skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if you can make a prototype and develop a kickstarter that goes way over its funding goal, then you can either negotiate a better price, or other manufacturers will come out of the woodwork to serve you because there is a huge overcapacity glut on LCD glass.
You got me there. htop is probably the one terminal app that I regularly use that has important FN keys. Still I bet only one out of 5 times do I actually use the FN keys in htop. I suspect that of the amount that I use them, Apple's access to old function keys via the Touch Bar will be fine for me.

(And I can always pull out my Happy Hacker Keyboard)
If it would happen slowly, would a sealing agent bacteria appear?
That would be hard to do without writing a new javascript engine, which would expand Servo's current scope pretty dramatically. My guess would be that as long as there are big gains to be made that can be done without rewriting SpiderMonkey, the servo project would rather only tackle one massive project at a time :)
A lot of firms will run some training data through their application after startup, so that the hot paths get optimised.
Not really, all I see is stuff like: "they removed the escape key" (except its still there, even if it isn't a physical key), "no one looks at the keyboard" (touch typists aren't the target demographic), "only 8GB ram?!" (again, HN is not their target demographic), complaining about the removal of ports (not a surprise at all, and Apple is moving the industry towards USB C), and the expected "Apple stopped innovating after Jobs!" comments on every Apple event thread. Personally I found the Touch Bar to be cool in exposing common actions in a touch-friendly manner.
True that. I am constantly running into RAM and storage space issues. 16 GB RAM barely cuts it nowadays.
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"...the country’s elementary schools seem strangely averse to teaching children much stuff" <- If you really really want to understand why this happens, you should investigate the subject: "Cultural War"
You see, that's where you're wrong...

Insert USB connector
Ooops, must be wrong orientation
Insert USB connector upside down
Nope, that was right the first time
Insert USB connector correctly

USB C solves this very real time-wasting problem! =)
I disagree; with encapsulation, polymorphism, and composition, Rust seems OO enough to not make the term "meaningless".

At least, not according to the widely used definitions I've read of OO.
I suppose someone has written this already, but today's presentation made it more than clear that it's indeed for (aspiring) professionals, but not for fully-fledged IT professionals. So a musician, artist, photographer, writer etc. is in the target audience. Those people do not use function keys and in most cases (except for writers) do not touch-type. Everyone else is not in the target demographics and will have found the new generation unusable.

So in that sense, Apple's positioning of the new MacBook Pro is spot-on and probably has been this way for years. Most of us just thought that a good notebook with a "pro" label is meant for IT professionals. It probably never has been, it's just this year that the distinction is this striking.
There's a giant gap between your personal lack of interest and the notion that this blog post is something no one finds interesting.
There's no reason they couldn't add a full secure enclave on a USB based keyboard with TouchID.

Register your fingerprints into TouchID, they are stored securely on the keyboard, with some secure communication between keyboard/computer... now you can easily log in and or do Apple pay.
Does a 60 page EULA count as an explicit yes under this?
I have been using the Dell Developer Edition since April of this year. There were a few hiccups because of some driver issues related to their USB-C dock (Correct me if i'm wrong, but I guess this problem was not limited to just their linux laptop?)

Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 things have been pretty smooth. I believe any distro with a 4.4 series kernel or higher will behave pretty well.

Before this I had a thinkpad T series (I miss the keyboard, and the abundance of ports. It was really good), and I never had any problem with running any distribution of Linux.

In Summary: I think you cannot go wrong with either a Thinkpad or the Dell Developer edition. They are well made machines with good support for linux.
There is some conjecture that babies have synesthesia too - so it would be a case of visually receiving sense shape imagery and the brain interpreting that as colours, forms, tastes, pressure, warmth, scents, and such too. Now that seems like enough to make you scream and seek solace in innate behaviours.
This is encouraging:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook

Would still have verify the specific model though.
You touch on something I think about often as a father. Many years ago, I had a psychology professor who basically went off on a rant for an entire class meeting about this, and it struck a chord in me.

It was basically this:

1) Parents don't understand a child's emotional needs. Children need a foundation of love, which at an early age basically means attention from and interaction with caregivers.

2) Modern parents, especially pronounced starting with baby boomers, often feel they didn't get enough love and support from their parents. So they lavish their children with praise – frequently instead of focused attention – and think they're doing a good job.

3) This creates children who commingle love with achievement. That is, their parents love them because of their supposed achievements, and thus, if they're not achieving things, they aren't worthy of love. So children simultaneously have inflated egos but also very insecure egos. (This also ties into the whole idea that you should praise a child's effort, not their intelligence.)

That's all very abstract though. He gave a bunch of examples, but only one has stuck with me. Let's say your three year old comes to you with a drawing. Unless she's a prodigy, that drawing is going to be objectively bad, mostly squiggles with maybe a shape or two.

