skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To avoid extracting irrelevant features, the TSFRESH package has a built-in filtering procedure. This filtering procedure evaluates the explaining power and importance of each characteristic for the regression or classification tasks at hand.

> It is based on the well developed theory of hypothesis testing and uses a multiple test procedure. As a result the filtering process mathematically controls the percentage of irrelevant extracted features.

Here's the paper on this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07717

It seems that the relevance of the features is somewhat tunable based on the p-value you choose for the statistical tests. (Every feature selection algorithm I can think of has some tunable parameter, although the information theoretic ones just depend on the length of features you're willing to consider.)
Over time, I saw one intriguing idea that any person would reject immediately as they shock the sane mind, but that I thought may be worth a bit more consideration:

Moving away from a pure text format. If you think about it, a lot of projects already do that: Android projects and Visual Studio projects often include GUI descriptions. Sure, they are XML, technically a text format, but not designed for direct redaction by a human.

It is the thing I have realized when, despite a lot of ideological reservations, I started to like Visual C#: a programming language is linked to the way it is used, to its IDE.

I wish language designers would embrace that fact, and not assume that the IDE would be a generic text editor. I think that is holding back a lot of possible designs.
You're conflating paradigms (program design philosophies) with language features (program design tools):

(0) Functional programming is a paradigm that encourages expressing computation as expression evaluation, and discourages relying on more computational effects than are necessary to obtain a desired result.

(1) Object-oriented programming is a paradigm that discourages directly manipulating data structures from different parts of a program. Objects expose operations that act on a data structure hidden from the rest of the program.

(2) Effect segregation is a feature of some programming languages, notably Haskell and its descendants. An effect system classifies computations according to their possible effects, just like a type system classifies computations according to their possible results. You wouldn't call static typing a paradigm, right?
Glad to know it's not just me that sees performance and memory issues with Slack...
Great and valid point. My counter to that is that despite having only 5% of the market share they take home 45% of the profit. [1]

They also continue to erode the marketshare of the current leaders even as the overall PC market shrinks. [2]

[1] http://fortune.com/2013/04/16/pie-chart-of-the-day-apples-ov...

[2] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/10/09/report-apple-widens-sh...
This reminds me of a similar museum my wife and I stumbled on in Girona this September: Museu del Cinema. Four stories of movie-making history with a very heavy focus on pre-motion picture equipment and devices like magic lanterns, zoetropes, 3D viewers and shadow puppets. We were the only patrons there in this otherwise touristy part of town. Highly recommended!

http://www.museudelcinema.cat/eng/colleccio.php
I know to do that and I have still had bad experiences. I am pretty sure Amazon does not have a simple/transparent way to do this. They certainly don't have a search tool for this, which would be necessary for it to matter anyways.
They never could support 32GB of RAM AFAIK.
Meh. With $200B in liquid assets, Apple can do whatever it feels like. If it ever did find itself in the doghouse (unlikely), it could survive there for decades while it figured out how to recapture the mojo.
Have you got an example of something on the AUR "never working again"? I'm assuming you mean some kind of dependency problem?
I know. I'd most likely buy a Dell XPS.
Because remember those popular Mac|Windows commercials from a few years ago? If you want a stodgy get-stuff-done kind of thing then you'll have to talk to some Microsoft nerds sporting antique crap like headphone jacks. Apple only cares about how hip you look, with your brand new airpods and all your disposable income.
Solar and wind based energy production is not going to fully or even mostly replace our gas/coal burners because they lack constant and predictable outputs.

Also, we have neither infrastructure for storing power at this level, nor would it be economically feasible.

Hydro and geo-thermal are better sources in this sense, but neither are abundant and have their own drawbacks.

'- promote the use of electricity and natural gas in place of coal' - Only valid if the electricity is produced by means other than burning fossil fuels, otherwise you are just moving the problem up the supply chain.

Same way with electric cars, if the electricity is still being produced by dirty means, it is not all that impressive a reduction in poluttion or emissions, it's just moving the problem up the chain.

Not trying to sound defeatist or anything, it's just not a complete solution, still seem like band aid attempts by themselves.
These ads specifically were the ads that drove me to ad blockers. I resisted for years, as I took the stance I simply didn't visit sites that had overly obnoxious ads. I've had flash turned off for years so that likely cut down on a lot of that garbage anyway.

Then these fake "Other things you might like" ads started appearing around many sites. Occasionally somewhat relevant, but always click-bait headlines. I was even tricked once or twice early on, since I hadn't yet recognized those as ads.

