skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of gwern, but would definitely be more likely to hire than other sites I've seen here. The others are very much: overengineered, presentation-over-content, presentation-over-function, inaccessible. Effectively, they represent an overt focus on the "shiny" while neglecting the usually less exciting, but significantly more important, aspects of development. Not traits I would value in an employee.

Gwern's is up-front about one thing: communicating content clearly.

That said, a prospective employer may very well be more swayed by "the shiny": while I would deem that in poor judgement, I may be in a minority, so these other sites could be more likely to get you hired in practice.
macOS applications use other shortcuts for things where Linux applications use function keys. For example in Chrome:

Refresh Webbrowser - F5 - CMD+R

Close Tab - Alt+F4 or CTRL+W - CMD+W

By default most function keys don't even work as regular function keys in macOS unless you use fn+F1. They are mapped to OS related stuff like brightness, play/skip and volume.
I think it's fairer to say that it is possible.

I am on a train so I can't do more than refer to http://lesswrong.com/lw/ev3/causal_diagrams_and_causal_model... unfortunately.
Why is everyone so upset about the new MacBook Pro?
It seems like the entire tech community is up in arms about the new MacBook Pro. Let's remember stripping connectivity is nothing new for Apple. I have not missed my DVD drive for a day. It's increasingly rare that I find myself plugging in a USB drive, external display, or SD card. The SD card slot and HDMI port also ~~are~~ were fairly recent additions to the line. The running commentary seems to be "Pro is for professional," by which they really mean to say "Pro is for _creative_ professional."

For the few times per year I download pictures from my camera I will be happy to grab a dongle. Why? Because there's not a big air pocket where there once was an SD card slot. The machine is lighter, thinner, brighter, faster, all of which are steps in the right direction. USB C is fast and versatile. Yes, it will be sad to lose the MagSafe. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, I will miss the escape key. The criticism seems a bit premature, though.

The only thing that baffles me is why did they leave the headphone jack? And why is the iPhone 7 still Lightning and not USB C? Not enough courage.
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But that isn't what was thought. This guy began experimenting with meal replacement for himself and got an overwhelming response. The thought most involved was let's do this. This is organically cultivated mass self experimentation.
I was "self-employed" ("Freiberufler") and working for a US startup 100% of my billable hours. They hadn't formed a company in Germany at that point, so I just send them a bill and paid the employer and employee part of my health insurance.

I got some letters about that and they asked me to prove that I was indeed self-employed. They didn't like the argument and concluded that I wasn't.
The only thing that actually happened after a while is that I had to pay into the public retirement fund against my will. The "Deutsche Rentenversicherung" are seemingly the only people that care. From what I can tell there were no other obligations/rights that appeared after.
Read what I was responding to. Managers aren't going to spend $3000 on AN UPGRADE machine, to gain .5% productivity. What you're describing is essentially is a sign on bonus, where the company allows you to choose your work environment. Your employer isn't going to refresh your laptop every six months on incremental upgrades. That's just asinine. We have a five year depreciation on all laptops/desktops, and we sure as shit don't upgrade someone because we think it's going to increase their productivity by a half a percent.

Regarding Herman Miller chairs, those last 10-15 years easy. I'm sitting on one just as old right now. I can easily argue the cost/value for proper seating, on employee productivity and well being.
Galaxy S7 Edge Giveaway
No one really knows this answer unfortunately because it is highly dependent on how the "collapse" happens.
How Getting Tenure Is Supposed to Work
Oh my, I was given the impossible task of writing a hardware resource allocation algorithm to produce encoding XML config from the UI in JavaScript. Think of a hardware device needing to efficiently transcode 80 SD or 12 HD (mix and match) video streams (plus audio - stereo/dolby) on varying encode cards (6 max), all from a drag and drop interface and without disrupting existing encoding allocations to prevent glitches while it reconfigures.

