skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that and it makes sense from a business perspective. However, many many people outside SV (which is most of the planet) have the same views as myself and will happily 'steal' content.
Attempts like DRM are trying to solve the wrong problem.

Rather than trying to shoehorn these 'user pays' models as an alternative to 'advertiser pays', we need a totally new paradigm.

Invent it pls SV
> Why not have scientists go off and do their research and rely on a team that is skilled at hoarding grants or publishing works from raw data?

Partly because science is very specialized. If I work on something new, then it's possible there is very few people in the world that know it or will easily understand it. I couldn't have someone else write a paper or grant proposal based on it - either they wouldn't understand it, or they are a fellow scientist who wouldn't want to do it either.

The mistake, in my opinion, is making the number of papers published a metric on which you determine a scientist's worth. Just like most metric-ization of society today, it's a bad idea.
It is surprising to see that they would add something like the touch bar. It's not like they're freeing up the UI space, since all of that same functionality will still need to be there for all of their other macbooks, or any pro user using an external keyboard / trackpad.
> HN is full of people who touch-type F9, I know.

This is interesting. I don't really have an opinion about the feature either way, but the touch-type issue didn't even cross my mind while reading about it. I never learned to do it and can't think of anyone I know who does. Although I'm sure more than enough people here have very different experiences. I wonder what percentages of computer users actually do touch-type regularly...
> On land, birds can switch from sleeping with both hemispheres simultaneously to sleeping with one hemisphere at a time in response to changing ecological demands17,18. During such unihemispheric slow wave sleep (USWS) birds keep the eye connected to the awake hemisphere open and directed toward potential threats.

This reminds me of the low-power sleep states of PCI (L0s, L1, etc.) or a multicore CPU
Have you tried this on BigQuery yet? It's built for this kind of extremely large dataset.

You can also look at MemSQL for a distributed relational database with a columnstore. Run enough nodes and you might be able to hit your performance goals.
The touch bar could do with being a little taller. Considering there is space above it it is a shame they couldn't make it 3-4mm bigger.

I find it amusing Apple makes such a big deal of adding a fingerprint reader to a laptop, I have had that for about a decade on all my Windows machines. Hardly anything special these days.

So it is thinner, yay!(?), but it was pretty damn thin anyway, would have been nice to have a 20 hour battery (estimating on size differences if same battery life as previous).

God I hope they improved the butterfly switches from v1. Those things were like using a Blackberry keyboard on a laptop. Disgusting IMHO.

Does anyone know if their "wide" colour display beats the OLED in the new Lenovo?

Edit: Also 4 USB-C, how long until they kill the Lightning port on the iPhone/iPad do you think? Seems idiotic to have a phone and tablet with one connector and a laptop (and desktops I assume in the future) with a totally different port. They should have switched to USB-C on the iPhone 7 when they killed off the 3.5mm jack IMHO.
This trend of killing hardware buttons needs to stop. It's very inconvenient. The sense of touch is important for me. It's one of the annoying things I don't like about many Android devices and it seems that Apple is slowly transitioning to this as well.
I suppose with Reddit's "flair" options you could put a BTC address next to your username in a lot of subreddits. But BTC is a lot more effort than just clicking a button, unless the site sets itself up specifically to use BTC, at which point why not just use real money?

Take a look at all the "gilded" posts on Reddit. I see dozens of them every day. People love spending a few bucks here and there to show their appreciation for good content, but all of that money goes straight to Reddit rather than the person that created or shared that content. I would much prefer the majority of my "gildings" to go to the user, rather than the site.
This is a strawman trying to confuse my claim with nihilism.
I would cut 90% of the people and cancel lots and lots of projects.

The people that remain would be well compensated. If you can cut 90% of the workforce and still preserve half the revenue (and that might not be possible), then you can pay each person $1 million per year.

Really though, I just have a hard time understanding what three thousand people are doing to keep Twitter running day after day. I keep coming back to thinking about how Instagram had 15 people working there when Facebook bought them.
> Why would having more transparency reduce your leverage?

Because of jealousy.

There have to be a good 10-20 software companies with this Open Salary thing. From them, find one where for two people with the same # of years of experience, person A makes 2x what person B makes. From what I see, they all more or less settle on a (base pay) + (# of years * multiplier) + (maybe a location bonus) = Salary. I don't see variables in there for (he is awesome)

For a counter example, I can point you to wallstreet or finance in Chicago, and show you 100s of people where people at the same level make as much as a 2x pay difference.
So we're not getting DTrace proper, it seems. Instead something else will stem up from the various linux tracing systems. Maybe this BPF-based one.

