skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You also have to remember that little kids frequently get sick from things adults are already immune to.

...but also things that could kill my elderly parent.
I think my next ultrabook is going to be the new Dell xps 13(Kaby Lake) or Razer Blade Stealth. Probably not mac anymore.
oh man, my little kid is a biological terror.

He got my parents sick.
then
He got my wife sick.
then
He got me sick.
then
He got the nanny sick.

It's going to be a long 20+ years.
Well the low end model of the new MBP has the F keys instead of a touch bar. But it is still $200 more than the previous base MBP.
Excellent example!

There are three groups or movements in question:

Rhodes Must Fall: protestors unhappy with having a large statue of Cecil Rhodes (founder of De Beers, "architect of apartheid", extreme white supremacist) on their campus.

Fees Must Fall: Large protests against university fee increases that used the naming convention

Shackville-TRC: advocates for alternative dispute resolution for those students who were expelled for participating in the protests.

"Science Must Fall": a hashtag made to mock one single student who said very crazy stuff in a video on youtube.

There is no "science must fall" movement documented, there was one viral story about one single person saying one single dumb thing. It went viral on Reddit in the /r/videos and /r/rage sub-reddits (those bastions of coherent discourse). It was picked up by click-bait sites who implied the existence of a movement because the angrier you are the more likely you are to click "share".

This is an excellent example of the exact problem being discussed, although I'm not convinced transparency into the algorithms is the solution here. We already know exactly why these stories were pushed out to people's feeds: this type of disinformation makes money.
Everyone seems disappointed but I think the reason is this:

There isn't that much to innovate on the laptop.

If you want real innovation, you need new form factors: voice recognition, VR, intelligent devices and so on.

The laptop is excellent at what it does and the only thing you can really do is make it faster and lighter.
> So I think this is not really a leap for the web. Just FireFox catching up a bit.

To be clear, Project Quantum is the next phase of architecture, post-Electrolysis. We're also simultaneously working on multiple content processes (which is how Chrome often avoids inter-window jank), but not under the Quantum umbrella.

We think we can do better though, which is where Quantum comes in. The Quantum DOM project is designed to solve exactly the problem you're describing, while using fewer resources and scaling to more tabs. Stay tuned!
Yeah a lot easier to balance the books when the athletes are basically slaves...
I didn't call it bullying. I called it a "cousin" of bullying.

And, for the record, I include in this work communication, not necessarily -- nor even primarily -- personal, "social" communication.

The loud guy I remember who would stand up, raise his voice, and shout conversations across aisles of cubes.

The "best practice" that shrunk our cubes to "corners", sitting almost shoulder to shoulder with 3 - 4 feet between us. People nonetheless holding hour long cube meetings and in-person screenshares and whatnot.

Getting a project completed and passed by a coworker, to find multiple, obvious bugs within the first five minutes. Because that person had no depth of attention whatsoever.

The best developers leaping at nascent work-from-home, because it was the one time they could really, consistently get stuff done.

But challenge HR on any of this, and "best practice" and a mark on your own record.

Asking a coworker, very politely and directly, if they could be a bit quieter -- in this case, in fact, when they were engaged in extensive, repeated personal communication of a non-urgent nature (talking with friends, on the phone and in cube visits, sometimes for 2 - 3 hours, day after day) -- and having this come back to you as a formal complaint to and "correction" -- to you -- from HR for your having asked.

Consistently, I observed the loud people "winning" by dint of being loud.

Those top developers were more senior and from a time when the company was smaller and provide private offices. That was how the company attracted and held them, in the first place. They were "vested" in their careers and families and technical debt and, in this technologically conservative area, somewhat "trapped" in their current positions.

Like a frog in the pot, new senior management and HR kept making things more miserable. If remote work hadn't come on the table when it did, I suspect they would have lost more of them in the near future.

As it was, being senior, they were provide this opportunity and had the leverage to use to to escape what was becoming an untenable office environment.

For those stuck at the office, it became a matter of working around "shouting guy", neighbors' cube meetings, and the like. A culture increasingly of interruption, distraction, and superficial attention.
Would be curious to know if they tested the Touch Bar below the keyboard instead of above it.

I wonder if, as the concept further evolves, the bar might become larger or migrate locations. The comparisons they made to the original PowerBook were interesting, in that it really showed how constant incremental changes really add up in the long term.

Edit: Another possibility is to integrate an OLED display into the trackpad too, so then you have haptics as well, and could interact with both mouse and touch bar with one hand.