Long story short, this had to work in IE8 and not block the UI to get it done and no plugins. I wrote some crazy way of doing the work in chunks using a setTimeout to get it complete. The project was a success but I stated very firmly that this was a job for the device, not the UI in future versions. Hard when the device in question only had a 300MHz CPU.

Those were the days.
It's obviously more oriented towards testing and stuff (as something compatible with memcached, but lighter) more than actual production use. Security holes are a bit less urgent in that case.
The real value in this post is maybe how the VC thinks about risk rather than a how a founder should. The need for structure in something as ephemeral as startup risk definitely stands out.
UK Site - I can't see any way to configure with anything except Windows 10 Home.
The Chinese "knock off" people have trouble making an equivalently good iPhone. A scanning fiber array based virtual retinal display can't be quickly cloned.
I was thinking of getting one of these, but in Canada, their canned options aren't the greatest (I checked their home and small biz sites). You can't get the 4K touchscreen with the quad i7 and they don't seem to offer true BTO here any more.

It's kinda ironic to me that Apple outdoes Dell at online BTO these days.
Oops I forgot to mention, you should clean install Windows 10 on Lenovo, i never liked the crapware that they gave, the hardware does have a great shelf life.
Next: Google AI encrypts google's servers and demand Ransom
I have a Samsung Book and it is unquestionably the best laptop I've ever owned. Happy to answer questions.
> what if the car is crashed hard enough (or long enough for the battery to run down) that it's beacon is off/broadcasting wrong information?

Doesn't that mean we're just back at the situation we're in today? The worse situation?

> What if there's fallen tree or a pedestrian on the road?

Also, not the situation at hand. Talking about the case where a car has crashed and is letting the cars behind it know that it has done so. It's like electronic flare deployment (or hazard lights.)

Don't you think that a lot of lives and livelihoods could be saved if we had such functionality?
+1 to Troy, this blog is amazing. The blog posts are always on point technically and ethically.
I wholeheartedly agree with this.

After a lot of debate and research, I bought the Fall 2013 MBP from Apple refurbished in the middle of 2014. They do an incredible job refurbishing, to the point where there was no way you could tell it was a used device other than it arriving in a nondescript box. Plus, I saved something like $400 off the price of what was still the latest model at the time.

In the past two and a half years the only "problem" I've had is that one of the rubber feet came off. It's still got more than enough power for the foreseeable future as well. Definitely recommended.
That begets the question, "what are we?", and somehow that might be the initial question that got us into this mess.

To stay in cannon I'd have to say that the question is posed wrong and the answer therefore is 42 or whatever you like. Properly phrased, the question would be, why are humans (or the universe) what they are. That's a recursive question. Posing it as a problem in differential equations, the question might be, "we are, but for how long?", or simply, "Are we?"

I think this is a simple question that comes up in cognitive development very early on, and the exercise of answering it is rather an effort in expressiveness. The answer can be felt, emotionally, we feel alive, and we will never feel dead, but it's hard to express rationally. I'm hopeful that neuroscience holds better answers. Maybe we really just don't care, emotionally, for the whole universe, but we care to know everything, rationally.

And we apparently care for AI to express that knowledge in natural sentences.

Edit: I got carried away, actually I wanted to consternate that "We are" is not a proper sentence, because to be is an auxiliary verb and that a personal point of view as a premises can not yield an objectively correct answer, hence I admit that the topic eludes me.
There are a number of ways to do it, see the article linked below. Not all of these methods actually require use of a computer to cast a vote, which is why I said traditional paper ballots earlier. This of course still leaves the problem of authentication, which can only really be done with a computer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_...
I wonder if they are going to release an external keyboard with a touch bar, since many mbp users connect their laptop to a monitor and use external keyboard
The Curve in the Curvahedra
I'd be curious to hear some anecdotal stories like this, would you share :)
Not sure where you're looking, the non-touchbar model is physically identical to the touchbar except that it has a function key row and two less ports. Definitely the new model, it's the same thickness, same screen, same trackpad. See the tech specs if you want to confirm: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Right, I don't think that's dishonest. These were vehicles essentially already paid for by Tesla in previous quarters. The fact that they could still sell them is a good sign.
Are you willing to field some questions via email?
I'm having a hard time seeing photo editing requiring 16GB of ram. For video editing it seems to me most use cases aren't going to have more than a few GB worth of frames at a time required in memory, but I can see the potential for 16GB being a bottleneck in certain applications.

