skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first link provides supporting evidence of my statement that "women get responded to differently here and report that it is problematic" as that post starts with the following:

A woman posting under a throw-away account explained why she does not post as openly female on Hacker News. In part, she said:

Whenever a female posts, you put away the boxing gloves and take out the kid skin gloves.

And it provides a link to the source material where that was said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828289

The other link provides the raw data I dug up concerning "prominent" female names and how their karma compares to that of "prominent" male names. The difference is quite stark and dramatic.

I did not say you made any statements that were off-putting. I said your behavior is off-putting. I presented a cogent argument backed up by firsthand testimony ("women are treated differently here -- I am a woman and here is a link to another woman testifying as to her experiences") and raw data and you continue to insist that it is simply not so without in any way addressing the substantive evidence provided to you.

It's pretty crazy making stuff and it happens to women enough that we have terms like 'mansplaining' to express the tendency of men to completely ignore all evidence and tell us what we (women) are supposed to think about our lives or something.
The model with the touchbar also has a faster CPU, I guess some of the price difference is due to that.
So they're still selling plenty? That's not exactly "nobody" then, is it?

Most people don't buy pickup trucks, but 1) people who buy them need them, and 2) it's a profitable market segment.
Believe it or not, but this is exactly what the Chinese government mandates. It's known as China shifting[0], and can cause quite a lot of headaches.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d...
I'm sorry I triggered you.

I think that, if the purpose of the popup is to inform me about CoinTent, then can it be anything other than an ad?

If the goal was to solve a problem, then CoinTent would be only the paywall, since ad blockers are already prolific.
Only landline phones have that kind of protection.
am I missing something? the demo clearly showed an esc key configured on the touchbar. I could care less about removing the ports.
Didn't know they produced a developer edition. What languages do you work with? Are you mostly .NET?
Exactly! Call it ego, entitlement or narcissism.
Ah I see. Yeah, I don't do any video or CGI.
I agree with your anecdotes, but I think it's not because tech is less transparent but because most developers have no mind for career or salary optimization and treat their jobs like games rather than business propositions.
That is great to hear. Your app resolves what I was going to leave as feedback.
1) Not everyone is in a city. I'm in an area where a 1km in any direction might not get you anyone. Some areas 2km circle might get a handful of neighbors, but none of them are likely to have the app too.
2) When the app is new, what are they chances that anyone nearby has it?

By increasing the range until there is activity, it gives it a way to get off the ground and a way for it to work for people who aren't packed in a city.
The estimated statistic I've heard is that if you eliminated all causes of death related to aging and age-related degeneration, the average life expectancy would be right around 1000.

Which, more importantly, means 930 or so more years to figure out the next solution after that. See also "longevity escape velocity", for how we can incrementally get to 1000 in the first place.
Yea I tried to disable the CF stuff, but I'm not sure which setting I'm forgetting.

Yea, I'm thinking about dropping the font so it loads even faster. I do like it, but I can always just specify it as a font to use if it's there.

I'm gonna see how much I can inline to speed it up, but I'm not sure how manageable that'll be with Hugo. I guess I'll just try that in a branch for now.
Dear Microsoft, let's open source Age of Empires II
Any idea why? Do they need Congress to do that (or give them the power to do it)? Or are these FCC politics.
One key difference here is that this keeps Servo open to continuing to be a research vehicle for new technologies without the exposure of compatibility for millions of users. If we ship Servo in a product that does change the equation a bit.
I would encourage you to watch the Defcon 18 talk by Moxie Marlinspike, called "Changing threats to privacy". It explains why "simply don't participate in X" is not really a valid option.

Here's the link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
Which ports do you currently use? On my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), I use the MagSafe and either a USB port for charging/syncing a phone or the ThunderBolt display. If I'm plugged into a display, I'm using USB ports on the display for charging.

If I were using additional peripherals, I think I'd most likely be using those when I'm also connected to a display, so I can use the ports on the display for those as well. That said, for the target market, I don't think it's unreasonable to think they likely need only two ports the vast majority of the time.

I'm not saying you don't have a use for more than two ports. Just that "two ports only is a joke" sounds quite dismissive without any additional details.
My home laptop is the last white Macbook (mid 2009 I think?) and I was really looking forward to this announcement, but unfortunately it was a huge disappointment. Higher price, made even higher because of the adapters you will need to buy to keep your stuff working with USB-C, lack of normal USB, lack of HDMI, lack of magsafe, lack of F-row plus the new Macbook keyboard which personally I hate.

So the way I see it, there are two options:

Go to an Apple store and get the previous model with all specs maxed out or find another decent alternative. Ideas?
Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but in my use of touch on a vertically oriented screen, it hasn't been negative at all.

