skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WRT your website, it's quite nice of you that you've added the message "you need js for this website". Maybe better if you add a little personal information to that message too, like "Hey I'm Doug, I'm a software dev, and this is my website. You need JS enabled for it to function. Otherwise reach me at <mail <at> domain>." This'd be more intriguing to enable JS. And when I enabled it I liked what I got, a nice idea.

WRT Bret's website, it's the type of website I'd pass if I wasn't told that there's sth. interesting in it. A black window w/o JS, and when enabled, it takes 5-10 seconds to just show me some text b/c needs to load custom fonts and loads of JS, and then messes up my scroll. Yours is a creative thing and I like it, but this one just imitates badly the normal scolling. Plain awful.
of course it can
I can't think without vocalizing, and I can't control when thoughts flow in/out of my head (well I've been practicing, but I'm nowhere near there), so I can't really control my inner voice. They're so tied together for me, I can't really understand the idea of thinking without it, or even that the "thought" and "voice" are separate things.

For example, when reading, I need to vocalize everything, and I'm sure this contributes to me being a slow reader. I've tried speed reading techniques, or learning to read words in groups, and I can take in the words, but don't actually "process" them. By the time I've read the next sentence, I've forgotten what the previous one said. I can read much faster than I could physically talk (maybe 2-3x), but any faster than that and my inner-voice jumbles together, I can no longer comprehend it.

With speed reading tools that show you one word at a time very quickly, like Spritz [0], I can get over 600wpm and still read every word, but my inner voice sounds like one of those robotic voices that combine recorded samples together (like a subway announcement: "The next. BROOKLYN BOUND. train will. ARRIVE IN... TWO. minutes."). And I've found that anything above 200wpm, I couldn't tell you 5 minutes later what I had read.

[0] http://spritzinc.com/

Edit: There's a fun story by Richard Feynman about him and a friend trying to count in their heads while reading or speaking aloud. And Feynman found he could read and count, but not speak and count, and his friend was the opposite. It turns out it was because Feynman was verbalizing the counting, while his friend was visualizing it.

Couldn't find a link that wasn't a PDF filled with illustrations, but it's a short read.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3591/
How would you do external monitors?
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British Airways is notorious for its "fuel surcharge", which is not a government-imposed tax. It's just an extra fee they tack on to make sure the low advertised ticket price ends up costing you enough for them to make a profit.

The worst is when you use frequent-flier miles to book with them; you still have to pay the "fuel" surcharge, which guarantees they get an amount, in cash, equal to an economy-class fare even for your "free" ticket.
Does it have user-serviceable memory? I doubt it.
I use ctrl-C instead of escape anyways so I don't care.
I find this sad. I agree that those who proselytize momentary distraction from life as the key to happiness tend to cause your very situation.

The key to meditation as a skill is to learn to control your mind and attention so that you aren't caught by difficulties.

When difficulties become ... more difficult, it becomes more challenging. What "modern" meditation does wrong, is it does not prepare you for the assaults that come with a truly challenging situation. Mindfulness probably addresses resisting hedonistic things, but Stoicism and others are much better for walking through life's challenges.

Pick up Meditations or Obstacle is the Way or Warrior Mindset. The last is a quantitative manual for training yourself to handle stress, written by combat fighters.
Still can't go above 16GB RAM. As someone who is frequently running a lot of servers on my development machine (but still values portability), this is pretty disappointing.
It wasn't simply fortune that's kept me from getting scammed.

personal responsibility is a thing.
We're not all you. I strongly prefer USB devices because I don't have to care about battery charging and pairing. It just works.
No one other than Lenovo in the Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
"Emoji Bar"

Seriously, who did Apple talk to (besides their navels) in designing this? No more dongles, Apple. Not on a pro-level device.
Why is accidentally deleting a file worse than accidentally deleting text? Some files, sure, but there should be safeguards about deleting those files anyway. Plus backups, always backups.

In truth, I don't think many people are accidentally hitting that shortcut that often. And, if they are, so long as there's an action analogous to undo'ing a textual cut/copy/paste, it shouldn't be a problem.
That ribbon was updated dynamically depending on the application you were using? Did it allow you to re-arrange the commands on it? Did it support scrubbing/swiping as a method of input?
That's not necessarily comfortable for everyone, and in any case, Caps may already be mapped to something else. (Personally, I've got vim-arpeggio and my Normal Mode key sequence is simultaneously mashing <jk>).

