skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really narrow minded point of view.

"Ford already made a car! Making another one is a waste of time!"

"IBM already made a computer! Making another one is a waste of time!"

"Nokia already made a phone! Making another one is a waste of time!"

People choose projects they're passionated about. The majority will likely be a waste of time in the grand scheme of things. Who cares? It's what they want to work on. Is it likely to overtake Linux? No. Is it likely to gain enough adoption to merit taking a look at it? Maybe.

You don't even know if the way its architected would provide a better way at doing something another existing operating system cannot and yet you're immediately writing it off?
Posted a few seconds earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839584
Actually there's plenty of docs to read:
http://www.minocacorp.com/doc/1375/api/KERNEL_API/

I haven't found something like an architecture overview of the kernel itself, but the docs story isn't bad for a 2-ppl team. Kudos.
What hardware are developers at Apple using? It's hard to imagine they are using the currently available Mac Pro or one of the new MacBook Pros. Do they have some special hardware build that Apple doesn't sell to the public?

I've been wondering the same thing about Apple's server infrastructure ever since they quit selling the Xserve.
Google Docs lags a lot with too much data and too many users connected. If you're expecting to have some sort of popularity, I'd use a different medium.
It's illegal under California law, so no "valley" (I assume you mean Silicon Valley?) company can outlaw moonlighting.
> This woman faked her way through...

She didn't, though. The only thing she faked was her attitude about what she was doing.
Good analysis. The used car sales aren't captured by this metric so it automatically pushes the mean up. However, it still accounts for an exceptionally high sales year, since none of the used car sales are included in that 17.5 million figure.

Maybe car sales are highly variable from year to year?
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I'd take that 10% number with a large mouthful of salt as it's a basic projection at this point in time. Of the few who have pushed their teslas to 200k they've documented very low costs as compared to ice.

More moving parts simply means more failure costs over time.

But at this point in time, we do not have hard data to compare ice with ev.

Also, simply incorrect on breaks. Regenerative breaks means rotors and pads have a much much longer service interval.
Interesting idea, but any possibility of making a point is hindered by shying away from root causes. The article focuses on contributing causes that are themselves symptoms in a self-reinforcing system.

There is nothing new in saying the American schooling system is falling. Or in blaming it on social mores of popularity in school jocks v. geeks. Or a wider society that doesn't encourage learning. “We don’t educate people anymore. We train them to get jobs.”

These are all age old whipping boys. -- Stop talking about them in and of themselves and start asking WHY?

It beats a slightly fresher dead horse with the "angry social media posters" but doesn't even mention the clickbait trash bloggers teaching them to have those thoughts.

(Spoilers: Why not? This article is a Psychology Today blogpost, let's click over to the homepage. The cover page of their latest issue touts an article called "The Narcissist: It's not always who you think." Oh.)

(Bonus irony tangent: This point is raised by quoting a NY Times blogger to argue that rational thought and critical thinking are on the decline, and blames it on shouty everyday people. But what about the NY Times itself? Their reporting is still among the best, but how often do they (or other prestigious news outlets) themselves promote rationality and critical thinking? If they spent a fraction of the time asking their audience to think critically about "What is good governance?" instead of focusing on "Watch this trainwreck;" how long do you think Donald Trump would have lasted? He'd be evaporated by the first debate, if he made it that far.)

Of course this article is part of the problem too. Read the last paragraph, then the short bio of the author that follows. He's not trying to solve anything but instead pitching a business management book.
I don't understand this argument. If I'm using my laptop charger, my phone can't use it at the same time. And if I'm not using my laptop charger, it's probably stowed in my bag, and it's a lot simpler to pull out my phone's charger than it is to pull out my laptop charger. So I'm having trouble imagining a scenario where I'd actually ever plug my phone into my laptop charger.
Except that with Twitter, you self-identify as so many different things on the basis of the content you contribute. Giphy is nowhere close that.

Selling inventory is only valuable if you can sell the targeting to go with it. It's arguable if Giphy has the former, but it sure as fuck doesn't have the latter.
Nice work. I'd be curious how this technique compares with other fast style transfer methods, if any exist.
As someone who DJ'd on a whim for a few years to pay some bills in college, I think that takes away from the thrust of it.

In other fields we expect the luminaries of a craft to have achieved that level with some significant effort/insight/accomplishments, and I don't know about you, but 6 months is NOT enough time to truly master a craft. (I say as someone who has spent multiple decades spent in multiple instruments, physical crafts and otherwise, and still find myself a joke next to real experts, and would not attempt to pass myself off as such)

I would say the "luck factor" plays more a role in djing than it does in many other fields (most performance fields are similar in this way), which would be fine if it were acknowleged, but there does seem to be some deifying of the DJs, and many who I interacted with seemed to, as we put it in tech, drink the koolaid a bit too much. Like the author I got tons of praise for my sets when I would occasionally have thrown together whatever bullshit I had been listening to the day of in an hour before I went onstage, and I felt like a bit of a sham for that; I would certainly not try to pull similar shit in my professional career and I think that's quite telling.

