skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of OK with this. Yea I think that there are a ton of really cool/interesting things that could be done with the touch bar, but given that it serves the important role of being the power button and controlling user access via TouchID, I really wouldn't want to risk either of those functionalities even if it means less "fun".
> 300 years ago

What if this dramatic change happened over a span of two-three decades?
Well they showed a dj using it to control a synthesizer during the keynote, so I think (in short) that was a substandard comment I was reading.
28 cm width essentially excludes the 11.6" to 13.x" category, which are typically at least ~29 cm wide.

So you're probably looking at a 10.6" netbook.
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Luddite!

I think widespread automation will dramatically increase human productivity and lower prices and bring amazing new products that will help all of live a better life including for those poor people. Without the level of automation we have today do you think poor people could afford television or car or even a can of soda? Think of many more amazing things that would be easily accessible for poor people across the world because the new wave of automation.

Human beings pushed out from less productive works is a good thing for humanity in general. If some kid today grows up think she would do a job of a factory shop worker I think it is a bit waste of human talent. She can be lot more.

Getting rid of minimum wage laws might be the best way to help those who are being pushed out of the employment due to automation.
That has been tried and failed with JavaScript libraries in the past.

Even if you can get everyone to agree on one canonical CDN (you can't), you also need to get everyone to agree on one version of the file at the CDN.

Plus cache sizes on most platforms are laughably small (a heavy page can completely blow out your cache on mobile devices).

IIRCthere was a "study" while back that found by using the most common CDN at the time to host jQuery, you only got like a 5% cache hit rate. This was because of multiple CDNs, multiple versions, multiple ways to reference the version (1.2.3 vs 'latest'), and http/HTTPS.

In my past experience, we had more trouble with people blocking our CDN via corporate networks or something.
"biological differences exist between men and women"

I think this is fairly settled science, last time I checked men do not normally have a uterus.
If you have the engineering capacity, and your business model can at least sustain some amount of overhead, you can build your own CDN.

Look into PhoenixNAP and other similar providers that are located at non-profit peering sites and have reduced bandwidth costs.

PhoenixNAP (as the example) will lease you a mid range bare metal server with 16GB/RAM and 100TB of data/mo in the $150.00/mo - $300.00/mo range (depending on your processor needs; well optimized nginx doing just proxying should scream).

You can't exceed some unwritten bandwidth cap because you're explicitly paying extra for the 100TB of BW. For 20 caching servers firing 2PB/mo you're looking at around $3000 - $6000/mo...

Seems like you could optimize this down with fewer high powered caching servers and paying for the extra bandwidth... is the engineering time and $2500/mo really out of reach?

Best of luck.
Not at all an exaggeration.

I recently had to binary patch a video card driver -- using a patch I found on a forum -- just to get it to start X, after I had specifically bought the hardware (Foxconn, AMD - major brands) because they specifically advertised that they fully support Linux and X, which I had cross-verified with the Linux and X documentation.

Why? The video card was a Radeon model "1234" (I forget the real exact number), but the hardware was a newer minor revision that identified itself as a "1234-A" to the OS in its ID string. Linux (Ubuntu) then simply refused to load the "1234" driver, because "1234-A" was not in the list of approved card ID strings in the driver.

Absolutely nothing on AMD's site, nothing on Foxconn's site, nothing on Ubuntu's sites. Contact tech support? Ha.

Eventually -- after days of googling for a solution -- I found some obscure forum where others were discussing the exact same problem. Someone provided a binary patch ("just load up the video driver in a hex editor and change the following 20 bytes to these other opaque values".) It worked.

That is why I don't want a Linux desktop.
So now the "middle mile" ISP is completely undifferentiated and basically owns one router with some ports connected to the local exchange and some ports connected to the municipal last mile... Why bother? Why not just nationalize the whole thing?
The underlying problem that the parent post was trying to point out is that the programs we run today largely do pretty much the same things that they did 10 years ago, but for some reason they require vastly more powerful hardware, with questionable gains.

A modern browser crawls on my old iBook G3, even when all it has to display is the HN homepage. And it crawls on the web in general; it would be clever engineering if it were slow only on websites that use super modern features, like WebGL, but the whole things grinds to a halt when reading a newspaper's website, even though the website is fundamentally the same as it was ten years ago. The same goes for virtually every other kind of software.

