skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, I use a desktop. A Mac mini, in fact, which has been struggling for the latter half of the past 6 years.

I'm seriously considering getting a PC instead, even though I've written http://taoofmac.com for 14 years.

(I do happen to work for Microsoft, by the way, but would very much prefer to keep my home setup on a separate tech stack for the sake of keeping an open view. I'm now ogling the Skullcandy NUC and wondering how well it will run Elementary OS)
Annotated Version of Using Neural Nets to Recognize Handwritten Digits
This is highly subjective and anecdotal, but I find OSX to use a lot of RAM.

The in-OS memory compression helps, but when I still had a 16GB Macbook Pro, the system always found a way to use up all of the RAM to the point that the compression would kick in to handle the overage over my physical memory.

My habits aren't any different in terms of extraneous windows/apps open on Windows, and I rarely hit 100% RAM utilization on my 16GB Windows machine.
The fact this is supposed to be some kind of a feature on a device marked "Pro" is a sign how deluded Apple has become.
This change has nothing to do with JNI whatsoever.

The JVM has always (well, not always, but for 15+ years) run Java code by first compiling it to native code. The only difference is that the JVM will now allow you to optionally do the compilation ahead of time, in order to decrease an application's startup overhead. This actually hurts performance of the compiled methods, since runtime profiling is not available to the AOT compiler (but the document also describes a "tiered" mode, where AOT-compiled code can be dynamically replaced with a better JIT-compiled version at runtime).

If you want to link your Java code with native code written in a non-Java language, that's a totally different requirement, and JNI will continue to be the way to accomplish it.
There is a drop-down selector in the upper-left corner of the the app's menubar that provides presets for document size, resolution, browser chrome, etc for a number of common devices (watch, phone, tablet, computer, television, blank).

Looks like you can also add your own "Custom Devices" http://origami.design/documentation/workflow/CustomDevices.h...
Yeah, but how much do I need to spend to upgrade to said monitor?
So you think it should be legal for Facebook to decide to shut down, for example? Why does what the investors want matter more than what the users want?
We agree, then, that Microsoft has just out-innovated Apple. When would you say is the last time that happened? Has it ever?
So how does this relate to uprobes? I've been looking into that lately because I want frequency counts (or coverage analysis) of user space programs but without the nop-sled overhead of xray. Does dtrace supplement or replace uprobes? Or am I really just confused?
am I the only one wondering who wanted a 67% brighter display? I for one would like a display without a backlight...
Oh, but now you can look at your keyboard and get spiffy autocompletes... you know, like that feature everyone hates on their phone?
Microsoft Adaptive Touch Screen Keyboard #MacbookPro
Oh god, can you imagine the premiums on a policy where the probability of payout is "chances a startup fails" and the cost of payout is "enough money to run a failing startup indefinitely"?
Never heard of Thinkpads before?
> if Google, Facebook or Twitter's leadership decides to try to influence public affairs by hiding some things and showing others.

that line was crossed a long time ago
What's patronizing about the word "ladies"?
That's a pretty harsh accusation to apply to all religious conservatives. It's almost like you're stereotyping people based on a few extremists and advocating for discrimination against them in the workplace.

I say "almost" like I can actually see a difference, which I can't.
Haven't bothered to search for this, but do you know offhand if they also have a L-R hemisphere/body crossover?
Pet peeve of mine: a "quantum leap" is literally the smallest change of state that is physically possible, but it's come to mean the opposite in popular use.
I love the fact that they replaced Esc with... Siri. Now I can tell Siri to move me between normal and insert mode.
I haven't used Zone but I know YikYak caught on pretty hard with college aged folk and college campuses, so the discussions and posts tend to be a bit different. I worked at a University in tech and due to the harassment issues with YikYak was told to keep an eye on it and determine if we need to request a Geo-Block from the YikYak team.

I would imagine Zone can probably break free of the age association and maybe grab people with the same sort of "town bulletin board" feel, but it's going to have a lot of conflicting user bases, and probably lots of trouble with harassment in local areas. YikYak had tons of issues with the harassment [0] problem until the user base took on a much more serious approach to moderating. The few times I was told by a student that there was something bad on YikYak, it had already been moderated out of visibility.

I don't know how Zone's posting works or if it has moderation or not, but hopefully the user base takes a similar approach.

[0] To expand on the harassment, it wasn't just nasty messages being written, it was stalker-ish comments tracking individual's activities, threats against persons, calls for vandalism, and so on. On a smaller University campus, it's taken a lot more seriously. We also had issues with student workers abusing access privileges and leaking private information to YikYak, which was dealt with appropriately by the administration.
I was unclear - I think the cost should be put on demonstrating ownership, but given that takedowns could be easier to manage so long as fair use is protected.
Didn't notice, but I like your hypothesis as it makes for a smart design. That you can't even power on the hardware unless your fingerprint matches--saves me from setting a firmware password that I may forget since I never go into the firmware.