How most modern parents respond:

Parent: Good job! This is such a pretty drawing. I like how you used different colors. That's a great circle. You're a good drawer. Can you go draw me a square now?

Parent then goes back to watching TV, which would be a smartphone in an updated example.

How a parent should respond:

Parent: Thank you for showing me your drawing. I like how you used different colors and only drew on the paper. (legitimate praise is fine). What's this? (points to circle blob)

Kid: A horse.

Parent: Oh, a horse. Cool. Does she have a name?
(or Is the horse happy today? Can he run fast? whatever. The point is to engage in open ended questions that show you care and let the kid drive the conversation, somewhat.)

Kid: His name is cow.

Parent: A horse named cow, how silly.

And so on.

Anyway, I'm sure people would have problems with my sample good response too, and I'm probably misremembering the details. I'm also not sure the baby boomer stuff is totally accurate. But the overall idea is to give attention and focused interaction, not undue praise, and that makes a ton of sense to me.

Edited for typos and formatting.
Doesn't apply to some real estate locale outliers.
Really I just want a way to write simple service scripts and have the OS keep them alive. upstart, sysv init, systemd, whatever works...

I don't like logging into my dev box and then manually starting one-off scripts for all of the services that I like running (docker, dnsmasq, apt-cache, foo.py, etc etc).
Amen. I've consistently asked people how it makes sense to (supposedly) combat sexism with....more sexism. It's ridiculous. Just treat people as the people they are (in other words, please also don't ignore physical differences in genders). Every time I see someone start another "femgineer" or "girl boss!!!" company I cringe at anyone who celebrates that as progress. /rant
> Speaking for myself
I don't think this is right, is it? I think this change is more about consistent performance than startup performance.

For me the JVM starts really quickly; the only performance issues I've seen there are related to large bloated frameworks doing too much at load time. I don't recall the std library being a factor at all (and why do you think it is recompiled every invocation?)
Maybe they can now regulate that ISPs can not modify IP payload?

What world are we living in where the post service is allowed to rip open mail and deface it.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/

then choose your osx version...
A friend of mine has a yoga 900 and for some stuff a touchscreen is quite cool, especially if you are lazily on the couch and you do Youtube or movie watching or you listen to spotify. For such stuff it's really nice to just press on the play or next button on the screen.

It's nothing you _have_ to have, but for lazy computer usage it's a nice feature.
Not sure I'm as optimistic. Many long agreements include vague language that gives the author A LOT of leeway.

I'm more concerned about getting this fixed in healthcare. Recently had to get lawyers involved over a debt dispute for a bill that was never sent to insurance and that the hospital couldn't even verify because it came from a "partner" no one could contact. The chief argument against us: an agreement signed by my wife while in labor that placed all the responsibility for any bills, correct or not, on us with no recourse. I remember disputing it at the time but they insisted it was just a CYA form and they couldn't admit us without it.
Huh, then I wonder if it really was worth it then?
I assume from your condescension that you read the article (or at least think you did), so the problem is presumably with your reading comprehension.

As I said, some sort of wall is inherent to the solution (seamless micro transactions would have people, perhaps unfairly, claiming that they didn't realize they were spending money). The whole premise behind this project is to replace ads for people who don't like ads. It's laughable to claim that the banner informing people of that is an ad. Your complaint about ruining the web experience seems to be that it puts barriers in front of your browsing, and my point was that almost any solution that compensates content creators is going to suffer from this.
You're an N of 1. When I was learning to swim I remember a lot of kids bawling their eyes out when first going into the pool.
Ideas that generate a breakthrough are the exception not the rule. Sometimes, like in the case of Einstein all the ideas appear in one or two years and then nothing else. Newton with Calculus was another leap.

Expecting ideas to appear, no matter what you do, is not a good idea. One difficulty is that is very difficult to estimate the probability of rare events. Perhaps having more free time can increase the probability of having new deep ideas, but that is not easy to measure. Furthermore, another key ingredient is communication with people full of energy, like P. Erdos, perhap some people can generate a hub of ideas.

Edit: Added A little more of money in the table not in the hands of political but directed to those that can do real research is a real innovation.
"To which I said that I don't think we're in a system that does that. I don't think we're "oppressed by the system"."

That doesn't imply the system oppresses. People oppress people and systems can aid or mitigate that oppression.

"I work with trans people and gay people. I'm LGBT myself. Everyone is paid the same."

Statistics on employment and wages say otherwise.

"No one cares that some of us are "minorities"."

Tell that to the evangelical Christians who number at least 50 million in the United States and many of whom own and operate businesses which a couple I've personally worked at while in the closet.

In short, your belief is that there's no culture of oppression among social conservatives in the work place, housing, or even medical care? Can you back that up with actual statistics showing that in contradiction to existing published data? Or are you one of those folks that think your big city life encompasses the whole of the United States (aka I got mine so screw you mentality)?
This isn't self-esteem. It's the foundation of narcissistic personality disorder.

