skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the new skylake hardware came out all the drivers where crap. People with new Surface Pro 4s, Surface Books, Dell XPS 13s, etc... where having all kinds of problems.

All these machines work great now, but I wouldn't want to go through that pain again just for the sake of getting a little more performance (for average use).
New Training technique would reveal the basis for ML systems’ decisions (MIT)
I got an interview wit a company that I really wanted to work with. I didn't even apply with them originally so I was very pleased to have them contact me from an Ask HN thread. I didn't end up getting the job but I have no doubt that I could have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_lang... ?
This is a really good talk that will give some valuable insight into how Greece has been bullied. (YANIS VAROUFAKIS | NOAM CHOMSKY, NYPL, 26 April) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIGZVrSAyc

More than 90% of the bailout money went to banks, not to Greece. Bank recapitalization via the back door while blaming Greece.
ferongr is in Greece presumably. Compared to UK prices (at least in the south east) 110k euros is phenomenally cheap itself.
I was mainly referring to the video editing use case, where video could be streamed off disk quickly enough. For your use case, 16 gigs may indeed may not be enough.

What do you do with 50 tabs? I usually keep 10 open at most.
I love glassdoor. Sometime you see high level management on there giving frank plus and minus assessments of the business, often critical of higher levels. It's not just disgruntled departures but often current employees.
> But the current Greek government don't want cushy EU jobs, they want to save the population.

Well, they saved me by forcing me out of the country, so +1 there.
> claiming that the finance ministers are purposely rigging things so that Greece will fail

> First I've heard of this

I suggest listening[1] to Yanis Varoufakis talk about his negotiations with the rest of the EU's finance ministers. He talks about the rigged process, and the ultimatum they gave him when he pushed for a saner refinancing plan. Schäuble's response, according to Mr. Varoufakis, was "Elections cannot be allowed to change the economic policies applied to Greece!"

For background on how this situation was created, see Mark Blyth's very nice discussion[2] of the Greek situation and how it fits in with the larger Euro problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihVcrnFag1s#t=672

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=778
Where do you see 20 microservices? I count a couple of video-specific ones, + some integrations with their existing systems.
You have to factor in that we have an extremely high unemployment rate (23.5%) and after the austerity measures the basic wage is about 550 euro/month. Many, if not most, companies took advantage of this basic wage change and forced it upon their employees or replaced them with new ones (which can't ask for more). Also another big part of the workforce is on flexible-hours, which means they may go as low as 120 euro per month.

The property tax can be about 200 euro / year for relatively small apartments in lower class neighborhoods and rise pretty fast (e.g 800 euros / month) for better neighborhoods. If you own the land (you aren't leaving in an apartment) things go south even faster.

Also the property tax doesn't consider any special cases. For example you could have build your house 60 years ago in a remote location, now rich people came to leave around you and you have to pay 6000 euros / year on a 600 euro / month pension.
Imagine that landline phone calls were initially free and had to be "monitized" via adverts. Or, if it ended up being the case that they couldn't be sufficiently monitized and thus were considered a "failed business model". This age of freemium is producing all sorts of wack products. Why can't I just have a phone company that adds Twitter-like functionality in my paid plan. Oh right, because even though it's all "free" it's all proprietary and incompatible.
Are there any distributions where the display scaling works at least as good as Windows 10? I don't expect it to be as perfect as the Mac but the current Ubuntu is a mess when you change the scaling factor.
It is astonishingly sad to me that the country from which Democracy was exported no longer has a say (or do they?)
Short term thinking is often under-rated in business and people outside of business love to deride "quarterly thinking." Corporate cultures that manage to results and care about interim performance make sure their competitors never see the long term. Also these "quarterly profit driven companies" seem to be able to sustain long term investments like R&D--but R&D that's making progress each quarter.
https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/10/29/2240
Same here. I can sometimes will myself into focus, but most of the time it either comes naturally or it doesn't.
Can't speak for the xps13 but I got a xps15 (Windows, no Linux option) about 6 months ago and everything works as expected.
Yeah, education totally keeps your rates low in the US. They can't demand to know your education, but since you get a lower rate the better educated you are, you'd certainly volunteer that info.
That's exactly my case, I went from Gentoo to Mac about 10 years ago. I loved Gentoo when I was a student but getting it to work perfectly on a laptop was a hassle and while I loved customizing fvwm, macOS had great UI right out of the box.
That is pretty!

I may have to give this a try when the time comes. By far the best looking Linux GUI i've seen yet.

I can't wait to see an a GUI layer made for NixOS though. I really want to be done with stateful OSs, NixOS is so tempting.
It's fine as a hobbyist, but once you're making 1000+ then the only way Amazon (which doesn't do volume pricing I think?) can be cheaper is by selling you fakes.

