skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Economist is, in general, pretty good. But it has a viewpoint. It's open about it, and compensates to an extent by also, mostly, believing in a full, frank, and largely accurate reporting of what's happening in the world.

It still manifestly fails in this on repeated occasions (virtually anything associated with limits, though that may be changing). I'd read the magazine for some decades before running across the prospectus itself, here, by the way:

http://www.economist.com/node/1873493

Which lays out that a paper called The Economist to be published "which will contain":

_First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country._

Long before this I'd noted that the slant of the leaders was often directly contradicted by the companion full stories further back in the magazine, most especially from foreign correspondents in developing countries -- India, China, and the various African states particularly.

Again: there are some grounds on which to consider The Economist fairly good, and its companion The Financial Times as well. Simply on a criterion of mentioning substantial figures, both rate quite highly amongst mainstream periodicals, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
If it's a web based project /r/internetisbeautiful can get you a lot of exposure.
Moreover, most people either run ad blockers that hide the sponsored headlines, or else have simply learned to ignore them as they scan the page visually.

I believe what OP is doing -- what all successful self-promoters on Reddit do -- is ignore the "no self-promotion" policy, but avoid getting punished for it by posting on very niche subreddits where a significant percentage of people are actually interested in the product and so "upvote" rather than "report".
I'm not sure the article author really understands how the Touch Bar works.

> I for one was thinking of what the first Touch Bar games would look like, or how it could act as a Rainmeter or MenuMeters-like at-a-glance view of my machine.

People are going to experiment with toys for the Touch Bar, sure, but nobody's going to actually try and publish a game for one. Not only would the audience be very small, but the Touch Bar itself is so limited that you're not going to be able to make a game for it that's worth buying. However, normal games can and should use the Touch Bar to extend the keyboard to do great stuff (e.g. RPGs could put Inventory, Character Sheet, Skills, etc as buttons on the Touch Bar, or use it as an alternative input for controlling some types of abilities).

As for MenuMeters-like at-a-glance, this is why I say the author doesn't seem to understand how it works, because the only way you could have an at-a-glance view in the Touch Bar is if you actually put focus on the app that provides it. You cannot have a background app that provides Touch Bar content (like you can for stuff in the menubar). The foreground app controls what's on the Touch Bar. So the only way to have at-a-glance meters on it is if the foreground app is the one providing those meters. And if you have to put focus on a particular app to see your meters, then it's not really at-a-glance after all, and it would be quicker and easier (and actually usable for people without Touch Bars) to simply have that app show the status on the screen when you give it focus.
> raised a fresh $72 million round of equity funding from lead investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital

These people all need to have their heads examined.
> Who's going to sell hardware if not for the networking giants though?

AWS, GCP and Azure will sell you hardware, with a bunch of other services on top.
Seems like it's something of a continuum, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otM22QcIHYw - a group of untrained people could not put that together and play it live in 6 months. No way, no how.

Maybe with a bit of training and a lot of auto-tune, someone with a decent voice could be a 'pop star', but even that... probably more than 6 months.

There's a ton of music that's got years and years of practice behind it.
Half serious since he does not have enough proof, but it has become obvious the "paid trolls" or young politicians are doing it for both sides. Either they are directly or indirectly paid.

I'm talking about the fact the guy really was attacked by a mob, wasn't he? Does two wrongs in your eyes makes one correct?
MNIST – A simple computer vision dataset
They're not going to control it for any apps, App Store or non. It's a guideline. They're just saying, "Based on our research developing this thing, these are the things you do and do not want to do when developing for it." Same as any other company that makes any other thing does.
Show HN: Recruiting search engine
I'm looking for any feedback more related to market product fit for NetIn [1]. A little background: we launched NetIn about 6 mos ago and the traction has been so so, ~1,000 trial users with some paying customers. There are competing products out there such as Entelo that charge upwards of $600/mo we charge much less. We have other differentiators for example in addition to email we provide phone numbers for some of the profiles in our system. I have posted on recruiting forums and blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter but the sales hasn't picked up. Can you suggest ways to get new users/sales? If you'd like to msg me directly my email is s(yeah just the letter s)@netin.co

[1] https://netin.co
Not everyone is developing SPA's nor working with the same constrains that facebook has (optimized incremental changes to UI). This new trend of making everything in JS for JS by JS Developers is crippling the web ability to display the dynamic information as a document and forced the creation of standards (AMP) to preserve the real legacy of the web.
Are both artists. He who can shut down his head when it gets in the way, is an artist. He who can produce astonishing things without the use of his hands is also an Artist - of a very special kind. As far as I can tell, Heart is at the heart of Art.
It could have been Bernie if Podesta's email had been spear-phished earlier [1], before the DNC was able to backstab Bernie [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826552 / https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899

