skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the machines have the same build quality (or, another more subtle thing Apple's laptops have, an air around them that they should be handled with care) and the software is secure (Windows had (has?) real problems with viruses and shit), then I don't see why anyone would have to replace their laptop after 5 years anymore. CPU's are fast enough and software isn't getting more bloated. Memory is abundant and cheap. SSD's solved the last main bottleneck in computers 5+ years ago.

I have a PC at home, almost passing the 5 year mark now. No problems with it, fast enough, plays the latest games. Only problems I've had with it was corrupted memory banks, but I'm inclined to think that's more to do with installing it myself than anything.
Exactly what? The replies three works great on Sublevel on any mobile screen.
Yes. We can apply different heuristics to remove outlier points. One interesting way to do it will be to train a neural network to refine the dense point cloud.
The prisms aren't the limiting factor. The limiting factor is the fact that the optical signal for any given channel will "widen" in bandwidth when you modulate it. Some modulation schemes are better than others and you can do some tricks like using orthogonal polarizations.

At the end of the day, if you modulate a signal at higher and higher rates, it takes more and more bandwidth. That's your real limiting factor.
This article has some good information. Having worked hard to develop my writing process I suggest the following:

1. Writing poetry is good, but writing (and delivering) speeches is better. Nothing ferrets out difficult to follow, unnatural or confusing language better than getting up in front of a group and presenting it. Speeches also tend to be short-form, so they really force you to condense your ideas.

2. Writing is a multi-phase process, and each phase should be approached separately. Specifically:

2a.) The first step in good writing is to create a logical structure of your document - figure out what you want to talk about, then arrange the ideas you are going to cover into an ordered tree structure. Include questions you want to answer, any relevant research, and examples or analogies you want to cover. Personal opinions aside, Ayn Rand's The Art of Nonfiction is actually a very good guide to logical document structure.

2b.) The next step is to convert this structured document tree into prose. For this step, I suggest getting a pen and lined paper and getting away from the computer. Have a printed copy of your document tree to reference, and try to flesh it out without worrying too much about style.

2c.) Finally, transcribe your handwritten prose onto your word processor of choice, and edit for style. The basic tenets from The Element of Style are good. Favor short, direct, positive, active sentences. Focus on descriptive verbs and nouns rather than loading up on adverbs and adjectives. Try to trim unnecessary words. Beyond that, try to inject metaphor into your writing as much as possible. If you use a metaphor, try to stick with the same one for the entire paragraph. Use wordplay such as rhymes and alliterations to make important sentences more memorable.
Cook isn't a sales guy -- he's operations. Still an elephant in the room though; there's a natural tension between trying new things and streamlining your existing things.
I once got my former employer to get me a Surface Book for a laptop upgrade. It was...okay, nothing to write home about (and bear in mind I worked in a Windows shop). Normally I'd think it's not a close comparison, but at least MSFT didn't get rid of the damn function keys (I know they're still sorta there but come on). The magic touch bar thing still pisses me off.
How does one do this for XCode builds? Especially with the sad state of the Mac Mini.
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The |contact| link at the bottom of the pagel is probably the best way to get more information...at least if accurate information counts.
Well they did have login and fast user switching as an example, so that's kinda comparable and probably more practical, considering "people using sudo" is a subset of "people logging in".

Also, I like how you can compliment the feature yet still insult its creator in single sentence.
Show HN: Transform cardio machines into arcade games
My friend and I have built a mobile video game that can be played on an exercise bike/elliptical. Using the camera we track micro-movements of the body and detect the speed of motion, and use head tracking for steering.

Currently the game is in prototype mode, and consists of trying to pass obstacles, collecting orbs and destroying enemies. Here is a link to a video of the playthrough: https://vimeo.com/189210575

If you would like to try the game out, you can register on our website: pelatra.com. You will get access to this specific prototype and all upcoming versions of the game.

Any feedback, questions or concerns would be very useful so please let us know what you think.
A trivial application of the principle of charity makes it obvious that the meaning here intended is 'truthful'. Splitting semantic hairs rather than discussing substance benefits no one.
I'm not sure if he is serious with his idea or not. I can't see how it'd work.

Also, the MacBook Pro just launched. We can't know if it'll be a success or not, until 4-6 months later. I'm personally going to buy one (the higher end).
HN hug of death seems to have thrown it offline. Anyone have a cache?

