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Let's not forget that all of these papers passed review, meaning the reviewers/editor felt it made a contribution to the field.

Also, just because it didn't get read right away doesn't mean it's a failure. Ask some gray haired academics how often they've seen (first hand or otherwise) an obscure paper from decades ago become key in solving a modern problem.
Not particularly controversial, this partisan, out-of-context trash simply doesn't belong on Hacker News. Why? Because it's pretty obvious that the faux neutrality that comes with these Clinton smears is to distract us from the alternative, which happens to be a racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic bigot named Drumpf.

Yeah, we get it a lot of old white guys are angry they can't treat women, People of Color, etc. like trash anymore. Too fucking bad. You're done, it's not your country and whether you like it or not the millions of brown people you hate are not going home.
I don't know... maybe I'm weird, but if I looked at a house and saw it had PV, I would immediately be more interested.
People keep saying this "for professionals" thing, but what about the previous generation of Pros was so different compared to this new one? The 13" still only had integrated graphics and a dual core cpu. The 15" still only had the option for a kind of bad discrete graphics cards, and the more-or-less top of the line intel laptop chip. Other than 32gb ram, I'm not sure what they could have done here to satisfy "professionals" on the specs.

To me the reason these are Pro devices is they use top of the line materials and manufacturing techniques to make a powerful and portable device that basically lasts forever in computer years. Nothing so far has led me to believe the new MBPs will fail at this. And very little suggests PCs are competitive on this dimension yet.
I thought it was going to be something about 9/11
I just plugged my iPhone SE into my 2014 MBP to charge it while I'm also charging my MBP. Yeah, I do this frequently.

Offering USB-C and USB-A would have been a safe move. I think Schiller said *we don't design for price, we design for the experience". This is a bad experience.

Removing the chime seems like a pointless slap. Again, experience.

I do like having the T1 Security Enclave. We'll see about the function keys but that'll probably turn out pretty good.

16GB DRAM cap is really low, especially when prices got kicked up. Battery charge isn't great since they went with thin. Again, bad experience.

Lastly, I really don't want a thinner MBP. That is the Air which seems to have died. I want a powerful MBP because the P in MBP stands for Pro.
I feel like you're falling victim to a sort of temporal fallacy here. It just happens that Micro-USB is here right now, and you're looking back at the entire history of Micro-USB. In 2 or 3 years, no one will be selling phones charging with Micro-USB and all the cables you bought will be obsolete for your new phone.

In 3 years, USB-C will dominate the market, but will have only a 3-year history of backwards compatibility. Assuming Apple keeps the lightning connector for that time (and I expect they will; 30-pin had a longer lifespan than Micro-USB), they'll have a 7-year history and a far longer history of backwards compatibility than USB-C.

At some point in the future, Apple might even jump on the USB-C train for their phones. But I think it will be a while, and I don't think Apple is doing the wrong thing by their customers by waiting.
Third Bing result for "google play support trademark"

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
The hardware progress is also slowing down. The difference between a PC from 1993 and one from 2000 was massive, but I'm using a seven year old desktop right now and it's running fine.

CPUs seem to have only about doubled in speed in that time. This thing has an i7 860 from 2009 that gets a PassMark score of 5083. The top-of-the-line i7 975 from that time has a score of 6215. A present day i7 6700K has a score of 11011.

Graphics cards have advanced a bit more strongly. But swap out an old disk drive for an SSD and PCs are really staying viable for a long time.
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On the surface it looks like a small speed bump compared to what some startups face in, say, medical devices.

But it depends on where Hotz got his capital. We know it's not a big number. The compliance requirements might have cost more in consultants who are experienced in replying to such information requests, than his paid in capital to date, IF Hotz could find good consumtants in time.

It seems like he had alternatives: To delay roll-out and look for more capital, for example. But everything other than shutting down the project would cost a significant, and possibly, depending on Hotz's access to investors, an insurmountable amount of money within the time he had.

Shutting down might get regulators off his back long enough to take the project offshore.
Only this would be worse. Someone can choose to buy Soylent or use Theranos for themselves and no one else gets hurt. If you a person buys a crappy self driving car system it could kill me, a totally unrelated person.

I don't care how much of a libertarian you are, that's exactly the reason why we have regulations.
Interesting alternative if you're looking for something for your own tools: http://kaitai.io/
Anecdotally. A friend is a surgeon. Does knees and hips. Says patients are getting younger. E.g. late 30s for total knee replacement is no longer uncommon; usually endurance athletes.
Nitrous.io is shutting down its cloud IDE on November 14
Like any new technology early adopters pay way more, because economies of scale have yet to be achieved. Musk knows this, same with Tesla, he is marketing to a high-income target market first, because they are the ideal early adopters and it's easier to scale down rather than scale up features in a product.

