skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give up on software, go Chromebook. Give up on files too, give up on being able to browse the LAN, only use things that are a web application of some sort.

That might be too hard, but, if the cloud paradigm is totally unrealistic, then you do get an escape key plus you can run an LTS version of Ubuntu in a browser tab. Here you can run a dev stack, do work in real spreadsheets and run terminal windows for vi. Okay, no Adobe or other professional software but you do have Android apps.

There are two options for Chromebook hardware. Much like how there is 0, 1 and infinity with everything pretty much in-between, for maximum Chromebook chic go for either the ultra high end Pixel or the ultra low end machines that cost less than anything else. Anything in-between is a compromise on minimalist stupidity. The bargain Chromebooks are designed for 9 year old kids and seem not to contain things like CPUs, RAM or other storagey stuff. They are indestructible and the battery lifetime is measured in days when in realistic usage, just charge them overnight once in a while.

With either hardware route you can install a full cornucopia of operating systems in an Ubuntu chroot with Crouton, to have your 'Unity' desktop in a tab. Here there is an escape key for working in vi.

Just for added operating system overhead and complexity you can run virtualbox in your Ubuntu chroot, then you can run Windows 10, Ubuntu and ChromeOS fully side by side. I have no idea if Hackintosh is possible on a Chromebook but that sounds like a bit too far.

The Chromebooks are definitely RAM limited and ports are ancient history. However, if you go high end Chromebook Pixel LS to run the above stack then you do get the finest keyboard, 3:2 screen, aluminium case, sound system and browsing experience going. Nice hardware but a heap of operating system hacks to run useful software.
That is interesting, because I purchased my XPS 15 from dell.ca with an i7, 4k touch screen, 16gb ram and 512gb ssd.
Yes - they can do exactly what you have described.
There's a model with a normal keyboard, including esc. Even features a 10% larger battery and saves $200.
I defeat this by driving with my left shoulder far forward.

This is because it nearly killed me several times. When in a dangerous situation, I may need to brake and/or turn my body to look behind me. It's the "and" which is trouble. If I brake and then need to look, the shoulder belt might stop me, leading to a crash.

The fundamental problem is that restraints are designed for 100% passive crash dummies. Restraints are not designed for people who must actively control the vehicle.
> I'm a [marketing/UI/non-technical] person".

They are obviously confusing a hack with a hacker.

/me ducks
A friend of mine told me tonight that maybe the 2013 model was better. The 2015 one is barely faster but it runs hotter and the fan spins more often.
I don't bother (with filter questions). If weeding through some bad resumes is the price I pay to make sure the best candidates will apply, I'll pay that happily. Part of the job.

Related: It's amazing how many HR depts are not equipped to handle a submission of the form "My CV and projects are on janedoe.com/cv.html, let me know if you'd like to talk." In a sane world, that would be the default by now.
Ok, so I'll put aside for a moment the fact that she lied directly to the FBI when the former Secretary of State told them that she didn't know that "C" meant classified, along with the myriad criminal pay-to-play issues that the FBI has simply ignored, both of which are slam-dunk federal felony cases. The law provides for criminal charges when someone uses gross negligence in the mishandling of classified materials - no intent required. According to Comey himself, her conduct actually met the legal definition of gross negligence. He just didn't want to use the gross negligence statute instead of the statute that requires intent because it would have handed Trump the presidency.
It also comes with only 2 USB ports, out of which you need one for charging.
I got a Macbook Pro 2 months ago. Was dreading the announcement as I thought I might have buyer's remorse. Nope.
Suggestion: since it's a vanity-based project, allowing people to add a photo - either through gravatar, or via an upload - would probably increase conversion.

Also, the actual paid-for message being in such tiny text is pretty odd given that's the (user-side) purpose of the site. And that part is somehow the hardest to read part of the page for me, perhaps because of the double background (image + black background) interaction.

IMO, it's a lot of such small nudges that's reducing the effectiveness of the site.
Yes and Internet users are very fickle. In particular, users used to a free product evaporate when charges arise. The endless struggle to stay relevant kills them.

