skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$4 to $9 (non-genuine)

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=USB-C+Lightn...
I can't tell how it works from the site, but a good approach is to randomize the distance threshold a bit each time. For example: if users are within 1km, always connect; if more than 2km apart, never connect; 1.xkm apart, connect with probability x.

That kind of thing combined with some rate limits (how often one can attempt to connect to a user) should be effective.

(edit) Actually, I think I like mseebach's suggestion even more: For each user, pick a random location about 100m away from them, then pretend they're there until they've moved far enough away, then repeat.
OPA, a live memory debugger for C programs, by Eskil Steenberg [video]
Dating need not include sex. Sex is not abuse. And that there is possibility of abuse does not mean that the abuse will happen. Precautions need be taken, but an outright ban is uncivil, because it carries prejudice towards individuals, i.e., the superiors are filthy exploiters who'll do anything for sex and the underlings immoral people who'll trade their bodies and emotions for professional returns.

WRT statutory rape, I didn't know, sorry. WRT me being foreign, I din't know that HN was a US-centric forum.
Here you go, pal! http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-17x-series

17in 4K IPS display, desktop-equivalent GTX 980.
Apple sells a USB-C to Lightning cable, so you don't need a dongle to connect an iPhone.

The rest of your points stand though.
I remember once waking up, when, for some reason, I had my eyes open. It was weird: all I saw was just shape; not shapes of anything in particular, but just pure essence of what shape really was.

Then, over a period of a few seconds, and in distinct chunks, it suddenly resolved into things I could actually identify, and I realise what I was looking at.

After the fact I put this down as the pattern-matching areas of my brain starting working rather more slowly than the rest of my visual cortex, so it took a while before they starting resolving what my eyes were seeing into meaningful concepts.

I have a variety of mild sleep disorders. I can recommend them as a hobby; they're fascinating. Admittedly, it helps that being hag-ridden is so familiar it's practically an old friend; the first few times were utterly terrifying[ * ]. But the weirdest of the lot is something I've dubbed false memory syndrome, where I'll remember something, while quite conscious, which never happened, and frequently in quite some detail. Just last night I had apparently written and drawn a comic book. That was better than the time I was on the run after having killed someone...

[ * ] Apparently there's a theory that this is where alien abduction myths come from.
Thank you for the explanation. But will it not disable automatic updates, and AppStore functionality, since UID will loose its integrity?
The hard fact is that there's still a LOT of usb devices out there. Even one USB port would greatly alleviate the pain.

If they don't include a usbc->usb+hdmi adapter in the box, it's going to be extremely painful for users with workstations who find out that their peripherals don't work.
I disagree. Outside the startup world, a lot of SEO is done simply to drive traffic to you so that you have chance to convert some of it into paying customers. All the small businesses that pay SEO companies to spam the shit out of the Internet don't do it for ad revenue, they do it just for organic traffic.

This motivation won't go away as long as people can use the Web to make money, so we're stuck with the pressure to game search results.
While it's nice that Unix systems have an alternative (^]), many people don't know about that, and you'd probably be hard pressed to find anyone who prefers it over just <Esc>.
Is this sarcastic?
There is a difference between the NSA being able to trace your identity vs. a profit-driven corporation being able to connect your identity to your online speech, location, and contacts. The first is governed by due process and need-to-know, the second is essentially public knowledge if the ad-tech revenue is sufficiently tempting.

Even in a pseudonymous environment where the venue operator presumably knows who you are (like HN), the assumption that other users cannot easily trace your words to your IRL identity reduces friction in communication. Environments where everyone publicly posts under their real identity, with those posts retained forever, tend towards low-information social signaling.
C# and Java are very similar. That is the only reason I mentioned it.
Incremental improvements that together amount to a significant rearchitecture are not the same as incremental improvements that are just fiddling around the edges.