And factoring in subsidies, electricity cost savings over a period 5-10 years, it might be more affordable than you think.
No, you intuited that that's what the poster meant. :) It's not like this isn't a well-documented phenomenon.

I can't even tell you how many times this or that politician, analyst, blogger, or forum poster has defended some statement by Trump by saying, "he didn't really mean that", seemingly based on nothing more than assuming he must be way more reasonable than his words suggest, while complaining about people taking him too literally. It's become a cliche in this election. Selectively ignoring someone's words based on an assumption that those words don't reflect their beliefs or character or competence is absolutely relying on intuition.
The problem isn't the browser - it's the newspaper's website.

Between display ads, and the good dozen web analytics trackers, website bloat is the culprit.
What if striving for artistry delights the user, but frustrates the spouse and children or leads to the deterioration of the artist's physical health or mental wellbeing?

There are a lot of ways to deconstruct a one dimensional artists > craftsmen > laborers point of view because it is overly simplistic.

If people are elitists at work and they're snooty about it, why stop them?
If I understand correctly, Bill could end up with @FLOTUS?
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> Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations?

Sounds like Menu Next Door, who had to deal with regulation meant for restaurants when trying to be the AirBnB of food. Things like you had to have a warning about washing your hands in your own private kitchen.
Right. In a recent discussion here about electricity consumption, I Googled National Grid's rates and used those. By coincidence, I got an electric bill the next day and realized that National Grid is almost exactly half my electric bill with the balance being the actual supplier of the electricity--so about $0.20/kWh is Massachusetts.
I always thought Nitrous had more potential as an educational platform as opposed to a remote/cloud based development environment.

It's a shame to see this, they had some cool stuff.
As the founder of Codeanywhere a competitor in the Cloud IDE space this event saddens me. They worked for years trying to change the way people code, but did not make it in the end.

Contrary to what people may or may not think, they will be missed.
That's really sad. I really liked nitrous, and am still a really big fan of the "hack" button for projects.
Hacker News is, as clearly stated in the FAQ, "for things of interest to hackers". Given how widely discredited WikiLeaks is -- pretty much every neutral observer acknowledges they're now little more than a messenger for Russian intelligence operatives -- I can't see much value in discussing this garbage.

There are plenty of places for on the internet where you can find Donald Trump circle jerks where you can discuss this with the plethora of conspiracy theorists, white nationalists and Trump supporters this stuff tends to attract. Hacker News is not one of them.
Sure - but I (and most devs I know) don't care. Let us have the option, Apple.
The thing is, how long before USB-C is everywhere. It's being adopted at a rapid pace. It sucks now but very soon having nothing but USB-C connectors might be an advantage.
Well, considering my last few jobs don't enforce tests that is a shortcoming of mine I'll admit too freely.

My current job is a new batch of programmers (all at the company less than a year and me the newest) that introduced SVN, a dev environment, Nugets and a build system (Jenkins). Needless to say the code that we are working with involves more WTFs than you can shake a stick at and testing is down the list, unfortunately.

I have no doubt I could figure that sort of system out but it would definitely be a challenge for me. There any good demo's of that sort of setup and learning how to navigate it?
Many of the most important advances in science are ignored for decades. To take one well known example, Mendel’s work on breeding of pea plants was published in the 1860s in an obscure journal and completely ignored by biologists at the time, but was rediscovered and popularized 40+ years later and now forms the foundation of the modern understanding of genetics.
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The future of video… 5 steps between now and the VR/AR world
Asphalt shingles need to be replaced, depending on climate and other factors that cause them to degrade, every 10(?) to 20 years.

Thus at least 5% of the total roofing market in existing residential houses, is a potential customer each year.
> I don't care how much of a libertarian you are

Also ask how risk-averse/-taking the other side is.
First Lad of the US, of course.
I have something similar to this. Except I did play soccer (football) when I was younger, and I was pretty good.

At about 12-13 another player and I got cut from my rep team. We would have been forced into the house leagues for that year, instead of regional travel. I was pretty young and nobody really explained the concept of making a team to me. I just always played for the teams I was on, not realizing that I was actually playing at the top level of my club for my age. My dad lost it, and pulled me from the organization. I suppose he thought I was better than some other kids that were kept on. The intent was we'd play for another club. I suppose they were all full by that time, because I never did.

I stopped playing soccer in favour of other sports. I played hockey next year instead. I didn't try out for the high school team because I thought I wasn't a good player. The kid who got cut with me kept practicing, joined the high school team, and got a university scholarship in the US as a player. His father was just as upset as mine was, but I'd say how he approached that problem was quite different.

