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It's because they wanted to keep the same distance from the touchid on the right side. So in order to keep it nicely aligned they put it there (only assuming here).
Wouldn't that make it easier to hit with your finger? You'd have to stretch less.
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Monopoly can be forgiven. What's happening now cannot be forgiven.

Microsoft is more dangerous now, but it seems people just don't care. They use Windows despite having no assurance that Microsoft won't copy their data unbeknownst to them or spy on them in some way they don't realize or install some software they don't want. If this is better, give me 90's Microsoft anytime. At least they were just out for profits and domination then. I don't know what they're after now, but considering the revelations of the past few years and what this "operating system" does, the fact that they're making this information available to dangerous third parties is almost guaranteed.

The gullibility and stupidity of developers (like the author) is simply mind-boggling sometimes.
That's why we have automatic time trackers now... nobody manually tracks their time anymore when you have these:

https://wakatime.com/

https://www.rescuetime.com/

https://timingapp.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webtime-tracker/pp...
Imagine what they could have done with a touch screen instead... No need for special APIs or interfaces, just expose a button and people can click on it directly. Expose a slider and people can slide it! How innovative!
TBH the touch bar seems like a half-arsed response to everyone else getting touch screens. Swiping photos, swiping timelines ... would be more natural on your actual screen, and almost as natural just using the trackpad or mouse.
Not sure for how many people, mine is already remapped to Ctrl key
I find the OLED toolbar pretty interesting, and apparently well-implemented, but I am a little wary of how readily it recommends itself to a keyboard-based workflow. Most keyboards are designed such that I don't ever need to look away from my monitor. I just sort of think and my muscle memory does the work on the keyboard. Helpful affordances like physically distinguishable keys with different shapes, bumps on the homerow, and predictable, unchanging layout means that I can keep my eyes on the screen.

There are certain functionalities that might justify the cost of looking down (not to sound too melodramatic). But one of the examples that keeps cropping up is autocomplete. Which seems like a rather unnatural thing to put anywhere but the text it's completing. Wondering what else the expect to show up on this thing, in a location I currently don't really ever look at if I don't have to.
Not if you have dozens of years of muscle memory for it being all the way to the top left. And since it's not a button you can't go by feel.
Microsoft Ribbon on the HUD to Apple Touchbar on the Keyboard. I think this was a natural transition since it is more customizable and baked into more applications. The mobile/social UIs have created an opportunity for Apple to make a more modular interface that goes beyond the screen, or at least extends the screen onto the keyboard.

This also allows Apple to avoid making the primary screen a touchscreen since they ergonomics don't make sense with the current form factors. Also, by not making the entire keyboard surface touch it ensures the primary typing experience with haptic feedback stays intact.
I don't know what snapchat are doing these days, my friend circle stopped using it a while back. I mean it's probably relevant if it's all still images/videos that delete themselves.

How do they go about their adverts for the uninitiated?
> PS: Please do not reply with command prompt wrappers

Are you sure you've seen them all? Even the Linux ones? :) Try Xming (an X server for Windows). You can run just about any terminal emulator you want. I find Terminator to be quite nice.
They should have left at least two mechanical buttons in the OLED bar, one to the left and one to the right side for the ESC and Power button respectively, then put that bar in the middle between them. How will I know that the touch event in the virtual ESC key is being recognized? I suppose they considered the scenario when the computer freezes for whatever reason.

BTW, what is up with the empty space between the left-border of the OLED bar and the virtual ESC key? The space on the right side seems to be for the Touch ID sensor, but the one on the left side makes no sense. And that Trackpad, it seems so big, they will eventually make it full-wide and then include a tactile pencil so you can convert it into a drawing tablet.

It seems cool though, it's unfortunate that I cannot buy it (even when I have more than enough money to maximize its specifications), maybe in 2-3 years when the local shops refresh their stock I will be able to get my hands in that machine. I just hope that the RAM and CPU is powerful enough (aka. future proven) to justify the price in 2-3 years.

EDIT: BTW, how do I power-on and force-shutdown this computer?
Nope, it's not really linkable.
If you try it, it will say "This search session has expired. Please start a search session again by clicking on the TRADEMARK icon, if you wish to continue."

They include the session tokens in the URL, instead of reperforming the search as a new user or something.
Your left hand is inarguably taking, or helping take, more than your right hand is giving.
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Thanks. I'll go check that out when I get a break.
Eh. They're far enough from home row that I rarely use them in any case, and there are some intriguing possibilities in the touch bar that make it potentially a worthwhile change.