My computer is at least an order of magnitude faster than the one I owned ten years ago, but the quality, or at least the speed of my usage is pretty much the same. This sounds less like progress and more like running in circles :-).
We've heard his opinion and ignored it. Mr. Wilhite can either come around or we'll appoint a new inventor of the gif.
I didn't say 100% of anything he says is vitriolic spew. There is no denying the man is a genius with C, but he's certainly built a reputation with his attitude.
The server is up but it returns 404.
I don't see this as an "art project" as much as a fun experiment. This just shows that good producers and promoters, and having an "in" can often get you on the same level as legitimately talented musicians.
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>>2. Being heavily flagged by butthurt Hillary supporters

Idiotic comments like this are why users are flagging election news, by the way.
Wouldn't you still have to look to see what key is currently what?
The Pixel doesn't use Qualcomm's proprietary QuickCharge but standard USB Power Delivery. It can negotiate charging at 9V, 2A (18W). Legacy USB can charge 5V, 2.4A (12W), and regular Type C can charge at 3A (15W). Scaling with power, 15W is 25% faster than USB and 18W is 50% faster. The higher voltage is supposed to charge empty batteries faster.

The iPad Pro seems to support quick charging with the Lightning to USB-C cable and MacBook 29W USB PD adapter. And charges about twice as fast (2.5 hr vs 5 hr).
Chris from Minoca here.

What you're seeing is the serial output. If you plug in an HDMI monitor, you'll hopefully already be at the shell prompt. Email me (chris@minocacorp.com) if you run into further issues.
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COLMAP is an open source structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo software and is hopefully useful for people here as well: https://colmap.github.io/, http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/
Yes, it's really strange! It's like these people have never used a keyboard efficiently in their life, so they are happy with a touch interface.

It's the same with my phone, although I am pretty decent typing on it. But long comments and emails I find myself forced to get out the laptop.

I sort of miss the Blackberries in this regard - I could comfortably get over 50wpm on the physical qwerty keyboards.
Interpreter instructions in CPython are atomic (due to the GIL, actually) and calling into extension functions is a single instruction (incidentally). This makes it impossible to corrupt built-in data structures, even if no locks are used. In some simple cases this is sufficient, esp. if no one's going to run it with !CPython...

This is also neat for other reasons (think sandboxing).
IIRC one of the bigger reasons behind wasm is to cut out the parsing time for JS (which is currently a pretty big bottleneck to startup time and memory, especially on mobile devices)
$10 Billion worth of debt that is tax deductible as losses.

"Tax credits" :P
Several screenshots show that a escape key can be placed on the touch bar by apps that need it (e.g. Terminal).

There's certainly a good argument that physical keys are better, due to tactile positioning and response. But there's still a virtual escape "key".

(And on a related note: Folks could make the same argument about the F13/F14/F15/Help buttons that are traditionally on a Mac keyboard. Or the lack of Print Screen/Break/Scroll Lock from Apple keyboards in general. Keyboard layouts actually do change with time. Heck, look at the "Space Cadet Keyboard" from an MIT Lisp machine to see how much things have changed.)
If you just want a few photos, it's much much easier to Airdrop them, or email them, or add them to dropbox, or message them. There's no need to plug in for that.
I'd like the one that's the same color as my cat poo please

(always wondered why people buy brown cars)
There is value in consistency and uniformity. If all developers follow the guidelines, then once you understand the conventions, any app should be predictable for the user.

If devs all go off in their own direction, then users have to re-learn the UX for every single app.
It could be, but it seems like that would depend on the brand awareness / credentials of the team writing the software. Note that KDE, Gnome, etc. have been trying to do exactly that for decades, with only marginal success.

So if you got the team that wrote the Apple Aqua UI on board to write it, and have great PR, then maybe. If you get the KDE or Gnome team, no way.
This is what we get for repeatedly making fun of Symantec
Sorry, I didn't read Bloomberg. I read the Washington Post article which is linked here.

I think it's also worth considering that given both candidates were talking to people in Flint, of course they are thinking before hand about the problems in Flint and how they would address them. What else would they talk about?
Well, that sounds like a movie script right there.
I entirely get what you're saying, but GIF doesn't mean GIF anymore. Many sites and applications are silently presenting MP4 or webm instead of actual gifs, often with the file format gifv.

"gif" has stopped meaning a .gif and now just means a short, looping, animated video.

File it alongside "disk" (solid state disk, save to disk etc), film (to mean movie) and various other weird language evolutions. These things used to grate on me, but then I chose to embrace the cultural history embedded in our language.

