skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like someone fell for the passionate bit. Translation 'work really cheap for me and really hard'. They take the passion straight to the bank and give you a pat on the back, trust me.
> Are you saying these appliances don't work at all without internet connectivity?

Yep. Can't use my Vizio Smartcast TV without connecting it to the internet for 10 hours of updates. Can't use my Nexus 5 without connecting it to the internet to upload my identity to Google.
How did you know they were fake? Could it have been someone returned fake headphones and kept the real ones?
Always subject to taxation by the US. There's a fairly high initial exemption for money earned abroad while living abroad.

The only exception is Puerto Rico
> Apple is behaving as if they're a boutique OEM.

Not sure what you mean.

If they made the computer much faster, I imagine it'd get too hot or noisy.

The main failure IMO was that the only real innovation was a touch bar replacing function keys that as far as I can tell no one asked for or wanted.

However, macOS still beats Windows 10 because it's more intuitive and usable and has fewer quirks.

I don't want one of these because of the touchbar, though. It just seems unnecessary, and I wish they would've waited on a more practical innovation that would solve a problem and not remove physical keys and be a distraction and take away from design aesthetics.
Not really.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
That sounds more like a concentration problem than a framework one.
>The new computers are already back-ordered by 4-5 weeks, so clearly someone's ordering them.

Does them being back-ordered matter much (outside of annoyance to consumers)?

Wouldn't it be more informative to see the absolute numbers of back orders now relative to the numbers for previous releases? For all we (public) know is that the back-ordered demand could be from smaller supply initial supply, not necessarily from record demand.

Are such numbers public knowledge?
I suppose if this will be routed through the compositor, then it can provide needed security control.
I disagree with the part that recommends BSD instead of GPL. It's a myth that GPL doesn't allow software to be used for commercial ends. It only forces the person to contribute back the changes, letting the others profit from their work as they profited from theirs.
Some interesting points.
Sales risk seems very focused towards enterprise sales, but I believe having a go-to-market strategy is more important than just having the ability to hire experienced salespeople. Some products don't even need sales people, but the channels, partner platforms, etc should be identified. Does this product rely heavily on inbound leads, require SEO or content generation, etc?

Also, certain risks inherently trump others for early stage startups. Moving from a 3 to a 5 under Product/Market Fit is a much more ideal compared to moving recruiting risk from 1 to 3 or team risk from 1 to 3. (After all, it's kind of moot to hire full time employees for every area if you don't even have good P/M fit)
Tokyo to Anchorage is roughly 5500km, vs. 600km for LA to San Francisco.

Alternatively, how much cargo does FedEx or UPS fly along the California coast?
I usually cheat and review a selection of whatever I'm interested in from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
How much extra sales can you really get from DRM-free sales years after the fact?
I love how the solution was to add another layer of emulation.
Usually acquired studios pay for the mistakes of their parent companies. I don't know to which point it is a good idea to acquire a profitable company for millions of dollars, to set it for failure and then close it.
That last sentence was really uncalled-for. I think you don't really understand that I was discussing an economic argument.

Regarding putting a cramp in your style - how about if a thief has stolen your phone with valuable something on it that isn't anywhere else, but you have an application that tells you where the phone is and you own a shotgun. Can you go and get your phone back by force if in your calculation it has a higher chance of actually solving your immediate problem, than involving the police? Why or why not? It's your phone. The thief knows what he did. The thief knows that it's yours.

I am not saying that there is no argument on your side of letting people take care of issues directly with criminals (whether by force or transferring ransoms), but there are important arguments on the other side as well. It's certainly not so clear-cut that you can start ending with petty insults (and please check your reply to be substantive if you reply to this.)
Before the Flood – Full Movie – National Geographic
Any amount means profit. Is there any sensible reason not to release them DRM-free? Besides psychological / political ones (like 2K being scared of DRM-free conceptually), I don't see any reasons.
There's simply no point for Apple to switch desktop CPU architectures unless there's a unavoidably compelling reason to do so. The move to Intel met this high threshold easily.

