skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> these new Macs seem to have gained an average of $200 over the preceding models of the same size. What makes Apple think they can get away with that? Apple can get away with that because it always has gotten away with it.

> So, inflation has gone up 10.7 percent since 2010, which is just over $200 on a $2000 laptop.

> http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

> Seems like a bogus assumption to suggest that Apple is "getting away" with something. What comparable companies with comparable products have left their prices untouched since 2010? The Big Mac went up more than 20% since 2010.

You're looking at the wrong data. The price index for personal computers and peripherals has decreased from 7.0 to 4.2 over that same period. Using the price index as a guide, a $2000 laptop in 2010 would be priced at $1200 today.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/long-term-price-trends-for-...
Hacker News Dataset Update October 2016
They only get bashed if you hang around /r/linux. That place is toxic sometimes.
For those of you who like latex output but find learning it daunting, give emacs org mode a try, as it can export to latex easily, and you can always break into actual latex inside org if you are doing something more complicated.
Team productivity
I noticed the Hacker News dataset that was published to big query was now a year out of date.

I have created an updated copy and made it available for download.

(This is the last 10MM entries, I can add the rest if people are interested.)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-helps-nsa-access-skype-ou...
"Successful entrepreneurship is like a lottery"

I disagree with this statement. If you want a company that makes a billion dollars, your chances are very slim. I'm on my fifth company and my current one makes over six figures (a few million in revenue).

All of my friends have gone through many hardships over the last 5 years because they worked at other companies that downsized and they were let go. My career has been pretty stable with my own company.

"If it's for passion, ask them to do it as side hobby/business."

This will ensure that it stays a side-business. Most people don't really have the time to work 9-5 (and many times longer than this) and then run a company full-time. Especially if they have a significant other.

I tried many times to start a company and inevitably failed. Mostly because I couldn't really focus on it with a full-time job. If you really want to start a business, I would recommend saving 6 months to a year of your current salary and quitting. But make sure you actually have a real plan to make money. Market testing is a must.

What I've noticed is that there just aren't that many people out there that are willing to sacrifice their time or are passionate enough to stick with a business long enough for it to succeed.

Before my successful company, I tried multiple times to partner with friends that I thought would be a good fit for a business partner. They all failed within the first year. I would end up doing 99% of the work and my business partner would either do the least-possible amount of work or it would devolve into me being the manager/boss where I had to assign them work (which I really don't want to do). One person just didn't want to give up his drinking/partying time with his other friends.

There is this myth on HN that running a business/startup is glamorous and fun. Many people want to start a company because they like this glamorized idea of running a startup and think it's cool. They usually are slapped in the face with reality pretty quickly.

I never started a company for the money, it was always for the freedom. But what I've come to realize is that money is freedom. The more you have, the less control others have over your path in life.
Thank you for the comment. It's rare to find reasonable responses in AAPL vs MSFT discussions lately.
I would pay a pretty premium for a 4K display, no graphics card, big battery, ~15" diagonal.

Companies seem to think that if you want a 4K you also want Performance. No, seriously I just want this as a glorified text editor. Give me screen resolution, and give me battery life. I'll pay more if you leave out the GPU because then it'll be lighter and draw less power.
Large publishers like EA and Ubisoft always operated differently compared to other companies. Smaller companies usually just hire contractors or use 3rd party companies to work on their projects since they can't afford to employ someone to work on concept art, audio or voice over full time.

Large publishers able to keep employees even if they have months between different projects. Still they move people around their subsidiaries and projects a lot since in game development most of staff only work on certain part of project for limited time.

So closing isn't always mean someone was fired at all and in same time any acquired studio might be soon only exist on paper since all people might be working in different studios on different projects.
You would need a significant number of images for a particular scene (more than Google Street View would provide -- maybe in the tens or hundreds depending on the complexity -- but perhaps mining Google Maps photo uploads for a particular location would suffice). A Google Image search for a particular landmark is likely to yield better results ([1], [2], [3]). Also, stitching together multiple scenes after reconstructing each individual scene may prove difficult. Apple Maps does a sort of satellite view projection on to 3D building models ([4]), but this is far from a dense reconstruction.

[1]http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse/

[2]http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse3d/

[3]https://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/

[4]http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9413583/apple-maps-3d-flyo...
Linear: n * x^1

Quadratic: n * x^2

Exponential: x^n

In all cases, x is assumed to be a variable, and n should be assumed to be a constant > 1.

If you pick the same value for n and put these functions into El goog, the answer should become fairly clear.
Imagine Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook or Nadella sending an email like this.