[Reposted my comment from the other thread.]
DAAAMN what a disappointment. No Mac Mini, no iMac... Well, might as well not buy a new computer afterall... :S
Those new keytops had better pop off as easily as the old ones do, or I won't be able to Dvorakify the keyboard.
I'm a programmer with 64GB machine and I'm running out of RAM daily. Can't wait until IT upgrades our machines to 192GB some time next year.
I know plenty of religious conservatives who don't discriminate at work. And in SV, one that did would get fired.
> Microsoft introduced a 28" desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore.

The fraction of desktops vs. laptops shipped (~40%-~60%) has been holding steady for years. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...
http://origami.design/tutorials/getting-started/Previewing-a... shows templates for desktop :)
I suspect there was a secret meeting where all the manufacturers discussed ways to make the users suffer, and adding the numpads was #1 on their list. The only two vendors absent on that meeting were Apple and Dell, but Dell then attended the second meeting where they agreed to never offer i5/i7 CPU with an integrated GPU. That's the best explanation why the only XPS15 config with integrated GPU only has i3 CPU ...
It doesn't really rebut me to twist up a bunch of semantics to make it seem like something is being taken away from you by the fact that Apple is making a product you don't like.
There are various weird examples of royalties etc. being paid in perpetuity. See, for example, the case of Listerine. I don't know the status today but as of a few decades ago, Warner Lambert was still paying royalties based on a contract that was signed in 1880s.

[1]http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17...
I bought one a few years ago. Worst laptop I've ever bought!

The keyboard was broken right out of the box. They replace it, reluctantly. I always had problems with the touchpad after that.

The CPU fan went out after a year. Then I had lots of trouble with replacements after that.

Ugh. Much happier with my Macbook Pro.
> Apple is being run more and more by marketers, rather than by techies.

Yes. Today's the day that Apple became irrelevant.
They mentioned Periscope during their live demo at the Apple event, so I would hope it stays for a while.
Yes, I heard about it. For now, I disabled Electrolysis completely again, because I had pages freeze sometimes when I had it on. Maybe because it is incompatible with some plugin I use. My current solution to tun multiple instances as different users works best for me so far.
Important restriction:

for the initial release, the only supported module is java.base

I.e, we will not be able to compile our own code ahead of time just yet.
Seriously. Ask any elementary school teacher you know how often they and their families get sick - it might well be an order of magnitude more than other people.

It's pretty possible to avoid (contagious) illness for a year at a time if you don't have kids and don't spend time at schools/campuses/conventions. Change one of those things and you'll be sick in a month.
No, Apple believes there are more people willing to convert to being like you, and buy all new devices. Not that there are today.

And they're welcome to do so, but they're pushing consumers like me away from their products.
I have the early 2013 MacBook Pro. It is still pretty fast.

Nothing I saw today makes me happy to upgrade as a developer. Sure it's lighter and thinner and HUUGE trackpad that's a nice to have when I'm traveling. But the TouchBar requires me to look down at my keyboard which slows me down. And they can't even leave the keyboard itself alone with the terrible butterfly implementation coming over from the 12" MacBook. And I am sure all the Mac developers will enjoy developing apps that both have and do not have TouchBar. Just wait 5-7 years for all the non-TouchBar based MacBooks to not be as common.

Then the ports. Apple seems to think that it can force upgrades to technology like they did with (arguably) floppy drives and cd-rom/dvd drives. But USB (non-C) is not a dying standard, neither is an SD-card slot. People still use SD-cards Apple! I don't want to buy dongles all the time. I am shocked they even bothered to include a headphone jack. Where's your courage now Apple?

All of this has been very off-putting as a developer. And where are the iMac and Mac Pro updates?

edit: also they got rid of magsafe. i guess thats a split since their magsafe 2 cables were way too loose.
Thanks for asking! I'll add it to our list of questions.
So, perhaps the issue here is not that average people can't comprehend high science (or politics, or economics, etc).

The issue is really one of trust.
Being extremely principled is exactly why many of these companies and/or their engineers might be tempted to put their thumb on the scales. After all, this election or this issue or this whatever is just so super important that it would be immoral not to take a stand...
Just the raw formatting of that could be improved, by cuddling up ELSE IF from separate lines.

Aren't there some END tokens missing? Let me put them in:

IF card is valid DO
IF card owner is valid DO
IF request withdrawal DO
IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
IF request <= current balance DO
IF withdrawal <= available cash DO
vend currency
debit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
accept envelope through hatch
credit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
eat card
END
ELSE
message
END

Okay, now:

IF card is valid DO
IF card owner is valid DO
IF request withdrawal DO
IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
IF request <= current balance DO
IF withdrawal <= available cash DO
vend currency
debit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE IF authorization code is valid DO
query for amount
accept envelope through hatch
credit account
ELSE
message
terminate session
END
ELSE
eat card
END
ELSE
message
END

Okay, just one ELSE IF; not much opportunity for that.
I dunno. I'm pretty sure the flow of information is one way. I could be wrong. :( I think the keyboard logic circuit board handles the Caps Lock indicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard#Connection
If someone I work with brings their sick kid to work then I am working from home.