As a hobbyist I buy stuff from ebay, amazon, and aliexpress all the time, but not for anything mains-powered or safety-critical.
Didn't know they ship them with i7 hq CPUs, thanks!
Greeks don't have complete sovereignty in the EU. They've repeatedly voted for that arrangement (I happen to think it's a terrible one).

But the parent comment alleges a breakdown of the international system meriting, as I read it, global revolution. Given that we're in something of a golden age of humanity--what with record-low rates of per-capita violent-death rates, relative economic prosperity and technological advantage--the claim needs more than a First World country experiencing hardships around paying property taxes.
Yes, since I pay the tax any the property value in my name is just that apartment. All owners have to pay this tax (ENFIA). There are some reductions for unemployed people but no 0% rates.
Why the downvotes?

"Elections change nothing. There are rules." -- Wolfgang Schäuble (in reference to the election of a Greek government in 2015)
One factor you don't mention is the learning curve required for someone to develop the skills needed to be, at a professionally viable level, productive and effective with a tool like Photoshop or Lightroom.

Even if there was a collection of Linux-compatible software that was just as effective as PS and LR, professionals don't necessarily have the time available to learn those tools.
What kind of bizarre thinking is this? There is surprise that a laptop released at the end of October is not built with a chip released in September?? WTF? Even if the chip is fully 100% slot compatible, neither MS nor Apple would or could take that at face value. The power requirements are different, that alone is cause for a redesign of the board.

The author seems to be living in a fantasy land, it takes time to test, purchase the processors, build the laptops, ship the laptops, and I'm sure I'm missing about 10 other bottlenecks in the process. The Pascal GPU was only released in May, and that is still too soon to have been designed around.

Missing are examples of computers that have shipped in high volume using 1-4 months old components. Missing is some realization that if both MS & Apple are doing the same thing, there's probably a good reason.
I just have to recommend this (humor) video by JP Sears: https://youtu.be/Kvdf6e8birI

He's got a whole series like this. Hope it entertains.
I believe elementary OS is the closest thing to what you're looking for. They're an LLC with the team that focuses on building a good looking UI and a nice UX. Pantheon is the only desktop environment which I wouldn't call outdated in the Linux world and somewhat stable and easy to get (Solus project is attempting to do the same, but I think they just don't have enough man power to pull it off).
This part wasn't that horrible as the quote from Elementary blog was (apparently they removed the old blogpost, but it's easily googlable):

"We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software. We didn’t exclude a $0 button to deceive you; we believe our software really is worth something."
What would be interesting is if I take a picture of lets say my "new" macbook pro and tag it. It becomes like an amazon affiliate link and I get a cut if someone buys the underpowered thing.

This would then be the only platform outside of YouTube that would then allow you to monetise the content you create directly via the platform itself.
When principles and reality clash, reality wins. In principle the website should make perfect sense to everyone.
This alarm clock makes you give money to charitable causes if you snooze
What a horrible display of "Lies, damn lies, and statistics."

0,021% death rate is far from "extremely dangerous", and why the focus on this one specific chart? Amazing cherry-picking you've done.
"That and other things (domino effect, if Greece gets forgiveness, the other countries would want it too) mean it is in the EUcrats' best interest to see Greece fail."

There is zero interest from EU leaders to see Greece fail.

Otherwise they would have to justify to their voters the fact of having bailed out the country multiple times, with no result. It would also cause additional instability and volatility, possibly unraveling an already unstable Union.

The best result for them would be for Greece to recover under the austerity policies they are enforcing, but it's clear that this is not going to happen (at least any time soon, and without additional pain and suffering for Greece).

Whether the reason is that these policies are wrong in themselves (which is Krugman's/Greece's point of view), or the problem lies in Greece's failure of enforcing them (which is the EU point of view), personally I'm not sure.

As always the answer probably is somewhere in the middle.
What are coroutines and why should I care?
There's a certain level of intuition that one can grasp with hardware as opposed to software. I suspect this might contribute to most robustness in design.
You tell that like “rigidity“ is a problem? Btw look at stuff like jsonb in postgres.
When it comes to software development, London (and the UK) certainly seem to have a low pay culture.
> "And yet, the leftist government recently proposed adding further documents and costs to selling or renting property — a compulsory “energy performance” certificate and a civil engineer’s assurance that there are no illegal constructions."

Not an expert, nor a citizen/resident, but these seem like a basic things to do. Parents back home had to provide same things recently just for renovation, and much more.

There are laws to address this, albeit considered kind of a joke in southern Europe for a long time. People would build whatever they wanted, hack together unsafe constructions to cut costs, then bribe an official to validate all of that. Then earthquake comes and people die. Standards for buildings are reactions to disasters, I don't see anything wrong with it.

Or am I missing something?
That is the generally accepted view of the Greek crisis in much of Europe

- The Euro hid huge debts in the same way securitised debt did in US. People would lend (via bonds) to risky countries (Greece and Spain) at the same EuroBond rate they lent to less risky countries (Germany, and well just Germany).