Then they started becoming outright obnoxious, and everywhere, and one day I just lost it and installed an adblocker. Now I can't imagine how I'd ever go back.
Population(Billions): US 0.3 - 1.2 India

CO2 emissions per capita(metric tons): US 16.4 - 1.6 India [0]

I see numbers like this, and I am surprised that in 2016, in the face of evidence and danger, we still have arguments like I will not do anything because you didn't do enough according to me. Let it all burn down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
ctrl + [ changed my vi life.
It's more expensive (not cheaper) to run a startup today
Thank you for taking the time to post this. It's good advice from someone who is certainly our target audience.

A few answers/questions below:

* Bootstrapping with only a few names that are likely unrecognizable. I'm not the CTO of some random unicorn or vc-backed start-up. It's all the more reason I could use a peer-to-peer mentor. When I posted, there was only two of us who mutually agreed to it being a good idea. Myself? 4 years XP as a CTO and him 3 years 5 months. We started talking back and forth about small problems that plagued us or our teams. As we started helping each other, we realized there are likely many more like us who would benefit from having a peer to talk with.

* I am working on this now. Right now I am manually moderating the applications with only a name and email address to work from. Luckily, if you're a CTO/VP, you're name is pretty well published and indexed by LinkedIn, Google, etc. Lesson learned, if you build it they may come and you are likely going to be stuck with the repercussions of any decisions you hadn't made yet. I really should have asked for more on the form. At any rate, those that I cannot find easily I am replying back asking them to share more about themselves with me.

* Exactly right. At this time, it's a single email-list with a Q&A model and open discussion environment. You drive home a good point. Where I am a founding member and moderator, I need to clearly document our expectations, rules of the mailing list and a code of conduct as to what is appropriate to discuss and what is not. People do not want to be surprised when they are banned and a simple code of conduct can easily inform people and prevent them from posting something we don't want discussed or shared. Some of these may be legal minimums - for example, an anti-trust policy stating we cannot discuss pricing or fix the prices of our products especially where competitors may be on the same mailing list. I'm working on this now. As the group becomes larger, we likely need bylaws to further govern the organization.

* Great point regarding an explicit ban on advertising on the mailing list. That is definitely my intent.

Thank you again for taking the time to review and comment.
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For every rule of thumb there are exceptions. In this case, if you lose the professional market, which is more than just developers, also designers, photographers, videographers, architects, scientists, you risk a sort of negative network affect.

In most families and circles people go to the person in the group who knows the most about tech, usually professional user. This person will often recommend products they themselves value and are familiar with. Obviously I can't prove this effect was partly responsible for Apple's come back, but it's certainly true in all the social circles I'm a part of and I think a decent hypothesis.

I don't think anyone is asking for your number two reference. It's more that people simply want their use cases considered. In many cases they are not. You can argue that the key changes are not crucial, and that the USB ports are future looking. But what about the lack of 32gb ram? The lack of new processors? What about the sdcard reader (yes, consumers mostly use phones now and don't need it, but professional cameras are going to be using sdcards for the foreseeable future)?
What are you considering as your next purchase?
"Literary != quality"?

If not, then solve for X in "X == quality".
> The only reason they really need the Mac is Xcode for all those iOS apps that need to be developed.

This is simply not true. MacOS is at the very least a companion OS that gets more and more tightly integrated with the iOS devices. App handover, now also copy/paste, etc etc. An iPhone without a Mac loses many of its advantages over Android. Let alone that there are no signs Apple is going to abandon the Mac business as you say, the recent MBP announcements being the best proof of it.

On (2) switching to ARM: I personally don't believe in this, because this will break a lot of software and will seriously piss off a lot of people. The switch to Intel was relatively easier back in the day because the Mac user base at the time was laughable and there was a big promise that the Macs will become a lot more powerful. I know about the bitcode and stuff, but the more I think about it, the less I believe Apple is prepared to make the switch for its laptops and desktops. Maybe, just maybe one separate product line like MacBook Air switches to ARM, but then what's the point?
What I mean is that the energy wouldn't be lost. The turbulence wouldn't result in a net loss of energy, except that which was lost as heat through the walls (a 1cm layer of vacuum would insulate against that).

Am I thinking if this wrong?
I don't know how to explain it -- but as an enthusiast, I sorely, sorely miss the S2000 and hope Honda comes out with something similar. It really feels like it lost something without it.
And before you say anything about conveniences of SaaSS in collaborative work flow: I'm a professor and I've been writing papers, posters, presentations, books, etc using latex for like 2 decades. I'm pretty sure I used LaTeX more than you, and for serious stuff.

This is going to be anecdotal, and I'm not going to get into details but in one instance, parts of our paper has been leaked before publication by an intern at Google (some of us were using gmail). Since then, we all moved to a private mail server and we're encrypting our correspondences with our collaborators. I know that stuff like this happens rarely, but when it happens, it hurts you.