There's something to be said about being able to use two fingers to directly manipulate a window's contents to zoom an image or vector diagram in an app to get to the precise size versus futzing around with control + or control - using the app's preset increments.
They did not break it out. Speculation: They paused it because they are going down the intersection.com route instead using the Link brand (LinkNYC and LinkUK) - much eaiser way to bypass regulators but still get access to the built world.
> The burden of parenthood doesn't always fall solely on mom.

I know. I'm only saying that this is what the article says.

This article appears to attempt to make employees cater to moms, but I'm saying it's failing catastrophically.
Hacksplaining: Comprehensive security training for developers
c++ on linux or on mac or windows.

I checked the website, it seems that the developer edition is only 13 inch?

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

the 15 inch one is not a xps.
Spoiler alert, dude!
How come none of the wealthy has tried the trick of getting blood transfusions from young people?

That seemed to have a lot of hype behind it not too long ago.
One solution is to store the token in localStorage, which supports events.

You can listen for localStorage changes in all your tabs. When it changes, force a page reload or similar.

Edit: typos
And a big price rise too.

Now that ssds in macbooks are not user replaceable -- you have to buy as much disk as you want for 3 years all up front -- it's nearly $3k for the cheapest 15 inch macbook not even including applecare for 3 years. Ouch.
To further quote South Park: "Everything was already done even before the Simpsons. In fact that was just a rip off of an old Twilight Zone episode". (I'm not sure if it really was, but sounds plausable!)
I read a 'Last Man on Earth' short story in an SF anthology with, essentially, this premise. At the end of the story, the exhausted person dies while sitting on the edge of the sea... only to seed the next round of life from all of the lifeforms and organic materials contained therein. Creepy, heady stuff for a preteen. This was the 70's, so the idea has been around awhile.
How did you do that??? That's amazingly accurate!
Cutting like this creates an environment of paranoia and completely destroys morale.

Data gathered from acquaintances who have worked at GS suggest that, unless you fit a certain "mold"... paranoia and various forms of psychic collateral damage basically come with the air you breathe, in that shop. So the atmosphere of suspicion you describe is already part of your "environment".
I know exactly what you mean. It's that process where an idea just forms, wordlessly, and you just "know" it now. Sometimes I start narrating it to myself, but then stop mid-way, realizing it's pointless, since I already know it.
There is no need for any sort of future law, that data is open to law enforcement already. That is the fundamental problem in all of this: decade old court decisions that determined you have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in data you shared with a company.

AT&T turned this into a product:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-27/us-taxpayers-pay-at...

That may have been a useful policy in a time where you yourself could decide what data you shared, now that devices share data on your behalf that can be stored forever, aggregated, analyzed and what not it is clearly no longer acceptable. We desperately need a whitelist approach to companies storing and handling cleartext user- and metadata.
> nobody uses desktops anymore

?? What profession doesn't use -- doesn't absolutely rely on desktop PCs??
It is a mean to return money to shareholders. The reason it is used over paying dividends is tax optimization. If you pay out the dividend, the shareholders need to pay income tax. If you do stock buyback, the shareholders need to pay capital gains tax, which is deferred until sale, and can even be offset by losses incurred on other capital holdings.
> Granted, i feel like this could be tweaked as it is simply a mechanic to attempt to reduce leeching on the network.

How do you propose tweaking it without either publishing a directory of all the kiddy porn on IPFS or creating a bottleneck which incidentally is ideal for tracking and surveillance?

> How do you know if that link to a pdf from a friend contains kiddy porn?

You don't, but at least your browser won't shout out to the world: "Hey, everybody! This guy is downloading kiddy porn! IPFS does that and to add insult to injury then automatically goes on to seed it.

On the web you also have a sense of where you are. With IPFS you don't, it's all a bunch of hashes. There is no there there. There are no clues to tell you that you are in a seedy neighborhood. Everything is just available, one hash away, from kiddy porn to fine art. That makes navigating IPFSpace such a minefield, the next hash could take you anywhere.

> I'm really lost on how this is any different than HTTP/BitTorrent/etc.

Let me recap:

- BitSwap

- metadata leakage

- automatic seeding

- opacity and lack of control

> Again, stay away from random hashes just like you stay away from sketchy torrents and random http files.

How? Is there some kind of sniff test I don't know about?
Great, another mac-only prototyping tool.
So you believe that by singling out women we may be adding to the problem because we are reinforcing the culture of treating people differently instead of judging them equally? That's a really fair point; it's exactly why I'm uncomfortable with policy solutions like affirmative action because I think they fight discrimination with discrimination.

