skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not just buttons. They are also sliders, pickers and any other GUI elements that you can think of.

They are visual. So you don't have to memorise any key combinations. Also they are context aware. This means you don't have to memorise all those key-context-application combinations.

It is multitouch. You cannot click at two different points on the screen with the touchpad. So this is an improvement over the current input mechanism.

Is touchbar better than touchscreens? Maybe or maybe not. Who knows now. But note that it is not placed on the screen. It is placed near the keyboard, where the other input mechanisms and your fingers normally are.

You don't need to "look down at the keyboard". In a laptop you are already looking there. It's already in your peripheral vision. And if you use an external monitor (but not an external keyboard), you simply don't have to use the touch bar.

I don't understand this negativity on HN. There will be many creative applications for this new input/output method. I'd rather see people brainstorming on all those new possibilities.
> Thousands of matrices multiplied together seems as if it would be hard to come to an actual understanding of...

Most of the operations will cancel out. If I multiply a number by a fixed series of numbers, even if that list is millions long, I can just pre-multiply them and have a single operation.

The same is likely happening here. Especially if all the operations are algerbraic it would not be hard to simplify and then analyze.
Nope - at the moment, my CAPS lock does nothing. But I'm not going to adjust my habit of where to find the ESC key just so I can have some pointless colourful lights.
You don't need to point at things there's actually evidence. "Neuroimaging studies in obese subjects provide evidence of altered reward and tolerance." Reward seems to me the most underrated, and extremely powerful form of cognition effecting behavior. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21999689
> critical flaw of IPv6 being incompatible with IPv4

What other choice do we/did we have? I've responded in the past to a different commenter, who lamented IPv6 not being backwards compatible. You can read my response[1] to that comment; essentially, I don't see a way to make IPv6 happen, aside from the introduction of a new, separate network, mostly due to the pigeonhole principle: IPv4 only has 2 ^ 32 addresses, so how do you fit the 2 ^ 128 IPv6 addresses into that scheme?

You can introduce a legitimately new protocol, like v6 did. You could perhaps add a special flag, or special block of addresses, or a special option — but whatever mutation you perform on IPv4 packets to "upgrade" them, the intermediate routers would still have to understand that flag in order to properly route packets — no? And thus, since they must understand that flag, you're still upgrading the entire infrastructure, and building out a completely separate network, even if it is just IPv4.1.

I do think the IPv4 sunset is far, far out in the future. There will be stragglers for a long time to come, and I'm not sure it's really worth considering when IPv6 isn't deployed to a majority of people yet. But I do think it's possible; at some point, I hope someone realizes that the maintenance of that code is benefiting so few people as to sunset it, perhaps at an ISP-ish level first. No doubt this will break somebody's workflow, though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12168656
Actually, you used to get pretty solid performance for the price/form factor from Apple. For instance when I purchase my Mac Pro desktop in 2008. It was a RIDICULOUSLY good deal for what you got. The Xeon processors alone were $1500 each on NewEgg the day I purchased it. They've just progressively gone less and less value, as the years have gone by.
Custom printed: #1 sudo

The joke is it's a bash comment.
For once this really isn't that. I've watched the whole 'comma' saga with some amazement that he'd actually take out his barely ready for closed road testing pile of cobbled together stuff out on a public road.

Really, this sort of thing should be done in a much more controlled environment before pulling the trigger on releasing it on the unsuspecting public.

Read the bloomberg article and be amazed.
> Why can't anyone else?

OS X vs. Windows?
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What improvements does this offer over the already sensor fused (GPS, Wifi, Cell, compass, barometer and inertial sensors) location services Android provides?
Makes sense! I don't do anything with stocks.
similar question was just asked 2 weeks ago:

Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713056
The biggest I've run into are people who believe in homeopathy. Give them all the evidence that it doesn't work and they'll disregard it in favor of their anecdotal evidence combined with confirmation bias.
Nutrition experts aren't the ones responsible for the prevalence of sugar and starches in our diet, though:

http://www.whale.to/a/light.html
There was a new update a month or two back, I think they're just waiting for it to filter through to the UK.
Esc is, by and large a useless key

I'm not a Mac User, but I use THE ESC key extensively to cancel out of dialogs.
I don't see any statistics in his comment. I actually don't see any supporting info at all. All I see is wild conjecture.

