skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
honestly, pretty let down by the event. apple touchbar is ... i cant' even. it's like trying to force features that were on my phone on to the laptop. and this thing is supposed to be geared toward professionals.

1) what if i'm docked to an external monitor + keyboard? becomes completely useless.

2) going forward and back in safari? "quick type" autosuggestions when typing? really is that the innovation? i'm pretty sure i can type and/or correct myself faster than it takes to look down and touch an autocorrected version of what word i just typed. why not build that ui into you know.. the on screen software. this is just a terrible ui decision that was brought over from a phone... which makes 100% sense there given the small real estate.

anybody who uses pro apps already knows all the primary shortcuts or remaps them so they are easy to access by feel. now you require me to stare at my keyboard and manage two touch surfaces that aren't close to each other.

3) and thanks for removing my esc key and replacing it with a one that changes context every time i switch apps (or even within an app). i'm sure that goes well with all the developers out there.

that pretty much leaves being able to... quickly select emojis in messages and touch id (which admittedly was very cool). seriously debating this (given the bumped specs) or a previous gen macbook pro or new macbook. if i could move out of apple ecosystem i'm seriously considering it this time around.
Except that you can reach these "keys" with your hands staying on the keyboard. No "gorilla arm" problem.
WordPerfect Touch Bar
Clicking on the "past" gives the previous bigger discussions, one with 70 and another with 200 comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Frequent%20fliers%20who%20flew...
Same here. I loved the book (Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?) but didn't care for the movie version at all as I felt it missed the magic of the book completely. Maybe as in most such cases what got read/seen first mattered.
They should use Yahoo's front page as their performance baseline.

Whenever I load it, the favicon starts to flicker, multiple movies (ads) start playing, and I can't tell whether scrolling has been badly hijacked by some rogue js plugin or if the performance of their video playback is just that bad.
>The touch bar examples shown are a usability disaster. You're going to hide UI from the screen and make me keep looking at the keyboard to find functionality?

That's the wrong way to think of it.

It's not a keyboard, it's an adaptive toolbar. And it's close to what professionals in several industries pay handsomely for -- control surfaces, only this one is also adaptive.

>I stopped looking at the keyboard every 10 seconds when I learned how to touch type.

It's obviously NOT meant for typing heavy workloads. Secretaries and programmers coding will not use it when doing their thing.
I really like this idea. Ads are some of the most distracting elements on the web, but at the same time we all understand the need for them due to no better monetization strategy for much of the valuable content on the web. Said as such, since content is not free to produce. When Hulu, for example, came around offering a higher subscription cost for ad-less shows I was eager to use it since I value my time, and as such I value my attention on the web.

Would love to see this extend to things like online music / video as well - especially in the realm of music, a way for musicians to monetize passive plays would be terrific.
Right, thanks, my perf-tools are on the Netflix BaseAMI, and are my go-to tracing tools for 3.x and earlier 4.x kernels.
Maybe if calm, in real life, is what one wants , a more reliable way would be to look at the mental training of navy seals, athletes and martial artists ?
BigQuery makes it pretty easy to calculate how much you'll spend based on your bandwidth needs; unfortunately, if you do the math for the above use case, the answer is pretty discouraging... $5 / TB data processed, and the size in this context is explicitly the uncompressed size. Even if we're extremely generous and assume 4 bytes / column (almost certainly an underestimate given how many bytes they reserve for integers and timestamps), that is potentially 12 TB for the database, so you're paying $60 for a single query that hits the entire table. If you have 500 queries per month that hit the entire table, you're already paying as much as you would be for Redshift on 8 nodes, without even looking at any of the other queries.

The flat rate may improve things dramatically, of course, but the documentation's ambiguity about what you get with a "slot" makes it hard to say. And none of this is taking required bandwidth into account, because AFAICT there are no promises made on query response time... so I don't know if any of this would satisfy the 10 second requirement.

Either way, no matter how Google, MemSQL, or anyone else might try to satisfy these requirements, they can't get around the required hardware costs. At best, they can amortize them by buying in bulk and partitioning all their clients across lots of servers.

I don't work for any of these database providers, BTW, or use any of their products; I have no skin in this game. And I'm not even saying that paying $60 for that kind of query is necessarily a bad deal (when you consider what may be required under the hood). I'm just saying if you're looking for a cheap solution here you're not going to find it.
Layoffs/mergers are an unpleasant subject. Someone is always going to lose their job. I've been through it twice now - once survived, once not.
Fees and taxes are a mix though, at least with domestic coach, they scale to within a few percentage points with the price of the ticket--about 15% overall. International has quite a few more fees. Overall they added up to about 25% with a recent US-UK flight.
I'm very sad that the MagSafe connectors will be gone. It's one of my favorite parts of the Mac ecosystem, and a huge advantage.
I don't get it, i mean vine is not changing the world but it still produces a ton of very popular content. Seems like a huge active project to throw out.
No more MagSafe? Count me out.
A lot of people? A lot of time?
Show HN: CSS ICON animate, morph between any two icons
The main "fee" that has radically increased is the fuel surcharge, which is not a tax payable to the government, it's a bullshit added fee imposed by airlines which may or may not correspond in some way to some cost they have.