I look forward to the year 2060 Buzfeed - "Top 37 words that used to mean something else", "You'll never guess why we call videos 'gifs'" etc etc ;)
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Those are 64-bit ppc CPUs, not the 32-bit that ppc references.
Yeah, sorry about that. Conspiracy headquarters was busy with the daily mass media realignment groupthink and I couldn't get you the usual 1055 ("useful appearance of opposition") exemption.
One thing I love about the jetbrains suite is that the keyboard shortcuts remain mostly the same across all of them - whether I'm coding python in PyCharm or javascript in Webstorm, I can use the same keyboard shortcuts.
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i appreciate you pointing this out concerning the Fn keys. at the end of the day, though, i want real keys. i'm not a starfleet officer and i don't want to type on a flat screen.
I'm using a seven year old Macbook Pro for everything and it works just fine. I upgraded the RAM and maybe I'll get a SSD at some point. I really don't understand why people throw out their computers every two or three years. If Apple eventually stops supporting the hardware I'll switch to Linux.
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We have to move ownership of automation in the hands of the population, in order for it to become self supporting / self sufficient. We used to be self sufficient when most of us lived on farms. We can do it again, at much higher densities, with automation.
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The language is intentionally crap. Attribution is always difficult.
> So you assume that he's lying and secretly agrees with you. There is no way that could possibly backfire.

That is what a lot of liberals (myself included) did with Obama's stance on same-sex marriage in 2008.

That said, I was banking on his past history (he was pro gay marriage in the 90s. The 90s!), personality, and the fact that civil unions were a politically expedient choice to appeal to the center, not the base.
That's a solid 9.5/10 on the Poe's Law scale.
I agree with this. I get the feeling that Tim Cook cares a lot more about shareholders than Steve Jobs ever did, and he's really trying to optimise for average selling price (and with that, gross margin) of devices.

MacBooks have went up substantially in price. AppleTV (as this article shows) is really expensive vs competition. The $10k Apple Watch was a laughable misstep.

The iPad Pro is very expensive for a tablet also.

If I had more balls I would short AAPL stock. I have never been so confused after an Apple event than this one. They are all over the place and it suggests that they really don't know what customers want in 'mature' product categories.
Here's the YT video if anyone is interested in watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CkXVF-Q8M
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Positive feedback is really important because it keeps you going. Without positive feedback you'll give up.

Negative feedback is important because it tells you what you are doing wrong. It can be really hard to swallow, and my first response is usually to dismiss it for some reason. But if you try hard to understand why that person thinks that your product is crap, you'll almost always find a sensible reason, and a way to improve it.
Have you used CarPlay yet? You get the large touch-screen control, Apple-standard UI, and up-to-date info. The only downside if Apple Maps is still behind Google Maps. But, it's also WAY ahead of most in-car nav systems.
The Washington Post is a very partisan source this election, given that they appear to have been things like holding illegal fundraisers with the DNC:

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikileaks-emails-clinton-berni...
You must be a new HN user. Few weeks ago HN front page was full of political/election topics. They weren't flagged, and even some of them were heavily upvoted. But these submissions were mostly anti-Trump.

Now, when most submissions are anti-Clinton, they are being flagged and removed. Those which despite that are able to get many upvotes, are being silently hidden from front page. Moderators also add "a moderation downweight" to these submissions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715332).

WikiLeaks submissions are particularly targeted, as these are pure facts, which cannot be easily dismissed in comment threads.
I'm really curious to see how the traditional auto companies do with electric cars. Tesla owns the dealers, Chevy has a network of dealers that are used to making significant money on service. According to Edmunds, 44% of a dealers profit comes from service.

Losing 44% of your profit is going to be a big deal to a lot of dealers.

I'm wondering if the Tesla model that so many dealer networks have been battling will be required to make the transition to EVs. A manufacturer that has, say, 40% of their dealers dry up is probably going to, for survival sake, start dealing direct. That's my theory anyway.
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Interestingly something like this was done 15 years ago for a UK channel 4 documentary.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/apr/22/features...
Unfortunatly newspaper websites in particular are very different from how they were ten years ago. Newspapers for some reason deem it necessary to load every piece of Javascript ever written to display an article.
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Successful politicians are the ones who are able to gather a large enough group of people with differing and often directly opposing interests and convince them that it is "us" verse "them."

The part where someone "secretly agrees with you" is fascinating and gets really close to talking to an imaginary person. Trump is hardly unique in either matter.
A possible solution would be a DNS TXT entry (some with custom mail domains will have some sort of access to their DNS), which Portier could look up and use to determine if the service supports some form of OAuth.

Alternatively, if DNS is not applicable, users could use filters and autoresponders to send back an automatic response with some code.

In theory that would basically mean "Portier sends Login Mail" -> "Login Mail gets bounced via filter with additional code" -> "Portier constructs OAuth Link" -> "Portier sends OAuth back"
Acceptable, sure, but I don't see how introducing a proxy would make our research more effective.

It could very well be the case that race is itself a factor for anti-social behavior.
How is that idiotic? Is it not the truth?
If you're a regular on this site, prestigious schools are mostly bullshit. They're not good places to go for an engineering degree, except MIT and Caltech maybe (and even then they're really not the greatest places to go for a BS).