Aside from principles regarding freedoms, or the creepiness of mass-surveillance, I've already been bit by "cloud" once, so I'm more careful about this than average person.
So don't ask me to trust some random dude with a cool startup, or a well-known company with my important data.
I've not seen those in some time. Thank you uBlock Origin. On Android I use Firefix with Javascript disabled and in desktop mode. And if it's unreadable, I prefix url with

about:reader?url=
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China has 22 nuclear reactors under construction, they are also collaborating with nuclear power innovators, and building renewables. India is also building more nuclear and solar. Honestly, I wouldn't be worried about them, they are the superpowers of 21st century and will understand negative consequences of climate change to their era.

I would be more worried about US & Europe - Germany is shutting down nuclear plants, opposition of nuclear is strong everywhere in Europe, US has been very reluctant to participate in climate deals and has a lot of climate-deniers in power.
Lenovo have a bunch of laptops which support 32GB and even 64GB RAM at under $2k like the T460. Then again, some of them don't have great SSDs or displays.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/landingpage/promotions/weekly-s...
There was a MBP that supported 32 GB of RAM ?
Same. Definitely not trivial to use, but generally I can get anything I want to get done with a quick google. I'm surprised at the hate on this website. I do a lot more googling for coding. I get if you're doing something exotic in LaTex, but for writing a paper, a presentation, or resume, it is fairly straightforward.

The key to easily writing LaTex is making a few skeletons and then just reusing them.
No, sorry! We're looking for CTOs that are working in the trenches with us to act as peer mentors and advisors.
Thanks! I pulled out some of the stats:

From 1997 Macworld Expo

- Apple marketshare: 7%

- 80% of all computers used in advertising, graphic design, prepress, printing

- 64% of Internet websites created on Macintosh

- ~ 10-15% Mac sales traced back to people using Adobe Photoshop

- Apple single largest education company in the world

- 60% of all computers in education were Apple

- 64% of computers teachers use were Apple

- Over $2 billion business in education

Also of note: Steve was not wearing a black turtleneck.

So it's pretty clear what segments of the market Apple was dominant in.

The question in my mind is related, but slightly different: what percentage of Apples revenues and profits came from these segments? Were there other markets out there that perhaps Apple wasn't dominant in but still contributed significantly to Apple's overall revenues? That said, I wouldn't be surprised if these two segments were the majority.
Yes, it's duress. I'm sure you having 10 years of your life locked up in an encrypted vault would put a cramp in your style.

>transferring cold hard cash to them

So? If I go to the 7-11 and buy a soda, and the cashier has been skimming the till, I am transferring cold hard cash to a thief.

The difference you keep skipping over is mens rea and I suggest you read up on it before you sound more foolish than you already are.
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The new mbp left me disappointed with the high price and the lack of power the machines pack. I'm looking for a laptop that has a good processor, an ok-ish GPU, a good screen and a great battery life. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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constantly updating the sqlite temp file.
"In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. According to InsideClimate News, melting sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere might raise water levels more in “the southern Pacific Ocean and equatorial regions.”

With all due respect, but melting sea ice doesn't raise sea level. It's a scientific fact the author should check carefully before publishing.
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If your workflow is Mac-oriented, buying a trashcan Mac Pro right now is really expensive for pretty outdated hardware. MBPs are pretty much the only game in town.
SWAT 4 didn't sell that well tbh, Tribes Vengeance was pretty bad and Vivendi stopped supporting the game 6 months after it's release, it was primarily a multiplayer only game and received only 1 patch, and Freedom Force was a joke.

It's also should be noted that Ken Levine is somewhat known to be hard to work with, there was a fall out with Vivendi/Sierra and there were issues with employees leaving Irrational after having fights with him (you can find various posts on industry forums) which also lead to Nate Wells (Executive Art Director) leaving Irrational for Naughty Dog.
Neither the Model M nor the AEK II is a “pinnacle” of anything. The best keyboards were made earlier, in the 1970s. By the mid-1980s when the Model M debuted, or the early–mid 1990s of the AEK II, keyboards were already started along their downward cost-and-quality-cutting slide, albeit not yet to the final rubber dome ditch of the late 1990s through 2000s.

If you can, try to find an Apple Standard Keyboard (M0116) or Apple Extended Keyboard (M0115), with orange-slider Alps switches. Try to find one in as close to unused condition as you can (ideally you want something which was stored inside a box for 25 years), as getting dust inside the mechanism affects the typing feel of Alps switches dramatically. If you can, also try to find some blue-slider (clicky) Alps switches from the same time period (late 80s through about 1990).

Most keyboard “enthusiasts” agree that these are nicer keyswitches than the AEK II’s cream-slider Alps switches. The later switches were after some cost cutting design changes at Alps (and maybe production expansions to new factories?). And also have their feel somewhat compromised by the inclusion of rubber dampers in the switch which were added to cut some of the sound.