[2] http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikileaks-emails-clinton-berni...
Yeah, I think by calling this a "security model" I was simultaneously too generous and too insulting. :) There is definitely a team of smart people at Apple that design the OS / kernel to be secure against apps that are allowed to run arbitrary code; this is where stuff like kernel sandboxing comes from. There is also a team at Apple that tries to prevent apps from running arbitrary code, and does an okay job of it. (I assume this team is also populated by smart people, and they know that they're not actually implementing a foolproof security restriction, they're implementing a policy restriction.) The ban on JITs, as I understand it, comes from the second team. There's no actual threat to iOS device security from allowing apps to run custom, arbitrary native code, right?
I meant "minor point" relative to the other points. It's all relative and subjective, of course, I never said otherwise.

Also, doesn't seem like you read the actual argument following the first sentence :)
I do this too. A fitbit one that also gives you the time.
Isn't the path to becoming a successful EDM DJ, essentially to fool the world into thinking that you are one?
IBM dumping tons of cash into supporting it is why. Now that IBM has basically abandoned any PPC that isn't >= POWER8 and freescale/nxp/qualcomm focusing on ARM the few PPC users out there are on their own.
Uber and Lyft can be just as bad as taxis when it comes to racial discrimination
I have a question for DJs:

Why do so many DJs play the same songs over and over and over again from night to night?

I've been to so many clubs that very rarely play new music, and very often stick to the same playlist night after night.

It's so incredibly boring to hear the same songs over and over and over again, and saps my will to go out at all, because I know I'm rarely going to hear anything new. There's only so many times I can get up the energy to dance to even a great song that I've heard ten thousand times in the last 20 years.

I know this varies from DJ to DJ and scene to scene, and some do play new music, but I've just seen this happen way too often, and wonder how people can even stomach working as a DJ if they're not interested enough to find and play new music, and restrict themselves to playing the same stuff over and over again.

It really bores the hell out of a lot of club goers too, and I'm convinced its contributed to the death of some scenes.

Also, why do some clubs have the same fucking DJs for literally decades? Why can't they let some fresh blood in?
Well, she was appointed as interim chair of the DNC right after, so I would say it wasn't exactly frowned upon.
A lot of languages can/do compile to C which then compiles to assembly (incomplete list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler#Prog... ), so it's sort of a moot point.
The data is pretty clear, if we're afraid to discuss it, the problem will never get solved.

Albeit it might be more acceptable to discuss it from a monetary perspective, e.g. "Why are urban poor crime rates so high"
An email from Google's chairman to Clinton Campaign (I selected the most technical parts, which I believe will be most interesting to HN crowd, link to full email at the bottom):

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Here are some comments and observations based on what we saw in the 2012
campaign. If we get started soon, we will be in a very strong position to
execute well for 2016.

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Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them.

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For each voter, a score is computed ranking probability of the right vote. Analytics can model demographics, social factors and many other attributes of the needed voters. Modeling will tell us what who we need to turn out and why, and studies of effectiveness will let us know what approaches work well. Machine intelligence across the data should identify the most important factors for turnout, and preference.

It should be possible to link the voter records in Van with upcoming databases from companies like Comcast and others for media measurement purposes.

---

Quite a bit of software is to be developed to match digital identities with the actual voter file with high confidence. The key unit of the campaign is a "voter", and each and every record is viewable and updatable by volunteers in search of more accurate information.

In the case where we can't identify the specific human, we can still have a partial digital voter id, for a person or "probable-person" with attributes that we can identify and use to target. As they respond we can eventually match to a registered voter in the main file. This digital key is eventually matched to a real person.

---

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0...
Not leaving home row is hugely useful.

Trackpads on laptops have always for me attracted stray an unwanted interactions. Trackpoints not.

I find using a mouse far less distracting. The fact that it can be placed well away from the keyboard helps.
Just looking at http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ shows that's not true:

http://images.apple.com/v/macbook-pro/j/images/overview/touc...

Maybe wait to actually use one before trying to rally the mob with pitchforks and torches?
No, it isn't. Nothing on this laptop is anywhere near an "FU" to developers.
I like the idea of having physical keys having their own screens but I definitely still like sliding as well. It's extremely useful for scrubbing through video, photo albums, photo adjustment sliders, etc.
wasn't there an e-ink keyboard on here a little ago?
Can you help me understand how my question is ridiculous?
This article is very misleading. Apple has always had UI guidelines (HIG); that doesn't mean they ban apps that don't follow them. It's a recommendation, not a proscription.
Thanks OP. Norton will blacklist HN again!
Amazon Photos now has ML based labeling
There have been OLED keyboards and Apple replacing the Function keys with OLED keys would have been a great idea.

