skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently got a Surface Book after many years using a MBP. The Book definitely looks nice, the keyboard is excellent, performance is good, and the reconfigurable touchscreen is handy for doing hand calculations, circuit diagrams, sketching, etc. There are many downsides though: the touchscreen features seen poorly supported, with many apps exhibiting weird scrolling behaviour or other bugs. High DPI support also seems patchy even after much tweaking of Windows settings. Even Windows itself seems to get confused about the touchscreen; the Start menu will occasionally stop responding to mouse clicks, at which point you have to either poke at the screen or reboot.

To be honest, I wish I had stuck with Apple, at least until Microsoft works out the kinks.
I don't think it's an Eevee - it's just an Eve V :D
I'm well into my 40s. People's bodies, in general, decline in strength as they age. I wanted to delay that effect and also be stronger so that I could do things that required strength (e.g. I like scuba diving but lugging around tanks was hard work).
I don't have any specific knowledge about this stuff, but how could that possibly be true?

If quality is just a matter of sending enough information through then why could wireless never be enough?
Thank you for the tip on speeches! I suspect that will help my writing sound more natural too.

As for (2c), I've come up with a similar idea for doing multiple edits. I try to focus on a different writing "axiom" for each iteration. For example, I can cut out adverbs on the first run-through, add metaphor next, etc.

StackExchange has a nice collection of writing rules here: http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/761/the-rules-of-...
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While Apple hasn't made gaming a priority on MacOS in a long time, the original Apple machines were the place a lot of very big titles got their start and it took Windows a long time to catch up with them in that department.

Really, this is a very long and complex discussion, but I just wanted to point out that Argument 3 was not really accurate.
> Who will pay $1,500 on a laptop that has second-grade components, a rather standard keyboard, etc. etc.

People that really like macOS and have no other choice. I'm not happy with the new hardware at all, I can see other alternatives that Id be much happier with but then Id have to use Linux or Windows on the desktop. So either I put up with it and stick with Apple or change my OS too, against my will. Neither option is a particularly good one, so it comes down to lesser of two evils. They've put us in a bit of a bind.
Hopefully the new Surface book has a better hinge than the previous one. That screen wobbles so much. That is a no go for me.
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I have, it's not quite there yet ... I've been a fan of Karabiner since I first switched to mac.
* off-center trackpad (of unknown quality) is right there a no-go for me...
The problem is right here, "I’m writing this on a mid-2010 non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro I bought six years ago last June. Yes, over time I increased the memory to from four to 16 gigs, took the hard drive up from 240 gigs to a terabyte Fusion drive."

Here's the thing. Apple is making this increasingly difficult in newer Macbook Pros.
> spies on you

Enough with this rubbish claim, please. Everyone I've asked to actually substantiate it resorts to angry handwaving. How about you?

The telemetry collects crash and feature usage data, the same as macOS and all of the phone OSes does. You want that on because it tells MS where the bugs are. If you turn it off, you don't get to complain about bugs because MS has no idea you encountered any.
This is quite impressive- I like that it has a Swift like syntax.

I also wrote something similar (but extremely impractical and useless, not to mention highly inefficient) to create an English like syntax for C:
http://imgur.com/Bv81Wpw
(It's extremely cringeworthy)
To cheer you up: The touchbar is actually kinda awesome if you can find someone with an ounce of creativity: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwC8SNvW8AQgeWN.png:large

Also, I guess these specs seem plausible. But that website is seriously insulting my senses. And I really don't care about the number of shading units, at least not in winter.
"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die." - Morty

Nothing you do, or statistically anyone does, matters after you move on whether it's moving on from that job or moving on from this mortal coil. Regret needs to be framed in the sense of did you regret what you did at that moment for that moment.

Thinking about your accomplishments in the frame of years after your dead is going to just depress you to the point you're going to consider making that end come a whole lot sooner.

Give your grandchildren something to care about? Why would they? By the time they come around, everything you've done is old news. Then your great-grandchildren, well they won't know anything about you. Your great-great-grandchildren won't even know you existed, just like everybody else on the planet. Don't do things to try to create a legacy that no one cares about.