For examples see MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Twitter....
Also, Tesla likely has many dozens of millions of drive miles into validating their perception and control models. Comma.ai does not.

The level of rigor Tesla has applied to this problem, as cavalier as it may seem at times in the news, is many, many times that which was applied to what Comma.ai is building.

Tesla's mode == aggressive, but diligent.

Comma's mode == aggressive, and flippant.
> But spreadsheets were probably the last quantum leap in the field.

> We're overdue for another.

I'm working on it, and do think I have a solution. Unlike Eve, for example, you can (and we do) create (almost said "write", but there's no textual code) an OS kernel in it.

And it's nothing like the approach Eve is taking, which I consider to be nothing like why spreadsheets were (and are) successful.

To me, Eve is nothing more than textual datalog programming + a high-level stdlib + a UI wrapper.

The only area we agree is that logic programming is an underutilized paradigm, and in my visual programming environment, I do use it for business rules (where it absolutely excels).
Any way I could trade my Surface Pro 3 for an old MacBook? I'm tired of MS breaking it every 2nd week with 'updates'.
> I work for a non-profit where we tackle accessibility issues related to the web, documents, and tech in general.

What's the non-profit? Expose UX [1] is preparing an episode focused on accessibility for Global Accessibility Awareness Day: startups will get judged by UX judges based on the accessibility of their products. Would love to connect with your org.

[1] http://ExposeUX.com
yes. they got thousands of emails. but that should say, between weiner and abedin. what's being reported is that few of them (or 3, although im trying to find a legit sourceof this number) were apparently cc/forwarded to clinton.
Well, at my last two jobs my work computer was a macbook pro, and my current job it's a macbook pro. So, three separate employers seem to disagree with you.
Fucking Go Date Format
What would this look like?(no pun intended) Like a web site that documents accessibility issues for common web sites and software? Or a guide that walks through a typical development process for a blind dev?
There were some worms spreading through IoT devices, lots of foreshadowing. The Hajime and Mirai worms, combined with the utter lack of response, were a pretty good indication some shit was about to go down.

I've been Cassandra yelling into the wind on this one for a while, so there is some schadenfreude involved for me.
Yeah, the Surface Pro 4 was pretty buggy at launch too, but it's since improved. I use it as my primary personal laptop. Good screen. Plenty fast.
First of all, he's not being asked for an "enormous amount of detailed information". He's being asked some really simple questions about how his product complies with existing regulatory requirements. Which apparently, it doesn't. Worse still, by abandoning the product he's made it clear that he had no intention of complying with existing regulations and has an astounding disregard for his customer's safety.
Agree... No love for EU users :/
> The End of Public Transit?
> Start-ups are proving more efficient than government in areas like transportation. Should some services be privatized?

As usual, the answer to a headline is no.

Transportation is not something I trust to private entities without major government oversight. And in general, even with that oversight private entities primarily look to make a profit, which the government isn't as concerned about (e.g. the city of Townsville isn't concerned with shareholders like Megacorp Inc. is). I think public-private partnerships work well -- see Japan's JR, Korea's Korail -- but completely privatized transportation would be a detriment to society because the priorities of profit vs need would be skewed.

For example, I can imagine a future where "private" transit (the private version of public transit) is ordered by phone, but will only pick you up if enough people want it in a specific area. This kind of thing happens a lot: look at how many bus stops are passed by later at night in SF. I can also imagine that if public transit became private, some bus lines would stop running at certain times because it's less profitable, because profit is a major concern in a company.

I also don't like the idea that transportation isn't essential and therefore should be given to private companies, as alluded to in this article: "Rather than spending millions to operate multiple transit lines and modes—while losing money—the government can spend less and leave the headaches of running those systems to someone else. It can use the savings to pay for other, essential, government services." For many people, transportation is an essential service, one stop removed from the base needs such as food and shelter. I'm maybe being a little pedantic about the wording, but I would argue that transportation is essential, albeit less essential than something like running water.