I take the article as a request to "See through the smoke and mirrors" and as a shitty DJ I'd definitely echo that sentiment. There are some amazing producers out there who get little to no credit, because they haven't gotten critical mass necessary to start passing themselves off as DJ-famous despite putting a huge amount of effort into making some damn good music. I'd be the first to nod to a "Well life isn't fair" statement, but thus the article, and my emphasizing that it's for us to see each performer for what it is and not lessen the accomplishments of either group for the other; but to me that requires being able to distinguish what each performer is and is not.
iOS's security concerns about JITs aren't general-purpose. They only apply in the weird security model that Apple has set up for themselves.

The fundamental security challenge of iOS is that there exist things called "private APIs" - Apple-authored code that lives in the address space of a developer's application that the developer is not permitted to call directly. It exists so that "public APIs," a different set of Apple-authored code that is technically indistinguishable from private APIs (mapped in the same way, with the same memory protection, etc.), can use the private APIs in their implementation, and so that developers can call public APIs in turn.

In order to enforce this, Apple does static analysis and manual inspection of binaries uploaded to the App Store, and signs every page of executable code that can execute on an iOS device. (It's not very good static analysis. I've had an app rejected because it used a third-party framework that happened to share a symbol name with a private API, and I've had an app accepted and shipped that, at runtime, disassembled the code of a public API to find the offset of a private API, and did questionable things to the private API's static local variables.)

The ability of the app to generate code at runtime would completely defeat Apple's ability to do static analysis or manual review worth anything. It could, for instance, download a function from the developer's website and then execute it. For this reason, Apple has technical means to prevent you from running code that it did not sign. As a side effect, this prevents you from implementing a JIT.

The attacks described in that Black Hat presentation you link are about gaining "arbitrary code execution" with the permissions of the app, no more. In any other OS design, this isn't an exploit, this is how apps work. If you download a Windows .exe and run it, the .exe gets to supply arbitrary native code. If you download an Android .apk and run it, the .apk gets to supply arbitrary native code. If you go to a website, the website gets to supply arbitrary JavaScript (though not native code). Nobody is reviewing that JavaScript to figure out what it does; the JavaScript simply executes on a platform that restricts the abilities of all possible JS. That's how application distribution works.

Apple has chosen this very different model on iOS where apps are reviewed in advance to limit what code can run; under that model, being able to run arbitrary code is an exploit. But that doesn't mean that JITs, which necessarily require being able to run arbitrary code, are a security hole under any other model.
Is there some good reason why Apple doesn't ship an LTE modem in the MacBook Pro? Every device they ship has a cell modem. Why not the laptop?
It is really awesome as a side project. Super curious how he build the big (19K) lookupMap, anybody knows?
I started out by doing that, but now I just ignore it and drive as usual. The 42 mile range is enough to get to and from work (my wife and I actually carpool, and she can charge it for free at work).
I don't disagree that there are trade-offs. My point was, I still feel it's a solid device and weighing the pros/cons, I still bought a rMBP. My issue was the idea that I bought it simply because I want to "appear" as professional. I _am_ a professional (developer) and still chose it because the pros (at the time) outweighed the cons (for me).

This whole meme that people who buy Apple are sheep is getting old.
Thanks for feedback! Could you give some suggestions?
afaik, only facebook is making money, twitter is still an "eternal startup" with still insane market cap (even though that they are public). Snapchat may have some cool AR stuff in their R&D department, but they still "have not found themselves".
> insanely bloated installation/package maintenance process

(Lol) Just type "apt install texlive-full" in Debian and you are done.
I partially agree - something like the the iPhone would likely still have worked in a crowd developed background as the people there seem to be into the latest tech and searching for improvements.
And the iPhone had nice things like a full qwerty keyboard instead of T9 for typing and similar.

Yes the average users usually don't know what they want but enthusiasts are easier to convince and are more willing to take risks and innovate.
I live in Boulder, CO USA where Nissan Leafs are a dime a dozen. I own one and love it. It is perfect for around town driving which is about 80% of our driving.
What subreddits are good places to share on Reddit? I'd love to get feedback on small projects, but things that are definitely not polished/planned out enough to warrant posting on Product Hunt. I find that feedback is most helpful in the "simple little tool" phase.
They make a lot of money off of "apps" that are little more than a WebKit frame with some window dressing.