But even the latter may need a name if they will involve months of time and a large enough group of people that all need to be able to refer to them. Blog posts are more debatable, of course.
Pretty sure the guys who've been making a very successful business out of Penny Arcade for the last couple of decades don't need to take backroom deals from Microsoft in order to make ends meet.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826.
A cable of rather limited uses is the moral equivalent of a dongle.
For €5000 you can't connect your state-of-the-art iPhone to your state-of-the-art Mac out of the box. You have to pay extra, and you have to carry around an awkward dongle adapter and hope you don't forget it! Fucking lol.
The accessibility features in iOS go very deep. Without a doubt they are one of the best computer manufacturers in that market.
> The other complaint is just about ports. It's not so hard to have a dongle that has these ports

And the keikaku[0] is quite obviously to provide incentive for accessory manufacturers to build type-c native stuff, and eventually have an all-type-c ecosystem and little to no need for "dongles" (which incidentally should mostly be basic cables)

[0] keikaku means plan
I try not to buy too much into the Jobs hype because it falls into the same line of thinking that leads to the "Great Man" theory which I don't put much stock in.

That said he did seem to have a way of understanding the whole ecosystem that Apple was trying to sell. In the post Jobs era the number of products and configurations available is getting pretty unruly and you now have an issue where you can't plug an iphone 7 out of the box into a new MBP without a dongle. That's pretty disjointed and strange. The TouchBar also seems to be misplaced on the MBP which every time I've had one for work is pretty much immediately folded up and put under a thunderbolt display (now requiring another dongle) and making the TouchBar worthless.

So yeah I don't know if you need Jobs specifically but you certainly need someone looking over the entire product range and making sure it makes some amount of sense.
I personally haven't tried them, but there are USB-C magnetic cables, e.g. https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
I can see your viewpoint. I see the article as a suggested categorization of a complex subject, where that suggested categorization is an opinion of what's useful. You're right, that's an opinion. I've read many textbooks that were also opinion in the same sense.
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro

Has a desktop Geforce 1080 in it, mechanical keyboard, Gsync display... drool.
Any recommendation for a MacBook Pro equivalent running Windows?

One reason I'm stuck with Mac is the need to use it for iOS app development.
> Is anyone actually selling a decent preinstalled Linux laptop?

I have heard good things about the Ubuntu line of Dell: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt... The Precision 5510 with a Quadro GPU and 32 Gb of RAM seems gorgeous.
I'm currently in Germany, too, but the small town I live in has only one Starbucks and plenty of traditional coffee shops. The one Subway that opened here had to shut down again because locals continued to go to the hole-in-the-wall pizza slice vendor across from them. (They sell exactly one kind of pizza and about three pasta al forno dishes, but lines are huge on weekend nights.)
"I liked your products. You changed things. I'm stating as a fact they're worse without providing any evidence or opinions to back that up."

This is a low quality post.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460

If you need 32GB of RAM, then the ThinkPad T460 would qualify. And Lenovo claims it has 18 hours of battery life, which seems more than decent to me.

I switched from MacBook Pros to the ThinkPad T Series running GNU/Linux a few years ago and I have not been disappointed. My only caveat is that I like to run Debian stable, and that seems to work better on older ThinkPads, especially for things like video chats. In my experience, the newer ThinkPads work better with distros that use newer kernels (at least I think that is why), such as Ubuntu or Fedora.

I would have suggested the T460s, which is lighter, but that only goes up to 20GB of RAM.
You're right that a key feature and differentiator of DTrace/stap/BPF is kernel aggregations, but they can do per-event output as well. But I think I know what you mean, especially as I was at the sysdig summit yesterday and could see a major difference.

