skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps that's the appropriate way to discriminate pay? If for whatever reason one engineer should earn more than the other, then make it explicit in the labeling.

Bob is Engineer, and Joe is Engineer+; it's clear to everyone that Joe is earning more, and if Bob feels underpaid then the explanation for the salary difference is explicit in that he's not (for whatever practical reasons) doing the work/quality/quantity/whatever of an Engineer+.
People need to speak up when they want to provide opinion. It's not a vote.
To be fair, Blindsight comes up on a very regular basis, and that's freely available on the author's web site. :)

But yeah, despite the increasing prevalence of legitimate free-to-air soft copies of books, paid is still the default.
What they're recouping costs on and whether or not the features have changed is irrelevant. What's relevant is whether it's worth buying a Windows laptop instead (or sticking with an existing Mac).

They don't have some moral obligation to have their price in-line with the cheapest thing Dell or Acer can come up with at similar specs. They sell a premium product and those features matter.
I think, according to jwz's tweets [0][1], he has a different opinion and sees HN as a community with a distinct ideology he does not want to have on his blog. Personally I I think he has a point there - whenever YC and politics is involved this community can become quite one-sided. See for instance the discussion about Thiel's donation to Trump.

[0] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658278509084673

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronbrethorst/status/657373602405154816
Wait? Is it Switzerland enforcing this? Why should Switzerland care if you buy something there and dont pay taxes for it when you get to Britain?
No I don't leave items bought abroad in their originally packaging. That would be counter productive of me if I was trying to avoid being taxed

Bringing anything into my country is taxable also. See that nice outfit in your suitcase? It's taxable.
Laptops are very taxable but I just leave it in my backpack since customs would not normally check my "personal bags"(hand bags and small backpacks) coming into my country.
If you did not declare it and they find it they levy an additional charge on top of the taxes.
> Routing in AngularJS 2.
> It is bad.

I'm curious what you don't like about the Angular2 router. Since router 3.0 (agreed there were some false starts) I've found it to be a pleasure to work with.
> While it seems improbable that neural networks would become great at cryptanalysis, they may be quite effective in making sense of metadata and in traffic analysis.

How does that square with the fact that the best cryptanalists appear to have nothing but their own neural networks to work with?

This reminds me of the genetic algorithm that came up with a tone discriminator that at first glance looked like it could not work (parts connected wrong or not at all, and yet, crucial to functioning).

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
This is most probably a rather lousy hack put together by Alice and Bob, but it maps out a very interesting future were we one day maybe can stop worrying about how our algorithms work and make that the job of the computer.

It also is totally terrifying to live in a world were computers can hide their messages from their own creators.
I read "It takes just 150 milliseconds to deploy the reversible seat belt tensioners" as 150ms being the time to fully tension them (and then, possibly, for the case where they have to be tensioned most, for example when a passenger is leaning forwards), so some effect will be visible before that.

And useless? There certainly are situations where this will help, for instance when the driver is braking hard. Also, if you hit a wall head-on, a Mercedes will have over a meter of crumple zone. Pulling the passenger away from the car interior by the time that crumple zone has done its job will surely help, even if it only a few centimeters.

Seat belts also should not crush the passenger to death. That puts limits on the speed at which they can be tensioned (it wouldn't even surprise me if the weight of the passenger would be used to adjust the pretensioning force)
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Listen to a podcast or audiobook etc. while you cook.
Uber UK drivers win employee rights case
Google's AI created its own form of encryption
One thing I thought about an year ago (but I'll never do it myself) is: polishing a distro tailored to 2 or 3 very good PC laptops, the ones people normally praise as good work machines (back in the days before Lenovo screwed up those would be the Thinkpad line or something alike).

People would still have some choice but at least the OS would be almost tailored to those machines, not as good as macOS yet but much easier than trying to make it work for the whole spectrum of shit hardware there's in the PC laptop market.
I agree, that is probably going to be one of the most difficult problems to solve. However, as we dive headlong into self-driving tech, we are going to have to find an answer since the tech will be so much easier to implement if the vehicles communicate.
I wish Adobe would port Lightroom to Linux. I'd jump immediately, at that point.
Is that really their target, though? I think of twitter as a place for communities, where people react, tell jokes, and have conversations. It's not a place for serious debate, but that might not be the problem.
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In the past two months I've been seeing a lot more articles about the outrage about price increases in the U.K due to new FX reality post Brexit.

I'm always surprised when people in the U.K pretend like this came as a surprise and they are outraged. Like... am... guys... you did it to yourselves. Cheers.
If I remember well: in normal condition the lift come 2/3 from the top of the wing and 1/3 from the bottom of wing.