They also make the bulk of their profits selling phones that view web pages, so this is very important to their core business.
Even better quote:

> While I am using this as a fun experiment on my personal computer, your security needs may vary.

So yes, this is a toy system. Cool concept, but not something you probably want around in production/secure environment, which I assume most people would know not to do.
> Address the facts, let the personalities and biases take care of themselves.

Sounds reasonable. But you are addressing my personality and bias now.
That is a LOT of things that have to go right just to sell at the same valuation they just raised money at.

That's exactly why this is so insane.
Not learning early enough in my life that there are people who will shamelessly betray you, even to the point of deliberately and will malice aforethought ruining your life, or possibly getting your killed, just to satisfy their own psychological drives.

The former caused me to largely waste ~40% of my life (so far, the percentage will of course drop as I continue to grow older).
> I still have hope that Apple can start to tighten the reigns in

It was just a couple of months ago that I noticed somebody misusing "reign" for "rein", and now it's everywhere.
The code gives me flashbacks to working with the Windows API.

Cool project though and it's nice that they already have a handful of drivers.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not saying it's bad at all, they're just using a very verbose naming convention that I don't particularly like working with.
Two topics I have not seen addressed often are Version control/release management and monitoring. Do you know of any discussions of these for production learning systems?

also, i read "prediction latency" as "predation latency" and thought that was much more interesting. :)
He printed a local newspaper and invented the farmer's almanac, but is Benjamin Franklin actually a paragon of prose style?
For funsies, I just started Spotify, and closed the window. Nothing playing, no user interaction, no UI to draw.

25 minutes later, and Activity Monitor reports it's written 1.05 GB to disk.
Not exactly sure what is meant with "universal web bytecode", but a binary VM code supported by all major browsers sounds like one.

There's a whole Wiki page dedicated to GC: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

Sounds like they aim to implement only GC primitives to allow emulating a wide variety of different VMs.
Because taking away mindshare instead of consolidating efforts hurts all parties. Competition is often good when done for very good reasons, iojs vs nodejs, proprietary goals vs purely open source. Their goal is the same goal as many other projects however, instead of supporting those projects they are releasing their own which will likely have to go through a LOT of growing pains to compete with current projects. Simply releasing your own OS (written by two guys) seems naive at best and arrogant at worst.
> The only way to last is to be ethical and respectful.

Incorrect. That is ONE method. The method I would prefer more people took. Another (of possibly several) is to lock your customers in like the telco's did until they were broken up.

If you have a monopoly - your customers can't go anywhere else, you don't have to be ethical or respectful.
Have you read the NHTSA letter? They talk about prohibiting interstate commerce if the product doesn't meet safety standards.

Instead of nitpicking, let's focus on the actual issue. The NHTSA didn't order Hotz to shut it down, it merely asked about the safety of the product, which led to Hotz shutting it down himself.
That'd work of course! Bit more of a schlep to build out your processing pipeline to ingest those images, store them, and then render them with OpenSfM, but could definitely be done.
Click on that little 'Show' link at the top of your screen.
I'm curious about the mother board comment. I have a t430, and rebuilt it the motherboard cost me 30$ via ebay. Searching for the t430s I'm seeing about 40 -> 80 on ebay. I'd think that by the time you need to replace the mainboard, it'd be at more attainable levels on the second hand market.
I admit being lazy here, but I wonder what kind of resistor (and what kind of cooling) it would be needed to dump the regen braking electrical energy there instead of battery? Probably impractical...
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From the article:
“We believe GIFs are emerging as a format that consumers love and will be really important to advertisers as well,” said Barry Schuler, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

OK, for me GIFs are from a bygone era of the web, for example:
http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Best_Old_School_Animated...

This is similar to bell bottom jeans coming into fashion again, and then having a retail store advertise them as an 'Emerging fashion trend' (more like recycling fashion trend)
> many of the bad decisions we've made have been data-driven

The author of the article would probably say that people's preconceptions influence their data collection in these cases.
I think one of the key differences this time is the amount of retraining involved. Taking a farm worker and teaching them how to work on an assembly line involved orders of magnitude less retraining then training an assembly line worker to be a teacher, psychologist or nurse.
It doesn't work like that. You're not paying $15bn for some assets worth $5bn because you have decided that the "goodwill" is $10bn. It's the other way around: you have decided to pay $15bn and as a result you write down in your books tangible and intangible assets for $5bn and "goodwill" (the balance) for $10bn. Maybe you think it's better to write off the $10bn as wasted money right away, but that also creates some issues (for example, you would probably wipe off your profits for several years, so you wouldn't have to pay taxes).
There are some other things that aren't in the Community edition that would be much more appealing to students or startups such as Javascript, SQL, CSS, Ruby, React, Angular and Node support.
Terrible idea. Your USB-C headphones will become obsolete when the next USB standard inevitably comes out. Meanwhile, 3.5mm will still be kicking.
Boring midsize cars do not depreciate nearly this much. A $22,000 Honda Accord depreciates only $10,500 over five years. Besides, they depreciate this much because those first years of car ownership are worth the most. The car is under warranty and is most trouble-free during the early years. People pay that much for the first years of car ownership because they get more utility from newer cars, not because they are suckers.
Actually, if you read the guidelines, politics is considered off topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The resulting discussion here is all politics.
Microsoft's CoreRT turns C# into cross-platform C++
I always go for the product specific subreddits. Right now I'm working on a fitness tracker for rock climbers, so I picked r/climbing and r/bouldering. So I think it depends on what you're trying to share.
Any site like Giphy that can position themselves
as the leader in a segment of the web like gif
searching/aggregation