EDIT: Found one:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eG1Z2o...
What about the changes that bluedino talks about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12836747

> [The Macbook Air] didn't become popular until they added a second USB port and SD card reader, added a higher resolution screen, fixed the battery life issues, fixed the horribly slow performance, and reduced the price big-time.
Was waiting more than an 4 years for replacing MacBook Pro 2012 which is the last MBP you can upgrade on your own. and finally after seeing the event - went with dell outlet new latitude E5470 with Core i7 6820HQ the same processor used in 15" MBP version selling at $2399 . It has 8gb Ram and SSD for $635. Will add additional 8gb for $40, will receive it tomorrow . I probably would never buy MBP again since there is no bang for buck . would be happy to pay twice the premium for apple but 4 times forget it. They are selling ultra books as pro's for premium . It's more like cheating and milking customers than providing value.
I was the same with soccer. Poor motor skills etc. Fortunately, I was saved by rugby at secondary school where despite my physical uncoordination, I was keen and could tackle hard. As soon as I got into the rugby team, all the bullying stopped.
Not learning how to talk to women romantically
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Not really, because mobile data roaming is growing, and in most cases it doesn't use local breakout. VoIP is growing in the volume (but almost not growing in $). That data has to be moved over backbones. Messengers are growing - again backbone traffic. In fact Tier-1 traffic grows. Revenues - not so much, price per megabit is in constant fall.
Sure, it does matter in real life, but since it probably varies from project to project I wouldn't go that far setting a "correct" order.
Back in 94 when the web was new not making more use of the v senior guy in BT who I worked with on some early web projects (he was eqvielent to ceo of a FSE 250 company) as a mentor.
That's why I said "...which I didn't succeed to fix in time". Of course, a proper person can (and should) counterbalance a handicap. But having a basic understanding of ball-playing would have saved a lot of experiences that are destructive for both the self-esteem and for the society.
So you don't think Facebook comments work?
I think you're right. If they would have kept MagSafe they could have kept the HDMI port on the other side. But then the MBP wouldn't have been symmetrical. That seems to be the current obsession with Ive. The iPhone 7 is symmetrical as well, even if the new speaker is fake.
I was eagerly waiting for the release of a new MacBook Pro, but when I saw the Apple keynote, my first/only reaction was to buy a new mid-2015 model to upgrade my mid-2009 one. Great upgrade, btw. I want to see what are apple's next moves, I just secured more 4-5 years on a great and stable laptop.

Just speculating: maybe Tim Cook wants to force a decline in sales in order to justify the killing of the low-performant MacBook line? Hackintoshes are fairly common nowadays and external keyboard and trackpad 2 can keep the great interaction provided by OSX.
Some Dell models do have trackpoints. for example, http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5570-laptop/pd
This server is in leave-the-crockery-on-the-floor mode, too. Debug mode OFF!

(Although the level of detail could be much worse.)
The Apple iCycle: A two-wheeled revolution in transportation. The battery will allow two miles of (downhill) travel, at which point you'll have to charge it over USB-C. (Battery is not swappable.) No pedals are included.
It looks like that's one of the things that they've finally, finally fixed (but only if you turn it on): https://mspoweruser.com/ntfs-260-character-windows-10/
> Aren't they allowed to sit on the iPhone? Why must they come up with amazing new stuff when they've already got a mountain of cash and loyal fans who love the point release updates?

Apple cannot rest on their laurels because if they stop innovating Android manufactures will implement all of their features and sell the phones for cheaper than an iPhone. The Google Pixel is a killer phone and could easily steal some iPhone market share if a new iPhone does not keep iterating with new features.

If Apple keeps removing two features for every new one that they add, that's going to upset some customers.
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Exactly, the convnet is applied on 2d pixels instead of on 3D point clouds. If one have labelled 3D points (e.g. if a point is part of a car or not), one can train a network for recognition directly on 3D points.
YNAB also works great in WINE. They've gone cloud with the new version, but the old desktop app still works.
He did make changes to the codebase, so it's a lot more than the idle whining you typically see. That is one thing I will give him.
This link already has too much love. Here is the google cache link:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-facing shell
I have many non-technical acquaintances who don't want 'the biggest screen possible' - at a certain size, screens just get too big for most people. In fact, 24" is probably about my personal limit - bigger than that, and I'm just going to be moving my head too much for comfort.

I definitely wouldn't want a touchscreen on a desktop monitor. Unless it was literally no more expensive or the only option - which, of course, may well be the case one day. Don't get me wrong, I do see the advantage of touch - the original iPad is probably one of the most usable devices I've ever owned - but it would be utterly wasted on a desktop for me. Again, maybe a family computer, but not one that I wish to work on.

I would also love a Surface Studio, as a toy. I'm sure it's still a great machine besides that, but I know I definitely wouldn't make good enough use of it - I'm just not that good an artist.
Windows no longer has that limit since a decade at least.
I lifted for a few months two years ago, but stopped because of various factors. My physical therapist friend doesn't like weightlifting, though, she says the risk of injury is too high. I'd like to start exercising again, but I don't know what would be effective enough without as much risk of injury as weightlifting...
I wish that "cloud", for many applications, would mean "You can tell us where to save the file and if it happens to be your Dropbox folder it will do the expected thing."

