skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make sense. Market share is only one metric; profits have been more important for Apple in most cases. Apple is well behind in market share on mobile too, but the profit they make on phones is substantially more. I think I remember reading that they make more profit on the iPhone than all of the other major android manufacturers put together. That is not to say that there aren't signs of Apple's growth stagnating, but to judge success on market share alone is a bit silly.

Also, what about this new MacBook Pro is "mass market" ? I don't know a lot of people that today will spend $2500+ on a computer if they don't need to spend that much. So the article has a point -- who is this laptop for? It's in the price point for "professionals" but what professionals are they going after? It's not clear at all. Losing the function row and most importantly, the escape key, seemed completely unnecessary.
Ok - I looked this up. DNC paid out some money when Obama used AF1. They only paid at the rate of what a regular charter jet would cost, but that makes sense. I don't have a problem with this and I rescind that particular part of my argument.

>Every single president in the history of our democracy has done this. Every single one of them.

This NPR article calls it "unusual" but maybe I am missing something since I only read it at a glance: http://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485097272/fact-check-air-force...
You can also use SoX!

`[audey@feather ~]$ play -c2 -n synth whitenoise lowpass 400 highpass 40`
Are you dizzy from all of the spinning?
Replace "for humans" with "for stupid humans" and you get to the truth

How selfish is it that everything has to be "for humans" anyway? Why can't it just be? Let's not further complicate already-complicated abstractions.
Why not reuse your older hardware and use a linux distro on the MBP?
well, you can get away with anything as long as you don't get caught doing it...
That's really neat, and certainly a step up from Razer's monstrous GPU box! I think my ideal eGPU, though, would be something less powerful, but roughly the size of a Square card reader. Then I could just throw it in my bag every day and not have to worry about it.
Agreed. Snow Leopard was the pinnacle of OS X for me. I grow less and less interested in each subsequent version.
The greater issue is that legislation has not caught up with the "gig" economy. It needs to be recognized as a distinct form of employment with appropriate benefits.
Simply by letting them happen
"Hacker" as in "Hacker News" is from an even more distant past. The word just got appropriately decaffeinated, so as to be acceptable within our current iteration of group think.
Which some of these emails has revealed was bullshit
I don't need a new laptop right now, but I was planning on ordering the 2016 model. After seeing what they offer and the substantial price increase, I'm waiting. And if there isn't anything better in a year or two, I'm going to start looking at PC laptops and switch to Linux.

I just think this is another sign that Apple either doesn't care about Mac or they don't know what to do with it. It's felt like a second-class citizen to iOS for a very long time.
"More power" is naive, all politicians get into the game to exercise power. Small government politics is never about reducing the power of the parts of government you like.
The time horizon that publish or perish forces is not conducive to high variance research. If you do a year of research and get a null result you are screwed, so what do people do? Not pursue research with a significant chance of that happening. But high variance research is exactly what leads to major breakthroughs.
Ok, as someone from outside of the US, I'm still not getting the issue here?

So she put some e-mails on a private a server and she deleted them. I actually couldn't care less.

What is the deal here?

EDIT: thanks all for the responses. I have to say, from afar, the Occam's razor in me (which i accept will be different for all) says that if Clinton was involved in corruption it is likely we would have heard about it by now ... like Bill and his lady ... like Trump and, well, everything ... like Nixon ... etc. No one involved in serious corruption does it my e-mail (I presume).
This "for humans" shit has to stop.
> Certainly, it's solvable for the one-time-pad-like scenario we used, but what about for more general cases that permit key reuse?

Can't you force this simply by making the message a lot longer than the key? If the network can encrypt variable length messages, surely the method must be more advanced than a one time pad.
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Baseless, uncivil accusations of shillage are not what we need on Hacker News. Please don't post like this.
Fair enough, but I thought an earlier goal of Eve was to bring programming to non-programmers? Did that change as Eve evolved, or am I just mis-remembering?
Yes, if a company receiving this letter isn't quite sure what level of detail the NHSTA needs, they could make a polite call to the explicitly-listed "call us if you have questions" person and ask about the expected scope, to make sure they're on the right track before they submit the final documents. Federal regulatory agencies are made of people.
It's the same company though. I have two Thinkpads (I'm typing on a T520 right now) and today I wouldn't buy another.

Even if you want to give them a pass for unethical behavior, Lenovo still installs a lot of extra software that you don't really need. If you do buy a Thinkpad, I recommend reformatting the machine and doing a stock Windows install.
Hmmmm

You're making quite a bold claim, I don't see you make any reference to ML, if I were to draw inference from your post I would conclude you were talking about better ways to instrument software so you can track what it is doing, not a particularly novel idea :)

The paper referenced in this post talks about a technique for teasing out the "logic" for a learning model's decision.
Haven't read it, but since that quote totally rings true to me, I'll step up to the plate: I think they're trying to channel the idea that blockchains are to "agreements" what the internet was to "communications", particularly in terms of democratization.

