skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Wow I guess she wouldn't want to piss off any coworkers either, since fake reviews are so common.
So you don't think that the people want the Constitution, or the court system?
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> Apple should have done a full touch input screen on the MacBook. It might not have been perfect, but it would have been lauded as revolutionary by the mainstream media. By not doing it they have now given their competitors the chance to grab that market.

What makes you think they would do this? The arguments they've made about MacOS fundamentally not working well with touch input make complete sense to me. iOS was designed for touch input, MacOS was designed for pointer input.

I think they could have added the fingerprint sensor without adding touch bar if they had wanted to - they're not the same hardware.
Sure, but even if they ditch the bar I don't see them ditching Apple Pay.
After some initial thoughts about the reveal, I gave it some more thought. I wouldn't mind revealed MBP 15" if it were the same features in 13" form. That's what it missed, IMO. 15" features feel more like what a 'power' laptop would look like in 13" form, and 13" one is a MBA basically, and 'true' 15" is missing.
Breaking 0.03% of the web is one thing, breaking larger parts of it starts to have far more dramatic effects. Many of the "worst" parts of the web are some of the most pervasive: well over 90% of the web relies on non-conforming HTML being parsed, much of the non-English speaking world relies on some of the really whacky behaviour around URL serialisation/parsing with different encodings, etc.
My MBP has 16gb as well and no problem whatsoever with that. But it's a 5 years old model and when I bought I had only 4gb. So 4x in 5 years. By extension I would probably need at least 2x 16gb in 3-4 years but instead I will be stuck with 16gb.
Unfortunately the link to that story is entering a redirect loop on my iPhone.

Does anyone have a link to that story which works on an iPhone?
I was more interested in the OS than the hardware, but thanks!
When they went with a Unix based OS, they did.
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Looks interesting, thanks
You also never quite know how a metaphor or explanation is going to land. There have been many times when I've read several explanations for things and it hasn't really clicked until I came across something that explained it in a way that really worked for me, for whatever reason. Getting more [correct] perspectives and explanations out into the ether is only good; you never know if your tutorial or blog post might be the one that makes it click for someone or not.
> No more IOT, raspberryPI, OpenWRT.... only Intel/Qualcomm/MSFT licensed UEFI controlled SecureBoot (Windows CE) devices, Lock down Chromebooks from Google will be allowed.

Silly FUD like this does nothing to help.
WA doesn't get interpreted. It gets validated and passed over to the JIT (TurboFan). It comes over the wire so that validation has to be thorough (read that as expensive).
Which must explain why they're only available as a pair. I would have been tempted to buy the non-Touch Bar 13", but it lacks Touch ID which seems really nice. Though I'm not sure I'd want to trust FileVault (i.e. full disk encryption) to a fingerprint, since a fingerprint it can be coerced.
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It's absolutely true, and it's known as the shell theorem. It's an old result actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
>Apple should have done a full touch input screen on the MacBook

why repeat somebody's else mistakes?
thankfully this is no longer true in newish andoird - you can disable or not grant most of the permissions
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Nextdoor just rolled out a recommendations feature. Give it a try!

FourSquare used to be good but I stopped using it a while ago. It might still be pretty decent.
Same old story, your actions speak louder.
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What you're saying is technically true, but only because the XML classes are historically also (unfortunately) DOM classes. It's too bad that XML DOM can't be made into Transferrables (losing their DOM'iness) in modern browsers and thus usable in Web Workers. I suppose XML isn't that widely used in the browser, so that would never happen.