The syncing random data across computers thing is a solved problem. There are different solutions that meet different needs - some people may have their data stored on a company file server, some like to use Dropbox, some are happy with iCloud Drive, some use OwnCloud or Box.net or any number of other things.

Instead of developing cloud services to sync stuff, manufacturers should just let you pick where to save the settings and let some other sync mechanism do the job.
In the end I've chosen Ducky One without back light. Not a big deal as I usually work with some small light on. There was shop in Indonesia which has not that bad shipping rates around Asia. Sooner or later I will probably buy PBT keycaps. I am good for now, still, that wasn't the best customer experience. I am talking about market in general, not this specific shop.
This limit never existed in the NT kernel, it's a Win32 SubSystem limit that can be workarounded with \??\ at the beginning of the path
Facebook comments only allow one level of replies.
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Twitter trials ad-blocking reader mode for links
Make a coffee for yourself. This allows you to get out of your desk and moving and has the added benefit of keeping you away from your computer.
TLDR it's a wash. the guy went with apple because he's got an iphone and an apple watch.
I am hating this change a lot. I have been using the service for eight years now and the fact that a tweet started with @whatever was the visual indication that it was a reply. Now they have to ruin that too. I don't know, I sometimes feel like they are trying to piss me off or something.
All you need to know is that the new 460 is 1.9TFlops, almost double the R9 M370X.
My guess (from experience with using a Macbook at work in a similarly large IT company) is that their corporate Windows image has a huge pile of shit bundled into it for historical reasons that breaks all the time, while the Mac image is relatively frugal.

I can observe a slow tendency that our corporate Mac image piles on more and more junk over time, probably because more people are using Macs than the year before and thus IT allocates more headcount to work on Mac customizations.
They will change if it hurts their bottom line enough. Only question is how much is "enough".
Use the keychain to store your ssh keys, that's been possible since about 2007.
I have just a few nitpicks:

Hobbyists and startups might choose TFS since Visual Studio Online is free for orgs of a certain.

> "computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users"

This applies to software like HP's ClearCase and Rational rose, whereas the EE in Java is bit of a misnomer. Originally, Java SE was designed primarily for single threaded desktop applications and applets, whereas Java EE was designed for a more networked application with application servers.

What happened is that Java EE was a beast to work with, but some features of it like servlets, injection, and data mappings were useful, so developers built versions of those that could work with Java SE (think Tomcat and Spring). The Java team took the lessons and redid Java EE to make it easier to work with. It's still a bit of a beast to work with, but good enough to build an application with.
Funny, I regret going to a plain state-funded university and wish I would have taken college applications more seriously to take a shot at a more prestigious school. I think a lot of doors would have opened earlier for me had I done so. Successful people get there because of their network and connections not because of their knowledge and skills.
I found the idea to be startling in this context. However, the idea itself isn't all that crazy. I believe CAA (Creative Artist Agency) had done something similar to sell their bundled talent packages for movies. If I remember correctly they bought up a huge amount of screenplay rights and then bundled them with their own actors, directors, etc.
Serious question: how would you expect Twitter to deal with this, at a platform level? Put in a limit on how often the "like" toggle can be triggered? Or how many times it may be triggered on and off?
No, but without new ideas they'll soon start to shrink. Apple is in a very fast business, not coming up with new ideas means losing business very quickly.

They could of course just enjoy sales from the iphone and live off past innovation, but that would mean that they could cut costs by at least 50% and fire most of the workforce. Don't know if that's what they want.
I'm a huge Twitter fan, and not a Twitter conservative stick in the mud who reflexively opposes all changes.

However, I think in this instance, users are baffled as to why Twitter would even trial this functionality when it betrays a lack of understanding of what is usable, and what is going to promote terrible user experiences. i.e. this reply functionality would seem to exacerbate the problem of being stuck in endless convos where other people leave your handle in long after you stopped taking part. It's almost as if the devs don't use Twitter...
Same. There's definitely been some advantages, and I've learned to manage it better. No one knew about it when I was in school. If I'd known from early I'm sure some things could have been easier!
I spent a bit more time on the content of this list. But if that's what you like to believe, I'd rather not take it away.
> probably for a developer the touch bar is better.

Each to their own, I guess?
They're a public company. If the company isn't growing, there's little incentive to hold the stock. (The current 2% dividend is a pitiful return, you can get that level of return from an Australian savings account.) If they're not growing & the dividend isn't big enough, then the stock price (and hence company value) will start falling as people cash out.

If Apple can take themselves private again, there will be less pressure on them to keep growing.
"People will buy Apple stuff anyway because people already are: unless you are an Apple user, you should know how "religious" (I'm being kind here) Apple users are. They have been consciously been buying outdated and overpriced hardware until now, and they have been super proud about this too."