My point is, it shouldn't be necessary. Most people don't remap keys if they're using editors on a server because many people might use those, so setting up a personal configuration could be counterproductive and interfere with other users. If the soft <Esc> key conflicts with the editors in any way, this could cause a lot of annoyance.
If they use haptic feedback it might not be so bad. Plus, apple controls the OS and hardware together, so they can ensure notifications must be shown for behavior like turning off WIFI or something similar.
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There's a 13" MBP model that lacks Touch Bar, featuring normal function keys.

Apple is using last year's Skylake processors (6th-generation), not Kaby Lake (7th-generation), even though some OEMs are starting to ship hardware with Kaby Lake right now.

>Retina display

>15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2880-by-1800 native resolution at 220 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors

No 4K display on the 15" models.

The GPU configurations are as follows based on the order page:

Intel Iris Graphics 540 (13" sans Touch Bar)

Intel Iris Graphics 550 (13" with Touch Bar)

Radeon Pro 450 with 2GB memory (15")

Radeon Pro 455 with 2GB memory (15" top-end)

Radeon Pro 460 with 4GB memory (both 15" models, optional)

As a WebGL developer, I'm really happy to see the Intel HD Graphics 4600 chipset die. It's basically been the performance target for consumer-oriented web applications for years now. Unfortunately, that target will still linger until older models finally reach obsolescence.
wtf Euro prices are 200€ higher than dollars price ?!

$1,499.00 -> 1 699,00 € for the first model
I like the direction of this. I've been thinking lately about trying to inspire kids to greatness, similar to the way ancient Romans made their ancestors greatest achievements highly visible in their homes [1] to inspire and challenge their children. Your question about failing made me think about that - maybe there is room for a question like "What did you do to [change the world/help others/achieve your goal/etc] today?" The desire to have a good answer at the end of the day might be enough to inspire some big-picture thinking.

1. Something I read somewhere, reference long gone now unfortunately.
16GB RAM max, DP1.2 (so no 5k display support), worthless Touch Bar when I use my current MBP dual monitor with the lid closed. Pass.

Sadly I really wanted something better since I'm on an old 2012 MBP that badly needs an upgrade but I'm not dropping $1500+ for something that doesn't support 32GB and 5k displays.
not directly.. and I also realize I dont have any right to angst in this case as well.

It would have been so much better to have a cross platform solution though.
It seems like the premise of your complaint is that there isn't a way do it correctly/incorrectly, therefore all practitioners can be classed together and the practice in general may be dismissed if any of its followers exhibit undesirable and related properties.

But you never give an argument for why there would be no variation in instruction, actual execution of practice, background ideologies, etc.

> I'm not even going to go into how this lifestyle is linked with things like anti-vax, reiki healing, crazy diets, cleanses, etc

Meanwhile, that comment makes it clear that you are speaking of a very particular subset of practitioners. You are referring to a New Age-derived subculture here: their attributes aren't derived from practicing meditation, they probably practice some form of meditation because their subculture values it (i.e. by labeling themselves meditators, they gain cultural currency. There is incentive to exploit the practice for social purposes to begin with).

There are also many other practitioners who view meditation as totally unrelated to anything like spirituality, who understand its operation in purely psychological terms. And there are solemnly religious folks who take it very seriously and probably do not cavalierly exploit it for social gain as you describe.
I can see it going both ways. Some power users will completely customize the touch bar, while others will just be annoyed at it.
It's not the same processor at all though?
Touch Bar for the New MacBook Pro – Apple Developer
it does have an HDMI port, and a SDXC slot.
I suppose either via USB-C, or using a dongle that connects to it.
I waited until the new pages were up specifically to see that they are still using LPDDR3. They left this important info out of their keynote, only mentioning "2133Mhz".
Interestingly they removed the pricing from their landing page, this morning the Macbook pro prices (for the old gen) were pretty prominent at the top of the page, above the fold and above any images of the computer.

The 13 inch now starts at $1,499 (but no touch bar at all unless you spend at least $1,799), up from $1,299.

The 15 inch now starts at $2,399, up from $1,999.

If you want to compare the copy, you can see the old version cached here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z7BWPC9...
Visualizing the US-Mexico Border
What a waste of my time, was really expecting something better than this.
As a person with a child and many small nieces and nephews, and multiple teachers in the family, I will tell you that you're wrong.

The disease they bring home may be something you were exposed to but it will ~~mutate~~ grow stronger in the child as the weak ones are killed off and infect you anyway.

And there is a reason you can't come back for 24 hours. Many diseases are still contagious after your symptoms have cleared. If you throw up and feel better, it doesn't mean the disease is now gone.