Hold up. Are you seriously suggesting Giphy is going to be able to compete with Google Search? Because ultimately that is who their chief competitor will become. You are suggest they will carve out an existence in Google Search space right? Like where Google receives >95% of it's revenue?
The issue is updating the system with new maps. My car's nav system is now about two years old and I find about 1 in every 20 addresses or so it doesn't recognize.

Overall I do feel built in nav systems offer the best experience, I just wish car manufacturers could figure out a better update process.
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And maybe pool some money and hire a designer?
I like to have touch in my laptop because it makes scrolling pdf or webpages easy. It also makes annotating documents. I love to create mind maps or doodle too. If you ask why not on paper then I will say digitization saves environment and saves paper from getting lost.

Scrolling alone is the reason I will opt for touch display.

I am sure there will be more functions of touch with new future apps. Playing piano is one of them for an enthusiast for cheap.
This article is very interesting, but it's unfortunate that its title says little about its content. I had no idea it was about Apple when I opened it, expecting it to be about the Go programming language instead.

> Why the 7th generation Intel chips?

I suspect the author meant "6th generation", or "why not the 7th generation Intel chips", because the new MBPs have 6th-gen (i.e. Skylake) CPUs.
From your history this looks like the fourth time you've submitted this article, all within the past week. You're providing a neat service, but ramming it down the submission queue is not the way to go about it.
The Apple Store matches prices, up to 10% iirc. Fry's electronics email prices are about the same 15% discount as the refurbished apple products at your link.
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My emacs already does that if I want it to. My vim did it before I switched to spacemacs. I still don't understand why you'd want to give up physical buttons for an awkwardly angled small touchscreen that requires using your laptop's keyboard.

I'm probably not the target market I suppose, my keyboard's keycaps are blank: http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/
That is some backwards logic right there.
The lifespan of the average car sold today is significantly longer than in the past. A new car can be sold as a used car several times before it ends up being recycled. I don't think it follows that there is a 1:1 ratio of used to new car sales.

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/automotive/average-age-li...
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Just got a warning when trying to visit ycombinator.com:

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=ycombinator.com

Seems like a false positive, but might be worth to get it cleared.
Incredible. Tha's 1.8L/100km for the rest of the world.
From a security perspective, how is this any different from what you can already do with asm.js? (Remember, SpiderMonkey has a separate JIT mode for it.)
Because leasing companies make a profit... they know exactly how much a car depreciates and they make sure you pay for that depreciation plus profit for the leasing company.

There are some tax advantages with leases that some people can take advantage of, but for most people, leasing is not going to save them money but it does provide a convenient way to always have a new car.
Indeed, I just grabbed the first search engine result, which must have been wrong.

Here's the Toyota source: http://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/vehicles/corolla/specificatio...

For the lowest model, for highway mileage, it's 6.5L/100km. CAD67 for an 800km highway trip. That is great gas mileage!

I'm still wrong. Even for a Ford F150, which gets 9.6L/100km, it's still only about CAD100 for the trip.
Draftin is a great. I often use the Hemingway writing mode (no backspace or delete). I make the browser full screen, switch off the spell checker, and just write.
Hosting Node and Python already is a hell of a first release announcement.
Github: https://github.com/sorrycc/awesome-javascript
Hmm, read fine for me -- perhaps its because of all the trackers and js I block?

I tried to paste the text but HN says the comment is too long. The TL;DR is: "As Einstein says, what you see is determined by your model. And most people have polar, either/or models that are worse than useless. Introvert/extrovert is a particularly bad one"
What about the T460p? Looks like it has the WQHD option but I can't seem to find info regarding the RAM (soldered or not).
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IBM puts a lot of resources into it. It helps move mainframes and CIOs eat it up.

I've heard of a lot of poc activity. When I tried it out many years ago, it really sucked. I think the use case that makes sense is when you have well defined workloads that have high availability requirements and license models that fit.