skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I'm not a pariah. I'm just tired of the arrogance of people that thinking they know everything about investing on Hacker news. (This has been an epic waste of my time, there is no economic incentive arguing with a d-bag such as yourself.)

You are only mad at me because you are unwilling accept/understand/comprehend an alternative investment strategy. As I said before I'm really sorry I disturbed your investment strategy, ultimately hurting your fragile feelings.

What it comes boils down to is that you are programmer that thinks he knows how to invest. https://xkcd.com/1570/

Hmm... get your research correct. I don't offer services to individual clients only institutions. I'm also regulated by the SEC.

Cheers!
Since Google uses RankBrain now as a signal which is trained on the web itself, how would the outputs of this be described as an algorithm? I think politicians are imagining that search is like some step by step recipe when it's incredibly complex now.

I don't think even Google engineers fully understand DNN results on such a large corpus.
I looks like they're referencing this paper[1] which suggests that like dolphins, birds can sleep 1 brain hemisphere at a time. That's pretty interesting.

[1]http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6718/full/397397a...
> I never said that it wasn't. I said that it wasn't going to be shipped as a production Mozilla product.

That's also not true.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't; that's a decision that has to incorporate many factors other than technical ones. From my point of view as an engineering lead, I'm designing the engine to ship.
Well, then everybody would claim the same right and you'd have to maintain full list of bots and keep it up to date. This doesn't sound scalable, * should still mean "everybody".
Disabling JavaScript (or if you are a NoScript user) usually 'fixes' the scroll override annoyances but try going to about:config and toggling layout.css.scroll-behavior.enabled to 'false' as well.

I started noticing some sites were hijacking scroll despite having them blocked by NoScript, however the above config change fixed that instantly. Turns out scroll can be hijacked by CSS now, not just JavaScript. Progress!
On my iPhone it works perfectly.
I highly recommend "Charlie Munger On the Psychology of Human Misjudgement."

PDF transcription here http://www.rbcpa.com/mungerspeech_june_95.pdf

Explains a lot (he says, during Presidential Election season in the US)
Yes and no. Yes, it has always been the case - but the trust we put into different information sources is different. Most people are pretty sceptical of traditional media. But I'd claim they are less sceptical of search engines - because they provide an illusion of agency and choice: You decided to research a particular topic and you "found" a number of different sources, none of which are associated with Google. That appears a lot more trustworthy than some opinion piece in a newspaper.
> But I guess this will be useful for most casual users, since they often look down to their keyboards

Which is weird it's a feature exclusively on their "Pro" line of laptops.
For the distributed FS people out there I've got a complicated question. In my job I need to poll and collect data from many remote sensor devices, log all the output, and process that. Not only do I do this buy MANY of my colleges do this and have a different way to manage this process. Can a distributed file system help with this case?

Is there any file system that would be able to sync what amounts to text/binary data across many hosts and allow me to aggregate the data off the network for more secure storage?

I was thinking about using IPFS for this but this also seems better. I'd hopefully like to have a private network for this use case so that other people can't post up a device on this file system and introduce fake data.
They have a section called 'Discover' where they've invited BuzzFeed, Cosmo, Sky News to produce native content for them that links to their web properties.

They're consumed as part of the regular Snapchat experience and an extension of the Snapchat 'Stories' idea.
My comment has nothing to do with systemic anything. It has to do with the fact that we have laws on the books protecting people on the basis of race, sex, religion, and political affiliation. Are you saying you think those laws are a bad idea? If so, then we can't have kind of discussion here. Those civil rights are a bare minimum for me to consider any social conservative's opinion. If you don't agree to those terms then move on.
Don't forget the 2014 X1 Carbon had a similar touch strip design that they reverted due to user backlash.
It appears that the new MBP has a similar keyboard to the MacBook, if you're an Emacs user, you deserve a better keyboard.
I think in a few years, we're going to be looking back at this as a half-assed hack before we were ready for a macbook with a full touch screen. Touch typists (which I'd imagine are an increasing proportion of computer users) don't look at the keyboard. Touch cues (ridges on the F and J keys, placement and size of keys) guide typing and control without the need to look.