So please respect the science and herd mentality and keep sick kids away from kids and adults for at least 24 hours after symptoms subside, or at least make sure the other adults are explicitly ok with you being around them.
It isn't ideal, but there seems to be no good path forward. If this simply makes women more visible and more empowered to talk on HN, that will be a step forward.
But you don't have to. You can still use keyboard shortcuts.
I think you are confusing MacBook Air with MacBook.

The Air has the pre-shallow keyboard, and standard port array (USB 3 x2, SD, MagSafe, and TB). Minus the non-retina screen, the 13" Air is a very capable dev machine with great battery life in a light and compact form factor.
Anybody can now out-innovate the rest of the wireless industry via Snaps
Really a waste of my time.
As far as I got it there is one audiojack on the right, or am I mistaken?
You also have to remember that little kids frequently get sick from things adults are already immune to.

Which would explain why every parent I know is sick certainly more often than my wife and I are with no kids, and usually sick every time the kids drag something home.
a ribbon display that no one has ever done before

This keyboard with remappable OLED keys was released almost 10 years ago:
https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus/#51709
At this point Vine isn't really all that unique anymore. Facebook, instagram, snapchat and twitter all do what it did. I'm not very surprised by this at all.
16GB max.

No iMac update.

No Mac Pro update.

Buyer's Guide on MacRumors now:

"iMac: Might as well buy. Nothing on the horizon."

"Mac Pro: Buy. If you like paying 2013 prices for 2013 hardware."
I had hoped it would be a click bar, rather than a touch bar based on my experience with my Lenovo touch bar. Also hoped for haptic feedback... seems a shame. At least it seems they have a bit of buffer room on both the left and the right so your fingers can sit on the side of the machine without touching something - I guess that does the job.

Will be most interesting to find out how the security is working, and if they're making using any of the Intel security features on these new machines. To date, they have been woefully bad at doing so, which is interesting given the security push on iPhones and the controlled hardware platform.
So the new Macbook is a scaled up phone and the new Macbook Pro is a scaled up Air.
> What if a powerful business partner, such as the Chinese or Indian governments or a large company, wants search results 'made more fair and balanced' in return for their business? Hollywood studios, Bloomberg, and (IIRC) Fox already have censored themselves for the Chinese government. Advertisers' influence on the news is well-known.

This is what _every_ business would do and actually does when it is offered a significant advantage over all potential competitors in the market. That's what lobbying is all about. Large corporations pay politicians so they create laws in order to suppress competition.

Everyone loves free markets as a consumer, but a business is never interested in the kind of competition that could put it out of existence, its employees fired and leave its founders bankrupt.

The solution here is not to create new regulations which make it even harder to do business than it already is, or to enact laws that make this kind of bribery illegal (it would continue no matter what you do) but to impose serious limitations on government power so it can't rig the system for a handful of powerful corporations that can afford engaging in this kind of bribery.
Why is it being thinner such a draw? This is bordering on too thin for me to comfortably grip.

I'll stick with the EliteBook I just bought for 10% of this price, and damn-near every port ever made. It doesn't really bother me that it's about 3" thick and doesn't have an emoji bar.
Interesting fact: the 13" macbook without the touch bar has a 10% larger battery; however they don't describe it as having a 10% better battery life: they're both rated at 10 hours.
And those are almost all people who don't use a 13-15" screen for their work whenever they can help it. Which makes the touch bar useless.
Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.

I gotta say the Surface Book has been really great. Especially as it supports the new MSVR and Hololens out of the box for the DGPU version.
The loss of the escape key is something I find annoying, even if it can be remapped[1] to caps lock (which i never use).

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/25/remap-escape-key-action-macbo...
Thanks for the details! I had forgotten about the fingerprint readers in ThinkPads (and likely others). How common were they? I think it's pretty cool that the fingerprint reader is being deployed in a pretty mainstream laptop. Edit to add: Even with all of the recent legal issues surrounding fingerprints as opposed to passwords. We can figure out what we want to secure using TouchId, perhaps even relegating TouchId to convenience rather than privacy/security.

Interesting point about limiting biometric payment through a particular account. Would it make a difference that Apple Pay serves as a gateway to existing payment services?
even upgrade options are more expensive in Euro
Doesn't the Peter Principle come into play here? What if we do the same job but I do it twice as fast? That doesn't mean I'd be a good fit for the next level up, it might just mean I'm really good at doing this specific job very quickly.
A $600 USD gimmick, it seems.
What do you mean "no ports?" Four USB-C thunderbolt ports--how much more ports do you need? They keyboard is also a huge draw for me--I love the MB's keyboard. It's very precise. I'm a light typer so I don't care about key travel.