So the depression above the wing is indeed "pulling up" the wing more than the surpression below the wing is pushing up the wing.
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Clearly there is some merit to this discussion, as it's reached the top of this thread, and every single news outlet is saying the same thing. People are upset about this "update". The Mac Pro desktop is dead, the laptops take years to get any meaningful upgrades, and Apple only cares about their mobile offerings at this point.

The laptop from four years ago was a better value, than what you get comparatively today.
3 more years and maybe HTML 5 will catch up to where Flash was 3 years ago! Here's to hoping!
I just bought a new Dell XPS 13, which is now cheaper in the UK than the US (I can't recall that ever being the case in the past).

It's a great time to buy in the UK, sure the prices may creep up to compensate over time, not sure Apple is doing this because of currency exchange rates.
Security measures are defined around threat models. People worried about the government getting access to their electronics probably won't rely on Touch ID. People worried about their stoner roommate using their machine can probably rely on Touch ID.
There was a time (up until yesterday that is) where the Pro series was targeted to said HN demographic. I think the amount of criticism is perfectly reasonable.
Because you might not don't trust a company to do a good job at the price point in question.
Uber drivers win employee rights case
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> segues into a whine about a discontinued product from 2013

I see this happening too often but I don't see how that happened in the parent comment though.
> most crashes can be predicted by sensors in advance of the moment of impact,

Provided you dont have any false alarms. For instance, someone making an unsafe pass on a 2-lane road, lets say a fast motorcycle. radar sensor sees incoming object with relative velocity of 150mph, see's driver slam brakes, yet motorcycle dives back into his lane at the last second. In this case, deploying the airbag without accelerometer input would actively harm the driver.
I dug into it a little. It's mostly for posterity at this point but if anyone wants to read about it, look up the Android lowmemory killer, which is sort of an enhancement to the OOM killer's functionality. It's a conventional enough Linux virtual memory otherwise.
What's Green Tea team and why is Angular tailored for them?
New tool detects malicious websites before they cause harm
Price in Brazil: R$21.299, which is the same as $6697,80
The point being is that some models that didn't get an update yesterday had their price increased. For example, the Mac Mini range increased by between 15% and 16%.
You are responding to one point about price, which I have addressed, with another point entirely. You are not making any coherent sense.
This is the link to the research paper ("Learning to protect communications with adversarial neural cryptography"):
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06918
The official statement http://info.donateblood.com.au downplays what was disclosed. "Included in the file was information such as names, addresses and dates of birth."

That's kind of different to the confidential questionnaire answers.

Seems a bit incompetent why any of it is near a webserver - they don't have an "online profile login" or anything like that.
And, guess what, it works with http://localhost:* too! It's brilliant. Thanks for the tip. As mentioned previously, I think it's super nice non-development related tool.
I agree that this is easily forgotten in the HN bubble. Sure, vi enthusiasts should be very upset that the escape key isn't real anymore, but for people like my parents or even younger cousins who don't touch type all that well, having a dynamic context menu right there on a keyboard that they're already looking at is fantastic. I'm interested to know if Apple ever kept stats on how often people would use the volume keys, for example, versus using the menubar control. I like to pretend that they use data to make decisions like this, but this Touch Bar still feels like a "look what we can do" move.
Uber loses right to classify drivers as self-employed in UK
The person you're replying to didn't make any of the assertions you seem to be refuting. They didn't say "soylent is safe" or "glucose is glucose". They asked for academic evidence that long-term liquid diets later inhibit one's ability to properly digest solid food.
Why is that not an existing problem? Is all nutrition bogus? Or does everybody magically end up with balanced nutrition without trying?

I think a lot of people eat very unhealthy, especially people who have no time to cook a proper meal. Something that helps them eat more nutritionally balanced food could do them a lot of good.
I would have to ask - how many people would spend the extra money on a "pro" version of a laptop are not touch typists? The intersection seems minimal.

Not to mention, touch typing has been taught in schools for years. I took a class in it and I am in my late 30's. My niece has taken such a class and is still a freshman in High School.
You could mostly prevent pile-ups, but pile-ups generally don't kill people. Also, you don't need connected cars to avoid pile-ups, you just need to keep your distance and your eyes (sensors) on the car in front of you. Both of which works pretty well with current (unconnected/unilateral) technology.

None of the causes in listed in this article require interconnection to avoid: http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-cause-of-the-most-fatal-ca...
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Wouldn't it make sense to become a touch typist, then? I've watched so many developers be less effective than they could be simply because they can't type!
MASAS - "Make A Sound And Share" www.masas.fm

https://github.com/masasfm

All I know is that it written in react and by what seems to be three, very passionate, brothers.