This is purely about monopoly maintenance. Google has everything to lose if Clinton appoints enforcement-oriented antitrust officials. Also relevant:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transf...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-o...
This contradicts many years of my personal experience, and that of everyone I know. Yamamoto Mitsuharu's Emacs OSX port is by far better than mainline. And seriously, X on OSX? That's just insane.
While I'm a US worker, I managed a team in Bulgaria. Initially I synchronized via email, chat with each team mate. Met once a month for architectural review over video.

Management hoisted that we had to do stand ups over video chat daily. It was done 9PM EST, and 5AM their time. The time was picked to match my managers PST schedule. There was also the weekly backlog grooming, biweekly poker plannning, etc.

Working with that team, a European Sales team and on site European vendors. The two things I've seen is our meeting culture grates on them. Secondly my American team mates, I don't want to say looked down. But consistently commented, on lack of devotion and effort of other counterparts.
My random internet advice is to build a web version first because:

1. You're going to build a website for a mobile app anyway.

2. It is easier to iterate than anything that has a dependency on an app store.

3. It minimally works for everyone.

4. The users are your users, not Apple's or Google's. You can talk to them directly. You can update them directly. You can market your app to them directly.

5. When someone lands on your app's page, they can try it out immediately. No going to the app store. No reading reviews. No looking at competing apps. No dealing with iTunes. No waiting while it downloads. No looking for the icon. No nothing. Everyone of those points is a place where the pure gold of a person landing on your page can drop out of the funnel. When someone drops out of the funnel for an app, there's nothing to bring them back. For a brick and mortar store, the physical reality can. For an ecommerce site, a new transactional need can.

Regarding market use, a shop specializing in iOS is likely to land work where iOS use is prevalent because iOS use tends to correlate to market segmentation and company's serving a demographic more likely to own iPhones are more likely to hire professional iOS developers in particular and professional app developers in general.

Anyway, the reason that I'm giving feedback on your 'business model' rather than app function is because I don't want another damn app on my phone in general, and I don't own an iPhone in particular. So when I went to the web page, it took me five seconds to decide "Not for Me." It doesn't matter how many features get added or how much is spent on marketing, or how many users are near me, the app is useless because of a design decision about non-core
functionality. And by 'functionality' I also include functionality in terms of the business behind the app getting users and possibly making money.

Good luck.
This was thrown together last night when I could not sleep.

You can filter it yourself with a 'Temporary Filter' in the toolbar.

Notes:

* I've referenced CPUMarks from http://www.cpubenchmark.com

* I've referenced GPU floating-point from Wikipedia

* I chose Rec2020 as a colour gamut to compare against because it encompasses all the others, which DCI-P3 does not.

* Colour accuracy conversion is a very basic conversion from whatever gamut information I could find. It is not a perfect Rec2020<>xRGB conversion but accurate enough for the purpose

* Colour grading is based on what I feel are sensible expections

I was mostly interested in display colour accuracy, as I want to take my photography further, and don't really care for aesthetics.

EDIT: Oops, no markdown!
>I honestly don't think that the headphone jack will ever go away.

regardless of the claim, you are just setting yourself up for failure when you make unbound claims like that, nothing lasts forever.
I can, and so can women.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
I called Apple (both personal and business divisions) and you can not buy the old model with dGPU any more unless you buy refurb. The only 2015 available is the base model with Intel integrated graphics.
Windows 10 is really nice. Built a csgo machine and it just is a smooth OS. It's that happy seamless widnows xp vibe all over again, but prettier.
What, specifically, are you using your ESC key for? (Not a challenge, just curiosity.)
That would be fine if the components actually were expensive. Most people would avoid lining the pockets of the executives with their hard earned money if they had a choice.
That was a pretty effective comment Thiel just made: "I think the press never takes Trump seriously, but they do take him literally, whereas his supporters take him seriously, but not always literally."
If your CTO is about to leave... somebody will have to materialize somehow what the CEO sells.

I think CTO job (technology) can be replicated with sufficient resources ( time, money, and effort) but I am not sure it your company has enough {time,money} to make it happen.

The same could be said for a CEO; but my intuition (which could be wrong) is that for a startup a CEO is easier to replace than a CTO.
I'm not sure this applies. Your particular idea may only be successful at the right time and place. But for any arbitrary time and place, there most likely exists a set of potentially successful ideas that you could execute on.
Thunderbolt 3 has a huge bandwidth, which enables external GPU solutions like the Razer Core.
For gamers who want the flexibility between size and performance, this is great news. How the Eve V will fare with eGPUs, is yet to be seen.
This is cool! Though, it still leaves me with my biggest problem: I have no idea how to efficiently draw the diagrams in the first place. Ascii diagrams are not easy to draw (for me, atleast).

The best i've seen is a GUI tool that creates the diagrams. That tool really is awesome (https://monodraw.helftone.com/), but it's a GUI tool and frankly supports complexity/features far greater than i really need most of the time.