Even if you just used the touchbar to allow for context-sensitive buttons, I'd lose the real tactical feedback of a keyboard and need to build new muscle memory for each application.

Worse is when you start putting GUIs on the touch bar—now I'm really expected to look down and scroll through a library of photos or find my favorite website on this tiny strip which isn't on my screen? Why?
Lightning headphones.
No lightning jack on the laptop, is what the poster meant.
No matter who wrote this post, what it says, or what the people here say in the comments this will always read as viral marketing as if people are paid to praise microsoft.

It's a consequence of the fact I'm now wired to expect it, because these companies have big budgets and actually do spend their money on astroturfing.
I'll throw mine into the mix. Not sure about employers thinking "I need to hire this person", but for me, my personalized dashboard is a nice way to monitor things I'm working on and reflecting on things I've learned.

http://cole-maclean.github.io/
As long as TouchBar supports IDE actions, we're good. If it doesn't, I'll be damned if I have to type Fn Ctrl Alt 6 just to step in a debugger.
They didn't skimp out on the graphics card for once.
No, sadly. 13 and 15.
The new MacBook Pro has something similar to this, except it looks like it's less than 1 inch tall:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/return-of-the-mac/
"6th-generation Intel processor"

So in other words it's using Skylake, not Kaby Lake (7th-generation).

No mention of display resolution either, which leads me to believe the 15" model won't feature a 4K display. It's using an unspecified AMD Polaris GPU.

There's also a 13" MBP sans Touch Bar, featuring normal function keys.
Maybe a virtual-machine ?
An app to display it in vim would be enough. But add another $9.99 app for the delete (forward) key, after all those years (it's fn backspace now). An example of market creation by the removal of features.

Even my Samsung tablet has a default keyboard with both backspace and delete.
You seem to have conflated sophistication with fear of change. The history of technology shows this fear is misplaced. If the interface provided is compelling, most people will adapt. Some will long for the old ways to be the only ways, but that's never been a segment of desire that gets much attention for what I assume are obvious reasons.
Solving the Internet's Clickbait Problem
Unbelievably unimpressive compared to Microsoft's announcement yesterday, and 45 minutes into the keynote I still have no idea what the specs are.

I don't need some stupid touch strip on my Mac, I need a touch screen.

I haven't been this let down by product announcements ever as I have been this year with everything Apple's done.

Now we get all our standard USB ports removed, very little by way of actual hardware improvements, are we even going to get an upgraded Mac Pro that might meet the minimum 4GB gfx card requirement for Oculus, etc?

I've sworn by Apple products for a decade and a half. I'm done.
It needs to be a shiny, red, poundable button. Maybe something that makes a helluvva noise when you hit it.
Not an expert on keyboard protocols, but I'm pretty sure both bluetooth and usb allow two-way communication.

Actually, it must already be happening, considering the Caps Lock indicator is set by the OS, not the keyboard itself (which is why people use it as a sort of brain-stem reflex test when the computer locks up).
The problem is that the people in the middle class try to live above their means. You have the choice of being the poorest of the rich or the richest of the poor. Of course being the poorest of the rich will make you miserable.
Its image is gone because its MAU count is basically stable and no longer exploding. The stock price and image are both symptoms of that problem.
Alas it's probably true. Albeit, maybe with time space memory kicks in if the app uses the bar in order to promote really important "instructions". I didn't see any mention of tactile feedback, which is sad. The idea of a more generic dynamic keyboard will have to wait for a v2, or maybe longer.
I keep watching it vanish, though, as other contextual menus overwrite it. Even the terminal "bar" has a contextual menu that will hide it.
I'm not even a parent and I know that it's impossible to "be ready" to become a parent.
Google's Discrimination against my 1-month Old A﻿pp
It isn't that similiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-mIqJW1v0
You look at it as a problem for the user - the user isn't getting the diversity of opinion they want to get.