I regret plenty, but I also don't care that I'm a meaningless nothing in the universe.
There is one industry where Apple can make a lot of money, and nobody is noticing it: healthcare. One of the biggest problems holding the inevitable healthcare disruption from happening is security - whom will you trust to keep a record of your heart rate or whatever? I'd pick Apple over any other provider because of the hardware innovations with the security enclave chips, etc, as well as insistence that security does not need to be sacrificed in order to make data useful.
Personally, I do wish that they would at least test the UEFI for common bugs like accessing boot services memory after ExitBootServices.
the only wow factor Apple has added is to insert a i7 HQ CPU and a dGPU to a 15inch laptop while can still make it only 1.8kg and 10 hours battery. This is the only advantage over new surface book. But the price is just a little bit insane, but besides this and that touch bar, good device.
The government heavily subsidies food in the US, this innovation may be misguided but innovation has risk. In that context this is significantly less than 0.1% of the total subsidy and IMO completely reasonable.
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The great Aussie Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe didn't come out until around 32 years old, so you did okay compared to him!
So Apple needs to do a whiteboard interview?
Limit of 30 users?! That's pretty small.
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>I have a super-old MacBook Pro, “early 2009” Core 2 Duo, that is still working pretty ok till now, after having boosted RAM to 8Gb and disk with an SSD. With a lifetime of 7 years and half, having kept all my previous laptop maximum 3 years, this is the longest living computer I ever had, more than twice.

remember he hasn't actually used the new Macbook pro.. or the new surface book. He's just basing this on the old versions of the laptop and adding his own thoughts to it
A significant part, when you consider that the tensions we've seen explode have existed for decades. As we saw in Egypt however, when people can't support themselves, they become desperate enough to finally act.

Sadly people in this part of the world seem to only see said events in either the rosy "Arab Spring", or some version of "Islam is fundamentally evil/unstable" sense.
His comparisons on Processing power and pricing are wrong with throws off his conclusion. Waste of time reading that until corrected
Does that refer to the HTTP version or the HTTPS version?
they are leveraging their watch tech as a very expensive value-add.
Yeah, the first Air was pretty awful - so focussed on being so thin and so light that it sacrificed almost everything else. You know, like being useful.

The second Air was a genuinely good machine, and that's when it became really popular.
i write papers to arxiv.org if it is big, or articles for ithipster.com if it is small. and i also have a file called "raw-material.txt" inside my book's source code repository.
On a related note, didn't Twitter recently say that they were excluding links from the 140 char limit? I could have sworn they implemented that, but now I see links taking up space again. What on earth are they up to over there...
Yeah, I'm not an international spy: even if it is 'easy', nobody is going to spend a few hours faking my fingerprint just to get into my phone or my laptop. And if they are so motivated, then there's a much bigger problem at hand.

There are plenty of people still using 4 digit passcode (especially simple ones like 0000 or 1234) which is easy to 'steal' by watching somebody unlock their phone before pickpocketing them.
They experiment and fail occasionally. Remember the iPod HiFi?
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Doesn't it go against the common thing Apple users seek: simplicity ?
Absolutely. I don't think anybody can fully succeed at that. But there's a world of difference for me between people who try and people who don't bother.
Not coming out as transgender through fear about what other people might think.

Getting involved with religion.

Sticking with comfortable old technologies for too long (VB6) before moving on.

Not cracking procrastination.
As disappointed as I am with the latest announcement of the MBP -- I'll likely skip this generation -- the quality of the trackpad and keyboard would be what would convince me to go with the MBP, for now, though I haven't tried it on the new Surface Book.

In the next iteration, next year, it's hard to say what I would choose, because a few big factors could change:

1. So many peripherals go USB-C, or I have enough such dongles, that the MBP's USB-C-only doesn't bother me as much.

2. The Bash shell in Windows is as seamless and well-supported as it is in OSX.

3. Apple adds some unpredictable game-changing feature to its laptop line.

4. Apple finally produces a new external Apple Display.
There is plenty of BW available in the fiber. A nit, we don't use prisms to combine and separate the colors. We are getting more data in the fiber by increasing the modulation complexity and by making advances in forward error correction. We are seeing FECs now that have 12.3dB gain and are approaching the Shannon Limit.
I assume it's <sarcasm></sarcasm> due to lack of projects, sarcasm either by the creator or the non Node.js community.
My XPS 13 9350 came with Windows 10. The trackpad was awful. I installed Ubuntu on it, and the trackpad is great now.
I've been wanting a keyboard like this for years, well done I hope you make a success of it.
I use a steelseries keyboard because it has lots of macro keys and great macro software.
It's amazing how benficial macro keys are, even for simple macros, like copy paste or paste values, relieves strain of always using ctrl key combinations.
I often forget which macros I have assigned especially on programs less frequently used so e-ink for macro keys would be a huge benfit for me.
Users contribute to the product development? This idea is on the surface, he-he-h! Yes, on the surface :) And I would be glad and happy to have such a device like Eve V. Hope the shipment to Ukraine will be available.
My point was that the two are important together. A 240 mile range without a supercharger network is still a car that will not be particularly useful for a long trip (2+ hour drive).
This 100%. I use a Razer laptop on the regular and as good as the trackpad is (and it's better than a lot of PC trackpads) I still regularly encounter issues with it or just notice little shortcomings everywhere.
Intel has super high margins. As they basically sell a commodity. Cause are nowhere close to manufacture as what they are now
Melting Arctic ice also changes the surface albedo so more solar energy is absorbed, it changes the ocean salinity, and no longer cools the winds above it.

