skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the brain is an electro-chemical engine, and like other engines, it must be shut down to perform regular maintenance so the engine lasts longer, and is less prone to error conditions.
I've generally seen tools like Balsamiq and Invision used for the app flow and tools like Framer and Origami used for micro-interactions. I would, however, like to see something that blends the two well, but maybe that just doesn't fit with enough people's use cases.
It might be cool, still have to check it. As an owner of the last lapzilla (17" screen) I think I'd just prefer a 17" screen and more space to put things. I feel like some of their demos are not as useful. Seems like fat fingers will be in the way instead of precise touchpad placement, same issue as using tablets/pads with just your finger, your finger hides precision.

- Picking a color with your fat finger having to look over your fingers and down to see it, why not just a color selector on the screen next to your work? Usually droppers are used as well, messes up flow.

- Browser tabs on the navbar, cmon, just use the tabs on the browser or hotkeys.

- Video editing on the navbar, not going to happen. Anything with sliders, precision will not be fun on that. Buttons will probably be fine.

- Placement changes, people know app dialogs/panels more than they will when having to look down at the changing buttons. If it sits there constantly changing while you do actions on the screen, it could be quite annoying almost like a flashy ad on a site forcing you to look down more than you want.

Customizing your keyboard a bit and the keys available is pretty nice, and it is probably cooler in person. But I feel like this won't be used much and will just be an annoyance.

I could be wrong, sometimes you get an Apple feature and it just works.
I can't believe they didn't increase the ram. Wait till next year I guess.
You could try one of the laptops from www.system76.com, or the Dell XPS 13 (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd), or ASUS Zenbook (https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-Pro-UX501VW/). You could also just look for a laptop you like that has good compatibility (https://certification.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/)
The vast majority of internet users are not and will continue to not be bitcoin-savvy for a long time.
You'd make a good conspiracy theorist. You question & disbelieve everything even when faced with reasonable evidence.

Yes, maybe we don't actually know all the intricacies of what's going on, but you're just being a crank.
Again with the pretending there is only one possible change here: a state change in high orbit excitation levels is nowhere near "the smallest such changes", yet we still call them quantum leaps because that's what they are. The distances and energies involved are HUGE at the atomic scale, which is the scale we must necessarily stay grounded in when discussing what a quantum leap "really" means. (where "really" is a misnomer because there is nothing that requires a scientifically precise term to be reflected in common everyday language. The only important part is that you don't use the meaning of the latter in the context of the first)
not supporting FF. Now I know what all those folks browsing with javascript disabled feel like.
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> starts at 16GB

FWIW it looks like the only available option for 15" rMBP is 16GB. Personally it's more than I need, but it's still interesting that there's no room to adjust.
Really? Isn't your response slightly hyperbolic? How much more powerful processor you'll get in 2016 MBPr? Maybe more RAM?
Given that 99% of users don't require more than 8GB in a MacLaptop, it's hard to justify increasing the maximum ram beyond 16 GB for that fraction of 1% of users who do. Not impossible, mind you - because there is always value in chasing after the 1%, but to some degree, Apple's efficiency at running their operating system and applications on small memory footprints makes it less valuable to increase their maximum ram footprint.
If Angela Merkel had it her way with search engine algorithms, every news source within the first 50 pages of Google.com would paint Germany in a positive-light (especially her barbaric open-door immigration policy)

But we all know the actual reality:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UoJIDgTKc6k/maxresdefault.jpg

This isn't about making informed decisions or having an "expanse of information", anybody who buys that for even a split-second is under an illusion.
and are you not a bit disappointed that the products you describe, Apple's desktop products, appear to have been totally ignored by Apple? No new iMac, Mac Pro or Mac Mini hardware announced, it seems like it's not a focus for them at all.
That's nonsense. As a kid I was not afraid of water. I could dive 10 meters down without fear. But I still couldn't swim without instruction.
Speed doesnt matter when I connect a mouse and a keyboard
> There seems to be some discontinuity between the Macbook and iPhone lines.