Merkel looks at it as a problem for society - people aren't getting the diversity of opinion they should get.

If I wanted diversity of opinion, I would go to Breitbart, but I don't want to. Maybe it would broaden my perspective to do so, but I can't be arsed. I've been there once, but it was mostly an exercise in social anthropology.
I feel like a lot of people in this thread show very flashy websites. But honestly, if your work is decent, some people will notice regardless of how you present it. Since you ask this question, I doubt you'd make your website total crap.

Most of the time more people e.g.: watch my github page: http://github.com/wkoszek page than my real website http://www.koszek.com since its harder to find you on a separate website. This is unless you market it.

To summarise: enter the http://cr.yp.to/ and see how good the content is and how you're ok with no form too, if content is outstanding.
If you're working on a single screen, you need the following shortcut keys (think StarCraft):

- A shortcut key for every major application you use

- A shortcut key to tile the window to the LHS of the screen

- A shortcut key to tile the window to the RHS of the screen

- A shortcut key to select the window on the LHS

- A shortcut key to select the window on the RHS

If your OS doesn't support these shortcut keys, build them into it.

The thing about multiple monitors it's that it's basically just a hack to get around the fact that screens were never big enough to begin with. Trust me, once you use a truly giant screen you'll understand. I use a 34" curved screen by LG. Additionally a single screen lets you sort out your ergonomics problems more easily.

The other thing about multiple monitors is that the thought of regularly configuring them is enough to send a shiver down any experienced Linux user's spine:

https://xkcd.com/963/
Why is this packing together a backend tec and a frontend tec? I assume the frontend is generated from django models and views code? Or does one have to maintain frontend code manually - no that would not make sense at all. However I can not see any hint about how the frontend code gets generated?
> But how often are you changing your app's data layer? Is the tradeoff _always_ worth it?

Yes, because in my mind that's the litmus test that your app is properly data-agnostic. And a key thing about Redux is it stays that way -- it's actually difficult to leak your data store to child components. Even if I adopt the above approach with MobX it'd be incredibly easy for some other developer to start passing around stores everywhere.

My gut feeling is that MobX would be great for a personal project but doesn't scale that well.
jk

(no, not just kidding.. jk is my ESC shortcut)
Animal and babies have consciousness. Self-awareness != consciousness. Consciousness is the stuff of subjective experience. Self-awareness is a particular flavour of it. I can have experiences without being aware that I'm a being who is having experiences.

Also: Self-awareness is a sliding scale, with babies possessing some but less than a full-grown adult. Consciousness is different: either an object has subjective experiences, or it does not.
It no longer uses a standard headphone plug.
So you want to be a professional coder?
I would guess the margin on the left is still in the touch area for esc. If you've used the split keyboard on an iPad, they went as far as to include invisible key duplicates for the keys at the edges. The ones on the border are actually usable on either the left or right half.
Ducks do that while sleeping. If you observe ducks sleeping near a pond you'll typically see them sleeping with one eye open and one shut. That way they can still stay alert enough to watch for predators.
Hadn't heard of EventQL before. Took a look at the documentation, so I have a brief idea of what it offers and how it works. But I couldn't find anything in way of performance numbers.

While I might try it out myself to see how well it performs, it would be nice if some figures were readily available.