This is exactly the type of discussion I'd like to have more of on Hacker News, I'm just making a broader call for us to do better as a community (and try to read the article if you are going to comment).
So there was the implicit threat that if you didn't join, you wouldn't be eligible for raises? Also, how could you enforce them not seeing the list? It's illegal for an employer to deter the discussion of compensation amongst employees.
I really do not understand the attraction to it. It makes things harder to read and understand. It can destroy terminal formatting. They're harder to type on physical keyboards.

I don't often use emoji unironically in my personal life, but in computing tools it should be anathema.
Except that Esc enters normal mode. But equating Siri with "normal mode" is an even more eerie proposition about where Apple wants to take us.
This looks great! I love the cleanliness of it, as well as the consistent design language and the buttons.
That sounds interesting, do you have a link?
Studies show that it's true for the broad population, too. More screen real estate and faster processing directly and significantly impacts focus and working memory.

Perhaps your employees aren't perfectly rational actors whose incentive is to maximize the utility of their tools while at the office?

For example, there seems to be correlation between 1) wanting to keep git work local to a workstation and not push anywhere with public visibility, and 2) wanting to use a laptop so you can bring that local repository state with you.

Neither desires are necessarily aligned with what benefits the company (or the quality of work), but they do drive a laptop preference.
I currently have a mid 2012 Macbook air and I love it. I was thinking about buying a new Mac but now I gonna buy a Thinkpad. Apple strategy has become clear now. They are targeting the - wealthy that do not care much about technology and just want a fancy product - part of the market.
FWIW, in addition to cleaning the contacts which others have mentioned, I had the same problem and it improved when I reset my SMC: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

But maybe that's just the placebo effect.
Hmm, that's interesting. Was it voice as we know it, i.e. sounds? Inner voices are usually "sounds" instead of, say, images, but if you were deaf, what sounds did you know? Or was it because you could hear as a toddler?
> and throughput is more of a concern for server-like workloads

Many java applications also have to worry about latency, not just throughput. Parallel collections cut down on pause times, too. Simply because they can get about the same work (in terms of CPU cycles) done in less wall time. I.e. parallelizing non-concurrent GC phases also improves responsiveness.
A colleague next desk saw this on some internal group, and told me. (I work for the Alphabet's main Bet)
Swift, Java, Scala, Haskell, Etc all have REPLs as well.
Everyone is going nuts about the presentation/scrolling/UI of worrydream, but they are missing out on the goldmine of what he's actually been working on: http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012

Its absolutely insane someone could be that productive in 2 years. A lot of the ideas in that showreel are incredible. Yeah many of them probably don't work, but I saw dozens of new interactions that don't exist anywhere else. Plus the demo is >4 years old. That's amazing.

His CV has the following quote: “One of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today.” — Alan Kay

People are obsessed with getting immediate gratification and have little to no attention span these days.
It just seems like their definition of "pro" has changed.

It used to be video professionals and graphic designers. Now it's developers and web designers. Developers don't need SD slots or a screaming GPU (although you can never go wrong with a better GPU). I worked off of a 2012 MBA with an external display for years, and it still fits the bill! Light enough to carry around between work, home, and coffee shops, powerful enough to run a local web server and all the apps I used for development and 2-3 screens, and enough battery life to get a day's worth of work done.

Apple will never drop MacOS or their Pro level computers because their Pro line is what makes their iOS App Store revenue. Their definition of "pro" is just going to be less video-centric, and more developer-centric.
Used windows for 15 years, osx for the last 10, haven't found a panacea between the OS, applications I need to run, and my essential human right to run 100+ tabs. Maybe 32 GB of RAM will do it.
I don't think this is fair. There are features many devs care about that going away. Everything soldered to the board meaning nothing can be upgraded, no increases in ram (which is fixed and makes this even worse), getting rid of ports that people use, now a touch bar that does not appeal to touch typists, and then to top it off a huge jacking up of prices .
Can't you use the Alt key in Windows? Dunno about Linux though.
Open Sourcing old games, sounds like a great way for people to learn and see how games were done when there was less hardware resources available :)
Nice plug. Why wouldn't people be able to remap the keys as they like? Using the function keys for common shortcuts seems wrong.
I've had a Gecko port stood up and running on iPhone hardware several times in the past 6 years but we've never sorted out a real path to shipping. The most recent incarnation felt a lot nicer than Safari with our async pan/zoom architecture. Maybe I should just get Servo running and we can ship it as a tech demo. :-P
It comes down to living in society. A very large proportion of people will, at some point, have children. Many countries have decided, to varying degrees, it is good for society as a whole to make companies support parents, as children are the future of society.
As far as I understand, this is just looking at demographic data, so probably if you do everything like exercise and diet right, and you have good genes, 115 is about the limit. It's basically saying that lifespan isn't going to continually drift upwards about that level with marginal improvements in living standards.