A modest cost saving doesn't qualify and would be partially swallowed up by R&D costs. Energy/thermal savings might be a reason in theory, but how much of a laptop's energy use goes to the CPU anyway? Apple seems to be doing just fine with Intel's low-TDP parts anyway.
This is a site which takes images in the public domain, adds a watermark and charges for reprints.
Diehard Vim user here. I use Vim-motions everywhere, system-wide.
You should at least try Spacemacs, learn the layers system and then based on that build your on configuration. Trust me - it just makes things a lot easier. Spacemacs comes in different "flawors" you can choose bare-bones, instead of default and then add anything you want on top of that.
Suggesting China and India aren't doing enough is at best a form of colonialism and at worst racist. Both produce far less CO2 per capita than western countries. The west has an interest in stunting their industrial growth not out of any sort of altruistic concern, but because they fear competition. Regardless, both India and China are embracing renewables and clean energy at a faster pace than the west, they're not only the future economic powerhouses but also more progressive environmentally.
I've found Firefox for Android quite excellent, especially because of Firefox Sync between it and laptops.
https://hyperloop-one.com

$141M funding.
One element of the Industrial Revolution was the military power necessary to secure resources and land to develop it. Given a wood-fuel powered industry, this meant a lot of wood.

I've been meaning to run the calculations as to how much a full first rate ship's fire would equate to in wood equivalents. I'm basing this off of the HMS Victory, a 104 gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

Armament consisted of 30 x 32#, 28 * 24#, 30 * 12#, and 2 each 12# and 68# forecastle guns.

A single round from all guns (unlikely -- a broadside would be half the armament) would then unleash 1.1 tons of iron shot.

From Vaclav Smil, iron smelting requires an 80:1 ratio of source fuelwood to output iron, with the fuelwood first being converted to charcoal, a 4:1 reduction itself.

Firing all guns of the Victory expends the smelting power of 92 tons of fuelwood -- about 30 cords.

Canon could manage perhaps 2 rounds in a minute, with sustained rates of 20-40 rounds in an hour. At the upper bound, we're looking at 3,600 tons of wood in shot consumption.

The Victory herself required 6,000 trees in construction, was refurbished after her first major engagement at a cost greater than her initial construction, but perhaps in compensation, remains to this day as the oldest commissioned warship, having first launched in 1768.

I haven't done the calculation of gunpowder usage, though I've got a reference for 6# charge for a 24# gun. If that's proportionate to all guns, then a full round would be 1/3 ton of powder.

If anyone has a source for UK or US arms manufacture (guns, shot, powder) for the 17th - 19th centuries, I'd be quite interested.
-18th centuries, I'd be interested.
which is being causes in large part by drought related to climate change

Have an example? I thought it was a war in Syria.
Why not LPDDR4 against LPDDR3? LPDDR4 is also more efficient and has better density.
Maybe. But the industrial revolution was all about amplifying human production capability through machines. If it's a zero-sum game then it's not worth it.
"in what I can only call a tremendously good example of how not to copy Apple‘s mistakes, the built-in Music app looks a lot like iTunes, but without any of the bloat."

Not a bad writeup. For me music is via XTools->mplayer
The real measure should be CO2 output per unit of GDP. We still need to make stuff, so if you're going to release CO2, it better be an efficient use of it.
Its hard to imagine how traumatic almost dieing or almost having your kids die would be to the individual.
For those in NYC, there's also https://www.meetup.com/ctoschool/ which has its own similar mailing list.
How exactly does one "burn through" intellectual capital?

Knowledge isn't consumed in the knowing. It can be forgotten.
Most Beautiful Eyes – Oil on Canvas (TIME LAPSE) – Anartistinside.com
Ugg no!

Are saying is that unless you can afford to start your own company you should not care about what you do all day every day?

Absolutely agree that you need to be thinking about your own growth and compensation, but let's be honest, your growth probably going to happen inside somebody elses company, I don't think you should let that hold you back on enjoying every day and trying to be the very best at whatever it is that you do.