The internet used to provide low-barrier super-human communication abilities, but only in very limited contexts -- possibly beside a giant mainframe, and only able to talk with other giant mainframes. Now that we have instant comms in our pockets and on our wrists all the time, the effects are pretty expansive. Blockchains are not yet ubiquitous, but when they are (in every device and underlying many services we use), every person will have the infrastructure to create and maintain complex agreements for near-zero costs. (Financial agreements and otherwise.) This will be pretty transformative.

I assume ZCash is acknowledging that privacy is a critical piece of that transformation in organizational structure for society. Kinda like how ubiquitous communications are almost pointless without the possibility of E2E encryption.

But this is a lot of speculation given that I haven't read the linked article ;)
Obligatory Penny Arcade -

https://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2002/07/22
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I disagree.

One of the common ways this works is that the regulator keeps adding more and more complex regulations.

It's counterintuitive that a major company welcomes or instigates added regulations that will cost $20M/year to comply with. But since that makes it more expensive to start competing companies, they can make a lot more money from their increasingly secure oligopoly position.
Nah. He'd let her stay probably. Obama would show up on Saturday Night Live with Hillary and do something quirky. Boom. Nothing but net!
He doesn't have a citation because he's wrong.
That's a heck of a sales pitch out of nowhere, extended warranty and everything!
Would you mind posting the script? I'd love to run it against our codebase and see what it comes up with.

It might be a fun thing to open source as part of a "I've inherited a project, what now?" toolkit that helps you decide what to fix.
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

Excellent book for starting with NN and DL.
The ESC key should hardly be a deal breaker for Vim devs - most remap it to caps lock on a Mac because it's easier to reach.

The 13" model has a version that keeps that row anyway. And the Touch Bar does still have a function key row/view? with ESC. MacVim and iTerm could probably add the functionality that the whole row is an ESC key when they are the active apps.

For me though, Apple got it wrong by releasing a gimmick (touch bar) which may be useful for some groups of Pro users (designers/film editors?) but I can't see adding much value to what I think is their largest group - software developers.

For me my ideal developer laptop is small, light and powerful. So while it's great the Pro is now the same size and weight as the air (13" model), I think they could have gone even smaller - see the Dell XPS 13. A 13" full powered (i7, 16GB ram) in a 12" body (by having an edge to edge 'infinity' screen). Basically they should have released a MacBook that can run an i7 and 16GB ram.
A lot of people hold the misconception that slavery is simply a system of working without pay. In some times and in some places, possibly that is true. But that's not how it worked in America. We're pretty far from slavery in America now.

There are so many obvious differences, but let's start with the foundation. A slave is not a person and therefore has no more legal rights than my armchair or my goldfish. A slave is personal property, livestock. Being able to enter (and breach) contracts is something people can freely choose to do.

The holder of an LEC would have obligations and limits specified in advance. Beatings: illegal. Room and board must meet certain standards. Any deviation and the LEC laborer can sue for breach. Slaves are livestock and can be treated in the manner of the worst factory farms, subject to the owner's whims. The slaveowner cannot breach a contract with livestock. The very idea is absurd.

> you can always work extra hours and buy your contract back, right?

Say what? No, slaves can't buy anything. Livestock doesn't get to possess anything.

> But how different is the life of my hypothetical contractual slave from the life of the average low wage worker today?

Let's go back to the livestock example. The offspring of livestock are livestock, and under law are also owned by the owner of the parent stock. There is no analogue to this in the world of people with any rights under the law. People can have hopes and dreams for their children; human livestock knows their offspring will suffer as they have, if they are even allowed to meet them before they are sold.

We're pretty far from slavery.

(Yes, there are real slaves even now, but it looks like the OP is referring to poor people and not actual modern slaves.)
+1 for XPS 13. I installed Archlinux on it, just to get rid of those Windows bloatware.
Regarding the 15" version, I have the 15" 256 GB Intel Graphics 2015 Model and I really, really, was expecting the same unit with the Skylake processor version of the quad core with the Intel graphics that has the on-board graphics RAM.

I was hoping it would be lighter weight and longer battery life.

Instead we have the discrete GPUs that undoubtedly will need more battery life than the Intel internal GPU.
The general concept: we can figure out what lead to a particular classification for an item by finding smaller subsets of the item that still gave the same classification.

For example, this can show which snippet of text implies a particular review should be classified as "very negative", or which part of an image lead to a classification of "cancerous" for a biopsy image.

This doesn't give you much predictive power about the network however, or tell you how it actually works in general. It simply tells you how it made a particular classification.

