skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone here give me Buying Advice?

Mine just died and I was really looking forward to this event because I have wanted to switch to Mac for a while now (I really don't like the "new" Windows interface and I've only had trouble with my previous Windows Laptops) but I don't see a reason to pay what would amount to about 2 months pay for one of the just announced MBp.

I want to be able to do all kinds of hardware intensive things (photo and video editing, data science/statistics, maybe software development) because I don't know what exactly I will need my laptop for yet and want it to last for at least 4-5 years.
I'd also love my machine to be designed with some care, I just can't stand the look of the Thinkpad series.

Any ideas?
"A few extremists"? The entire Republican party has been fighting gay marriage tooth-and-nail. And approximately half the US population votes for them. That's not "a few extremists".

Go to any "megachurch" and listen to what they preach about. They're extremely anti-gay. These aren't "a few extremists", these are literally millions of people.

Look at Prop 8 in California. It was voted into law by popular vote, meaning a majority of the California population wanted to keep gay people from marrying. That's not "a few extremists".

Tell me again how I'm "stereotyping".
Doesn't everyone?
No, you're not a bad parent, your son is just going to grow up to be a Sith Lord.
I agree. However I think they'd lean towards devices that already have such tech rather than creating another one.
it's really hard for me to understand what the meaningful difference would be between penalty for opting out vs. bonus for opting in. don't those amount to the same thing, in practice?
Have you ever used a laptop with touchscreen? It's not that your touching it all the time.

You really miss it when you're switching between touch and non-touchscreens. You can't help but pointing at the screen only to realize: "Damn, this is not a touchscreen".

It's like that saying: Once you go touch, you never go back.
Facebook.

Suicide is considered 'contagious'. Before social media (1970) the 'contagiousness' (to really muddle a complex issue) was ~6. Meaning that each suicide 'affected' 6 other young people deeply, seriously disrupted their life, or left them feeling suicidal as well. Typically this was only close friends and family. Now, as we are all more connected, we see that a single suicide affects more people and more quickly. Now the 'contagiousness' of a single suicide spreads to 134 young people, a ~2100% increase.

My wife teaches and this is all over the local schools now [0]. Kids are now live streaming and live snapping these grizzly acts. It seems that you become the most popular kid in school in an instant and that you get a lot of social capital when you kill yourself live.

I want you to know that I am choosing my words carefully now: It is fucking crazy. Not even kids in a fucking Syrian war zone are doing this fucking crap. To borrow from Tumblr: I. Can't. Even. My wife is damn near at the end of her rope with this on top of all the other shit she has to deal with. I think she'll end up as yet another burnout teacher, I can't blame her.

The linked article has a lot more and better discussion on the complexities of these suicide clusters and how hard it can be to identify and stop them. These clusters seem not to be linked to self-esteem and 'everyone gets a ribbon' culture as strongly as they are linked to Instagram and other digital shrines/death-cults generators. They may be linked, but it seems that the root cause of the self esteem cult and the suicide clusters may be social media. They are correlated, but not causal. This brings up an interesting case with the military suicide rates, as they are a very tight community that the rest of America has forgotten. To quote an Iraqi Porto-potty, of all things: 'The USA is not at war, the USMC is at war'.

We are loosing the war with suicide, and social media is the enemy.

If you are feeling suicidal, there are many resources available. Here are some sources:
Call: 1 (800) 273-8255 (english)
800 273 8255 (spanish)
Visit: http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ (English)
http://www.didihirsch.org/spc-spanish (Spanish)

[0]http://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/teen-suicide-contagious-c...
>> It's likely that greeting them with criticism of their playing as they walk off the stage won't do much to encourage them to try it again.

There's a way to frame it. At the end of a band performance, the audience (even if it is just 3-4 people) is encouraged to clap, even if the performance sucked. Usually, they do clap. This is enough of a positive reinforcement.