I'd love a project that took some type of simple text based flow notation, and converted it to ascii flow diagrams. Eg:

main: something -> other thing -> [ thing a, thing b, thing c]
thing a: thing a -> thing b
thing c: thing c -> thing b

In this mockup, my desired tool would take this simple non-artistic notation and convert it to a flow diagram showing a `something` object leading into an `other thing` object, which branches to three objects called `thing a`, `thing b`, and `thing c`. Each of those have their own flows as well, as noted by their own respective definitions. `thing a` leads over to `thing b`, `thing c` to `thing b`, and `thing b` doesn't actually do anything.

I love ascii diagrams, but i never want to construct them by hand. Writing them out in some simple notation like above would be awesome! Also note that i'm not expecting this to be insanely feature packed.. it sort of defeats the purpose of a simple notation. But being able to just construct them quickly as a starting point would be awesome. Advanced tools like Monodraw can take the complicated work.
Not SF, but I recall True Crime: Streets of LA using a true to life map of Los Angeles.
It's the monthly updates. Also it is AppleOS :P
A snapshot of comments from the chat:

"Hillary's only claim to fame is she is the only woman not to suck Bill's cock. "

"god this interviewer. CUCKED"

"FBI Stumbled onto Huma's INS Policy to keep her from being Vince Fostered... 53 dead around hillary makes the mob look like Pikers."

"Liberals think Taxes are more important than Hillary Butchering People!!!! Really?! Wake up peeps"

"Wikileaks will ultimately put the Clintons in prison and will hopefully allow President Trump to prosecute the entire Obama administration past and present!"
Wonder why Luke Muehlhauser is interested.
Of course, but I still think it's important to remind people that functions need not be pure to invoke the benefits of functional programming.

The article in question acts like it is a big surprise gotcha that functional programs have imperative elements. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and in fact it's a feature! The accessibility of that feature is often a major component of what languages are judged on.

This isn't a point of semantics, it's definitely the case that we use functional techniques in an imperative paradigm to great success.
In a sense, Civ 3 seemed more detail oriented in some aspects to me. For example how you could tell which "age" other players were in by the characters clothing, the art style seemed a little bit better suited for the game, the city zoom UI was in my opinion more clear, the diplomacy UI was more clear, etc. So yes, I am happy to see like-minded Civ players.

Now, I think with Civ 4 they tried to emphasize online play a bit... which to be fair, is not a bad motivation to have. The only problem is that emphasizing online play will impact offline play.
Ah good old teeth. Not really engineered for the 21st century are they? Nothing quite like the first few implants, maybe your first flipper, and some force fed dental education to stoke the fires of regret :)
Having also used Eclipse, I strongly disagree about its superiority; If it is popular, then I believe that is explained by its price and the self-sustaining property of ubiquity.

I myself found Eclipse cumbersome and lacking in capacity. I do respect others' preference for it, but it cannot be said to be objectively superior.
> What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake.

Really? No one remembers the very public apology from Tim Cook about their Maps roll out?

http://www.apple.com/ca/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/
Peter Thiel: 'What Trump represents isn't crazy and it's not going away'
Java ThreadLocalRandom Explained
Check out some pre made examples to learn more about Scenarios and play around with them. If you already have a Stoplight account, you will need to log out.

https://app.stoplight.io/scenarios
That's hilarious. "Corner the market in screenwriters". As if Hollywood isn't better at fighting dirty in that kind of environment than most other businesses.

Trying to produce a vertically integrated lock-in based system where you can only watch the latest shows on a multi-thousand dollar computer is also going to go down very badly with the public.
Okay, let's address the substance of what you said. Which subpar Chevy did they pull the battery and drivetrain out of? Because the 230 mile electric platform is the interesting part of the car.
I'd never heard of the Apple III.

My question was where it fitted in Jobs 86 departure from apple.
HTTP Strings Processing Using C, SSE4.2 and AVX2
Literally posting one of the first google results so I cannot guarantee accuracy.

"The gasoline-powered generators produce at best 6.13 kilowatt-hours per gallon of fuel, at worst 4.42, and a median of 5.7." [1]

So it sounds like it's ~5x as efficient as a gas generator.
[1]https://settysoutham.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/portable-gener...
>But I know from experience that trying to read a text with long run-on sentences or with obnoxious grammatical features (like an overuse of subordinate clauses) can feel like pure suffering.

It seems to me that until the 20th century, this was considered the "fashionable" and proper way to write. Most of the intellectuals of the time seemed to write this way. I wonder why?
Great timing on GM's part to eat at the majority share of the EV market dominated by the Leaf.
YouTube normally keeps a recording of the stream available after it's finished.
> A 10.2-inch touchscreen is standard equipment, but a navigation system isn’t offered. Instead, you’ll have to rely on a connected phone to pull up Android Auto or Apple CarPlay.