If he did go looking for statistics, he would find that the effect he describes is better explained by the expanding lower class in america, regardless of race.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/07/sat-scores-and-inc...
Yeah but if that's the case, it's really bad. There is no place for politics in computer science or information technology.
Thanks for some sanity.

The other anecdote is I've been using vim for about 15 years, and use esc daily. I am constantly in multiple vim environments - different servers, different clients, different OS, etc. I don't have the luxury of saying "I'm going to install all my default vim keybindings and plugins on every vim installation I ever use". Walking someone else over the phone who has to do vim - I need to count on some standard defaults being there, and 'esc' is one.

So yeah - some of you "power users" - fine - you've never touched ESC in 20 years - good for you. You're in the minority.
Ask.

I was given a Macbook, and thought I'd get used to it, but I couldn't. Basic stuff is broken, like maximizing a window. Focus-follows-mouse doesn't work properly, and multiple windows from the same application are broken -- I'm not sure what the "correct" way to switch between multiple Firefox windows is, but it's clunky.

Linux on the Macbook can probably work if you're determined, but I'm (obviously) not a fan of Apple hardware. It was much easier to take a spare Dell desktop -- which has twice the RAM and a better CPU than the Macbook.
Just to point out that assuming "most wireless HID devices are Bluetooth" is likely incorrect - a huge amount of the devices I see come with a dongle of some kind, that plugs into... (you guessed it) USB A sockets.
If I were still a Mac user (back to Linux a year or so ago), I think I'd be annoyed by the new laptops. Not enraged...just annoyed a bit. It's not the end of the world, but like a lot of Apple's recent moves, I'm left with a feeling of "OK, but why?"

With both the headphone jack removal on the iPhone and the function keys here, Apple has used "but they're old" as part of the justification. Playing a slideshow showing me a keyboard from 1970 that had function keys is not itself any form of argument against function keys. Sure, the touch bar can serve the purpose of the escape key. Crucially however, so could the escape key. The demos look neat enough, but it's hard to envision a 0.5" strip of touch screen being all that broadly useful outside a few niche cases where a long linear control is just what you need (e.g., audio scrubbing).

It's not that I think these laptops are bad necessarily. It's more that I think they're gimmicky. Apple seems to do an awful lot of things these days that remind me of Samsung circa 2012 or so -- "press this button to send your heartbeat to your spouse" kind of stuff. Meanwhile, Microsoft looks to be absolutely on fire.
The cell towers transmitting location data is how assisted GPS already works, the wifi part is how Google does fused location services on Android (with all the other sensors).
It's still way too early to say something like after after a long history of "being evil", just because MS released a few open source tools, and because it may make a bit better products now (not sure what that has to do with being evil or good anyway).

Also, Microsoft seems to have become a bigger "privacy villain" than it's ever been with Windows 10, and it still does asshole moves like rent-seeking Android and Chrome OS device makers, just because the law currently allows them to exploit them like that (even though the recent court rulings should've made most of their patent portfolio worthless, but I imagine at this point the OEMs don't even bother fighting MS on this anymore).
A delete button, instead of just backspace
It is nice to have if you're an American driving in a different country, though. Maybe not enough to justify the cost, but very helpful to have. American phones are basically crippled within 100ft of the Canadian border.
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I'd bet 90% of coders are within 10 minutes of a whole Foods and btw you might actually find a date there and not the kind that grows on trees.
Ah, I'm just now noticing that this is your post. I enjoyed your writing in this post and others I read after clicking around. We seem to share interests, though I suppose that's not so surprising considering this is HN.
I completely nodded along with this — as advice for a normal, sustainable business. But this is not what startups do.