Thermal expansion of the ocean contributes almost half of total observed sea level rise. (1.1mm out of 2.8 mm total per year)
I regret going back to school mid-career. The amount of money I spent on that, plus the amount I could have been making in industry, both compounded over time, is easily more than the return on going back to school. You really need to shift to a career track with a steeper compensation curve afterwards to make it worthwhile financially. If you graduate and go back to your previous "salary + cost of living increases every year" trajectory, you wasted your money and time.

On the other hand, education is worthwhile for its own sake, but that's only one part of the equation. If you're thinking about going back to school, do the math and probabilities first to ensure it will be worth it.
Fat finger issues - one of the reasons Bloomberg sells keyboards for the terminal. You will definitely have the same on a touchscreen.
The idiocy of using fingerprints as a passwords on new MBP
There is already well known precedent of law enforcement officers forcing phone users to unlock their phones with their fingerprint. In the story below for example, the feds walked into a building, and demanded everyone to unlock their phones with their fingerprint. See: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones/#32df81898d9d

The problem is that your fingerprint is not a secret. In the history of device security, we have always used something to identify you, and something secret to authenticate. But, with the latest generation of phones and computers, we are now using only something to identify you. This is why law enforcement officers can legally force you to unlock your device with a fingerprint.

Using a fingerprint (or even facial recognition) would be a great improvement to security IF you still had to enter your password, but that is not the route that the device makers have gone.

Even if you encrypt your entire disk, if you are only using a fingerprint or a facial scan to authenticate, YOUR DATA IS NOT SECURE. And it's not just your data... Every person who has interacted with you is also at risk of having their conversations with you disclosed.

It is baffling that things have gone this route. To see this feature on the new MBP blows my mind! How are people happy about this?
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.NET framework version 2! That's old!
It's a definite improvement, but quite disappointing if you want to use the GPU for pro use (e.g. video processing), given that there are other pro laptops out there now that include things like GTX 1060 and 1080 that are up to 5 times more performant.

It's a good upgrade over what was there previously, but it's disappointing relative to the rest of the market.

I understand Apple want to optimise for battery life and thinness, but it would have been nice if there'd been a choice (have this GPU and 10 hours battery life, or a 1080 and 5 hours battery life)... or dual GPU like before so you could have a 1080 or 1060 in there but normally use a low power integrated GPU.

The Razer Blade Pro (17", mechanical keyboard, desktop class graphics, 32GB on board, ...) is exactly what I actually want in a Macbook Pro. It's just a shame it doesn't run OS X.
The surface book trackpad is fantastic, so this doesn't seem like a relevant complaint?
Unless it's like these guys. They are doing one plus style direct sales. So they could effectively cut at least 30% off. The drawback is that you have to order online and wait.
Copleston's History of Philosophy is a good read, but without much coverage of anything non-Occidental:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Philosophy_(Cople...
Learning how things "actually" work is different than learning how to get things done.

There is definitely room for learning how things work "under then hood". Aka algorithm work, creating your own bubble sort, creating your own blog, etc. Those skills get added to your list of tools. Understanding which sort is best for which application... which language... which paradigm.

If you don't learn the different things, you become a programmer that uses a hammer for a solutions - because it's the only tool you know.

Granted, I may have been a bit harsh - it's hard to do sarcasm, tone of voice, etc in text message. So take my post with a grain of salt :)
> It's not a very inviting home to live in, a kind of non euclidean space.

The surface of the earth is my favorite place to live on, but maybe you prefer infinite planes?

(Earth's surface is non euclidean, parallel lines intersect. And, yeah, I know, we don't live in the plane. For a more accurate example, this whole universe is non-euclidean, see space distortions around black holes.)
Is this designed to be used or just a proof of concept? If the former then maybe some installation hints in the readme would be a good idea. As someone with no exposure to rust I have no idea what to do with this.
#4 seems unlikely, since they've moved to working with LG instead. What would you want that LG isn't providing?
They have a strategic plan:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/docs/aquaculture_docs/n...

I suppose a good motivation for establishing the marine farms would be to reduce pressure on natural fisheries.
The new MBP keyboard is shallow like the Air. I tried it the other day at the Apple store and it's not great.
Well, I regret two things. One personal, one slightly less so.

On the personal side, I regret not meeting more people and focusing more on networking at university. Indeed, back when I was studying for my degree, I pretty much did nothing at university other than study the subject and go home.

Unfortunately, I seem to have found out later that university now (compared to the outdated ideas your parents have about it) is more about meeting people who can help you out later in life than it is about getting a piece of paper called a degree.