I'm 41 now, and I play every week in a competitive amateur league; even though I walked away from the game in the critical development years, I'm still good enough to play with guys who played all of their lives. I always wonder how good I could have actually been had I kept it up.

It's a lesson however that I'm constantly aware of for my own boys: Where you are at development wise at any particular time in comparison to others says little about where your ultimate top end might be. How you handle rejection and defeat is more important than how you are when things are going well.
If you send me a push notification unrelated to your app, I will immediately uninstall your app, and you will deserve it for being a spamming sack of shit. I strongly suspect I'm not alone in this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5ab948/scala_2...

https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/5a6lzq/better_releas...
There are several things.

Firstly, they look taped on. We clearly see that there are normal tiles underneath, giving the same impression that a piece of cloth would have if a hole in it had been fixed by stitching a completely different piece of cloth on it.

Secondly, they are not properly aligned at the edge. It might be a bit OCD, but I wouldn't expect my wooden parquetry to stop before reaching the wall.

Thirdly, they are reflective. Reflection is great for things you don't want people to look at, like the toilet door (put a mirror on it) or the Oracle HQ. Nobody wants their home to be a huge mirror, if only because the sun gets painfully reflected to you.
Ugh, no. Not all tech companies should do this.

If your service actually helps me vote (provides information, gives me a ride to my polling place, etc.) then sure, it’s part of the value you offer. But if your app has nothing to do with voting, it’s spam to send me an email or push notification about voting.
Technically, Soylent abides by regulations: they sell flaxseed mixed with peas and oat (I think: I’m in Europe and eat Huel, which has mostly those). None of those are not well-known food sources. There are no regulation about claiming that eating nothing but that is safe; they should (at least, Huel does) have the recommended daily doses of each major molecule on the bag.
Assuming you've got an internet connection available for both of your devices, sure. As an example: I've got a work-supplied iPhone that I use for photos of office activities, sometimes. All the file-sharing sites are blocked on the work network, and I don't have a Mac to deal use an Apple-specific transfer protocol with.

Thankfully, the comment you replied to is moot as well. I plug my phone into my machine, unlock the screen, and pull pictures off it all the time.

Still, when putting music on it, I'm left wishing that I had the option to use something like gtkpod, like I used to use with my iPod, back in the day.
But I won't be happy with my new phone as a whole. You're saying I will, but I won't. You don't know what's inside my mind.
I think it is unlikely that an organization would change for you (or anyone), so there is not much to regret.

I guess one could try to create one's dream job within one company, but it would be a long and ongoing fight, not just a matter of talking with the boss.
Bias test: If you had a way to know with 100% certainty that a user would be empowered by this to go vote for a candidate which you vehemently oppose, would you still show them this banner?

Also see Mike Rowe's (of Dirty Jobs) thoughts on this:

> Remember - there’s nothing virtuous or patriotic about voting just for the sake of voting, and the next time someone tells you otherwise, do me a favor - ask them who they’re voting for. Then tell them you’re voting for their opponent. Then, see if they’ll give you a ride to the polls.

https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/posts/1254500967893...
You're close (it's tricky to follow all these things feeding into all these other things). What they have right now is a prototype WASM -> IR -> pseudo-native code compiler (producing code only fit for being directly executed by a JS VM). What they're proposing is to flesh out the native code backend so that its output can be fed into the usual platform-native compiler toolchains. Then, they'd modify the Rust compiler to be able to produce the IR that this project (Cretonne) operates upon (which may be similar to, but is not precisely, WASM). So Rust would not be producing WASM directly, it would be producing code that is conceptually one level "below" WASM, but still one level above machine code. And yes, in the process this work would also enable the lower levels of a platform-native WASM toolchain.
My favorite take on this is Markdeep:

http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
> Hell the NT kernel was/is a really innovative piece of technology - it's driver model still completely stomps what is available in Linux/Mach.

can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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I remember speaking with him once, not knowing he was at a competing company, and first, thanking him for the excellent UI I had the pleasure to use (I had a NeXT machine on my desk for about 8 months at a job I was at); then asking him if he was available for work (he wasn't).

Gracious guy, and I believe today that the NextStep v3.3 GUI was about the perfect GUI even today; I miss it.
I would include an (unlikely) 3: Hotz really, really does not want to be in the same room as the Feds (he is a confessed hacker) or spend time dealing with them. Maybe more likely: he can sell a ton _now_ in China, had a partner car company, and expect that having those work there would make his success in US either negligible in comparison, or faster thanks the example.
> What problem are we trying to solve?
The problem where DNS providers, such as Dyn, are taken down, leading to outages to large swaths of the internet.