Given there is now no way[0] to connect one to the other, I'd say you're correct.

[0] Without spending even more money.
Can anybody recommend a good laptop to replace my current macbook -

I would like 17inch screen, and runs Ubuntu ... bonus for NVidia GPU - I deep learn in the cloud but having a GPU to test on would be great.

Anybody know of this mythical unicorn?
This is really helpful for my ParaWing invention. I still need a lot of work / help on doing the math for the exact wing dimensions though; very intimidating. However, using some sound research and an innovative design technique I do know my path is sound versus conventional designs - more lift, less aggressive stall, and smaller dimensions are all pretty necessary for human-scale personal flight device.
That depends on what your goals are and what interests you.

There are things only specialists can do and things only generalists can do.

There are people who are equally interested in a lot of things and people who are particularly fascinated by a single topic.

Which are you?
> If you're any good at your job, you should avoid these open companies like the plague

I think you mean if you're any good at negotiating salary since doing a good job does not equate with higher pay in most companies.

Also, even if that were true, there shouldn't be any issues because you would just get promoted to a higher position, in which case you'd be paid more anyway.

It seems like there's only an issue if you think you're that much better than everyone else but nobody else feels the same way.
Not an exhaustive search: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/business-solutions/hp-z240-tow...

So for 1,100 you are getting half as much ram, half as much storage, and a lesser gpu.

I'm sure you could spec out something similar to the internals for a few hundred less with a little bit of work.
Where will I stick my yubikey?
I LOVE Apple products! I treasure Iphone and it's safe and fun ecosysten. I love the simplicity of OSX. I love the professional appearance of a Macbook Pro... as a user. Or as an observer even.

Because professionally, I've been on Windows, Linux and Android for years. And with Windows where it's at now, I've never been more productive.

Just can't seem to get that across to my Apple-friends and Apple-coworkers.
Keys will be raised aluminum with Taptic.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic because you exactly described the specs of this https://system76.com/laptops/kudu in either case I fell for it
>bad-actors who are not motivated strictly by financial gain, but by the successful spreading of their bad content.

The "bad content" showing up on the top of page 1 of the search results is directly related to financial gain. That's why the SEO industry exists!

>if they chose to simply index information and never link to ads or pages with ads, then the incentive to game the results is greatly reduced.

The flaw in your logic is that it's the ads that's the primary motivation for bad actors to push their unwanted pages to the top.

Let's say I'm a bad author that wrote a bad book about "traveling to Paris". I would want my blog page about me and my book to be at the top of search results when you type "Paris" in the search box. It doesn't matter what ads are showing in the side panel. It also doesn't matter if ads didn't exist at all because every Google user would pay a $9.99/month subscription. Either way, I still want my webpage at the top so that some percentage of search users click on my (non-ad) link and buy my sightseeing book.
Because they own it, broadly speaking. I would not be at all averse to the government nationalising Twitter (e.g. after acquiring their assets when they go bankrupt, or by buying out the current shareholders), but while it remains a private or public company it should have the governance process of one.
It is your problem when more and more companies start implementing hard-to-get-around "Pay a subscription or unblock ads" walls.

If I don't want to see ads from, e.g. NY Times, but I want to read their content, I could either manage yet-another-subscription, or I could have a plugin that manages the payment for me.

The benefit of the latter is (in theory) a) I don't need to have yet-another-subscription, and b) I don't pay for what I don't read.

The downside is, again, that I don't pay for what I don't read, which in turn leads to click-bait and listicles. However, advertising has already led to that.
probably a valid reason for all that negativity...
I'm pretty ambivalent about everything but the usb ports. I get they its an overloaded standard and probably needs a replacement, but its a lot to give up in the name of progress...
With a mouse? Maybe. With a touch pad? I know I'll be faster with the bar.
Now, please, try to think about to what degree (how many orders of magnitude) the Whatsapp ecosystem, which has been build on top of OTP, are more efficient in terms of data throughput, resource usage (both memory and CPU cycles wasted on thread scheduling and looking and busy waiting) and reliability (think of Facebook Messanger too), how many times less lines of code it has, to what degree the code is less verbose, less repetitive and hence more readable and maintainable.

