc.
Lol you know wages have been flat since 2008
As a fellow Vim user, I don't use the escape key anymore. It's awkward to hit and I rebind it to "jj" (or more recently "jk"). It's unergonomic to reach for the escape key where it customarily is. If it were where Caps Lock is, it would make much more sense.

That said, I don't like rotating my hand or remove my fingers from the home row.

It's really a non-issue because you can rebind keys so easily, it's not even funny. Everyone seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill.
Purchased a p50, IMO best choice for upgradeablity.
Just 90 companies are accountable for more than 60 percent of greenhouse gases
I would hesitate to use anything written by the current Mozilla Foundation as clues to what someone who left the organization in 1999 thinks.

Source of the 1999 date: https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
I am sure people could adjust to this. I am not certain how many people actually use those buttons without looking at the keyboard anyway. When I learned to type the function keys weren't included, I for one, always have to look when use a function key, and generally have to look when typing numbers too.
Well considering that the blockchain can't support the transaction rate, I'd say you're taking a very safe bet there.
Reading the letter seemed somewhat tame until the end - fined $21k/day for noncompliance. Ouch.
Theranos Blew It. But It Didn’t Ruin Biotech Startups for Everyone
I did not know that but i was thinking of the London black cabs which don't
> ask for the same price can be something positive.

Didn't they bump up the base price?
Why does he have to answer that. It's just research for now?
In such a situation, both your computer and your monitor are likely to be on a desktop, relatively near one another, so the chance of sudden accidental separation is much lower.
> Eating couldn't be any more be the opposite. It's something that all humans can relate to and bond over no matter what your opinions are.

I generally don't like food. Sometimes I crave something specific, or want to eat at a nice place. But 6 out of 7 days out of the week, food just isn't appealing to me, and is a chore to eat. It's basically like flossing.

Ever since a time when I was a teen and had to fast because of an esophagus problem, I haven't really felt hunger the same way. It's possible for me to go a few days without eating and not notice it or feel hungry. I can tell when I'm very hungry because I get lightheaded and weak around day 3. (Note, I don't do this intentionally and it isn't often I go days without eating).

So Soylent (or equivalent) is really helpful in making sure I get some food everyday.
It did have a lot to do with it, but it's hardly the only problem. We didn't waste trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq because of investment bankers after all. We haven't spent the decades since Reagan gutting education and mental health infrastructures in this country because of investment bankers either.
> Now I can map those commands to icons in the toolbar, rather than having to page through the history command each time.

Why not just create a bash function? Call it setupproj1, write the commands you need in a function ~/.bash_profile, export the function and that's it!
And I assume, then, that you're only ever using assembly for programming? Because that's the only way you can be sure you're not wasting any cycles.
Data visualization analysis of 12,147 Trump/Clinton images
I'm feeling the same way. Clearly Apple doesn't care about the same things I do. The Pro is supposed to be for power users, and the touch bar to me feels like it's built for casual users(keyboard shortcuts for people who don't know keyboard shortcuts. I use almost no built in mac apps, so it's unlikely that I'll ever use it. It's just one more thing to raise the price and one more thing that can go wrong. Combined with the fact that I'd have to get a dock or a dock/monitor and things look super unappealing at this point. But they shaved off 1/2 a pound! that's better than having useful ports, right?
E-2 requires a large ($500k) personal investment. Many of the best founders don't have that kind of money themselves.
No, that's for investors.

This is for founders.
As I read your comment, I have something like 7 JVM's running (mostly in Docker containers) on an 8GB MBA that's not remotely close to hitting swap. You talk about people that 'do actual work on computers'. I get this, but where I start to wonder is that even 8GB represents a _lot_ of capacity for useful work.

(Some of this probably comes from the fact I cut my teeth on machines with 64K RAM... but once machines got past half a gig, the availability of RAM seems to have outpaced the need, at least for me.)
Seems like the Developer Edition is EOL in the UK at least. I'll look for some reviews about the standard edition.
> I think you're going to see plain USB Keyboards and Mice sticking around for a long, long, long, long time

I'm not saying the old USB A peripherals will stop to exist. I'm saying that two years from now every conceivable peripheral will be available with a USB-C plug or at least a USB-C to whatever they need cable.
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Have you used it? Why do you think it is inferior? (Other than being unidirectional.)
You'd be surprised. Some corporate environments keep machines pretty locked down in terms of what you can change in the System Preferences, or install on your own.
> Because sometimes you need to work on the move? I like to get things done on flights...

