skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but what if something else actually happened. Apple wants to broaden its Apple Pay integration. They decide to add touch id, and adding a black glossy button on the side throws of the aesthetic. So instead, they replace the entire bar.
A short segment of this event specifically showed the new Macbook Pro connected to dual 5k monitors.
> This article is unlikely to lead to debates about research methods and statistics because it's very high level and presents few opinions.

Huh? The article is entirely opinion. Every single thing that's in bold text is a testable hypothesis presented as pure fact. Even the selection of "problems" is pure and problematic conjecture (are these actually the most important problems? Are these actually problems at all? Would addressing these problems improve our decision making?).

There'll be no debate about research methods because there's no scientific research here. What's presented in this article might be based on observation, but it's definitely not based on scientific testing (or, to the extent it is, that evidence isn't presented).

There's nothing wrong with an article like this, per se. But shrugging off psychology research (much of which explores and attempts to rigorously test the conjectures made in this article), while also accepting this article's statements at face value, is a bit ridiculous. It amounts to "philosophy I agree with is not problematic, but science I agree with should be harshly critiqued"
Here's an idea I'm not sure would work, but I want to put it out there.

Browsing history and/or time spent has to be tracked so the money can be distributed to the right sites. To protect the browsing history:

1) (on the client) Take the domain name (or URL, IP or data point) and add a salt

2) Hash it

3) Add it to a bloom filter (or another type of filter)

4) After enough URLs have been added, submit the filter and salt

5) (on the server) Run the list of participating domains through the filter (take the domain, add salt, hash, and filter)

Some thoughts about this type of scheme: No exact history data would be submitted. You may need multiple filters for domain, time spent, type of interaction, etc... The selection of filter and optimal number of domains (or encoding of data points) might be problematic. Submission can be done at any time (no schedule). The loss of a few submissions won't matter (no need for every domain or a complete history.) Submissions can be delayed until there is enough obscuring data, and filters provide plausible deny ability (about browsing history.) Submissions could be made to trusted 3rd parties (browser makers, large company networks, non-profits like the EFF, etc..) and only the results sent to a central authority. Some websites that were not visited will benefit, but the salt will stop gaming of the domains. Running the list of participating domains might be to demanding to be practical. Groups of domains could have their own payment/subscription filter (news domains, GNU endorsed domains, etc...) distributed to the clients like blocklists.

The biggest problem: Advertisers and ad networks will fight against loosing personally identifiable information and analytics data.
>What's wrong with a Roth IRA? You withdraw the principal penalty-free at any time

Yes, but you don't get to put it back in. If you take out, say, 20k, thats 20k of tax advantaged space you never get back. That being said, I max out my Roth IRA every year and consider the ability to withdrawl penalty free a last line emergency source of funds.
> It was a big relief that I could take a sick child with me to work (of course only when the illness was not serious).

Please don't bring a sick person into the office for any reason. This is why work-from-home policies are so important.
A number of states in the U.S. ban them as well. Re: Vermont: "By all accounts, getting the billboard legislation passed was no easy task. It was 1968. And there was deep opposition to the proposed ban, from businesses who relied on the advertising, and from farmers, who made money by leasing their land to billboard companies."
http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/78949/billboard-ban-turns-40/
I'm not conflating them, they're already conflated and not
very well defined.

Consciousness implies "someone" that is conscious. A self-model in other words.

Babies, like most animals, do not possess consciousness in that sense, since in my view there is no self-model there to subjectively experience things.

A lot of us are simply assuming that there is but there is a lot
of anecdotal evidence that shows otherwise. Temporary self-model annihilation can be triggered in many ways and guess what happens? Bits of subjective experience (tastes, smells even pleasure and pain) disappear. People who have been through such experiences (ego-death) report in-hindsight that the feeling of being a conscious agent in space-time completely disappears, and it is simply as if one is absorbed into the environment, no longer separate from it.

In that way one can even view the myth of The Fall, as the emergence of consciousness, one is no longer one with nature but now separate from it.

Metziger's book is a good overview of such investigations:

https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/04650...
The most challenging thing for us is running a new enough kernel to get these features. While upgrading to a newer kernel isn't particularly hard, small companies don't have a lot of engineering resources to run kernels that aren't maintained by their distro of choice (usually on the LTS release).

The good thing is this is solved simply by waiting long enough. The bad thing is most developers can't just pick this up today without a bunch of extra effort.

If you are looking for something you can use with old kernels you should definitely checkout Brendan's perf-tools repo[1]. It takes advantage of older kernel features and works with things as old as ubuntu 12.04.