When the whole thing is over, before packing up, have a 15 minute meeting in which all you do is say,

"Great performance guys. You did a,b,c really well. Jeff, I saw you listened to my instruction. Hi five! Stacy, you did a good job. There were some mistakes in your chord transitions, let's talk about that so you can do it better next time"

Kids should grow up knowing they are doing well but aren't perfect yet. Let's keep improving until we get there.
OCaml, which is now 20 years old. The "O" was originally for "Objective".
KSK Ceremony Live
You have to protect the company.

If you have a policy and the couple doesnt follow it, you reduce the risk of getting dragged into their litigation.
Datavirtuality – any data. any system. anytime
re: dialog boxes
Space key to the rescue!
[edit] the link that seems to have issues is: http://origami.design/tutorials/
Balsamiq? I'm sure there's others that do that too...
> [0] kwijibo means product

I'm on to your lies, boyo.
@@@@ Self Promotion Disclaimer @@@@

I think my personal site is a very nice minimal site: https://cmp.is/

I strive to have as little js/css as possible. Currently only has Google Analytics and whatever Cloudflare wants to stick in there. I have to simplify the CSS to the bare basics eventually. I use Hugo to build the site and I get to post many different kinds of posts like links, notes, and real full posts.
CAPITALIST SCIENCE!

https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2474

(which may or may not bear an odd resemblance to insider trading)
Except that now you have to buy all new peripherals...
Metal Roofing: Advantages and Disadvantages – All Roofing Solutions
> They used to have Nvidia gpus as an option (mine is, from 2014).

And the laptops tended to die because of that (mine is, from 2010)
In theory they were supposed to have my permission before sharing with the government too... right? Not sure what this stops.

Think of it like when you authorize facebook or someone else to share data via OAuth, how many people read that list?
I get sun-burnt really easily. I need a company that supports that with cheap health-care and aloe in the company kitchen.

Just kidding.

- redhead engineer
Quantum is about new architectural advances within Gecko. These advances can be achieved by taking code from Servo (Quantum Style), ideas from Servo (Quantum DOM), or in general new ideas (not sure if any of the quantum projects are of this form).

Servo is still its own thing. The timelines are radically different, Quantum is something you should be able to directly benefit from a year from now; Servo is something you should be able to directly benefit (as a product) from in the far future. You of course may indirectly benefit from Servo when its advances are applied to other browser engines (which is what quantum is).
GifCities: The Geocities Animated GIF Search Engine
It used to be trendy to be a fanboy about everything Apple does. So maybe there's something to it after all.
> 16GB max

You can have 16 GB ram on a 2011 ThinkPad X220.

Just saying.
>we all understand the need for them due to no better monetization strategy for much of the valuable content on the web.

This just isn't true. There are plenty of other monetization schemes on the web that work for different types of content. (Subscriptions, donations, subsidies (both corporate and governmental), patrons, etc.)

>Would love to see this extend to things like online music / video as well

It pretty much already exists in the form of Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
Swimlane Is Looking for a REMOTE Node.js Engineer for a Cyber-Security Startup
Calling HDMI outdated helpfully allows me to ignore the rest of your comment.
I think Apple now thinks of the Pro as someone who is a pro at using a OS X and their consumer software line... They edit family videos in iMovie, write jams in Garageband and edit their photos in Photos! These novel features are geared directly for them, not the real professionals.
you get 2x tb3 ports on the model without a touchbar. ( http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ )
WTF Is Apple Thinking with the New MacBook Pro and Touch Bar?
I can't find it now, but I recall an article which simulated interstellar transit times for asteroids. The conclusion was that something like the dinosaur killer asteroid could throw rocks into orbit. After 100M years, some of those rocks could have reached other solar systems (i.e alpha centauri)

Given that life on Earth is ~4 billion years old, there's good reason to be believe we've seeded rocks across a sphere ~100 or more light years across.

