skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that "50 better than everyone else" measurable? If it is, then the higher salary along with the criteria and specific performance measures could be a good incentive for the rest of the employees to improve.
I really wish HN would go away from this. Either make it "Ask an Engineer" or just drop it all together.

These issues impact men as well, and to move on we need to stop treating one sex differently than another.
Here is a fun read on how Django came to be: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/jul/09/happy-birthday-djan...
Only if you buy specific Thunderbolt supporting 5k displays. If you already own one that only does DP1.4 or some other cable, it won't work. :/
The distinction I was trying to make was "facilitating illegal activities and snubbing those charged with enforcement is not a viable business model."

The risk / reward of fines isn't AirBnB's model, but rather the calculation of the people and landlords offering rentals and their business model.
I guess it's time to remap CapsLock to ESC. Something we all should have done a long ago anyway.
>Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday

Hmmm, you make it sound as if the Microsoft event was a home run - it wasn't. The Surface Studio was interesting, but it's clearly aimed for graphic professionals and its stratospheric pricing put it out of reach for a lot of people. As for the Surface Book, well, considering all of the issues they've had with the previous version I'm not sure people will be so inclined to even upgrade. And let's not even get into the ridiculous pricing for the Surface Book.

>Also, Panos Panay sounds like a genuine, authentic, passionate

You're right about that one. I've never seen anyone so passionate about creating documents and highlighting them.
This is why: https://twitter.com/NickPoorman/status/737647940026634240
Apple has failed at cloud. They have fired their car group. Software-wise, they want MacOS to be as restrictive (I mean featureful) as iOS. Underwhelming hardware updates -- I work for Microsoft and was waiting on upgrading to a new MBP...

I'm an apple household...

Apple 2016 is Nokia 2007.

No innovation, no inspiration.

A strong rival could bury them -- though it will take $$. I'm not seeing how Apple buys them self out of this hole.
Interview with Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, Jony Ive about the MacBook
> there will still be a web after natural selection

Here are 10 things you will do after ad blockers kill the web (You won't believe number 7!!!!)
Yup. I already own 4 chargers that can charge the new MBP and being able to plug the cord into either side is a GOD SEND on my Chromebook Pixel. Sound silly, but it isn't.
Would you want the non-profit search engine to be on par with Google for quality? Google's storage just for the index of web pages is about 100 petabytes.[1][2] To compare, Wikipedia's storage is only ~50 TB[3] and it's mostly static content with no heavy cpu constantly processing the data. Relatively speaking, Wikipedia's operation is tiny and yet they're regularly running banner ads for donations to keep the lights on.

Copying an open-source search engine algorithm from github isn't enough to get a usuable search tool. And buying some 8 terabyte hard drives from Amazon to run a RAID setup in the garage won't store enough data to feed the algorithm.

[1]https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index...

[2]https://www.quora.com/How-large-is-the-Google-search-index-a...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Si...
1. Dell XPS Developer edition

2. Zenbook

3. Xiomi mi notebook

4. New 13" MacBook Pro without screen

5. Refurbished 2016 Mac Air

My debate.
So, when a couple of thousand engineers at Google put their salaries in a spreadsheet, all the good people should have jumped ship?

You're also implying that salary is a function of performance. This is an incredible claim to make.
If self-esteem is so high, why is suicide so common?

Giving someone self-esteem doesn't mean letting them whine all the time. Your swimming instructors saying “C’mon dude, stop complaining, let’s get on with it!” IS giving the kid self-esteem!

Teaching many ways to add is important because not all kids are going to be able to learn the same way at that age. Different methods are going to "click" for different students. And those extra ways of adding aren't useless. In fact I spent a fair bit of time in college math and computer courses learning new ways to count, let alone add.
If we get serious, then it could be said that it's negligent for PCs claiming to be for Pro use not to use ECC memory.

ECC and Xeons aren't fringe exotic technology. Intel obviously has some kind of hang-up with their market segmentation though.
Still needs a linker
The rumor mill says Netflix won't be participating. Which is too bad, because if anyone needed better search, it's Netflix.