"MASAS.fm is going to be a platform on which all of an Artist's needs, from creating music, to getting it discovered, to selling it and playing at live events, can be met, for free. Thus eliminating the need for all the vicious middlemen that have placed themselves between Artists and their fans. Together, we can build that platform, one that will truly help all Artists, without ripping them off of their music rights!"

www.MASAS.fm
Probably not, did you account for US prices not including VAT? For example, the MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar is Euro 1699. This is $1855.31. VAT in Germany is 19%, so that makes the price without VAT $1559.08. So, that's $60 higher than the US price. In Germany, you pay a 10.55 Euro copyright levy. So, the difference is less than $50.
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Ewen Whitaker, Lunar Cartographer, Dies
Gimmick. Next question.
I really don't think Apple is targeting corporate customers with emoji touch bars. Of course, if you NEED it, you need it. I'm not arguing that. For everyone else, the cost for what you get is not reasonable.

Also, after spending the last fifteen years on the IT side of a large enterprise. No manager on this earth would approve upgrading $3000+ laptops, for a half a percent in theoretical productivity. Business is, and has always been, making the most money, by spending the absolute least money.

Regarding your inflation comment. Yes the price is similar. But the value for what you got in earlier years was MUCH greater, than what you get now. Sure, a 2016 laptop is better than a 2006 laptop. But at the time, the 2006 laptop was amazing, and the 2016 model is nothing special with its dated components.
Oh sure. The best education in the US is awesome, possibly the best anywhere. But the average is pretty sad, particularly compared to the rest of the first world.
If you're saying that I am the same as a hammer, then I disagree.

You're being charitable, and you think I was saying you literally are a hammer? Wow. The phrase "Equality of the sexes" must have really been confusing.

Moving on. What you call "abuse" is what you've evolved to have an emotional response about. Certain stimuli cause an aversion reaction in your brain. For complex reasons that help us socialize, you also care when you think others' might be experiencing such stimuli. This "compression" may even extend to non-humans, for no reason other than the fact that it wasn't selected against.

A robot experiencing certain stimuli may or may not produce such a feeling in you. This doesn't mean the feeling is special. It doesn't mean the action causing the stimuli in the robot is special. The word "abuse" is all loaded up with your human feelings about stimuli humans should avoid. Doesn't make it special. It certainly doesn't make the word well-defined.

Define the word super precisely and then you will know whether to call that scenario "abuse". But we won't hit on some extra-human definition of the word that we can contemplate deeply about.

Can you abuse a hammer? Define "abuse".
My first reaction when I saw the touch bar was "Ugh this is going to cause a world of headaches when runnning Ubuntu". I was relieved to see you can still get a MBP with physical function keys[1]. (semi-off topic: any Linux users want to chime in and recommend a 14" or 15" laptop with build quality similar to a MBP?)

[1] http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJL...

edit: thanks to everyone for the recommendations!

edit 2: there's some more recommendations here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815183
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hmm. Some of us didn't ask for it.
Curious how this is #8 on the front page with 3 points[1].

Even more curious what the actual product of this company is going to be. A VR dev kit? Their website is devoid of anything but videos of people going "Ooohh!" at special effects.

[1]: http://archive.is/AwjrF

EDIT: Added link to snapshot.
IMO, more companies should use systems like YouEarnedIt to promote recognition of employees' contributions. My employer does, and I've learned a lot about what some people have done for us just by seeing their YEI recommendations on the screen in our break room.
I see the mention of Windows Forms being explicitly deprecated in that link but no mention of MFC itself. Thanks anyway.
I was checking out their terms of service (https://www.scaleway.com/terms/), a few clauses in there seem pretty restrictive, such as:

>Users are required to use decent and respectful language. All abusive, violent or hateful sentiments are totally prohibited.

>The propagation of data, images or sounds that may constitute defamation, an insult, denigration or an infringement of privacy, image rights, good morals or public order.

Does anyone who knows this better than I anticipate that this would cause problems if one wanted to host, for example, an internet message board with this service?

Obviously one would comply with DMCAs, delete illegal content, etc, but I can't imagine forcing all users to use "decent and respectful language", for example. Is this something you just generally ignore until a specific problem with the provider surfaces?
No one is arguing that Apple should price their products competitively to commodity Dell and Acer laptops.
Yes, but when you go through the checkout process and estimate the tax, then the 15" MacBook Pro still costs only $3050 compared to 3200€ ($3400). It is still quite more expensive in EU, even including the taxes.
It does seem weird that they are shipping iPhones with USB-B cables which can't even plug into their flagship Mac line.

I wonder when the first iPhone will ship with a USB-C connector. Next year? Never?
Relevant article from a legal scholar:

"Why Sell What You Can License? Contracting Around Statutory Protection of Intellectual Property" by Elizabeth I. Winston, George Mason Law Review, Vol. 14. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=925995

> "Historically, the transfer of goods has been through sale, a model regulated by public legislation. Increasingly, however, the transfer of goods is occurring through licensing, a model regulated by private legislation. Privately-legislated licenses - for such chattels as musical and written works and agricultural goods - are being used to circumvent publicly-legislated restrictions on intellectual property."
In the past when I was using legal prohormones and needed to feed in a lot of protein and nutrients, a 1 gallon milk jug filled with mix and stored in the fridge was ridiculously efficient. There's no way it was more unpleasant than Soylent; I distinctly remember kind of enjoying the chocolate flavor.