I could give you a hint: the whole standard library of Erlang is (including optional type declarations for each function)

schiptsov@Ideapad:~/Compile/otp/lib/stdlib/src$ du -sh .
2.6M	.

I do not have Java sources.

Processed junk food is absolutely dominant form of human nutrition in the world. Does this fact makes junk food better than evolved (carefully selected) traditional dishes of rural communities, adapted to the local food sources and seasons?
Ask HN: How will the new Mac Book Pro's “Touch Bar” support VoiceOver?
Cmd-F5 currently enables VoiceOver. How will the new "Touch Bar" support accessibility?
Passing an Array of Strings from Swift to C
Curious will the Touch Bar show the standard function keys when run bootcamped Windows?
We actually want more self-efficacy: http://seliger.com/2008/05/01/self-efficacy%E2%80%94oops-the... rather than self-esteem. Which is a topic that's been bandied about in the media for a while yet hasn't really taken hold.
I think it is because of a few interrelated things:

1. Ill-posedness of the problems: what is sleep?, why do animals sleep?, etc. vs. the well-posed physics problems such as, what happened at the beginning of the universe?

2. Data sufficiency: there is too much variability across people and animals to have enough representative data marginalized on each variable for many biological systems in general, and sleep in particular

3. Complexity of the system: cosmological systems and even subatomic particles are less complex models than biological systems

On incentives for researchers, there is also the maxim that there are many unsolved and interesting problems to work on, but scientific judgement is in knowing which are solvable. Of course, the occasional maverick goes after the hardest, most ill-posed, most unsolvable problem. But the existence of such mavericks is not guaranteed for every problem, sleep biology included.
I've always been happy with System76: https://system76.com/laptops
Wow, I live in Massachusetts and have never seen a Jimmy John's around here, but apparently there is one... and a 3 mile radius covers the entirety of metropolitan Boston, and some of the hot spots in neighboring Cambridge and Somerville. I think that's everywhere I've ever worked as a software engineer.
Except no one is refusing to ask questions, nor refuse to hear women's opinions.

> Work-life balance is a concern for both men and women.

Yes it is. But the questions were about making the workplace more family friendly, and workplace dating, which to me, feels like a real missed opportunity to share real insight. I get it though--I don't own the topics of discussion. I was just sharing my perspective.

TBH, it doesn't really matter what anyone thinks about workplace dating. In the US, HR have policies in place to prevent legal issues.

Full Disclosure: My wife and I started dating while we both worked at the same startup.
I honestly haven't met anyone that WASN'T called with an IRS scam this year. It's amazing how they were able to call so many numbers and it lasted so long.
My instinct is that they are going to flood the early adopters market with low RAM laptops. Then silently introduce upgrade options something like a few months down the line. This serves the dual benefit of being able to pump them out faster and giving people a reason to buy more of them.

It just seems like something Apple would do.
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LPDDR4 is supported by some Intel CPU's but overall memory support across intel CPU's is pretty inconsistent for no apparent reason since they are all based on the same core design.
That said you won't see any difference in performance between LPDDR3 @ 2133 mhz and LPDDR4 at 2000-2400mhz.
Many ask the simple question "what makes
an airplane fly?" The answer one frequently gets is misleading and often just plain wrong.

The exact same problem is found in sailing:

"Popular concepts as to how sails generate lift, and how two sails interact with each other are discussed in light of modern aerodynamic research. Much of the old sail theory in the sailing references is shown to be wrong." [1]

[1] http://ljjensen.net/Maritimt/A%20Review%20of%20Modern%20Sail...
When I was using Fedora, I was really happy with the look and feel of Gnome 3.
lol why would i be disappointed? Just use a laptop and dock it to a monitor when needed.