I think the two models for tracers, playing on their strengths, are: 1. real-time analysis tracers (DTrace/stap/BPF), and 2. offline analysis tracers (LTTng, sysdig). Both can do the other as well, but I'm just pointing out strengths.

sysdig (and I believe LTTng) has done great work at creating capture files that can then be analyzed offline in many many different ways, and they've optimized the way full-event dumps can be captured and saved (which I know LTTng has done as well). DTrace/stap/BPF don't have any offline capture file capabilities -- they could do it, but it's not been their focus.
It is just another cable\dongle\adapter\hub we must buy again and again. These products should "just work" together.
I like the sound of that.
I do apologise - looks like the big issues have actually been fixed since I last tried this.
It used to be equal so I don't think that's the reason and more than 200€ (since $ < €) just for taxes is a lot.
> American children came top at thinking they were good at maths, but bottom at maths. For Korean children, the inverse was true: they considered themselves poorer at maths than the children of any other country, but were the best.

This really stood out to me because I often found my own examination results puzzling. I would ace exams that I thought I failed and just pass ones I was sure I had done well in.

This has lead me to believe that the more I know about a subject, the more I know how little I actually know about it and the greater respect I have for subject as a whole.

This might explain why children who are not great at maths might think they are. Not due to an inflated self esteem but because "knowing what you don't know" is a part of the learning process.
Funny Startup Pitch about Berlin
Touch Me Like a Pro: Why New MacBook’s Control Bar Is a Success
The bonus for the Cintiq is that the 12" one I bought over 8 years ago is still working great!
That's how Apple does things. When they see something new that they want to push, they jump on it even if it seems premature. Before long, they're just ahead of the curve.

1998 seemed too early to go USB-only, but it turned out to be a great move. And that was a situation where you often needed all-new peripherals, versus this machine where you just need a cheap adapter or a new cable.
Honestly that sounds like a pretty terrible world to me. New products, services, and experiences would come in at a trickle. Competition would take a nosedive, and incumbents could begin to price at whatever they please as the barriers to entry grow ever taller.
Did they remove the USB port? That's pretty brain-dead stupid.
> A maxxed out MBP costs €5000

That's quite dishonest considering a fair bit of that is the 1700€ 2TB SSD (which is not an unfair price, that's about what Samsung announced for the 960 Pro)

> which is $5447.95.

Also dishonest, most people expect USD prices to be without tax, you're including the ~20% european VATs in that by converting back from tax-included euro prices.
Wow, I'm in love. Thanks.
rc fail? You're so far off; I don't even know where to begin.
Amazon announces Q3 earnings and 250,000 marriage proposals for Alexa
I'm really hoping that yours isn't a popular viewpoint. Having access to this type of information encourages people who have the curiousity to learn about it. If I didn't have access to PubMed or arXiv or pretty much every text book ever written, I'd probably be spending my evenings playing solitaire. Instead, I get to learn about stuff I should have been learning in 8th grade.

Also, 'orders of magnitude'? I'm guessing that's hyperbole, but if not, what does that even mean?
I have a 2016 XPS 15 and it's nowhere near a mbp when it comes to build quality. Keyboard and touchpad are much worse than on my 2010 mbp 13, palm rests are made of grease-absorbing plastic, fans can get VERY loud and it's impossible to open it with one hand. It just sits in my drawer nowadays.
Thinkpads sound like something for you.
Digital artists? I could program in that machine and be happy :). The only thing I would love is to have the Surface Studio but with OS X.
These things are always personal... for my use case, I do need a quad core CPU and portability, but these CPUs seem like they're the best compromise for speed and TDP that Intel currently offer, so I don't see what else Apple could do there. I also really value the larger track pad, the better screen, and the reduction in weight. So for me it would be a nice upgrade. I can completely see how it wouldn't be suitable for someone else though.
It's nice that you're learning Japanese, but why not use "plan" instead of adding a footnote?
Not an Apple fan by any means but I've just gotten tired of the poor build quality of Windows laptops and terrible battery life year after year. So I've been patiently waiting to upgrade my 3-years-old XPS to a MBP. Heard that the price range will likely be fairly close to the old generation of MBP. Well, what i saw today is just too cost-prohibitive for very little reason. I'm now hoping that Surface Book or the new XPS are worth the money.
Just know that Acer laptops have a history of overheating. I even experienced that myself.
> Did they remove the USB port?