Whether those rocks reach another solar system is another question. Space is big, and even giant killer rocks are tiny.
The whole story about ECC ram in the computer industry is completely insane. RAM is basically the only place in most PC not protected by a form of ECC, except on expensive (or at least less produced) Xeon (or maybe some AMD, I don't know which ones). I don't know if caches on most ARM processors have ECC, but the situation might very well be the same on smartphone. Sad...
Oh yay, now we can look forward to immortal rich folks. And the abolition of the retirement age.
I actually read his first post about the surface when it came our. The point is MS is continuing the relationship for good press, and by becoming part of the process they have become biased.

Also, pay is not limited to just cash.
VC for fast growing small startups
Hi there!
We're working on a new project, https://onesite.co

Our objective is providing the very best free web hosting service. We're growing really fast, and I believe that it could be interesting to include some small VC into our company.

Which would you say it's the best VC for fast growing startups?

Thank you!
After looking at worrydream.com, everything seems little bit tilted now.
Completely agree. I need to replace my macbook air, but am seriously stumped: no more 12 hr battery, no more magsafe, a much higher price, and can't even stay on the MBA because the 16GB I was hoping for did not appear on the MBA.

Really. Don't know what to do now. I can't switch to Windows, don't want to go back to Linux. I feel like Apple has left me.
I hope it's working out for you! I'd love to hear how things are going if you want to email me privately.
You can have sex without kids?
I wish the UK had this. Mobile phone/data providers send a header with HTTP requests to provide the site with your phone number which they can then use to charge you without permission.
All that thinness isn't for free.
Microsoft announced a better $3000 monitor+computer alternative to a $2500 (3000 Euros - depending where you live) monitor (cintiq).
> They tend to tick-tock between Nvidia and AMD

I'm not sure "tick tock" is the right word. The MBP used AMD in 2006, NVidia from 2007 to 2010, AMD in 2011, NVidia from 2012 to 2014, and 2015 is AMD. It's actually a break in the pattern for them to use AMD chips two years in a row.
Lisp CLOS does not have inheritance for methods either, but is OO by definition.

Imho, OO is about polymorphism [0] and Rust provides that.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/oop.html
Any 15" Retina MBPro from late 2013 onwards and Airs from 2015 onwards can do 4k @ 60hz. I'm doing it right now on a late 2013 rMBPro.
Here's how: I teach at a seminary; I'm religious. You would most likely look at my mail-in ballot and conclude I'm a conservative. I also campaigned against prop 8, hard. Tell me again about how being a religious conservative needs to get reported to HR and how it's literally impossible for me to work with gay people? Republicans passed those measures, yes, but then when people started losing lawsuits over cakes it just made things worse and in their minds confirmed all their fears. Most Republicans that I know were not "proudly discriminating" - they thought they were protecting their rights to their religion. I agree they're mistaken, but don't prove them right.

Your idea is not a step up. It's changing the discrimination to something else. You're not about tolerance - you're about forcing your world view on other people. Which is exactly the problem with the Republican Party.

edit: Also, in a very reliably blue state like California, not sure you can level all the blame for prop 8 at just "religious conservatives".
Sexism is a power imbalance based on sex (i.e. gender). Just acknowledging gender is not sexism. A woman who volunteers her time to answer some random questions is not being subjected to sexism.

And by the way, since it is a power imbalance based on sex (i.e gender), you can't combat it without acknowledging and discussing sex (i.e. gender).

I keep saying (i.e. gender) so people don't think I'm talking about the fun activity that sometimes makes a baby.
I just pipe to 'select *' now but converto-json sounds excellent.
The "just" part doesn't make a lot of sense but otherwise it's a fair characterization
Wow seriously? That is semi-terrifying.
No, because the status quo is to not share your information.
>Just like the bigger screen iPhone, which was supposedly a usability disaster because you couldn't reach the whole screen with a single finger.

There's this idea that people will buy everything Apple does, or that people put down things until Apple does them.