Uggh. That sounds like a terrible way to work. If open floor plans are bad, working on a flight has got to be even worse. I guess I'm lucky that I don't have to do any of that.

> I've actually ended up getting a Magic Trackpad for my desk...

Well, you're a rare bird then.
Of course it is difficult. But claiming that you created the "credit card for the new century" is a pretty bold statement. Especially if you aren't ;-)

On the other hand I understand that saying "We slightly improved a 40-years old tool that is being replaced by totally different ideas and we are releasing it in what 10 years ago was the main market in the world, but today is only a part of the bigger picture and will be even less in the near future" sounds slightly less sexy.
The letter they received from the NHTSA is available here:

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla...

It looks to me to be fairly mild and entirely reasonable. To immediately respond to this letter with "fuck it, we're not going to make this product anymore" is bizarre, and not the government's fault.
What are the odds that someone at JetBrains didn't order one of these because they realize how cool it would be if the IDE displayed real terms like “Refactor”, “Step Into”, “Open method declaration”, “Deploy”, etc. for the very large number of context-dependent shortcuts a modern IDE has?
Wasn't he just soliciting beta testers on Twitter? That doesn't sound like "research".
"My background is in music, where folks routinely pay 10x for an instrument that is 20% better (arbitrary numbers, but I think the point holds). If you're a developer, your laptop is your "axe" that you make money with day in and day out. Does it really matter if it costs $1k or $3k? If it makes an employee half a percent more productive, what is that worth to a business?"

You didn't say six month upgrades, but you're definitely referring to upgrading for minimal gains. This is not how things work in the enterprise, at all. There are typically long life cycles, especially in end user machines, as hardware is depreciated.

I said nothing about what people can afford. I responded to you justifying a .5% productivity increase, for spending $3000 on a new laptop. That DOES NOT happen.

Just the cost of getting some one setup on a new machine, washes out any .5% productivity, as it's wasted getting things configured.
OK. Just kicked off the download for Sierra. Thank you!
No kidding, but at some point when you paint every issue as "political" you've watered down your own point so much that it ceases to exist.
Worked in 10 startups as a contractor, got to see some interesting trends, and also compared with fellow developers in other startups. We found that one or more of the following indicators would reek strongly of a startup that has a big technical risk (e.g. poor architecture choice, obscure platform and language decisions, etc.)
1. CTO or lead developer has worked for Google.
2. CTO or lead developer decides to use AWS as they "feel" it is right to do so.
3. CTO or lead developer decides to use Python, but wants to write in EE Java. Some the code becomes contaminated by statics, getters and setters, and verbose POJO style approaches, and very unpythonic code.
4. CTO or lead developer decides to criticise or rewrite good Pythonic code from experienced Python developers into the in-house Java EE style.
I've been working with remote desktops for a few years now, and I don't feel the latency, if any. Plus, I'm not gaming, I'm writing code.
From my point of view, which is biased relatively to the HN target audience because I'm not so much interested in the startup things, reddit is overall superior to HN, either concerning the posts or the comment thread. concerning the technological news feed, my best source of content is definitely https://lobste.rs/
The sound is distinctly crisper on BigQuery, though. Of course, cables can make a difference but not always -- use CAT-8.2 if possible.
how's the touch bar offensive?
It's not just outsiders who take this view.
He did release the dataset and some python scripts for training the model.

https://github.com/commaai/research

The last blog post talks about them having a system for the 2016 civic. I guess maybe they will sell it on aliexpress?
You're right, I didn't think carefully about the implications of having a news source manipulating the market they were betting on (the idea of which doesn't bother me at all, for some reason, that's a different topic).