I would argue you should not put off passions for some future day. Life is short. Be passionate today.

I dont know how your friend "lost everything" when High Voltage went bust. Did he go to jail or something?
Spacemacs is not just a mode or a bunch of modes. Building decent evil-based config is not easy and may take years. Every Vimmer I believe should at least try Spacemacs.
The "barf ride" comments were the result of calculations which included rotating the passenger compartment.

See https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loop... linked from the original article.
The reason why the US is ~16 times higher in CO2 output is.... the US produces ~15 times more by GDP (2.45T vs. 0.17 T).

It's not like American's are just sitting there burning coal for the fun of it. It's being used to make stuff.
Just FYI - hoop stress as you've quoted it assumes a thin walled cylinder. I haven't worked on the LHC so don't know the dimensions; however, this assumption is really only valid for D/t > 20 or so before solutions diverge at which point the interaction becomes more complex than R/t.
Handwritten digit classification
You might want to look at the OP you replied to. They've cut their teeth on game making.
My guess is that you have a higher end phone. I have a Moto-G and tried to use Firefox, but it was noticeably slower than Chrome, annoyingly so. Had to switch back.
Very few development environments need 32gb. Would I like 32gb in my mbp? Yes. But 16gb gets the job done.

The inconveniences of using another platform (or lack of support with macOS on unsupported hardware) far outweighs the slight benefit of 32gb vs 16gb of ram.
To put it into perspective Australia's population is 23.13 million. Most people live near or around the main capital cities. Flipping the coin on the other side when looking at the population for some American States/districts California (38 million), Texas (26 Million), Florida (19 Million) it's pretty easy to see why Aussie market is so much smaller.
I agree. It was a great VIDEOGAME. Bleeding edge graphics -- nope, but it made up for it in spades with good, fun gameplay. Reminded me (in substance rather than style) of a PC-equivalent to a first-party Nintendo game -- not everything needs to be a sweeping epic of action movie sizzle, or super dramatic story telling. Call me old fashioned, but sometimes I like playing videogames that are games.
2 years from now, Apple will release a laptop with a keyboard like this in it, and claim to have invented e-ink.
It still is an issue - carriers (at least in NZ) still ask you if you've backed up SIM contacts before switching the phone number to a new card.
I am really intruigued when people say they do most of their computer usage on an iPad. I get massively frustrated anytime I try to do almost anything other than consome on an iPad. As just one example trying to copy snd paste almost anything makes me want to tear my hair out it's so frustrsting. Moving the cursor or trying to fight with the os about what I really want to select as it keeps trying to expand my selection, or the fact tbat I can't copy the text of a link, only the link itself.

That's just one of many frustrstions I run into anytime I try to use ios (or Android) for anything other than consuming and so I'd really like to know am I doing it wrong? Is there some magic to work around these issue? Do others just never need to do the things I need do regularly?

It's so bad I recently bought a headmountable camera to document the frustrations in the hopes of generating some awareness of the issues because I'd love to be able to get by with just a tablet.
The new touchpad got so big it looks impossible to type without touchpad activity.

Isn't the illusion of scarcity and back orders from product launch 101 to encourage higher demand?
What am I missing here? 0.6"/decade since 1900 would be 6.6" by 2015, and the article says sea level rose as much as 6.7" in the last century.
Security is in the same leaky boat as the sysadmins
A person can be a creationist without being a fool

How, brainwashing aside?
That doesn't really solve it; there's limits on how much you can rotate the cabin, and how quickly you can rotate it. Lots of math here: https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loop...
"good resources"

always been partial to "A Tale Of Five Editors" ~ http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch13s02.html
My current laptop is thinner than the new 13" Macbook Pro (bearly, by just 0.5mm). Way thinner than the 15" Macbook Pro.

Yet it has full sized USB 3.0 ports, a USB-C port, SD slot and an HDMI port.