But overall, despite being kind of a 'meh' feature, I like it as one with no monolithic TV service (cable/satellite). We don't watch a lot of TV but it will be nice to not have to remember which show we were watching using which app/service.
Yup, acknowledged.

I grew up in the 80s, and I still forget it's an offensive word now.
/u/MechanicalKeyboards would like a word with you.
Is grad school supposed to be a monastic convent?
That's not GitHub but the Atom maintainers' commit style.
I think this is the wrong way to look at Vine's impact.

If you search Youtube for monthly Vine compilations (ie Oct 2016 Vines) these videos have millions of views - enough to make some of these Vine stars into minor celebrities (look up King Bach).

Vine pretty much started the short form video craze.

Twitter missed the opportunity to make it so people visited the Vine app to view these compilations, which would have maybe encouraged the creators to only make content for Vine.

They dropped the ball, and now the top creators all use their competitors.
Honest Question: How does the actual computing hardware on the entry level Surface Studio compare to a $1000 computer?
If you want an interesting way to get paid for OSS software, check this out: https://fair.io/

Basically the idea is that the code is open and free, but if someone uses it a lot to make money they pay you a licensing fee.
I have just spent ~2.8k EUR on a 13". Feels a little weird.
The Founders Trap: The Tunnel Vision Fallacy
Flip Wallet, designed purely as a direct update to bi-folds, is on Kickstarter
> It's also frustrating for programmers when you are handed a high-gloss prototype that has no relation to the actual platform UI classes and guidelines. Implementing all those fancy little triggered animations takes so much time that no one has time to peek at the iOS guidelines and notice how the design actually breaks 80% of Apple's rules.

Yup, that's why I feel it's super important that these type of tools feed into a production workflow. It means you can hit those constraints upfront(removing needless back and forth between eng<->design) and you as a developer don't have to worry about pixel minutia.

It's a win-win on both sides, but a really hard sell since the impact is a second-order effect reflected in the work produced instead of the tool its self.
I went hackintosh a few years ago and while it's got tons of it's own headaches, its a good way to get solid hardware that you can pick out yourself.

I won't pretend that I ever press 'install updates' without a few hours to spare and db backups ready.
Why would it necessarily? I've done it without consequences and I've seen plenty of others do so as well.

Depending on the culture and management sure there could be consequences (especially if they have rules against it) but I'm not sure I understand the default position of assuming consequences.
Has anything like this been tried before? Maybe not a corpse, but some other organic matter?
Vine has had a "watch more" feature for longer videos in non-square formats for a while.
It's just trendy to complain about everything Apple does although most likely 90% of the complainers will be getting these new macbooks anyway.

If they just push the specs up, increase battery life..."Apple isn't innovating anymore", "So what's new?", "It looks just like my old MBP" etc.

Now that they actually bring something innovative you'll get this kind of complains.

Now no matter if people liked this event or not I find it hard to believe anyone seriously though yesterdays MS event was any better. Overpriced useless last gen crap for insane price.
... You have what is really just a webpage in a desktop container using 24gb?

Wat.
Dyn DDoS Attack Likely Launched by Amateurs
Only if you buy specific Thunderbolt-supporting 5k displays. You can't get one off the shelf and have it "just work(tm)".
The only problem with the non-Touch Pro is the lack of ports :/ Otherwise I'd get one right now.
Has much work been done on truly memory-light virtual machines? It seems like a really big opportunity, even if it's really hard.
Does OCaml counts ? the OO layer is actually pretty interesting.
The whole point of the article is that "20" is not representative of the whole number.

Banks are pumping the brakes on hiring, they are losing good talent to other trading shops and investment firms, and they just aren't competitive when it comes to recruiting young people.

If comp is dropping and the firm is carrying out rolling layoffs, then there's not really much of an argument to be made that all is well at GS.
But you can't charge licensing fees on that.