Why would anyone need a desktop in this day and age? Moore's law means the things that desktops used to do 5 years ago, laptops do now.

The compute requirements for photo editing, for example, haven't changed in 5 years. But the processors and systems (IO, displays, etc..) keep getting faster. It's only natural that laptops would cannibalize desktops. And phones/tablets will cannibalize laptops in a few years.
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Is it going to be open source by any chance ?
While they didn't turn out to learn much in math, they did learn how to sit still at a desk, which is perfect preparation for a later office job. At least the parents got a break and someone else to take care of their kids for a few hours each day.
While I appreciate USB-C, it's still too early to go USB-C only, especially on a "professional" laptop. And, the transition to lightning headphones is a glaring example of the left hand SOMEHOW not being aware of what the right hand is doing.

Plus, the touch bar sucks. Compensating with indentations and force touch could have made it an amazing and useful tool.
Ah I should have mentioned > 1080p (but thanks for suggestion)
> function keys, MagSafe, HDMI, SD Card AND the Escape key

I'm an HDMI guy too, SD cards are great, and MagSafe has saved my bacon more than once. But the function keys are being transformed into something a bit more interactive and app-specific, and if you need Escape in a terminal emulator, Ctrl-] has been around just about forever.

I think Apple's doing something new and interesting with function keys.

(But I agree, I'm not sure I agree with their all-in strategy on Thunderbolt/USB-C either.)
I agree. I have no plans on upgrading my MacBook Pro (2015). I'm very forgetful, so I know that I'd lose any adapter dongles due to the USB-C/Thunderbolt ports replacing everything else.

Well, it makes it easy to save a few thousand dollars this year.
Thinkpad P70 http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p70/?...

Precision 17 7000 Series (7710) http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m7710-workstatio...

ZBook 17 ? http://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/zbook-17.html

take note that these all have Quadro cards, not their lower end GForce cards.
I currently prefer using Protocol Buffers for configuration. You can use their built-in text formatter [1] to do plain-text configs. The default format isn't terrible [2], but I've been thinking about using that code as the basis for a YAML or JSON version.

Then later when you want to automate generating bits of it, you can write simple Python (or whatever) scripts to transform the data. If you want the generated stuff to be less obvious or harder to change (just to stop people who can't help poking configs in production), write it in binary format.

(1) https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...
(2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18873924/what-does-the-pr...
I need an upgrade even more. I'm still using my 2008 MB, the first macbook with the unibody aluminum casing. I upgraded the RAM to 8GB 4 years ago and had to change the battery around the same time. It proved to be a very resilient piece of hardware, even though now I can only use it when plugged as there seems to be something off with the battery that causes it to shut down sporadically.

Last year, I took the decision of waiting another year to upgrade, betting that the 2016 MBPs were probably going to introduce a significant upgrade to the line up, perhaps something of the same magnitude as the aluminum casing in 08. And I'm very disappointed that I was proven wrong...
Comparing it to an Apple computer maybe?
LOL, genuinely laughed. A developer with a title a level below mine makes more than me - I was recently promoted but the raise I got with the promotion didn't match his salary without the promotion!
sounds like they're bringing esc-to-enter-command-mode to a native OS feature. Why settle for your crusty old vim command line when Siri is so much more courageous.
Invision is great for prototyping a general work flow, how the user moves from screen to screen, but it's not designed around building individual interactions. You upload a bunch of screenshots and create clickable areas that link to another screenshots with some basic transitions. Origami is designed around building out individual interactions and transitions.
I can't imagine that it was power envelope. Pascal really made progress on power efficiency, which is what makes it even more surprising.
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I think there are a lot of legit complaints about the new announcements and lack of improvements, but this post seems pretty weak. Fn keys aren't really gone, they're just present in another form (the touch bar). The other complaint is just about ports. It's not so hard to have a dongle that has these ports, and just plugs into the new one. Sure, a little annoying, but it doesn't exactly kill your workflow.
> Overpriced useless last gen crap for insane price.