The only reason those ports don't fit on the new MacBooks, is because the bottom curves up near the edges.
I hear this logic but dont buy it. Yes many western countries were polluting heavily during the industrial age, but that was using the best technology that existed at the time. The world now knows better about these harmful environmental practices, and has access to better tech to avoid this. If you apply this thinking that 'its what the other countries did previously' that's fine but then you do you expect developing continues not to utilise computers and other new technology for 50 years while they catch up? You cant have it both ways or your just cherry picking what suits your bias.

I feel the better arguement is that per capital these countries are lower polluters and we need to all strive to reduce pollution to an acceptable per-capita level. And as a global population need to look at how we lift everyone lifestyle while reducing environmental harm. This 'you had your turn polluting the world and now it's mine' lacks logic and will not solve the problem.
Well I hope NodeJS ultimately settles on such a syntax to preempt and resume automatically. I love Golang in this regard since it abstracts out everything using channels, and go-routines (not to compare multiple thread support).
The point of such a law is not to punish ransom payers but to make it so that they never are asked for ransom in the first place.
Compare the new rMBP against a Thinkpad P50 that is much cheaper yet 4K, Xeon and upto 64GB.

It's a bit of a hulk being the weight of a 2012 MBP.
Can't you just set up a simple filter?
Author also worked at Facebook. According to your logic it would be awful if North Korean journalists would talk about freedom of speech.
What I find annoying about this "hyperloop" hype is that it's just a rehash of the concept of a vactrain, but because Musk wrote it is suddenly genius and visionary (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain).
That's convenient.

Presumably you'll stop driving, give up home air con and electricity, never fly anywhere, etc. Because those things aren't related to your GDP production.
Totally agree. Its a damn shame, too, it fit so elegantly into a programming style that looked very analgous to the threading library. Look at Tornado's StackContext to see the kind of mess that callpack passing creates. Its a gc nightmare.
Voter participation is certainly not a clear-cut issue.

Are the extra voters brought into the process as informed as the voters that sought out participation with no outside push?
Like weapons for export to Saudi Arabia to level Yemeni towns to reduce CO2 emissions, for example.
Fascinating watching this go down. It's like capitalism vs religion but the iteration cycle is months/years not decades/millennium.
Give it a rest - web applications running in generalized browsers make awful desk-tray applications. The mac & windows Slack app is great - all of the power and connected-ness of a web app without all of the annoyances of accidental web browser navigation.
I... uh.

Firstly, the number cited was ~10 times the CO2 output per capita, not ~16.

Secondly, it doesn't follow that GDP production in a primarily high tech, services, IP based economy should track the CO2 behavior of a different sort of economy. It's entirely possible that we're producing far and away more GDP and wasting CO2 production needlessly. (In fact, out GDP multiplier is 1.6 times higher than our CO2 multiplier, hinting that the two are at least partially decoupled.)
> back-ordered by 4-5 weeks

Lol, they were 4 weeks "back ordered" the minute they went on sale. It's not strange Apple keeps pulling this stunt (after all, they save on production costs by not actually manufacturing anything until orders come in), but it's really baffling how people keep pointing at it as a sign of success. Even the most unpopular car manufacturer will make you wait a month for a car.
It's a small world after all.
Have you noticed how you hear about 100 reports about how things may be worse than we though, for each report about the opposite?

This says nothing about science, and a lot about what stories get people's attention.
Microsoft in 2016: A Review from a Unix Geek with a Surface Book
I don't get the racing analogy. It's not like you can buy a Formula One racing car.

If Apple started making super computers to play chess then the analogy would be valid.
Exactly - just about the ideal sort of desktop application right now is a web app running in a dedicated web view. You don't worry about accidentally closing it with the rest of your browser or navigating away from it, but you still have the awesome-ness of a web application.
Err, in this instance I don't think they were directly comparable.

We always had the impression somebody far up the chain would be looking at the spreadsheet and thinking about where they want to invest further. It may have been our imagination.

In fact, now that I think about it, probably the opposite was happening because a lot of effort when into growing the Marin Studio in California which I'm sure would have been even more expensive per head than us.
Skylake does not support LPDDR4, nor does Kaby Lake (except with their ultra-low power chips).