The whole point of a "startup" as conceived in Silicon Valley and as desired by VCs is that risk is HIGH. Let's set aside whether this is good or bad (I would argue the drive for "100x or bust" returns is corrosive, but the word "startup" is tied to that kind of risk/return model right now in the commonly accepted definition).

So let's go through his principles and show what low risk means for hypothetical business idea "XYZ":

-Founder has proven track record doing XYZ

-Lots of potential customers WANT to do XYZ

-Startup is making many hard (cash, full price) sales of XYZ

-XYZ is fully functioning and "amazing" and customers are loyal

-Prices are high

-Incumbents are successful

etc etc

When you have these kinds of attributes you have a nice business in an established sector. By definition. Lots of customers, incumbents, and sales means the XYZ idea has been well exploited. Great.

The whole point of a startup is to make a bold bet on something not entirely proven and safe. That doesn't mean take DUMB risks, but this piece actually says you should try to get your business to the sort of low risk situations I list above.

But if you have an actually good idea you WANT to go into an area with few incumbents and where potential customers are skeptical and where you have no proven track record — because if something is genuinely NEW then guess what - there are no incumbents because no one is doing it yet - many of the customers don't know they need it because it doesn't exist yet - and you have no experience in it because no one on the planet has done it.

I mean you can definitely argue that many startups today take excessive risks and don't take basic steps to minimize risks. Absolutely. And you can also argue that the world needs more sustainable practical businesses and fewer 100x startup attempts. I personally agree with that. But a substantial degree of risk and of lack of "proof" for a business idea is what makes a startup a startup. So if you want to de-risk a startup, find the sort of business that will qualify you for a bank loan. Maybe a nice plumbing enterprise :-)
fools? :D
The only person to respond with a real answer! Thank you! An actual product with an unflavored version that's low in sugar. Sadly I see no option to have it shipped to the US on their website.
> I honestly don't care about anything a news rag says

You might have a point if this weren't entirely just quotes from people that actually work in the finance industry, with almost no commentary from said "news rag."
Bizarrely, it's almost to the point where Microsoft is making better computers than Apple.
>>everybody [on HN] has a pre-formed opinion and does
>>not seem to want to risk having to modify it

Jim, this is seems like a crazy generalization. I assume you haven't tried to quantify this and it's just anecdotal opinion right? No problem, let's continue:

1). All my beliefs are falsifiable. Since your claim includes "everybody", I guess this counterexample alone proves your conjecture false.

2). If the most open minded community on the Internet scores 100, what score would you give HN? Can you name a single one that's better? I'd like to check it out.

3). How often does a response here randomly adopt the retort "Its Obama's fault" or an ad hominem attack? When it does happen it's almost immediately killed or downvoted off.

On a separate note, the article plays up how bad Americans are at math. Is this data controlled for household income and education level of parents? The factors are so significant it's hard to accept the data without them.

Lastly, my personal experience mostly matches the article. So many math classes were rote, boring, and uninspiring. I first learned it didn't have to be this way during discrete math because it required less algorithms, more creativity in proofs, and pulled back the curtain on what really made things tick.
Steve Jobs is smiling from heaven. He hated keys.

But seriously I use esc all the time to come in and out of modes in VIM.

I also use it in VIM mode in RStudio, VS Code and many other text editors.

FUNCTION KEYS - I use them all day with my IDEs. F2 is my go to help files.
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I thought this too, I then found this link which brings you to the Ubuntu XPS editions: http://pilot.search.dell.com/xps%2013%20ubuntu
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LibreOffice is a pretty good competitor to Excel. Photoshop on the other hand, not really (GIMP can do some stuff but nowhere near)
I put it to you that you've never used a debugger if you've never used Fn keys.
Probably, I was viewing the UK store.
Even better, install Alfred and bind a hotkey to your bash function.
Does nobody use external keyboards?
And Dell! XPS13
Lactose free milk (ehich is different than taking lactase pigs with milk) is a readily available thing.
It is not that simple. "Too fast for road and weather" is a ex post facto determination. If there was a crash, you were going too fast.