And Greece took this and spent - at first on good infrastructure but slowly on low performing roads to nowhere and a lot on non capital spending (social welfare) And particular Greek social Problems made it far worse (a political class removed from the populace, etc)

As the crisis hit Greece could not repay these huge debts and could not devalue their currency (the Euro was not theirs). And they got loans from Germany (cos a lot of German banks owned the A rated bonds) and paid interest with the loans thus doing nothing to solve the problem. After a few years of this the Greek people voted in a whole new radical party. The goal was to cancel the impossible to pay debt and follow sensible Keynesian rebuilding. The cancelling of the debt (spearheaded by charismatic economist Yanis Varoufakis) was not insane but it would mean all other countries in similar problems would also follow suit. So the Big players in Euro (Schable being the biggest) opposed it everyway they could. The Greeks took it to the brink but the PM could not plunge Greece into leaving the Euro and not being able to keep hospitals open backed down

No solution - and we end up here
I live in Greece and things are bad but as a matter of fact, the real problem is that we ,the Millennials, feel that we're screwed because we compare ourself with our parents. Our parents and our politicians really scammed the whole europe into believing that we have a strong economy but the truth is that everyone avoided paying taxes, they got huge loans that could never pay of and our politicians where really corrupted ,as well. The result was that our parents made a fair amount of wealth without having the skills and the education of the rest of europeans. They worked hard, but they lived in a bubble. I believe that the biggest problem in Greece is that right now we are in a declining economy and probably wont succeed economically as our parents did. We are going from high to low and we cant see whats following.
I'm not sure I explained my comment right in that case. I bring Trump into this because he represents an anti-Muslim voice in the global media and this i significant for the point I'm trying to me. He simply a nice and current example of my little theory here.

Notably I do not mean to get involved in the American election debate.

The more power and attention Trump gets, the more Muslim youths in the West feel repressed and despised. This helps ISIS and similar organizations. It's not a stretch to imagine that more radical Muslim terrorism in the West, should it occur soon, will benefit Trump, and thus the cycle is complete. This is the kind of dynamic that moves people to the fringes, away from tolerance and moderate political opinions.

The awful acts that you mention that Obama and Bush were responsible for were not accompanied with a similar anti-Muslim rhetoric and that breaks this cycle, somewhat at least. This is why I did not bring them up. Note that strictly seen, only one side needs to actually do violence for a cycle like this to spin out of control. It's most important both sides need to commit to a powerful anti-the-other-people rhetoric.

So if you run an extremist organization looking for more power, all you have to do is pick and then provoke an enemy whose leadership you know will make your target audience / electorate feel very uneasy. This is what ISIS is doing and Trump, more than other American politicians, is helping them do it. It's been done many times before, think Rwanda or how Hamas got into power in Gaza.

I don't completely care about the exact definition of terrorism in this case - it's more the observation that acts of indiscriminate violence against people from a certain group puts people from that group up against the group the violence doers are from. Terrorism is one such kind of indiscriminate violence and usually the easiest to apply unless you're a nation state.
You're a little off with the UK prices.

The US price, pre-tax, for the base 15" model is $2399. At whatever Google thinks is the current exchange rate, that's £1948.43 GBP. Add 20% VAT and it's on the shelf at £2338.12.

The UK price for this model is £10.88 more than the direct exchange rate.
It's probably being downvoted because people (wrongly) think I meant it as a joke.
Don't ever rely on your own perception of what's intuitive to evaluate a user experience. Someone has given specific feedback to the contrary, which means that there will be others. If I was the site's maintainer, I'd be heading straight for the analytics to see if they support this feedback.
Can anyone actually give any details here or is everyone just gonna do the "nudge nudge wink wink" thing?
>no young engineers have a desire to learn Ada.

I think this is akin to statements when companies say they have a shortage of developers. Of course they do when they offer no good incentives to join. Offer (above) market salaries and young people will flock to Ada.
I'm not sure that it would be just as easy to do this for houses. Freezing the market for a day would have little effect. Freezing it for years would be a very real nuisance.

Besides, I'd like to question the conventional wisdom that falling stock markets or falling housing markets are a problem which justifies government intervention. Another view on the same phenomenon is that your cash just increased in value. Like when prices go up, some people will lose money, some people will win money. In the end it's a zero sum game.
I did, very recently, with Mint 18, and never before. ( random lockups with Cinnamon, app crashes, etc. )

I'm still on the very same install, just switched to xfwm4 and tint2, and I'm quite happy.
You have valgrind and many other tools instead of "Instruments".