I don't think we're going to see 32 GB RAM in the ultrabook category until LPDDR4 is supported by Intel in their mobile-class processors.

Edit: AnandTech suggests that LPDDR3 is 25-30% more power efficient than DDR4. (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6326/additional-details-on-mic...)
Istanbul's Wandering Songbirds
You would just need the smell of blood, gunpowder, and charred meat.
Surface is nice, But would i trade my Macbook for it, No!
MacOS has plenty quirks for me though... I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server (my android or boot camp give me no trouble). I should probably blame Google, but the ATF app sucks and gives a lot of problems transferring large or numerous files (ended up using WiFi... I get periodic blue screens (kernel panics) from using Chrome. When finder crashes I can't seem to be able to initiate it without a hard restart... I have had it for 3 years and it's only been one thing after another.

I love some features, but the trouble on a day to day basis is not worth it.
I enjoyed Richard Buckland's videos as much for his sense of humor as for the actual content. Some of them are apparently now part of a mooc, but the ones I watched a few years ago are just recordings of his lectures at UNSW.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BucklandRichard
What if evolution is... Intelligently Designed?
I live in Yunnan, southwest China, which is very close to India. Most of Asia's major rivers descent from eastern Tibet or its foothills in or close to Yunnan: the Brahmaputra (Assam), Salween (Yunnan), Mekong (Yunnan), Red River (Yunnan), Yangtze (Yunnan), Yellow River (Qinghai).

China has built huge numbers of hydroelectric dams, in fact this region is almost certainly the unmatched world center for hydroelectricity. It is also one of if not the most ancient center of large scale hydro-engineering, due to Dujiangyan.[0]

16 years ago when I arrived, there were very few such dams, and all at smaller scale, so the pace of change has been great. (IMHO Beijing has done an OK / not terrible job of balancing these energy/"national security" requirements with ecological protection efforts.) Also, foreigners are often unaware that e-bikes are the dominant form of personal transport throughout China already. In terms of long distance transport, China's ever-expanding railways (eg. permafost-floating railway to Tibet!) carry more freight than any other country's network, and they are lending assistance to neighboring countries (Laos, Myanmar) on similar hydro-electric and rail infrastructure projects.

Given these observations, I find it ridiculous to suggest that China is not doing its part. However, I do question the wisdom of allowing so many of its citizens to buy cars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujiangyan_irrigation_system
$1,300 is a pretty standard price for 5k in my experience.
Outside HN I really haven't seen posts complaining about the new Apple offerings. So it could be Apple only pissed off a particular type of developers.
Dell XPS 13" (9350) goes up to 16GB - soldered on, not upgradable.

Dell XPS 15" (9550) goes up to 32GB - upgradable after purchase with 2x memory slots.

e:

Links for the 15" with 32GB:

Dell Australia:
http://www.dell.com/au/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/pd?oc=z510896au&...

Dell USA:
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-la...
The change in density is small but it is not zero. It does change sea level but not in a significant way.
NW.js now with Web Workers
I've found http://exercism.io/ to be very good for learning a new language.
> a few dozen Chrome tabs

There's your problem.
> Ransomware is by far the most economically damaging kind

is it though, compared to malware ? Consider an elderly person who gets infected with malware/spyware, making his user experience frustrating and confusing. 2 or 3 trips to the Geek Squad for $150 a visit and you're at the same financial loss as paying a ransom. I'm sure there are also people who just dont use their computers due to infections.

Plus, malware has got to be much more prevalent, at least for a long time it was, not sure what the state of it is now. So in total, I would wager that many more dollars have been spent for techs to remove it than have been spent on ransomware.
It seems that nowadays "toxins" are what used to be called "evil spirits".

If they were physical substances, they'd have names.
You'd think Atlassian leaving and being really vocal about it would have helped. 6 billion dollar company now.
Oh, don't tease! :) What's your current machine?
A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed Digital San Francisco
This is a great way to look at these things, love the analogy.