It's a shame. One of the nice things about dtrace was that there was a book on it. Good, in-depth documentation on performance tools is hard to find.
Anyone wants to teamup for nodeknockout thats on Nov 12-13
I have graduate applications due, but I so badly want to participate this year. So need a partner, specifically someone with front end/design experience (or willingness to learn it). We can divide the burden. I have some full stack experience but since I will mostly be sleeping less in the week coming up to the competition, I need someone to enjoy it with. If interested do let me know asap. Inform your friends as well.

Contact me faizan10114@gmail.com, with your timezone so that we can setup a meet, and think of a great product before hand.
not sure about deaf-mute people but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia is an area of interest for people who study philosophy of mind
Climate change has the potential to make homeless hundreds of millions of people, severely disrupt our agriculture, and exacerbate the spread of many diseases.

Evil government regimes and terrorists groups may be threatening you now with a switchblade, but I'd also worry about the shady Climate Change guy hanging out on the other side of the street.

>I sure hope they aren't insinuating that the current refugee issue is due to climate change.

They aren't, this seems to be something you have created all on your own.

You concerns for fixing our world's current ills are valid. Not having contrarian groups around would certainly be nice, but I'd be just as concerned that by not preparing for climate change now we are just setting the stage for another set of contrarian regimes and militia groups to emerge when we all start suffering from the effects of climate change.
Are taxes a flate rate, or a percentage?
For a very very long time, YouTube wouldn't let you upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
Not only does apple not care about sophisticated, or "power" users, it's becoming more and more clear that there are not many sophisticated users within apple itself.

Let's take multiple monitor support as an example - something that vacillates between barely working and a dumpster fire, depending on the release of OSX. Aren't there people within apple that need three screens ? Aren't there power users within apple that demand this functionality ? We are left to conclude that zero, or almost zero, people inside of apple are using this kind of configuration[1] - otherwise there is no way it would be allowed this kind of dysfunction.

Some other things that we are forced to conclude nobody at apple does:

- use USB cellular modems/dongles

- tile windows to hide unnecessary desktop

- primarily mouse-free usage

- move files in the finder with 'cut'

- use the god damned escape key, for the love of christ

We all knew this was coming - the day that Apple "mac pro'd" the rest of the lineup. We got a sneak peak with the 12" macbook. Now the other shoe drops.

[1] For instance, this relatively boring use-case: three primary screens on a desktop and a large flat panel connected as a secondary display. Kind of sort of works in snow leopard. Various, random dysfunction in each release of OSX thereafter.
That is an unfortunate case of chicken-and-egg.

And even more so, when you look at Facebook pushing education and internet.org in developing countries.

India uses Linux much more than the Mac.
But you can now look down on your keyboard and select emojis right from the touch bar! What's not to love?! It's been a dream come true for professionals.

But seriously though, I kinda hate it but also think it could be useful in certain situations. Not sure what to make of it.
I don't know if it's bias I've seen. A lot of talk about how no one was going to buy them for what they wanted (which turned out to be true) and a sense that the product has peaked which could very well be true if competitors eat into their use case.
I've only recently tried out DTrace on OS X, and I'll admit to being kinda floored at what it can do. To think I used to be satisfied with strace on Linux!

Seeing the tracing capabilites of Linux expand is exciting indeed.

Edit: the couple of tutorials that finally unlocked DTrace (on OS X) for me are:

https://www.objc.io/issues/19-debugging/dtrace/

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/hooked-on-dtrace-part-1/
The funniest part to me is just how AMAZED every presenter acts about using touch input with full desktop apps... as if they've invented something completely new and Microsoft and others haven't been doing this for years.
> You could say the takeaway is don't work for companies out to screw their workers, but that's most of them.

Seems like this is something transparent salary policies might change.
you should probably talk to a lawyer and an accountant. I'm not sure I read it on a message board will hold up in court. ;)
"6th-generation Intel processor"

(Audience claps)
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Don't really care. I'm a vim user, but I use Ctrl-C instead of escape to get out of insert mode, etc.

What I find obnoxious is that the hardware is already a bit outdated. Also, they act as though this touch bar is such a huge innovation when it really isn't. It's minor. Give me a laptop I can use for coding and also has an Apple Pencil compatible touch screen I can use for note taking. I'd call that innovation. But Apple has decided, for all of us, that no one really wants this.

I will say, however, that the 4 thunderbolt 3 ports seem pretty useful. I also like how they're going with port-types that are standard instead of their usual proprietary nonsense.
And i just had to roll back the GPU driver because MS silently upgraded it, in the process nuking my ability to use a external screen...
> If you write a contract sufficiently byzantine and ambiguous, any legitimate use will rub up against the edge of some prohibited behaviour.

contra proferentem applies in common law, ambiguity benefits the party that did not write the contract

otherwise there's no reason to ever write a clear contract
Four Thunderbolt 3 ports that support USB-C. Any one of the four ports can be a charging port.