Ironically this is the only thing that impressed me from the announcement, yet it wasn't discussed.
Suggestion: don't think about touch typing.

What you are seeing is pure change resistance. It has no useful predictive power when evaluating whether the change will be good or bad overall, especially since the set of touch-bar use cases and the set of touch-type-heavy workloads does not seem to overlap much.
How come all that complaining and rambling about the missing upgrades for the iMac or Mac mini? I really think that Apple did a great job at evolutionally improving the MacBook Pro under the hood, and the TouchBar seems to be a really usefull addition for creative professionals.

Quite a fraction of the HN community really seems to enjoy complaining about what possibly could have been, rather than just beeing happy about the stuff Apple delivered today. And if you just can't stand the new MacBooks? Who cares! There are tons of other manufacturers to choose from and a different machine may just fit your taste perfectly.
> I.e, we will not be able to compile our own code ahead of time just yet.

That's not really true. From the same doc:

> AOT compilation of any other JDK module, or of user code, is experimental.

So it's "experimental", but possible to do.
> Redux reinforces that the majority of your app should effectively be (props) => JSX

Sure, Redux strongly recommends that practise - and it's a good one - but nothing about it is specific to redux. You can factor your components in the same way with mobx, or with plain React for that matter.

The point of redux and alternatives is to remove state management from inside the components to a dedicated store. Redux doesn't feel natural to me because it does it in a round-about way, introducing more concepts than necessary for the job at hand. Then the responsibility for managing the store is scattered around the reducers, the actions and for anything not completely trivial, some middleware magic for good measure. The glue code between Redux and the components is slightly awkward as well.

Mobx just goes: a store is just a class with properties and methods. Done. Glue code? Wrap the component with a one-line decorator. Done.
Surely the Touch Bar will have Esc, along with a bunch of F keys if in Terminal. Indeed, many photos I saw today featured Esc in the Touch Bar. Indeed, it was a
large Esc, which would be nice for Vim work. I'm surprised people see a touch screen and somehow think there would be no way to make it a bunch of old-fashioned F keys.
My guess is it's a transitional period. The new low-end 13″ MacBook Pro, the new 12″ MacBook, and the outdated 11″ and 13″ MacBook Air probably ought not to coexist. But the MacBook Air is important to Apple as their entry-level (i.e. cheapest) laptop, and the MacBook is still too expensive and not quite featureful enough to replace it.

I think Apple would like to drop the MacBook Air in favour of a cheaper MacBook at some point, but they can't right now.
That seems to imply that the unconscious part of the brain still can use visual input while the 'mind' is sleeping (just like it can 'read' the output of your ears, so that it can wake you when your alarm clock rings)

Does anybody know whether that is true? Similarly, does the knee reflex work when humans are sleeping?

Edit: on the knee reflex, there's http://ajplegacy.physiology.org/content/68/2/345. Paywalled, but the knee reflex seems diminished/absent during sleep.

Edit 2: quite surprising, as the knee reflex is so fast that a nerve signal cannot travel to the brain and back within its response time (and of course, there's the spinal cat, that walks on a treadmill after its brain has been disconnected from its spinal cord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_locomotion))
What I wanted:

- 7th generation Intel chips. Skylake (6th generation) is from August 2015.

- A move to Nvidia GPUs

- Retain the magsafe power adapter

- At least one dedicated display-out port, preferably HDMI

- 32GB RAM for the 15 inch base model

- Support for the airpods using their new W1 chip

What I'm mad they included:

- Price increase for low value

- Touch Bar does away with physical keys I use daily (most importantly escape), while providing very little functionality I see using in my daily workflows (auto-complete on a desktop? I type faster than that.)

What they could have surprised me with:

- A full touch screen

- Support for the Apple Pencil on the new larger trackpad

- Any mention of their desktop lineup
They're literally all the ports, currently with adapters, eventually likely out of the box (except for ethernet I guess).
Sadly, the much-longed-for Journal of Negative Results does not exist, giving it an impact factor of 0.
was the female director punished also?
Not sure that "retard" was really necessary here. You get your point across perfectly fine without it.
> Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint?

which one of those ports can I use to plug in my lighting headphones?
I don't know if John Dvorak was the first to say it, but I recall him saying that in PC Mag (?) in the mid-80s: the price of the computer you want will always be about $3K. Less accurate over the last ten years or so, but for Macs it remains true.
Software already exists to decompose a painting or drawing into a series of strokes (drawings are obviously easier). The examples I've seen were all 2D, but I am given to understand that 3D equivalents exist as well.