First, Apple started from nearly bankrupt in 1997 and so. People clearly didn't just buy what Apple put out. What build Apple's fortune was not some hundreds of millions of "sheep" who magically bought everything Apple put out, but a steady stream of products that increasingly more people bought.

People didn't just buy everything Apple put out. People had to be convinced, from the first post-jobs stuff (Cube, iMac) to start buying them -- increasingly over time. The iPod took years to really take off, for example.

Along with this idea, there's this other idea that Apple 'fans' will put down a feature until Apple releases something that has it.

Those saying that seem to forget that the internet is full of people, and the people who said "the iPhone doesn't need a bigger screen" are not necessarily the ones who bought one after Apple released it.

Apple still sells tens of millions of non-plus iPhones, to people who don't really like the large screen, and even put out the old 4" model again (iPhone SE).

I got a Plus and it's still a usability disaster on that regard. One hand use (which is what I mostly used to do on the smaller models) is pretty much out. But I coped mostly because I appreciate the extra ~50mm camera lens, and for reading stuff while commuting etc (with two hands).
Late 2013 MBPro 15" can do it too.
Talk about feeding the troll ...
Your argument is invalid, simply because google didn't become big because they had more money than others, but because the technology was an advantage.

Sure, expenses are a limiting factor along the way, but you use anecdotal evidence to make a point of that. Look at traffic instead, is google also single handedly stemming the whole infrastructure?

The question was about other search engines, non profit at that, and in doubt of that, about the possibility. Whether or not it would be expensive and whether or not the wikimedia foundation uses a lot of their money for meet ups and the like, there are possibly other limiting factors, that might ease the financial problem when overcome.
>"the poor application of statistics"

It is actually statisticians who are at the root of the problem. There is no proper way to apply the statistics most people are taught (NHST). However, everyone tries (and fails) to come up with some way to use the stats because they can't believe they were taught to perform such a waste of time ritual. See here for a decent overview: http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf
Yahoo's home page explains so much about the company -- unable to maintain even the simplest and most basic features of their site. I'm still on Yahoo mail, and there were a few months this year where the basic search functionality didn't work.

Yahoo would probably make a great case study in corporate culture gone wrong.
How is the customer experience better, when you have to change the OS yourself, and presumably can only get support for an OS you no longer use?
I would love to get involved with a company like this, however I am only a software engineer with no background in the biological sciences. Is there a feasible path that does not involve going back to school for many years? I am not afraid of learning new things or doing the hard work I'd need to do, I just feel like that route would be highly inefficient. I would really like to contribute towards meaningfully extending human lifespan, don't really care about the salary.
Not within Windows 10. At least, not without editing registry entries or setting yourself up with a domain to administrate settings as if you're part of a corporation. These are things that require too much work to research and (repeatedly) implement when there are other equally good OSes out there. I could spend an equivalent amount of effort and have as good of a day-to-day experience with Ubuntu or Debian.

Availability of gaming titles aside, there's just nothing that Windows does anymore that other OSes don't do.
isnt this more the fault of the designer and not the tool?
I always thought the main Vine user base was mobile users. That's the only place I've ever used it - which isn't much tbh.

Ironic how everything you create these days has to mobile ready huh? Then here's a company dumping a pretty popular app which is used mainly by a younger demographic who lives by their phones and social media?

I don't see this as a good move - and if its being done to cut costs, it's still not a good move.
I am pretty sure the way it works is that everyone will get the immortality when it is available, but the poor folks get 1,000 years of debt.
I know several artists who bought the Surface for exactly this reason and found it disappointing. The hardware in the Surface Pro is pretty mediocre unless you spend a lot of money on it (at which point a Cintiq Companion becomes an intriguing idea if you don't know what Wacom's customer support is like).

Most of those artists ended up buying iPad Pros to replace them with.
The first link after a search is often a text ad disguised as link for the exact same link just below. Sometimes, I purposefully click on the non-ad link... I call it "living dangerously!"
Kippino: a Slack bot that tracks your company KPIs
>I get that it might not be for everyone, but a LOT of keyboard cases have been sold to iPad and iPad Pro users (and many of these cases prop up the iPad screen vertically).