It's easy to forget that a lot of the services that exist in SF around transportation are heavily VC funded, and are running in the red most of the time (look at Lyft, Uber). This lulls us into a false sense of security thinking that, "this is cheap, it will stay cheap forever." Most of these services are subsidized by VC money and when that money starts to dwindle and profit becomes a bigger concern, prices will go up and the equation isn't as simple as it might seem now.
Reminds me of wanting to buy a TV without all the "smart" stuff. In that situation modularity is preferred by most people with at least minimal tech-inclination. I actually encountered some cases of manufacturers charging more for a lesser, non-smart panel.

A car is a bit more complicated to leave stuff out I am sure and the volumes far different. It would likely require at least more resources to have separate parts of lines for some of that as well as different check procedures as so on. But like you said, paying more could help offset that, though it's a gamble for the manufacturer.

I'm more in the camp of please do not release anything driving a car until you guys can figure out how to secure basic software, keep websites running, parse input properly, and so on. In other words, I'd rather them wait decades if that's what it takes.

Personally, I'd rather be killed by a person rather than a person's dumb choice trusting technology. What concerns me in all these situations is that I did not at any point agree or vote to allow someone in a self-driving car to drive on the same road as me. Until they can mathematically prove 100% it is safe in all conditions and situations, I'm not buying things like "driver assist" if a big part of the justification is that AI is better than a human driver (if so, then why assist?). Others may disagree, so be it - I'm a weird guy. I also hate cruise control. And fat-free ice cream.
Oddly, some of those details that they are stripping off are features. This removal of features slims out their laptops and will see me disappear from their user base, so their customer count will also slim. It's insane.
Needless to say, the goggles are powered by scalable microservices written in Haskell, Go and Phoenix on a serverless, containerized architecture with a React/Redux front-end.
Lenvo sucks now too. Their flagship laptop, the T460s, now has a non-removable battery. Their shtick has always been "yes, it's a bit bigger and heavier than a MBP, but it's expandable!" Now the T460s isn't any more expandable than the 13" rMBP, and has a lot less battery life.

You can drop down to the T460, but it's not made of the same premium materials, and also doesn't even come with the high-resolution screen option. People are flipping out about the escape key, but Lenovo won't sell you a 14" laptop that has both a high-res display and a battery big enough to run it!
The peak daily volatility of bitcoin is in the ~10% a day range [1], varying a lot month to month. The implied 10-minute volatility is 10% / sqrt(24 * 6) ~= 0.83%, assuming independence of successive 10-minute windows. This is likely an underestimate, because most financial time series display mean reversion.

The Black-Scholes price of an at-the-money option is very approximately 1/sqrt(2pi) * vol to maturity, so the option is worth somewhere around 0.3% of the notional price on a high-volatility Bitcoin day, somewhat less than the 0.8% transaction charge.

However, the charge is only paid if you go through with the transaction, so really this is an option that's 0.8% out of the money. With that assumption, the value of the option is just 0.08%.

[1] https://btcvol.info/
Consider the outgoing Macbook Pros. You can probably get a good deal on one.
This is nothing new and Microsoft has had programs like this in place from time and time (including trading in old versions of Surface / Surface Pro).

As someone pointed out, it's just a re-branding of am existing third party "trade in" company.

Here's one for the Xbox
https://microsoftconsoletradeca.cexchange.com/online/home/in...
It's weird that he would give up on his product after one letter, specially when money is not an issue. Perhaps he already has a buyer for the tech and just wants to move on to something else.
Many webdev environments I've seen are resource hogs.
But I suspect it takes less than 10 minutes to adjust, and nobody will give you a free ten minute option on the price.
If they were serious they would make it 1000. Or even refund almost new prices. It would work. Ms in the past was very aggressive when they put their minds to getting market share. Remember when they offered web browsers for free. Bye Netscape. They offered 30pct a few years back on everything on eBay, these were compelling deals.