On the other hand, I'm a very late adopter, and will probably be using my current (late 2013) MBP for another three to five years, so it's not as though I'm going to have to worry about being the infantry here. By the time I get around to even considering the possibility of a purchase, it'll long since have been known whether or not the touch bar is a gimmick.
Maybe this is a good project for ArchiveTeam. Looking at some google searches, there looks to be about 100k PDFs to download from NXPs website. I'm sure the majority is data sheets and application notes.

I'd be willing to help download this data if there was an collaborative organized attempt to it.
Yes, thanks - I was responding to an anecdote which was a response to an anecdote as well. It's anecdotes all the way up!

Not sure what else we'll be able to find on HN...
I don't really get Imzy - it sounds like a more liberal Reddit with more censorship?

Censorship certainly makes HN better than Reddit, so no judgement there. I just don't understand the Imzy value proposition as a user.
Maybe robots.txt could have clauses that say whether to apply entries retroactively. True, domain parkers could enable it, but I don't think most would, since it's extra work for no benefit - the point is usually not to erase history but to protect current site.
The touch bar examples shown are a usability disaster. You're going to hide UI from the screen and make me keep looking at the keyboard to find functionality?

I stopped looking at the keyboard every 10 seconds when I learned how to touch type.

The presenter spent most of his time looking at the keyboard and not the screen.

This gimmick will disappear when Apple decides a touch screen is needed to complete the slow merge with iOS.
Twitter has another dedicated video app, Periscope.
4 USB-C ports. Kind of a bummer that I have to get a dongle to charge my iPhone SE with this thing.
I hate to burst your bubble, but outside of the major metros, there are few data science type jobs that are any good. It's an up-and-coming field, maybe--but as someone with a PhD and a lot of software development experience, making the transition has been tricky (am still working on it). It may be a good track or it may fizzle out, we'll see.

A few superstars will do well, the rest will be an urban myth of potential prosperity and happiness.
Are you aware of any boilerplate repos or examples that take this approach? Seemingly every example I've seen assumes Node is the backend.

After thinking about it for a second this could be because I've been looking at universal/isomorphic projects but I'd imagine you should be able to do rendering in Node and still have a completely separate API project.
Perhaps there is a business opportunity here, selling $9.99 USB-C Esc key dongles?
Same here. Caps is CTRL. so in tmux CTRL+a is right next to each other.

b.t.w on Happy Hacking keyboard that button is CONTROL by default.
I would think a seasoned meditator could handle very high stress situations just fine. If you're meditating just to lower stress, you're doing it wrong. It's supposed to change your relationship to your own thoughts and emotions, your sense of identity, etc, so that you don't shut down in the face of stress and pain. Stress and pain are a necessary part of life; your resistance to them is what causes your suffering. Basic meditation stuff.
The ZEV credits that Tesla receives, and sells on, aren't paid for by taxpayers - they're paid for by other automakers.

Ultimately, it comes out of the profits of whichever automakers aren't producing enough low-emission cars.
Their command window annoys the hell out of me as well. How many years did it take for them to get working tab complete by default? Another annoying thing is Notepad. Would it kill them to give it the ability to handle different line endings? It would probably take an intern one day to fix it. Nope, they are an island and screw the rest of the computing world.
Notice how this particular article is devoted to skepticism generally, rather than promoting a particular hypothesis.

It should be heartening that most science topics here are treated with this kind of Feynmanian attitude, always willing to accept contradictory evidence, always reluctant to draw strong conclusions.
This is a nice excuse to start using ctrl + [ rather than esc key. It is even better if you remap your caps lock key to ctrl. :)
Switch to Instagram or youtube probably. I'm wondering how much they were able to actually make given Vine was unmonitized so any money had to come from outside deals like brand deals.
What is an iPhone headset? How does it differ from other headsets?

Edit: thank you. Does that mean the female lightning connector would only be used for headphones? Yeah, talk about vendor lockin and connector deprecation.
It is beyond laughable? What exactly makes it laughable? Are you saying no consumer would want a customizable and context aware strip of buttons? Sure auto-suggested words might be useless for many of us who type exceptionally fast. But how about safari (or Chrome, or Firefox) navigation aware buttons? What about text formatting options? You can't think of any use for a context aware multi-touch haptic strip on the top of your keyboard?