For "actual [computational] work", use a different computer suited for the purpose, not toys marketed to graphics professionals and hipsters.
To me, many of the comments seem to have it backwards.

ES6 is a superset for ES5, so given the ES5 docs you can write NG2 apps with ES6.

Typescript being a superset of ES6 means it would be a struggle to write an NG2 app in ES5 or ES6 given only the Typescript documentation. I tried during beta, it was an exercise in frustration that I finally abandoned.

Providing documentation for the lowest common denominator of ES5 should let you write in ES6 (heck, it should let you write in Typescript if you realyl wanted to!) But some of the dev's comments are a bit backwards IMO when they say use Typescript documentation for ES6.

You can see my beta NG2+vailla JS project here https://github.com/chad-autry/ng2bp
Again windows tablets before the iPad weren't tablets, they were Table PC's they were effectively a laptop and so the build quality was what was possible with the hardware limitation of the day.
I honestly didn't find the build quality of the iPad's until the Air/Air 2 to be that appealing as far as tablets go, always felt to bulky and heavy for what they were.

I also find it pretty disappointing where people talk about the build quality of Apple devices, it looks great, and feels good, but it doesn't mean it's built great, have you ever tried to take an MBP or an Iphone apart?
I love my MBP15 and Iphone but if I need to take one device with me and have my life depend on it it wouldn't be either of those since I would not take a device I cannot disassemble and repair myself without having access to an electronics lab.

The Surface was innovative the pen worked great, the formfactor was pretty amazing for the power in it and the OS was pretty good, the Surface Book was also pretty innovative even tho it wasn't the first detachable screen they really worked on the mechanics, electronics and software to make it as good as it can get, the Surface Studio is also not the first but it looks to be near perfection for content creators of nearly all types and every content creator I know was pretty excited about it.

The sad part is that for some reason I have a strong suspicion that if there was an Apple logo on the back of the Surface Studio instead of 4 squares some types of people would be drooling all over it even if 99% of what it offers would be utterly useless to them.
I'm not sure why this comment is receiving downvotes, unless those downvoters have not read past the first 7 words - it's fair, complimentary, and points out one very important thing:

> This site (unlike many) was functional without JS

While I don't echo hfsktr's views on not seeing what's special - Steven Wittens' work is mindblowing - but I think the fact he has a site that is so Javascript-centric in content, while also being so perfectly functional and rich without, is doubly commendable.
Fewer people would likely die from falling ill suddenly and undetected than currently perish from human-caused accidents. I suspect fewer would perish from sudden medical events in cars overall as a medical event no longer means a likely crash.
They are heavy, that's why :)

For work, you need that easy-to-carry-in-a-shoulder-bag thing
He seems to have obsessive compulsive tendencies so severe that he can't eat food (e.g. "Kitchens are dirty") combined with some narcissism...
It's the perfect dimensions for a simple sidescrolling platformer, actually. I'd love to be able to play Chrome's dinosaur game on it when my internet is down, for example.
Life before WebWorkers was fun :). Another way was to create multiple iframes, and use a form of hacky message passing to use more cores, but i think this may have depended on the browser implementation.
Yes, exactly that; the compressor turns down the rest of the mix as it is triggered by the kick drum (which isn't going through the compressor). Easily heard at the beginning of "Call on me" by Eric Prydz [1] if you concentrate on the synth string sound. Lots of people think this is the only use of it (it's not), but it's probably the most popular.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_fCqg92qks
It's really not:

- You can't have beautiful URLs

- you can't regroup small related routes in one file

- you can't remap you urls without changing your project structure

- changing your project structure means changing your urls

- now you have part of your url definition in the file structure and part of it in your code logic

- of course it's harder to do anything using virtual routes: load balancing, aliasas and redirections, generating urls on the fly, etc
Sight words were a new concept to me when I saw that's what they were using to teach my son, so I have to assume it was standard reading. I don't have a clear memory one way or the other though, so I can't be sure.
For the same reason the said games fell out of favor in the public perception. Christianity gained power. Not to say that torture and murder were not taken place under christian priests' sight if not command, but in the later the cause was always punitive in regard to or attempts to gain cooperation from victims, whereas the former were for show and entertainment alone.
Can you elaborate on these rumors?
We've been forever waiting for Linux on the desktop! In as much as a very polished desktop distro. Never seems to come along. Even Ubuntu haven't managed it. Given fixed hardware I'm sure it would still be a challenge. Iterations of desktops and window managers pass by, start out glitchy, get polished in time, then are made obsolete. I have seen so many regressions in popular Linux desktops - even core components like panels, and file managers. I'm currently running an older version of Foo, because newer Foo has too many annoying warts. But what I have, just about works. That being said, Windows doesn't seem to progress that much either. Perhaps UI is the hard part. As a dev, I always think that the icing on the cake should be the easy bit. But of course it isn't.
If you're aiming for a failed company and a pile of cash that makes you feel empty inside, or just a failed company, you're on the right track.
This appears to have manifested itself in this thread too!
Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an escape key and that's if anything an improvement over where escape was before.
That one would worry me:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1TYqnmbkGC...

> `"We are investing less than four cents of every dollar we earn back into our nation’s productive capacity," Feroli notes. "The economic possibilities for future generations will not be promising if we stay on this path."
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Generally speaking it seems like energy bars targeting the outdoors crowd come in bar form. I can see that... from my perspective a bar's easier to lug around in a backpack compared to something you need to add water to.

That said I agree in another aspect... I'm actually surprised I couldn't find more MRE (not just energy-granola type) bars that specifically market to the outdoor crowd on Google, especially considering things like ultralight backpacking becoming more popular. I could only find one offhand (http://www.greenbelly.co/). Maybe I'm missing more, but it does seem like there would be more of a market for this sort of thing.
Thanks for the link, really appreciate it. Pat Brenner has since left Microsoft so we can only wonder who is in charge of the MFC stuff nowadays.
When has anyone ever wished they had a track pad that took up 2/3 of the palm area? I hope their palm sensing is 100% perfect.

Not to rehash the "PCs have terrible trackpads" thread from a few days ago, but... yes, palm sensing on Apple trackpads is close to perfect.

And I guess I could live with a smaller trackpad, but a nice big one is nicer (when it works well).
What's the battery life on Razer Blade? One thing I like about Macbooks is that, for some reason, they can work in dusty environment and still stay silent(ish) after that. That's especially true for Macbook Air.
Humans run on electricity also.
You need an adapter to plug your iPhone into the new MacBook Pros
I've had `jj` bound to ESC for several years now, and I know lots of people who use `jk` or `fj` too. Hitting `jj` is super quick and barely requires movement, but I've always hated the small delay after typing a `j` (while it listens for another `j` to complete the chord). I may have to retrain myself to use ^[ instead.
I don't get why everyone is focused on the worker version being slower. Microbenchmarks in JS are hard to get right, and I don't think this demo attempts to make an accurate comparison. It's just showing what workers do and why they're useful.