Also, instead of a Model M, see if you can find a Model F. They’re in my opinion much more satisfying to type on, albeit a bit louder.

Other clicky switches you might try are blue SMK switches, black NMB–Hi Tek switches, and IBM beam spring switches.
I feel like Tim Cook decided to double down on the "Apple as a luxury brand" business model.

If that's the focus, then it makes sense to emphasize thinness, aesthetics, and raise the price at the same time.

Microsoft on the other hand seem to be working hard on winning developer mindshare again, as they know they can't compete with Apple in the branding space.

I hope the surface book 2 will have a 32gb option.
Heh, these ads were so bad to the point of being ridiculous. I had fun reading them because they seemed so self aware and like a parody of ads.
When I say I'd pay a silly price, I wasn't thinking quite Art Lebedev silly! They discontinued the nicer one (Maximus).

Didn't realise the display was a single piece. Must make the switching and springing challenging to say the least. In fact I struggle to work out how you do it reliably with the tiny space between keys.

One to watch I hope. I look forward to interesting new products! Perhaps not a million miles from a modernised M with media and so forth. Or ergonomic.

ps, licence your keyboard to Apple in preference to getting bought by them, the Linux and PC worlds might like them too. ;)
Yes. The telephone sanitizers become too expensive, dooming us all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker%2...
> 1Password apparently works fine with WINE, but I haven't used it myself.

I run 1Password in Wine in Docker on my (secondary) linux ThinkPad with Dropbox sync. It works, but it's clunky. Part of that is that I don't like the Windows 1Password application compared to the macOS one, though.
Ice is 90% more reflective. Melting sea ice turns the oceans into giant heat sinks and accelerates warming.
and Freedom Force was a joke

What was wrong with Freedom Force? City of Heroes, it was not, but it was a fun little game. It also had a great modding community before the cease-and-desist orders from Marvel started.

Scored well critically, too:
http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/340353-freedom-force/index.ht...
> 4) GPU. Same gripe. NVidia is the undisputed leader in GPUs. Shipping a Radeon which is half the speed of a comparable NVidia offering is really disappointing.

This one is understandable - the AMD 450/455/460 all fit within a 50W TDP. The Nvidia 1060M is at 80W... way too high. The 1050M should be 50W, but it won't be out until early 2017.

The timing of all of this seems weird to me. Since Apple already waited so long to release this update to begin with, would it have killed them to wait just a bit longer to be able to integrate Kaby Lake and the mobile Nvidia cards?
In 2 months when people try out the new laptops and learn that they can easily press the escape button, there's going to be a lot of people feeling pretty dumb about the things they said.
Apple will never abandon the development platform they themselves want. So we get to piggyback on their self-interest...
> "clogging up your filesystem"

In this context, I mean that in two ways (but mainly #2):

1) macOS has a feature (Spotlight) where I can search all of the files on my entire computer with a simple keyboard shortcut. >99% of the time, the result pops up within a second. I use that feature literally dozens of times each day. With LaTeX installed, I got a lot of results that are not relevant to what I want. In hindsight, I should've just disabled the indexing of the files in my install directory.

2) My computer (at the time) had a 64 GB hard drive. As a result, I was straining against the limits of that pretty hard. Uninstalling MacTeX (I believe that was the distribution I used) freed up at least 2 GB. I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy between your quoted figure of 1.2 GB and my experience.

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In addition, ShareLatex's UI was far superior to anything available for OS X (at least, at the time).

My primary interest is in making myself as productive as possible. If using non-libre software gives me significant gains in productivity while not being unreasonable with their licensing terms/costs, then I will use it. That's the same reason I am using macOS. By using this proprietary piece of software, I do not have to tinkle with the inevitable strange bugs that pop up with the various libre options and therefore I am allowing myself to be the most productive I can possibly be. Every time I have tried using a libre OS, I have experienced some kind of bug that's simply impossible to diagnose and solve.

In sum: the value proposition of non-libre software is increased productivity. I highly value productivity. So, I am willing to make the tradeoff. I recognize and accept that if everyone does this, the world is worse off. But, I am selfish and therefore am willing to make the tradeoff (to some extent; my willingness to tradeoff is not infinite).

Sidenote: I could (technically) not throw away my freedoms by hosting my own instance of ShareLatex (as it is, now, licensed under the AGPL), but that's highly inconvenient and I have no interest in being a system admin. Again, this goes back to the idea of increased productivity by using "proprietary" services.
The cited source https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102016/melting-ice-glac... makes it clear it means ice above land, such as Greenland.

It also doesn't use the phrase "sea ice" which seems a confusing phrase.