skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the other tragedy being them run by shareholders that dont care about the platform health over short term profit
I don't think that's it - the spidercritters play a very small role in the story I'm thinking of - but this sounds fascinating. Thanks!
> It's wholly possible that taking the idea from a concept to a working product is just so hard that they don't want to show it off before it's 'ready'.

So if it's not 'ready', then what do GV investors know/see about the product that an average person couldn't see? In other words, if the product is in a half state, then what confidence do the investors have the team will get it to the a full state. It's like saying "invest in my rocket company that is going to take people to another solar system...and here's the demo of a rocket going to the stratosphere". No one has been able to send a rocket to another solar system but a plethora of organizations have done so to the stratosphere, so what additional insight does one have that makes me so confident that this is the team to get us to another solar system?
The system is rigged as evidenced by outrageously lopsided support verging on Soviet level propaganda. And at least some electronic voting machines manufacturers have clear conflict of interest because of association with Clinton Foundation.

Not to mention the emails (verifiable through DKIM) released by Wikileaks outlining the rigging of the Dem primaries -- as well as Project Veritas videos some of which are corroborated by FEC filings, CNN video, and other mainstream media sources.
Here in America, we call people who excel at football "heroes", and people who excel at math "nerds".
> the gains are low

bruh
Oh I know, but some areas still restrict licenses and it can lead to the ridiculous costs. Not sure how wide restrictions are, just that they're much less common than they used to be!
3 Reasons Why Talent Management Isn’t Working Anymore
You don't mention if Linux support is vital to your search. It would be good to know, since there are plenty of great Windows ultrabooks that are not-so-great if you're planning to load Linux onto them.
No their was plenty of data. I run into cynics all the time that just doubts everything "Experts" says and their arguments are not about the actual data or implementation of the data.
The CPI for this year on electronic appliances has an increase of 1-2% month to month for the past 12 months, with a similar trend in 2015.
And this is on goods which tend to be more resilient, travel, various insurance and thing that rely on currency exchange at the point of transaction have increased by 11-20% (depending on the destination due to EUR/USD adjustments) especially things like air travel.
If you are buying PC parts from local stores in the UK you can see the change in prices over the past 2 years, and yes these are at nearly 20%, other things like Laptops have also went up by 10% or more, Dell, HP, and the rest have increased their prices earlier this year http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/hp-follows-dell-w....

Here are a few good examples of prices before and after the referendum as far as computer hardware goes:

[0]Intel 6700K:
-April 2016: 290 GBP
-August 2016: 305
-Oct 2016: 329 GBP (which is more than price in Dec of 2015 when the CPU was new, before the price drop and above MSRP due to demand)

[1]WD Black WD5001FZWX 5TB:
-Jan 2016: 195
-Oct 2016: 230

[2]WD Blue WD40EZRZ 4TB:
-Jan 2016: 110
-Oct 2016: 130

[3]Dell 2715U:
-March 2016: 379
-Oct 2016: 388

And we can go on an on, yes these are just a few examples form a single retailer, but prices have went up, and on those that haven't simply staggered even tho there were MSRP price reductions in the US or elsewhere.
You are more than welcomed to chose other local retailers and see a similar thing happening.

Also while the CPI does track electronics sales it's not a good indicator, it doesn't track the prices of everything and more people are going to buy TVs or fridges which could've been in stock or on paid order for 18 months than GPU's and new laptops.

Overall if you want to see the price hikes look at things that are moderately to fairly expensive and are sold at low (compared to other goods) consumer volume, and are usually not protected by tons of regulation, huge dealerships and backlogged inventory.

[0] https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-core-i7-6700k-s-1151-s...
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160806041018/https://www.scan....
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160408110152/https://www.scan....

[1] https://www.scan.co.uk/products/5tb-wd-black-wd5001fzwx-desk...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160115001838/http://www.scan.c...

[2] https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4tb-western-digital-wd40ezrz...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160113024836/http://www.scan.c...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20151229234616/http://www.scan.c...
[3] https://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-dell-u2715h-monitor-ips-p...
Photographers and graphic artists? They probably touch type, but might find the "context menu" aspect of the touchbar compelling?
InnoGen launches its clean, green, and portable X200 Power-Hub on Kickstarter
After the horrible keynote, I spent a few hours looking for a laptop.

I'm interested in using Ubuntu, HiDPI, and backlit keyboard. Here's what I found:

https://www.asus.com/it/Notebooks/Zenbook-Series-Products/

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP900X3L-K06US

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la...

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/900-series/yoga-90...

I'm probably going to with the XPS Skylake.
Every time I go to the Dell website I curse how difficult it is to navigate.

I really want a 1920x1200 matte screen option...
Comparing Soylent to soda just because both companies seek to make a profit seems very disingenuous (every company selling you food of any kind seeks to make a profit). It's fine to be on the critical side, but this feels more like completely writing off the very idea rather than just being critical.