I don't see that we can get anything from that data which gives you clear answers about the potential for direct medical or pharmaceutical interventions to extend life.
With the touch bar next to the keyboard however, you don't have to raise your arms up to the main screen. It may make sense on that level.
Basically a way to reward shareholders. They're more or less equivalent to dividend, but considered more tax efficient, because capital gains tax is lower than tax on dividends.
Have you bought one here? I bought a non Apple power adapter and it stopped working in two weeks so then I had to buy an official one (was trying to save money, ended up spending more). With battery it's a huge concern because I don't want my apartment to be go down in flames.
With me, they wouldn't even bother, they'd just say "stop joking around and read", so I just re-read the whole thing, more slowly.
Do you have some data?
It appears the first Civilization forgot New Zealand.

https://longreadsblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/civilizati...

http://worldmapswithout.nz/
> That people get anything done at all on these little midget laptops is, quite frankly, amazing to me.

Simply lacking screen real estate reduces available working memory that would be used to focus on a coding task.

Given how this empirically impacts work quality, I'm pretty amazed how younger tech companies have pushed employees in this direction.

It's not all that different from the open office trend.
Keep in mind, that $3000 price was for the low end model with a mid range CPU and GPU.
Americans have a reputation for saying things like "let's do lunch sometime" as a sort of vague statement of agreeableness and intention to stay in contact, whereas, let's say, Swedish people would consider that to be a straightforward intention to book a lunch date.
Wouldn't you want to rely on an professional external DAC and transfer the audio to your computer digitally instead of having an audio-in port?
Best comment of this 1000+ comment thread!
Have used windows primary for 15 years, and mac for the last 10.. I've seen the new windows laptops walk right past apple past few months, my rMBP is about 2 years old so I'm not feeling the pinch so much in buying outdated equipment...

Even the new Lenovo T460p's are sliding by. Asus Zenbook is slick too.

I am more of a 13" guy, although i've used the 15" MBP and windows laptop at one time.

I'm hoping by the time my applecare is up they will throw a massive parade for doing the obvious hardware upgrades.

One possible reason they haven't is getting performance and heat managed in the new slim form factor.

Had a few macbooks that ran hot in the past, so I hope it's just that and not much else. It sucked having 15" macbook pros that had faulty video cards due to poor heat management and died prematurely.
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I know this, but since they haven't fully committed themselves to USB-C yet so this move feels early. It's insane that you can't plug an iPhone into your brand new MacBook Pro without another trip to the store for a dongle (they aren't shipping a dongle in the MBP box).
But Kurzweil has been banging this drum for a long time. He has means but still isn't near being a billionaire. He just believes.
Ask HN: What to do about key supplier TRIPLING their prices at short notice?
Hi HN,

I am hoping some of you may be able to offer your advice on this on, as I imagine it's a fairly generalised problem. The specifics of the issue aren't actually that important, so I'm not going to include company names or any other identifiable details.

My company has a contract with an essential supplier who I pay several hundred dollars a month for a particular service. This service is absolutely essential to my product. The original contract was for a year, and comes to an end in the next two weeks.

Today, I was told that I am a legacy customer, and need to be put on a new plan. This new plan costs $10,000 a year, i.e. about triple the price I am currently paying. Given the timing of this price hike, I simply don't have time to find an alternative supplier before my contract runs out.

What can I do?
Peter Thiel is doing this.
Sorry, if you are reading it as "no big accomplishment", yeah, not right.

My question is really "why will it succeed this time?" Did GCJ and similar technologies not take off because Sun didn't support them? Or because it is a really neat technical challenge that solves a problem people don't actually care about?

So, yes, this is cool. But, I'm currently giving it a likelihood of success really low, since I have priors that failed. What other evidence are people seeing that make this something to be excited about, as opposed to just impressed. (Or, are we just impressed and I can go back to my corner?)
Okay, sorry guys. I know it's broken right now. The problem is that wget and unzip commands aren't being used properly. I can't fix it on my phone, because the editor isn't working. I won't have computer access till tonight (it's 4PM here, and I'm at school). Really sorry about the delay!
There's a hand procedure for square root. It was once taught in schools. Few ever used it, even before computers. If you really needed square root, people used tables or a slide rule. Manual long division has reached that point.

Computers don't do division that way, anyway.
Add VR goggles and this is the future of software engineering.