I have spent the better part of the last number of years trying to keep my hands ON the keyboard and AWAY from the mouse. This will allow me to do that in interesting new ways. I actually hope they make a full size external keyboard with the same functionality.
Never used Vine app and the vine video don't render on my browser which has flash disabled. But having just read the features of vine app, I'm surprised Twitter decided to let this go. An app which allows creating and playing 6 second video in a loop would, IMO, have been a good fit for advertising content creators and Twitter could have used Vine as one core product in their advertising platform - after all advertising is what is considered as the primary way to make money from services like Twitter.
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The fact that the function keys aren't "customizable" is a feature, not a bug. The contextualization being touted as a selling point of the Touch Bar means that instead of relying on muscle memory to push a key that is always going to be in the same place, I will now have to look away from the screen to make sure I'm doing the right thing.
It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much higher, assuming people actually use the tipping feature.
What in Twitter's past makes you believe that b/c they are making this decision that it must be the right one? What decisions in their past instills this confidence?

I think Twitter is just failing hard right now and the shit has hit in the fan with investors. They are now on the "let's focus on our core product" phase of failing and hey, maybe it'll work, but that doesn't mean Vine is worthless.
Very good post. My tip would be you should learn like Jimmy Hendrix did, and many others: turn on your radio/spotify/tidal/whatever and try to play along on any instrument you can find. Just finding the one note that sounds like the song's resolution will teach you what you need to know about the tonic, then try to catch bits of melody. 10 years of a bit of this every day and you're golden
Clearly we need a USB-ESC standard.
The problem for manual deletion via human intervention is that if you do it outside of robots.txt you then need to ensure the identity of the owner, which makes it much more complicated and costly.
Indeed, GPUs (and Optimus and similar tech) are sometimes a pain point with Linux. Of course, this isn't a problem at the office, so my lowly Thinkpad works great and I don't have to worry about videogames :)

At home, I've been using Linux exclusively for more than a decade now and I also use it for gaming. I had an HP Envy laptop with a Radeon GPU and it mostly worked, though there were glitches in some games. Recently it broke down so I bought a Lenovo Ideapad with an Nvidia GPU -- I know Nvidia is problematic on Linux, so I'll let you know how it goes ;)
But how else will they break the illusive 10 unique visits in a month?

Seriously though, these threads always end up the same unfortunately. There are 3-4 submissions that match the question, 6-12 that don't actually answer the question but are interesting nonetheless (e.g. someone's very well done and interesting resume/CV website), and 30+ people spamming their own poorly made or cookie cutter site with no useful information.
On my laptop, I already use Karabiner to make Caps Lock function as Control if used as a modifier key, and ESC if just tapped. Much easier to reach, works for both Emacs and Vim keybindings, only issue is that sometimes you hit ESC by accident if you start doing a chord but then decide against it. I personally think this is a better solution than a soft key for escape, but it may not be to everyone's taste.
Me too. I loved it. I could not think of a better way I could have spent my 20s. But I was going broke and had to get out.
I've known people (with PhDs) who worked for Goldman Sachs. They considered the work-life balance to be much better than academia (and some industry). Co-signed on the rest, though.
Your point? That's more than 40 years ago. The Unionist movement in the rest of the US is essentially dead (outside of government).
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Not odd at all. Greenpeace attacks Apple for using the same environmentally-unfriendly materials that everyone else uses... because Apple is popular. The subsidy-for-Tesla narrative is driven by folks who either don't like the government, don't think climate change exists, or don't like the hype around Elon/Tesla.
I've been fighting ads since the "punch the monkey" days of the web. Advertisers have progressively gotten worse over time. I have seen very few attempts to self-moderate their aggressiveness. Instead, they track us around the web and sell our data, and sometimes infect our machines with malware. Because of this, I aggressively block ads. They had their chance and they dropped the ball, and have no intentions of picking it back up again.

I don't want a service that blocks ads for a price. I want a service without ads. If websites can't find a way to sustain themselves without ads, then they can die off for all I care. I can live without the content harvesters and the news reposters and all the other extraneous fluff out there. There will still be companies that sell services and advertise their own stuff on their websites, and there will still be people that pay for their own web hosting to put up content they are interested in.

If the pushback against ads becomes extreme, there will still be a web after natural selection has finished running amok.

I stopped using free web email, as one example, because of the ads. I now pay for email services from a company that does not run ads and does not track me around the web. There is no free version with ads. This is what I'm after.

I wouldn't mind something like CoinTent after the die-off though. Paying money in one place that would be distributed as I see fit adds value for me. I don't want to be followed around the web though, that's a deal-breaker. Let me select the websites my revenue goes to and with what weightings. Sites that impress me will get added, sites that disappoint me won't. Also, let me determine how much I wish to give. Do this for websites that don't post ads, and you've got a winner for me. I will gladly pay for a useful web, and advertisers can go extinct for all I care.
I would eventually like to look into a CSS JIT. But I would not like to just copy WebKit—I would like to look into treating CSS as a global DFA and compiling accordingly instead of looking at local optimizations only.