You're basically defining from the outset, prior to any real consideration, that Soylent is "junk food", despite its nutritional and taste profiles being wildly different from that of any junk food I've ever seen. When you start from such an assumption, you effectively shut down your ability to reason about this new thing in any meaningful way; you will always be inexorably led back to your own premature conclusion.
This guy is obviously smart and has some interesting ideas, but unfortunately a lot of them are very disagreeable to most people. I could barely get past his rant against having a kitchen and using retail stores.

I have nothing wrong with a meal replacement like soylent (and the many other products that are basically the same thing on the market), but his ideas and his motivation behind it are disturbing. I'm all for optimization but this isn't the kind of world I would want to live in.
razer has some laptops with 32gb if you want to check them out.
Well, I should have worded that better, shouldn't have been so dismissive. By 'serious' I meant 'resource intensive'. I don't know all of those games, bit the games I do know are definitely not very taxing on a GPU (aside from Skyrim, but what settings are yo uplaying it at? Does that seem worth it for the price tag?)

I don't think you'd argue that a mac is a good gaming rig from a performance / $ perspective (or any other perspective really).
I just got a T460s, and am super happy with my Arch Linux setup.

The build quality definitely isn't as good as Apples. I had to return my first T460s due to severe light-bleed issues. The new one is fine, though the TrackPoint isn't as good as it was in previous generations. The TrackPad also is not as good as Apples, though I try to keep a keyboard-only workflow so it's not that much of an issue (till it is)
I've actually been more and more impressed with Razer lately. At first I was totally against their stuff claiming they were over charging for "cool colored" stuff that was the same or worst than their alternatives (which was true at the time), but I've slowly started using some of their stuff and it is actually pretty nice. And the new stuff they're putting out seems like it actually might be top of the line stuff and worth the price.

That said, I have no idea if this laptop is any good, I just wanted to mention my feelings toward the company as a whole because I know a lot of people like me who think of all their stuff as over priced normal stuff with "cool color schemes".
Your site looks pretty cool
Looks like a Clevo reseller. Btw. the Schenker S306 looks like a neat machine for the money.
Most (all?) GUI debuggers either in IDEs or browser dev tools use F-keys to step through code.
The host side of V6 can be noticeably slower as well. Mostly due to lack of use. Here's one example:

I recently fixed a performance bug in our (FreeBSD based) TCP stack where having just 10% of connections be V6 on a busy CDN server would result in performance issues due to massive lock contention on network related hashtables. The issue was that when an ICMP (like must fragment, for path mtu discovery) was received targeted at a connection, the V4 code would look up the appropriate connection (with a read lock), and do the work for that connection. However, the V6 code would take a write lock on the global hash table (shared with v4) and iterate over the entire table while holding the write lock. So the entire system would come to a screeching halt, with readers spinning on that write lock while V6 bumbled along. This is something most people would not notice, but on a busy CDN server with ~100K connections serving 80-90Gb/s, it was pretty deadly.

The cause of this bug was primarily because people have been optimizing the V4 code for years, but the V6 code "scary", unused, and often forgotten about. So people mostly forget about it when making optimizations.

Looking at some data from last night, one of the biggest sources of lock contention on one of these 100G boxes is still in the v6 code, even at a site that's serving only 15% of traffic as V6. Sigh.
>> The Macbook Pro was never marketed as a developer's machine.

That's probably true, but isn't its success in part driven by the deluge of Linux/Unix users who were thrilled to finally have a Unix based machine with a beautiful UI that ran on Intel CPUs? Also increased sales from word of mouth by those same ex Linux users telling their Windows using friends to switch?
The prion disease rumours circulating on Twitter about Soylent are really disturbing.
Pets that live long and healthy lives do not eat a single form of "kibble". Obesity and health problems in pets is a very well known issue (talk to any vet and they'll tell you all about it) and it's mostly due to overfeeding by owners and not enough variety in diet. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar to the problems with human food consumption?

There are so many health problems in the tech industry, why are we creating more and making businesses out of it?
Carter did not have fake support in 1980.

http://themonkeycage.org/2012/08/what-really-happened-in-the...
Slow enough is slow enough that you can see an obstruction soon enough to stop before driving into it.

Either way, interconnections won't help you -- what if the car is crashed hard enough (or long enough for the battery to run down) that it's beacon is off/broadcasting wrong information? What if there's fallen tree or a pedestrian on the road? Generally, sensors (radar) can see through fog, and that's the most help you're going to get in a situation like this.