No, they put 4 instead of the old 2, and they quadruple up as charging, video and high-speed interconnect.
Given your background, you can easily get a job as a software dev or data scientist in a big name Silicon Valley company. Just prepare for the interview for 2-3 months with books like Crack the Coding Interview.
Pro tip: When you have to explain to people why they shouldn't be disappointed by something they've thought about, you've almost always already lost the argument.

And the video is outdated, period, no air-quotes. There is simply no argument there. Making an excuse for it is nice and all, but it simply is a case of charging a premium for old tech.
I used Hackintosh for about a year as primary macOS development machine.

Updates were a headache and the inability to install pre-release software.

But with Xcode and Swift being so slow I'm thinking about going back there and just getting the 4ghz i7...

Another option is a Mac Pro, but I really don't have 3000+ money to spend on a computer...
Servo is a project to build a new rendering engine in Rust, taking advantage of its security properties and ease of doing parallelism to do things that other rendering engines are not willing or are not able to do in terms of parallel execution.

Quantum is a project to significantly change some of the core parts of Gecko. Some of this will involve sharing some code with Servo, some will involve changing the Gecko code directly.

There is overlap between the two in the form of some shared components, which may be causing your confusion.
The author seems to be attacking common core ("so many different ways to think about simple addition") but then links it to self-esteem, without actually showing the connection. How does he know the math curriculum was designed to boost self-esteem?

Also, the ability to do rote sums is not the same as understanding math. So the fact that his son "could add up already" doesn't mean much, at least out of context.
I hope not. I know more professional developers in startups using Apple laptops over anything else on the market. They have to recognize the size of that market.

Edit: Added "in startups"
If they just upgraded it to a 1080
Can injustice survive transparency?
Caps is remapped to control though!
I'm genuinely amazed every time there's an Apple keynote and people act this surprised. With every major new release Apple has been taking away legacy and pushing forward, often compromising compatibility.
You could just as well have said:

"Apple throwing darts at a board to try to appeal to every possible price point just before Steve Jobs returned"
haha same here ;)
Green Threading is M:N threading. Go-Routines are M:N threading. Q.E.D. M:N threading isn't a new idea. Go just offers a backed (or compiled) in run-time that does M:N threading by default for you.

While nearly every other Green Threaded language offered as an additional library/option. This hurt adoption. While Go just forces you to use Green Threading.

With an AOT option for Java, this becomes even more of an option.

Not in the slightest.

why can't Java implement the same idea and
let all existing libraries benefit from it?

A laundry list of reason:

1. Change what functions do and don't block can cause huge issues with down stream libraries/people who depend on system libraries behaving the same thing tomorrow as they did yesterday.

2. Refactoring all code around system calls so they never block.

3. Write a multi-core and multi-socket scheduler.

4. Write a scheduler to balance multi-core and multi-socket thread load.

5. Determine how you will do polling, and write a polling strategy to figure out what green threads are/are not blocked, then figure out how to communicate this information efficiently.

6. Repeat the above 5 steps for EVERY platform Java runs on.
Fine, maxxed out except 1TB instead of 2TB SSD and the total is €4.039. The bump up/down from 2TB to 1TB is "only" €960.

Also sales tax isn't dishonest. I have to pay it to buy the machine!!

This is a ton more money than what maxxed out macbook pros were around 2013 in €, and to be honest the total package feels like a downgrade.
It's a joke/dumb reference from the internets: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-according-to-keikaku
As a professional software dev/system architect using MacBook Pro's, I am excited about the new MacBook Pro. I'll miss the SD card for my amateur photography, but I'll live.