The issue is that Apple is making you a third party customer while they rake in cash from selling a non-standard connector.

Reminds me of Firewire, it should die quickly.
Solidworks
Adobe CS
And yes, the lack of attention to detail with fonts.
Your brain can still react to things when it's asleep though. You can be shaken awake, or shouted awake, or woken up by a bright light. It doesn't seem impossible that seeing something dangerous while asleep could wake you up.
Hire me to build your dream. Seriously
Then use another environment or distro, xubuntu or mate or any other flavor. You can make linux be anything you want it to be.
You might consider talking to Tom Christie of Django Rest Framework. I know he's working on it full time now. IIRC the pay he gets is less than a normal salary, but there are plenty of upsides to the freedom and flexibility he has.
https://camlistore.org/
One concern I have is that editing in vim is going to be more annoying since the escape key is so essential to the vim workflow and now it's a touch key.

I know that some have mentioned that you can map the escape key to the caps lock key, however, I've already mapped my ctrl key to the caps lock key for more accessibility. vim problems :/
Functional Swift Conference 2016
While I really like the look of the Surface Studio I was shocked at the GPU choice and the fact it comes with a hybrid drive. I mean I do think it is still a good machine even for the price but come on!
How to De-Risk a Startup
I just don't understand. The chips have been available for 12 months. It's almost like they're doing it on purpose.
>Why would the incentives go away for bad actors to game the ranking algorithms so that their bad content rises to the top of results?

Then you're talking about bad-actors who are not motivated strictly by financial gain, but by the successful spreading of their bad content. That is not really a problem specific to search engines. It applies to any medium that has the ability to disseminate information.

> E.g. Since the core goal of SMTP is exchanging electronic mail -- it means the incentive for for advertising (SPAM) goes away and the problem solves itself?!?

That is not comparing like to like. Unlike mail servers, google plays a very active role in choosing what kind of content it indexes. My point was that 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. (For e.g. - Google Scholar.)
Interesting, I really like the touch bar (see my comments about wanting to create something similar, if somewhat larger, in other responses) but the overall product leaves me flat. I get thinness in general but when is it thin enough? I certainly felt "if they just made it thinner" wasn't really something that would inspire me to upgrade. Now a cellular modem built in? Maybe. Doubling the battery life? Sure that would be pretty awesome. A clever way to turn it into much expanded "desktop" kind of experience? Sure that would have some interest (Macbooks have sucked at "docking" for a long time).

I think it looks great, and the design touches are top notch, but it doesn't seem to be an improved product than what it is replacing. I miss Steve Jobs keen insights into the way I used things or imagined I might use them. I always felt he was speaking to the issue of "what every you are trying to do, using this tool will make it easier/faster/more intuitive Etc." what I got from this Macbook event was "look how beautiful it is."
I guess who don't have JS in these days are mostly the ones who disabled it in purpose. So a message inviting them to enable would be enough. Also, it's harder for some handicapped people to use interactive websites, so they'd rather have a nice plain alternative than an imitation of the interactive site that's equally harder to use. And, you're welcome :)

Bret's website is an obstacle to the content therewithin. If all he cares is getting hired, then well... But if it's sharing information, he should fix that website.
A Victorian Halloween Party
ThinkPads have always run Linux well. Dell makes laptops with Linux pre-installed, some explicitly for developers, even going so far as to make the manufacturer of some components (touchpad, IIRC) build and upstream Linux drivers.
Right - The site has been running over 3 years now. There wasn't much competition at first but in the last year I've had real competition plus a bunch of copycats, some who actually copied my code and changed the front-end.
I think you need to go read the whole article. These guys are offering an ad blocker that ruins the ad revenue of websites and then offers the solution by also being a paywall.
Skype?
Whether or not it improves her productivity, if she loves working with it, that's worth 100 productivity points.

"The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work." --Donald Knuth

It is worth spending the money, if you have it, to buy the tools you will enjoy working with.
Why not? You can be both ambitious and a dumb ass.
What exactly does 'not being empowered to talk' mean in a place where no one can really tell anyone's gender and everything is online?