Yes, maimings do matter. But they don't count towards "save [ing] countless lives".
I like this one.
https://www.igvita.com/
Judging by many of the comments on here that think the problem has been obvious all along, I'd call it Hacker News Syndrome.
I actually just replied to another comment saying I actually might give razer a more serious look. My initial impression a few years back was all their stuff was over priced gimmicks with unique color schemes as their only selling point, but recently that opinion has changed as I realize some of their stuff is actually pretty quality.
Define 'good enough'. These aren't inexpensive machines. In the context of gaming, $2600 is far too much to pay for a laptop that gets ~30fps at medium settings.
I have XPS 13 with Linux but consider installing Windows and using Linux in VM. The external display support is terrible, WiFi speed is halve or even less than one gets under Windows and touchpad is rather imprecise and often misses taps. This is with Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. I also tried Fedora 25 beta few days ago. That seems to work better, but still hardware works worse than under Windows.

Also, the display is too reflective. It was a mistake to go with 3200 resolution.
> I got SO bored with drills/memorization.

That's because you're lazy. I know you really genuinely think you aren't, but you are... I'm dealing with this same mindset in my 13-year-old son right now. That's like saying you want to get in shape, but the repetitious method of lifting weights up and down is just SO boring.
Yes. The how and why in this case are pretty much the same thing however. Why does a program do what it does? Because a physical machine is running a distinct code.
Actually, never. Most of my work is in Xcode, though I do some Android Studio, PyCharm, and, if I have to, command-line gdb. As a developer working on a Mac for almost 10 years, I genuinely can't recall the last time I ever used a function key.
Ravens have social abilities previously only seen in humans (2014)
I imagine typical car sensors can "see" through fog and rain just fine.
Yes, how the touch bar will work when the focused application is in full screen in a second monitor is anyone's guess...
4th Gen Thinkpad x1 Carbon

Picked up one of these a couple months ago. Nice little machine for sure, especially if you are addicted to Trackpoints.
Many of the most successful startups started building a new product in a market of unknown size. It often seemed small at the time. What you call high market risk here, is actually (sometimes) the best situation in terms of investment returns.

It's tough to be a VC.
Of course there are people who will, but there are more who won't and thing that e.g. Photoshop requires a 1070 or better.
Sounds like SV-based white boy. Engineers don't make $100k+ everywhere in the world...
Yikes! Where is a write up with these findings if you have one handy. Otherwise I'm off to Google!

Found one: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/watchdog-group-says-s...
Right, I figure it's probably even better because the stress factor of pushing on little icons doesn't strike me as a wise longevity decision. Of course I'm talking about an Apple product here so I should acknowledge 'Intentional Obsolescence' as part of the business model. Basically I'm pointing out that not only did Apple not innovate something, they managed to make it (potentially) inferior for the sake of cuteness in the process.
I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say that good Linux support is extremely important. I'm not convinced the surface book has that.
I am a dev who needs to travel light. I was looking for an alternative to the MBP in the MS world.
I found it: the Lenovo X1 Carbon.
Pros: light, well finished, classic design, technical specs, keyboard is a dream. Cons: some crapware to remove
I've been using Bash for Windows at work for a couple of months, and it's mostly been good enough that I don't need to fire up my ubuntu vm anymore.

The biggest problem I've run into lately is that I really want to be able to run GUI-based programs, and even though that does worth with VcXWin, it's kind of crappy, especially for font rendering.

Anyone know of a free (or cheap) x window server for windows that does anti-aliasing?
Indeed. The kernel is not the only component (of the complete system) that gets features backported.

I, personally, am quite happy that I don't really have to worry that a routine "yum update" is going to break any of my installed applications.
The US government summoned the wrong Time Warner to testify about the AT&T deal
I assume that if you considered an Apple product, you expect portability, so...

If you want to spend a similar amount of money, get the Asus UX390UA (Zenbook 3).
1) It's lighter
2) It's got better components in every single aspect -> CPU, GPU, SSD size, Screen, keyboard, etc., etc....
3) It's actually cheaper STILL

If you want to spend less, but now around the same performance of a MBP, maybe get the Asus UX330. It's basically a toned-down UX390, but still awesome.

If you want a cheaper STILL, consider a Clevo reseller like PCSpecialist (UK), Scan (Everywhere?), Sager (US), XMG (Europe). They are the ultimate in performance per cost, it's just that they tend to not be the most asthetically pleasing.
Meh. Personally, for desktops/workstations, the best part is spec'ing out the components and building it myself.

I get it, it's not for everybody, but at least for performance-oriented software devs, in my opinion it's worth knowing how the "nuts and bolts" fit together. At the least, having a basic understanding of computer engineering helps you know where to best spend your money, even if you let an OEM handle the compatibility/reliability/assembly/testing issues.
If your arm gets flung out the window when that side of the car is facing up then it could get crushed when that side rolls over.
More capacity and with one less display to drive. It should definitely last significantly longer.
Ingress WAN traffic to my smart toaster is dropped at the router.
> but looks like a good device.