/win

Hopefully, this will disrupt the rest of the industry. The XPS 13 is a brilliant machine (IMHO better than the Mac) but why did they not use the USB-C for charging is beyond me.
:) I loved it when I first looked at it, but it vandalized itself when I turned JavaScript on.
I enjoyed using Vine to create small little videos without much friction, you could share a loop with your friends really quickly.

Youtube just seems a pain in comparison
Typically it goes to construction / infrastructure (dorms and facilities to attract students and compete with other universities) and administrative / compliance bloat.
They really screwed over iOS devs here. I have multiple cables as backups and in different bags etc - all need replacing now...except that I can't use the USB-C variant in the power brick :( I also do Android dev...need to get a USB-C to Micro-USB too just for that! Just one big mess.
> What happens to the guy in open salary co who is legit 50% better than everyone else? Do his peers vote to give him 50% more money?

Presumably, that's how it works.
I don't think the demos are making a good job at making it look "easy" to interact with the Touch Bar. It feels very cumbersome: eyes on screen, one hand on track pad another hand on the touchbar, so eyes on touchbar too, and from time to time one hand on the traditional keys (e.g.: for the demos with Messages and Mail).

Perhaps it's just me, but I find it overwhelming.
No problem! The world is full of laptop manufacturers.
I wonder how long until the cables bundled with new iPhones/iPads have USB-C instead of USB-A. I suspect they'll start doing this with the next generation of devices, maybe with a bundled USB A to C adapter.
When I am at a desk, the lid is closed so both TouchID and touch-anything effectively don’t matter, including any display information. In fact, I am worried about applications gradually putting information only on the Touch Bar that cannot be found anywhere else.

Perhaps they could have placed a TouchID button on the SIDE of the laptop (usable when open or closed). And hopefully the ENTIRE Touch Bar display is also available as a global window ON the screen so that it is still able to display/activate things when you are lid-closed connected to an external display.

The real shock though is that a lot of these changes show a lack of usability testing. Like, “10 minutes in the hallway” level of testing. How much serious work can actually be accomplished with such tiny touch keys that require you to look down at them, constantly changing and mostly unpredictable? Before ever creating new hardware for this, they should have enhanced macOS to provide an on-screen version of this ever-changing toolbar to encourage more universal support from developers and work out the usability kinks. Instead, now they’re stuck: this thing is in your laptop, with all its flaws.
I'd agree, in fact I'd say that in many cases finding the truth is not the first priority of most individual participants in those systems. That's why they're systems, and that's why concepts like integrity are so important and why the commitment to truth, honesty, and sincerity must be constantly reinforced.
how "harder" is it on Windows?
>> Dorothy : I’ve never seen policy on employee dating that was effective. I’ve seen policies that made sense in theory – i.e. like don’t date within your reporting chain – that lead to bad outcomes in practice – people hiding their relationship.
What do you think is still missing in their Linux subsystem?

A tiling and scriptable window manager.
Yes I too feel the same way NXP and freescale have been go to SoC vendors for me - their great and easy to find docs have been the big plus for me - frankly if I can't go to Digikey or Mouser and click on that "data sheet" link I'm probably not going to use your chip

I guess it's time to go an have another look at that NXP chip I just qualified
I have seen both, once or twice months ago on my W10 Pro. [0]

Now they just have new and ever updating artwork on my login screen and it is actually really nice. Often there is a link to "see more" or something in the top left corner and very often I click it and spend up to two minutes looking at nice photos on bing[1]. Yep. I know I have been binged, but i kinda like it, just don't try to search for programming questions, those belong on ddg, worst case with a !g appended.

[0]: this is a bit shameful IMO, pushing ads on paying customers. Please Microsoft employees who hang around here: spread this inside MS, - don't spam paying customers!!!

[1]: this is totally OK with me as long as you do it like you do today with a bit of taste. I actually enjoy it quite a bit. Hopefully it is easy to turn off for those who don't like it.
Anyone know something like this but with a golang-based backend?
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In TXR Lisp, I implemented a design which achieves a harmony between the separation of function/value bindings, and their union. You can program in both styles in the same scope.

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-02DC9E04

TL;DR: The underlying Lisp dialect is a Lisp-2. However, when a form is denoted by square brackets, Lisp-1-style evaluation applies to each of its positions: every position is evaluated as a form, and any form which is a symbol is evaluated in a conflated single namespace. This rule does not recurse into the forms: any nested forms also have to use square brackets to work the same way.

Thus we can do:

[mapcar cons '(1 2 3) '(a b c)] ;; no (fun cons)

[f arg] ;; f is a variable

And so on.

This works by making [...] a syntactic sugar for (dwim ...) where dwim is a special operator. This operator is deeply integrated into the language (both macro-expansion semantics and evaluation), which is why it is able to change the semantics of name lookup.