If you're a politician or trying to become a corporate high-up, then yes, the network and connections you make at the prestigious schools are extremely useful. But someone who's a CEO or VP of a hedge fund or whatever is not going to be a regular on this site.

If you want a career where you're valued for your knowledge and skills, good state schools are the place to go. If you want a career where you're valued for your network and connections, ivy league schools are the place to go.
To each their own, but I use esc heavily in vim, and brightness & volume are one in from each edge on all mac keyboards that I'm aware of, so they are easy to hit without looking. Lack of tactile buttons is going to be a huge pain in the ass.
I agree, touch feedback from a physical button is important. We lost that with touchscreens, I remember I used to be able to text without looking at my phone, not even at the screen, I used to be sure I pressed the correct buttons because of the feedback they give.

The same applies to music on my phone, I was able to change songs without checking on the screen where the "next" button is. I was an advocate of smartphones with hidden physical keyboards, but they didn't seem to catch up, not even with last blackberry's attempt, because they're not "cool" I guess...
Applying machine learning is not going to be requiring a PHD, especially when great libraries and model zoos are available off the shelf. I think it's going to turn into a "maker culture" like web design. People are going to enjoy a very low entry barrier to applying ML and automation. It's going to be mix and match, a bazaar of solutions. Most of ML will be assisted by meta-ML systems and thus almost automated.
Only the currently selected foreground application gets to use the TouchBar and display content on it.

Which means apps distributed outside of the app store when they have focus are allowed to put whatever they want on the TouchBar and you are allowed to close and delete the app.

Problem solved.
By general you mean not Trump? Because I saw a lot of hipster upping jokes about him.
Agreed. The seller here thinks he can scrounge up some legal recourse because Amazon "told him" he can't make single use codes. The correct action in this case is to just abandon the coupon code thing entirely, not to make an unlimited code and ask the buyer not to share it.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I also recently started using Channels to stream my local channels and I absolutely love it!
How? Developers are completely free to distribute Mac apps outside the store right now, but the store is doing fine.
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For tinfoil wearers, the sim card is not as much of an issue as the baseband modem itself.
We tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...

http://srp.stanford.edu/

Just not getting adoption it needs IIRC. Could be other explanation.
So... don't have a website on the Internet. Gotcha.
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It is true and butthurt Clinton supporters are downvoting you to prove.
USB Type C seems to be much sturdier than microUSB. The metal sleeve has tighter tolerance and larger area. Can easily hold phone upside down. Should be able to support phone by itself. Problem is more taking more force to remove from dock or cable.
You can actually enable wifi yourself even while airplane mode is enabled - try it!
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Is this surprising to you? This has always been Apple's approach. I'd say it is the most defining difference between Apple products and everything else. One of the main reasons people commit to the Apple ecosystem is that you get a more consistent user experience over Google's or Microsoft's.
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Either or, or both. The book is short.
I think you have just discovered the fundamental flaw of your approach. My only suggestion is send the first email from your own server and if this does not bounce then send again from postmark.

I used to use a telnet based approach to check if the account exists, but most servers these day don't respond with the correct error response if an account does not exist.
Would not the browsers start 'bundling' for popular languages (python, ruby, Common Lisp ;-) or allow for cache 'preloads' for popular runtimes?
I've worked with them since 2009. Experience varies 8).
Norton probably blacklisted HN for this comment because it infringes on their intellectual property, not merely because it is potentially destructive code. In other words, it duplicates the functionality of some of their products and they don't appreciate their trade secrets being exposed this way.
Maybe for new software, but if you're constantly using the same application you'll remember where the main functions are. And that's where you really need it (applications that you regularly use)
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The DOM is nice, it's the CSS I could do without.
Given that displays favor landscape over portrait, there's a lot of free space above the numbers. My bet is that the next iteration will have the function keys and the touch bar after the alienation of developers becomes apparent to Apple.
I pretty much don't use any technology outside of Node, the browser, and HTTP so it doesn't really matter to me what platform I'm on.

Maybe I'm not a real developer according to your standards. Not enough configuration files and build systems modeled in my brain to qualify. I just prefer code to black boxes.
Whats that have to do with anything? You're going to run out of social pleasantries if you use them all on your coworkers instead of your friends?

If you don't want to enjoy the time your coworkers -- fine. But getting annoyed by people who do is silly.
Never heard of them. Does imgur say how much traffic they have per month?
And here we go: this story has just been delisted from front page, despite it (now, 2016-10-31T20:34:43+00:00) has 21 points and isn't flagged.

I checked the next 7 pages as well, and it isn't present there either.
"Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards" https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/12/19/1938254/embedded-...

I am struggling to see the point of embedded SIMs as it defeats the purpose of a SIM card in the first place; that of being portable and transient, of being able to hot swap your phone number to different devices.
I really think that https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen... is the winner in this thread.