It's still got the 3.5mm for my headphones, with USB-C hopefully daisy chaining non Apple displays will finally become a reality, and thankfully my work has upgraded to using wireless technology for displaying screens in conference rooms (which works from OS X and Windows).

The new context sensitive function bar is going to take some getting used to, but I have been using Caps lock for escape for years now and OS X just got native support for mapping that.

Grabbed a USB-C to lightning cable while I was at it. Now I can just bring a single charger and charge either my Mac or my iPhone or both at the same time. I rarely use USB drives, so unfortunately I'll need a dongle for that, but it's not that big of a deal.

---

I am more sad that there was no announcement for the Mac Pro/Mac Mini. Also no Apple display, instead handing that to LG, so it looks like Apple is pulling out of the desktop market (I wonder how long the iMac will last).

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Edit: There is one thing I will miss, and that is MagSafe. It has saved my laptop many a time in it's lifetime. I am hoping Apple builds a USB-C to MagSafe cable that provides the same functionality to save laptops from a tripping hazard.
Monitors: just buy a quad HD TV for 40-55" for five hundred bucks.
Radical, dude.
As a man I can say that there are lots of problems in my life that women don't deal with, so I can only assume it is the same for women.

There are of course shared problems that both men and women face (obviously!) but getting something from a women's perspective is something that people could find useful.
Google to Spin Off Self-Driving Car Business
"Our best addition so far: the removal of the ESC key!".

Just kidding.

You can still have one but we moved it.
It has a headphone jack. How oldschool.
I like to have short names for similar things which are described by different people, in this case the name is likely to be Dunning–Kruger effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
All vertebrates have that, IIRC.
100% agree with this. I'm still using the mid 2012 MBP 15 b/c I've waited for a major upgrade and now this... is probably going to wait 6 months and by the last MBP at close out prices then use that until the next version of the MBP because this one fucks up my work too much.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science
"they should have started in pure software"

Again: what do you base the implicit claim that they didn't do that and/or the implicit claim that this solution isn't worth the extra hardware costs on?

And again: I think it mostly is a gimmick, but I withhold my conclusion until I have used it and/or I've heard from many people who have had lots of experience with it.
"it's still too early to go USB-C only"

It does seem odd to have only one kind of port. That said, you can also look at it as "you only need one kind of port". No need to mix and match adapters. Just X to TB3.

As for too early, it's a chicken-egg thing. Someone is going to be early to market, and the market needs pressure to make the change.

"Compensating with indentations and force touch could have made it an amazing and useful tool."

I agree that force touch would be great. I think this is an iteration thing that we'll see in the future.

As for indentations, yeah, it would be nice to have something to know where one key ends and the next begins. It does limit flexibility though. And it's also a screen, not just a keyboard. Not sure how the indentations would work with the display.
I was for a while thinking of the case where Apple bought NeXT, but Gil Amelio and later Ellen Hancock stayed as CEO. While PC margins was declining, I was thinking that Apple could mostly focus on the higher-end PC and workstation markets. I wonder how this would have compared to Tim Cook today.
The most interesting new feature (to me) is that a Secure Enclave processor is built into the laptop. Depending on the details of the implementation, that may have interesting implications for the overall security of the laptop.

I do agree that the rest of the updates are pretty underwhelming.
FFS, they didn't remove the F-keys, you can still have F-keys if you want...and they made all the ports do everything. They removed the card reader. Whiny posts by people who didn't even pay attention are more annoying than Apple.
US sales taxes vary depending on state. There is no direct comparison.
I was kind of hoping for an iMac update too. Not anything important, but move it to USB-C so it's in line.
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I think they're screwing with the kwijibo[0] too much and will end up with a professional user base that won't be large enough in number for accessory manufacturers to care.

[0] kwijibo means product
We're here to give you a computer, not a religion.

- attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga

(fortune of the day)
best case scenario is a material that raises when electrified that I can actually push in, and lays flat like a screen when current is removed.