Getting a robot to actally lay down each stroke with paint is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
we did a consumer survey in April (adblocksurvey.com) that suggested a range of 10-15% of people would pay for a subscription for content. Based on that we think that adblocking should be monetized by a subscription/tip combo (optimal.com is kind of a hybrid + we also have a really good iOS 10 ad blocker that uses DNS) AND we need to fix ads. there are several companies in this space and we all talk to each other about how to solve some of these problems - I hope to speak to Brad at CoinTent soon and share some of our ideas. I think there are many of us that want a sustainable solution (and obviously feel we can play a part in building that, but I'm also realistic that none of us can do it by ourselves, this includes getting publishers on board!) that is less prone to abuse than some of the 'whitelisting' schemes we see out there today.
> Red Flag. Key advice: don't shit where you eat.

I mean sure it's good advice but a prohibition of romantic relationships doesn't actually work. When people get close after working together romantic feelings can happen its only natural. A study from 2006 found 40% of office workers had a romance with someone they worked with. 40% [1]. Hell, anecdotally almost half of everyone I can think (that I know personally of course) in a relationship I know met their spouse at a place where they both worked.

Yeah there are reasons why it's a bad idea. Yeah it shouldn't happen with supriors. But it will happen and a flat out prohibition on it will cause more harm than good. If you flat out prohibit it then it won't get reported and then no one will know about the possibile conflict of instrest that needs to be handled properly.

If you have open policies regarding this and encourage people to notice management and that they won't get punished then you can make arrangements to ensure no conflicts of instrests occur (or at least minimize them).

I would be curious if there have been studies between the two schools of thought.

[1] http://www.siop.org/Media/News/office_romance.aspx
This question comes up in most discussions about finance and trading. I think it's the wrong question to ask. Academic research jobs, despite poor pay and conditions, are still some of the hardest positions to get. The demand for those jobs far, far outstrips supply. It's hard to get into a decent PhD program and then basically impossible to get a decent faculty position (or join MSR or whatever).

Candidates aren't draining away—they're being pushed away, either at the selection stage or through terrible conditions. (When taking on real firm-wide risk with millions of dollars is less stressful than basic research, you know something's gone terribly wrong!) The macroscopic problem isn't that finance and industry are luring people away, it's that so many more people want to do research than the system can possibly support.

You could argue that finance is luring away the most qualified candidates, but I don't think that's true. More importantly, since research careers are so impacted, institutions can get away with really noisy selection processes—if you thought tech hiring was bad, just look at how faculty members are selected.

The other part, of course, is that trading is not useless. I recently started a job working on supply chain optimization, and the problems we solve and the models we build actually look a lot like what certain kinds of traders do. I don't think anybody would argue that doing math to eke out a 10% reduction on spoilage at grocery stores is socially useless, and yet that's very similar to the sort of efficiencies that come out of better markets—it's just that the value is more abstract, in large part because the public markets are much more decentralized and abstract than physical supply chains.

Look, I'm not saying trading makes a marginal impact on par with basic research, either at an individual or a global level. But it's not useless, and I wouldn't be surprised if a trader at some small firm was just as useful to society as the 10,000th engineer at Google. (Not that we can really measure that.)

The markets, after all, are a gigantic, distributed coordination system running large swathes of the economy. That's pretty important too!
> I can't shut off all of the telemetry reporting. I can't turn off Defender's active scanning and have it stay off for more than a day. I can't say "Don't reboot for upgrades between 6am and 10pm." "<video game> has been denied access to the video drivers" halfway through a game, forcing a restart.

I can't speak to your video driver issue (reinstall it maybe?), but the rest of the things certainly can be done.. You can turn off Windows Defender permanently (or at least active scans). You certainly can schedule updates to 2 AM.
close but no cigar. headphone jack is still there.
Having personally met Panos Panay as a fellow groomsman at a friend's wedding, I can tell you that guy is full of energy and passion. He's the type of person that brightens up a room given he's so fun and enthusiastic.
>What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before?

It's called a touchscreen.
Ah - my fault - I thought it was the general term for the private agreements that let certain companies take down stuff at will.
It's unclear whether they said it had more travel or felt like it. I understood the latter.
How will google respond, send Angela Merkel a link to the Wikipedia page about machine learning, saying "here's our algorithm"?
I use a Mac with an original 30" Cinema display, along with a giant Wacom tablet.

The Surface Studio may seem impressive, but as far as workflow goes, the Mac with tablet setup really is perfection.

I've never had the desire to look down on the tablet to draw, as the pointer always moves synchronously on screen.

In fact, I feel my hand would get in the way of drawing..

Right now it seems like the Apple products are refined perfection, while Microsoft is still trying to figure out its place.
I already have contextual buttons. I remap keys to what I want, that's one of the main benefits of Vim's multi modal system. I don't need an expensive gimmick to do so.
> There seems to be some discontinuity between the Macbook and iPhone lines.