I suppose what I meant by a bet was a quantified prediction about a well-defined measure of market health, with some stake in being correct (trust, if nothing else). A bet has the virtue of forcing one to be precise and to pick their claims carefully.
Awwwwww man!! You just brought back such green-CRT-tinted memories there...
If you want to write more about this and publish it somewhere, I would read it.
"americans"

"Americans don't want their kids to have too much homework

this wasn't the case for me. i'm american. maybe you're wrong?
This is science-worship attitude that is prevalent among a certain type of personality, usually a person who prizes their own logical thinking and objectivity, and thus more easily misses their own biases. Essentially you're using "natural" as a dog whistle that says my argument is wrong and the Soylent CEO is right. But the only reason you feel that way is because he fits the sort of engineer-type logical thinker which you trust. It's all emotions.

Here is the hard truth: there is no science here on either side. There's a subjective judgement about how complete our knowledge is. I say nutritional science is still in the dark ages and therefore we don't have evidence to conclude a pile of molecules is the same as traditional food, Soylent CEO says nutritional science is "pretty good" and the only thing that matters about food are its measured consituents and there in the absence of evidence we should just assume that eating the exact same thing in liquid form at metered intervals should be perfectly healthy.

For you to suggest he is arguing from first principles is absolutely ridiculous, his argument is chock full of hubris and assumptions. It's very very wrong to hold that up as an example of sound scientific thinking.
> It's such a fundamental part of being a human being I can't at all relate to seeing it as a mechanical process such as flossing

I mean, I agree with you and everything but you're saying "this thing is so important to me I cannot understand other people". There are a reasonably large number of people who would be very happy if they only ever ate a bowl of cereal and a banana for breakfast every single day for the rest of their life. I don't understand it, and I wouldn't like it, but I don't want to prevent them the comfort they get from that.
Or until you only have access to the AI code and memory that designed the higher-level AI that designed the algorithm.
Huel is better
This demo is not a demo of performance, it's a demo of the UI not being locked up. It could've used a 3 second sleep for all that the sorting itself mattered.
19,475 Targeted Outreach Emails with 20 Lines of Code
> Traditionally, such file managers use function keys for common tasks (eg. copy with F5) On Mac, you have to press Fn to get the function keys, which is very inconvenient

or just press cmd+c, easier than reaching to the touch bar.
I did look at this, and I found that they weren't cheap at all. The Macbook Pro 13 2012 model is around £800.
This is bullshit. You know what else is not on the home row? Most of the keys on the keyboard. The ESC key is very easy to hit without looking down, there is absolutely no need to remap it and I refuse to believe that people that grew up with keyboards with ESC keys ever feel the need to remap it.
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about it (other than what I read in the link).
> So yes, rebinding Escape is the right answer if you heavily use it.

nobody does that because it was unnecessary. Of course, now developers need to ADAPT the Macbook instead of the Macbook ADAPTING developer's workflow. That's not the definition of a developer friendly machine. The touchbar is a gimmick and even then it doesn't justify the removal of an entire row of keys. It was purely an aesthetic decision. But I forgot, developers like to work with "beautiful" computers instead of functional ones /s
The article is seeping with misinformation. Not sure why it reached the front page vs. the other Magic Leap pieces that have come out this week.
Unless they evolve some form of homomorphic encryption
Metamaterial device allows chameleon-like behavior in the infrared
Huel
American dont stink at Math, American stinks at training kids in general, you cant give too much home work, kids need time to play, and the Chinese kid in China is at school till 9 pm constantly doing and practice math. yeah, an avg American kid is not going to be as good as avg Chinese kid.

However, the top 3-5% of the American kid is going to be just as good if not equal to their Chinese counter parts.

In China, education made all kids above avg regardless if you are below or above intellectually. In America, an idiot is going to be an idiot, and a genius will take that step to be a genius.
I'm thinking since the new Macs still have the fn key I might just remap that to Esc – I never use it anyway.
I think its because the performance of laptops is no longer dreadful, but its still a terrible money / performance choice. You can buy a dual CPU Xenon workstation (Thinkstation 910p) for less than the a 15" Mac released yesterday.
You can inverse it though.
I'd say it's the norm for the 'enterprise' category of development.
Surface helps Apple MacBook owners trade up to Pen and on-screen touch
The precision 5510 looks great, but: http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-precision-5510.

> This workstation can get some serious work done, but its battery life of 5 hours and 34 minutes means you likely won't be taking it far from your desk.

The 13" rMBP gets 12 hours on the same test: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/all-day-strong-longest-las....