Honestly wtf kind of idiot thinks bringing a sick person into an office is a good idea??
Look at the sentence you posted. You are contagious for one day before you have symptoms and then you are contagious until all the symptoms go away. Usually the sick day that you stay at home for is the second day of seven. So really, you should stay out for the week. But 24 hours is a nice compromise.

Also, how do you know they influenza and not something else?

And as to mutation, you're right, they don't actually mutate. But what happens is the weaker bacteria/virus will not affect you but will affect your child. After a while, the child starts to kill off the weaker ones and then the concentration of strong ones increase, and those are the ones that neither you nor your child can fight, and that's when adults get sick too.

Most laymen call that mutation which isn't correct, but it's still correct to say that the bacteria/virus that are stronger increase their concentration in the child until it is potent enough to infect the adult too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Thunde...

Thunderbolt 3 is basically an extension which builds on top of USB-C. As such it's fully backwards compatible.
Given it's only TB3, and the party line is to get adapters, won't this mean that you'll need to add $100+ to the price for adapters?
Pandoc doesn't work, or any threaded Haskell rts application. Not enough ioctl's and other things are supported needless to say.
maybe back to tumblr?... curious if Periscope is on the chopping block next
The Touch Bar seems like it'll go the way of iOS's/Mac's Force Touch: completely unused by users and completely unsupported by developers.
You are confusing philosophising about a better way to live with knowledge of empirical results in politics and economy.

I know very well communism as such does not work, and that at our current stage of development we need prices and markets for resource optimization. And laws and judicial systems and so on.

But.

The play chips are imaginary. We play by the rules due to convention, not due to a law of nature.

The rich are better off not because only a marginal percent of population can be better off, but because how the current economic system stochastically distributes the captured value from various economic processes.

Their main happiness comes not from being "better" than anybody else, but because their resources enable them to avoid the lower rungs of maslow's hierarchy of needs and focus on self actualization.

Society can change. Anything else is misogynic fantasy. USA was born out of hate of kings and aristocracy and the taxes imposed thereof, of the hate of existing status quo of hereditary benefits and cronyism of state power.

Sure, it was not better for a large category of population, but it was a society designed, that functioned differently than anything else before it, and remains functioning to this day. It was born into a world where anything else but a strong monarchy was a whimsical daydream.

Change happens. There is no reason to accept status quo if it seems unsavory. One must remain a realist and a humanist while one is at it.

Saying "nothing but the current system is possible" is delusional denial of empirically proven changes societies and economic systems can go through.
A human can sleep with one or both eyes open, but as far as I know it's not at all related to brain activity. The person's brain is still fully asleep.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagophthalmos#Nocturnal
They should have called it "MacBook Hipster". Call me stupid, but this spring I bought mbp 13" mid-2012 model not because it's the cheapest one they have, but because that's the only one they had with swappable hdd, ram, battery and even with ethernet port that I personally don't care that much about.

I much rather have slightly lower specs but when the day comes and my ram is corrupted or i need ssd replacement I could order one online and get delivered the next day, rather than drive 200km to drop it for repairs, wait god knows how long and drive those damn 200km to pick it up.

Hispter glue sandwiches is not something I'm planing to buy as my next computer, I just really hope Apple will get their sh*t together and release another laptop for old school guys like me...
Seems like my next laptop won't be a MacBook Pro.

Can anyone recommend a good Linux laptop that will offer up to 32gb of RAM and have decent battery life?
I think the same is true with philosophy too.

Hackers often seem to have an anti authority preference and are more likely to respect the plucky diy-er than the member of the establishment that has paid their dues. Other fields are by default assumed to be obfuscationary rather than hard or deep.
Looks pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are all-in on live video for the medium to long term. Twitter even has live broadcasting deals with NFL, MLB and NBA.
I guess you need adapter for connecting new iPhone also.

2.5k laptop and 1k phone and you still need $30 adapter.
This is very exciting! Question for the experts out there, do you think this has the potential to do away with using the JNI in new projects for the speed boost?
Bazel (by Google): Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone
Are you saying that on Android, you can achieve UID=0 via this exploit, but still not write to anywhere important on the device?

What are these different "methods" listed in the table here?

https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs

Can one of those methods allow me to write to some file in /etc? (Which is enough to grant me the access I want, unless selinux is just MAGIC.)
How many of those desktops are used in corporate environments that would never spring for a machine that starts at $2,999?
C# had this for a while with ngen.
To describe Vine and Periscope as "the same" because they are both "video apps" is like saying blueberries and a potato salad are the same because they're both food.
as I understand it, the MBP line uses the 45W CPUs and I think they aren't out yet
Apple Touch Bar UI Guidelines
Board Faster with CLEAR's 10 Fingerprints, Iris Scan and High-Res Face Photo
They don't directly give you status, but in addition to waiving dollar-spend-on-tickets requirements, there are cards which convert part of their redeemable-only mileage earning into status-qualifying mileage earning when you hit spend thresholds.