I'm just taking your word you're a woman and you have as much opportunity to post or reply as anyone else.
your rant about GPUs on the Studio for 3k is heavily misguided. What you are paying for with that 3k is mostly the new screen and its capability. The closest rival to that screen is a Wacom tablet which is very near the same price point without all the hardware MS has added. Are you aware of the new stuff that is packed into that one screen? That is the question you need to answer for yourself to understand that price point.

As for having "outdated" cards, that is more a function of the production timeline. I am sure the Studio has been in the works for a while and those were probably the best in class cards around the time.
Don't dip your pen and company ink. Better?

It's not about the percentage of marriages, it's about the percentage of relationships that don't result in marriage. It's too risky for a sane person to do this. It's not hard to date outside of your office, it just isn't.

It's fundamentally a horrible decision for anyone to engage in romantic activities with a coworker. Shows no ability to weigh risks, and an inability to keep it in your pants. If you hit on one coworker, what's to stop you from hitting on another? You are a liability to your team if you lack the judgement to avoid office flings.
Apple's new MacBook Pro isn't iPhone-charging friendly
> Tiny and cheap

Like 59 € cheap? For a thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter. (I live in Europe, hence price in euros).

source: apple store europe
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807590 and marked it off-topic.
It would be worthwhile to clarify the term "tracing" to distinguish between live aggregation and post-processing approaches.
The general confusion around the "tracing" terminology seems to imply a competition between these two, while they should rather be seen as complementary.

DTrace, SystemTap and eBPF/BCC are designed to aggregate data in the critical path and compute a summary of the activity. Ftrace and LTTng are designed to extract traces of execution for high resolution post-processing with as small overhead as possible.

Aggregation is very powerful and gives a quick overview of the current activity of the system.
Tracing extracts the detailed activity at various levels and allows in-depth understanding of a particular behaviour after the fact by allowing to run as many analyses as necessary on the captured trace.

In terms of impact on the traced system, trace buffering scales better with the number of cores than aggregation approaches due its ability to partition the trace data into per-core buffers.

Both approaches have upsides and downsides and should not be seen as being in competition, they address different use-cases and can even complement each other.
"retard" (the noun) was offensive in the 80s, too. That was, in fact, usually the point of using it then.
Yes, people are working on an eBPF backend for systemtap.
I am basically convinced those are paid Adds.

"Overwatch was fast and fun on medium settings. Civ VI is what I’ve played the most on the Studio and it looks and runs fantastic."

"When I first saw the device months ago in that secret room at MS, they asked me what I thought. I said, “Well I have no idea if anyone else will want it, but you have made my dream computer.”

Nothing about that is, I went out and paid my own money to buy this.
A tiny startup called SnapRoute has overthrown HPE from leading its own project
Sometimes! My current MBP misclicks occasionally when I'm typing. Even though the software is probably quite good and preventing 99% of the misclicks, the 1% of the time it occurs still ends up being a couple of times per session. It's frustrating and annoying.

Unless they have significantly improved their software, this is a net-negative change for me.
>trackpad clicks a little heavy

Don't like tap to click? Libinput supports it, I thought it was the default on all distros even.
Yes, I work for nVotes/Agora Voting, which is an open source secure electronic/online voting project.
We have about 150+ engineers with Macs - and precisely zero of them asked for a desktop versus a MacBook Pro. Consider the possibility that your statement, "The laptop is fine for fooling around" is a fairly personal experience that isn't necessarily representative of the broad population.
I switched from Windows to Mac two years ago and I am really happy with my MBP 13". But this new announcement is pretty underwhelming. 16GB max RAM, more expensive, no touch screen, nothing new and interesting, but a need for even more adapter cables. But it's really thin!

I am not sure what I'll do when my current Macbook breaks down.
The algorithm would be better, but the goal is keeping the algorithm as far ahead of the gaming as possible, and that's not assured at all.