It would be more reasonable just to say that the opportunity cost of a free seat they gave away in the past is more than the airlines expected for various reasons (higher load factors, higher ticket prices).
I bet they even use Windows more, even if not all copies are legit.
Perhaps not quite the answer you're after, but I was deaf as a child, though I was able to hear as a toddler and had therefore been exposed to spoken language before going deaf. I absolutely had inner voices while I was deaf, to a practically debilitating degree. The isolation inherent to deafness caused me to have strong inner dialogues, to develop a full world inside my head. I would often "go away" in my head, to the point that I was completely detached from and unresponsive to the physical world. It's apparently very unsettling to people standing right by you.

My grandfather used to be fascinated by it, he'd say that I'd gone to my secret garden and that it was ok to leave me alone. Even after recovering my hearing years later, I kept this habit (whether it's good or bad is debatable). Over the years I developed a better hang of it and I can now trigger it mostly at will. The level of introspection that came with all this is rather hard to explain, though for all my quirks, I don't regret it one bit.
Macbook Pro:  All we get is a touchbar?
If done properly, I fully expect that kind of input idea to be inevitable. If done poorly, it's a total failure and prevents any work from being done. In order to bridge that gap it seems Apple is starting small.
Keep your eye out for abuse from intelligence operations and the State Department.

Twitter has been waging a 'battle' against National Security folks for some time with regard to giving them carte blanche ability to pull censorship triggers.

I guess to distill that down: if you care about that sort of thing, also consider the ethical quandries your career may put you in.
This has popped up as a recommendation for me several times. Each time I spent like 2 minutes looking for non-app examples. Is Origami phone app only, or can you prototype browser/desktop experiences as well?
OverReact – A library for building React UI components using Dart
"Although changes of quantum state occur on the sub-microscopic level, in popular discourse, the term "quantum leap" refers to a large increase.[5]"
Apple TV
This reminds me of The Git Parable which helped me understand git when I was first getting started. I really do believe that you have to understand how git actually works under the UI in order to have long term success using it. Whether it's bad or good to need this understanding can be debated but I believe that it is truth.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...
The new MacBooks are here and one of them comes with function keys and ESC included. Yeah!
This reminds me of Bicamealism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
his book is a free read http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/Julian_Jaynes_The_O...
A very interesting theory, not sure I agree with all of it but he raises some interesting questions for anyone who finds this topic fascinating.
I think the thing that is being missed here is that Apple doesn't make much money off of "power users". They make money off people buying movies on itunes and subscribing to icloud for their photos. Everything Apple is building is aimed toward that market, emojis and all.

If you feel that Apple isn't designing with you in mind it's probably because you've outgrown them. Time to look at alternatives.
Wow, they're dropping the 15" model without dedicated GPU so no 15" under $2k. Dead silence when they announced pricing. :-)
vim users (and I am one!) ^[ strictly dominates escape: it doesn't force you to move your left hand up or rotate at the wrist. Does emacs use escape? What else does?

Also, remap that fat caps lock key to control.
The website isn't even updated yet...
how do blind people use current macbook pro laptops? (serious question).

Edit: at least there is an option to get actual function keys in the 13" model if they are required to use Voice Over and they cannot be reliable found on the touch bar... and the user won't really care about the screen size (I'm joking, I can think of many reasons why a blind person might want/need to use the 15" model).
That's not a "problem" with the study, that's the entire point. The entire point is that stress isn't the issue, it's perceiving stress to be a bad thing that is bad for your health.

It's not talking about "good stress" or "bad stress".
> If your goal is to defeat them in a local competition for resources, you are correct.

If your goal is to become "Mr Spiritual" that's fine but now you lose your shit when the kid at Mcdonalds messes up your order because he upset your calm. Or you quit the 'rat race' and get a low paying job that you think is 'more spiritual and calm' and now have to move to a ghetto where you get mugged often and have to go on welfare to make up for your income.

The reality is that one goal eats at the other. That's my point. The only exception I can think of is monastic life where your needs are taken care of by begging or via welfare. My understanding is that this is what the Buddha intended with Buddhism and was very wary against teaching it to lay people. I imagine because it actually doesn't benefit the laity. It just leads to the problems listed for most.
You made this exact joke a month ago, which we asked you not to repeat, so we've banned this account.
Unless you care for the company and you are a decent person that doesn't only care about money. We care about the organization, we care about our financials and we are just nice people. Money is less valuable to us than a nice environment and autonomy. We don't want to destroy this.
Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
My daycare has a policy where kids have to go home if their temps are over a certain number, and can't come back for 24 hours, even if they are not sick. I have to take a handful of days off a year to stay home with a kid who isn't sick.