> Why that problem next?
The recommendation to tackle this problem next is the topic of discussion. Namely, the DDoS letter to Chairman Wheeler.

The letter inappropriately confuses fixing this recent outage/attack on DNS with preventing IoT devices from being compromised. My proposal (the high level comment) is to fix the problem being discussed by fixing DNS (making it difficult, as a core internet service, from being DDoSed).
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Heh, maybe! When does a cable become a dongle? :)
aka "use of Effectual Reasoning where Causal Reasoning is more appropriate".
They are the old. Median age of brand-new-car-buyers are over 50 in several countries.
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Well, no, transit isn't dead. But when your traffic volume rises to one of the top N -- let's say, N approximates 10 -- sources/destinations of the entire Internet, you discover it's cheaper to run your own global networks.

And that's what Google, Facebook, and Amazon, at the very least, have done: bought fiber, hired network engineers, and designed things that work efficiently for them. If YouTube is 90% of Google's traffic, it's not surprising that Google's network looks like a CDN. Amazon wants to interconnect their AWS datacenters to lower their internal traffic costs. Facebook wrote a new routing protocol (Open/R).
I use a mechanical keyboard plugged into a Macbook Pro.

But I also know I have no useful opinion on the new one until I actually try it. I was talking earlier on Twitter about how I think this is an overlooked positive of alleged "lock-in": there's enough friction in switching that people end up actually trying the new thing and developing an informed opinion as opposed to angry knee-jerk internet reactions, and very often find out that the new thing is not the end of everything they've ever loved and may even be useful in ways they didn't anticipate.
> Also, just because it didn't get read right away doesn't mean it's a failure. Ask some gray haired academics how often they've seen (first hand or otherwise) an obscure paper from decades ago become key in solving a modern problem.

True, but don't tell me that all of nearly a million unread papers published this year (accepting the Smithsonianmag's figures as true, for the moment) are going to solve a key problem of science in 50 years...
I tried your demo, I have to say it was a very confusing.
Expect an email with more details later this week when I can find some free time.
From the moderator:

> If a story hasn't had significant attention in about the last year, reposts are ok. That's been the policy for a while, but we've brought the software closer to it. It will still reject reposts for a few hours, though, to avoid stampedes. Allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page. Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
Here's what I was able to find:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/usb-type-c-to-usb3-0_...

Honestly unless one of my friends had tried one and told me it was great, I would stay far away.
> It seems that for any operating system to be successful, it has to carry around POSIX compatibility like an extremely expensive entry pass.

Curious - what are your main objections with POSIX? Is there another system you prefer?
I tried an Oregon address, and voteplz told me that "Oregon does not allow early voting", which is not true. The entire election process is conducted by mail starting several weeks before the election.
Apple does not control the software you put on your Mac. They do not forbid you from doing anything.
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Middle of the World is one of my favorite films ever. I kind of dread finding it again for fear that it won't seem as great as I remember.
> monopoly

All businesses want that; it just isn't healthy for the economy.
Not a troll attempt, just a simple question from a guy who stopped to care about frontend a while ago : isn't web tech badly designed because of successive feature bendings, and aren't all those hyped frameworks, transpilers, package managers and stuff just attempts to fix it ? The X Window System got it right back in the 80's, I don't understand what's going on here.
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What was the name of the internal staffing tool?
musk may be talking a lot but he's also delivering a lot. look at all the commercial space flight companies out there crushing it. ez.
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Living in a state that charges 6-10% sales tax on selling your car is an incredible reason to lease. (As you only end up paying tax on what you leased for, instead of the purchase price).

Assuming you want to keep driving new cars, that is.
Rolled up into a 30 year loan that turn into a few hundred a month. Much less if you can subtract your electricity and gas bills from that. I remember the biggest turn off for me on the original iPhone was the $70 a month data plan contract. But people bought it.
He almost crushed his own credibility in his opening remarks by saying "Look, our leaders come from a generation of people of whom half are broke!" as if that means anything.
Why the initial capital on local variable names? I don't think I've ever seen that in C code. (Usually types and exported functions are capitalized.)

It kind of makes the code look like Pascal. Nothing wrong with that, really.
Hmm interesting, I hadn't thought of looking at the scripts and such, thanks for the heads up. I do like the interface (the distraction-free and Hemingway modes as someone else mentioned) but I don't like the idea of my data being leaked. A desktop-based approach for drafts might make more sense as you say.
Relevant Tensorflow/Brain blog post: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/supercharging-style-...
The heat pump/AC will run on what? If that energy comes from fossil fuels...