*Edit: Fixed Brendan's name

[1]: https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools
>The space is a small multitouch screen that utilizes gestures and taps to perform a wide variety of different tasks

Oh, like trackpad gestures?

>from showing typing suggestions to displaying tools for various apps – all based on the context of what the user is doing at the time.

Oh, like a toolbar?
Now that they've mentioned a 13" model with function keys, I look forward to seeing people fuss about how its spec isn't up to their requirements.
At the least you could provide video recordings of your activities.
Wow thanks! I wasn't expecting any feedback, I am however very grateful for yours and I'll make those changes to it.

I will be putting the finished beta version of the website live in the new year. I'd love to hear feedback from you for that as well?
The Recruit
I didn't get it from the homepage either. The video and the headline say literally the exact same thing. Just some feedback.
Because the block button doesn't actually block. It poorly hides the user's content from your view while other users can still see the abuse.
No marketing, all traffic came from search engines. I focused on SEO from the start and that helped with the rankings. I also made sure my site was more functional than the competition. 100% client-side code.
I'm typing on a 2014 X1 Carbon now. Its touch-sensitive function row really is a disappointment. The inherent flaws in the design concept have all been elaborated in these discussions, but the X1C also had a poor implementation that Apple could easily improve on. For example, it takes almost a whole second to change modes, there's often a delay when tapping an icon, and sometimes taps just don't register.
but accepting that it's possible I'm wrong and that the crazy guy on the other side is both sincere in his competing belief and possibly correct, allows me to evolve and learn and ultimately get along with more people.

As often as not you're both right but simply have different or conflicting priorities
Congrats, this is good news.

> On Linux, some out-of-tree tracers like SystemTap could serve these needs, but brought their own challenges.

I was pretty happy with stap, it had a really rich feature set.

> DTrace has its own concise language, D, similar to awk, whereas bcc uses existing languages (C and Python or lua) with libraries.

I think we need more creative names for languages. The short and simple ones like "go" and "D" keep on having collisions. :)

>BPF adds ... uprobes

uprobes + all the other stuff is really killer, I like the idea of watching for stuff like "my app has crossed this threshold and then this system condition occurs". At least when I tried it a couple years ago with stap my kernel wasn't built with uprobes support and I wasn't inclined to rebuild it. Hopefully it becomes (or has become) more mainstream.
I'm so happy they are continuing to offer the 13" pro with function keys.
It really depends on what you want to do (i.e., your personal definition of "better")

Last time I was looking for a job, the recruiter came back to me and said "I can find lots of jobs that need your skills, but none that will pay the salary you want."

So we discussed what my skills were. I was looking for a SW dev job, but I have degrees & experience in EE, SW, lots of time working with integrating SW, EE, and Mechanical motion control, more experience working with biochemistry and understanding how various physical movements can affect the way a reaction proceeds, and the repeatability, etc. of the output.

Finally she says, "hmmm, you're really a Systems engineer with a Software engineer title." Then a new set of job opportunities (that wanted to pay what I wanted to be paid) showed up.

And somehow I ended up taking a position as a software engineer/Manager... go figure.
They're not killing the website. At least not yet.
Speaking for myself, I don't want "Servo components" in Firefox; I want Servo in Firefox. I want an engine as fast as the one they have shown of Servo as being; not pieces of it that make Firefox incrementally better; I want a browser that is miles ahead. That's always what I found interesting about Servo.
I believe even in the private sector at least one day is typical ("barnets første sygedag"), because the union framework agreements of the major unions include it as a standard clause.
I think it has the potential to be an interesting alternative to a touch screen. Some of the examples did look modestly useful. I will, however, miss the volume and music forward/back keys which I actively use. Like anything else, I'll have to wait and see how it works in practice.

I've been holding off on updating my macbook pro, but I think I'm going to skip this generation and buy used. The lack of an nvidia gpu is a giant pita. You never get good cuda performance on a laptop, but it's nice to be able to test code on one.

If they expand up to 32g ram though I'm buying one the second they go live on the site.
Nothing particularly new, but I am comfortably in the boat of people that don't feel that laptops need to be reinvented in any major way. 95% of what I do is in the command line, the browser, or an IDE. I've consistently gone back to my MBP to do all of those things after having tried many other form factors.

That being said, I have to admit that I am at least intrigued by the Surface Book. I recently tried the Linux subsystem on Windows and was pretty impressed, it's literally just Ubuntu running with file access. The fact that I CAN pop off the tablet portion, and if I'm so inclined for art, have Photoshop, Illustrator, ZBrush actually available to me is pretty tempting. The OS differences between OSX and Windows for me have always existed only in the command line, so as long as Windows gives me bash and Linux, that pretty much disappears.