Self-esteem is simply the belief that one can be loved and respected for who they are.

Needing to "achieve" (or believe that achievements are worthwhile) in order to feel good about ones self is the opposite to self-esteem.
If you don't give a rip about insurance, you should be especially irritated at ACA and the ACA status quo ante, because the insurance companies and hospital chains quietly negotiate the prices for health care services, collude to establish favorable prices for the insurers, and lock individual consumers out of those prices.

A fun experiment I've had the pleasure of running: try to get an MRI done outside of your insurance policy --- that is, try to pay the rack rate for an MRI, out of pocket.
10,000 employees added in a year? Wow, that's alot!
I wouldn't think so. I still use a late 2012 and it holds up great. Can't tell the difference between that and the 2015 one I use at work.
FYI, these is Star Trek's episode "The Managerie" [0], and was original the pilot episode "The Cage" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menagerie_(Star_Trek:_The_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Origi...
I have 2012 Macbook Pro (non-retina) & I am mostly fine with it. I bought it and the first thing I did was upgrade the RAM to 16 GB. The battery life is getting suckier on it but I I can still live with it. The loss of MagSafe is a big problem for me, it has been a life saver what with 3 young kids running around. I think it would be easier to bump up the performance on my machine by swapping the HDD with an SSD. 2012s were the last generation of MacBook Pros that can still do that.
While I agree that Apple event was unimpressive today, I wonder what exactly was so "exciting" from the Microsoft? That $4200 desktop with an outdated unupgradable hardware and a touch screen for the OS which is know for being horrible at scaling things?
Funny, the original PowerBook they showed had a mechanical keyboard and a trackball, things that are much more compelling, and definitely more useful to me personally. You know, as a professional programmer I sort of take pride that I am immune to all this "innovation" crap. It is surprisingly easy to do as well. Erik Naggum sums it up pretty well [0]:

"... they don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance _near_ my desk or on my network. this is my _workbench_, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. when I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer. ..."

You can just plug in Apple here instead of Microsoft and the truth still reigns. Now obviously Apple is not targeting professional developers with their products, no matter how much you try to pretend that they do, just stop, stop accepting inferior tools for doing stuff that puts food on your table, no other field is as bad at it as ours.

[0] http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3065048088243385@naggum....
The Blackberry Priv, I think.
Looks like a good service for 3D architects and designers. CMS, I guess for AR & VR content.
You can't use the headphones that came with an iPhone 7 to listen to anything other than another iOS device, including this new MBP.

The mistake people are making is thinking the iPhone's transition is from 3.5mm analog audio to Lightning digital audio. It isn't, it's a transition to wireless audio, including the Lightning headphones is a compromise.
How does the iPad Pro with the pencil compare to the Surface Pro? I played with the Surface Pro 4 and had a lot of issues with the palm rejection.
I have a long history with Unix (6th Edition on a PDP-11) and it was OS X that brought me to the Mac. I would hate to go back to Windows for commercial apps, except now there is the Linux subsystem in Windows 10. I was not impressed with today's Apple announcements and I thought the Surface Studio announced yesterday was pretty amazing. And expensive. My 2014 Macbook Pro may be my last Mac laptop. We'll see. I look forward to seeing what the next iMacs are like. I doubt at this point there will ever be a next Mac Pro.
> Feeling like you're one of the only people who understands your experiences in a community really sucks.

Yeah that might be true. It is just hard for me to imagine why a non-male might be inhibited to comment on e.g. the current dtrace discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806941)? Obviously this is cherry-picked, and there _was_ (and _is_) discrimination against women in the tech scene, but I would have guessed that HN is a positive example and I rarely stumble across discrimination here.
Sounds like we have a serious case of in-group favouritism and with a hint of bandwagon effect
We have a monopoly. Sign this or you don't get internet.
Can I suggest you learn something about a domain before commenting on it?

Photo editing can be hugely resource intensive. Camera RAW files have been getting larger over time, and all but the simplest edits demand an SSD, a fast processor, and at least 32GB of memory. 128GB isn't unusual for commercial work.

You can get by with less, but sooner or later - usually sooner - you run out of RAM and your machine starts thrashing.

Many Photoshop features are hardware-accelerated, so having a good graphics card makes a significant difference to editing speed.

3D animation definitely needs a good graphics card. So does video editing.

Audio doesn't, but it needs as much raw processor power as possible. I know DJs/producers who are running dual 12-core Xeon systems for their mixes, and adding PCI DSP cards on top.

Surface Studio looks very nice, but it fails to tick most of these boxes. The reality is there's a significant market for creative power users willing to pay good money for multicore server-grade towers for their work.