I use workers heavily in a game I'm making, and in my experience they perform equivalently to regular JS, modulo any time you spend copying memory back and forth.

edit: It seems this demo dynamically creates the worker from scratch every time it's used, and destroys it afterwards. That's probably the cause of any performance difference people are seeing.
At an open day for an animation course they showed an AI derived walk cycle of a character. The results were amusing. The condition was that if it feel over that would be no good. The end walk cycle was a character doing forward flips in the air and landing on its feet. Very unexpected results.
So use an editor that supports a modern UI, like Sublime Text or Atom, and not something originally designed for an ADM-3A terminal.
The prices in Britain for existing products are around 20% more than they were last week. Mac Pro is now £2,999, up from £2,499. The Mac mini is £479, up from £399. The Macbook Pro is a new model, so comparing the price for that is meaningless. And yes, if you convert all the prices into USD then the UK is cheap. People in the UK aren't paid in USD though, and it's the GBP price that has increased.
Since the article doesn't even mention that the escape functionality is still there (although it's no longer a physical key but a touch button), I'm going to assume that its only source is jokes on twitter.
not trying to make a fuss out of it, but i feel like using "brah" - assuming the users gender - is something we should try to avoid. unless you know the poster, in that case disregard this.
Dramatic click bait IMO. You could really hack that touchbar to do some great productivity enhancements.
There is a MacBook with escape and functions keys still available. So the choice is still there.

Personally I think the touch bar could be great for programmers so I'm gonna take that.
Fair enough, but they must have known about the film. A huge chunk of my family perished in the Holocaust. I therefore don't find "dark humor" about forceful mass euthanasia terribly funny.

At the very least, using that name shows a measure of immaturity on the part of company's leadership and makes me frankly question their judgment in other matters. Recall for example their early struggles with health and safety inspections.

I am hoping to be constructive here, in case someone from Soylent is reading. The name is offensive to some people: why lose even one customer over a clever cultural reference? Why willfully associate your product with population control and cannibalism?
Honest question: what's the alternative? I've got a 2013 rMBP 15 inch. What's my next machine? I'm not willing to regress on display (220 ppi or better), screen size, or battery life (8-9 hours real use). I might regress on quad core to dual core if everything else is perfect.

EDIT: The XPS 15 gets more like 5-6 hours with the high res display by my understanding. The Surface Book has the right combination of resolution and battery life, but 15.4" to 13.5" is a big step down if you're used to working with side by side windows. Is there anything out there I've overlooked?
Haha, would never of thought to use iframes!
For the downvoters:

Anyone can join the American Nutrition Society as a professional member. Minimal checks are made of professional registration - you just need to paypal the fees.

Russel Blaylock's wikipedia article says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Blaylock

> Blaylock has endorsed views inconsistent with the scientific consensus, including that food additives such as aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG) are excitotoxic in normal doses and that the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) vaccine carries more risk than swine flu itself.

> Advertisements selling the 'Blaylock Wellness Report' at newsmax.com contain claims of additional health dangers, including fluoridated drinking water, fluoridated toothpaste, vaccines, dental amalgam, cholesterol drugs, pesticides, and aluminum cookware.[23]

> In April 2013, Dr. Blaylock entered his endorsement of the chemtrails conspiracy theory on an internet radio program called Linderman Unleashed Radio Show where he cited increased levels of aluminum in water bodies and nature with his common sense observations of the skies. He proposed the conspiratorial and criminal aircraft spraying by governments of nano toxins for some supposed global, emergency purpose

This is a laundry list of woo topics, and it should be obvious that he's no longer a credible source for anything.
Interesting! Unless I'm totally wrong, it isn't mandatory in the UK at least, and I hardly know anyone who can touch-type properly here, relatively few people who can type fast and accurately, and almost no one outside of tech who can type without looking at the keyboard.

I was forced to learn to touch-type properly by an older sibling when I was about 8; a quarter of a century or so later, I never look at the keyboard and can do ~120wpm if I put my mind to it (some keyboards are better than others, admittedly), though I feel like my accuracy isn't perhaps what it once was (maybe due to less practice? I spend more time talking to clients and less time typing these days...). Get 'em while they're young, I say.