Read the history of XHR and you'll get a fascinating look at how clever teams can slip real innovation into products just by tickling the right business folks' ears.

http://www.alexhopmann.com/story-of-xmlhttp/

> Which is the real explanation of where the name XMLHTTP comes from- the thing is mostly about HTTP and doesn’t have any specific tie to XML other than that was the easiest excuse for shipping it so I needed to cram XML into the name (plus- XML was the hot technology at the time and it seemed like some good marketing for the component).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan, JS is not exactly a model CEO, and they do sell hard. A tough sell, however, isn't illegal or fraudulent. a shakedown is something else though - are you suggesting they engage in any fraud? Do they manipulate reviews? Or do you have evidence that they, as a company, change reviews if you do/don't buy their ads?
The Late 2016 entry-level 13″ MacBook Pro has a ridiculously fast SSD
Not everyone has good OTA access. I lived in an apartment near Culver City six years ago and could only reliably pick up a handful of channels with an indoor antenna (all I was allowed, since it was an apartment).
Really? What about for a user who doesn't have a pressing need for 32GB?
fyi i don't understand why you're getting downvoted, and touché.
They would need at least a portion of the bar to display the Apple Pay recipient. I guess they could make the bar screen smaller and restore function keys.
Steve Jobs founded Apple. Apple changed the world. They fired him. They became a joke. They brought him back. Apple changed the world, again. Steve Jobs died. Apple became a joke, again.
I no longer do anything with Ruby anymore, but I used to for a while (purely as a hobby) around 2004. That was a wonderful time. Rails had just arrived and there seemed to be a lot of experimentation and quirkiness around the language. _why and others showed me the power of DSLs and clever metaprogramming hacks.

From my exposure to metaprogramming I discovered other languages like Smalltalk and Lisp with its macros. I now mainly use Clojure, but I don't think I would ever have discovered that without Ruby.
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i would agree except why bundle touchbar at all with the touch id/apple pay? and why remove it from the base macbook pro.

i figure if touch id was a priority they would make a huge effort to update the mac line with a touch id sensor at a bare minimum. as it stands now the decision making seems fragmented and unfocused.
Yes they are, along with real life battery usage, trackpad, keyboard, size, screen, etc.

I dont know where you got the $500 touchbar, and I don't want to know.
The development is happening outside of the city limits. Which means that no amount of zoning in the already annexed land could or would stop developers from doing things in the unannexed land. In order for your assertion that zoning is the problem to hold water, the city of Houston would have to annex faster than the developers popped out new subdivisions, which definitely isn't happening.

I agree that there's a distinct lack of planning in Houston which is a problem. But those aren't necessarily the same thing.

Further there are good local neighborhoods popping up all over, especially wherever the light rail is going. All without any zoning whatsoever.
> Have you used it?

This. This x 1000.

Everyone is complaining without any hands on experience. The "magic mouse" is one of my least favorite pieces of tech to come from Apple (I use a trusty Logitech) and I do 95% or more of my work with an external mechanical keyboard. I wouldn't even notice the change and I think a lot of people wouldn't, either.

The track pad is lightyears beyond anything I've had from Lenovo (can't speak for HP) and has to be the One Killer Feature™ that would make me ^happily pick a brand new MBP.

They really should support more ram though...
They also dropped the floppy drive and went all-USB with the iMac, abandoning all their previous Mac peripherals which used ADB.
I think I read a later article by Paul Graham advocating thin client netbooks (aka Chromebooks et al).
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For me, ports are not an issue. I am rarely using any plug-in devices when away from a desk, and there are numerous USB-C hubs that provide charging, USB 3.0 A-type sockets, SD card readers, ethernet ports, HDMI and DVI connectors, yadda yadda.

You do not need to buy a dozen Apple dongles, just one USB-C dock/hub/whatever, with the ports that you regularly use. Have one on your desk with monitor, drives, keyboard, mouse, network all connected so you only plug in one cable.

When you go on the road you might want a dock with HDMI so you can plug in to various displays. But you won't need a dozen dongles. Just a hub.