As always, the problem with JITs, especially on the Web, that it's hard to beat the interpreter when you take compilation time into account, and most selectors you see in the wild only apply to a small number of nodes.
They aren't buttons, it's a touch screen. Meaning: fuck blind people and touch typists.
> Other than the escape button is only available contextually, and has moved?

what's the problem with "if context == vim -> show ESC". And that was at the far left as it has always been.

> Other companies have tried it

Tell that to Blackberry, or those Microsoft tablets.

> Here's a thought: instead of removing keys for a touchbar, why not make the screen touchable?

That would actually feel pretty useless. I'd always have my hands closer to the mouse or touchpad, and it feels really awkward to reach out to the screen.
Yeah, I thought the same thing (specially since 95% of the time I'm using my laptop, I actually have it closed, hooked up to a screen and with external keyboard and mouse). But I guess this will be useful for most casual users, since they often look down to their keyboards (and to be honest, the keyboard and the screen aren't that far apart in a laptop) and who don't usually use/know hotkeys for common actions they perform, and which now they'll have access to through the touch bar. But for most developers, yeah this seems like a gimmick. And yes, Touch ID is sweet. That 3 second payment demo was great.
Can't you do that on the rest of the Internet with Bitcoin?

Why would I want to do that anyway?
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This is key. It was funny, I was watching Adam Conover's "Election Special" this week, and the big point at the end it came down to was that partisanship was making us dumber. Largely, because of cognitive bias. And my first thought that is was true of our allegiances to tech companies, product stacks, etc. as well.

We need options, we need to be willing to find the good and bad in each company or product we use. And we need to put ourselves in a position where we can easily switch as advantageous.
Lightning connector, since the iPhone 7 has no headphone jack.
From what I can tell they didn't ignore it they just don't think it is a bug.
As someone who is probably guilty of ignoring most psychology articles due to doubts about psychology research, I think this article is an interesting step forward for popular psychology. This categorization of biases is something I can use both for myself and when I try to help others. This article is unlikely to lead to debates about research methods and statistics because it's very high level and presents few opinions.

Incidentally, I noticed these cognitive biases probably apply equally well to strong AI (artificial intelligence). No matter how powerful an AI is, it's always going to lack some information, it will take time to calculate things, it will lack experience, and it will not have enough memory capacity to remember every detail. Strong AI will probably have to learn to use cognitive biases.
You are making the assumption that they care about sophisticated users, and I can't see any evidence that they have for quite a while.
Do apps have to be changed to use the OLED bar or does it work automagically.
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I think oh_sigh might have meant to say "the rate of extremely principled individuals seems higher in geeks vs non-geeks" -- which I think is true, even if the average rate of principledness is around the same for both groups.

So I'd like to add to your rebuttal that extremely principled people are also capable of awful actions. All it takes is a good theory.
> a disproportionate number of the targets of censorship on Twitter are of a certain political influence.

Yeah see I don't worry so much about this. I purposely follow people with whom I disagree (but who are well spoken) on Twitter to avoid ending up in an echo chamber. So I don't disagree with you about quashing diversity; the last thing I need in my life is to preach to the choir.

But the fact remains that, 1st Amendment or not, you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater and then plead "but, but, my rights!" to evade responsibility. Credible threats are assault (look it up, it's in every state's legal code). I would not be surprised if doxxing was found to fall under similar statutes by an enlightened judge if done with malice aforethought.

Furthermore, an individual's rights to free expression do not include a right to make Twitter spend money or lose opportunities due to their chosen expressions. Twitter != the government. If push comes to shove, their self-preservation must take precedence (legally, since they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders as a public company).

It's a chestnut, to be sure, but freedom of the press applies to those who own a printing press. Until and unless Twitter is nationalized (heaven forfend), they're restricted (at worst) by common carrier provisions. They can do a good job if it's in the best interests of their shareholders (and recent events suggest that may be the case). It's really an issue of how (how to maximize shareholder value, how to improve public perception, how not to drive away ads...).
Did you watch him typing an email and clicking the 'auto-suggested' words that were showing up?

I do concede that there are some good uses for it though.

When your hands are on the keyboard are you looking down at them to see where you are typing? Now you are going to take your eyes off the screen and see if the touch bar has something useful for you. I would imagine you are going to keep using the same keyboard shortcuts that you have used for years.

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Reminded me this keyboard, made by Russian designer Lebedev many years ago http://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/popularis/
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