I feel that if I had known that, I could have potentially got better jobs afterwards (by knowing someone with connections in a larger or more successful company) or found a team to help with founding a startup, website or other venture.

I also regret (as presumably do a lot of other people) not learning to code/program earlier. Because like learning a language, it seems like learning to program is easier at a younger age, when your brain is more flexible.

Either way, because I didn't (beyond HTML, CSS and Javascript), it meant I had to learn an awful lot when I started working as a web developer, and hence found it quite difficult to grasp even some of the simpler aspects of programming (like basic foreach and switch statements).

So yeah, those are my regrets in life. Not learning to code while young and treating university as if the degree mattered more than the networking and connections.
Well, the other advantage is that it can run Windows and OS X.

I suspect if OS X were available (legally and supported) for other laptop hardware the sales of MBPs would fall. Who would rather get a MBP over a Razer Blade Pro for example?
Goodwill is just accounting. It is your what you pay - net assets whats on their balance sheets. No real BS about that.
I hear you, but these experiences can also forge a strong personality.
One day entire books will be written about how Twitter, a company with lots of time, money, millions of users and hundreds of the smartest people in tech were somehow unable to get anything right, ever.

It's fascinating.
> Apple finally produces a new external Apple Display

Right after the media event, Apple has stated they're out of external display business.
Slightly related, if you want to practise your text generation, there's National Novel Generation Month[0].

[0] https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016
The official release is not yet announced, neither on scala-lang.org nor on the scala-announce mailing list. Your move seems overly aggressive. Why would you publish them before the maintainers?
Is this a comment about our current political situation, or are you really talking about computers?
Be sure to try /r/MechanicalKeyboards
Question: Could foreign workers staff these farms legally? Ie, are they far enough offshore that US immigration laws don't apply?

What if you called an aquaculture farm a "ship" instead and flagged it out of Panama?

I bet any number of Chinese companies would jump to invest in that.
Analysis of this style is going to be tremendously subject to survivorship bias. It's obvious that amongst the biggest winners will be some who took too much risk - with extreme variance the lucky few will wind up winning biggest. But there's no reason I should expect to be so lucky.

Meanwhile, I am most able to put away the most money when tech stocks are doing well, and most likely to have trouble finding work (and possibly need to tap my investments prematurely) in an environment where tech stocks are likely to be at their lowest. "Buy high and sell low" is a poor strategy.
Shakes fist at Citi…
I've got both (older models) and if I had to choose one I'd stick with MBP. You can run MacOS or Windows on it (I'm primarily a Windows user). 15" hi-res screen is more useful for dev work than 13" super-res screen. Touchscreen of SB is more useful than I'd have thought but far from necessary. The detachment mechanism of SB is a bit too slow and clunky to be useful, and you're still stuck carrying a keyboard around (plus Windows doesn't have much going for it in tablet mode). I'd like to see them go toward more of a Lenovo Yoga route with the next release.

That said, I probably use the SB more than the MBP these days, because I mainly use a desktop for dev work, and the SB is smaller and more convenient for non-work tasks around the house. But if I'm working remotely for a long time then the MBP is absolutely the device I'd take with me.
Sort of. We are able to shape these spectra now to improve the spectral efficiency (when using colorless muxing). The next generation of coherent modems will have a 25G granularity and SW will tune the modem to maximize capacity for a given reach. Higher order modulation requires more SNR so this is the real limitation.

For relatively short reaches the modulation order will increase. This improves the spectral efficiency. For longer reaches lower order modulation will be needed but the baud rate can increase. We can can however use other wavelength bands like L band to double the capacity. You are already seeing this in new submarine cables.
I think the gp was alluding to an argument originally from this blog post [1], which posits that biometrics should only be used to identify, and should never be used to authenticate.

And I'd have to agree, fingerprints are a terrible substitute for a passphrase.

[1] http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
>They also need to introduce a Surface product that the average consumer can afford

They're trying to directly compete with their partners. Budget laptops are where literally everyone else they partner with focuses.
The proposed idea is interesting, where interesting means stupid.

If Apple wants to dominate music industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for songwriters.

If Apple wants to dominate software industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for programmers.

If Apple wants to dominate computer industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for EE guys.

If Apple wants to dominate the flower industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for horticulturists and maybe buy some bees?

Naivety of couch analysts with no clue how certain industry works and why so is always amusing and irritating at the same time.
I regret my constant procrastination.

I regret not getting the best domain names in my country while they were still available back in 1998, which would now provide for a comfortable life.

I regret not being able to persuade my wife to move somewhere to Spanish coast - like Valencia or Alicante. I hate winters so much.

I regret having so many regrets and insecurities and unanswered what-ifs in my head, not being just happy and awesome at all times instead.