It is just a slightly different way of working rather than plugging all the cables into the laptop and having a huge clumsy mess.
Using JS on the backend is deplorable. For front-end work I don't think there is currently much other choice...
You see Taylor Lovett's SimpleCache plugin? nice solution to those too https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cache/
Does it do that? I would have hoped password on boot, fingerprint when bringing back from sleep or locked screen.
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Facebook could do something so powerful and fun by seamlessly combining their social platform and games... But this is what they've come up with?
Intel also invested in Ultrabook and 2-in-1 reference designs to help PC OEMs compete with Apple.
For me, this redirects to the German version (I'm in Germany on a device with a German locale). I'd really love to have a way to tell Google to only show English-language hits.
How Intercom Built One of Silicon Valley's Fastest-Growing Businesses
Keep rest mate, I'm glad you made your choice.
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I've recently thinking about how to submit more stories that get traction, and I have to take my hat off to rocky1138 for capturing the zeitgeist perfectly with this submission.

This essay resonates strongly with me, and I wish Tim Cook saw things this way. But in my heart I realize that it is probably only an accident of history that the most polished consumer computing device company in history happened to make a great Unix developer box.

Although it's undeniable that developers were key to Apple's resurgence, the need for embracing open source and modern free software was only necessary because of Apple's weak market position. We know this because of Apple's failed attempts at pushing their own standards in the 80s and 90s when they got their lunch eaten by Microsoft. Interoperability was something that Jobs grudgingly got on board with when he realized he didn't have the market clout to force standards down people throat. Apple now has that clout. No matter how bad the Mac gets, there will still be developers for iOS as long as Apple keeps delivering on iOS.

Personally I think I have to stick with the Mac for a while because no one else is producing a software/hardware package that is anywhere near as nice overall, but maybe I'll take pg's advice and walk around some college campuses to see what are the kids who can't afford Apple's immaculately overpriced machines are using.
Which is why it was a happy confluence of factors. Unix wasn't a call to action though, just an implementation detail.
try getting a patent in Singapore. it's a neutral country and it is the international arbitration court. even if you can't win, you can put the entity infringing on your patent into a caveat for any jurisdiction in the world.
the GPRS setting is blocked on featurephones. Still opts for CSD sending there. Newer devices send over 'IMS' (which is voLTE, and also part of HSPA+)

It was a funny loophole to get unlimited SMS on T-Mobile back when they just changed name from Voicestream.
> Apple should have done a full touch input screen on the MacBook.

And make you move your hands off the keyboard area? No, thanks.
Are there any recordings of such calls?
Money quote:

"How big is the hacker market, after all? Quite small, but important out of proportion to its size. When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing in ten years. Almost all technology, from Unix to bitmapped displays to the Web, became popular first within CS departments and research labs, and gradually spread to the rest of the world."

Today, hackers are leaving Apple.
> The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know?

This. I have actually lost sleep since the announcement. I keep going over in my mind alternate hardware, but the fact is that macOS (OS X) is the single best operating system for developers today. I am generalizing "developers". For any embedded development, or HDL stuff, OS X will not be a nice experience. But for web or mobile development (which I anticipate is quite larger than development that could not be done in OS X), it's just better. Things work. If the don't, there is a massive support system in place and worst case scenario you can drive <1hr to an Apple store and let them take care of it. Sure, there are edge cases there as well, but compared to the ultrabook you bought from Costco or any distribution of linux, you have much more support available. I do love my macbook pro (glass trackpad, backlit keyboard, good display), but I absolutely must have macOS. At this point my only hope is that a new distribution of Linux evolves that can seriously compete and works flawlessly on off the shelf hardware (such as the Dell XPS), but we're not there yet. Elementary OS looks promising. Perhaps developers would fork Darwin completely and make a macOS competitor.

I guess I should have seen the warning signs. The biggest was macOS Sierra that offered me no reason to upgrade. Apple seems to be stuck inside of an "innovation" echo chamber. Innovating for the sake of innovating.

Sorry for the wall of text, but if you have any suggestions for me, please share them.
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> The second law of thermodynamics is as fundamental as the uncertainty principle: The former is a result from markov chains and information theory, the latter is a result from fourier analysis of conjugate variables.