You also have to remember that little kids frequently get sick from things adults are already immune to. Both of our kids went to daycare at about 6 months, both were frequently sick for that first month with things there were exposed to for the first time.
The "meta-science" comment is a strange one. By that definition, gravitational waves, Bose-Einstein condensates, Higgs bosons, genes, and dark matter were all "meta-science".
The New MacBook Pro Featuring Touch Bar (Official Video)
Didn't think about the 'touch typing' thing others have mentioned...totally valid.

Furthermore, the lack of a Mac Pro update is just frickin' pathetic.
Well, the reality in America is that in most places you can take time off if your kid gets sick... you'll just be "downsized" during the next "reorganization" if you ever do.
It is now, if you bypass the cache with a random extra parameter in the URL [1].

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/?2016
The point is people will shit where they eat, regardless of how much you like it.

To that point, what was the dating policy at your wife's company?
I'm with you on the subject of numeric keypads on laptops. The ergonomics is terrible for anyone who touch-types as your always pushed left from the centre of the screen.
It gets tricky. Bracket/dwim forms can designate access to objects, because sequences are funcallable. So we can do:

(set [a b] c)

What does that look like?

1> (sys:expand '(set [a b] c))
(let ((#:g0138 (sys:lisp1-value
b))
(#:g0137 c))
(sys:lisp1-setq
a (sys:dwim-set (sys:lisp1-value
a) #:g0138
#:g0137))
#:g0137)

The a and b forms turned into (sys:lisp1-value a) and (sys:lisp1-value b). These secret operators bring in the name lookup semantics anywhere it is required, disembodied from the dwim operator. Also sys:lisp1-setq is used to store the updated sequence back into a. sys:setq can't be used because a could be a function binding in the given scope.

There are hacks you can do in Common Lisp to achieve a bit of a Lisp-1 style, but not to such detail. See this piece of documentation under labels and flet:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-0209307D

"Furthermore, function bindings introduced by labels and flet also shadow symbol macros defined by symacrolet, when those symbol macros occur as arguments of a dwim form."

A test case for this is the following, which must produce (1 1 1):

(let ((g (lambda (x) 0)))
(symacrolet ((f g))
(flet ((f (x) 1))
[mapcar f '(a a a)]))) ;; Lisp-1 f: flet shadows symbol macro

However, this must produce (0 0 0):

(let ((g (lambda (x) 0)))
(symacrolet ((f g))
(flet ((f (x) 1))
(mapcar f '(a a a))))) ;; now Lisp-2 var reference
I'm not saying it means small, just that quantum leaps are nanoscale. And also, the state after the leap isn't better or worse than the state before, just different.
Education and internet.org don't really have anything to do with this product.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Apple are planning to kill desktops entirely? I went into this kind-of interested in the touch bar but thinking "how will they add it to external keyboards." Now, I don't think they ever will. The "pro workstation" sequence they showed during the live event is what they're aiming at: set your desk up so that the laptop us the keyboard and just add monitors (and perhaps external storage).

And you know, perhaps they're right. But may take me a while to accept.
They still need "power users" to build apps for iOS and macOS.
Ah, indeed (although it's not quite WINE in reverse, since WINE emulates userspace calls, not kernel syscalls).

I see that there's considerable demand for this exact thing in their bug tracker already. If they go for a low-hanging fruit here, it'd be FUSE support - and that should give us ext2, at least.
"Cut" and "paste" is a bad abstraction for moving a file. When you "cut" text and then don't "paste" it's the same as deleting the text. You don't want that for files (it would be too easy to accidentally delete the file). In fact, Windows doesn't work that way--if you fail to paste, the original file will remain in its original location.

Apple's abstraction is more honest to what is actually happening.
JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
Other side of the coin: is it Google/Facebook/Twitter's responsibility to eliminate spam? Because that's what a lot of output of "news" organizations is these days... one might say it's very close to propoganda. What about safe-browsing filters?

To shape your users' traffic - is that not exactly what's occurring? The question is whether they're doing it on our behalf, or for their own ends (and what happens when those two align?)

The hypothetical you pose is not nearly so cut and dry - in fact, I argue it's happening now, but it just so happens in more cases than not, that it aligns with what users want. Just take a look at the Facebook "trending" issue.
That XKCD is the epitome of why I tell people they should not try to build their own algorithms.

Yet you think an MBA and a few LAMP scripts qualifies you to dispense investment advice. Meanwhile I have actually run a fund with actual investors, but it's not something I recommend anyone try unless they are willing to do a lot of research and work on it as a full-time job.