Paper link: https://people.csail.mit.edu/taolei/papers/emnlp16_rationale...
This account has been posting mostly uncivil, unsubstantive comments. Please stop.
You need to recalibrate your sense of scale when moving from equity micro to global macro. We're not in the domain of some tech startup. We're talking a venture that takes on the global money supply, 1% of which is 500 billion dollars. Your analogy is way out by at a minimum two orders of magnitude, and probably four. 0.02% of market share in the world of fiat currency is called wild success = bitcoin. Think about that before implying that 1% and 10% numbers are reasonable. Saudi Aramco is worth 4%. Apple is 1%. The whole of IBM is 0.3%.

What you're basically doing is analogous to applying planet scales to a galaxy.

Even accounting for miniscule market share, 10% "founders reward" for any venture targeting global money, is a ludicrously large sum and a strong signal of probable charlatanry.
At work, we are using Vault and have nothing but good things to say. It is a pleasure to work with. Use Consul as the storage backend and it is instantly highly available. There is a bit of a learning curve, and common implementation strategies aren't very well spelled out. However, this is all fairly easily deduced from reading the documentation.
A+, would recommend.
Yes and humans require certification before they are permitted to drive vehicles on public roadways.
Even better would be to get something that can run in a docker container that you can just download and press go!
there are similar cases going on in the US and most of Uber's revenue comes from the US.
I've been on x220T/x230T for 3 years now. These are wonderful computers!
I've tried ctrl-c, ctrl-[, and ESC. The one that stuck for me was ESC. The others usually don't work in other programs that use vim keybindings.

Many people already map capslock to ctrl. You could map ctrl to ESC, but then it gets uncomfortable when switching computers, and it goes against 10+ years of muscle memory.

I tried remapping capslock once, but it got too confusing when switching computers.
Oh no, he tweeted at 3AM. Obviously unqualified to be President.

Pathetic.
Why not Linux?
that ringing you'll hear is the death sound of the frequency you'll likely never to be able to hear again

or you'll hear it all the time
I'm less familiar with the world you're coming from, but I'll give a variation of the advice I've given before:

1) Maybe more than 4 months to be an employable junior developer, but certainly under a year if you're willing to put the time into it.

2) "Front-end development" is very broad. You could work for anyone making anything doing that. And that could easily be a feasible first step towards a career in development, especially as it'll give you paid opportunities to practice. But

3) You have 12 years of professional experience. Capitalize on it. Are there applications that would help in those niches? Are there solutions that could be provided? Maybe not an application, but the synthesis of several to create better workflows and environments for workers in non-profit project management/fundraising.

What were your pain points in your prior career(s)? What did you see organizations struggling with? Create solutions or find solutions to fill those needs, and then market them (you have a marketing background, should be helpful, and industry connections, even more important). If you aren't interested in doing a startup or consulting yourself, maybe look for existing companies that are trying to fill these needs.

EDIT: Also, for anyone else reading this, particularly from technical backgrounds in other engineering/science disciplines, I highly recommend considering that 3rd statement. You have a great breadth of technical knowledge, unless you just hate the field or have a true passion for something else, no reason to abandon it.
I was thinking of selling my X220. Now, maybe I'll bring it back out.
I wonder how many people were already exploiting this by stealing $50 a day or something. With bitcoin it'd be nearly impossible to arrest them, right? So an unethical person would have tremendous incentive to abuse it?
As a public servant (and a high ranking official with access to top secret information at that) she was supposed to use government email.

Deletion was an obstruction of justice.

The reason it gets so much attention is because the Clintons are very wealthy and powerful and there is a longtime suspicion that they are up to nefarious activities or using their access and power to bring about personal wealth, which many people view as corrupt. However there has never been a "smoking gun" found to definitively prove the existence of these claims.

Hope that clears it up for you.
Surprisingly for myself I'm going to write a comment defending Apple somewhat.

First specs - are we real tech people, or ignorant crowd? RAM is not only the amount of it. Previous MacBooks had 1066MHz memories, current one 1866MHz/2133MHz. And CPU power is not only the frequency. I have upgraded my desktop from 5 year old i7 to new i7. Both have similar frequencies and number of cores, but new one supports faster buses (like memory) and is in fact noticeably faster!

I am a big Vim/Neovim/Spacemacs user and I have CapsLock mapped to Esc. And you should do to, before you develop problems with your hands.

Now, would I buy new MacBook Pro? Hell no. I didn't back then, and I won't now. I'll keep my Linux box. And that touch bar is silly. But all these crying is so silly, and I think mostly motivated by trying to attract audience on your blogs and get some publicity.
If we can eliminate software engineering as a profession our work will be done. There will be nothing left for humans to do, because at that point we will have invented a General AI.