I don't think enumerating the pedigree of a law gives it the seal of approval of validity. Newtonian physics also has pretty solid pedigree, and yet breaks down in relativistic conditions.

Please note I do not disagree with your conclusion, only with the way you present it.
Comics related to that poster:

http://scarygoround.com/?date=20120124

http://scarygoround.com/?date=20120125

The second one has the poster you’re probably referring to below it.
I popped into the Apple Store on Regent Street in London today, where they have a couple of these on display in plastic cylinders (but can't touch).

They have a constant rolling demo, and two things struck me.

The changing touchbar display constantly distracted me from the screen.

Also, the little square area on the far right for the touch sensor doesn't blend in nearly as well as the photos make out. Worse, presumably for symmetry, there's a square of the same size at the other end - so the display for the 'Esc' key is actually the distance of one key in from the left hand edge.
1. Apple did pretty good job at popularizing Unix on laptop.
2. Apple's market share is around 6%. In last 3 years Linux doubled it's market share and went from 1% to 2% https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qp...
3. If Apple will fail with their new products for developers, then they will switch most likely to Linux and serious growth of Linux market share on desktop is quite probable.
Critical comments are fantastic when they add insight to the conversation, but all you seem to be adding is cynicism.
$20 a month for the DO droplet, but out of curiosity what's the monthly bandwidth bill from AWS? That's always the kicker - bandwidth from AWS is not cheap.
Bad news first: your life of googling is not over.

You will Google a lot even if you become a Pro sysadmin.

But you have an advantage^Wsuperpower: you can read code. That means when there is some weird log entry somewhere you can grep the codebase and try to find out what made it happen.

Some skills you'll find useful:

- Learn to read man pages. The info for almost everything is there. You need time to get used to man pages but as soon as you know how to skip most of the content you will be fine.

- tail -f is your friend. Use it whenever you need to know what's happening.

- Sharpen your communication skills. You will have to report stuff that happened late at night and what you did to make it work while you were supposed to be sleeping. Hint: Emails with good subject lines, using the first paragraph to summarize all, then add a technical explanation section below makes the boss and coworkers happy.

- Learn something about devops, automations, and infrastructure that can be validated with scripts. You'll have future there :)

Cheers from another programmer .ade sysadmin... 20 years ago.
Sorry, none of us could figure out how to escape the asterisks, how'd you do it? Feel like I'm trying to triforce here.
Macbooks don't have a row of "function keys" though. They have a row of keys that do very specific things in the OS:

* Adjust screen brightness (x2)

* Adjust volume and mute (x3)

* Adjust keyboard brightness (x2)

* Power button (x1)

* Play/pause and next/previous (x3)

* Rearrange the desktop windows (x2)

So, if you launch an app that uses the touch bar, will you lose the ability to adjust the brightness and volume?
The richest company in the history of the world could hardly be called a joke, unless you were joking of course. I for one am concerned about their current trajectory, but their R&D budget is $25m per day so I don't think they can be written off just yet.
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They didn't get the memo, they wrote the memo: http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm
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There's always the HTC Vive for that.
> can't speak for HP

HP, Acer, Dell... Nothing comes close.
I got a new computer relatively recently. It's a modest looking plastic Dell Inspiron; but it has a 4k touchscreen display, an i7 CPU, a GTX960M GPU, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD. It cost ~$900, on sale. I, frankly, can't imagine paying the Apple tax, especially now.

I kinda suspect we're going to see a replay of the long slow decline into mediocrity that Apple experienced before Jobs' return. With higher prices and a seeming lack of product vision going forward, I suspect the shine on Apple products for developers will fade.

I mean, maybe I just don't get it, but the touchbar seems kinda like a boondoggle (and, if it is going to exist, I wouldn't want it to kill my esc key). Then again, I still don't really get the touchscreen on laptops. I have one, but rarely use it.