Before the American Airlines merger, you could get to low-level status on US Airways this way. Sign up for or renew a lounge membership, and you got 5,000 qualifying miles. Then hit both spend thresholds on the Barclays affiliated credit card, and 20,000 miles from that would convert to qualifying, putting you at 25k for the year, good for Silver Preferred.

I believe it's still possible on Delta to reach Silver Medallion status, in the first year you have their top-end Reserve Amex, by hitting bonuses and spend thresholds that award or convert to qualifying miles.
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> this still does not fix the problem that the javascript in all windows shares one core

Yes, that's what makes it the "first stage".

The "leap" part is not Electrolysis; as you note that's just table stakes. The "leap" part is what we can work on now that the Electrolysis first stage, which was very labor-intensive, is done.
This. It's aimed at a very specific group of users and they love it -- e.g. https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surfac...
Agreed. The venn diagram of people that can afford the pro and those that care about emojis is likely rather slim.

However, watching the photoshop demo I could see the value. Honestly though, I think an add on accessory the size of a trackpad would be better. Unfortunately, that would sell in numbers so small that software support would be non-existent. So, this is a compromise solution that doesn't have Apple's usual boldness to it, rather a lacklustre add on that will deliver lacklustre results (to both sales and usefulness).
Having worked both at places with "sick days" (tracked or not), and lumped-all-together PTO policies, I loathe PTO arrangements. Extremely ill people dragging themselves into work because they have no PTO or feel the reasonable need to preserve it... It places an unfortunate choice on the employee.
I think Periscope aligns more with Twitter's "live" vision. But yes, it's definitely next if anything.
Isn't java already compiled ahead-of-time?

You give the JVM a .class file, not a .java file.

Though this is a technicality.

Java 9 will be able to compile java source code to java byte code then compile that java byte code to native machine code, correct?
Was. I haven't heard anybody talk about Vine in a long time.
I don't get this... Male engineers have kids and date too. Female employees, engineer or not, get pregnant. "As a female engineer" I would prefer if people -- including fellow women -- stopped treating us like we are some kind of exotic species.
Simple and Functional: http://andrew.hedges.name/

A horrible website for horrible people (in the style of CAH): http://jefflombard.com/

(full disclaimer last one is my own site, anyone is welcome to clone it, it's based off of cards against humanity and available under creative commons: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com)
Yeah but most of the time laypeople disregard the scientists and substitute their own logic anyways.. People are incredibly stubborn and set in their opinions.
Not the parent, but when I was trying to learn R+R I kept getting confused by what they meant by 'state'. React state belongs to some component (whichever can mutate it) and is passed to children via props, and generally seems to include a mixture of view state and data/model state, with view-state originating somewhere in the component hierarchy while model state comes from the root.
Redux's tutorial implied to me that it expected all mutable state to originate from the root, which clashed with what I had come to expect from React. Since I am fairly new to front-end JS, I just found myself confused at which way was really wiser.
You continue to lob ad hominem attacks instead of making any substantive arguments.

I'm wasting my time arguing with you. Starting a discussion by "laughing" at my portfolio without even knowing what it is is not an adult thing do to.

I really hope you listen to feedback and grow as a person. Right now you're carrying a lot of negativity around with you.
That's purity getting in the way of practicality. Non-destructive cut with text isn't unfamiliar to anyone who has used a spreadsheet, so use that abstraction with files(like windows does).
I sit at an Apple desktop (macbook pro with 2 apple monitors) for most of my day so I can use my giant screen to design interfaces and I'm not cramped into a laptop's tiny 13 inch screen. The last office of about 5,000 devs and designers that I worked at had desktops with monitors. No one worked on laptops except a few people here and there.

I would lose HOURS of productivity per week if I were not on a dual screen set up. It's just better for what I do.

That being said, if I need to go mobile, which I normally don't I use my macbook. I think I've disconnected my macbook from my monitors probably 2 times in the last 2 years.
I feel like a touch screen on the trackpad would've made more sense. Since it's so large there's room to be creative with on-screen shortcuts, dragging sliders, choosing an emoji :), etc. You can still keep all the keyboard shortcuts you need and not need to look at 3 things at once (screen, keyboard/trackpad, touch bar).
Could someone make a MagSafe-to-USB-C adapter?
Upvote for "A Canticle For Leibowitz" alone. Thanks for your service at the Internet Archive!