This is a usual mistake people make. They assume that performance is simply a matter of specifications. It's not.
Sadly, it's not available on Android (yet). But it does look amazing.
CenturyLink has been quietly making great acquisition moves for the past few years. My opinion is this helps move them to be a bigger player in the market. Now they can further compete with companies like Verizon for more business market share.
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This here is what gets me salivating: Using the toolbar as a context-sensitive test runner/controler: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwC8SNvW8AQgeWN.png:large
That's in the enterprise. Whole different ballgame compared to home PCs.
I'm hoping the Surface Pro 5 vs. MacBook Pro 13" (Late 2016) will be a more interesting comparison next year, but this conclusion seems to say "It's a wash" (he bought MBP, because he's invested in that ecosystem).
CarPlay ABSOLUTELY changes car buying behaviour, at least in some instances.

In one case I heard of, a young lady bought a car with CarPlay, and when it didn't work, she tried to make the dealership buy it back under a lemon law. The dealership made Car Play work, and she kept the car.
For the second, I think you are now supposed to retweet your reply.
A few years back people bought Nokia phones because they were the best you could get. Some people would never buy something else. The same with blackberry a few years later.

The fanbase clearly helps Apple at the moment, but it can disappear within a few years if another company manages to make something truly better.
Also just the feeling of being firm and toned. When you bump into something or someone brushes by you in the street, that's when you feel the difference. Whatever you bump into doesn't sink into your flab, it bounces off instead. That's what I loved about being all toned from gym, you sort of hold yourself more confidently and it feels great... (I've since let things slide recently, it comes and goes! I'll be back there soon, I don't do gym all year.)
Yeah, to be honest I did contemplate getting the android version ready before launching, but honestly felt like there's already so much chance involved in whether it gets to the critical mass required for it to really work that it made more sense, time-investment wise, to see how it goes on iOS first.

It also really depends on who you're targeting. In Australia for example, in my professional work we see much more iOS usage than android for equivalent apps, despite the market share numbers.
Reddit apps seem to handle it pretty well. Touch the metadata for the comment to collapse the tree, or tap the text in the comment to interact with it.
Still using Winamp as well.

At work, people get awed all the time - "wow, is that Winamp?" :D

And I keep thinking, what the hell are people using these days?
If you want a vision of the future, imagine people trying to make Emacs run on inappropriate hardware, forever
Yeah, I downloaded it to get "optimal" settings to play Titanfall 2 on my GTX750Ti, and GeForce Experience just told me that my GPU doesn't match the minimum requirements and it can't help me. So I ran the game, it selected default settings for me(mixture of low and medium) and it runs perfectly fine, at 60fps. Really great help GF Experience there, really fine.
Add a cache:// in front of the URL, e.g.:

cache://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2016/10/28/MacBookPro-vs-Surface-Book.aspx
Reboots after update have been moved to a "Yeah, remind me later -wink- -wink-" popup, kinda like Windows 7 handled them. I'm not even in a country where we get first in line the big updates (Anniversary update took a couple of weeks to reach me, and it was a bit messy because the f*cker took like 4 hours once it decided to get installed ¬¬ ).
I have worked programming Twitter spam bots, and depending on your behaviour using the platform, it's like you build up a score, and when you reach a certain threshold, you get banned.

Everything that triggers a notification increases your score, and certainly favouriting tweets does so--but you have to be extra annoying for you to get banned doing this.

You can also get shadowbanned, which means your interactions trigger no notifications and your tweets simply disappear from everywhere. So if you're spamming you probably want to check every once in a while if your account is shadowbanned (by triggering a notification directed to a "control" account and seeing if it goes through) but there's no way to remove a shadowban: not even disabling/reenabling your account will remove it. It expires after a few days though.

There are "hard" rate limits in place as well (amount of favs/minute), but those can be avoided by using the API key of an official app. (Don't be mistaken--you build up a "spam" score anyway.)
Both VisualSfM and OpenSfM use similar methodology (incremental structure from motion) to reconstruct 3D scene points and camera positions from photos.

And yes, you can build your own tools (even commercially) with OpenSfM.
I think I once read that typical profit margins for PCs is the net margins are in the single digit range and the gross margins are about 20% over that. I was wondering what would happen if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991 (when Rod Canion and Jim Harris was still at Compaq) for a while now. Intel has a high profit margin, and Compaq had higher profit margin back in 1991. This also reminds me that big box stores typically requires a higher profit margin than small stores.
You only need a USB-C to bipedal human cable, what's the big deal?
To rephrase what you said to make a point:

> Aren't they allowed to sit on the Apple II? Why must they come up with amazing new stuff when they've already got a mountain of cash and loyal fans who love the point release updates?

Last time Apple built the entire company around a single product (Apple II) they almost went bankrupt.