I do not like iPhone but sorry iPads are nicer than surface tablets. They should go hard if they really want to displace iPad. As a tablet surfaces are a little too heavy and expensive.
You Don't Need JQuery Ajax Requests
I'm more concerned about our President's view about foreign wars that kill tens to hundreds of thousands of civilians, but I guess if you want to focus on their tweets then go ahead.
I recommend carbon 3rd gen
14" Razer Blade 1060, grab a dbrand matte skin to cover the hideous Razer logo. No problems with Ubuntu 16.10 currently installed. Also have a 13" Dell XPS dev edition used for specific work. It's a nice system as well. The Razer def has more power if you want a full replacement.
>the fact that she lied directly to the FBI when the former Secretary of State told them that she didn't know that "C" meant classified

She didn't have to lie should could of been grossly incompetent and negligent in her handling of her duties.
> "I don't want them to know who I donate to"

This part seems to be the major problem zcash solves from what I can tell. Delivering on the promise of true anonymity which Bitcoin currently lacks. I see the appeal to current Bitcoin users, but outside of that group, can't see the appeal in a broad "general consumer" sense.

zcash seems like a company addressing a small problem (true anonymity) in the broader context of issues cryptocurrency faces (ubiquity, liquidity, ease of transacting, fraud prevention). Creating an entirely new currency which has to retread the efforts of building out the ecosystem to support that currency is a huge mountain to climb.
It's one of those things you have to try for yourself, I think. The evidence in my case is very much apparent when I'm in the chair getting poked by my hygienist. The waterflosser is more effective at maintaining my gum health than floss ever was, with a p-value amounting to a floating-point denormal.

I have a feeling that if the truth were to come out, the effectiveness of flossing would turn out to be entirely dependent on tooth spacing or some other individual characteristic. If so, that may be true for the waterjet gadgets as well. But it seems less likely.
I agree, season 58 is certainly a very entertaining one.
Thinkpad X1
Out of interest, what are you looking at to replace this Mac? I'm keeping my 2012 with upgrades for as long as I can.
Clever marketing, but very misleading and trade in values are mostly nowhere $650.

Went browsing apple.com macs after seeing all their $2k+ prices on surface books...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/hillary-clinton-colin...
If self driving cars aren't good at driving in the rain, then you can just NOT drive them in the rain.

Even in sunny conditions, humans are still bad at driving.

If half of our driving time can be replaced with safer self driving, that is still a huge win.

You still save lives when you make safe driving conditions (sunny California) even safer.
> Skype on linux works well, last I checked.

Nope. They (Skype/Microsoft) have not updated skype in years. It's still version 4.3, and recently on Linux Groupcall is problematic as all the other Skype clients got upgrades.

Though digging around for a known workaround to that last problem it appears there is a new alpha-grade update for Skype-on-Linux: https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Linux-Alpha-a...
In a similar boat. The closest machine to the Macbook Pro is the razer blade stealth.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/razer-blade-stealth-2016

It's basically a rip-off of the (2015) macbook machined aluminium body design. It has the 7th gen processors rather than than the 6th of the new macbook, and a similar price.

Not sure about linux support, from what I've read there may be an issue with the webcam.
I didn't know people felt that stongly about arbitrary binary blobs. I know this is hackaday and open hardware and all, but if im going to be worried about binary blobs im going to be worried about a ton of netsec related stuff in other boxes too. Just wonderin' who this is really biting, assuming the intended individual was also already a closed-source, secretive apple fan.
Thursday's reveal of new MacBooks was so lackluster I am rethinking my loyalty to Apple. The Apple platform has always been the most productive platform for me. But other firms seem to be innovating and iterating on things quicker than Apple has: rumor has it that Apple will more or less copy the edge-to-edge display of Chinese handsets or the rounded edges of the S7 Edge, wtf, what happened to doing really bold things that nobody else has, or can? I guess we might have just hit peak-phone handset. In any case Apple wants to push into the enterprise but won't make a surface like device (what the iPad Pro should have been). Oh well. OS X is still the killer feature for me so I will remain securely on Apple and I'm not leaving my iPhone for any other handset but this is still very disconcerting.
TouchBar for react-native-macos
Feodra is great
True, but that's kind of what TC does...
Like browser toolbars.