Hallelujah! I really hope the rest of the manufacturers and their car lines come around to this model. I know they make more $$ on their $2000 nav packages, but people are rejecting them in droves because they are horrible and need to be updated through clunky, often expensive processes.
yes and that is not new.

try this: enable airplane mode and then open any app that has system permission to change gps or Bluetooth or wifi settings. it will enable those radio and the ui will still show the little airplane there.
> On the other hand, people have been saying that for last few decades, and the bad news hasn't had much impact.

People are really bad at understanding nonlinear effects. For any kind of supra-linear system, "nothing" happens for a relatively long time, then "all the sudden" effects start piling up and people who say the above claim it's completely unexpected, out of the blue.
This is stunning. And surprisingly beautiful.
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If you spent your times running marathons in your 20s and 30s, you'd have a good chance of being in for a total hip / knee replacements in your 40s. Swings and roundabouts!
That's 375 km for the rest of the world.

Anyway, how quick does it charge, either to full or 50 or 80%?
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't just Google it! I'd still be interested to know whether this has found any commercial applications. It seems to be an idea with so much potential.

I guess it might be too expensive for "fun" applications.
Trivial one time effort isn't a problem in comparison with potential sales.

If 20,000 already requested a game on GOG which they sell for around $10-$15, you'll get way more than $5,000. How much sales that would be can of course vary from game to game, but I don't think Bioshock games are in trouble of not being bought.
WebAssembly Official Website
What's special in their design? It's standard Windows tablet with attachable keyboard.
Forstall got canned for the Maps fiasco. Which, by the way, Apple did apologize for, in a public letter from Tim Cook.
What an inspirational group of people.
I hate that it's impossible to see a full tree of replies to a certain tweet in reddit(HN)-like form. Maybe there's an app for that?
Beyond cryptocurrency: How this Company uses blockchain for simpler contracts
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817332
Sort of expected a better interview when I heard "The National Press Club". This is mostly "What do you think about x? I think this and that" read from notes.
Ask HN: Which Mac do Apple employees use?
There has been a lot of talk recently about Apple abandoning the desktop market, or at least the professional desktop market. Im wondering if someone can comment about which machines are used by Apple employees to do their job at Apple.

Are Apple's own programmers using 3 year old Mac Pros?
Let me reiterate Thiel's quote, which I think perfectly describes this situation: "The media always takes him literally, but never seriously. I think his supporters take him seriously, but never literally."

Most of Trump's HIGH ENERGY comes from him and his supporters saying over-exaggerated things. Everyone who supports him understands that these things are over the top, but they agree with the basic sentiment behind them.

Most people who dislike Trump, however, take everything he and his supporters say literally. This is a mistake.
EV are only viable for those who own their own homes. Many electric vehicles have been adequate for my needs, but I continue to drive a car with an internal combustion engine because I can always buy gas.

My apartment building has two EV charging stations (always taken) and my work has 9 (always taken).

I don't think vehicle technology or execution has been the limiting factor for a while.
Isn't he saying that the welfare programs have effectively subverted democracy by locking certain people (and women especially) into a certain constituency group, which once locked, are extremely difficult to escape (and those people's vote are extremely easy to manipulate)?
Where Friendship Goes to Die: Turkey's Razed Statue of Humanity
No, I used the windows binaries during evaluation.
> Many people overpay for Apple products because they want to look as real professionals.

Just stop right there, OK?

Look back through my comments and you can see I've made this point a few times, but I'll make it again just for you. Mac laptops are sturdy, well made devices. My workstation provided by work is a lenovo W series laptop. I can push the bottom screen bezel and it flexes a full half inch. The plastic above the keyboard flexes also. The trackpad is meh (and TINY!). For the price (which at the time of purchase was not really inexpensive), it is cheap plastic crap.

My rMBP is solid. Feels wonderful to type on. The screen hinge stays put and doesn't shimmy. The keyboard feel solid with no flex. It's worth the price, especially compared to a lot of the junk that's out there today.
Phone markets aren't really about features; Android phones already out-feature (although not out-perform) iPhones all over the place. It's the usability and image that Apple sells on. And Apple believe - sometimes correctly - that removing features improves usability. Or at least keeping them coherent.
If you're not ready to make the jump, the Volt gets to play electric car for most journeys, kicking over to being a fuel efficient hybrid for long ones. The Gen 1 is cheap right now, and gets around 42 electric miles in the summer, 35 in the winter. The newer ones have increased range.
which doesn't make it right in any way - caring only about "me", "now", and not "us" and "tomorrow"

Or in other words - it explains it, but doesn't justify it. We as mankind can do better
YouTube comments are terrible. What's your point?