Though if you could use a parallel universe to do that development...
On a german keyboard layout that's somewhere between hardly typeable (requires 3 keys) on Mac and impossible on other OSes (Ctrl+AltGr == AltGr == No Ctrl)
Dell XPS Developer Editions and ThinkPad workstations. No single specific model counts as a Macbook replacement. You have to choose. (Which isn't bad.)
I guess, that's the end of it. Hereby, my love relation will die when my early 2015 Macbook Pro dies. There is absolutely no reason I'd update. Nil. What kind of "pro" would care about a touch bar? It's merely a toy. More often than not, these machines are attached to larger screens. It's not even going to be used much even if you wanted to. It's stuck with a 16GB RAM. If I buy it now, then I will be stuck with a 16GB RAM laptop for several years. The only thing I can appreciate is it's lighter now, but then I need to carry all the adaptors for HDMI, SD cards, USB devices. I wonder if it would feel lighter or a headache to travel with the new MacBook pro. To sum up it up, I would not consider to replace my 2015 Macbook Pro to a new one even it's for free. What was needed a lighter, more powerful "pro" computer with more battery juice maybe. What we get instead? How am I supposed to benefit from this? Will being able to select emojis from the touch bar increase my productivity?
It does seem to me that if one of the great virtues of a programmer is laziness then too much self-promotion is a resume smell. But then again, it seems to be the nature of the game for the foreseeable future.
>There's a reason the US military put a psychological operations center next to the Googleplex.

Wait, what center are you referring to here?
Brave was the first thing that came to my mind when I read this. What are the advantages of this product over Brave? Being an extension and not a new browser seems nice, and not using Bitcoin is probably better for mass adoption as well. What else? What are strengths of Brave over this?
Hence why I mention that they are still using LPDDR3, which they even left out of the keynote. The major alternative would be using DDR4 I think.
holy hell :|
Saying "this phone sometimes explodes so it's a bomb now" isn't a parodic statement, can you follow? It's not following the protocol to be self-referential to make a point. It's just simply a "what if" manipulation of the existence of the item and a characteristic. Oh the S7 is a grenade now! That's satire, not parody. Not protected by Fair Use in the big picture.

Let me break it down more simplistically: If the GTA mod included the S7, and it could be used as a phone as intended, but the phone would blow up and kill your character at random, then that's a self-referencing S7 parody implementation. It's a really tedious differentiation, I know, I get it, but it's important because of how often the parody / satire / commentary terms sort of overlap in everyday chats but genuinely have distinct parameters, especially in Fair Use cases.
While those are benefits of sleep, I don't believe we consider them to be the reason we sleep.
I for one like what I see.

I currently have 2012 rMBP and love the form factor, love the material. Why would I want something different from what I really like already? I am sure the display will be a lot better, but here, nobody talks about it.

I totally agree that functional keys take too much time and there are some I never ever use. Can't wait to jump on the new MacBook. I'll be more than happy if it lasts me nearly 5 years again.

I don't understand all the negativity recently here on HN. Do you try to look cool guys? Go get MSFT book and leave the rest of us to use what we already love, but better one.
Qualcomm’s NXP Deal Is $47B Wager on Computers You Drive
It's a cool effort, but the pay is not substantial.

https://gratipay.com
What I absolutely do not comprehend: is it so difficult to upgrade the Mac Pro's? Isn't it a matter of just adding more powerful hardware to it?

Like I did myself back in the days, when I built my own PCs. But then in mass production?

It just feels lazy from Apple.
Hell, my three and a half year old W530 has a quad-core i7, Nvidia GPU (Optimus), 32 GB RAM, and a pair of Samsung PRO 850 SSDs.

My one year old MBP (which is really a "2013 MBP") has half the memory and storage of the ThinkPad. In fact, pretty much the only noticeable difference between it and the "new" one is the touch strip. :/
Yes, the reflex is controlled by the "dorsal root" ganglion, at the spine.
Dropping by millions of fewer units shipped each year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269044/worldwide-desktop...