Fog is tricky. Fog can give the driver a false sense of security. Modern overly-reflective road markers can, at night, make a driver think they are seeing further through fog than they are. They can see the lines, but can they see the black car parked ahead? Note too that large pile-ups in fog often involve trucks. Imho much of that is because truck trailers have poor running lights. We see the cars ahead. We follow their taillights through the fog. But that black truck flatbed trailer with two tiny red orbs is invisible. Or we think it is further away.

Fog also thickens unevenly. It blows around. Slamming on the brakes immediately upon entering a bank isn't going to make you any friends amongst the people behind you. That truck 4 seconds behind you (a reasonable distance on a highway at night) might not stop as quickly as your ferrari. Truck drivers are also much higher. They may have greater visibility than you and not realize that your sports car places your eyeballs in the low-level fog. The safest bet in traffic is generally not to act abruptly and unexpectedly.

(fyi, a sportbiker's helmeted head is also generally much higher than in cars, even SUVs. They too have better visibility in fog.)

And if you forget to turn on your car's taillights, all is lost. There is a reason that motorcycles have them hardwired on.
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No, no, no. Travel distance is supremely important, and if you're working on a MacBook the trackpad is right there! I loathe all trackpads except MacBook's. In fact, I have a Magic Mouse and Keyboard that I use when I place my MacBook on a stand, and it feels tiring to move my hand so far to move the mouse.
> Have you considered what is trivial and lighthearted to you might be deeply offensive to her?

No doubt. Perhaps I could have been clearer. There is no version of a joke about her religion that isn't offensive to her. And yes, this is indeed the basis for the beginnings of extremism, although not full blown extremism by itself.

If you can't hear or read something about your religion that is contrary to your strict beliefs without getting offended, you are 100% doing it wrong.
Schneier's Law: "Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break."
There might be some useful things in the Xcode set, but anything that can't be done with a shortcut already? I find Cmd+<key> far easier to hit than reaching up to the F-keys. I imagine more-so if that action now has no tactility.
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20% growth would mean the wealth in the area would double every 3.46 years.

This morning, it was announced that the US GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.9% last quarter, accompanied by the WSJ headline "US Economy Roars Back" [1].

20% growth is nowhere near "reasonable".

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-economy-grew-2-9-in-third-qu...
Show HN: Push your logic beyond the limits (browser game)
By default, when in command-line mode CTRL[[ is the same as escape and when in insert mode CTRL[ is the same as escape.
There are two broad types of Soylent fans... the ones who would normally eat dog shit otherwise, and those who struggle with obesity or anorexia. The former case just doesn't know better, and the latter case is ill and wants an easy solution to a complex problem. Neither group reacts well to reality or criticism of their pet slurry.
Did the same in UK. They also bumped the prices in the UK for all machines due to the fall in GBP. Double shock.
The $50,000 doesn't have much to do with it, people looking to replace/expand trucking capacity will look at the $850 and $1000 and only choose the $1000 if there is some other factor that is similarly significant. Even if existing shippers are conservative, someone will definitely try to use a 10% advantage.

It's also the case that the shipper is looking at how much they can make by moving the bananas, which is probably less than the wholesale cost of the bananas. So the $150 is more significant to them than the $50,000 suggests.