I've been keeping an eye on Postgres-XL and CitusDB for distributed SQL. Would be interesting to compare.
You're conflating self-awareness and consciousness. See my post below.
> since 95% of the time I'm using my laptop, I actually have it closed, hooked up to a screen and with external keyboard and mouse

I can't believe they put a radio in my car since 95% of the time I just leave it in my driveway and take the bus.
In non-english keyboards [ is often behind some key combination (e.g. altgr - 8). Compared to just clicking esc (or remapped caps lock) it is difficult for me to see how people with these keyboards would be willing to go for ctrl-[.
Working happily with NXP... Hope this won't affect things. The documentation and cooperation are all great so far.
Sure, so long as you're OK looking down at your keyboard to find the right function on the touchbar every time you want to use it. Better, IMO, to use a mapped key chord.
Hmm. My experience tells me that a lot of this depends on the details of the team, and that there isn't a right-for-everyone policy.

My story:

I worked for a company that paid a bit below market salaries, for the SF Bay Area. I was on a team with two more junior engineers. At one point one disclosed to me that they felt underpaid. That led to a salary discussion where I explained that the company habitually underpaid people, and I was happy to share my salary with them so they would know they're not the only ones underpaid (and also, implicitly, so they'd know if they were getting taken advantage of, since I'm all about employees looking out for each other).

As it turned out, however, I was making around 40% more than both of them. Some of that was due to more experience, but it was more a matter of me being underpaid versus them being outright screwed. Naturally they went and asked for a well-deserved raise, and the company, of course, said no.

This changed the team dynamics in a fundamental, toxic way. It engendered bitterness from them not only toward the company but to me as well, which ultimately led to all of us leaving the company for greener pastures but with lots of bad feelings all around.

You could say the takeaway is don't work for companies out to screw their workers, but that's most of them.
I assume this should this be read in ascending order of importance ;-).
Publicly-traded companies are still private sector. If Twitter were funded by taxes you might have a point.

Someone should start an insurance company for startup users. ;)
I don't know about airline shares, but given an S&P 500 index fund, you can look at it a couple of different ways.

-- The $250K invested would throw off $20K or so (before taxes) each year on average without touching the principal.

-- If that amount had simply been invested in 1994 and allowed to compound, it would be worth about $1.5M today in today's dollars.
And what I'm trying to say is that SSD's are so cheap now that for the lower spec (1TB) of the surface studio, you no longer need to juggle space in order to far exceed the performance of a hybrid drive, even with a last gen SSD. SSD of any modern kind >> hybrid drive in performance.

I'm not arguing for abstract systems, but for that specific build that Microsoft has put together - in that form factor, a hybrid drive takes up too much space and they are not offering 3TB+ versions where the hybrid drive would excel.

I'm criticizing that specific assembly of parts.
Suffering would not exist without consciousness. You people are all conflating self-awareness and consciousness.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It's one of the more serious technical concerns I've seen here.
Indeed. Research may be the thing that directly betters the society, but in current economy, one can often do more by applying their skills on the market and using the gains to fund researchers. I think things are fine as long as we have both researchers and people funding research, each working to the best of their specialized skills.

That said, research is seriously underfunded.
At my somewhat-below-fastest (which is still faster than my current normal, as I'm a lazy reader these days) my concentration, recollection, and enjoyment was the best -- plus I finished everything way faster. For anything serious (and I mean you seriously want to enjoy something or seriously want to grok something) you will have to slow down. But that doesn't mean you can't go faster than your current fastest and still get those other things out of reading that you want. It's all in the training. Don't train with William Faulkner.
What UI are they hiding? The ones they've shown are all new ones, or shortcuts to existing ones (like how the function keys were used).
I imagine they'll happily sell you a USB-C->lightning cable at an inconvenient price.
As long as they carve out a niche as the source of live news and comments and other products (FB / Instagram / Snapchat / etc) don't eat that space they can be successful. But they seem destined to be a niche product at best.
> Can usually get close to ranges if you ask a few coworker friends and/or interview around.

Isn't that transparency, although in a very biased and limited form? Why would having more transparency reduce your leverage? It's easier to play the right cards when you know what cards are in play.
so it's more a toy than a work computer. They boosted the "entertainment" factor - nothing else really.