The GNOME project itself [1] has a lot of projects which compete with what you linked. Sure, Apple has a few billion dollars to dump into development every year, so you have to adjust for scale.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/references
When you say shell I assume you mean terminal. The Windows terminal is utter garbage, and I've not found a decent one (i've not looked very hard to be fair) but you can install bash (the shell) and have all the functionality you've got in OSX (also a bash shell, a really really old bash shell).
See, I would get distracted if it did have that extraneous comma!
A scenario for leaking passwords would be (from a comment of mine below):

>Someone naively sets up error reporting that takes the POST data and logs it somewhere. Employees can now see the passwords from POST data and impersonate each other, or in an even worse case, a vulnerability with the error reporting software can leak the passwords to the public.

I guess the second point is fair.
Of course, it's difficult to know for sure if that was the original plan or not. However the actions seem to be quite consistent with that strategy: Choosing Afghanistan (the grave of empires) as the base of operations, and the selection of targets in the attack looks like an attempt to enrage, not just to cause fear.

Whatever the actual plan was, I do think it involved provoking US to attack Afghanistan.
Contrary to what most people would have you believe, the EU has asked Greece to bring its economy in line with certain KPIs. The Greek governments have decided the best way to do that is tax the populace.

The results are well understood.
Gnome foundation: when you finally gain traction, you press reset, bravo.
From the article you linked:

> the first compiler for it was implemented in 1975
This looks like yet another business opportunity where online personas are crafted for a fee.
Read my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854556)
Show HN: Fully Client Side PDF Invoice Creator
Currently in my "mixes" folder:

- Dmitry Molosh Live @ Just Movement Recyclelounge Gallery Club 44 (Amsterdam July 2th 2016).mp3

- Roger Martinez - Live @ Oh Cha __ Bombay India __ 24-04-2016 Final.mp3

- From Cid Inc again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRk59Tn-lCk

I can also recommend the Marcelo Vasami Inception show.
Very interesting read, as I didn't know about the tool. I spent quite a lot of time reading other analysis results; and realised that some mistakes were more frequent than I thought they were.

I also really like the idea of analysing open source projects to demonstrate the product.

It is however completely unavailable to me: do you guys have any plans to support other operating systems and compilers in the future (hint: Linux)? What would it take to do so?
That's also one of the cases where I wish the software itself was open source, though I can understand your reasons.
I think the emphasis including that in the article on pretty is a fundamental misunderstanding of why developers like macOS.

For me and a lot of others what I really want is a UNIX that just works.

Meaning it just works with its hardware in all ways... audio and video playing, recording, editing and everything else all work very well, without having to recompile the kernel or hunt down and install alpha drivers without source hosted on sketchy sites, which is what drove me away from other UNIXes.

Also macOS is a good platform for developing native iOS apps. Why iOS and not Android? Mostly because the version adoption curve of Android is pretty bad.

The point is it's more about functionality and getting stuff done than it is about pretty. With other UNIXes there was always too much fighting with the system.
Going solely off the data I have[0] that seems to be untrue. Do you have some other sources or is this more "common knowledge" from the corporate sector?

[0]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837504
Progressive Web Apps – The Return of the Web?
In the sidebar: "Facebook forces Admiral to pull plan to price car insurance based on posts"

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/02/facebook-admir...

> Facebook said protecting the privacy of its users was of the utmost importance to it and it had clear guidelines about how information obtained from the site should be used.

> Section 3.15 of Facebook’s platform policy states that the social media site’s data should not be used to “make decisions about eligibility, including whether to approve or reject an application or how much interest to charge on a loan”.

Well, that didn't last long.
Free shipping is a lie, but the average consumer thinks of dealing with shipping costs separately as pesky, and Amazon & eBay have configured their fees to charge you more on any extra shipping line item to encourage sellers to make shipping "free".

I don't see "free" shipping going away, nor do I see Amazon's new delivery service succeeding where DHL and other have floundered in the past, since you need a certain volume in that business to even be viable, and Amazon has stated they can't push that volume alone to make running a shipping service make sense.

What might happen, and what I hope happens is the lower end, smaller businesses get better next day and 2 day shipping prices. Currently, from one wholesaler I can order a 50lb box of hardware, and UPS charges them $21 to $23 to ship it from Chicago to Seattle in the span of about 18hrs and get it on my doorstep.

Another much smaller vendor I deal with can't get anywhere near that pricing, half that weight/size box will run me $150 easily, with ground (a week and change) being $40 usually for a 25lb box from them.

Edit: Another layer to this is USPS and China Post teamed up a while back and offer Chinese sellers dirt cheap ePacket shipping, where 1lb of goods can be moved to the US for $5, whereas USPS charges $50 to the American seller to ship something to China [1]. Essentially, it makes American online sellers uncompetitive in our own market. This is why people like Trump, since he says he'll put a 35% tariff on foreign imports and end programs like ePacket (not supporting him though, just to be clear).

[1] - https://www.skubana.com/e-commerce-trends/the-usps-epacket-p...