These ads are saying $0.50 a mile for moderate experience:

http://www.indeed.com/q-Cent-Per-Mile-Otr-Driver-jobs.html

I think between variable fuel costs and the up and down market for shipping that a given article won't be very reliable for today, but something like "a substantial portion of $1-$3 per mile" is good enough for discussion.
I don't think making an good buying decision should need to take subliminal cues into account, like someone predicting a storm by a sudden shift in wind behavior, and forcing your customer base into this buying paradigm is a huge risk for resentment and product dissatisfaction.
I like the facet that they don't follow the hype and actually open offices where they can find the best talent for their company. they did the same by opening an office in Israel as well where they can find a lot of VR/AR experience.
Linux/Mac/Vim/Emacs user here. Every ui/hardware update yields wave of discontent. People will always complain if they have to change their habits.
Alexey don't tell me that you cannot live without these keys :)
Re. unchanged performance - 95% of us don't need more.
20 puzzles in total.
Conferences like WWW, KDD, ICML for latest, coursera for basics, and textbooks like Pattern matching by Bishop.
Are Lenovos still a good go-to? I've just seen them fall apart pretty quickly amongst my friends. Just wondering if the build quality has gotten better...
>Teslas keep getting cheaper.

The Model S costs more with every new model/improvement, the in march this year there was a price hike, and there is another one expected now with the newer hardware platform being ready to ship, the price of the AutoPilot upgrade alone have been increased by over 20% this year.

Sure you can put the Model 3 here and claim victory but this is like saying that because Apple released the iPhone 5C the iPhone 5S overall price was somehow cheaper.
They're just going where the money is. Selling NatGeo felt a bit like a betrayal, since NewsCorp is going to run it into the ground.
That's bad news for sure, but then, it's a self-correcting issue; the platform fails, another takes it place and tries again. It's not as though Twitter does something that anyone else couldn't do just as well, or better.
But when startup and engineer community praises him and puts him on a pedestal, doesn't it say something about them (us) as well?
They are trying to sell it for sure. They attend a lot of events.

I am not aware of any trading company using it. May be some.. but the high perf people I know go other ways.
We've had a huge trade deficit too. Things are gonna change.
Thank you for explaining to me what I was referring to. Glad to know.
It's the exact same thing as the banking crisis, only with a bit of a techno sauce. See, if it works then they'll make bank, if it doesn't society will pick up the cost.

It's a bet without much of a downside.
I was just listening to DHH's interview [0] on Tim Ferriss's podcast. On the question of beautiful code DHH said among other things "I open up any piece of code in Basecamp and it kind of reads like a great table of contents..." That immediately made me think of the work being done with Eve based on recent screenshots. Can't wait to try it out.

[0] http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/10/27/david-heinemeier-hans...
I think people are going to hate it... and then try it... and then start to like it.
I'm a programmer and I'm pretty sure most of developers use F-keys and, especially, esc button. Let's believe together :)
I also use a Magic Trackpad instead of a mouse at work as a dev. I also do music production exclusively with my Macbook's trackpad. I'm definitely more comfortable with it than a mouse for my normal work habits.. and I was able to beat people online in Starcraft pretty handily with a trackpad. I don't doubt that I couldn't become more precise with a mouse over time, but I really prefer scrolling and gestures to what's available on a mouse.
Not sure about new grads, but experienced compensation can vary. Not unusual for sr. devs to get $200k+ in places like Wilmington DE. So I imagine the packages in Manhattan are on par with SF tech giants if they want you bad enough. My bonus last year was significant given the fact I was only employed there for 1 or 2 eligible months, so I have high expectations this year. I worked at a mutual fund company as a contractor and the employees claimed to get bonuses of $30k+ and this was for testers and normal rank and file...not even developers.
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What’s the Matter with Cupertino?
I tried Blue Apron. It was OK but their meals were definitely reasonably involved to prepare. For example, one of their meals was some sort of gourmet hamburger that took way more work than I would normally put into making a hamburger and I wasn't even all that impressed by the final result.

On the one hand, it can be kinda nice getting everything you need for a new recipe delivered to you. But I have a pretty well-stocked larder and a binder of recipes I make semi-regularly so it didn't really solve a problem I have. (And it's not inexpensive either.)