I'm amused that I'll be able to charge my Nexus 6P with my Macbook Pro charger (unless Apple really screws something up), but my colleague won't be able to charge his iPhone.
Are there non-profit search engines?

Any domain experts who can speak to how hard/expensive it would be to run your own (a quick google shows me stuff like http://www.gigablast.com/)?
The Pro now stands for Prolapse
I'm glad. I hope someday you realize that selling stock tips on the internet is a scammy business model and that there are better ways to make money than preying on the ignorant.
Anyone have experience with how Origami compares against InVision?
Of course, the idea of children with low self esteem has been rising in correlation of increased usage of social media. I would add that the rates of anxiety are also related the high usage rate of social media users.
What about tactile contact, blind key clicking?
What about running Linux/Windows on the new Macbooks?
>> 16GB max.

I was going to say you were wrong because it was stated "starts at 16GB" near the end of the event. Checked the store and sure enough, I see no way to increase the RAM.

That's just stupid.
And Jesus ate with people he considered sinners and treated them with more respect and dignity than anyone. Your argument is bullshit. The only fundamental difference between people like you and the Westboro Baptist Church is who you think it's okay to discriminate against.

How about no one?
> It's my fucking computer, if I really don't want to restart right now, what's the big fucking deal?

The big deal is that, it's probably a pretty important security update. Forcing a patch prevents you from turning into the poster a few steps above, complaining that Windows is insecure and people lost data because of it.
Long live the 12" powerbook!
I'll be sure to inform PyLadies post haste. ;)
Huge respect for you for keeping your MacBook for so long.

I personally tired of stuff that "breaks" or becomes "obsolete" in a year or so.

Our environment is doomed if we continue to have lifestyles like this: buying new shit in a year.
Seems confirmed: http://live.arstechnica.com/hello-again-apples-october-2016-...
C++ had this for even longer. Assembler doesn't even need a compiler..
I don't. Go is mostly used without a framework and you've to collect your libraries. React is just a view library and you've to collect your libraries.

Django, on the other hand, is monolithic just like Ember.

I'd pick Django/Ember any day if it weren't for React Native platforms and the ability to share things between the web and mobile versions.
I've owned every version of the Surface Pro and used the Surface Book for around two weeks before returning it. I finally gave up on the Surface Pro 4 and switched to a 2009 Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro I picked up on eBay.

Surface
Pros: Beautiful hardware, touchscreen works decently, Windows 10 is generally a decent operating system. Keyboard is pretty neat.

Cons: Tremendously buggy software and hardware integration. The Surface Pro 4/Book dock was effectively useless until several firmware updates. Tons and tons of issues -- I had to warranty repair the Surface Pro 4 three times before giving up and selling it. Still plenty of hardware bugs. Scaling on Windows 10 isn't very good outside of most MS developed apps. Battery life is pretty terrible for what it should be. (Do not get an i7 version -- sucks down battery. i5 is better) Hard to do productivity work on the Pro 4 as I really prefer a standard 13 inch notebook minimum. The Book does solve this issue, but I never felt the need to pay the huge price premium for tablet mode. Video drivers for the Pro 4/Book were crashing when browsing for several months after launch. At the end of the day, taking notes in a notebook isn't quite as convenient but just works better than using the pen.

I love the potential the Surface line has, but that's just it, potential. Microsoft needs to focus 10x more on QA. If they control the hardware and software, the result needs to be as seamless as it usually is (or was) on Apple devices. I'd love to see a lower priced Surface Laptop without the screen gimmick for professionals.
If you think you know the "real key" to finding joy, then what made you read this article?
> All of my Apple cables would need Apple adapters.

More replacements than adapters. Also you don't need Apple adapters, you can get a type C — type A cable for $6.
What isn't working for you? I've never had any issues with Chrome on their website.
Edit: removed sarcastic response to a comment about a different use-case. Too late to delete.
I think the easiest explanation to a lay person involves the observation that all surfaces in a moving fluid (e.g. air) produce lift--whether a flat plate, rotating cylinder, or extending your hand outside a car window. Airfoils are merely highly optimized shapes to reduce the (often significant) drag the lift-producing bodies have.

In an airplane, by reducing L/D enough you decrease the necessary power (which indirectly produces its lift) needed to overcome the combined weight of the aircraft (wings/body/powerplant) generated by gravity.
I was in the same boat about six months ago when I was fed up with instability in OS X. Time Machine backups getting corrupted, not waking from sleep, etc.

I switched to a Dell M5510 running Linux and haven't looked back. Battery life isn't as good, but otherwise it's been great. Touch screen works fine, trackpad clicks a little heavy but works fine, all the standard ports and an included network dongle, Libre Office gets the job done, Netflix still works on Chrome, no random crashes or freezes, and no proprietary lock-in, privacy concerns, or cloud nonsense. Best of all it's basically the same size & weight as a MBP, not your average clunky PC monstrosity.