The deal is that people have to know what their body needs first and foremost. Gain? Lose? Maintain? All are different goals and methods. Solyent advertising as an off-the-shelf works-for-all-people might be fundamentally true, but I don't think it can be argued that it's the ideal for each and every person.
Surprised? No.

Pissed off? Yes.

Did it to myself? Not so much. 48% of us didn't, in fact.

(And it's reasonable to assume that some of the remaining 52% didn't specifically vote for "hardest Brexit reasonably possible, please, we don't care about the economy." )
A manager may easily be given a goal which will result in profit for the company but in worse conditions/more work/downsizing/whatever for that team; and delaying or avoiding that goal would likely be easier for the team but worse for the rest of the company.

It would be appropriate to have the manager's pay depend on how they're executing according to the goals of the company and not the goals of the employees - thus, the boss' boss should get a say in that and the employees should not get a vote as their interests may easily be completely opposite e.g. in achieving cost savings for labor-dominated tasks.
It's not clear from the article whether they train the networks with the same shared-key in every iteration, or if they randomize it. Any info on that?
In memoriam as Apple just discontinued it which I feel a little sad about. Still using my one. A friend switched to the 12 inch Macbook and regrets it due to having only one port and having to use dongles which he loses. Such is progress I guess.
Also - switching to ISP DNS is a non-starter if you're stuck with a provider that thinks DNS hijacking is totes OK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...

The best part of TWC's surely-you-wanted-these-ads-instead-of-an-NXDOMAIN system? The servers they use are laggy and unreliable!
OP question was actually plausible, as Quake and other open-sourced ID Software games have a long history of being ported / rendered to all kinds of exotic devices by the modding community: terminals [1], oscilloscopes [2], and many others.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRPoS2WDJA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU
That's why I started the sentence with "if you care about maximizing the quality of your product" -- it's a trade off. If you are ok with getting the average stuff, it's absolutely not necessary to customize your own MRP. The problem is, in the supplement industry, "average" often times means bad, so at least do a little research on any off-the-shelf supplement you're about to buy.
>This is why all the talk of the economy "booming" (here I quote The Daily Express's headline from, I think, this morning) infuriates me.

All the talk of a cataclysmic economic disaster and paternalistic sarcasm about not listening to economic "experts" (those same people blindsided by every crisis) before the vote was just as infuriating. Especially since a lot of it was in response to a panic over the potential of rising wages.

Plus, those people don't seem to realize that there's basically a two tier economy in the UK. The macbook buying, riviera-holidaying, large-retirment portfolio economy in the South and then the North of the M25 economy where people have jobs and make things for export and vacation in the UK.

The former has been booming for years and is suddenly infuriated. The latter has been in recession and ignored for years and will likely be seeing the majority of the upside from Brexit.
I've been sleep deprived for extended periods before and never noticed the difference. Is there sample size > 1 evidence for this you're aware of?
Going by my recently played list on Steam

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: Win

Team Fortress 2: Win/Mac/Lin

Factorio: Win/Mac/Lin

Rocket League: Win/Mac/Lin

Particle Fleet: Emergence: Win/Mac/Lin

SHENZHEN I/O: Win/Mac/Linux

Oil Rush: Win/Mac/Linux

Castle Crashers: Win/Mac

Tropico 5: Win/Mac/Linux

Literally every game I've played recently except ONE supports Mac

Obviously I'm not a "serious" gamer :)
That's pretty much what ElementaryOS[1] is. It's a polished, simplified fork of Ubuntu complete with a dock and buttons for mix/max/close on the left. But as others have said, UI/polish isn't why linux isn't always a perfect replacement for windows/macos, it's unavailability of major, industry-standard programs.

[1] - https://elementary.io/
I think that this real value will ensure that it never really dies. If anything happened to twitter.com, then dozens of little MVP short message boards would spring up. In fact, that might actually be an ideal outcome in the long run, especially if it leads to the formation of a standardized tweet data format and competing public APIs.
You can book appointments to donate blood on the public web site. The questionnaire is part of that process.
Made roughly $300 so far this year from carbon ads on my project sites:

http://projects.lukehaas.me/css-loaders/
http://projects.lukehaas.me/scrollify/
I know for watches (e.g. you buy one + put it on), customs can ask to supply them with the original purchase invoice or some sort of transaction statement. It's probably easier with a laptop because you can put it in a bag, but nevertheless, it's not completely safe to do.
That is correct. It's like that shill, what's his name? Cramer. That guy's advice is worthless, but he was put on tv for a reason.

Doesn't it bother anyone else that our media today merely exists to message lies?