You should really stop arrogantly assuming you know better than everyone else. I almost feel sorry for you, as your experience epitomizes the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Interesting. I built a website a few years back called LampNote, which was based around the idea of "virtual noticeboards" approx every 100m apart from each other. In an earlier incarnation of that project I had considered solving the same problems using anonymous geo targeted messages, either using an app or email. I quickly discounted that approach, as it seemed like it could become a magnet for all sorts of dodgy characters, and a potential headache legally. The end product I arrived at was something quite different, so I'll be interested to see how you get on with zonemessenger. Good luck!
16GB is the max :( http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
That on-screen version would require a full-size touch screen, and eat into precious vertical screen space.

The naive implementation also would move the mouse whenever you touch the screen. I think that is loss of usefulness; now, one can select with the mouse, click a function, select with the mouse, etc. I expect there will be cases where this will be convenient (but, unfortunately, only when repeating the same function on each object. Also, power users currently can already do that by assigning a key combination to the function)

Also, I'm not claiming they did any, but what do you base "a lot of these changes show a lack of usability testing." on? My gut feeling also tells me this mostly is a gimmick, but I don't dare claim it is correct.
Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages (2008)
Ah, that's disappointing. Another reason to be glad I haven't upgraded yet, I guess.

Also, wow, I'm glad I don't maintain any popular open source projects on GitHub: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner/issues/660. I can't believe the number of people who think "+1", "me too", and "donated" messages are at all helpful.

Also, looks like Karabiner Elements exists as a rewrite for Sierra. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements Haven't yet checked if it supports the same dual behavior, though.
Pro device with emojis.

Did you hear about emojis? I guess they mentioned it five times in the keynote.
Did they just kill the Macbook Air?

They kept emphasizing how the 13" Macbook Pro is thinner, smaller, and lighter than the Air. And at the end, they talk up the 12" Macbook.
This. Lightroom currently doesn't make it possible to view a photo fullscreen while at the same time having editing controls. A touch screen is also not ideal, because then your hand covers the image. The touch bar seems to make using adjustment controls in full-screen really easy.
This Q&A Series seems like it would have the opposite of it's intended effect.

You want to ask woman engineers about family matters? That seems analagous to giving your wife a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
To add to this, I didn't interpret it as "hiding UI" either. I don't think anything will be exclusively available for use on the TouchBar. The way I understood it was the TouchBar will behave like shortcuts to existing functionality.
No tactile escape key and no magsafe is a bit of a letdown, to say nothing of tactile function keys :(
Learning Morse Code Without Trying
The latest version 10.12.1 of mac os gives you this option. In modifier keys in keyboard preferences.
There's another way. One can find peace in a more minimal existence, and retire with less than a million dollars (and some youth!). For software engineers, this is a realistic goal.
The base model of the 13" with touch bar price increases from the current $1399 to $1799. That certainly surprised me and is substantial.

Also, why would anybody buy an air now? It is worse in every possible category.
Not really, no. Even a lot of the devs I know don't make more than occasional use of function keys, aside from maybe F5. Non-devs? Are you kidding?
>If they had offered a touch screen instead, the user wouldn't have to take his/her eyes off the screen to perform the same functions.

If they had "offered a touch screen instead", the users would have to hold their hand horizontally which would get tiring in about 5 minutes and unbearable after 10.

Not to mention that the on-screen tools were and will still be there anyway if one wants to use them with the traditional, and not challenging to the muscles, mouse and touchpad technology...
you didn't hear that they renamed it to the Macbook Social?
Skype on Windows shows Ads now.
Angela Merkel is right for once here, these companies can and do influence public perception and even elections.

This is seen in the current US election where all except for Facebook quite overtly try to suppress the conservative viewpoint.

But my big issue with what she is stating (aside from the refugee invite to the EU) is that she wants governments to control what kind of message is put out.

With private control and ownership we still have at least some media that presents an alternative viewpoint to the current left leaning mainstream. (I'm talking about big corporations)

With government control it could easily be 100% percent biased in one direction. It's bad enough already but this would be even worse.
It is with UK prices http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
Yes, but it also includes "Android" in the string. Still, I question their methodology -- a ~50% increase in market share in 1 year is hard to believe.

edit: Maybe ChromeOS is driving this?
Lifting my arm up to the screen every time I want to use something from the toolbar? No thank you. I already hate lifting my hands from the keyboard to use a trackpad.
I can imagine programmers using the touch bar while debugging, pause, steps would easily go on it.
Only 16GB!!!! No!!!!!! That stinks.
The issue is real but I think your solution is problematic for exactly the same reason as the original problem.
I believe it was no personal relationships within the reporting chain.

That's pretty common, those types of asymmetrical relationships are fodder for harassment complaints.