My big concern is how much they had to shrink the battery to shave off the half-pound.
TouchBar. Dead on arrival. This is a cute feature, but kind of embarrassing from an innovation perspective. And given the announcement of the Surface Book update and the new Surface Studio, Apple is inconceivably playing second fiddle to Microsoft on the innovation front.

The leap ahead on ports is premature at best.

I'm sure Apple will hold most of their fan base, but there are going to be quite a few defections me thinks.
I'm in the same boat. For the moment I think a thunderbolt 2 eGPU on my existing 2103 13" MacBook Pro might be enough for what I need. When it gets a bit older, I'm not sure what I'll do.
And you know macOS is gonna suck up half of that at the very least.
as the iPhone 7 keynote had mentioned.. its about courage.

And in case of type-c, most new products (and charging cables) are moving towards a single standard. Its well worth the temporary pain I'd say ;)
And only $39 a pop for USB-C Lightning cables.

That's some balls, Apple.
ironically of course if you've got a new iPhone, you'll need an adapter to use the headset on the Macbook pro.

The problem, to me, of the port selection is that it means pretty much every user is going to have to carry a selection of adapters for years to come given the installed base of USB peripherals + things like projectors that do not have a USB-C port. Other laptops seem to do a better job of phasing things in gradually introducing USB-C ports whilst not immediately dropping the older ones to give people time to adapt.
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Apple was never much into slow adoption.
A sorta-maxed out non-Touch 13" Pro looks perfect except the lack of ports :/
Unless he wins. He will start twitter wars while in office with heads of other states.

It will be the best thing that could happen for twitter. Believe me!
One can always type Ctrl-C or Ctrl-] . Also, remapping ESC to CapsLock is also possible and even preferable to some people.
I still disagree. Quantum does not imply nanoscale - we are building bigger and bigger systems that exhibit inherently quantum behavior (for instance superconducting cavities used in quantum computing research are centimeter scale). Moreover, the jump is not necessarily in a spatial variable - it can be a very big jump in energy levels for instance, which is the case with laser emissions.

Sure, a (big or small) discrete jump does not necessarily imply a jump to something better, but that has little to do with my complaint about the meme that "quantum implies small".
I was very intruged by the Dell XPS 13/15, especially since they come in a developer edition which runs Ubuntu. I've been holding off on a purchase because I wanted to see what Apple would come up with, Dell looks pretty strong today.
> or in some cases by spending $20k+/year on their affiliated credit card.

There may be examples but I'm not aware of airlines that give you status through credit card spending today. The one sorta exception I know of is that United does currently waive their qualifying dollar spend requirement for some status levels given sufficient spend on an affiliate card.
I think Assimov's "A cult of ignorance" is a good analysis of where this approach falls short.
> I think it speaks poorly of the judgment of the person involved. I want the teachers of my children to have good judgment, so I think it's relevant.

I think if we all had the good judgment of not having sex ever we would do much better for our children by stopping producing children in a world where we think a naked human body -- even one in the privacy of one's own bedroom -- is somehow shameful or an indicator of poor judgment.

Here's a question for you: assuming you have children, would you prohibit Jennifer Lawrence from going near your children? How about McKayla Maroney? Why is there a double standard here?
I've had several pet birds and I've observed the same thing from them. I just assumed they were just pretending to sleep.
> If your goal is to become "Mr Spiritual"

That's a false dichotomy. I know the type you're talking about—but many would find it equally undesirable to (or even another manifestation of) valuing only social/economic gain.

Edit: fixed typo. Also, here's an example of a third goal type: "I'm going to spend a huge chunk of my life at work. So, why not enjoy myself and the company of my co-workers while there?"
This + 6th gen Intel is disappointing.

I used to buy macbooks to put linux on them. I'm happy with my switch to Lenovo (20g ram, 6th gen Intel, 512g nvme). Oh, and ports.
Yeah you are correct.
Frankly, crowdfunded science scares the hell out of me.

Pretty much every time I've seen it, it consists of some fringe researcher promising one weird trick to cure A, B, and C. They don't get funding through traditional channels, because actual experts recognize the subtle-but-inescapable reasons they won't succeed, so instead they go to crowdfunding to squander a bunch of public money.

I'm sure this could work, genuinely viable projects lack funding all the time, but it's generally because they weren't sexy enough for the grant committee. If the NIH thought it wasn't exciting enough, what are the chances the general public will choose it over some guy promising to cure cancer with nanomachines?
Did you make this with Ionic? Pretty smooth UX
Do it for the Vine.
But that is where my control key goes!