Up until that point, software engineering will be a well paid job. I really don't understand this attitude that everyone should be a programmer or that programming should be easy. It isn't easy. Obviously, we should remove unnecessary friction from the process, but framing your thoughts precisely takes discipline. Building maintainable systems takes practice and understanding. It takes years of study and work to become a good engineer.

I definitely think people should be exposed to programming in school, but we study physics and chemistry there too and nobody expects everyone to be a physicist or chemical engineer. Specialization is a good thing.

That said, I'm down to compete with whatever you people think can replace me. I love a good challenge.
We've already asked you to stop this, so we've banned this and your other accounts.
The sample set was those in HackerRank. This guy isn't immediately a senior developer, but he's probably got a bit of talent - the story says he tinkered with motherboards in his spare time, so he's getting some domain knowledge before the bootcamp too.

You can't get from zero to hero in 3 months, but a talented person can go pretty far.
The emails contained information that was classified and she was legally obligated to ensure they were not placed in a manner where they could be compromised. She may have deleted them after she was asked by congress to provide them, again that would be breaking the law
Some of those E-mails contained classified information which is illegal to have on non secured systems. There are many cases of others who have leaked secured information onto unsecured systems and they ended up in federal prison. After the fact there has been a never ending circus of denials and then cover-ups that have been sequentially dis-proven and uncovered, and this is just another instance of that.
As a professional myself, I don't like dongles, especially if I'm travelling.

I don't want to worry about forgetting or losing a critical dongle if I need to connect to a wired network, projector or whatnot. I also don't want to have a USB dongle if I know a client is going to be giving me a USB key to exchange some files. Having the right built in ports means you have less to worry about when you're on the road, and visiting a client in the middle of nowhere. The last thing a professional needs to happen is to get into an embarrassing situation because of their hardware situation. No thanks.

Having said that, I'm not really dependent on any particular OS any more, so it doesn't matter to me if Apple, Dell, or Lenovo make a design decision I don't like. There's a pretty good chance that someone out there makes something that satisfies the majority of my needs.

If I was dependent on macOS and ready for a hardware upgrade, however, I think I'd be pretty grumpy about yesterday's announcements and non-announcements. Because of that, I can sympathize with the uproar.
MediaSave. You can download music files from any website
It is, but it's a multi-step process. :) Checkout the three milestones at the bottom of the post: http://programming.witheve.com/#justataste
Is the groupthink in this case laughing at the anachronistic usage of M$?
That alternative doesn't work in many programs that use vim keybindings. Ctrl-c doesn't usually work as an alternative outside of vim either.
To do what? DNS isn't the only amplifier on the Internet, and not all of the Mirai attacks are amplified to begin with.
I believe you're referring to this: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31077

Podesta is on record saying that "we need to clean this up" when this discrepancy surfaced.
Bribery to overlook certain numbers and results perhaps, but I think it'd be a unlikely to hear that the NHTSA just completely skipped on all regulatory checks entirely, which is what geohot wants.
ISPs wouldn't assign addresses to the IoT devices with IPv6 either...
But that's a lot harder to monetize!
She, or rather the tech guy her team hired and who worked at their behest, deleted them at the onset of a federal investigation. That's called destroying evidence.

Furthermore, many of the emails contain undeniable evidence that the Clinton Foundation used its connections to score business opportunities and cash for Bill and Hillary. They have illuminated the huge rift between the Clinton we see in public and the one giving speeches to Wall street behind closed doors. Even the Clinton-cuddling NYT reported on this.
Edit - never mind, found it. Dell has some dead links.

I've been keeping an eye on the XPS 13, but it looks like the "Developer Edition" has gone away. Do you know what the current equivalent is?
You don't have to be convicted before you're pardoned.

For example, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, even though he hadn't been convicted of anything.
more like $pple, am I rite?
"Here are the names Apple still uses for their laptops (and yes, these are the actual model names):

13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz Processor and 256GB Storage
13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID, 2.9 GHz Processor and 256GB Storage
13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID, 2.9GHz Processor and 512GB Storage

The ThinkPad naming convention makes marketing easier, product differentiation simpler, and by comparison shows us Apple without Jobs the first time was better than Apple without Jobs the second time."

Uh, no, those names tell you exactly what the product is. Nobody except extreme aficionados could tell you the significance of 300/500/700 off the top of their head.
It's a console.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-cli-is-not-a-dos-prompt.html

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-command-interpreter-is-not-a-console....

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html

The sad thing is that the Interix subsystem did improve on the console, giving it a far more complete terminal emulation for starters, and Microsoft owns it. The WSL did not build upon this.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/interix-terminal-type.html
The Razer Blade Pro has a mechanical keyboard: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro
One can always hope, my friend.
How long does it take for an R portfolio to make money?
Yeah, determining the requirements of a product you are attempting to produce ought not to be left to the end of design.
The articles I read about the case were about contributions to an open source library.