I was going to say "at least IoT devices can't driveby install themselves", but I'm sure someone will find a way. Maybe people can have Bonzi Buddy for their thermostat.
I still find the Surface Studio is not exactly breathtaking. I dislike the chrome arms - they are part of the computer and shouldn't stand out like that. I like the computer being on the base, usually a piece of dead space, but that makes the design of the arms more complicated as they need to carry signals back and forth.

It's good, but nothing I would be surprised seeing coming out of HP or Sony.
The first question I always ask, and often the most deadly:

How do you handle version control, and merge conflicts?

If you don't have that figured out, none of the rest of this matters. Because a programming language designed for one developer isn't designed for building software.
For web apps you can install the tota11y [1] browser extension and use its experimental Screen Reader Wand feature to get an idea of how a screen reader will interpret elements.

tota11y uses Chrome's Accessibility Developer Tools. Deque maintains browser extensions that use their own open source engine [2]:

http://www.deque.com/products/axe/#aXeExtensions

Both engines could also be used in CI environments to perform a11y audits. That should help web developers target at least low hanging fruit.

[1] http://khan.github.io/tota11y/

[2] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
Well, yeah. Was that ever in dispute?
I've been disappointed by the lack of true MacBook Pro 15 alternatives, and it doesn't seem like Lenovo offers one in the ThinkPad line, either.

What I want: Quad-core CPU, decent-ish discrete graphics, a great screen, a somewhat compact case that doesn't weight a ton.

What I get: An endless supply of 13" ultrabooks, 6+ lb. gaming laptops with 2 hour batteries that sound like an airline taking off on startup, sub-$800 junkers, and the "mobile workstation" that still has an optical drive.

Afaik, only the XPS 15 and Razor Blade (14") really come close to the sweet spot. The XPS 15 is still awaiting its Skylake update, and the Razor, while nice, is a bit too gamey for me.

Of course, I'd want to run Linux and with the mishmash that is the current state of linux HiDPI support and uncertain future of Weyland nvidia and ati drivers, I'm not really sure where that leaves me.
I am not blind nor a programmer. But I do have serious eyesight problems and other handicaps. I also have moderating experience. Given the number of people saying "Shoot me an email" I have gone ahead and set up an email list via Google Groups called Blind Dev Works. If anyone wants to use that as a collaboration space, shoot me an email (talithamichele at gmail dot com) and I will send you an invitation.
Yes,

I've been using a Retina MacBook Pro 13" (early 15) and 15" (mid 15) and just picked up the xps 13 9350 with iris pro.

There are definitely some quality control issues but once you get a working model with no faults (I had one that wouldn't reboot and had terrible coil whine, one that had loose trackpad and yellow tint on screen but this could also be because of Amazon's shitty packaging where the laptop was in a box with only some brown paper crumpled in) - atleast they took them back no questions asked. I'm amazed how far windows laptops have come along.

The only real downsides are that it power throttles (and thermal too, but I placed my own aftermarket thermal paste and it doesn't cross 66 C on full load now) due to the iris GPU itself consuming 18W at it's rated turbo boost with the SoC's TDP being 15W (long turbo) and 25W (short turbo). Perhaps go with the i5 model that has the HD 520 or the new 9360 that has kabylake with better thermal and power consumption (HD 620 is roughly similar to HD 540 but won't throttle). You can also use Intel's XTU to undervolt and better battery life and throttling if you're going to use windows.

Linux runs flawlessly, infact so does OS X if you can replace the wifi card. AMA
It looks like you have to register and log in before you see any content. I don't think that's going to work long-term.
Exchange rate aside, due to the greater abundance of bitcoins since the last bubble, the market cap is actually near all time highs.
Obama will pardon her a la Carter with Nixon.