Conclusion is, I don't think Apple is suffering from a lack of innovation in the laptop department. I don't understand why people assume that we haven't yet converged on the optimal form factor. Why I chose an MBP for my current laptop wasn't because it offered anything totally innovative. It was already derivative of 30 years of laptops with the same form factor. I chose it because of the Unix development environment and the great build quality. I've never used a Surface Book, but it seems like Microsoft has stepped up their game in the build quality department. If their trackpad is as good as Apple's (I have yet to use a Windows laptop where this is the case), then I'd start to consider it a serious competitor. If the two have comparable build quality and Unix, then their form factor innovation is going to be the only thing left distinguishing them (for which Microsoft is obviously currently ahead).
caps lock is for control!
>It’s important that employees should be comfortable disclosing non-monogamous or non-heterosexual relationships to their managers or the appropriate HR personnel without fear of reprisals or malicious gossip.

I'm all for this personally, but that's simply not possible if the managers or HR personnel are religious conservatives. Maybe we need policies that people in these positions of power have to identify their persuasions as far as religion and values, and allow employees to select better managers and HR people to deal with.
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Interesting.

I also follow Foreign Policy but despise their editorializing, since it takes the meat out of the reporting and skews it toward PR.

You will get "more important" news on the international front from ForeignPolicy, but it's going to remain in the format of news journalism. They will include cheesy pictures of world leaders “we don’t like” and nice pictures of the ones we do. They occasionally use Buzzfeedlike headlines like “Will Russia drop a nuclear weapon?” and report in a one sided manner on a number of issues (“Russia flew near NATO with a nuclear bomber” but never “US flew near the Caucauses with a nuclear bomber”).

Overall I would rate FP a solid 5 out of 10. But that’s in comparison to venues like CNN that might get a 2 or 3.
Imagine you'd be able to buy a dongle with adhesive strip at the bottom in the shape of the touch bar. I am sure Shenzhen is already working on that.
“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set abut it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are continually being thrust upon them.” –George Spencer-Brown in The Laws of Form, 1969

[Of course, some may disagree with this assessment; just throwing it in for your consideration.]
I've seen this used to explain the odd dovetailing of research and lecturing.

There was a point where this made inherent sense - no one but research experts could educate new students, and students were attempting to quickly reach the state of the art. That's long past - a complex analysis expert with no training in education is a terrible candidate to teach basic multivariable calculus.

And yet the whole thing makes a sick sort of sense, because paying and tenuring a professor to teach classes justifies their presence without demanding publications. They'll muddle through intro classes without causing any real problems, and can go back to being brilliant on no particular schedule in between lectures.

Or, on the flip side, set up something like the Institute for Advanced Study. It only took already-proven brilliance, so it could justify paying people for years without any breakthroughs to justify it.
I have worked at German companies with union pay (IG Metall, same as BMW). You are right that there is a table, but where you are on the table is still very negotiable. Maybe people think this can't be negotiated but in reality it is. I got bumped up several levels after I complained that my colleagues were much higher while doing the same work.
Finally, they also introduced a separate model with the traditional keyboard layout!
Of course, as some wag said a while ago, the cost of the MBP that I want remains at $3K. ;-)
Well, MacBook Pros are it. Its all about the Apple TV and Touch Bar.
Am I the only one disappointed by the butterfly keyboards on the new Macbook Pros?

I've been a Mac user for roughly about ten years now, but I think it's time to switch back to Windows.
I agree. The downsides for abuse of authority far outweigh the befit for a few.
Is Apple completely out of touch with reality? The Mac Book Pro starts with 256GB? Same processor as my current 13in MBP? Disappointed.
Very clean, it looks nice. Has it gotten you any work/connections?

Also I think "TLDR;" in the headings should be "TL;DR"
The new MacBooks are here and one of them will come with function keys and ESC included. Yeah.
nmap jj <esc>
I wonder whether they'll offer a version without a discrete GPU, and how difficult will it be to install/run Linux on it ...

I've been looking for a good 15" laptop laptop for some time, and all other manufacturers only offer 15" models with numpads, which is just awful. The discrete GPUs are just a rather useless nuisance for me.