That perfectly fits my opinion of Apple. ;)

I jumped off the Apple band wagon years ago, but an important point here is: Apple events used to be exciting. They would announce something interesting and worthy at every event, which is why so many even started watching life streams.

The iPhone is still a really great phone, but iOS has been playing catchup with Android for years. And apart from mobile Apple hasn't done much that's innovative or interesting for quite some time.

That's why opinions are so harsh. People have come to expect more.
Women get responded to differently here in ways that women themselves report is problematic. (http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/01/oh-my-god-it...)

There appear to be no women on the leaderboard. The leaderboard lists 100 names. The top of it is stable, but, my understanding is that your name drops off of it if you are inactive for X amount of time. The bottom is not stable. Names appear and disappear. So there are likely something over 100 members with enough karma to qualify for the leaderboard, at some points during the year. I appear to have the highest karma of any openly female member and I am thousands short of the leaderboard.

I posted a question or two trying to find out who was female here. Some women created accounts in order to reply. So, there appear to be a lot of women who lurk and read but do not feel comfortable participating.

I ended up gathering some objective data to the best of my ability because the social piece is pretty opaque here. I did not have an agenda initially. But I was experiencing a lot of friction and there was soft social evidence suggesting I was "prominent" for a woman here at a time when I had something like 3000 or 4000 karma. I put that data on my blog. For example: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/01/some-raw-dat...

I can't prove any of this. If you want to be pedantic, hey, you win. But as a woman who ended up inadvertently researching how prominent I was because I was having what I felt was an excessive amount of friction for a "nobody," my opinion is that a) HN is not very welcoming of women and b) it has gotten better over time and is continuing to improve.

Do with that opinion as you wish. I don't feel like getting dragged into some stupid argument where multiple men verbally beat on me while swearing women don't face challenges here. Such situations never seem to strike the multiple men engaging in the pile on as either ironic nor as de facto evidence supporting my assertion that there are issues.
>> when I picked one up about a month ago, I had an awful time with it

Did you get to play with it at a store or friends house, or actually take it home and use it for some time. Everyone i've met that has a surface (book, 3, 4, etc) loves it.
Typing this from my maxxed-out surface pro 4, in tablet mode, while I do sketching on the couch, after having done some pretty intense Visual Studio Typescript debugging. I would recommand this to anybody. <3
> iMacs were refreshed in late 2015. It's typically ~3 years between new generations, often with a hardware refresh somewhere in between. Nothing new here.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac shows the days between releases in the past:

147 May 2015
215 Oct 2014
387 Sep 2013
298 Nov 2012
577 May 2011
280 Jul 2010

We're currently 380 days since the last release, which is on the long side other than the one 2010-2011 outlier. I don't think anyone expects Apple to ship radically different hardware designs every year but they desperately need a tick-tock strategy which ships identical cases with non-obsolete components if they expect anyone outside of the die-hard Mac fans to keep buying.
Back in 1994 I would download each kernel version over a 56k modem and lovingly configure and compile it.

I love Ubuntu as a server OS, because the bullshit per mile is mimimal.

I use Windows as a desktop OS because I don't want to waste time configuring and reconfiguring everything -- I have some real work to get done.
Maybe not on par but close - I was expecting limitations like that, didn't realize it'd be in the petabytes! I wasn't saying or expecting that it could be done on the cheap. Just trying to think of ways to get away from the filter bubble and ad-based businesses.

I was just daydreaming, without first evaluating technical limits, that there could be a distributed search engine that runs on donated CPU/storage like those SETI and genome projects.

Thanks for the info.
Perusing their website makes it appear that they have killed off the Apple Thunderbolt Display.