There's a whole bunch of cool keyboard products with various types of screens:

http://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/
The only loss i've felt so far is my documents that were written / design in pages & keynote. Still have a older mac around to handle them. Otherwise i'm back to Windows 10 fT with the Hyper-V bash and docker. So far so good (going on a month now).
Unless you own an iPhone/iPad like half the kids in the world today.
Indeed. And to be clear - I'm not saying everyone needs to do everything bare metal. But more often than not, inefficiency comes out of people's laziness. But that very laziness gets dangerous when multiplied millionfold, which is what happens when a service gets popular. Therefore I think making things efficient deserves at least a passing thought.
Do you think that 100% of Linus's emails are vitrolic spew? He writes kind emails too, you know. Even today.
I completely agree with you. Micro-USB has already shown that it is not the best standard moving forward, it is already at it's end as manufacturers are replacing the port on devices with a USB-C port instead.

So let's call it. Micro-USB, 2007 -> 2016 (9 years). It had less of a run than the 30 pin dock connector!

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I still have USB-B, USB-Mini and USB-Micro, and USB3-Micro-B devices... some were built even after USB-Micro was available, yet they still use USB Mini (which in most cases is a lot more sturdy than Micro). I have a ton of different cables for different devices because there was no real standardization until USB-C very very recently.

Why was the same vocal crowd not out when manufacturers switched from Mini to Micro and everyone had to buy all new cables?

With USB3 there is also a USB3-TypeB connector, which is not even backwards compatible with USB-TypeB...

http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/usb_3_explained.html
Applications cannot do that. You cannot prevent the user from switching to another app, and even if you could, you can't show that other app's menubar or make its windows appear to have focus when they don't. The closest you can come to preventing app switching is using old-style fullscreen capture plus disabling global hotkeys (you know, like how a lot of old games work), but when you're doing that, the user can't even see other apps, much less think they've got focus.
Only the foreground app gets to put things in the touch bar. Excellent - I don't want some background process putting animated ads there.

Beyond that, Apple can't possibly limit what the foreground app does. Distribute your tasteless animating app with a Developer ID cert, and annoy people to your heart's content.

I do want a screensaver that also uses the touch bar. Nyan Cat is acceptable in this context.
As a macOS user, I'm pretty pleased Apple is discouraging the use of the Touch Bar as yet more real estate for 'innovative' developers to plaster unwanted notifications or other distracting garbage. Besides, if you have a compelling non-approved use of the touch bar nothing is stopping you from distributing it outside of the Mac App Store.

Now if only they could take a look at the user-hostile default "allow" option on the dialog Safari presents when a website wants to start sending you push notifications...
Dude: As I said at the beginning, I actually find your factual statements correct.

Your mode of expressing them is getting in the way of your message. How you address this is your own concern. You seem quite bent on extracting personal battles from any discussion. I find that tedious.

That said: it seems unlikely you'll change in the near term. I've merely tried to help. I'm out.
ML???
Public AWS GPU-Optimized Deep Learning AMI Pre-Built with Lots of Things
https://github.com/Miej/GoDeeper

Hey guys, just thought some of you might enjoy this.

I've set up an community AMI on aws that I've done a simul-build of a lot of the bleeding-edge releases of some of the most popular machine learning/deep learning packages/modules around.

Some hilights:
p2.xlarge
NVIDIA Tesla K80
Ubuntu 14.04
CUDA 8.0
cuDNN 5.1
OpenCV 3.1
Spark 2.0
Caffe 1.0
Tensorflow
Theano
Keras
Torch 7
Microsoft CNTK V2
R
Scala
Julia

I went through a lot of headaches getting this set up, so hopefully this can help newcomers in the field of ML/DL get their feet wet with some code in different systems/languages without any of the hassle of dependency version conflicts and source build seg faults :D

Enjoy!

-miej
This is getting really old really fast. Plus, the Touch Bar does actually have an escape key by default.
Which is so sad because I feel that the Mac Mini is an excellent addition in homes and classrooms!
Did you talk to Cloudflare support about that?
Gaming, it's pretty short, if you set the intel graphics power settings right though you can get 6 hours give or take. I rarely use the laptop more than an hour without access to power anyway so the whole battery life issue mac or pc doesn't seem as big an issue for me.
California categorically prohibits this so all such provisions are null and void in CA.

Anything you develop during non-working hours, not at your employer's office, and on your own equipment is yours and employers are not legally allowed to have any claim on that work.
Fuck apple. Fuck Microsoft.
Well that gets to the heart of it, doesn't it. Is it viewpoint or is it bias, and is there a difference.