A rule I imposed is that macros are not allowed in this notation:

[let ((a 3)) ...] ;; nonsense: let not recognized as operator here

so it is actually implements the Lips-1 mantra literally: "evaluate all positions of the form equally". There is no exception for recognizing a function-like macro in the leftmost position of a form, but not doing so in other positions.
Check out http://bhuvaneshshan.me/

Simple UI so that content is the king!
Just 4 main pages but also organizes content in a way a user would like to see!
It makes sense to use on an iphone where typing is difficult, it doesn't make sense to touch any of those when i can type faster than reading those suggestions. That's obviously just my opinion.
Isn't this announcement basically just saying, though, that Servo is going to replace Gecko piece by piece, rather than all at once?
So because FOSS has bugs it's OK for a multi-billion dollar corporation to have wanton disregard for quality?

It's "pretty obvious to me" that the biggest software vendor on earth would be aware that their product would be targeted as you say and provide adequate or even reasonable protection for their customers. Not hide behind their EULA as their product was being used in organized crime. This is the "unforgivable offense" I mentioned.
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"I find it amusing Apple makes such a big deal of adding a fingerprint reader to a laptop, I have had that for about a decade on all my Windows machines."

I think it's more than just the the fingerprint reader though, right? The secure enclave and integration with a payment system is pretty compelling as well, isn't it?

Granted, I'm not familiar with the fingerprint readers you've been using. Are they integrated into the machine? Do they have the equivalent of these secure enclave hardware?
I don't find the QA part that terrible, freeloaders are the kind of users that would pirate Windows, so rather than being a nuisance they're volunteering themselves to test the OS.

Although it would had been better if they kept their QA teams, since there are issues that only a QA engineer would be able to find.
One of my favorites is Alex MacCaw's site. It's cleanly designed and communicates his achievements clearly.

http://alexmaccaw.com/
And?

That's still not a reason to be secretive. In fact it was cited by the article as one of the great positives of salary openness: you got much more accurate feedback much more quickly which made it easier to make those tricker decisions.
And one saying which is relevant is "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
Or maybe a full-sized touch 'interface' where the entire keyboard used to be. Imagine if the entire bottom half of the laptop was one of those touch-pads with some kind of haptic feedback. You could dynamically have mouse, keyboard, contextually customized input the entire mirror of the screen itself. Input below, output above. A curious concept. If this little touch panel merged with the trackpad (a better placement for it in my mind), you'd have a pretty powerful input system.
You seem to have conflated fear of change with desire not to have useful functionality removed and replaced with functionality that might prove useful.

The touch strip is cool, but it suddenly means looking down at the keyboard to use it, and the loss of the tactile sensation of the keys. Maybe it's a net gain for some people. For me, it's at best 2 steps forward, 1 step back. It's a mixed blessing.
What's wrong with Apple's multi-monitor support? At least mixed-DPI configurations have worked fine on Mac for years, unlike with Windows.

Also: (1) USB tethering to an iPhone is just about the easiest cellular solution there is; (2) Google "Divvy"; (3) a big draw of the touchpad is that mousing doesn't take your hands that far off the keyboard; (4) real men and women use Terminal for file management.
You'd think so, but I know a lot of guys like this. They buy into the "lifestyle" of calm or spirituality and they become divas of sorts. Anything that ruins their calm becomes an issue. Like any hobby it becomes overpowering obsessive and competitive. Turns out meditation/religion/spirituality doesn't actually change human nature. Hell, read /r/meditation sometime and see the subtle poking they do at each other. Its hilarious to read comments with a very arrogant and commanding tone about how modest and ego free they are.

I think you're playing up a 'no true scotsman' card here. I think most, if not all, people into meditation and spirituality become like this. If this stuff worked like magic, everyone would be doing it. It turns out it has a lot of downsides and often changes people for the worse. Maybe in some 'spiritual' way they're better people, but they still need to work with the real world and they seem pretty terrible at it. The guys I see losing their shit in public aren't poor people with bad social skills, but upper/middle class men and women who felt their entitlements challenged. One of those entitlements is feeling 'chill' about things. The woman doing yoga and meditation everyday is also the woman screaming at the kid at subway for not putting on enough olives on her sandwich. I've pressed these people before and I usually get a "I can't deal with unspiritual people" excuse. Its incredible how the cult of calm brings out the worst of people. I'm not even going to go into how this lifestyle is linked with things like anti-vax, reiki healing, crazy diets, cleanses, homeopathy, etc and other questionable things that can, and do, victimize children.

I think the idea that all meditators, or even those who do it 'correctly', become some kind of super-being to be pretty silly. Its obvious the effect it has is pretty subtle and the kind of people who buy into it are often insufferable and pretentious. I think its okay to learn as a quick-ish stress reducer, but the idea of a daily hour-long practice and all the accoutrements surrounding it is fairly absurd and leads to pretty stupid places.
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I kept thinking this as well. Without tactile feedback its an awfully small area to work with.
+ NVIDIA GPU