So I wonder whether there's more detailed info about the exact models they'll offer, somewhere.
The fingerprint should be stored in the TPM. The payment features have been possible for a long time although not built into Windows so you would have had to use third party software to manage that. This is what Windows Hello is supposed to unify however I cannot remember if Microsoft has actually deployed these features yet, I know they have talked about them. The hard part is getting everything to support a single way of managing secure payment. Obviously with Apple Pay this gives you that single platform however I wonder if Microsoft would fall foul of the law if they only support bio-metric payment with an MS Account?
the 15" now has less ssd space for the same price than it had previously, i'm not sure if that satisfies me.
also the lack of good docks for USB-c is a real bummer.
better wait till 17/18 and get one with kaby lake
Thanks, but this is a question on how YC invests technically. If it invests 120K for 7% by setting a 1.7M valuation, my other 200K in safes will take 11% equity (whereas I had issues them wanting to give 4% equity) This will ruin my company.
1 external monitor: for me, it hard locks 10.10 regularly -- no core, nothing in console, just hard lock. This was on completely stock brand new macbook pros.

2 external monitors: even worse. I quit trying.

btw, I love divvy [1] (best $13 I've spent in years). For those who don't know, it allows keyboard chords to move windows. Unfortunately, it doesn't have good multi-monitor support -- it moves windows only within they monitor they are on. That said, it's crucial for good typists. A typical use case: code in one window, docs in another. Use the keyboard to increase the size of the docs window so you can read it better, then shrink it back and put it back into the lower right corner of your monitor. It's awesome.

[1] http://mizage.com/divvy/
I work for a consultant company with transparent salaries. Everyone know what everyone's making on each level. I for one have leveled twice now in a year and my salary have been raised 32%. It feels very natural, and actually it would have it feels weird not knowing the other ppls salaries.
In theory, this may work in small businesses. In practice, there are very serious problems with a) potentially being subtly pressured into a relationship because your job depends upon it and b) potentially getting promoted because of whom you are sleeping with instead of that being based on job performance.

The military treats certain situations similar to statutory rape because if you are being threatened or pressured in some way, the perp will expect you to swear it is consensual. They jail officers (or did at one time) found to be sleeping with the wives of lower ranking men in their unit, and her testimony is irrelevant.

This is considered a morale issue in the military. You don't want an officer to have to order a man to do a job that might kill him under circumstances where the motive might be "I want you dead so I can have your wife."

The stakes may be lower than that in most jobs, but I think the effect of wondering why Sally got promoted or wondering if Anna got fired because the boss asked her out and she said "no" is still incredibly corrosive to the environment. I don't see any good coming from it.
Right. Given Twitter's headcount, Vine probably has 550 people working on it.
I found the Caspian report deeply missing on context and history.

Though I never made any recommendation to read military history, which should have made my list.
> I was pretty happy with stap, it had a really rich feature set.

So are other companies. I mentioned it in the post, as in a way this hurt BPF development, as companies that normally would have contributed resources said they were satisfied with stap. Exciting times might be ahead for stap, if it continues its BPF backend.

As for naming, yes, we need better names. Maybe the bcc/Python/BPF combination can be named something?
Any word on max memory? 16GB is standard on 15" but can it be upgraded to 32GB?
Some many jokes against 'terminal emulators' that I wonder if they understand we have these 'terminal emulators' opened all the time while working.
I remember this originally being released as a set of Quartz Composer templates. Might have something to do with it?
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This is some extremely disappointing news. Hopefully Qualcomm's awfulness won't seep into freescale.
What was the determination for you?
I maintain a part-time programming job and a seasonal farming job. That provides a reasonably stable income without dominating all my time. Then, it's just picking up whatever my desires at that time take me to, which could be on a freelance basis or even turning the interest into a product for sale.

I have become especially fond of the latter approach, when possible. No million dollar moonshots like you often read about around here, but I've had good luck at least making back the cost of my time/materials, which is quite gratifying for something I'd tinker with for free in my spare time anyway.

I think it works really well for me. I love the flexibility and variety while still being practical. But, again, I have been fortunate to be almost exclusively interested in things that people are willing to pay for.
One of Twitter's goals is to not make it look like they don't know what they're doing.

They're still working on figuring out the rest of the goals.
Other than the touch bar, I feel like the only really interesting thing here is the 4 thunderbolt 3 ports. The rest just seems really underwhelming and leaves me feeling like they hardly put any effort into this.
Courage.
Good optical microscope's are really not that expensive and last a long time. (AKA under 1,000$.) The equipment costs can quickly go up with new electron microscopes running 500k-6mill etc. But, restricting yourself to the minimum equipment 1 person needs for a specific kind of research is significantly cheaper than a more abstract lab.

Further, used equipment can often be vastly cheaper.

Honestly, time and consumables really are the biggest issues.
no two employees with the exact same job title should have more than 10% difference in pay. If someone is making 40% more than others with same title then they should be promoted to higher title and if they dont deserve that title then why is the company paying them so much. It is one thing to want to minimize salary costs but another to disrespect employees with absurdly low salary.
Have you tried drinking way too much coffee?