Sorry, to clarify, have you ever used an Acer TravelMate P648?
I suppose it's ambiguous but generally I feel like "senior" means "responsible for more pieces or higher level pieces" not just "faster at the simple stuff".
Yes, but there were a number of security-related incidents discovered afterwards that affected even the Thinkpads:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/windows-pcs/len...
Apple replaces the outer shell during the refurb process. Every Apple refurb I've ever seen was cosmetically perfect - these are the same units they use for warranty replacements.
Wireless carriers in the US (at least) are pushing towards IPv6 only over the air, with their network providing DNS64 and NAT64 (and 464XLAT on devices for IPv4 apps).

At this point, it would be reasonable for a mobile device focused on the US market to only support IPv6 over the air; although not if you wanted to use it overseas.

There's a clear path for new end-user devices to be IPv6 only, and ISPs to only support a protocol gateway where they interconnect. It's probably a little early for ISPs or devices to start. We're still in the phase where a service can use IPv4 only with little penalty; but there are enough customers with IPv6 enabled, that it may be compelling to use it too.
I'll think you find that Uber drivers also want to be self employed.

There is only 2 drivers who led this case, and they currently work for some private taxi cab association.
I have an employer provided top of the line Macbook, as do most (all?) of my developer friends. Random devs at tech meetups mostly have 15" Macbooks. It's typical for recruiter spam emails to mention any computer + monitor you want as part of the standard hiring package.

On a similar note, plenty of tech companies provide Herman Miller chairs, and other perks that don't cost the "absolute least money."

Are you disputing that managers on earth have approved these expenses?
That, interestingly, was Aristotle's definition of a living thing (the formal and final causes are identical).
I've never found one place to keep everything, so it goes into many different places. The only thing I need to remember is where everything is, which is a significantly shorter list than what everything is. I mainly use Fastmail.com, Pinboard.in, MEGA.nz, Lastpass.com, and InoReader.com. At work we use Google Drive a lot to share/edit.

If there was a service that could do email, calendars, contacts, notes, passwords, bookmarks, rss/atom feeds, file storage/sync, and document editing well and in an integrated fashion (at least all within the same interface), that would be great, but I doubt it will ever exist. Google has made all those things, but they don't offer any sort of combined solution and have about 3 different versions of notes/to-do/bookmarks, none of which are integrated with anything else.
The Twitter thread claims that touch input/display, touch ID, secure enclave and camera are isolated on a separate ARM SoC. Since touch ID will be used for Apple Pay, and Apple Pay will be integrated into Safari, this architecture may be harder to attack from a malicious website that is trying to obtain Apple Pay credentials. Even if macOS on x86 is compromised, there is a separate input/output system on the ARM SoC for payment credentials.
Most dogs and cat's however are domesticated and have been eating a mostly single-source diet for many many generations... some adaptation has occurred. There is a reason they don't give zoo animals kibble (aside from the herbivores who naturally focus on a single food source, and the pellets are made from that food source). Lions don't get kibble, and they don't even get a single kind of meat, they rotate their food, because if they dont, the lions become depressed and sluggish and sick. We're meant to eat a variety of food - the variety stimulates our internal biome which has more effect over us than just how we digest our food - our gut is basically a second brain and has a direct effect on our mood and our brain chemistry, and can even influence our thinking process (this is how when you eat something that makes you sick, you naturally avoid that thing for a while)
Wouldn't there be easier things to sell then instead of bitcoin? Like iTunes credit or pre-paid phone codes? There has to be a reason beyond "look we're a generalized automated point of sale!" to choose bitcoin?
Researchers uncover origin of atmospheric particles
Unfortunately they ignore Linux as far as I could tell on a quick browse. Having Linux work with the hardware out of the box (more or less) is crucial.
I do scientific programming using FORTRAN 90 and Python. I am Windows Insider with fast build releases set up in my Dell XPS. For my needs it has served well. But I request MS developers to give more control over how to utilize system resources more efficiently. It needs to be more transparent and documented for users of procexp.
I haven't. Interesting - that'd be a nice way to try to probe how strong the encryption is (i.e., "bits recovered vs. key bits supplied to adversary"). I'll have to think about that more - thanks for the idea!
That requires remapping (which I can't do on every machine I have access to) and retraining a decade's worth of muscle memory.

And I like physical function keys for other purposes too.
How's the linux support on it? Even if I got over the my frustrations with the windows desktop user-experience, not being unix-like is an absolute no-go for development.
Or suggesting that such deals, replicated across the economy, will end up being costly for the UK.
As long as their sensors correctly identify a rollover vs. another kind of accident, I think it's an acceptable risk. If you're in a rollover situation you're likely to have both hands on the wheel already. If your arm is out the window during the rollover it's not likely to fare well anyway.
Okay, I'm probably not the first or only person to have this sneaking suspicion, but here it goes anyway:

This run-up to Magic Leap is giving me déjà vu of the Segway.