Lenovo ruinning the thinkpad, Apple turning pros into toys. it's been a harsh few years. - i think there's slowly a good hole to fill in terms of proper workstation laptops that are modular and robust.

are people still hanging on to their 2012 pros? last i checked they still are.
We tried shame and humiliation as good things and governance tools in Germany before, between 1919 and 1933. We know how well that worked the first time. Yet, it's become the governance tool of choice there again.

For years, whenever I talk to German friends, the fear and timidity about discussing the German past from them is palpable. They just do not want to discuss it. All you have to ask them is, "So what do you think about World War II?" and you will see them start to sputter, slip into a kind of trance, and recite a spiel about how Germany did some very bad things. Even outside their country. They can't even talk about what is happening now. When I was in Berlin this year, in a very nice place in a very nice part of town, my host told me to make sure to lock up because there had been a steep rise in break ins and robberies in that part of town. I could tell he wanted to say "because of the migrants", but he caught himself and held his tongue. To point out the emperor's lack of clothes is verboten in Deutschland.

And now, again, we see the stirrings of strong, proud nationalist elements in response to all this, as what were previously fringe parties gain steam yelling about the Lugenpresse, and more and more Germans listen.

Hasn't this all happened before?

I'm not sure when political parties and other interested parties will figure out that shame and humiliation are terrible governance tools that only build up resentment and cause reactance in humans. Because they sure haven't figured this one out yet.
Sigh. Looks like there is a typo in the article - "According to the company, it’s the thinnest and lightest version of the Pro to date, with the 17-inch version of the laptop measuring in at 14.9mm thick. The 15-inch version of the notebook weighs in at four pounds and the smallest 13-inch version comes in at three pounds." . That is a cruel error to make since it made me hope for one.
The thing about a Netflix room for sick kids really reminded how good we've got things in Denmark. I have two days off every time a kid gets sick, no questions asked, as does my partner. I work in the public sector though, so I'm not sure what the standard arrangement is in the private sector.
I for one like the new MacBook pro. Good idea to bring touch id, touch bar etc. Think programmable bar. I m sure it can be locked to standard mode. HNers are a tough crowd to please.
They better show another computer refresh later on to save they keynote. This is incredibly gimmicky and disappointing.
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> the way it integrates with React never feels natural

Could you elaborate on that? In my opinion Redux reinforces that the majority of your app should effectively be (props) => JSX (even if they're es6 classes, they're still just rendering props). Alternatively I feel like it'd be relatively easy to do non-Reactish things with MobX since more of your components are aware of it.
I have a friend that has unusually sweaty hands and can never get the touch id on the iphone to work. Will that person be able to turn the laptop on?
Giffgaff, a UK provider of mobile phone services, has extensive user provided support in their forums.

If someone gives a useful answer you give them "kudos", and that translates to tiny amounts of credit on their bill.

It's likely that companies might want to offload the forums to someone like Imzy.
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And of course it's even easier to make a decision that makes you look like a savvy businessman today while kicking costs or potential costs down the road when they're likely to be someone else's problem.
So, Apple didn't stick with their, ahem, "courage" and eliminate the headphone jack from the MBP? How curious.
I've never been a fan of touch screens on a computer, but this new macbook thing looks good.
I sure did see him doing that. It's exactly the same auto-suggested functionality when typing an email on an iPad or a iPhone with the software keyboard or an iPad Pro with the smart keyboard. It's actually exactly the same functionality. I get it, it's on a laptop keyboard. He could have just typed that stuff. And the wording was funny. But it's a learning auto-suggest. With the iPad Pro I have found it strange how good it is at auto-suggesting what I often say in a conversation.
Well, there's a lot to it and the more you use it the more you understand it. I think we need to get a lot better at getting the real value prop to new users in a better way, so thanks for highlighting this.

For now though, there's a lot written here about things that make us different - https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/weve_raised_our_series_fundin...