I don't feel like I'm being unreasonably picky here. I've been using a laptop with a great display and 8-9 hours of actual battery life for the last two years. Everything on the market right now (including probably the new MBP) is a downgrade from that.
A contract violation by LE is not a constitutional violation that triggers the exclusionary rule, it's a matter between LE and the party they have a contract with. Even if enforcement of the contract happens at all, the result is likely a damage award for the breach.
They'll get paid at much at more competitive rates though.
I don’t think that Apple needed to create anything separate because they already had separate things: the entire ecosystem of iPhones and iPads! It was ridiculous of them not to leverage those investments.

All they needed to make was an iOS app to display arbitrary “keyboard” keys, some Bluetooth/wireless connection to interface with the Mac (as Handoff and Air Drop practically do already), and a way to make the iPhone/iPad enter a special “display always on” mode when in close proximity to a Mac. This would have been way more flexible.
>I think, instead, it's in reference to the resulting function not having been analyzed.

I think it may be that it is "unanalyzable" if you will. Thousands of matrices multiplied together seems as if it would be hard to come to an actual understanding of...
Usually in this case the developer is an employee of another company (this company can tell them what to do) and the first business is paying the second for this developers time.
VR Games are hard... VR spectatorship, marketing, and other applications are generally much closer to be really good. I would be surprised if games led the way for VR to be honest, despite the investment in that direction.
https://vimeo.com/107941191
Slimfast and Complan off the top of my head. And those two have been around for decades. MyProtein sell simular stuff that is more balanced than whey protein + whole milk for a meal replacement. Also, whey + whole milk + instant oats lets you control the macros fairly well, assuming your getting all your micro-nutrients from real food elsewhere. And this is without looking on google. Id bet there are many many more. All the own-brand versions of slimfast for example.
Yes it was obvious by say 94/95 that IPV6 was a dog.
Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
It comes off as 100% condescending and patronizing (which is what it is.)
I completely agree. Also, they may not know but because they haven't made a detailed analysis, it's not like they couldn't know even if they wanted to. So yeah, click-bait.
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You will definitely trip over your new MacBook Pro and destroy it
> Ctrl+W does the same in windows

No, it doesn't. Ctrl+W isn't a general shortcut on Windows. A number of programs have adopted it to close windows/tabs (seems to have risen to prominence after browsers started binding it), but it's not a standard binding still. e.g. It does nothing in Outlook or Notepad.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keybo...
My laptop should work the way I want it to, not the other way around.
I would point out that the chart refers to Canada which never really had the real estate bubble pop in 2008 because it never had the credit crisis because banks are generally more conservative in Canada. However, the bubble is there and has been growing for a very long time, just slower than it did in the U.S..
I believe you are thinking of people who set up companies and pay themselves through dividends (which have a much lower tax rate), which is now (highly controversially) illegal -- search for "IR35".

Ordinary self-employed people and sole traders pay nearly the same tax rates as employed people (National Insurance, a strange disguised tax, is at a different rate), but have many fewer rights, eg. no right to paid time off or sick pay.

The question in this case is whether Uber drivers are self-employed or not. Not as it turns out.
Extra space and ergonomics to keep coding into my seventies is why I use an external keyboard. I'm in my thirties currently.

Maybe by the time I'm 70 I'll be talking to my computers, but still: why wreck my wrists?
Lines of Code – does it matter? [Java vs. Clojure]
Google has moved to USB-C with the Pixel.

https://madeby.google.com/phone/

Within 24 months, most Android phones will ship with USB-C.

That's over a billion devices a year.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/1/11836816/iphone-vs-android-...

Chromebook are starting to ship with USB-C.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/03/hp-chromebook-13-review-th...

USB-C is the future. I'm really not sure why PC vendors having put a couple of all of their desktops and laptops. Many will probably offer both A and C, for at least a few years.

If you have buy a new computer with 0 USB-C ports, you're going to regret it in a few years.
The big obvious difference is the numpad, or lack thereof. Plus, mechanical keyboards are a lot more comfortable I find. I know they're a bit of a meme right now, but I definitely prefer them over tiny short press chiclet keys.
Vim user here. I use the ESC key; I can hit it in a fluent motion while lifting the hand completely off the home row (much like a pianist).

It gives an opportunity to relax the hand. For the same reason I'm not a fan of hjkl and often use the arrow keys.