Neither Apple nor MS are paying attention to this market. The Mac Pro is an underpowered curiosity now, and Surface Studio has - sadly - been hobbled by greed and penny pinching.
I think you are describing general problems with disclosure and consent regulations and common-law.

The regulators and legislators pursue and get credit for incremental actions, but there is no agent or body with accountability for overall impact. When regulators impose a new disclosure requirement, they often show that if a consumer reads the document, the individual will learn something; the problem is that when this document is page 53 of a 200 page disclosure, almost nobody reads it.

This issue was pointed out by Chief Justice Roberts when he said that he never read any of the prescription drug warnings that drug-producers have been required to provide (by courts and regulators).
Reminds me of the opening of the movie Prometheus.
This is a fascinating post but I couldn't find a bibliography on the page is it hidden somewhere? Would love to read more about this history.

Nevermind I found a scan of the article that had it (1983!) http://i.imgur.com/Fs4KjO3.png
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"Making an excuse for it is nice and all, but it simply is a case of charging a premium for old tech"

This is a weird complaint to me. So what if the display hardware is dated if it is perfectly up to the task it's presented with? Maxing out the specs on a machine for no other reason than to max out the specs seems to me to be nothing but a waist.
Graphics drivers are by no means the only drivers that require updates.
Yep, exactly. Comcast says "we can share your data", you agree because they're literally the only usable Internet offering in cities all across America.
You also don't get TB3 without the touchbar.
You can't plug it into the wall adapter iOS charger, but you can plug it into a USB-C charger that comes with the MBP.
Also interesting the shift in the UK operations from a +5% UK Growth rate based on earlier Sterling currency planning and a real -1% Growth rate thanks to the effect of Brexit.
The point is that they're mechanically different, not electrically.
> Macbook PROs are for PROfessionals

Haha, not anymore. For some time now, the PRO in Apple products is for PROsumers, or its possibly just a meaningless vestigial acronym now. See also: Final Cut X "Pro" which was obviously not targeted at professionals.
I'm just saying that it's a change that I dislike on an emotional level, and that I believe that needing to look at my computers controls to use them will lead to a permanent net decrease in comfort using the machine.

They're making a product that I don't like, and that's not a new phenomenon. Categorically, I dislike things that seem like change for the sake of change, and I dislike things that feel like a company herding my behavior in the direction they want me to go.

On the other hand, I like progress. In my opinion, features like this are certainly change, but I doubt that they're progress. That is, I think that it both adds and removes features. Fear of change isn't a bad thing, in and of itself. I think the point that we disagree on the strongest is whether Apple's new hardware represents actual progress, or merely change.
This is 100% where I'm at. I'd buy a Surface Monitor right now, because I could be assured to use it on a...well, I almost said "a real computer", and I feel a little bad for that, but I also sorta don't. I need forward compatibility with my hardware, and my workstation already blows the doors off the little box they've saddled that great monitor with.
Up until macOS 10.12, it was difficult to remap the ESC to CAP LOCK. Now it is an option in the keyboard settings.

My biggest complaint is since macOS Sierra, it is now so hard to create a Hyper-key.

http://brettterpstra.com/2016/09/29/a-better-hyper-key-hack-...
My professional photographer friend will be mightily pissed off by the loss of SD slots. Every dongle is a bit more gear he has to drag around the city while shooting.

My professional radio guy will be mightily pissed off at losing HDMI. Or rather would be, if he were still bound to the Apple ecosystem - he left it several years ago, never to return, because the price/performance ratio on their desktops went down the toilet when they stopped making user-upgradeable "cheesegraters".

Apple has gradually abandoned the Pro market. I thought they were simply trying to move everyone to laptops, but now I can see that they really have no use for non-iDevices.
It's really both. Figure 8 in the paper depicts this circulation theory of lift. The top and bottom surfaces interact via this phenomenon, though the top is more critical as the paper explains.

Also terms like "push" and "pull" really confuse the mechanics here. What matters is that a net upward force is being generated, with positive pressure acting on all sides of the airfoil. There is more pressure acting upon the lower surfaces than on the upper surfaces, but at every point the pressure is positive because it is surrounded by fluid (not in a vacuum). If you integrated the pressure acting on a lifting airfoil and computed the average direction, it would be pointed up.
I don't think it needs to be a rigid update every year but they should have a policy of not staying more than one generation behind. The 5K iMac jumped to Skylake, so that's fine, but the rest of the iMac line is stuck on Broadwell, the Mac Mini is Haswell, and the Mac Pro is Ivy Bridge.

The solid industrial design, long service life, etc. are worth something but probably not 3-4 hardware generations, especially for the premium market Apple wants to be in. The PC market hasn't been completely stagnant and while nobody is buying a Mac for super hard-core gaming they really don't want to be in a position where someone drops a fair amount of cash and their new computer struggles with a game which came out a year or two back, 4K video playback, etc.