The TE has, I think, become worse under the new editor. It used to be better. A simple example of what I'm talking about is this:

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21708680-smooth-brexit...

The article argues that Britain is being "boorish" towards the EU and doesn't understand its neighbours. It quotes Hollande:

in recent days François Hollande, Jean-Claude Juncker and Angela Merkel have all expressed concern at the noises wafting across the sea. “There must be a price,” the French president told a European gathering in Paris on October 6th.

But they are engaged in extremely selective quoting. The full Hollande quote is "There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price" which makes the EU sound significantly worse: what kind of supposed allies state flat out that they must threaten countries that leave? It makes the EU sound like some sort of mafia. Other news outlets reported the full quote but The Economist did not. They chose to slice out the worst sounding parts entirely in order to push their article's viewpoint: UK bad, Europe good.

I wouldn't trust a single thing I read in the modern TE about the EU, immigration or Russia. On topics the editor cares about they're just a more intellectual sounding version of Fox News.
I don't think most people are complaining about the new MacBook Pro's CPU. There are many other design choices that are problematic for a lot of professionals.
Frequentist statistics is racist, don't you know? In today's progressive society, it is forbidden to make informed decisions based on statistics. Racial profiling is the devil - if the clerk said the robber was black, you better spend 50% of the time searching for a white guy, or else you're really deplorable.
This is why more programmers need to code defensively:

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

Also worth mentioning is input/data validation[1] which is currently an even bigger problem than the 2038 problem, as badly constrained input is rampant and operating in the world right now causing a lot of problems

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_validation
Adapt and Survive. Seriously the only cosmetic issue I have is the Razer logo. They really need to offer alternatives.
I don't know how true this is, but my Tesla salesguy says the motor expected life is half a million miles.
But you can really know your craft, have side projects, make a nice living and have a fulfilling life outside your job even if you don't get temporarily crowned "master carpenter" of the <trendy new thing> because you "taught the craft" for free on the internets.
Given they showed some pretty interactive demos in the keynote, I'm thinking it's all allowed if you're Apple but 3rd-party developers should be concerned.
> they advertise Trump as the Devil

When all this blows over, the guys holding the bag will be the "reference" media.

The Clinton voters know how much they turned a blind eye.

The Trump voters know how much they smeared.

The amused (or horrified) onlookers will know what a worthless lot of liars they are.

Guarded prognosis, but probably "journalism" is dead.
As far as I know, to do things like record keystrokes or interfere with the UI of other processes, an app on macOS has to be manually permitted through System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility.

Steam's in-game overlay feature and even some functions of the built-in Automator utility have to be allowed from there.
the good news is that the actual cost of the charger itself is probably a small part of the cost of the charger station construction and installation. They can easily tear out obsolete charging units and use the existing electrical conductors to deliver the same amount of power with a compatible connector.

Even if they have to pull new cables to deliver more power the conduits will already be there.
RHEL/ Centos defines a stable driver ABI, and even has tools that devs can use to check that their binary drivers don't use any symbols outside the ABI.
> This doesn't create new jobs at scale

The idea is to not need a job, by being a direct beneficiary of automation. If you own land, solar panels and a robot you could be self sufficient.
I never could let go and see it as a game - me, my life, my livelihood - that's mine to play with as I choose - but I never could bring myself to treat things which were damaging to others as a game.

You make one little ethical compromise after another, and you become that which you once sought to oppose.

It's actually the guy who tried to hit me in s meeting I have to thank - I saw a vision of myself after another decade.
Friend of mine who worked at Qwest in the early days and worked with Level3:

"Interestingly enough, Level3 started out by building out the Qwest network as a contractor building out the fiber. Level3 in exchange for some of the work L3 was given long-term IRUs on the fiber and heavily discounted conduit leases.

Level3 to this day still leases a lot of fiber from CenturyLink (ala Qwest)..."

CenturyLink buying Level3 means that they are basically leasing to themselves :P
That seems entirely unrelated to what you quoted. Regardless of whether the whole screen becomes a touchscreen, or a bar is used, the F-keys in their form are bad UX.
There's a bunch of external keyboards that do this already. AFAIK, none of them have proved to be particularly popular or have a lot of developer support.

As a side note, I don't think I've ever pressed volume up/down or brightness up/down without looking at the keyboard first. I simply don't press them often enough to have muscle memory for their location, and every keyboard I use puts them in slightly different places anyway.
Yeah. They essentially advised us to open a new account. They also advised that we would be less likely to share an IP on a paid plan.

The website in question I don't think even exists anymore, so this is just a dead IP in russia.

I fucking hate censorship.
I believe with safari open, you see a representation (favicon? I don't know) of your open tabs and favorites. I bet something could leak through there, at least with a desperate enough site.