Yes, but those are for writing -- ie. using the iPad laptop style. Not for doing work e.g. graphics, etc with the iPad vertically held.
“We don’t expect people to be living to 150 years, even in the wildest version of success,” he said. “But we do expect people to live free of a variety of chronic diseases.”"

You didn't read the article, just posting the typical "anti-aging" comment, right?

The idea is to be relatively healthy in your old age, not necessarily extend your life by much beyond what the human body can currently live, if it remains free of disease.

In many cases, we spend a fortune in health care costs in the last few years of people's lives. If we can keep more people relatively healthy until they go in their sleep, for example, we'll all be happier and insurance costs should fall.
Chinese Text Project Adds 5M+ Scanned Pages from Harvard Yenching Library
Show HN: Automatic Parallelization for Haskell
Try drawing/animating in Harmony with it and tell me how it goes. Drawing directly on screen has its purposes.
> Feeling like you're one of the only people who understands your experiences in a community really sucks.

Yeah political discussions here are not better than on reddit, but if you go to HN to discuss politics (which is a broad term in itself), you are doing it wrong. E.g. I mostly discuss tech here (this discussion being an exception), and try to be a lurker in shitty politics, economics, feminism, SV-"make-the-world-a-better-place", etc. discussions and would have assumed that many do the same.
What's wrong with HN community? In my perspective it's the most open community I've seen online.

Disclaimer: [M27]
Considering the extremely long time between hardware refresh on the MacBook Pro I entirely share your sentiment and am agog Apple didn't wait for a suitable Kaby Lake part. People have been waiting years, what's another six months? If you're going to charge me top end prices bloody give me top end hardware. It isn't simply top end by definition with a Microsoft or Apple logo plastered on the side, sorry.
> In 2014 I joined the Netflix cloud performance team. Having spent years as a DTrace expert, it might have seemed crazy for me to move to Linux

I thought Netflix was mostly running FreeBSD [1]. Is it only the Open Connect Appliance?

[1]: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/netflix/
Yes. And then more data becomes available, which changes perspective. Then employees leave for better opportunity
Gmail arrow direction and iOS mail arrow directions are opposite
Driving me crazy.

The left/right arrows near the top of the gmail webpage and the left/right arrow at the top of the ios mail application do the opposite thing.
heh pretty much yes, though I'm sure someone can think of times it would be different. and since penalties for opting out are not allowed, the ISPs will have to be very careful how they structure such bonuses - they would have to be perks totally separate from the service they provide is my guess.
>Imagine what your life would be like if it hadn't happened. //

It doesn't sound sill it sounds to me like it would have the exact opposite effect. So I'm feeling low and I think "imagine if I'd not got my job, then I'd be feeling crap and be hungry and possibly homeless .. basically I'm an incapable and worthless person .. might as well top myself now".

In contrast I practice enjoyment of those things which make my life better, like dwelling on their benefits drinking deeply of the contentment a moment of happiness can yield.

Glad you've found something that works for you; and I'm going to dwell on that rather than imagine you hadn't and instead had become morose!
And almost none of those apps are going to max out an Iris Pro, let alone a 980M.
Addicted to your phone? This guy is trying to make it stop
Yes, the difference is just playing with words. Rewarding those who opt-in is materially equivalent to penalising those who opt-out. I don't think the FCC would stand for such shenanigans.
The boss' boss approval is there to prevent people playing favorites. Asking the whole team for approval doesn't make sense to me, it is the task of the boss to be aware what everyone is contributing. The rest of the team should primarily be concerned with their own contributions, not those of others.

Nobody can give themselves a raise. This is always proposed by a boss and checked by the boss's boss. If I want to set a salary for one of my reports I have to consult with the board. The board also determines my compensation.